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Elizabeth Pipko (born June 26, 1995) is an American author, model, media personality, and political operative. She is a first generation American, whose family came from the former Soviet Union.
Career
Pipko was signed to Wihemina Models at age 17. She has appeared in Maxim, Harper's Bazaar, Grazia, DT, Esquire, Contrast, and L’officiel, and in the early stages of her career she was often compared to Emily Ratajkowski, with many noting their similar appearances. In 2018, she appeared in the "Perfectly Imperfect" campaign for Vizcaya Swimwear, an anti-photoshop campaign promoting positive body image.
Pipko has stated that her political work interfered in her modeling career. In an interview and spread in QP Magazine in 2019 she said “This is about showing young girls that they can do anything they want to do. From modeling to politics, and everything in between.”
In December 2021, Elizabeth Pipko was featured on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Vietnam.
In February 2022, when asked for her thoughts on the war in Ukraine, Pipko told Fox news, "I have heard people ask, ‘Why should we care about what is going on in Russia and Ukraine today?’ We as Americans know what we stand for, and we know that an attack on democracy anywhere is an attack on democracy everywhere. It’s that simple," she said.
In January 2023, Pipko launched the Lest People Forget project, a crypto-technology global Holocaust remembrance platform to fight anti-Semitism and holocaust denial inspired by remarks made by Kanye West. She stated that she imagines the site as an interactive virtual Holocaust museum, and a place where students who do not live near a Holocaust museum can explore and learn. The site offers the ability for anyone to become involved in preserving the materials of the Holocaust.
She told The Algemeiner, that the Lest People Forget project aims to modernize and “decentralize” education about the Holocaust.
Pipko has written opinion pieces on the topic of antisemitism for Fox News, the Jewish Voice, and Newsweek.
Elizabeth regularly appears across cable television programs to speak on topics from pop culture to politics.
Author
Pipko published two books of poetry: Sweet Sixteen (2013, ) and About You (2018, ).
In 2020, Pipko's book Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True (2020, ) was released through Post Hill Press.
Political
In 2016, Pipko was employed on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign For President as a volunteer services coordinator.
In 2019, Pipko was a spokesperson for The Exodus Movement — originally named Jexodus (an apparent portmanteau of "Jewish" and "Exodus") but quickly renamed — and incorporated it as a tax exempt organization. The Exodus Movement is an initiative of Red Sea Rising, a 501c4 organization.
She told OK! magazine "When I got thrown into the political world, I knew the only way for me to both survive and thrive would be to create something meaningful. So I put my efforts into fighting for the Jewish people an against anti-Semitism."
On fighting injustices in our country, Pipko told Fox News, "It's very easy to find problems going on right now in our society. No one's going to deny that things are upside down. I'm fighting anti-Semitism every single day. I still get swastikas sent to my direct messages once a week. I think when supporting America, in my eyes, it's more patriotic of me to stand against those things because I know America doesn't stand for that," she said.
Personal
Pipko is a first generation American and the granddaughter of Soviet-born American artist Marc Klionsky. She was a competitive figure skater until the age of fifteen when an ankle injury took her out of the sport. Pipko is Jewish and attended Rabbi Arthur Schneier's Park East Day School. On December 26, 2018, Pipko married Darren Centinello in West Palm Beach, Florida at the Mar-A-Lago Club.
Pipko is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Extension School at Harvard University. She received her Master of Science degree at the University of Pennsylvania in May, 2023.
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External links
Project website
1995 births
Living people
American writers
American female models
Harvard Extension School alumni
People from Brooklyn
People from Florida
Jewish American activists
Jewish female models
21st-century American women |
Barbadillo del Mercado is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 INE census, the municipality had a population of 169.
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Municipalities in the Province of Burgos |
Upaharam is a 1985 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Sajan and produced by Shaji Joseph and Rajan Joseph. The film stars Mammootty, Rahman (actor), Shobhana, Srividya and Sukumari in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Johnson.
Cast
Mammootty as Dr. Jeevan Thomas
Rahman as Ajith
Shobhana as Maggi Fernadas
Srividya as Sarojiniamma
Sukumari
Thilakan as Divakaran
Jose Prakash as Fernandez
Santhosh as Vinod
Jalaja as Dr. Roopa
Kunchan as Khadher
Lalu Alex as Tony Cheiyan/ Achayan
Mala Aravindan as Sunderashan
Venu Puthalathu
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Johnson and the lyrics were written by Shibu Chakravarthy.
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External links
1985 films
1980s Malayalam-language films
Films directed by Sajan |
Marital deduction is a type of tax law that allows a person to give assets to his or her spouse with reduced or no tax imposed upon the transfer. Some marital deduction laws even apply to transfers made postmortem. The right to receive property conveys ownership for tax purposes. A decree of divorce transfers the right to that property by reason of the marriage and is also a transfer within a marriage. It makes no difference whether the property itself or equivalent compensation is transferred before, or after the decree dissolves the marriage. There is no U.S. estate and gift tax on transfers of any amount between spouses, whether during their lifetime or at death. There is an important exceptions for non-citizens. The U.S. federal Estate and gift tax marital deduction is only available if the surviving spouse is a U.S. citizen. For a surviving spouse who is not a U.S. citizen a bequest through a Qualified Domestic Trust defers estate tax until principal is distributed by the trustee, a U.S. citizen or corporation who also withholds the estate tax. Income on principal distributed to the surviving spouse is taxed as individual income. If the surviving spouse becomes a U.S. citizen, principal remaining in a Qualifying Domestic Trust may then be distributed without further tax.
Background
The American taxation system began when President Abraham Lincoln imposed taxes to fund the revenue required for the Civil War. After much debate, America revoked its tax system until 1894 when the Wilson Tariff Act was enacted. Half a century later, deductions were formed through legislation. Now, America maintains a federal, state, and local taxation system.
On March 1, 1994, legislators defined martial deductions under Section § 20.2056(a)-(1) as allowing a decedent's surviving spouse to deduct the value of any property interest that passes to them from their gross estate if the interest is a deductible interest. See § 20.2056(a)-(2) to determine if the interest is a deductible interest.
Credits v. Deductions
Over time, tax credits were established in addition to tax deductions. Deductions are transfers between spouses that last a lifetime and are appointed by will which are eligible for a deduction on the federal tax form. Credits are the sum deducted from one's payment owed to the federal, state, or local entity. Credits allow taxpayers to pay less in taxes, while deductions can reduce taxable income. Credits are more preferable, but taxpayers are more likely to receive deductions than credits. Taxpayers may receive deductions for home, medical, and educational expenses; while credits may include earned income tax credits, child care/dependent credits, and individual retirement arrangements. See the table below for an illustrative explanation.
Litigation
Requirements for the Deduction
Gifts from a spouse may be eligible for marital deductions if the following requirements are met: (1) martial status requirement; (2) citizenship requirement; and (3) the interest must not conclude due to the cause of a certain event or after a specified amount of time has passed.
To satisfy the marital status requirement, the couple must be spouses. The husband and wife must be married to one another, and this does not include domestic partners or civil unions. The citizenship requirement allows some exceptions for foreign marriages, but for those who are American citizens you must be legally married in a state. Additionally, the donee (the person receiving the property) must be a United States citizen unless the gift was made before 1992 and resulting from a joint and survivor annuity. Finally, the spouse gifting the property must gift the property, in its entirety and with full control, to the receiving spouse without any restrictions or conditions for the deduction to apply.
During Marriage
Marital deduction, often referred to as gift to spouse, is a type of deduction that allows a person to give his or her spouse a gift with reduced or no tax imposed upon the transfer, for transfers given in a calendar year. Some marital deduction laws even apply to transfers made postmortem. The right to receive property conveys ownership for tax purposes. To qualify for marital deductions the couple must be married. This includes same-sex marriages. If a same-sex couple is married, but resides in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage the marital deduction will still apply, so long as the couple is legally married in a state that permits same-sex marriage.
Divorce
Divorces are tedious and may not begin or conclude amicably. However, it is imperative that both spouses confirm the validity of the divorce decree before remarrying. In the case of Estate of Goldwater, a husband remarried without first confirming the validity of his divorce in his previous marriage and once he died his first wife received the marital deduction and most of the property left by the husband because she was legally his wife.
Estate of Goldwater Case
A decree of divorce transfers the right to property by reason of the marriage and is also a transfer within a marriage. It makes no difference whether the property itself or equivalent compensation is transferred before, or after the decree dissolves the marriage. The most important aspect of a divorce, involving federal income tax, is confirming that the divorce is valid. In Estate of Goldwater, Leo and Gertrude were married in 1946 and 10 years later the two separated. Gertrude was awarded a final decree of separation in December of 1956 at New York Supreme Court. Two years later, Leo obtained a Mexico divorce decree from Gertrude without her appearance. In response, Gertrude sought declaratory judgment decreeing the invalidity of the Mexican divorce and sought to permanently enjoin Leo from remarrying in New York or anywhere else. Initially, Gertrude was granted with a temporary injunction against Leo remarrying in New York or elsewhere, but Leo filed a cross-motion. On December 9, 1958, the New York Supreme Court dismissed the second cause of action and dismissed the temporary injunction. Prior to the dismissal, Lee submitted an affidavit admitting that the Mexican divorce was invalid, but that matter was not revisited. However, on that same day the New York Supreme Court made their decision to dismiss the temporary injunction, Leo remarried a woman named Lee in Connecticut. After the ruling, neither party appealed resulting in a final judgment Thereafter, Leo lived with Lee until his demise on February 21, 1968. Soon after Leo's death, Gertrude filed a notice to take an elective share share of Lee's estate pursuant to New York's right to election by surviving spouse. In short, Gertrude was given the marital deduction, but Lee did not because Lee did not qualify as a surviving spouse according to the law. Any property left to Lee could not receive the tax benefits of a marital deduction because Lee was not Leo's surviving spouse. In sum, if you are married it is in your best interest and your new partners best interest to ensure that your previous marriage ended with a final, valid divorce decree before remarrying or leaving property to your significant other with hopes of marital deductions.
At Death
There is no U.S. estate and gift tax on transfers of any amount between spouses at death. The transfer must be given to surviving spouse to obtain a deduction. Additionally, there are exceptions for individuals who are not citizens of the United States of America. The U.S. federal estate and gift tax marital deduction is only available if the surviving spouse is a U.S. citizen. For a surviving spouse who is not a U.S. citizen, a bequest through a Qualified Domestic Trust defers estate tax until the principal is distributed by the trustee, a U.S. citizen or corporation who also withholds the estate tax. Income on principal distributed to the surviving spouse is taxed as individual income. If the surviving spouse becomes a U.S. citizen, principal remaining in a Qualifying Domestic Trust may then be distributed without further tax.
Limitations on Marital Deductions
Marital deductions have no number of limits in a calendar year. One of the most important aspects of estate planning is making use of the unlimited marital deduction. All of the property transferred from one spouse to the other is able to receive the marital deduction. For example, if at the beginning of the year your husband gifts you property, then gifts property again for your birthday, and again for Christmas you will be able to apply the marital deduction on each property received. However, the recipient of the gift may not receive double deductions. For example, if a spouses receives property and applies the marital deduction the spouse may not donate the property to charity and receive a charitable deduction as well. Only one deduction will apply.
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American legal terminology
Tax law
Family law |
```shell
#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" = "false" && "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
cargo doc &&
echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=mentat/index.html>" > target/doc/index.html &&
git clone path_to_url &&
./ghp-import/ghp_import.py -n -p -f -r https://"$GH_TOKEN"@github.com/"$TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG.git" target/doc
fi
``` |
Calocosmus chevrolati is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fisher in 1925. It is known from Cuba.
References
Calocosmus
Beetles described in 1925
Endemic fauna of Cuba |
James Moore Smythe (; 1702 – 18 October 1734) was an English playwright and fop.
Biography
Smythe was appointed by the King to the Office of, Co-Paymaster of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. He was born James Moore. He was the son of Arthur Moore ( – 4 May 1730), MP for Great Grimsby, and his 2nd wife Theophila Smythe, dau. of William Smythe Esq., Paymaster of the Band of Pensioners, now known as The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, and Lady Elizabeth Berkeley. His mother's maternal grandfather was George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley and his mother carried the last name Smythe. Moore graduated from All Souls College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in 1722. During his college years, he had a reputation for wittiness and a great attention to fashion. He was referred to by the informal name "Jemmy." When his grandfather (William Smythe) died in 1720, he left estates to Moore on condition that he change his name to Smythe, which he did by private Act of Parliament (2 Geo. 2. c. 26).
Moore Smythe was profligate, and even with inherited estates ran up substantial debts. Furthermore, he had offended several persons in society, and particularly tories. In 1727, he wrote his only play, The Rival Modes, and the Drury Lane company under the direction of Colley Cibber and Robert Wilks acted it. Smythe packed the audience in hopes of raising money, but the play was not well received. The opening night audience included many to whom Smythe owed money. The play ran for six nights, which was a mediocre run. However, Smythe received £300 for the author's benefit night.
Smythe's place in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad comes primarily from this play. In the second act, Smythe quoted eight lines of Pope's poetry. It appears that Pope had given and then revoked permission for the use of the lines, but Smythe went ahead anyway. This earned him Pope's wrath, and he was already despised by the other Tory wits. In The Dunciad of 1727, Pope presents Moore as a "phantom poet" whom all the book sellers are desperate to court. This is partially because of the piracy (Moore does not indicate his source or credit Pope), but it is more because Bernard Lintot offered Moore Smythe the incredible sum of £130 for the publication rights to the play. (In contrast, Leonard Welsted had had a much greater theatrical success in 1726 with The Dissembled Woman and had received only £30 for the publication rights.) Lintot probably suspected that the controversy would mean sales and that Moore was a new Whig hero. On the last score, at least, he would have been correct.
Edward Cooke, in his Battel of the Poets of 1729, proclaimed Moore a "new Dryden." Other "dunces" from The Dunciad began to support and collaborate with Moore, and Leonard Welsted joined with Moore in writing One Letter to Mr Pope in 1730. Moore, despite having no poetic career before the play and virtually no career after it, was being lauded, and this despite what Edward Young called "a very bad" play. Moore Smythe appeared to be a nobleman, a man of fashion, and an anti-Tory, and in The Dunciad he is presented as a great, vacuous nothing whose jingling coat and supposedly jingling pockets induce the mercenary book sellers into a frenzy. When they reach Moore, they find that he has nothing of his own, including his clothes.
In 1730, Pope renewed this characterisation of Moore Smythe. In The Grub-Street Journal for May and June, Pope wrote:
A Gold watch found on a Cinder Whore,
Or a good verse on J--my M-re,
Proves but what either shou'd conceal,
Not that they're rich, but that they steal.
In each attack, Pope characterises Moore primarily as a plagiarist. When the book sellers reach their "Phantom Moore" in The Dunciad, all the poetry in his collection flies back to the poets it was stolen from. Pope indicates that Moore stole not only from him, but from Dryden, from John Arbuthnot, and from others. In the context of The Dunciad, Moore stands not just for the generally degraded fop, nor for the imprudent heir of a fortune, but for the avarice and stupidity of book sellers (exemplified by Edmund Curll) who would publish anything at all, regardless of value, if it looked like it would sell. Thus, Moore Smythe's calculated gesture of using his notoriety to sell seats in the playhouse and the book sellers who would count upon that notoriety to sell copies of the play were mirrored sides of a critique of an emergent mass market for literature, and Pope's primary target is the abandonment of standards of quality.
After his quarrel with Pope, Moore Smythe continued in his debts and insolvency. He died unmarried and in poverty on 18 October 1734. The next year, in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Pope again attacked Moore Smythe as a plagiarist. Since his day, Moore Smythe has been remembered almost exclusively as Pope presented him, as a noble-born dunce.
Notes
References
Carter, Philip. "James Moore Smythe". In Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 51, 461. London: OUP, 2004.
1702 births
1734 deaths
1720s
English dramatists and playwrights
English male dramatists and playwrights
English male poets
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms |
The Persian-language magazine Sharq (Arabic: شرق; DMG: Šarq; English: "East") was published from 1924 to 1932 in Tehran. The first volume with two issues was edited by Moḥammad Ramażāni (1904–67), the owner of the publishing house Kolāla-ye ḵāvar, ʿAli Dašti and Naṣr-Allāh Falsafi. From 1930 on and under the leadership of Saʿid Nafisi (1895 – 1966), a Persian scholar, writer and poet, a second volume with a total of 12 issues was released.
The literary magazine published especially Persian literature and articles on Persian history and its neighboring countries. The editor wanted to introduce and familiarize the well-known Persian literature to a broad readership and to inform them about the latest recent books. Further, Persian translations of famous international works, such as Schiller's Maria Stuart, were published.
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1924 establishments in Iran
1932 disestablishments in Iran
Defunct magazines published in Iran
Defunct literary magazines
Magazines established in 1924
Magazines disestablished in 1932
Magazines published in Tehran
Persian-language magazines
History magazines
Literary magazines published in Iran |
Arthur Paul Davis (November 21, 1904 – April 21, 1996) was an influential, African-American university professor, literary scholar, and the writer and editor of several important critical texts such as The Negro Caravan, The New Cavalcade, and From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900–1960. Influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, Davis has inspired many African-Americans to pursue literature and the arts.
Early life and education
Arthur P. Davis was born on November 21, 1904, in Hampton, Virginia. He was raised by his parents, Frances Nash Davis and Andrew Davis along with his eight brothers. In an autobiographical essay entitled "Columbia-College and Renaissance Harlem-Autobiographical Essay", Davis describes his father, who worked as a plasterer, as an authoritarian figure, "a Victorian head-of-the-house but also an excellent parent." Although Davis was a gifted grammar school student, he was also required to help contribute to the family household during the summers by working at a black resort on the Chesapeake Bay.
After graduating from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1922, Davis spent a year attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he then transferred to Columbia College in New York City. As the first integrated school that he attended, Davis recalled the oppressive responsibility of the move in his autobiographical essay "Columbia College and Renaissance Harlem":
Despite having a scholarship, Davis boarded with a family in Harlem and needed to earn money for his room and board. Davis sought work from city politician Charlie Anderson (who was married to Davis's cousin, Emma Anderson), as well as from a close associate of Booker T. Washington, Davis was only able to acquire menial jobs such as a late night apartment-house elevator boy and an unsuccessful stint as a houseboy in a Park Avenue mansion. However, in his second year, Davis was able to find a job as a counselor with the Children's Aid Society on East 127th Street thanks to a Hampton connection. Davis looks back on this experience stating, "As an undergraduate I naturally did not fully understand the significance of the events happening around me, but I did get the feel of the times."
Davis attended Columbia during the most active years of the Harlem Renaissance. "I had a ringside seat", he recalled in his "Columbia College and Renaissance Harlem" essay, "on the events of those stirring and exhilarating years it was bliss to be alive in those days."
Career and accomplishments
Davis graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College in 1927, which made him only the second black student to receive this honor. He received his master's degree from Columbia in 1929 although he had already begun his academic career elsewhere. Between 1927 and 1928 Davis was an instructor in the English department of North Carolina College, which is now known as North Carolina Central University. He then transferred to Virginia Union University in 1929, where he worked as an English professor until 1944.
Davis states, "Harlem was a Nigger Heaven to my provincial eyes; and there were thousands of other migrants like me who felt the charm of the black ghetto." Davis saw or met many of the creative celebrities of the day. Including James Weldon Johnson, Wallace Thurman, Paul Robeson, Richard Bruce Nugent, Ethel Waters, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, as well as important political and intellectual figures like Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois. He also met the important writer during the Harlem Renaissance and editor of The New Negro Alain Locke. Blues singer Bessie Smith, a famous singer, lived across an air shaft from Davis' for a short time on 133rd Street. He was more interested in her earthly and racy conversations than her singing.
Arthur Davis became the first black American to receive a PhD in English in 18th-century English literature from Columbia University in 1942. He began teaching at Howard University in 1944. This was the institute that Davis was most associated with. He was an English professor at Howard until 1969, which he then was appointed professor emeritus. In 1984, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in literature.
At Howard, Davis' mission as an educator and academic writer became clear. He was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance heroes that he had met in New York City. Davis was also influenced by powerful orators like Garvey. In Davis' essay "Columbia College and Renaissance Harlem", he recalled that he and his friends "were impressed in spite of ourselves by the emphasis he put on pride in race, pride in blackness. It touched us and unconsciously influenced the thinking and writing" of many of the poets of their generation.
The spirit of the Harlem Renaissance was on Davis' agenda for the rest of his career. He made his focus as a teacher and critic on the work of black American writers. In his first ten years at Howard, Davis became a prolific advocate of black literary endeavors, publishing at least 34 articles, reviews, and miscellaneous critical works.
Work on The Negro Caravan
Co-written by Sterling Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee, The Negro Caravan sought to "present a body of artistically valid writings by American Negro authors, to present a truthful mosaic of Negro character and experience in America, and to collect in one volume certain key literary works that have greatly influenced the thinking of American Negroes, and to a lesser degree, that of Americans as a whole." Davis was the respective co-editor in many of the publishings.
Work on Cavalcade
Co-written with J. Saunders Redding, Davis states the purpose of the anthology was to "provide a representative selection of as much as possible of the best prose and poetry written by Negro Americans since 1760." Davis co-edited much of the anthology and provided his personal perspective on the New Negro Renaissance in Harlem. The anthology references and critiques various literary works from important Harlem figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown and Alain LeRoy Locke.
Work on From the Dark Tower
Written by Davis, the purpose of From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900–1960 was to cover important African American writers from 1900 to 1960 with an emphasis on writers from the Harlem Renaissance. The work on From the Dark Tower is meant to be a continuation of The Negro Author published in 1931 by Vernon Loggins. Similar to his work on Cavalcade, Davis states that "this volume has been designed to serve as a supplementary text or reference book for courses in Negro American literature or black studies It will be found, I hope, particularly helpful as a central text for classes using a list of selected authors in paperback."
Work on The Negro College Student
The function of The Negro College Student, written by Davis, is an article from The Crisis magazine that criticizes and praises the Negro college student of the 1930s. Davis notes that education rates for the Negro have skyrocketed after the World War I. Within the text Davis compares the faults and excellence's of the Negro student of that time. Regarding Negroes in higher education: The author argues there are more negative academic qualities than positive. He begins the article by denoting the present status of Negro college student which concludes Negro students are lackadaisical and have no initiative when it comes to scholarly work. As he further criticizes the Negro student in higher education, he implies the Negro's "pure love of scholarship is almost unknown".
Contrarily, Davis praises the Negro student's excellence's by acknowledging the new spirit of independence that began to emerge. The author implies the Negro student knows how to think for himself. Davis reminds the Negro college student that he must remember the opportunity to obtain a higher education is not one to be taken for granted; those that came before him fought and died for this right. Therefore, as Davis concludes, he challenges the Negro student to take responsibility and continue the legacy of black scholarship that was laid before him by his ancestors.
Awards and later life
Proudfit fellow, Columbia University, 1937; National Hampton Alumni Award, 1947; award from Howard University's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 1973; award from College Language Association for distinguished contribution to literary scholarship, 1975; Distinguished Critic Award, Middle Atlantic Writers Association, 1982; honorary doctorate in literature, Howard University, 1984. Davis received a number of awards and accolades throughout his academic career, including a 1975 award from the College Language Association for distinguished contribution to literary scholarship, a Distinguished Critic award from the Middle Atlantic Writers Association in 1982, and a Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award from the D.C. Public Library in 1992. Davis retired from Howard University in 1980. He died sixteen years later of cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 91 years on April 21, 1996, in Washington, D.C.
The Arthur P. Davis Papers archival collection is housed at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The collection contains photographs, correspondence, and articles written by and about Davis. Davis's writings include articles published in The Crisis, Phylon, and the Promethean. Copies of Negro Digest, Fire!!, Oracle, and The Journal of Negro History are housed in his collection. There is an abundance of personal and professional correspondence including letters from Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois and Sterling Brown. Versions of Davis's published and unpublished short stories are also available in the collection.
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Howard University faculty
American academics of English literature
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20th-century American academics
1904 births
1996 deaths
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Academics from Virginia
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```ruby
# frozen_string_literal: true
module Decidim
module Sortitions
class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
self.abstract_class = true
end
end
end
``` |
Jerzy Andrzej Potz (1 February 1953 – 27 January 2000) was a Polish ice hockey player. He played for the Poland men's national ice hockey team at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
He also represented his country at the IIHF World Championships eleven times. In total, he played 189 games for the Polish national team.
He played in Poland for ŁKS Łódź from 1971–1982, before joining the German club, the Frankfurt Lions. He played for Frankfurt until 1988, when he joined Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim. He would play one year for the club before retiring in 1990.
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1953 births
2000 deaths
Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Poland
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Sportspeople from Łódź
Frankfurt Lions players |
Canadian Whites were World War II-era comic books published in Canada that featured colour covers with black-and-white interiors. Notable characters include Nelvana of the Northern Lights, Johnny Canuck, Brok Windsor, and Canada Jack. The period has been called the Golden Age of Canadian comics.
Background
For the most part, the "Whites" had colour covers with interiors printed in black ink on white paper, although there was a handful of comics with colour interiors. They proliferated in Canada after the War Exchange Conservation Act restricted the importation of non-essential goods from the United States into Canada, including fiction periodicals.
Four companies took advantage of the situation by publishing comics in Canada, sometimes using imported scripts. Anglo-American Publishing of Toronto and Maple Leaf Publishing in Vancouver started publishing in March 1941. Later, two other Toronto-based publishers joined in: Hillborough Studios that August, and Bell Features (originally Commercial Signs of Canada) in September.
Some of the more notable "Whites" creators included Ed Furness, Ted McCall, Adrian Dingle, Gerald Lazare, Jon St. Ables, Fred Kelly, and Leo Bachle, all of whom would later be inducted into the Joe Shuster Award's Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame.
This period has been called the Golden Age of Canadian comics, but the age of the "Whites" did not last long. When the trade restrictions were lifted following World War II, comic books from the United States were once again able to flow across the border.
Influence
The 2014 documentary Lost Heroes: The Untold Story of Canadian Superheroes began by covering this era.
See also
Golden Age of Comic Books
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
CBC video on the history of "Canadian Whites"
History of Canadian comics
Comics industry
Golden Age of Comic Books |
BPY may refer to:
2,2'-Bipyridine
The ISO/FDIS 639-3 code for Bishnupriya Manipuri language
Beta-amyrin synthase, an enzyme |
Cold Sweat is a 1970 French-Italian international co-production starring Charles Bronson and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1959 novel Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson. It was filmed in and around Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
Plot
An American (Charles Bronson) living in France must face his past when his wife and daughter are kidnapped by former fellow convicts turned narco-dealers he once double-crossed.
Cast
Production
The film was known for an extended car chase with an Opel Commodore GS/E I6 involving the Bronson character's attempt to get a doctor to a wounded drug dealer in exchange for his wife.
Actress Liv Ullmann complained in an interview that Charles Bronson was rude to her and her daughter during the filming. She claims that he returned her child to her when she wandered to his table and admonished her by saying "Please keep your child to yourself."
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1970 films
1970s thriller films
Films based on works by Richard Matheson
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Terence Young
French thriller films
Italian thriller films
Seafaring films
Films set in the Mediterranean Sea
Films set in France
Films set on the French Riviera
Films produced by Robert Dorfmann
English-language French films
English-language Italian films
1970s exploitation films
1970s English-language films
1970s Italian films
1970s French films
French exploitation films
Italian exploitation films
Films about kidnapping
Films about the illegal drug trade
French crime thriller films
Italian crime thriller films
Films about hostage takings
French films about revenge
Italian films about revenge |
The Stefanus Prize is a human rights prize awarded to individuals for their outstanding contributions to defending freedom of religion or belief as defined by the Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
History
The Stefanus Prize was established in 2005 by the Norwegian NGO Stefanus Alliance International, and has been awarded biennially since 2008. The award ceremony takes place in November in Oslo, Norway.
The first recipient of the Stefanus Prize was the Coptic Orthodox Bishop Thomas of Egypt. He received the award on November 11, 2005 for his "fearless and courageous commitment to freedom of belief and human rights in Egypt."
Selection Committee
The laureates are chosen by a committee appointed by the Stefanus Alliance International. The committee was composed of following members in 2020: Ingvill Thorson Plesner (researcher at HL-senteret), Erling Rimehaug (editor and writer), Anne Beathe Kristiansen Tvinnereim (politician]), and Ingunn Yri Øystese (board member of the Stefanus Alliance International).
Recipients of the Stefanus Prize
2005: Bishop Thomas, Egypt
2008: Tim A. Peters, Korea/China
2010: Victor Biak Lian, Burma/Myanmar
2012: Samuel L. S. Salifu, Nigeria
2014: Asma Jilani Jahangir, Pakistan
2016: Mine Yildirim and Aykan Erdemir, Turkey
2018: Ameer Jaje and Saad Salloum, Iraq
2020: Nguyen Bac Truyen, imprisoned Vietnamese lawyer
2022: Wagma Feroz, Pakistan
References
External links
Stefanus Alliance International, official web site
Human rights awards
Norwegian awards
Freedom of religion |
Not a Word About Love (German: Kein Wort von Liebe) is a 1937 Czechoslovak-German romantic comedy film directed by Miroslav Cikán and Alwin Elling and starring Ellen Schwanneke, Rolf Wanka and Richard Romanowsky. It is the German-language version of Poslíček lásky.
Cast
Ellen Schwanneke as Steffie Leutner - Stenotypistin
Rolf Wanka as Hubert Kersten - Modeschöpfer
Richard Romanowsky as Erasmus Stössel - Bürovorsteher
Margit Symo as Stascha
Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Leutner / Uhrmacher / Steffis Vater
Erich Fiedler as Treff - Reporter
Walter Szurovy as Fred Curry
Marion Wünsche as Gerda - Steffis Freundin
Elisabeth Wolf as . Stenotypistin bei Kersten
References
Bibliography
Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
External links
Not a Word About Love at the Internet Movie Database
1937 films
German romantic comedy films
Films of Nazi Germany
Czechoslovak romantic comedy films
1930s romance films
Films directed by Miroslav Cikán
Czech romantic comedy films
1930s German-language films
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Czechoslovak multilingual films
1937 multilingual films
1930s Czech films
Films directed by Alwin Elling |
Liudmyla Nazarenko (born 13 March 1967) is a Ukrainian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
References
1965 births
Living people
Soviet women's basketball players
Ukrainian women's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Ukraine
Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Basketball players from Kyiv |
Xie Lihua (; born 19 July 1965) is a Chinese long-distance runner. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
References
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1965 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Chinese female long-distance runners
Olympic female long-distance runners
Olympic athletes for China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Japan Championships in Athletics winners |
Rachel Helen Maclean (née Cooke; born 3 October 1965) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Housing and Planning since 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament for Redditch in Worcestershire since 2017.
