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```ruby
require "rubocops/extend/formula"
module RuboCop
module Cop
module FormulaAudit
# This cop checks for various miscellaneous Homebrew coding styles.
class Lines < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, _class_node, _parent_class_node, _body_node)
[:automake, :ant, :autoconf, :emacs, :expat, :libtool, :mysql, :perl,
:postgresql, :python, :python3, :rbenv, :ruby].each do |dependency|
next unless depends_on?(dependency)
problem ":#{dependency} is deprecated. Usage should be \"#{dependency}\"."
end
{ apr: "apr-util", fortran: "gcc", gpg: "gnupg", hg: "mercurial",
mpi: "open-mpi", python2: "python" }.each do |requirement, dependency|
next unless depends_on?(requirement)
problem ":#{requirement} is deprecated. Usage should be \"#{dependency}\"."
end
problem ":tex is deprecated." if depends_on?(:tex)
end
end
class ClassInheritance < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, class_node, parent_class_node, _body_node)
begin_pos = start_column(parent_class_node)
end_pos = end_column(class_node)
return unless begin_pos-end_pos != 3
problem "Use a space in class inheritance: " \
"class #{@formula_name.capitalize} < #{class_name(parent_class_node)}"
end
end
class Comments < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, _class_node, _parent_class_node, _body_node)
audit_comments do |comment|
[
"# PLEASE REMOVE",
"# Documentation:",
"# if this fails, try separate make/make install steps",
"# The URL of the archive",
"## Naming --",
"# if your formula requires any X11/XQuartz components",
"# if your formula fails when building in parallel",
"# Remove unrecognized options if warned by configure",
'# system "cmake',
].each do |template_comment|
next unless comment.include?(template_comment)
problem "Please remove default template comments"
break
end
end
audit_comments do |comment|
# Commented-out depends_on
next unless comment =~ /#\s*depends_on\s+(.+)\s*$/
problem "Commented-out dependency #{Regexp.last_match(1)}"
end
end
end
class AssertStatements < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, _class_node, _parent_class_node, body_node)
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :assert).each do |method|
if method_called_ever?(method, :include?) && !method_called_ever?(method, :!)
problem "Use `assert_match` instead of `assert ...include?`"
end
if method_called_ever?(method, :exist?) && !method_called_ever?(method, :!)
problem "Use `assert_predicate <path_to_file>, :exist?` instead of `#{method.source}`"
end
if method_called_ever?(method, :exist?) && method_called_ever?(method, :!)
problem "Use `refute_predicate <path_to_file>, :exist?` instead of `#{method.source}`"
end
if method_called_ever?(method, :executable?) && !method_called_ever?(method, :!)
problem "Use `assert_predicate <path_to_file>, :executable?` instead of `#{method.source}`"
end
end
end
end
class OptionDeclarations < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, _class_node, _parent_class_node, body_node)
if find_method_def(body_node, :options)
problem "Use new-style option definitions"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :without?) do |method|
next unless unless_modifier?(method.parent)
correct = method.source.gsub("out?", "?")
problem "Use if #{correct} instead of unless #{method.source}"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :with?) do |method|
next unless unless_modifier?(method.parent)
correct = method.source.gsub("?", "out?")
problem "Use if #{correct} instead of unless #{method.source}"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :with?) do |method|
next unless expression_negated?(method)
problem "Don't negate 'build.with?': use 'build.without?'"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :without?) do |method|
next unless expression_negated?(method)
problem "Don't negate 'build.without?': use 'build.with?'"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :without?) do |method|
arg = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(arg, /^-?-?without-(.*)/)
problem "Don't duplicate 'without': " \
"Use `build.without? \"#{match[1]}\"` to check for \"--without-#{match[1]}\""
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :with?) do |method|
arg = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(arg, /^-?-?with-(.*)/)
problem "Don't duplicate 'with': Use `build.with? \"#{match[1]}\"` to check for \"--with-#{match[1]}\""
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :include?) do |method|
arg = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(arg, /^with(out)?-(.*)/)
problem "Use build.with#{match[1]}? \"#{match[2]}\" instead of " \
"build.include? 'with#{match[1]}-#{match[2]}'"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :include?) do |method|
arg = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(arg, /^\-\-(.*)$/)
problem "Reference '#{match[1]}' without dashes"
end
end
def unless_modifier?(node)
return false unless node.if_type?
node.modifier_form? && node.unless?
end
end
class Miscellaneous < FormulaCop
def audit_formula(_node, _class_node, _parent_class_node, body_node)
# FileUtils is included in Formula
# encfs modifies a file with this name, so check for some leading characters
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "FileUtils", nil) do |method_node|
problem "Don't need 'FileUtils.' before #{method_node.method_name}"
end
# Check for long inreplace block vars
find_all_blocks(body_node, :inreplace) do |node|
block_arg = node.arguments.children.first
next unless block_arg.source.size > 1
problem "\"inreplace <filenames> do |s|\" is preferred over \"|#{block_arg.source}|\"."
end
[:rebuild, :version_scheme].each do |method_name|
find_method_with_args(body_node, method_name, 0) do
problem "'#{method_name} 0' should be removed"
end
end
[:mac?, :linux?].each do |method_name|
next if formula_tap != "homebrew-core" || file_path&.include?("linuxbrew")
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "OS", method_name) do |check|
problem "Don't use #{check.source}; Homebrew/core only supports macOS"
end
end
find_instance_call(body_node, "ARGV") do |method_node|
next if [:debug?, :verbose?, :value].index(method_node.method_name)
problem "Use build instead of ARGV to check options"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :man, :+) do |method|
next unless match = regex_match_group(parameters(method).first, /^man[1-8]$/)
problem "\"#{method.source}\" should be \"#{match[0]}\""
end
# Avoid hard-coding compilers
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :system).each do |method|
param = parameters(method).first
if match = regex_match_group(param, %r{^(/usr/bin/)?(gcc|llvm-gcc|clang)\s?})
problem "Use \"\#{ENV.cc}\" instead of hard-coding \"#{match[2]}\""
elsif match = regex_match_group(param, %r{^(/usr/bin/)?((g|llvm-g|clang)\+\+)\s?})
problem "Use \"\#{ENV.cxx}\" instead of hard-coding \"#{match[2]}\""
end
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "ENV", :[]=) do |method|
param = parameters(method)[1]
if match = regex_match_group(param, %r{^(/usr/bin/)?(gcc|llvm-gcc|clang)\s?})
problem "Use \"\#{ENV.cc}\" instead of hard-coding \"#{match[2]}\""
elsif match = regex_match_group(param, %r{^(/usr/bin/)?((g|llvm-g|clang)\+\+)\s?})
problem "Use \"\#{ENV.cxx}\" instead of hard-coding \"#{match[2]}\""
end
end
# Prefer formula path shortcuts in strings
formula_path_strings(body_node, :share) do |p|
next unless match = regex_match_group(p, %r{^(/(man))/?})
problem "\"\#{share}#{match[1]}\" should be \"\#{#{match[2]}}\""
end
formula_path_strings(body_node, :prefix) do |p|
if match = regex_match_group(p, %r{^(/share/(info|man))$})
problem "\"\#\{prefix}#{match[1]}\" should be \"\#{#{match[2]}}\""
end
if match = regex_match_group(p, %r{^((/share/man/)(man[1-8]))})
problem "\"\#\{prefix}#{match[1]}\" should be \"\#{#{match[3]}}\""
end
if match = regex_match_group(p, %r{^(/(bin|include|libexec|lib|sbin|share|Frameworks))}i)
problem "\"\#\{prefix}#{match[1]}\" should be \"\#{#{match[2].downcase}}\""
end
end
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :depends_on).each do |method|
key, value = destructure_hash(parameters(method).first)
next if key.nil? || value.nil?
next unless match = regex_match_group(value, /^(lua|perl|python|ruby)(\d*)/)
problem "#{match[1]} modules should be vendored rather than use deprecated #{method.source}`"
end
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :system).each do |method|
next unless match = regex_match_group(parameters(method).first, /^(env|export)(\s+)?/)
problem "Use ENV instead of invoking '#{match[1]}' to modify the environment"
end
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :depends_on).each do |method|
param = parameters(method).first
dep, option_child_nodes = hash_dep(param)
next if dep.nil? || option_child_nodes.empty?
option_child_nodes.each do |option|
find_strings(option).each do |dependency|
next unless match = regex_match_group(dependency, /(with(out)?-\w+|c\+\+11)/)
problem "Dependency #{string_content(dep)} should not use option #{match[0]}"
end
end
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :version, :==) do |method|
next unless parameters_passed?(method, "HEAD")
problem "Use 'build.head?' instead of inspecting 'version'"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "ARGV", :include?) do |method|
param = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(param, /^--(HEAD|devel)/)
problem "Use \"if build.#{match[1].downcase}?\" instead"
end
find_const(body_node, "MACOS_VERSION") do
problem "Use MacOS.version instead of MACOS_VERSION"
end
find_const(body_node, "MACOS_FULL_VERSION") do
problem "Use MacOS.full_version instead of MACOS_FULL_VERSION"
end
conditional_dependencies(body_node) do |node, method, param, dep_node|
dep = string_content(dep_node)
if node.if?
if (method == :include? && regex_match_group(param, /^with-#{dep}$/)) ||
(method == :with? && regex_match_group(param, /^#{dep}$/))
offending_node(dep_node.parent)
problem "Replace #{node.source} with #{dep_node.parent.source} => :optional"
end
elsif node.unless?
if (method == :include? && regex_match_group(param, /^without-#{dep}$/)) ||
(method == :without? && regex_match_group(param, /^#{dep}$/))
offending_node(dep_node.parent)
problem "Replace #{node.source} with #{dep_node.parent.source} => :recommended"
end
end
end
find_method_with_args(body_node, :fails_with, :llvm) do
problem "'fails_with :llvm' is now a no-op so should be removed"
end
find_method_with_args(body_node, :needs, :openmp) do
problem "'needs :openmp' should be replaced with 'depends_on \"gcc\"'"
end
find_method_with_args(body_node, :system, /^(otool|install_name_tool|lipo)/) do
problem "Use ruby-macho instead of calling #{@offensive_node.source}"
end
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :system).each do |method_node|
# Skip Kibana: npm cache edge (see formula for more details)
next if @formula_name =~ /^kibana(@\d[\d.]*)?$/
first_param, second_param = parameters(method_node)
next if !node_equals?(first_param, "npm") ||
!node_equals?(second_param, "install")
offending_node(method_node)
problem "Use Language::Node for npm install args" unless languageNodeModule?(method_node)
end
if find_method_def(body_node, :test)
problem "Use new-style test definitions (test do)"
end
find_method_with_args(body_node, :skip_clean, :all) do
problem "`skip_clean :all` is deprecated; brew no longer strips symbols. " \
"Pass explicit paths to prevent Homebrew from removing empty folders."
end
if find_method_def(@processed_source.ast)
problem "Define method #{method_name(@offensive_node)} in the class body, not at the top-level"
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, :build, :universal?) do
next if @formula_name == "wine"
problem "macOS has been 64-bit only since 10.6 so build.universal? is deprecated."
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "ENV", :universal_binary) do
next if @formula_name == "wine"
problem "macOS has been 64-bit only since 10.6 so ENV.universal_binary is deprecated."
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "ENV", :x11) do
problem 'Use "depends_on :x11" instead of "ENV.x11"'
end
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :depends_on).each do |method|
next unless method_called?(method, :new)
problem "`depends_on` can take requirement classes instead of instances"
end
os = [:leopard?, :snow_leopard?, :lion?, :mountain_lion?]
os.each do |version|
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "MacOS", version) do |method|
problem "\"#{method.source}\" is deprecated, use a comparison to MacOS.version instead"
end
end
find_instance_method_call(body_node, "Dir", :[]) do |method|
next unless parameters(method).size == 1
path = parameters(method).first
next unless path.str_type?
next unless match = regex_match_group(path, /^[^\*{},]+$/)
problem "Dir([\"#{string_content(path)}\"]) is unnecessary; just use \"#{match[0]}\""
end
fileutils_methods = Regexp.new(
FileUtils.singleton_methods(false)
.map { |m| "(?-mix:^" + Regexp.escape(m) + "$)" }
.join("|"),
)
find_every_method_call_by_name(body_node, :system).each do |method|
param = parameters(method).first
next unless match = regex_match_group(param, fileutils_methods)
problem "Use the `#{match}` Ruby method instead of `#{method.source}`"
end
end
def modifier?(node)
return false unless node.if_type?
node.modifier_form?
end
def_node_search :conditional_dependencies, <<~EOS
{$(if (send (send nil? :build) ${:include? :with? :without?} $(str _))
(send nil? :depends_on $({str sym} _)) nil?)
$(if (send (send nil? :build) ${:include? :with? :without?} $(str _)) nil?
(send nil? :depends_on $({str sym} _)))}
EOS
def_node_matcher :hash_dep, <<~EOS
(hash (pair $(str _) $...))
EOS
def_node_matcher :destructure_hash, <<~EOS
(hash (pair $(str _) $(sym _)))
EOS
def_node_search :formula_path_strings, <<~EOS
{(dstr (begin (send nil? %1)) $(str _ ))
(dstr _ (begin (send nil? %1)) $(str _ ))}
EOS
# Node Pattern search for Language::Node
def_node_search :languageNodeModule?, <<~EOS
(const (const nil? :Language) :Node)
EOS
end
end
end
end
``` |
The list of all companies that have been included in the BSE SENSEX from its inception in 1986 are listed below. The base year of SENSEX is 1978–79 with a base value of 100. During the introduction of the SENSEX in 1986, some of the companies included in the base calculation in 1979 were removed and new companies were added.
The index is revised semi-annually in June and December.
Current
Previous
References
External links
Indian Express Column on BSE SENSEX history
BSE SENSEX - Official History
Financial Express - Performance of BSE SENSEX between 1996 and 2001
SENSEX
Lists of companies of India |
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a research impact evaluation of British Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise and it was first used in 2014 to assess the period 2008–2013. REF is undertaken by the four UK higher education funding bodies: Research England, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), and the Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland (DfE).
Its stated aims are to:
inform the allocation of block-grant research funding to HEIs based on research quality;
provide accountability for public investment in research and produce evidence of the benefits of this investment; and
provide insights into the health of research in HEIs in the UK.
Critics argue, inter alia, that there is too much focus on the impact of research outside of the university system, and that impact has no real relevance to the quality of research. It is suggested that REF actually encourages mediocrity in published research, and discourages research which might have value in the long term. It has repeatedly been argued that REF does more harm than good to higher education.
The latest REF was in 2021, with results released in May 2022, continuing the previous assessment model of focusing on research outputs, research impact and research environment. This process was slightly delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2023, it was announced that the next exercise would conclude in 2028, with submissions in 2027.
History
In June 2007 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) issued a circular letter announcing that a new framework for assessing research quality in UK universities would replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), following the 2008 RAE. The following quote from the letter indicates some of the original motivation:
The letter also set out a timetable for the development of the REF. HEFCE undertook a consultation exercise during September–December 2009, soliciting responses from stakeholders on the proposals. These include for example the response from Universities UK, and the response from the University and College Union.
In July 2010 (following the May 2010 general election), the Universities and Science minister David Willetts announced that the REF will be delayed by a year in order to assess the efficacy of the impact measure.
In July 2016, Lord Nicholas Stern's review was published, drafting general guidelines for the next REF in 2021. In general, the review was supportive with the methodology used in 2014 to evaluate universities' research, however it emphasised the need for more engagement with the general public and the increase of number of case studies that undertook interdisciplinary approach. The Research-impact.org team at Loughborough University Business and Economic School have been experimenting with crowdfunding for research in order to increase the university's researchers' public engagement.
Research impact
REF's impact is defined as "an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia".
Grading criteria
Submissions are assessed according to the following criteria:
Four star: Quality that is world-leading in originality, significance and rigour.
Three star: Quality that is internationally excellent in originality, significance and rigour but which falls short of the highest standards of excellence.
Two star: Quality that is recognised internationally in originality, significance and rigour.
One star: Quality that is recognised nationally in originality, significance and rigour.
Unclassified Quality: that falls below the standard of nationally recognised work. Or work which does not meet the published definition of research for the purposes of this assessment.
Performance rankings
Two publishers, Times Higher Education, (THE) and Research Professional News (RPN; used by The Guardian and other newspapers) produced overall rankings of institutional results in the 2021 REF based on research power, market share and quality (GPA). The THE institutional GPA is an average of each institution's GPA across the units of assessment weighted by the number of full time equivalent staff submitted to each unit of assessment, the "research power" measure is this institutional GPA multiplied by the number of full time equivalent staff submitted by the institution, and the "market share" measure uses the weighting used to calculate block grants from the institutional profiles, with 4* grades given a weighting of four, 3* grades given a weighting of one, and 2* and below given a weighting of zero.
Controversies and criticism
A particular source of criticism has been the element of the REF that addresses the "impact" of research. The articles below raise two objections. The main one is that "impact" has been defined to mean impact outside the academy. If researchers were required to pursue this form of impact, it would undermine academic freedom. The other is that impact—as currently construed—is hard to measure in any way that would be regarded as fair and impartial.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England argue that their measure of "impact" is a broad one which will encompass impact upon the "economy, society, public policy, culture and the quality of life". However, the assessment structure does make what impact practically can be claimed rather narrow (4 page limit, no method section, 10 impact references, 10 research references and only 1 page to summarize the research and the impact respectively). These strict discursive guidelines alongside the REF's dated notion of how research impact functions (teaching research impact excluded, linear model, etc.) does restrict what impact is suited practically more for the assessment.
Another area of criticism, which the REF inherited from the structure of the RAE, is that for most full-time staff members submission normally consists of four published 'research output items'. There is no recognition of the difference between a book and an article in terms of research value. Therefore, the REF system discourages long-term projects that strive for excellence. This problem is particularly evident in the humanities, where most of the ground-breaking research is traditionally not published in articles. Therefore, many researchers are pushed towards a relatively mediocre activity, which will allow them to produce one or two books during the assessment period, but not the kind of monograph that normally would need four or five years of research and writing.
Moreover, the system of the four published items discourages long-term projects with relatively high research risk in the sciences as well, since researchers are reluctant to engage in projects or experiments that may not be successful and may not lead to a publication. Since most of the ground-breaking research in the sciences takes place with precisely such risky and imaginative projects, the type of research activity that is encouraged by the REF structure is quite conservative. Also, in terms of the impact of the examined research, in the history of the sciences and the humanities it is not unusual to take some time until the full impact of a discovery is made. The present system has a vista of only four or five years.
The Times Higher Education also revealed that some universities appeared to be "gaming" the REF system. This included "REF Poaching", in which staff with established research records were headhunted from their universities immediately before the REF, giving the poaching institution full credit for their publications without having taken the risk of supporting the researcher. It also included employing large numbers of staff on 0.2 FTE contracts, the lowest level of employment that qualifies them for REF submission.
In addition to such concerns about what really can be measured by four research output items, and how impact may be measured, the whole system is often criticized as unnecessarily complex and expensive, whereas quality evaluation in the digital age could be much simpler and effective.
The system, with its associated financial implications, has also been criticised for diverting resources from teaching. As such, increases in student fees may often not have resulted in more staff time being spent on teaching.
In July 2016, Lord Nicholas Stern's review was published, drafting general guidelines for the next REF in 2021. One of the recommendations was to increase research public engagement. Research engagement means enhancing delivery of the benefits from research. It also means making the public more aware of the research findings and their implications. One mechanism for public engagement is crowdfunding for research, where dedicated platforms host crowdfunding campaigns for university research, in a range of topics. Crowdfunding for research has two advantages: one, it is a source for a relatively high guaranteed funding, with a rate of around 50%, second, it is a very effective tool to engage with the general public.
One problem that the Stern review did not address in relation to the research impact assessment, is that the structure of case study design template on which impact is assessed, does not contain a method section, and thereby making the assessment of what type of impact was claimed a rhetoric game of who can claim the most (cf. Brauer, 2018). Thereby, grand claims are incentivized by the assessment structure. The problem occurs, because qualitative judgments of the significance and reach of the impact (without an account of the underlying method) cement contemporary values into the assessment, as such; "[…] call it socially constructed, mutual learning, social practice whatever, the key is that we can’t separate characteristics of Impact from the process imposed on value and recognise it as such." (Derrick, 2018:160) When checking the reference of current claims, these were either not accessible (e.g. the relevant websites were taken down), referenced in such a way that it didn't reflect self-authorship or testimonials of individuals connected to the researcher (Brauer, 2018:142-147). Similarly, Sayer (2014) criticizes the overall peer review of the REF process, describing it as poor simulacrum of standard academic quality and that the assessment process is further complicated by the sheer workload of the assessment (p. 35). On a similar note, a RAND study found that the majority of the references were never consulted, certain assessment panels were discouraged from using the internet and the reference help structure of the REF took sometimes two weeks to produce associated references. Thereby, the external impact focus disciplines the assessment into focusing on external values.
In 2018, it was said that REF has negative effects on the humanities.
See also
Research Assessment Exercise
Teaching Excellence Framework
References
External links
REF website
The second research framework on HEFCE website
Higher education in the United Kingdom
Research in the United Kingdom
Research management
Science policy |
The Gambia Independence Act 1964 (1964 c. 93) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that gave independence to The Gambia with effect from 18 February 1965. The Act also provided for the continued right of appeal from the Gambian courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which was abolished in 1998 when Yahya Jammeh decided to reorganise the Gambian judiciary under the 1997 Constitution of The Gambia, which replaced the 1970 Constitution of The Gambia that had been suspended after the 1994 Gambian coup d'état on 22 July 1994.
Marlborough House conference
On 23 July 1964, a conference was held at Marlborough House to make plans for Gambian independence. A high level delegation from The Gambia, led by Prime Minister Dawda Jawara, met with a British delegation led by Duncan Sandys, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sandys discussed an independent Gambia's need for financial assistance, a part he envisaged would be played by the British. However, Sandys also noted that independence 'was not all about money'.
Gambian attendees
Dawda Jawara, Prime Minister of The Gambia
Sheriff Sekouba Sisay, Minister of Finance
Sheriff Mustapha Dibba
Alieu Badara Njie, Minister of Works and Communication
Amang Kanyi, Minister of Agriculture
Seyfo Omar Mbakeh
Kalilu Singhateh
Famara Wassa Touray
Paul L. Baldeh
Pierre Sarr N'Jie
I. A. S. Burang John
Kebba W. Foon
I.M. Garba-Jahumpa
Philip Bridges, Attorney General of The Gambia
F. D. C. Williams
K. J. W. Lane
Rev. J. C. Faye
Sir John Paul, Governor of The Gambia
British attendees
Marquess of Lansdowne
Sir John Martin
J. M. Kirsch
H. Steel
R. G. Pettitt
References
Whitaker's Almanack: for the year 1966, complete edition, p. 321. J. Whitaker & Sons, London, 1965
Chronological table of the statutes; HMSO, London. 1993.
1964 in the Gambia
Independence acts in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Gambia and the Commonwealth of Nations
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1964
The Gambia–United Kingdom relations |
Fredlanella is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
Fredlanella cerussata (Lane, 1964)
Fredlanella diringshofeni (Lane, 1972)
References
Anisocerini |
Edward J. Bebb (April 28, 1839 – July 12, 1916) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Bebb was awarded the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action in Columbus, Georgia on April 16, 1865. He was honored with the award on June 17, 1865.
Biography
Bebb was born in Ohio to Edward (1800 - 1868) and Margaret Evans Bebb (1805 - 1868) on April 28, 1839. He moved to Iowa at age 12. Bebb enlisted into Company D of the 4th Iowa Cavalry on September 25, 1861 and was a private throughout his military career. On 16 April 1865 he formed part of a regiment, under the direction of General J. H. Wilson's, that were undertaking to capture the Chattahoochee River bridge to gain entry into the city. Bebb is reported to have captured a flag while the enemies were fleeing. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor at this event.
Medal of Honor citation
Personal life
Bebb married Mary Adeline Hungerford (1845 - 1900) in Wapello, Iowa on March 8, 1866 having mustered out of the army soon after the conclusion of the Civil War.
See also
List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F
References
1839 births
1916 deaths
People of Iowa in the American Civil War
Union Army soldiers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor |
Nanke () is a railway station of the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast line located in Sinshih District, Tainan City, Taiwan.
Around the station
National Nanke International Experimental High School
Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory
Southern Taiwan Science Park
World Vegetable Center
See also
List of railway stations in Taiwan
References
Railway stations served by Taiwan Railways Administration
Railway stations in Tainan
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in 2010 |
Cora squamiformis is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in the high Andes of South America, it was formally described as a new species in 2013 by Karina Wilk, Robert Lücking, and Alba Yánez-Ayabaca. The type specimen was collected in Madidi National Park at an altitude of . The lichen occurs in Bolivia and Ecuador, where it grows on the ground between bryophytes amongst high-mountain vegetation. It forms olive-grey to grey thalli up to across, each typically comprising 3 to 5 semicircular lobes. The specific epithet squamiformis refers to the squamulose (scaley) appearance of the thallus. A close relative, Cora pavonia, occurs in the same habitat in Ecuador; it has much larger thalli and a different lobe configuration than C. squamiformis.
References
squamiformis
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2013
Lichens of Bolivia
Lichens of Ecuador
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
Basidiolichens |
Rotex Electric is a Czech aircraft engine manufacturer based in Prague. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of electric motors for light aircraft, as well as for automobiles and other applications.
The company was founded in 2003.
The company produces four series of electric motors, REB, REG, RET and REX, in a variety of power outputs. The REB 90 is an example, a brushless 350 volt design that produces for aircraft use.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft engines built by Rotex Electric:
Rotex Electric REB 20
Rotex Electric REB 30
Rotex Electric REB 50
Rotex Electric REB 90
Rotex Electric REG 20
Rotex Electric REG 30
Rotex Electric RET 30
Rotex Electric RET 60
Rotex Electric REX 30
Rotex Electric REX 50
Rotex Electric REX 90
References
External links
Aircraft engine manufacturers of the Czech Republic
Manufacturing companies established in 2003
Czech companies established in 2003 |
Nicholas O’Connell (born March 6, 1957) is an American journalist, novelist, editor and publisher. He was born to Marie Katherine O’Connell and Nicholas Brown O’Connell in Seattle, Washington. Nicholas was raised in Bellevue, Washington with 4 other siblings.
He was lauded for his debut novel, The Storms of Denali, and for his great understanding of mountaineering.; and also for his book On Sacred Ground, for his deep-rooted connection with nature and Northwestern U.S. literature.
He is the publisher of The Writer’s Workshop Review, an online literary magazine and founder of The Writer’s Workshop, an on-campus and online writing program in Seattle.
Biography
O’Connell was born on March 6, 1957, in Seattle, Washington to parents Nicholas and Marie O’Connell.
He attended Amherst College, receiving his B.A. in French in 1980. He received his Master’s degree (MFA) in creative writing in 1985 from the University of Washington, where he also received his Ph.D. in English in 1996.
His first real newspaper job was as a reporter at the Whidbey News Times in Oak Harbor, Washington in 1980 and '81. He worked as a general assignment reporter for the Ellensburg Daily-Record from 1981-82 in Ellensburg, Washington, as a fiction editor of the Seattle Review from 1983-1989, and as a copy editor for Fishing and Hunting News (Outdoor Empire Publishing) from 1982-1994. He was an instructor at the University of Washington from 1987-2005, and he founded The Writer's Workshop in 2001, where he has remained a teacher since.
His work has been printed in a myriad of publications, including Newsweek, Gourmet, Saveur, Outside, GO, National Geographic Adventure, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sierra, The Wine Spectator, Commonweal, Image, and more.
O'Connell is also a mountaineer, having ascended mountains all over the world, including Mt. Rainier, the Matterhorn, Mt. Blanc, the Marmolada, Island Peak in the Himalayas, and Alaska's Denali, N. America's highest mountain. His experiences climbing helped shape his writing style, and the idea for his novel.
He and his wife live in Seattle and have three children. He is currently the publisher/editor of the online literary magazine, The Writer’s Workshop Review.
O'Connell is a member of the Authors Guild of America, National Association of Scholars, and Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
His works have been translated and published in Japan, England, Italy, Canada, Poland, and the Czech Republic
Critical comments
Ellen Emry Hetzel, of the Seattle Times wrote, concerning O'Connell's novel, "Among other achievements, Seattle climber and author Nicholas O’Connell helps us understand the mountaineer mentality ... O’Connell finds his larger theme in what can happen when trust is broken. Even those of us who don’t climb mountains can step into his fictional character’s crampons."
"Author Nicholas O'Connell brings readers along for every painful and heart-stopping step of the way up Denali," said Hikari Loftus of Deseret News. "O'Connell's knowledge of climbing makes the story believable and relatable to climbers and hikers. The story he writes makes this tale of survival and risks hard to put down."
Amherst Magazine book reviewer, DeWitt Henry, said "this is a fully imagined, thought-provoking and moving debut."
In Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Ralph K. Allen reviewed O'Connell's On Sacred Ground, saying "Nicholas O'Connell's tightly written history of the Pacific Northwest's literature is an excellent compass for students, teachers, and the general public to use as a reference, story, or jumping-off point for further research into the spatial character of the Northwest."
John Marshall, a critic from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, said "(O'Connell) may be the most successful yet in analyzing the region's literature ... As "On Sacred Ground" illuminates, Northwest literature has come full circle and returned to its native American roots, recalling stories and legends that were rife with reverence for the natural world and all its inhabitants.
David Stevenson of the American Alpine Club, said "Many of these climbers are writers themselves, well over half with books to their credit (Messner and Bonington being virtual publishing industries unto themselves). But even these familiar faces benefit from O’Connell’s careful questioning and editing."
Bob Speik, of Traditional Mountaineering said, "Beyond Risk is the best book I have found on traditional climbing ethics. It is one of the best reads of the adventure books on traditional mountaineering and climbing that I have enjoyed."
Awards
Society of Professional Journalist First Place for Feature Story Writing in 1981
Society of Professional Journalist First Place for Magazine Travel Writing in 2007.
