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Tea for the Tillerman 2 (stylised as Tea for the Tillerman²) is the sixteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Yusuf / Cat Stevens, released on 18 September 2020 by Cat-O-Log Records. It is a re-imagining of his hit 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. Track listing Personnel Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Spanish guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, grand piano, keyboards, harpsichord, lead vocals Alun Davies – acoustic guitar, backing vocals, vocals on "Father and Son" Jim Cregan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals Eric Appapoulay – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, backing vocals Bruce Lynch – double bass, electric bass Martin Allcock - bass on (3), piano (3) Peter-John Vettese – keyboards, organ, synth horns, backing vocals, string arrangements Andreas Andersson - clarinet on "Wild World" Kwame Yeboah– drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals John Ashton Thomas – string arrangements on (1, 2, 4, 6, 10) Christopher Nightingale – arrangements Brother Ali – rap on "Longer Boats" Voxaphonic - backing vocals on (1, 3, 10) Charts References 2020 albums Cat Stevens albums Albums produced by Paul Samwell-Smith Island Records albums A&M Records albums
Paradystus innotatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1954. It is known from Sumatra and Borneo. References Saperdini Beetles described in 1954
Claudius Hieronymianus was a Roman Legate, commanding the 6th Legion in Britain during the military campaigns in Caledonia under Septimius Severus. He later served as the Governor of Cappadocia. Career Claudius Hieronymianus is named in only a few scant references. The dedication stone at Eboracum (present-day York) naming Hieronymianus is dated to some point between AD 190 and AD 212, when he was acting as Legate of the 6th Legion then garrisoned at Eboracum. By AD 212 he was acting as Governor of Cappadocia. Personal life The legate is mentioned in a passage of Tertullian's Address to Scapula Tertullus: during his governorship of Cappadocia and supposedly angry at his wife's conversion to Christianity, he brought (in Tertullian's words) "much ill to the Christians" there. His own pagan religious views are expressed in a dedication stone from York (Eboracum) in which he is named as the benefactor of a freshly re-built Roman temple dedicated to the god Serapis. Temple to Serapis at York The dedication bearing his name was found in 1770 in Toft Green, York. A report in the 1775 edition of Archaeologia reports its discovery: In August 1770, a stone was found in digging a cellar at York, at a place called the Friar's-Garden, one of the highest parts of the city. The workmen, in their progress, came to the foundation of an old building of Roman brick, the mortar or cement of which, was so hard as not to be penetrable by the Sharpest tools, the bricks breaking before the mortar... In digging the ground a little further, within the segment of the circle abovementioned, the men found a large gritstone, three feet long, two feet one inch broad, and eight inches thick. The stone inscription reads: To the holy god Serapis Claudius Hieronymianus, legate of the Sixth Legion Victrix, built this temple from the ground. It has been argued that the temple was built in advance of the arrival of Septimius Severus at Eboracum in AD208. Severus is known to have been a prominent follower of Serapis; Hieronymianus was thus demonstrating his close connection to the Emperor and his Romanitas. References External links Dedication stone to Serapis by Claudius Hieronymianus in the Yorkshire Museum Video in which a Yorkshire Museum curator discusses the inscription Roman legates Roman governors of Cappadocia Claudii Ancient Romans in Britain Collections of the Yorkshire Museum History of York
Sri Sarguru Tribal High School (SSTHS) is a Tamil medium tribal high school located on Mount Pleasant in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India. History The school was opened in 1964 by Ramalinga Adigalar. Officially it was announced a government aided school under G.O.-Ms. No.: 809 Education dated 22 May 1964. In August 2008, the school officially started a project in co-operation with ICDE India hosting volunteers to let them teach physical education classes and spoken English classes. Education The school educates the students from 6th standard to their 10th standard exams. The school runs on government norms and offers mathematics, English, Tamil, social science, science, physical education as well as value education, environmental studies and life-oriented education. Headteachers Kulan (1964–1994) K. M. Sivalingam (1994 – 31 July 2000) B. Rahman (1 August 2000 – 31 May 2003) T. Tathan (1 June 2003 – 31 May 2004) T. Navaneethakrishnan (since 1 June 2004) Students Starting with over 600 students the number of students decreased over the years to 203 in the academic year 2008/09. Students mainly come from the Nilgiri District. During the academic year, students stay at home or in hostels. In 2009/10 the school co-operated with these hostels: Sri Sarguru Ashram, two government hostels and DCM Home Bharatnagar Wellington. Awards In 2006, the school won the Viswa Sewa Award being the best school in the Nilgiri District in educating poor students. The award was made by the former Supreme Court Judge S. Mohan and High Court Judge S. K. Krishnan on the recommendation of the local Rotary Lion's Club of Nilgiris. Bibliography Statistical yearbook of Sri Sarguru Tribal High School (since 1964) High schools and secondary schools in Tamil Nadu Schools in Nilgiris district Tamil-language schools Educational institutions established in 1964 1964 establishments in Madras State
Tony Shaver (born January 28, 1954) is an American college basketball coach. From the 2003–04 through 2018–19 seasons, he was the head men's basketball coach at the College of William & Mary. He arrived at William & Mary after a 17-year tenure as the head coach at Hampden-Sydney College. He leaves as the winningest coach in William & Mary history and finished with an overall record of 226 wins and 268 losses. Shaver played college basketball under Dean Smith at North Carolina from 1972 until 1976, making the team as a walk-on and playing with such Tar Heel greats as Mitch Kupchak, Tom LaGarde, Phil Ford and Walter Davis on a team that twice went to the NCAA tournament. After graduating from UNC, Shaver accepted the head coach's job at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Shaver stayed at Episcopal for 10 years, ending his tenure as the Virginia State Private School Coach of the Year in 1986. Following the 1986 season, Shaver made the jump to the collegiate ranks as the head coach at Hampden-Sydney. Under his guidance, the Tigers grew into a national powerhouse program at the Division III level. In 17 seasons with the Tigers, Shaver won almost 75% of the games he coached. His Tigers won eight Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) championships and went on to great success in the NCAA Division III tournament, making 11 appearances in the tournament, with 7 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and 2 trips to the Final Four. The Tigers finished as the Division III National Runnerup in 1999, after suffering a double-overtime 1-point loss to the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in the national championship game. Shaver was a three-time ODAC Coach of the Year: His tremendous success drew the attention of William & Mary, who hired him to coach the Tribe in 2003. At William & Mary, Shaver turned the program around from a Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) cellar-dweller to a team with a .500 overall record (15–15, and 8–10 in CAA play) by 2006–07, his fourth year. The following year, William & Mary posted its first winning season since 1997–98 and, in the process, achieved its first back-to-back campaigns of 15-plus victories in 25 years. The 2007–08 team finished with a 10–8 conference record, entered the CAA tournament as the #5 seed, and proceeded to advance to its first-ever CAA Championship Game. Shaver was selected the Colonial Athletic Association's Coach of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. He broke the school record for wins by a men's basketball coach in February 2013, despite an overall losing record at W&M up to that point. In the 2014–15 season, W&M senior Marcus Thornton was named CAA Player of the Year while junior Terry Tarpey was named CAA Defensive Player of the Year, which Tarpey would repeat the next year as a senior. It marked the first time a Tribe player had earned either CAA honor. Head coaching record References External links William & Mary profile 1954 births Living people American men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from North Carolina Basketball players from North Carolina College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Hampden–Sydney Tigers basketball coaches High school basketball coaches in the United States North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players Point guards Shooting guards Sportspeople from High Point, North Carolina William & Mary Tribe men's basketball coaches
A distributed library is a collection of materials available for borrowing by members of a group, yet not maintained or owned by a single entity. The library catalog is maintained on a database that is made accessible to users through the Internet. This style of library is still in its infancy. Administrative software continues to be developed and distributed. An early example of this style of library (if not the first of its type) is the Distributed Library Project of the San Francisco Bay Area. While distributed libraries are being established in several cities worldwide, the San Francisco Bay Area library still only has a few hundred members. Another example, which takes a slightly different approach, is the Unlibrary. In this system, users are free to create communities of any size and scope, rather than a single citywide community. For instance a church might have its own community, with church members all able to borrow from each other. Users can also have private, invite-only groups. Another example is the digibruted library of Geneva. The name digibruted is coined from “Digital” and “Distributed”. This library is a digital construction that indexes books for local distribution. The difference from Unlibrary is that the books are freely given to readers, who act also as librarians, in a kind of peer-to-peer schema. See also BookCrossing References Library science Libraries by type Types of library
Victor Wolfvoet (II) or Victor Wolfvoet the Younger (1612 – 1652), was a Flemish art dealer and painter of history and allegorical paintings. His artistic output was heavily influenced by Peter Paul Rubens. Life Victor Wolfvoet the Younger was born in Antwerp as the son of Victor Wolfvoet the Elder, a painter and art dealer, and Brigitta Voorwercx. His father was probably his teacher. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke around 1644-5. Some sources refer to Wolfvoet as a pupil of Rubens. He married in 1636. His 1652 will, which he made not long before his death, states that he was the widower of Elisabeth Mertens. Victor Wolfvoet died in Antwerp on 23 October 1652 leaving one daughter, Livina Wolfvoet. The artist's estate comprised a substantial collection of artworks of seven hundred items. The inventory of his estate lists twenty sketches by Rubens, including several designs for the ceilings of the Carolus Borromeus Church in Antwerp and six bozzetti for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. There are also sketches by other artists, many unattributed sketches and framed grisailles, and a number of sketches after Rubens. Some of the sketches were likely in Wolfvoet's own hand, like his copies after Rubens' Abraham and Melchizedek and Manna from Heaven both now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. The large collection of works has been regarded as evidence that the artist may also have been active as an art dealer. Work Wolfvoet was active as an art dealer, became an artist rather late in life and died relatively young. This explains his fairly limited output. As his work has recently received more academic attention his known oeuvre has expanded thanks to new attributions to Wolfvoet of work formerly attributed to other artists such as Erasmus Quellinus II, Guillam Forchondt and Willem van Herp and anonymous Rubens followers. Although there is no evidence Wolfvoet studied under Rubens, he is considered one of the most faithful followers of that artist. He often used paintings or preparatory drawings or oil sketches by Rubens as the model for his paintings. He had access to some of these through his art business and public sales of Rubens' work in the Antwerp market. Examples are two copper paintings relating to the theme of the War between War and Peace (private collections) and an oil on canvas of Hercules and Minerva Expelling Mars (Hermitage Museum) (of which there also exists a copy on copper). In the first two copper paintings he used a palette similar to that of Rubens and achieved a harmony of tone with space, which he had learned from Rubens. He was inspired by other artists such as Frans Francken the Younger whose versions of the Worship of the Golden Calf he used as a basis for his own version of this theme (in the Museo Nacional de San Carlos). Wolfvoet copied the colour of Franken’s versions but added figures and intensified the shadows on the objects and persons. A significant portion of the output of Wolfvoet consists of relatively small-scale paintings on copper. This medium was preferred for paintings made for the export market, in particular to Spain and the Spanish South-American colonies where the copper support was highly prized both for durability and its glossy finish. References External links 1612 births 1652 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Painters from Antwerp Artists from Antwerp Flemish history painters
The SDS 940 was Scientific Data Systems' (SDS) first machine designed to directly support time-sharing. The 940 was based on the SDS 930's 24-bit CPU, with additional circuitry to provide protected memory and virtual memory. It was announced in February 1966 and shipped in April, becoming a major part of Tymshare's expansion during the 1960s. The influential Stanford Research Institute "oN-Line System" (NLS) was demonstrated on the system. This machine was later used to run Community Memory, the first bulletin board system. After SDS was acquired by Xerox in 1969 and became Xerox Data Systems, the SDS 940 was renamed as the XDS 940. History The design was originally created by the University of California, Berkeley as part of their Project Genie that ran between 1964 and 1969. Genie added memory management and controller logic to an existing SDS 930 computer to give it page-mapped virtual memory, which would be heavily copied by other designs. The 940 was simply a commercialized version of the Genie design and remained backwardly compatible with their earlier models, with the exception of the 12-bit SDS 92. Like most systems of the era, the machine was built with a bank of core memory as the primary storage, allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords. Words were 24 bits plus a parity bit. This was backed up by a variety of secondary storage devices, including a 1376 kword drum in Genie, or hard disks in the SDS models in the form of a drum-like 2097 kword "fixed-head" disk or a traditional "floating-head" model. The SDS machines also included a paper tape punch and reader, line printer, and a real-time clock. They bootstrapped from paper tape. A file storage of 96 MB were also attached. The line printer used was a Potter Model HSP-3502 chain printer with 96 printing characters and a speed of about 230 lines per minute. Software system The operating system developed at Project Genie was the Berkeley Timesharing System. By August 1968 a version 2.0 was announced that was just called the "SDS 940 Time-Sharing System". As of 1969, the XDS 940 software system consisted of the following: Time-Sharing Monitor (what is now usually called a kernel) Time-Sharing Executive (what is now usually called a command-line interface) CAL, the Conversational Algebraic Language QED, a text editor Fortran IV BASIC The minimal configuration required to run the Software System included (partial list): Two 16-kword core-memory modules (with multiple access). Two rapid-access disc (RAD) storage units and couplers (just under 4M character capacity each); optionally two more could be connected Disc file and coupler, with 67M characters of storage Magnetic tape control unit and two magnetic-tape transports (controller supports up to 8) Asynchronous communication controller(s), supporting up to 64 teletypewriter lines each Additional software was available from the XDS Users' Group Library, such as a string-processing system, "SYSPOPs" (system programmed operators, which allow access to system services), CAL (Conversational Algebraic Language, a dialect of JOSS), QED (a text editor), TAP (Time-sharing Assembly Program, an assembler), and DDT, a debugging tool. A cathode-ray tube display with 26 lines that operated DDT loader-debugger that were originally designed to operate from a teletype terminal were also available. Notable installations Butler Lampson estimated that about 60 of the machines were sold. The major customer was Tymshare, who used the system to become the USA's best known commercial timesharing service in the late 1960s. By 1972 Tymshare alone had 23 systems in operation. Comshare, Inc, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was the second most important corporate customer. Tymshare, Comshare and UC Berkeley collaborated in much of the operating system development for the SDS 940. Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) used an SDS 940 for their oN-Line System, more commonly known as NLS. It was with this computer that he gave The Mother of All Demos in December 1968, heralding many of the concepts associated with personal computing today. The first host connected to the ARPANET was an SDS 940 at SRI in October, 1969. A San Francisco counterculture community action group called Resource One and located in Project One used a donated surplus XDS 940 as described in Rolling Stone magazine in 1972. The Community Memory project served as an early electronic bulletin board system. See also SDS Sigma series SDS 9 Series References External links (pictures) Software archive Mainframe computers Scientific Data Systems Time-sharing 24-bit computers
Golm transmitter or Sender Golm was a medium wave broadcasting facility on the area of a former Reichsarbeitsdienst officer candidate school at Kuhforter Damm in Golm near Potsdam. It entered service in 1948 as the central broadcast transmitter for Brandenburg state. Until 1979 it used a wooden lattice tower of height with a horizontal wooden cross on its top as its antenna support. The ends of the beams of this cross were connected with wires. From the centre of each of these horizontal wires, a vertical wire was run down to the antenna tuner which was located in a building under the feet of the tower construction. The antenna of Golm transmitter consisted therefore of 4 T-antennas connected in parallel, forming an omnidirectional antenna with a natural wavelength of 528 m. The transmitter was built from second-hand parts obtained by dismantling a site in Reichenbach, Upper Lusatia. Test transmissions were undertaken on 16 April 1948, and from 1 May 1948 the facility operated on 564 kHz. The wooden tower of Golm transmitter was not a new construction. It was built from parts of two wooden masts originally erected in 1936 at Rehmate, the location of Zehlendorf transmitter, as supports for shortwave antennas. These were (together with a third mast) the only antenna towers on this site not dismantled for war reparations following World War II. As materials for structural engineering were not easily available in the Soviet occupation zone, it was decided to dismantle this structure and re-erect it as an antenna tower at Golm, although wooden radio towers was no longer state-of-the-art. After the demolition of the wooden radio tower of Wiederau transmitter in 1953, the tower of Golm transmitter remained the tallest wooden structure in the GDR until 1979. It was a well-known landmark of the Potsdam area. On October 25, 1979 it was demolished with explosives because of structural deterioration. It was replaced by two tall guyed steel lattice mast radiators. One of these served as the main antenna, the other as backup. The facility was operated by Deutsche Post. Initially, the programmes of Landessender Potsdam was broadcast, later those of Radio Wolga, Berliner Rundfunk, Berliner Welle, and Radio DDR 1 and Radio DDR 2. In 1991 the programme of Berliner Rundfunk was broadcast on 693 kHz. Transmissions ceased on 20 August 1992, and dismantlement was ordered on 20 September 1993. The guyed masts together with the other facilities were dismantled in 1993/1994. The area is now covered in vegetation, only parts of the foundations of one mast remain. External links Entry at Skyscraperpage Photo of demolition of old transmitter mast, with new mast already in place References Former radio masts and towers Radio masts and towers in Germany Demolished buildings and structures in Germany Infrastructure completed in 1948 Buildings and structures demolished in 1979 Buildings and structures in Potsdam 1948 establishments in Germany 1979 disestablishments in East Germany
was the father of Okinawaology and a Japanese scholar who studied various aspects of Japanese and Okinawan culture, customs, linguistics, and lore. His signature was Ifa Fuyu in English, because of the Okinawan pronunciation. Iha studied linguistics in the University of Tokyo and was devoted to the study of Okinawan linguistics, folklore, and history. His most famous book on the subject, Ko Ryūkyū (Old Ryūkyū), was published in 1911 and remains one of the best works on Okinawan studies. He devoted much time to the discovery of the origins of Okinawan people to establish their history. He had considerable influence not only on the study of Okinawan folklore but also of Japanese folklore. Life In 1876, he was born in Naha as an eldest son of a lower-class pechin. In 1891, he entered Okinawa Middle School, now corresponding to Shuri High School. In 1895, he was dismissed from school, because he was a leader of a student strike; they requested the resignation of the then principal who dropped the subject of English (English is needed for higher schools). In 1896, he entered Meijigikai Middle School in Tokyo, followed by the Third Higher School (Now Kyoto University). In 1903, he entered the linguistic course, Department of Literature, Tokyo University. In 1906, he graduated from Tokyo University. In 1910, he was appointed the director of Okinawa Prefectural Library. In 1917, he organized the study of Esperanto. In 1918, he lectured on the Bible at a church. In 1921, he was appointed the director of Okinawa Prefectural Library formally. In 1924, he resigned from the library and went to Tokyo to study more. In 1935, he lectured on Omorosoushi at Kokugakuin University. In 1945, he assumed the post of the first president of the Association of Okinawan People. On August 13, 1947, he died at the house of Higa Shuncho. Achievements Ko Ryūkyū [the ancient Loochoos], 1911, 1916, 1942, 1944, 2000. [in Japanese, his representative work] Revised Omoro Sōshi, 1925, Minamishima, danwakai. [in Japanese] Ryūkyū no Hōgen [dialects of the Loochoos] 琉球の方言, Kokugo kagaku kōza, no. VII: Kokugo hōgengaku, fascicle no. 5, [1933]; rpt. within the single-vol. version of the course as Tōjō Misao 東條操 et al., Kokugo hōgengaku [dialectology of the national language] 國語方言學, [1935], both: Meiji Shoin, Tokyo. [in Japanese] An Island of Onari Kami, 1938, 1942. [in Japanese] Selected works of Iha Fuyu, 1962. Okinawa Times. [in Japanese] Collected Works of Iha Fuyu (1–11), 1976 and 1993, Heibonsha, Tokyo. [in Japanese] Ko Ryukyu This is his representative work and has remained an introduction to Okinawaology. He had corrected previous articles many times, and the reader should read the most recent edition. Linguistic study Studying various words of Ryukyu and Japan used in days gone by, he came to the conclusion that Okinawa and Japan share the same mother tongue. The studied words include akaru, akezu, akatonki, amori, etsuri, fuguri (scrotum), fuku, hae (glory), hau, hiji, hiraku, hoso (umbricus), kanashi, iga, ikasarete, ikibui, ikutokoro, ime, iriki, kabuchi, kotoi, kuwanari, magu, majimono, mamaki, maru, minjai, mitsumi, monowata, mumuji, naegu, nai (earthquake), nasu, nuuji, sakuri, sayumi, shichiyadan, shishi, taani, tane (penis), tsukakamachi, tsukura, tubi, ugonaari, uwanari, wa, watamashi, yagusami, yokoshi, yomu, and yuimaharu. The recent trend of the History of the Ryukyus Three representative statesmen were described. They were given posthumous court ranks at the enthronement of Emperor Taishō, and Iha gave a lecture about them at the Okinawa Normal School. They were Sai On, Haneji Choshu (Shō Shōken (向象賢)) and Giwan Chōho. They managed to govern Ryukyu between Satsuma and China. Iha regarded them as the most important figures in Ryukyuan history. Sai On's advice to the King: Negotiations with China are not difficult. If difficulties will arise, Kume people can manage to handle them. But Japan is not so. On one day, with only a piece of paper, a King may lose his position and it is definitely from Japan. Okinawa's stand: to Okinawa, who will rule in China does not matter. Okinawa is not allowed to stick to justice. Okinawan people endure everything in order to live, or eat. An Okinawan saying says that who will let us eat, whoever it is, is our master. This is the fate of Okinawan people until the day of the placement of Okinawa Prefecture. To Japan, namely to the Shimazu clan, it did not know how to treat Okinawa soon after the establishment of Okinawa Prefecture. Seven kinds of Omoro Sōshi Omoro Sōshi is a collection of songs, 1553 poems and 1267 poems (when the same songs are excluded) in 22 volumes, starting in the middle of the 13th century and ending in the middle of the 17th century. It may be called the Man'yōshū of Okinawa. Omoro is the abbreviation of Omori uta, or songs sung in the sacred places of Ryukyu. The themes of the Omoro include the origin of Ryukyu, Kings, Heroes, Voyages, Poets, Sceneries, Heaven and Stars, very rarely Romance. Omoro is the primary source for studying the Ryukyuan languages and ideologies. The problem of students studying in China (Kansho) China allowed Ryukyuan princes and others to study in China; at first, Ryukyuan students did not get good achievements. The great king Shō Shin started to allow the people of the town of Kume, who had come from China only 128 years before, to study in China. They spoke Chinese of course, and got high achievements. Four students from Kume who studied in Nanjing came back seven years later. Four others on the next turn, came back seven years later. The people of Kume eventually came to believe that students only came from Kume. Toward the end of the 18th century, the Ryukyuan government, based in Shuri, realized that education and politics went hand in hand and thought students should be also from Shuri. The people of Kume resisted with strikes. This is called the Kansho Problem or Soudou. The P sound in Okinawan dialects The changes of the sound of P → F → H in Ryukyuan dialects suggest the changes from P through F to H in the languages of historical Japan proper. Take care that this is in Ko Ryukyu. In Late Middle Japanese　it is written that although Proto-Japanese had a *[p], by Old Japanese it had already become [ɸ] and subsequently [h] during Early Modern Japanese where it remains today. Other works The weakest point of Okinawan People, The establishment of Okinawa Prefecture from the viewpoint of evolution, Did Heike people really come to Sakishima? Important place Urasoe, What does Shimajiri mean in many islands of Okinawa? A mysterious man Amawari, Documents of Wakou in Okinawa, A lovely Yaeyama girl, Nakasone Toyomiya in Miyako, Grand kumi stages of old Ryukyu, Poems of Southern Islands, The Bible translated into the Ryukyu language by Bernard Jean Bettelheim, On Konkō-kenshū (Old Ryukyu language dictionary), Akainko, the first Okinawan music musician. Mythologies in Okinawa. Okinawaology Okinawaology is not an independent field of science, but a general term of various aspects of Okinawa studies. Okinawaology originated from Iha's Ko Ryukyu (Old Ryukyu). In General Since Ryukyu was annexed by Japan, the Okinawan people were forcefully assimilated into Japanese imperial culture. With this as the background, Iha studied the culture of both Japan and Okinawa, especially, the languages, history of Okinawa, and proposed the Okinawan people and Japanese people had the same ancestors. His studies started from Omorosoushi, and covered the study of history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, study of religions, mythology, the study of civilization, ethnology and literature. Using the Okinawan language, he tried to raise the pride of Okinawans in their land. His proposals have been established as the basis of Okinawaology. Those who study Okinawaology are not restricted to scholars. Okinawaology covers many other branches, such as politics, economics, laws, and natural circumstances. Tomb His tomb is at Urasoe Castle showing the following epitaph. Related persons Shinmura Izuru (1876–1967), Torii Ryūzō (1870–1953), Kunio Yanagita (1875–1962), Shinobu Orikuchi (1887–1953), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), Minakata Kumagusu (1867–1941), Hajime Kawakami (1879–1946), Kyōsuke Kindaichi (1882–1971), Shirō Hattori (1908–1995) Higashionna Kanjun (1882–1963): Historian concerning Okinawa, Professor at Takushoku University. Tajima Risaburo (1869–1929): Teacher of Iha. He studied Omorosoushi and gave documents of Omorosoushi to Iha. Higa Shuncho (1883–1977): Okinawa historian. Esperantist. Majikina Anko (1875–1933): One of the co-leaders of the strike. Historian. In 1925, he became the director of the Okinawa Prefectural Library. His 1000 year history of Okinawa was said to be an encyclopedia of Okinawa. Hashimoto Shinkichi (1882–1945): Japanese language scholar. Ogura Shinpei (1882–1944): Japanese language scholar. Kinjo Choei (1902–1955): Okinawan language scholar. Nakahara Zenchu (1890–1964): Okinawan culture scholar. Author of Omorosoushi Encyclopedia (1978) and History of Ryukyu (1978). Nakasone Seizen (1907–1995): After meeting Iha at Tokyo University, he studied the dialect of Okinawa. He led nursing students at the end of the war and spoke for peace. Shibuzawa Keizo (1896–1963): Minister of Finance, Folklore scholar. Hokama Shuzen (b. 1924 ): Okinawan culture scholar. Sasaki Nobutsuna (1872–1963): Tanka poet, Japanese language scholar. Shimbukuro Gen-ichiro (1885–1942): Okinawa culture scholar. Kanna Kenwa(1877–1950): The main leader of the strike. Governor of Okinawa Narahara Shigeru helped him graduate the school. He joined the Russo-Japanese war and became a rear admiral of the Japanese Navy, and a representative of the lower house. Iha Getsujo, (1880–1945): A younger brother of Iha Fuyu. Newspaperman of Okinawa Mainichi newspaper. Kanagusuku Kiko (1875–1967): One　of　the　co-leaders　of　the　strike.　Became　the first　physician　in Okinawa and　the director　of　Okinawa Prefectural Hospital. Teruya Hiroshi (1875–1939): One of the co-leaders of the strike. After studying engineering at Kyoto University, he went to Taiwan, and later he became Mayor of Naha. He contributed to the clarification of the victims of the Mudan Incident of 1871. Nishime Goro or Tokuda Goro(1873–1938): Kishaba Eijun (1885–1972): After meeting Iha, he studied the local aspects of Yaeyama. Kodama Kihachi (1856–1912): The vice principal (November 1889 – September 1891) and principal (September 1891 – April 1896) of Okinawa Normal School. In 1894, he wanted to discontinue English and a student strike began. Notes Wonder - Okinawa on Iha Fuyu Iha Fuyu Library Catalogue, in Japanese Institute for Okinawan studies, in Japanese Iha Fuyu, edit. Hokama Shuzen 2000 Ko Ryukyu, Iwanami Bunko, . In Japanese References People from Okinawa Prefecture Ryukyuan people Academic staff of the University of Tokyo 1876 births 1947 deaths 20th-century Japanese historians Historians of Japan University of Tokyo alumni Japanese Esperantists
Roger Bourdin (14 June 1900 in Paris – 14 September 1973 in Paris) was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory. His career was largely based in France. His daughter is Françoise Bourdin. Life and career Born in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, Bourdin studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a pupil of André Gresse and Jacques Isnardon. He made his professional debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1922, as Lescaut in Manon. His debut at the Palais Garnier took place in 1942, in Henri Rabaud's Mârouf, savetier du Caire. The major part of his career was to be spent between these two theatres, where he created some 30 roles, among them the title role in Milhaud's Bolivar. Bourdin seldom performed outside France, but did a few guest appearances at the Royal Opera House in London (including Pelléas to the Mélisande of Maggie Teyte in 1930), La Scala in Milan, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He also sang in the first performance of surviving fragments of Chabrier's Vaucochard et fils Ier on 22 April 1941 at the Salle du Conservatoire with Germaine Cernay, conducted by Roger Désormière. His most memorable roles were: Clavaroche in André Messager's Fortunio, Metternich in Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert's L'Aiglon, Duparquet in Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette, Lheureux in Emmanuel Bondeville's Madame Bovary, the lead in Darius Milhaud's Bolivar, but also standard roles such as Valentin, Athanael, Onegin, and Sharpless. In all he sang an estimated 100 roles throughout his long career. Bourdin was also active in operetta, and as a recitalist. He was the dedicatee of the 'Chanson à boire' (the third song of Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinée), and of 'C'est le joli printemps', one of Poulenc's Chansons villageoises FP 117, of which he gave the premiere on 28 June 1943 in the Salle Gaveau. After retiring from the stage in 1959, he became a teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He can be heard in two complete recordings, Faust and Thais, opposite his wife, the soprano Géori Boué, as well as in Werther, and Ravel's L'heure espagnole. He also appeared in the film of Messager's operetta Coups de roulis, and Le Barbier de Séville as Don Bazile. Selected filmography Tossing Ship (Coups de roulis) (1932) - Kermao Miss Helyett (1933) - Landrin Martha (1936) - Lionel Serenade (1940) - Johann Michael Vogl Sources Alain Pâris, Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle (2 vols), Editions Robert Laffont (Bouquins, Paris 1982, 4th Edn. 1995, 5th Edn 2004). Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l’opéra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). References 1900 births 1973 deaths musicians from Paris 20th-century French male opera singers French operatic baritones People from Levallois-Perret Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