Maclean served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, from September 2019 until February 2020. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed her Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in February 2020. She then became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from September 2021, before resigning from the position during the July 2022 government crisis. She then served under Liz Truss as Minister of State for Victims and Vulnerability from September to October 2022. She became a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party in November 2022, and in February 2023 she was appointed Housing Minister by Rishi Sunak.
Prior to her political career, she worked for the bank HSBC and co-founded technology publishers Packt with her husband.
Early life and education
Rachel Helen Cooke was born on 3 October 1965 in Madras (now Chennai), India, to David and Anthea Cooke (now Kaan). She studied Experimental Psychology at St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a master's degree in Work and Occupational Psychology at Aston University. After graduation, she entered a fast track management scheme in 1989 at HSBC which involved working in Australia, Japan and China. In 2005, Maclean co-founded Packt, a publishing company specialising in information technology with her husband, David.
Parliamentary career
Maclean contested the Birmingham Northfield seat in the general election of 2015, finishing second behind the incumbent Labour Party MP Richard Burden. She voted for the United Kingdom (UK) to remain within the European Union (EU) in the June 2016 membership referendum.
In April 2017, Karen Lumley, Conservative MP for Redditch announced that she would not contest her seat in the June snap general election due to ill health. The following month, Maclean was selected to be the Conservative candidate in the election. She won the seat at the election with 23,652 votes and a majority of 7,363 (16.3%). In parliament, she sat on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee between September 2017 and June 2018.
In the same year, Maclean also co chaired Andy Street's successful campaign to become the Mayor of the West Midlands. In July, in her maiden parliamentary speech, she commented that her main priority would be 'to fight to protect and strengthen local health services', especially the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
In February 2018, Maclean was elected to be the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Women in Parliament. She is also the chair of the APPG on Carers and the APPG on Endangered Species. The following month, she was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) within the Home Office.
In March 2019, Maclean voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement. She supported Michael Gove in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. In September 2019, she was appointed as PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid.
She was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in the Second Johnson ministry since February 2020.
In September 2021, following the withdrawal of foreign defence forces from Afghanistan and takeover by the Taliban, Maclean was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Safeguarding) at the Home Office. She succeeded Victoria Atkins, who simultaneously became Minister of State for Prisons and Probation at the Ministry of Justice, both ministers adopting cross-Government responsibility for the Afghan resettlement programme and Operation Warm Welcome.
In May 2022, during an interview on Sky News, Maclean suggested some people struggling with rising prices could consider working more hours or getting a better-paid job. She later said her comments were unfairly taken out of context and the "long-term" idea would not work for all households. Maclean said she had received a "torrent of personal attacks" including a death threat.
On 6 July 2022, Maclean resigned from her position as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership. Maclean backed Sajid Javid, then Kemi Badenoch, and finally Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.
She was a member of the Women and Equalities Committee between November 2022 and May 2023.
In 2023 she was appointed Minister of State for Housing and Planning by Rishi Sunak.
Personal life
She married David Maclean in 1992. They have three sons and one daughter. Maclean lives in the Redditch constituency with her family.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
HSBC people
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 2017–2019
UK MPs 2019–present
21st-century British women politicians
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
21st-century English women
21st-century English people |
Teerasil Dangda (, ; born 6 June 1988) is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a striker for Thai League club BG Pathum United and captains the Thailand national team.
Club career
Early career
Teerasil started his football career playing youth football for Assumption College Thonburi in 2003, aged 15. Two years later he left the club, due to the lack of a professional team (it was only founded in 2011).
In the 2004–2005 season, Teerasil joined Air Technical Training School in Thai Division 1 League In the same season he made his senior debut and scored three goals in only six matches for the club.
In 2006 Teerasil moved to Raj Pracha, being an important offensive unit for the side, being the club's topscorer (nine goals in 18 games) and also assisting in further five goals during the campaign.
In 2007 Teerasil joined fellow second divisioner Muangthong United, and was a part of the squad who was crowned champions, contributing with seven goals and six assists.
Manchester City
On 25 July 2007, Teerasil was taken on a trial at Manchester City (alongside Suree Sukha and Kiatprawut Saiwaeo), after Thai businessman and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra bought City earlier in the month. After a long time waiting for their work permits, the trio signed with City on 16 November.
However, after problems with the work permit, Teerasil was loaned to one of City's new alliances, Grasshopper. After returning to City in 2008, he was still unable to play in England, and after the takeover of Abu Dhabi United Group, the Thai trio was released on 16 October 2008. He later said that his time at City "made him a better footballer", despite not appearing with the first-team.
Grasshopper and return to Thailand
Teerasil was loaned to Grasshopper alongside Suree in November, but both failed to make a first-team appearance, only appearing with the reserves in 1. Liga Classic. He scored twice in six matches for the reserve squad and returned to City in June 2008.
Soon after being released by City, Teerasil returned to his homeland and re-joined Raj Pracha for the remainder of the season. He contributed with six goals in only eight games, helping the club to achieve a mid-table position during the campaign.
Muangthong United
In 2009 Teerasil returned to Muangthong United. On 8 March 2009 he made his Thailand Premier League debut, in a 3–0 home win over Thai Port, and finished the season with seven goals under his belt. Muangthong was also champions of Thailand.
In 2010, Teerasil repeated his tally of the previous season, and was a part of the squad who was crowned champions of Thailand again. In 2011 he established himself as the club's topscorer, scoring 13 goals as Muangthong finished third. Teerasil was also invited for a trial at Queens Park Rangers in July.
In 2012, Muangthong engaged an unbeaten run which lasted the whole season, and Teerasil also scored four goals in a single match, an 8–1 routing over BBCU on 18 October. Ten days later he scored in a 2–2 draw against BEC Tero Sasana, a goal which granted the title, took his tally to 24 goals and broke the previous record of Ronnachai Sayomchai in 1998 (23 goals).
After his impressive goal tally in the season, Teerasil was invited by La Liga sides Atlético Madrid and Getafe CF for a trial, but as the former was a Muangthong partner, he headed to Atleti in January 2013; he also attracted interest of Trabzonspor in June.
On 9 January 2013 Teerasil travelled to Spain for a two-week trial at Atlético Madrid. He later described the Spanish football as "very quick, strong and with great quality", after completing his first training with the Madrilenians. Teerasil also watched from the stands an Atleti win over Real Zaragoza four days later, and returned to Muangthong in February.
Teerasil's first goal of the season came from a volley on 2 March 2013 in a 2–1 success against Army United. His second came late in the month, in a 3–0 home win over Songkhla United, and he scored again in the following weekend, against Ratchaburi. After seven matches without scoring, Teerasil netted again on 29 May, but in a 1–3 away loss to Suphanburi. On 23 June he netted twice against BEC Tero, and his first hat-trick of the season came on 5 October, in a 3–1 away win over Osotspa Saraburi.
Teerasil also played in the 2013 AFC Champions League group stage against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Guangzhou Evergrande, and Urawa Red Diamonds. He finished the season with 16 goals in the league (21 overall).
Teerasil started 2014 season as a second striker, playing behind new signing Jay Bothroyd. He scored twice in the second game of the season, a 3–0 win at TOT, and again roughly a month later in a 4–1 success at PTT Rayong. Teerasil appeared in 18 league matches, scoring nine goals.
He played his last match for Muangthong on 2 July, starting in a 0–1 League Cup loss against Buriram United. Teerasil sent a farewell to Muangthong fans after the match.
Almería (loan)
On 21 February 2014, Teerasil signed with Almería on a one-year loan deal, making him the first Southeast Asian and Thai footballer to play in La Liga. He arrived at his new club on 9 June, being surrounded by supporters in the airport.
Teerasil made his debut in the Spanish top level on 23 August 2014, replacing Fernando Soriano in the 65th minute of a 1–1 home draw against RCD Espanyol, thus becoming the first Thai footballer to do so. He was handed his first start on 5 December, and scored his side's second of a 4–3 away win against Real Betis, for the campaign's Copa del Rey.
Return to Muangthong United
On 20 January 2015, after an unsuccessful spell, Teerasil returned to his parent club. He backed to be an important part for Muangthong United and won 2016 Thai League. In the next season, he scored 100th goal for his club on 11 March 2017 against Nakhon Ratchasima. Moreover, he broke Pipob On-Mo's league record of 108 goals becoming highest league goals of Thai players with 109 goals after scored twice against Super Power Samut Prakan.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima (loan)
Teerasil signed for Sanfrecce Hiroshima on 20 December 2017. He made his official debut against Consadole Sapporo, where his former teammates Chanathip Songkrasin and Jay Bothroyd also plays for, in 2018 J1 League and scored the winning goal for his club. He has scored 6 goals in 32 league appearances for the club. He returned to Muangthong United even though Sanfrecce want him to play in next season.
Shimizu S-Pulse
In January 2020 Teerasil signed with Shimizu S-Pulse. He made his debut on February 22 against FC Tokyo, netting a goal in a 3–1 defeat. In the 2020 J1 League, he scored 3 goals in 24 league appearances for the club.
BG Pathum United
In December 2020, Teerasil returned to the Thai League 1, signing with BG Pathum United F.C. On his debut 6 February, Teerasil scored his first goal for BG Pathum, in their 2–0 win against Police Tero. First season with BG Pathum he won the 2020–21 Thai League 1 title. In 6 August 2022, BG Pathum United in a 3–2 win over Buriram United, he won the Thailand Champions Cup 2 times in a row. In 29 May 2023, BG Pathum United announced a contract renewal with Teerasil, Out until the 2024-25 season.
International career
Teerasil appeared for Thailand's under-16 and under-17 squads in 2004, being a part of the squad which played at the 2004 AFC U-17 Championship. Two years later, he was also included in the under-19 squad which played at the 2006 AFC Youth Championship, scoring the first of two goals in the 2–1 win against the United Arab Emirates; it was Thailand's only victory of the tournament.
In 2007 Teerasil appeared for the under-23's. He was part of the Olympic team which failed to make the final cut ahead of 2008 Summer Olympics. In December 2007 he won the U-23 Gold Medal at the Southeast Asian Games, scoring the winner against Myanmar. In the same year Teerasil received his first call-up to the main squad, and was also into the 23-man squad ahead of 2007 AFC Asian Cup, being the youngest of the squad. However, he only appeared once in the whole tournament, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–1 draw against Iraq; the hosts subsequently failed to progress through the knockout stages, and finished third in Group A.
Teerasil was also selected to 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup; he netted four times during the tournament as Thailand finished runner-up, losing to Vietnam. Teerasil scored his side's first in the second leg, but Vietnam managed to score a last-minute goal and was crowned champions. He was an ever-present figure in the international fold since October 2007, his second match being a FIFA World Cup Qualifying against Macau, where he scored the second of a 6–1 win. He was a member of the victorious squad of 2008 T&T Cup at Vietnam.
In Asia's 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, under the management of a newly appointed German coach Winfried Schafer, Teerasil featured constantly and scored against Australia and Oman, respectively. He was the top scorer for the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup, during which he scored a hat-trick against Myanmar.
Teerasil won and scored a penalty for Thailand against FC Barcelona in the Catalans' 2013 Asian Tour in Bangkok. In 2013, he was called up to the national team by Surachai Jaturapattarapong to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification. In October 2013 Teerasil played a friendly match against Bahrain, and scored against Iran in the following match, a 1–2 loss at Tehran.
In May 2015, he played for Thailand in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) against Vietnam. In June 2015, he scored twice in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) against Chinese Taipei.
In 2021, Teerasil became the all-time top scorer for the AFF Championship with 19 goals, breaking Noh Alam Shah's 17 goal record, after scoring against the Philippines in the 2020 AFF Championship.
Style of play
Teerasil's style of play or role on the field could be described as a striker or deep-lying forward, as he often comes deep down to help the team maintain possession. Aside from his main position, he can play as the main reference upfront or as a midfielder (attacking midfielder or winger).
Teerasil has great quality on the ball and is also described as quick, skillful and with great vision, which as well as scoring allows him to make many assists for his teammates.
Personal life
Teerasil was born in Bangkok with parents from Amphoe Sangkha, Surin province of Northeastern Thailand. His younger sister, Taneekarn, is a member of the Thailand women's national football team and also plays as a striker; his father was also a footballer and played for Royal Thai Air Force.
On 9 January 2016, he married his girlfriend Phusita Polrak. They have two children.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Thailand's goal tally first.
Honours
Muangthong United
Thai League 1: 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016
Regional League Division 2: 2007
Kor Royal Cup: 2010
Thai League Cup: 2016, 2017
Thailand Champions Cup: 2017
Mekong Club Championship: 2017
BG Pathum United
Thai League 1: 2020–21
Thailand Champions Cup: 2021, 2022
Thailand U-23
SEA Games: 2007
Thailand
AFF Championship: 2016, 2020, 2022
King's Cup: 2016
Individual
Goal.com readers' Asian Best XI of 2011
AFF Championship overall top scorer with 25 goals
AFF Championship Top Scorer: 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2022
AFF Championship Best XI: 2012, 2016, 2020, 2022
ASEAN Football Federation Best XI: 2013, 2017
Thai Premier League Top Scorer: 2012
Thai Premier League Player of the Year: 2012
See also
List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Teerasil Dangda
Teerasil Dangda
Teerasil Dangda
Men's association football forwards
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
Manchester City F.C. players
Teerasil Dangda
UD Almería players
Sanfrecce Hiroshima players
Shimizu S-Pulse players
Teerasil Dangda
La Liga players
J1 League players
Teerasil Dangda
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
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Teerasil Dangda
Teerasil Dangda
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Teerasil Dangda
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
2019 AFC Asian Cup players
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SEA Games medalists in football
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games
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FIFA Men's Century Club |
Oulston is a village and civil parish in Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies about north-east of Easingwold. Remains of a Roman villa have been found in the area. The village is within the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
History
The village name may be derived from the Anglian personal name of Ulf combined with tun meaning habitation.
There are the remains of a Roman villa nearby, consistent with the village's location near the junction of two old Roman roads. Articles from the site are located within the York Museum.
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Uluestan and at the time of the Norman invasion, the lands were owned by Gospatric, son Arnketil. Following the Norman invasion of Britain, the estates of Yearsley, Coxwold and Oulston fell into the hands of a Norman family whose previous seat of power had been in Montbray, Normandy. By 1158, however, these same lands had been given to another Norman lord whose family base had been Colleville on the Normandy coast. In return for receiving these lands, Thomas de Colville had to swear allegiance to Roger de Mowbray. Thomas de Colville's estate included the manors of Yearsley, Coxwold and Oulston as well as other properties and land in York, Thirsk, Everley, Nunwick, Ripon, Kilburn and Upsland. The Colville shield is proudly displayed at one of the roof intersections in the twelfth century Norman church at Coxwold. A fourth Thomas Colville generously allowed John, the Prior of Newburgh, to live “by suit of court” in his manor house at Oulston. In return for Thomas's generosity, John (besides offering prayers) used his influence, in 1256, to arrange a special privilege for Thomas: Thomas would no longer be required, on behalf of the king, to carry out any legal or other administrative duties against his will. The lands were eventually passed to the Fauconberg family and thence to the Wombwell family, who resided at nearby Newburgh Priory Estate.
There used to be a Wesleyan chapel in the village, which is now the village hall. It is a Grade II listed building.
There are four sites in the area that are scheduled ancient monuments. They are:
a round barrow 500m WNW of Pond Head Farm at
a round barrow 350m NW of Pond Head Farm at
a section of cross ridge dyke and earthworks in Roman Plantation, Oulston Moor at
a section of cross ridge dyke and hollow way 200m NW of Pond Head Farm at
Governance
The village is part of the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It lies within the Stillington, North Yorkshire electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council. It also lies within the White Horse ward of Hambleton District Council.
Geography
According to the 1881 UK census, the population was 177. In the 2001 UK census the population was 102 of which 85 were over sixteen years old. Of those, 51 were in employment.
Oulston lends its name to the reservoir on the River Foss to the east of the village.
The nearest settlements to Oulston are Crayke to the south; Husthwaite to the west; Coxwold to the north and Yearsley to the east.
References
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Villages in North Yorkshire
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Events from the year 1877 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Ohio) (until March 4), Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio) (starting March 4)
Vice President: vacant (until March 4), William A. Wheeler (R-New York) (starting March 4)
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Samuel J. Randall (D-Pennsylvania)
Congress: 44th (until March 4), 45th (starting March 4)
Events
January–March
January 8 – Indian Wars – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.
February 28 – Indian Wars – Agreement of 1877 (19 Stat. 254): Congress annexes Sioux Indian land, including the Black Hills.
March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
March 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th president of the United States, and William A. Wheeler sworn in as the 19th vice president of the United States.
March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.
April–June
April 15 – First telephone line installed between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts.
May 5 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
May 6 – Realizing that his people are weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
May 8 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens (ends May 11).
June 15 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
June 17 – Indian Wars – Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
June 21 – The Molly Maguires are hanged at Carbon County Prison in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
July–September
July 10 – The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
July 16 – Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike in Pittsburgh, and a worker's rebellion in St. Louis before U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
August 9 – Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers and Indians lose 89 warriors in a U.S. Army victory.
August 17 – Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy the Kid. Cahill dies the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.
September – The first meeting of the Knights of Reliance in Lampasas County, Texas, which morphed into the Farmers' Alliance and eventually became the Populist Party.
September 5 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
October–December
October 10 – Following the recovery of Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer's body from where he fell during the Battle of Little Big Horn the previous year, Custer is given a funeral with full military honors and is laid to rest at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29.
November 22 – The first college lacrosse game is played between New York University and Manhattan College.
December 6 – The Washington Post newspaper first published in D.C.
Ongoing
Reconstruction era (1865–1877)
Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
Depression of 1873–79 (1873–1879)
Sport
September 29 – Boston Red Caps win their First National League Championship
Births
March 7 – Charles O. Andrews, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1946 (died 1946)
March 9 – Albert Leo Stevens, balloonist (died 1944)
March 16 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell (died 1978)
April 3 – Karl C. Schuyler, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1932 to 1933 (died 1933)
April 23 – Charles D. Herron, United States Army general (died 1977)
May 16 – Joseph M. McCormick, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1919 to 1925 (died 1925)
May 23 – Grace Ingalls, youngest sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1941)
May 26 (probable date) – Isadora Duncan, dancer (died 1927 in France)
June 12 – Thomas C. Hart, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1945 to 1946 (died 1971)
July 1 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr., US Army General. First African-American to rise to the rank of Brigadier General. (died 1970)
July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, artist, "the painter of San Francisco" (died 1939)
August 10 – Frank Marshall, chess player (died 1944)
August 15 – Stanley Vestal, historian of the Old West and poet (died 1957)
August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, novelist and pastor (died 1951)
September 6 – Buddy Bolden, African American jazz cornetist (died 1930)
October 2 – Carl Hayden, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1927 to 1969 (died 1972)
October 13 – Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1947 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1935 to 1947 (died 1947)
October 31 – Josiah O. Wolcott, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1917 to 1921 (died 1938)
November 12 – Warren Austin, U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1931 to 1946 (died 1962)
November 16 – Rice W. Means, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1924 to 1927 (died 1949)
November 24
Alben W. Barkley, 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 and U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1927 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1956 (died 1956)
Edward C. Kalbfus, admiral (died 1954)
Deaths
January 3 – John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Army brigadier general (born 1798)
January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (born 1794)
January 17 – John Pettit, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855 (born 1807)
June 17 – Daniel D. Pratt, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1869 to 1875 (born 1813)
July 16 – Samuel McLean, congressman from Montana (born 1826)
August 28 – Ben DeBar, American actor-manager (born 1812)
August 29 – Brigham Young, Mormon leader (born 1801)
August 30 – Raphael Semmes, officer in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War (born 1809)
September 5 – Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota chief (born 1840-45)
September 20 – Lewis V. Bogy, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1873 to 1877 (born 1813)
October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (born 1821)
November 1 – Oliver P. Morton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877 (born 1823
See also
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)
References
External links
1870s in the United States
United States
United States
Years of the 19th century in the United States |
John Sauter is an American rock and blues musician and bass guitarist from Decatur, Illinois. He has played in Mitch Ryder's band Detroit and with Ted Nugent.
Life and career
John Sauter grew up in Decatur, Illinois, and began playing bass guitar at age 14. He moved to Chicago, and was soon playing with many Chicago blues musicians such as Otis Spann, and Sam Lay, and rock & roll legends Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, as well as Corky Siegel and the Siegel–Schwall Band.
He moved to Detroit and began playing with John Lee Hooker, along with drummer Muruga Booker, where they were billed as Hooker and Booker. He also began playing at that time with Ted Nugent, an association that lasted many years.
In 1971, he became a member of Mitch Ryder's band Detroit. While in the band, he recruited his friend Steve Hunter to be the guitarist, and they toured with the band and recorded the self-titled album Detroit, which was produced by Bob Ezrin.
Sauter joined the newly reformed band Cactus with Rusty Day in 1976, and played with them for a while. After that project ended, Sauter and Day eventually formed a band called The Pelicans, which featured Sauter on bass, Rusty Day (vocals, harmonica), K.J. Knight (drums, vocals), Steve Dansby (guitar) and Jody Blair (rhythm guitar).
In 1977, he recorded Weekend Warriors with guitarist Ted Nugent, and they toured together for many years.
To celebrate John Lee Hooker's 100th birthday anniversary in 2017, Sauter joined Muruga Booker, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee guitarist J.C. "Billy" Davis, P-Funk guitarist Tony "Strat" Thomas, and singer Misty Love to form the Booker Blues All-Stars, and released a CD called Booker Plays Hooker.
Sauter pioneered the use of a tremolo/vibrato system and a bottleneck slide while playing bass.
Discography
Detroit- Detroit (1971)
Various Artists - Michigan Rocks (1977)
Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors (1978)
Ted Nugent - Out of Control (1993)
Ted Nugent - Original Album Classics (2008)
Booker, Dansby, Sauter & Love - The Hand I Was Dealt (2011)
Booker Blues All Stars - Booker Plays Hooker (2017)
References
Awards
John Sauter has received a Platinum Record for Weekend Warriors with Ted Nugent.
External links
John Sauter at allmusic
John Sauter at Discogs
Living people
1951 births
Cactus (American band) members
American rock musicians
American rock bass guitarists
People from Decatur, Illinois
Musicians from Decatur, Illinois
Guitarists from Illinois
Guitarists from Michigan
American male bass guitarists |
Fernando Ismael Fernandes Pimenta (, born 13 August 1989) is a Portuguese sprint canoeist who has won multiple medals at the Olympic Games, World and European championships. At club level, he represents Benfica.
Career
Pimenta has competed since the late 2000s. His first major result came at the 2010 World Championships in Poznań, Poland, when he won the K-2 500 metres silver medal together with João Ribeiro. One year later, he contributed to the Portuguese K-4 1000 metres gold medal at the European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and claimed a bronze in the K-1 1000 metres. Together with Emanuel Silva, he won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 metres event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was Portugal's only medal at these Games.
In 2013, Pimenta won multiple medals in international events, namely two silvers (K-1 5000 metres and K-4 1000 metres) at the European Championships, held in Portugal's Montemor-o-Velho racing course, and two golds (K-1 500 and 1000 metres) at the Summer Universiade in Kazan. The following year, he secured his second world championship medal in Moscow, after a runner-up finish in the K-4 1000 metres event. At the European Championships in Brandenburg, Germany, Pimenta finished again in the top-three places of the K-1 5000 and K-4 1000 metres, taking a bronze medal in both events.
Pimenta participated in the inaugural edition of the European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he became the first Portuguese sprint canoeist to win a medal in this competition, after finishing second in the K-1 1000 metres event; a day later, he added another silver medal in the K-1 5000 metres. At the World Championships in Milan, Pimenta won the K-1 1000 metres bronze medal – his third medal at this level – and secured his country's qualification for this event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2016, Pimenta won his first individual continental titles after taking the K-1 1000 and 5000 metres gold medals at the European Championships in Moscow. At the Olympics, he missed the medal places, finishing 5th and 6th in the K-1 1000 metres and K-4 1000 metres finals, respectively. The following year in July, he defended his European K-1 1000 metres title in Plovdiv, but lost the K-1 5000 metres crown to his German rival Max Hoff. However, the following month, Pimenta would beat Hoff in a sprint finish for the K-1 5000 metres gold medal at the World Championships in Račice, to win his first individual world title. On 5 March 2018, he moved from Clube Náutico de Ponte de Lima to S.L. Benfica.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Pimenta won his heat, earning direct access to the semi-final which he also won with an Olympic Record. During the 3 August 2021 final, Pimenta won the bronze medal with faster time than in the previous round.
Orders
Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
Commander of the Order of Merit
References
External links
Fernando Pimenta at the Olympic Committee of Portugal
Fernando Pimenta at the Portuguese Canoeing Federation
1989 births
Living people
People from Ponte de Lima
Portuguese male canoeists
Commanders of the Order of Merit (Portugal)
Olympic canoeists for Portugal
Olympic silver medalists for Portugal
Olympic bronze medalists for Portugal
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
European Games silver medalists for Portugal
European Games medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships
Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Portugal
S.L. Benfica (canoeing)
Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2019 European Games
Golden Globes (Portugal) winners
Universiade medalists in canoeing
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Portugal
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Viana do Castelo District
Canoeists at the 2023 European Games |
Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaqi-e Torshizi () (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahmad-i Jami or Sheikh Ahmad-e jam or Sheikh-e Jam or simply Ahmad-e Jam was a Sufi, Sufi writer, mystic and poet . His mazar (tomb) is located in Torbat-e Jam.
Life
He was born in 1048 (441 A.H.) in Namaq (now Kashmar) near Torshiz in Khorasan, and counted Jarir Ibn Abdullah, a companion (Sahaba) of Prophet Mohammad as one of his ancestors. His parents made their living by farming. Ahmad was tall of stature, strong and courageous; this and a reputation for gruffness led to sources referring to him as "the Colossal Elephant" (Zhandeh Pil). Medieval accounts describe him as having red hair, a wine-colored beard and dark-blue eyes.
Until the age of twenty-two (circa 1070 CE / 463 AH), Ahmad would attend drinking parties with a circle of profligate friends. Ahmad experienced a conversion to the religious life one night after witnessing the miraculous transformation of wine into grape juice. [The Colossal Elephant and his Spiritual Feats, Story 1, Story 74]. After this Ahmad withdrew from his circle of friends. He took up the life of a hermit and lived in seclusion for eighteen years, on the mountain of Nâmaq until about 1082 (475 A.H.), and then on the mountain of Bizd for the next six years until circa 1088 (481 A.H.). [The Colossal Elephant, Stories 9, 10 and 13]. At the age of forty he returned to society to guide the people and make wine-drinkers and sinners to repent. The earliest source about him, The Spiritual Feats of Sadid al-Din Muhammad al-Ghaznavi, gives him the honorific title "Shaykh al-Islam." According to Ghaznavi's Spiritual Feats, Ahmad-e Jâm was not at first appreciated by the people, but after several miraculous healings, his reputation spread and he attracted some followers (see Stories 13–15).
Ahmad settled down in Ma'd-âbâd and began training disciples and composing books and propagating his ideas. He also built a Friday mosque and a khâneqâh, or Sufi lodge. From his home in Ma'd-âbâd, he made many trips throughout Khorasan, including visits to the major cities of Herât, Nayshabur, and Marv, and to Bâkharz and Bastâm. He evidently won many converts from the villages outlying Jâm. Shaykh Ahmad's activity therefore stretched across a territory that triangulates the modern borders of eastern Iran, northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan. [Colossal Elephant, introduction].
Poetry
Although his main field was writing Books, he also composed great poems during his life.
A sample of his poetry is:
چون تیشه مباش و جمله زی خود متراش
چون رنده ز کار خویش بی بهره مباش
تعلــیم ز اره گیر در امــر معاش
چیزی سوی خود میکش و چیزی می پاش
Don't be like axe and don't offend anyone
Don't be useless like a plane
Just be like a saw in your life
Do something for yourself and something for others
Works
Although the title of his books are in Arabic, all of them are written in Persian. They are about shariah and theology, with some of his most important books being:
Meftāh al Najāt () – "The key of Redemption"
Konuz al Hekma () – "The Treasure of Wisdom"
Seraj al Sāerin () – "The Lamp of Pilgrims"
Death
After his death in 1141 the people of Ma'dabad () (now Torbat-e Jam) buried him in the gate of the city and made a tomb for him in order that the people could come and use the mystical powers of the Sheikh after his death.
Impact
He had a great influence on Jami, who chose his penname according to Sheikh Ahmad Jami's name (which is Jami).
See also
Torbat-e Jam
Sufism
Footnotes
References
The Colossal Elephant and His Spiritual Feats: The Life and Legendary Vita of Shaykh Ahmad-e Jâm. Co-authored and translated by Franklin Lewis and Heshmat Moayyad (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2004)
Sheikh Ahmad Jami Biography in Ahmad-e-Jam Website
Jami Article in Aftab Website
Ahamd-e Jam Entry in Loghatnaameh Website Dehkhoda Encyclopedia
External links
Sheikh Ahmad Jami in torbatjam.com
Mazar of Sheikh Ahmad Jami Complex – (Persian)
Download a Pdf version of Meftāh al Najāt – (Persian)
Some photos from his Mazar on flickr
Sufi writers
People from Torbat-e Jam
Sunni Sufis
Hanafis
Maturidis
1048 births
1141 deaths
11th-century Iranian people
12th-century Iranian people
People from Kashmar |
Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards and Bo Peep, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall. Bulverhythe is translated as "Burghers' landing place". It used to be under a small headland called Gallows Head, which was washed away by flooding. The suburbs of Filsham, West Marina and Harley Shute are nearby.
Bulverhythe village
Bulverhythe village is located to the southwest of the area. The ancient village had a small harbour and pier, and is where the remains of the Amsterdam can be seen.
The village was once in the confederation of the Cinque Ports, under the 'Limb' of Hastings. It helped supply one ship together with Petit Ihamme (originally Pyppels Ham and now the village of Pebsham).
Filsham Manor
Filsham Manor was a house on Harley Shute Road dating back to Saxon times. The house was rebuilt in 1682, and part of this remains today.
Gardens
In the east of the area lie
West Marina Gardens which were designed by James Burton and are in between the West St Leonards and Burton's town of St Leonards. The land was purchased in 1886 and laid out as a pleasure garden by 1891. The site is well-used and includes a bowls green, putting course and formal gardens. It is at the western extreme of the frontline garden displays. Decorative lighting has recently been installed.
