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Isaac Kaye is a businessman with interests in healthcare and politics in the United Kingdom. Originally from South Africa, he obtained Irish citizenship upon his arrival in the UK in 1985.
Healthcare
Kaye built Norton Healthcare Ltd., a UK generic pharmaceutical company, which was acquired by Ivax Corporation in 1990. He became chairman of Ivax Pharmaceuticals UK. In 2006 Ivax was sold to Teva Pharmaceuticals for $7.4 billion.
In 2002 Ivax was the largest supplier of generic drugs to the NHS.
Kaye was also a co-founder of Israel Healthcare Ventures, an Israel-based venture capital firm, and also established the Kaye Innovation Awards in order to encourage and recognize technological achievements at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Politics
In January 2008 his name was listed as one of the donors to Peter Hain's May 2007 election campaign for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party. Kaye's donation of £15,000, undeclared as a donation by Hain at the time, was channelled through the Progressive Policies Forum organization. Kaye, along with David Garrard, sponsors the annual lunch of the Labour Friends of Israel.
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Labour Party (UK) people
Labour Friends of Israel
British Jews
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Ken Hammond may refer to:
Ken Hammond (historian), professor of history at New Mexico State University
Ken Hammond (ice hockey) (born 1963), Canadian ice hockey player
Ken Hammond (newsreader), Irish newsreader. |
Sintong Hamonangan Panjaitan (born 4 September 1940) is a retired TNI officer who graduated from the National Military Academy in 1963. Military Advisor to President BJ Habibie, Secretary for Development Operational Control of Kodam IX/Udayana and Danjen of Kopassus. He received 20 operation orders at home and abroad during his military career. He was removed from his position as pangdam due to the Dili incident at the Santa Cruz cemetery, 11 November 1991, which instigated the decline of his career in the military before retiring with the rank of lieutenant general.
Early life
Sintong was born in Tarutung, North Sumatra, the seventh of 11 siblings. His father, Simon Luther Panjaitan (formerly Mangiang Panjaitan) was a Mantri at Centrale Burgelijke Ziekenhuis (RSU) Semarang. His mother, Elina Siahaan was the daughter of a king in Aek Nauli, King Ompu Joseph Siahaan. The two were married in Semarang, in 1925. Sintong's interest in the military emerged when he was seven years old, when his house was often hit by P-51 Mustang bombs from the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Sintong began to carry arms in high school (1958) when he participated in a 3-month military training course carried out by the PRRI movement under the leadership of Colonel Maludin Simbolon.
Military career
Sintong applied for the Air Force Academy in 1959. While waiting for the results of his application, Sintong also took the National Military Academy entrance exam in 1960, and graduated as part of the 117 cadets of batch V. Sintong graduated from the Military Academy in 1963 with the rank of Second Lieutenant. Then he attended the Infantry Military Academy in Bandung and graduated on 27 June 1964 and was placed as the first officer of the Army Command Troops Regiment (RPKAD), the elite forces of the Army (now the Special Forces Command - Kopassus).
From August 1964 to February 1965 Sintong commanded his firsn combat operations during Operation Kila, to crush the DI/TII rebellion led by Abdul Kahar Muzakar in South and Southeast Sulawesi. In February 1965, Sintong attended commando basic education at the Army Command Education Center at Batujajar. He obtained the Command attribute at Permisan Beach, August 1, 1965, and returned to Batujajar for Para basic education, experiencing 3 falls. After that he received orders to be deployed in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia as part of a Volunteer Company during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.
The 30 September Movement (G30S) canceled the planned deployment. Sintong as part of a Company under the leadership of First Lieutenant Feisal Tanjung then played an active role in ending the G30S. Sintong led a platoon of troops to seize the headquarters of Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI), which allowed Brigadier General Ibnu Subroto to broadcast the message of Major General Suharto. Sintong also took part in securing Halim Perdanakusuma Airfield, and led his men in the discovery of an old well at Lubang Buaya. After that Sintong was sent to restore security and order in Central Java, to lead a Platoon under Tanjung company to combat G30S supporters in Semarang, Demak, Blora, Kudus, Cepu, Salatiga, Boyolali, Yogyakarta and the eastern slopes of Mount Merapi.
In 1969 Captain Feisal Tanjung included Sintong in an effort to persuade tribal chiefs in West Irian to choose to join Indonesia in the Act of Free Choice. Sintong became Commander of Kopassandha in from 1985 to 1987, replacing Brigadier General. Wismoyo Arismunandar.
Sintong Panjaitan was the leader of the Para Command Group-1, involved in counter-terrorism operations in the hijacking of the Garuda DC-9 Woyla on March 31, 1981. Although there were two fatalities (one pilot and one member of the Commandos), the operation was considered a success by the Indonesian government due to the safety of all the crew and other passengers on the plane, he and his team were awarded the Sakti Star and promoted one rank.
His involvement in military operations in East Timor was a reasons for his appointment as Commander of IX/Udayana Military Regional Command which covered the province of East Timor. Sintong was later removed from his post as commander due to the Dili Incident at the Santa Cruz cemetery, 11 November 1991, which resulted in civilian casualties and an international scandal, ending Sintong's military career. As a result of his involvement in the incident he was sued in 1992 by the family of one of the victims and sentenced, in 1994, to pay a total of 14 million US dollars in damages.
Post military career
Minister of Research and Technology Prof. Dr. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie appointed Sintong as an adviser in the military field at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) in 1994. Sintong became a trusted adviser to Habibie until Habibie became President of Indonesia in 1998 where Sintong sat as an adviser to the President in the military field. Habibie had in-depth discussions with Sintong, General Wiranto (Commander of ABRI and Minister of Defense) and Yunus Yosfiah (Minister of Information) before allowing the East Timor referendum to determine whether East Timor would remain in the Republic of Indonesia or become a separate country.
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1940 births
Indonesian generals
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Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya () or Bayan al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a () is a popular exposition of Sunni Muslim doctrine written by the tenth-century Egyptian theologian and Hanafi jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi.
Summary
The sole aim of al-Tahawi was to give a summary of the theological views of Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Hanafi school, as he states at the very beginning of his work that it is written in accordance to the methodology of the jurists, Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani. However, it can be said to represent the creed of both the Ash'aris and the Maturidis, especially the latter, given his being a follower of the Hanafi school. The Shafi'i scholar Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370) writes that the followers of the four main schools of law, the Hanafis, the Malikis, the Shafi'is and the Hanbalis are all one in creed:
The doctrines enumerated in this work are entirely derived from the Qur'an and the authentic Hadith. It starts with the monotheistic oneness of God, then goes on to the assertion of His positive and eternal attributes. Al-Tahawi asserts the reality of the beatific vision without modality (bila kayf). Most of the other theoretical issues relating to the next world are not rationally explained. God can predetermine some people to be happy and others to be miserable. Knowledge of the decree of God is not given to mankind. Belief consists of assent by heart and confession by tongue. Sinners cannot be declared to be unbelievers. The actions of man are the creation of God and the acquisition of man.
Commentators
Several scholars have written commentaries on this work. Among them are the following:
Isma'il ibn Ibrahim al-Shaybani (d. 629/1231).
Najm al-Din Mankubars (d. 652/1254).
Mahmud al-Qunawi (d. 771/1369), entitled al-Qala'id fi Sharh al-'Aqa'id.
(d. 733/1332).
(d. 773/1371).
Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786/ 1384).
Ibn Abi al-'Izz (d. 792/1390). His commentary is rejected by both Maturidis and Ash'aris, accepted and praised by the Salafis.
Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari/Pruščak (d. 1025/1616), entitled Nur al-Yaqin fi Usul al-Din.
'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298/1880).
Qari Muhammad Tayyib (d. 1403/1983).
Ahmad Jabir Jubran (d. 1425/2004).
'Abdullah al-Harari (d. 1429/2008).
(d. 1436/2015).
Sa'id Foudah.
Nidal Ibrahim Alah Rashi ().
Contents
The texts raises many points of creed that are essential matters and defines the belief of the Sunni Muslim, covering following the topics:
Exposition of the Creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah
Divine Unity
Allah's Eternal and Everlasting Names and Attributes
Allah's Preordination
Muhammad (S) and His Description
The Qur'an: the Eternal Word of Allah
The Beatific Vision
The Prophet's Night Journey (S) and Ascension
The Prophet's Basin (S) and Intercession
The Covenant Made with Adam (a.s) and His Progeny
Divine Decree and Predetermination
The Preserved Tablet and the Pen
Allah's Attribute of Creating
The Throne and the Footstool
The Angels, the Prophets and the Revealed Books
Declaring the People of the Qiblah to be Muslims
Debating about Allah's Essence
Arguing about the Qur'an
The Impermissibility of Accusing a Muslim of Disbelief
The Meaning of Faith
Faith Neither Increases nor Decreases
The Fate of Major Sinners
The Status of a Muslim
Rebelling Against Muslim Leaders
Wiping Over Footwear
Hajj and Jihad
The Guardian Angels who were Scribes
The Grave and its States
Resurrection
Paradise and Hellfire
The Ability that Accompanies Acts
Slaves' Actions
Supplication and Alms on Behalf of the Deceased
Allah's Wrath and Pleasure
Loving the Companions of the Prophet (S)
The Order of the Caliphate
The Ten Given the Glad Tidings of Paradise
Speaking Well of Scholars
The Rank of Sainthood
Portents of the Final Hour
Diviners and Soothsayers
Adhering to the Congregation
Manuscripts
The earliest manuscripts preserved in Alexandria were written in .
Translations
English edition
The work has been translated into English and published under the title:
Islamic Belief, translated and published in 1995 by IQRA International Educational Foundation.
Islamic Belief: Al-Aqidah at-Tahawiah (Revised Edition), edited by Iqbal Ahmad Azami. Translated and published in 2002 by UK Islamic Academy.
The Creed of At-Tahawiyy (A Brief Explanation of The Sunniy Creed), 2nd edition published in 2003 by The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects in USA.
Aqeedatul Tahawi, with commentary by Qari Muhammad Tayyib, the former rector of Darul Uloom Deoband. English translation by Afzal Hoosen Elias. First published in 2007 by Zam Zam Publishers.
The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi, translated, introduced and annotated by Hamza Yusuf. First published in 2009 by Fons Vitae.
The Creed of Imam Tahawi, translated by Mohammad Ibrahim Teymori. According to the translator himself, this translation is heavily indebted to the works of Hamza Yusuf and Iqbal Ahmad Azami.
Al-'Aqidat at-Tahawiyyah (Kindle Edition), translated by Tahir Mahmood Kiani. First published in 2012 by T. M. Kiani.
Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya: Arabic Text with English Translation and Commentary, translated and prepared by Fahim Hoosen. This edition includes a brief and simple commentary. First published in 2015 by Azhar Academy. The second edition published by Dar Ul Thaqafah in 2018.
Commentary on the Creed of at-Tahawi by Ibn Abi al-Izz (731-792 AH), translated by Muhammad Abdul-Haqq Ansari. First published in 2017 by Istinarah Press.
Imam al-Tahawi's Creed of Islam: An Exposition, translated by Amjad Mahmood. This edition includes a commentary by the Hanafi scholar, judge and Maturidi theologian (d. 773/1372). First published in 2020 by Heritage Press.
French edition
La 'Aqîda Tahâwiyya (La profession de foi des gens de la Sunna), translated and commented on by Corentin Pabiot. Published in 2015 by Maison d'Ennour.
Kinyarwanda edition
Ibisobanuro By'imyemerere ya a-twahawiyat : Kugaragaza imyemerere y'abagendera ku migenzo y'Intumwa y'Imana (Ahlu Sunat wal Djama'at), translated by Maktabat al-Qalam, 2020
Malay edition
Terjemahan Al-Aqidah Al-Thahawiyyah, translated by Raja Ahmad Mukhlis al-Azhari.
Persian edition
Aqida Tahawi, translated by Mohammad Ibrahim Teymori, with foreword by Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri.
Aqida Tahawi, translated by Sa'di Mahmudi.
Russian edition
Акыда ат-Тахавийя, translated with notes by Ahmad Abu Yahya al-Hanafi.
Turkish edition
Ehl-i Sünnet Akâidi; Muhtasar Tahâvî Akidesi Şerhi, translated by .
Tahâvî Şerhi Bâbertî Tercümesi, translated with commentary of Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786/1384) by İsmailağa Fıkıh ve Te'lif Kurulu.
Tâhâvi Akâidi Baberti Şerhi, translated with commentary of al-Babarti (d. 786/1384) by İzzet Karasakal.
Tahâvi Akîdesi Bâbertî Şerhi, translated with commentary of al-Babarti (d. 786/1384) and (d. 773/1372) by Yasin Karataş.
İslam Akâid Metinleri, translated by Ali Pekcan.
Urdu edition
Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, translated with commentary by Ehsanullah Shayeq.
Al-Aseedah as-Samawiyyah Sharh al-Aqeedah At-Tahawiyyah, translated with commentary by Rida-ul-Haq.