The Paeksang Pavilion () is an historic structure located at the site of the Anju Fortress in Anju City, South Phyongan Province, North Korea. It is a National Treasure of North Korea (#31). The name Paeksang means one hundred scenes, as it "commands a hundred beautiful scenes". History The Pavilion was used as the command post of the Anju Fortress. First records of the Pavilion are found in the early part of the 14th Century. Koryo Dynasty ceramic items have been unearthed at the site. It was rebuilt in 1753 and once again after being destroyed during bombings in the Korean War. Description The floor is laid at a height of 2.23m. Round pillars stand on the foundation stones of the temple, standing straight on the pillars under the floor. Stairs in the middle of the floor lead to the second story. The structure has a "well-designed" stylobate with middle sections wider than the other sections between pillars on the four sides, stressing the centre. The pavilion has a hip-saddle roof and its ceiling was designed to give offer a wide view of the surrounding area. References National Treasures of North Korea
Allan William Stewart (born 21 January 1977 in Coventry, England) is an English musician. He is the second guitarist in Idlewild, the bassist in Holy Mountain and guitarist for the band Desalvo. He grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire. Stewart joined Idlewild as a touring guitarist in 2000 and became a full member in 2003. He features on the Idlewild albums Warnings/Promises, Make Another World and Post Electric Blues, of which, on the latter he is also pictured on the cover. He co-wrote "I Never Wanted" on The Remote Part. Following Idlewild's hiatus in 2010, Stewart joined Glasgow band Holy Mountain with Pete Flett (drums) and Andy McGlone (vocals). Stewart also commenced work as a guitar, bass and drum tech for many popular touring bands such as Mogwai, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Franz Ferdinand, Primal Scream, Belle & Sebastian and Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men. In 2019, Stewart once again took up touring guitarist duties for Idlewild whom he continues to perform with. He continues to reside in Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. with his partner. References 1977 births Living people English rock guitarists English male guitarists English rock bass guitarists Male bass guitarists 21st-century bass guitarists 21st-century British male musicians Musicians from Coventry People from Farnborough, Hampshire
1977 Dutch hostage crisis may refer to: 1977 Dutch school hostage crisis 1977 Dutch train hijacking See also 1975 Dutch hostage crisis (disambiguation)
Dawson City Airport is located east of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in the Klondike River valley, and is operated by the Yukon government. It has a terminal building and a runway which was paved in May 2019. The asphalt runway is long and at an elevation of . A number of studies have recommended moving the airport or realigning the runway as it is in a narrow mountain valley. The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA officers at this airport can normally handle aircraft with up to 15 passengers, but are equipped to handle daily Boeing 737 charters between Dawson City and Fairbanks (Fairbanks International Airport) during the peak summer tourism season. Airlines and destinations See also Dawson City Water Aerodrome References External links Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory Certified airports in Yukon Buildings and structures in Dawson City
Kate Dollenmayer is an American actor. She debuted as lead actor in the 2002 film Funny Ha Ha by Andrew Bujalski. She obtained her BA in earth and planetary studies from Harvard University in 1998 and then an MFA in film/video from California Institute of the Arts in 2003. She has been a faculty member at the School of Fine Arts at UCSD. She is currently a senior film archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. References External links The Dream Is Still a Dream featured on the 2005 Showcase of the CalArts' F/V Program (QuickTime Required) American film actresses Place of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American actresses Year of birth missing (living people) California Institute of the Arts alumni Harvard College alumni University of California, San Diego faculty
The 2009–10 KB Extraliga competition was a Czech domestic rugby club competition operated by the Česká Rugbyová Unie (ČSRU). It began on August 29, 2009 with a match between Tatra Smíchov and Petrovice at the Stadion ragby Císařka in Prague, and continued through to the final at the Synot Tip Arena on June 19, 2010. Bystrc and Zlín were promoted, with the former having won the KB První Liga in 2008 and the latter the promotion playoffs, while Havířov and Přelouč were relegated. Both Bystrc and Zlín went directly back to the První Liga, after occupying the bottom two places on the log at the end of the season. The final saw "home side" Slavia Prague narrowly beating defending champions Tatra Smíchov 11-10. Competition format Each club played every other club twice, with matches being played over eighteen rounds. The teams Table Schedule and results From the official ČSRU site. Within each weekend, matches are to be listed in the following order: By date. If matches are held on the same day, by kickoff time. Otherwise, in alphabetic order of home club. Rounds 1 to 5 Round 1 29 August, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 49 – 0 Petrovice 29 August, 14:00 — Praga 33 – 23 Vyškov 29 August, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 29 – 16 Dragon Brno 29 August, 14:00 — Sparta Prague 36 – 9 Bystrc 29 August, 15:00 — Říčany 46 – 9 Zlín Round 2 12 September, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 17 – 0 Říčany 12 September, 14:00 — Bystrc 10 – 29 Slavia Prague 12 September, 14:00 — Vyškov 17 – 22 Sparta Prague 12 September, 14:00 — Zlín 10 – 29 Praga 12 September, 15:00 — Petrovice 5 – 50 Dragon Brno Round 3 5 September, 13:00 — Říčany 45 – 7 Petrovice 19 September, 11:00 — Praga 16 – 28 Tatra Smíchov 19 September, 15:00 — Slavia Prague 30 – 13 Vyškov 20 September, 13:00 — Sparta Prague 50 – 3 Zlín 20 September, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 57 – 13 Bystrc Round 4 26 September, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 48 – 0 Sparta Prague 26 September, 14:00 — Vyškov 8 – 47 Dragon Brno 26 September, 14:00 — Zlín 3 – 50 Slavia Prague 26 September, 15:00 — Petrovice 14 – 6 Bystrc 26 September, 15:00 — Říčany 23 – 18 Praga Round 5 6 September, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 83 – 12 Zlín 3 October, 13:00 — Praga 61 – 0 Petrovice 3 October, 14:00 — Bystrc 19 – 30 Vyškov 3 October, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 20 – 18 Tatra Smíchov 3 October, 15:00 — Sparta Prague 22 – 23 Říčany Rounds 6 to 10 Round 6 10 October, 12:00 — Tatra Smíchov 40 – 21 Dragon Brno 10 October, 14:00 — Praga 20 – 23 Sparta Prague 10 October, 15:00 — Petrovice 0 – 39 Vyškov 10 October, 15:00 — Říčany 10 – 12 Slavia Prague 10 October, 15:00 — Zlín 15 – 20 Bystrc Round 7 12 October, 12:00 — Bystrc P – P Tatra Smíchov 17 October, 14:00 — Dragon Brno 32 – 25 Říčany 17 October, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 31 – 12 Praga 17 October, 14:00 — Sparta Prague 41 – 8 Petrovice 17 October, 14:00 — Vyškov 67 – 0 Zlín Round 8 24 October, 15:00 — Říčany 41 – 8 Bystrc 28 October, 11:00 — Sparta Prague 14 – 15 Slavia Prague 28 October, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 88 – 6 Vyškov 28 October, 12:00 — Praga 23 – 15 Dragon Brno 28 October, 13:00 — Petrovice 39 – 15 Zlín Round 9 31 October, 14:00 — Bystrc 10 – 56 Praga 31 October, 14:00 — Dragon Brno 17 – 22 Sparta Prague 31 October, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 35 – 7 Petrovice 31 October, 14:00 — Vyškov 10 – 55 Říčany 31 October, 14:00 — Zlín 6 – 38 Tatra Smíchov Round 10 7 November, 11:00 — Petrovice 0 – 67 Tatra Smíchov 7 November, 14:00 — Bystrc 6 – 33 Sparta Prague 7 November, 14:00 — Dragon Brno 12 – 33 Slavia Prague 7 November, 14:00 — Vyškov 10 – 50 Praga 7 November, 14:00 — Zlín 5 – 97 Říčany Rounds 11 to 15 Round 11 20 March, 13:00 — Praga 57 - 13 Zlín 20 March, 13:00 — Sparta Prague 31 - 0 Vyškov 20 March, 14:00 — Říčany 25 – 8 Tatra Smíchov 20 March, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 70 – 12 Bystrc 20 March, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 28 - 10 Petrovice Round 12 27 March, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 41 - 8 Praga 27 March, 14:00 — Vyškov 6 - 45 Slavia Prague 27 March, 14:00 — Zlín 3 – 47 Sparta Prague 27 March, 14:30 — Petrovice 3 – 56 Říčany 27 March, 15:00 — Bystrc 10 – 41 Dragon Brno Round 13 17 April, 14:00 — Bystrc 10 – 15 Petrovice 17 April, 14:00 — Praga 8 – 40 Říčany 17 April, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 109 – 0 Zlín 17 April, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 7 – 12 Vyškov 17 April, 15:00 — Sparta Prague 15 – 22 Tatra Smíchov Round 14 4 April, 14:00 — Zlín 6 – 43 Dragon Brno 24 April, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 13 – 3 Slavia Prague 24 April, 14:00 — Říčany 19 - 15 Sparta Prague 24 April, 14:00 — Vyškov 19 – 30 Bystrc 24 April, 15:00 — Petrovice 13 – 52 Praga Round 15 1 May, 13:00 — Sparta Prague 24 – 28 Praga 1 May, 14:00 — Bystrc 48 – 3 Zlín 1 May, 14:00 — Vyškov 31 – 8 Petrovice 1 May, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 13 – 20 Tatra Smíchov 1 May, 15:00 — Slavia Prague 6 – 13 Říčany Rounds 16 to 18 Round 16 8 May, 11:00 — Tatra Smíchov 78 – 0 Bystrc 8 May, 14:00 — Praga 19 – 22 Slavia Prague 8 May, 14:00 — Říčany 31 – 5 Dragon Brno 8 May, 14:00 — Zlín 10 – 27 Vyškov 8 May, 15:00 — Petrovice 12 – 59 Sparta Prague Round 17 29 May, 11:00 — Vyškov 8 – 66 Tatra Smíchov 29 May, 13:30 — Zlín 18 – 32 Petrovice 29 May, 14:00 — Bystrc 3 – 29 Říčany 29 May, 14:00 — Slavia Prague 40 – 10 Sparta Prague 29 May, 15:00 — Dragon Brno 34 – 19 Praga Round 18 11 April, 13:00 — Říčany 33 – 8 Vyškov 19 May, 18:30 — Sparta Prague 27 – 0 Dragon Brno 23 May, 13:00 — Tatra Smíchov 88 – 10 Zlín 23 May, 14:00 — Praga 64 – 18 Bystrc 23 May, 15:00 — Petrovice 20 – 41 Slavia Prague Playoffs Semi-finals Final References External links KB Extraliga 2009–2010 2009–10 in Czech rugby union 2009-10 Czech
Neuilly-le-Bisson () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. See also Communes of the Orne department Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine References Neuillylebisson
Hot pressing is a high-pressure, low-strain-rate powder metallurgy process for forming of a powder or powder compact at a temperature high enough to induce sintering and creep processes. This is achieved by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure. Hot pressing is mainly used to fabricate hard and brittle materials. One large use is in the consolidation of diamond-metal composite cutting tools and technical ceramics. The densification works through particle rearrangement and plastic flow at the particle contacts. The loose powder or the pre-compacted part is in most of the cases filled to a graphite mould that allows induction or resistance heating up to temperatures of typically . Pressures of up to can be applied. Other great use is in the pressing of different types of polymers. Within hot pressing technology, three distinctly different types of heating can be found in use: induction heating, indirect resistance heating and field assisted sintering technique (FAST) / direct hot pressing. Inductive heating In this process heat is produced within the mould when it is subjected to a high frequency electromagnetic field, generated by using an induction coil coupled to an electronic generator. The mold is made out of graphite or steel, and pressure is applied by one or two cylinders onto the punches. The mold is positioned within the induction coil. The advantage here is that the pressure and the inductive power are completely independent. Even powders with a liquid phase are amenable to this process and low pressures are possible, too. Among the disadvantages are the expense of a high-frequency generator and the need for proper alignment. If the mold is placed off centre, the heat distribution is uneven. But the main disadvantage is the dependence of the process on good inductive coupling and thermal conductivity of the mold. The magnetic field can penetrate the mold only 0.5mm to 3mm. From there on, the heat has to be "transported" into the mold by the thermal conductivity of the mould material. Uniform heating is much more difficult if the air gap between the mold and the inductive coil is not the same all along the mould profile. Another potential problem is heating rate. Too high a heat up rate will result in high temperature differences between the surface and core that can destroy the mold. Indirect resistance heating With indirect resistance heating technology, the mold is placed in a heating chamber. The chamber is heated by graphite heating elements. These elements are heated by electric current. The heat is then transferred into the mold by convection. As the electrical energy heats the heating elements that then heat the mold in a secondary manner, the process is called indirect resistance heating. Advantages are high achievable temperatures, independent from the conductivity of the mold and independent from heat and pressure. Main disadvantage is the time that it takes to heat up the mold. It takes relatively long for heat transfer to take place from the furnace atmosphere to the mold surface and subsequently throughout the cross-section of the mold. Field assisted sintering technique (FAST) / spark plasma sintering (SPS) The basic idea of sintering with electric current going through the mold is quite old. Resistance heating of cemented carbide powders was patented by Tayler as early as 1933. This method is currently undergoing renewed interest. Current can be pulsed or unpulsed DC or AC. Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a common name for this technique, however, it is technically incorrect since no spark and no plasma have been validated so far. Other common names for this technique are Direct Current Sintering, Rapid Hot Pressing, Direct Hot Pressing, amongst others. All these techniques are summarized under the generic term "Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST)". The compelling reason for shortening the cycle time then was to avoid grain growth and also save energy. In direct hot pressing, the mold is directly connected to electrical power. The resistivity of the mold and the powder part generates the heat directly in the mold. This results in very high heating rates. Additionally, this leads to significant increase in the sintering activity of fine metal powder aggregates which makes short cycle times of a few minutes possible. Further, this process lowers the threshold sintering temperature and pressure compared to that required in conventional sintering processes. The previous two methods are both closely dependent on an intrinsic property of the mold material, i.e., its thermal conductivity. With direct resistance heating, however, the heat is generated where it is needed. Latest research suggests that there is no basic difference between sintering with pulsed or unpulsed current (SPS or FAST). In principle the same improved sinter results (compared to conventional hot pressing) can be achieved by all direct hot pressing techniques, if the improvement is only due to the in-situ heating of the powder. If additional physical effects are present, which are associated to the electrical current density itself (which is highly dependent on the powder type), a pulsed current frequently has additional beneficial effects, because during each pulse the electrical current density peaks to a value significantly higher than a DC current with comparable heating power. Applications Recently, the manufacture of such critical items as sputtering targets and high-performance ceramic components, such as boron carbide, titanium diboride, and sialon, have been achieved. Using metal powder, the conductivity of the mold is ideal for fast heating of the work-piece. Molds with a large diameter and relatively small height can be heated quickly. The process is especially suitable for applications requiring high heating rates. This applies to materials that can only be held at high temperatures briefly, or for processes requiring rapid heating rates for high productivity. With direct hot pressing technology, materials can be sintered to their final density. The near net-shape precision achieved is very high and often eliminates mechanical reworking of materials that are often difficult to process. In the friction material industry, direct hot pressing plays an increasing role in production of sintered brake pads and clutches. Sintered brake pads are increasingly used for high speed train and motorcycle applications, as well as wind energy, ATVs, mountain bikes and industrial applications. Sintered clutch discs are predominantly used for heavy-duty trucks, vessels, tractors and other agricultural machines. Research facilities such as universities and institutes take advantage of the short sinter cycles, which speeds the research process. Recent development work includes metal-diamond-composite heat sinks, for example in LED and laser applications. Sintering metal-diamond compounds with direct hot presses goes back to the 1950s since when it is commonly practised in the diamond tool industry. Notes Metalworking
Harold Byrns (13 September 1903 – 22 February 1977) was a German-American conductor and orchestrator. Biography He was born Hans Bernstein in Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, in 1903. His father had formed a chamber music society in Hanover, and he followed in his father's footsteps. He studied with Walter Gieseking, Erich Kleiber and Leo Blech at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and became assistant to Kleiber and Blech. He worked as a conductor in Lübeck, Oldenburg, and Berlin (Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper) before emigrating to Italy in 1933 and then to the United States in 1936. He changed his name from Hans Bernstein to Harold Byrns because he felt he could not make it in America with a Jewish name. He formed his own chamber orchestra, the Harold Byrns Chamber Orchestra, which was regarded as the American counterpart of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra. While living in Los Angeles he wrote and orchestrated music for various films. He arranged the music for Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle for a February 1941 production by Anton Dolin at the Ballet Theatre on Broadway. In 1945 he orchestrated Lerner and Loewe's musical The Day Before Spring for Broadway. He was accepted for the role on the recommendation of Maurice Abravanel, who considered him a great orchestrator. After the war he returned to Berlin, and he conducted at the Deutsche Oper, Komische Oper, and was a guest with various symphony orchestras, particularly the Hanover and Turin (RAI) Radio orchestras. He gave Mahler concerts with the Vienna Symphony and on Italian Radio. Harold Byrns founded the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony in 1949. In 1950 he premiered George Antheil's Serenade No. 2. He was associated with performances of the works of Arnold Schoenberg and to an extent made his reputation with that composer. He gave the first Los Angeles performance of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, Op. 9. In 1949 he conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony in a concert to celebrate Schoenberg's 75th birthday. He performed Moses und Aron in 1971 with the Deutsche Oper. On 17 October 1954, Harold Byrns conducted the first public performance of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F sharp, on Austrian radio. (It was described as "poorly rehearsed and performed", and the work would not receive its premiere concert performance until 27 November 1972, in Munich, under the baton of Rudolf Kempe). That year he also conducted the first performance of Berthold Goldschmidt's Sinfonietta with the Suisse Romande Orchestra. He orchestrated various early works by Gustav Mahler, including six songs from Lieder und Gesänge, which were recorded as part of Giuseppe Sinopoli's complete Mahler cycle, and which have been described as "skillful and idiomatic". He was a personal friend of Mahler's widow Alma, and he played an important role in making her agree to public performances of Deryck Cooke's realisation of the 10th Symphony. She felt it was "a private love letter" from Gustav to her, and refused to even listen to a private studio recording made for her. Byrns persuaded her to listen to the tape, and she gave her immediate approval. For his devotion to Mahler, Byrns was awarded the Kilenyi Mahler Medal of Honor by the Bruckner Society of America. Harold Byrns made a specialty of orchestrating piano and vocal/piano music. He had a commission from Herbert von Karajan to orchestrate some piano pieces by Robert Schumann, and from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for some Mahler songs for which he also made the English translation. (Fischer-Dieskau and his son, Dr. Martin Fischer-Dieskau, later Chief Conductor in Canada and Taiwan, both studied conducting with Harold Byrns.) He was responsible for the complete orchestration of Nicolas Nabokov's opera Love's Labour's Lost, premiered in Brussels in 1973. For Otto Klemperer's debut in Copenhagen in 1947, he arranged a suite from Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen. He made various recordings with the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony, including the premiere recording of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto with Ivry Gitlis. Harold Byrns died in Berlin in 1977, and is buried there. His son was Peter Salm (1919–1990), Professor Emeritus of Literature and German at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a specialist in the works of Goethe and other European literary figures. References 1903 births 1977 deaths German conductors (music) German male conductors (music) American male conductors (music) 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century German musicians 20th-century American male musicians Emigrants from Nazi Germany Immigrants to the United States
Marie-Claude Blais is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Moncton North as a member of the Progressive Conservatives from 2010 to 2014. Blais is a graduate in law from the Université de Moncton and the Université de Sherbrooke, and has practised law for 12 years. She has been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick since 1997, and served as party executive director and legal counsel for several years. In addition to her professional activities, Blais is active in the Moncton community, and involved in parish and local community organizations. She has also participated in the organization of the campaign to finance the renovation of Aberdeen Cultural Centre, an important site of Acadian cultural life in the region. She was sworn in on October 12, 2010 to the positions of Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and Consumer Affairs of New Brunswick in the government of David Alward. She was defeated in the 2014 general election by Liberal Chris Collins. In May 2015, she was appointed Justice of the Court of the Queens Bench of New Brunswick. References Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs Women MLAs in New Brunswick Acadian people Lawyers in New Brunswick Living people Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick Politicians from Moncton Attorneys General of New Brunswick Women government ministers of Canada Judges in New Brunswick Canadian women judges 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians Year of birth missing (living people)
Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) is a public school district located in Livermore, California, United States. It is located in Alameda County. As of July 2023, the superintendent is Chris van Schaak. In addition to Livermore, it includes a very small portion of Pleasanton. The district operates 19 schools: nine elementary (K–5) schools, three middle (6-8) schools, two K-8 schools, two comprehensive high schools and three alternative high schools. There previously were also two charter schools in the area, one K-8 and one high school, both operated by the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation, a local 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded by parents and teachers. Schools Elementary Altamont Creek Arroyo Seco, a K–5 grade school with approximately 700 students Emma C. Smith Jackson Avenue Leo R. Croce (K-5) Lawrence Elementary (TK-5) Marylin Avenue Rancho Las Positas Sunset Vineyard K-8 Joe Michell K-8 School Junction Avenue K-8 School Middle Christensen East Avenue William Mendenhall High Del Valle and Phoenix Continuation High Schools, two schools sharing one building since 2004 Granada High School, Livermore's second high school Livermore High School, established in 1891 as California's first union high school Vineyard High School, an alternative independent study school Adult education Livermore Adult School Charter schools (closed) Livermore Valley Charter School (closed due to conflicts of interest and fiscal problems within the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation [TVLC]) Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory (high school) (closed due to conflicts of interest and fiscal problems within the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation [TVLC]) References External links LVJUSD public schools site list Leo R. Croce School Marylin Avenue Elementary School Livermore Valley Charter School Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory High School Tri-Valley Learning Corp., a not-for-profit charter school management organization Alameda County Office of Education California Department of Education School districts in Alameda County, California Livermore, California Livermore Valley
Sampson Avard (October 23, 1800 – April 15, 1869) was one of the founders and leaders of the Mormon vigilantes known as the Danites, which existed in Missouri during the Missouri Mormon War in 1838. Early life Sampson Avard was born at St. Peter, Guernsey, Channel Islands, British Isles. As an immigrant in the United States, he worked as a physician and later became a Campbellite minister in Pennsylvania. Mormon convert In 1835 in Freedom, Pennsylvania, Orson Pratt baptized him a member of Church of the Latter Day Saints. Church elder Pratt ordained him an Elder and leader of the local branch of the church. After serving a mission near his home with Erastus Snow, he moved to the Latter Day Saint community at Kirtland, Ohio in 1836. He was ordained a High Priest in 1837, though his position as a High Priest was also revoked that same year for unclear reasons. Danites In 1838, while living in Far West, Missouri and serving in the church's High Council there, Avard witnessed the heated conflict between the growing Mormon population and the established non-Mormon Missourians. He was the founding organizer and leader of the Danites, a secret paramilitary vigilante militia, bound by oaths and intent on retaliating for Mormon injuries and losses. It remains unclear the extent to which Joseph Smith was aware or in favor of Avard's activities, although he recognized the Danites and encouraged them to be lawful. Danite militaristic activities intensified the 1838 Mormon War and drew the attention of state government and militia. Arrest and excommunication After the Mormons were expelled from the Missouri and Joseph Smith was arrested, Avard was the chief witness against Smith, testifying that Smith was the mastermind behind the Danites. Smith denounced the group as "frauds and secret abominations" and excommunicated Avard in March 1839. Avard never attempted to return to the Latter Day Saints. Post-Mormon years In 1850 Sampson Avard was practicing medicine in Edwardsville, Illinois. Death Sampson Avard died in 1869 in Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois. Notes References . External links Biography at The Joseph Smith Papers Project 1800 births 1838 Mormon War 1869 deaths American Latter Day Saints American vigilantes British Latter Day Saints Converts to Mormonism from Restoration Movement denominations Danites Guernsey Latter Day Saints Guernsey Mormon missionaries Guernsey emigrants to the United States Guernsey people History of the Latter Day Saint movement Mormon missionaries in the United States People excommunicated by the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) People from Edwardsville, Illinois Religious leaders from Missouri
Robert Adam (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles. Adam is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and Design Council Expert. His career was the subject of Richard John's Robert Adam and the Search for a Modern Classicism, a survey of Adam's projects with a foreword by Charles, Prince of Wales. Education and early career Adam attended the University of Westminster. In 1973, he won the British School at Rome's Rome Prize in Architecture. Adam practiced as an architect, working part-time as a freelance architectural journalist until 1977, when he became partner at a firm in Winchester. In 1992, he founded Robert Adam Architects there. In 2021, he was awarded Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Oxford Brookes University. Work Edinburgh Forthside Adam was appointed master-planner of Edinburgh Forthside in which capacity he designed streetscapes of low-rise buildings in Leith and Granton. Adam prescribed strict design codes on the area's developers so that both modern and traditional architects could build alongside one another without clashing. Builders had to adhere to guidelines on size, materials and proportions. Adam also laid out rules on how the buildings relate to the streets such as a ban on glass facades. Sackler Library Adam designed Oxford University’s Sackler Library, which opened in 2001 and incorporated Oxford's Ashmolean Museum collections. The principal building is a circular library, with a smaller circular entrance onto the street, and attached wings arranged around internal courtyards. His design referenced ancient Greek architecture, specifically the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. Ashley Park Ashley Park, Hampshire, a new country house, completed in 2004, was the first new building to gain permission under 1997 English planning regulations that allowed major new houses in the countryside. It was described by the government inspector that granted the permission as, "an innovative approach to the classical traditions, re-interpreted for the 21st century." 198–202, Piccadilly 198–202 Piccadilly, London, an office development with ground floor retail, was completed in 2007. The classical building was designed to fit within the established historic setting. An octagonal tower marks the corner of the site and, at the upper levels, a colonnaded glass rooftop pavilion screens the plant rooms. Each façade is detailed to reflect the character of that street and the design incorporates cast bronze column capitals by classical sculptor, Alexander Stoddart. Books Classical Architecture: A Complete Handbook, (1990) London:Viking The 7 Sins of Architects, (2010) The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990, (2012) Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classic Columns: 40 Years of Writing on Architecture, (2017) Cumulus Time for Architecture: On Modernity, Memory and Time in Architecture and Urban Design, (2020) Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing Exhibits Pembroke Table (1986), a drop-leaf table designed by Robert Adam in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, cited by the museum as "an example of the revivalism that has become a significant, if much debated, part of 1980s architecture and design." Tower of the Orders – A drawing by Adam, displayed at RIBA, intended to represent the "continuity of classicism with the antique architectural orders". Awards References 20th-century British architects 21st-century British architects New Classical architects 1948 births Living people