Bulverhythe Salts
The Bulverhythe Salts was a site of a racecourse that was moved to the Saxon shoreway.
Shipwrecks
In January 1921 a British tug was towing a German submarine in the English Channel when
it broke adrift in a gale and was washed ashore at Bulverhythe. The U-boat was of a smaller type
than the other that came ashore at Hastings in April 1919. The event was reported in the Hastings Observer with the headline: "Another Submarine Visitor!"
Three tugs tried to refloat the submarine without success and after the hull was badly damaged by stormy seas, it was eventually dismantled.
Another boat that washed up was the Dutch ship Amsterdam that set sail to Java but ended up running aground on the sandy strip in 1749.
The remains can still be seen today at very low tide, just opposite the footbridge over the railway line at Bulverhythe.
Demography
Transportation
Railways
Bulverhythe was only served by a temporary station until the line extended to West Marina. The line was constructed by the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway and when the South Eastern Railway line came from London and tunnelled through to St Leonards, Hastings and the Marshlink Line, a feud started between the companies. The junction for the two routes, called Bo-Peep junction, was named after a nearby public house, which in turn came from the activities of smugglers and excise men.
West Marina is now closed and, although both platforms and lights still remain, West St Leonards station is the only remaining station in this area.
References
External links
Suburbs of Hastings
Populated coastal places in East Sussex
Beaches of East Sussex |
William James Thomson was a Canadian artist and engraver, best known for the images he recorded of Toronto. Some of those structures are only known from his paintings, drawings, and engravings.
From 1889-1893 Thomson worked as an engraver for the Toronto Globe. The Archives of Ontario curates a collection of over 900 of his Globe engravings.
Thomson became the first President of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, in 1916.
Thomson was born in Guelph, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art, where his instructors included John Arthur Fraser.
Thomson's patrons included Sir Byron Edmund Walker and James Mavor.
He was a founding member of the Ontario Archeological Association, precursor of the Ontario Archaeological Society.
References
External links
Canadian painters
Canadian engravers
19th-century births
1927 deaths |
Thompson Street may refer to:
Thompson Street (album), an album by Brady Seals
Thompson Street (Manhattan), a street in Manhattan, New York City |
Go Go Cabaret (Around the World) is the full-length debut album from Japanese punk rock band 54 Nude Honeys, released on December 1, 1996.
Track listing
References
1996 debut albums
54 Nude Honeys albums |
Hyves was a social networking site in the Netherlands with mainly Dutch visitors and members, where it competed with sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Hyves was founded in 2004 by Raymond Spanjar and Floris Rost van Tonningen. The service was available in both Dutch and English.
In May 2010 Hyves had more than 10.3 million accounts. These correspond to two thirds of the size of the Dutch population (which stood at over 16 million in 2010), however this included multiple accounts per person and inactive accounts. The number of accounts had grown by over two million as compared to 1.5 years earlier. Hyves could be used free of charge, but there was an option for a paid Premium Membership (called "Gold Membership"). Gold members had access to some extra features, such as the ability to use a wider variety of smilies in their messages and more uploading space for pictures. The creators have said that the basic of a Hyves account will always be free.
In 2013, the social network was officially discontinued, due to the huge decrease in accounts due to the growing popularity of other social networks like Facebook and Twitter in the Netherlands. The site continued as Hyves Games, where members could use their Hyves accounts to play social games.
History
Hyves started in September 2004. The name Hyves was chosen because the desired domain name hives.nl was already taken. The name referred to beehives and the fact that social networks are built the same way.
In May 2006 it became public that the Dutch police was using Hyves as a tool to investigate possible suspects. Only information that is uploaded by suspects is being checked.
On December 13, 2007 Hyves was awarded with the title of "most popular site of the year".
In April 2008, Dutch media tycoon Joop van den Ende took a large interest in Hyves. The intention was to expand abroad and provide mobile services.
Hyves changed its design in July of '09. The site got a new look and feel, described as being more docile and synoptic. The profile picture format was also changed into a standard square shape.
In her Christmas speech of 2009, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands expressed negative views about online social networks. In response, the founder of Hyves offered her a free account/profile, so that she could experience Hyves herself.
In 2010, it became clear that the fast growth of Hyves was slowing down due to growth of Twitter and Facebook. Therefore, Hyves announced extra measures to leave the competition further behind. These measures were successful, because Hyves welcomed its 10 millionth user in April 2010. Despite the perception that Hyves mostly had young members, the target group ages faster than it rejuvenates. The average age of a member at Hyves is 30 years old. Also, in that same month, Hyves announced "Hyves Payments" and "Hyves Games", which allows users to play games and pay friends through the social network.
Although Facebook was rapidly growing in the Netherlands, in 2010 Hyves was still the most popular social network with 10.6 million users and a 68% penetration. Hyves was sold to the Telegraaf Media Groep in November that same year.
In September 2011, Facebook received more unique visitors than Hyves since its creation. In the same year, Hyves redirected their focus from a pure social network platform to a content platform by adding a news section, sports results and radio channels.
In 2013, the Telegraaf Media Group announced to reform Hyves from a social network platform to an exclusive gaming platform. All users had the ability to download their social profile. On December 1, 2013 all the not downloaded accounts were removed.
Elections on Hyves
In February 2006, Wouter Bos was the first Dutch politician with a Hyves account and created a trend. The Prime Minister at that time, Jan Peter Balkenende, also saw the potential to communicate with his target audience through social media. He created an account in 2006. During the Dutch elections of 2010, Hyves was used in a broad range of ways. Every leader of every political party had an account on Hyves, and the world's first debate between political leaders on a social network was organised and hosted by Hyves.
Features
User profiles can be created without knowledge of HTML. Profiles can be built by filling in questionnaires and uploading content.
Privacy
Hyves' users had the option to make their profiles only available (to a degree chosen by the user) to friends or friends of friends (the so-called ‘connections’). Users could also protect their messages by making them visible only to friends or connections.
See also
Internet in the Netherlands
List of social networking websites
References
External links
Edelmandigital.com: Social networks local vs global, July 15 2010
Defunct Dutch websites
Dutch-language websites
Defunct social networking services
Dutch social networking websites |
Kista was a borough (stadsdelsområde) in Stockholm, Sweden, until 1 January, 2007. It organised the districts of Akalla, Hansta, Husby and Kista. In 2007, Kista merged with the borough of Rinkeby to form the Rinkeby-Kista borough.
External links
Kista - Official site
Kista Science City
Government of Stockholm |
Fionnphort (, ) is the principal port of the Ross of Mull, and the second largest settlement in the area (its population is approximately 80). The village's name is the anglicised pronunciation of the Gaelic for "White Port" and previous names have included Caol Idhe, Gaelic for "Sound of Iona".
History
Historically, Fionnphort has been a fishing village offering religious pilgrims and tourists access to Iona; more recently, it has facilitated the movement of stone from a quarry in the vicinity. The granite which was extracted from Tòrr Mòr Quarry until around 1907 was highly prized for its density and hardness.
Geography
The beach at Fionnphort has a distinctive split granite boulder in the centre that is classed as an erratic and deposited here by an ice age glacier. The beach has a car park and a nearby cemetery.
From Fionnphort, the entire east side of Iona can be seen, including Iona Abbey. To the south of the village lies the district of Fidden and the island of Erraid, mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped and accessible to walkers at low tide.
Economy
Fionnphort has an active fishing industry, noted principally for shellfish, particularly crabs and lobsters, the majority of which are exported by container truck to Spain and France.
In April 2008, residents finally had the opportunity to use a cash machine, putting an end to the round-trip to Salen villagers previously had to endure. Sandy Brunton, the local postmaster said that residents are claiming they now have the best view from a cash dispenser anywhere in Britain: "As you stand at the ATM, you have a view of Iona to the west, Coll to the north and looking east you can see the island's only Munro, Ben More."
Transport
Fionnphort is the base of the ferry service between Mull and Iona, and also boat trips to the isle of Staffa.
References
External links
Canmore - Fionnphort, St Columba Centre site record
Canmore - Isle of Mull, Fionnphort site record
Villages on the Isle of Mull |
Castaic High School (CHS) is a high school in the unincorporated community of Castaic, California, in the Santa Clarita Valley. It is part of the William S. Hart Union High School District. The school officially opened on August 13, 2019.
History
On March 28, 2018, the William S. Hart Union High School District named Melanie Hagman as the first principal of Castaic High School, its newest campus.
The district announced on October 10, 2018 that the school's new mascot would be the coyote and the colors would be charcoal gray, white, and burnt orange. Input was solicited from community stakeholders, including students from Castaic Middle School who would attend CHS.
Castaic High School opened its doors on August 13, 2019, to a freshman class of 325 students. The school has a capacity of 2,600.
On July 18, 2022, Superintendent Mike Kuhlman announced that Vince Ferry, former principal of Rio Norte Junior High School and Saugus High School, would be taking over as principal.
Academics
The Castaic High School campus hosts the iCAN Academy at Castaic High School, a middle college program operated by the Hart District in partnership with College of the Canyons (COC). The program consists of a rigorous curriculum that allows students to earn college credit all four years of high school. Unlike the district's other such program, Academy of the Canyons on the COC campus, iCAN students may participate in a full range of extracurricular activities including interscholastic athletics.
Student demographics
As of the 2021-22 school year, 1,026 students (freshmen, sophomores, and juniors) were enrolled at Castaic High School. Of those, 44.3% were Hispanic, 40.0% were non-Hispanic white, 7.7% were Asian American, and 3.2% were African American. As of 2020-21, 203 students (27.7%) were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Athletics
Castaic High School athletic teams are nicknamed the Coyotes. The school competes in the Foothill League with its fellow Hart District schools. The school fielded 17 teams in its first school year, all at the freshman level only.
References
External links
Public high schools in Los Angeles County, California
2019 establishments in California
Educational institutions established in 2019 |
Moody Blue is the second studio album by Canadian country music singer Beverley Mahood. Released in 2004 on Spin Records, it features the singles "My Wheels Got Wings" and "I Like That Shirt".
Track listing
"Free" (Noaise Sheridan, Allison Mellon) - 4:36
"The First Day You Wake Up Alone" (Sheridan, David Lee) - 4:22
"Making It Up as You Go" (Stan Meissner, Steve McEwan) - 4:45
"My Wheels Got Wings" (Vince Degiorgio, Steve Smith, Anthony Anderson, Joleen Belle) - 3:31
"I Like That Shirt" (Bryan Potvin, Beverley Mahood, Rob Wells) - 3:58
"You Can Never Tell" (Mahood, Sean Hogan) - 3:22
"Ghost of 66" (Gary O'Connor) - 3:48
"End of a Long Goodbye" (Potvin, Mahood, Wells) - 4:22
"Take Me Home" (Mahood, Steve Fox) - 3:45
"Hurt City" (Mahood, Hogan) - 4:27
"That Changes Everything" (Giselle Brohman, Jamie Warren) - 4:05
"Relentless Flame" (Mahood, Hogan) - 4:06
2004 albums
Beverley Mahood albums |
Fred Swift Wolcott (May 2, 1882 – July 27, 1967) was an American entertainment businessman and cotton planter who was the owner and manager of the Original Rabbit's Foot Company from 1912 to 1950. He bought the business after the death of its founder Pat Chappelle, and operated the company from Port Gibson, Mississippi, close to his 1000-acre plantation.
The Rabbit Foot Minstrels or "Foots", as they were colloquially known, made up the leading traveling vaudeville show featuring African-American performers through the first half of the twentieth century. Many leading blues, comedy and jazz entertainers got their start while touring with the company. Under his ownership, it became known as "F. S. Wolcott's Original Rabbit's Foot Company".
Life
Wolcott was born in Onondaga Township, Michigan, and grew up on a farm. He married and moved South, establishing a small touring company, F. S. Wolcott Carnivals, in Columbia, South Carolina. It produced a touring show, "F. S. Wolcott's Fun Factory", in the Carolinas.
In 1912, he bought the Rabbit's Foot Company from Rosa Chappelle, widow of founder Pat Chappelle. Chappelle was an African-American theatre owner in Tampa, Florida, who had founded the business in 1900. Chappelle's vaudeville company was noted as "authentic" (that is, it used all African-American, or black, rather than blackface performers). It was highly popular, and toured widely in the southern states each year.
Wolcott maintained the company, initially as both owner and manager; he also attracted new talent, including blues singer Ida Cox who joined the company in 1913. Wolcott moved the company's base in 1918 to his 1,000-acre Glen Sade Plantation outside Port Gibson, Mississippi. Company offices were located in the center of the trading town.
Wolcott began to refer to the show as a "minstrel show" – a term Chappelle had eschewed. As a major planter and businessman, he became a member of "Port Gibson's privileged white aristocracy". Company member trombonist Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, described Wolcott as "a good man" who looked after his performers.
The company became known as "F. S. Wolcott's Original Rabbit's Foot Company", and continued to perform annual tours through the 1920s and 1930s. It played small towns during the week and bigger cities at weekends. In 1943 Wolcott placed an advertisement in Billboard, describing the show as "the Greatest Colored Show on Earth", and seeking "Comedians, Singers, Dancers, Chorus Girls, Novelty Acts and Musicians". He remained its general manager and owner until he sold the company as a going concern in 1950, to Earl Hendren of Erwin, Tennessee.
Legacy and honors
In the early 21st century, a historical marker was placed in Port Gibson near the site of the company's former offices. A 2006 exhibit at the city's cultural arts center celebrated the company, its founder Chappelle and long-term owner/manager Wolcott, and its many notable performers.
Death
Wolcott died in 1967 at The Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, aged 85. He is buried at Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
In popular culture
The song "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show", written by Robbie Robertson for The Band, is partially named and inspired by F.S. Wolcott and his traveling show.
References
External links
"Rabbit's Foot Minstrels" vimeo
1882 births
1967 deaths
People from Ingham County, Michigan
People from Port Gibson, Mississippi
American entertainment industry businesspeople
African-American culture
Vaudeville producers |
Shijia Township () is a township in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2018 census it had a population of 13,400 and an area of .
Administrative division
As of 2016, the township is divided into one community and seven villages:
Shijia Community ()
Shijian ()
Caoli ()
Chengshang ()
Huangzhu ()
Pingzhu ()
Longwan ()
Zeyuan ()
History
It was incorporated as a township in 1984.
Geography
It lies at the northeastern of Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, bordering Gepo Town to the west, Fuli Town to the south, Mailing Town and Jiangyong County to the north, and Jianghua Yao Autonomous County to the east.
The Shijia River flow the township north to south.
Economy
Agriculture and forestry also play roles in the local economy. Economic crops are mainly Navel orange (), medicinal materials and tobacco. Breeding includes pig farming, goat farming, and poultry farming.
References
Bibliography
Townships of Hezhou |
Shagufta Ejaz (Urdu: ; born 5 May 1970) is a Pakistani actress, working in the Urdu dramas and film industry. She appeared in PTV Home's classic serials in 1980s. She is considered among the finest actors of Pakistan. She also appeared in few Punjabi films.
Life and career
Ejaz was born in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. She started her career in showbiz industry in late 1980s, debut with Jangloos in 1989. She has been working with the PTV for a long time. Currently she is being seen at different TV channels in different drama serials. She won the 'Best Supporting Actress' for her role in Mere Qatil Mere Dildar at the Hum Awards. In 2013, she found the beauty salon, Envy by Shagufta Ejaz in Karachi. In 2022, Ejaz was one of the show-stoppers in the Mehndi segment during Kashee's Beauty Salon's 'Bridal Festive 2022', a Karachi-based salon owned by Kashif Aslam.
Family
Shagufta Ejaz is married to Yahya Siddiqui and has four daughters; Haya Ali Siddiqui, Anya Ali Siddiqui, Nabiha Ali Siddiqui and Emaan Ali Siddiqui. She also has two step-sons from her husband's first marriage named Hasan Siddiqui and Shahbaz Siddiqui.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Profile: Shagufta Ejaz
1960 births
Living people
People from Gujrat District
Punjabi people
Actresses from Karachi
Pakistani television actresses
Hum Award winners
20th-century Pakistani actresses
21st-century Pakistani actresses |
Tomé is a city in Chile.
Tomé may also refer to
Places
San Tomé (disambiguation)
Santo Tomé (disambiguation)
São Tomé (disambiguation)
Negrelos (São Tomé), a place in Portugal
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Tomé, Argentina
People
Tomé (Angolan footballer) (born 1998)
Tomé (Portuguese footballer) (born 1986)
Tomé de Barros Queirós (1872–1925), Portuguese politician
Tomé Pires (c. 1465–c. 1540), Portuguese apothecary
Tomé de Sousa (1515–1573), governor-general of Brazil
Tomé Vera Cruz (born 1955?), Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
João Manuel Pinto Tomé (born 1973), Portuguese footballer
Narciso Tomé (1690–1742), Spanish architect
Tomé Barbosa de Figueiredo Almeida Cardoso (died c. 1821), Portuguese linguist
Dionísio Tomé Dias (born 1943), São Toméan politician |
Graham Ivan Clark (born January 9, 2003) is an American computer hacker, cybercriminal and a convicted felon regarded as the mastermind behind the 2020 Twitter account hijacking.
Early life
Graham Ivan Clark grew up in Hillsborough County, Florida, with his mother, father, and older sister. His parents divorced when he was 7; as of 2020, his father lives in Indiana. During his teenage years, Clark used various aliases while participating in online communities, gaining notoriety as a scammer in the "hardcore factions" Minecraft community. In 2018, Graham joined OGUsers, a forum dedicated to selling, buying, and trading Twitter accounts, and was banned after four days. This was most likely due to him scamming a fellow user, there is no proof for this though.
In 2019, at the age of 16, Clark was involved in stealing 164 bitcoins from Gregg Bennett, a Seattle-based angel investor, through a SIM swap attack. Clark sent two extortion notes under the alias "Scrim", stating “We just want the remainder of the funds in the Bittrex", referring to the cryptocurrency exchange "Bittrex" that Bennett had used, and “We are always one step ahead and this is your easiest option." The United States Secret Service managed to recover only 100 bitcoins from the heist. In an interview, Bennett said he was told by a Secret Service agent that the person with the stolen Bitcoins was not arrested because he was a minor.
Role in the 2020 Twitter account hijacking
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers. At the time, Sheppard was 19, Fazeli was 22, and Clark was 17. Sheppard and Fazeli specialized in playing the role of brokers in selling the Twitter handles on OGUsers.
The Twitter hack began on June 14 when Sheppard and Fazeli assisted Clark in manipulating employees through social engineering. This involved calling multiple Twitter employees and posing as the help desk in Twitter’s IT department responding to a reported problem with Twitter's internal VPN. From there, Clark directed the employee to a phishing site that was identical in appearance to Twitter's VPN log-in portal. When the employee entered their information into the phishing portal, the credentials were simultaneously entered onto the real log-in page. After one employee account was compromised, it was used to review instructions on Twitter's intranet on how to take over Twitter accounts.
Arrest
On July 31, 2020, Clark was arrested at his home in Northdale, Florida. He faced 30 criminal charges, including 17 counts of communication fraud, 11 counts of fraudulent use of personal information, one count of organized fraud for more than $5,000, and one count of accessing a computer or electronic device without authority. His bail was set at $725,000 and he pleaded not guilty. His hearing was held on March 16, 2021 via Zoom at Hillsborough County Jail. He was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation as part of a plea deal under Florida's Youthful Offender Act, which limits the penalties of convicted felons under the age of 21. According to the Tampa Bay Times, he was able to serve part of his time in a military-style boot camp.
The plea agreement stipulated that Clark could not "direct[ly] or indirect[ly] access" any electronic device without both the express permission of his prohibition officer and the notification of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He was also required to provide a list of "any and all electronic mail addresses, Interactive computer services, Internet domain names, commercial social networking websites, online or remote storage and computing devices, Internet identifiers and each Internet identifier's corresponding website [sic] homepage or application software name; home telephone numbers and cellular telephone numbers in his care custody or control." Additionally, he was ordered to disclose passwords, security codes, tokens, and key fobs.
Clark was released from Saint Petersburg Community Release Center on February 16, 2023.
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The year of 1870 included challenge matches in the table-top cue sports of pool disciplines and English billiards.
Pool
The following notable challenge matches took place in 1870.
English billiards
A number of matches took place on a challenge basis which are recognised as the equivalent of the world professional championship of billiards.
Reference section
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Cue sports by year
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was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Biography
Takahashi was a native of Fukushima prefecture, born in a family of Eastern Orthodox faithful. His name "Ibō" was Chinese transliteration of "John". His father was a samurai of the Aizu domain, and doctor. He graduated from the 36th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1908 and was ranked 10th out of 191 cadets. He served his midshipman duty aboard the cruisers and and was assigned to the after being commissioned as an ensign in 1910. He subsequently served on the destroyer and battleship . As a lieutenant from 1914, he served on the and .
After graduation from the Japanese Naval War College in 1919, he was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned as Chief Gunnery Officer on the . Around this time, Takahashi became involved in the militant movement within the Japanese military, and helped influence the implementation of the proposal to devolve overall naval command from the Minister of the Navy to the Chief of Naval General Staff (the implementation of which was ratified by Emperor Hirohito on September 25, 1933).
From August 1923 to August 1925, Takahashi was assigned as naval attaché to the United Kingdom, during which time he was promoted to commander. After his return, he served for a year as executive officer on the and became captain of the in 1929. He was also part of the Japanese delegation to the London Naval Treaty negotiations in late 1929.
Takahashi was promoted to captain November 30, 1929 and was given command of the in 1932, and the battleship in 1933.
He was promoted to rear admiral on November 15, 1935, and became chief of the Second Section of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff. While on the General Staff, he was a strong proponent of the Nanshin-ron, urging that New Guinea, Borneo and the Celebes in the Netherlands East Indies be considered as part of Japan's strategic sphere-of-interest. On November 15, 1939, Takahashi became vice admiral, and was given command of the Mako Guard District.
Shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Takahashi served as commander-in-chief of the IJN 3rd Fleet, which included the 5th and 7th Cruiser Squadrons and the 2nd and 4th Destroyer Flotillas and formed part of the Southern Force under the command of Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō based in Taiwan in 1941.
In January and February 1942, this force was split into the Eastern and Central Forces; the first for the invasions of Menado, Kendari and Makassar in Celebes and amphibious operations in the Banda Sea, and the second for the invasion of Dutch Borneo. Takahashi was Commander of Eastern and Central Forces during the invasions of Bali and Java. His forces included the "Direct Support Force" under Rear Admiral Shōji Nishimura, commander of the 4th Destroyer Squadron, the "Second Escort Force" under Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka, commander of the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, the 1st and 2nd "Naval Base Forces", under Rear Admiral Takeo Kurita, the "Third Escort Force", under Rear-Admiral Chuichi Hara, and the "First Air Group" made up of the light carrier and 56 transports.
On March 10, 1942, he was transferred to the newly created 2nd Southern Expeditionary Fleet, and to the newly created Southwest Area Fleet a month later. In November 1942, he was transferred back to Japan to become Commander in Chief of the Kure Naval District. He held this post until retiring from active duty in 1944.
On 2 December 1945, in Tokyo, he was accused of war crimes and arrested by the American occupation forces.
Personal life
Takahashi had two sons named Taro and Yoshiro, both of whom followed their father into the Imperial Japanese Navy. Taro graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy as part of the 69th Class on 25 March 1941, and was killed in action at the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 26 October 1944 while serving as Gunnery Officer of the destroyer Nowaki. Yoshiro graduated as part of the 71st Class on 14 November 1942, and survived the war.
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Veillonella parvula is a strictly anaerobic, Gram-negative, coccus-shaped bacterium in the genus Veillonella. It is a normal part of the oral flora but can be associated with diseases such as periodontitis and dental caries as well as various systemic infections, including meningitis and osteomyelitis. It has also been isolated from women with bacterial vaginosis and has been associated with hypertension together with Campylobacter rectus and Prevotella melaninogenica.
V. parvula is unable to feed on carbohydrates, but can feed on lactate provided by Streptococcus species also found in the oral cavity. Specifically, Streptococcus mutans and V. parvula can form multispecies biofilms that lead to a lower susceptibility to antimicrobial treatments, resulting in periodontitis and dental caries.
Antimicrobial susceptibility
V. parvula bacteria are susceptible to and typically treated with metronidazole and penicillin in clinical reports. Other antibiotics that have been shown to be active against V. parvula include cephalosporin, clindamycin, and chloramphenicol.
Antibiotic resistance
There have been several reports of antibiotic resistance in V. parvula isolates in different countries. In Greece, V. parvula isolates were found to be somewhat resistant to penicillin, ampicillin, piperacillin/tazobactam, clindamycin, and moxifloxacin, with no reported resistance to metronidazole. In Taiwan, V. parvula isolates were found to be resistant against metronidazole. These findings represent the growing issue of antibiotic resistance worldwide.
References
Further reading
External links
Type strain of Veillonella parvula at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Veillonellaceae
Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs
Reproductive system
Gynaecology
Sexual health
Bacterial vaginosis
Bacteria described in 1898 |
Berezovaya Slobodka () is a rural locality (a village) in Nyuksenskoye Rural Settlement, Nyuksensky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 393 as of 2002. There are 16 streets.
Geography
Berezovaya Slobodka is located 12 km southwest of Nyuksenitsa (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nyuksenitsa is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Nyuksensky District |
European, or Europeans, or Europeneans, may refer to:
In general
European, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe
Ethnic groups in Europe
Demographics of Europe
European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries
European, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the European Union
European Union citizenship
Demographics of the European Union
In publishing
The European (1953 magazine), a far-right cultural and political magazine published 1953–1959
The European (newspaper), a British weekly newspaper published 1990–1998
The European (2009 magazine), a German magazine first published in September 2009
The European Magazine, a magazine published in London 1782–1826
The New European, a British weekly pop-up newspaper first published in July 2016
Other uses
Europeans (band), a British post-punk group, from Bristol
See also
Europe (disambiguation)
The Europeans (disambiguation)
Transeuropean (disambiguation)
Pan-European (disambiguation)
European African
"White people", a term for set of ethnic groups with varying definitions
European diaspora
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Bikini Frankenstein is a 2010 American made for cable erotic film directed by Fred Olen Ray (under the pseudonym name Nicholas Juan Medina). It is based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Bikini Frankenstein depicts Dr. Frankenstein (Frankie Cullen) losing his job after sleeping with one of his science students Debbie Sloane (Alexis Texas). He travels back to his native Transylvania where he successfully revives the body of Eve (Jayden Cole), using electricity. After showing off his successful experiment to colleagues in America, Eve later explodes; leading Dr. Frankenstein to proclaim he will work further on his experiments.
The film was both written and directed by Ray, and produced by Retromedia Entertainment. It was shown on Cinemax before being distributed in DVD format. The New Annotated Frankenstein called it "soft porn", and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface placed it within the genre of horror and sexploitation. The Oklahoma Gazette recommended its readers instead watch Weird Science. A review from JoBlo.com criticized the film's script, but said viewers "might get a chuckle" from watching it.
Plot
Bikini Frankenstein opens with credits stating, "Based on the classic novel by Mary Shelley". Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Frankie Cullen) is a professor of science working at an institution called State University. Professor Cullen is shown engaging in relations in his classroom with Debbie (Alexis Texas), one of his science students. They are discovered by Professor Cullen's rival, rival Clive (Billy Chappell), who reports them to the Dean of the university, Professor Van Sloane (Ted Newsom), and brings Van Sloane to the classroom. Debbie is Van Sloane's daughter, and Professor Van Sloane promptly removes Dr. Frankenstein from his role at the university.
Five years later, Dr. Frankenstein is shown having moved back home to Transylvania, home of the legendary Count Dracula, to continue working on his research with his assistant, Ingrid (Brandin Rackley). After sleeping with Ingrid, he succeeds in bringing the body of Eve (Jayden Cole), a deceased woman, back to life using energy from a lightning storm. After Eve is brought back to life, she kisses Ingrid and the two become physical with each other in Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.
Dr. Frankenstein, Eve, and his assistant Ingrid all travel back to America, where Dr. Frankenstein impresses Van Sloane, Dr. Waldman (Ron Ford), Dr. Frankenstein's rival Clive, and Claudia, Clive's wife (Christine Nguyen). Dr. Frankenstein originally presents Eve as a sister of Ingrid, in order to for them to become familiar with Eve prior to revealing her true nature as a revived corpse. Dr. Frankenstein leaves for his hotel room to retrieve an object, leaving Eve and Ingrid at Clive's residence. Clive asks Claudia to follow Frankenstein and find out what he is up to, leaving Eve alone with Clive. Clive gives Eve a tour of his residence, and the two fornicate in his office. Claudia meets Dr. Frankenstein at his hotel room and they engage in relations in his room.
Once the group reconvenes their meeting with Eve at Clive's residence, Dr. Frankenstein is met initially with skepticism after revealing the true nature of Eve to the group of assembled onlookers. He provides the death certificate for Eve as a way to verify his scientific claims. Ingrid and Claudia escort Eve to a private room to prepare her for a physical examination. Following an erotic ceremony involving all three women, Eve explodes due to an overdose of excitation. Dr. Frankenstein is undeterred, and proclaims to the group that he will labor further on his experiment at a later date with another deceased body.
Cast
Frankie Cullen as Dr. Victor Frankenstein
Jayden Cole as Eve
Brandin Rackley as Ingrid
Christine Nguyen as Claudia
Billy Chappell as Clive
Ted Newsom as Professor Van Sloane
Ron Ford as Dr. Waldman
Alexis Texas as Debbie
Production
Bikini Frankenstein was directed by Fred Olen Ray. Ray wrote the screenplay as well. The film was produced by the production company Retromedia Entertainment. It was broadcast several times in Summer 2010 at fixed times and on demand on the premium channel Cinemax. It was released on DVD on January 19, 2010. The first indications of the movie Bikini Frankenstein were shown in the movie Bikini Airways. However, the film wasn't shown for a very long time, and the title was dismissed as a hoax. Later, due to the high demand of Cinemax, director Fred Olen Ray resurrected the title Bikini Frankenstein. The film was shot simultaneously with Twilight Vamps. It was released on DVD by BayView Entertainment on December 11, 2012. The film distribution company Full Moon Empire acquired the rights to broadcast and release to DVD Bikini Frankenstein, with their 2018 acquisition of New City Releasing's Torchlight Pictures.