'Aqidat al-Tahawi wa al-'Aqidah al-Hasanah, translated by Abd al-Hamid Khan Swati. The book contains two works on aqidah translated and published together due to sharing the same topic. The first is al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya, and the second is al-Aqidah al-Hasanah of Shah Waliyyullah.
Uzbek edition
Aqidatut Tahoviya sharhining talxiysi, Muhammad Anwar Badakhshani's "Talkhees Sharh Al Aqeedah Al-Tahawiyya" translated by Sheikh Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf.
Further reading
The Creed of Imam Al-Tahawi;
Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition, p 208.
See also
Al-Fiqh al-Akbar
Al-Sawad al-A'zam
Al-'Aqida al-Nasafiyya
Kitab al-Tawhid
List of Sunni books
References
External links
Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya by Iqbal Ahmed A'zami
Imam al-Tahawi's beliefs of Ahl Al-Sunna wa Al-Jama'a — As-Sunnah Foundation of America
Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya (Arabic Text with English Translation)
Arabic Commentaries and Resources for al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya
Scholarly verdicts on Ibn Abi al-'Izz and his Sharh on al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya
Sunni literature
Hanafi literature
Islamic theology books
Islamic belief and doctrine
Maturidi literature |
Główna may refer to the following places in Poland:
Główna, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Główna, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Główna, a district and stream in Nowe Miasto, Poznań
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Coolray Field (formerly known as Gwinnett Stadium) is a 10,427-seat minor league baseball park in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia (with a mailing address in Lawrenceville). It is the home field of the Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
History
Coolray Field hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 17, 2009, a 7–4 Gwinnett Braves loss to the Norfolk Tides. The stadium site is located approximately two miles (3 km) east of the Mall of Georgia along Georgia 20, between Interstate 85 and Georgia 316.
The site was previously farmland and forest. An additional of mostly forest around it became a mixed-use project, after a February 2009 rezoning by the Gwinnett County Commission. Naming rights are held by Coolray, an air conditioning and plumbing company based in nearby Marietta.
The stadium construction and maintenance is being paid by the taxpayer-funded Gwinnett County government, but the Stripers will keep most of the revenue from ticket and concession stand sales. The municipal bonds used to pay for the stadium run for 30 years (until 2038), but the Stripers have an option to back out of the contract after only half of that time (in 2023), if the county does not maintain the facility at an acceptable level. This would leave county taxpayers responsible for the remainder.
After the first season, it was revealed that parking revenue was a fraction (about 15%) of what was expected.
The Gwinnett Braves (renamed to the Stripers in 2017) moved to the stadium in 2009 when the Atlanta Braves moved their affiliate, the Richmond Braves, after 43 seasons (1966–2008) in Richmond, Virginia. They are located 35 miles northeast of their parent club's stadium, Truist Park in unincorporated Cobb County—the second-shortest distance between a Triple-A team and its major league parent (behind only the Triple-A West's Tacoma Rainiers, based 26 miles south of Seattle). They have held this distinction since moving to Gwinnett County; the Braves played at Turner Field in Atlanta at the time.
Features
Coolray Field features 19 luxury suites, a 30-foot-by-40-foot video board in right-center field, a 6-foot-by-42-foot LED board along the left-field wall and chairback seating complete with cupholders.
References
External links
Coolray Field
Sports venues in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures in Gwinnett County, Georgia
Sports venues completed in 2009
Baseball venues in Georgia (U.S. state)
Soccer venues in Georgia (U.S. state)
2009 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Gwinnett Stripers
International League ballparks |
Illya Solomin (born 7 May 1998) is a Swedish retired figure skater. He is a three-time Swedish national silver medalist and a two-time (2014–15) national junior champion. He reached the free skate at the 2014 World Junior Championships.
Personal life
Solomin was born on 7 May 1998 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He moved to Sweden when he was five and a half years old. He has two sisters, Anna and Alesandra.
Career
Early years
Solomin began learning to skate in 2005. He competed on the novice level until the end of the 2012–13 season.
2013–14 season
Solomin made his junior international debut in October 2013, placing 14th at the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Tallinn, Estonia, and went on to win the Swedish national junior title. He first competed on the senior international level in January 2014, at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but was eliminated after placing 34th in the short program. He reached the final segment at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, placing 23rd in the short program, 22nd in the free skate, and 22nd overall.
2014–15 season
Solomin competed in two stages of the 2014–15 JGP series, placing 12th in Aichi, Japan, and 11th in Zagreb, Croatia. Competing on the junior level, he won gold at the NRW Trophy and repeated as the Swedish junior champion, before taking bronze at the Toruń Cup. He withdrew from the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn before the start of the event.
2015–16 season
In the 2015–16 season, Solomin won the junior silver medal at the Lombardia Trophy and finished tenth at his sole 2015 JGP event, in Zagreb. Competing on the senior level, he took the silver medal at the Swedish Championship, behind Ondrej Spiegl. Solomin was assigned to the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, but withdrew before the start of the competition.
Retirement
Skate Sweden announced Solomin's retirement in their beginning of the 2021-22 season team update post.
Programs
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
References
External links
1998 births
Swedish male single skaters
Living people
People from Solna Municipality
Ukrainian emigrants to Sweden |
Luigi Antonio "Dario" Compiani (1 September 1903 – 4 April 1962) was an Italian professional footballer and football manager, who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Throughout his club career, Compiani played for Italian sides Cremonese, Milan, and Sampierdarenese. With 221 appearances for Milan, he is the club's sixth-most capped goalkeeper of all time, behind only Christian Abbiati (380), Sebastiano Rossi (330), Dida (302), Lorenzo Buffon (300), and Enrico Albertosi (233).
External links
Profile at MagliaRossonera.it
Profile at EnciclopediadelCalcio.it
References
1903 births
1962 deaths
Italian men's footballers
Italian football managers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Serie A players
US Cremonese players
AC Milan players
Footballers from the Province of Cremona |
The Bazaruto Archipelago is a group of six islands in Mozambique, near the mainland city of Vilankulo. It comprises the islands of Bazaruto, Benguerra, Magaruque, Banque, Santa Carolina (also known as Paradise Island) and Shell. Nyati Island is located further south.
Geography
The group belongs to the Vilanculos and Inhassoro districts of Inhambane Province. The islands were formed from sand deposited by the Save River, which has since shifted its course.
Santa Carolina is a true rock island with deep channels and is just 3 km by 0.5 km in size. It has three beautiful beaches with coral reefs close to the shore. The island, also known as Paradise Island is regarded as the "gem" of the islands forming the Bazaruto Archipelago, which is a proclaimed marine national park.
Tourist attractions include sandy beaches, coral reefs, and opportunities for surfing and fishing.
Ecology
The archipelago became a National Park in 1971. There is a wide abundance of reef fish, surgeon, Moorish idols, parrots, angel and butterfly fish to name but a few. Sea turtles, game fish and devil rays are regularly seen. Various endangered marine megafaunas, such as whale shark, manta, leatherback turtle, cetaceans including humpback whale, and the dugong. Bazaruto's dugong population counts about 120 individuals, making it the largest of remnant populations in Mozambique.
Cetacean biodiversity had been much richer than today before being reduced by human activities including illegal mass hunts by the Soviet Union and Japan in 1960s to 1970s, resulting disappearances or rarities of many species such as the southern right whales. Since the archipelago's geography provides a number of different ecosystems, an unusual variety of species occur within a relatively small area. Bazaruto is one of two largest islands, the other being Benguerra.
The skinks Scelotes duttoni, Scelotes insularis, and Lygosoma lanceolatum are endemic to the Bazaruto Archipelago.
History
It has been speculated that the Bazaruto Archipelago may be the island named Crocodile (Persian Sūsmār) mentioned in the 11th-century Egyptian Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn (‘The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes’). This island is the last place in a list of sites along the East African coast known to Egyptian merchants and is the fifth stop after Kilwa. Bazaruto supports a substantial population of crocodiles.
References
Archipelagoes of Mozambique
Mozambique Channel
Geography of Inhambane Province
Southern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
Important Bird Areas of Mozambique |
Nipples & Palm Trees is a 2012 American sex comedy film directed by Dylan Reynolds, written by Matthew James, and starring James, Sadie Katz, Akihiro Kitamura, and Vanessa Rose Parker.
Plot summary
After having trouble with his girlfriend, a painter named Jackson searches Los Angeles to find love, though he mostly finds casual sex.
Cast
Matthew James as Jackson
Sadie Katz as Harmony
Akihiro Kitamura as Phil
Vanessa Rose Parker as Liz
Cary Thompson as Cary
Will Morales as Al
Jackie Kamm as C. C.
Release
Nipples & Palm Trees was released theatrically July 13, 2012, and on DVD November 6, 2012. Hulu picked it up in October 2014.
Reception
Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that the film is too incompetent to be funny. Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a dreary, dirty-talking sex comedy from the you've-got-to-be-kidding-me school of filmmaking". Michael Nordine of LA Weekly wrote, "Though Nipples and Palm Trees isn't without its eventual charms, the film is too content, for too long, to dwell on unfunny sleaze and thinly-sketched characters." HorrorCultFilms rated it 8/10 stars and called it "quite possibly the biggest surprise of the year".
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2012 films
2010s sex comedy films
American independent films
American sex comedy films
2010s English-language films
Films set in Los Angeles
2012 comedy films
2012 independent films
2010s American films |
ABC Nantes (Amicale Basket Club de Nantes / in English: Nantes Friendly Basketball Club) or Nantes was a French professional basketball team located in the city of Nantes. Now, the club has dissolved. The position regarding the interest of basketball fans has gotten to Hermine de Nantes Atlantique which involved in LNB Pro B of the French basketball league.
History
Nantes Atlantique was owned for 18 seasons in the elite division of France (between 1953 and 1991) with a review of 145 wins, 9 draws and 190 defeats in 344 games.
Honours
French Cup (1): 1965-66
French League 2 (1): 1970-71
Notable players
Michel Le Ray
Louis Bertorelle
Raphaël Ruiz
Carmine Calzonetti
Derrick Pope
Andy Fields
George Montgomery
Larry Boston
Head coaches
Henri Manhe was a legend figure of the club. He coached Garennes and ASPTT Nantes particular, each with beautiful mounted elite with little means. Died in August 2007, it leaves its mark on the Breton basketball forever. Today, his grand-son Rodolphe resumed his legacy and his talent.
1953-55 Robert Perkons
1956-59 Yvan Gominon
1959-62 Serge Kalember
1962-69 Raphaël Ruiz
1969-73 Christian Bayer
1974-75 Carmine Calzonetti
Basketball teams in France
Sport in Nantes |
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George James Hogsett (1820 – June 15, 1869) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Placentia and St. Mary's from 1852 to 1861 and Harbour Main from 1865 to 1869 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Liberal.
He was the son of Aaron Hogsett. Hogsett studied law with William Bickford Row and was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1846. He served in the Executive Council as chairman of the Board of Works, solicitor general and attorney general. During the 1861 election in Harbour Main, supporters of Hogsett were fired upon at the polls and the results of the election were called into question. Hogsett attempted to take a seat in the house and was forcibly ejected. A riot followed and two rioters were killed. The assembly declared that Hogsett had not been elected. He ran unsuccessfully in a by-election held in St. John's later that year. In 1861, he became editor of the St. John's Record. Hogsett became leader of the Liberals in 1865 after John Kent and Ambrose Shea joined the Conservative coalition government. He was opposed to union with Canada, although in 1868, he admitted that he would examine any proposal that might improve the economic health of the colony. He died in St. John's in 1869.
References
Members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
1820 births
1869 deaths
Newfoundland Colony people
Attorneys-General of Newfoundland Colony |
See Ya, Simon is a novel for young adults by David Hill, about a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. It was published in 1992.
Plot
See Ya, Simon is a fictional novel of a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. It is very pronounced throughout the story that Simon will not live for another year. Simon is a very righteous and humorous character who is never afraid to share his various opinions and does not seem to care that much despite him knowing he is going to die.
Main characters
Simon
Simon Shaw has a family of four. An older sister Kirsti, his Mum and Dad. He likes role-playing and has a good sense of humour. He dislikes being left out and being treated differently. He is underweight with no build, due to his Muscular Dystrophy. He has brown hair and at times it seems that Simon has a spoilt personality because everyone gives him special treatment.
Nathan
Nathan who is Simon's best friend has a family of four. His parents have split up and he has a little sister, Fiona. He looks thin and is of small build. He’s got brown hair and he treats Simon like a brother as they have a very close bond.
Minor characters
Alex Wilson
Alex is one of Nathan and Simon’s enemies. He is considered to be the school bully. Not much is said about Alex’s appearance but Nathan often refers to him as looking like an ‘ape’ or a ‘monkey’. Alex is not the smartest kid on the block. This is seen when Nathan makes fun of him saying “his brain is rolling around in his head”. Although Alex is a bully, when Simon died he was sensitive to Nathan.