Mundakakanniamman Koil is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS, located near Brindavan Street and Mundakakanni Amman Koil Street in Mylapore, along the Buckingham Canal. The station exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS, and serves the neighbourhood of northern Mylapore, Santhome and Royapettah. History Mundakakanniamman Koil station is the 18th MRTS station to be operational. Work on the station began in 2002, at an initial estimated cost of 85.5 million. The station has been built as an additional one in the first phase of the Chennai MRTS network completed much earlier. Initially slated to be completed in April 2009 at a cost of 350 million, the construction was delayed due to land-acquisition issues. The next deadline was set as 2012 and again it was delayed due to getting approval for the name. The cost of construction was 100 million. The station was opened to public on 14 May 2014. Unnecessary Controversy in station's name The station name had been courting unnecessary controversy ever since it was slated to be completed. The construction cost had run to 100 million. The station's name ran into unnecessary controversy in June 2013 when over 80 per cent work was over, since some local non hindu residents and organisations opposed the naming of the station after the Hindu goddess Mundakakanniamman though there are stations in India like Masjid in Mumbai suburban railway and St.Thomas Mount in Chennai suburban railway. A temple of Goddess Mundakakanniamman is almost in the vicinity of the station, which covers Ganeshapuram and Slatterpuram that have a good number of Christian and Muslim population. The station's name boards were whitewashed by some miscreants, and the inauguration of the station, which was earlier scheduled for 15 May 2013, was deferred by a year. Later the Tamil Nadu government decided to retain the name since the station is located on the very street where the temple is situated, and the station was named " Mundakakanniamman Koil." Structure The station is an elevated one built on the banks of the Buckingham Canal like most other MRTS stations. The station building consists of 2,400 sq m of parking area in its basement. The design of the station is similar to that of the Thirumailai station. The station has only one entrance as the Buckingham Canal runs alongside. Service and connections See also Chennai MRTS Chennai suburban railway Chennai Metro Transport in Chennai References Railway stations in India opened in 2014 Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System stations Railway stations in Chennai
Christopher Robert Badcock (born 1946) is a British sociologist and Emeritus Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics, from which he retired in 2011. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1973 under the supervision of Ernest Gellner. His thesis, and his early work thereafter, focused on the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. He served as a lecturer in sociology at Polytechnic of the South Bank from 1969 to 1973, and was on the faculty in the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics from 1974 until his retirement. He is known for working with Bernard Crespi to develop the imprinted brain hypothesis, according to which autism results from "a paternal bias in the expression of imprinted genes", whereas psychosis results from a maternal and/or X-chromosome bias in the expression of such genes. References Living people 1946 births British sociologists People educated at Maidstone Grammar School Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of London South Bank University Academics of the London School of Economics Autism researchers
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External links Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Atlantic Book Awards Awards established in 1991 1991 establishments in Nova Scotia Canadian fiction awards
In Germany, the President of the Bundesrat or President of the Federal Council (German: Bundesratspräsident) is the chairperson (speaker) of the Bundesrat (Federal Council). The president is elected by the Bundesrat for a term of one year (usually from November 1 to October 31 in the next year). Traditionally, the presidency of the Bundesrat rotates among the leaders of the sixteen state governments. This is however only an established practice; theoretically the Bundesrat is free to elect any member it chooses, and a president could also be re-elected (which has happened once, in 1957). As well as acting as a chairperson, the president of the Bundesrat is ex officio deputy of the Federal President. The President of the German Federal Council is 4th in the German order of precedence. In addition, the main celebration of German Unity Day is traditionally held in the state that holds the presidency. The president of the Bundesrat convenes and chairs plenary sessions of the body and is formally responsible for representing the Federal Republic in the Bundesrat. The president is aided by two vice presidents who play an advisory role and deputise in the president's absence. The three together constitute the presidium of the Bundesrat. The current president of the Bundesrat is Peter Tschentscher, the First Mayor of Hamburg, whose one-year term started on 1 November 2022. Election The Basic Law provides that "the Bundesrat elects its President for one year" (Art. 52.1). In order to be elected, a nominee needs a majority of votes in the Bundesrat (currently 35 of 69). In practice the position rotates among the states equally, following a constitutional convention known as the “Königstein agreement” (Königsteiner Vereinbarung). The position rotates from one state to another in an order determined by population, the presidency descending from the most populous state to the least. The order is updated based on the newest census-data everytime a rotation has been completed. The Königsstein agreement also states that, if the sitting President of the Bundesrat exits his office as Minister-President, by losing a state election, resignation, or death, the new Minister-President of that state is elected President of the Bundesrat subsequently, but only to complete their predecessors term. The last time this occurred was in April 1999, when Hans Eichel, President of the Bundesrat and Minister-President of Hesse, had lost the 1999 Hesse state election and his successor Roland Koch served the end of his term until October 1999. The current order of rotation of the presidency of the Bundesrat is as follows: North Rhine-Westphalia Bavaria Baden-Württemberg Lower Saxony Hesse Saxony Rhineland-Palatinate Berlin Schleswig-Holstein Brandenburg Saxony-Anhalt Thuringia Hamburg Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Saarland Bremen Deputy to the Federal President Article 57 of the Basic Law provides that: If the Federal President is unable to perform his duties, or if his office falls prematurely vacant, the President of the Bundesrat shall exercise his powers. If the office of the Federal President falls vacant, the President of the Bundesrat fills in as acting President. While doing so, they do not continue to exercise the role of chair of the Bundesrat. If the president resigns, dies, or is removed from office, a successor is elected within thirty days. Three Presidents of the Bundesrat have served as acting Presidents: Karl Arnold (from 7 September 1949 to 12 September 1949 after he was elected as President of the Bundesrat and before Theodor Heuss was elected as the first President of Germany. With a tenure of only six days he is yet the shortest serving head of state in German history) Jens Böhrnsen (from 31 May 2010 to 30 June 2010 after the resignation of Horst Köhler and before the election of Christian Wulff) Horst Seehofer (from 17 February 2012 to 18 March 2012 after the resignation of Christian Wulff and before the election of Joachim Gauck) If the Federal President is abroad on a state visit the President of the Bundesrat does not assume all of the Federal President's responsibilities but may "deputise" for him or her, performing on the Federal President's behalf merely those tasks that require his or her physical presence, such as the signing of documents. List of presidents Political Party \|- \| style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan= 8\| The office was vacant from 20 October to 3 December 1976. \|- \|- \| style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan= 8\| The office was vacant from 24 April to 15 May 1987. \|- \|- \| style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan= 8\| The office was vacant from 19 March to 15 May 1992. \|- \|- \| style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan= 8\| The office was vacant from 27 October to 1 November 1998. \|- \|- \| style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan= 8\| The office was vacant from 7 April to 30 April 1999. \|- See also Politics of Germany Notes References External links The Bundesrat - President and Presidium (Official Bundesrat website) "Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949" Official Bundesrat website (English). Legislative branch of the Government of Germany Lists of political office-holders in Germany Bundesrat
The lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica), also known as Indian whistling duck or lesser whistling teal, is a species of whistling duck that breeds in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are nocturnal feeders that during the day may be found in flocks around lakes and wet paddy fields. They can perch on trees and sometimes build their nest in the hollow of a tree. This brown and long-necked duck has broad wings that are visible in flight and produces a loud two-note wheezy call. It has a chestnut rump, differentiating it from its larger relative, the fulvous whistling duck, which has a creamy white rump. Description This chestnut brown duck is confusable only with the fulvous whistling duck (D. bicolor) but has chestnut upper-tail coverts unlike the creamy white in the latter. The ring around the eye is orange to yellow. When flying straight, their head is held below the level of the body as in other Dendrocygna species. The crown appears dark and the sexes are alike in plumage. They fly slowly but with rapid wing-flapping and usually produce a repetitive wheezy seasick call as they circle overhead. They are very nocturnal and often rest during the day. The outermost primary feather has the inner vane modified. They produce very prominent whistling sound while flying. Distribution and habitat This is a largely resident species distributed widely across lowland wetlands of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species also occur on islands in the region including the Andamans, Nicobars and Maldives. They sometimes make local movements in response to weather and changes in water availability and the more northern birds winter further south. They are found in freshwater wetlands with good vegetation cover and often rest during the day on the banks or even on the open sea in coastal areas. Downy chicks are black with a white eyebrow and white patches on the back of the head, the wing, lower back and rump. Albino individuals have been seen in the wild. Large numbers are sometimes found in urban wetlands such as in Kolkata and Goa, particularly during winter. In the Alipore Zoological Gardens, captive individuals were introduced in the 1930s and wild birds joined this nucleus subsequently. With a wide distribution range between 1 and 10 million km², they are considered to have a secure global population of between two and twenty million individuals. They are not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat. Hunters in Assam however have been known to raise the ducklings to serve as live decoy. Behaviour and ecology Lesser whistling duck are usually gregarious. They feed mainly on plants taken from the water as well as grains from cultivated rice apart from small fish, frogs and invertebrates such as molluscs and worms. They dabble as well as dive in water. They will often waddle on the land and Common mynas have been noted to follow them on grass. Courtship involves the male facing the female and dipping and raising its bill in the water and swimming around the female. They breed during the monsoon or rainy season and may vary locally in relation to the food availability. The nest site may be a tree hole lined with twigs and grass or built in the fork of a large tree, sometimes reusing an old nest of a kite or heron or even on the ground. The clutch varies from 7 to 12 white eggs that are incubated by both the parents. Large clutches of up to 17 have been noted although these may be indications of intraspecific brood parasitism. The eggs hatch after about 22–24 days. More than one brood may be raised in a single season. Young birds may sometimes be carried on the back of the parents. Local names like sili and silhahi in India are based on their wheezy two-note calls. They become very tame in captivity, walking about and responding to whistles. Individuals in captivity in the USA have lived for up to 9 years. Several endoparasitic cestodes including Hymenolepis javanensis and Cittotaenia sandgroundi have been described from lesser whistling duck hosts apart from ectoparasitic bird lice and mites. References External links Call recordings Videos and other media on the Internet Bird Collection lesser whistling duck Birds of China Birds of South Asia Birds of Southeast Asia lesser whistling duck
Brookeborough railway station first opened by the Clogher Valley Railway, which is a three foot gauge line. It opened in May 1887 and closed on 1 January 1942 (with the last trains running the previous day). The station is in the village of Brookeborough, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. References Railway stations opened in 1887 Railway stations closed in 1942 Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1880s Disused railway stations in County Fermanagh Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in the 1940s
Cady Noland (born 1956) is an American postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other themes. Her work has been exhibited in museums and expositions including the Whitney Biennial in 1991 and Documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany. Noland is known for her reticence to be publicly identified, having only ever allowed one photograph of herself to be publicly released, and for her numerous disputes and lawsuits with museums, galleries, and collectors over their handling of her work. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and is the daughter of the Color Field painter Kenneth Noland. Style and themes Noland's work often explores what she calls "The American Nightmare," or aspects of American culture she considers toxic, such as social climbing, glamour, celebrity, violence, and death. She describes these social constructs as a "game." Noland's work has dealt with themes of restrictions, both physical and mental, often using metal in her work to evoke senses of joining or separating. Noland's central theme in her work retains fear, both personal and cultural. Crashed Car was brought upon by the fact that she was in a car wreck at a very young age. In Plane Crash she emphasizes her fear of flying. The Family and the SLA that kidnapped Hearst is based on her fear of cults. Her later works have been said to be less aggressive and more friendly to viewers, and more stable and grounded. Noland's work also studies the American social landscape and shows America's social identity to be in fragments. On top of that, she makes sculptures that are prompted by the theme of humiliation that in part lives in the American consciousness. It is all in relation to the institution, containment and mobility, and to the American way of life. Patty Hearst and her grandfather, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, have both been recurring figures in Noland's work. Noland has used Patty's story as a kidnapping victim who would later join her kidnappers - the Symbionese Liberation Army - in several high-profile crimes, as well as her grandfather's role as an architect of the contemporary American media landscape, to explore themes of propaganda, brainwashing, and psychopathy. Noland's arrangement of objects have casualness that call into question the status of the art object and its artistic position, and her works are often composed of assembled found objects. Like other fellow artists, such as Mike Scott and Laurie Parsons, Cady Noland's paintings resist interpretation. Appropriated by Noland, the role of the press photograph expanded in a post-war country that was understanding and exporting itself through images. She is known for reframing the photo that she appropriates through the materiality of the image itself. It is then transferred by silkscreen from source to surface. According to Noland, to reproduce the image is to insert it into a category of knowledge and understanding. One that is transformed by way of a continuous return. Objectification Process (1989) features a rolled-up flag placed on an orthopedic walker. Noland's incorporation of walkers, canes, police barricades, and fences work to convey themes of immobility, containment, confinement, and violence. This Piece Has No Title Yet (1989), one of Noland's most well-known works, is a room-sized installation composed of over 1000 six-packs of Budweiser beer stacked behind metal scaffolding. Curator and dealer Jeffrey Deitch called the work "her masterpiece, her greatest work." In her work, Not Yet Titled (Bald Manson Girls Sit-In Demonstration) (1993–1994), Noland changes both the image and the text. It is a wire photo capturing four of the young women from the Manson family kneeling on a sidewalk. Relationship with art market Noland set the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living woman ($6.6 million), for her 1989 work Oozewald sold at Sotheby's. In the fall of 2012 the same auction house, Sotheby's, removed her aluminum print Cowboys Milking (1990) from a contemporary sale after the artist "disavowed" the work. Both Noland and the auction house were later sued by the piece's owner, gallerist Marc Jancou, for twenty six million dollars (with twenty million having been sought from Noland and six from Sotheby's). In November 2012 a judge dismissed Jancou's lawsuit. Noland's 1989 red silkscreen on aluminum of Lee Harvey Oswald, titled Bluewald, sold for $9.8 million at Christie's in May 2015, setting a new auction record for the artist. In June 2015, the Ohio collector Scott Mueller filed a lawsuit at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to reverse his 2014 purchase of Noland's sculpture Log Cabin (1990) for $1.4 million; he claimed that Nolan had "disavowed" the work by not approving the extensive restoration of the piece. The artist disavowed her sculpture, following its sale to Mueller, because she believed the work had been restored "beyond recognition." This restoration occurred following a long-term loan to Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany, where the condition of the logs had deteriorated from 10 years of outdoor exposure. A conservator was consulted and hired to complete the restoration in Germany, where all of the decayed wood was replaced with logs obtained from the same Montana source as the original sculpture. The artist, who believes she should have been consulted about this, felt the extensively restored piece was essentially recreated, and therefore, it was now an unauthorized copy of the original, violating her copyright protections as outlined in the Visual Artists Rights Act, a 1990 addition to the US Copyright law. Since the disavowal in 2016, the artist has been involved in complicated legal battles regarding the restoration of Log Cabin and the application of the copyright laws pertaining to the materials used in her sculpture, German vs. US laws, and her rights to copyright as a living contemporary artist. A lawsuit was dismissed in June 2020 by a New York district court judge, who ruled that Noland's rights had not been violated. Several critics have suggested that Noland's legal disputes surrounding the sale, restoration, and treatment of various works, along with her longtime self-imposed distance from the traditional gallery ecosystem, are themselves a form of artistic statement and communication. Writing for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Zoë Lescaze posited, "She has become known as the art world’s boogeyman, but she might be its conscience." Exhibition history The artist's first solo exhibition took place in 1989 at Colin de Land's American Fine Arts gallery in New York. Noland's major exhibitions include: Whitney Biennial, New York (1991); Strange Abstraction with Robert Gober, Philip Taaffe, and Christopher Wool, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1991); Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (1994); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1995); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1996); Documenta 9, Kassel (1992); MONO: Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (1999); Cady Noland: The American Dream, Frans Hals Museum - Hal, Haarlem (2010–11); and Cady Noland (2018-2019), an extensive survey of the artist's work at Museum of Modern Art, MMK in Frankfurt. The American Dream (2010–2011) was an exhibition of assemblages and silkscreens that showed Noland's practice from 1989 to 1995, the year of her last solo presentation in the Netherlands at Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Noland's first solo gallery show in the United States in over two decades, The Clip-On Method, opened at Galerie Buchholz in New York in 2021 and was accompanied by the publication of a two-volume artist's book of the same. Notable works in public collections Cart Full of Action (1986), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The American Trip (1988), Museum of Modern Art, New York The Big Slide (1989), Art Institute of Chicago Booth - The Big Plunge (1989), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Celebrity Trash Spill (1989), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Deep Social Space (1989), Museum Brandhorst, Munich Frame Device (1989), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Objectification Process (1989), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Oozewald (1989), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Tanya as a Bandit (1989), Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum, New York This Piece Has No Title Yet (1989), Rubell Museum, Miami Untitled (1989), Baltimore Museum of Art Untitled (1989), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Bluewald (1989-1990), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Awning Blanks (1990), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Chainsaw Cut Cowboy Head (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Chainsaw Cut Cowboy with Baked Beans (1990), Museum Ludwig, Cologne Dance Hall Doors (1990), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Enquirer Page with Eyes Cut Out (1990), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Misc. Spill (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Press Czar - telling the story of Randolph Hearst (1990), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium SLA Group Shot #4 (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Pipe Soffit. (1992), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Mr. Sir (1993), The Broad, Los Angeles Sham Death (1993-1994), The Broad, Los Angeles Surrounded!!! (1993-1994), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Tower of Terror (1993-1994), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland Untitled Xerox Cut-Out (Squeaky Fromme/Gerald Ford) (1993-1994), Museum of Modern Art, New York Walk and Stalk (1993-1994), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Joan, is there one law? (1994), Art Institute of Chicago Publyck Sculpture (1994), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland Untitled (1994), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Untitled (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) (1994), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Untitled (1997-1998), Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts 4 in One Sculpture (1998), Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Untitled (2008), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis References External links Frieze Magazine Review of her Paula Cooper Exhibition Noland, Cady, “Towards a Metalanguage of E V I L", Balcon No. 4, 1989 1956 births Living people American conceptual artists Women conceptual artists Postmodern artists Sculptors from New York (state) Sarah Lawrence College alumni American women sculptors American installation artists 20th-century American women artists Artists from Washington, D.C. 21st-century American women artists
Riversdale, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland, and is open to the public as a museum. Once the manor house and centerpiece of a slave plantation, Riversdale was built for Belgian émigré Henri Joseph Stier, Baron de Stier, who lived in the William Paca House in Annapolis, Maryland immediately prior to building Riversdale. Stier planned the house in 1801 to resemble his Belgian residence, the Chateau du Mick. Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband, George Calvert, the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was a natural son of The 5th Baron Baltimore. Rosalie and George Calvert's son, Charles Benedict Calvert, established the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, College Park, on part of the Riversdale property. While its design has been attributed to William Thornton, this is not supported by available evidence on Thornton's career. The house is architecturally significant as a well-preserved five-part Federal mansion, and historically important for its association with the Calverts, an important Maryland family. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. History The house was begun in 1801 by Henri Josef Stier and his wife Marie Louise Peeters on almost of land north of Bladensburg. Stier first commissioned Benjamin Henry Latrobe to do design work, but could not wait for Latrobe's late response. The local builder-architect William Lovering carried out the design work to Stier's direction, while Latrobe's rejected design was eventually used at Clifton, in Richmond, Virginia. The east wing was completed first, and the Stiers occupied it in August 1802. However, the elder Stiers returned to Belgium in June 1803, and Rosalie and George Calvert took up residence at Riversdale, bringing with them a large number of enslaved people. Plans for the grounds were developed by landscape architect William Russell Birch in 1805, although much of his plan was unrealized. The west wing was completed in 1806, completing the full five-part ensemble, one of the last of its kind. For thirteen years Riversdale housed the Peeters/Stier collection of European paintings, which was unique in the United States at that time. It included more than 63 paintings by such artists as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Breughel and Titian. However, most of the larger pieces were kept in storage, and in 1816 they were returned. However, before they were packed, Rembrandt Peale persuaded Rosalie Calvert to display them for two weeks at Riversdale in April 1816. Rosalie became the owner of Riversdale in the same year, but died in 1821. George Calvert continued to live there until his death in 1838. The estate was divided between his sons George Henry and Charles Benedict Calvert. Charles Benedict lived his whole life at Riversdale, pursuing agricultural studies. His unique octagonal "cow-house" was particularly notable, but it burned in 1910. Charles Benedict died in 1864. The property was then divided between his widow Charlotte and five children, with Charlotte in the mansion. The core of the property was eventually sold to John Fox and Alexander Lutz of New York in 1887. Fox and Lutz acquired an adjacent property that belonged to George Henry Calvert and began to develop it as the town of Riverdale Park. The new town offered convenient transportation into Washington on the B&O railroad line that ran through the property. The mansion was preserved in a park, but was eventually used as a boarding house. Thomas H. Pickford bought the house in 1912 and undertook renovations, making significant alterations to the wings and moving some of the original mantels to his house in New York. From 1917 to 1929 the house was occupied by California U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson. The sale of Riversdale in 1926 to Senator Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas, was a consternation to Johnson, whose lease ran until 1929. Johnson moved out in the spring of 1929, the Caraways moved in. The Caraways undertook other renovations but Thaddeus died in November 1931. His widow, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, took over his seat and was twice elected but was unable to meet the mortgage. A foreclosure sale ensued, and in 1932, Thomas H. Pickford purchased the property, selling the following year to former Oregon congressman Abraham Walter Lafferty. Lafferty lived at Riversdale from 1933 to 1949, attempting to buy the parcel to the south of the mansion from Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Caraway, however, sold the parcel to a developer in 1947, who drained the small lake and built houses. Lafferty sold Riversdale in 1949 to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission for its Prince George's County regional office. The offices remained there until 1982, when structural concerns caused the offices to be moved to other quarters. Restoration ensued, and the house opened to the public in 1993. Description Riversdale is a Federal style five-part mansion with a 2-story main block and -story end pavilions linked by -story hyphens. The seven-bay stucco-covered brick central block features a hip roof. An entry porch with Tuscan columns and a small pediment shelters double entry doors on the front The porch sits in a three-bay indentation, which is symmetrical to both the north and south sides of the house. The front doors are topped by a fanlight The north porch has a dairy storage area beneath. A low brick basement story is lighted by fixed four-light windows. The south, or garden porch has a hipped roof supported by four Tuscan columns. Triple-sash windows open onto the porch, permitting passage from the porch to the center parlor. Both porches have floors of black, white and pink marble. Apart from the windows on the south porch, windows are typically nine-over-nine sashes on the first floor and six-over-nine on the second. The roof is clad in wood singles, painted red, with four stucco-covered chimneys, one of which is a dummy for the sake of symmetry. Similarly, one second-floor window on the north side is false. The three-by-one-bay end pavilions are turned so that their narrow ends face north and south, with pedimented windows in the center of the main bay. The east pavilion served as the kitchen and has a central entrance on the east side. The west wing contained the stable and carriage house, but was altered in the 1930s as a music room. The 1993 renovation has returned the west elevation to its original form with two doors and three windows. The connecting hyphens each have entrances centered in the north elevations. The interior of the first floor contains three parlors across the south side of the house. On the north side is a central entry hall, with a stair hall on the right and a service hall on the left. All spaces have elaborate original woodwork. The central parlor, or salon de milieu, is the most elaborate space, with wood Ionic pilasters, plaster ceiling decoration and a plaster cornice. The east parlor served as the dining room. The west parlor was the salle de compagnie. The second floor is arranged similarly to the first, with the chief chambers above the east and west parlors. Each chamber has an adjoining dressing chamber. A smaller bedchamber with curved walls on the east and west occupies the center. The north side has several smaller chambers. One window is partially obstructed at the stair hall, blanked on the northeast bedchamber. An unusual mezzanine level with a ceiling height of just over six feet lies between the first and second floors on the northeast side, connected with areas on the same level in the east hyphen and pavilion. The main level of the east hyphen housed a breakfast room, which was altered in 1912 by the removal of the rooms above into a banquet room. The upper levels have since been restored to provide a caretaker's apartment. The west hyphen was the slave plantation proprietor's study. The former carriage house and stables, damaged by fire in the late 1920s, was converted into a two-story music room. The basement contains a number of spaces, used principally for storage, including a wine cellar and an interior connection to the dairy under the front stairs. There are crawl spaces under the wings, with impressive brick arches. A three-by-one-bay secondary structure, or dependency, stands to the east of the east wing. The 2-story stucco-covered brick building was used as a kitchen, with single spaces on each level. Archeological studies have revealed the foundations of other structures, including a water tower, wash house and hothouse. Gallery References External links Riversdale Historical Society website , including photo in 2003, at the Maryland Historical Trust Belgian-American history National Historic Landmarks in Maryland Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic house museums in Maryland Houses completed in 1807 Calvert family residences Federal architecture in Maryland Plantation houses in Maryland Museums in Prince George's County, Maryland Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Prince George's County, Maryland 1807 establishments in Maryland