Reception
Writing in The New Annotated Frankenstein, editor Leslie Klinger described the film as, "Soft porn, about an evil doctor who creates an undead sex kitten." Shane Denson wrote in the 2014 book Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface that he would place the film within the genre of either "horror/porn or horror/sexploitation". The book Nightmare Movies described it as "video 'product'" directed and produced by Fred Olen Ray. The Oklahoma Gazette wrote of the film's genre, "at least one can't fault Bikini Frankenstein for saying it's based on Mary Shelley's novel, because the core idea of "man creates monster" is indeed there." Dr. Gore's Movie Reviews reviewed Jayden Cole's performance, while Mitch Lovell of The Video Vacuum declared the film as weak, compared to the performances of Christine Nguyen and Brandin Rackley. Tarstarkas.net rated the film 8 out of 10. Obscure Horror wrote, "It's a fun, entertaining film, with plenty of gorgeous folks and countless soft-core sex scenes." HK and Cult Film News praised the film, given the allusions of earlier Frankenstein movies, the music and the cinematography. A review of Bikini Frankenstein on JoBlo.com called it "dumb as a box of hammers" but "not entirely useless" and told the reader, "You might get a chuckle ... out of it". The Oklahoma Gazette recommended readers instead watch Weird Science by John Hughes. Will Pfeifer wrote, "it wins the 'best title of the week award' hands down." Chace Thibodeaux praised the female actresses in the film, writing, "It’s saving grace is the female cast." Thibodeaux highlighted in particular the acting of Alexis Texas, Brandin Rackley, Jayden Cole, and Christine Nguyen.
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2010 television films
2010 films
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American television films
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Stipić () is a Serbo-Croatian family name, a patronymic of Stipe. Notable people with this name include:
Milan Stipić (1978), Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch
Nikola Stipić (1937), former Serbian footballer
Tomislav Stipić (1979), Croatian-German professional football manager
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Surnames of Croatian origin
Surnames of Serbian origin |
The British Rail Class 423 (4 VEP), electric multiple unit passenger trains were mostly built by British Rail (BR) at York Works from 1967 to 1974, although the MBSOs and TSOs of the first 20, 7701-7720, were built at Derby Works. They have manually opening doors next to every seating row and were the last coaching stock built in this pattern for BR. They were mostly found working outer-suburban services in South London and rural services in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire, up to 2005 when they were finally replaced by Electrostar and Desiro units. The fleet had a working life of 38 years.
Description
Standard units
Ordered in 1965, 194 standard four-car 4 VEP units were built between 1967 and 1974, numbered 7701-7894; subsequently becoming class 423 under TOPS. They were subsequently renumbered in the 1980s into the 30xx and 31xx series in order to make numbers TOPS compliant. Between 1988 and 1995 the units were internally facelifted. The work involved fitting fluorescent lighting and public address equipment, and also rebuilding the MBS (motor brake second) vehicles with an additional two bays of seating in space formerly used for luggage. On refurbishment only the first 20 units were renumbered in order, in the 34xx series. All other units were renumbered from 3421 onwards, in the order they were refurbished. All units ended up swapping motor vehicles on refurbishment - the additional work on these cars made the work take longer than that carried out on trailer vehicles.
8 VAB unit
In 1968, due to a shortage of suitable stock for the Bournemouth electrification scheme, BR formed an eight-carriage 8 VAB unit, no. 8001. The unit was formed of carriages from three standard sets, nos. 7739/41/42, plus a conventional locomotive-hauled buffet carriage. Three MBSOs were required within the make-up as the standard 'TRB' was not through-wired for traction power distribution. In view of this the two MBSOs in the five-car portion had collector shoes fitted to one bogie on each. The unit worked on occasions with a 4TC; this usually had a Class 33 attached to provide ETH and train lighting in the TC unit, as the 8 VAB was not fitted with ETH jumper cables on the unit ends. Its normal running formation was with another 4 VEP to make a 12-car set. The 'TRB' vehicle retained its gas-powered appliances so, unlike 4 REP buffet cars, was able to provide hot food and beverages while on diversions away from third-rail areas. Adjacent MBSO 62203 had most of its doors locked out of use and tables fitted across them for the service of meals on a 2-and-2 basis (across seats intended for five persons normally); this vehicle also had most of its luggage racks removed. The unit was later reclassified as Class 480 following the introduction of TOPS.
The numbering of individual vehicles are shown in the table below.
The unit was disbanded in 1974, following deliveries of 4 REP stock, but one of the original units, no. 7739, was not reformed, as spare vehicles from the unit had replaced crash-damaged VEP vehicles in the meantime.
4 VEG units
In 1978 12 units, nos. 7788-7799, were fitted with extra luggage racks by removing the squabs and cushions from certain seats and reclassified as Class 427 4 VEG units. The units were renumbered into the range 7901-7912 in the same sequence. These units were dedicated to the Gatwick Express services from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport. Externally these units were marked by an orange/yellow (dayglo) coloured band at cantrail level with lettering 'London-Gatwick express service'. They were used on Victoria to Bognor Regis services attached at the rear from Victoria and detached at Gatwick Airport so that airline passengers did not have to rush to get off the train. The unit then attached to the front of an Up Bognor Regis service back to Victoria.
In 1984 they were replaced on this service by Class 73 electro-diesel locomotives operating in push-pull with Class 488 coaching sets and Class 489 luggage vans. The twelve units were then converted back to standard sets, and regained their original unit numbers.
Vehicle numbering
The numbering of individual vehicles and details of when units were built are shown in the table below.
Final operations
Following the privatisation of British Rail the three southern train operators all inherited large fleets of 4 VEP units. A franchise commitment of all operators was to replace all of the units, along with all other Mark 1 rolling stock, by the end of 2005, as the units did not meet modern health and safety requirements. The fleet of each franchise is described below.
South Eastern Trains
South Eastern Trains operated the largest fleet of 4 VEP units. The franchise was originally operated as Connex South Eastern, which lost the franchise in 2003. The fleet contained several unusual units, including no. 3473, which contained a driving trailer with the compartments removed, and no. 3582, which contained former 4TC driving trailer 76275.
Many units survived into 2005 because of the closure of the Folkestone—Dover section of railway for tunnel refurbishment. This ended in September 2005. The final passenger service was operated on 7 October 2005, using units 3565, 3545 and 3568.
All the South Eastern Trains 4 VEP units are withdrawn. One driving trailer from unit 3568, and another from unit 3545, have been claimed by the National Railway Museum, and the former 4TC driving trailer from unit 3582 have been preserved.
South Central/Southern
The Network SouthCentral division inherited a fleet of 50 standard Class 423/1 units. The franchise was originally won by Connex South Central, which soon applied its yellow and white livery to the fleet. However, following poor levels of service and financial mismanagement, the franchise was transferred to South Central Trains in 2000, which was later renamed as Southern in 2004. Only one unit, no. 3514, was ever repainted in Southern's green livery.
In 1998-1999, whilst still under the control of Connex, 19 units were modified to operate inner suburban South London "Metro" services. The work involved removal of internal compartments and declassification of first class seating. The units were reclassified as Class 423/9, or 4 VOP, and renumbered in the range 3901-3919. Due to the lack of first class seating and toilets, these units were generally not used on long-distance services.
In 2003, with the general run-down of slam door trains, it was decided to reform some of the 4 VOP units by swapping one driving trailer with that from a standard unit, the standard units gaining the ex 4 VOP driving trailer. The new hybrid units were reclassified as Class 423/8 (or 4 VIP) and renumbered in the range 3813-3844. This was to give all units some first class seating, thus making diagramming of units easier. But in the event only eight units were reformed, namely nos. 3813/14/21/22/41-44.
By 2004 Southern had started to introduce Class 377 "Electrostar" units into service. Although first introduced in 2002, this did not initially affect the Class 423 as the older 'Phase 1' Class 421 4 CIG units were withdrawn first, due to their age and lower seating capacity. However, as more new units entered traffic, the first Class 423 units were withdrawn. Units selected for withdrawal were usually those with high mileage or in poor condition. By mid-2005 only a handful of units remained in traffic. The final diagrammed passenger service out of London was the 17:17 London Victoria to Eastbourne and Seaford on 19 August 2005, formed of units 3486 and 3535, plus 4 CIG unit 1866. Six units were subsequently retained for emergency cover. Unit 3514 was used on the Sussex Slammer railtour on Saturday 19 November 2005.
The following Saturday saw the final slam door trains on Southern, when units 3490, 3505 and 3535 formed the 09:19 Brighton to London Victoria and 11:06 London Victoria to Brighton services (via Lewes due to engineering works); this being the last scheduled mainline passenger service using southern-electric slam-door stock (the very last passenger being an off-duty HM Inspector of Railways). Following this trip the stock was withdrawn from service and initially put into Lover's Walk depot before being moved (under its own power) to Battersea Stewart's Lane Depot (road 12) from where it was hauled away at 12:26hrs on 3 January 2006 by a class 47 locomotive for scrapping.
One complete 4 VIP unit has been preserved, and two 4 VOP units remained in departmental use until March 2013.
South West Trains
South West Trains (SWT) inherited the second-largest number of units, with an initial fleet size of 62 units. The entire fleet was composed of standard Class 423/1 units. Later, a further four units (nos. 3809-3812) were transferred from Connex South Eastern. These were also standard units, but were numbered in the 38xx series to denote they were leased from Porterbrook rather than HSBC Rail.
SWT quickly repainted its fleet of units into a new livery, based on the previous Network SouthEast (NSE) livery, but with the addition of an orange stripe and the absence of the grey band. All but four units (3415 and 3809-3811) were repainted. These four units were deliberately retained in NSE livery, meaning that in the final days of slam-door trains they attained "celebrity" status among rail enthusiasts.
In 2001 SWT placed an order for 785 new carriages with Siemens to allow it to replace its fleet of slam-door trains, in accordance with its franchise commitment to do so by 2005. To assist Siemens in the design of third rail units, 4 VEP no. 3810 was transferred to a test site in Germany to undergo tests. Following its return to Britain it became popularly known as the "Great Escape".
South West Trains started to replace its slam-door fleet from early 2004, with the introduction of the first Class 444 and Class 450 Desiro units. Around this time SWT repainted one unit, no. 3417, into its original BR Blue livery to commemorate the final months in traffic of the slam-door fleet. This unit was chosen because it was one of the last to receive major works attention, and therefore had the longest life-expectancy. It was named 'Gordon Pettitt' after a former manager of the Southern Region of British Railways.
In the final months of traffic several units, including the first-built, no. 3401, were reformed in order to allow the vehicles in the best condition to be retained in service. Withdrawals of units picked up pace, with several large culls of units, the last of which occurred in March 2005. Beyond this date only a handful of units remained in traffic, namely nos. 3401/17/81 3516/20/36/76 and 3811. The final normal passenger service was operated on 26 May 2005 from London Waterloo to Bournemouth, using 4 VEP 3536 sandwiched between 4 CIG units 1396 and 1398. Following withdrawal most units were rapidly towed away for scrap. The "celebrity" blue unit, no. 3417, has since been sold to the Bluebell Railway.
Further use
Following withdrawal from normal service, several vehicles have seen further use in departmental service.
4 VOP units 3905 and 3918 were converted into tractor units. They were used to haul Class 375 units to and from Ashford Works.
MBSO 62138 (ex-unit 3567) was renumbered to 977981 and was used as a motor coach in the Hitachi V-Train no. 960201 during third-rail testing. It has since been scrapped.
Accidents and incidents
On 26 January 1985, units 7754 and 7703 formed a train with 4 CIG unit 7395 which was halted by a landslip at Popham, Hampshire and was run into by Class 33 locomotive 33 104 due to the traincrew failing to protect the rear of the stranded train. Twelve people were injured. The Class 33 was written off.
On 6 November 1985, unit 7724 collided with 4 CIG unit 7390 at Copyhold Junction, near , West Sussex due to a lack of braking and poor rail adhesion. Forty people were injured.
On 12 December 1988, a train comprising units 3033, 3119 and 3005 formed the 07:18 - Waterloo service which was run into by the 06:14 - Waterloo service, formed of 4 REP unit 2003 and 4TC units 8027 and 8025 at . An empty stock working comprising units 3004 and 3425 running in the opposite direction on an adjacent line was struck by the derailed trains. Thirty-five people were killed, nearly 500 were injured.
On 4 March 1989, unit 3441 is run into by a passenger train comprising 4 CIG units 1280 and 1295, which had overrun signals at , Surrey. Five people were killed and 88 were injured.
On 1 August 1990, Class 119 diesel multiple unit L576 collided with a passenger train comprising 4 VEP units 3508 & 3504, and 4 CIG unit 1304 at due to overrunning signals. Forty people were injured.
Remaining unpreserved units/coaches
Preservation
So far two complete units (highlighted in table below) and two individual driving trailers have been preserved. In addition the former 4TC driving vehicle from set 3582 has been preserved.
The more high-profile unit preserved is the former South West Trains (SWT) "celebrity" unit painted in BR blue livery with painted aluminium window frames, no. 3417. The unit was initially used on Wimbledon depot as a shunter, but with SWT needing to get it off its books it was sold to the Bluebell Railway for the nominal sum of £1. It was moved to Eastleigh Works for storage, after having been used initially as the centrepiece for the Bluebell in a ceremony at East Grinstead railway station to mark the commencement of work at the station site as part of the line's work on the northern extension. The unit returned to East Grinstead for further use and storage in September 2010. In late April, the unit sustained minor damage to its shoegear as it was being driven from sidings at Clapham Junction Yard prior to movement under tow to the Swanage Railway. This resulted in the traction current being discharged in the yard whilst repairs were carried out. The unit was then moved back into the sidings and then dragged to Swanage the following day. The unit was for some time stabled in the open at Clapham Junction, having previously been stored in the shed at the yard. The unit was then moved to Ilford as part of a deal brokered by the unit's support group for a full repaint. After the completion of this body work restoration, it was transferred to Strawberry Hill in South West London where it remains, undergoing long-term restoration by volunteers from the Southern Electric Traction Group.
The second set, no. 3905, was turned into a tractor unit before being used for spares by the 5 BEL Trust to restore a 5 BEL set. It was donated for preservation and was stored at the Dartmoor Railway. In 2016 the termination of lease by Dartmoor Railway meant the unit would leave the railway and find a new home at the East Kent Railway in Sheperdswell.
One other set, no. 3822, was briefly preserved until 2010 when it was scrapped. It was located at the Churnet Valley Railway and was partially restored. In 2008 half of the set was returned to as-built BR Blue and received internal repairs. The other half remained in "as withdrawn" Connex condition, and the set operated at several special events throughout that year.
There was an attempt to preserve unit 3810 (the unit that was briefly exported to Germany), but this failed and ultimately it was scrapped.
Fleet details
Original-condition units
Facelifted units
Modelling
Hornby produce the 4 VEP model in OO gauge. The model represents the main 2 variations:
Original units - with the full brake area in the MBS;
Refurbished units - as undertaken from 1988 onwards, with a reduced brake compartment replaced with extra seating bays.
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Sources
Further reading
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750 V DC multiple units |
The European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) is one of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs), which are dedicated to improving social cohesion and economic well-being across the regions of the Union. The funds are redistributive financial instruments that support cohesion within Europe by concentrating spending on the less-developed regions.
It is the European Union's main financial instrument for supporting employment in the member states of the European Union as well as promoting economic and social cohesion, created by merging the existing European Social Fund with the EU Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) and the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) in 2021. ESF+ spending amounts to around 10% of the EU's total budget. The particular aim of ESF+ spending is to support the creation of more and better jobs in the EU, which it does by co-funding national, regional and local projects that improve the levels of employment, the quality of jobs, and the inclusiveness of the labour market in the member states and their regions.
History
The European Social Fund was created in the founding Treaty of Rome in 1957. It is the oldest of the European Structural and Investment Funds. It was established as a "remedial instrument" against the end of nationalist protectionism due to the advent of the European Economic Community.
As of 2015, the main goal is to foster employment, reduce social exclusion and invest in skills. In some EU countries it also supports administrative reform.
It was transformed into the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), which will run for the period 2021–2027 and have a total budget of €88 billion, by merging the existing European Social Fund with the EU Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) and the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) in 2021.
The place of the ESF in EU policies and strategies
The overarching strategy of the European Union is the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims to promote "smart, sustainable, inclusive growth" with greater coordination of national and European policies. In 2010 this succeeded the Lisbon Agenda which aimed to make Europe the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment, by 2010. The objectives of Europe 2020 shape the priorities of the ESF.
In the light of the need to increase competitiveness and employment against a background of globalisation and ageing populations, the European Employment Strategy provides a coordinating framework for the Member States to agree common priorities and goals in the field of employment. These common priorities are then taken up in the Employment Guidelines and incorporated into the National Reform Programmes prepared by the individual Member States. ESF funding is deployed by the Member States in support of their National Reform Programmes as well as their National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRF) which establish a member state's main priorities for spending the EU Structural Funds it receives.
The European Social Agenda also plays a role in shaping the priorities of ESF spending. The Social Agenda seeks to update the 'European social model' by modernising labour markets and social protection systems so that workers and businesses can benefit from the opportunities created by international competition, technological advances and changing population patterns while protecting the most vulnerable in society. In addition, the concept of 'flexicurity' contributes to current ESF initiatives. Flexicurity can be defined as a policy strategy to enhance the flexibility of labour markets, work organisations and labour relations, on the one hand, and employment security and income security on the other. The term flexicurity encompasses a new approach to employment involving 'work for life' rather than the 'job for life' model of the past. It encourages workers to take charge of their working lives through lifelong training, adapting to change and mobility.
The EU is offering a guarantee of up to €13 billion until 2027 as part of the EFSD+ open architecture. In order to help partner nations reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this is implemented through a variety of implementing partners, including international financial institutions and European development finance organisations.
Strategy definition
The ESF is managed through seven-year programming cycles. The ESF strategy and budget is negotiated between the EU member states, the European Parliament and the EU Commission. The strategy defines the objectives of ESF funding, which it shares partly or wholly with other structural funding. For the current ESF funding cycle these objectives are:
The strategy also lays down broad priority axes – the actions required to achieve the objectives and which are eligible for funding.
Funds allocation
The level of ESF funding differs from one region to another depending on their relative wealth. EU regions are divided into four categories of eligible regions, based on their regional GDP per capita compared to the EU average (EU with 25 or 15 Member States) and split between the two objectives.
Convergence objective includes:
convergence regions: with a GDP per capita of less than 75% of the EU-25 average;
phasing-out regions: with a GDP per capita of more than 75% of the EU-25 average but less than 75% of the EU-15 average.
The regional competitiveness and employment objective includes:
phasing-in regions: with a GDP per capita of less than 75% of the EU-15 average (in the period 2000–2006) but more than 75% of the EU-15 average (in the period 2007–2013);
competitiveness and employment regions: applies to all other EU regions.
In convergence regions, ESF co-financing of projects can reach 85% of total costs. In regional competitiveness and employment regions, 50% co-financing is more common. For the richer Member States and regions, ESF funding complements existing national employment initiatives; for less-wealthy Member States, ESF funding can be the main source of funds for employment-related initiatives. The eligible regions for the current ESF programming round (2007–2013) are shown on the map.
While the allocation of funds to poorer regions intends to work towards the objective of convergence between regions (i.e. inter-regional equality), research has suggested that the funds may amplify intra-regional inequalities with for example in Poland richer municipalities receiving more funds than poorer municipalities within the regions. One explanation may lie in the co-financing procedures with poorer potential applicants being less likely to gather the required co-funding. Another issue with allocation has been that project applications have been rejected purely on minor administrative issues. While this has improved over time, research has shown that information provision and familiarity with application procedures is still a barrier in submitting applications for funds, and may play a larger role in than outright corruption in the selection process.
Implementation
While strategy definition is done at EU level, implementation of ESF funding is the responsibility of EU Member States and regions. Once the strategy and budget allocation have been agreed, a shared approach to programming is taken. Seven-year Operational Programmes are planned by Member States and their regions together with the European Commission. These Operational Programmes describe the fields of activity that will be funded, which can be geographical or thematic.
The Member States designate national ESF management authorities that are responsible for selecting projects, disbursing funds, and evaluating the progress and results of projects. Certification and auditing authorities are also appointed to monitor and ensure compliance of expenditure to the ESF regulation.
Until 2007, approximately 5% of ESF funds were allocated to 'Community Initiatives' to support transnational and innovative actions. They have addressed such issues as employment for women (NOW), disabled people (INTEGRA) and young people, new professions and qualifications (EUROFORM) and adaptability (ADAPT). The most recent of these, the EQUAL Community Initiative, saw in the admission of 10 new Member States in 2004 but ended in 2008.
ESF projects
The implementation of the ESF on the ground is achieved through projects which are applied for and implemented by a wide range of organisations, both in the public and private sector. These include national, regional and local authorities, educational and training institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the voluntary sector, as well as social partners, for example, trade unions and works councils, industry and professional associations, and individual companies.
The beneficiaries of ESF projects are varied, for example, individual workers, groups of people, industrial sectors, trades unions, public administrations or individual firms. Vulnerable groups of people who have particular difficulty in finding work or getting on in their jobs, such as the long-term unemployed and women, are a particular target group. As an indication, it is estimated that over 9 million individuals from these vulnerable groups are helped each year through participation in ESF projects – see chart 1.
Budget
European Social Fund, 2007–2013
In the 2007 to 2013 cycle, ESF ran under the banner "Investing in People". Over this period, it invested around €75 billion – close to 10% of the EU budget – on employment-enhancing projects. Funding was given to six specific priority areas:
Improving human capital (34% of total funding)
Improving access to employment and sustainability (30%)
Increasing the adaptability of workers and firms, enterprises and entrepreneurs (18%)
Improving the social inclusion of less-favoured persons (14%)
Strengthening institutional capacity at national, regional and local levels (3%)
Mobilisation for reforms in the fields of employment and inclusion (1%)
In any given region, the actual distribution of funds varied to reflect local and regional priorities. All six priorities were applicable to both the convergence and regional competitiveness and employment objectives; however, convergence would normally place an emphasis on the 'improving human capital' priority.
European Social Fund, 2014–2020
The 2014–2020 cycle had a total budget of €70 billion, 20% of which was dedicated to promoting social inclusion and decreasing poverty.
European Social Fund Plus, 2021–2027
European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), created by merging the existing European Social Fund with the EU Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) and the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI), will run for the period 2021–2027 and have a total budget of €88 billion.
See also
Social fund
References
Further reading
ESF leaflet: this leaflet, published in 2007, gives basic information on the objectives, the rationale and the workings of the European Social Fund. It is available in 23 EU languages.
Statistics factsheet: offering an overview of the European Social Fund's activities 2007–2013, this leaflet gives a breakdown of the key facts and figures relating to the programme.
50th anniversary book: on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Social Fund, the commission has published an illustrated book describing the activities of the ESF over the past five decades.
ESF 2007–2013 eligible regions map: this map shows the new eligible regions for the 2007–2013 programming period of the European Social Fund.
ESF success stories: over 70 success stories showing how ESF projects have helped improve peoples' working lives across Europe.
EU legal text on the ESF: Regulation (EU) No. 1304/2013 of 17 December 2013 on the European Social Fund.
External links
European Commission, Website of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
European Commission, Website of the European Social Fund (until 2020)
European Commission, Website of the European Social Fund Plus (2021–2027)
The European Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming, Website on Gender Mainstreaming within the European Social Fund
European Union economic policy
Employment |
Sampson Hele ( – ) of Gnaton and of Halwell, Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624.
Early life
Hele was born into the junior line of a minor gentry family which had settled in Devon since at least the twelfth century. He was the son of Walter Hele of Lewston, Devon and the former Elizabeth Strode, daughter of William Strode of Newnham, Devon. He matriculated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford on 6 May 1597, aged 15.
Career
Upon his father's death in 1609, he inherited around 850 acres, including three manors, most of which was located in the south-west of the county, near Plymouth and Plympton. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle on the interest of his cousin Sir Warwick Hele. A Royalist during the Civil War, he was appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1621, and then elected MP for Tavistock in 1624 on the interest of his brother-in-law, Sir Francis Glanville.
Personal life
Hele married Joan Glanville, eldest daughter of Sir John Glanville of Killworthy, Devon. Together, they were the parents of eight sons (two who died young) and five daughters, including:
Roger Hele, who married Juliana Prestwood. After his death, she married Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet.
Hele died before 4 December 1655 when his will, made on 10 October 1653, was proved. In it, he bequeathed more than £6,000 to his wife and children, in addition to lands he had already bestowed on them.
Descendants
Through his son Roger, he was a grandfather of Juliana Osborne, Duchess of Leeds, the third wife of Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds, and later the wife of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore.
References
1582 births
1655 deaths
Members of the Parliament of England for Tavistock
Alumni of Broadgates Hall, Oxford
High Sheriffs of Devon
English MPs 1614
English MPs 1624–1625
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Ulmus 'Concavaefolia' may refer to:
Ulmus glabra 'Concavaefolia'
Ulmus minor 'Concavaefolia' |
The Sigma I-67 and II-67 War Games were two of a series of classified high level war games played in the Pentagon during the 1960s to strategize the conduct of the burgeoning Vietnam War. The games were designed to replicate then-current conditions in Indochina, with an aim toward predicting future foreign affairs events. They were staffed with high-ranking officials standing in to represent both domestic and foreign characters; stand-ins were chosen for their expertise concerning those they were called upon to represent. The games were supervised by a Control appointed to oversee both sides. The opposing Blue and Red Teams customary in war games were designated the friendly and enemy forces as was usual; however, several smaller teams were sometimes subsumed under Red and Blue Teams. Over the course of the games, the Red Team at times contained the Yellow Team for the People's Republic of China, the Brown Team for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Black Team for the Viet Cong, and Green for the USSR.
Preparation for these simulations was quite extensive. A game staff of as many as 45 people researched and developed the scenarios. The actual play of the war game involved 30 to 35 participants. There are four or five simulations per year, solicited secretively from the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and major military commands. The Sigma I-67 and Sigma II-67 war games were played concurrently; with two simulations playing two teams simultaneously, there were over 100 participants.
Background
Both the Sigma I-67 and Sigma II-67 Top Secret politico-military war games were staged concurrently between 27 November and 7 December 1967. The simulations were played between 0900 and 1800 hours in Pentagon chambers provided by the Joint War Games Agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Sigma games' focus was on settling the Vietnam War rather than winning it. Despite this change of focus, there was ample experience with these simulations, given the precedent set by prior Sigma games dating back to 1962.
Both Sigma I-67 and Sigma II-67 were assigned a Control. Either game had both a Blue and a Red Team. The Blue Team in either game represented the United States, although a pair of its players were designated as the Government of Vietnam (GVN). Either Red Team played as the North Vietnamese communists in their respective games; they also each had a two-man detachment appointed as the South Vietnamese communists. Control's functions included playing other nations and global organizations. Control also served as the link between the opposing sides via messaging.
Agencies and participants
The White House: Maxwell Taylor, three supporting players
The Secretary of Defense: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security AffairsPaul Warnke, Phil G. Goulding, ten others
State Department players: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Philip C. Habib, 13 other players
The Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Earle Wheeler, General William E. DePuy, 14 military officers, one civilian player
The Central Intelligence Agency: Eight players
The Defense Intelligence Agency: LtG Joseph F. Carroll, five others
The National Security Agency: LtG Marshall S. Carter, an aide
Pacific Command: Four officers
The U.S. Army: General Ralph E. Haines, Jr., four junior officers
The U.S. Air Force: General Bruce K. Holloway, two junior officers
The U.S. Marine Corps: Commandant of the Marine Corps Wallace M. Greene, two junior officers
The U.S. Navy: Admiral Horacio Rivero, Vice Admiral Waldemar F. A. Wendt, two junior officers
The U.S. Information Agency: Six players
The Agency for International Development: Five players
The U.S. Treasury Department: Three players
American University, the Institute for Defense Analyses: Two players each
The National War College: LtG Andrew Goodpaster
New York University, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, SRI International, Columbia University, The Rand Corporation, Harvard University: All sent one player apiece
Total of participants listed above: 105.
Beginning scenario
Game scenarios were based on extensive research into the ongoing events that the war games were going to simulate. Both games began their simulations from the same scenario set on the same future date. The U.S. Blue Team purportedly receives a confidential message from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 25 January 1968, proposing a basis for negotiations to end the Vietnam War. If the United States will quit bombing their country, the Red Team communists will meet in a third party's capital to arrange a settlement. On 2 February 1968, the Blue Team secretly agrees to halt their bombing campaign, although still maintaining aerial surveillance over the north and suffering numerous consequent losses. In turn, Red Team uses the respite to reconstruct their bombed lines of communication.
Sigma I-67
Hidden in the Sigma I-67 scenario, and withheld from Blue Team, was Red Team's secret determination to make gains at Blue Team's expense via any possible bargaining, no matter how cynical. At one point, a Red Team member stated: "We had no good faith whatsoever."
Sigma II-67
Red Team played with a different implicit set of hidden imperatives for Sigma II-67. Unbeknownst to Blue, Red's military force in South Vietnam was thrashed. Its Russian and Chinese sponsors in the proxy war were slacking their support. There was internal dissension in the northern populace. Therefore, on 2 February 1968, when the U.S. covertly agreed to halt bombing North Vietnam, Red pushed for an extension of the ongoing Tết holiday ceasefire. Blue had already considered and rejected that move; instead, it maintained its military operations against the communists.
Simulations played
Sigma I-67
Red Team quickly amassed its troops in North Vietnam and infiltrated not only South Vietnam, but Cambodia and Laos. In the meantime, they carried on negotiations as a distracting political tactic as they feverishly rebuilt destroyed infrastructure.
As its move, Blue Team abandoned its search and destroy tactics and dispersed its ground troops into small units protecting the South Vietnamese populace. The bombing effort now focused on the South.
Red Team's counterattacks on these village security units revealed the shallowness of Red's commitment to settlement talks. However, they felt it necessary to try to force American troops back into larger centralized units. They also repatriated their air defense MiG fighters from the People's Republic of China as the North's airfields were repaired.
Blue now found itself hampered in its negotiating stance by Thai and South Korean allies clamoring for a say in any ceasefire. Also, the GVN quietly messaged the North Vietnamese communists to inform them that any deals made without southern participation would not be recognized by the GVN.
Red also found itself in trouble with its ally. China threatened an end to its military aid, stationed a fighter wing and two divisions on its Vietnamese border, and slowed Soviet military aid transiting its territory.
Despite these obstacles, Control decreed negotiations would begin on 7 March 1968 in Paris. Agenda items were de-escalation, a ceasefire, withdrawal of troops, and exchange of prisoners of war. However, the GVN players on Blue Team balked. They were ready to sabotage the talks; they wanted to preserve the South's territory, worried that they might be forced into coalition government with the Viet Cong, and feared a premature withdrawal of U.S. forces.