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award (1988) for At the Field's End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers
Washington State Governor's Award (1988) for At the Field's End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers.
Published works
Novels
The Storms of Denali - University of Alaska Press, 2012 - ,
Nonfiction
On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature - University of Washington Press, 2003 -
At the Field's End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers - University of Washington Press, 1998 - ,
Beyond Risk: Conversations with Climbers - Mountaineers Books, 1995 - ,
References
1957 births
Living people |
James Franklin Ware (1849–1934) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Biography
Ware was born on February 11, 1849, in Litchfield, Maine. He graduated from Lawrence University in 1871 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1873.
Career
Ware was a member of the Assembly in 1880, 1881 and 1883. In 1884, he was elected to the Senate from the 18th District. He was a Republican. Around 1887, he married Mary L. Lord, daughter of fellow State Senator Dr. Simon Lock Lord. Between 1893 and 1896 he moved to Galveston, Texas, where he was postmaster and later "president of a gold mining company". Ware moved to Waco, Texas, and later Fort Worth, Texas, where he died on February 4, 1934.
References
1849 births
1934 deaths
People from Litchfield, Maine
Republican Party Wisconsin state senators
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Wisconsin lawyers
Lawrence University alumni
University of Michigan Law School alumni |
The 2011 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2011 Big Ten Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big Ten selectors: (1) the Big Ten conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).
Offensive selections
Quarterbacks
Russell Wilson, Wisconsin (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Kirk Cousins, Michigan State (Coaches-2)
Denard Robinson, Michigan (Media-2)
Running backs
Montee Ball, Wisconsin (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Rex Burkhead, Nebraska (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Marcus Coker, Iowa (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Silas Redd, Penn State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Receivers
A.J. Jenkins, Illinois (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Marvin McNutt, Iowa (Coaches-1; Media-1)
B. J. Cunningham, Michigan State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Nick Toon, Wisconsin (Coaches-2)
Jeremy Ebert, Northwestern (Media-2)
Centers
David Molk, Michigan (Coaches-1; Media-2)
Peter Konz, Wisconsin (Media-1)
Mike Caputo, Nebraska (Coaches-2 [tie])
Mike Brewster, Ohio State (Coaches-2 [tie])
Guards
Joel Foreman, Michigan State (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Kevin Zeitler, Wisconsin (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Travis Frederick, Wisconsin (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Adam Gettis, Iowa (Coaches-2)
Spencer Long, Nebraska (Media-2)
Tackles
Riley Reiff, Iowa (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Josh Oglesby, Wisconsin (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Mike Adams, Ohio State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Taylor Lewan, Michigan (Coaches-2)
Jeff Allen, Illinois (Media-2)
Tight ends
Drake Dunsmore, Northwestern (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Brian Linthicum, Michigan State (Coaches-2)
Jacob Pedersen, Wisconsin (Media-2)
Defensive selections
Defensive linemen
Whitney Mercilus, Illinois (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Jerel Worthy, Michigan State (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Devon Still, Penn State (Coaches-1; Media-1)
John Simon, Ohio State (Coaches-1; Media-2)
Kawann Short, Purdue (Coaches-2; Media-1)
Michael Buchanan, Illinois (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Mike Martin, Michigan (Coaches-2; Media-2)
William Gholston, Michigan State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Mike Daniels, Iowa (Coaches-2)
Jack Crawford, Penn State (Coaches-2)
Broderick Binns, Iowa (Media-2)
Linebackers
Lavonte David, Nebraska (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Chris Borland, Wisconsin (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Gerald Hodges, Penn State (Coaches-1; Media-2)
Mike Taylor, Wisconsin (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Max Bullough, Michigan State (Coaches-2)
Andrew Sweat, Ohio State (Coaches-2)
Denicos Allen, Michigan State (Media-2)
Jonathan Brown, Illinois (Media-2)
Gerald Hodges, Penn State (Media-2)
Defensive backs
Alfonzo Dennard, Nebraska (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Johnny Adams, Michigan State (Coaches-1; Media-2)
Shaun Prater, Iowa (Coaches-1)
Aaron Henry, Wisconsin (Coaches-1)
Trenton Robinson, Michigan State (Media-1)
Brian Peters, Northwestern (Media-1)
Antonio Fenelus, Wisconsin (Media-1)
Isaiah Lewis, Michigan State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Nick Sukay, Penn State (Coaches-2; Media-2)
C. J. Barnett, Ohio State (Coaches-2)
Ricardo Allen, Purdue (Coaches-2)
Micah Hyde, Iowa (Media-2)
Special teams
Kickers
Brett Maher, Nebraska (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Carson Wiggs, Purdue (Coaches-2)
Anthony Fera, Penn State (Media-2)
Punter
Brett Maher, Nebraska (Coaches-1; Media-1)
Cody Webster, Purdue (Coaches-2; Media-2)
Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and media
Coaches = Selected by the Big Ten Conference coaches
Media = Selected by the conference media
See also
2011 College Football All-America Team
References
All-Big Ten Conference
All-Big Ten Conference football teams |
Humberto Agustín Macías Romero (born 17 June 1985) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2010 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tlaxcala. From 2014 to 2016 he served as local congressman in Tlaxcala, and majority leader of the National Action Party
References
1985 births
Living people
People from Tlaxcala
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Tlaxcala |
Norman J. Pullman ( – ) was a mathematician, professor of mathematics, and Doctor of Mathematics, who specialized in number theory, matrix theory, linear algebra, and theory of tournaments.
Career
He earned an M.A. degree in mathematics from Harvard University, and in 1962, he was awarded the Doctorate degree of Mathematics from Syracuse University.
From 1962 to 1965, he was professor of Mathematics at McGill University. And in 1965 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Alberta.
In 1965 he started to work at the faculty of Queen's University, and held a professorship position since 1971.
He lectured in professional meetings for the American Mathematical Society and the Australian Mathematical Society.
He was a visiting scholar for Curtin University of Technology in a great many occasions, and had a professional association with the institution.
During his career, he supervised mathematicians like Dominique de Caen, Rolf S. Rees, and Bill Jackson, among others.
His research included contributions in matrix theory, linear algebra, and theory of tournaments.
Academic publications
References
20th-century American mathematicians
1931 births
1999 deaths
Number theorists
Harvard University alumni
Syracuse University alumni
Mathematicians from New York (state) |
Enver Maloku (2 February 1954, Podujevë – 11 January 1999) was a Kosovar Albanian journalist and writer and head of the Kosovo Information Centre. He was killed in Pristina on 11 January 1999.
References
1954 births
1999 deaths
Kosovan murder victims
Kosovan journalists
People murdered in Kosovo
Kosovo Albanians
People from Podujevo
1999 crimes in Kosovo
1990s murders in Kosovo
1999 murders in Europe
20th-century journalists |
Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibinkubula wa Ntumba (19 August 1942 – 1 February 2021) was a Congolese engineer, politician, and civil servant.
Tshiongo was born on 19 August 1942 in Lusambo, present-day Sankuru province, in Belgian Congo. He graduated with vocational and technical degrees in electromechanics in 1960.
Professionally, Tshiongo spent much of his career at Regideso, the country's public sector water delivery utility. In 1962, Tshiongo joined Regideso as the head of electromechanical and hydraulic plants in Kabinda. He later became the President, CEO, and director general of Regideso.
Tshiongo served as Governor of the former Kasai-Occidental province from April 2006 to October 2006. He was elected to the National Assembly, representing the Dimbelenge Territory constituency in Kasaï-Central province. In February 2011, Tshiongo was appointed national Minister of Energy in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, under President Joseph Kabila's administration.
Tshiongo died from an illness and COVID-19 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 1 February 2021, at the age of 78.
References
1942 births
2021 deaths
Government ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Members of the National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Governors of Kasai-Occidental
Democratic Republic of the Congo engineers
Electrical engineers
People from Kasaï-Central
People from Sankuru
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Rafael Cezar Cardoso (born 17 November 1985) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
He began his career in television, playing small parts on specials on RBS TV in Rio Grande do Sul. His first appearance on national television was in 2008, when he played a character in the soap opera Beleza Pura.
In November 2009 Cardoso appeared in his first feature film, Do Começo ao Fim, as the character Thomas, younger half-brother of Francisco.
Filmography
Television
Film
Internet
Music Video
References
External links
Living people
Brazilian male telenovela actors
Brazilian male film actors
Brazilian male television actors
21st-century Brazilian male actors
1985 births |
McDonald High School is a public high school in McDonald, Ohio, located in Trumbull County. It is the only high school in the McDonald Local School District.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
Boys Cross Country – 1982, 1983, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2013
Boys Track and Field – 1999, 2011
Girls Cross Country – 2014
Girls Track and Field – 2014
References
External links
High schools in Trumbull County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio |
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back is the sixth album by Patrick Sky, released as SLIF 2000 on Leviathan Records, identified as "[a] division of Innisfree Inc." on the back sleeve. The sleeve notes and front cover title are a reproduction of Sky's own handwriting, notable especially for his misspelling the word forward as foreward [sic], though the standard spelling is found on the two sticker labels of the LP itself. The record is noteworthy also because it includes a piano-driven re-recording of Sky's signature song, "Many a Mile," and because of "My Friend Robert," later recorded by George Thorogood. Dedicated "[t]o the loving memory of Mississippi John Hurt," the album features not only a cover photo of the fingerpicking legend with Sky (who produced Hurt's Vanguard albums), but also covers of three John Hurt songs. Other highlights include a cover of Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground" (Lunsford's version is included in Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music) and lighthearted rhinological commentary about David Bromberg in the Sky original "Lucky Me." The album also includes a performance of Sky playing "Lost James Whalen," featuring Sky's vocals as well as his playing of the uilleann pipes.
The cover bears a distinct similarity to Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years album cover, with the wide buff matting, the hand-written heading of the artist's name and album title, the re-touched and colorized low-rez photo in the center. Both were released in 1975, although Sky's album was released a few months earlier than Simon's.
Track listing
Side one
"Many a Mile"
"Lucky Me"
"Perryville Reel, Rhode Island Reel"
"My Friend Robert"
"Frankie and Albert"
"Mole in the Ground"
Side two
"Payday"
"Candy Man"
"To Find a Way"
"Danville Girl"
"Moanin' Blues"
"Lost James Whalen"
Personnel
Eddie Wright - bass
Bud Morrissoe - Fiddle
Gordon Titcomb - Bars, piano
Lar Anderson - Drums
Buzz Kuhar - Drums
Patrick Sky - Guitar, 12 String [,] Uilleann Pipes, Banjo, Dulcimer, Moans and Vocal Incantations
Production notes:
Executive Producer - Lisa Null
Produced & Arranged - Patrick Sky
Engineered by - Pitt Kinsolving
Cover photo - Bob Campbell
Layout & Design - Joe Szarek, Patrick Sky, Butch Lockwood
References
1975 albums
Patrick Sky albums |
The 2010 Netball Superleague Grand Final featured Team Bath and Hertfordshire Mavericks. Having previously played each other in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 grand finals, this was the fourth final that featured Team Bath and Mavericks. Just like the three previous encounters, it was Team Bath that emerged as winners.
Mavericks won the first quarter and remained competitive throughout the whole match. Towards the end of the second quarter, Pamela Cookey sank a shot that saw Team Bath take the lead for the first time. By half time Team Bath were leading 22–21 and at the three-quarter mark they led 36–33. However during the fourth quarter Mavericks drew level, with the scores at 37–37, before Team Bath pulled away to win by 51–44. The grand final was broadcast live on Sky Sports for the first time.
Route to the Final
Match summary
Teams
References
2010 in English netball
2008-09
Team Bath (netball) matches
Mavericks Netball matches
Netball Superleague |
Jakarta Inner Ring Road (), also known as the Jakarta Inner-City Toll Road () is a toll road circling the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. On northern and the eastern section, the toll road is grade-separated with the Sosrobahu road construction technique (also used in the Metro Manila Skyway and one half of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Skyway). The toll road is operated by PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk, a state-owned enterprise, and PT Citra Marga Nushapala Persada Tbk (CMNP) (), founded by the Suharto family which is also the initiator of the Metro Manila Skyway.
History
The stretch of Jakarta Inner Ring Road began with the opening of Jalan Jenderal Gatot Subroto which intersect the Sudirman Road at the Semanggi cloverleaf bridge which already under construction since the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the Gatot Subroto Road had continued past Tebet and becoming M.T. Haryono Road to Cawang and meet the junction with Major Jendral Panjaitan Road. In the 1970s, another major road runs Jendral Achmad Yani Road and Laksamana Yos Sudarso Road were established to the far east of Jakarta. This road would connect the Semanggi cloverleaf interchange all the way to the port Tanjung Priok. This vitally important highway which connects Central Jakarta directly with the port is the prototype of Jakarta Inner Ring Road, known then as "Jakarta Bypass", so called because the new connection enabling trucks to "bypass the rest of Jakarta while traveling to and from the port." Construction of Jakarta Bypass was funded using the United States financial assistant and was completed in 1963.
Jakarta Bypass also enabled the growth of new suburbs of Cempaka Putih, Pulo Mas, Senen, Rawamangun and Salemba.
Section
Jakarta Inner Ring Road has several sections:
Cawang–Pluit Toll Road
Harbor Toll Road
Ir. Wiyoto Wiyono Toll Road
Gates and exits
Ir. Wiyoto Wiyono exits
Cawang–Pluit exits
Harbor Toll Road exits
Fee
See also
Jakarta Elevated Toll Road
Jakarta Outer Ring Road
Jakarta Outer Ring Road 2
References
Cited works
External links
PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk
PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada Tbk
Toll roads in Jakarta
Roads of Jakarta
Ring roads in Indonesia |
The Twin () is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert, starring Pierre Richard, Camilla More and Carey More. Based on Donald Westlake's novel Two Much, the story involves an indebted Frenchman who meets a pair of beautiful and rich American twin sisters. Inventing a twin brother, he manages to marry both and live their opulent lifestyle.
Its American/Spanish remake Two Much, starring Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, was released in 1995.
Plot
Owner of a struggling business in Paris, Matthias Duval stakes all he has in a game of poker and loses. At a party he meets a beautiful young American, Liz, and they soon end up in bed. Next morning she says that she has a twin called Betty, to which he jokes that he has a twin called Mathieu. When he meets Betty, she says she must meet his brother. Creating a different persona as "Mathieu", he starts romancing Betty as well. What he does not know is that each sister must get married by the end of the year or she will lose her share of the fortune left by their parents. The lawyer in charge of the estate, Volpinex, warns Matthias to stay away from them.
Betty marries "Mathieu" secretly, and next morning as Matthias he decides he must break with Liz. She convinces him to get engaged to her by the promise of 4,000 dollars a month plus sexual freedom. Using the latter clause, in persona as Matthias he spends a night with Liz. She flies him to the US to marry him there. Matthias then leaves Liz to go on an imaginary business trip to Japan, while "Mathieu" joins his wife Betty and her lonely sister in an isolated seaside house they own,
When the twins are out one night, the lawyer Volpinex appears. He has solid evidence that there is only one Matthias, who has married bigamously to defraud the parents' estate. In a struggle, Volpinex is accidentally shot and a fire accidentally started. "Mathieu" disappears, learning from the radio that the police believe the charred corpse to be his and that Volpinex, who has disappeared, must be the murderer. Hastily returning from Japan, Matthias resumes relations with his wife Liz and comforts the bereaved Betty. In fact, the girls knew of his duplicity all along and are happy to live as a ménage à trois.
Cast
Pierre Richard as Matthias Duval/"Matthieu Duval"
Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Ernest Volpinex
Camilla More as Betty Kerner
Carey More as Liz Kerner
Jacques Frantz as Ralph
Françoise Dorner as Marie
Andréa Ferréol as Evie
Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Charlie
Paul Le Person as the beggar
Isabelle Strawa as Nikki
Yves Robert as a man in the elevator (cameo appearance)
References
External links
Review at Films de France
Trailer at Commeaucimena.com
1980s French-language films
1980s sex comedy films
1984 romantic comedy films
1980s screwball comedy films
French sex comedy films
1984 films
French romantic comedy films
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Donald E. Westlake
Films scored by Vladimir Cosma
1980s French films |
Thomas Cuming Hall (born 1858, died on May 27, 1936, at Göttingen, Germany) was an American Presbyterian theologian, son of the Rev. John Hall (1829-98). He was born at Armagh, Ireland and arrived in America in 1867 with his parents when his father took up the post of pastor at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church; he was naturalized on May 8, 1882. He graduated from Princeton University in 1879 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1882, and studied at Berlin and Göttingen 1882–83. Ordained in 1883, he held pastorates at Omaha, Neb. (1883–86), and Chicago (1886–97), and in 1898 became professor of Christian ethics at Union Seminary. In 1884 he married German Jennie Elizabeth Louise Bartling in London, England. In 1914 he was chosen to be Roosevelt professor at the University of Berlin during 1915–16. During World War I he championed the German cause and was implicated in the conspiracy, masterminded by Franz von Rintelen, to sabotage supplies to the Allies. He was later decorated with the Order of the Crown by the German Emperor.
His writings include:
The Power of an Endless Life (1893)
The Social Meaning of the Modern Religious Movements in England (1900)
The Messages of Jesus According to the Synoptists (1901; 1908)
John Hall, Pastor and Preacher: A Biography by his Son (1901)
Social Solutions in the Light of Christian Ethics (1910)
The History of Ethics within Organized Christianity (1910)
Historical Setting of the Early Gospel (1912)
Religion and Life (1913)
References
Princeton University alumni
Clergy from Omaha, Nebraska
People from Chicago
American theologians
1858 births
People from Armagh (city)
1936 deaths |
The Voltaic Democratic Movement (in French: Mouvement Démocratique Voltaïque) was a political party in Upper Volta, led by Gérard Kango Ouédraogo. MDV was founded in 1955.
In the 1957 territorial assembly elections MDV came second with 26 seats. After the elections it formed a government together with the Unified Democratic Party. That government didn't last though, and MDV joined the Voltaic Solidarity (SV) grouping instead. Thus it lost government power.
In 1958 MDV, along with the rest of SV, merged into the African Regroupment Party (PRA).
References
Englebert, Pierre. La Revolution Burkinabè. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso |
Park Joon-Kyung (; 12 February 1986) is a South Korean football forward, who played for FC Gifu in J2 League.
Career
Park was scouted by Oita High School and attended Kyushu Sangyo University after graduation. In college, Park was the Kyūshū University Football League's Top Scorer two times.
In 2009, he joined FC Gifu. On 8 March 2009, he made his professional league debut in a match against Tochigi SC. On 11 April 2009, he scored his first goal with Mito HollyHock. He did not have chance to play in 2011 and he decided to retire in the year-end.
Honours
Individual
2005
20th Kyūshū University Football League Division 1 Top Scorer
2006, 2007, 2008 a member of the Kyūshū University team (2007, 2008 Denso Cup MVP)
2008
32nd Kyūshū University Football Tournament MVP
23rd Kyūshū University Football League Division 1 Top Scorer, MVP
Club statistics
External links
FC Gifu Official Website Profile
1986 births
Living people
Kyushu Sangyo University alumni
Men's association football forwards
South Korean men's footballers
South Korean expatriate men's footballers
FC Gifu players
J2 League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan |
Sociedad Deportiva Tarazona is a Spanish football team based in Tarazona, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1969, it plays in , holding home games at Municipal, with a 1,500-seat capacity.
History
The club was founded in 1969 as Club de Fútbol Eureka, being renamed to Club Recreativo Cultural Eureka in 1973 and Club de Fútbol Eureka-Tarazona in 1975. In 1977, it changed to its current name Sociedad Deportiva Tarazona.
The club became champion of the Tercera División, Group 17 in the 2018-19 season.
Season to season
As C. R. C. Eureka
As S. D. Tarazona
1 season in Primera Federación
1 season in Segunda División B
2 seasons in Segunda Federación
21 seasons in Tercera División
Current squad
References
External links
Futbolme team profile
Football clubs in Aragon
Tarazona
Association football clubs established in 1969
1969 establishments in Spain |
WFHK (1430 AM, "94.1 The River") is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Pell City, Alabama, United States. The station broadcasts to the eastern area of the greater Birmingham, Alabama, area and is the only commercial radio station in St. Clair County, Alabama. Including its broadcast translator at 94.1 FM (W231CW), the station broadcasts into 7 counties to include; St. Clair, Jefferson, Shelby, Talladega, Calhoun, Etowah, and Blount. The station is owned by Stocks Broadcasting, Inc.
Programming
WFHK airs an adult contemporary format which plays hits of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s & today. The morning show consists of long-time radio partners John Simpson and Adam Stocks. (Stocks is also the owner of Stocks Broadcasting, Inc.) The two have been together on WFHK since 2000 and discuss everything from local politics to world news. In addition to the morning show, John Simpson is on-air during middays and Adam Stocks covers the afternoon drive time slot. Jeremy Gossett is on-air during the evenings until midnight.
On Saturday, Jennifer Jones hosts a 30-minute "Swap Shop" where live callers buy, sell, trade, rent, giveaway, and announce yard sales. The Swap Shop has been running on WFHK since 1956. Birmingham radio veteran and television voice over talent Jim Lucas is on air the rest of the day.
Sundays, WFHK airs the 1980s Edition of Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 which includes the countdown program in its entirety as it aired in the 1980s.
History
The station was granted its original construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on November 2, 1955. WFHK began broadcasting in 1956.
In February 1999, St. Clair Broadcasting System, Inc. (Betty Williamson, president) reached an agreement to sell WFHK to Williamson Broadcasting, Inc. (Douglas Williamson, president). The station sold for a reported $10,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 14, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on May 14, 1999.
In January 2001, Williamson Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell WFHK to Stocks Broadcasting, Inc. The station sold for a reported $275,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on February 27, 2001, and the transaction was consummated on March 1, 2001.
Stocks Broadcasting owner Adam Stocks was elected mayor of Pell City in 2004.
On February 11, 2015, Stocks Broadcasting, Inc. launched "94.1 FM The River".
Awards and honors
In October 2001, WFHK was named Small Business of the Year for 2001 by the Greater Pell City Chamber of Commerce.
References
External links
WFHK official website
94.1 The River Facebook
FHK
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1956
St. Clair County, Alabama
1956 establishments in Alabama
FHK |
Big Huge Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Timonium, Maryland since 2000, known first for real-time strategy games such as Rise of Nations, later for the console RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and more recently for mobile games such as DomiNations and Arcane Showdown. Throughout most of its history the company has been associated with its best-known founder, Brian Reynolds, whose prior career already included work as lead designer of Civilization II and Alpha Centauri, and co-founder of Firaxis Games. The studio's ownership has changed hands several times over the years, and it became briefly defunct in May 2012, but it was revived by Reynolds along with several original alumni and new partners. The company is presently owned by Nexon, and actively runs its mobile titles DomiNations (released April 2015) and Arcane Showdown (released June 2020), while continuing to develop new games.
History
The company was incorporated in December 1999 and was first announced in February 2000 by Brian Reynolds along with partners Tim Train, David Inscore, and Jason Coleman. Among the founders, Reynolds principally specialized in game design, Train in production, Inscore in art direction, and Coleman in engineering. Although Brian Reynolds was also a founding member of Firaxis Games, he and the others left Firaxis to found the new company based on their desire to apply the complexity and concepts of the turn-based strategy genre to the real-time strategy genre.
The company's first game, a real-time strategy game entitled Rise of Nations released in 2003 and became a critical and commercial hit ultimately achieving over 2,000,000 lifetime sales. It received considerable critical acclaim and won awards including GameSpy's 2003 Game of the Year for PC-RTS and GameSpot's 2003 Best Strategy Game and 2003 Best PC. An expansion pack, Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots followed in 2004, along with a "Gold Edition".
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, a second real-time strategy game—this time fantasy and steampunk based, followed in mid-2006. Although this game had a positive critical reception, its sales underperformed, and it became the last full PC RTS from Big Huge Games.
In the year following the release of Rise of Legends, Reynolds took on two smaller projects with parts of the team. The first, Catan Live, was an Xbox Live version of Klaus Teuber's famous The Settlers of Catan boardgame, with an AI and console interface co-designed by Teuber and Reynolds. The second, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties was an expansion pack for Microsoft's famous real-time strategy game.
Meanwhile, for its next large project, Big Huge Games turned to roleplaying games and another famous videogame designer. In February 2007, the company announced that Ken Rolston, the lead designer of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, had come out of retirement to join the company as lead designer on an untitled role playing game (RPG). Later that May it was announced that THQ would publish the title in 2009. This marked the first title from Big Huge Games that was not distributed by Microsoft.
Acquisition by THQ
On January 15, 2008, THQ acquired the developer.
On July 30, 2008, Grant Kirkhope joined the Big Huge Games team as an audio director. He had previously worked for Rare, composing for the Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark games (among others).
On March 18, 2009, during the height of that year's Great Recession, THQ announced that due to declining economic conditions, it would close Big Huge Games unless an outside buyer could be found in the next 60 days. As fate would have it, a buyer was found and the studio remained open, while THQ itself went on to file for bankruptcy in December 2012.
Acquisition by 38 Studios
On May 27, 2009, 38 Studios announced that they were acquiring Big Huge Games and retaining 70 employees out of approximately 120 who were at THQ.
From mid-2009 to January 2012, Big Huge Games developed a single player role playing game titled Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which was released in early February 2012 and published by Electronic Arts (EA) and 38 Studios for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The game is set in a fantasy world created with input from R A Salvatore and Todd McFarlane.
It was reported on May 24, 2012 that the studio and their parent company 38 Studios had laid off their entire staff.
Formation of Epic Baltimore
Briefly, it appeared that the remaining Big Huge Games development team had found backing to keep the studio, or some part of the studio, running. In June 2012, Epic Games announced the opening of a new studio in Baltimore called Epic Baltimore. The studio consisted of a significant portion of ex-Big Huge developers. The nascent studio was later renamed Impossible Studios, but the reboot effort was ultimately short-lived and Impossible Studios officially closed on February 8, 2013.
Revival by Reynolds and Train
In October 2013, it was revealed that Reynolds and Train had revived Big Huge Games, having reacquired the trademark at auction from the state of Rhode Island, which owned it following the bankruptcy of 38 Studios. This name was given to their new venture founded in 2013, which was formerly briefly known as SecretNewCo. In addition to Reynolds and Train, the new owners included Bryant Freitag and Dan Halka, both Big Huge Games alumni, and Vinh Trinh who had worked with Reynolds during his time as Chief Game Designer at Zynga, where Reynolds had spent much of the 2009–2013 years. More hires soon followed including many more alumni, and the new studio developed a mobile strategy game for tablets and smartphones called DomiNations, for release on iOS and Android. It is published by Nexon's mobile gaming group. and was released for Android and iOS in April 2015.
The game experienced major success; as of March 2016, it had been downloaded over 19 million times, and Big Huge Games actively continues to run the game and develop features for it as recently as summer 2020.
Acquisition by Nexon
In the wake of DomiNation's successful launch, Nexon announced on March 9, 2016 that it had acquired Big Huge Games; the studio would continue to produce new titles and maintain DomiNations.
Arcane Showdown, the next major game from the studio, was released in summer 2020 on mobile platforms and Steam. It was shut down on May 29, 2021.
Game engine
Throughout its first decade, Big Huge Games made extensive use of its internally developed game engine, the Big Huge Engine, in both Rise of Nations and Catan. The engine features support for a variety of applications and technologies, including physics, artificial intelligence, animation, and others.
Games developed
Unreleased
At the time of their move from THQ to 38 Studios, Big Huge Games was working on two large game projects, which were then canceled.
Ascendant (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows)
God: The Game (Wii)
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Big Huge Games profile on MobyGames
2000 establishments in Maryland
2012 disestablishments in Maryland
2014 establishments in Maryland
2016 mergers and acquisitions
American subsidiaries of foreign companies
Companies based in Baltimore County, Maryland
Nexon
Re-established companies
THQ
Timonium, Maryland
Video game companies based in Maryland
Video game companies disestablished in 2012
Video game companies established in 2000
Video game companies established in 2014
Video game development companies |
The Aristocraft II was a six-place homebuilt aircraft designed by Terrence O'Neill.
Design and development
The Aristocraft II was a redesigned aircraft built off the prototype airframe of the WACO Aristocraft. The Franklin-powered Aristocraft pusher was rebuilt using the wings and most of the internal structure of the original. The layout was drastically changed from a twin-tailed, mid-engined, pusher to a conventional tractor arrangement. The intent was to develop a homebuilt aircraft from the design with the flexibility to carry six passengers, or fewer people with extended range. An effort was made to certify the design, under the name Model W Winner but money ran out before completion, with only two orders.
The Aristocraft II was a strut-braced, high-wing, tricycle gear, six-passenger aircraft designed for Franklin or Lycoming engines. The fuselage was made of welded steel tubing with aluminum skin. The cowling was split vertically, and could hinge open for maintenance.
Variants
The standard engine was a six-cylinder Lycoming, however plans were drawn for a
Jacobs L-4MB radial engine installation and also for a Continental R-670 radial installation. This specified that the engine would be mounted closer to the firewall and also incorporated conventional landing gear, a propeller and the outward appearance of "Mr. Muligan", this evolved into the O'Neill Magnum.
Specifications (Arisocraft II)
See also
References
Homebuilt aircraft |
The 2011 TIM Supercoppa Italiana Final was the 24th edition of the Supercoppa, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Serie A and Coppa Italia competitions.
The match, the curtain raiser to the new football season in Italy, was the 208th Derby della Madonnina between Milan and defending champions Internazionale, marking the first time these two sides have met in this competition. The match was played at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing on Saturday 6 August 2011. Milan won the title 2–1.
Milan qualified to take part by winning the 2010–11 Serie A title while their city rivals Inter qualified by winning the 2011 Coppa Italia Final. Inter are the competition's defending champions, having beaten Roma 3–1 in last season's contest. Both teams have appeared in the Supercoppa final eight times during its history, Milan winning six times and Inter five.