```java package home.smart.fly.animations.customview.views; import android.animation.ValueAnimator; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Color; import android.graphics.ColorFilter; import android.graphics.ColorMatrixColorFilter; import android.graphics.Matrix; import android.graphics.Paint; import android.graphics.Path; import android.graphics.PixelFormat; import android.graphics.PorterDuff; import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.graphics.drawable.Animatable; import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable; import android.os.Build; import android.util.Log; import android.view.Choreographer; import android.view.animation.DecelerateInterpolator; import static android.content.ContentValues.TAG; /** * Created by jing on 16-12-6. / public class WaveDrawable extends Drawable implements Animatable, ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener { private static final float WAVE_HEIGHT_FACTOR = 0.2f; private static final float WAVE_SPEED_FACTOR = 0.02f; private static final int UNDEFINED_VALUE = Integer.MIN_VALUE; private Drawable mDrawable; private int mWidth, mHeight; private int mWaveHeight = UNDEFINED_VALUE; private int mWaveLength = UNDEFINED_VALUE; private int mWaveStep = UNDEFINED_VALUE; private int mWaveOffset = 0; private int mWaveLevel = 0; private ValueAnimator mAnimator = null; private float mProgress = 0.3f; private Paint mPaint; private Bitmap mMask; private Matrix mMatrix = new Matrix(); private boolean mRunning = false; private boolean mIndeterminate = false; private static final PorterDuffXfermode sXfermode = new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_IN); private static ColorFilter sGrayFilter = new ColorMatrixColorFilter(new float[]{ 0.264F, 0.472F, 0.088F, 0, 0, 0.264F, 0.472F, 0.088F, 0, 0, 0.264F, 0.472F, 0.088F, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 }); private ColorFilter mCurFilter = null; private Choreographer.FrameCallback mFrameCallback = new Choreographer.FrameCallback() { @Override public void doFrame(long l) { invalidateSelf(); if (mRunning) { Choreographer.getInstance().postFrameCallback(this); } } }; public WaveDrawable(Drawable drawable) { init(drawable); } public WaveDrawable(Context context, int imgRes) { Drawable drawable; if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) { drawable = context.getDrawable(imgRes); } else { drawable = context.getResources().getDrawable(imgRes); } init(drawable); } private void init(Drawable drawable) { mDrawable = drawable; mMatrix.reset(); mPaint = new Paint(); mPaint.setFilterBitmap(false); mPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK); mPaint.setXfermode(sXfermode); mWidth = mDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth(); mHeight = mDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight(); if (mWidth > 0 && mHeight > 0) { mWaveLength = mWidth; mWaveHeight = Math.max(8, (int) (mHeight WAVE_HEIGHT_FACTOR)); mWaveStep = Math.max(1, (int) (mWidth * WAVE_SPEED_FACTOR)); updateMask(mWidth, mWaveLength, mWaveHeight); } setProgress(0); start(); } /** * Set wave move distance (in pixels) in very animation frame * @param step distance in pixels / public void setWaveSpeed(int step) { mWaveStep = Math.min(step, mWidth / 2); } /* * Set wave amplitude (in pixels) * @param amplitude / public void setWaveAmplitude(int amplitude) { amplitude = Math.max(1, Math.min(amplitude, mHeight / 2)); int height = amplitude 2; if (mWaveHeight != height) { mWaveHeight = height; updateMask(mWidth, mWaveLength, mWaveHeight); invalidateSelf(); } } /** * Set wave length (in pixels) * @param length / public void setWaveLength(int length) { length = Math.max(8, Math.min(mWidth 2, length)); if (length != mWaveLength) { mWaveLength = length; updateMask(mWidth, mWaveLength, mWaveHeight); invalidateSelf(); } } /** * Set the wave loading in indeterminate mode or not * @param indeterminate / public void setIndeterminate(boolean indeterminate) { mIndeterminate = indeterminate; if (mIndeterminate) { if (mAnimator == null) { mAnimator = getDefaultAnimator(); } mAnimator.addUpdateListener(this); mAnimator.start(); } else { if (mAnimator != null) { mAnimator.removeUpdateListener(this); mAnimator.cancel(); } setLevel(calculateLevel()); } } /* * Set customised animator for wave loading animation * @param animator / public void setIndeterminateAnimator(ValueAnimator animator) { if (mAnimator == animator) { return; } if (mAnimator != null) { mAnimator.removeUpdateListener(this); mAnimator.cancel(); } mAnimator = animator; if (mAnimator != null) { mAnimator.addUpdateListener(this); } } @Override public void setBounds(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) { super.setBounds(left, top, right, bottom); mDrawable.setBounds(left, top, right, bottom); } @Override protected void onBoundsChange(Rect bounds) { super.onBoundsChange(bounds); updateBounds(bounds); } private void updateBounds(Rect bounds) { if (bounds.width() <= 0 \|\| bounds.height() <= 0) { return; } if (mWidth < 0 \|\| mHeight < 0) { mWidth = bounds.width(); mHeight = bounds.height(); if (mWaveHeight == UNDEFINED_VALUE) { mWaveHeight = Math.max(8, (int) (mHeight WAVE_HEIGHT_FACTOR)); } if (mWaveLength == UNDEFINED_VALUE) { mWaveLength = mWidth; } if (mWaveStep == UNDEFINED_VALUE) { mWaveStep = Math.max(1, (int) (mWidth * WAVE_SPEED_FACTOR)); } updateMask(mWidth, mWaveLength, mWaveHeight); } } @Override public int getIntrinsicHeight() { return mHeight; } @Override public int getIntrinsicWidth() { return mWidth; } @Override public void draw(Canvas canvas) { mDrawable.setColorFilter(sGrayFilter); mDrawable.draw(canvas); mDrawable.setColorFilter(mCurFilter); if (mProgress <= 0.001f) { return; } int sc = canvas.saveLayer(0, 0, mWidth, mHeight, null, Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG); if (mWaveLevel > 0) { canvas.clipRect(0, mWaveLevel, mWidth, mHeight); } mDrawable.draw(canvas); if (mProgress >= 0.999f) { return; } mWaveOffset += mWaveStep; if (mWaveOffset > mWaveLength) { mWaveOffset -= mWaveLength; } if (mMask != null) { mMatrix.setTranslate(-mWaveOffset, mWaveLevel); canvas.drawBitmap(mMask, mMatrix, mPaint); } canvas.restoreToCount(sc); } @Override protected boolean onLevelChange(int level) { setProgress(level / 10000f); return true; } @Override public void setAlpha(int i) { mDrawable.setAlpha(i); } @Override public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter colorFilter) { mCurFilter = colorFilter; invalidateSelf(); } @Override public int getOpacity() { return PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT; } @Override public void start() { mRunning = true; Choreographer.getInstance().postFrameCallback(mFrameCallback); } @Override public void stop() { mRunning = false; Choreographer.getInstance().removeFrameCallback(mFrameCallback); } @Override public boolean isRunning() { return mRunning; } @Override public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) { if (mIndeterminate) { setProgress(animation.getAnimatedFraction()); if (!mRunning) { invalidateSelf(); } } } public boolean isIndeterminate() { return mIndeterminate; } private ValueAnimator getDefaultAnimator() { ValueAnimator animator = ValueAnimator.ofFloat(0, 1); animator.setInterpolator(new DecelerateInterpolator()); animator.setRepeatMode(ValueAnimator.RESTART); animator.setRepeatCount(ValueAnimator.INFINITE); animator.setDuration(5000); return animator; } private void setProgress(float progress) { mProgress = progress; mWaveLevel = mHeight - (int)((mHeight + mWaveHeight) * mProgress); invalidateSelf(); } private int calculateLevel() { return (mHeight - mWaveLevel) * 10000 / (mHeight + mWaveHeight); } private void updateMask(int width, int length, int height) { if (width <= 0 \|\| length <= 0 \|\| height <= 0) { Log.w(TAG, "updateMask: size must > 0"); mMask = null; return; } final int count = (int) Math.ceil((width + length) / (float)length); Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createBitmap(length * count, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); Canvas c = new Canvas(bm); Paint p = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG); int amplitude = height / 2; Path path = new Path(); path.moveTo(0, amplitude); final float stepX = length / 4f; float x = 0; float y = -amplitude; for (int i = 0; i < count * 2; i++) { x += stepX; path.quadTo(x, y, x+stepX, amplitude); x += stepX; y = bm.getHeight() - y; } path.lineTo(bm.getWidth(), height); path.lineTo(0, height); path.close(); c.drawPath(path, p); mMask = bm; } } ```
St Mary's Church is in West Road, Congleton, Cheshire, England. It is a Roman Catholic church recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The listing includes the adjoining presbytery. History St Mary's Church was built in 1826, and designed by Father John Hall, a priest from Macclesfield. The presbytery dates from 1830. Architecture The church is constructed in red brick, stands on a stone plinth, and has a slate roof. The façade facing the road is in two storeys. It has a central doorway with a semicircular head and a radial fanlight, and two windows also with semicircular heads. At the top is a pediment containing a niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary. The east end is slightly polygonal. Inside the church is a tripartite screen carried on Ionic columns. The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that, apart from the niche containing the statue, it is similar to a Methodist church of the time. The presbytery also has a doorway with a semicircular head and a radial fanlight. Its windows are sashes. See also Listed buildings in Congleton References Roman Catholic churches in Cheshire Grade II listed churches in Cheshire Roman Catholic churches completed in 1823 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury Congleton
Grand Hotel van Cleef is an independent record label headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Label history Grand Hotel van Cleef was founded in September 2002 by the musicians Thees Uhlmann, Marcus Wiebusch and Reimer Bustorff. The newly formed band of Bustorff an Wiebusch Kettcar had recently recorded their first album, Du und wie viel von deinen Freunden, (engl.: You and how many of your friends) but they found no label to release it. In addition, it was clear that Uhlmann's band Tomte would release their third album Hinter all diesen Fenstern (engl.: Behind all these windows). The big fan base even before the publication was ultimately the deciding factor to start the label. The name originated from a joke: On Thees Uhlmann's question on how to call the label, Tomte's ex-drummer Timo Bodenstein said "Hotel van Cleef" - he was working in the restaurant business, and it should be called something with gastronomy. So they decided to call Tomte's label Hotel van Cleef. Due to the merger with Marcus Wiebusch's B.A. Records, it was renamed to Grand Hotel van Cleef. In 2004 the musicians Thees Uhlmann, Marcus Wiebusch, Felix Gebhard and Max Schroeder, who were all signed to Grand Hotel Van Cleef, wrote the soundtrack for the film , Hansen Band. Actor Jürgen Vogel contributed in the songwriting. The label's biggest chart success was the publication of Buchstaben über der Stadt by Tomte and Thees Uhlmann's solo debut album, both on fourth place. and the publications Von Spatzen und Tauben, Dächern und Händen and Sylt by the band Kettcar, each of which reached the fifth place. This success was topped by Kettcar's latest Release Ich vs. Wir (engl.: Me versus Us) that could reach the fourth place in the German music chart. Hansen Band and Young Rebel Set, Kilians and Fjørt also released albums that could enter the German music chart. After releasing their own records, Grand Hotel began signing and producing other indie music acts, and have built a reputation as the most important label for alternative German guitar pop. Notable albums include that by the fictional Hansen Band, a band invented by movie maker Lars Kraume for his 2005 movie (Uhlmann and Wiebusch trained actor Jürgen Vogel on how to adopt the proper rock pose). Fest van Cleef Since 2006, the Grand Hotel van Cleef also organizes its own open air festival, "Fest van Cleef." This concert takes place on three days in three different cities each year. August 2006, in Hannover, Trier and Bonn: Tomte, Kettcar, The Weakerthans, Olli Schulz und der Hund Marie, Pale, Home of the Lame July 2007, in Potsdam, Bremen and Karlsruhe: Kettcar, Kante, Bernd Begemann, Maritime, Hansen Band, Kilians July 2008, in Mannheim, Köln and Großefehn: Kettcar, Tomte, Robocop Kraus, I Am Kloot, Niels Frevert, Ghost of Tom Joad July 2009, in Northeim, Freiburg and Essen: Element of Crime, Tomte, Why?, Muff Potter, Kilians, Gisbert zu Knyphausen December 2010, in Bielefeld, Berlin and Mainz: Kettcar, Thees Uhlmann, Tim Neuhaus, Gisbert zu Knyphausen, An Horse, Beat! Beat! Beat!, Nils Koppruch, Young Rebel Set December 2011, in Bielefeld, Trier and Dresden: Element Of Crime, Thees Uhlmann, Casper, Frank Turner, Ghost of Tom Joad, ClickClickDecker, Moritz Krämer, Maike Rosa Vogel August 2017, in Hamburg at mehr! Theater am Großmarkt: Kettcar, Thees Uhlmann & Band, Fortuna Ehrenfeld, Gisbert zu Knyphausen Artists Adam Angst An Horse Bernd Begemann & die Befreiung Der Hund Marie Der Herr Polaris Dorit Jakobs East Cameron Folkcore Escapado Fjørt Hansen Band Home of the Lame Imaginary Cities John K. Samson Kettcar Lirr Maritime Marr Ola Podrida Pale Propagandhi Tim Neuhaus Tomte (band) Torpus & The Art Directors Young Rebel Set Former artists Olli Schulz & der Hund Marie (moved to Audiolith Records, subsequently EMI, now inactive) Death Cab for Cutie (now: Atlantic Records) References External links Website of Grand Hotel van Cleef Interview with Reimer Bustorff Companies based in Hamburg German independent record labels
The Chongqing Railway Hub east ring line () is a railway line in Chongqing, China. It opened on 30 December 2022. The line is double-track, long, and has a maximum speed of . The railway consists of Main line, Airport branch and Huangmaoping branch. Airport branch A branch line runs from Chongqing North railway station and joins the main line between Gulu and Tongjing. The branch also pass through Jiangbei Airport with Jiangbei Airport railway station. It has a maximum speed of . Huangmaoping branch Huangmaoping branch runs from Shuitu railway station to Huangmaoping railway station. References Railway lines in China Railway lines opened in 2022 Rail transport in Chongqing
A deliberative opinion poll, sometimes called a deliberative poll, is a form of opinion poll taken before and after significant deliberation. Professor James S. Fishkin of Stanford University first described the concept in 1988. The typical deliberative opinion poll takes a random, representative sample of citizens and engages them in deliberation on current issues or proposed policy changes through small-group discussions and conversations with competing experts to create more informed and reflective public opinion. Deliberative polls have been run around the world, including recent experiments to conduct discussions virtually in the United States, Hong Kong, Chile, Canada and Japan. Process The Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University described its process as: A random, representative sample is first polled on the issue(s) Members of the sample are invited to gather in order to discuss the issue(s) (online or in-person) Carefully balanced briefing materials are sent to the participants and are also made publicly available (along with other aspects of the deliberations). The participants talk to competing experts and political leaders, asking questions they develop in small group discussions with trained moderators. The sample is again polled (with a private questionnaire) on the original questions. The resulting changes in opinion represent the conclusions the public would likely reach, if they had opportunity to participate in the deliberative process. By measuring both before and after judgments, policymakers and the media have more insight into the process and its impacts on participants. Fishkin argues that during deliberation, discussions should strive for political equality, where everyone's voice is given equal consideration. This can be achieved through discussions that: are backed by reasonably truthful claims, give space for arguments both for and against the proposal, remain polite and listen to others, focus on the merit of the arguments, and cover a diverse array of perspectives from substantial portions of the population. Logistically, deliberative opinion polls are very similar to other deliberative gatherings like citizens' assemblies. A couple areas where deliberative polling might differ is that a deliberative poll always has 100 to 200 participants, to ensure a statistically significant sample. In addition, deliberative polling emphasizes measuring opinion change after receiving new information and discussion rather than finding common areas of agreement or concrete policy proposals. The goal is to allow the researcher to get a reliable estimate of citizens' preferences both as-is and after an extensive process of deliberation about an issue. Experiments in online polling using an AI moderator have led study authors to conclude that the AI model tested was as effective as human moderators according to participant evaluations, allowing polls to be conducted more often at a reduced cost. While in-person deliberations should pay for childcare, venues, moderators, hotels, and stipends to achieve a representative sample, online deliberations seem only need to offer increased bandwidth, technical support, newer devices and a smaller stipend to participants. Examples Online In 2019, the Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Helena Group launched America in One Room, a deliberative poll of a representative sample of 526 Americans on various issues. Polling results found that in general voters seemed to move towards the center after their experience, with an effect lasting at least one year after the in-person gathering. Subsequent deliberative polls have been conducted online in groups of 10 using an AI moderator. In person In the mid-to-late 2000s, Fishkin's team selected a representative sample of the Chinese coastal township of Zeguo (pop. 120,000) in Wenling. Deliberative polling took place over a one- to three-day period after which recommendations were implemented. Most accounts found the pilot successful, leading to an expanded scope beyond public works projects to a process that determined the budget each year. Between 1996 and 1998, Fishkin managed deliberative opinion polls for electric utilities in Texas as part of the state's integrated resource planning process. The participants underwent a significant shift in the percentage who agreed that it was worth higher costs to invest in energy efficiency and renewable resources. Those findings led to a higher renewable energy portfolio standard, shifting the utilities' focus toward energy efficiency and renewables, resulting in a relatively high percentage of wind power compared to other states. Impacts On decision-makers Deliberative polling can serve as important input mechanisms upstream in the policy making process. Fishkin does not advocate using deliberative polls for every public concern. For instance, crisis measures that demand instant decisions may not be appropriate. However, he advocates using it for most tasks, which could include the hiring of crisis managers. Some, like Lafont, see voting where everyone can participate as more legitimate than random selection of decision-makers. Fishkin believes that once most skeptics experience a well-run deliberative process that they would find it more legitimate than elections. Both believe that legitimacy is improved if the public can see all the inputs (including briefing materials) that led to the decision, so that others can be included in the reasoning for and against to know whether their views were given a fair hearing. As both group dynamics and personalities of participants can play an important role in producing different outcomes of discussions, implementation is important for successful, legitimate deliberation. On participants Participants can come to learn and appreciate the circumstances and interests of competing arguments through extended discussions and deliberations. This can be achieved by: randomly assigning participants into small groups and having impartial moderators to ensure all the major arguments for and against major policy options are covered. While participants become more engaged and knowledgeable, thoughtful conclusions are expected to emerge, leading to a better quality of public opinion. Fishkin has found that if people think their voice actually matters in the question at hand, then they'll study the material, ask tough questions and think for themselves with about 70% changing their minds in the process. Furthermore, it is also hoped that such poll can help increase deliberation among all members of the public. This led Fishkin and Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman to propose a national holiday called Deliberation Day to allow voters to gather in large and small groups to discuss political issues. See also Deliberative assembly Deliberative democracy Demarchy/Sortition Online deliberation References External links Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University Online deliberation platform Database of recently published articles on deliberative polling Types of polling Political systems Deliberative groups
Stewart Madzayo is a Kenyan politician. He is the current senator representing Kilifi County. References Living people Members of the Senate of Kenya Year of birth missing (living people)
Two ships of the United States Navy have been assigned the name Bull, in honor of Lieutenant (junior grade) Richard Bull (1914–1942). , a , transferred before launching in February 1943 to the Royal Navy, in which she served as . She was returned to the United States and struck in 1946. , a Buckley-class destroyer escort, launched in March 1943 and struck in 1966. She was sold to the Republic of China where she served as the ROCS Lu Shan (PF-36), until she was scrapped in 1995. See also , a named for Ensign Richard S. Bull (1913–1942), which was launched in November 1943 and struck in 1968. References United States Navy ship names
The Alexander City Outlook is a twice weekly newspaper publication in eastern Alabama. The Outlook has been in constant publication since it was founded in 1892 by Capt. J.D. Dickson. It has a circulation of about 2050 copies and is owned by Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. It publishes Tuesday-Saturday in Alexander City, Alabama. History In 1946 it was sold to publisher J. C. Henderson by Benjamin Russell's estate. In 1972, it went from weekly to daily publication. Boone Newspapers purchased the paper in 1974. In 1989, Kenneth Boone, son of the owner of Boone Newspapers, became the publisher of the Outlook, later purchasing it for himself in 1991. On July 2, 2018, Alexander City Outlook editor Mitch Sneed died as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. In his tenure at the Outlook, Sneed had won multiple awards from the Alabama Press Association for feature stories, news coverage, and photography. The current editor is Kaitlin Fleming. References Independent newspapers published in the United States Tallapoosa County, Alabama 1892 establishments in Alabama
Michael Mondragon is an American former professional wrestler best known under the ring name Disco Machine. He was one of the six founders of the Southern Californian independent promotion, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Professional wrestling career Disco Machine kicked off his wrestling career working for Revolution Pro, a prominent SoCal promotion, in 1998. In 2003, he became one of the six owners of brand new SoCal promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, collectively known as the "PWG Six". In 2005, he teamed with Excalibur, Kevin Steen, and Ronin as the new S.B.S., after he and Excalibur turned on Super Dragon. Disco and Excalibur also provide commentary on most of PWG's DVD releases (along with their occasional partner, TARO). He was featured in a multiple page article about Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in FHM magazine's March 2006 issue. In 2007, Disco Machine appeared with Wrestling Society X, a short-lived promotion produced and broadcast by MTV, where he teamed with Joey "Magnum" Ryan as "That '70s Team". Disco Machine retired from wrestling in 2012. Championships and accomplishments NTW Pro Wrestling NTW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time) NWA Pro Wrestling NWA Pro Los Angeles Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Revolution Pro Wrestling Mexican Lucha Libre Championship (1 time) Revolution Pro Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Vendetta Pro Wrestling Vendetta Pro Tri-Force Championship (1 time) References External links Pro Wrestling Guerrilla website 1970 births Living people 20th-century professional wrestlers 21st-century professional wrestlers American male professional wrestlers Professional wrestlers from California Sportspeople from Los Angeles
Megachile petulans is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Cresson in 1878. References Petulans Insects described in 1878
Ricci James Guarnaccio, is an English reality television personality and television presenter in the UK and Australia. He is best known for Geordie Shore, Celebrity Big Brother, Ex on the Beach and Dinner Date. In 2016, he began filming Ultimate Worldie, an Australian television programme. Personal life Guarnaccio was born in Durham, England. He was previously engaged to fellow Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison and was linked to Sallie Axl, and Lauren Goodger. References 1986 births Living people People from Durham, England Participants in British reality television series Television personalities from County Durham
The EF 70–210mm lens is a discontinued telephoto zoom lens made by Canon Inc. It came in two different versions. Details The lens has an EF mount and works with EOS film and digital cameras. The lens comes in two different versions: Canon EF 70–210mm 4 AFD (1987–1990) Canon EF 70–210mm 3.5–4.5 USM (introduced 1990) The variable-aperture USM model utilizes a rotating ring instead of a push-pull system for adjusting zoom. The lens was superseded by the 80–200mm lens and the 70–200mm lenses. Specifications References External links Canon EF lenses
The 2018–19 Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Phoenix, led by fourth-year head coach Linc Darner, played their home games at the Resch Center, with five home games at the Kress Events Center, as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 21–17, 10–8 in Horizon League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They defeated UIC in the quarterfinals of the Horizon League tournament before losing in the semifinals to Wright State. They were invited to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament where they defeated East Tennessee State, FIU, Cal State Bakersfield, and Texas Southern to advance to the championship game where they lost to Marshall. Previous season The Phoenix finished the 2017–18 season 13–20, 7–11 in to finish in seventh place. They defeated Detroit in the first round of the Horizon League tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to eventual Horizon League Tournament champion Wright State. Roster Schedule and results \|- !colspan=9 style=\| Exhibition \|- !colspan=9 style=\| Non-conference regular season \|- !colspan=9 style=\| Horizon League regular season \|- !colspan=9 style=\|Horizon League tournament \|- \|- !colspan=12 style=\|CollegeInsider.com Postseason tournament \|- References Green Bay Phoenix Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball seasons Green Bay Phoenix men's b Green Bay Phoenix men's b Green Bay
Walled Lake Northern (WLN) is a public high school in the Walled Lake Consolidated School District, located in Commerce Township, Michigan in Greater Detroit. It was completed in April, 2003 by TMP Associates, Inc. at a cost of $67.5 million. The school serves 1612 students. About The school contains academic, athletic, technological, and performing arts facilities. The academic wings of the school surround the Media Center, and follow a loop pattern. The school has main and an auxiliary gym, an indoor swimming pool, as well as an upstairs indoor track. The football field contains a home grandstand, two concession stands, and a Fieldturf football field. The track is a full quarter mile, and is set parallel from the football field. In addition, there are tennis courts, a lacrosse field, four baseball fields, and a full practice football field. The fine and performing arts wing of the school contains two computer labs (1 CAD), two art rooms, and a technology lab. One of the art rooms contains a kiln and a dark room. The band, orchestra, and choir rooms have full sound systems, projector screens, and full acoustic design implemented in the ceilings and walls. The auditorium seats approximately one thousand people and includes a second story balcony for additional seating. As of 2011, its mascot officially became a Jolly Knight. Before then, the school alternated between using images of a Jolly Knight and a chess Knight for its mascot imagery. History When Walled Lake Northern opened in August, 2002, only one half of the school was accessible to students. The Gym, Pool, Auditorium, and Fine arts wing were still under construction throughout the 2002–03 school year. Notable alumni Connor Hellebuyck - Ice hockey goaltender for the Winnipeg Jets, Mike Richter Award and Vezina Trophy winner References Public high schools in Michigan Educational institutions established in 2002 Schools in Commerce Township, Michigan High schools in Oakland County, Michigan 2002 establishments in Michigan
Honda Aero, Inc. (HAI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina, near the Burlington - Alamance Regional Airport. The Burlington facility will serve as the primary production location for engines developed and marketed by GE Honda Aero Engines, LLC (a joint venture between Honda Aero and GE), beginning with the GE Honda HF120 turbofan engine. Development of the facility represents a $27 million capital expenditure by Honda, bringing the company's total North American capital investment to more than $9 billion. Production began with the GE Honda Aero Engine HF120 on March 17, 2015. References External links Honda Aero Website Honda Companies based in North Carolina
Virola divergens is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae. It grows to about 25m tall. The fruits are ellipsoidal and subglobular, 18–38 mm long and 16–33 mm in diameter, grouped 4 to 8. Distribution Virola divergens' native range is SE. Colombia to Peru and N. Brazil. It grows at altitudes of 100–240 metres. See also Psychedelic plants References divergens Medicinal plants of South America Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke
"Jerusalem the Golden" is a nineteenth-century Christian hymn by John Mason Neale. The text is from Neale's translation of a section of Bernard of Cluny's Latin verse satire De Contemptu Mundi. Origin Richard Chenevix Trench included 95 lines from the beginning of Bernard's 3000-line poem in his Sacred Latin Poetry, published in 1849. They describe "the peace and glory of heaven", while the remainder of De Contemptu Mundi exposes earthly suffering and corruption. Based on Trench's Latin edition, Neale's translation "Hora Novissima" appeared in his 1851 collection Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences. Sections of his text were used for several hymns, including "The World is Very Evil", "Brief Life is Here our Portion", "For Thee, O Dear, Dear Country", as well as "Jerusalem the Golden". In his introduction to the third edition of Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences in 1867 Neale noted that "Jerusalem the Golden" had already been published in twenty hymnals. As well as being adopted for Church of England services, it had become popular with English Dissenters and was being used in Roman Catholic churches. He remarked that "for the last two years it has hardly been possible to read any newspaper which gives prominence to ecclesiastical news, without seeing its employment chronicled at some dedication or other festival". Text (opening lines) Trench's Latin version Urbs Syon aurea, patria lactea, cive decora Omne cor obruis, omnibus obstruis et cor et ora Nescio, nescio, quae jubilatio, lux tibi quali Quam sociala gaudia, gloria quam specialis Laude studens ea tollere, mens mea victa fatiscit O bona gloria, vincor; in omnia laus tua vicit. Neale's English translation Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blest, Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not, O I know not, what joys await us there, What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare. They Stand, those halls of Zion, all jubilant with song, And bright with many an angel, and all the martyr throng; when I fain would sing them my spirit fails and faints, And vainly would it image the assembly of the Saints. Tune The tune most often used for this text is known as "Ewing". Alexander Ewing composed the tune for the Aberdeen Harmonic Choir for use with "For Thee, O Dear, Dear Country", another hymn derived from Neale's translation of De Contemptu Mundi. The score first appeared in 1853 as a leaflet. In 1857 it was included in A Manual of Psalm and Hymn Tunes and it was published in 1861 in Hymns Ancient and Modern. For this publication the editor, William Henry Monk, changed the metre from triple to duple and used it for the tune of "Jerusalem the Golden". In his notes to the third edition of Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences in 1867 Neale remarked that Ewing's tune was "the earliest written, the best known, and with children the most popular" for use with "Jerusalem the Golden". References External links "Jerusalem the Golden" at Hymnary.org Solo piano version of "Jerusalem the Golden" (Ewing) English Christian hymns 19th-century hymns Hymns in The New English Hymnal
Marcus Latimer Hurley (December 22, 1883 – March 28, 1941) was an American cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in sprint cycling and won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2 mile race. Biography He was born on December 22, 1883. He was on the first national collegiate basketball championship team in 1908, serving as Columbia University's basketball team's captain. Hurley served in World War I and was decorated. He died on March 28, 1941. See also List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games References 1883 births 1941 deaths All-American college men's basketball players American male cyclists American men's basketball players Columbia Lions men's basketball players Cyclists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling Olympic gold medalists for the United States in cycling