Brady West
Brady is the prettiest girl in Nathan’s and Simon’s class. Brady has long blonde hair, blue eyes and beautiful sense of style. Nathan has HUGE crush on her. But as the book goes on, Nathan gets to know her better and she might not be what she seems.
Setting
The story takes place in New Zealand. The main settings are in Simon and Nathan's school, their homes, and the hospital.
New Zealand children's books
1992 novels
1992 children's books
20th-century New Zealand novels
Children's books about disability |
Suttas from the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon.
List of Digha Nikaya suttas
List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas
List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas
List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas
List of Khuddaka Nikaya suttas
See also
Buddhist texts
Index of Buddhism-related articles
List of sutras
Mahayana sutras
Sutta Pitaka
Suttas |
Jetts Fitness is an Australian based chain of fitness centers. It was the first gym brand in Australia to market with 24/7 access, no lock in contracts, low fees and member-friendly policies. Jetts Fitness was awarded the 13th Best Place to Work in Australia in 2021 and placed 7th in 2022.
History
Jetts Fitness was founded in Australia in 2007 by husband-and-wife team Brendon and Cristy Levenson, with the first club opening in Gold Coast, Queensland.
It was the first gym brand in Australia to offer 24/7 access, no lock-in contracts, low fees and member-friendly policies – an approach that made health and fitness available to more people than ever before. In 2012, the company was selected by BRW as Australia's #1 Fastest Growing Franchise, with revenue growth of 403% and turnover of roughly $43 million, and in 2012 was the 2nd fastest growing company in Australia.
In 2016, the company was sold to Quadrant Private Equity, which owns the company through its Fitness and Lifestyle Group along with other Australian-based gym brands including Fitness First, Goodlife Health Clubs and Hypoxi.
In 2022, following a strategic review of its operations, Fitness & Lifestyle Group (FLG) sold via Management Buy Out led by Jetts Fitness Australia CEO Elaine Jobson that encompasses 129 franchised clubs in Australia as well as international franchise businesses in the UK and the Netherlands.
Fitness & Lifestyle Group retains full ownership of its Jetts Fitness brand and operations in New Zealand, Vietnam and Thailand.
International expansion
In June 2010, the franchise launched its first international club in Royal Oak, New Zealand. In late 2013, the first European club opened in the Netherlands, and the company announced further expansion plans into the UK in October 2014.
In January 2016, the company opened its first Asian club in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2021, there are roughly 33 clubs in Thailand.
In 2015, Jetts Fitness was named the best medium-sized fitness company at the New Zealand Exercise Industry Awards. That year the group operated about 250 clubs, comprising more than 250,000 members.
The head office is located in Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
See also
Australian Institute of Personal Trainers
References
External links
Fitness and health
Health clubs in Australia
Health care companies of New Zealand
Health care companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Australia
Companies based on the Gold Coast, Queensland |
Camp Curtis Guild is a Massachusetts Army National Guard camp located in the towns of Reading, Lynnfield, and Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is named after former Massachusetts governor Curtis Guild, Jr.
During World War II the camp was one of the embarkation camps under the command of the Boston Port of Embarkation.
History
During World War I, the site was leased from the Bay State Rifle Association by the United States Navy. The area then became known as Camp Plunkett and wooden barracks and mess halls were erected on the site. After the war, the land was returned to the association.
In 1926, and at a cost of $64,000 dollars, the land was bought by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On March 1 of that year, Governor Alvin T. Fuller named the camp in honor of the former governor Curtis Guild, Jr. “in consideration of [his] public service and intimate connection with the military forces of the state and nation.”
During the time period between 1933 and 1936, a Works Progress Administration camp was operated by the state on the site. Several wood-frame buildings were also erected on the site during this time.
During World War II, the camp was operated as a staging area by the First Service Command under the command of and for the Boston Port of Embarkation. The camp was also utilized by the United States Coast Guard, as well for training.
In 1992, the army conducted a Lyme Disease Risk Assessment and noted that the disease was present in ticks at the facility, as well as the presence of human Lyme disease cases in the surrounding area.
In 1968 the site was selected to host the Boston-area Sentinel ABM, but fierce public opposition led to the project being put on hold, and then canceled in favor of the Safeguard Program, which was located far from urban areas.
In November 1976, the rock band KISS rented out an area of the facility in Reading to rehearse for their upcoming "Winter Tour 76/77" for the album Rock and Roll Over. While there, the band filmed three music videos for the Don Kirshner Rock Concert television show. The videos would air in May 1977.
In 1998, the outdoor firing facility was closed after a stray bullet nearly struck a Lynnfield mother and her toddler. Between 1967 and 1998, nineteen stray bullets were found in the abutting neighborhood. Prior to the closing of the range, police departments from the surrounding area used the outdoor range for training. The incident resulted in the building of an indoor range at the facility.
Training Facilities
The facility contains fifteen training areas, two bivouac sites for company-sized elements, a land navigation site, a recovery training site, an engineer dig training site, a helipad, and an Engagement Skills Trainer. Ten miles of unmaintained roads are also present on the site to help with training for wheeled and tracked vehicles.
Tenants
A list of tenants that operate at the facility:
151st Regional Support Group
Field Maintenance Facility #4
272nd Chemical Company
972nd Military Police Company
188th Engineer Detachment
Camp Curtis Guild Composite Squadron MA-072 Civil Air Patrol
MA NG Family Program
See also
Camp Guild - WWI training camp in Boxford named for the same person
List of military installations in Massachusetts
References
External links
Official website
Flickr images of Camp Curtis Guild
Documentation of rifle training at the camp during World War I
Military installations in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Reading, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Wakefield, Massachusetts
Installations of the United States Army National Guard
Works Progress Administration in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Lynnfield, Massachusetts
1916 establishments in Massachusetts |
Chan Fat Chi (, born 10 January 1957) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
He played for Bulova, Seiko, South China and Instant-Dict. He was the Hong Kong Footballer of the Year in 1988 and 1989. He played in the famous Hong Kong victory over China on 19 May 1985.
References
Living people
1957 births
Hong Kong First Division League players
Bulova SA players
Seiko SA players
South China AA players
Double Flower FA players
Men's association football forwards
Hong Kong men's footballers
Hong Kong men's international footballers |
Thubten may refer to:
Thubten Chökyi Dorje, 5th Dzogchen Rinpoche (1872–1935), the 5th Dzogchen Rinpoche of Tibet in the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Thubten Chodron, an American Tibetan Buddhist nun and a central figure in reinstating the Bhikshuni
Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama (1883–1937), the 9th Panchen Lama of Tibet
Thubten Gyatso (Australian monk), one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
Thubten Gyatso (NKT), a 'Gen-la' and Resident Teacher of Madhyamaka Centre (Pocklington, York)
Thubten Jigme Norbu (1922–2008), a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies
Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984), a Tibetan lama who, while exiled in Nepal, co-founded Kopan Monastery
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (born 1946), a lama from Thami, a village in the Khumbu region of Nepal
See also
Thubten Dhargye Ling, an American Tibetan Buddhist center founded by Geshe Gyeltsen in 1978
Thubten Shedrup Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Australia |
Sivert Bertil Johnson Jr. (April 15, 1930 – July 26, 2022) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist who worked with Charles Mingus in the 1960s and 1970s. He also worked with the Lee Konitz Nonet, among others. His work with Mingus is his best-known.
He died from complications of COVID-19 in New York City, on July 26, 2022, at age 92.
Life and career
Johnson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 15, 1930. He first performed with Charles Mingus in 1960 at the Showplace, a jazz club on West 4th St., in the band that included Booker Ervin on tenor, Ted Curson on trumpet, Dannie Richmond on drums, and Mingus on bass, and on his first night with Mingus, Eric Dolphy performed on alto, bass clarinet and flute. Johnson agreed to sit in with the band for two weeks, with the understanding that he would then be put on the payroll; at the end of the two weeks, he came into work and found himself replaced by Yusef Lateef, the multi-instrumentalist. "[Mingus] made as though he was going to walk right by me," Johnson later recalled, "and then he said to me, 'If it was up to you, and you had a choice between hiring Yusef Lateef and you, who would you hire?' And then he walked out, he figured there wasn't any answer for that. And he was quite right, as a matter of fact."
In 1971, eleven years later, Mingus climbed the stairs to Emile Charlap's copying office, home to many great arrangers, and before he left, he gave Johnson Let My Children Hear Music to arrange, which featured two Mingus pieces, "The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife (Are Some Jiveass Slippers)" and "Don’t Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too". The album's emergence was heralded with a live concert, Mingus And Friends At Philharmonic Hall, also arranged by Johnson and released as an album. Johnson continued to work with Mingus until his death from Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1979. Mingus recorded two of Johnson's compositions, "Wee" and "For Harry Carney", and nominated Johnson for a Guggenheim Award following his own in jazz composition. Johnson continued to work with Sue Mingus arranging charts for all the Mingus repertory ensembles—Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. His other collaborations in the music world have been with Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra, Wes Montgomery, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Mel Tormé, Terry Gibbs, and Sarah Vaughan among others. He has also worked on Broadway and in films such as The Cotton Club (1984).
In 1975, Johnson married Lois Mirviss, an interior designer and creative director of Mirviss Design Associates, in New York City. They lived together on the Upper East Side of Manhattan until Johnson's death in 2022. They are remembered by their friends, family, and neighbors as having had "one of the great loves."
Johnson was also known as a jazz photographer, writer, pianist, singer, and teacher.
Discography
As sideman
Rod Levitt, The Dynamic Sound Patterns (Riverside, 1964)
Rod Levitt, Insight (RCA Victor, 1965)
Rod Levitt, Solid Ground (RCA Victor, 1966)
Dick Sudhalter, Melodies Heard...Melodies Sweet (Challenge, 1999)
As arranger
With Craig Handy
Reflections in Change (Sirocco Music, 1999)
With Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia, 1972)
Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)
Mingus Moves (Atlantic, 1973)
Changes Two (Atlantic, 1974)
References
1930 births
2022 deaths
Jazz arrangers
Jazz photographers
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
Musicians from New Haven, Connecticut
20th-century American pianists
Jazz musicians from Connecticut
21st-century American pianists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in New York (state) |
The Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund (Small Swiss Hound), is a breed of dog of the scenthound type from Switzerland. Niederlaufhund means short-legged hound. The breed has a number of different varieties (all of the same breed).
Description
The Swiss Niederlaufhund is an excellent hunting dog used to find and follow a scent even through difficult ground. This dog is also often used to pursue and find wounded animals.
Appearance
These dogs' height lies between 35 and 43 cm (13.8 -16.9 ins) for the males and 33 and 40 cm (13 and 15.7 ins) for the females. The general appearance is of a hound similar to the Schweizer Laufhund, with a smaller body and shorter legs. They appear to be square but are a little longer than they are tall and well-structured. The head is well clearly shaped and noble with a friendly and alert expression. The chest. The legs are strong with a robust structure. At a calm pace they carry the tail low; when they run it is a bit lifted. The breed has long, drop ears and a long tail.
The coat can be short and smooth or a bit longer and stiff depending on the type.
The varieties of the Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund are arranged by coat colour and texture:
Small Bernese Hound (Berner Niederlaufhund) - tricolour: white, black and tan, tan marks over the eyes.
short-haired Small Bernese Hound - short and smooth coat
wire-haired Small Bernese Hound - harsh single coat, small beard on the face
Small Jura Hound (Jura Niederlaufhund) -smooth single coat, black with tan markings above the eyes, some white.
Small Lucerne Hound (Luzerner Niederlaufhund) - smooth white coat speckled with grey or black to give a blue appearance, with black patches and tan marks over the eyes.
Small Schwyz Hound (Schwyzer Niederlaufhund )- smooth white coat with yellow-red to orange-red patches. There was once a wire-haired variety of the Small Schwyz Hound, but it is now extinct.
Berner Niederlaufhund
This type is bred in both short-haired and wire-haired varieties and both are always tri-colored: white, black and tan. The base color is white with big black spots. Some little spots are allowed. Over the eyes and on the cheeks these dogs have maroon-colored spots.
A black mantle is allowed. The skin is black pigmented under the dark coat and marbled under the white coat.
Jura Niederlaufhund
This type usually has a smooth coat. A deep-black color with some maroon-colored spots over the eyes, on the cheeks, chest and legs is preferred. A maroon base color with a black mantle is also allowed. White spots are tolerated only on the chest if they are not too big.
The skin is dark pigmented under the black coat and paler under the spots.
Luzerner Niederlaufhund
This type has a smooth, short coat. The base color is white, white and gray mottled or white and black mottled. Some bigger black spots or a black mantle are allowed. Maroon-colored spots over the eyes and on the cheeks can appear. The skin is dark pigmented under the black coat and paler under the mottled coat.
Schwyzer Niederlaufhund
This type has a smooth coat. The base color is white with reddish-colored spots. Some smaller spots and a mantle are allowed. The skin is dark grey-colored under the reddish coat and marbled under the white coat.