Match details
See also
2010–11 Serie A
2010–11 Coppa Italia
References
2011
Supercoppa 2011
Supercoppa 2011
Supercoppa Italiana
2011–12 in Italian football cups |
```java
package com.ctrip.xpipe.redis.integratedtest.console.consoleapi.util;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
/**
* @author liuyi
*
* Sep 9, 2016
*/
public abstract class AbstractExecutorPool {
protected ExecutorService fixedThreadPool;
public AbstractExecutorPool() {
init();
}
public void addThread(final String apiName) {
fixedThreadPool.execute(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
test();
}
});
}
private void init() {
fixedThreadPool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(getPoolSize());
}
abstract protected void test();
abstract protected int getPoolSize();
}
``` |
Shiv Singh Chak is an Indian politician and a member of the 13th Legislative Assembly of India. He represents the Tundla constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party political party.
Early life and education
Shiv Singh Chak was born in Tundla district. He is educated till 12th.
Political career
Shiv Singh Chak has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Tundla constituency and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party political party.
References
1964 births
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Living people |
Frederick Mitcheson (20 March 1912 – 1994) was an English footballer who played at inside-forward.
Career
Mitcheson was on the books at Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Port Vale in July 1933. He scored a hat-trick on his debut on 21 April 1934, a 4–0 win over Plymouth Argyle at The Old Recreation Ground, as the 1933–34 season drew to a close; scoring all three goals in just three minutes, this was the quickest hat-trick in the club's history. He scored four goals in 31 Second Division appearances in 1934–35. He hit just one goal in 15 games in 1935–36, before he was sold to Bob Jack's Plymouth Argyle in November 1935. He spent five years at Plymouth, scoring a hat-trick in January 1939 in a 4–3 win at Luton Town. After leaving Home Park he played for Ipswich Town and Yeovil Town. He returned to Plymouth Argyle in 1948 to help the training and ground staff.
Career statistics
Source:
References
1912 births
1994 deaths
Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Ipswich Town F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. wartime guest players
English Football League players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. non-playing staff |
Cory D. Mason IV (born January 25, 1973) is a Democratic Party politician and the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin. From 2007 to 2018, Mason served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the city of Racine and eastern Racine County.
Early life and education
Mason was born in Racine and graduated from Case High School. He then received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Wisconsin State Assembly
While in the assembly, Mason served as the ranking Assembly Democratic member of the Assembly Committee on Environment and Forestry, the Joint Legislative Council, and Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems. He also served on the Assembly Committee on Tourism.
Mason was named the 2009-2010 Legislator of the Year by the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association for his support of Wisconsin's technical colleges. Other awards include the 2014 Children's Champion Policy Award from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, the 2013 Friend of the UW Award by the United Council of UW Students, and the River Champion Award by the River Alliance of Wisconsin. Mason was named 2012 Legislator of the Year by the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin and was named to the Conservation Honor Roll for 2011-2012 by the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. He was also given an Award of Merit by the Wisconsin Association for Career and Technical Education.
Mayoral candidacy
Mason ran for mayor of Racine in 2017 for a special election to complete the term of the previous mayor, John Dickert. Mason won with the largest share of votes in both the primary and general elections.
Mayoralty
Mason's mayoral administration has thus far resulted in increased residential and commercial development such as the Gold Medal Loft project in Uptown Racine and the construction of apartments at the former Walker Manufacturing site along the shores of Lake Michigan in Downtown Racine. Mason has also overseen downtown investment from global technology company Foxconn.
He was re-elected in 2019 and 2023.
Electoral history
Wisconsin Assembly 62nd District (2006, 2008, 2010)
Wisconsin Assembly 66th District (2012, 2014, 2016)
Racine Mayor (2017, 2019, 2023)
References
External links
City of Racine - Mayor Cory Mason - official government website
Cory Mason for Mayor - official campaign website
Follow the Money - Cory Mason
2008 2006 campaign contributions
Campaign 2008 campaign contributions at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
1973 births
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Mayors of Racine, Wisconsin
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
21st-century American politicians |
Zhang Kaiming (; born 17 May 1990) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Dalian Zhixing.
Career statistics
Club
.
Notes
References
1990 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
China League One players
China League Two players
Jiangxi Lushan F.C. players
Hainan Boying F.C. players |
Sophira is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.The only species from this genus are:
Sophira borneensis
Subgenus
Subgenus (Sophira)
Subgenus (Soosina)
Subgenus (Parasophira)
Subgenus (Kambangania)
References
Phytalmiinae
Tephritidae genera |
Hamilton is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States. The population was 119 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 130 people, 49 households, and 36 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 54 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 100.0% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.5% of the population.
There were 49 households, of which 38.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 22.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 10.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 26.5% were non-families. 24.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 2.97.
The median age in the city was 39.5 years. 24.6% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.2% were from 25 to 44; 28.4% were from 45 to 64; and 11.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 52.3% male and 47.7% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 144 people, 53 households, and 36 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 55 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.92% White, 0.69% African American, 0.69% Native American, and 0.69% from two or more races.
There were 53 households, out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.7% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families. 28.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.38.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.2% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 114.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 117.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $37,083, and the median income for a family was $46,250. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $30,000 for females. The per capita income for the city was $42,935. There were 5.1% of families and 10.5% of the population living below the poverty line, including 9.1% of under eighteens and 11.1% of those over 64.
Education
The Twin Cedars Community School District operates local public schools.
References
Cities in Iowa
Cities in Marion County, Iowa |
The Netherlands national speedway team are one of the teams that compete in international team motorcycle speedway.
History
The Dutch speedway team first competed in international competition in test matches during 1937, although the Netherlands national long track team had already held test matches.
The team competed at the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup, finishing fourth in the Central European round at the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup. However, they did not participate in the World Cup again until the 1975 Speedway World Team Cup.
From 1975, the team competed in almost every World Team Cup until 2001, when the competition was rebranded the Speedway World Cup. However, the team struggled to fair any better than reaching the quarter final stage and since 2001, the team have failed to qualify for the World Cup and have been overshadowed by the Longtrack team, who have been world champions three times in 2013, 2016 and 2023.
International caps
Since the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix era, international caps earned by riders is largely restricted to international competitions, whereas previously test matches between two teams were a regular occurrence.
References
National speedway teams
Speedway |
Minnesota Junction is an unincorporated community located, in the town of Oak Grove, in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. Minnesota Junction is located on Wisconsin Highway 26. It is located at latitude 43.452 and longitude -88.697 at 925 feet above mean sea level.
History
Minnesota Junction was founded when the railroad was built to that point. The community was so named from the expectation the new railroad line would eventually extend from Minnesota Junction to the Minnesota Territory. A post office was established in Minnesota Junction in 1861, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1940. The junction was situation where a north–south branch of the Chicago and North Western Railway met an east–west branch of the Milwaukee Road. The north–south line was abandoned in 1984, and is now a rail trail, while the east–west line is still operated by the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad.
References
Unincorporated communities in Dodge County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
1861 establishments in Wisconsin
Former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad stations
Former Chicago and North Western Railway stations |
Henri Gabriel Mulet (17 October 1878 – 20 September 1967) was a French composer, pipe and reed organist, and cellist.
Biography
Mulet was born on 17 October 1878 in Paris. His father Gabriel Léon Mulet was choirmaster of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, where his mother Blanche Victoire Augustine Gatin would also play the harmonium; as a boy he sometimes deputised for her. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1890, where his teachers included Jules Delsart, Raoul Pugno, Xavier Leroux, Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. He originally intended to be a cellist, but later served as an organist at Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge and also taught at the École Niedermeyer and the Schola Cantorum, where he worked with his friend Vincent d'Indy. From 1922 to 1937 he was organist at the Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule.
Mulet's most notable works are for organ: the Esquisses byzantines (1914-1919) and the Carillon-Sortie (1911/12). The former, a set of ten pieces, was a recollection of the Romano-Byzantine architectural style of Sacré-Cœur and five of the pieces are named after some of its features, including "Campanile" (bell-tower) and "Chapelle des Morts" (chapel of the dead). The Carillon has been called "one of the great showpieces of French Romantic organ music". Mulet's complete organ works were recorded in a set of two CDs in 1989, played by Paul Derett.
In 1922 Mulet published "Les tendances et antireligieuses néfastes de l'orgue moderne", an attack on modern schools of organ building; this was followed by similar essays. He deplored the trend to create organs which he felt were more appropriate for the cinema than for church: the organ was "a stained-glass window. Its tones of imposing and embracing calm flood the air of our cathedrals, in the same way that ...stained-glass windows bring down meditation upon the congregation."
In 1937, Mulet, following a financial crisis, destroyed his manuscripts and many of his possessions and left Paris for Draguignan (Var). There he continued as a church organist until 1958, often in poverty (his wife opened a toy-shop in the hope of increasing their income). Ill-health led Mulet and his wife, Isabelle-Emilie-Marie (née Rochereau) to retire to a convent in Draguignan, where he died in 1967.
Works
Mulet's compositions include:
Organ
Méditation religieuse, 1896?
Prière, 1902?
Carillon-Sortie, Procure Générale, 1911 or 1912?
Offertoire funèbre
Petit offertoire - Maurice Senart, 1912 reprinted by Edition: "Le Grand Orgue"
Sortie douce - Maurice Senart, 1912 reprinted by Edition: "Le Grand Orgue"
Offertoire sur un Alléluia grégorien, pour la fête du Très-Saint-Rosaire
Esquisses Byzantines (10 pieces), 1914–19, including the popular Tu es petra ("Thou art the rock")
Harmonium
Angelus (a transcription of his earlier orchestral work "San Salvator").
Offertoire
Sortie
Orchestral
Dans la vallée du tombeau (Souvenir de Lombardie), symphonic poem, 1908
La Toussaint, symphonic poem, 1909
Fantaisie pastorale, 1911
Paysage d’hiver
Paysages crépusculaires
Scherzo-Marche
Petite suite sur des airs populaires français
Souvenirs de Lombardie
Vocal
O mon Jésus (hymn), 1900
L’aigu bruissement, voice and piano, 1904
Laudate dominum, four voices and organ, 1904
Soleils couchants, voice and piano, 1904
Ave Maria, three voices & organ, 1910
Les deux étoiles, voice and piano, 1910
Le dernier des Maourys, voice and piano, 1911
Le talion, voice and orchestra, 1912 (on a text by LeConte de Lisle).
Chamber and instrumental
Danse afghane, piano, 1904
2 noëls, oboe or clarinet & piano, 1904
Danse persane, piano, 1910
Petit lied très facile, harpsichord or piano, 1910
Essays
Les tendances et antireligieuses néfastes de l'orgue modern. Congres General de Musique Sacree, Strassbourg 26-31 Juillet 1921.
Étude sur le role des mutations et la composition rationelle du Plein-Jeu dans un grand orgue, Strassbourg 26-31 Juillet 1921.
References
Notes
Sources
Bate, Jennifer (1980). "Mulet, Henri", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie, vol.12, pp. 766–7.
Nickol, Christopher (1989). "Complete Mulet". The Musical Times, Vol. 130, No. 1757, .
Plender, Aidan (October 1981). "Henri Mulet, 1878-1967". The Musical Times, Vol. 122, No. 1664, .
Simeone, Nigel (2000). Paris--a Musical Gazetteer, . Yale University Press.
Dimitroulis Ioannis (2012) "Mulet, Henri", in Henri Mulet, ed. Flu Press Gerd Numitor (Ed.)
Further reading
Duchesneau, Michel (1997). L'avant-garde musicale et ses sociétés à Paris de 1871 à 1939. Sprimont: Editions Mardaga
Sabatier, F (1991) ‘Henri Mulet’, Guide de la musique d’orgue, ed. G. Cantagrel (Paris), 605–6
Smith, Rollin (1999). Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral, , note 171. Pendragon Press.
External links
Ioannis Dimitroulis, "Henri Mulet", in Classicalcomposers.org website. Retrieved via Wayback Machine 18 October 2017.
Henri Mulet: A biography by Ioannis Dimitroulis,
1878 births
1967 deaths
20th-century French composers
French male composers
French classical organists
French male organists
Composers from Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris
20th-century French male musicians
Male classical organists |
Duffy is a railway point and unincorporated place in geographic Medora Township in the municipality of Muskoka Lakes, District Municipality of Muskoka in Central Ontario, Canada. It is on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between the railway point of Roderick to the south and the dispersed rural community of Mactier to the north. Duffy is on Haggart Creek, and adjacent to Cassady Lake (upstream) and Roderick Lake (downstream) on that creek.
References
Communities in the District Municipality of Muskoka |
The 721st Air Mobility Operations Group (721 AMOG) is a United States Air Force (USAF) unit assigned to the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
History
The squadron was reactivated in 1977 to operate the Military Airlift Command (MAC) aerial port at Ramstein Air Base. It serviced transient C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster transports at Ramstein, loading and unloading cargo and also received airlifted equipment and personnel for United States Army Europe (USAREUR) forces units in Germany.
In August 1983, the squadron expanded to group size and was assigned separate aerial port and maintenance squadrons to carry out its mission. It was also assigned its first flying squadron, the 58th Military Airlift Squadron (MAS), which was assigned from the 322d Airlift Division. The assumption of the airlift mission was reflected when the group was redesignated the 608th Military Airlift Group. The 10th MAS at Zweibrücken Air Base which operated C-23 Sherpa transports in support of USAFE's European Distribution System (EDS) was also reassigned from the 322d Airlift Division in 1984. The EDS was organized to give units in Europe a quicker way to receive small equipment items or supplies on a round-the-clock basis, without the expense of the larger cargo aircraft. The group also supported Special Air Transportation of HQ USAFE executives with a fleet of light transport. The 10th MAS was inactivated in 1991.
in 1992, USAF embarked on a major reorganization of its Major Commands. In this reorganization, theater airlift was reassigned from the inactivating MAC. The host 86th Fighter Wing at Ramstein became the 86th Wing and the 58th MAS was redesignated the 58th Airlift Squadron and assigned to the wing's 86th Operations Group. The 608th's mission became strategic airlift support once again as it was redesignated the 608th Airlift Support Group of Air Mobility Command (AMC). However, its mission expanded to include support for all of Europe and it was assigned squadrons at Torrejon AB, Spain, and RAF Mildenhall, England. In recognition of its responsibility to support not only airlift, but the air refueling mission of AMC, it became the 621st Air Mobility Support Group in 1994 and was renumbered the because USAF policy required subordinate support units numbers to reflect their parent organization's number and the group was assigned to Twenty-First Air Force. It became the 721st Air Mobility Operations Group in 2001.
The group's Detachment 5 was located at Balad Air Base with a mission to recover and launch AMC aircraft transiting Balad, minimizing ground time to reduce exposure to enemy attacks, In 2008, AMC activated the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein. The 521st assumed the theater air mobility support mission and the squadrons of the 721st located away from Ramstein were reassigned to it,
Lineage
Constituted as the 608th Military Airlift Group on 1 July 1983
Activated on 1 August 1983
Redesignated 608th Airlift Support Group on 1 June 1992
Redesignated 621st Air Mobility Support Group on 1 July 1994
Redesignated 721st Air Mobility Operations Group on 15 March 2001
Assignments
322d Airlift Division, 1 August 1983
Twenty-First Air Force (later 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force), 1 March 1992
521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, 1 September 2008 – present
Stations
Ramstein AB, West Germany (later Germany), 1 August 1983 – present
Subordinate Units
10th Military Airlift Squadron, 15 March 1984 – 31 March 1991
58th Military Airlift Squadron, 1 August 1983 – 1 June 1992
608th Aerial Port Squadron, 1 August 1983 – 1 July 1992
608th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (later 608th Maintenance Squadron), 1 August 1983 – 1 July 1994
623d Air Mobility Support Squadron (later 623d Air Mobility Operations Squadron, 723d Air Mobility Squadron), 1 July 1994 – present
625th Airlift Support Squadron (later 625th Air Mobility Support Squadron, 725th Air Mobility Squadron), 1 June 1992 – 1 September 2008
Located at Torrejon Air Base, Spain. Moved to Naval Station Rota Spain
627th Airlift Support Squadron (later 627th Air Mobility Support Squadron, 627th Air Mobility Operations Squadron, 727th Air Mobility Squadron), 1 August 1993 – 1 September 2008
Located at RAF Mildenhall, England
779th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron unknown date (c.2002?) – inactivated 15 April 2006
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
Aircraft
C-12F, 1983–1992
C-21, 1983–1992
C-20, 1983–1992
C-23A, 1983–1992
C-135, 1983-1992
Awards and Campaigns
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
AMC stands up new en route structure wing in Europe (Retrieved 24 Oct 2012)
Groups of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1966 |
"The Diary of Horace Wimp" is the fourth track on the Electric Light Orchestra album Discovery, written by Jeff Lynne.
Released in 1979 as a single, the song is Beatlesque in nature and became a Top Ten hit in the UK and Ireland. The lyrics describe a week in the life of a repressed man who wants to express his affection towards a woman he meets, and overcomes his shy nature with the help of "a voice from above." The day Saturday is omitted – this is because, as explained by Jeff Lynne: "The football match is played on a Saturday".
The music video references Citizen Kane in its ending, showing a closeup of Jeff Lynne saying "Horace Wimp," echoing Orson Welles' character in the film saying "Rosebud" as he dies.
B-side
"Down Home Town" first appeared on the band's fifth album Face the Music. It also featured as the flip side to the US single "Last Train to London".
"Down Home Town" contains an intro with a backmasked message, the backing chorus of the previous track, "Waterfall": "Face the mighty waterfall, face the mighty waterfall." This song includes an orchestral intro (after the "Waterfall" refrain) and a similar ending. These reverse recorded words were only used because of the sound effect.
Chart positions
References
1979 singles
1979 songs
Electric Light Orchestra songs
Jet Records singles
Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne
Songs written by Jeff Lynne
Songs about fictional male characters |
Lawh-i-Anta'l-Kafi or the Long Healing Prayer (also known as Lawh-i-Shifá and Lawh al-Shafá al-Tawíl) is a prayer written in Arabic by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, in the 'Akká period. The authorized English translation was done in 1980 by Habib Taherzadeh and a Committee at the Baháʼí World Centre.
The main part of the prayer consists of numerous rhythmic invocations of God, each ending with the phrase "Thou the Sufficing, Thou the Healing, Thou the Abiding, O Thou Abiding One."
The prayer ends with a supplication for healing and protection, and includes the phrase "protect the bearer of this blessed Tablet, and whoso reciteth it, and whoso cometh upon it, and whoso passeth around the house wherein it is. Heal Thou, then, by it every sick, diseased and poor one", which gives this prayer its talismanic nature.
In music
Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen composed a piece of choral music for the Bergen International Music Festival in May 1996, in which the Long Healing Prayer was sung, first in the original Arabic and then in English.
Other Baháʼí healing prayers
Baháʼu'lláh wrote several other healing prayers, including a prayer for women, one for infants, and a well-known short prayer starting with the phrase "Thy Name is my healing", which is part of Baháʼu'lláh's Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician). There is also a prayer for protection from "calamity and pestilence" (epidemics).
See also
Fire Tablet
Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)
Tablet of the Holy Mariner
Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith
References
Bibliography
External links
Pschaida, Daniel (2020). Baha'u'llah's Long Healing Prayer: Parallel Translation.
Sung version of the Long Healing Prayer (archived, 2016)
BWNS: Praying for the sick – can science prove it helps? (2008)
Works by Baháʼu'lláh
Bahá'í prayer
Talismans
Religion and health |
Horsley v MacLaren, [1972] S.C.R. 441, also known as the Ogopogo case, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where it was held that there is no duty at common law to rescue or aid anyone in distress. Furthermore, "a person who imperils himself by his carelessness may be as fully liable to a rescuer as a third person would be who imperils another."
Background
MacLaren was the owner and captain of a boat called The Ogopogo. He invited several friends out on his boat including Mr. Matthews, Mr. Horsley, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones. During their cruise, Matthews fell overboard into the icy water which caused him to have a heart attack and die. MacLaren backed the boat up to rescue Matthews not knowing if he was alive. Horsley jumped into the water to save Matthews but he was also overcome by the cold water. Mrs. Jones then jumped in to help them both. Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones' husband, moved the boat into a better position to rescue the three. In all, Mr. Matthews and Mr.Horsley were killed.
Opinion of the Court
The Court held that "encouragement by the common law of the rescue of persons in danger would ... go beyond reasonable bounds if it involved liability of one rescuer to a succeeding one where the former has not been guilty of any fault which could be said to have induced a second rescue attempt." The Donoghue v Stevenson case doesn't touch this principle, because it says that you have a duty to avoid causing harm, not a duty to help someone else. In the Court of Appeal for Ontario decision [1970] 2 O.R. 487, 11 D.L.R. (3d) 277, Arthur Jessup J. wrote for the court: "So, despite the moral outrage of the text writers, it appears presently the law that one can, with immunity, smoke a cigarette on the beach while one’s neighbour drowns and, without a word of warning watch a child or blind person walk into certain danger".
See also
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court)
References
External links
Full text of Supreme Court decision at Canlii.org and lexum.
Canadian tort case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
Supreme Court of Canada case articles without infoboxes
1972 in Canadian case law |
In statistical analysis of binary classification, the F-score or F-measure is a measure of a test's accuracy. It is calculated from the precision and recall of the test, where the precision is the number of true positive results divided by the number of all positive results, including those not identified correctly, and the recall is the number of true positive results divided by the number of all samples that should have been identified as positive. Precision is also known as positive predictive value, and recall is also known as sensitivity in diagnostic binary classification.
The F1 score is the harmonic mean of the precision and recall. It thus symmetrically represents both precision and recall in one metric. The more generic score applies additional weights, valuing one of precision or recall more than the other.
The highest possible value of an F-score is 1.0, indicating perfect precision and recall, and the lowest possible value is 0, if either precision or recall are zero.
Etymology
The name F-measure is believed to be named after a different F function in Van Rijsbergen's book, when introduced to the Fourth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-4, 1992).
Definition
The traditional F-measure or balanced F-score (F1 score) is the harmonic mean of precision and recall:
.
Fβ score
A more general F score, , that uses a positive real factor , where is chosen such that recall is considered times as important as precision, is:
.
In terms of Type I and type II errors this becomes:
.
Two commonly used values for are 2, which weighs recall higher than precision, and 0.5, which weighs recall lower than precision.
The F-measure was derived so that "measures the effectiveness of retrieval with respect to a user who attaches times as much importance to recall as precision". It is based on Van Rijsbergen's effectiveness measure
.
Their relationship is where .
Diagnostic testing
This is related to the field of binary classification where recall is often termed "sensitivity".
Dependence of the F-score on class imbalance
Precision-recall curve, and thus the score, explicitly depends on the ratio
of positive to negative test cases.
This means that comparison of the
F-score across different problems with differing class ratios is
problematic. One way to address this issue (see e.g., Siblini et al,
2020
) is to use a standard class ratio when making such comparisons.
Applications
The F-score is often used in the field of information retrieval for measuring search, document classification, and query classification performance. Earlier works focused primarily on the F1 score, but with the proliferation of large scale search engines, performance goals changed to place more emphasis on either precision or recall and so is seen in wide application.
The F-score is also used in machine learning. However, the F-measures do not take true negatives into account, hence measures such as the Matthews correlation coefficient, Informedness or Cohen's kappa may be preferred to assess the performance of a binary classifier.
The F-score has been widely used in the natural language processing literature, such as in the evaluation of named entity recognition and word segmentation.
Properties
The F1 score is the Dice coefficient of the set of retrieved items and the set of relevant items.
Criticism
David Hand and others criticize the widespread use of the F1 score since it gives equal importance to precision and recall. In practice, different types of mis-classifications incur different costs. In other words, the relative importance of precision and recall is an aspect of the problem.
According to Davide Chicco and Giuseppe Jurman, the F1 score is less truthful and informative than the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) in binary evaluation classification.
David Powers has pointed out that F1 ignores the True Negatives and thus is misleading for unbalanced classes, while kappa and correlation measures are symmetric and assess both directions of predictability - the classifier predicting the true class and the true class predicting the classifier prediction, proposing separate multiclass measures Informedness and Markedness for the two directions, noting that their geometric mean is correlation.
Another source of critique of F1 is its lack of symmetry. It means it may change its value when dataset labeling is changed - the "positive" samples are named "negative" and vice versa.
This criticism is met by the P4 metric definition, which is sometimes indicated as a symmetrical extension of F1.
Difference from Fowlkes–Mallows index
While the F-measure is the harmonic mean of recall and precision, the Fowlkes–Mallows index is their geometric mean.
Extension to multi-class classification
The F-score is also used for evaluating classification problems with more than two classes (Multiclass classification). In this setup, the final score is obtained by micro-averaging (biased by class frequency) or macro-averaging (taking all classes as equally important). For macro-averaging, two different formulas have been used by applicants: the F-score of (arithmetic) class-wise precision and recall means or the arithmetic mean of class-wise F-scores, where the latter exhibits more desirable properties.
See also
BLEU
Confusion matrix
Hypothesis tests for accuracy
METEOR
NIST (metric)
Receiver operating characteristic
ROUGE (metric)
Uncertainty coefficient, aka Proficiency
Word error rate
LEPOR
References
Statistical natural language processing
Evaluation of machine translation
Statistical ratios
Summary statistics for contingency tables
Clustering criteria
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Ratan Raajputh, is an Indian television actress and blogger known for her portrayal of Laali in Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo on Zee TV. Later, she went on to play Amba in Mahabharat & Santoshi in Santoshi Maa.
Early life
Ratan was born and brought up in Bihar and did her schooling from there.
Career
Ratan made television debut with Raavan in 2006. Raajputh rose to prominence with her portrayal of Laali in television series Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo and earned numerous accoloads. In 2013, Ratan participated in a reality show Bigg Boss 7 and got evicted on day 28.
Ratan lost her father and was suffering from depression when she begin traveling to cope with it. Following the lockdown in 2020, Ratan started her YouTube channel where she shares her traveling story. Ratan lockdown videos made waves on internet and was covered by major news portal.
Television
Awards
2009 Zee Rishtey Awards
Favourite Saas-Bahu – Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo
Popular Female Face of the Year – Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo
2009 Indian Telly Awards
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo
2009 Indian Television Academy Awards
Best Actress Drama – Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo
2010 Gold Awards
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo
References
External links
Indian television actresses
Living people
1987 births
Actresses from Patna
21st-century Indian actresses
Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) contestants |
Forness Stadium was a stadium in Saint Bonaventure, New York. It opened in 1946 and was home to the St. Bonaventure University football team from 1946 to 1951.
The stadium was built in 1946 on New York State Route 17 (now Route 417) at the campus entrance west of Olean in a period of 77 days, largely built from stands transplanted to Olean from the Canisius Golden Griffins' football stadium after Canisius took up residence at Civic Stadium, where Saint Bonaventure had hoped to play marquee matchups if the football program's post-World War II revival was a success. It seated 12,000 persons and was named for former Olean mayor Fred Forness, who campaigned for the stadium. The construction of the stadium helped persuade Notre Dame football coach Hugh Devore to become St. Bonaventure's football coach starting with the 1946 season.
The stadium was dedicated on September 28, 1946, during a game against Youngstown. Youngstown won the game by a 20–14 score.
The final game in the stadium was also played against , on November 3, 1951. St. Bonaventure won the final game by a 39–6 score. In February 1952, St. Bonaventure announced that it was suspending competition in intercollegiate football.
The stadium remained vacant for several years after the football program was suspended. The Pittsburgh Steelers used Forness for training camp for a period in the early 1950s. One sports writer described the stadium during this period as "lying there ever since, unburied, like Ebbetts Field, or Leadville or the old Slave Market in St. Augustine." In 1959 and 1960, the school dismantled the stadium in 1959. Portions of the bleachers went to Allegheny High School and Mount Morris. Other portions were sold at auction. Among the proposals to replace it was a new basketball arena, which eventually became the Reilly Center.
References
College track and field venues in the United States
Defunct athletics (track and field) venues in the United States
Defunct college football venues
St. Bonaventure Brown Indians football
American football venues in New York (state)
Athletics (track and field) venues in New York (state)
Demolished sports venues in New York (state)
Multi-purpose stadiums in the United States
1946 establishments in New York (state)
Sports venues completed in 1946
1960 disestablishments in New York (state)
Sports venues demolished in 1960 |
Bradbury Motor Cycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Oldham, England and established in 1902.
Originally involved in the manufacture of machine tools, sewing machines and cycles, their first motorcycles were bicycles with clip-on Minerva engines.
The Bradbury factory went on to develop and produce a range of single-cylinder motorcycle, V-twins and horizontally opposed twins. The 1912 Bradbury motorcycles were one of the earliest with variable gearing.
Although the factory survived the First World War it closed in 1924.
History
The company was established in 1852 as Bradbury & Co., and was Britain's and Europe's first sewing machine manufacturer. The first Bradbury bicycle appeared as early as 1895, and production continued until at least 1914. The company began manufacturing and marketing motorcycles in 1902 under the name Bradbury Motor Cycles. Their first motorcycle was a bicycle fitted with a 1¾ hp Minerva clip-on engine. In 1903 they began producing motorcycles with engines which they called the Peerless Motor Cycle. These were based on a design by John Birch. In 1904 Bradbury launched a new motorcycle with a new frame design and in 1905 their Peerless motorcycle won a special reliability trial.
In 1909, the Bradbury motorcycle was launched and advertised as "the finest hill climber (power for power) ever made". By 1910 Bradbury Motor Cycles had won over 300 first prizes including 18 gold medals in hill climbing competitions.
In 1910, Bradbury developed the fittings of the 1909 Model and in 1911 launched the Speed model. The 1911 Standard model also had Dunlop non-skid tyres and the saddle was padded.
In 1911 H. Gibson and J. Eastwood completed the Irish 'End to End' trial in 14 hours 9½ minutes on a Bradbury motorcycle.
In 1912, the range was expanded to include a special Model-de-Luxe with a side car made of wicker.