The Red Team now changed to demanding that American forces had to withdraw from Vietnam before the communists would cease firing. The ultimatum named 4 June 1968 as a deadline; after that date, Red would re-initiate hostilities with the aim of raising the U.S. casualty rate enough to arouse the American public.
Blue concluded by electing to resume the air offensive if negotiations were unsuccessful. However, that resumption was subject to influence by public opinion. Control introduced a congressional resolution that prohibited hostile military moves against Red while talks were in progress.
Sigma II-67
Red Team began its simulation plagued by political dissidence by the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam in the Mekong Delta. The NLF in the Delta tried to sabotage the negotiations. Blue Team's opening move was a rejection of the idea of dispersing forces into village security units. It was believed that the tactic might lead to defeat of some of the village security units, as well as allowing the Viet Cong to re-form into larger units for operations. In turn, Blue redirected its air power so it struck entirely in the South.
Having had its push for a post-Tet ceasefire denied, the North Vietnamese were desperate for a formal ceasefire before negotiations began. They made a token withdrawal of a brigade back into the North while pulling other troops back from combat into sanctuaries. On 13 February 1968, a four party meeting among the warring parties began in Yangon. Game Control then mandated a military stand-down by both sides.
The U.S. continued aerial surveillance of the North while suppressing communist guerrilla activity in the Mekong Delta. It also began to convert the irregulars of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) into constabulary. In the meantime, formal talks in Yangon quickly settled the matter of repatriating wounded prisoners of war. Further discussion was scheduled between Red and Blue on 1 March 1968. Onsite were also outside observers from the USSR, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Thailand, Republic of Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
Although both teams harbored disagreements within their ranks, Control bent the course of the play toward talks. The mediators glossed over GVN non-cooperation and the Viet Cong attempt to undercut its own side. The fighting in South Vietnam had dwindled; Blue moved into civic action programs by its troops. On 28 April 1968, the Rangoon Conference adjourned, leaving subcommittees to work out procedures for a continuing truce, troop reductions and withdrawals, and the integration of the NLF into Southern politics.
Most importantly, the two sides agreed to internationally supervised elections for South Vietnam's Constituent Assembly on 1 July 1968. Primary elections for government office would be held on 1 August. General elections would follow on 1 September. On 1 October, the Assembly would start writing a new constitution for South Vietnam. Blue demanded majority election of every Assembly member, believing that most favorable to their aims. It also offered to remove its troops from Vietnam six months later. Although the Red Team was willing to hold elections under the existing South Vietnamese constitution, Blue insisted on adoption of a new constitution that would favor its side.
End results
Sigma I-67
The consensus was that Red Team made considerable gains while playing out their scenario. They revitalized their military forces. An influx of Third World technicians was judged to inhibit resumption of U.S. air strikes for the fear of causing collateral damage casualties. On the other hand, Blue Team was wracked by dissension within its ranks and under pressure by the U.S. public for a speedy peace.
Sigma II-67
By 28 April 1968, Blue Team had come to doubt Red's sincerity in negotiations. Blue's ranks were split over the question of whether NLF participation in South Vietnamese politics would inevitably lead to a takeover by the communists, and about the chances of success in an election. In any case, the United States overrode its South Vietnamese ally. The South Vietnamese were content to let the Americans take the brunt of the fighting while they provided security to their fellow citizens.
Debriefing conclusions
All four teams from both war games debriefed simultaneously. Common conclusions were that even a token withdrawal from Vietnam by the U.S. would spark pressure to continue the exodus. It was also felt that withdrawal would be a one-way exit for the Americans. The game's director decided that the two sides were unlikely to arrange a ceasefire, and that a unilateral truce by the U.S. would fail. It was also believed that the communists would not engage in free elections even in favorable circumstances for fear of losing at the polls.
Notes
References
Allen, Thomas B. (1987) War Games: The Secret World of the Creators, Players, and Policy Makers Rehearsing World War III Today. McGraw-Hill. ISBNs 0070011958, 9780070011953.
Gibbons, William Conrad (1995) The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War. Princeton University Press. ISBNs 0691006350, 978-0691006352.
Staff, (1967). SIGMA - 67 FINAL REPORT, Joint War Games Agency/Joint Chiefs of Staff. ISBNs 1287044530, 9781287044536.
Cold War conflicts
Military exercises and wargames
Sigma war games
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is a former Japanese football player.
Playing career
Yokoyama was born in Kochi Prefecture on December 22, 1972. After graduating from Kansai University, he joined newly was promoted to J1 League club, Cerezo Osaka in 1995. He played many matches as substitute forward. He also played as starting member when Hiroaki Morishima and Akinori Nishizawa left the club for Japan national team. In 2000, he moved to Shimizu S-Pulse. In 2000, although he could not play many matches in league competition, the club won the 2nd place in Emperor's Cup. In 2001, he played many matches and the club won the champions 2001 Emperor's Cup. In Asia, the club won the 3rd place in 2000–01 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. At the 3rd place match, he scored 2 goals including winning goal. In 2003, he moved to Japan Football League club Sagawa Express Osaka. He retired end of 2003 season.
Club statistics
References
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1972 births
Living people
Kansai University alumni
Association football people from Kōchi Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
Japan Football League players
Cerezo Osaka players
Shimizu S-Pulse players
Sagawa Shiga FC players
Men's association football forwards |
Dandy shandy is a game played mainly by children, mostly girls in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. It is believed that children invented the game. It is not certain as to when the game was invented but it can be tracked back to as far as the 1950s.
Rules
It is played with a minimum of three players. Two players stand about fifty feet apart facing each other and are considered the throwers. They are partners working together against the third player who is the dodger. The third player (dodger), runs back and forth in between the two throwers, whose job is to try to hit the dodger with a ball. The goal of the dodger is to dodge as many throws while running back and forth between the two throwers. The strategy is to stay as far as possible from the thrower that has the ball. For every attempt that the dodger dodges successfully they receive a point. A Thrower may strategically throw the ball to the opposite thrower in a manner where the ball is easy to catch and is of no threat to the dodger in an attempt to set up a play for the opposite thrower to get a good chance of hitting the dodger.
The game requires a great degree of athletic ability, some throwers can throw the ball as fast as 70 to 80 MPH. They have to be accurate throwers with control so that if they do miss a potential dodger the opposite thrower is able to catch the ball and make a throw in stride. Good dodgers are usually even more athletic, they run between throwers with their eyes on the ball jumping, leaping and even diving out of the way of an incoming throw. The ball is usually home made from a small paper carton stuffed with newspaper.
References
Children's games
Jamaican culture |
The 10th Indian Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry brigade of the British Indian Army that formed part of the Indian Army during the First World War. It remained in India throughout the war.
History
The Headquarters 10th Indian Cavalry Brigade was formed under 1st (Peshawar) Division in May 1917, presumably to command some of the units assigned to the 1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade at this time. In the event, only the 30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse) was assigned to the brigade, from December 1917 to July 1918. The brigade remained with the division throughout the First World War.
Under mobilization plans drawn up in July 1918, IV Corps with 1st (Peshawar) Division under command would have included 1st and 10th Cavalry brigades with:
4th Cavalry
30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse)
3rd Gwalior Lancers (I.S.)
24th Machine Gun Squadron
4th Field Troop, 3rd Bombay Sappers and Miners
Commander
The brigade was commanded from 10 May 1917 by Brigadier-General G.M. Baldwin.
See also
10th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army) existed at the same time but was unrelated other than having the same number
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References
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Cavalry brigades of the British Indian Army
Military units and formations established in 1917 |
Alois Šiška (15 May 1914, Lutopecny – 9 September 2003, Prague) was a Czechoslovak pilot. He flew for the No. 311 Squadron RAF, a Czechoslovak bomber squadron during World War II. Šiška and his crew are known for their journey of the North Sea and as prisoners of war. He was a decorated veteran and a member of the Guinea Pig Club, an association that focused on the treatment, rehabilitation and socialization of airmen who suffered serious injuries in the war.
Early life
Šiška was born in Lutopecny near Kroměříž in 1914. His family had a small farm, and he was one of three children. From a young age, Šiška wanted to fly and to become a pilot. However, he became an apprentice locksmith and later a mechanical engineer. He then joined the Bata Aviation Factory in Otrokovice. He would later earn a reward of 5000 crowns for his improvement proposal for the Zlin Z-XII aircraft, but he preferred pilot training. In September 1936, aged 22, he passed the pilot tests for tourist aircraft. He entered military service and decided to become a military pilot. He mastered combat training, served in aviation units and in September 1938 was at the field airport in Ivanovice among the prepared crews.
World War II
Šiska was a member of an illegal cell through which he helped Jews and others escape to Poland and later to Hungary. He remained in the republic until the outbreak of war. At that time, fear grew that the Germans would discover a hidden prototype of the Z-XIII aircraft. In order not to fall into their hands, it was decided within the illegal group that the prototype must fly to the Balkans. However, this plan failed. Together with Alois Bača, they fled across the frozen river Morava to Slovakia, then with the help of a Hungarian pastor, they crossed the Slovak-Hungarian border and continued by train to the border with Yugoslavia. There they were arrested by a Hungarian border guard and imprisoned in Hodmezövasárhely prison for several weeks. After a failed escape attempt, they were deported to the Citadella in Budapest. Here they were held in harsh conditions together with another hundred and twenty Czechs and a similar number of Poles. An opportunity to escape did not come until 30 March 1940, when Šiška reported to the doctor suffering from scabies. He managed to escape his guards and took a taxi to the French consulate. From there he was secretly taken to the Yugoslav border at night, and made a successful crossing. His following steps, already a member of MS. foreign troops, headed through Turkey to Syria, where he joined with other members of the army on a boat trip across the Mediterranean to France. They landed in Marseille on 25 April, briefly served at an airport near Bordeaux, but did not intervene in the ongoing fighting for France, and on 21 June were on their way to the English coast.
In England, he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve, becoming a sergeant pilot. He was assigned to No 311 (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron based at RAF East Wretham, Norfolk. He belonged to a few MS. pilots who participated in the crossing of the Alps with subsequent bombing of the industrial Italian city of Turin.
The North Sea and prisoner of war
On 28 December 1941, a six-member crew of 311 Squadron had to make a rough emergency landing in the North Sea after damage to the plane KX-B after the bombing of Wilhelmshaven. During the landing, one of his crew lost his life, while the remaining five members had to make use of an inflatable boat to survive. At sea, they had close encounters with rescue planes, but rescue did not come despite the unwritten agreement in RAF to save castaways at all costs. The planes dropped parcels full of resources, but due to the rough sea, the crew members did not dare go into the water to retrieve the packages. Due to poor health and no help in sight, Šiška and the crew members contemplated suicide but decided against it as they had no means to carry out the deed and did not want to do it by self-drowning. Not all survived the drift at sea.
Out of the six original crew members, Alois Šiška, Pavel Svoboda, and Josef Ščerba were the only ones to survive. Much to their astonishment, they drifted towards the Dutch coast and when they were found near the Petten, they were arrested by the German Coast Guard. The crew members were arrested and taken to hospitals. Šiška was in the worst state of the three as he had gotten severe frostbite and gangrene of the feet, and doctors were preparing for amputation when Šiška experienced a sudden heart attack. This experience and his subsequent apparent clinical death ultimately saved his feet from amputation, but he could not walk until after the war when he underwent multiple surgeries to help repair the damage. During captivity, Šiška was held at multiple prison camps and was questioned by the Gestapo as a "traitor to the Great German Empire" as he was viewed as a deserter (Czechoslovakia was then German territory). The Gestapo ordered a death sentence for Šiška, but that order was never enforced due to threats from Winston Churchill that for every soldier killed in a British uniform, two high-rank German officials would be killed in response. Until the end of the war, he was held at Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, a notorious prison camp that held military elites. He was liberated on April 7, 1945, and was immediately sent to the United Kingdom for treatment.
Post-war
After liberation, Šiška underwent 14 spine and leg surgeries at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, thereby gaining membership of the Guinea Pig Club. He returned to his homeland in 1947 to serve in the military in Prague. While in the military, he rejected invitations to join the Communist Party. He was arrested multiple times between 1948 and 1950, and had to retire from the Air Force. Šiška and his family were evicted from Prague after he was named as a "dangerous person", and was limited in his work thereafter. He worked in agriculture and as a TV repairman because as an ex-RAF pilot he was not allowed to hold a career. He was briefly recalled to military service in 1968, but released in 1970 due to health issues. He was completely rehabilitated in 1989 and was allowed back to Prague. On 3 May 1995, he was appointed major general.
Šiška authored the book No Response KX-B.
Recognition
Šiška was honoured many times throughout his life and posthumously. For instance, on 17 October 2012, a monument was unveiled in Petten, Holland, in honor of the Czech crew of the Wellington KX-B plane that went down in the North Sea on 28 December 1941. Petten is the town nearest where Šiška and the remaining crew members were found.
Šiška holds the highest Czech honour, the Order of the White Lion class III. It was conferred posthumously on 28 September 2003, as he had died a few weeks previously.
A list of all his awards/medals:
Order of the White Lion, Class I military group
Order of the White Lion, III. Class Military Group, awarded September 28, 2003, in memoriam
Order of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, III. class awarded 1991
Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic I. degree
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 (four awards)
Czechoslovak Medal for Valor before the enemy
Czechoslovak Military Medal of Merit, 1st Grade
Order of the Red Star
References
1914 births
2003 deaths
Czechoslovak military personnel of World War II
World War II bomber pilots
People from Kroměříž District
Members of the Guinea Pig Club |
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The thousand-year celebration of Ferdowsi's birthday was held in Berlin on 27 September 1934 under the administration of the German Ministry of Science, Education and Culture (Reichserziehungsministerium), on the occasion of millenary celebration of Ferdowsi, announced by the government of Iran at the beginning of that year. The Berlin ceremony was held in the German Archaeological Institute. The Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft published a report of these ceremonies in its 1934 edition.
Speeches
Dr. Wiegand, the head of the German Archaeological Institute, was the first lecturer. He praised the great Persian epics and the ancient Iranian culture and how Ferdowsi summoned all these ancient stories in his masterpiece, Shahnameh. Then Ministerialdirektor Prof. Dr. Theodor Vahlen as the Deputy of Reichserziehungsminister Dr. Bernhard Rust, made a speech. He said that the German Reich is very happy to have the opportunity to show its friendship towards the Imperial Iranian government through holding these ceremonies in honor of Ferdowsi and to show how well the German Reich respects the Iranian culture. He said that, we know the National Socialism is misunderstood by many people, but I want to reaffirm once again that the National Socialist government of Germany has no hostility with the foreign cultures and we deeply respect other cultures as long as they respect our German culture. All children of the oriental countries are welcome in Germany to study in our universities and to learn about German culture. We want them to feel at home while they are studying in our country. He also said that the German and Persian folks have a same root and both are Indo-Germanic people. In the end, he praised and hailed Reza Shah Pahlavi for his efforts toward modernization of Iran.
The next lecturer was Prof. Dr. Hans Heinrich Schaeder who made an emotional speech with the title of "Ferdowsi and the Germans". Finally, Abolghasem Khan Nadjm, the Imperial Iranian ambassador to Berlin, made the final speech and said these ceremonies in Berlin which are held to the honor of the greatest Persian poet, Ferdowsi, shows our common roots with the German people and that we are both Aryan people. He said that the name of Iran means the Land of Aryans. He finished his words with the praise of the works of the Führer, Adolf Hitler, in Germany.
Ferdowsi and the Germans
Dr. Schaeder in his speech praised Ferdowsi for his tremendous work to revive the Persian language against all odds and the pressure of foreign cultures. He also compared the history of Germany to the struggle of heroes in Shahnameh and concluded that these two are very similar. He called the year 1819 a pivotal juncture in the course of Germans' familiarity with the oriental culture. Along with the publication of new Deutsch translations of Hafiz and Rumi, the renowned German writer Joseph Görres completed his translation of the Shahnameh in this year which received great welcome with the German readers. He said the Shahnameh had a great impact on the German orientalists and inspired many scholars to conduct exploratory researches about Ferdowsi. The other credible translation of The Shahnameh belonged to the German poet and historian of literature, Adolf Friedrich von Schack whose version was published in 1851. Friedrich Rückert's translation was also published after his death in 1866.
Sources
Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
Ceremonies in Germany
1934 in Germany
1930s in Berlin
Iranian studies |
Esther Renay Dean (born April 15, 1982), known professionally as Ester Dean, is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She has written songs for many artists, with numerous Top 10 hits, including No. 1 hits for Rihanna and Katy Perry, earning the name "The Song Factory". At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, Dean was nominated for Album of the Year as a producer on Rihanna's album Loud. Outside of music, she voiced two of the characters in the fourth film in the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and also wrote a song for the movie, titled "We Are (Family)". Dean made her acting debut in the film Pitch Perfect (2012) as Cynthia-Rose Adams, a role she reprised for the sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).
Life and career
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ester Dean is the youngest of five children brought up by their single mother Hester, in a low-income household. At a young age, Dean learned how to channel her emotions into her music; creative writing served as Dean's self-therapy.
At the age of 15, her mother moved Dean and her sister Deandria to Omaha, Nebraska. Leaving her older siblings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the separation made Dean again dig deeper for a connection, drawing her closer to the music and the music industry. Singing in every studio and writing for local Omaha rappers and producers, Dean unknowingly embedded herself in the industry grassroots. Learning the ins and outs of talent and creativity, at 20 years old Dean made a bold move, packed her bags and left Omaha with only US$500 to her name. She drove 18 hours alone to Atlanta, Georgia, to crack the music industry. She sang for anyone who would listen. While at a Gap Band concert, music producer Christopher "Tricky" Stewart overheard Dean singing in the crowd along with the band. He immediately asked to set up a meeting. While going through her catalog of songs, Stewart was impressed not only by her voice but also her songwriting ability. He signed her to a small publishing deal that allowed Dean to grow and connect with other known writers and producers. This opportunity provided Dean with the tools, tricks, and skills to writing potential hit songs. Although her time with Stewart was a significant point in her career, Dean eventually parted ways and relocated to Los Angeles.
Upon relocation, Dean began to build a name in the songwriting world. She was eventually introduced to Polow da Don, and later signed to Zone 4 Records, under the aegis of Interscope Records. In 2009, Dean released her debut single as a lead artist, "Drop It Low", which featured singer Chris Brown and production by Polow da Don; the song peaked at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and became her only Top 40 single as a lead artist.
Dean's big break came when she collaborated with super producers Stargate, creating her first number one single, Rihanna's "Rude Boy". She went on to write "What's My Name", "Where Have You Been" and several other Rihanna hits, as well as Katy Perry's "Firework" and Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" and co-writing "Pills n Potions" with Nicki Minaj.
In 2011, Dean contributed to the soundtrack for the animated film, Rio by Blue Sky Studios.
In 2012, Dean was named 'The Song Machine' in an article by John Seabrook. She has written, and sometimes produced, Top 40 hits for artists including Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Florence + The Machine, Beyoncé, Drake, Selena Gomez, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson, Ciara, The Pussycat Dolls, Usher, Kelly Rowland, R. Kelly, Britney Spears, Lil Wayne, and Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and Eurovision Song Contest 2023 winner Loreen.
She appeared as Cynthia Rose in Pitch Perfect, released in 2012, and reprised the role in the sequels Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).
In 2022, she was on the jury panel for American Song Contest representing Oklahoma.
Artistry
Voice
Dean possesses a mezzo-soprano range. Her vocals were described by Billboard as "raw, energetic vocals [that] cover a wide range: from club banger to melodic doo-wop/hip-hop." Dean's vocals have also been described as similar to Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. "The songwriter's voice is pitched dead center between two artists. The first is frequent collaborator Rihanna...the other is Nicki Minaj when she sings."
Songwriting style
In a 2012 article in The New Yorker, Dean described her preferred method of songwriting: "I go into the booth and I scream and I sing and I yell, and sometimes it's words but most time [sic] it's not...and I just see when I get this little chill [on her upper arm, below the shoulder] and then I'm, like, 'Yeah, that's the hook.'"
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Accolades
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!rowspan="4" |2011
|rowspan="4" |BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
|"Hot Tottie" (as a writer)
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|"I Am" (as a writer)
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|"Rude Boy" (as a writer)
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|"Sex Therapy" (as a writer)
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|Grammy Awards
|Loud (as a producer and writer)
|Album of the Year
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|rowspan="7" |BMI Pop Awards
|Herself
|Songwriter of the Year
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|rowspan="2" |"Firework" (as a writer)
|Pop Song of the Year
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|rowspan="5" |Award-Winning Pop Songs
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|"Super Bass" (as a writer)
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|"Rude Boy" (as a writer)
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|"S&M" (as a writer)
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|"What's My Name?" (as a writer)
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|rowspan="3" |BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
|rowspan="2" |"Super Bass" (as a writer)
|Urban Song of the Year
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|rowspan="2" |Award-Winning Urban Songs
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|"What's My Name?" (as a writer)
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! rowspan="5" |2013
|rowspan="3" |BMI Pop Awards
|"Mr. Know It All" (as a writer)
|rowspan="3" |Award-Winning Pop Songs
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|"Turn Me On" (as a writer)
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|"Where Have You Been" (as a writer)
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|MTV Movie Awards
|Pitch Perfect (shared with the cast)
|Best Musical Moment
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|Annie Awards
|Ice Age: Continental Drift (as a producer)
|Best Music in a Feature Production
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! rowspan="1" |2015
|Hollywood Music in Media Awards
|"Dancing in the Dark" (as a writer)
|Best Song – Animated Film
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!rowspan="3" |2016
|rowspan="2" |BMI London Awards
|rowspan="3" |"Hey Mama" (as a writer)
|Dance Award
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|rowspan="1" |BMI Pop Awards
|Award-Winning Pop Songs
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|rowspan="1" |2021
|Canadian Country Music Awards
|"Champagne Night" (as a writer)
|Songwriter of the Year
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References
External links
1982 births
Living people
African-American women singer-songwriters
American contemporary R&B singers
Dance-pop musicians
American mezzo-sopranos
American women pop singers
American women record producers
Record producers from Oklahoma
Roc Nation artists
21st-century African-American women singers
Singers from Oklahoma
Songwriters from Oklahoma
Interscope Records artists |
Seven neighbourhoods are of considerable note:
Regina'''s residential areas, apart from the remaining residential portion of the original town between the CPR tracks and Wascana Lake to the immediate south of the central business district, are largely typical of western Canadian cities, mostly consisting of unremarkable post-World War II single-family dwellings on substantial lots.
(1) The downtown business district;
(2) the West End (latterly deemed the "Cathedral Area");
(3) the historic and affluent Crescents area, immediately to the north of Wascana Creek west of the Albert Street bridge and dam which creates Wascana Lake);
(4) Germantown, originally an impoverished and ill-serviced ghetto of continental Europeans;
(5) South Albert Street, adjacent to the provincial Legislative Building and office buildings, a neighbourhood of imposing mansions dating from the before the First World War through the post-War '20s boom;
(6) the Warehouse District, formerly — obviously, as its name suggests — the reception zone for freight arriving from eastern Canada and the USA for sale by Regina wholesalers, and latterly, with the eclipse of rail shipping, being redeveloped as desirable residential accommodation, upscale restaurants and fashionable shopping precincts; and
(7) the latterly notorious North-Central district, an area of low-rent housing nowadays characterised by serious problems of crime, drug use and prostitution.
According to the 22 November 2004 report of the Regina Planning Commission to the Mayor and City Council, "The current directions of residential [growth] for Regina (northwest, southeast and infill in existing areas of development) were essentially established in 1961…and …[i]n the most recent review of the Development Plan undertaken in 2001, it was determined that these directions continue to be the most appropriate for the next 20 years." An eighth general residential category, therefore, is:
(8) the newer residential subdivisions in the east, north and northwest precincts of the city, planned in anticipation of gradual urban growth over several decades, a development which now with Saskatchewan's recent and unexpected economic boom is occurring in a matter of years rather than decades.
Downtown business district
The downtown business district, latterly and somewhat confusingly to the historically minded deemed "Market Square" by civic boosters (the historic Market Square was on the current site of the Regina City Police headquarters and was the site of the Regina Riot), is located between Saskatchewan Drive and the CPR line to the north, Albert Street to the west, Broad Street to the East and Victoria Avenue to the south. The historical heart of Regina and noted nationally for its widespread destruction in the Regina Cyclone of 1912, it is nowadays possibly more to be noted for its former significance as commercial and residential growth has relocated to the periphery of the city, and indeed many historically significant landmarks and buildings have long since been demolished and forgotten.
New apartment buildings and condominium residential development in older commercial and office buildings in, for example, the Scarth Street Mall and the Motherwell Building, show promise of revitalising the city core; the Cornwall Centre, an impressive inner city shopping mall originally with Eaton's and Hudson's Bay Company department stores as its anchors together with large cinemas, has not yet thrived but growing posh residential redevelopment could spur new vitality if urban crime spilling over from North Central can be stemmed. Former commercial and office facilities along Scarth Street are now strata title apartments. Historic entertainment venues and churches have largely lapsed but the Globe Theatre has relocated from the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts to the Old Post Office on 11th Avenue; the conversion of the Union Station to a casino and the construction of several new hotels are bringing new night life vitality to the Central Business District, albeit with the urgent caveat that urban crime spilling over from the North Central remains a serious issue. Currently, the downtown covers 82 hectares, .
"Cathedral Area" (the West End)
In 1927, the City of Regina passed its first zoning bylaw, setting the patterns for land use in the area. Over time, additional bylaws encouraged the construction of high-density housing, which replaced older housing near Albert Street. A 235-hectare (581 acres) largely residential area west of downtown Regina, this neighbourhood is defined as the area west of Albert Street, northeast of Wascana Creek and south of the CPR mainline. The area has some commercial properties on the north and east and along the 13th Avenue shopping district, the neighbourhood's main street.
Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral on 13th Avenue opened in 1913, and it is the source of real estate agents' now popular sobriquet of the "Cathedral Area," the area previously having been known as the West End. Immediately to the east of Holy Rosary on 13th Avenue is Westminster United (formerly Presbyterian) Church, also a construction of 1913, and the other major place of worship in the West End. When Holy Rosary found itself without a meeting house after the catastrophic fire of 1976 Westminster gladly provided it with a worship space for the duration of the repairs. In recent years the West End has come to be perceived both as a bohemian enclave and an area of economic need. There are, however, pockets of decidedly affluent housing throughout the Cathedral Area, extending intermittently from the immediate west of Albert Street right to Pasqua Street. Holy Rosary Cathedral has always been a centre of high culture in Regina and Westminster Presbyterian, later United, Church has been an élite bastion throughout its history while never forsaking its liberal Evangelical Protestant mandate of doing good as well as being good. Both Holy Rosary and Westminster (perhaps as well as St Mary's Anglican in the Crescents) draw parishioners — and make it a matter of urgency that they do so — not only from among the Anglo-Saxon/Irish élite but also from among the less advantaged persons in their geographical purview.
On the perimeter of the West End on Albert Street is First Presbyterian Church, built in 1926 and founded by non-concurring dissidents from Westminster, Knox and Carmichael United Churches who objected to their several Presbyterian Church congregations' entry into the United Church of Canada — all Regina Presbyterian congregations had entered into the United Church. First Presbyterian, however, is perhaps a church more of the posh South Albert and Lakeview precincts than of the West End, the latter having been amply served by the two existing United Churches of Westminster and Wascana. (Wascana's plain vernacular style wooden meeting house originally stood on 14th Avenue as Fourteenth Avenue Methodist Church and was moved in 1925 to its new site at 13th and Pasqua; it was sold in the 1960s when Wascana United built a new church; the congregation subsequently merged with that of Westminster.)
By the 1970s, inner-city problems had arisen to some extent — declining and aging population, decreasing quality of housing stock, increasing crime, heavier vehicular traffic and fewer parking places — although, unlike other older residential areas of town, the population base and indeed the number of young families remained sufficiently high that the now nearly century-old Connaught Public and Holy Rosary Separate Schools remained continuously in use while several other elementary schools were demolished and not replaced. By the middle of the 1970s, area residents organised the Cathedral Area Community Association. Through the work of the associations — as well as joint municipal, provincial and federal social programs — local conditions improved. In addition, the spread on non-residential properties and high-density housing was controlled, and a large number of older homes in the area were renovated extensively. The Cathedral Area in recent years has become a desirable residential neighbourhood by reason of its latter-day atmosphere of rakishness: the old Sacred Heart Academy, formerly a private girls' high school operated by the Western Canada-based Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, immediately adjacent to the Roman Catholic Cathedral on 13th Avenue at Garnet Street, has been redeveloped as tony townhouses; many formerly rundown houses have been expensively renovated. On the other hand, recent cuts to the Cathedral Area Community Association have put many of the community programs and festivals, that created the renewed atmosphere, in jeopardy.
The Crescents
The Crescents, taking its name from Leopold, Angus and Connaught Crescents, the principal residential streets in the precinct, is the historically most desirable residential area of Regina. In zoning parlance a part of the "Cathedral area," it is a discrete residential zone, its posh 1920s villas, mock-Tudor ambience and large lots a striking contrast to the more matter-of-factly working persons' housing of the 13th Avenue neighbourhood. It made the list of "Best Old House Neighborhoods 2011: City Living" in This Old House Magazine.
Originally a property development of the McCallum-Hill property company to the immediate north of Wascana Creek after the Wascana bridge was relocated to the east of its original location, it soon became one of Regina's most attractive and prestigious residential neighbourhoods. Regina's Roman Catholic Archbishop and Anglican Dean live here, as do many of Regina's social élite. It is wholly devoid of any commercial development; the only local church is the Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin and non-Anglican church-going locals are largely parishioners of the "Cathedral Area" Holy Rosary Cathedral and Westminster United Church on 13th Avenue and First Presbyterian on Albert Street. The local primary school, Davin Public School, is named for Nicholas Flood Davin. Low-lying areas immediately adjacent to Wascana Creek are less desirable (and contain less impressive residences) owing to their being subject to flooding in particularly wet springs when the creek overflows its banks; a flood in 1915 is pictured; the most severe flood in the city's history occurred in 1971.
Albert Street South
The McCallum-Hill property development company pounced on the opportunity provided by the new Albert Street bridge, developing an imposing row of still-impressive mansions along south Albert Street and in the immediately adjacent old Lakeview precinct during the years immediately following the establishment of the province of Saskatchewan and designation of Regina as the provincial capital through until the beginning of the depression.
The mansions of Walter Hill (built in 1911), E.D. McCallum (1912) and H.M. McCallum (1913), the principals of the McCallum-Hill company, remain standing on Albert Street South; the Hill residence is a designated municipal heritage site; the E.D. McCallum house was owned by the Sisters of the Precious Blood and used by them as an enclosed convent from 1948 to 1959.