The following highways are numbered 200: Australia Henty Highway (Victoria) - Western Australia Canada Manitoba Provincial Road 200 Costa Rica National Route 200 India National Highway 200 (India) Japan Japan National Route 200 Mexico Mexican Federal Highway 200 Turkey , a west-east state road in Turkey running from Çanakkale to Refahiye, Erzincan Province. United States Alabama State Route 200 Arkansas Highway 200 California State Route 200 Connecticut Route 200 Florida State Road 200 Georgia State Route 200 Hawaii Route 200 Idaho State Highway 200 Iowa Highway 200 (former) Kentucky Route 200 Maine State Route 200 Maryland Route 200 M-200 (Michigan highway) (former) Minnesota State Highway 200 Montana Highway 200 Montana Highway 200S New Mexico State Road 200 New York State Route 200 North Carolina Highway 200 North Dakota Highway 200 Oregon Route 200 South Carolina Highway 200 Tennessee State Route 200 Texas State Highway 200 Texas State Highway Spur 200 Farm to Market Road 200 (Texas) Utah State Route 200 Virginia State Route 200 Territories: Puerto Rico Highway 200 Puerto Rico Highway 200R
Tawin "Tem" Hanprab (; ; born 1 August 1998 in Nong Suea District, Pathum Thani Province) is a Thai taekwondo practitioner. He won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's 58 kg. References External links 1998 births Living people Tawin Hanprab Tawin Hanprab Taekwondo practitioners at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Tawin Hanprab Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Tawin Hanprab Olympic medalists in taekwondo Universiade medalists in taekwondo Tawin Hanprab SEA Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games Universiade bronze medalists for Thailand Tawin Hanprab Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Tawin Hanprab
In information geometry, Chentsov's theorem states that the Fisher information metric is, up to rescaling, the unique Riemannian metric on a statistical manifold that is invariant under sufficient statistics. See also Fisher information Sufficient statistic Information geometry References N. N. Čencov (1981), Statistical Decision Rules and Optimal Inference, Translations of mathematical monographs; v. 53, American Mathematical Society, http://www.ams.org/books/mmono/053/ Shun'ichi Amari, Hiroshi Nagaoka (2000) Methods of information geometry, Translations of mathematical monographs; v. 191, American Mathematical Society, http://www.ams.org/books/mmono/191/ (Theorem 2.6) Differential geometry Information geometry Statistical distance
Les Harrop (born 1948), is an English and Australian writer, editor, and teacher. Background Born at either Darwen or Blackpool (sources differ) in the English northwest, Harrop grew up speaking East Lancashire dialect in a working-class household on the edge of the Pennines. He was the middle one of three brothers. His father was a kilnsman and artisan tilemaker whose family had been numerous about Mottram-in-Longdendale for centuries; and his mother was a mill girl who however was intellectually ambitious and eloquent in her detestation of the weaving shed. Her forebears had come over to Lancashire from Limerick in the Hungry Forties. The father served as a stoker below decks in the Royal Navy throughout the Second War; he was present in the successful pursuit of the Bismarck and afterwards on supply convoys to Murmansk and Archangel. He is said to have been torpedoed twice and to have returned from the war an altered man. It seems he was not welcomed back by his socially conscious wife. The marriage struggled on but Harrop's parents separated for good in 1956 when the boy was eight. He hardly saw his much-loved father thereafter, and when they did meet again the circumstances were awkward and an estrangement had grown between them. Education Harrop won a scholarship to a boarding school, and after eight years at a school whose curriculum had been Latin-based since the Middle Ages, and which he has compared both to a prison camp and to a dog-training institute, he progressed to Queen Mary College in the University of London. There he studied English Language and Literature (B.A., 1971) – for two years under the playwright Simon Gray. He transferred to King's College, Cambridge, but after his years during the 1960s in the Mile End Road and Fitzrovia, that ancient institution seemed, Harrop thought, "theatrical, less than fully grown up" and "a lot like more boarding school". At Cambridge he was mostly untouched by the afterglow of Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster and Leavis, but was struck again by the strength of his inherited proletarian culture; his shyness seems to have hardened into a conscious distaste for bourgeois careerism (Marxist thought was still influential in the West at that date). He'd found a job through Gabbitas Thring at Arnold House School in St. John's Wood. After this spell as a teacher he went on a Killam Scholarship for postgraduate study to Canada – Social History at Dalhousie, Nova Scotia (M.A., 1974). There he had rewarding supervision from Rowland Smith, a South African whose interest was Wyndham Lewis and the political writers of the 1930s. Harrop ran into difficulties over the unwanted attentions of a homosexual instructor – as he has detailed in his essay 'After Tea with Dr. Hartley' – and he completed his Master's at the University of Toronto. Travels He lived for nine months in Clermont-Ferrand, improving his French, and learned some German at Innsbruck, where he stayed with the family of the university librarian. He travelled much of Africa on a shoestring in the mid-1970s, from Casablanca to the Cape, and "dawdled" in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) at the time of minority white rule. After 1977 he settled in Australia with Nilofar Rizvi, a Calcutta-born and London-educated doctor from a part-Muslim family: his longtime partner and the mother of his two older sons. The couple acquired joint British and Australian citizenship about 1980. In Melbourne, Harrop was poetry editor for Overland and founded the arts journal Helix (Canberra then Melbourne then Santa Barbara), which broke new ground in contesting the narrow nationalist agenda of literary Australia in the late 1970s. He completed his doctorate at the University of Melbourne with a psychological study of postwar poetry (1981). He was offered through Chris Wallace-Crabbe the Lockie Fellowship in creative writing at that university, but accepted instead a lectureship at the University of California. He afterwards returned to teach at Melbourne and other Australian universities and was, according to former students, magnetic and popular in that role. For all that, and despite having warmed to his American students, he remained restless in academic life. It continued to strike him as fundamentally unserious: chiefly a middle-class struggle for jobs – which impression was not altered by the inrush during those years of Theory over the top of traditional literary studies. ASIO While on leave in Australia about 1986 he responded to an advertisement for a "government research officer", and found himself being interviewed in St. Kilda Road by employees of ASIO (the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation). Thereafter he dropped from sight for most of a decade, during which he trained as a specialist in southern Asia. Harrop's first book of poems and the only book he has published in Australia was The Hum of the Old Suit (1979), winner of the Anne Elder Award. When he resurfaced he was living at his former address in Melbourne, and writing fiction. His novels Knight Galah and A Quarter in Tartary were shortlisted for the Angus & Robertson prize in 1994 and 1995 respectively. At about that time too he organised and began running the Melbourne Writers Group, which helped serious readers and would-be writers to get to grips with some mysteries of literary craft. Uneasy Retirement Harrop has since retired from teaching and has devoted himself mostly to historical research and to writing about his native district, where his ruminations have permanent residence. The results are contained in his Lancashire Companion (a discursive encyclopaedia), in As It Were and Obedience Training (childhood and boarding-school memoirs). Harrop has never married though he is the father of three interesting sons. He has twice been conveyed through the Family Court of Australia, and his second encounter with the court appeared to affect his health and, according to his friends, undermined him for a time. It also projected him, perhaps against his finer judgement, into a wide-ranging and still incomplete study of modern feminism with the cumbersome working title: 'Eunox to your Clitorarchs Came'. The 'Eunox' is explained by the fact that Harrop has lived so long in the birth city of the Female Eunuch. This endeavour well illustrates the independence and incisiveness of his views on broad social questions, especially on the sex wars and the gender issue. It sets him apart from other progressive intellectuals of his generation. It's a book which may not win him friends, nor endear him to any influential current readership. It may indeed be enough to damn his work hereafter. On the other hand, such a study could come into its own once our prevailing gender bitterness has assumed its place as an historical curiosity. 'Eunox' ('cultural reclamation in the feminist twilight') sounds like a sturdy defence of common experience in the face of what it views as imperious female fantasies. It is a conscious, intelligent 'backlash' book which has not, so far as is known, become available publicly. Nor have the many poems and occasional pieces which Harrop has by all accounts continued to produce over the second half of his life. He has sometimes printed these, for unidentified reasons, under anagrammatic pen names: 'Pearl Shirloe', 'Hollis Reaper' and the like. Style And Heroes Harrop's verse and fiction are characterised by physicality, by increasing technical sureness and a chaste, particular style. His discursive writing is trenchant if outré (he has been a close student of industrial-age social critics such as Carlyle, Arnold and Ruskin). The unhappiness of his personal life has perhaps made it easier for him to maintain the hypersensitive, pained innocence which marks all his writing and which, when allied to his eccentricity of opinion, will seem unpalatable to those who insist on a light quiche-and-salad in preference to strong meat. His emotional directness can jar on occasion, and can be prey to a certain linguistic excess, which seems strangely Victorian in one who has an evident admiration for Imagism, for the 'masculine' style of early Hemingway or of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and whose chief reading lies among their modern successors male and female (Beckett is a hero of his, and contemporary favourites include Coetzee and Mantel). It is surprising — or perhaps not — that such a fastidious, self-effacing person should wield such a heavy bludgeon on the page. Harrop was raised an Anglican but has said that compulsory churchgoing relieved him in childhood of all religious faith. (He cites "a priest in women's dress, a haughty congregation and the evil temper of my choirmaster" in explanation of his atheism.) In late 2008 he moved out of "feminised Melbourne" (his phrase) to live in the nearby mountains; but within two months he was burned from this fastness by the bushfires that took so many lives. Abandoning his extensive library, he has renewed his commitment to writing since that catastrophe, settling in his sixties with his third son at a Pashtoun village about a day's journey from Lahore, Pakistan. Honors The Greenwood Prize of the Poetry Society of Great Britain (1976) Stroud Festival Poetry Prize (1977) Anne Elder Award (1980) References 1948 births Living people Australian poets Alumni of Queen Mary University of London English male poets
Grandperret is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Patrick Grandperret (1946–2019), French film director, screenwriter, and producer Théodore Grandperret (1818–1890), French lawyer and politician French-language surnames
Charles Parkin (1690–1765) was an English clergyman and antiquarian. He was rector of Oxburgh in Norfolk, and assisted Francis Blomefield on his history of the county, completing it after Blomefield's death. Life The son of William Parkin of London, a prosperous shoemaker, he was born on 11 January 1690, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School. In 1708 he went to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1712 and M.A. 1717. He married Mary, the widow of John Meriton the rector of Oxburgh, Norfolk, in 1717. She died in 1732. they had no children. Blomefield's History of Norfolk He assisted Francis Blomefield with his History of Norfolk, writing the descriptions of Oxburgh and the adjoining parishes. When Blomefield died in 1752, having written about half of the third volume, Parkin undertook the completion of the unfinished History, the fourth and fifth volumes of which (in the original five-volume folio edition, completed in 1775) were published under his name. According to Craven Ord, however, the last sheets were finished by a bookseller's hack, employed by Whittingham of Lynn. Parkin's Topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half in Norfolk, containing the History and Antiquities of the Borough of King's Lynn, and of the Towns, Villages, and Religious Buildings in that Hundred and Half (London, 1762) was reprinted from the fourth volume. William Stukeley and the Royston Cave In the 1740s Parkin engaged in a vituperative dispute with William Stukeley over the antiquity and imagery of the carvings on the walls of the recently discovered cave at Royston. He attacked Stukeley's claim that the chamber had been the private oratory of one "Lady Roisia" in a pamphlet entitled An Answer to, or Remarks upon, Dr. Stukeley's "Origines Roystonianæ" (London, 1744). When Stukeley published a reply, Parkin responded with A Reply to the Peevish, Weak, and Malevolent Objections brought by Dr. Stukeley in his Origines Roystonianæ, No.2 (Norwich, 1748). Joseph Beldam, a later historian of the cave, wrote that "though both parties showed abundant learning and ingenuity, the cause of truth suffered much from their mutual loss of temper. Death and bequests Parkin died on 27 August 1765, and by his will (dated 17 June 1759) bequeathed money to his old college for the foundation of exhibitions to be held by scholars from the Merchant Taylors' School and from the free school at Bowes, Yorkshire, which had been founded by his uncle, William Hutchinson of Clement's Inn. Notes References Attribution 1690 births 1765 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests English antiquarians People from Breckland District People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
The Imperial Military Constitution (, also called the Reichskriegsverfassung) was the collection of military laws of the Holy Roman Empire. Like the rest of the imperial constitution, it grew out of various laws and governed the establishment of military forces within the Empire. It was the basis for the establishment of the Army of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsarmee, created in 1422), which was under the supreme command of the Emperor but was distinct from his Imperial Army (Kaiserliche Armee, emerged in the 17th century), as it could only be deployed by the Imperial Diet. The last Imperial Defence Order (Reichsdefensionalordnung), entitled Reichsgutachten in puncto securitatis, of 13/23 May 1681, completed the military constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. Legal development First Imperial Register The first Imperial Register was drawn up at the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg in 1422. The proposal of the princes to levy a "hundredth" penny and use it to enlist and maintain an army of soldiers for the duration of a war was opposed by the cities. It was agreed to set up a single register as a list of the troop contingents of the individual imperial estates. See also Circle troops Circle Colonel Roman Month Army of the Holy Roman Empire References Sources Der Augsburger Reichsabschied ("Augsburger Religionsfrieden") – full text Literature . (Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte der Neuzeit. Vol. 13) (Inaugural-Dissertation der juristischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität zu Erlangen, 1911) Military history of Germany Military history of the Holy Roman Empire Army of the Holy Roman Empire
Rich Neck Plantation was located in James City County, Virginia in the Colony of Virginia. History Rich Neck Plantation (not to be confused with Richneck Plantation in nearby Warwick County), was established around 1632 as part of the community of Middle Plantation. The latter was located on a ridge which ran along the center of the Virginia Peninsula separating the watersheds of the York River to the north and the James River to the south. A palisade to secure the area east down the Peninsula to Old Point Comfort ran across the land portion between Queen's Creek and College Creek, with the new community as its centerpiece. Middle Plantation was renamed Williamsburg in 1699 after the College of William and Mary was established nearby and the capital of the colony was relocated there from Jamestown. In the early 1700s, a mill pond was constructed to power a gristmill which survives to present as Lake Matoaka. Rich Neck Plantation was home to a number of noted Virginians, including three of seventeenth-century Virginia's big-name secretaries of the colony: Richard Kemp, Sir Thomas Lunsford, Thomas Ludwell, and brother Philip Ludwell, as well as dozens of slaves and servants. Later, Rich Neck became the home of Reverend Doctor James Blair, who in 1693 became the founder and first president of the College of William and Mary. During the first half of the 20th century, although the house and dependencies had long since disappeared, local attorney Vernon Geddy and his wife Carrie (née Cole) Geddy built a home on a portion of the land west of College Creek. They named their home "Holly Hill" for numerous holly trees in near the house. Williamsburg's Holly Hills subdivision now occupies a portion of the former Rich Neck Plantation property west of College Creek. As of May 2010, Vernon and Carrie's grandson, Vernon Geddy III, and his wife, owned and occupied his grandparents' home, Holly Hill. He was also continuing a family tradition of the practice of law in the area. Extensive archaeological work has been done on portions of the Rich Neck Plantation site by groups from the College of William and Mary, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. References Geography of Williamsburg, Virginia Geography of James City County, Virginia James River plantations 1632 establishments in Virginia Archaeological sites in Virginia
The Enforcers are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as adversaries of the superheroes Spider-Man and Daredevil. The original Enforcers consisted of Montana (Jackson Brice), the Ox (Raymond Bloch), and Fancy Dan (Daniel Brito). Publication history Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, the team's first appearance was in The Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964). The Enforcers appear often in the early issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, debuting in #10, and returning in #14 and 19, in the latter issue teaming with the supervillain the Sandman. The team would go on to appear in Daredevil #356–357 and Dazzler #7–8, and fight Spider-Man again in Marvel Team-Up #39–40 and 138, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #19–20, Spider-Man #94–95, Spider-Man (vol. 2) #28, and elsewhere. Fictional team biography The Enforcers are a group of hired hitmen and extortionists, each with an expertise in a different and unique area of combat, whose goal it is to aid various employers in the takeover of New York City's criminal gangs. In their first appearance, the Enforcers aided the Big Man (Frederick Foswell) in his attempt to gain control of New York City's criminal gangs. They clashed with the superhero Spider-Man for the first time, and are defeated by him. They were subsequently employed by paranoid industrialist Norman Osborn, hired them to shut down Malone's Flophouse in a bid to gain the land. However, the then-amnesiac Malone resident Namor the Sub-Mariner thwarted them, later destroying Osborn's construction equipment. They next aided the Green Goblin in his first unsuccessful attempt to eliminate Spider-Man, but were again defeated and jailed. Soon after that, they joined forces with the Sandman to subdue the Human Torch at a point where it was believed Spider-Man had become a coward, but are defeated by the combined might of Spider-Man and the Human Torch. The Enforcers clash repeatedly with Spider-Man and occasionally other heroes such as Daredevil. Foswell is eventually unmasked, but later reforms and is killed. Afterward, the Ox also appears to have been killed, Montana and Fancy Dan team with a new Big Man, as well as with the Sandman and a new Crime Master, Nick Lewis, Jr. son of the original. During a battle in which the team is defeated by Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and the Sons of the Tiger, Crime Master shoots the new Big Man, learning belatedly that this "Big Man" was, in fact, a woman — Janice Foswell, daughter of the original and the younger Lewis' romantic interest. The Enforcers were hired by Lightmaster, who introduced a new Ox, Raymond Bloch's twin brother Ronald Bloch, to the team. The Enforcers are once again defeated by Spider-Man. They later battle the mutant superheroine the Dazzler. The Enforcers return with new members "Snake" Marston, a master contortionist, and "Hammer" Harrison, a boxer who wears steel hammers over his hands. The Enforcers come under the employ of the Kingpin, but were defeated by Spider-Man and the then-reformed Sandman. This lineup appears only once more to fight Daredevil. The original Ox (Raymond Bloch) returns, revived by the Kingpin. It is unclear whether it is Raymond or Ronald Bloch who appears with Montana and Fancy Dan in subsequent battles with Spider-Man and the She-Hulk. During the events known as the superhero Civil War, either Raymond or Ronald Bloch and "Snake" Marston are recruited into the Thunderbolts, a team of reformed villains. Later, they came back together to work for Mister Fear, which pitted them directly against Daredevil. After Mister Fear's arrest, the Enforcers are taken in to work for the Hood's crime organization. Following the events of the storyline "Spider-Man: Brand New Day", the Enforcers are patrons at the Bar with No Name. They take bets with a person calling himself "the Bookie", over whether Spider-Man will show up to battle "Basher", an unknown villain who claimed to have fought Spider-Man. Spider-Man shows up, but is revealed to be Screwball in disguise when the real one shows up at the scene of the fight. The Enforcers decide to get revenge on the Bookie, capturing him. The Bookie's father calls Spider-Man for assistance and he agrees to help. Spider-Man defeats Fancy Dan and Montana and saves the Ox from being flattened by a falling roller coaster. Grateful for the save, the Ox agrees to come along quietly. During the "Origin of the Species"' storyline, Spider-Man goes against the villains after Menace's infant was stolen from him by the Chameleon. The Enforcers were not actually part of this group, where they quoted "we're the Enforcers, not the Kidnappers". They got caught in the crossfire anyway when the Sandman tries to recruit them to team up with him again. Montana then started working for the Kingpin. During a fight which resulted in the Kingpin's office crumbling, the Hobgoblin lets him fall to his death in order to take his place as Fisk's right-hand man. The Enforcers (Fancy Dan, the Ox, "Snake" Marston and "Hammer" Harrison) are reassembled by the fourth Crime Master, who convinces them and the Black Cat to assist him with breaking Hammerhead and Tombstone out of Ryker's Island. The attempted breakout is prevented by Spider-Man and the Wraith and the Crime Master is revealed to be an impostor who Mister Negative had instructed to assassinate Hammerhead and Tombstone. During the "Hunted" storyline, "Snake" Marston is among the animal-themed characters that were captured by the Taskmaster and the Black Ant for Kraven the Hunter's Great Hunt, which is sponsored by Arcade's company, Arcade Industries. He was seen at a gathering held by the Vulture. During the "Devil's Reign" storyline, the Enforcers members Fancy Dan, Ox, Montana, Snake Marston, and Hammer Harrison were shown as inmates of the Myrmidon. When 8-Ball offered to sit with them, they turn him down. Membership Original members The group originally consisted of: Fancy Dan - A diminutive martial artist. Daniel Brito was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has great proficiency with judo, karate and fancy footwork. The Ox I - Raymond Bloch is a brutish strongman and the twin brother of Ronald Bloch. Montana - Jackson W. Brice is an expert lasso-wielder. New Enforcers After the fall of Kingpin, the New Enforcers were one of the groups contesting for control of the remains of his empire. The New Enforcers' inner circle consists of Controller Madame Menace Mentallo, Mister Fear The outer circle consists of Blitz Dragon Man Dreadnought, Eel Plantman Super-Adaptoid, Tangle - Gina Palumbo, a mutant wielding psychoplasmic tendrils Thermite - Sam Yurimoto, a man capable of explosive force. The Vanisher Later members These members were later additions to the group. They consisted of: The Ox II - Ronald Bloch is a brutish strongman and the twin brother of Raymond Bloch. He became the second Ox after the apparent death of the original Ox. When his brother Raymond came back from the dead and rejoined the group, Ronald left it. "Snake" Marston - Sylvester "Snake" Marston is an expert contortionist. "Hammer" Harrison - Willard "Hammer" Harrison is an expert boxer who wore two diamond-hard steel hammers on his hands. Other versions Earth X In the Earth X reality, the Enforces consisted of Fancy Dan, the Ox and Montana, with the Vulture as a later addition. They would be hired by President Norman Osborn to act as his bodyguards. However, the Enforcers would fail in this task when the Skull arrived in New York to take over the United States. Like all who encounter the Skull, the Enforcers would be put under his control and Norman Osborn would be murdered. The Enforcers' fate following the Skull's death remain unrevealed. Marvel Noir In Spider-Man Noir, the Enforcers are the muscle working for mob boss Norman Osborn, also known as the Goblin. Like the rest of the Goblin's goons (Kraven and Adrian Toomes), they are former carnies. MC2 In the MC2, Fancy Dan makes a cameo appearance in an issue of The Amazing Spider-Girl as the owner of a company called Brito Imports and the leader of the Brooklyn gangs. The Enforcers appear when Mayday/Spider-Girl ended up within the mind of her father, observing his first encounter with the original Green Goblin. Ultimate Marvel In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, the Enforcers were re-imagined as hit men for the Kingpin and pitted against Spider-Man. The following changes took place: Frederick Foswell was called Mr. Big and was not associated with the Daily Bugle - but videotapes of his untimely murder by the Kingpin were sent to Ben Urich and used for a Daily Bugle exclusive. "Fancy Dan" was re-imagined as a young gunslinger and was called Dan Crenshaw. "The Ox" was re-imagined as a Black Dominican called Bruno Sanchez. "Montana" had the civil name Montana Bale and used a whip instead of a lasso (although he often used it to strangle Spider-Man like a lasso). After losing three times to Spider-Man, along with unofficial member Electro, the Enforcers supposedly disbanded. Much later, they came back together to work for Hammerhead. This pitted them directly against their former employer. In other media Television The Enforcers appear in the Spider-Man episode "Blueprint For Crime", consisting of Ox and Montana, the latter of whom is known as "Cowboy". The Enforcers appear in The Spectacular Spider-Man, with Fancy Dan voiced by Phil LaMarr, the Ox voiced by Clancy Brown and later by Danny Trejo, and Montana voiced by Jeff Bennett. This version of the group utilize modern weaponry, suits, and equipment. Montana serves as the leader and strategist, the Ox as the strongman, and Fancy Dan as a martial artist. They debut in the series' pilot, "Survival of the Fittest", having been hired by the crime boss Tombstone via his second Hammerhead to kill Spider-Man. However, Fancy Dan and the Ox are captured while Montana successfully escapes. In the episode "Market Forces", Montana returns as the series' version of the Shocker, only to be defeated and captured as well. In the episode "Group Therapy", the Enforcers are broken out of prison, though Montana joins the Sinister Six to kill Spider-Man alongside five of his previous enemies, only to be defeated once more. Montana rejoins the Enforcers in the episode "Probable Cause", after Fancy Dan and the Ox receive powered suits from the Tinkerer so they can better succeed in a mission for Tombstone. Dubbing themselves the New Enforcers, they nearly succeed in both the mission and defeating Spider-Man, but are secretly sabotaged by Hammerhead, who seeks to usurp Tombstone; leading to their arrest. As of the episode "Opening Night", the Enforcers are incarcerated at the Vault. The Enforcers appear in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Nightmare on Christmas", with Fancy Dan voiced by Steven Weber, the Ox voiced by Mark Hamill, and Montana voiced by Troy Baker. Video games The Enforcers appear in Marvel Heroes. They kidnap Speedball and almost kill him. However, they are caught in the act by Jean DeWolff, who kills them all. Footnotes References Enforcers at Marvel.com Marvel Directory: Enforcers Grand Comics Database Comics characters introduced in 1964 Characters created by Stan Lee Characters created by Steve Ditko Marvel Comics supervillain teams Spider-Man characters
Richard Frank Barker (born October 29, 1972) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs. Barker's major league career consisted of just five games in the 1999 season. Barker was drafted by the Cubs in the 37th round (1,030th overall) of the 1994 amateur draft out of Quinsigamond Community College. Only three other players drafted in that round made the majors-- Bronson Heflin, Matt Blank, and Mike Lincoln. Barker was one of only four Cubs draftees (out of 75) that year who eventually made the big leagues. The only player drafted later than Barker that year by the Cubs to make the leap was Kyle Farnsworth, a 47th round selection. Barker made his debut with the Cubs on April 25, 1999, throwing 1 innings against the New York Mets and allowing one run on three hits. He'd make four more appearances in relief, including his final game on May 5, 1999. Barker's final statistics featured no wins, losses, or saves, an ERA of 7.20, four walks, and three strikeouts. After returning to the AAA Iowa Cubs after his cup of coffee with the parent club, Barker was unable to make it back to the majors. He pitched just 20 games in the minors in 2000 before he then retired from baseball due to an injury and moved to a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, where he married and started a small sports business. External links 1972 births Living people People from Revere, Massachusetts Baseball players from Suffolk County, Massachusetts Chicago Cubs players Major League Baseball pitchers Huntington Cubs players Rockford Cubbies players Daytona Cubs players Orlando Rays players West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx players Iowa Cubs players Eugene Emeralds players
Diolcus is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least three described species in Diolcus. Species These three species belong to the genus Diolcus: Diolcus chrysorrhoeus (Fabricius, 1803) Diolcus irroratus (Fabricius, 1775) Diolcus variegatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1836) References Further reading Scutelleridae Articles created by Qbugbot
Production Linked Incentive, or PLI, scheme of the Government of India is a form of performance-linked incentive to give companies incentives on incremental sales from products manufactured in domestic units. It is aimed at boosting the manufacturing sector and to reduce imports. Objective of these schemes entail Make in India, incentivising foreign manufacturers to start production in India and incentivise domestic manufacturers to expand their production and exports. The Government of India (GoI) has introduced Rs 1.97 lakh cr (US$ 28 b) PLI schemes for 13 sectors. For example one of these sectors is the Automotive industry in India, for which GoI introduced 3 schemes, a Rs. 26,000 cr (US$3.61 b) scheme for production of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel vehicles (PEVHV), the Rs 18,000 crore (US$2.5 b) "Advanced Chemistry Cell" (ACC) scheme for new generation advance storage technologies for the electric vehicles, and Rs 10,000 crore (US$1.4 b) "Faster Adaption of Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles" (FAME) scheme to go green by expediting production of more electronic vehicles and replacement of other types of existing vehicles with the greener vehicles. The PLI scheme to boost automotive sector to encourage the production of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel vehicles will also generate 750,000 direct jobs in auto sector. These schemes will reduce pollution, climate change, carbon footprint, reduce oil and fuel import bill through domestic alternative substitution, boost job creation and economy. Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers welcomed this as it will enhance the competitiveness and boost growth. List of industries The government has introduced the scheme for several industries which include: Auto components Automobile Aviation Chemicals Electronic systems Food processing Medical devices Metals & mining Pharmaceuticals Renewable energy Telecom Textiles & apparel White goods References Economy of India Government programmes of India Modi administration initiatives