In 1914, the single-cylinder engine was upgraded to a new three-speed twin cylinder engine was introduced as the Bradbury three-speed twin V-Type 750 cc. The V-type engine had the cylinders at a 50° angle and came with up to seven versions of the side cars ranging from a Tradesman's Carrier to the de-Luxe coach built option. The new twin-cylinder 3½ hp Bradbury 500 cc was also launched with the cylinders horizontally opposed and fitted with a kick start.
In 1912, Bradbury riders H. Gibson and G. Wray completed the John o' Groats to Lands End journey in 38 hours 47 minutes. Reducing the previous record for a motor cycle and side-car by 2 hours.
In 1913, a Bradbury motor cycle won the Transvaal Speed Championship. Also in 1913 Bradbury motorcycles participated in the Scottish Six Days Trial. In the 1914 six-day trial based in Sheffield the chassis of the Bradbury 6 hp broke and as a consequence Bradbury were excluded from the War Department Trials. However the company did supply Naval Authorities with motorcycles with a 3-speed counter shaft gear.
After the First World War Bradbury produced a range of 4 hp 554 cc single-cylinder motorcycles as well as the 750 cc twin and a 350 cc single. In 1922, the range was redesigned with a new frame and fuel tank and a new Bradbury 996 cc V-type twin was launched with an optional side car.
In 1922, R. E. Dicker set four British and World records at Brooklands on a 6 hp Bradbury sports motorcycle. Sales were slow, however, and the Bradbury factory closed in 1924.
The Muratti Trophy
The Muratti Trophy was presented to the Ulster Centre of the Motorcycle Union of Ireland by B. Muratti Sons and Co Ltd., a well known Manchester-based cigarette maker. The silver trophy features a winged figure on a Bradbury motorcycle. James Stewart won the event three times between 1907 and 1909 and was awarded the trophy outright. In 1987 the Muratti Trophy was auctioned by Phillips for £12,000.
References
External links
Bradbury 550cc Motorcycle 1912
Bradbury advert
Company history
Motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Oldham |
Leucospermum gracile is a low spreading shrub of 30–40 cm (1–1⅓ ft) high and forms open mats of 1½ m (5 ft) in diameter, from the family Proteaceae. It has reddish flowering stems, oblong to linear leaves of 2–4½ cm (0.8–1.8 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) wide, with one or three teeth. The initially yellow, later orange flower heads of 2½–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in) in diameter are flat-topped. The flower heads occur from July to October. From the flowers occur long styles with a slightly thicker tip, which together give the impression of a pincushion. It is called Hermanus pincushion in English. It naturally occurs in fynbos in the southern mountains of the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Description
Leucospermum gracile is a low spreading shrub of 30–40.0 cm (1–1⅓ ft) high that develops from a trunk at the base and forms open mats of 1½ m (5 ft) in diameter. The reddish flowering stems are slender, 2–3 mm (0.08–0.12 in) thick, felty and sometimes later hairless, that trail across the ground. The thinly felty or powdery leaves are oblong to linear, 2–4½ cm (0.8–1.8 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) wide, the far end blunt, entire or split in three lobes ending in a thick, bony tooth, and with a blunt or cut-off base. The leaves are mostly spaced widely and directed straight upwards, sometimes at a more relaxed angle.
The flower heads have a whorl shape (or are turbinate), are 2½–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in) in diameter, seated or with a stalk of up to 2 cm long, usually at a right angle with to stem. The common base of the flowers in the same head is flat and about ½ cm (0.2 in) wide. The bracts that subtend the head are very narrowly lance-shaped to linear 8−10 mm (0.32–0.40 in) long and 1–1½ mm (0.04–0.06 in) wide with a pointy tip the ends in a small tuft of short hairs and some hairs rimming the edge, the surface softly hairy, cartilaginous in consistency and the bracts overlapping each other.
The bract that subtends each flower individually is inverted lance-shaped, suddenly pointy or pointed 5−6.0 mm (0.20−0.24 in)long and about 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide, cartilaginous in consistency, and the surface very thickly woolly. The 4-merous perianth is 2–2½ cm long, greenish at the base and yellow higher up. The lowest, fully merged, part of the perianth, called tube is funnel-shaped, 8 mm (0.32 in) long, hairless, but minutely powdery near the top. The middle part (or claws), where the perianth is split lengthwise are thread-shaped (or filiform), tightly rolling back near the top, the lobe facing the edge of the head hairless, the other roughly hairy. The upper part (or limbs), which enclosed the pollen presenter in the bud, consists of four 1 mm (0.04 in) long, pointy, narrowly lance-shaped lobes that are difficult to distinguish from the perianth claws. From the perianth emerges a straight, thread-shaped style of 2½–3 mm (0.10–0.12 in) long, that tapers towards the tip, and is initially yellow, later becoming pale green. The thickened part at the tip of the style called pollen presenter is 1.0 mm long, cylinder-shaped with a pointy tip, hardly differentiated from the style, with a groove that functions as the stigma across the very tip. The ovary is subtended by four opaque, hoof-shaped scales of about 3 mm long.
The subtribe Proteinae, to which the genus Leucospermum has been assigned, consistently has a basic chromosome number of twelve (2n=24).
Differences with related species
Leucospermum gracile differs from its closest relatives by its spreading habit, the narrow leaves (less than ½ cm wide), bitten-off at its base, the abruptly pointy inverted lance-shaped bracteoles and the yellow colour of the perianth. It may occur alongside Leucospermum prostratum and shares yellow flower heads that fade to orange, but in Leucospermum gracile these are larger and flat-topped, while the smaller flower heads of Leucospermum prostratum are domed when viewed from the side.
Taxonomy
As far as we know, James Niven was the first who collected the Hermanus pincushion, at Fernkloof in the foothills of the Kleinrivier Mountains. In 1809, Joseph Knight published a book titled On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae, that contained an extensive revision of the Proteaceae attributed to Richard Anthony Salisbury. Salisbury assigned Niven's specimen to his new genus Leucadendrum and called it Leucadendrum gracile. It is assumed that Salisbury had committed plagiarism by making use of a draft he had seen of a paper called On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae that Robert Brown was to publish in 1810. The genus name Leucadendrum was therefore ignored by other botanists. In 1900 Brown's Leucospermum was officially conserved priority over Leucadendrum, that was suppressed. This however does not apply to Salisbury's species names, and in addition, Brown did not describe the Hermanus pincushion. Rudolf Schlechter described Leucospermum stenanthum in 1900. John Patrick Rourke in 1967, regards both names as synonymous, and recognised that the new combination Leucospermum gracile needed to be created. L. gracile has been assigned to the section Crinitae. The species name gracile means graceful.
Distribution, habit and ecology
Leucospermum gracile can be found on Shaw's Mountain between Caledon in the north and Hermanus and through the Onrus Mountains and Kleinrivier Mountains, eastwards to the hillsides near Napier, usually at 100–300 m (300–1000 ft) altitude, sometimes reaching 900 m (3000 ft). It always grows in very well drained locations, particularly in the sandy surface layers of weathered and crumbling Table Mountain Sandstone. The location further to the north near Bot River where Schlechter collected, probably went extinct as a result of agricultural introduction. The species is pollinated by birds. The ripened fruit falls to the ground approximately two months after flowering. Native ants carry them to their underground nests to eat the elaiosome. The seed remains dormant until a fire has destroyed the above-ground biomass.
Conservation
The Hermanus pincushion is considered a near threatened species, because its population has decreased by about 30% due to competition of invasive species and urban expansion.
References
External links
several photos
gracile
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
Plants described in 1809 |
Frank Kurtz is a filmmaker, retailer, and editor, as well as the creator of the Creepsville comic book, which was originally published by Gogo Publications.
Career
Later, Kurtz self-published Creepsville under the Laughing Reindeer Press imprint. Besides the original comics, the second run of the series also featured material related to Kurtz's fascination with junk culture, including movies, toys, Halloween, UFOs, and a number of other oddball subjects.
Credited as Joseph Kurtz, Frank co-wrote and co-directed a horror film titled Carnivore. This feature-length film was shot professionally on 16mm over a period of three years. In addition, along with a small crew, he designed and built the full body title monster suit, as well as providing additional make-up special effects along the way.
In the mid-1990s, Kurtz was managing editor of the comics-related news magazine HERO Illustrated, published by Sendai Publications. HERO won the 1995 Eisner Award for Best Comics Related Publications.
At the same company, later called MVP Media, Kurtz was the editor (as well as writing loads of editorial) for a best selling Roswell UFO Encyclopedia magazine. The magazine caught the attention of the press during the 50th anniversary of the so-called crash, prompting Kurtz to participate in television and radio interviews and talk shows. The magazine itself was seen nationally on network news, including NBC and CNN as well as a number of documentaries on the Roswell subject.
Kurtz was also an entertainment news and rumor reporter/editor for Cinescape Online magazine and its website.
Kurtz is one of the co-creators and regular contributors of the highly respected, late-lamented Monsterscene magazine. Within the pages of Monsterscene, Kurtz was able to pursue subjects such as Japanese giant monster movies, Mexican horror cinema, and an interview with Bob Burns that was the highlight of his participation there.
References
External links
American comics writers
American magazine editors
Comic book publishers (people)
American magazine writers
American film directors
American male screenwriters
American male journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Antonio Corma (1911–1971) was a Spanish writer, who contributed to several screenplays during his career.
Selected filmography
The Path to Crime (1951)
References
Bibliography
Eduardo Jakubowicz & Laura Radetich. La historia argentina a través del cine: las "visiones del pasado" (1933–2003). La Crujía, 2006.
External links
1911 births
1971 deaths
Spanish male screenwriters
Writers from Barcelona
20th-century Spanish screenwriters
20th-century Spanish male writers
Spanish emigrants to Venezuela |
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Valencia County, New Mexico.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
There are 12 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. All of the places within the county listed on the National Register are also recorded on the State Register of Cultural Properties.
Current listings
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See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places listings in New Mexico
References
Valencia |
Élisabeth Rétiffe (born Rose Rétif, January 9, 1834, in Vézelise, died February 24, 1882, in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni) was a French cardboard maker, socialist activist, ambulance worker and communard. She was condemned to death for her action during the Paris Commune, where she was sentenced to perform hard labor before she was deported to Guyana.
Biography
Earning her living as a cardboard maker, she decided to help those who were needy in Paris. Her strong temper had her sentenced in 1853 for assault and battery against another woman, and in 1855 for contempt of officers. During the insurrection of the Paris Commune in 1871, she became an ambulance driver and declared that she would have treated the people as well as the communards.
Witnesses claim to have seen her in May 1871 among the troops of the Communards of Belleville wearing the red scarf and a rifle slung over her shoulder. She is also accused of being an “oil woman” and guilty of arson.
While she denied these accusations, she was condemned to death on September 4, 1871, by the 4th Council of War. Her sentence being commuted on November 27, 1871, to forced labor, she was deported to Guyana. When she was deported, she met a fellow prisoner Jean Berthonier, whom she married.
References
1834 births
1882 deaths
Women in 19th-century warfare |
Schenkelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Schenkelberg lies 3 km from Herschbach and 7 km from Selters. Right nearby is found the Westerwald Lake Plateau, a popular holiday and recreation area. The local area offers many hiking and cycling paths. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
History
In 1219, Schenkelberg had its first documentary mention, and after several slight spelling changes has borne the same name since 1624 that it still bears today.
Politics
The municipal council is made up of 12 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (Ortsbürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Sitzverteilung im gewählten Gemeinderat:
Economy and infrastructure
The community lies west of Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Mogendorf on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
References
External links
Schenkelberg
Schenkelberg
Verbandsgemeinde of Selters
Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Westerwaldkreis |
In 1995, the Ocean Time Series Program called CARIACO (Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean) was initiated, completing 232 monthly core cruises through January 2017. This time series consists of field observations using ship, mooring, and satellite platforms in the eastern Cariaco Basin at 10°30’N, 64°40’W. The program seeks to understand the relationship between surface primary production, physical forcing variables like the wind, and the settling flux of particles in this unique location.
Ship observations
Monthly oceanographic cruises are conducted on board the R/V Hermano Ginés of the Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales de Venezuela. The cruises serve to collect hydrographic, nutrient and carbon concentration, primary productivity and other biogeochemical observations throughout the entire water column (surface to 1300m) (Astor et al., 2003; Astor et al., 2005; Muller-Karger et al., 2001; Muller-Karger et al., 2009). Additionally, seasonal cruises to the CARIACO station are conducted to examine chemical and microbial processes (Scranton et al., 2006; Taylor et al., 2006).
Moorings
A sediment trap mooring, consisting of five sediment traps (located at depths of 150, 275, 400, 800, and 1200 m), is also deployed near the study site. This mooring collects the downward flux of particulate material (Thunell et al. 2000; Thunell et al., 2007), derived both from the primary production at the surface and the terrestrial material from the mainland.
Satellite observations
The remote sensing component of the CARIACO Oceanographic Time Series Program is based on real-time and historical satellite measurements (Muller-Karger et al., 2005). The satellite data helps observe surface variations in sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean color, which include chlorophyll and river plumes.
Since it was initiated, this program has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It has also been supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Fondo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (FONACIT, Venezuela).
All data generated by the CARIACO program are available via the project web page ().
References
Astor, Y. M., M.I. Scranton, F. Muller-Karger, R. Bohrer, and J. García. 2005. Seasonal and interannual fCO2 variability in a tropical coastal upwelling system. Marine Chemistry. 97 (3-4): 245-261.
Astor, Y., F. Muller-Karger, and M. I. Scranton. 2003. Seasonal and Interannual Variation in the Hydrography of the Cariaco Basin: Implications for Basin Ventilation. Continental Shelf Research. Vol. 23. No. 1. 125-144.
Muller-Karger, F. E., C. Hu, S. Andréfouët, and R. Varela. 2005. The Color of the Coastal Ocean and applications in the solution of research and management problems. In: Remote Sensing of Coastal Aquatic Environments: Technologies, Techniques and Application, R.L. Miller, C.E. Del Castillo and B.A. McKee [Eds.], Springer, 101–127.
Muller-Karger, F. E., R. Varela, R. Thunell, M. I. Scranton, G. Taylor, Y. Astor, C. R. Benitez-Nelson, L. Lorenzoni, E. Tappa, M. A. Goñi, D. Rueda and C. Hu. 2009. The CARIACO Oceanographic Time Series. In: K. K. Liu et al. [Eds]. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins, Global Change, Chapter 8.5. The IGBP Series,
Muller-Karger, F. E., R. Varela, R. Thunell, M. Scranton, R. Bohrer, G. Taylor, J. Capelo, Y. Astor, E. Tappa, T. Y. Ho, and J. J. Walsh. 2001. Annual Cycle of Primary Production in the Cariaco Basin: Response to upwelling and implications for vertical export. Journal of Geophysical Research. 106:C3. 4527-4542.
Scranton, M. I., M. McIntyre, G. T. Taylor, F. Muller-Karger, K. Fanning, and Y. Astor, 2006. Temporal Variability in the Nutrient Chemistry of the Cariaco Basin. In: Neretin L. N., (ed.), Past and Present Water Column Anoxia, NATO Sci Ser., Springer Publ., Netherlands, pp. 139-160.
Taylor GT, Iabichella-Armas M, Varela R, Muller-Karger F, Lin X & Scranton MI., 2006. Microbial ecology of the Cariaco Basin's oxic/anoxic interface: the U.S.-Venezuelan CARIACO times series program. In: Neretin L. N., (ed.), Past and Present Water Column Anoxia, NATO Sci Ser., Springer Publ., Netherlands, p. 473-499.
Thunell, R., C. Benitez-Nelson, R. Varela, Y. Astor and F. Müller-Karger. 2007. Particulate Organic Carbon Fluxes Along Upwelling-Dominated Continental Margins: Rates and Mechanisms. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, GB1022, .
Thunell, R., R. Varela, M. Llano, J. Collister, F. Muller-Karger, and R. Bohrer. 2000. Organic carbon flux in an anoxic water column: sediment trap results from the Cariaco Basin. Limnology and Oceanography. 45. 300-308.
Time series
Oceanographic Time-Series |
"Get Back Up" is a song by Christian musician tobyMac from his album, Tonight. It was released on January 26, 2010, on iTunes. The song charted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs, becoming his third No. 1 on the chart. It stayed there for three weeks. It charted for 42 weeks, his longest charting song on the chart. The song is played in an E Flat major key, and 91 beats per minute.
TobyMac donated 100% of his artist royalties from first week sales of the single to relief efforts for Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake that devastated the country. This song was played when Tobymac performed on Fox and Friends.
It was also featured on the WOW Hits 2011 compilation album.
Background
"Get Back Up" was released as the third single from his fourth studio album Tonight. In an interview with "Christianity Today" that the song addresses to a friend of his, "I have a friend who made some bad choices and lost his marriage, family, and essentially life as he knew it. He felt useless to God's kingdom, and I'd even go far enough to say worthless in many respects. I wanted to remind him that we all fall and he may be knocked down now but he is not out forever. On the outro (the most important part), I wanted him to hear God's voice saying, 'This is love calling, love calling out to the broken.'"
Track listing
CD release
"Get Back Up" – 3:19
"Get Back Up (Medium Key Performance Track With Background Vocals)" – 3:19
"Get Back Up (High Key Performance Track Without Background Vocals)" – 3:19
"Get Back Up (Medium Key Performance Track Without Background Vocals)" – 3:19
"Get Back Up (Low Key Performance Track Without Background Vocals)" – 3:15
Digital download (Broke remix)
"Get Back Up" – 3:33
Awards
The song was nominated for two Dove Awards: Song of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year, at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
References
2010 singles
TobyMac songs
Songs written by TobyMac
2010 songs
ForeFront Records singles
Songs written by Cary Barlowe |
Thomas Rickard (1866–1911) was a mining engineer, an early resident of Berkeley, California, and served as the last President of the Town Board of Trustees from 1903 to 1909, before the new city charter went into effect, creating the office of Mayor.
Rickard was born in France on August 28, 1866, to Reuben Rickard and Mary E Humphreys. Both of his parents were English-born. He immigrated to the United States with his family in the 1875. In 1889 he married his wife Alice Whitmore. They had four children: Leontine (b. May 1889), Helen (b. June 1891), Donald (b. August 1894), and Thomas, Jr. (b. January 1899).
Rickard had a cousin whose name was also Thomas, but regularly used his middle initial "A" (for Arthur). Thomas A. Rickard was a prominent writer on the subject of mining,
who, in 1896, was appointed by the Governor to the position of State Geologist of Colorado. He served in that position until 1901.
Rickard graduated from the University of California in 1887, with a degree in mining engineering. From 1901 until his death, he served as vice president of the San Francisco mining firm of Harron, Rickard and McCone. He also served as a trustee of the California Institute for the Deaf and Blind, located in Berkeley.
Rickard's father Reuben Rickard also served as President of the Town Board of Trustees in Berkeley from 1891 to 1893 and again for about a month in 1895. He was also a mining engineer, having worked throughout the western United States. Thomas' brother Edgar Rickard was the editor of a mining newspaper in London and a close acquaintance of Herbert Hoover.
Thomas Rickard died on March 25, 1911.
References
1866 births
1911 deaths
French emigrants to the United States
French mining engineers
Mayors of Berkeley, California
American mining engineers
19th-century American politicians
Engineers from California |
Bartek Sylwestrzak is a Polish football manager.
Early life
As a child, Sylwestrzak was a competitive ballroom dancer as a child for a few years.
Playing career
As a footballer, Sylwestrzak played in the youth academy of Granica Bogatynia, joining at the age of fourteen.
College career
Sylwestrzak graduated from English university Loughborough University with a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and later obtained a master's degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Managerial career
Besides English clubs and Danish clubs, Sylwestrzak has worked with Belgian side AA Gent as well as with individual professional footballers all over Europe. He worked with English side Brentford for four seasons. Before becoming Brentford's ball-striking coach, he worked as a youth manager for the club.
He has also worked at Danish side Midtjylland, where he worked with players from under-14 level to the senior first team, and analyzed how each player struck the ball in order to make create training plans for them.
References
Brentford F.C. non-playing staff
Expatriate football managers in Denmark
Expatriate football managers in England
Living people
Polish expatriate football managers
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Polish expatriate sportspeople in England
Polish football managers
Polish men's footballers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Kanekobia is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Species
Kanekobia potamona (Kaneko & Kadosaka, 1978)
References
Acaridae |
Time Expired is a 1992 short film directed by Danny Leiner and starring Bob Gosse, Edie Falco and John Leguizamo.
References
External links
1992 films
American short films
Films directed by Danny Leiner
1990s English-language films |
```javascript
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
// Flags: --allow-natives-syntax --opt --no-always-opt --deopt-every-n-times=6
// Check that stress deopt count resets correctly
// Function with two deopt points
function f(x) {
return x + 1;
}
%PrepareFunctionForOptimization(f);
f(1);
%OptimizeFunctionOnNextCall(f);
// stress_deopt_count == 6
f(1);
assertOptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
// stress_deopt_count == 4
f(1);
assertOptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
// stress_deopt_count == 2
f(1);
// deopt & counter reset
assertUnoptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
// stress_deopt_count == 6
%PrepareFunctionForOptimization(f);
%OptimizeFunctionOnNextCall(f);
f(1);
assertOptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
// stress_deopt_count == 4
f(1);
assertOptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
// stress_deopt_count == 2
f(1);
// deopt & counter reset
assertUnoptimized(f, undefined, undefined, false);
``` |
```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# <xbar.title>Church of England Liturgical Calendar</xbar.title>
# <xbar.version>v1.0</xbar.version>
# <xbar.author>Christian Selvaratnam</xbar.author>
# <xbar.author.github>cselvaratnam</xbar.author.github>
# <xbar.desc>Displays the title of the church season or festival of the day and the Collect of the Day from the Church of England website.</xbar.desc>
# <xbar.image>path_to_url
# <xbar.dependencies>bash</xbar.dependencies>
# <xbar.abouturl>path_to_url
# Collect the front page of the Church of England website
web=$(curl -f -s -S path_to_url
# Extract the season/festival title from the Prayer for the Day
full_title=$(echo $web | sed 's/.*<div class="textfill-footer">.*<small>\(.*\)<\/small>.*/\1/')
# Make short version of the title
short_title=$(echo $full_title | sed -e 's/^The //' -e 's/Blessed Virgin Mary/BVM/' -e 's/ (.*$//' -e 's/,.*//')
# Extract the Collect of the Day and reformat
collect=$(echo $web | sed -e 's/.*<div class="textfill-footer">.*<p>\(.*\)<\/p>.*/\1/' -e 's/<br \/>/\\r/g' -e 's/\\r /\\r/g')
printf "%s\n" "$short_title"
echo "---"
printf "%s\n" "$full_title"
printf "%s\n" "$collect"
echo "Refresh | refresh=true"
``` |
Magnus Johannesen (born 2 February 2002) is a Danish badminton player.
Personal life
Johannesen started to train badminton at the age of six in the Brønderslev club. He is a left-handed like his idol, Lin Dan. Johannesen grew up in a badminton family. His mother Trine Johannesen (née Sørensen) is a Danish former badminton player, while his aunt Mette van Dalm is a bronze medalists in the 1999 World Championships.
Achievements
BWF World Tour (1 runner-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Men's singles
BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 4 runners-up)
Men's singles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
2002 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Aalborg
Danish male badminton players |
Arapian () is a famed pastourma and soutzouki charcuterie business and market in Athens, Greece. The market has been in operation since 1935. Arapian, as well as its neighbour Miran Pastourma, are considered two of the historical establishments of Athens.
History
The company was founded in 1935 by Sarkis Arapian, an Armenian refugee who escaped his native Kayseri during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. He eventually managed to settle in Athens, Greece and opened a pastourma and soutzouki charcuterie on 41 Euripidou Street. In 1965, Sarkis Arapian appointed Dimitris Theodoropoulos as his business partner. The shop is currently in its third generation of management, as it remains in the hands of the Theodoropoulos family, which is now managed by Dimitris's son Fanis. The size of the shop is currently 15 m2.
Under the management of Fanis Theodoropoulos, the company has moved its production facilities in Prosotsani, Drama beneath the Falakro mountains in order to be surrounded by a more natural environment.
In an interview with Kathimerini, Fanis Theodoropoulos mentions that he tries to design new products for the younger generation and also introduce them to the traditional products that their parents consumed.
Reception
I Kathimerini praises Arapian for the quality products and good service. The paper describes the company's produce as excellent snacks for connoisseurs and also mentions that Arapian uses no preservatives for its products. A Christmas article from the paper titled "The ritual of pastourmas" mentions that Arapian's pastourma is a sine qua non for a Christmas table and that the annual "pilgrimage" to the store is on their agenda, remarking on Arapian's old-recipe pastourma, cut in thin, almost transparent slices with or without fat.
Lifo magazine praises the quality of the Arapian products and the care for selecting the ingredients and meat which come from various locations in Greece. The variety and flavour of the products is also praised as "reminiscent of another era" which are guaranteed to please the consumer. Lifo marks out both Arapian and Miran Pastourma as the market's best sources for such speciality meats. Lifo'''s Νiki Mitarea calls green-pea soup with Arapian's sausage and fried egg, served at restaurants in Athens, a "classic dish". Gastronomos online calls the same dish a "tasty dynamite for gourmets".
According to an article by Athens Voice, Arapian is famous for its Eastern delicacies. The article finds the aged cheese of Xanthi, sold at Arapian's, to be at the top of the taste scale and makes similar evaluations for the pastourma, goat sausage, soutzouki and kavourma. It is also mentioned that Fanis Theodoropoulos provides his customers with gourmet-related advice. Αραπιάν με τ’ όνομα! (Arapian the famous) from Athens voice Arapian's offers free tasting of food samples of their products. Athens Voice ranks Arapian's tasting service as the best in Athens and its readers are advised to "consume responsibly".
Arapian's louza or loutza, a kind of sausage made of pork sirloin found in the Cyclades and also Cyprus, and apaki smoked sausage made of pork marinated in vinegar and a traditional Cretan sausage, are on the list of recommended products by Kathimerini.
Internationally, Arapian's store is featured in Jamie Oliver's cookbook Jamie does... Spain, Italy, Sweden, Morocco, Greece, France where the Naked chef is seen, in a two-page spread, posing in front of the store.
Products
Arapian currently serves the following products:gastronomos online 24.06.2011 Κείμενο Γεωργία Ζαβιτσάνου "Σε έκθεση Σερραϊκών προιόντων που έγινε πριν από λίγο καιρό στο Σύνταγμα δοκίμασα τον καβουρμά «Χασαπάκι» από 100% βουβαλίσιο κρέας."
Petalo (horseshoe) soutzouki
Kaftero soutzouki (hot spicy)
Boiled soutzouki. Rahi Pastourma
Soutzouki Karamandlika Leg'' Pastourma
Corfu noumboulo of Venetian origin made by the Corfiote charcuterie.
Greek and foreign salami
Louza from Tinos
Bison meat
Kavourmas
Handmade cured meat from Drama, Greece
Istanbul soutzouki cured in air
Old caseri cheese from Xanthi
Kayseri pastourma pie
Kavourmas chasapaki (little butcher) from Serres
Cheese in oil from Zakynthos
Pastourmadela (a combination of pastourma and mortadella)
Apaki smoked sausage marinated in vinegar
Awards
2010-2011 Award of Distinction from Gourmet magazine
See also
Armenians in Greece
Apikoğlu Brothers
Miran Pastourma
References
Greek businesspeople
Greek people of Armenian descent
Economy of Athens
Food and drink companies of Greece |
The Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) program (pronounced NAY-Tops) prescribes general flight and operating instructions and procedures applicable to the operation of all United States naval aircraft and related activities. The program issues policy and procedural guidance of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) that is applicable to all United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) aviation personnel.
Each NATOPS manual for each USN and USMC Type/Model/Series (T/M/S) of aircraft has the following statement:
History/raison d'être
NATOPS was established by the United States Navy in 1961 as a positive approach towards improving combat readiness and achieving a substantial reduction in naval aircraft mishaps in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1950, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps lost a total of 776 aircraft (roughly two aircraft per day or a rate of 54 major mishaps per 10,000 flight hours). Numerous technical initiatives, including the angled flight deck on aircraft carriers in 1954 and various standardization programs, were credited with significantly reducing the rate to 19 major mishaps per 10,000 flight hours by 1961, and further to nine major mishaps per 10,000 flight hours by 1970 (the current rate, for comparison, is under two major mishaps per 10,000 flight hours).
A lack of standardization and training in both aircraft maintenance and flight operations was cited as a causal factor in a large percentage of mishaps. Several standardization programs were initiated in the late 1950s and early 1960s to counter this problem. The first was the Naval Aviation Maintenance Program (NAMP) in 1959. Prior to the NAMP, aircraft maintenance practices were completely non-standardized across U.S. naval aviation. For example, an aircraft maintenance procedure might be significantly different from one squadron to the next, even though both squadrons operated exactly the same T/M/S aircraft on the same base or in the same air group. The NAMP standardized maintenance procedures across all of naval aviation, or what has been termed since the early 2000s as the entire "naval aviation enterprise".
The second standardization initiative began in 1961 with the introduction of the Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) program. The purpose of an FRS is to indoctrinate newly designated aircrew (naval aviators, naval flight officers, enlisted naval aircrewman) and aircraft maintenance personnel into the peculiarities of specific aircraft. Prior to the FRS concept, qualified pilots transitioning to a new aircraft were essentially told how to start it, and then sent to go fly. The final major standardization initiative put in place was the NATOPS program in 1961.
NATOPS publications
NATOPS manuals contain standard flight doctrine and the optimum operating procedures for the aircraft model or aviation activity (e.g., CV NATOPS, LSO NATOPS, etc.) concerned. They do not include tactical doctrine.
There are numerous publications associated with NATOPS covering three basic areas:
The overarching document establishing the program is Chief of Naval Operations Instruction (OPNAVINST) 3710.7: NATOPS General Flight and Operating Instructions
Specific aircraft NATOPS flight manuals for each USN and USMC Type/Model/Series (T/M/S) aircraft; these are similar to the Air Force Technical Order "Dash 1" series flight manuals in the U.S. Air Force for each Mission Design Series (MDS) aircraft in USAF service.