Regina's early promise soon failed with the stock market crash of 1929 and the long years of prairie drought which followed; the neighbourhood remains the closest approximation in Regina to Toronto's Forest Hill and Bridle Path.
Germantown and the East End
Germantown proper
The area known as Germantown (Broad Street east to Winnipeg Street and beyond — the precise eastern and southern perimeter is somewhat amorphous — and somewhat to the north of College Avenue to the CPR Yards) was settled by continental Europeans: Germans, Romanians, Hungarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Poles, essentially anyone neither British Isles, French nor aboriginal in ancestry. In the early-predominant Anglo-Celtic mainstream non-francophone continental Europeans whatever their origin were generally referred to either as "Galicians" (Galicia at the time actually being Austrian Poland) or as "Germans."
Europeans became established around the former Market Square (now the location of the Regina city police station on Osler Street between 10th and 11th Avenues) by 1892. German, Ukrainian, Romanian and Serbian religious, secular and educational institutions and services were early established in the neighbourhood — including St Nicholas's Romanian Orthodox Church (established in 1902), the oldest Romanian Orthodox parish in North America; St George's Cathedral (founded in 1914 though the present building dates from the early 1960s), the episcopal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Regina; and the now long-demolished Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost, both formerly on Winnipeg Street. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Winnipeg Street between Victoria and 13th Avenues assumed its name when the downtown parish now called Blessed Sacrament, whose building was originally on Cornwall Street north of Victoria Park and is now on Scarth Street south of the Park, was renamed. Beth Jacob Synagogue, originally established in 1905 and now re-located to South Regina, was originally also in Germantown.
Regina's city fathers, all of course drawn from the Anglo-Saxon élite, grievously neglected Germantown in the early days and basic services of water and sewerage came scandalously late to the precinct. Many residents of the Germantown quarter of Regina lived in squalid shacks without basic services till well into the 20th century, when issues of loyalty to the British Crown during the First World War were comprehensively resolved in the favour of the residents' complete Canadian-ness. By the 1960s invidious past ethnic prejudice had long since passed and Ukrainian food had become pan-Saskatchewan food. Apart from German Lutheran and Roman Catholic establishments throughout Regina, however, European churches and cultural clubs remain concentrated in Germantown.
Trinity Lutheran Church — now occupying a large but undistinguished A-frame building on Ottawa Street in the heart of Germantown — remains the centre of Regina's Lutheran constituency and large ecclesiastical functions are generally held there, though Canadian Lutheranism, while maintaining the historic episcopacy and indeed being in full communion with the Anglican Church of Canada, does not designate its principal metropolitan churches cathedrals as such.
(However, despite not having official cathedral status, Trinity is often the location of episcopal events: in 2002 the first woman to become a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada was ordained at Trinity and installed as Lutheran Bishop of Saskatchewan.) Trinity Lutheran for many years maintained a traditional German-style parish church in Germantown; in due course, when it had built its current new modern building across the street, it sold its impressive German pipe organ to an Anglican parish in Regina.
The WASP East End
On the southeastern periphery of Germantown, where British Isles-descended Canadians settled after the turn of the century, is St Matthew's Anglican Church, one of only three substantial historic Anglican parish churches in Regina, the other two being St. Paul's in the city centre and St Mary's in the Crescents.
(Carmichael United, formerly Presbyterian, Church, an imposing building with fine stained glass, an impressive Casavant Frères pipe organ and luxurious fittings, some now in the possession of the University of Regina for use at convocation ceremonies, was on 15th Avenue at St. John Street immediately south of Regina General Hospital. Its congregation was a 1925 union of the pre-existing Presbyterian congregation of the same name and in the same building with the neighbouring Wesley Methodist Church; both had been founded in 1912. It closed in 1995 and was subsequently demolished.)
Across College Avenue immediately to the south of Germantown is the former Anglican Diocesan property. It contains the former Qu'Appelle Diocesan School (whose premises were originally a theological seminary for the training of clergy) and Anglican nunnery (with the historic St Chad's Chapel), diocesan administrative buildings, an old people's home and the bishop's palace and was the intended site for a never-built cathedral whose intended site remains visible at the corner of Broad Street and College Avenue, outlined in caragana hedges.
(See Regina's historic buildings and precincts.)
The Warehouse District
Not historically a residential neighbourhood, the Warehouse District is immediately to the north and east of the downtown central business district, beyond the CPR rail line (see map, below).
Before the highways were upgraded to the extent that they permitted trans-Canada commercial shipping by road within Canada, and did not require trucking companies to dip below the 49th parallel to traverse the Great Lakes, and prior to the emergence of the airlines as a preferred mode of passenger travel and freight carriage, the railways were, as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's National Policy had envisaged, at first the sole and for long the principal conduit linking Canada together. In Regina the warehouses were commercial depots for the receipt of goods from eastern Canada and the USA. With the eclipse of the railroads by the highways the Warehouse District lost its original raison d’être and for a time the warehouses seemed in danger of becoming white elephants.
Beginning in the 1970s and ‘80s imaginative property developers took their cue from the transformation of similarly outmoded warehouse districts in major eastern North American cities – television dramas and comedies set in New York, Chicago and Toronto and house-beautiful home decoration magazines played a considerable part – and began transforming the increasingly idle warehouses into tony restaurants and shopping precincts, live music clubs, condominiums and loft apartments which had the amenity of immediate proximity to professional employment venues in the central business district, just across the CPR tracks, and retail outlets in the new Cornwall Centre and elsewhere in the central business district.
The Warehouse District has become a highly desirable night life precinct and residential address in Regina and appears likely to become a salutary exception to the general trend of commercial and residential development during the postwar years away from the city centre to the periphery.
North Central
North Central is contained within a trapezium described by the CPR tracks to the south, which divides North Central from the downtown business district; Broad Street to the east; Alexandra Street (two blocks west of Pasqua) to the west; and McKinley Avenue to the north. The increasingly tony Warehouse District being historically a non-residential sector and not part of North Central, is an exception to the generally depressed economic circumstances of the region immediately north of the CPR tracks and is appropriately hived off from the map.
The largest of Regina's inner city neighbourhoods, it was originally established in the mid-1880s to accommodate European labourers working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It subsequently became a prosperous middle class precinct. By way of example, St Andrew's Presbyterian, later United Church — originally a mission congregation of Knox Presbyterian, like Carmichael Presbyterian to the south of Germantown and Lakeview United Church to the south of Wascana Creek — thrived from its founding in 1907 in the 2700 block, Dewdney Avenue through the building of an impressive though austere large church at Dewdney and Athol in 1951, the vitality and prosperity of the United Church and of WASPs in North Central demonstrated by the mortgage on the new building being retired after only four years in 1955 until North Central's changing demographic and the congregation's drastically waning numbers forced it to close at the turn of the 21st century.
Since the federal government's amendments to the Indian Act (R.S., 1985, c. I-5) removed restrictions on mobility of Status Indians (a Status Indian being an aboriginal person who is registered under the Act: see Indian Act), the neighbourhood's aboriginal population has steadily risen; current estimates show that one-third of the neighbourhood's 12,000-odd population is of aboriginal ethnicity.
The neighbourhood has been the subject of controversy and concern in recent years due to the high concentration of poverty, prostitution, and rundown rental housing. It is estimated that there are more IV drug users in North-Central per capita than in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Although crime rates in the area remain relatively high, they have fallen in recent years due to efforts by the Regina Police Service and several agencies, including a stolen vehicle program, an anti-drug strategy, and an increase in the number of police officers in the area. This has been a national trend for some time. As of November 2006, nearly 18% of the crime in Regina occurred in this neighbourhood, which has less than 6% of the population, or a 153-block area containing approximately (by another estimate) 10,500 people.
In recent years the local government's commitment to invest in the inner-city has been questioned in view of its attempts to close inner-city library branches and a proposal to implement a base tax which would have lowered property taxes in outlying areas, where average household income for all residents is more than triple that of all residents in the inner city — but would have increased taxes for inner-city properties. A change in funding structure will result in the three low income neighbourhoods of Cathedral Area, Al Ritchie and Argyle Park having funding reduced by $40,000 collectively and North Central having funding increased by $15,000. The $494,000 necessary to reach this target have not been fully provided.
Positive efforts to engage the social problems in North-Central include the Inner City Family Foundation, community association programs and a rental property inspection team provided via a volunteer organization. The City of Regina has legal authority to create a rental licensing program and an inspection team, but has not yet implemented either of these solutions. At the beginning of 2007, City Council increased funding for six inner-city community associations by $19,000, but disbursed the total $369,000 to an additional 18 associations.
A January 2007 article in Maclean's'' has helped prompt the city government to look at new ways of providing better housing to residents. The mayor has met with First Nations chiefs to create a dialogue, the first time during his six-year tenure in office. Also, It has spurred renewed discussion of establishing Regina's first urban reserve within the city, in association with the Piapot Cree Nation. Several years ago, the City of Regina negotiated a servicing agreement with the Nekaneet First Nation to establish an urban reserve in the northeast Industrial Area. The reserve has not yet been approved by the federal government.
Newer residential subdivisions
There is an increasingly likely population explosion in Saskatchewan cities and towns as the economy continues to boom at a rate unprecedented since the 1920s. Regina urban planners confront the issue of making new Regina neighbourhoods suitably comfortable for Saskatchewan expatriates long resident elsewhere in North America and now returning to live in the province.
Increasingly also this becomes necessary as to people from elsewhere in Canada and the world who may have rather greater expectations as to urban amenity than previously obtained when Reginans were drawn from the Saskatchewan hinterland and were perhaps somewhat forgiving. School playgrounds, both those associated with functioning schools and those which were former playgrounds of now-closed schools, are increasingly converted to landscaped parks. New residential subdivisions in the north and east sectors of the city nowadays contain an abundance of parks with, frequently, decorative lagoons containing spring run-off and summer rain catchment instead of the older model of utilitarian storm ravines.
See also
Regina's historic buildings and precincts
Notes
External links
Neighbourhood profiles |
The National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers (SUP) is an organization dedicated to preserving the legacy and studying the history of the Mormon Pioneers of Utah and the West. The organization is open to "All good men of every age and circumstance who have an interest in the early Utah Pioneers. It is not necessary to have pioneer ancestry to join."
The Sons of Utah Pioneers was officially organized in 1933. The first National president was Lawrence T. Epperson. He was succeeded by Nephi L. Morris, who was also president of the Salt Lake Stake of the LDS Church at the time. In 1947, during the centennial of the entry of the first Mormon pioneers into the Great Salt Lake valley, the Sons of Utah Pioneers organized an elaborate commemorative journey of the original Mormon trek to Utah. Prominent Mormon writer and newspaper publisher Wendell J. Ashton was the National president of the SUP at that time.
In 1982 a national headquarters building was completed in the East Mill Creek area of Salt Lake City. Administrative offices and a print library are housed there, as well as meeting rooms for local and national events.
Membership is divided into chapters where members meet, usually monthly, to hear speakers on subjects of interest in history, geography, biography, as well as topics on Mormon culture. Chapters often organize "treks" lasting one day to a week where members travel to historical sites to learn more about pioneer history, as well as to socialize with others of like interests.
The Sons of Utah Pioneers publish the quarterly Pioneer magazine, a full-color print publication containing historical articles, photographs and artwork about the Mormon Pioneers as a group, the individuals and families who comprised the Mormon Pioneers, and the places they settled.
The organization sponsors an annual historical symposium at the headquarters building in Salt Lake City, and periodic regional history symposiums in other areas of the intermountain west.
See also
Daughters of the Utah Handcart Pioneers
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
List of Mormon family organizations
Mormon pioneers
List of Sons of Utah Pioneers historic monuments
References
Sources
Sons of Utah Pioneers website
Utah History Encyclopedia article on Sons of Utah Pioneers
External links
George A. Smith chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers papers, MSS 8520 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
Merrill C. Mickelson collection of Red Rock Chapter newsletters, MSS 7753 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
History of Utah
Lineage societies
Sons of Utah Pioneers
Organizations established in 1933
State based fraternal and lineage societies
1933 establishments in Utah |
Anna Ellinor Eriksson (born 10 June 1988) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician who was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) from 2014 to 2015.
She served as general secretary of SSU from 2011 to October 2014 when she replaced Gabriel Wikström as leader, following his appointment as Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports of in the Löfven Cabinet.
Eriksson has studied psychology at Karolinska Institutet but did not completed her studies. She lives in Stockholm.
Early life and career
Born in Valbo in East Central Sweden, she has been a member of SSU since she was 15.
Eriksson served as one of ten vice presidents of the Young European Socialists for the period 2013–2015.
In the 2014 European Parliament electionin Sweden she was in the 7th spot on the Swedish Social Democratic Party list; the party obtained five seats.
References
1988 births
Living people
Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians
21st-century Swedish women politicians |
Charlotte "Charli" Howard (born 6 April 1991) is an English model, author and body activist. She is from South-East London, England. She is an activist for diversity within the fashion industry. In September 2019, she was announced as the presenter of new BBC podcast Fashion Fix, a podcast about the fashion industry.
Modelling
Howard has worked for numerous brands and fashion campaigns, including Maybelline, Redken, British Vogue, Allure magazine and Pat McGrath. She is one of the faces of Pat McGrath's beauty line and considered a "McGrath Muse".
Howard had tried to model in her teens, but was rejected by numerous agencies. At 21, she was signed to a London-based agency after her friend submitted her Facebook photos without her knowledge.
In 2015, Howard was dropped by her then-London model agency for allegedly being "too big" to model. In response, she wrote a lengthy Facebook post that subsequently went viral, with thousands of shares, and appeared on Channel 4 news to share her side of the story. Upon hearing about the post, New York-based model agency Muse Management signed her, and Howard moved to New York.
Howard is considered a "plus size" model, despite only being a UK size 10-12/US 6-8. In an interview with Hello! magazine, Howard is quoted as saying, "I've got a D cup boob, I've got a size 10 to 12 hip - well, a 12 probably - and I've got a tummy that never seems to go away, no matter how many sit-ups I do... I'm curvy, but I know that I'm not a plus-size model and I've not given myself that term. That's what other people label me."
In January 2019, Howard was announced as the new face of global lingerie brand, Agent Provocateur.
Books
Howard published two books in 2018: Splash, a novel about issues such as bullying, friendships and body image, and Misfit, a memoir about Howard's battles with eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety. She told the Guardian newspaper that she wishes to “create strong literary characters for girls” in her books. Misfit was published in February 2018 by Penguin Random House.
Howard's first children's novel, Splash, was published in July 2018. In an interview with Hello! Fashion Monthly magazine, Howard said that she wrote the book "to pass the time". Author Jacqueline Wilson described Splash as a "much-needed book that will strike a chord with so many girls - and help them dare to be different."
References
1991 births
Living people
21st-century English women writers
English female models
People with obsessive–compulsive disorder |
Philip A. Amicone (born March 30, 1949) is an American politician who was the 41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York. He took office on January 1, 2004, after serving eight years as Deputy Mayor.
Career
As Deputy Mayor he was involved in all phases of the city’s redevelopment. He was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the city departments.
Prior to becoming Deputy Mayor of Yonkers, Amicone was Commissioner of the Department of Building for the City of White Plains. Before his employment in White Plains, he worked for The Port Authority of NY & NJ and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Amicone is a licensed Professional Engineer. He was awarded a Bachelor of Civil Engineering in 1971 from Manhattan College and a Masters of Civil Engineering from New York University.
In 1970, he married Kay Terry. They have three sons: Joseph, Brendan and Matthew. They are also the grandparents of their first grandchild, Julia Kaylin Amicone.
As mayor, he was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Additionally as Mayor, Amicone spearheaded two major developments in Yonkers - the Yonkers Downtown Projects, and the Ridge Hill project.
Under the Yonkers Downtown Project, Amicone introduced a three-pronged plan that would bring more than 3,500 apartments, almost 4,000 parking spaces and more than 4.5 million square feet of new construction to downtown Yonkers. In November of 2011, after many years of organizing, waters began to flow above ground in downtown Yonkers for the first time in 90 years.
The Ridge Hill project created Yonkers’ first outdoor mall, with a multiplex cinema, its own Main St. and a water, light, and fire show. A Whole Foods, Lord & Taylor, L.L. Bean, medical building, and four-phase residential component were also developed. The development sits on a ridge (hence the name) overlooking the countryside, and is less than eight minutes from the nearest train station. The idea was to give residents a living experience with an easy walk to restaurants, stores and medical facilities.
However, Mayor Amicone's tenure was not free of controversy. In November 2011, at the end of Amicone’s second and final term in office, the City Council voted to settle a federal court verdict against Mayor Phil Amicone for illegally pulling copies of a newspaper that was sharply critical of him off city streets. The paper claimed Amicone in 2007 ordered city employees to scoop up news racks and police to ticket newspaper distributors after the Westchester Guardian ran articles and headlines sharply critical of him.
The settlement required the city to pay $393,000 in damages to readers and employees of the weekly Westchester Guardian. But it would not hold the mayor personally liable — even though he was the main target of the newspaper's original lawsuit. The settlement would override a $170,000 personal judgment of punitive damages against Amicone made as part of the case that was set to be finalized by a federal judge.
In April 2013, the Yonkers City Council again voted to pass a $100,000 settlement to be paid by the Yonkers taxpayers, again on behalf of former mayor Amicone, for his making false defamatory comments against Mr. Zherka, publisher of the Westchester Guardian, as part of a separate lawsuit filed against Mr. Amicone. The entire defense for the former mayor was funded by the City of Yonkers, even though he was the main target of the lawsuits.
References
Mayors of Yonkers, New York
Engineers from New York (state)
1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Westchester County, New York
New York (state) Republicans
Manhattan College alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni |
NetPIPE (Network Protocol-Independent Performance Evaluater) is a protocol independent performance tool that visually represents the network performance under a variety of conditions. It has modules for PVM, TCGMSG, and the 1-sided message-passing standards of MPI-2 and SHMEM.
See also
Netperf
Nuttcp
Iperf
External links
NetPIPE old web site
Computer network analysis
Network performance |
Patrick D. McGowan (born February 3, 1951) is an American politician and law enforcement officer.
McGowan lived in Maple Grove, Minnesota and served in the United States Air Force. He graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a degree in criminal justice. McGowan served in the Minneapolis Police Department and was commissioned a sergeant. McGowan served in the Minnesota Senate from 1989 to 1994 and was a Republican. McGowan then served as sheriff of Hennepin County, Minnesota from 1995 to 2006.
References
1951 births
Living people
People from Maple Grove, Minnesota
Military personnel from Minnesota
Minnesota State University, Mankato alumni
Minneapolis Police Department officers
Minnesota sheriffs
Republican Party Minnesota state senators |
Events from the year 1629 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Christian IV
Events
22 May – Christian IV signs the Treaty of Lübeck, bringing an end to Denmark's intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
25 July The County of Christiansborg (from 1741: The County of Christianssæde) is established by Christian Detlev Reventlow from the manors f Christianssæde, Ålstrup, Skelstofte and Pederstrup as well as the farm (parcelgård) Frihedsminde.
Undated
A fire destroys much of Kronborg Castle but it is subsequently rebuilt.
Bech's Windmill is constructed in Svaneke on Bornholm.
Births
7 May – Niels Juel, naval officer (died 1697)
1 September – Dorothea Elisabeth Christiansdatter, daughter of Christian IV and catholic nun (died 1687 in Germany)
Full date missing
Jens Foss, physician (died 1687)
Deaths
13 July – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, scientist (born 1585)
Full date missing
Kirsten Madsdatter, royal mistress
References
Denmark
Years of the 17th century in Denmark |
Jennings Peak () is a peak, high, in the southeastern part of the Dunedin Range, in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Cedell Jennings, U.S. Navy, an aviation electrician's mate at McMurdo Station, 1968. The topographical feature lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
References
Mountains of Victoria Land
Pennell Coast |
Saint Wasnulf (or Vasnolfo, Wasnan, Wasnon, Wasnulphus, Wasnul; died ) was a Scottish missionary in what is now Belgium.
His feast day is 1 October.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
Butler's account
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under May 26,
O'Hanlon's account
John O'Hanlon (1821–1905) in his Lives of the Irish saints wrote,
Notes
Citations
Sources
Medieval Scottish saints
650 deaths |
Henriettea goudotiana is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is endemic to Colombia.
References
goudotiana
Endemic flora of Colombia
Endangered plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Charles Victor Naudin
Plants described in 1852 |
Tim Madison (better known as Vadge Moore) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of punk band Dwarves. He formed Chthonic Force, a noise/industrial band based that was based in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009, he released his first book, Chthonic: Prose & Theory.
In 2015, he released a second book, Malevolence. In 2022, a third, My Life with the Dwarves, a retrospect on his time as a member of the Dwarves.
Discography
The Dwarves
Blood Guts & Pussy LP (Sub Pop, 1990, SP 67)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls LP (Sub Pop, 1991, SP 126)
Sugarfix LP (Sub Pop, 1993, SP 197)
The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking LP (Theologian Records, 1997, T53)
Free Cocaine DLP (Recess Records, 1999, RECESS No. 51) (early singles collection)
Lick It DLP (Recess Records, 1999, RECESS No. 52)
The Dwarves Come Clean LP (Epitaph Records, 2000, 86575 1)
Neither/Neither World
Dismember Them (Majestic Chaos) 7" (1992)
Sociopathic Pleasures (Funky Mushroom) CD/LP (1992)
Tales of the True Crime (Alive) CD (1994)
Maddening Montagery (Dark Vinyl) CD/VHS (1995)
Enter the Abyss (SSE Communications) CD (1996)
Torch Songs (Best Of) (World Serpent) CD (1998)
Suicide Notes (Zos Kia Sounds) CD (2000)
She Whispers (Peoples Records) CD (2003)
Phoenix Thunderstone
Hour of the Wolf 7" (1997)
Picnic with the Dead (Heyday) CD (1998)
Phoenix Thunderstone (Heyday) CD (1999)
Hairy Carrie / Secret (Reptilian) 7" (1999)
Under The Covers (Transparent) 7" (2000)
Chthonic Force
Mouth Pigs (Zos Kia Sounds) 7" (1999)
Chthonic Force (Zos Kia Sounds / World Serpent) CD (1999)
Agathodaemon (HauRuck!) LP (2001)
delirium tremens: THE BEST OF CHTHONIC FORCE (Discriminate Audio) CD (2007)
Other
Blag Dahlia – Venus with Arms (1995, Altavistic)
The Dwarves – The Dwarves Are Born Again (2011, MVD Audio)
Bubblebath in Blood – Anarchist Superstar EP (2012, Shat @ The Devil)
References
External links
Official website
1967 births
Living people
American punk rock drummers
American male drummers
American rock drummers
20th-century American drummers
Dwarves (band) members
20th-century American male musicians |
Tunaberg is a district that is a former parish and municipality in the southern portion of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. It has the southernmost mainland point of Svealand, the middle of the three lands of Sweden.
Its largest settlement is the seaside locality of Nävekvarn, a historical industrial settlement that also holds a natural harbour, about from the Nyköping town centre. This is also where the sole grocery store of the district is located. There is a forested geography in the district with a rocky coastline. Its largest lake is Nävsjön right on the Östergötland border. Alongside it a few kilometres eastward, there are several reservoirs around Gälkhyttan, near the border to the Tuna district to the north.
In the east of the district there is a bay where Tunaberg is near Oxelösund across the water. This part is more agrarian with farmlands surrounding the second largest settlement of Buskhyttan. The church that bears the name of the district, the Tunaberg Church is located in the small settlement of Koppartorp on the old and smaller road between the two main settlements. The modern road instead goes straight through the rural parts between Nyköping and Nävekvarn.
Settlements
Buskhyttan
Koppartorp
Nävekvarn
Minor settlements
Frankhyttan
Gälkhyttan
Hummelvik
Kovik
Pumptorp
Skeppsvik
Uttervik
See also
Bråviken
Nävsjön
Tunaberg Church
National elections
Tunaberg used to be a single municipality but have since the merger into Nyköping Municipality in the early 1970s been divided into two separate electoral districts: Koppartorp and Nävekvarn covering the eastern and western parts respectively. Due to the historical industrial and agrarian split of the district, Nävekvarn has been a consistent left-wing electoral district, whereas Koppartorp generally has been a swing district between both blocs depending on nationwide trends.
Koppartorp
Nävekvarn
References
Nyköping Municipality |
```shell
#!/bin/sh
base=$1
username=$2
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo Usage: $0 basename username
exit 1
fi
kubectl exec -it $base -- mkdir /tmp/backup
for table in artifact artifactstore attribute codeversion collaborator collaboratormappings comment dataset dataset_part_info datasetversion experiment experimentrun feature gitsnapshot gitsnapshotentity_filepaths job keyvalue observation path_dataset_version_info project query_dataset_version_info query_parameter raw_dataset_version_info tagmapping user_comment;
do kubectl exec -it $base -- pg_dump -t $table -U $username -h localhost --quote-all-identifiers -Fp --no-acl --no-owner --data-only -f /tmp/backup/$table.sql postgres
done;
kubectl exec -it $base -- tar cvzf /tmp/backup.tgz /tmp/backup
kubectl cp $base:/tmp/backup.tgz $base.tgz
kubectl exec -it $base -- rm -rf /tmp/backup /tmp/backup.tgz
``` |
Basil Hugh "The Owl" Banghart Jr. (September 11, 1901– April 5, 1982) was an American criminal, burglar, and prison escape artist. Although a successful "stickup artist" during the 1920s and early 1930s, he is best remembered for his involvement in the hoax kidnapping of Chicago mobster Jake "the Barber" Factor, a crime for which Roger Touhy and he were eventually proven innocent after nearly 20 years in prison.
Biography
Early life and criminal career
Basil Hugh Banghart was born in Berville, Michigan, in 1901. He dropped out of college after one year to become a professional car thief, stealing over 100 cars in the Detroit area before his arrest in 1926. Around this time, Banghart acquired his criminal nickname "The Owl" because of his abnormally large eyes.
Banghart escaped from Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary months into his sentence. Escaping from a window-washing detail, he leapt 25 feet from a window he was washing and over the prison's wall, escaping through the marsh on the other side. He got as far as Montana, but was recaptured and returned to prison. He made a second escape a year later, but was caught trying to steal a car in Pittsburgh in October 1928.
This time, Banghart was escorted back to prison by US marshals. He was taken to a federal building, and left alone in an office for a few minutes, Banghart used a phone to call local police, claiming he was a federal agent who had been assaulted and overpowered by his prisoner, Basil Banghart. He continued claiming that "Banghart" had escaped after handcuffing him, and described the US marshal who was escorting him, noting that he was "a dangerous, armed felon and a police impostor". When police arrived moments later, they took the escort into custody, while Banghart escaped in the confusion.
Banghart was arrested once more in February 1930, and was returned to Leavenworth, but quickly escaped again. He was arrested in Detroit for armed robbery in January 1932 and held in the South Bend, Indiana, jail, but escaped by throwing pepper in a guard's face, then using a machine gun to shoot his way out.
Banghart and the Roger Touhy gang
Banghart headed south and eventually made his way to Chicago, where he joined Roger Touhy's organization. Touhy, a veteran bootlegger from the days of Prohibition, was then in the midst of a fierce rivalry with Frank Nitti over labor racketeering. Banghart became a major asset to Touhy during this time, and no doubt an active participant in Touhy's war with the Chicago Outfit, but only one incident is recorded in which Banghart was specifically involved.
On January 31, 1933, Jimmy O'Brien was killed by Nitti's gunmen in front of the Garage Nightclub. O'Brien was one of Touhy's union men and one of the latest victims of the Touhy-Nitti feud. A week later, a man identified as Banghart returned to the nightclub, where he stepped out of a sedan and tossed a bomb through the front doors of the club. No one was injured, but the club itself was heavily damaged.
Involvement with the Factor kidnapping
When the Chicago Outfit staged the kidnapping of one of their own members, Jake "the Barber" Factor, in July 1933, it was expected to postpone his extradition to stand trial for fraud in Great Britain, as well as rid themselves of rival bootlegger Roger Touhy on whom the kidnapping would be blamed.
The members of the British consulate refused to believe the story, and won a judgment for Factor's extradition from the U.S. Supreme Court. In desperation, Factor and the Chicago mob sought to make the kidnapping more legitimate by arranging a pickup with the supposed kidnappers. Banghart and his partner Charles "Ice Wagon" Connors were brought into the plan at this point. Hired to be the "bagmen", they were told all they needed was to pick up the money, make it "look real", and they could keep the ransom money.
On August 15, the two showed up at the scheduled drop on Manheim Road just outside the Chicago city limits. As soon as they arrived, they found 300 Chicago police officers and FBI agents waiting for them. To make matters worse, inside the ransom package was only $500. In spite of the obvious double cross, Banghart and Connors surprised everyone by escaping after a wild shootout.
Capture, trial and imprisonment
Despite being set up, Banghart and Connors did not seek revenge against the Chicago Outfit, and instead went on the run. On November 15, 1933, they teamed with Ike Costner and Ludwig "Dutch" Schmidt to hijack a U.S. mail truck of $105,000 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Banghart and Costner were eventually captured by the time the second trial for Factor's kidnapping was held on February 13, 1934. Facing long prison sentences for the Charlotte mail truck robbery, both men agreed to testify for the prosecution. Although Costner had not been involved in the ransom pickup, when Connors was found murdered on March 14, he took Connors' place and falsely stated that Banghart and he had been hired for the Factor kidnapping by Roger Touhy. When Banghart took the stand, however, he denied these claims and attempted to explain that the kidnapping was staged. Banghart's testimony was largely ignored, and Touhy, two others, and he were convicted and received 99-year sentences.
Escape with Touhy
After years of unsuccessful appeals, Banghart and Touhy escaped Joliet with Edward Derlack, Martlick Nelson, William Stewart, St. Clair McInerney, and James O'Connor on October 9, 1942. The FBI immediately joined the manhunt, justifying its involvement charging that the convicts had violated the federal draft law by not informing Selective Service of their change of address. Soon after their escape, Banghart and Touhy were suspected of taking part in a robbery at Melrose Park, Illinois, on December 19, which netted $20,000, although no charges were brought against them. McInerney and O'Connor were killed in a gun battle with federal agents less than two weeks after their escape, and the rest were captured at a nearby address on December 29, 1942. J. Edgar Hoover observed the raid and took part in what would be his last "personal arrest".