Temperament
The Niederlaufhunde have a great sense of smell; they are fast, agile and passionate hunters which keep good track of the scent they are supposed to follow. Their voice is pleasant. These dogs are friendly, courageous and never aggressive. Some specimens are calmer than others.
History
Around 1900 the hunting activities were restricted to districts, and since the hounds used until then were too fast for these limited areas, it was decided to establish a new type of hound. Using selected specimens of the medium-sized Schweizer Laufhund, smaller, shorter-legged hunting dogs were created. The Schweizer Niederlaufhund Club was formed on July 1, 1905.
See also
Dogs portal
List of dog breeds
Schweizer Laufhund
References
External links
Search The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) links for clubs and information about the Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund
FCI breeds
Rare dog breeds
Scent hounds
Dog breeds originating in Switzerland |
Rolf Bucher (born in 1957) is a Swiss retired footballer who played in the 1970s. He played mainly as midfielder.
Bucher came from their youth team and joined FC Basel's first team in their 1975–76 season under head-coach Helmut Benthaus. After playing in three test games, Bucher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 8 May 1976 as Basel were defeated 1–5 by Sion. Bucher played mainly with the reserve team this and in the next season, in which he also played two games in the Cup of the Alps and three test games.
In Basel's 1977–78 season Bucher was mainly on the substitute bench. He played one game over 90 minutes and was substituted in on a number of occasions. Between the years 1975 and 1978 Bucher played a total of 27 games for Basel, without scoring a goal. 11 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, one in the Swiss League Cup, two in the Cup of the Alps and 13 were friendly games.
After his time with Basel Bucher moved on to play for Grenchen in the National B, the second tier of Swiss football.
References
Sources
Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
FC Basel players
FC Grenchen players
Swiss men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
1957 births
Living people |
```objective-c
// 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
/*
**********************************************************************
* Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
**********************************************************************
*/
#ifndef __LXUTILITIES_H
#define __LXUTILITIES_H
#include "layout/LETypes.h"
U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
class LXUtilities
{
public:
static le_int8 highBit(le_int32 value);
static le_int32 search(le_int32 value, const le_int32 array[], le_int32 count);
static void reverse(le_int32 array[], le_int32 count);
static void reverse(float array[], le_int32 count);
};
U_NAMESPACE_END
#endif
``` |
```c++
/*******************************************************************************
*
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*******************************************************************************/
#include <compiler/ir/attr_keys.hpp>
#include <compiler/ir/easy_build.hpp>
#include <compiler/ir/ir_comparer.hpp>
#include <compiler/ir/ir_module.hpp>
#include <compiler/ir/transform/cpu/closurize.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include "context.hpp"
#include "exception_util.hpp"
#include "gtest/gtest.h"
#include <runtime/config.hpp>
using namespace dnnl::impl::graph::gc;
TEST(GCCore_CPU_closurize_cpp, TestSingleCore) {
builder::ir_builder_t builder;
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester) {
_tensor_(t, datatypes::f32, {100});
_for_(i, 2, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) { t[i] = 2; }
}
_function_(datatypes::void_t, expected) {
_tensor_(t, datatypes::f32, {100});
_for_(i, 2, 10, 2) { t[i] = 2; }
}
auto mod = closurizer_cpu_t(true)(
ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_default_context(), tester));
auto func = mod->get_func("tester");
ir_comparer cmper {};
ASSERT_TRUE(func);
ASSERT_TRUE(cmper.compare(func, expected));
}
TEST(GCCore_CPU_closurize_cpp, TestClosurizeCPU) {
builder::ir_builder_t builder;
auto m = std::make_shared<ir_module_t>(get_default_context());
_global_var_(m, gv, datatypes::s32, 1);
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester) {
_var_(b, datatypes::s32);
_tensor_(t, datatypes::f32, {100});
_for_(i, 2, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {
gv = 2;
t[b + i] = gv;
}
_for_(i, 2, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {
gv = 2;
t[b + i] = gv + 1;
}
}
m->add_func({tester});
bool use_managed = runtime_config_t::get().managed_thread_pool_
== thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
m->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= runtime_config_t::get().managed_thread_pool_;
auto testerout = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m);
auto outfuncs = testerout->get_contents();
ASSERT_EQ(outfuncs.size(), 5u);
// 0 -> tester
// 1 -> closure0
// 2 -> closure0_wrapper
// 3 -> closure1
// 4 -> closure1_wrapper
_function_(datatypes::void_t, closure1, _arg_("i", datatypes::index),
_arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100}), _arg_("b", datatypes::s32)) {
_bind_(i, t, b);
gv = 2;
t[b + i] = gv;
}
_function_(datatypes::void_t, closure2, _arg_("i", datatypes::index),
_arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100}), _arg_("b", datatypes::s32)) {
_bind_(i, t, b);
gv = 2;
t[b + i] = gv + 1;
}
ir_comparer cmp(true);
EXPECT_TRUE(cmp.compare(outfuncs[1], closure1));
EXPECT_TRUE(cmp.compare(outfuncs[3], closure2));
auto u64_0 = make_expr<constant_node>(UINT64_C(0));
auto pointer_0 = make_expr<constant_node>(UINT64_C(0), datatypes::pointer);
auto u8_pointer_0 = make_expr<constant_node>(
UINT64_C(0), datatypes::s8.get_pointerof());
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester2) {
_var_(b, datatypes::s32);
_tensor_(t, datatypes::f32, {100});
builder.push_scope();
{
_tensor_(args, datatypes::generic, {2UL});
args[0UL] = builder::make_cast(datatypes::generic, t);
args[1UL] = builder::make_cast(datatypes::generic, b);
expr callnode = builder::make_call(
get_parallel_call_with_env_func(use_managed),
{builder::make_func_addr(outfuncs[2]), u64_0, pointer_0,
u8_pointer_0, 2UL, 10UL, 2UL, args});
builder.push_evaluate(callnode);
}
builder.emit(builder.pop_scope());
builder.push_scope();
{
_tensor_(args, datatypes::generic, {2UL});
args[0UL] = builder::make_cast(datatypes::generic, t);
args[1UL] = builder::make_cast(datatypes::generic, b);
expr callnode = builder::make_call(
get_parallel_call_with_env_func(use_managed),
{builder::make_func_addr(outfuncs[4]), u64_0, pointer_0,
u8_pointer_0, 2UL, 10UL, 2UL, args});
builder.push_evaluate(callnode);
}
builder.emit(builder.pop_scope());
}
EXPECT_TRUE(cmp.compare(outfuncs[0], tester2, false));
}
static optional<uint64_t> get_parallel_call_flag(const func_t f, int idx = 0) {
return f->body_.static_as<stmts>()
->seq_.at(idx)
.cast<stmts>()
.map([](const stmts &v) { return v->seq_.back().as<evaluate>(); })
.map([](const evaluate &v) { return v->value_.as<call>(); })
.map([](const call &v) { return v->args_.at(1).as<constant>(); })
.map([](const constant &v) { return v->get_index(); });
}
TEST(GCCore_CPU_closurize_cpp, TestClosurizeCPURemoveBarrier) {
builder::ir_builder_t builder;
if (runtime_config_t::get().managed_thread_pool_
!= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED) {
GTEST_SKIP();
}
_function_(datatypes::boolean, aaa) {
_for_(i, 0, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {}
_return_(true);
}
{
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester1) {
_evaluate_call_(aaa);
_tensor_(b, datatypes::index, 1);
}
tester1->attr()[function_attrs::is_main] = true;
auto m1 = ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_test_ctx(), tester1);
m1->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
auto testerout1 = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m1);
auto f = testerout1->get_func("aaa");
ASSERT_TRUE(f);
ASSERT_EQ(f->body_.static_as<stmts>()->seq_.size(), 2UL);
auto flag = get_parallel_call_flag(f);
ASSERT_TRUE(flag.has_value() && flag.get() == 0);
}
{
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester1) { _evaluate_call_(aaa); }
tester1->attr()[function_attrs::is_main] = true;
auto m1 = ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_test_ctx(), tester1);
m1->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
auto testerout1 = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m1);
auto f = testerout1->get_func("aaa");
ASSERT_TRUE(f);
ASSERT_EQ(f->body_.static_as<stmts>()->seq_.size(), 2UL);
auto flag = get_parallel_call_flag(f);
ASSERT_TRUE(flag.has_value() && flag.get() == 4UL);
}
_function_(datatypes::void_t, bbb) {
_for_(i, 0, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {}
_tensor_(b, datatypes::index, 1);
}
{
_function_(datatypes::void_t, tester1) { _evaluate_call_(bbb); }
tester1->attr()[function_attrs::is_main] = true;
auto m1 = ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_test_ctx(), tester1);
m1->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
auto testerout1 = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m1);
auto f = testerout1->get_func("bbb");
ASSERT_TRUE(f);
ASSERT_EQ(f->body_.static_as<stmts>()->seq_.size(), 2UL);
auto flag = get_parallel_call_flag(f);
ASSERT_TRUE(flag.has_value() && flag.get() == 0);
}
}
TEST(GCCore_CPU_closurize_cpp, TestClosurizeCPURemoveBarrierPinMemory) {
builder::ir_builder_t builder;
if (runtime_config_t::get().managed_thread_pool_
!= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED) {
GTEST_SKIP();
}
{
expr bbb_A, aaa_A, tester_A, tester_B, tester_T;
_function_(datatypes::boolean, aaa, _arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100})) {
_bind_(t);
_tensor_(A, datatypes::f32, 100);
aaa_A = A;
_for_(i, 0, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {
t[0] = 1;
A[i] = 0.0f;
}
_return_(true);
}
_function_(datatypes::boolean, bbb, _arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100}),
_arg_("t2", datatypes::f32, {100})) {
_bind_(t, t2);
_tensor_(A, datatypes::f32, 100);
bbb_A = A;
_for_(i, 0, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) {
t[0] = 1;
t2[0] = 1;
A[i] = 0.0f;
}
_return_(true);
}
_function_(
datatypes::void_t, tester1, _arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100})) {
_bind_(t);
tester_T = t;
_tensor_(A, datatypes::f32, 100);
tester_A = A;
_tensor_(B, datatypes::f32, 100);
tester_B = B;
_tensor_(C, datatypes::f32, 100);
builder.get_current_scope()
.as_seq()
.back()
.checked_as<define>()
->init_
= builder::tensor_ptr(B, {0UL});
_evaluate_call_(aaa, A);
_evaluate_call_(bbb, C, t);
}
tester1->attr()[function_attrs::is_main] = true;
auto m1 = ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_test_ctx(), tester1);
m1->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
auto testerout1 = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m1);
ASSERT_TRUE(bbb_A->attr().get<bool>(attr_keys::runtime_stack_alloc));
ASSERT_TRUE(tester_B->attr().get<bool>(attr_keys::runtime_stack_alloc));
ASSERT_FALSE(tester_A->attr().get_or_else<bool>(
attr_keys::runtime_stack_alloc, false));
}
{
_function_(datatypes::boolean, aaa,
_arg_("t", datatypes::pointer, {100})) {
_bind_(t);
_tensor_(A, datatypes::f32, 100);
builder.get_current_scope()
.as_seq()
.back()
.checked_as<define>()
->init_
= t[0];
_for_(i, 0, 10, 2, for_type::PARALLEL) { A[i] = 0.0f; }
_return_(true);
}
_function_(
datatypes::void_t, tester1, _arg_("t", datatypes::f32, {100})) {
_bind_(t);
_tensor_(A, datatypes::f32, 100);
_evaluate_call_(aaa, A);
}
tester1->attr()[function_attrs::is_main] = true;
auto m1 = ir_module_t::from_entry_func(get_test_ctx(), tester1);
m1->attr_[ir_module_t::attr_key_t::MANAGED_THREAD_POOL]
= thread_pool_mode_t::MANAGED;
auto testerout1 = closurizer_cpu_t(false)(m1);
auto f = testerout1->get_func("aaa");
ASSERT_TRUE(f);
ASSERT_EQ(get_parallel_call_flag(f, 1).get(), 0UL);
}
}
``` |
"Among the Walking Dead" is a single by Scarface from Motown Records' Walking Dead soundtrack. Produced by N.O. Joe, "Among the Walking Dead" featured an uncredited guest appearance by Scarface's group, Facemob. The song was a minor hit on the R&B and rap charts, peaking at 91 and 14 respectively.
Single track listing
"Among the Walking Dead" (Radio Edit)- 3:37
"Among the Walking Dead" (LP Version)- 3:38
"Among the Walking Dead" (Instrumental)- 3:38
"Among the Walking Dead" (Acapella)- 3:24
Charts
1995 singles
Scarface (rapper) songs
1995 songs
Motown singles |
Runcu Tauja (possibly from Quechua runku basket, tawqa pile, heap, "basket heap") is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province, Checacupe District, and in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, Corani District. Runcu Tauja lies northwest of the glaciated area of Quelccaya (Quechua for "snow plain"), west of Quimsachata and north of Millo.