Miscellaneous manuals
Compliance
Compliance with stipulated manual procedures is mandatory, but deviations are allowed per the following statements found in all NATOPS manuals:
In order to remain effective, NATOPS must be dynamic and stimulate rather than suppress individual thinking. Since aviation is a continuing, progressive profession, it is both desirable and necessary that new ideas and new techniques be expeditiously evaluated and incorporated if proven to be sound. To this end, Commanding Officers of aviation units are authorized to modify procedures contained herein… for the purpose of assessing new ideas prior to initiating recommendations for permanent changes.
—NAVAIR 01-45AAE-1, NATOPS Flight Manual, Navy Models A-7C, A-7E Aircraft
However, [this manual] is not a substitute for sound judgment. Compound emergencies, available facilities, adverse weather or terrain, or considerations affecting the lives and property of others may require modification of the procedures contained herein. Read this manual from cover to cover. It is your responsibility to have a complete knowledge of its contents.
—NAVAIR 01-F14AAA-1, NATOPS Flight Manual, Navy Model F-14A Aircraft
[NATOPS] is not intended to cover every contingency that may arise nor every rule of safety and good practice. To achieve maximum value, the
contents of all directives cited must be studied and understood.
—NATOPS General Flight and Operating Instructions: OPNAV Instruction 3710.7T, page 1-1
CNAF 3710.7
The "3710" or "CNAF 3710", as it is commonly referred to, is issued by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Often called the "General NATOPS", it is the overarching document in the NATOPS program and it provides policy and procedural guidance applicable to a broad spectrum of users.
Among a variety of topics, 3710 covers:
The general scope and purpose of the NATOPS program
What naval aircraft may be used for and who may pilot and crew them
Flight demonstrations, authorized airfields, cross-country flights and fuel planning
Supersonic flight operations and aerobatic flight
Individual qualifications, including instrument ratings
Aircrew and aircraft documentation requirements
Specific aircraft manuals
These are manuals for specific aircraft models containing standardized ground and flight operating procedures, training requirements, aircraft limitations, and technical data necessary for safe and effective operation of the aircraft. There are typically several volumes, including supplements for weapons systems, performance charts, servicing checklist, and post maintenance functional checkflight checklist.
Pocket checklists (or "PCL") contain pertinent extracts from the main publications necessary to normal operations, emergency procedures, and training.
NATOPS flight manuals are prepared using a concept that provides the aircrew with information for operation of the aircraft, but detailed operation and interaction is not provided. This concept was selected for a number of reasons: reader interest increases as the size of a technical publication decreases, comprehension increases as the technical complexity decreases, and accidents decrease as reader interest and comprehension increase. To implement this streamlined concept, observance of the following rules was attempted:
The pilot, NFO or enlisted naval aircrewman is considered to have above-average intelligence and normal (average) common sense.
No values (pressure, temperature, quantity, etc.) which cannot be read in the cockpit are stated, except where such use provides the pilot with a value judgment. Only the information required to fly the aircraft is provided.
Multiple failures (emergencies) are not covered.
Simple words in preference to more complex or quasi-technical words are used and, unnecessary and/or confusing word modifiers are avoided.
Miscellaneous manuals
Miscellaneous NATOPS manuals are issued for special aircraft-related operations or systems that require fleet-wide standardization.
They include:
Air traffic control
Air-to-air refueling
Ground refueling
Aircraft signals
Carrier operations (CV NATOPS Manual)
Air-capable ship operations
Amphibious assault ship (LHA/LHD) operations
Flight deck/hangar deck operations
Instrument flight rules
Landing signal officer procedures
Weapons
Crash and salvage
Publication changes
Changing NATOPS publications requires following a full approval process. Changes can be rapidly accomplished for urgent/safety of flight issues (via electronic directive to make pen and ink modifications to publications/procedures). There is also an annual conference for manual users (aircrew, maintenance personnel, engineers, policy makers, etc.) do deal with more routine/less urgent matters. These conferences produce a list of "recommended changes" that are then vetted by an approval process prior to promulgation.
Key people
The key people involved in NATOPS go from the Chief of Naval Operations all the way down to individual users.
NATOPS model manager: The unit commander designated to administer the NATOPS program for a specific aircraft model or aircraft related system. NATOPS model managers conduct annual NATOPS evaluations of units assigned.
NATOPS program manager: An officer assigned by the NATOPS model manager who performs administrative responsibilities for the NATOPS program for a given T/M/S aircraft, operational system, or training/support system and who is given written authority to act on behalf of the NATOPS model manager in NATOPS-related matters. The NATOPS program manager is highly qualified in his/her aircraft or activity.
NATOPS evaluator: A highly qualified air crewmember assigned to a NATOPS evaluation unit who conducts annual unit NATOPS evaluations for a given flight crew position. NATOPS evaluators are former NATOPS instructors at the fleet squadron level, typically assigned to a "NATOPS training team" embedded within a given Fleet Replacement Squadron and answering to the NATOPS program manager.
NATOPS instructor: A highly qualified air crewmember whose primary or secondary duty within an operational fleet squadron, training command squadron, or air test & evaluation squadron is administering the NATOPS evaluation program by conducting positional upgrade and/or annual periodic check rides of flight crew personnel for specific flight crew positions in a given aircraft within that squadron or unit. This position is analogous to a unit flight crew standardization/evaluation (Stan/Eval) pilot, navigator/combat systems officer, air battle manager or enlisted aircrewman in a USAF flying wing.
Unit NATOPS officer: A naval aviator or naval flight officer whose primary duty is to administer the NATOPS program within a squadron or unit. The NATOPS officer may also be a NATOPS instructor.
Implementing NATOPS
The standard operating procedures prescribed in NATOPS manuals represent the optimum methods of operating various aircraft and related equipment. The NATOPS evaluation is intended to evaluate individual and unit compliance by observing and grading adherence to NATOPS procedures.
Individual NATOPS evaluation
Flight evaluation
Individual pilots, flight officers or crewmembers are evaluated when initially qualifying (or requalifying after a non-flying assignment) in a given T/M/S aircraft, and a minimum of annually thereafter. Flight crews may also be evaluated prior to annually as part of a unit NATOPS evaluation administered by NATOPS evaluators. NATOPS exams consist of an open book examination, a closed book examination, an oral examination, and an evaluation flight or simulator check. Use of operational flight trainers (OFTs) / weapons system trainers (WSTs) is encouraged for simulated emergencies and scenarios that present significantly increased risk when actually performed in an aircraft. If no such flight simulator / training device is available, aircraft may be used. Evaluation flights in aircraft that require simulated emergencies are avoided.
Ground evaluation
Prior to commencing the evaluation flight, an evaluee must achieve a minimum grade of qualified on both open book and closed book NATOPS examinations. The oral examination is also part of the ground evaluation, but may be conducted as part of the flight evaluation.
Unit NATOPS evaluation
A unit NATOPS evaluation is conducted for every squadron/unit every 18 months by the appropriate NATOPS evaluator(s). The unit NATOPS evaluation includes NATOPS evaluations for each crew position (ground evaluation and an evaluation flight) selected at random by the evaluator to measure overall adherence to NATOPS procedures. NATOPS evaluators will re-evaluate all squadron NATOPS Instructors during a unit NATOPS evaluation and will also select one flight crewmember from each aircraft position at random for a flight or simulator evaluation. For random evaluation check selectees who perform well beyond expectations, NATOPS evaluators may recommend to the squadron commanding officer that the individual be tracked for qualification and designation as a NATOPS instructor.
See also
Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
United States Naval Aviator
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References
Flight training
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Singha Bahadur Basnyat is a Nepalese soldier and former Commander-in-Chief of the Nepal Army. He was third son of Colonel Bhakta Bahadur Basnet. He attended a meeting at China alongside PM Nagendra Prasad Rijal and other high-ranking officials. He belonged to Khaptari Basnyat clan.
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1919 births
Possibly living people
Basnyat family
Nepalese generals
Nepalese military personnel |
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 is a 2008 simulation video game developed by Vanguard for the Nintendo DS (DS), and published by Atlus. It is the fourth game in the Trauma Center series and a direct sequel to Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005). Set three years after the events of Under the Knife, the plot follows protagonist Derek Stiles as he confronts not only the revival of terrorist organisation Delphi and its GUILT disease, but personal insecurities and corporate manipulation. The gameplay combines surgical simulation relying on the DS's touchscreen controls with a story told as a visual novel.
Under the Knife 2 was developed as a true mechanical and narrative sequel to the original game, using the same controls and gameplay style in contrast to the altered style of other games on the Wii. Daisuke Kanada and Masayuki Doi returned as director and character designer, alongside new co-director Hirokazu Toyama and composers Manabu Namiki and Noriyuki Kamikura. Reception of the game was generally positive, but many journalists noted a lack of innovation while praising its improvements over the original game. It also met with low sales in Japan and North America.
Gameplay
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 is a video game that combines surgical simulation gameplay with storytelling using non-interactive visual novel-style cutscenes using static scenes, character portraits, and text with rare voice clips. The top screen of the Nintendo DS (DS) is dedicated to story sequences and level statistics displayed as 2D artwork, while the bottom touch screen is dedicated to the operations themselves rendered using 3D models. Players take on the role of protagonist Derek Stiles, a young surgeon with a mystical ability called the Healing Touch. Each operation tasks players with curing the patient of one or multiple ailments within a time limit. Missions can be played on different difficulty settings, ranging from "Easy" to "Hard".
The ten available surgical tools—which range from a scalpel and a laser to ultrasound and a defibrillator to revive a patient whose vitals flatline—are required for different operations and injuries, selected using icons along the edges of the touch screen and manipulated using the DS stylus. The player heals both surface wounds and internal injuries with the tools available, treats minor injuries and incision areas with antibiotic gel, and is aided through their operation with different kinds of serum which can be injected to aid in certain operations. Several operations have Stiles working to destroy strains of an artificial virus called GUILT in boss battle-style operations. While several strains return from the first game, new variants also appear which require different procedures.
While multiple operation types are carried over from Trauma Center: Under the Knife, different operations such as skin grafts and bone repair are included from later entries in the series. As with earlier entries, Stiles can use his Healing Touch to slow time for a short period, allowing him to treat wounds at a rapid speed. The operation is failed if the time limit runs out, or the patient's health drops to zero. After each surgery, the player is ranked on their performance, with the highest grade being "Super Surgeon". Once the game is completed, a new difficulty and challenge missions are unlocked for the player.
Synopsis
The game is set three years after the events of Under the Knife when Doctor Derek Stiles of Caduceus eradicated a man-made disease called GUILT created by the Delphi terrorist group. Stiles and his nurse Angie Thompson provide aid to the war-ravaged African nation of Costigar, befriending local doctor Adel Tulba. During his time there, Stiles must use the Healing Touch for the first time in years. After this, Stiles and Angie are recalled to Caduceus to treat a new GUILT-related disease called Post-GUILT Syndrome (PGS), a series of critical conditions that affect any patients with past GUILT exposure. A reformed Delphi appears to spread GUILT strains, determined to fulfill the original Delphi's goals. Caduceus are aided in their efforts against GUILT and PGS by two other medical research organizations, Acropolis Pharmaceuticals and the Hands of Asclepius (HOA).
During an operation against a GUILT outbreak, Stiles' overconfidence leads to a patient's death. This cripples his confidence and he loses his Healing Touch, forcing him to redo his training to regain his will to heal patients. He regains his ability when he must save Angie's father Kenneth Blackwell, repentant leader of the original Delphi, from a GUILT infection. Stiles' loss of confidence confuses Tulba, leading him to join the HOA. Acropolis and the HOA quickly gain ground in government circles after developing an artificial Healing Touch; while Caduceus is wary of the emotionless HOA surgeons with this ability, governments throw their support behind HOA to the detriment of Caduceus. Stiles becomes suspicious of Acropolis and the HOA's respective leaders Reina Mayuzumi and Patrick Mercer. Meanwhile, Stiles becomes allies with Mercer's stepdaughter Heather Ross, whom he saved from a GUILT infection. Eventually, the new Delphi is routed after they kidnap Stiles and Angie, who quickly escape and relay their location. Caduceus then confirms HOA's shady dealings when athletes show infection from new GUILT strains dubbed Neo-GUILT; HOA has been using altered GUILT samples to develop performance-enhancing medicines.
Blackwell—who was planted by Caduceus executives—reveals that HOA doctors are taking this medication, giving them their abilities while infecting them with Neo-GUILT. With this evidence, Caduceus and the authorities storm the HOA headquarters, which is storing vats of GUILT modified for airborn dispersal. Stiles cures multiple doctors of Neo-GUILT infection including Tulba. Confronting Mercer and later Mayuzumi, Stiles learns that the Neo-GUILT research was intended to revive Mercer's wife Tracy from a coma, and that Mayuzumi has preserved her youth using the final Neo-GUILT strain; her intent was to use GUILT-based products for profit. Mercer fails to wake Tracy, then injects Mayuzumi with his final experimental treatment and causes her to age rapidly, forcing Stiles to operate on her to prevent an implanted device dispersing the GUILT. Before the despairing Mercer can blow up the facility, he is shot dead. Caduceus's reputation is restored, Tulba returns to Costigar to continue helping as a doctor, Heather takes over Tracy's care studying to be a nurse, and Stiles and Angie travel abroad and begin a relationship.
Development
Under The Knife 2 was produced as a response to perceived player discomfort about the change in consoles from the DS with Under the Knife to the Wii for subsequent entries. While the team had continued the overarching narrative of Trauma Center using New Blood, Under the Knife 2 was created as a true sequel to the original in both story and mechanics. Primary development was handled by video game production company Vanguard. The game was co-directed by Daisuke Kanada, series director since Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and Hirokazu Toyama of Vanguard. The character designs were created by Masayuki Doi, who had worked on both Second Opinion and New Blood. Toyama had previous experience of the series due to helping with the programming of earlier titles, but was shocked when he was asked to direct the game. Under the Knife 2 was Toyama's debut as a game director. Most of the systems used in Under the Knife were carried over into its sequel, with much of the work focusing on polishing the existing experience. A new addition compared to the original DS version were more voice clips for characters, and the "Easy" mode. The former required a large portion of the console's ROM alongside the music. The narrative, in addition to the usual theme of saving life through surgery, included instances of treating the poor, doctor shortages, and anti-aging medicine.
The music was composed by Manabu Namiki and Noriyuki Kamikura of Basiscape, a music studio founded by Hitoshi Sakimoto. The audio direction and sound design were respectively handled by Miki Ito and Kentaro Nakagoshi. While Trauma Center series composer Kenichi Tsuchiya was contacted about working on Under the Knife 2, his other work at the time prevented him from taking part, leading to Basiscape being brought on board. Due to having access to advanced composition software for the DS sound environment, the quality of the music increased markedly over that of the original Trauma Center. Neither composer had worked with the series before; Namiki had previously worked on Tekken: Blood Vengeance, while Kamikura was known for Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Namiki wrote his themes to express saving lives in an exciting scenario, and take advantage of the DS's sound and control elements. He used the themes of "weight" for the surgical segments and "human praise" for the story sections.
The game was first announced in April 2008. Under the Knife 2 is the fourth game in the Trauma Center series, and the second and last produced for the DS. The localization was handled by Atlus USA, who collaborated on the process with Vanguard. The cover design was carried over almost unaltered for the Japanese version. The subtitle went through several versions during the localization process, ultimately settling on a numeral placed in front of the original game's title to denote its status as a sequel. The English dub was handled by PCP Productions, whose work went back to the beginning of the series. The game was released in North America on July 1, 2008, releasing a month before its Japanese equivalent. A demo was released on the Nintendo eShop for a limited time following the North American release. Its Japanese release came on August 7. A guidebook on August 28, and a soundtrack album was published in November 2011 by Sweep Records. When speaking about a remake of Under the Knife 2 for the Wii similar to Second Opinion, Atlus USA said that taking a game "back and forth" between the DS and Wii did not fit in with Atlus's business model. Under the Knife 2 saw no release in Europe.
Reception
Under the Knife 2 failed to appear in Japanese sales charts for either 2008 or 2009. During that period, it also failed to appear in Atlus's summary of high-selling titles for the period between August 2008 to July 2009. Review aggregate website Metacritic awarded the game a score of 79 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating "generally favourable" reviews. The game was nominated for Best Action Game on the DS in IGNs 2008 video game awards.
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu praised the control refinements and elements, which helped contribute to its feeling of speed. Andrew Fitch of 1UP.com was wary of going into the game after reviewers of previous entries for the website expressed high frustration, but was won over by its pacing and smooth controls. Bryan Voor and Jeremy Parish, writing for Game Informer, applauded the inclusion of lower difficulty options and more grounded tone, with Parish calling the available operations "more interesting and varied than any other entry". GameSpots Shiva Stella said that Under the Knife 2 "successfully blends a creative medical theme with bizarre but fun puzzle gameplay to create an addictive treat".
Dave Kosak of GameSpy praised the gameplay and narrative improvements made by the game, but found fault with the cutscenes and repetitive music. GamesRadars Alan Kim was also pleased with the general improvements over the original game, but was disappointed by the lack of a multiplayer element. Raychul Moore of GamePro was not impressed by the game, enjoying some elements of gameplay but finding its narrative and difficulty off-putting. IGNs Mark Bozon gave high praise to the story and gameplay, but felt it lacked content and replay value found in New Blood. Jonathan Metts of Nintendo World Report was less positive than other reviewers, faulting its lack of improvements and new features and calling the game "a complete rehash that it makes me question the reason for its existence".
The plot was generally praised for its quality and grounded nature, but some critics found the cutscenes and dialogue segments overly long. Fitch was particularly negative about the translation, calling it inferior to the localizations of Persona 3 and Odin Sphere. There was also praise for the improved quality of the controls, art style and music over the original game. A common observation by critics was that there was little to nothing new that distinguished it from earlier Trauma Center games.
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The Idaho Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organization. National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through the National Guard Bureau.
Idaho Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks (both enlisted and officer) and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Idaho Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Idaho.
The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.
Formerly attached to the Idaho National Guard NGB regulations 10-4 and United States code chapter 32 section 109 was the Idaho State Guard which was created to replace the Idaho National Guard when they were in federal service and not available for the protection of the state.
History
Soldiers from the Idaho National Guard have been deployed to Afghanistan.
In late November 2020, the Idaho National Guard have helped with COVID-19 screening and testing services, during a third wave of coronavirus infection. The Idaho National Guard has also helped to administrate nearly 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines.
Units
116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho
1st Battalion (Combined Arms), 163rd Cavalry Regiment (Montana)
2nd Battalion (Combined Arms), 116th Cavalry Regiment
3rd Battalion (Combined Arms), 116th Cavalry Regiment (Oregon)
1st Squadron (Armored Reconnaissance), 221st Cavalry Regiment (Nevada)
1st Battalion, 148th Field Artillery Regiment
116th Brigade Engineer Battalion
145th Brigade Support Battalion
State Aviation Group
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter), 183rd Aviation Regiment (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk)
Detachment 35, Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (C-12)
Air Ambulance Detachment (Lakota)
Detachment 2, Company C, 1st Battalion (Medevac), 168th Aviation Regiment
204th Regiment (Regional Training Institute) (RTI)
1st Battalion,
2nd Battalion,
Regional Training Site - Maintenance Ordnance Training Battalion (RTS-M)
25th Army Band
In popular culture
The "Divided We Fall" trilogy by Trent Reedy is written about a member of the Idaho Army National Guard during a Second American Civil War.
The book "Against All Enemies" by Harold Coyle centers around the Idaho National Guard.
See also
Idaho State Guard
References
External links
GlobalSecurity.org Idaho Army National Guard, accessed 20 Nov 2006
Idaho National Guard
Military in Idaho
United States Army National Guard by state |
Melchior-Alphonse de Salaberry (or Melchior-Alphonse d'Irumberry de Salaberry; May 19, 1813 – March 27, 1867) was a Canadien lawyer and political figure.
He was born in Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower Canada in 1813, the son of Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry, the hero of the Battle of Chateauguay.
He was appointed commissioner for small causes in 1836. In 1837, he was named to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, but never took his seat due to the Lower Canada Rebellion. In the same year, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the local militia and prevented the capture of Fort Chambly by the Patriotes. In 1841, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Rouville. He was forced to run again for his seat in 1842 after accepting the post of clerk of the Richelieu district court; however, he was defeated by William Walker. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practised law with Robert-Shore-Milnes Bouchette. In 1847, he was appointed assistant coroner of Montreal and, in 1848, assistant adjutant-general of the Lower Canada militia. He served in this last post until his death at Quebec City in 1867.
Family
Melchior-Alphonse de Salaberry married Marie-Émilie Guy, the daughter of Louis Guy, in 1846. The couple's daughter, Miss Hermine de Salaberry was a native of Quebec, and was educated in Quebec city and in Montreal. In 1889, she was accorded a private audience with Her
Majesty Queen Victoria at the instance of H.R.H. the Princess Louise (later Duchess of Argyll). In October 1895, Hermione unveiled the monument to Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry, which commemorates the Battle of Chateauguay. The de Salaberry family resided at 833 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal.
References
La famille d'Irumberry de Salaberry, P-G Roy (1906)
1813 births
1867 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East
Canadian people of Basque descent
Canadian coroners |
CampusBooks.com is a free online textbook price comparison shopping service. The website sources information from multiple online booksellers and provides students with a selection of offers for buying, renting, and selling textbooks online.
History
CampusBooks.com was founded by Alex Neal in 1998 during the height of the dot com boom. The company started as an online textbook reseller. In 2000 it changed its business model and became a textbook comparison shopping site. CampusBooks served over 1.5 million book price comparisons to students in 2007. In 2011, the website was viewed by over 3 million students.
In 2015 CampusBooks released Buy vs. Rent price prediction tool, which provided students with recommendations on whether to buy or rent a book based on the current price and future estimated value.
In 2023, the website contained information on more than 8 million new and used textbooks from thousands of sellers and multiple bookstores in 3 countries.
Overview
CampusBooks obtains textbook pricing data from multiple sources and makes it searchable by ISBN, author, title. Once a search is performed, CampusBooks shows the list of textbooks according to the search parameters.
CampusBooks displays the buying, renting, and selling price information from third-party vendors as is, without modifying it. Upon selecting offers, customers are redirected to third-party websites and complete the orders there. CampusBooks is not involved in the order processing and completion processes.
CampusBooks provides a free Buy vs. Rent price prediction tool. The tool employs a proprietary algorithm, which takes into account the depreciation of the book in question and estimates its buyback value in 6 months. Based on the estimation, the website displays its recommendation for either buying or renting the book.
Business model
CampusBooks.com is an Amazon associate and takes part in affiliate programs of other bookstores, from which it receives commissions for qualifying purchases. In addition, the website partners with online booksellers and buyback vendors, and displays their offers based on PPC revenue model.
See also
Comparison shopping website
Bookselling
Wikipedia:Book sources
References
External links
Official website
Book websites
Book selling websites
Product searching websites
Comparison shopping websites |
Churchill Livingstone is an academic publisher.
It was formed in 1971 from the merger of Longman's medical list, E & S Livingstone (Edinburgh, Scotland) and J & A Churchill (London, England) and was owned by Pearson. Harcourt acquired Churchill Livingstone in 1997. It is now integrated as an imprint in Elsevier's health science division after Elsevier acquired Harcourt in 2001.
In the past it published a number of classic medical texts, including Sir William Osler's textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, Gray's Anatomy, and Myles' Textbook for Midwives. In the 1980s, in addition to new texts in all areas of clinical medicine, it published an extensive list of medical and nursing textbooks in low-cost editions for low-income countries supported by the UK-funded Educational Low Priced Book Scheme (ELBS).
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Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom |
Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Monroe County. It is the fourth-most populous city and 10th most-populated municipality in New York, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 census. The city forms the core of the larger Rochester metropolitan area in Western New York, with a population of over 1.09 million residents. Throughout its history, Rochester has acquired several nicknames based on local industries; it has been known as "the Flour City" and "the Flower City" for its dual role in flour production and floriculture, and "the World's Image Center" for its association with film photography.
The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River valley which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester has also played a key part in US history as a hub for social and political movements, especially abolitionism, and the women's rights movement.
Rochester is the birthplace and home of companies including Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, and Western Union, and the region became a global center for science, technology, and research and development. This has been aided by the presence of several internationally renowned universities, notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, and their research programs; these schools, along with many other smaller colleges, have played an increasingly large role in its economy. The city experienced significant population decline due to deindustrialization in the late 20th century, although less severely than its Rust Belt peers. The Rochester metropolitan area is the third-largest regional economy in New York, after New York City and Buffalo-Niagara Falls.
Rochester is also known for its culture; in particular, the Eastman School of Music, one of the most prestigious conservatories in the world, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival anchor a vibrant music industry. It is the site of several museums such as The Strong National Museum of Play and the George Eastman Museum, which houses the oldest photography collection in the world. Rochester is ranked highly in terms of livability and quality of life, due to low cost of living, highly ranked public schools and a low unemployment rate. It is a global city, ranked by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as having sufficiency status.
History
Nineteenth century
The Seneca tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy lived in and around Rochester prior to the American Revolution. Allied with the British, the Iroquois tribes were forced to cede or sell most of their land in New York after the war. The area now occupied by Rochester was ceded in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1788. As a reward for their loyalty to the British crown, the Iroquois were given a large land grant on the Grand River in Canada.
Rochester was founded shortly after by a wave of English-Puritan-descended immigrants from New England, who were looking for new agricultural land. They were the dominant cultural group in Rochester for over a century. On November 8, 1803, Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752–1831), Major Charles Carroll, and Colonel William Fitzhugh Jr. (1761–1839), all of Hagerstown, Maryland, purchased a 100-acre (40-ha) tract from the state in western New York along the Genesee River. They chose the site because its three cataracts on the Genesee offered great potential for water power. Beginning in 1811, and with a population of 15, the three founders surveyed the land and laid out streets and tracts. In 1817, the Brown brothers and other landowners joined their lands with the Hundred Acre Tract to form the village of Rochesterville.
By 1821, Rochesterville was the seat of Monroe County. In 1823, it consisted of and 2,500 residents, and the Village of Rochesterville became known as Rochester. Also in 1823, the Erie Canal aqueduct over the Genesee River was completed, connecting the city to the Hudson River to the east. By 1830, Rochester's population was 9,200, and in 1834, it was rechartered as a city.
Rochester was first known as "the Young Lion of the West", and then as the "Flour City". By 1838, it was the largest flour-producing city in the United States. Having doubled its population in only 10 years, Rochester became America's first "boom town".
In 1830 and 1831, Rochester experienced one of the nation's biggest Protestant revivalist movements, led by Charles Grandison Finney. The revival inspired other revivals of the Second Great Awakening. A leading pastor in New York, who was converted in the Rochester meetings, gave this account of Finney's meetings there: The whole community was stirred. Religion was the topic of conversation in the house, in the shop, in the office, and on the street. The only theater in the city was converted into a livery stable; the only circus into a soap and candle factory. Grog shops were closed; the Sabbath was honored; the sanctuaries were thronged with happy worshippers; a new impulse was given to every philanthropic enterprise; the fountains of benevolence were opened, and men lived to good.
By the mid-19th century, as the center of the wheat-processing industry moved west with population and agriculture, the city became home to an expanding nursery business, giving rise to the city's second nickname, the Flower City. Nurseries ringed the city, the most famous of which was started in 1840 by immigrants George Ellwanger from Germany and Patrick Barry from Ireland. Horticulturalist, businessman, writer, publisher and seedsman James Vick (1818–1882) used innovative mass marketing and regular customer correspondence to build one of the largest and most respected seed companies in the United States. Vick's extensive flower garden on East Avenue was a showplace and weekend destination for local residents. The location of the garden is now bounded by Vick Park A and Vick Park B.
In 1847, Frederick Douglass founded The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, in Rochester. A former slave and an antislavery speaker and writer, he gained a circulation of over 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. The North Star served as a forum for abolitionist views. The Douglass home burnt down in 1872, but a marker for it is in Highland Park off South Avenue.
Susan B. Anthony, a national leader of the women's suffrage movement, was from Rochester. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in 1920, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because of her work toward its passage, which she did not live to see. Anthony's home is a National Historic Landmark known as the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House.
After the Civil War, Rochester had an expansion of new industries in the late 19th century, founded by migrants to the city, including inventor and entrepreneur George Eastman, who founded Eastman Kodak, and German immigrants John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb, who launched Bausch & Lomb in 1861. Not only did they create new industries, but Eastman also became a major philanthropist, developing and endowing the University of Rochester, its Eastman School of Music, and other local institutions.
Twentieth century
In the early 20th century, Rochester became a center of the garment industry, particularly men's fashions. It was the base of Bond Clothing Stores, Fashion Park Clothes, Hickey Freeman, and Stein-Bloch and Co. Carriagemaker James Cunningham and Sons founded the pioneer automobile company Cunningham.
With the arrival of railroads to the city, the presence of the canal in the city center was an obstacle; it was rerouted south of Rochester by 1918 when the Barge Canal was completed. The short-lived Rochester subway was constructed in the abandoned canal bed and operated from 1927 to 1956.
The population reached 62,386 in 1870, 162,608 in 1900, and 295,750 in 1920. By 1950, the population had reached a high of 332,488. In 1950, the Census Bureau reported Rochester's population as 97.6% White and 2.3% Black.
Rochester's black population tripled to more than 25,000 during the 1950s. Casually employed by the city's iconic industries, most African Americans in the city held low-pay and low-skill jobs, and lived in substandard housing. Discontent exploded in the 1964 Rochester race riot. Triggered by the attempted arrest of a 19-year-old intoxicated black male at a street block party, order was restored after three days, and only after Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out the New York National Guard. By the time the disturbance was over, five were dead (four in a helicopter crash) and 350 were injured. Almost a thousand people were arrested and 204 stores were either looted or damaged.
In the wake of the riots, the Rochester Area Churches, together with black civil rights leaders, invited Saul Alinsky of the Industrial Areas Foundation to help the community organize. With the Reverend Franklin Florence, who had been close to Malcolm X, they established FIGHT (Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today), which successfully brought pressure to bear on Eastman Kodak to help open up employment and city governance.