Release and later years
The convicts were given even longer jail sentences for their escape, and on January 2, 1943, Banghart was returned to Stateville, where he was placed in solitary confinement. He was then transferred, with an escort of 18 federal marshals, to Alcatraz. He spent the rest of his time in the prison kitchen working with former public enemy Alvin Karpis in the bakery. Jokingly referred to by inmates as the "Karpis kitchen crew", Banghart and Karpis allegedly learned to produce wine and other alcoholic beverages from cherry pie juices and other material in the kitchen. "The challenge was to avoid becoming an alcoholic," Karpis later wrote in his memoirs.
In 1954, a federal judge declared the Factor kidnapping a fraud and that Banghart and Touhy had most likely been wrongly convicted involving the Chicago Outfit and corrupt Chicago officials. Banghart was transferred back to Stateville in 1959, and eventually his kidnapping conviction was overturned and the mail robbery charges were dropped for time served. He was released the following year, when at age 60, he was reunited with his longtime girlfriend Mae Blacock. He had also received a small inheritance from his aunt 15 years before. Banghart retired to a small island in Puget Sound.
References
1901 births
1982 deaths
American bank robbers
American escapees
People from St. Clair County, Michigan
Depression-era gangsters
Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
People acquitted of kidnapping
People wrongfully convicted of a crime |
This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in the Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, which comprises Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich.
Mills A-B
Mills C-D
Mills E-F
Mills G-H-I-J
Mills K-L
Mills M-N-O
Mills P-Q-R-S
Mills T-U-V
Mills W-X-Y-Z
References
Bibliography
External links
Bury
Bury |
Hilda al-Hinai, Arabic: هيلدا الهنائي, is an Omani diplomat and economist, who is Director of the Sultanate of Oman's delegation to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). She has been outspoken about the role of Arab countries within the WTO, and the lack of influence that all Arab states, apart from Saudi Arabia, have within it. She was chair of the working party which enabled the entry of the Seychelles into the WTO. During negotiations, she was praised for working for the interests of the Seychelles rather than the wider WTO organisation itself. She has previously held the role of Deputy Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations.
Al-Hinai has spoken openly about the discrimination she has received in her role, due to her religion and gender. She is an Honorary Member of the Diplomatic Circle of Geneva.
References
External links
Hilda bint Ali Al-Hinaia - Director of the Sultanate’s Office at the World Trade Organization in Switzerland
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Omani diplomats
Omani women diplomats
Women economists
World Trade Organization people |
Peter Edward Smith (born 12 March 1957) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England.
Career
Born in Barnsley, Smith first rode at Boston in 1974 and was signed by British League King's Lynn Stars the following year. He had one match for the Stars in 1975 but most of his racing was in the National League on loan to Teesside Teessiders, for whom he did most of his racing until 1978. By 1979 he had established himself as a regular member of the King's Lynn team, averaging close to five points per match. In 1981 he transferred to Leicester Lions, where he again averaged close to five points, also riding in the National League with Stoke Potters, where he established himself as a heat leader. Two seasons with Stoke followed before he returned to Middlesbrough in 1984, the Teessiders by now renamed Middlesbrough Tigers. He moved to Long Eaton Invaders in 1985, but by 1986 was only involved in a handful of matches. After a few outings for Stoke Potters in 1986 he retired from the sport for good.
References
1957 births
Living people
British speedway riders
English motorcycle racers
Sportspeople from Barnsley
King's Lynn Stars riders
Middlesbrough Bears riders
Leicester Lions riders
Stoke Potters riders
Long Eaton Invaders riders |
12 Camelopardalis is a binary star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located 700 light years away from the Sun as determined from parallax measurements. It forms a double star with 11 Camelopardalis, which is only 3 arcminutes away. The system has the variable star designation BM Camelopardalis; 12 Camelopardalis is the Flamsteed designation. It is just visible to the naked eye, appearing as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.08. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −2 km/s.
Abt et al. (1969) determined this to be a single-lined spectroscopic binary system and computed an orbital solution with a period of 80.17 days and an eccentricity of 0.35. However, what appeared to be an ellipticity effect with a period of was found, which was inconsistent with the computed orbit, and the lack of modulation of the amplitude did not fit with the large orbital eccentricity. Hall et al. (1995) made additional measurements, finding an orbital period of 80.9 days and an eccentricity that is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
The visible component is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K0 IIIe, showing strong emission lines. It is an RS Canum Venaticorum variable and its brightness varies by 0.14 magnitudes with a period of 82.9 days due to starspots. The star is most likely rotating in synchronous manner with its orbital period. The magnetic activity has two overlapping cycles of 14.8 and 8.5 years, with the activity occurring at two latitudes. BM Cam emits X-rays and is the designated X-ray source 1H 0501+592. It has been detected by HEAO 1, the Einstein Observatory, and ROSAT.
References
K-type giants
RS Canum Venaticorum variables
Astronomical X-ray sources
Spectroscopic binaries
Double stars
Camelopardalis
Durchmusterung objects
Camelopardalis, 12
032357
023743
1623
Camelopardalis, BM |
Věra Šedivá-Trnková (March 16, 1934 – 27 May 2018) was a Czech mathematician known for her work in topology and in category theory.
Early life and education
Trnková was born on March 16, 1934, in Berehove, then in Czechoslovakia and now in Ukraine; her father was a forester. By the time she was in high school, her family lived in Prague, and she went to Charles University for study in mathematics. There, she worked with Miroslav Katětov on general topology, earning a master's degree in 1957 with the thesis Collectionwise normal and strongly paracompact spaces on strengthened definitions for normal spaces.
She continued her work on topology at Charles University as a doctoral student of Eduard Čech, earning a candidate's degree (the Czech equivalent of a Ph.D.) in 1961 with the dissertation Non-F-Topologies. Much later, in 1989, she was also given the Dr.Sc. degree, corresponding to a habilitation.
Later life and career
In 1960, while still a student, Trnková became an assistant professor at Charles University. She was promoted to docent (associate professor), senior researcher, and full professor in 1967, 1986, and 1991, respectively.
She retired in 1999, and died on 27 May 2018.
Research
Despite beginning her career working in general topology, Trnková shifted as early as 1962 to category theory. Her work in this area included studied of formal completions of categories, the embeddings of categories into categories of topological spaces, category-theoretic automata theory, and the isomorphism of product objects in categories.
She became the author of over 100 research papers and two monographs:
Combinatorial, algebraic and topological representations of groups, semigroups and categories (with Aleš Pultr, North-Holland Mathematical Library 22, North-Holland, 1980)
Automata and algebras in categories (with Jiří Adámek, Mathematics and its Applications 37, Kluwer, 1990)
References
External links
Home page (archived 26 March 2015)
Věra Trnková on nLab
1934 births
2018 deaths
Czech mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Charles University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
Topologists
Category theorists |
Ion Panţuru (11 September 1934 – 17 January 2016) was a Romanian bobsledder. He competed in two-man and four-man events at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Romania in 1964 and 1972.
Panţuru took up bobsleigh at the age of 24, after playing as a football goalkeeper at the Divizia B-level. At the 1968 Games he won a bronze medal with brakeman Nicolae Neagoe, which remains Romania's only medal at the Winter Olympics. At the same Olympics he was also close to a bronze medal in the four-man competition, placing fourth. At the FIBT World Championships he won two medals in the two-man event, together with another brakeman Dumitru Focșeneanu, with a silver in 1969 and a bronze in 1973. At the European championships Panţuru won four-man gold medals in 1967 and 1971, placing second in four-man in 1968–69 and in two-man events in 1967 and 1969; he also won a four-man bronze medal in 1970.
Panţuru lost his 1969 World Championships medal in a car on his way to the airport. The medal was found in a basement 30 years later, and returned to Panțuru. After retiring from competitions he worked as a national bobsleigh coach. For his sports achievements he was made an honorary citizen of three Romanian towns: Comarnic, Sinaia and Busteni.
References
External links
1972 bobsleigh four-man results
Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932–56 and since 1964
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
DatabaseOlympics.com profile
1934 births
2016 deaths
People from Comarnic
Romanian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Romania
Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Prahova County |
Ennadai Lake is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is long, and wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River. A section of the Kazan River from the outlet of Ennadai Lake to Baker Lake, was designated as a part of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1990.
A weather station was located in the area at Ennadai.
History
Until 1957, Ennadai Lake was home to the Ahiarmiut (Ihalmiut) Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᐦᐊᓪᒥᐅᑦ , Caribou Inuit. Inland Inuit were also "known as the ("People from Beyond") or Ahiarmiut ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers"). The Ahialmiut "subsisted almost entirely on caribou year-round, unlike other Inuit groups that depended at least partially on harvest of animals from the sea."
The ancestors of present-day Inuit in the area along with ancestors of the Dene, who later left the area "used the Kazan River during summer for more than 5,000 years, retreating to the treeline or the coast for the rest of the year."
"The ancestors of the Ahialmiut had moved inland from coastal areas in what is now the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut. When the Dene joined the fur trade, and stopped following caribou onto the tundra each summer, the Ahialmiut moved farther inland, pushing south to the treeline by about 1850. They spent spring and summer inland, where they intercepted caribou travelling north in the spring, and camped in summer on the calving grounds."
These inland Inuit also lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak) and north of Thlewiaza ("Big River")
The Ihalmiut were successful inland hunters. However, they experienced years of famine "when caribou wintered primarily in the southern forest, rather than on the tundra, or when they were unable to cache sufficient food supplies in the fall."
In the early 1890s the Caribou Inuit began trading with Canadians of European descent. They maintained trap lines for white fox along their caribou hunting trails. They continued to depend on the Qamanirjuaq caribou. "But after years of hardship in the late 1940s and 1950s, many people started moving into communities. Government encouraged them to do so to allow their children to attend school, and to have access to medical care at nursing stations."
Ihalmiut were Caribou Inuit, inland-dwelling people in the Barren Lands region whose subsistence centred on hunting caribou. Caribou meat was dried for the winter months.
On March 17, 2000, two pilots perished in an aviation accident while landing a Douglas DC-3 at Ennadai Lake. The plane departed Points North Landing, Saskatchewan with of cargo on board for building materials for the construction of a lodge.
Relocations
The Ihalmiut were relocated by the Government of Canada in May 1957 to Henik Lake. The caribou were scarce in the Henik Lake area and starvation soon set in. They were later relocated again to Whale Cove.
1949, Ihalmiut were relocated from Ennadai Lake to Nueltin Lake, but the relocation did not last as hunting was poor, precipitating the band's return to Ennadai Lake. The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps built the radio station at Ennadai Lake in 1949.
May 1957, Ihalmiut were airlifted from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake, from the trading post at Padlei, a distance considered reasonable by the Government of Canada. Many Ihalmiut starved.
Later in 1957, Ihalmiut were moved to Whale Cove where some began carving figurines for income.
In 1958, 29 Ihalmiut went to Padlei because of its trading post, 39 were at Yathkyed Lake, and the majority were brought to Eskimo Point (Arviat) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
In 1959, the Padlei trading post closed, and the remaining Ihalmiut was relocated. Farley Mowat's 1959 revisit to the Ihalmiut inspired the follow-up book "Walking on the Land", a depiction of the effects of the federal government, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Catholic missionaries, and big business upon the people.
The relocations to Nueltin Lake and Henik Lake were complete failures. "The Ahiarmiut themselves maintain that Ennadai Lake was an excellent hunting area and failed to understand why they were relocated."
On September 7, 1985, 36 elders returned to Ennadai Lake from where they had been relocated in the 1950s.
In an article in Inuktitut, David Serkoak, who was a child at the time of the relocation, attempted to understand the reasoning behind decision to move the Ahiarmiut.
A workshop was held in Arviat in 2003 with Ahiarmiut elders on 'Survival and Angakkuuniq' in which "Ahiarmiut elders Job and Eva Muqyunnik, Luke and Mary Anautalik often reflected on the events that almost fifty years ago had disrupted their lives and still affected them." This was followed by a second workshop in 2006 held at Ennadai Lake with Ahiarmiut originally from Ennadai Lake, including Eva Muqyunnik, Job Muqyunnik, Mary Anautalik, John Aulatjut, Silas Ilungiyajuk, Geena Aulatjut then living in Arviat, Andrew Alikashuak living in Whale Cove, and Mary Whitmore from Churchill, Manitoba. Annie Seewoe and Luke Anautalik from Arviat and David Serkoak from Iqaluit were unable to attend.
Government apology and settlement
In 2013 the Ennadai Lake Society filed their final submission in their special claim against the federal government. One of their requests was an official apology from the federal government "for the unbelievable hardship the Ahiarmiut suffered" during the repeated relocations from Ennadai Lake. In 2018 the federal government reached an agreement with the survivors of the forced relocation for a $5 million settlement. In January 2019, the federal government announced that Carolyn Bennett, at the time Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations, would deliver the formal apology on behalf of the Canadian government in Arviat, Nunavut on January 22.
Geography and climate
Ennadai Lake is within the Hearne Domain. This lake is of the few weather stations in Nunavut to report a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) as opposed to a tundra climate (Köppen ET).
Flora
At Ennadai Lake's Kazan River outflow, the forest includes sparse black spruce and tamarack that grow approximately high, stunted because of harsh winds and cool summers.
Fauna
Ennadai Lake is part of the "annual migration route of the almost 500,000 strong Qamanirjuaq barren-ground caribou herd, and the occasional route of the 275,000 member Beverly herd." Beverly Lake is the area where the Beverly herd regularly bears its young. The Qamanirjuaq herd regularly bears its young near Qamanirjuaq Lake. Both herds historically migrate into Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. According to Arviat elders, for the first time since the late 1960s Qamanirjuaq caribou began their spring migration where the Seal River flows into the Hudson Bay."] Since the 1960s, Qamanirjuaq caribou have been moving out of their winter range in northwestern Manitoba, northeastern Saskatchewan, southeastern NWT, and southwestern Nunavut into staging areas near Cullaton Lake, Seal Hole Lake and Ennadai Lake." In late March / early April when tens of thousands of caribou occupy these areas just before their spring migration "east as far as the Hudson Bay coast, then north to their calving grounds." In April large groups of yearlings and cows begin their traditional migration corridors back to the calving areas and in May the bulls leave their winter range and begin their migration.
Notable people from Ennadai Lake
Luke Anowtalik (1932-2006), an Ihalmiut, was a first-generation Inuit artist with work in major galleries including the National Gallery of Canada, the Marion Scott Gallery and Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver, Inuit Galerie in Mannheim. He was born in the Ennadai Lake area where he began carving his small swivel figures in caribou antler and sold his first carvings to Ministry of Transport employees working there. The federal government relocated him first to Whale Cove, then to Arviat where he continued carving often using the hard stone that was available there. His wife Mary Ayaq Anowtalik is also a well-known carver.
Elisapee Karetak, an Ihalmiut, was an infant when her father Hallauk, her mother Kikkik and Elisapee's three young siblings were relocated from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake in 1957. In 2000 Karetak with Montreal-based filmmaker Ole Gjerstad, produced a one-hour documentary entitled Kikkik about her mother. After her husband was murdered by a man delusional from hunger, Kikkik stabbed the man and began a long journey from Henik Lake to get help. Kikkik trekked for days across the Barrens carrying one-and-a-half-year-old Elisapee in her amauti and with three other children in tow.
Ennadai Lake in popular culture
Farley Mowatt wrote a series of books about the Inuit from the Ennadai Lake region including People of the Deer in 1952, The Desperate People in 1959, Death of a People, Walking on the Land in 2001, and No Man's River in 2004.
See also
List of lakes of Nunavut
List of lakes of Canada
Notes
Citations
References
Further reading
Lakes of Kivalliq Region
Former populated places in the Kivalliq Region |
```c++
/// Source : path_to_url
/// Author : liuyubobobo
/// Time : 2017-10-19
#include <iostream>
#include <stack>
#include <cctype>
#include <cassert>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
// Using stack to simulate the dfs process
// Time Complexity: O(n)
// Space Complexity: O(n)
class Solution {
public:
int lengthLongestPath(string input) {
//cout << input << endl;
int res = 0;
int curLength = 0;
stack<string> dir;
int start = 0;
for(int i = 1 ; i <= input.size() ; ){
if(i == input.size() || input[i] == '\n'){
string curStr = input.substr(start, i-start);
//cout << "cur str: " << curStr << endl;
int j = start;
while(input[j] == '\t')
j ++;
string curDir = curStr.substr(j-start);
int curDepth = j - start;
if(curDepth < dir.size()){
assert(dir.size() >= (dir.size() - curDepth));
int pop_time = dir.size() - curDepth;
for(int k = 0 ; k < pop_time ; k ++){
curLength -= dir.top().size();
dir.pop();
}
}
else
assert(curDepth == dir.size());
dir.push(curDir);
curLength += curDir.size();
if(curDir.find(".") != string::npos){
assert(dir.size() >= 1);
res = max(res, curLength + (int)dir.size() - 1);
}
start = i+1;
i = start + 1;
}
else
i ++;
}
return res;
}
};
int main() {
cout << Solution().lengthLongestPath(
"dir\n\tsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tfile.ext") << endl;
cout << Solution().lengthLongestPath(
"dir\n\tsubdir1\n\t\tfile1.ext\n\t\tsubsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tsubsubdir2\n\t\t\tfile2.ext") << endl;
cout << Solution().lengthLongestPath(
"a\n\tb1\n\t\tf1.txt\n\taaaaa\n\t\tf2.txt") << endl;
return 0;
}
``` |
Garrat Noel (1706–1776) was a bookseller and educator in New York City, in the 18th century. He emigrated from Cádiz in 1750. In 1751 he worked as a "teacher of the Spanish tongue ... also ... reading, writing, arithmetick and merchants accompts." By 1752 he kept a shop on Broad Street, and in 1753 on Dock Street. From his shop Noel also operated a circulating library of "several thousand volumes of choice books, in history, divinity, travels, voyages, novels, &c."
In addition to books and periodicals Noel sold stationery and other sundries: "Playing cards by the dozen or single pack. Best ink powder and ink. Paper of all sorts, by the ream or quire, penknives, pencils, quils, pens, wax, and seals, ink-pots and pewter-stands, and boxes, paste-board files with laces, brass-wire files, blanks of all sorts, scales and dividers, and pocket compasses, pounce and pounce-boxes, memorandum books, fountain pens, ivory folders, leather paper cases, blank books for accounts of all sorts, alphabets, copy books, receipt books, 9 leaved carts of the Channel and West Indies. Likewise a fresh assortment of the famous tooth powder, Stoughton's Bitters, lotion water, smelling bottles, viper drops, Turlington and West's pectoral elixir, lavender drops, and lavender water."
In 1753 he carried in his shop "curious bustos, fit furniture for gentlmen's houses, in plaister of paris, plain, polished and burnished in gold, with black pedestals, all very fine drapery, viz. Shakespear and Milton, Homer and Virgil, Horace and Tully, Cicero and Plato, Caesar and Seneca, Prior and Congrave, Addison and Pope, Lock and Newton, Dryden and Gay, Venus and Apollo, Ovid and Julia. Likewise a parcel of pictures in the newest and genteelest taste."
Among the titles offered for sale by Noel in 1755:
Behn's Plays
Bowen's New Atlas
Bysshe's Art of Poetry
Francis Coventry's The History of a Lap Dog, Pompey the Little
Echard's Gazetteer
Fielding's Voyage to Lisbon
The Gardner's Dictionary
Harrison's House-keepers Pocket Companion
Hartley's Observations on Man
Edward Hatton's Mathematical Manual
Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator
Heylen's Help to English History
Hibernicus's Letters
The Hive: a Collection of Choice New Songs
Hughes' Natural History of Barbados
Hutcheson's Xenophon
Independent Whig
Alain-René Lesage's The Batchelor of Salamanca
Noël-Antoine Pluche's History of the Heavens
Potter's Antiquities of Greece
The Tatler
Wishart's Commentaries on the late War in Italy
The World in Miniature
The Young Lady Conducted
According to contemporary anecdotes, a customer once travelled to Noel's bookshop from "some distance up Hudson River" especially to purchase "Spanish bulls" advertised by Noel in the newspapers. The "old Scotchman" mistook the documents "for cattle."
Noel died in 1776 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
See also
Books in the United States
Further reading
References
1706 births
1776 deaths
People from Cádiz
Bookstores in Manhattan
Businesspeople from New York City
Libraries in Manhattan
American art dealers
American librarians
Commercial circulating libraries
People of the Province of New York
Spanish emigrants to the United States
Colonial American merchants |
Chris Martin (born 27 January 1981 in Chertsey, Surrey, England) is a British rower.
Early rowing career
Martin started rowing at 14 at Hampton School. At the end of his third year of rowing he raced as part of the British team and remained part of the British rowing team at six World Rowing Championships returning with a medal from each.
1997 Hazewinkel, Belgium : World Junior Championships JM8+ 3rd
1998 Ottensheim, Austria : World Junior Championships JM4+ 3rd
1999 Plovdiv, Bulgaria : World Junior Championships JM4- 2nd
2000 Copenhagen, Denmark : Nations Cup M4+ 1st
2001 Ottensheim, Austria : U23 World Championships M4- 2nd
2001 Lucerne, Switzerland : World Rowing Championships M4+ 3rd
Martin also competed in the World Cup races in 2002 but without repeating his earlier medal winning form.
2002 Nottingham, United Kingdom : Commonwealth Regatta M2- 3rd
Ocean rowing
Having been dropped from the GB squad, Martin turned his attention to ocean rowing and in 2005/06 he rowed across the Atlantic Ocean solo, as part of the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race in 68 days, 15 hours and 19 minutes to become the 31st solo ocean rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean on the East to West route. During his row he also conducted observations on the ocean currents affecting his boat Pacific Pete for Earth & Space Research as part of Ocean Surface Current Analyses Real-time (OSCAR).
Martin remained an active member within the ocean rowing community and was one of the co-founders of the Association of Ocean Rowers.
In 2006, Martin joined a team of Royal Marines Reserves in a row from London to Paris as part of their preparations for breaking the record for the Atlantic east to west route.
After this Martin spent three years preparing for a double handed row with Mick Dawson. On 8 May 2009, Martin and Dawson set off from Choshi, Japan into the north Pacific Ocean. After an eventful journey where the crew sighted the US Naval research vessel SBX-1. and ran out of food requiring a helicopter resupply from Wayne Lackey
189 Days, 10 Hours, 55 Minutes after the pair set out from Japan they rowed their boat Bojangles underneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday 13 November 2009.
In 2010, Martin and Dawson were awarded a Guinness World Record for being the first team to row across the North Pacific Ocean. The footage they filmed on their trip was turned into a documentary presented by James Cracknell for Discovery Channel and was aired for the first time on 10 May 2012.
In 2011, Martin founded the New Ocean Wave, to manage the Great Pacific Race from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii, to be run in 2014. Accomplished ocean rower Roz Savage is also part of the New Ocean Wave organising team as a race consultant.
In 2013, Martin organized the biennial NOMAN Barcelona to Ibiza race, on behalf of the HPV and Anal Cancer Foundation. This was the first ocean rowing race to take place on the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and saw two identical boats of five rowers race. Future editions of the event saw up to 6 boats participating and races occur both from Barcelona to Ibiza and a return leg of the race from Ibiza back to Barcelona.
In 2014, Martin was the Race Director for the first ever Great Pacific Race and oversaw the organisation of the event heading up the race management team. The Great Pacific Race made history with 14 Guinness World Records being applied for following this successful event.
In 2015, Martin became part of the steering committee for the Ocean Rowing Society.
In 2016 and 2018 Martin returned as the Race Director for the Great Pacific Race overseeing 11 crews attempt at completing the route.
References
External links
New Ocean Wave
Living people
1981 births
People educated at Hampton School
Ocean rowers
English male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
Sportspeople from Chertsey |
In Inca mythology, Unu Pachakuti is the name of a flood that Viracocha caused to destroy the people around Lake Titicaca, saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world.
The process of destruction is linked with a new construction. It has a very deep meaning in the language and traditions. Some people would translate it as "revolution".
"The Inca’s supreme being and creator god, Con Tici (Kon Tiki) Viracocha, first created a race of giants, but they were unruly, so he destroyed them in a mighty flood and turned them to stone. Following the deluge, he created human beings from smaller stones.
"In other versions of this story, the impious race is the pre-Inca civilization of the Tiahuanaco Americans about Lake Titicaca, the large high lake in the Andes. Viracocha drowns them and spares two, a man and a woman, to start the human race anew.
Some versions of the Unu Pachakuti have the surviving man and woman floating to Lake Titicaca in a wooden box."
See also
Flood
Flood myth
Inca mythology
Pachakutic
Viracocha
References
Inca mythology
Flood myths |
Railway stations in the Republic of the Congo (Congo) include:
Maps
UN Map
UNHCR Atlas Map
ReliefWeb
UNJLC Rail map of Southern Africa
misses line to Franceville
Stations served by passenger trains
Cities served by rail
Existing
Pointe-Noire - port - 0 km
Tié-Tié
Loandjili
Hinda, Congo
Mvouti
Sisansinga
Dolisie (was Loubomo) - capital of the Niari Department - near junction to Mbinda
Monto Bélo - junction for Mbinda
Loudima
Nkayi (near Kayes)
Madingou
Mindouli
Kibouende
Brazzaville - capital - 512 km
Loutété - cement works
Monto Bello - junction for Mbinda
Makabana
Titi
Moutamba
Mossendjo
Mayoko - proposed iron ore mine
Mbinda - railhead for Franceville, Gabon and former COMILOG Cableway
Timeline
2014
( Sundance Iron ore railway)
Avima, Congo - iron ore mine
Lolabe, Cameroon - port
(This railway is isolated from the rest of the Congo railway system)
2021
proposed Mayoko & Niari - Pointe-Noire railway for iron ore traffic.
Proposed
Brazzaville - Ouesso - Constructing 1,000 km new line - 2008
Pointe Noire - Djambala - Constructing 500 km new line - 2008
Pointe Noire - Zanaga - New line for iron ore.
Brazzaville-Kinshasa Bridge
Pointe Noire - Indienne new deep-water port for iron ore export
2021 Pointe Noire - Mayoko & Niari - iron ore railway
Closed
(610mm gauge, isolated)
Boma - port
Lukula
Tshela - terminus
See also
Transport in the Republic of the Congo
Railway stations in DRCongo
References
Railway stations
Railway stations |
Doc's Island is an adventure module published in 1983 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Plot summary
Doc's Island is an adventure in which the player characters must deliver the Egg of the Phoenix to the unusual Doc's Island.
Publication history
R-4 Doc's Island was written by Frank Mentzer, with art by Bob Walters, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. It was later rewritten, and collected with the other modules from the R-series in I12 Egg of the Phoenix.
Reception
References
Dungeons & Dragons modules
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1983 |
```go
// Code generated by MockGen. DO NOT EDIT.
// Source: github.com/m3db/m3/src/metrics/encoding/protobuf (interfaces: UnaggregatedEncoder)
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
// THE SOFTWARE.
// Package protobuf is a generated GoMock package.
package protobuf
import (
"reflect"
"github.com/m3db/m3/src/metrics/encoding"
"github.com/golang/mock/gomock"
)
// MockUnaggregatedEncoder is a mock of UnaggregatedEncoder interface.
type MockUnaggregatedEncoder struct {
ctrl *gomock.Controller
recorder *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder
}
// MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder is the mock recorder for MockUnaggregatedEncoder.
type MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder struct {
mock *MockUnaggregatedEncoder
}
// NewMockUnaggregatedEncoder creates a new mock instance.
func NewMockUnaggregatedEncoder(ctrl *gomock.Controller) *MockUnaggregatedEncoder {
mock := &MockUnaggregatedEncoder{ctrl: ctrl}
mock.recorder = &MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder{mock}
return mock
}
// EXPECT returns an object that allows the caller to indicate expected use.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) EXPECT() *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder {
return m.recorder
}
// EncodeMessage mocks base method.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) EncodeMessage(arg0 encoding.UnaggregatedMessageUnion) error {
m.ctrl.T.Helper()
ret := m.ctrl.Call(m, "EncodeMessage", arg0)
ret0, _ := ret[0].(error)
return ret0
}
// EncodeMessage indicates an expected call of EncodeMessage.
func (mr *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder) EncodeMessage(arg0 interface{}) *gomock.Call {
mr.mock.ctrl.T.Helper()
return mr.mock.ctrl.RecordCallWithMethodType(mr.mock, "EncodeMessage", reflect.TypeOf((*MockUnaggregatedEncoder)(nil).EncodeMessage), arg0)
}
// Len mocks base method.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) Len() int {
m.ctrl.T.Helper()
ret := m.ctrl.Call(m, "Len")
ret0, _ := ret[0].(int)
return ret0
}
// Len indicates an expected call of Len.
func (mr *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder) Len() *gomock.Call {
mr.mock.ctrl.T.Helper()
return mr.mock.ctrl.RecordCallWithMethodType(mr.mock, "Len", reflect.TypeOf((*MockUnaggregatedEncoder)(nil).Len))
}
// Relinquish mocks base method.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) Relinquish() Buffer {
m.ctrl.T.Helper()
ret := m.ctrl.Call(m, "Relinquish")
ret0, _ := ret[0].(Buffer)
return ret0
}
// Relinquish indicates an expected call of Relinquish.
func (mr *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder) Relinquish() *gomock.Call {
mr.mock.ctrl.T.Helper()
return mr.mock.ctrl.RecordCallWithMethodType(mr.mock, "Relinquish", reflect.TypeOf((*MockUnaggregatedEncoder)(nil).Relinquish))
}
// Reset mocks base method.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) Reset(arg0 []byte) {
m.ctrl.T.Helper()
m.ctrl.Call(m, "Reset", arg0)
}
// Reset indicates an expected call of Reset.
func (mr *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder) Reset(arg0 interface{}) *gomock.Call {
mr.mock.ctrl.T.Helper()
return mr.mock.ctrl.RecordCallWithMethodType(mr.mock, "Reset", reflect.TypeOf((*MockUnaggregatedEncoder)(nil).Reset), arg0)
}
// Truncate mocks base method.
func (m *MockUnaggregatedEncoder) Truncate(arg0 int) error {
m.ctrl.T.Helper()
ret := m.ctrl.Call(m, "Truncate", arg0)
ret0, _ := ret[0].(error)
return ret0
}
// Truncate indicates an expected call of Truncate.
func (mr *MockUnaggregatedEncoderMockRecorder) Truncate(arg0 interface{}) *gomock.Call {
mr.mock.ctrl.T.Helper()
return mr.mock.ctrl.RecordCallWithMethodType(mr.mock, "Truncate", reflect.TypeOf((*MockUnaggregatedEncoder)(nil).Truncate), arg0)
}
``` |
The Arem language (Cmbrau ) is an endangered language spoken by the Arem people in a small area on both sides of the Laos–Vietnam border. It belongs to the Vietic branch of the Austroasiatic language family. Specifically, it is a member of the Chut language group, which is one of the six Vietic languages. This language is considered severely endangered by UNESCO. Like other Vietic languages, the Arem language makes use of a tonal or phonational system that is unique to Vietic languages. Like many southern Vietic Languages, the Arem language also makes use of pre-syllables or sesquisyllables within the language.