```xml "use client" import { ScrollArea } from "@/components/ui/scroll-area" import Logo from "@/components/header/logo" import HeaderMenu from "@/components/headerMenu" import Customize from "../components/progress/customize" import DoneOrders from "../components/progress/doneOrders" const HistoryLayout = ({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) => { return ( <> <header className="flex flex-none items-center border-b px-4 py-3 "> <div className="flex w-auto flex-none items-center space-x-2"> <HeaderMenu /> <Logo /> </div> <div className="flex flex-auto items-center pl-4 overflow-hidden gap-1"> <div className="flex-auto overflow-hidden"> <DoneOrders /> </div> <Customize /> </div> </header> <div className="flex-auto overflow-hidden"> <ScrollArea className="h-full">{children}</ScrollArea> </div> </> ) } export default HistoryLayout ```
Sub is the debut album by Swiss industrial metal band Apollyon Sun, released in 2000 on Mayan Records. The band started working on a full album, titled Sub, at London's Trident Studios in 1998, with producer Roli Mosimann (Björk, Marilyn Manson, Faith No More), who had also produced the 1990 Celtic Frost album Vanity/Nemesis. Further recording and mixing sessions took place at EastSide Sound in Manhattan, Nomis Studios in London, and at various studio locations in Switzerland. Sub features prominent final mixes by Mosimann, John Fryer (HIM, Nine Inch Nails), and Apollyon Sun themselves. Sub was released globally through Mayan Records in late summer 2000, after two years of studio work. "Human III" is the continuation of a song developed by Tom Gabriel Fischer, following on from "Human (Intro)" from Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales (1984) and "Human II" from Celtic Frost's Cold Lake (1988). "Messiah (Second Coming)" is a remake of the Hellhammer song "Messiah", Hellhammer being one of Fischer's former bands. "Reefer Boy" and "Concrete Satan" both appeared on the God Leaves (And Dies) EP, however they were completely re-recorded for Sub. There are several unreleased songs from these sessions including "Cradle", a re-recorded version of "God Leaves" and two further instrumentals. Track listing "Dweller" (Subhuman Remix) – 5:15 "Reefer Boy" (John Fryer Remix) – 4:55 "Feeder" – 4:20 "Messiah (Second Coming)" – 4:10 "Naked Underground" – 5:01 "Slender" – 5:43 "Human III" – 4:33 "R.U.M." – 0:56 "Mother Misplaced" – 5:37 "Concrete Satan" – 3:58 "The End: Leviathan" – 1:00 (hidden track) Personnel Apollyon Sun Tom Gabriel Fischer – vocals, guitars Erol Unala – guitars, grooves Donovan John Szypura – programming Danny Zingg – bass Marky Edelmann – drums, synthesizer Additional musicians Michelle Amar – vocals on "Slender" and "Human III" Kat – vocals on "Messiah (Second Coming)" Xavier Russell – vocals on "R.U.M." Gary Townsley – vocal effect on "Messiah (Second Coming)" Ron Marks – guitar on "Naked Underground" Kurt Unala – acoustic bass on "Slender" Roger Muller – programming Roli Mosimann – additional programming Production Apollyon Sun – producers, mixing on "Dweller" Roli Mosimann – producer, mixing Richard Hilton – engineer John Fryer – mixing on "Reefer Boy" Gary Townsley, Laura Whittaker – mixing assistants Simon Heyworth – mastering at Chop 'Em Out, London References Apollyon Sun albums 2000 debut albums Albums produced by Roli Mosimann
"Biting My Tongue" is a song by Australian pop duo The Veronicas, released as a single on 3 July 2020 through Sony Music Australia as the lead single from their fifth studio album Human (2021). Background The release of "Biting My Tongue" was announced by The Veronicas in late June 2020 along with the title of their fifth studio album Human. On the single's release date, they also uploaded a preview for the song's music video. Jessica Origliasso described the song as "really about saying 'I need to declare my undying love for you. No regrets." with Lisa Origliasso adding: Music video "Biting My Tongue" marked the directorial debut for The Veronicas. The music video features twins Bud and Aidan Brennan Williams. The video was released on July 21, 2020. Critical reception Rolling Stone described "Biting My Tongue" as an "exuberant pop anthem which captures the pair at their absolute best". Track listing Digital download "Biting My Tongue" – 3:06 Charts References 2020 songs The Veronicas songs
The white-lipped tree frog is the world's largest tree frog. White-lipped tree frog may also refer to: Asian white-lipped tree frog, a frog found in Asia Wandolleck's white-lipped tree frog, a frog endemic to Papua New Guinea Animal common name disambiguation pages
```java package com.journaldev.string; import java.util.Arrays; public class StringToCharacter { /** * Java class to convert String to character * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "abc"; //get char at specific index char c = str.charAt(0); //Character array from String char[] charArray = str.toCharArray(); System.out.println(str +" String index 0 character = "+c); System.out.println(str+" String converted to character array = "+Arrays.toString(charArray)); } } ```
Little Tough Guys in Society is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred several of the Dead End Kids. It was the second film that Universal made in their series and the first of three that they made without any of the original Dead End Kids. Plot Mrs. Berry, a socialite, hires a psychiatrist to care for her son Randolph. He exhibits antisocial behavior and stays bedridden all day. The doctor determines that if he was exposed to other boys of a lesser social stature he will break out of his shell and resume his place in society. They contact a place in the city and hire six underprivileged kids to come out to the country to help out. The boys who arrive are not the boys who were originally hired, but a gang of misfits who are wanted for destroying a glass factory. They quickly help Randolph overcome his antisocial behavior and assist in capturing some thieves who broke into Mrs. Berry's residence while Randolph's birthday party was taking place. The boys are then discovered to be on the run from the police, but with the assistance of a judge attending the party, they surrender and agree to return to New York and face their punishment. Cast The Little Tough Guys Frankie Thomas as Danny Harris Berger as Sailor Hally Chester as Murphy Charles Duncan as Monk David Gorcey as Yap William Benedict as Trouble Additional Cast Mischa Auer as Dr. Trenkle Mary Boland as Mrs. Berry Edward Everett Horton as Oliver Helen Parrish as Penny Jackie Searl as Randolf Berry Peggy Stewart as Jane Harold Huber as Uncle Buck David Oliver as Footman Stanley Blystone as Policeman Eddie Hall as Cabbie Samuel S. Hinds as Judge Lon McCallister as unnamed Sarah Padden as Victim Frances Robinson as Guest Dick Rush as Jim The writers The writers Mortimer Offner and Edward Eliscu were related by marriage. Eliscu's wife Stella Bloch was Mortimer's cousin. Eliscu and Offner were both eventually blacklisted. References External links 1938 films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton American comedy films 1938 comedy films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films
Parkside Christian Centre, East Sheen, previously known as Elim Pentecostal Church, East Sheen, is a Pentecostal church in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames at 173 Upper Richmond Road (West), in East Sheen. See also Elim Pentecostal Church External links Official website References Churches in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames East Sheen Elim Pentecostal Church
Tadanori (written: 忠則, 忠度, 忠教, 忠憲, or 忠礼) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: , Imperial Japanese Army officer , Japanese judoka , Japanese kugyō , Japanese daimyō , Japanese samurai , Japanese daimyō , Japanese adult video director , Japanese artist and illustrator Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names
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Mia Arnesby Brown, née Mia Edwards (1867–1931) was a Welsh painter. She was particularly noted for her portraits of children. Biography Mia Sarah H. Edwards was born in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, daughter of Rev. Charles Smallwood Edwards and paternal granddaughter of Rev. Loderwick Edwards, who had been the Vicar of Rhymney. She studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey. In 1894, she exhibited at the Nottingham Castle Exhibition of Cornish Painters as Mia Edwards. She showed at least five pieces at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art under her maiden name. In 1896, she married John Arnesby Brown. The couple spent the summer and autumn months in Norfolk and the winter and spring in St Ives, Cornwall. St. Ives was the home of an artists' colony, whose painters participated in the Newlyn School of Open Air Art. She often showcased her works featuring children with the likes of Marianne Stokes and Elizabeth Forbes. One of her best-known works was a portrait of a daughter of the novelist Charles Marriott. In 1906 her piece, Shirley Poppies, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in a 1913 exhibit of Welsh artists, she gained acclaim for Mary Reading and The Garden Boy. Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales houses The Garden Boy in its collections. She also has three paintings housed at the Norfolk Museums, Norwich: Girl Fishing (1918), Sleeping Girl (1931) and Thomas South Mack as a Small Boy (undated). Her work, Country Girl, is part of the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery. Eventually, the couple settled in the village of Haddiscoe, Norfolk, where Mia Arnsby Brown died suddenly in 1931. Exhibitions 1894 Nottingham Castle, Exhibition of Cornish Painters (as Mia Edwards) References Welsh women painters Welsh painters 1867 births 1931 deaths People from Monmouth, Wales Welsh portrait painters
"Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. In the US, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967. Content The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked. According to Donovan's notes, accompanying the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics. Donovan stated, "I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow," he said. "Really, you know the 'electric banana' was right in there and gave it away. And that's what the song's about." This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with NME magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene – which were ladies' vibrators." Paul McCartney can be heard as one of the background revellers on this track, but the "quite rightly" whispering lines in the chorus is not McCartney, but rather Donovan himself. Donovan had a small part in coming up with the lyrics for "Yellow Submarine", and McCartney played bass guitar (uncredited) on portions of Donovan's Mellow Yellow album. In 2005, the track was remastered by EMI Records for the Mellow Yellow album re-issue. Reception Cash Box called "Mellow Yellow" an "easy-going, sophisticated blues number which should be a giant." Covers and adaptations "Mellow Yellow" was covered in 1967 by soul singer Big Maybelle on her album Got a Brand New Bag. It was also covered in 1968 by British R&B singer/keyboardist Georgie Fame on his album The Third Face of Fame. In 1999, "Mellow Yellow" was sung by a group of young adults, among whom were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald, Rashida Jones and Jason Thompson, in Gap's "Everybody in Cords" commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers. In 2015 the song was covered by Spanish singer Abraham Mateo for promotion of the film Minions. The original by Donovan was used in the film's ending titles. In Brazil Michel Teló covered the song, adapted to Portuguese, also for the movie. Chart performance Weekly charts Year-end charts References External links Mellow Yellow (Single) – Donovan Unofficial Site 1966 songs 1966 singles 1967 singles Donovan songs Epic Records singles Psychedelic songs Pye Records singles Song recordings produced by Mickie Most Songs written by Donovan
Shahrak-e Mojahedin (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Mojāhedīn) is a village in Chenaneh Rural District, Fath Olmobin District, Shush County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 505, in 73 families. References Populated places in Shush County
The Atlantic campaign of 1806 was one of the most important and complex naval campaigns of the post-Trafalgar Napoleonic Wars. Seeking to take advantage of the withdrawal of British forces from the Atlantic in the aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar, Emperor Napoleon ordered two battle squadrons to sea from the fleet stationed at Brest, during December 1805. Escaping deep into the Atlantic, these squadrons succeeded in disrupting British convoys, evading pursuit by British battle squadrons and reinforcing the French garrison at Santo Domingo. The period of French success was brief: on 6 February 1806 one of the squadrons, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues, was intercepted by a British squadron at the Battle of San Domingo and destroyed, losing all five of its ships of the line. The second French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez, cruised in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean during the spring and summer of 1806, conducting several successful raids on British islands in the West Indies. His ability to affect British trade was hampered by the deployment of British squadrons against him and the disobedience of Captain Jérôme Bonaparte, the Emperor's brother. On 18 August an Atlantic hurricane dispersed his ships, causing severe damage and forcing them to take shelter in friendly or neutral harbours in the Americas. Waiting British ships destroyed one vessel, and several others were so badly damaged that they never sailed again, the four survivors limping back to France individually over the next two years. The various British squadrons deployed against him failed to catch Willaumez, but their presence had limited his ability to raid British trade routes. The campaign included a number of subsidiary operations by both British and French ships, some taking advantage of the campaign to conduct smaller operations while the main enemy forces were distracted, others operating as diversions to the principal campaign to attack undefended areas or lure British ships away from the principal French squadrons. Among these operations was the return of the squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois from the Indian Ocean, which was captured at the action of 13 March 1806; the raiding cruises of L'Hermite's expedition and Lamellerie's expedition, which captured a number of merchant ships but each lost a frigate breaking through the blockade of the French coast; and the destruction of a convoy of seven French ships destined with supplies for the French West Indies at the action of 25 September 1806. French squadrons Admiral Leissègues' squadron Both of the principal French squadrons departed Brest on 13 December, remaining together for the first two days before dividing in pursuit of separate British merchant convoys on 15 December. The squadron under Leissègues clashed with the convoy's escort, before breaking off and sailing south for the French Caribbean, where Leissègues was intending to land the 1,000 soldiers carried aboard as reinforcements for the garrison at Santo Domingo, via the Azores. The voyage was long and difficult, Leissègues struggling through winter storms that divided his squadron and inflicted severe damage to his ships. Arriving at Santo Domingo on 20 January, Leissègues disembarked his troops and began extensive repairs to his ships in preparation for raiding cruises in the Caribbean. On 6 February, Leissègues was surprised at anchor by a squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, which had been taking on fresh supplies at Basseterre when news of Leissègues' arrival reached him. Joined by ships from the West Indian squadron, Duckworth's force was larger than Leissègues' and also had the advantage of the wind that prevented the unprepared French squadron from escaping. Sailing westwards along the coast in a line of battle, Leissègues' flagship Impérial was the first to be attacked, eventually driving ashore along with the next in line, while three others surrendered at the Battle of San Domingo. Leissègues himself escaped ashore; the only surviving ships of his squadron were the frigates, all of which eventually returned to France later in the spring. Admiral Willaumez's squadron After separating from Leissègues on 15 December, Willaumez sailed south, capturing a number of vessels from a British troop convoy and sending the prizes, with the frigate Volontaire, to Tenerife. Willaumez's intention was to raid the China Fleet, a large convoy of valuable East Indiamen that sailed from the Far East to Britain every year. However, on 23 December he was pursued by Duckworth and driven far off course, so that by the time he reached the Cape of Good Hope, where he planned to resupply his ships, it had already been captured by a British expeditionary force. Turning westwards, Willaumez raided shipping in the South Atlantic until April, when he anchored at Salvador in neutral Brazil. By early May, Willaumez was at sea again, stopping at Cayenne and then splitting his force to raid shipping in the Leeward Islands prior to reuniting at Fort-de-France on Martinique in June. On 1 July, Willaumez sailed again, attacking shipping at Montserrat, Nevis and St. Kitts before sailing to Tortola in preparation for an attack on the Jamaica convoy. Before he could reach the convoy, Willaumez was intercepted off the Passage Islands by a squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane and driven northwards into the Bahamas. There he waited for the Jamaica convoy to pass, seizing any ship of any nationality that came within sight, in case they should reveal his position. After several weeks of waiting, Captain Bonaparte, the Emperor's brother and commander of the ship Vétéran, decided that he would no longer submit to Willaumez's command and sailed north during the night of 31 July, without orders or even notifying the admiral. Vétéran eventually returned to France on 26 August, after destroying six ships from a Quebec convoy. Panicked by the unexplained disappearance of one of his ships and its illustrious captain, Willaumez struck north in search of the vessel and as a result missed the passage of the Jamaica convoy, also narrowly avoiding an encounter with the squadrons under Warren and Strachan. On 18 August a hurricane dispersed his ships, severely damaging them and scattering them along the Atlantic Seaboard of the Americas. One was destroyed by a British patrol, two others were too badly damaged to be repaired and were broken up, and three of his ships successfully made the journey back to France over the next two years. Admiral Linois's squadron One of the minor French squadrons that participated in the campaign was the force under Contre-Admiral Linois, who had sailed for the Indian Ocean with a ship of the line and four frigates in March 1803 during the Peace of Amiens. After brief stops at Puducherry and Île de France, Linois sailed on a raiding cruise to the South China Sea only to be driven off by a British merchant convoy at the Battle of Pulo Aura. Despite subsequent minor success against merchant ships, including the Battle of Vizagapatam, Linois's failure to inflict significant damage to British trade in the Far East enraged Napoleon, and in late 1805, with supplies running low and his ships in need of repair, Linois began the return journey to Europe with just his flagship and a single frigate remaining. By the early morning of 13 March 1806 he was in the Mid-Atlantic when his lookouts spotted sails in the distance. Turning his force around to investigate, Linois hoped to encounter a merchant convoy but instead discovered the large British second rate HMS London looming out of the darkness ahead. Unable to escape, Linois fought until his ships were battered and he himself was badly wounded, but he eventually surrendered to the squadron under Admiral Warren that had followed London. Napoleon's fury at Linois was unabated and the French admiral remained a prisoner of war for the next eight years. Commodore L'Hermite's squadron One of the principal French diversionary operations during 1806 was by a force that had been sent to sea in October 1805 as a diversion during the Trafalgar campaign, which by then was almost over. Sailing from Lorient to West Africa, L'Hermite was supposed to have been reinforced by a squadron under Jérôme Bonaparte and attack and capture British forts on the West African coast, thus forcing the detachment of British forces from the main campaign in pursuit. The events of the end of the Trafalgar campaign cancelled these plans, and the scheduled reinforcements were instead attached to Willaumez's squadron. Despite this setback, L'Hermite continued with elements of the original plan and attacked British merchant ships and slave ships off West Africa during the spring of 1806, inflicting some local damage but failing to capture a trading post or to affect the wider strategic situation. In June, L'Hermite sailed to Cayenne for supplies and then returned to Europe the following month, encountering part of the British blockade squadron under Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis on his return and losing the frigate Président. Commodore La Meillerie's squadron One of the French squadrons that operated in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 was the result of opportunity rather than strategy. After the Battle of Trafalgar, most of the French survivors had retreated to Cadiz, where they remained until Duckworth's blockade squadron abandoned the port in November 1805. Although Duckworth's ships were replaced by forces under Lord Collingwood, the replacements were inadequate and on 26 February 1806, while the blockade squadron, which had been pulled back in the hope of luring the French out of the port, had been blown off station, four frigates and a brig escaped. Chased by the British frigate HMS Hydra, Commodore Louis La-Marre-la-Meillerie refused battle and abandoned the brig Furet to the British in his haste to escape. Sailing to Senegal and then Cayenne, La Meillerie's operations had little effect and by 18 May he was already on the return journey to France, hoping to anchor in the Biscay port of Rochefort. On 27 July, the frigates were spotted by HMS Mars, a ship of the line of the British blockade squadron, and chased with the frigate Rhin rapidly falling behind. Declining to support the straggler, La Meillerie ran on towards France while Mars took possession of Rhin, and the surviving ships found safe ports along the Biscay coast. Commodore Soleil's squadron The final French operation in the Atlantic during the campaign was an attempt to send seven frigates and corvettes to the French West Indies in September, laden with supplies to help maintain the strength and morale of the garrisons. With Willaumez believed to be still at sea, September 1806 seemed a good time to send a squadron into the Atlantic, but in fact the force was spotted within hours of leaving Rochefort by the British blockade force under Commodore Sir Samuel Hood. Hood's force gave chase and the large ships of the line soon caught up the frigates in heavy weather. Sending four of his ships off in different directions, Soleil attempted to give them cover with his three largest vessels, but after a hard-fought battle in which Hood lost an arm, four of the French frigates were captured. British squadrons Admiral Warren's squadron The squadron under Admiral Warren prepared at Spithead in December 1805 included one second rate, one 80-gun ship of the line and five 74-gun ships of line, but no frigates or smaller vessels to operate as scouts. Prevented from sailing during December by high winds, Warren remained off St Helens on the Isle of Wight until the middle of January, when the winds lifted and he set a course for Madeira. There he was to search for information of the French squadrons and, if no information was forthcoming, to sail for Barbados and augment the squadrons in the Caribbean. For the next two months, Warren remained in the central eastern Atlantic Ocean, aware that Willaumez was cruising to the south and that Leissègues had been destroyed off San Domingo. During February his force was joined by the independently sailing frigate HMS Amazon. On 13 March 1806, Warren's squadron sighted and pursued two sails to the northeast, which were eventually recognised as the squadron under Admiral Linois, returning to France from an extended cruise in the Indian Ocean. In the ensuing Action of 13 March 1806, London and Amazon were able to defeat and capture the French ships Marengo and Belle Poule, the resulting damage and prizes prompting Warren to return to Britain. During the return journey his squadron was struck by a spring storm and several ships suffered damage and were separated, eventually rejoining Warren's main force and returning to Spithead. In Britain, Warren's ships underwent repairs and London and Repulse were detached, replaced by HMS Fame under Captain Richard Bennet. In late June Warren's squadron sailed again, under orders to intercept Willaumez off the Bahamas. Arriving in the Caribbean on 12 July, Warren narrowly missed intercepting Willaumez's squadron, which had sailed to the north in search of Vétéran. Admiral Strachan's squadron Admiral Strachan's squadron was ordered to prepare for sea during December at Plymouth, but like Warren's force, Strachan was trapped by strong winds in Cawsand Bay and could not sail until mid-January. Strachan's orders were to sail for Saint Helena and search for signs of the French squadrons. If their whereabouts could not be discovered, Strachan was to join the squadron under Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham detailed to invade the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. During February and March Strachan searched in vain, eventually receiving the news that Willaumez had anchored in neutral Salvador in Brazil during April. Steering northwest in the hope of intercepting the French squadron, Strachan was hampered by the presence of HMS St George, which proved too slow for a flying squadron. Returning to Plymouth, Strachan detached St George and Centaur, which had been made the flagship of the Rochefort blockade squadron and was given HMS Belleisle, HMS Audacious and HMS Montagu as replacements, as well as two frigates. Departing Plymouth on 19 May, Strachan sailed for the Caribbean, passing Madeira and the Canary Islands before anchoring at Carlisle Bay, Barbados on 8 August. Five days later Strachan sail northwards in pursuit of Willaumez and on 18 August was caught in the same hurricane that dispersed Willaumez's squadron slightly to the north. During August and September, Strachan's scattered ships gathered off the rendezvous point at Chesapeake Bay in the hope of intercepting any French vessels seeking shelter in American ports. On 14 September, Belleisle, Bellona and Melampus sighted the limping French ship Impétueux off Cape Henry and drove her ashore, burning the wreck in violation of American neutrality. Admiral Duckworth's squadron The third principal British squadron deployed during the campaign was never intended to take part in it. Admiral Duckworth had been ordered to lead the blockade of Cadiz in November 1805, following the destruction of the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October. Finding the blockade of the survivors at Cadiz dull, Duckworth sailed south in search of Allemand's expedition, leaving just two frigates to watch the Spanish port. Allemand escaped Duckworth, but on 23 December he was informed of the depredations by Willaumez's squadron and sailed to intercept him. On 25 December he discovered Willaumez but was unable to catch him eventually abandoning the chase and retiring to St. Kitts in the West Indies to take on fresh supplies. There he was joined by several ships of the Leeward Islands squadron under Admiral Cochrane and also learned of the arrival of Leissègues at Santo Domingo. Sailing to intercept the French squadron, Duckworth successfully encountered them on 6 February 1806 and in the ensuing Battle of San Domingo, captured or destroyed all five of the ships of the line, carrying his prizes to Jamaica. Duckworth then returned to Britain, leaving Cochrane with a number of vessels to patrol the Eastern Caribbean in anticipation of the arrival of Willaumez. Admiral Cochrane's squadron Following the Battle of San Domingo, Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, newly knighted, gathered a small squadron in anticipation of the arrival of the second French force under Willaumez. Based at Carlisle Bay, Barbados, Cochrane's forces patrolled the Leeward Islands for the French force during the spring, eventually locating Willaumez's ships at Fort-de-France on Martinique on 14 June 1806. An attempt to blockade the port ended in failure as several ships were damaged in high winds, but when Willaumez sailed on 1 July, Cochrane had planned ahead, and brought his squadron to Tortola, blocking the passage through which Willaumez would have to sail to attack the valuable Jamaica convoy, then gathering off Saint Thomas. With his squadron, Cochrane successfully drove off Willaumez on 4 July without a fight, and the French admiral retired to the Bahama Banks to await the convoy's passage northwards. Cochrane spent the next month preparing the convoy for its voyage, which it began during August while Willaumez was out of position to the north. Rochefort blockade squadrons Although other British forces were deployed during the year, most were engaged on other operations incidental to the main Atlantic campaign, such as the expeditionary force to the Cape of Good Hope under Commodore Home Riggs Popham. In addition, a number of blockade squadrons were deployed to the major ports of the French Atlantic coast. These forces contained the French warships still at anchor in the ports and restricted the return of French warships from service at sea during the campaign. These forces included a Channel squadron under Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis, whose ships intercepted and captured a frigate of Commodore Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite's squadron on 27 September, and blockade forces off Cadiz under the distant command of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood and Brest under Admiral William Cornwallis. Cornwallis in particular was particularly effective: under his watch, only one French ship of the line successfully entered or departed Brest harbour during the year. There was one blockade force that played a particular role in the campaign, the force deployed to the waters off Rochefort, initially under the command of Commodore Richard Goodwin Keats. Under Keats, the French squadron under Louis La-Marre-la-Meillerie was intercepted on 17 July, HMS Mars capturing a frigate and chasing the others into port. In August, Keats was replaced by Commodore Sir Samuel Hood, who was to achieve one of the more notable victories of the year at the action of 25 September 1806, when a French convoy of seven ships sailing to the West Indies was intercepted and defeated. Although Hood's force captured four large modern frigates, the French fought hard and Hood himself was seriously wounded by musket fire, losing an arm. Notes References Atlantic campaign of 1806 Napoleonic Wars orders of battle
LRPu or low-resilience polyurethane is a material distinguished by an "ability to slowly return to its original shape". The resulting impact resistance results in LRPu being used in soft laptop sleeves and other lightweight cases for portable electronic equipment, as an alternative to the softer neoprene. See also Neoprene Polyurethane Memory foam Sorbothane References Materials Polyurethanes
USS Greiner (DE-37) was an constructed for the United States Navy during World War II. She was promptly sent off into the Pacific Ocean to protect convoys and other ships from Japanese submarines and fighter aircraft. She performed dangerous work in numerous battle areas, and was awarded three battle stars. She was originally intended for Great Britain under lend-lease, was launched as BDE-37 on 20 May 1943 by the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington and commissioned on 18 August 1943. Namesake Kenneth Frederick Greiner was born on 27 April 1910 in Hibbing, Minnesota. He enlisted as a Seaman, Second Class on 28 September 1935. He became an Aviation Cadet in 1936, underwent flight training, and was honorably discharged on 7 April 1936. Lieutenant (junior grade) Greiner was appointed to the United States Naval Reserve on 29 March 1941, and after attending an aeronautical engineering course at the University of Minnesota reported to Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor, Alaska on 1 October 1941. He was killed in action there on 4 June 1942 during the Japanese Battle of Dutch Harbor. Service history Following shakedown and training exercise along the California-Washington coast, Greiner sailed for Pearl Harbor, reaching there on 31 October 1943. A series of training and patrol operations kept her in the Hawaiian area until 23 December, when she sailed for recently won Tarawa as flagship of Escort Squadron 28 (EscSquad 28). Greiner spent virtually a year in the Gilbert Islands-Marshall Islands area, as the great American island offensive swept westward toward Japan. The ship performed a variety of tasks, including the most important job of escorting transport vessels to the assault areas. She rescued 13 men from a downed PBM Mariner on 26 January 1944, and shelled Kusaie in the Caroline Islands, in reply to a salvo from Japanese batteries, on 1 June. Greiner spent 3 months at Pearl Harbor for repairs and operations from July–October, and after antisubmarine exercises in Hawaiian waters spent December patrolling around Wotje, Mili, Jaluit, and Maloelap, "leapfrogged" earlier in the war. She spent the remainder of the war in the Gilberts and Marshalls plane-guarding and screening escort carrier forces, except for a short voyage to Okinawa 29 June-3 July 1945. Greiner steamed back to the United States from Kerama Retto on 3 July, and arrived San Francisco, California on 28 July. She decommissioned at Oakland, California on 19 November 1945 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 December. The ship was subsequently sold to J. G. Berkwit & Co. on 10 February 1945, and resold in 1947. Awards References External links NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive - DE-37 - USS Greiner Evarts-class destroyer escorts World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States Ships built in Bremerton, Washington 1943 ships
Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 is a live album by saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal which was recorded in Germany in 1983 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and released on the HatOLOGY label in 1998. Critical reception The Allmusic review stated "there is no date, with possible exceptions of Motion and Lone-Lee, that can touch this live duet setting for breaking new ground. Given his apprenticeship with Lennie Tristano, Konitz is well known for his melodic improvising and his ability to re-conceptualize a tune. But what happens here, with Martial Solal's dramatic, often theatrical style of piano playing, is the extension of Konitz's own abilities to visualize inherently what is possible within a given framework ... It's quite honestly the finest live recording of Lee Konitz that exists". On All About Jazz C. Michael Bailey noted "What Solal gave Konitz on this recording was freedom, a mental and creative elasticity that the saxophonist could use as a springboard for improvisation beyond the normal harmonic coloring within-the- lines. This music is perfect for the probing jazz enthusiast who cannot make sense of late Coltrane or fellow saxophonist Eric Dolphy. There is enough of the melody retained to see where the artists are going and appreciate them for it". Track listing All compositions by Lee Konitz except where noted. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:43 "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 7:12 "It's You" - 6:22 "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 9:02 "Subconscious Lee" - 7:33 "Fluctuat Nec Mergitur" (Martial Solal) - 6:21 "April" - 7:18 "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) - 10:21 "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 5:45 Personnel Lee Konitz – alto saxophone Martial Solal – piano References Lee Konitz live albums Martial Solal live albums 1998 live albums Hathut Records live albums
Kappa Aquilae, Latinized from κ Aquilae, is the Bayer designation for a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. It is a faint star at apparent visual magnitude +4.957, but bright enough to be seen with the naked eye in dark suburban skies. The annual parallax is only 1.94 mas, which equates to a distance of approximately from Earth (with a 10% margin of error). The spectrum of Kappa Aquilae matches a stellar classification of B0.5 III, where the luminosity class of III is typically associated with evolved giant stars. This is a star with 15.50 times the Sun's mass and 12.5 times the radius of the Sun. Massive stars like this blaze brightly; it is radiating 52,630-fold the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere with an effective temperature of 26,500 K, giving it the intense blue-white glow of a B-type star. It is only 11 million years of age and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 265 km/s. Etymology In Chinese, (), meaning Right Flag, refers to an asterism consisting of κ Aquilae, μ Aquilae, σ Aquilae, δ Aquilae, ν Aquilae, 42 Aquilae, ι Aquilae, HD 184701 and 56 Aquilae. Consequently, the Chinese name for κ Aquilae itself is (, .) This star, together with η Aql, θ Aql, δ Aql, ι Aql and λ Aql were once part of the now-obsolete constellation Antinous. References External links Image Kappa Aquilae HR 7446 184915 Aquilae, Kappa Aquila (constellation) B-type giants 096483 Aquilae, 39 7446 BD-07 5006
ZeroAccess is a Trojan horse computer malware that affects Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to download other malware on an infected machine from a botnet while remaining hidden using rootkit techniques. History and propagation The ZeroAccess botnet was discovered at least around May 2011. The ZeroAccess rootkit responsible for the botnet's spread is estimated to have been present on at least 9 million systems. Estimates botnet size vary across sources; antivirus vendor Sophos estimated the botnet size at around 1 million active and infected machines in the third quarter of 2012, and security firm Kindsight estimated 2.2 million infected and active systems. The bot itself is spread through the ZeroAccess rootkit through a variety of attack vectors. One attack vector is a form of social engineering, where a user is persuaded to execute malicious code either by disguising it as a legitimate file, or including it hidden as an additional payload in an executable that announces itself as, for example, bypassing copyright protection (a keygen). A second attack vector utilizes an advertising network in order to have the user click on an advertisement that redirects them to a site hosting the malicious software itself. Finally, a third infection vector used is an affiliate scheme where third-party persons are paid for installing the rootkit on a system. In December 2013 a coalition led by Microsoft moved to destroy the command and control network for the botnet. The attack was ineffective though because not all C&C were seized, and its peer-to-peer command and control component was unaffected - meaning the botnet could still be updated at will. Operation Once a system has been infected with the ZeroAccess rootkit it will start one of the two main botnet operations: bitcoin mining or click fraud. Machines involved in bitcoin mining generate bitcoins for their controller, the estimated worth of which was 2.7 million US dollars per year in September 2012. The machines used for click fraud simulate clicks on website advertisements paid for on a pay per click basis. The estimated profit for this activity may be as high as 100,000 US dollars per day, costing advertisers $900,000 a day in fraudulent clicks. Typically, ZeroAccess infects the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the infected machine. It may alternatively infect a random driver in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers giving it total control over the operating system. It also disables the Windows Security Center, Firewall, and Windows Defender from the operating system. ZeroAccess also hooks itself into the TCP/IP stack to help with the click fraud. The software also looks for the Tidserv malware and removes it if it finds it. See also Botnet Malware Command and control (malware) Zombie (computer science) Internet crime Internet security Click fraud Clickbot.A References External links Analysis of the ZeroAccess botnet, created by Sophos. ZeroAccess Botnet, Kindsight Security Labs. New C&C Protocol for ZeroAccess, Kindsight Security Labs. Internet security Distributed computing projects Spamming Botnets Rootkits Hacking in the 2010s
Jakomäki () is a quarter, part of Suurmetsä neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 1.92 km2 and a population of 5,481 (2005). The suburb was built within a few years in the 1960s, and it contained only council houses. In the 1970s, blocks of flats were built in northern area of Jakomäki. Jakomäki is located near the border of Vantaa. It is bordered by Kivikko, Heikinlaakso and Tattarisuo. Apartments that are located on the highest points of Jakomäki, do not have more than three floors because of low flying general aviation aircraft that take off from or land to Helsinki-Malmi airport located nearby. Jakomäki has been known for years as one of the notorious suburbs in the city. The number of unemployed in the district is also one of the highest in Helsinki and one of the lowest in terms of the number of high-educated people. Politics Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Jakomäki: True Finns 31.9% Social Democratic Party 27.6% Left Alliance 11.4% National Coalition Party 9.3% Green League 6.8% Centre Party 3.9% Christian Democrats 3.7% Swedish People's Party 1.5% See also Alppikylä Kontula, Helsinki References Quarters of Helsinki
The 1980 Turkish presidential election refers to the unsuccessful elections to choose the country's seventh president, to succeed Fahri Korutürk. The first round of the elections held on 12 March 1980. There were 115 unsuccessful rounds until 12 September 1980. The elections ended with a coup d'état on that date. History The election agenda began as incumbent president Fahri Korutürk's 7-year term was to finish, in April 1980. According to the 1961 constitution, the winning candidate needed two thirds of the votes of the total members of parliament. Faik Türün was the Justice Party's (AP) candidate and Muhsin Batur was Republican People's Party's candidate; both were retired army generals. During the five and a half months of elections İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, an AP member, was acting president. Neither of the candidates reached the 2/3 of votes required to become president. The last round was held on 11 September 1980, and the speaker of the parliament scheduled the next session for 12 September 1980 at 15:00 hours. The next session was called off because of the coup d'état. See also 1982 Turkish constitutional referendum References 1980 Indirect elections 1980 elections in Turkey September 1980 events in Europe
Carnikava Municipality () is a former municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2006 by reorganization of Carnikava Parish of the Riga District, with the administrative centre being Carnikava. The population in 2009 was 6,261 people. The parish itself was created in 1992 after splitting from Ādaži Parish. After the municipal reform of 2009, the districts were abolished and the Municipality became a national administrative unit. On 1 July 2021, Carnikava Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into Ādaži Municipality as Carnikava Parish. Symbols The coat of arms, first adopted in 2002 for the parish, featured a Carnikava lamprey and the mouth of the Gauja River, which flows into the Gulf of Riga in Carnikava. In 2015, the coat of arms was modified to bring the drawing of the lamprey closer to its real-life appearance. After Carnikava Municipality was merged into Ādaži Municipality, the old coat of arms remained as the symbol of Carnikava Parish yet again. Nature The total area of the county is 80.2 square kilometers, which is the third smallest county in Latvia after the Saulkrasti and Stopiņi Municipalities, moreover, most of it is covered by forests, but a quarter of the total area is used for agriculture. Carnikava is known for its Piejūra ('Seaside') Nature Park, which is part of the European Union's Natura 2000 network of specially protected areas and which contains a number of protected plant species. Many plant species characteristic of non-draining, clear-water lakes have been found in Lake Ummis: Lobelia dortmanna, lakes, etc. Several rare bat species have been found near Garezeri Lakes. The park occupies about one-fifth of the entire territory of the municipality. There are five rivers and canals, eight lakes and four lake islands in the area. The region has a 19-kilometer-long beach along the Vidzeme coast of the Gulf of Riga from Kalngale to Lilaste. Rivers: Gauja, Langa, Eimuri Canal, Dzirnupe, Vecgauja See also Administrative divisions of Latvia References External links Former municipalities of Latvia
The 2014 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 14 to 17 March 2014 at the Maurice-Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were the 39th World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, the fifth to be held in Canada and the third to be held in Montreal. Results The Overall World Champion is determined by adding the points received by the athletes taking part in the final of each event; points are not awarded for any races other than the event finals. For each final race: 34 points are awarded for first place, 21 points for second place, 13 points for third place, 8 points for fourth place, 5 points for fifth place, 3 points for sixth place, 2 points for seventh place, and 1 point is awarded for eighth place. In the 3000 m super-final, an additional 5 points are awarded to the athlete who is leading the race after the first 1000 m. The relay events do not count towards the overall classification. The athlete with the second most points wins the overall silver medal, and the next highest point scorer wins overall bronze. Men Women Medal table References External links Results book World Short Track Speed Skating Championships World Short Track Championships Sports competitions in Montreal International speed skating competitions hosted by Canada World Short Track Championships World Short Track Championships
Agnigarh (Pron:/ægɪˈgɑː/) is a hillock located in Tezpur, Assam, India. In Hindu mythology, it is the site of the fortress which was built by Banasura to keep his daughter Usha in isolation. The name itself is derived from the words 'Agni' (meaning fire) and 'garh' (meaning fortress or wall) in Sanskrit. Legend Legend has it that this fortress was surrounded by fire at all times so that nobody could go in or out of the perimeter without permission. Usha fell in love with Aniruddha in her dreams, not knowing that he was the grandson of Krishna. Her companion Chitralekha identified him by painting his portrait from Usha's description. Chitralekha Udyan in Tezpur also known as 'Cole Park,' the biggest park in Tezpur, is named after her. Chitralekha was not only an artist but one possessing mystical powers. Anirudddha was Krishna's grandson and Usha, the daughter of an Asura king, therefore was no way any side would consent to their love. She flew one night and brought Aniruddha to Usha's place while he was still sleeping, using her powers. When Aniruddha opened his eyes and saw Usha, he fell in love immediately. However, Banasura was furious on knowing this, and tied him with snakes and imprisoned him. Lord Krishna, however had agreed for their marriage and had wanted for Banasura to consent for the same. Banasura was a great devotee of Lord Shiva, and as a boon had asked him and his entire family to guard the gates of his city, Tezpur. He therefore was not at all scared by Lord Krishna's wrath. A war ensued between the Hari (Lord Krishna and his followers) and the Hars (Lord Shiva and his followers), rivers of blood flowed and the city was named Tezpur (City of Blood). Both sides were nearly wiped out and a final battle followed between Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna, Lord Brahma requested both of them to stop the war by putting him between them. A discussion followed in which Lord Krishna made Lord Shiva see that Banasura was acting wrongly in imprisoning his grandson, and had even disrespected Lord Shiva himself in asking him and his family to be his gate keepers. Lord Shiva agreed, and Banasura was brought. Fearing his life he immediately agreed to the marriage. The stone sculptures on the Agnigarh hill portray this entire picturesque story of love and great war. Current state Present day Agnigarh is a hill on the banks of the Brahmaputra which is one of the big tourist attractions in Tezpur. There is a circular stairway leading up to the crest of the hill where there are now sculptures depicting Usha's abduction of Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna and the ensuing battle by Krishna to free them. There is a tall viewing platform from where the entire Tezpur town can be seen. We can also see the Kalia- Bhumura bridge which shines like a beautiful necklace over the vast Brahmaputra river. See also Banasura Chitralekha Usha References External links Lanes of Assam Tezpur Tourist attractions in Assam Hills of Assam
Büyük ada ("big island" in Turkish) may refer to: Büyükada Büyük Ada - an island in the Karaburun town in Izmir
The European Rugby League (ERL) (previously Rugby League European Federation (RLEF)) is the umbrella body for nations playing the sport of rugby league football across Europe. In the absence of other continental federations, ERL also controls rugby league in North America the Middle East and Africa through its sub-branches Americas Rugby League and Middle East-Africa Rugby League. History The federation was founded January 2003 following an initiative between Richard Lewis, Executive Chairman of Great Britain's Rugby Football League (RFL) and his French counterpart Jean Paul Ferre of the French Rugby League Federation (FFR). The RLEF's first constitution was approved in January 2004 and the federation's first Board of Directors was elected. This first Board of Directors consisted of Jean Paul Ferre as Chairman and Richard Lewis as Deputy Chairman, with Nigel Wood and Nicolas Larrat being the other Board members. Representatives for Morocco, Italy, Serbia, Russia, Lebanon, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales attended. Russia became a full member of the RLEF, joining Britain and France, and the RLIF soon after. At the time of its foundation, the RLEF placed a "particular emphasis on generating development funding within each country". Historically, much of the development work conducted in Europe had been funded by the RFL. Following the profitable 2008 World Cup, the RFL and RLEF prepared to bid for funds to enhance their activities. 2004 saw the revival of the Rugby League European Championship, now ran by the RLEF. In December 2009, Kevin Rudd, a former Scotland rugby league international, stepped down as Executive Officer of the RLEF after more than five years in the post. RLEF Chairman Richard Lewis stated that Rudd "has done an outstanding job and created a platform, structure and competitions framework that can take us into the future". Rudd was succeeded by Danny Kazandjian. Kazandjian had previously been a key figure in the establishment of rugby league in Lebanon and had led the RLEF's development drive in the Mediterranean and Middle East regions as Director of Development for the Euro-Med region. In 2011, the RLEF introduced two sub-branches – Americas Rugby League and Middle East-Africa Rugby League – to further develop rugby league in those regions. In 2021, The RLEF was renamed to the European Rugby League in line with the RLIF's renaming to the International Rugby League. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Rugby League banned Russia from all international rugby league competitions. Competitions ERL board Current board Former members: Chairperson: Maurice Watkins , Board Member: Blagoje Stoiljkovic Membership Currently eleven nations are full members of the federation; there are also fifteen affiliate members and nineteen official observers. Full members are entitled to a greater proportion of voting rights and to become members of the Rugby League International Federation. In order to become an associate member, a nation must meet the following criteria: Implementation of a constitution and rules that commit the governing body to acting in the best interest of rugby league, throughout the whole of their country. Production of an annual financial report. Running a league competition with at least four teams. Implementation of a junior development programme. The production of a Business Development Plan outlining an organisation's future aims, including aims to find part funding for staff positions. A communications strategy. An administrators, match officials and coach education strategy. The ERL stipulates that continued associate and full membership of the federation is subject to a check every two years to ensure that the minimum criteria are still being met. Full members Affiliate members Official observers Albanian Rugby League Belgium Rugby League Association Bosnia and Herzegovina Rugby League Association Bulgarian Rugby League Federation Burundi Rugby League DR Congo Rugby League XIII Dansk Rugby League El Salvador Rugby League Ethiopia Rugby League Hungarian Rugby League Federation Latvia Rugby League Libya Rugby League Association Macedonian Rugby League Montenegro Rugby League Palestinian Rugby League Polska Rugby XIII Saudi Arabian Rugby League Association Sierra Leone Rugby League Slovakia Rugby League Sweden Rugby League Former observer members Rugby League Association of Catalonia Federația Româna de Rugby XIII Trinidad & Tobago Rugby League Association Emirates Rugby League ERL national team results at World Cups See also International Rugby League Asia-Pacific Rugby League References External links International organisations based in London Organisations based in Manchester Organisations based in the City of London Sports governing bodies in Europe
The Pangu Pati (), officially Papua na Niugini Yunion Pati (), is a nationalist and developmentalist political party on the centre-left in Papua New Guinea.The party is the oldest political party in Papua New Guinea and has held all levels of government throughout its history. As of 2023, it is the largest party in the National Parliament. History The Pangu Pati was established on 13 June 1967, in order to contest the elections of 1968 (Papua and New Guinea). At the time of its founding, the party stood-out as its ideals were for a political unification of Papua and New Guinea, stronger economic development and to grow the national income. Other parties, such as the United Christian Democratic Party (UCDP), were in favour of Australian statehood. Although the party, and its candidates, were not in a formal political union, there were ten candidates of Pangu that were elected to the House of Assembly. The 1972 election, the last under Australian authority, saw Pangu-endorsed candidates win eighteen seats, with a total of pro-Pangu candidates reaching twenty-six. Somare later served as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea as the leader of the Pangu Party from 1972 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, Paias Wingti led a faction of the party to split with Somare, and Wingti won a no-confidence vote against Somare, succeeding him as prime minister. In 1988, Somare was replaced as leader of Pangu by Rabbie Namaliu who served as prime minister from 1988 to 1992. Somare would then become leader of the National Alliance Party. At the 2002 elections, the party won 6 of 109 seats, under the leadership of Chris Haiveta. After that election, Somare returned to power as prime minister. Pangu became a member of his coalition government, and continued to support the Somare government after the 2007 elections, in which Pangu won 5 seats. It won only one seat at the 2012 election, that of Angoram MP Ludwig Schulze, but was left unrepresented when Schulze died in March 2013. In August 2014, Deputy Opposition Leader Sam Basil crossed to Pangu and reactivated its parliamentary wing, taking on the leadership. The party's numbers increased to two in August 2015 when William Samb won a by-election in Goilala Open. Electoral results Notes References Political parties in Papua New Guinea Main Political parties established in 1967 1967 establishments in Oceania
Howard Jeffrey Rose (born February 13, 1954) is an American sportscaster. He is currently a radio broadcaster for the New York Mets on WCBS. Previously, Rose called play-by-play for the New York Rangers and New York Islanders. Early life Rose was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to a Jewish family. Rose's father, an avid New York Yankees fan, encouraged his baseball fandom. When the New York Mets moved into Shea Stadium in 1964, Rose became a regular attendee at games. He attended PS 205Q (The Alexander Graham Bell School), Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, and graduated from Queens College in 1977. He lives in Woodbury on Long Island with his wife and two daughters. Career Rose started his career doing sports updates on New York City-based Sports Phone, a telephone dial-in service, during the mid-1970s, which led to sports updates on news radio station WCBS-AM through the early 1980s. Baseball Rose has called Mets play-by-play on radio or television since 1995, and is regarded by fans and media outlets alike as an expert of Mets history. He has previously hosted the "Mets Extra" pre- and post-game shows. He worked the television booth until the retirement of long-time Mets radio voice Bob Murphy in 2003. The following year, Rose took Murphy's spot alongside Gary Cohen on WFAN. Cohen became the play-by-play broadcaster on then-new Mets television network SportsNet New York starting during the 2006 season, sharing the radio booth with partner Tom McCarthy. In 2008, Wayne Hagin replaced McCarthy, and from 2012-2018, Rose called games with Josh Lewin. From 2019-2022, Howie called games with Wayne Randazzo. At the start of the 2023 season, Howie’s booth partner was Keith Raad. From 2014-2018 he called games on WOR, before moving to WCBS in 2019. He has also co-hosted MLB Now, joining Brian Kenny, Mark DeRosa, and Ken Rosenthal on MLB Network. Rose has also been the master of the ceremonies during key Mets events, including Opening Day at Shea Stadium and Citi Field since 2004. He has hosted ceremonies marking the opening of Citi Field in 2009, the 40th anniversary of the Mets 1969 World Series victory, a special pregame ceremony honoring Ralph Kiner in 2008, Mike Piazza's number retirement ceremony in 2016 and Old-Timers' Day beginning in 2022. Hockey Rose worked as a play-by-play radio announcer for the New York Rangers, and was paired mainly with Sal Messina. He is most recognized by Rangers fans for his call when Stéphane Matteau scored the game-winning goal in double-overtime of Game 7 of the 1994 NHL Eastern Conference Finals against the New Jersey Devils en route to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Rangers would go on to win the cup that year over the Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3, their first Stanley Cup victory in 54 years. Rose was the play-by-play announcer for Islanders telecasts where he worked alongside Butch Goring. For the season, Rose's work was simulcast on radio as well. Rose replaced Jiggs McDonald on Islanders broadcasts in and was previously partnered with Ed Westfall, Joe Micheletti, and Billy Jaffe. After the 2015-2016 season, Rose announced he would not return to call Islanders games after the end of the season. Other career roles Rose was the original prime-time radio host on WFAN when the station went all-sports in 1987, hosting the program until 1995. Rose occasionally worked games for Fox NHL Saturday in the mid-1990s, and now works for Fox Saturday Baseball. He has also called Long Island Blackbirds basketball and soccer. On March 1, 2013, his book Put it in the Book was released. The book is an autobiography and memoir of 50 years of Mets history. The book was co-written with Phil Pepe. Announcing style Rose's end-of-game catchphrase is, "Put it in the books", used after the final out is recorded in a Mets win. After Mets losses, Rose says "and the ballgame is over". When he uses the phrasing "and the Mets are leading by a score of _ to _", he is using the same diction as original Mets broadcaster Lindsey Nelson. Awards In 2012, Rose was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He has won two Emmy awards for excellence in broadcasting for the New York Islanders. In 2019, it was announced that Howie would be inducted into the New York Baseball Hall of Fame. On June 3, 2023, Rose was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame. Personal life Rose is married to Barbara, and they have two daughters. Their daughter Alyssa has worked for the Mets organization as a social media personality, and has worked on soap operas such as One Life to Live, had two separate podcasts, called Scoring Position and Drunk Love, and currently works for Sportsnet New York. During the 2021 season, Rose missed time with an undisclosed medical issue, first from April 13 until the 20th, and later missing the last month of the season. Rose was diagnosed with bladder cancer and underwent a radical cystoprostatectomy in September 2021. References External links New York Mets profile MSG profile 1954 births American radio sports announcers College basketball announcers in the United States Jewish American sportspeople Living people Major League Baseball broadcasters National Basketball Association broadcasters National Football League announcers National Hockey League broadcasters New Jersey Nets announcers New York Islanders announcers New York Mets announcers New York Rangers announcers New York Jets announcers Sportspeople from Queens, New York Benjamin N. Cardozo High School alumni Queens College, City University of New York alumni WFAN people People from Woodbury, Nassau County, New York 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American Jews
Clem F. Crowe (October 18, 1903 – April 13, 1983) was an American gridiron football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Saint Vincent College (1926–1931), Xavier University (1936–1943), and the University of Iowa (1945), compiling a career college football record of 71–66–5. Crowe was also the head basketball coach at Saint Vincent College (1928–1932), Xavier (1933–1943), and the University of Notre Dame (1944–1945), tallying a career college basketball mark of 152–115. He later coached professional football for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), and the Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Playing career Crowe played college football and basketball at the University of Notre Dame. He earned three letters in basketball and was a basketball All-American. He also earned three letters in football under Coach Knute Rockne. Crowe played football from 1923 to 1925 and was a two-time All-American. He played end for Notre Dame's "Seven Mule" team and was named Notre Dame's football captain in 1925. College coaching career After graduation, Crowe took a position as a coach at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. There he coached the football team from 1926 to 1931, compiling a record of 23–27–3, and the basketball team from 1928–1932, tallying a 41–31 mark in four seasons. Crowe left Saint Vincent in 1932 and took a job at Xavier University. He coached the Xavier basketball team from 1933 to 1943 and had a 96–79 record in ten seasons. He also coached the Xavier football team from 1935 to 1943 and compiled a 46–32–2 record. In addition, Crowe was a baseball coach and a golf coach at Xavier. He was inducted into the Xavier University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994. Crowe left Xavier in 1943 and returned to his alma mater. He was an assistant football coach at Notre Dame in 1944 and the head basketball coach for the 1944–45 season. In 1945, Crowe was hired on an interim basis as the 17th head football coach at the University of Iowa while Iowa's regular coach, Eddie Anderson, was serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. Following Crowe's one season, in which he had a 2–7 record, Anderson returned, and Crowe left the Iowa football program. Professional coaching career Crowe resurfaced in 1949 as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference, going 4–1–1. When the Buffalo franchise folded, he left to coach the Baltimore Colts in 1950. He had a 1–11 record, and after the season, that franchise folded as well. Art Donovan had this to say of Crowe, his coach during his 1950 rookie season with the Colts: "This sonofabitch was crazy, and my first training camp immediately became one of the worst experiences of my life. First of all, Crowe must have had 150 players in camp, and all we did was scrimmage. No drills. No chalk talk. No run-throughs of plays. Just hot, humid, bone-breaking, full-pad scrimmages.... For my first couple of days in camp I wasn't even issued pads." Crowe then headed north to Canada and agreed to coach the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in 1951. In his first season in Ottawa, he led the Rough Riders to the Grey Cup. He later left Ottawa for the BC Lions. He was a head coach in Vancouver from 1956 to 1958. Crowe died in Rochester, New York, on April 13, 1983, at age 79. Head coaching record College football Professional football Notes References External links 1903 births 1983 deaths Basketball coaches from Indiana American football ends Forwards (basketball) Baltimore Colts (1947–1950) coaches Iowa Hawkeyes football coaches Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coaches Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball coaches Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball players Saint Vincent Bearcats football coaches Xavier Musketeers athletic directors Xavier Musketeers football coaches Xavier Musketeers men's basketball coaches College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Sportspeople from Lafayette, Indiana Players of American football from Indiana Basketball players from Indiana Educators from Indiana American men's basketball players
The Blesa Formation is a geological formation in Teruel and La Rioja, Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains as well as eggs are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. Along with the fragmentary anhanguerian pterosaur Iberodactylus. While the lower and upper parts of the formation were deposited in a continental setting, the middle portion of the formation is largely nearshore marine, with remains of plesiosaurs. Stratigraphy and Lithology The Belsa Formation is found within the Maestrazgo Basin. Within the stratigraphic sequence it overlies Jurassic rocks in a syn-rift unconformity, and underlies the Alacón Formation. The formation is up to 150 metres thick and is divided into three distinct unconformity bounded units, which are called the Lower, Middle and Upper Blesa Sequences. The Lower Blesa sequence varies greatly in thickness from less than 10 m up to 100 m is divided up into two members, the lower Cabezo Gordo Member, which consists of red clays and the upper Morenillo Member, which consists of limestones and marls, both of these sequences were deposited in a continental setting. The Middle Blesa Sequence is of a fairly uniform 25-50 metre thickness. Most of the sequence consists of the Josa Member, which consists of oyster rich marls and limestones deposited in a coastal or shallow restricted bay environment. The Upper Blesa Sequence is of variable thickness from 15–70 m. The lower 1–10 m consists of continentally derived clays and marls with sandstone and conglomerate intercalations while the upper 10–60 m are dominated by carbonates. Vertebrate paleofauna Reptiles Pterosaurs Mammals Correlation See also List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations References Geologic formations of Spain Lower Cretaceous Series of Europe Cretaceous Spain Barremian Stage Ichnofossiliferous formations Ooliferous formations Paleontology in Spain Formations Formations