With industrial restructuring in the later 20th century, and the decline of industry and jobs in the area, by 2022, the city's population had declined to 209,352 (although the metropolitan area was considerably larger) with 45.1% recorded as White and 38.4% as Black or African American.
Geography
Rochester is located in Upstate New York, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario. The Genesee River bisects the city. The city is about east-northeast of Buffalo and west of Syracuse. Albany, the state capital, is to the east; Toronto is northwest and New York City is to the southeast.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and are covered by water (3.42%).
Rochester's geography was formed by the ice sheets during the Pleistocene epoch. The retreating ice sheets reached a standstill at what is now the southern border of the city, melting at the same rate as they were advancing, depositing sediment along the southern edge of the ice mass. This created a line of hills, including (from west to east) Mt. Hope, the hills of Highland Park, Pinnacle Hill, and Cobb's Hill. Because the sediment of these hills was deposited into a proglacial lake, they are stratified and classified as a "kame delta". A brief retreat and readvance of the ice sheet onto the delta deposited unstratified material there, creating a rare hybrid structure called "kame moraine".
The ice sheets also created Lake Ontario, the Genesee River with its waterfalls and gorges, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Braddock Bay, Mendon Ponds, numerous local streams and ponds, the Ridge, and the nearby Finger Lakes.
The principal source of water is Hemlock Lake, which, with its watershed, is owned by the state of New York. Other water sources include Canadice Lake and Lake Ontario. The 30-year annual average snowfall is just above . The monthly daily average ranges from in January to in July. The high amount of snow Rochester receives can be accounted for by the city's proximity to Lake Ontario (see lake-effect snow).
Neighborhoods
Rochester has a number of neighborhoods, including the 19th Ward, 14621 Community, Beechwood, Browncroft, Cascade District, Cobbs Hill, Charlotte, Corn Hill, Dewey, Dutchtown, Edgerton, Ellwanger-Barry, German Village, Grove Place, High Falls District, Highland Park, Maplewood (10th Ward), Marketview Heights, Mt. Read, North Winton Village, North of East Main Neighbors United, Neighborhood of the Arts , Lyell-Otis, Park Avenue, Plymouth-Exchange, Southwest, East End, South Wedge, Swillburg, Susan B. Anthony, university-Atlantic, Upper Monroe, and more are all recognized communities with various neighborhood associations. Also, living spaces are available in downtown Rochester.
19th Ward
The 19th Ward is a southwest neighborhood bordered by Genesee Street, West Avenue, and the Erie Canal, and is across the river from the University of Rochester. Now known by its slogan "Urban by Choice", in the early 19th century, the area was known as Castle Town, after Castle Inn, a tavern run by Colonel Isaac Castle. By the early 1820s, however, the area was overshadowed by developments in the north that would become downtown Rochester. Due to a tumultuous bend in the Genesee, the area was home to skilled boatsmen who assisted boats traveling north to Rochester and the area was consequently known during this time as "The Rapids". In the 1890s, as Rochester expanded, the area became a prosperous residential area that thrived as the city grew. By 1930, it was a booming residential area for doctors, lawyers, and skilled workers; it includes the still prestigious Sibley Tract development. Homes in the originally upper-class neighborhood typically have gumwood trim, leaded glass, fireplaces, hardwood floors, and open porches. In the 1960s, property values fell as the population of Rochester did, the area experienced white flight accelerated by school busing, blockbusting, and race riots downtown, and crime increased, with violence, drug use, and neglected property further diminishing property values.
In recent years, neighborhood revitalization has come from the "Brooks Landing" development along the Genesee River and student housing for the nearby University of Rochester.
Located in the 19th Ward are the Arvine Heights Historic District, Chili–West Historic District, Inglewood and Thurston Historic District, and Sibley–Elmdorf Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Browncroft
The Browncroft neighborhood is built on the former nursery grounds of the Brown Brothers nursery. The business district situated on Winton Rd has a mix of restaurants and shops. The neighborhood borders the nearby Tryon and Ellison Parks. The Browncroft Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Charlotte
Charlotte is a lakefront community in Rochester bordering Lake Ontario. It is home to Ontario Beach Park, commonly known as Charlotte Beach, which is a popular summer destination for Rochesterians. A new terminal was built in 2004 for the Rochester-to-Toronto ferry service and was later sold after the ferry ceased operations in 2005. The Port of Rochester terminal still exists and has since been revamped. In summer 2016 a proposed redevelopment project for the Port of Rochester was put on hold due to the developers failing to meet financial obligations as set by the city.
Homestead Heights
Homestead Heights is in northeast Rochester. It is bordered on the west by Goodman Street, on the north by Clifford Avenue, on the south by Bay Street, and on the east by Culver Road, which is also the border between the city and the town of Irondequoit. The neighborhood is a mix of residential and commercial. Real estate values are higher on the eastern end of the neighborhood near the Irondequoit border. The neighborhood is approximately 2–2 miles west of the Irondequoit Bay.
Lyell-Otis
The Lyell-Otis neighborhood is in the city's Northwest Quadrant. Bordering the suburbs of Gates and Greece, the Lyell-Otis boundaries are the Erie Canal (the City Line) on the west, Lyell Avenue on the south, Driving Park Boulevard on the north, and the old subway bed on the east - almost to Dewey Avenue.
Historically an Italian-American neighborhood, this area of the City of Rochester is now home to citizens from across the globe. There have recently been efforts to improve the quality of life in this neighborhood, as the area has opportunity for redevelopment and renewal.
Marketview Heights
Running east from Union Street just north of Main Street, Marketview Heights is best known as the location of the Public Market, which offers a variety of groceries and other goods from marketeers from farms and shops from surrounding areas, primarily on the weekends.
Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood
This neighborhood is a Preservation District on the National Register of Historic Places, known as the Madison Square-West Main Street Historic District. It encompasses a three-and-one-half block area within walking distance from downtown Rochester, and comprises residential, commercial and industrial buildings. The center of the residential area is Susan B. Anthony Square, a park shown on city maps from 1839, which was designed by the famous Olmstead Brothers. Also within the neighborhood is the Susan B. Anthony House, which was the suffragist's residence for the last decades of her life, now a museum, as well as the Cunningham Carriage factory built in 1848 on Canal Street. James Cunningham Son & Co. sold more carriages in the United States in the 1880s than all other manufacturers combined. The Canal Street property, which still stands, remained Cunningham's headquarters for more than 100 years.
Swillburg
This wedge-shaped piece of the city is bordered by S. Clinton Avenue on the west, Field St on the south, and Interstate 490 on the east. The neighborhood received its moniker when a 19th-century Rochester pig farmer utilized the area to collect swill for his swine. The area has one of the highest rates of home-ownership in the city.
The local elementary school is #35, Field Street, which often sponsors a community garden in its courtyard on Pinnacle Street.
Uptonville
Uptonville is a neighborhood in the northwest section of Rochester, north of Maplewood. It is location to the Kodak Center and anchored by a commercial section of Ridge Road.
Climate
Rochester lies in the humid continental climate zone (Köppen: Dfa) and has four distinct seasons. Winters are cold (temperatures drop to on 4.2 nights annually) similar to other US cities of the same latitude. However, Rochester receives vast amounts of snow (primarily lake effect snow resulting from its location on the southern shores of Lake Ontario), ranking among the snowiest large cities on earth and occasionally setting records for annual snowfall among large US metros. Spring sees plentiful rain with the rising temperatures, and occasional late snowstorms depending on the year. Summers are warm and sunny; there are occasional short periods of high heat and humidity but in general, Rochester is set apart from most of the continental US by comparatively cool, comfortable summers (ranking among the top five coolest summers among large metros alongside Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and neighboring Buffalo). Autumn features brilliant foliage colors, cooling temperatures and occasionally an excess of rain depending on the year, though precipitation is generally plentiful and dispersed fairly evenly throughout the year.
Demographics
As of the 2020 Census, the population of Rochester was 211,328. Like most Rust Belt cities, the city has experienced a sustained population decline over the last 60 years. In 2020, for the first time in 200 years, Rochester dropped to the fourth most populous city in the state behind Yonkers. However, in 2020, an increase in the city’s population was reported for the first time since the 1950 Census.
Race, disability, and income
As of the 2020 United States census, Rochester had a population of 211,328, of which 38.0% were non-Hispanic Black, 33.0% were non-Hispanic White, 19.8% were Hispanic/Latino, 3.9% were Asian, 0.2% were Native American or Pacific Islander, and 5.1% were mixed or other.
According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 43.7% White or White American, 41.7% Black, 0.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.1% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 6.6% from some other race, and 4.4% from two or more races. 16.4% of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, mostly made up of Puerto Ricans. Non-Hispanic Whites were 37.6% of the population in 2010, compared to 80.2% in 1970.
Although losing population since 1950, over the course of the past 50 years Rochester has become a major center for immigration, particularly for arrivals from Eastern and Southeastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. Rochester had the highest percentage of Puerto Ricans of any major city in the United States in 2013, one of the four largest Turkish American communities, one of the largest Jamaican American communities in any major U.S. city and a large concentration of Polish Americans along with nearby Buffalo, New York. Rochester's Bhutanese and Nepalese communities are among the largest (top 3) in the United States, concentrated primarily in Jones Square and Edgerton with growth fueled by recently arrived migrants and refugees. In addition, Rochester was ranked number 9 in the nation for the largest Italian population in the United States in 2018.
In 1997, Rochester was reported to have the largest per capita deaf population in the United States, likely because it is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
In 2010, of 88,999 households, 30.0% had children under 18 living with them, 25.1% were married couples living together, 23.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.0% were not families. Of all households, 37.1% were made up of individuals, and 9.2% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.36, and the average family size was 3.19. The age distribution was 28.1% under 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 or older. The median age was 31. For every 100 females, there were 91.6 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 87.3 males.
The median income for a city household was $27,123, and for a family was $31,257. Males had a median income of $30,521, versus $25,139 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,588. About 23.4% of families and 25.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 37.5% of those under age 18 and 15.4% of those age 65 or over.
Religion
By the 1920s and 1930s, Rochester's population was roughly half Protestant and half Catholic, although a significant Jewish population was also present. In 1938, the city had 214 religious congregations, two-thirds of which had been founded after 1880. At that time, the city added, on average, 2.6 new congregations per year, many founded by immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. During peak immigration from 1900 to 1920, dozens of churches were established, including four Roman Catholic churches with Italian clergy, three Roman Catholic churches with Slavic clergy, a Greek Orthodox Church, a Polish Baptist church, 15 Jewish synagogues, and four small Italian Protestant mission churches (Baptist, Evangelical, Methodist, and Presbyterian). Additionally, several Buddhist temples are in the city, one Cambodian, two Lao, and one Vietnamese.
Crime
In 2012, Rochester had 2,061 reported violent crimes, compared to a national average rate of 553.5 violent crimes in cities with populations larger than 100,000. That same year, Rochester had 827 personal-crime incidents and 11,054 property-crime incidents.
In 2018, Rochester reported 28 murders (13.9 per 100,000 residents). In 2012, 95 sexual assaults, 816 robberies, 1,104 aggravated assaults, 2,978 burglaries, 7,694 larceny thefts, 111 forcible rape, 622 auto thefts, and 152 acts of arson occurred.
On November 12, 2021, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren declared a state of emergency due to a rising violent crime rate in the city. As of November 12, there were 71 reported murders in Rochester so far, making 2021 the deadliest year in the city's recorded history. The Rochester police chief said, to date, 247 local violent offenders have been arrested in 2021, 134 of which for firearms related offenses. Of those arrests, 65 are facing federal prosecution and 61 face state prosecution. According to the police chief, the mayor has reached out to the governor for additional state assistance in the fight against local violence as the police chief said the RPD resources, and the Persons In Crisis Team, have been stretched thin — a request that Governor Kathy Hochul approved, according to The RPD Chief.
On July 21, 2022, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans declared a state of emergency due to ongoing gun violence. Between the beginning of the calendar year and July 21, Rochester recorded 34 homicides in which a gun was involved.
Economy
Rochester is home to a number of Fortune 1000 and international businesses, including Paychex (Fortune #662), as well as several national and regional companies, such as Carestream Health. Xerox was founded in Rochester in 1906 as the Haloid Company, and retains a significant presence in Rochester, although its headquarters are now in Norwalk, Connecticut. Bausch & Lomb moved to Bridgewater, New Jersey, in 2014. The Gannett newspaper company and Western Union were founded in Rochester by Frank Gannett and Hiram Sibley, respectively, but have since moved to other cities.
The median single-family house price was $135,000 in the second quarter of 2015 in greater Rochester, an increase of 5.4% from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Tech Valley, the technologically recognized area of eastern New York, has spawned a western offshoot into the Rochester and Finger Lakes areas. Since the 2000s, as established companies in Rochester downsized, Rochester and Monroe County's economy has been redirected toward high technology, with new, smaller companies providing the capital necessary for business foundation. The Rochester area is important in the field of photographic processing and imaging, as well as incubating an increasingly diverse high-technology sphere encompassing STEM fields, in part the result of private startup enterprises collaborating with major academic institutions, including the University of Rochester and Cornell University.
Other organizations such as High Tech Rochester provide local startups with mentorship, office space, and other resources. Given the high prevalence of imaging and optical science among the industry and the universities, Rochester is known as the world capital of imaging. The Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology in nearby Henrietta have imaging programs. In 2006, the University of Rochester became the Rochester area's largest employer, surpassing the Eastman Kodak Company.
Arts and culture
The city of Rochester is home to numerous cultural institutions. These include the Garth Fagan Dance, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rochester City Ballet, George Eastman Museum International Museum of Photography and Film, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester Museum & Science Center, the Rochester Broadway Theater League, Strong National Museum of Play, the Strasenburgh Planetarium, Hochstein School of Music & Dance, the Auditorium Theater, and numerous arts organizations. Geva Theatre Center is the city's largest professional theater. The East End Theater is on East Main Street in the theater district. The Rochester Association of Performing Arts is a non-profit organization that provides educational theater classes to the community.
Nightlife
Rochester's East End district, located downtown, is well known as the center of the city's nightlife. It is the stopping point for East Avenue, which along with the surrounding streets is occupied by nightclubs, lounges, coffee shops, bars, and high-end restaurants. The Eastman School of Music, one of the top musical institutes in the nation, and its auditorium are also within the neighborhood. The Eastman Theatre is host to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and other musical/drama events.
There are other, smaller enclaves of after-hours activity scattered across the city. "Southeast" is the center of Rochester's prosperous arts scene, particularly in and around the Park Avenue neighborhood (which is known for its many coffee shops, cafes, bistros and boutique shops). Nearby on University Avenue can be found several plazas, like the Village Gate, which give space to contemporary bars, restaurants and art galleries that stay open late into the night. Monroe Avenue, several streets over, is filled with pubs, small restaurants, smoke shops, theaters and several clubs as well as cigar bars and hookah lounges. These neighborhoods are home to many artists, musicians, students, and Rochester's large LGBT community.
The South Wedge district, directly south of downtown, has seen significant gentrification in recent years and now is the site of many modern cafes and bars that serve the student community attending the University of Rochester several blocks away from the neighborhoods. The "Wedge" is quickly becoming one of the most vibrant areas within the city limits; its numerous nightspots keep the streets active with college students and young professionals, many of whom live there due to the abundance of affordable housing and proximity to many of the region's major hospitals, parks, and colleges.
Festivals
Rochester hosts a number of cultural festivals every year, including the Rochester International Jazz Festival, established in 2002 and one of the largest jazz festivals in America. It takes place in late June at dozens of clubs, concert halls and free outdoor stages throughout Downtown Rochester; past performers include Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, and Wynton Marsalis. A record 205,000 people attended the event in 2016. The 360/365 Film Festival is held at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre and the Little Theatre downtown. Several films screened at 360/365 have been honored at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. Rochester International Film Festival, the world's oldest continuously held short-film festival, is also held annually.
The Lilac Festival at Highland Park, which is the oldest and most popular festival in Rochester and the largest event of its kind in North America, is attended by over 500,000 people annually. Established in 1898, it includes multiple attractions aside from the lilacs themselves. These musical acts include the Wailers who attended in 2012 and 2014. Other notable festivals in Rochester include the Rochester Fringe Festival and the Corn Hill Arts Festival.
Cuisine
One food product Rochester calls its own is the "white hot", a variant of the hot dog or smoked bratwurst made by the local Zweigle's company and other companies. Another local specialty is the "Garbage Plate", a trademark of Nick Tahou Hots that traditionally includes macaroni salad, home fries, and two hot dogs or cheeseburgers topped with mustard, onions, and their famous meat hot sauce. Many area restaurants feature copies or variations with the word "plate" commonly used as a general term. Rochester was home to French's Mustard, whose address was 1 Mustard Street.
The Ragú brand of pasta sauce used to be produced in Rochester. Some of the original facility still exists and produces products for other labels (including Newman's Own) as Private Label Foods.
Other local franchises include: Bill Gray's, DiBella's, Tom Wahl's, American Specialty Manufacturing (producers of Boss Sauce), Salvatore's Old Fashioned Pizzeria, Mark's Pizzeria, Cam's Pizzeria, Pontillo's Pizzeria, Perri's Pizzeria, Jeremiah's Tavern, and Abbott's Frozen Custard. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, which originated in Syracuse, also operates its second franchise downtown in the former Lehigh Valley Railroad station on the Genesee River.
Points of interest
Asbury First United Methodist Church
Cinema Theater
Eastman Business Park
Ellwanger Garden
First Unitarian Church of Rochester, described by a Pulitzer-Prize-winning architectural critic as one of "the most significant works of religious architecture of the century".
Midtown Plaza, the nation's first downtown shopping mall (partially demolished – Tower and Seneca Building still stand).
St. Joseph's Church and Rectory
Times Square Building, noted for its 42' tall "Wings of Progress" sculpture.
University of Rochester Arboretum
Water Street Music Hall
Sports
Rochester was named the top minor league sports market in the country by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal in July 2005, the number 10 "best golf city" in America by Golf Magazine in 2007, and the fifth-best "sports town" in the country by Scarborough Research in September 2008.
Professional sports
Rochester has several professional sports teams:
The Rochester Royals (now the Sacramento Kings) were a professional basketball team in Rochester from 1945 to 1957 with roots as an amateur team dating back to 1923. They won the NBA title in 1951, defeating the New York Knicks in 7 games. Rochester and its surrounding area also has a rich golf history and has hosted numerous professional tournaments on its local golf courses, most recently the 2023 PGA Championship. In addition, there are numerous other amateur and club sports such as rowing and rugby. The city boasts facilities including 13 full-time recreation centers, 19 swimming programs, 3 artificial ice rinks, 66 softball/baseball fields, 47 tennis courts, 5 football fields, 7 soccer fields, and 43 outdoor basketball courts.
Collegiate
Rochester is the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the U.S. which does not include at least one college or university participating at the NCAA Division I level in all sports. Almost all area college sports are played at the NCAA Division III level. The only exceptions are the RIT men's and women's ice hockey teams, which compete at the Division I level, and the University of Rochester men's squash team, which is consistently ranked top 5 in Division I. RIT and UR's other sports, as well as both institutions as a whole, are in Division III. The men's team made it to the NCAA Frozen Four in 2010 and the women's team won the Division III national championship in 2012, just before switching over to Division I.
As of the 2014–2015 academic year, the only college in the Rochester area not officially classified at the Division III level is Roberts Wesleyan College, which completed its transition from membership in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA); Roberts Wesleyan was granted full membership in NCAA Division II beginning with the 2014–15 year.
Parks and recreation
The city's Victorian-era Mount Hope Cemetery includes the final resting places of Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George B. Selden, and many others. Other scenic sites are Holy Sepulchre and neighboring Riverside Cemetery. By the late nineteenth century, Mount Hope was a popular picnicking destination, and the city began to develop public parks.
Rochester's park system was initially designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead in the 1890s. The system included four major parks: Genesee Valley Park, Highland Park, Maplewood Park, and Seneca Park, the last of which is today home to the Seneca Park Zoo. Later additions to the park system include Cobb's Hill Park, Durand Eastman Park, Edgerton Park, and Ontario Beach Park. Most of the city's parks lie on the Genesee River and can be accessed by the Genesee Riverway Trail, which runs for its entire length through the city.
Government and politics
Rochester is governed by a mayor serving as chief executive of city government and a city council consisting of four district members and five at-large members. Rochester has a Strong mayor-council form of government. Mayor Malik Evans was sworn in as mayor at midnight on January 1, 2022.
The city's police department is the Rochester Police Department.
Neighborhood Service Centers
Enforcement of property code violations in Rochester had been handled by the Neighborhood Empowerment Team (NET). Rather than using a centralized code-enforcement office, 10 sectors in Rochester were assigned a total of six NET offices by the city government. However, complaints have been made about the lack of consistency in the manner and severity of enforcement between NET offices. On July 16, 2008, the city announced two of the NET offices would be closed and another relocated, due to what it had found to be the high cost and low value of operating the decentralized network. Following the restructuring, the remaining offices were renamed Neighborhood Service Centers. Now, one office per city quadrant helps resolve quality-of-life issues, works with neighborhood groups, and paves the way for appropriate housing and economic development. Most code enforcement processes were consolidated into the Bureau of Inspection and Compliance within the Department of Neighborhood and Business Development located centrally in City Hall.
Federal representation
The city is covered by New York's 25th congressional district currently represented by Democrat Joe Morelle of Irondequoit, Monroe County, in Congress. From 1987 until 2018, the city was represented by longtime Democrat Louise M. Slaughter of Fairport, Monroe County, in Congress.
State representation
After redistricting based on the 2010 United States census, the city was split between three state senate districts:
After redistricting based on the 2010 census, Monroe County was split between three state assembly districts:
Courts
Rochester is part of the 7th Judicial District of the New York Supreme Court and the 4th Department of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.
Rochester City Court
Rochester City Court consists of ten full-time judges, each of whom is elected to a 10-year term by the citizens of the City of Rochester. Created in 1876, the Court was initially named the "Municipal Court of the City of Rochester" and had two judges. Originally, city courts throughout the state were self-regulating, and prescribed their own rules of procedure and bounds of jurisdiction. Rochester City Court was governed by the Rochester City Court Act, which was a part of the Charter of the City of Rochester. In 1935, Judge Jacob Gitelman introduced weekend sentencing. He was the first judge in New York State to do so. In 1964, the New York State Constitution was amended to require uniform jurisdiction, practice, and procedure for the city courts, to be regulated by the state legislature. The court's first African-American judge, Reuben K. Davis, was appointed to the city court bench in March 1967.
In the 1980s, the court heard cases involving the prosecution of the "Topfree Seven," women who intentionally bared their chests once a year in order to protest the criminalization of female nudity. Judge Herman J. Walz ruled that the women could not be prosecuted under New York's public nudity statute because their act of going topless in order to protest the law was imbued with First Amendment protections. The decision was later affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. By 1995, Rochester City Court had eight judges. A ninth was added in 2001. The Court was brought to its current complement of ten judges in 2014
In New York State, the 61 city courts outside of New York City handle the arraignment of felonies, try misdemeanors and lesser offenses, and try civil lawsuits involving claims of up to $15,000. Rochester City Court also hears small claims matters up to $5,000. Rules of practice and procedure within all city courts are prescribed by the Uniform City Court Act. Rochester City Court, like all city courts, follows the individual assignment system ("IAS"). This means that each case is assigned to a judge when the case is first initiated, and, with a few exceptions, stays under the supervision of that particular judge until the case is resolved. The New York State Unified Court System is a unified state court system that functions under the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals who is the Chief Judge of New York. All city courts throughout the state are part of the Unified Court System.
Each judge must be a city resident and must have been an attorney in New York for at least five years. Judges have a mandatory retirement age of 70. Vacancies on the court are filled by the mayor, and judges so appointed must run for a full term at the next general election.
County representation
Rochester is represented by districts 7, 16, and 21–29 in the Monroe County legislature (a 29-seat body with legislators elected to two-year terms). Rochester is also under the jurisdiction of the county executive (currently Democrat Adam Bello) along with the rest of Monroe County. The District Attorney is also elected at the county level along with several other offices (such as Sheriff and Clerk) which in part govern the city.
Politics
Historical
Rochester has played an important role in both regional and national politics at various points over the past 150 years, particularly as a hub for American Progressivism and sweeping social and cultural movements. It was one of the key centers of abolitionism and a top destination for freed and escaped slaves, most notably Frederick Douglass, who settled in Rochester and did most of his work and writings there, including publishing The North Star. Many other prominent abolitionists hailed from and/or operated in the area, such as Thomas James, Austin Stewart and many others.
Around the same time, Rochester and the wider Finger Lakes region was the birthplace of the women's suffrage movement. A critical suffragettes' convention was held in 1848 in nearby Seneca Falls, and Rochester was the home base of Susan B. Anthony along with other notable Suffragettes like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abigail Bush and Amy Post. The city itself played host to the Rochester Women's Rights Convention in 1848.
The dawn of the 20th century in Rochester saw rapid growth, driven in large part by waves of immigrants arriving from Ireland, Italy, Poland and elsewhere which, as in other American cities, had a major impact on the political landscape. The surge in new arrivals, along with increased industrialization resulted in the city becoming a hotbed of labor activism. From the 1920s and continuing into the post-war era Rochester grew into a power center for newly formed industrial unions, which steadily began accumulating influence within local and state government. It was only one of a very few American cities where the labor movement was powerful enough to mount a successful general strike when in 1946 when an estimated 50,000 workers across multiple sectors walked off in support of hundreds of city employees fired for attempting to unionize. After that point local unions played a decisive role in area politics, primarily by partnering with the area Democratic Party.
Later, Rochester saw the arrival of a great many black southerners as part of the Great Migration and large numbers of Hispanics, primarily from Puerto Rico. This coincided with White flight, leading to dramatic changes in the social, cultural and demographic makeup of Rochester. Racism, Segregation, Redlining and similar problems caused a great deal of racial tension and resentment, culminating in the 1964 Rochester race riot and the subsequent participation of the city's black community in the national Civil rights movement.
Current
The demographic makeup of Metro Rochester continues to impact the area's modern day political situation with poorer blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans heavily concentrated either within the city proper or a few inner-ring suburbs and wealthier white residents predominantly in the suburbs. Like in many other large American cities, the city government has traditionally been dominated by the Democratic Party whereas the suburbs have reliably voted for Republican officials at the local and state level. In recent decades the result of this has almost always been Democratic control of city government, Republican control of county government and Rochester's state senate seats and Democratic control of Rochester's primary congressional district, with a similar overall pattern in area state assembly districts. Fusion voting has allowed several third parties to have some impact on the local and state level; the Working Families Party plays a role particularly in city politics, and the Conservative Party endorses candidates primarily in the suburbs.
In recent years, the urban area's traditional partisan dynamic appears to have begun shifting in the Democratic Party's favor. A Democrat won the 2017 race for county sheriff for the first time in decades, in 2019 Democrat Adam Bello was elected county executive after over 30 years of Republican control, in 2020 democrats Samra Brouk and Jeremy Cooney flipped state senate districts long held by the GOP, and the traditionally Republican county legislature is now split 15–14. This matches a broader national trend of increased Democratic success in suburban areas.
Fire department
Rochester is protected by about 500 professional firefighters in the Rochester Fire Department (RFD). It is the third-largest fire department in the state of New York. It operates from 16 fire stations throughout the city, under the command of two battalion chiefs and a deputy chief per shift. The department operates 13 engines, six ladders, one heavy rescue, two hazardous material units, a fireboat, and a salvage unit (Rochester Protectives), as well as many other special and support units. Usually, 87 front-line members work each shift, including chief officers and fire investigation (not including staff divisions such as Fire Safety, the Training Academy, and Supply Depot). RFD responds to around 40,000 emergency calls annually. Around 90% of RFD personnel are certified NY State EMTs and roughly 50% of the calls each year are for EMS. The RFD also operates its own apparatus repair division at the Public Safety Training Facility. The chief of department is Willie Jackson.
Education
The City of Rochester is served by the Rochester City School District, which encompasses all public primary and secondary education. The district is governed by a popularly elected seven-member board of education. Also, parochial and private primary and secondary schools are located within the city. Rochester City Schools consistently post below-average results when compared to the rest of New York, although on-time graduation rates have improved significantly during the past three years. However, the high-school graduation rate for African-American males is lower in Rochester than in any city in the United States (9%). Rochester also offers 15 free public charter schools with 26 locations serving students K–12.
Colleges and universities
Rochester and the surrounding region host a high concentration of colleges and universities, which drive much of the economic growth in the five-county area. The University of Rochester is the only large research institution primarily within the city limits, although Monroe Community College and SUNY Brockport operate campuses downtown. The Highland Park neighborhood was home to Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (part of whose facility is leased by Ithaca College's Department of Physical Therapy) and an office maintained by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
The University of Rochester is the metropolitan area's oldest and most prominent institution of higher learning, and one of the country's top research centers. It was ranked as the 34th-best university in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 2021 and was deemed "one of the new Ivies" by Newsweek. The nursing school has received many awards and honors and the Simon School of Business is also ranked in the top 30 in many categories. The university is also home to the Eastman School of Music, which was ranked the number-one music school in America. It was founded and endowed by George Eastman in his years as a philanthropist. He also contributed greatly to the University of Rochester from wealth based on the success of Eastman Kodak.
Five institutions began operations in the city and later moved to Rochester's inner-ring suburbs: the Empire State College Rochester Learning Center, Monroe Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry and Nazareth College. Rochester was the host of the Barleywood Female University, a short-lived women's college from 1852 to 1853. The Lutheran seminary that became Wagner College was established in the city in 1883 and remained for some 35 years before moving to Staten Island.
Secondary education
The Rochester City School District operates 14 public secondary schools, each serving grades 7 through 12.
Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence (7–8)
East Lower School (6–8)
East Upper School (9–12)
Edison Career & Technology High School (9–12)
Franklin Lower School (7–8)
Franklin Upper School (9–12)
James Monroe Lower School (7–8)
James Monroe Upper School (9–12)
Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School (9–12)
Northeast College Preparatory High School (9–12)
Northwest Junior High at Douglass (7–8
Rochester Early College International High School (9–12)
School of the Arts (7–12)
School Without Walls (9–12)
Rochester is home to a number of charter schools, serving grades Kindergarten through 12.
Other private schools include McQuaid Jesuit High School, Aquinas Institute and Bishop Kearny High School.
Media
The Democrat and Chronicle, a Gannett newspaper, is Rochester's main daily newspaper. There are numerous other publications and magazines that cater to many of the city's different people groups or special interests such as Insider magazine, City Newspaper, Rochester Business Journal, and the Minority Reporter. Former publications serving the city include the Rochester Post Express and Rochester Evening Journal. Rochester is also served by several local television and radio stations, with WROC-TV as the oldest television station serving the Rochester metro area.
Several movies have been filmed at least in part in Rochester, including The Amazing Spiderman 2 (2014), The Tomorrow Man (2019), and Wonder Boys (2000).
Transportation
Maritime
There is marine freight service at the Port of Rochester on Lake Ontario, which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
A short-lived, high-speed passenger/vehicle ferry Spirit of Ontario I built in Australia, nicknamed The Breeze or The Fast Ferry, linked Rochester to Toronto across Lake Ontario. Canadian American Transportation Systems (CATS) was the company in charge of the Fast Ferry operations. The Spirit of Ontario I had a delayed arrival on April 29, 2004, as a result of hitting a pier in New York City on April 5, 2004, and was finally officially christened on June 16, 2004, at the Port of Rochester. The Fast Ferry was bought by the City of Rochester in an attempt to save the project. The Fast Ferry operated between June 17, 2004, and December 12, 2005, and cost the city $42.5 million. The project was initially well received by the inhabitants of Rochester.
Considerable effort was spent by inhabitants of Rochester to build up the waterfront to embrace the idea as well as to capitalize on potential tourism which was estimated to be an additional 75,000 tourists per month. In the first three months of operation, the fast ferry had carried about 140,000 people between Rochester and Toronto. A second Fast Ferry was proposed by CATS on August 27, 2004, which would have cost an additional $100 million. There were a number of problems concerning the ship's engine, the lack of mutual building up of waterfronts in Toronto and the inability of the city to put pressure on the company responsible for the production of the Fast Ferry. This resulted in the failure of the project. It was sold to Förde Reederei Seetouristik, a German company, for $30 million.
Air
Rochester is served by the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport (GRIA). Scheduled air service is provided by American, Allegiant, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, and United.
In 2010, the GRIA was ranked the 14th-least expensive airport in the United States by Cheapflights. This was considered a major achievement for the county and the airport authority; as recently as 2003, Rochester's ticket prices were among the highest in the country, ranking as high as fourth in 1999.
FedEx founder Fred Smith has stated in several articles that Xerox's development of the copier, and its need to quickly get parts to customers, was one of the economic issues that led him to pioneer the overnight delivery business in 1971. Because Xerox manufactured its copiers in Rochester, the city was one of the original 25 cities FedEx served on its first night of operations on April 17, 1973.
In 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $63.4 million project to renovate the GRIA. The renovations include a large canopy extending over both main entrances, solar panels, a rainwater collection system, and modern communication and security enhancements. All construction was completed by October 2018.
Rails and mass transit
Rail service to Rochester is provided by the Louise M. Slaughter Rochester Station, served by Amtrak's Empire Service between New York City and Niagara Falls, the Maple Leaf between New York City and Toronto, and the Lake Shore Limited between New York City/Boston and Chicago. Prior to 1965, Rochester had a smaller station reminiscent of New York City's "Grand Central Terminal". It was among Claude Fayette Bragdon's best works in Rochester, New York. The current station is modeled after Bragdon's work and named in honor of former longtime congresswomen Louise Slaughter.
Rochester used to be a major stop on several railroad lines. The New York Central Railroad provided service to Chicago and Buffalo to the west and Albany and New York City to the east and southeast. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway (absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) served Buffalo and Pittsburgh until 1955. A rail route to Salamanca in southern New York State afforded connections in Salamanca to southwestern and southeastern New York State. The last long-distance train was the Northern Express/Southern Express, operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad, that went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania via Canandaigua, Elmira and Williamsport; service ended in 1971. Also serving Rochester were the Erie Railroad and Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Amtrak (passenger) and freight lines provide rail service to Rochester. Rochester has intercity and transcontinental bus service via Greyhound and Trailways.
Local bus service in Rochester and its county suburbs is provided by the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) via its Regional Transit Service (RTS) subsidiary. RTS also provides suburban service outside the immediate Rochester area and runs smaller transportation systems in outlying counties, such as WATS (Wayne Area Transportation System). All RTS routes are based out of the RTS Transit Center on Mortimer Street.
From 1927 to 1956, Rochester had a light rail underground transit system called the Rochester Subway. It was the smallest city in the world to have one. The subway, which was operated by the Rochester Transit Corporation, was shut down in 1956. The eastern half of the subway past Court Street became the Eastern Expressway with the western end of the open cut being filled in 1976. The tunnel was last used for freight service by Gannett Company to bring paper to the printing presses for the Democrat and Chronicle in 1997. Over the years there have been privately sponsored proposals put forth that encourage the region to support a new system, possibly using some of the old tunnel. One includes converting the Broad Street bridge tunnel—the former canal aqueduct—into an enhanced pedestrian corridor, which would also include a Rochester Transportation Museum, and a tram system.
The former canal and subway tunnel have become a frequent source of debate. Homeless people trespass in the tunnels. The city has considered multiple solutions for the space including recreating a canal way, putting the subway system back in or filling the tunnels entirely. The plan to fill the tunnels in completely generated criticism, as the cost of filling would not generate or leverage economic development. The western end of the tunnel was filled in to the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad turnout in 2010 as part of a redevelopment of the above street and the eastern end of the tunnel is undergoing redevelopment. The Broad Street aqueduct and most famous part of the tunnel is on the National Register of Historic Places being added in 1976.
Major highways and roads
Three exits off the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) serve Rochester. Rochester's expressway system, conceived in the 1950s, was designed as two concentric circles with feeder expressways from the west, south and east. The system allows for quick travel within the metropolitan area and a lack of the traffic gridlock typically found in cities of comparable size; in part this is because the system was designed to accommodate rapid travel between the suburbs and downtown, and also because it was built when the city's population was over 330,000, whereas today it is a full third less.
The Outer Loop circles just outside the city limits while the former Inner Loop once circled around the immediate downtown area within the city (the easternmost sector was closed in 2015). From the west are Lake Ontario State Parkway, NY-531 and I-490; Interstate 390 feeds from the south; and NY-104, NY-441, and I-490 approach from the east.
In the early 1970s, the Genesee Expressway Task Force, City leaders, and NYSDOT studied the feasibility of connecting the outer and inner Loops with a new southern expressway. The proposed route extended north from the I-390 and I-590 interchange in Brighton, cutting through Rochester's Swillburg neighborhood. In 1972, consultants Berger Lehman Associates recommended a new 'Busway', an expressway with dedicated bus lanes, similar to Bus Rapid Transit. The expressway extension was never built. In 2016, the City of Rochester launched the Pace Car Program. "Pace Car drivers sign a pledge to drive within the speed limit, drive courteously, yield to pedestrians and be mindful of bicyclists and others on the street."
Interstate 390 (Genesee Expressway)
I-390 runs south–north, crossing I-90 (exit 46) and routing north through Rochester's western suburbs. Its northern end is at I-490, however, it continues north as NY-390 until it merges into the Lake Ontario State Parkway. South of I-90, I-390 runs to Avoca, where it meets with U.S. Route 15 and the Southern Tier Expressway, I-86.
Interstate 490 (Western/Eastern Expressway)
I-490 runs west–east through Rochester, starting at Le Roy and ending in Victor. It interchanges with the two other Interstates in Rochester: I-390 at the western city limit and I-590 at the eastern limit, as well as connecting at both ends with the Thruway, I-90 (exits 47 and 45). In July 2007, a new bridge over the Genesee River was completed and named the Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge.
Interstate 590
I-590 runs south–north through Rochester's eastern suburbs. Its southern end is at I-390, while the northern terminus is at I-490; the highway continues north to the shore of Lake Ontario as NY-590.
In decreasing usage is the term "Can of Worms", referring to the previously dangerous at-grade intersection of Interstate 490 and expressway NY-590 on the eastern edge of the Rochester city limits, bordering the suburb of Brighton. In the 1980s, a multimillion-dollar project created a system of overpasses and ramps that reduced the danger but resulted in the loss of certain exits.
New York State Route 104 (Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway, West Ridge Road)
NY 104 – Just east of the NY 590 interchange, NY 104 becomes the Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway and crosses the Irondequoit Bay Bridge. On the other side of the Bay Bridge, in the town of Webster, NY 104 has exits before returning to an at-grade highway at Basket Road.
New York State Route 390
NY 390 is an extension of Interstate 390 from the I-390/I-490 interchange in Gates. The northern terminus is at the Lake Ontario State Parkway in Greece, less than a mile from the Lake Ontario shoreline.
New York State Route 590
NY 590 is a limited-access extension of Interstate 590 that runs from an interchange between Interstate 490 and I-590 on the Brighton/Rochester border. The northern terminus is at Culver Road in Irondequoit, near Sea Breeze (the western shore of Irondequoit Bay at Lake Ontario).
Inner Loop
The Inner Loop Runs from Interstate 490 to Main Street on the north end and from 490 to Monroe Avenue at the south end. Formerly a loop, the eastern end was demolished and replaced with a surface road between 2014 and 2017. Unsigned reference New York State Route 940T begins and ends at Interstate 490, and the rest of the Loop is part of I-490 between exits 13 and 15, including the Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge. This expressway is commonly used to define the borders of downtown Rochester.
Lake Ontario State Parkway
Lake Ontario State Parkway travels from Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton, Orleans County. The eastern end is at Lake Avenue in the city of Rochester in Monroe County.
Notable people
See List of people from Rochester, New York
Notable individuals who were born in or lived in Rochester include American social reformer and women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony, African-American social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and Kodak founder George Eastman.
Sister cities
Rochester has twelve sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International. They are all dedicated by a branched concrete walkway over the Genesee River, dubbed the Sister Cities Bridge (known as the Frank and Janet Lamb Bridge since October 2006):
Rochester's sister cities are:
Rennes, France (1958)
Würzburg, Germany (1964)
Caltanissetta, Italy (1965)
Rehovot, Israel (1972)
Kraków, Poland (1973)
Bamako, Mali (1975)
Waterford, Ireland (1983)
Veliky Novgorod, Russia (1990)
Hamamatsu, Japan (1996)
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic (1997)
Xianyang, China (2007)
Alytus, Lithuania (2009)
See also
USS Rochester, 3 ships
Notes
References
Further reading
Keene, Michael. Folklore and Legends of Rochester: The Mystery of Hoodoo Corner and Other Tales (2011) excerpt and text search
McKelvey, Blake. Rochester on the Genesee: The Growth of a City (1993) excerpt and text search; 292 pp; a brief history by the leading specialist
External links
Greater Rochester Visitors Association
Cities in Monroe County, New York
Cities in New York (state)
Cities in Rochester metropolitan area, New York
County seats in New York (state)
New York (state) populated places on the Genesee River
Populated places established in the 1810s
Populated places on Lake Ontario in the United States
Ukrainian communities in the United States
History of Christianity in the United States
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Carol S. Pearson is an American author and educator. She develops new theories and models with an applied practical bent, building on the work of psychiatrist C. G. Jung, psychoanalyst James Hillman, mythologist Joseph Campbell, and other depth psychologists.
Pearson is best known as the author of The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (1986, 1989, 1998), which was a HarperSanFrancisco best-seller, followed by the more expansive Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World (1991). With the assistance of Hugh Marr, she co-created the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator (PMAI), published by the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), to help people better understand their motivations, their unconscious assumptions, and the narratives they think, tell, and live.
Her most recent book, Persephone Rising: Awakening The Heroine Within, published in October 2015, bridges the genres of depth psychology, myth scholarship, and memoir. It draws on archetypal stories from an ancient Greek mystery religion as a guide to thriving today in a world in flux. It concludes with an analysis of narrative intelligence as an important aspect of emotional intelligence that also builds cognitive complexity. In April 2016, Persephone Rising received a gold medal from the Nautilus Book Awards in the category of books for women.
In addition to such books written for the general public, Pearson has made contributions to the fields of education, marketing and branding, organizational development, and leadership through publications such as Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, co-editors, Donna L. Shavlik and Judith G. Touchton (1989); The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes, co-author, Margaret Mark (2001); Mapping the Organizational Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change, co-author, John G. Corlett (2004); and The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century (2012).
She designed the Organizational and Team Culture Indicator, also published by CAPT, to help organizational development and human resource professionals and marketers understand organizational cultures. Kenexa, a global human resources company, bought the OTCI instrument from CAPT. IBM later acquired Kenexa and translated the instrument for global use. It is now known as the IBM Kenexa Organizational Cultural Insight Survey.
Early life and education
Pearson was born in Chicago in 1944, the eldest child of Thelma (Widman) and John A. Pearson. At the age of two, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas, where she attended public schools and later Rice University, from which she received a BA (1966), MA, (1968), and PhD (1970). She has one younger sibling, John Douglas Pearson. She is married to David R. Merkowitz, a political and public affairs consultant, and has two step-children, Jeffrey Merkowitz, who works at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Stephen Merkowitz, a gravitational physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a daughter, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, a political science professor at the University of Rhode Island, as well as six grandchildren.
Pearson began her study of archetypal theory and narrative intelligence in the English Department at Rice University, which emphasized the myth/symbol school of literary studies. Later in her career, she earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wisdom University (2012), a graduate school originally called the University of Creation Spirituality and now part of Ubiquity University, that explores the progressive mystic traditions in religions throughout the world. She also holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Norwich University.
Academic career
Pearson's academic career began with a series of faculty positions in the 1970s. First hired as an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado, she was selected as the founding director of the CU Women Studies Program and was instrumental in developing Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, one of the earliest academic journals in the field. She subsequently was recruited to be the first director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she negotiated to bring the offices of the National Women's Studies Association and the journal Feminist Studies to the campus.
During her tenure at UMD, Pearson was selected to be a fellow in the American Council on Education Fellows Program, the nation's premier higher education leadership development program. She spent her fellowship year at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, working with the chancellor of the university and other senior administrators. Upon returning to UMD, she accepted an invitation to spend part of her time as a visiting scholar at the American Council on Education’s Center for Leadership Development. She also worked with ACE's Office of Women in Higher Education to develop “The New Agenda of Women for Higher Education.”
As Pearson moved into leadership positions, she began to explore leadership studies scholarship. She worked at two women's colleges, serving first as vice president for Academic Affairs and Dean of Goucher College in Towson, MD, and later as Dean of the Mount Vernon Institute at Mount Vernon College in Washington, DC. From 1998 to 2005, Pearson was Senior Editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice, published bi-monthly by InnoVision Communications, and then the Director of the Transformational Leadership Certificate Program at the Center for Professional Development at Georgetown University. During this period, she also was President of Meristem, a nonprofit education and training organization.
From 2005 to 2009, Pearson served as Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. The academy incubated the International Leadership Association, of which she was a member of the board of directors. She also co-led a Leadership for Transformation project, out of which grew her edited volume The Transforming Leader, which was honored by the International Leadership Association at its 2014 global conference for making a significant contribution to the field.
In 2009, Pearson left UMD to take a position as Executive Vice President and Provost at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California, later becoming the school's president. Pacifica offers graduate degrees in Jungian and archetypal studies, psychology, mythology, and several other fields. Since leaving Pacifica in 2013, Pearson has continued to write, teach, consult, and lead workshops, but has retired from academic leadership.
Pearson's current interests have expanded from exploring archetypes in organizations and individuals to their role in social systems. In 2009, she wrote a monograph for the Fetzer Institute, called Maturing the American Dream, which identified archetypes in U.S. culture and their likely implications for the future. Most recently, Pearson’s blogs and other social media communications have explored the interface between archetypal patterns in individuals and larger social groups as well as more general philosophical and psycho-spiritual issues.
Primary publications
Persephone Rising: Awakening The Heroine Within, San Francisco; HarperElixir, 2015. ()
The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, Oakland; Berrett-Koehler, 2012. ()
Maturing the American Dream, Fetzer Institute, 2009.
Mapping the Organizational Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change, co-author, John G. Corlett, Gainesville, FL; Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), 2004. ()
The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes, co-author, Margaret Mark, New York; McGraw-Hill Education, 2001. ()
Magic at Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership, and Everyday Miracles, co-author, Sharon Seivert, New York; Doubleday, 1995. ()
Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes To Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World, San Francisco; HarperElixer, 1991. ()
Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, co-editors, Donna L. Shavlik and Judith G. Touchton, Washington D.C.; American Council on Education, 1989. ()
The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By San Francisco; HarperElixer, 1986. ()
The Female Hero in American and British Literature, New Providence; R.R. Bowker, 1981. ()
Who Am I This Time? Female Portraits in British and American Literature, co-editor, Katherine Pope, New York; McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1976. ()
Instruments
Introduction to Archetypes: The Guide to Interpreting Results from the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator Instrument™, co-author, Hugh Marr, Gainesville, FL; Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), 2002. ()
PMAI Manual: A Guide for Interpreting the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator Instrument, co-author, Hugh Marr, Gainesville, FL; Center for Application of Psychological Type (CAPT), 2003. ()
What Story Are You Living? A Guide to Interpreting Your PMAI Instrument Results, co-author, Hugh Marr, Gainesville, FL; Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), 2006. ()
References
External links
Official website
Living people
American educators
21st-century American psychologists
Rice University alumni
Analytical psychology
Interfaith dialogue
Leadership studies
Literary archetypes
1944 births
20th-century American psychologists
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The following is a list of notable people from Karlovac and the geographical area of present-day Karlovac County.
Artists, musicians and actors
Zrinka Cvitešić (born 1979), theater, film and television actress.
Darko Domijan (born 1952), pop singer.
Zvonimír Eichler (1903–1975), painter.
Vjekoslav Karas (1821–1858), 19th-century painter.
Tomislav Krizman (1882–1955), painter, graphic artist, costume and set designer.
Alfred Krupa Sr. (1915–1989), Silesia born painter, inventor and sportsman.
John Malkovich (born 1953), actor whose paternal grandparents were from Ozalj.
Carla Martinis (1922–2010), soprano.
Boris Mutić (1939–2009), sports journalist and television commentator.
Vladimir Pogačić (1919–1999), film director.
Barbara Radulović (born 1982), TV host.
Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), painter.
Božidar Širola (1889–1956), composer, musicologist.
Dejan Šorak (born 1954), film director.
Miroslav Šutej (1936–2005), designer.
Authors
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), writer.
Ulderiko Donadini (1894–1923), novelist, dramatist, short story writer.
Karl Felix Wolff (1879–1966), journalist, poet, author and self-taught folklorist.
Dragojla Jarnević (1812–1874), writer and poet.
Juraj Križanić (1618–1683), writer, earliest recorded pan-slavist.
Irena Lukšić (1953–2019), writer and translator.
Military leaders
Edgar Angeli (1892–1945), rear admiral.
Anton Csorich (1795–1864), nobleman and general.
Ivan Gošnjak (1909–1980), general, secretary of defence of Yugoslavia.
Roza Miletić (born 1934), veteran of Croatian war of Independence.
Pavao Miljavac (born 1953), army general.
Omar Pasha (1806–1871), field marshal.
Petar Stipetić (1937–2018), general.
Musicians
Davor Gobac (born 1964), singer of the group Psihomodo pop.
Ema Pukšec (1834–1889), soprano opera singer.
Ana Vidović (born 1980), Silvije Vidović and Viktor Vidović (1973), academic musicians.
Viktor Vidović (born 1973), guitarist.
Politicians
Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 1967), politician.
Ivan Banjavčić (1843–1913), mayor of Karlovac.
Josip Boljkovac (1920–2014), politician, Minister of the Interior.
Nikolina Brnjac (born 1978), politician, Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Croatia.
Većeslav Holjevac (1917–1970), mayor of Zagreb.
Daniel Ivin (1932–2021), politician, activist, writer.
Fran Krsto Frankopan (1643–1671), politician, nobleman and writer.
Josip Kregar (1953–2020), politician, Mayor of Zagreb.
Miroslav Lazanski (1950–2021), military analyst, politician and a diplomat, ambassador of Serbia to Russia.
Miodrag Linta (born 1969), politician and activist.
Blaž Lorković (1839–1892), economist, lawyer.
Ivan Mažuranić (1814–1890), poet, linguist and politician.
Ivan Ribar (1881–1968), politician.
Ivan Šubašić (1892–1955), politician, last Ban of Croatia.
Ivan Vilibor Sinčić (born 1990), President of the Living Wall.
Branko Vukelić (1958–2013), politician, 11th Minister of Defence of Croatia.
Nikola Vuljanić (born 1949), politician, member of the European Parliament for Croatia.
Historians, intellectuals, scientists
Vladimir Goldner (1933–2017), physician and professor.
Ljudevit Jonke (1907–1979), linguist.
Božidar Liščić (born 1929), engineer, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Radoslav Lopašić (1835–1893), historian.
Gojko Nikoliš (1911–1995), physician and historian.
Anđelko Milardović (born 1956), political scientist.
Sava Mrkalj (1783–1833), linguist, grammarian, philologist, poet.
Gajo Petrović (1927–1993), author and philosopher.
Elza Polak (1910–1995), horticulturist.
Ivo Protulipac, physician, a lawyer, and an important Catholic activist.
Vanja Sutlić (1925–1989), philosopher.
Živko Vrcelj (born 1959), doctor and politicians.
Athletes
Boris Batinić (born 1981), handball player.
Bill Belichick (born 1952) and Steve Belichick (1919–2005) football coaches born in the U.S., whose ancestors were from near Karlovac
Dražen Bolić (born 1971), footballer player.
Goran Bunjevčević (1973–2018), footballer player.
Mirko Bunjevčević (born 1978), footballer player.
Damir Čavlović (born 1952), handball player.
Luka Cindrić (born 1993), handball player.
Borislav Cvetković (born 1964), Yugoslav footballer player.
Zvjezdan Cvetković (1960–2017), footballer manager and player.
Miloš Hrstić (born 1955), former footballer for HNK Rijeka and Yugoslavia's national team.
Nikolina Ilijanić (born 1983), basketball player.
Dejan Jakovic (born 1985), Canadian soccer player.
Marko Jakšić (born 1987), footballer defender and player.
Rajko Janjanin (born 1957), footballer player.
Tihomir Jarnjević (born 1978), rower.
Peter Kokotowitsch (1890–1968), wrestler.
Branko Kokir (born 1974), handball player.
Simeon Kosanović (born 1933), former basketball and handball player.
Željko Kosanović (born 1934), former basketball and handball player.
Nikola Krajinović (born 1999), footballer player.
Josip Krznarić (born 1993), footballer player.
Jurica Lakić (1953–1982), handball player who played for RK Zamet and Yugoslavia's national team.
Adrijana Lekaj (born 1995), tennis player.
Elvis Letaj (born 2003), footballer player.
Kristijan Lovrić (born 1955), footballer player.
Dino Martinović (born 1990), footballer player.
Snježana Mijić (born 1971), volleyball player.
Boris Mutić (1939–2009), sports reporter, working for Croatian national television (HRT).
Milan Neralić (1875–1918), fencer, won a bronze medal at the Olympics
Igor Novaković (born 1979), footballer midfielder.
Sandro Obranović (born 1992), handball player.
Vladimir Ostarčević (born 1982), handball player.
Ante Pavić (born 1989), tennis player.
Jelica Pavličić-Štefančić (born 1954), athlete, multiple champion of Yugoslavia in the 100m, 200m and 400m; 400 m world record holder.
Dražen Perković (born 1963), taekwondo practitioner.
Željko Perušić (1936–2017), footballer player who played for Dinamo Zagreb and Yugoslavia.
Predrag Počuča (born 1986), footballer player.
Jelena Popović (born 1984), handball player.
Krešimir Račić (1932–1994), hammer thrower.
Milan Šašić (born 1958), footballer manager and player.
Antun Stipančić (1949–1991), table tennis player.
Tin Vukmanić (born 1999), footballer player.
Dragomir Vukobratović (born 1988), footballer player.
Religion
Mile Bogović (1939–2020), titular bishop of Tamata and diocesan bishop of Gospić-Senj.
Branko Dobrosavljević (1886–1941), Serbian Orthodox priest killed during ethnic cleansing in WW2.
Maksimilijan Vrhovac (1752–1827), Bishop of Zagreb.
Other
Jelka Glumičić (1941–2020). activist.
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan (1871 – 20th century) (1875–1936), explorers.
Ilona Zrínyi (1643–1707), daughter of Petar Zrinski.
Katarina Zrinska (1625–1673), influential woman from the Frankopan family.
References
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Large View of Prague from Petrin is an etching by Vaclav Hollar consisting of three sheets (collectively which have dimensions of 28 x 113.5 cm).
Description
In the Hollar catalog prints placed under number P880 (a-c). The etching was published in Antwerp in 1649 and was inserted into Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae (Topographia Germaniae), published 1650. He left shortly after to create another perspective, his great view of London in 1647. On the middle sheet is a legend with a signature where Hollar says that the etching was based on drawings, taken in 1636. In 1636 with his new patron, Thomas Howard, he returned briefly from German lands to Prague and then went to England. It is believed that the artwork is preserved and is now in the possession of the National Gallery in Prague.
The view is captured from a vantage point on Petrin (Mount St. Lawrence) and Prague is captured from Hradcany after Vysehrad, left, which form the framework of a ruin (with a view of Strahov), then right wall. Of Prague (Prague Castle, Lesser Town, Old Town and New Town) are described above them are urban captions (in the middle of the sheet is still German and Czech characters). In addition, there are some important places (buildings) described with twenty locations marked with numbers and described in the legend (descriptions are Czech, Latin and German).
Importance
Hollar's view can be compared with two great views of the 17th century, Sadelerovým prospect, which drew on own view Filip van den Bosch, and in 1606 published a prospect by Aegidius Sadeler and Folperta van Ouden Allen from 1685.
Hollar approached the problem realistically, while the two booklets mentioned came from Veduta tradition and captured an idealized Prague and especially from above. Now Hollar captured the perspective of the actual space required, changed the view of Petrin Hill and at the same time he managed to capture "the real picture of the city with its scenic relief and unique atmosphere".
References
Sources
Lazarová, Markéta a Lukas, Jiří. Praha: obraz města v 16. a 17. století: soupis grafických pohledů = Prague: picture of the town in the 16th and 17th centuries: list of views on graphic art pieces = Prag: Stadtbild im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert: Verzeichnis graphischer Ansichten. Praha: Argo, 2002. .
Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607–1677. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. .
Volrábová, Alena, ed. a Brixová, Michaela. Václav Hollar 1607-1677 a Evropa mezi životem a zmarem: [Národní galerie v Praze - Sbírka grafiky a kresby, Sbírka starého umění: Palác Kinských, 12.10.2007-14.1.2008]. V Praze: Národní galerie, 2007. 370 s. ., s. 232–233.
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David Craighead (March 8, 1931 – January 19, 2016) was a Romanian-American politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 95th district of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Life and career
Craighead was born in Galați in Romania. He attended Baylor University.
Craighead served in the army during the Korean conflict. He was a columnist and newspaper reporter for newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas.
In 1973, Craighead was elected to represent the 95th district of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, succeeding A. J. Clemons. He served until 1989, when he was succeeded by Jim Isaac.
Craighead died in January 2016, at the age of 84.
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Joel Bernard (born December 8, 1963) is a Canadian conservative politician.
Political career
Provincial
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, representing Nepisiguit, in the general election of 1999 and became deputy speaker of the Legislature. He was defeated in his bid for a second term in the 2003 election by former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Frank Branch. Branch had represented the area from 1970 to 1995, when he retired and did not seek re-election.
Bernard was one of several defeated Progressive Conservative MLAs who were appointed to government positions by Premier Bernard Lord following their defeat in the 2003 election. These appointments were widely criticized as excessive patronage by the media and the opposition Liberals.
Bernard had been appointed to oversee and economic development fund for the Restigouche-Baie des Chaleurs region. He took a leave of absence from his position in March 2004 to be a Conservative candidate in the 2004 federal election.
Federal
In late April 2005, Bernard announced he would be a candidate for the Conservative nomination for the riding of Ottawa—Orléans for the next federal election. On May 16, he was defeated by Royal Galipeau, a former member of the Liberal Party of Canada, for the nomination by a margin of 174 to 126, who went on to win the seat in the election.
From 2006 to 2008, Bernard held the position of Senior Policy Advisor in the office of Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety in the new Conservative government.
In the 2008 federal election, the Conservative Party brought Bernard to Nova Scotia to run against Conservative-turned-Independent Bill Casey in the riding of Cumberland–Colchester–Musquodoboit Valley. On election night, Casey was re-elected by over 22,000 votes, with Bernard finishing third, polling just under 9%.
Bernard was the Senior Policy Advisor for aerospace, procurements, industrial regional benefits and the auto file to Tony Clement, Minister of Industry Canada, until he left the position in 2010. Since then, he has held several positions of Senior Policy Advisor for Fisheries & Oceans Canada, International Development and La francophonie. He is presently employed as a Parliamentary Affairs Advisor for Pierre Paul-Hus, the Shadow minister for Public Safety, Border Security and Emergency Preparedness and the Member of Parliament for Charlesbourg – Haute – Saint-Charles.
In March 2019, Bernard won the Ottawa—Vanier Conservative nomination contest, becoming their candidate for the 2019 federal election.
Personal life
He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife Catherine and his two children, Lilianne and Samuel. Joel's sister-in-law is the former special assistant of former Chief of Staf Nigel Wright, and later former personnel manager of the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada Monica Bernard.
Joel Bernard is an evangelical Christian.