Arem lacks the breathy phonation common to most Vietic languages, but does have glottalized final consonants.
Names
Arem is an ethnographic term to describe a group of indigenous people that reside on the border of Southern Vietnam and Laos. The people prefer to call themselves Cmbrau . However, because this is the only attested sesquisyllabic structure in the language, it is theorized that this may also be an ethnographic term that was borrowed from another nearby language.
Another name for the Arem is Umo, which literally means 'cave' or 'grotto'.
History and demographics
The Arem people were only known to exist by local populations of Vietnam until 1959, when they were discovered by the Vietnamese military. Previously, the local authorities had thought them members of the local Bru khùa community. The Arem population was only 53 people in 1960: 30 men and 23 women. The most recent survey of the area in 1999 indicated that there were 102 Arem people. Of these 102 Arem people, only around 25% of the population was estimated to be using the Arem language on a consistent basis. All speakers of the Arem language are bilingual speakers of Vietnamese and some are also fluent in Khùa and/or Lao as well.
In Vietnam, Arem is spoken in Bản Ban and in Tân Trạch communities. In Tân Trạch, Arem is spoken in village no. 39, which also has Ma[ng] Coong people, who are a Bru–Van Kieu subgroup. As a result, Ma Coong is the most widely spoken in the village. As of 2015, there were only about 20 speakers of Arem remaining.
Syllabic structure
The Arem language makes use of both monosyllabic words and sesquisyllabic words. It is estimated that 55-60% of the Arem language's consists of sesquisyllabic words. This is much higher than the majority of other Vietic languages that typically utilize sesquisyllables in only 35-40% of their lexicon, if the particular language contains any sesquisyllables at all.
Notes and references
Notes
Bibliography
(see note on talk page)
Ferlus, Michel. 2014. Arem, a Vietic Language. Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1:1-15 (ICAAL5 special issue).
External links
Arem corpus collected by Michel Ferlus and Trần Trí Dõi. Pangloss Collection – (CNRS, Paris).
Languages of Laos
Vietic languages
Languages of Vietnam
Endangered Austroasiatic languages |
```php
<?php
/*
* This file is part of the Symfony package.
*
* (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DependencyInjection;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\ServiceLocatorTagPass;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Fragment\FragmentRendererInterface;
/**
* Adds services tagged kernel.fragment_renderer as HTTP content rendering strategies.
*
* @author Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
*/
class FragmentRendererPass implements CompilerPassInterface
{
private $handlerService;
private $rendererTag;
public function __construct(string $handlerService = 'fragment.handler', string $rendererTag = 'kernel.fragment_renderer')
{
if (0 < \func_num_args()) {
trigger_deprecation('symfony/http-kernel', '5.3', 'Configuring "%s" is deprecated.', __CLASS__);
}
$this->handlerService = $handlerService;
$this->rendererTag = $rendererTag;
}
public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
{
if (!$container->hasDefinition($this->handlerService)) {
return;
}
$definition = $container->getDefinition($this->handlerService);
$renderers = [];
foreach ($container->findTaggedServiceIds($this->rendererTag, true) as $id => $tags) {
$def = $container->getDefinition($id);
$class = $container->getParameterBag()->resolveValue($def->getClass());
if (!$r = $container->getReflectionClass($class)) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Class "%s" used for service "%s" cannot be found.', $class, $id));
}
if (!$r->isSubclassOf(FragmentRendererInterface::class)) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Service "%s" must implement interface "%s".', $id, FragmentRendererInterface::class));
}
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
$renderers[$tag['alias']] = new Reference($id);
}
}
$definition->replaceArgument(0, ServiceLocatorTagPass::register($container, $renderers));
}
}
``` |
is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current Artist of Stardom Champion (with Mai Sakurai and Thekla) in her second reign and is the leader of Donna Del Mondo. She also makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where she is the current Strong Women's Champion in her first reign.
Giulia previously competed in Ice Ribbon, from her debut in 2017 up until October 2019, where she once held the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship alongside Tequila Saya. Since debuting in Stardom in 2019, Giulia has been a one-time World of Stardom Champion, one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion and one-time Goddess of Stardom Champion. Giulia is also the winner of the Cinderella Tournament 2020 and the 5Star Grand Prix 2022. Giulia was the recipient of the 2020 Tokyo Sports Women's Wrestling Grand Prize.
Early life
Giulia was born in London, England, to an Italian father and a Japanese mother, who was studying there. One year after Giulia's birth, they moved back and she was raised in Japan's Chiba Prefecture. She worked as a manager in an Italian restaurant before applying to train as a professional wrestler with Ice Ribbon in 2017. In an interview for Shūkan Bunshun in 2022, Giulia stated that she was a victim of bullying because of her double ethnicity, reason for which she attended a private high-school.
Professional wrestling career
Ice Ribbon (2017–2019)
Giulia made her professional wrestling debut at New Ice Ribbon #845, an event promoted by Ice Ribbon on October 29, 2017, teaming with the legendary Takako Inoue in a loss to Nao Date and Satsuki Totoro. In November, she entered the Young Ice Tournament where she was eliminated by Totoro in the first round. In April 2018, she wrestled Ice Ribbon's ace, Tsukasa Fujimoto, for the first time, losing in 39 seconds. On September 24, Giulia got her first singles victory when she defeated Asahi. In the latter part of the year, Giulia began a feud with Tequila Saya, which eventually bought in male wrestlers Shinya Aoki and Hideki Suzuki, who acted as mentors for the female wrestlers and taught them new moves throughout their feud. After a match on December 31 where Tequila Saya and Hideki Suzuki were defeated by Giulia and Shinya Aoki, Giulia and Saya reconciled and formed a tag team known as Burning Raw. At the end of the year, she was presented with Ice Ribbon's New Face award, the equivalent of winning rookie of the year. On January 27, 2019, Burning Raw unsuccessfully challenged Kyuri and Maika Ozaki for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. After February 17, Giulia announced she would be taking a month off from pro wrestling due to nerve damage in her hip. After returning, she began a feud with Maya Yukihi, which culminated in Giulia unsuccessfully challenging for the ICE Cross Infinity Championship on May 25. In July, Burning Raw defeated Maya Yukihi and Risa Sera to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. After 3 months as champions, Burning Raw lost the titles back to Yukihi and Sera on September 23. On October 13, Giulia announced she would be leaving Ice Ribbon.
Independent circuit (2017–present)
On October 1, 2017, Giulia was invited by the legendary Toshiaki Kawada to compete on one of his Holy War shows, where she was defeated by veteran Command Bolshoi. Days later, Giulia was defeated by Aja Kong in a singles match for the Oz Academy promotion. Giulia made several appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling in events where joshi puroresu was also promoted. The first one was a house show from June 9, 2018, where Giulia lost to Tequila Saya. At Pro Wrestling Zero1's Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018 on November 18, she picked up a victory against Mochi Miyagi. At AWG Act In Osaka, an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on July 21, 2019, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Saori Anou for the AgZ Championship.
World Wonder Ring Stardom (2019–present)
On October 14, 2019, Giulia announced that she had signed with World Wonder Ring Stardom. On December 8, Giulia made her in-ring debut on Stardom where she defeated Hazuki.
During January 2020, Giulia formed a new unit named Donna Del Mondo, recruiting Maika and Syuri to the stable in the process. On February 8, Donna del Mondo defeated Queen's Quest (AZM, Momo Watanabe and Utami Hayashishita) to win the Artist of Stardom Championship. On March 24, Giulia defeated Jungle Kyona, Momo Watanabe, fellow Donna del Mondo stablemate Syuri, and finally Natsuko Tora to be crowned the 2020 Cinderella Tournament winner. In July, a feud began between Giulia and Tam Nakano, initially for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, that would continue intermittently for several years. On July 26 at Cinderella Summer in Tokyo, Giulia defeated Tam Nakano in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant Wonder of Stardom Championship. On October 3, Giulia had her first successful title defense where she defeated Nakano in a rematch. In October and November, Giulia and Maika competed in the Red Goddesses block of the 2020 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League under the team name Crazy Bloom. They reached the finals of the tournament, in which they lost to MOMOAZ. On November 14, Donna del Mondo lost the Artist of Stardom Championship to Oedo Tai (Bea Priestley, Saki Kashima and Natsuko Tora). At Sendai Cinderella 2020 on November 15, Giulia successfully defended the Wonder of Stardom Championship against Konami. On December 20, Giulia defended the Wonder of Stardom Championship in a title vs. title match against fellow Donna del Mondo member Syuri who defended the SWA World Championship. The match ended in a time-limit draw, with both titleholders retaining their titles in the process.
On March 3, 2021, at All Star Dream Cinderella, Giulia was defeated by Tam Nakano in a hair vs. hair match for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, ending her reign at 220 days. Post-match, she had her head partially shaved in the ring, with the rest cut off backstage. At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 on April 4, Giulia teamed up with Syuri to win the Goddess of Stardom Championship from fellow Donna Del Mondo members Maika and Himeka after an inter-stable clash. Giulia and Syuri would later name their tag team Alto Livello Kabaliwan, often shortened to ALK, meaning High Level Madness. Giulia made it to the second round of the 2021 Cinderella Tournament on May 14, where she lost to Maika. At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer on July 4, ALK successfully defended their Goddess of Stardom Championship against Stars (Mayu Iwatani and Koguma). Giulia took part in the 2021 5 Star Grand Prix, competing in the Red Stars block, but pulled out of the tournament after three matches due to dealing with several injuries. She made her in-ring return on December 29 at Dream Queendom where she successfully picked up a victory against Konami, who was departing from Stardom.
On January 3, 2022, Giulia revealed Thekla from Ice Ribbon and Mirai from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling as the two masked superstars who kept attacking various other wrestlers at the end of 2021. All three of them teamed up to defeat Cosmic Angels (Tam Nakano, Mai Sakurai and Unagi Sayaka) in a six-woman tag team match. At Nagoya Golden Fight on January 29, Giulia battled Mayu Iwatani into a time-limit draw in a number one contendership match for the World of Stardom Championship, which awarded both of them an opportunity to challenge for the championship at World Climax 2022. On the first night of the World Climax 2022 from March 26, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Syuri for the World of Stardom Championship. After their match, Syuri announced she will leave Donna Del Mondo to walk on her path and form another stable, later revealed to be God's Eye. On the second night from March 27, Giulia teamed up with Maika, Himeka and Thekla to take out Prominence's Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Akane Fujita and Mochi Miyagi, with whom all the Donna Del Mondo members had been in a feud. However, Suzu Suzuki stated that she was not finished with Giulia despite her unit's loss, which meant that the feud was still standing. At the 2022 Cinderella Tournament, Giulia reached the second rounds on April 10, where she lost to Koguma. At Flashing Champions on May 28, Giulia teamed up with Mai Sakurai to unsuccessfully face FWC for the Goddess of Stardom Championship. At Fight in the Top on June 26, Giulia, Maika, and Mai Sakurai unsuccessfully challenged Oedo Tai (Saki Kashima, Momo Watanabe and Starlight Kid), and God's Eye (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) in a three-way match for the Artist of Stardom Championship. Giulia was announced compete in the 2022 5 Star Grand Prix on July 30. She won the whole comptition on the last day of the tournament from October 1 by defeating Tam Nakano in the finals. On December 29, at Dream Queendom 2, Giulia defeated Syuri to win the World of Stardom Championship for the first time in her career.
On February 4, 2023, at Stardom Supreme Fight, Giulia had her first successful title defense of the World of Stardom Championship by defeating Suzu Suzuki. On March 4, Giulia's second title defense, against Maya Yukihi, ended in a double countout. It was later reported that the reason for the match ending in a double countout was due to real-life heat between the two. On April 23, at All Star Grand Queendom, Giulia lost the title to Tam Nakano, ending her reign at 115 days. On May 27, at Flashing Champions, Giulia, Mai Sakurai and Thekla, together known as the Baribari Bombers, defeated the Artist of Stardom Champions REStart (Kairi, Natsupoi and Saori Anou) to win the titles.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2020–present)
Giulia has taken part in exhibition matches organized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling in relationship with World Wonder Ring Stardom to promote female talent. In her first match, Giulia teamed up with Hana Kimura in a losing effort to Mayu Iwatani and Arisa Hoshiki on the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 on January 4, 2020. On January 5, 2021, the second night of Wrestle Kingdom 15, Giulia teamed up with fellow Donna Del Mondo stable member Syuri to defeat Mayu Iwatani and Tam Nakano. On the second night of the Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome from September 4, Giulia teamed up with Syuri to defeat Momo Watanabe and Saya Kamitani. At Historic X-Over on November 20, 2022, Giulia teamed up with Zack Sabre Jr. and defeated Syuri and Tom Lawlor in a mixed tag team match.
At NJPW Independence Day on July 5, 2023, Giulia defeated Willow Nightingale to become the second Strong Women's Champion. On August 20, at Multiverse United 2, Giulia wrestled in the United States for the first time in her career, where she successfully defended the Strong Women's Championship against Deonna Purrazzo, Gisele Shaw and Momo Kohgo.
Championships and accomplishments
Ice Ribbon
International Ribbon Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tequila Saya
Ice Ribbon Year-End Awards
Rookie Award (2018)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Strong Women's Championship (1 time, current)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked No. 16 of the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Women's 150 in 2021
Ranked No. 5 of the top 50 Tag Teams in the PWI Tag Team 50 in 2021 – with Syuri
Tokyo Sports
Women's Wrestling Grand Prize (2020)
Weekly Pro-Wrestling
Women's Professional Wrestling Grand Prix (2020)
World Wonder Ring Stardom
Artist of Stardom Championship (2 times, current) – with Maika and Syuri (1), Mai Sakurai and Thekla (1, current)
Goddess of Stardom Championship (1 time) – with Syuri
Wonder of Stardom Championship (1 time)
World of Stardom Championship (1 time)
Cinderella Tournament (2020)
5★Star GP (2022)
5★Star GP Awards
Red Stars Best Match Award
(2020)
(2021)
Stardom Year-End Awards
Best Match Award
(2021)
(2022)
Best Unit Award (2020)
MVP Award (2020)
Shining Award (2020)
Luchas de Apuestas record
References
External links
Giulia's World Wonder Ring Stardom profile
1994 births
Living people
Japanese people of Italian descent
Japanese female professional wrestlers
Italian female professional wrestlers
People from Chiba Prefecture
Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
21st-century female professional wrestlers
Wonder of Stardom Champions
Goddess of Stardom Champions
Artist of Stardom Champions
International Ribbon Tag Team Champions
Strong Women's Champions |
The Triple Concerto No. 2, Op. 139, is a concerto for three instruments – violin, harp and double bass – and orchestra by Dmitri Smirnov, composed in 2003. It was premiered in the centenary concert of the London Symphony Orchestra on 26 May 2004, with principal players from the orchestra as soloists.
History
Smirnov composed several concertos for single instruments, and two triple concertos for three instruments, the Triple Concerto No. 1 for saxophone, piano, double bass, strings and percussion in 1977 when he lived in Russia, and the Triple Concerto No. 2 for violin, harp, double bass and orchestra in 2003, when he was a resident of England. It was published by Boosey & Hawkes.
The world premiere of the Triple Concerto No. 2 was performed at the Barbican Centre in London on 26 May 2004. In the concert marking the centenary of the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (LSO), it was called LSO Centenary Concertante, and was combined with Mahler's Second Symphony "Resurrection", with Andrew Davis conducting the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. The soloists were violinist Gordan Nikolitch, harpist Bryn Lewis, and double bassist Rinat Ibragimov, all principal players of the LSO.
Scoring
The Triple Concerto is structured in three sections or movements:
Con moto
Lento
Presto
Smirnov scored the work for the three solo instruments, and an orchestra consisting of piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, percussion (3–4 players of timpani, triangle, suspended cymbal, maracas, woodblock, bongos, tom-tom, gongs, tam-tam, side drum, bass drum, glockenspiel, xylophone, bells), and strings. The concerto takes about 25 minutes to perform.
The first movement has been described by a reviewer as "music meant to wound", the second movement as "unsettling and angst-ridden", and the third movement was compared to a Hitchcock film track. The three solo instruments complement each other, comparable to the voice types soprano for the violin, mezzo-soprano for the harp, and basso profundo for the double bass. They are at times combined sounding like one voice, and at times "play in radical styles with distinctly foreign sounding voices". Episodes follow each other in collage fashion, in intentionally heterogeneous styles and sounds.
References
2003 compositions
Concertos for multiple instruments
Compositions by Dmitri Smirnov |
```objective-c
/*
* or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
* distributed with this work for additional information
* regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
* specific language governing permissions and limitations
*/
#import <WeexSDK/WXComponent.h>
#import <WeexSDK/WXSDKInstance.h>
#import <WeexSDK/WXUtility.h>
#define FlexUndefined NAN
#ifdef __cplusplus
#include "layout.h"
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreFlexDirection WXCoreFlexDirection;
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreFlexWrap WXCoreFlexWrap;
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreJustifyContent WXCoreJustifyContent;
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreAlignItems WXCoreAlignItems;
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreAlignSelf WXCoreAlignSelf;
typedef WeexCore::WXCorePositionType WXCorePositionType;
typedef WeexCore::WXCoreDirection WXCoreDirection;
extern "C" {
#endif
bool flexIsUndefined(float value);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#ifndef __cplusplus
// Ensure that .m files can use css style enum definitions.
#include "flex_enum.h"
typedef enum WXCoreFlexDirection WXCoreFlexDirection;
typedef enum WXCoreFlexWrap WXCoreFlexWrap;
typedef enum WXCoreJustifyContent WXCoreJustifyContent;
typedef enum WXCoreAlignItems WXCoreAlignItems;
typedef enum WXCoreAlignSelf WXCoreAlignSelf;
typedef enum WXCorePositionType WXCorePositionType;
typedef enum WXCoreDirection WXCoreDirection;
#endif
@interface WXComponent ()
{
@package
#ifdef __cplusplus
WeexCore::WXCoreLayoutNode *_flexCssNode;
#endif // __cplusplus
CGRect _calculatedFrame;
CGPoint _absolutePosition;
WXPositionType _positionType;
BOOL _isLastLayoutDirectionRTL;
BOOL _isLayoutDirectionRTL;
}
/**
* @abstract Return the css node used to layout.
*
* @warning Subclasses must not override this.
*/
#ifdef __cplusplus
@property (nonatomic, readonly, assign) WeexCore::WXCoreLayoutNode *flexCssNode;
#endif
/**
* @abstract Get css style value for key. The key should be of CSS standard form.
* This method is for convenience use in C/ObjC environment. And if you want to
* retrieve all style values or in C++, you could use flexCssNode directly.
*
* Thread usage:
* This method should be invoked in component thread by WXPerformBlockOnComponentThread.
* Note that all initWithRef methods of WXComponent and its subclasses are performed in
* component thread by default. Therefore you can call this method directly in initWithRef.
*
* Supported keys:
* width, height, min-width, min-height, max-width, max-height,
* margin-(left/right/top/bottom)
* padding-(left/right/top/bottom)
* border-(left/right/top/bottom)-width
* left, right, top, bottom
* flex-grow
*/
- (float)getCssStyleValueForKey:(NSString *)key;
/**
* @abstract Get css style flex-direction. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreFlexDirection)getCssStyleFlexDirection;
/**
* @abstract Get css style flex-wrap. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreFlexWrap)getCssStyleFlexWrap;
/**
* @abstract Get css style justify-content. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreJustifyContent)getCssStyleJustifyContent;
/**
* @abstract Get css style align-items. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreAlignItems)getCssStyleAlignItems;
/**
* @abstract Get css style align-self. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreAlignSelf)getCssStyleAlignSelf;
/**
* @abstract Get css style position. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCorePositionType)getCssStylePositionType;
/**
* @abstract Get css layout direction. Thread usage the same as getCssStyleValueForKey.
*/
- (WXCoreDirection)getCssDirection;
/**
* @abstract Convert layout dimension value like 'left', 'width' to style value in js considering viewport and scale.
*/
- (NSString*)convertLayoutValueToStyleValue:(NSString*)valueName;
/**
* @abstract Get style width of a container(scroller like) with safe value. No NAN, No zero.
*/
- (CGFloat)safeContainerStyleWidth;
/**
* @abstract Delete css node of a subcomponent.
*/
- (void)removeSubcomponentCssNode:(WXComponent *)subcomponent;
#pragma mark - RTL
@property (nonatomic, assign, readonly) BOOL isDirectionRTL;
// Now we scrollView RTL solution is tranform
// so scrollView need tranform subviews when RTL by default
// if your component view is not scrollView but also implement RTL layout by tranformyou need return YES
- (BOOL)shouldTransformSubviewsWhenRTL;
- (void)layoutDirectionDidChanged:(BOOL)isRTL;
@end
``` |
Guy Muya (born 23 May 1983) is a Belgian-Congolese retired basketball player and current coach. He was the captain of the Belgian national basketball team and represented the team at two EuroBasket tournaments, in 2011 and 2013.
Professional career
Muya started his career in 2000 and played in Belgium, Italy and Spain. In June 2019, Muya retired as professional player and became team manager for Antwerp Giants.
Executive and coaching career
After three seasons serving as sports manager of Antwerp Giants, he also became assistant coach of the team in 2022.
National team career
Muya played for the Belgium national basketball team and played with his country at the 2011 EuroBasket and 2013 EuroBasket.
References
External links
Belgian League profile
Euroleague profile
1983 births
Living people
BC Oostende players
Belfius Mons-Hainaut players
Belgian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Belgian men's basketball players
Brussels Basketball players
Democratic Republic of the Congo men's basketball players
Liège Basket players
RBC Pepinster players
Scafati Basket players
Shooting guards
Democratic Republic of the Congo emigrants to Belgium
Belgian expatriate basketball people in Italy
Belgian basketball coaches |
The final of the Men's Shot Put event at the 2003 Pan American Games took place on Tuesday August 5, 2003. USA's Reese Hoffa set a new Pan American Games record in the final, with a distance of 20.95 metres.
Medalists
Records
Results
See also
2003 Shot Put Year Ranking
2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put
References
Results
Shot Put, Men
2003 |
Jack L. Turban is an American psychiatrist and writer who researches LGBTQ health, with a focus on the mental health of transgender youth. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox. He is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at The University of California San Francisco and affiliate faculty in health policy at The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
Early life and education
Turban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fearful of violence from his father, he did not come out as gay until he attended college. He later wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine about his early experiences of childhood homophobia and how they influenced his experience of medical education. Turban attended Harvard College where he studied neuroscience, then earned his medical and master of health science degrees from Yale School of Medicine. He completed psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in 2020 and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2022.
Career
Turban is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco. He has published studies showing that gender identity conversion therapies (attempts to make transgender people cisgender) are widespread in the US and associated with suicide attempts. His research has shown that access to gender-affirming medical care (puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones) during adolescence is linked to better mental health outcomes in adulthood, though the ability of his study to show this causal link has been disputed. He has also been one of the few researchers to publish on the topic of gender de-transition, including in the academic literature.
Turban has been critical of Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage, which alleges that a recent surge in adolescents becoming transgender is taking place, largely due to social contagion. He claimed that the book misinterpreted and omitted important scientific evidence about young people and gender identity. He subsequently co-authored a study arguing that gender dysphoria in children was not caused by social contagion.
Turban has been critical of the geosocial networking application Grindr, and argued in Vox that the app may have detrimental effects on the mental health of gay men. He has complained that Grindr does not do enough to keep minors off of their platform, and that this may pose sexual risk to young people. His opinion piece for The New York Times about minors on Grindr was one of several LGBT articles that were conspicuously censored with large white boxes in The New York Times print edition in Qatar.
References
Transgender and medicine
LGBT and suicide
Gay academics
American psychology writers
Harvard University alumni
Yale School of Medicine alumni
Harvard Medical School staff
Gender identity
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
LGBT physicians
21st-century American physicians |
```c++
/// Source : path_to_url
/// Author : liuyubobobo
/// Time : 2021-08-15
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
/// DFS
/// Time Complexity: O(h)
/// Space Complexity: O(h)
/// Definition for a binary tree node.
struct TreeNode {
int val;
TreeNode *left;
TreeNode *right;
TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
};
class Solution {
public:
TreeNode* searchBST(TreeNode* root, int val) {
if(!root) return nullptr;
if(root->val == val) return root;
return val < root->val ? searchBST(root->left, val) : searchBST(root->right, val);
}
};
int main() {
return 0;
}
``` |
Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov (; 9 August 1938 – 20 October 2020) was a Russian writer who founded the Soviet samizdat journal Veche (Assembly). The journal is considered to be an important document of the nationalist or Slavophile strand within the Soviet dissident movement.
Biography
Vladimir Osipov was born on 9 August 1938 in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast.
He entered studies at the History faculty of Moscow State University. He was expelled in 1959 for protesting the arrest of Anatoly Ivanov, a fellow student, but was able to finish his studies at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute in 1960.
As a student, Osipov was involved in reviving the informal Mayakovsky Square poetry readings in 1960. During this time, he produced a samizdat (self-published) literary journal Boomerang.
In 1961, Osipov was sentenced to seven years in strict-regime labour camps for "Anti-Soviet propaganda". In the camps, he converted to Christianity. He was released in 1968 and managed to find work as a fireman.
During the years 1971-1973, Osipov produced nine issues of the samizdat journal Veche (Assembly). The journal was to be a "Russian patriotic journal" that followed the tradition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Slavophiles, taking what Osipov called a "Russophile" position.
Osipov also edited the samizdat journal Zemlia (Earth) in 1974, with a more religious orientation. Zemlia carried material by Russian Orthodox dissenters such as Anatoly Levitin-Krasnov.
In 1974, Osipov was arrested, tried, and sentenced to a second term for engaging in "anti-Soviet propaganda".
Osipov took part in the defence of the parliament during the attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, Osipov was active as one of the leaders of the Union "Christian Rebirth" (UCR), which calls for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.
His third wife was writer Adel Naidenovich, who also participated in the samizdat journal Veche.
Osipov died on 20 October 2020 in Moscow.
References
External links
БУМЕРАНГ [Boomerang]. Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat, University of Toronto
1938 births
2020 deaths
People from Slantsy
Soviet dissidents
Russian male writers
Soviet writers
Dubravlag detainees |
Agnès Delahaie (17 September 1920 – 8 December 2003), also known as Annie Dorfmann, was a French actress and film producer and the wife of Robert Dorfmann. She was nominated (as Annie Dorfmann) for Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards for producing Gervaise (1956).
Delahaie died in Paris in December 2003 at the age of 83.
Filmography
Actress
Justice Is Done (1950)
Three Women (1952)
Producer
Gervaise (credited as Annie Dorfmann) (1956)
Young Girls Beware (1957)
One Life (credited as Annie Dorfmann) (1958)
Pickpocket (1959)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
The Second Twin (1966)
References
External links
1920 births
2003 deaths
French film actresses
French film producers
20th-century French women |
The Prussian Quartets are a set of three string quartets, nos. 21–23 (K. 575, 589, 590), nicknamed 'Prussian', composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between 1789 and 1790 and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II. They were posthumously published in December 1791 by Artaria as Op. 18, only a few weeks after Mozart's death. Although not considered on a par with the earlier, more famous Haydn Quartets (K. 387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465), these pieces are noted for their beauty, equilibrium amongst the instruments and the exceptional prominence and cantabile nature of the cello part (the instrument played by the king himself). These are also the only pieces in this genre that Mozart composed 'to order', i.e. as a commission from a royal patron.
The Quartets
String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575, Op. 18, No. 1 (1789)
String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589, Op. 18, No. 2 (1790)
String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, Op. 18, No. 3 (1790)
Due to the prominence of the cello part these quartets came to be known as 'Concertante Quartets'.
Historical background
While Mozart was composing these quartets he was also working on a set of sonatas for the King's daughter, Princess Friederike (K. 576 was the only one completed). He was paid 100 Friedrichsd’or for his work. But thereafter Mozart received no more of his promised fees. In effect Mozart withheld the dedication and engraved the piece at his own expense as he wrote in a letter to his friend and fellow freemason Michael von Puchberg: "... I am meanwhile composing...six quartets for the King, all of which Kozeluch is going to engrave at my expense."
Mozart never dedicated the pieces to the Prussian King, so the title of these quartets has originated from his private 'thematic catalogue' of his own work (which he was keeping at the time). He entered K. 575 as "A quartet for 2 violins, viola, and cello, for his Majesty the King of Prussia". He did not mention the King of Prussia in his entries for K. 589 and K. 590.
Critical reception
The quartets were enthusiastically received. For instance the Wiener Zeitung announced the publication of the quartets as follows:
From Artaria Comp., art dealers in the Kohlmarkt are to be had: Three entirely new concertante quartets for two violins, viola and violoncello by Hr. Kapellmeister Mozart Op 18. These quartets are one of the estimable works of the composer Mozart, who was torn untimely from this world; they flowed from the pen of this so great musical genius not long before his death, and they display all that musical interest in respect of Art, Beauty, and Taste, which must awaken pleasure and admiration not only in the amateur but the true connoisseur also.
Notes
Further reading
Einstein, Alfred: Mozart: His Character and Works
Solomon, Maynard: Mozart: A Life
Nohl, Ludwig: (compiler), Wallace, Lady Grace (translator): The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Holmes, Edward. The Life of Mozart Including His Correspondence. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979.
External links
Mozart's autograph of the Prussian Quartets, British Library
Performance of String Quartet No. 23 by the Orion String Quartet from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
1789 compositions
1790 compositions
String quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederick William II of Prussia
Compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart published posthumously |
Lawrence Peyton (died October 10, 1918) was a silent film actor in the United States. He starred in the 1914 film based on Jack London's Martin Eden.
Personal life
Peyton served as a private in the 813th Pioneer Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War I. He was killed in action in France on October 10, 1918, and was buried at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
Filmography
When the Blood Calls (1913) with Mona Darkfeather
Martin Eden (1914)
The Boer War (1914)
The Unafraid (1915)
A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
The Goose Girl (1915)
Buck's Lady Friend (1915)
A Man's Friend (1916)
Joan the Woman (1916)Joan of the Angels (1916)The Red Ace (1917)The Golden Fetter (1917)How Could You, Jean?'' (1918)
References
1918 deaths
20th-century American male actors
American male silent film actors
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army soldiers
American military personnel killed in World War I |
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