The Plant is a British television movie by Jonathan Lewis. It was first broadcast on the BBC in January 1995. Synopsis In a garden in a London suburb, corpses sprout out of the earth on during a live television gardening programme called Down to Earth. However, it soon appears that these human bodies are not dead people, they are grown there, like plants. The question is who is growing these bodies and for which purpose. Cast Joanna Roth — Connie Valentine Pelka — Max Eoin McCarthy — Tom Collins Clive Francis — DCI Pinker Tim Preece — Alan Sally Dexter — Bella References External links 1995 television films 1995 films British television films
The women's KL3 competition at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth took place on Lake Banook. Schedule The schedule was as follows: All times are Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC−3) Results Heats The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal. Heat 1 Heat 2 Semifinal The fastest three boats advanced to the final. Final Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. References ICF
Ishmaa'ily "Ish" Yuwsha Kitchen ( ; born August 24, 1988) is a former American football nose tackle. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He played college football for Kent State University. Kitchen has also been a member of the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. College Kitchen played college football at Kent State. In his senior year, he started 6 games at the nose tackle position. In his junior year, he played in all 12 games in which he recorded 22 tackles for the season. In his sophomore year, he played in 12 games. Professional career Baltimore Ravens He signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent. On August 31, 2012, he was released. Cleveland Browns On September 1, 2012, he was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns. During the 2014-2015 season Kitchen came out with a new sack dance called the "Kitchen Slam." During this celebration Kitchen acted like he was stirring a pot of dough in the kitchen and then slammed it onto the ground. His sack dance caught on and was later voted the best sack dance in the NFL. Kitchen was released by the Browns on September 1, 2015. Detroit Lions On October 8, 2015, Kitchen signed with the Detroit Lions. He was later released on October 23, 2015. New England Patriots On December 16, 2015, Kitchen was signed to the active roster of the New England Patriots. He was cut on December 22, 2015 to make room on the roster for Steven Jackson. The Patriots re-signed Kitchen to their 53-man roster on December 30, 2015. The Patriots released Kitchen on April 15, 2016. Tampa Bay Buccaneers On August 15, 2016, Kitchen was signed by the Buccaneers. On August 28, 2016, Kitchen was waived by the Buccaneers. In popular culture In 2015, Kitchen appeared in the Key & Peele skit 'East-West Bowl 3', a Comedy Central Super Bowl special which featured NFL players with unusual names. References External links Baltimore Ravens bio Cleveland Browns bio Kent State Golden Flashes bio 1988 births Living people Players of American football from Youngstown, Ohio American football defensive tackles Kent State Golden Flashes football players Cleveland Browns players Detroit Lions players New England Patriots players Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
The 2023 PDC Women's Series consiste of 24 darts tournaments on the 2023 PDC Pro Tour. The top 8 ranked players, with money earned from the last 8 Women's Series events of 2022, and the first 12 events of 2023, qualified for the 2023 Women's World Matchplay in Blackpool, whilst the top 2 players at the end of event 24, qualified for the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship. With Beau Greaves choosing not to participate, that meant, The top-ranked player (apart from already qualified Greaves) also qualifies for the Grand Slam of Darts. Prize money On 21 November 2022, it was announced that the prize money for the Women's Series will be doubled in 2023, with each event now having a prize fund of £10,000. This is how the prize money is divided: February Women's Series 1 Women's Series 1 was contested on Saturday 25 February 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 9th consecutive title. Women's Series 2 Women's Series 2 was contested on Saturday 25 February 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 10th consecutive title. Women's Series 3 Women's Series 3 was contested on Sunday 26 February 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. The event was won by Mikuru Suzuki. Women's Series 4 Women's Series 4 was contested on Sunday 26 February 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. The event was won by Beau Greaves. May Women's Series 5 Women's Series 5 was contested on Saturday 13 May 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 12th title, defeating Fallon Sherrock 5-2 in the final. Women's Series 6 Women's Series 6 was contested on Saturday 13 May 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Rhian O'Sullivan. Women's Series 7 Women's Series 7 was contested on Sunday 14 May 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Robyn Byrne. Women's Series 8 Women's Series 8 was contested on Sunday 14 May 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Mikuru Suzuki. June Women's Series 9 Women's Series 9 was contested on Saturday 24 June 2023 at Halle 39 in Hildesheim. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 13th title, defeating Mikuru Suzuki 5-1 in the final. Women's Series 10 Women's Series 10 was contested on Saturday 24 June 2023 at Halle 39 in Hildesheim. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, who defeated Robyn Byrne 5–2 in the final. Women's Series 11 Women's Series 11 was contested on Sunday 25 June 2023 at Halle 39 in Hildesheim. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 14th title, defeating Fallon Sherrock 5–4 in the final. Women's Series 12 Women's Series 12 was contested on Sunday 25 June 2023 at Halle 39 in Hildesheim. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won her 15th title, defeating Noa-Lynn van Leuven 5-0 in the final. July Women's Series 13 Women's Series 13 was contested on Saturday 29 July 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who defeated Lisa Ashton 5–2 in the final, to claim a record equalling 16th title. Women's Series 14 Women's Series 14 was contested on Saturday 29 July 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who defeated Fallon Sherrock 5–1 in the final, to claim a record breaking 17th title. Women's Series 15 Women's Series 15 was contested on Sunday 30 July 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who defeated Mikuru Suzuki 5–0 in the final. Women's Series 16 Women's Series 16 was contested on Sunday 30 July 2023 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. The event was won by Beau Greaves, who won 7 consecutive titles, and a record 19th title, defeating Mikuru Suzuki 5–4 in the final. September Women's Series 17 Women's Series 17 was contested on Saturday 16 September 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Mikuru Suzuki. Women's Series 18 Women's Series 18 was contested on Saturday 16 September 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Lisa Ashton. Women's Series 19 Women's Series 19 was contested on Sunday 17 September 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Beau Greaves. Women's Series 20 Women's Series 20 was contested on Sunday 17 September 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, who defeated Beau Greaves, 5–4 in the final. October Women's Series 21 Women's Series 21 was contested on Saturday 14 October 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, who defeated Vicky Pruim 5–0 in the final. Women's Series 22 Women's Series 22 was contested on Saturday 14 October 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, defeating Aoife McCormack 5–0 in the final. Women's Series 23 Women's Series 23 was contested on Sunday 15 October 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, defeating Rhian O'Sullivan 5–3 in the final. Women's Series 24 Women's Series 23 was contested on Sunday 15 October 2023 at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The event was won by Natalie Gilbert, defeating Lorraine Winstanley 5–3 in the final. References 2023 in darts 2023 PDC Pro Tour Women's Series
The B Line is one of seven RapidRide lines (routes with some bus rapid transit features) operated by King County Metro in King County, Washington. The B Line began service on October 1, 2011, running between downtown Redmond, Overlake and downtown Bellevue. The line runs mainly via NE 8th Street, 156th Avenue NE, NE 40th Street and 148th Avenue NE. Unlike most of the RapidRide lines, the B Line does not offer scheduled service during late-night and early morning hours. History This corridor was previously served Metro routes 230 and 253 which carried a combined average of 5,070 riders on weekdays during the last month in service. Since the implementation of RapidRide on the corridor, ridership has grown 30 percent and the B Line served an average of 6,600 riders on weekdays in spring 2015. Service All times are estimated headways. References External links B Line website RapidRide website RapidRide Blog King County Metro Bus transportation in Washington (state) Transportation in King County, Washington Transportation in Seattle 2011 establishments in Washington (state) 2011 in transport King County Metro
Jászberény () is a district in north-western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. Jászberény is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. This district is a part of Jászság historical, ethnographical and geographical region. Geography Jászberény District borders with Hatvan District and Gyöngyös District (Heves County) to the north, Jászapáti District to the east, Szolnok District to the south, Nagykáta District and Aszód District (Pest County) to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Jászberény District is 9. History The Jászberény District existed all the way before the closure of the districts in 1983, known as the district from the 1950s. Formerly known as Upper Jászság District, its seat was Jászberény. As of January 1, 1984, a new administrative position came into effect, therefore, on December 31, 1983, all districts, including Jászberény District, ceased to exist. The Jászberény Neighborhood was formed from the area of the ceased district. Between 1994 and 2013 this area was part of Jászberény Subregion. Municipalities The district has 3 towns and 6 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 51,274 and the population density was 83/km². Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 2,000), German (150) and Romanian (100). Total population (2011 census): 51,274 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 47,260 persons: Hungarians: 44,473 (94.10%) Gypsies: 2,152 (4.55%) Others and indefinable: 635 (1.34%) Approx. 4,000 persons in Jászberény District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census. Religion Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census: Catholic – 29,156 (Roman Catholic – 29,029; Greek Catholic – 122); Reformed – 1,557; Evangelical – 70; other religions – 578; Non-religious – 6,109; Atheism – 453; Undeclared – 13,351. Transport Road network Main road (W→E): Budapest... – Jászberény District (2 municipalities: Jászberény, Jászjákóhalma) – ...Dormánd Main road (NW→SE): Hatvan... – Jászberény District (4 municipalities: Jászfényszaru, Pusztamonostor, Jászberény, Jásztelek) – ...Szolnok Railway network Line 82 (NW→SE): Hatvan (80, 81)... – Jászberény District (4 municipalities: Jászfényszaru, Pusztamonostor, Jászberény, Jászboldogháza) – ...Újszász (86, 120) Line 86 (N→E): Vámosgyörk (80, 85)... – Jászberény District (1 municipality: Jászárokszállás) – ...Újszász (82, 120) Gallery See also List of cities and towns of Hungary References External links Jászberény District - HunMix.hu Postal codes of the Jászberény District Districts in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
Nydalen is a neighbourhood in the Nordre Aker borough in northern Oslo, Norway. History In the late 19th century, the banks of the Akerselva River were dotted with various industrial buildings, Nydalen included. However, a transformation soon occurred. Beginning in the 1990s, Nydalen evolved into an urban hub of sorts with modern residential buildings, commercial and service establishments, shopping centres, eateries, and numerous corporate offices. The relocation of the BI Norwegian Business School to the area in 2004 further boosted the area's development. In 2003, a new subway station, Nydalen (station) opened in Nydalen. Many people have moved into new residential buildings in the late 2000s. Today, the area is a lively, trendy and well-connected neighbourhood with the Akerselva River flowing through its heart. Geography The neighbourhood is located on both sides of the Akerselva river in the southeastern part of Nordre Aker, to the south of Kjelsås, to the west of Grefsen, and to the north of the Sagene borough. The name Nydalen is a shortened form for *Nygårdsdalen 'the dale/valley belonging to the farm Nygård'. The name of the old farm Nygård (Norse Nýgarðr) is a compound of nýr 'new' and garðr m 'farm'. The farm is first mentioned in 1578. External links www.nydalen.no - link to Avantor, the main developer of the area Neighbourhoods of Oslo
Bolesław Drewek (26 November 1903 – 11 November 1972) was a Polish rower of German origin, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Drewek was born in Schwornigatz, Conitz in 1903. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as coxswain of the Polish boat in the coxed four event. He died in Gdańsk. References External links Profile at Database Olympics 1903 births 1972 deaths Polish male rowers Coxswains (rowing) Olympic rowers for Poland Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Olympic medalists in rowing People from Chojnice County Sportspeople from West Prussia Sportspeople from Pomeranian Voivodeship Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ("Honour and Fatherland"); its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: (Knight), (Officer), (Commander), (Grand Officer) and (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul, to create a reward to commend civilians and soldiers. From this wish was instituted a , a body of men that was not an order of chivalry, for Napoleon believed that France wanted a recognition of merit rather than a new system of nobility. However, the did use the organization of the old French orders of chivalry, for example, the . The insignia of the bear a resemblance to those of the , which also used a red ribbon. Napoleon originally created this award to ensure political loyalty. The organization would be used as a façade to give political favours, gifts, and concessions. The was loosely patterned after a Roman legion, with legionaries, officers, commanders, regional "cohorts" and a grand council. The highest rank was not a Grand Cross but a (Grand Eagle), a rank that wore the insignia common to a Grand Cross. The members were paid, the highest of them extremely generously: 5,000 francs to a , 2,000 francs to a , 1,000 francs to an , 250 francs to a . Napoleon famously declared, "You call these baubles, well, it is with baubles that men are led... Do you think that you would be able to make men fight by reasoning? Never. That is good only for the scholar in his study. The soldier needs glory, distinctions, rewards." This has been often quoted as "It is with such baubles that men are led." Napoleon was also occasionally noted after a battle to ask who the bravest man in a regiment was, and upon the regiment declaring the individual, the Emperor would take the Legion d'Honneur of his own coat and pin it on the chest of the man. The order was the first modern order of merit. Under the monarchy, such orders were often limited to Roman Catholics, all knights had to be noblemen, and military decorations were restricted to officers. The , however, was open to men of all ranks and professions; only merit or bravery counted. The new legionnaire had to be sworn into the . All previous orders were Christian, or shared a clear Christian background, whereas the is a secular institution. The badge of the has five arms. First Empire In a decree issued on the (30 January 1805), a grand decoration was instituted. This decoration, a cross on a large sash and a silver star with an eagle, symbol of the Napoleonic Empire, became known as the (Grand Eagle), and later in 1814 as the (big sash, literally "big ribbon"). After Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French in 1804 and established the Napoleonic nobility in 1808, award of the gave right to the title of "Knight of the Empire" (). The title was made hereditary after three generations of grantees. Napoleon had dispensed 15 golden collars of the among his family and his senior ministers. This collar was abolished in 1815. Although research is made difficult by the loss of the archives, it is rumoured that three women who fought with the army were decorated with the order: Virginie Ghesquière, Marie-Jeanne Schelling and a nun, Sister Anne Biget. The was prominent and visible in the French Empire. The Emperor always wore it, and the fashion of the time allowed for decorations to be worn most of the time. The king of Sweden therefore declined the order; it was too common in his eyes. Napoleon's own decorations were captured by the Prussians and were displayed in the (armoury) in Berlin until 1945. Today, they are in Moscow. Restoration of the Bourbon King of France in 1814 Louis XVIII changed the appearance of the order, but it was not abolished. To have done so would have angered the 35,000 to 38,000 members. The images of Napoleon and his eagle were removed and replaced by the image of King Henry IV, the popular first king of the Bourbon line. Three Bourbon replaced the eagle on the reverse of the order. A king's crown replaced the imperial crown. In 1816, the grand cordons were renamed grand crosses and the legionnaires became knights. The king decreed that the commandants were now commanders. The became the second-ranking order of knighthood of the French monarchy, after the Order of the Holy Spirit. July Monarchy Following the overthrow of the Bourbons in favour of King Louis Philippe I of the House of Orléans, the Bourbon monarchy's orders were once again abolished and the was restored in 1830 as the paramount decoration of the French nation. The insignia were drastically altered; the cross now displayed tricolour flags. In 1847, there were 47,000 members. Second Republic Yet another revolution in Paris (in 1848) brought a new republic (the second) and a new design to the . A nephew of the founder, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was elected president and he restored the image of his uncle on the crosses of the order. In 1852, the first recorded woman, Angélique Duchemin, an old revolutionary of the 1789 uprising against the absolute monarchy, was admitted into the order. On 2 December 1851, President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte staged a coup d'état with the help of the armed forces. He made himself Emperor of the French exactly one year later on 2 December 1852, after a successful plebiscite. Second Empire An Imperial crown was added. During Napoleon III's reign, the first American was admitted: Thomas Wiltberger Evans, dentist of Napoleon III. Third Republic In 1870, the defeat of the French Imperial Army in the Franco-Prussian War brought the end of the Empire and the creation of the Third Republic (1871–1940). As France changed, the changed as well. The crown was replaced by a laurel and oak wreath. In 1871, during the Paris Commune uprising, the , headquarters of the , was burned to the ground in fierce street combats; the archives of the order were lost. In the second term of President Jules Grévy, which started in 1885, newspaper journalists brought to light the trafficking of Grévy's son-in-law, Daniel Wilson, in the awarding of decorations of the . Grévy was not accused of personal participation in this scandal, but he was slow to accept his indirect political responsibility, which caused his eventual resignation on 2 December 1887. During World War I, some 55,000 decorations were conferred, 20,000 of which went to foreigners. The large number of decorations resulted from the new posthumous awards authorised in 1918. Traditionally, membership in the could not be awarded posthumously. Fourth and Fifth Republics The establishment of the Fourth Republic in 1946 brought about the latest change in the design of the Legion of Honour. The date "1870" on the obverse was replaced by a single star. No changes were made after the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Organization Legal status and leadership The Legion of Honour is a national order of France, meaning a public incorporated body. The Legion is regulated by a civil law code, the "Code of the Legion of Honour and of the Military Medal". While the President of the French Republic is the Grand Master of the order, day-to-day running is entrusted to the Grand Chancery (). Grand Master Since the establishment of the Legion, the Grand Master of the order has always been the Emperor, King or President of France. President Emmanuel Macron therefore became the Grand Master of the Legion on 14 May 2017. The Grand Master appoints all other members of the order, on the advice of the French government. The Grand Master's insignia is the Grand Collar of the Legion. The President of the Republic, as Grand Master of the order, receives the Collar as part of his investiture, but the Grand Masters have not worn the Collar since Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The Grand Chancery The Grand Chancery is headed by the Grand Chancellor, usually a retired general, and the Secretary General, a civilian administrator. Grand Chancellor: General Benoît Puga (since 23 August 2016) Secretary-General: Luc Fons (since 2007) The Grand Chancery also regulates the National Order of Merit and the (Military Medal). There are several structures funded by and operated under the authority of the Grand Chancery, like the Legion of Honour Schools () and the Legion of Honour Museum (). The Legion of Honour Schools are élite boarding schools in Saint-Denis and Camp des Loges in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Study there is restricted to daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters of members of the order, the or the . Membership There are five classes in the Legion of Honour: (Knight): minimum 20 years of public service or 25 years of professional activity with "eminent merits" (Officer): minimum 8 years in the rank of (Commander): minimum 5 years in the rank of (Grand Officer): minimum 3 years in the rank of (Grand Cross): minimum 3 years in the rank of The "eminent merits" required to be awarded the order require the flawless performance of one's trade as well as doing more than ordinarily expected, such as being creative, zealous and contributing to the growth and well-being of others. The order has a maximum quota of 75 Grand Cross, 250 Grand Officers, 1,250 Commanders, 10,000 Officers, and 113,425 (ordinary) Knights. the actual membership was 67 Grand Cross, 314 Grand Officers, 3,009 Commanders, 17,032 Officers and 74,384 Knights. Appointments of veterans of World War II, French military personnel involved in the North African Campaign and other foreign French military operations, as well as wounded soldiers, are made independently of the quota. Members convicted of a felony ( in French) are automatically dismissed from the order. Members convicted of a misdemeanour ( in French) can be dismissed as well, although this is not automatic. Wearing the decoration of the without having the right to do so is a serious offence. Wearing the ribbon or rosette of a foreign order is prohibited if that ribbon is mainly red, like the ribbon of the Legion of Honour. French military personnel in uniform must salute other military members in uniform wearing the medal, whatever the rank and the military rank of the bearer. This is not mandatory with the ribbon. In practice, however, this is rarely done. There is not a single, complete list of all the members of the Legion in chronological order. The number is estimated at one million, including about 2,900 Knights Grand Cross. French nationals French nationals, men and women, can be received into the , for "eminent merit" () in military or civil life. In practice, in current usage, the order is conferred on entrepreneurs, high-level civil servants, scientists, artists, including famous actors and actresses, sport champions, and others with connections in the executive. Members of the French Parliament cannot receive the order, except for valour in war, and ministers are not allowed to nominate their accountants. Until 2008, French nationals could only enter the Legion of Honour at the class of (Knight). To be promoted to a higher class, one had to perform new eminent services in the interest of France and a set number of years had to pass between appointment and promotion. This was however amended in 2008 when entry became possible at Officer, Commander and Grand Officer levels, as a recognition of "extraordinary careers" (). In 2009, Simone Veil became the first person to enter the Order at Grand Officer level. Veil was a member of the , a former Health Minister and President of the European Parliament, as well as an Auschwitz survivor. She was promoted to Grand Cross in 2012. Every year at least five recipients decline the award. Even if they refuse to accept it, they are still included in the order's official membership. The composers Maurice Ravel and Charles Koechlin, for example, declined the award when it was offered to them. Non-French recipients While membership in the is technically restricted to French nationals, foreign nationals who have served France or the ideals it upholds may receive the honour. Foreign nationals who live in France are subject to the same requirements as the French. Foreign nationals who live abroad may be awarded a distinction of any rank or dignity in the . Foreign heads of state and their spouses or consorts of monarchs are made Grand Cross as a courtesy. American and British veterans who served in either World War on French soil, or during the 1944 campaigns to liberate France, may be eligible for appointment as Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, provided they were still living when the honour was approved. Collective awards Collective appointments can be made to cities, institutions or companies. A total of 64 settlements in France have been decorated, as well as six foreign cities: Liège in 1914, Belgrade in 1920, Luxembourg City in 1957, Volgograd (the World War II 'Stalingrad') in 1984, Algiers in 2004, and London in 2020. French towns display the decoration in their municipal coat of arms. Organisations to receive the honour include the French Red Cross (), the (Abbey of ), the French National Railway Company (), the (Prefecture of Police of Paris), and various (National (Elite) Colleges) and other educational establishments. Military awards The military distinctions () are awarded for bravery () or for service. award for extreme bravery: the is awarded jointly with a mention in dispatches. This is the top valour award in France. It is rarely awarded, mainly to soldiers who have died in battle. award for service: the is awarded without any citation. French service-members For active-duty commissioned officers, the Legion of Honour award for service is achieved after 20 years of meritorious service, having been awarded the rank of of the . Bravery awards lessen the time needed for the award—in fact decorated servicemen become directly chevaliers of the , skipping the . NCOs almost never achieve that award, except for the most heavily decorated service members. Collective military awards Collective appointments can be made to military units. In the case of a military unit, its flag is decorated with the insignia of a knight, which is a different award from the . Twenty-one schools, mainly schools providing reserve officers during the World Wars, were awarded the Légion d'Honneur. Foreign military units can be decorated with the order, such as the U.S. Military Academy. The Flag or Standard of the following units was decorated with the Cross of a Knight of the Legion of Honour: 1st Foreign Regiment 1st Marine Artillery Regiment 1st Marine Infantry Regiment 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment 1st Photographic Technical Unit (USAAF Forward-deployed Reconnaissance Unit) 1st Parachute Regiment 1st Regiment of African 1st Regiment of Algerian 1st Regiment of Riflemen 1st Regiment of Senegalese 1st Train Regiment 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment 2nd Regiment of Algerian 2nd Regiment of 3rd Algerian Infantry Regiment 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 3rd Regiment of 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs Regiment 4th Regiment of Joint 4th Regiment of and 7th Algerian Infantry Regiment 8th Infantry Regiment 8th Zouaves Regiment 9th Regiment of 11th Marine Artillery Regiment 23rd Infantry Regiment 23rd Marine Infantry Regiment 24th Marine Infantry Regiment 26th Infantry Regiment 30th Battalion of 43rd Marine Infantry Regiment 51st Infantry Regiment 57th Infantry Regiment 112th Line Infantry Regiment (French infantry regiment consisting of mostly Belgians, known as "The Victors of Raab") 137th Infantry Regiment 152nd Infantry Regiment 153rd Infantry Regiment 298th Infantry Regiment Fighter Squadron 1/30 Normandie-Niemen (Naval Infantry) Moroccan Paris Fire Brigade (Colonial Infantry Regiment of Morocco). Book of the regiment will be fighting its most decorated emblem of the French army. Classes and insignia The order has had five levels since the reign of King Louis XVIII, who restored the order in 1815. Since the reform, the following distinctions have existed: Three ranks: (Knight): badge worn on left breast suspended from ribbon (Officer): badge worn on left breast suspended from a ribbon with a rosette (Commander): badge around neck suspended from ribbon necklet Two dignities: (Grand Officer): badge worn on left breast suspended from a ribbon (Officer), with star displayed on right breast (Grand Cross), formerly , , or : the highest level; badge affixed to sash worn over the right shoulder, with star displayed on left breast Due to the order's long history, and the remarkable fact that it has been retained by all subsequent governments and regimes since the First Empire, the order's design has undergone many changes. Although the basic shape and structure of the insignia has remained generally the same, the hanging device changed back and forth and France itself swung back and forth between republic and monarchy. The central disc in the centre has also changed to reflect the political system and leadership of France at the time. As each new regime came along the design was altered to become politically correct for the time, sometimes even changed multiple times during one historical era. The badge of the is shaped as a five-armed "Maltese Asterisk", using five distinctive "arrowhead" shaped arms inspired by the Maltese Cross. The badge is rendered in gilt (in silver for chevalier) enameled white, with an enameled laurel and oak wreath between the arms. The obverse central disc is in gilt, featuring the head of Marianne, surrounded by the legend on a blue enamel ring. The reverse central disc is also in gilt, with a set of crossed , surrounded by the Légion's motto (Honour and Country) and its foundation date on a blue enamel ring. The badge is suspended by an enameled laurel and oak wreath. The star (or ) is worn by the Grand Cross (in gilt on the left chest) and the Grand Officer (in silver on the right chest) respectively; it is similar to the badge, but without enamel, and with the wreath replaced by a cluster of rays in between each arm. The central disc features the head of Marianne, surrounded by the legend (French Republic) and the motto . The ribbon for the medal is plain red. The badge or star is not usually worn, except at the time of the decoration ceremony or on a dress uniform or formal wear. Instead, one normally wears the ribbon or rosette on their suit. For less formal occasions, recipients wear a simple stripe of thread sewn onto the lapel (red for and , silver for ). Except when wearing a dark suit with a lapel, women instead typically wear a small lapel pin called a barrette. Recipients purchase the special thread and barrettes at a store in Paris near the Palais Royal. Gallery See also List of recipients by name List of British recipients of the for the Crimean War List of foreign recipients of the Ribbons of the French military and civil awards References and notes Notes Citations External links Official website Code de la légion d'honneur et de la médaille militaire, legifrance.gouv.fr Base Léonore, recensement des récipiendaires de la Légion d'honneur (décédés avant 1977), on the website of the French Ministry of Culture 1802 establishments in France Awards established in 1802 Civil awards and decorations of France French awards Military awards and decorations of France Orders of chivalry of France

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