References
Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Cusco Region
Mountains of Puno Region |
or is a mountain in the municipality of Narvik in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about northeast of the village of Kjøpsvik. The mountain has very smooth sides reaching all the way to the fjord. Stetind has an obelisk-shape which gives it a very distinct look. In 2002 it was voted to be the "National Mountain" of Norway by listeners of NRK.
Climbing
The mountain had several attempts at first ascents. First was the German Paul Güssfeldt and the Norwegian Martin Ekroll in the summer of 1888. The Dane Carl Hall and the Norwegian mountain guide Mathias Soggemoen attempted in 1889.
Neither group succeeded, but Carl Hall built a cairn on the lower summit about southeast of the main summit. That cairn is now called Halls fortopp (elevation ). In 1904, William Cecil Slingsby also failed to reach the summit.
It was not until 30 July 1910 that Ferdinand Schjelderup, Carl Wilhelm Rubenson, and Alf Bonnevie Bryn finally reached the summit of Stetind. The weather conditions were good. It was Rubenson's 25th birthday, and he was given the honor of being first in the rope. The hardest part was to pass the smooth crag "Mysosten", which Rubenson finger traversed along a tiny crack. After this passage there was an easy climb to the summit. The same three climbers continued their 1910 tour by making first ascents of the Lofoten summits Svolværgeita and Trakta. Arne Næss, Ralph Høibakk, and K. Friis Baasted did the first winter climb of Stetind in 1963 on the eastern wall. In 1966, Arne Næss and four others were the first ones to summit via the west wall.
Name
The shape of the mountain has been compared with a ste which means "anvil" and the last element is the finite form of tind which means "mountain peak". Slingsby characterized Stetind as the ugliest mountain he ever saw.
Tourism
Stetind is not a particularly popular tourist destination, despite being Norway's national mountain. It got a boom in tourism activity after the award, but the number of visitors returned to normal levels after a few years.
References
External links
Narvik
Mountains of Nordland
Tourist attractions in Nordland |
Yukhta-3 () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Dmitriyevsky Selsoviet of Svobodnensky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 97 as of 2018. There are 4 streets.
Geography
Yukhta-3 is located on the left bank of the Bolshaya Pyora River, 14 km north of Svobodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Reneyssans is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Svobodnensky District |
A centrifuge is a device that employs a high rotational speed to separate components of different densities. This becomes relevant in the majority of industrial jobs where solids, liquids and gases are merged into a single mixture and the separation of these different phases is necessary. A decanter centrifuge (also known as solid bowl centrifuge) separates continuously solid materials from liquids in the slurry, and therefore plays an important role in the wastewater treatment, chemical, oil, and food processing industries. There are several factors that affect the performance of a decanter centrifuge, and some design heuristics are to be followed which are dependent upon given applications.
Operating principle
The operating principle of a decanter centrifuge is based on separation via buoyancy. Naturally, a component with a higher density would fall to the bottom of a mixture, while the less dense component would be suspended above it. A decanter centrifuge increases the rate of settling through the use of continuous rotation, producing a G-force equivalent to between 1000 and 4000 G's. This reduces the settling time of the components by a large magnitude, whereby mixtures previously having to take hours to settle can be settled in a matter of seconds using a decanter centrifuge. This form of separation enables more rapid and controllable results.
How does it work
The feed product is pumped into the decanter centrifuge through the inlet. Feed goes into a horizontal bowl, which rotates. The bowl is composed of a cylindrical part and a conical part. The separation takes place in the cylindrical part of the bowl. The fast rotation generates centrifugal forces up to 4000 x g. Under these forces, the solid particles with higher density are collected and compacted on the wall of the bowl. A scroll (also screw or screw conveyor) rotates inside the bowl at a slightly different speed. This speed difference is called the differential speed. This way the scroll is transporting the settled particles along the cylindrical part of the bowl and up to the end conical part of the bowl. At the smallest end of the conical part of the bowl, the dewatered solids leave the bowl via discharge opening. The clarified liquid leaves through a paring disc (internal centripetal pump).
3-phase separation with a decanter
With a 3 phase decanter centrifuge, it is possible to separate 3 phases from each other in one process step only. For example, two liquids which cannot be mixed because of different densities (e.g. oil and water) are separated from a solids phase. The heavy liquid (water) collects in the middle between the oil and the solids layer. Thus the two liquids separated from each other can be drawn off from the decanter. The solids are transported via the scroll to the discharge openings as it happens also in 2-phase separation.
Typical applications of 3-phase separation are the production of edible oils such as olive oil, oil sludge processing, the production of biodiesel etc.
Parameters and influencing factors of the separation
Feed, throughput and residence time
Through the feed, the separation medium to be processed can be input into the centre of the infeed chamber of the scroll, where it is accelerated. The throughput will have an influence on the residence time.
Acceleration
The separation medium reaches its maximum speed in the decanter bowl, causing the solids to settle on the bowl inner diameter. A characteristic feature of the bowl is its cylindrical/conical shape.
Differential speed
There is a differential speed between the decanter bowl and the scroll, which is created by a gear unit on the industrial decanter centrifuges. The differential speed determines the solid content in the outfeed.
Filling volume / weir discs or overflow weir
Pond depth / weir discs
The clarified liquid flows to the cylindrical end of the bowl in the decanter centrifuge, from where it runs out through openings in the bowl cover. These openings contain precisely adjustable weir discs/weir plates by means of which the pond depth in the bowl can be set. The weir discs determine the filling volume of the bowl.
Range of applications
The main application of decanter centrifuges is to separate large amounts of solids from liquids on a continuous basis. They are also used to wash and dry various solids in industry, such as polystyrene beads, clarify liquids and concentrate solids. Table 1.0 displays various examples of the utilisation of decanter centrifuges in various industries.
Advantages and limitations over competitive processes
Generally the decanter centrifuge has more advantages than disadvantages; however, there are some limitations when compared to other processes.
Advantages:
Decanter centrifuges have a clean appearance and have little to no odour problems.
Not only is the device easy to install and fast at starting up and shutting down but also only requires a small area for operation compared to other competitive processes.
The decanter centrifuge is versatile as different lengths of the cylindrical bowl section and the cone angle can be selected for different applications. Also, the system can be pre-programmed with various design curves to predict the sludge type, while some competitive processes, such as a belt filter press, cannot change the belt type to operate for different sludge types. Its versatility allows the machine to have various functions such as operating for thickening or dewatering.
The machine can operate with a higher throughput capacity than smaller machines. This also reduces the number of units required.
The device is simple to optimise and operate as it has few major variables and reliable feedback information.
The decanter centrifuge has reduced labour costs compared to other processes, as it requires low continuous maintenance and operator attention.
Compared to some competitive process such as the belt filter process, the decanter centrifuge has more process flexibility and higher levels of performance.
Limitations:
The decanter centrifuge cannot separate biological solids with very small density differences, such as cells and viruses. A competitive process that is capable of separating these difficult-to-separate solids is the tubular-bowl centrifuge.
The machine can be very noisy and can cause vibration.
The device has a high-energy consumption due to high G-forces.
The decanter centrifuge has high equipment capital costs. Hard surfacing and abrasion protection materials are required for the scroll to reduce wear and therefore reduce the maintenance of the scroll wear.
Designs available
The main types of decanter centrifuges are the vertical orientation, horizontal orientation and conveyor/scroll.
In vertical decanter centrifuges, the rotating assembly is mounted vertically with its weight supported by a single bearing at the bottom or suspended from the top. The gearbox and bowl are suspended from the drive head, which is connected to the frame. The vertical decanter allows for high temperature and/or high-pressure operation due to the orientation and the rotational seals provided at one end. However, this makes the device more expensive than the horizontal decanter centrifuge, which is non-pressurised and open. The advantage of the vertical machine over the horizontal machine is that the noise emitted during production is much lower due to less vibration.
In horizontal decanter centrifuges, as shown in figure 1, the rotating assembly is mounted horizontally with bearings on each end to a rigid frame, which provides a good sealing surface for high-pressure applications. The feed enters through one end of the bearings, while the gearbox is attached to the other end and is operated below the critical speed. Capacities range up to of solids per hour with liquid feed rates of up to per minute. The horizontal machine is arranged in a way that slurry can be introduced at the centre of a rotating horizontal cylindrical bowl. The scroll discharge screw forces the solids to one end of the bowl as it is collected on the walls. This orientation is the most common design implemented in the industry.
In conveyor decanter centrifuges the conveyor or scroll fits inside a rotating bowl and carries the solids settled against the wall, pushing them across a beach towards the underflow where the solids discharge. The conveyor allows for an increase in separation efficiency and feed capacity.
Decanter centrifuges process characteristics
The separation process in a decanter centrifuge relies on a few process characteristics such as centrifugal force or G-force, sedimentation rate and separating factor, differential speed between the conveyor and bowl, and clarity of the liquid discharge.
Decanter centrifuges require a centrifugal force for the separation of the solids from the liquid. This characteristic is dependent on the radius of the centrifuge and its angular rotational speed. A decanter centrifuge applies a force equivalent to several thousand G's, which reduces the settling time of the particles. It is also favoured to maintain a large G-force, which will result in an improved separation.
The rate at which sedimentation occurs is an important characteristic of the decanter centrifuge separation process. The sedimentation rate is influenced by the particle size, the shapes of the particles, their density differential between solid and liquid and the viscosity of the liquid. This process characteristic can be improved by utilizing flocculating agents. The sedimentation rate is also dependent on the separating factor of the decanter centrifuge, which is related to the centrifugal force.
The exterior bowl and the scroll conveyor rotate at different high speeds. This differential speed between the two is accountable for the sedimentation throughout the decanter centrifuge cylinder. A high differential speed results in a smaller residence time of the cake settlement, so it is necessary to keep the cake thickness to a minimum to avoid impairing the discharge quality. Keeping the cake thickness to a minimum also aids in the improvement of the cake dewatering process. For this reason, it is necessary to obtain an optimal differential speed to balance the cake thickness and quality.
The characteristic above all affects the clarity of the liquid output which is dependent on the volumetric throughout rate, where a higher flow rate will result in a poor liquid clarity. Another characteristic that influences the clarity of the liquid output is the differential speed. A low differential speed results in a better clarity, therefore, aiding in the separation process. The G-Force also plays a role in the clarity of the liquid discharge. Higher G-force results in an increase in the separation of the solid particles from the liquid and yields a better clarity.
Design heuristics
Design heuristics are methods based on experience which serve the purpose of reducing the need for calculations with regards to equipment sizing, operating parameters or performance.
One of the important design heuristics to be considered when employing decanter centrifuges is the scale of the process. Decanter centrifuges should ideally be used in large scale processes. This is to optimise economic value since smaller scale processes do not necessarily require such costly equipment to attain the desired product.
Another design heuristic to be considered is the length to diameter ratio of the decanter centrifuge. A length to diameter ratio of 2, 3 and 4 are commonly used. Decanter centrifuges with the same diameter but the longer length would have a higher capacity for conveying solids and attain a larger suspension volume, which would enhance the settling out of fine solids.
The beach angle at the conical section of a decanter centrifuge is a design heuristic, which must also be taken into consideration. The slippage force acting on solids in the direction of the liquid pool increases by a large magnitude when solids exit the pool onto the beach. A decanter centrifuge possessing a small cone angle is able to produce a lower slippage force compared to a large cone angle. A low cone angle is beneficial when solids do not compact properly and possess a soft texture. Additionally, low cone angles result in a lower wear rate on the scroll and are beneficial when being used with very compact solids requiring a large magnitude of torque to move.
The magnitude of centrifugal force being used must also be considered. Centrifugal force aids with dewatering but hinders the transport of cake in the dry beach. Hence, a tradeoff exists between cake conveyance and cake dewatering. A balance between the two is necessary for setting the pool and G-force for a particular application. Additionally, a larger centrifuge will produce better separation than a smaller centrifuge with the same bowl speed as a greater G-force would be produced.
In the cylindrical section of the decanter centrifuge, the pool should ideally be shallow in order to maximise G-force for separation. Alternatively, a deeper pool is advantageous when the cake layer is too thick and the finer particles entrain into the fast liquid stream since a thicker buffer liquid layer is present to help settle suspended solids. The compromise between cake dryness and clarity of centrate is to be considered. The reason behind this trade-off is that in losing fine solids to centrate, the cake with bigger particles is able to dewater more effectively which results in a drier cake. Optimal pool for a particular application should be identified through the conduction of tests.
Another important heuristic is the differential speed, which controls cake transport. A high differential speed would give rise to a high solids throughput. A high differential speed also reduces cake residence time.
Post-treatment systems
The production of a waste stream is small in comparison to the overall process output; however can still pose a number of significant problems. Firstly, the volume of waste in the process reduces the available volume to be used for the process. Direct disposal into the environment of especially oil wastes can be detrimental to the surroundings if a treatment is not applied. The post-treatment system applied to the waste product should depend on the specific treated product required. The objectives of post-treatment can range from achieving a product that can be safely disposed, recycled into the refining process or requires an adequate water phase to be re-used in the process.