Electoral record
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Provincial
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Up! Close and Personal is the fourth live video album by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, and produced by team composed of Dan Braun, Cliff Burnstein, Carol Donovan, McCarthy-Miller, Peter Mensch, and Marc Reiter. The concert was filmed in November 2003 at a sound stage in Nashville, Tennessee, with an audience of 300 people. When conceptualizing the show, Twain desired to make the setting intimate and perform the songs acoustically, so she turned to bluegrass band Alison Krauss and Union Station to perform backup during the concert. It was also modeled after Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special, with a similar stage and Twain being costumed by a black, leather jumpsuit. Up! Close and Personal premiered on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on November 25, 2003, and was high in ratings, being watched by over 9 million viewers in the United States.
Nearly a year later, Up! Close and Personal was released by Mercury Nashville Records, in DVD format, as a video album on November 8, 2004 to coincide with the release Twain's Greatest Hits album. The video also served as a source to audio tracks used as B-sides for the singles from Greatest Hits. Up! Close and Personal received mixed reviews from music critics (some who believed she was overshadowed by Krauss' talents, others who complimented her vocal talents) and positive commercial outcomes. It peaked at number eight on Billboards Top Music Video sales chart, and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 100,000 copies in the United States.
Background
On August 19, 2003, Twain's concert film Up! Live in Chicago premiered on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and drew in over 8.87 million viewers, therefore becoming the second-most-viewed concert film on television, behind Celine Dion's A New Day... Live in Las Vegas (2003). Following its success on television, NBC was interested again in collaborating with Twain for a second prime time special. Twain accepted the offer, but desired to deviate from high-elaboration, and perform a show much more stripped and intimate than the one filmed for Up! Live in Chicago or those included in her Up! Tour (2003–04). She explained, "I wanted to go back to something stripped-down and rootsy. I've been doing big concerts for quite a long time, and I love it, but I just want that contrast." Ergo, she turned to singer and fiddler Alison Krauss, head of the bluegrass band Alison Krauss and Union Station, whom she had collaborated with on numerous instances; Krauss and her band backed Twain in her performance of "Forever and for Always" at the 2003 CMT Music Awards, and recorded a duet with Twain for a tribute album to Dolly Parton. Twain described her decision to be completely influenced by her desire to "break the music down", and that Alison Krauss and Union Station were her only choice for the television special.
Krauss was apprehensive at first, noting drastic differences between her personal acoustic style and that of Twain. She stated, "It's so different from what we do, we didn't know what liberties we were supposed to take. Were we supposed to learn it off the record? Were we supposed to learn the themes?" She found aid in Twain's then-husband and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who told Krauss to perform the songs as if they were her own. While preparing for the show, Krauss said she found the songs very simple to learn because of their catchy melodies that could function in any musical style. While traveling on the Up! Tour, Twain decided to cover of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" (1980) for the television special. However, she edited the song's lyrics to void them of the crudeness she was not fond of singing along to as a teenager. Krauss later expressed her opposing views, saying she would have personally kept the original lyrics. The show was modeled after Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special, with a similar stage and Twain being costumed by a black, leather jumpsuit. The concert was filmed in November 2003 at a sound stage in Nashville, Tennessee to a crowd of 300 attendants. Up! Close and Personal was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, who also directed Up! Live in Chicago, and was produced by a team that consisted of Dan Braun, Cliff Burnstein, Carol Donovan, McCarthy-Miller, Peter Mensch, and Marc Reiter.
Release
The hour-long Up! Close and Personal premiered on NBC on November 25, 2003 at 9:00 P.M. EST, as part of the network's line up for Thanksgiving week. The telecast garnered over 9 million viewers in the United States, surpassing the ratings of Up! Live in Chicago. Nearly a year later, Up! Close and Personal was released by Mercury Nashville Records as a DVD on November 8, 2004 in Region 2 and on November 9, 2004 in Region 1, to coincide with the release of Twain's Greatest Hits album in the corresponding territories. The video appeared in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (4:3) and contained both 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes. Audio versions of the performances were used for single releases. The live rendition of "You're Still the One" was released as a digital download exclusively to the iTunes Store on November 9, 2004. It, along with the audio for the performance of "I'm Holdin' On to Love (To Save My Life)", was also included in the maxi single of "Party for Two" (2004). Audios for the performances of "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" and "From This Moment On" were included on the maxi single for "Don't!" (2005). And the audios of the performances of "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and "I Ain't Goin' Down" appeared on the maxi CD single for "I Ain't No Quitter" (2005).
Reception
Critical reception
Up! Close and Personal received mixed reviews from music critics. David Bianculli of New York City's Daily News wrote, "After watching Britney Spears' [Live from Las Vegas (2002)] special last week, Twain's act will seem like an exercise in restraint. It'll also seem like someone singing, rather than lip-syncing." Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant gave Up! Close & Personal a negative review. He found himself straining to hear Alison Krauss and Union Station, and asked, "And when was the last time you tuned in to a star's special to hear the background singers?" Furthermore, he would have preferred the band to duet with Twain, rather than perform backup for her. Catlin also criticized Twain's decision to model the show after Presley's '68 Comeback Special, believing she did so with far less efficiency. "Not only is she not Elvis, she's not even Alison", he concluded. Allmusic rated Up! Close and Personal three out of five stars.
Chart performance
On the week ending November 27, 2004, the video debuted at number eight on Billboards Top Music Video sales chart. In December 2004, Up! Close & Personal was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 100,000 copies in the United States. On the week ending March 21, 2005, the video entered at number ninety-eight on the German Albums Chart, its only week on the chart.
Setlist
All tracks written by Shania Twain and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, except "You Shook Me All Night Long" by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson.
Charts and certifications
Charts
Certifications
Credits and personnel
Larry Atamanuik – drums
Barry Bales – bass
Ron Block – guitar
Dan Braun – producer
Cliff Burnstein – producer
Carol Donovan – producer
Jerry Douglas – dobro
Hardy Hemphill – background vocals, percussion
Alison Krauss – background vocals, fiddle
Beth McCarthy Miller – director, producer
Peter Mensch – producer
Marc Reiter – producer
Shania Twain – performer, singer
Dan Tyminski – backing vocals, guitar, mandolin
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Gereon Karl Goldmann, OFM (25 October 1916 – 26 July 2003) was a German Franciscan priest, a World War II veteran of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, and a member of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler.
Early life
Gereon Karl Goldmann was born on 10 October 1916 in Ziegenhain (now part of Schwalmstadt, Hesse) as one of seven children of Karl Goldmann, a veterinarian, and his wife, Margarethe. After his wife's death in 1924, Karl Goldmann remarried, and the family moved to Cologne. There, Gereon Goldmann joined the Bund Neudeutschland, a Catholic youth association run by the Jesuits. The group spent time doing charitable works in the city and countryside. Often, they were engaged in vicious street battles against the Hitler Youth group. Goldmann entered a Franciscan seminary in October 1936.
Military career
Goldmann was drafted into the Wehrmacht following the completion of his seminary education in philosophy, and was commissioned as a lieutenant. When World War II began, he was transferred to a Waffen SS training unit in occupied Poland. In his memoirs, he vividly describes the anti-Christianity rampant in the Waffen SS and the brutal hazing wreaked on his fellow Catholic recruits. Goldmann sent a protest directly to the SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, and in early 1942, he was transferred back to the Wehrmacht in disgrace. He spoke openly of his hatred for Nazism, and September 1942, he was charged with high treason. He had a court martial in Kassel but was acquitted and so he escaped the death penalty.
He was then transferred to the Eastern Front. Goldmann was soon arrested again and spent the winter of 1943 in prison. He was then sent to occupied France and later to Sicily.
German resistance
On a home leave in Germany, he was approached by Adam von Trott zu Solz, a career diplomat and a member of the Kreisau Circle. To Goldmann's horror, von Trott zu Solz identified himself as a member of a secret organization formed to assassinate Hitler and dismantle Nazi Germany. In a deliberate attempt to recruit him, von Trott zu Solz told Goldmann, "You can help us to save Germany from its disgrace." The jurist informed Goldmann that his acquittal by the court-martial was caused by the influence of the German resistance.
Goldmann responded that he had taken the soldier's oath and could not, as a Christian, go back on his word. Von Trott zu Solz responded, "I am also a Christian, as are those who are with me. We have prayed before the crucifix and have agreed that since we are Christians, we cannot violate the allegiance we owe God. We must therefore break our word given to him who has broken so many agreements and still is doing it. If only you knew what I know, Goldmann! There is no other way! Since we are Germans and Christians we must act, and if not soon, then it will be too late. Think it over till tonight."
The next day, Goldmann informed von Trott zu Solz that his terms were acceptable. He then joined the 20 July Plot as a carrier of secret dispatches. One such assignment led him to Rome in January 1944. Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, was sympathetic to the Resistance and arranged an audience for Goldmann with Pope Pius XII. The Pope granted Goldmann special dispensation to be ordained to the priesthood without the customary three years of theology studies.
Prisoner of war
Goldmann was captured by the British Army following the Battle of Monte Cassino, and sent to a POW camp in Morocco, and then later in French Algeria. On 24 June 1944, he was ordained a priest in the church of Notre Dame de Rivet, near the POW camp in Algeria. From August 1944 until the end of 1945, he served as a chaplain in a camp at Ksar es Souk, Morocco. According to Goldmann's memoirs, many of the inmates at Ksar es Souk remained convinced Nazis and therefore regarded their chaplain as a traitor. They falsely accused him of being the former commandant of Dachau concentration camp, alleging that he had attempted to escape prosecution by becoming a priest.
The French authorities believed this accusation and arrested Goldmann at the end of 1945. At Meknes he was court-martialled by the French Army, and sentenced to death by firing squad. In February 1946, just before the scheduled execution, Pope Pius XII and several others interceded on Goldmann's behalf, declaring that the charges were false. As a result, Goldmann's execution was delayed and eventually his conviction was overturned.
Post-war life
After his release in 1947 he returned to Fulda. He was once more arrested for war crimes by the United States Army in 1948, but the charges were dropped in 1949 after he revealed his involvement in the 20 July Plot. He studied theology for a year before turning to work with youth.
Missionary
In early 1954, Goldmann went to Japan to head the parish of St Elizabeth in the poverty-ridden Itabashi district of Tokyo. Between 1954 and 1961, he turned to ragpicking to sustain his parish, but eventually collected enough money to establish a foundation for education. He built two churches, numerous houses, hospitals, a holiday centre for families, and a community centre. For his efforts, in 1965 he was honoured by Emperor Hirohito and business executive Tadashi Adachi with the Order of Good Deeds, the highest award bestowed by the state for social work. He continued his charitable works in Japan and eventually extended these to India as well.
Later life and death
In poor health, precipitated by a chronic heart condition, Goldmann returned to Germany in 1994, where he remained until his death. Fr. Goldmann died on 26 July 2003 at the Franciscan monastery in Fulda, aged 86.
Honours
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ("Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse")
See also
Sources
(This Autobiography was republished by Ignatius Press in 2000 with an appendix describing Goldmann's later work in Japan.)
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Atlantic Bird was a series of satellites operated by Eutelsat over the Atlantic Ocean. In 2012 the series was merged into Eutelsat's main fleet as part of the company's rebranding.
Two of the original three satellites replaced the France Telecom Telecom 2 satellites which Eutelsat had acquired in 1999. Five satellites were in operation as of 2006:
Atlantic Bird 1, operating at 12.5°W
Atlantic Bird 2, launched in September 2001 and operating at 8°W (Replaced Telecom 2A)
Atlantic Bird 3, a Spacebus 3000B3, operating at 5°W (Replaced Telecom 2C)
Atlantic Bird 4, operated at 7°W (Formerly Hot Bird 4, also known as Nilesat 103)
Atlantic Bird 7, launched in September 2011 and operating at 7°W
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Wulfsige was a medieval Archbishop of York.
Wulfsige was consecrated sometime after 808 and he died between 830 and 837.
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Monroe Township is a township in
Ringgold County, Iowa, USA.
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Darren Penhall (born 18 November 1972) is an English-born Australian professional darts player who played competes in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
Penhall entered Q-School in January 2020 and won his Tour Card on the fourth day by finishing eleventh on the UK Q-School Order of Merit. He will play on the PDC ProTour in 2020 and 2021.
After losing his Tour Card, he returned to Australia, and took part in the DPA Tour from 2023, and he won a title in February 2023.
World Championship performance results
PDC
2024:
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Keith "KJ" Stroud (born December 20, 1989) is a former American football wide receiver He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He played college football at Rutgers before transferring to Bethune-Cookman for his final two seasons. KJ is currently the Wide Receivers and Special Teams Coordinator at Lock Haven University.
Early years
He was selected to All-City and All-State teams while at high school. He was named to the Brooklyn Big 44 team while at high school. He played his final season of high school football at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia before enrolling at Rutgers.
College career
He played college football at Rutgers for his Freshman and Sophomore season then transferred to Bethune-Cookman for his Junior and Senior seasons. While at Rutgers for his Freshman and Sophomore seasons, he had a total of 17 Receptions, 169 Receiving yards and no touchdowns.
Professional career
New York Jets
On April 27, 2013, he signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent following the 2013 NFL Draft. He was released on August 26, 2013.<
Toronto Argonauts
On February 24, 2014, Stroud signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was released by the Argonauts on June 22, 2014.
Spokane Shock
On November 17, 2014, Stroud was assigned to the Spokane Shock of the Arena Football League. He was placed on reassignment on April 1, 2015.
New Orleans VooDoo
On May 14, 2015, Stroud was assigned to the New Orleans VooDoo. After starting in a single game, Stroud was targeted 3 times, but did not catch a pass. Stroud was placed on reassignment on May 18, 2015.
References
External links
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats bio
Toronto Argonauts bio
1989 births
Living people
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Bethune–Cookman Wildcats football players
New York Jets players
Spokane Shock players
New Orleans VooDoo players
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Brojë is a settlement in the former Kelmend municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe.
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Muddle Earth is a science fiction novel by British writer John Brunner. It was first published in the United States by Ballantine Del Rey Books in 1993. It tells the story of a man awakened from cryogenic suspension in a bizarre 24th century where Earth is a tourist attraction.
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Richard Desborough Burnell (26 July 1917 – 29 January 1995) was an English rower who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics alongside Bert Bushnell in the double sculls. He and his father Charles are the only father and son in Olympic history to have both won gold medals in rowing.
Career
Burnell was born in Henley-on-Thames the son of Charles Burnell who won a gold medal in the eights at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University.
In May 1939, Burnell was commissioned into the London Rifle Brigade. He was on the losing Oxford team in The Boat Race in 1939. He was a rowing correspondent for The Times and wrote several books on rowing matters. He competed for Kingston Rowing Club and in 1946 won the Wingfield Sculls.
1948 Summer Olympics
At the 1948 Olympics Burnell won a gold medal with Bert Bushnell in the double sculls, Burnell and Bushnell having never previously trained together. Jack Beresford told Bushnell that he had no chance to win the single sculls, and so created the double sculls team instead. Their differing physiques – Burnell was 6 ft 4 inches and weighed stone, while Bushnell was 5 ft 10 inches and stone – presented some difficulties in the boat, which Bushnell had to re-rig so that they were able to reach together.
The pair only had a month to train for the Games, with animosity between the two due to the difference in their class backgrounds. Bushnell later said in an interview, "There was class tension there and it came from me being bloody awkward." Bushnell struck up a friendship with American rower John B. Kelly Jr. and Australian Mervyn Wood. The rowers' diets had been increased from the normal 2,500 calories allowed by rationing to a "miner's diet" of 3,600. However, the other teams were having food flown in specially to increase their calorie intake and allow them to train more. Bushnell would invite Kelly and Wood over for dinner, with his guests bringing the food. Bushnell and Burnell both attended the opening ceremony of the 1948 Games, something Bushnell described as "dreadful", as they gave the athletes poorly fitting uniforms and made them stand out in the sun en-masse for three hours.
On the Henley Royal Regatta course, they lost to France in the first round, but then won both the repêchage followed by the semi-final. On 9 August 1948, in front of a home crowd, Bushnell and Burnell competed in the Olympic final against the double scull teams of Uruguay and Denmark. Bushnell nearly missed the final, held at the Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames, as stewards would not allow him to enter; he later explained "You see I wasn't a member then – not posh enough". At around the three-minute mark, the British team decided to push for the win, eventually taking it in six minutes and 51.3 seconds, two lengths ahead of the favoured Danish duo of Ebbe Parsner and Aage Larsen (6:55.3) and five ahead of Uruguay (7:12.4). On the jetty they were awarded their medals while standing in their socks. There were no ribbons for the medals due to cost saving measures, and so they were given them in presentation boxes while God Save the King was played by a band.
After Olympics
Burnell won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games, and in 1951 he won the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, together with Pat Bradley.
He continued to write on international rowing events for the Sunday Times until 1990.
Personal life
Burnell and his father Charles Burnell are the only father and son in Olympic history to have both won gold medals in rowing. In 1940 Burnell married Rosalind, a daughter of English Olympic gold medal-winning rower Stanley Garton. They had five children: Peter, John, Edward, Alexandra (“Zandra”), and Elizabeth (“Tizzy”). Burnell's son, Peter, rowed for Oxford in 1962.
Works
Burnell published several books on rowing, including
Swing Together: Thoughts on Rowing (1952)
The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race, 1829–1953 (1954)
Sculling: With Notes on Training and Rigging (1955)
Henley Regatta: A History (1957)
Legacy
During the run up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the BBC produced the film Bert and Dickie (also called Going For Gold: The '48 Games), depicting Burnell and Bushnell's achievement at the 1948 Games, with Sam Hoare in the role of Burnell and Matt Smith portraying Bushnell.
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Sam John Troughton (born 21 March 1977) is an English actor who has made appearances in Robin Hood (2006-2009), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Hex (2005), The Town (2012), The Hollow Crown (2016), The Ritual (2017), Peterloo (2018), Chernobyl (2019), The Outlaws (2021), and Litvinenko (2022).
Early life
He is the son of actor David Troughton and the grandson of the second Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton. His younger brothers are the former Warwickshire cricketer Jim Troughton, and actor William Troughton. Troughton attended Bridgetown Primary School in Stratford-upon-Avon and then Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa. He went on to study drama at the University of Hull, graduating in 1998.
Career
Troughton is a Shakespearean actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has thrice been nominated (2000, 2001, 2002) for the Ian Charleson Awards, awarded to young actors for performances in classic plays.
In 2005, Troughton starred in the horror films Spirit Trap alongside Billie Piper, and Alien vs. Predator, and several television productions including Sky One's Hex. He has appeared in the SAS-themed drama Ultimate Force. From October 2006 he appeared in the BBC Robin Hood series (2006–2009), in which he features as Robin's ex-manservant, Much.
Troughton's stage roles include Orlando in Samuel West's production of Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. He returned to the RSC as part of the 2009–2011 ensemble, appearing at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2009 he played Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar and Third Gentleman in The Winter's Tale, and in 2010 he played Romeo in Romeo & Juliet and King Arthur in Morte D'Arthur at the Courtyard Theatre. Other roles include a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire in Liverpool.
He played Thomas in Bull at the Crucible Studio Theatre in Sheffield in 2013 and Edmund in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre in January 2014.
Troughton starred in David Eldridge's new play Beginning at the Royal National Theatre and at the Ambassadors Theatre in 2018. More recently he starred in Chernobyl (2019) as Aleksandr Akimov. Between May and July 2019, he appeared in Rutherford and Son at the Royal National Theatre alongside Roger Allam.
In 2020, Troughton starred in the biographical comedy drama film Mank, alongside a cast which included Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins and Charles Dance. In 2021, he appeared as Mr.Wilder, the community service boss, in The Outlaws, a BBC series created by and starring Stephen Merchant also featuring Christopher Walken.
In 2022, he played Detective Inspector Brian Tarpey in the ITV drama, Litvinenko, detailing the final days and subsequent murder investigation into the death of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards
References
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British male stage actors
Living people
Actors from Hampstead
Alumni of the University of Hull
1977 births
British male television actors
Troughton family
21st-century British male actors
British male Shakespearean actors
British male film actors |
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of West Sydney on 18 February 1865 because John Darvall had been appointed Attorney General, and John Robertson had been appointed Secretary for Lands in the fourth Cowper ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested however on this occasion a poll was required in East Sydney (Charles Cowper), The Glebe (Thomas Smart) and West Sydney. Each minister was comfortably re-elected. Only The Paterson (William Arnold) was uncontested.
Daniel Dalgleish was a former member for West Sydney who was defeated at the election on 24 November 1864. He was then an unsuccessful candidate at the elections for The Glebe (29 November 1864), Goldfields South (10 January 1865), and The Glebe (17 February 1865). This was the final occasion on which he stood for parliament.
Dates
Result
John Darvall was appointed Attorney General, and John Robertson was appointed Secretary for Lands in the fourth Cowper ministry.
See also
Electoral results for the district of West Sydney
List of New South Wales state by-elections
Notes
References
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New South Wales state by-elections
1860s in New South Wales |
Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia (The Grape Harvest National Festival) takes place annually in Mendoza City, Argentina. It is one of the most important festivals in the country, attracting large numbers of tourists to the region. It is a celebration of wine and the winemaking industry.
Each of the 18 departments in Mendoza Province prepare for the festival in the early months of the year. The main event occurs in the first week of March in Mendoza city featuring hundreds of dancers and performers, the selection of a "Reina Nacional de la Vendimia" (National Vendimia Queen) and a large fireworks display.
History
The first vendimia celebrations in Mendoza Province occurred in the 17th century. The first official valendimia festival took place in 1936. Recently Mendoza's Vendimia ranked number two in National Geographic's Top 10 World's Harvest Festivals, after the Thanksgiving celebrations in Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts.
Departments
Each of Mendoza's departments are represented at the festival:
Capital Department
General Alvear Department
Godoy Cruz Department
Guaymallén Department
Junín Department
La Paz Department
Las Heras Department
Lavalle Department
Luján de Cuyo Department
Maipú Department
Malargüe Department
Rivadavia Department
San Carlos Department
San Martín Department
San Rafael Department
Santa Rosa Department
Tunuyán Department
Tupungato Department
Programme of events
Blessing of the fruit
The blessing of the fruit takes place on the last Sunday of February.
Vía Blanca de las Reinas
On the evening of the first Friday of March the prettiest women elected as Reinas (queens) from each department parade in allegoric chariots through the streets of Mendoza dressed in decorative outfits designed to celebrate the winemaking tradition and the character of their departments. This event has been known to attract over 200,000 spectators.
Carrusel Vendimial
The Carrusel Vendimial takes place on the Saturday morning, it takes the form of a daylight parade, where the Reinas ride their chariots through the streets, accompanied formations of men dressed in Gaucho style outfits and riding horses, they are followed by dancers representing various provinces of Argentina and other Latin American countries. This parade also attracts huge numbers of spectators.
Central act
The "Acto Central" takes place in the Frank Romero Day Greek theatre. It is an impressive spectacle of light and sound featuring over 1000 performers and dancers. The show pays homage to the "Virgen de la Carrodilla" and features traditional folklore music.
The finale of the show sees the election of the "Reina Nacional de la Vendimia" and a large firework display.
Cultural impact
Vendimia Planitia, a large plain on the dwarf planet Ceres, is named after the festival.
See also
National Sea Festival
References
External links
Vendimia Mendoza website
Arts festivals in Argentina
Mendoza, Argentina
Tourist attractions in Mendoza Province
Wine festivals
Food and drink festivals in Argentina
Folk festivals in Argentina
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FlySafair is an international low-cost airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Safair and an associate airline of ASL Aviation Holdings. The company slogan is For The Love Of Flying.
History
The airline was established in August 2013 and was granted approval by the South African Air Service Licensing Council to launch operations with ten daily services between Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport and Cape Town International Airport. The airline had plans to begin operations in October 2013. However, on 8 October 2013, the High Court of South Africa granted an interim court order preventing the airline from starting operations, following an application by rival carriers, on the basis that it did not meet the legal requirement of 75% local ownership. Substantial restructuring of ownership took place and FlySafair's inaugural flight eventually took place on 16 October 2014.
In 2017, the airline announced a partnership with the South African Rugby Union (SARU), making it the official domestic carrier for the Springboks and SA Rugby. The deal was extended for four years in February 2020.
In October 2022, the airline went through a rebrand with redesigns to their logo and new livery. The International Air Services Council of South Africa also approved 11 new international routes.
Destinations
FlySafair serves the following 13 destinations :
Interline agreements
FlySafair interlines with the following airlines:
Air France
KLM
Qatar Airways
Emirates
Kenya Airways
Ethiopian Airlines
Proflight Zambia
Fleet
As of July 2023, the FlySafair fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Services
In-Flight Service
FlySafair offers food and drinks as a buy-on-board programme. FlySafair also offers a monthly magazine on board named In Flight. It was also the first airline in South Africa to offer card payments aboard their flights. On their international routes they offer a pre-packed meal at no charge, with other food and drink options for sale. For hygienic reasons, the In Flight magazine is currently only in digital format.
FlySafair Holidays
FlySafair launched their Holidays programme in May 2021, partnering with local company Tripco to combine flights and accommodation.
Accidents and Incidents
On 12 November 2022, a South African Airways Airbus A320 (ZS-SZJ) was towed and collided with a parked FlySafair Boeing 737-8BG (ZS-SJH) at O. R. Tambo International Airport. No passengers were onboard either aircraft at the time. The 737’s empennage section and A320's wingtip were damaged. Both aircraft were returned to service shortly after the incident.
See also
List of airlines of South Africa
References
External links
Airlines established in 2013
South African companies established in 2013
Airlines of South Africa
Low-cost carriers
Companies based in Johannesburg |
Vom Schem Hamphoras, full title: Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (Of the Unknowable Name and the Generations of Christ), was a book written by German Reformation leader Martin Luther in 1543, in which he equated Jews with the Devil and described them in vile language.
Schem Hamphoras is the Hebrew rabbinic name for the ineffable name of God, the tetragrammaton. Luther's use of the term was in itself a taunt and insult to Jewish sensitivities. He wrote the 125-page text several months after publishing On the Jews and Their Lies.
In Hamphoras (pp. 34-35) he wrote:
Luther argued that the Jews were no longer the chosen people but "the devil's people". An English translation of Vom Schem Hamphoras was first published in 1992 as part of The Jew In Christian Theology by Gerhard Falk. Historians have noted Luther's writings contributed to antisemitism within the German provinces during his era. Historical evidence shows that the Nazi Party in the 1930s and 1940s used Luther's writings to build up antisemitism under their rule, by exerting pressure on schools to incorporate it into the curriculum, and the Lutheran church to incorporate it into sermons. Whether or not Luther's writings were a leading force for antisemitism in Europe over the past 500 years is currently being debated by historians. Nevertheless, it is clear that his writings were used extensively by the Nazis.
See also
Judensau - the image of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow (female pig) which first appeared in the thirteenth century.
Luther and antisemitism
References
1543 books
16th-century Christian texts
Works by Martin Luther
Antisemitic publications
Lutheranism and antisemitism |
The 2015 Jubilee Trophy is the national championship for women's soccer clubs competing at division 4 and below in the Canadian soccer pyramid. It was held in Calgary, Alberta from October 8–12, 2015.
Teams
Eight teams were granted entry into the competition; one from each Canadian province excluding New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Teams were selected by their provincial soccer associations; most often qualifying by winning provincial leagues or cup championships such as the Ontario Cup.
Group stage
The eight teams in the competition were divided into two groups of four teams each, which then play a single-game round-robin format. At the end of group play, each team faces the equal-ranked team from the other group to determine a final seeding for the tournament.
Group A
Group B
Final round
The final round consists of one game for each club, where they are paired with their equal-ranked opponent from the opposite group to determine a final ranking for the tournament.
Tournament Ranking
References
External links
Canadian Soccer Association National Championships
Jubilee
Jubilee |
Bernard Wilson (born 8 April 1962) is retired male amateur boxer from Grenada, who fought at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the men's welterweight division. He was the first Olympic Flag bearer for the island at the games. He also represented Grenada at the 1987 Pan American Games and at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games.
References
Grenadian male boxers
Welterweight boxers
Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Grenada
Boxers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Grenada
1962 births
Living people |
João Moreira may refer to:
João Moreira (footballer, born 1970), Portuguese former footballer who played for Swansea City
João Moreira (footballer, born 1986), Portuguese footballer who last played in South Africa
João Moreira (footballer, born 1998), Portuguese footballer who plays for S.C. Freamunde
João Moreira (footballer, born 2004), Brazilian-born Portuguese footballer who plays for São Paulo
João Moreira (jockey) (born 1984), Brazilian jockey |
John Gemmill was an English businessman, private banker, storekeeper, and the first auctioneer of Singapore. He donated the Gemmill Fountain to the public in 1864.
Biography
Gemmill born in the United Kingdom, and moved to Singapore in 1828. He was originally a shopkeeper, and after the Singapore Temperance Society was formed in 1837, he released an advertisement for his shop, stating that he was selling alcohol. He later became an auctioneer, and was the first auctioneer in the colony. In January 1839, Gemmill began a private banking business, as there were no banks in the colony yet. He bought Scott's Hill, and renamed it Gemmill's Hill.
In 1864, Gemmill donated a marble drinking fountain to the government of Singapore for public use. The fountain was named Gemmill Fountain, and was largely forgotten until 1923, when it was found in a Municipal store and placed in front of the Victoria Memorial Hall. Gemmill Lane was named in honour of Gemmill after his death.
References
English businesspeople
People from British Singapore |
Chexbres-Village railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Chexbres, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Vevey–Chexbres line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Services
The following services stop at Chexbres-Village:
RER Vaud : hourly service between and .
References
External links
Railway stations in the canton of Vaud
Swiss Federal Railways stations |
This is the list of radio programmes broadcast in Estonia. The list is incomplete.
See also
List of Estonian television programs
References
Estonia
Radio |
Trupanea marginalis is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trupanea of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
Hawaiian Islands.
References
Tephritinae
Insects described in 1980
Diptera of Asia |
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