The objectives of post-treatment vary between different industries where in order to perform an efficient and economical process; the decanter centrifuge must be tailored to the task at hand. In the food manufacturing industry, decanter centrifuges are utilised in oil extraction machines. An oil extraction machine can process up to fifteen metric tonnes per hour of organic wastes and are found either within the process plant or outdoors if designed for the climate. The waste material enters the inlet chute and is softened into a sludge which is then steam heated. This mixture then enters a three-phase decanter centrifuge, also known as a tricanter centrifuge.
A tricanter centrifuge operates on a similar principle to decanter centrifuges but instead separates three phases, consisting of a suspended solids phase and two immiscible liquids. Sedimentation of the suspended solids occurs as normal where they accumulate on the wall of the bowl and are conveyed out of the centrifuge. The two liquid phases are separated using a dual discharge system where the lighter liquid phase such as oil, is separated over a ring dam via gravity, and water, which is commonly the heavier liquid phase, is discharged using a stationary impeller under pressure. Each of the three components, solid, oil and water, are distributed to different storage tanks.
There are numerous manufacturers specialising in mechanical separation technology that have adopted these new designs into industry standard equipment. This advanced technology has allowed decanter centrifuges to operate up to 250 cubic metres per hour and has developed numerous designs such as the Z8E decanter, known as the world's largest decanter centrifuge with an adjustable impeller, which supplies a torque of 24,000 newton metres. Other designs can reduce power consumption by up to thirty percent due to a large slurry discharge, and are best utilised in the water treatment industry.
New development
The rapid development of the decanter centrifuge over the 20th century saw it expand into a vast range of over 100 industrial applications. Further development since then has seen the refinement of machine design and control methods, improving its overall performance, which allows the system to respond quickly to varying feed conditions. The newest development in decanter centrifuge technology aims to achieve enhanced control of the separation process occurring inside the decanter. The way in which manufacturers aim to address this is by utilising variable mechanical devices in the rotating part of the decanter centrifuge. To control the separation process, the operational parameters should be transferred from the rotating part to the stationary part of the decanter whilst also constantly controlling and maintaining the mechanical device inside the process region. This can be achieved using hydraulic and electronic transfer systems. A hydraulic drive motor is easily able to access the rotating area of the decanter centrifuge.
Another area of development in recent years is the implementation of Functional Safety measures, aiming at providing a better and more safe working environment. Functional Safety measures like SIL-2 certified vibration monitoring protects both personnel and machinery by facilitating a safety shutdown before e.g. vibrations get to a dangerous level and other safety measures.
References
Centrifuges
Water treatment
Waste treatment technology |
Srixon is a sports equipment brand owned by SRI Sports Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., also owner of Dunlop Sport. Srixon focuses on golf, with its balls holding the largest number of patents worldwide, and having previously supplied other leading manufacturers such as Dunlop Slazenger. They also produce a full range of golf clubs and accessories.
In October 2007, SRI Sports acquired Cleveland Golf. On June 27, 2008, SRI announced that operations of the two companies would be consolidated.
Sponsorship deals
Srixon has maintained endorsement deals with many professional golfers on the leading tours, including major champions Keegan Bradley, Ernie Els, Hannah Green, Brooks Koepka, Minjee Lee, Shane Lowry, Hideki Matsuyama, Graeme McDowell, and Inbee Park.
References
External links
Srixon rackets
Golf equipment manufacturers
Sumitomo Group
2007 mergers and acquisitions |
Rumbani Andrew Munthali (born 2 December 1978) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played as a defender and midfielder.
Career
Early career
Born in Lusaka, Zambia, Munthali was raised in Canada and played college soccer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham where he was a 2000 Third Team All American.
Professional career
In 2001, the Montreal Impact drafted, but did not sign Munthali. The Richmond Kickers then signed him after suffering several injuries to their back line. In 2002, the Kickers loaned Munthali to the Carolina Dynamo. They released him in February 2003. He then played for the Oakville Winstars. In 2004, he was signed by the Toronto Lynx of the USL A-League on April 7, 2004. He made his debut for the club on April 17, 2004 in a match against Puerto Rico Islanders, coming on as a substitute for John Barry Nusum. At the conclusion of the season the organization awarded him the Public Relations Award. He re-signed with Toronto for the 2005 season on March 31, 2005. In 2006, he moved to China to sign with Nanchang Bayi. On March 2, 2010, he transferred to China League One side Shenyang Dongjin.
After retirement
After retiring, Munthali moved back to Toronto, before moving to America, where he in Fall 2016 was hired as a youth coach at the academy of Sporting Kansas City. As of August 2021, Munthali was still holding the same position.
References
General
Player profile at PlayerHistory.com
Specific
1978 births
Living people
Canadian men's soccer players
Canadian expatriate men's soccer players
Canada men's international soccer players
North Carolina Fusion U23 players
Toronto Lynx players
Canadian people of Zambian descent
Men's association football defenders
USL First Division players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Lusaka
Richmond Kickers players
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Canadian expatriates in China
China League One players
Shanghai Shenxin F.C. players
Shenyang Dongjin F.C. players
Zambian emigrants to Canada
Sporting Kansas City non-playing staff |
Unfinished Sky is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Peter Duncan. William McInnes stars as John Woldring, an Australian farmer living in self-imposed exile after his wife's death, who rescues and protects Tahmeena, played by Monic Hendrickx, an Afghani refugee who has escaped abusive local townsfolk. Deliberated by scholars and Peter Duncan as a film focused on the response to 9/11, Unfinished Sky has also been described as post-national cinema, with themes of isolation, the fear of others, and the overcoming of obstacles, all relating to Australian identity.
Peter Duncan has reimagined the Dutch film The Polish Bride (1998), in an Australian context. Monic Hendrickx, who played the title role in The Polish Bride, plays Tahmeena; Unfinished Bride was a product of the Dutch-Australian venture New Holland Pictures, which was intent on the director's trying her for the role. In the role of John, William McInnes was praised for his portrayal of John as more isolated, stoic and wounded than his counterpart, Henk, in the Dutch film.
Unfinished Sky was filmed in Queensland at Beaudesert and Boonah; the cinematographer Robert Humphries deliberately framed the colours and reliability of the camera as a reflection of the familiarity of the central relationship. The first parts of the film are dramatically dull and feature the harsh Australia landscape. Editor Suresh Ayyar furthered this jaded quality by contrasting it with the vibrancy later in the film.
The film was released early on August 4, 2007, at the Brisbane Film Festival, on January 31 in the Netherlands, and on June 19 in Australia. It grossed just under $750,000 worldwide. It was relatively well received, winning various awards for best director, best adapted screenplay, best editor and best music during its theatrical release.
Plot
John Woldring (William McInnes), a widowed farmer in outback Australia, is living in isolation outside a small Queensland town until Tahmeena (Monic Hendrickx), a traumatised Afghan refugee, collapses near his farm. Halted by an inherent cultural and language barrier, the two reconcile their damaging pasts over the course of the film.
Suspected of having murdered his wife, John is ostracised by the local townspeople, while Tahmeena has fled the Taliban with her daughter. She has been separated from her daughter and "propertied" by Bob Potter, the corrupt local pub owner, but escaped after being brutally bashed and raped. She and John struggle to communicate, given the language barrier, and he must keep her presence a secret from the nosey neighbours and from Police Sergeant Carl Allen, who has his suspicions aroused. John and Tahmeena reconcile differences and bond over similarities in isolation. They work on a large jigsaw puzzle together, the "unfinished sky" giving the film its title. She is accepted by John's loyal dog, learns to drive the tractor and drop-kick a football. She later finds photos of an earlier John and his wife, a woman of similar appearance involved in those same activities; this sours her feelings towards him. They drive to Brisbane following a lead to her estranged daughter, which proves false and Tahmeena is distraught.
Their hesitant romantic relationship develops that night, but is interrupted by Potter and his brother Mike, who are intent on retrieving their "property", first shooting the dog. The intense conclusion involves a shoot-out in which John defends himself and Tahmeena. In the confusion Potter shoots his brother and is easily captured. Police Sergeant Allen arrives and Tahmeena recognises him as her attacker and Potter's accomplice. He gets the better of John but she strikes him from behind.
Later, John locates Tahmeena's daughter and brings her to Tahmeena in a refugee detention centre. The closing is unresolved but optimistic.
Cast
William McInnes as John Woldring
Monic Hendrickx as Tahmeena
Billie Brown as Bob Potter
Christopher Sommers as Mike Potter
David Field as Sergeant Carl Allen
Sam Cotton as Angus
Kristina Andersen as Supermarket Shopper
Renai Caruso as Kate
Zulaikha Deen as Shahla (6-year-old)
Hannah Cocker as Shahla (11-year-old)
Scott McRae as Policemen
Roy Billing as Royce
Mercia Deane-Johns as Barbara
Philippa Coutlhard as Rose
Themes
Unfinished Sky is presented as a rebuttal of the contextual feelings regarding global influences, reflecting on the growing connection between regions such as Asia and the Middle East, with the underlying central political and social themes lending the film as an 'example of post-national cinema. With Tahmeena being an Afghani refugee, and having escaped from a brothel, the exploitation of humans through the sex trade or trafficking is centralised. This allows the film to reiterate the current issues regarding Australian immigration policy, with Peter Duncan commenting on how, "people have become more fearful of each other," in a post 9/11 world.
Fear of others
Discussed amongst scholars in its more blatant representation and innate didactic portrayal, given Duncan's desire for it to be centralised, the fear of others and/or of difference is a contextually relevant issue at the post 9/11 time of release. Revealed in the starting of the text, John, upon meeting Tahmeena, asks, "Are you Muslim? Islam? Taliban?,", in which Khoo comments on the avoidance of these more politically divisive character traits, yet the inclusion questions the preordained perspectives that relate. Lambert further interrogates the underlining depiction relating to public perception of the ‘other’, citing John's change in point of view relating to Tahmeena as a "call for changes to the tone of official policy and action." However, McCarthy argues against this reframing of the protagonist, reconfirming the instant attraction relates to the matching appearance to that of his late wife. Continuing, McCarthy questions the importance of this specific theme, labelling "Tahmeena’s cultural specificity" as being ‘erased’ when in Australia, rendering the background of being Afghani as "entirely arbitrary". With this is mind, the framing of the fear of difference, and Duncan's didactic intention achieved through the reimagining of The Polish Bride seemingly falters, given a mere appropriation of culture, situating alternate identities as almost inferior to that of white culture. Khoo develops this idea, clinically classifying Hendrickx's portrayal as comparable to Downey Jnr's blackface in Tropic Thunder with respect to the power dynamics at play. Unfinished Sky's arguably most intrinsic theme seemingly erects what it attempts to dismantle, Khoo concludingly stating the notion as, "leaving one always on one side of the fence or the other."
Isolation
In his interview with McFarlane, Duncan frames John's voluntary and borderline exile in the harsh Australian landscape as entrapped isolation; the film narrates the factors that separate and detach both John and Tahmeena. The title refers to John's unfinished jigsaw puzzle, which symbolises a man broken over the accusation of involvement in his wife's death. Duncan alludes to this metaphorically, observing that "we never have that last piece of the puzzle to put in - or if we do that's when we die." The title motif also reflects the unfinished relationship between John and Tahmeena. However, the two work together to complete the puzzle, suggesting a metaphorical recovery along with the ability to communicate wordlessly.
Contextual consequences
Besides a concern for an increasing fear of the unfamiliar, Duncan frames the film as a political and authorial undertone about growing distrust, more specifically the government's policy toward asylum seekers. Lambert comments that the film can "explore ... the limits of a seemingly new Australian sensitivity to others and to the environment." The ending of the film, in which Tahmeena stays, something that McCarthy notes as unrealistic contextually with respect to Australia's strict border protection policy, acts as both a catalyst reflection on reality and a hopeful, more ‘open’ Australia.
Overcoming fears
Lambert argues that Tahmeena's character lends itself to the softening of those who should be distrusted, citing Tascon in that the ‘love’ between John and Tahmeena "makes the welcome of the stranger possible in the deepest and riskiest manner." Here, Lambert allows for John to be reframed as a contextual Australian struck with sympathy, the completion puzzle simultaneously symbolising John's acceptance of Tahmeena in order to ‘solve’ his problems, as reiterated by Khoo. Once again, McCarthy offers a differing perspective, presenting the acceptance of the ‘other’ as that done so with an understood power imbalance, citing Tahmeena as a character plagued by childlike representations. Critics dispute whether Duncan's decision not always to subtitle Tahmeena's Arabic leaves her voiceless or reinforces the difference and need for John to overcome this.
Australian identity
Duncan and film critics such as Khoo and McCarthy discuss the film's text as a revaluation of Australian identity. Whilst originating as an adaptation of "The Polish Bride", Unfinished Sky represents a "changing era of globalised Australian cinema," according to Khoo, with the post-national and regional aspects making way for an identity of multiculturalist appreciation to be plausible. McCarthy specifically questions this notion, quoting disproportionate favouring of White Australians in this portrayal, succinctly commenting on the resulting attempts at a reimagination in, "The result is a contextualisation of multiculturalism as a form of national heritage within an overarching commitment to the idea." Unfinished Sky remains a multicultural text with its effectiveness in doing so heavily questioned; however, the individualised perception of the world from John calls for a broadening of spectrums, with the omission of subtitles subtlety highlighting one-dimensional approaches.
Production
Development
The involvement and investment of New Holland Pictures, a combination of the Dutch company responsible for the production The Polish Bride and an Australian pair, Cathy and Mark Overett, was vital in the creation of Unfinished Sky. Given that Unfinished Sky is loosely based on the 1998 Dutch film (The Polish Bride), the joint venture production company urged the consideration of Monic Hendrickx, who played the relevant counterpart to Tahmeena in The Polish Bride. This catalysed the casting of Monic Hendrickx, with Peter Duncan (director), although originally sceptical, ultimately impressed, recasting her in his culturally appropriated reimagining.
Peter Duncan adapted the Dutch film in an Australian setting in response to the impact of 9/11; it was shot mainly in Beaudesert, Queensland, south of Brisbane. In an interview with Matthew Pejkovic, Duncan describes the film as being ‘about overcoming those fears,’ in relation to his earlier comment on ‘how people have become more fearful of each other’; he thus highlights the central message of overcoming distrust of difference.
Cinematography
The cinematography of the film, headed by Robert Humphries, attempts to mimic the characterisation and interaction of the two protagonists. The film is split into two parts; the opening half is distinguished by a more tonally grey image, a result of a slight crushing of colour, reflecting the coarseness of interaction between the protagonists. In union with a primary use of hand-held camera, the first half of the film acts as an internal reflection of the more ‘abrasive’ relationship between Tahmeena and John. However, once the romantic subplot further develops, the camera movements increase in fluidity, courtesy of the increased use of the dolly, whilst the once dull colour spectrum becomes more saturated and richer.
Camera work is also used to metaphorically represent the characters' internal perceptions of the landscape. Duncan in an interview with Brian McFarlane says that the setting is related to John's perspective: "He’s so lost his sense of place that he doesn’t notice the beauty around him." Later sections of the film present the countryside in more vivid tones. Similarly for Tahmeena, the full extent of John's country house is not fully revealed to her at first; according to Duncan, "she is totally disorientated and can’t get a full picture of it."
Release
The film was released globally on 19 June 2008 to a number of domestic film festivals, international screenings including Toronto and Dubai, with an earlier release of January 31 that year in the Netherlands. It grossed $151,695 from opening at 29 theatres, staying in cinemas for 28 weeks at a total of 40 theatres and grossing $748,376 worldwide, with the vast majority of revenue coming from the Australian release ($745,484).
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 89% based on 8 positive and 1 negative critic review. The film was nominated for 10 Australian Film Institute Awards at its 2008 ceremony. It won three, including Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Monic Hendrickx) and Best Actor (William McInnes). The film received positive reviews and was generally well received by audiences. Its theatrical release also garnered many awards, namely; Duncan's win for Best Director, the Macquarie AFI Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editor (Suresh Ayyer), Best Screenplay and Best Music (Antony Partos) from Film Critics Circle of Australia and Best Director and Best Editing from IF Awards.
Unfinished Sky was screened at the opening night of the 2008 Dungog Film Festival.
See also
Cinema of Australia
References
External links
2007 films
2007 drama films
Australian drama films
Films about human trafficking
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Peter Duncan |
The President's Daily Brief, sometimes referred to as the President's Daily Briefing or the President's Daily Bulletin, is a top-secret document produced and given each morning to the president of the United States; it is also distributed to a small number of top-level US officials who are approved by the president. It includes highly classified intelligence analysis, information about covert operations, and reports from the most sensitive US sources or those shared by allied intelligence agencies. At the discretion of the president, the PDB may also be provided to the president-elect of the United States, between election day and inauguration, and to former presidents on request.
The PDB is produced by the director of national intelligence, and involves fusing intelligence from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Defense Department, Homeland Security and other members of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Purpose and history
The PDB is intended to provide the president with new intelligence warranting attention and analysis of sensitive international situations. The prototype of the PDB was termed the President's Intelligence Check List (PICL); the first was produced by CIA officer Richard Lehman at the direction of Huntington D. Sheldon on June 17, 1961 for John F. Kennedy.
Although the production and coordination of the PDB was a CIA responsibility, other members of the U.S. intelligence community reviewed articles (the "coordination" process) and were free to write and submit articles for inclusion.
While the name of the PDB implies exclusivity, it has historically been briefed to other high officials. The distribution list has varied over time but has always or almost always included the vice president, secretaries of State and Defense and the national security advisor. Rarely, special editions of the PDB have actually been "for the president's eyes only," with further dissemination of the information left to the president's discretion.
Production of the PDB is associated with that of another publication, historically known as the National Intelligence Daily, that includes many of the same items but is distributed considerably more widely than the PDB.
Sources
The PDB is an all-source intelligence product summarized from all collecting agencies. The Washington Post noted that a leaked document indicated that the PRISM SIGAD (US-984) run by the NSA is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports." The PDB cited PRISM data as a source in 1,477 items in the 2012 calendar year. Declassified documents show that as of January 2001 over 60% of material in the PDB was sourced from signals intelligence (SIGINT). According to the National Security Archive, the percentage of SIGINT-sourced material has likely increased since then.
Political importance
Former CIA director George Tenet considered the PDB so sensitive that during July 2000 he indicated to the National Archives and Records Administration that none of them could be released for publication "no matter how old or historically significant it may be."
During a briefing on May 21, 2002, Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary, characterized the PDB as "the most highly sensitized classified document in the government."
On September 16, 2015, CIA director John Brennan spoke at the LBJ Presidential Library, at the public release of a total of 2,500 daily briefs and intelligence checklists from the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson presidencies. The release was a reversal of the government's previous stance in legal briefs attempting to keep the PDB indefinitely classified. On August 24, 2016, the CIA released a further 2,500 briefs from the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies at a symposium held at the Nixon Presidential Library.
Public awareness
The PDB was scrutinized by news media during testimony to the 9/11 Commission, which was convened during 2004 to analyze the September 11, 2001 attacks. On April 8, 2004, after testimony by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the commission renewed calls for the declassification of a PDB from August 6, 2001, entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US. Two days later, the White House complied and released the document with redaction.
Usage by presidents and presidents-elect
During the 2012 re-election campaign, a former Bush administration official and President Barack Obama critic reported that "officials tell me the former president [Bush] held his intelligence meeting six days a week, no exceptions" (for a putative 86% in-person attendance record) though "Bush records [were] not yet available electronically for analysis".
Obama records, by contrast in this analysis, showed that during "his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times—or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012 [within the 1,225 days analyzed], his attendance ... [fell] to just over 38 percent." Obama initiated electronic delivery of the written brief in 2014 and received it six days a week.
In the first six weeks of the presidential transition of Donald Trump in 2016, the president-elect averaged about one PDB a week. He had "participated in multiple PDBs in some weeks, CNN has learned. And the transition team said last week Trump would be increasing his PDB participation to three times a week." However, by the final weeks of his presidency Trump didn't have a single PDB listed on his schedule.
During the presidential transition of Joe Biden in 2020, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris gained access to the PDB in late-November 2020. Upon taking office, Biden started committing to receiving the PDB on most days, with Harris in attendance.
References
Further reading
The fourth edition includes details of the transition from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in its new Chapter 9.
External links
1960 establishments in the United States
Central Intelligence Agency
Classified information in the United States
Government documents of the United States
Presidency of the United States |
Glabrennea gardineri is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
Distribution
Glabrennea gardineri is endemic to the Mahé Island and Silhouette Island in the Seychelles.
References
Streptaxidae
Gastropods described in 1909 |
Shane Curran (born 8 April 1971) is an Irish sportsperson from Castlerea, County Roscommon. He is the former inter-county Gaelic football goalkeeper for Roscommon, and his club St Brigid's. He played association football as well with Athlone Town FC.
Curran's career spanned four decades, with performances at minor, senior and club levels in 1989, 1990, 2003, 2004 and 2013. He also captained the Roscommon Junior Team to All Ireland success in 2000. He won two Connacht club senior football medals, in 2011 and 2012.
Curran was featured in an episode of TG4's Laochra Gael documentary series in January 2021.
Sports
Football
With Roscommon, he won a Connacht Minor Football Championship medal in 1989. He made his senior championship debut with Roscommon as a forward in 1991, however, he was injured early on in the game. He played in the 1992 Connacht Senior Football Championship but couldn't help his side from a heavy loss to Mayo. He drifted away from intercounty football for the next few seasons after the loss, but played in both the 1994 and 1997 championships.
He returned to the senior set-up in 2001 making his first championship appearance in four years in the Connacht Senior Football Championship opening round game against New York. He was sent off during the game and failed to regain the starting spot as Roscommon won a first Connacht title since 1991.
In 2003, he was made captain of the side by new manager Tommy Carr. While Roscommon lost out to Galway in Connacht, they beat Cork and Leitrim in the qualifiers. After two games needing extra time against Offaly and Kildare, Roscommon qualified for an All-Ireland quarter-final with Kerry. It was Roscommon's first game in Croke Park since 1991, and despite scoring three goals they came up short on a 1-21 to 3-10 scoreline.
Curran was also the goalkeeper with Athlone Town FC in the League of Ireland. He retired from association football in 1997 to devote his sporting time to Gaelic football.
Business
Since retiring from inter-county football, Curran has set up a number of businesses. He was commissioned by the GAA games department to contribute to the development of a kicking tee for use in Gaelic football. His design became the one most goalkeepers went on to use. Curran was "involved in producing the Puntee", for use by goalkeepers in kick-outs, as a means of "reducing goalkeeping injuries".
Curran also co-founded a flood defense company, Global Flood Solutions, in 2009. This company has entered into several contracts internationally.
Politics
Curran stood unsuccessfully in the 2016 general election as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Roscommon–Galway constituency. He received approximately two thousand first presence votes (4%), and was eliminated on the seventh count.
Honors
Gaelic football
St Brigid's (club)
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1): 2013
Connacht Senior Club Football Championship (2): 2011, 2012
Roscommon Senior Football Championship (6): 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Roscommon (inter-county)
Connacht Senior Football Championship (1): 2001
Connacht Minor Football Championship (1): 1989
All Ireland Junior Championship Captain winners (1) : 2000
Individual
All Star nominee: 2003
GPA Player of the Month (1): May 2004
Roscommon Senior Player of the Year (1): 2003
Captained Roscommon: 2003–2004
Holds championship record for being the only goalkeeper in GAA history to score 1 goal and 1 point in a championship match and finish top scorer. He received the Irish Independent "May Player of the Month" for the same achievement.
Soccer
Athlone Town Player of the Year (1): 1995
Leinster Senior league Medal (1): 1995
References
1971 births
Living people
Athlone Town A.F.C. players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Castlerea St Kevin's Gaelic footballers
Connacht inter-provincial Gaelic footballers
Fianna Fáil candidates in Dáil elections
Gaelic footballers who switched code
Gaelic football goalkeepers
Gaelic football managers
Irish sportsperson-politicians
League of Ireland players
Roscommon inter-county Gaelic footballers
St Brigid's (Roscommon) Gaelic footballers
Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Association footballers from County Roscommon
People from Castlerea |
Clinanthus is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is found in western South America, including Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, north Chile and north west Argentina.
Species include:
Clinanthus callacallensis (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus campodensis (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus caracensis (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus chihuanhuayu (Cárdenas) Meerow
Clinanthus coccineus (Ruiz & Pav.) Meerow
Clinanthus croceus (Savigny) Meerow
Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow
Clinanthus flammidus (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus fulvus (Herb.) Meerow
Clinanthus glareosus (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus humilis (Herb.) Meerow
Clinanthus imasumacc (Vargas) Meerow
Clinanthus incarnatus (Kunth) Meerow
Clinanthus incarum (Kraenzl.) Meerow
Clinanthus luteus Herb.
Clinanthus macleanicus (Herb.) Meerow
Clinanthus microstephium (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus mirabilis (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus recurvatus (Ruiz & Pav.) Meerow
Clinanthus sunchubambae (Ravenna) Meerow
Clinanthus variegatus (Ruiz & Pav.) Meerow
Clinanthus viridiflorus (Ruiz & Pav.) Meerow
References
Amaryllidoideae
Amaryllidaceae genera |
Gunda Mallesh (14 July 1947 - 13 October 2020) was an Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India (CPI). He had won as the legislator in 1983, 1985 and 1994 from Asifabad constituency. In 2009, he was elected as the MLA of Bellampalli constituency, and served as the floor leader of the CPI.
References
1947 births
2020 deaths
Indian politicians
People from Adilabad district
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1985–1989
Communist Party of India politicians from Telangana
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1983–1985
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1994–1999
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014 |
Afrosepsis is a genus of flies in the family Sepsidae.
Species
A. camerounica Ozerov, 1996
A. elongata Ozerov, 1999
A. lineata Ozerov, 1999
A. quadrimaculata Ozerov, 1999
A. sublateralis (Vanschuytbroeck, 1962)
References
Sepsidae
Diptera of Africa
Brachycera genera |
A Night on the Town may refer to:
A Night on the Town (film) (1987), UK title of the film Adventures in Babysitting
A Night on the Town (Bruce Hornsby album), Bruce Hornsby and the Range's third album, released in 1990
A Night on the Town (Rod Stewart album), Rod Stewart's seventh album, released in 1976
"A Night on the Town", a song by The Dear Hunter from the 2015 album Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
A Night on the Town, a 1983 TV movie with Eartha Kitt
A Night on the Town, a 1972 album by Brownsville Station |
The Flag Bearer (Persian: Parcham-dar) is a 1984 film by the Iranian director Shahriar Bahrani. Bahrani also wrote the script for the film which was lensed by Abbas Soleimani. Abbas Naseri, Dehkharghani Seyed, Ahmad Mir, Alaei Reza Agharabi, Hojjatollah Goodarzi starred in the principal roles. Set during the Iran Iraq war, the film is an early example of Sacred Defence cinema.
Cast
References
Iranian war drama films
1980s war films
1984 films
Iran–Iraq War films |
The 1909 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1909 college football season.
Schedule
References
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football seasons
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football |
Standings and Results for Group L of the Last 32 phase of the 2013–14 Eurocup basketball tournament.
Standings
Fixtures and results
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Game 6
2013–14 Eurocup Basketball |
Hu Dongmei (; born 23 December 1971 in Zhangye, Gansu) is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Chinese female canoeists
Olympic canoeists for China
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in canoeing
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Canoeists at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
People from Zhangye
Sportspeople from Gansu |
Kenilworth Park can refer to:
Kenilworth Park (Portland, Oregon), United States
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, a national park in Washington, D.C., United States
Kenilworth Park Racetrack, former racetrack near Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Disambiguation pages |
HMS Megaera was originally constructed as an iron screw frigate for the Royal Navy, and was one of the last and largest ships built by William Fairbairn's Millwall shipyard.
Launched on 22 May 1849, HMS Megaera was one of the first iron ships ordered by the Royal Navy. She was named after the mythological figure Megaera, one of the Erinyes (or Furies, in Roman mythology).
Megaera never saw service as a frigate; just as she entered service, a series of experiments showed that the iron then used in shipbuilding exhibited splintering characteristics which rendered unprotected ships of her type unsuitable for use as warships. The Royal Navy opted to remove the armament from Megaera and her four sister ships and instead employ them as storeships and transports. However, Megaera and her sister ships were not well suited to their new role. Their accommodation was unsuited to carrying large numbers of personnel and their steaming power was poor.
On her maiden voyage as a troopship on 7 June 1851, she broke down and had to be towed back to port. Megaera was refitted and sailed again, ordered to use her sails to conserve coal. She subsequently saw service as a storeship in the Crimea, and some of her crew saw action in a shore landing-party. Following the end of the war in 1856 she resumed routine voyages with stores and replacement personnel for military and naval units.
Following a change in military strategy the Megaera evacuated a small detachment of 21 Royal Artillery Soldiers from the Island of St Vincent on 10 May 1853 landing them at Barbados 2 days later.
Final voyage
In 1871, Megaera was assigned to transport Royal Navy recruits to Australia to replace crewmembers on and and departed from England on 22 February 1871. She suffered damage in a storm and put in at Queenstown, Ireland, for repairs. The ship's officers complained that the vessel was overloaded with baggage and riding too low in the water; there was an article in The Times, questions were asked in the House of Commons and eventually an inspection resulted in 127 tons of cargo being removed.
On 28 May, Megaera departed Simonstown, South Africa. Aboard her were 42 officers, 180 sailors, and 67 recruits en route to Australia. On 8 June, a leak was reported in the ship's hold, and for some days was managed using hand-pumps and bailing. Around 14 June it became more serious, and the water began to gain on the pumps. The steam pumps were then brought into play, and they managed to keep the inflow in check. On 15 June Captain Thrupp decided to steer for the nearest land, the uninhabited Saint Paul Island, where he could anchor and examine the hull.
Saint Paul Island
On 17 June 1871, the ship anchored at Saint Paul in of water so that the leak could be examined, and a diver was sent to inspect the damage. However, the anchor cable broke and they were obliged to take the diver back on board before he could carry out any work. After she snapped a second anchor cable, Megaeras divers were finally able to make an inspection and the leak was found: one of her iron plates was worn away, and had a hole whose edges were so thin they could be bent by hand. In addition, many of the ship's beams were corroded through at the bottom, and others nearly so.
As Thrupp stated in his later despatch concerning the wreck, the ship's girders were separating from the bottom, the bottom was leaky in one place and very thin in many others, and the pumps were continually becoming choked with thick pieces of iron. The chief engineer of the Megaera, George Mills, advised Thrupp on 17 June that it would be most unsafe to proceed with the voyage to Australia, the nearest point of which was away, and his advice was backed up by two other ship's engineers on board, Edward Brown of , and J.B. Richards of .
Since the weather was very stormy, and the anchorage could not be depended on, Thrupp announced to the ship's company on the morning of Sunday, 18 June, after reading prayers, that they would land at once. The following day, due to the stormy weather, which had halted the landing of stores, and the difficulty in keeping the ship in position (she had had three anchors carried away and lost since first anchoring), it was decided to beach her. Thrupp had Megaera run onto a bar at full speed, in a depth of of water forward and aft, and at high water she filled up to the level of the main deck. Her provisions and stores were put ashore over the following week, and she was not finally abandoned for 11 days, when Captain Thrupp declared the dangerous wreckage to be off-limits. Two-thirds of the cargo had by then been unloaded.
Rescue
On 16 July, Captain Visier of the Dutch vessel Aurora spotted the flagpole which Megaeras crew had erected and Lieutenant Lewis Jones sailed with her to Surabaya, Java, which they reached on 2 August. He despatched telegrams to the British Consul in Batavia and to the Royal Navy Commodore in Hong Kong, who ordered HMS Rinaldo to sail to the rescue.
On 7 August, a second Dutch ship took five men from Saint Paul Island, and on the same day the captain of the British clipper Mountain Laurel asked to be paid to rescue the crew of Megaera, claiming that he would have to jettison his cargo to accommodate so many people. Captain Thrupp declined this offer and on 26 August Lieutenant Jones arrived on the British merchant steamship Oberon with supplies. On 29 August, the Dutch vessel Malacca arrived and took off the remaining survivors of the shipwreck, which she conveyed to Sydney. The Rinaldo was blown off the island, and so played no route in the rescue. En route to Australia the Malacca encountered a homeward-bound mail steamer, which Captain Thrupp transferred to.
Aftermath
Captain Thrupp and his crew subsequently faced a court martial in November 1871 at Plymouth and a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the loss of the ship. Thrupp was subsequently honourably acquitted when the court decided that the beaching of the ship was perfectly justifiable.
References
Notes
Frigates of the Royal Navy
Shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
Ships built in Millwall
Maritime incidents in June 1871
1849 ships
Steam frigates of the Royal Navy |
Carl Berners plass is an underground rapid transit station located on the Grorud Line of the Oslo Metro, and a tram stop on the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway. The square also has a bus stop for lines 20, 21, 31 and 33. Located at Helsfyr in Oslo, Norway, the area has a mixture of apartment buildings and small businesses. The station is the first metro station on the Grorud Line after it branches off from the shared Common Tunnel. North of the station, the Ring Line branches off from the Grorud Line. The station is served by line 5 of the metro and Line 17 of the tramway, with four hourly departures during regular hours. The tram operates every 10 minutes during regular hours.
The square was taken into use as a tram stop on 1 February 1923. The station took the name after the square, which is again named for the 19th and early 20th-century politician Carl Berner. From 6 February 1949, Line 20 of the Oslo trolleybus started serving the square. From 2 January 1955, the Rodeløkka Line of the tramway was rerouted to run via Carl Berners plass, although it was closed again on 1961. The underground metro station opened on 16 October 1966, and the trolleybus service was replaced by diesel buses in 1968. From 20 August 2006, the metro station also started serving the Ring Line (Line 5).
Facilities
Carl Berners plass is a combined metro, tram and bus station located at the square Carl Berners plass, from which it takes its name. The underground station is actually located a couple of hundred meters off the square, with ground-level entrances on either side of the heavily trafficked Grenseveien as that road ascends from the square towards the east. The underground metro station is on the Grorud Line, and is located from Stortinget in the city center. The tracks are above sea level. The area around the station is mostly dense residential and small businesses. South of the station is Tøyen Park.
Service
The rapid transit station is served by line 5 of the Oslo Metro which passes the station twice during a full journey. Southwards, towards the city center, there are eight trains per hour. Northwards the line splits into two branches. One line heads for Hasle bound for Vestli while the other heads for Sinsen on the Ring Line. Each branch has a 15-minute headway. There is a reduced frequency in the late evenings. The metro is operated by Oslo T-banedrift on contract with Ruter. This is one of the Oslo Metro stations in the 5th line accessible to the borough of Helsfyr, the other one being Hasle
The tram stop is served by Line 17 of the Oslo Tramway. It has a ten-minute headway during the day, with half the frequency during evenings and in the weekends. Travel time to Jernbanetorget in the city center is nine minutes, while it is five minutes northwards to Grefsen Station. The service is provided using SL95 trams operated by Oslo Sporvognsdrift on contract with Ruter. Carl Berners plass is one of eight transfer points between the tramway and the metro.
The bus stop serves three full-time services, no. 20, 21 and 31, and two reduced-time services, no. 28 and 33. The bus services are operated by private contractors on contract with Ruter.
History
Carl Berners plass became a public transport station on 1 February 1923, when the then single-track Sinsen Line of the tramway opened as a branch of the Rodeløkka Line. The station took its name from the square it was located at, Carl Berners plass, which is again named for the politician Carl Berner. The station was served by the newly created Line 13 that operated through the city center and ran every twelve minutes, and since 29 June 1924 every fifteen minutes. The line was built by Kristiania Sporveisselskap, but they were taken over by the municipality in 1924, and the line became part of Oslo Sporveier. On 28 June 1938, the line was rebuilt to double track. From 19 December 1939, the line was extended along Trondheimsveien to Sinsen; this section was built with double track. In 1948, the tracks at Carl Berners plass was rebuilt to run through the roundabouts at both ends of the square. The station was served by various services numbers along the Sinsen Line, including 1, 3, 7, 13 and 17, although not all at the same time. At the most, three services operated to the station, giving a five-minute headway.
On 6 February 1949, Oslo trolleybus lines were installed to cross the tram lines at Carl Berners plass to allow Line 20 to be electrically operated. The original Rodeløkka Line was closed in 1949, but new branch line to Rodeløkka was opened on 2 January 1955, because the tram gave lower operating costs than the bus. The line ran from Carl Berners plass down Dælenengata. From 1959, the Rodeløkka Line was reduced to a rush-hour only service and was terminated on 23 April 1961. The tracks were removed from 1962 to 1964. The metro station at Carl Berners plass was opened along with the Grorud Line on 16 October 1966. The metro station was designed by Per Qvam. In 1968, the trolleybus lines were removed from Carl Berners plass and Line 20 to a diesel service.
The Sinsen Line was among those proposed for closure in 2002 when the tram company attempted to save money by transferring the traffic to buses. A city grant of 25 million Norwegian krone (NOK) saved the line along with several others. The metro station was for many years in bad need of rehabilitation, with dim lighting at the platforms, grimy walls, and broken roof tiles leaving piping and wiring exposed. Architect Reiulf Ramstad, who was in charge of the renewal project, compared the station to the scenery of a horror movie. The 2006 renovation involved making the station brighter lit, and a new entrance was built which attempted to make the station more visible from outside. Upgrading of the station included letting parts of sculpture exhibitions by the Norwegian Sculpture Society be placed inside the station area. From 20 August 2006, Carl Berners plass also started serving the Ring Line of the metro. The line branches off from the Grorud Line north of Carl Berners plass, and the station thereby became the transfer station between the Ring Line and the Grorud Line. From 2008, the square itself was rebuilt to become more pedestrian-friendly.
References
External links
Oslo Metro stations in Oslo
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1923
Railway stations opened in 1966
1923 establishments in Norway
1966 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1920s
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1960s |
Super Hits compiles all 9 singles that Glen Campbell released on Atlantic Records (1982–1986) plus "I Love My Truck" which was released as a single A-side in 1981 (Mirage Records).
Track listing
"I Love My Truck" (Joe Rainey) - 2:58
"Old Home Town" (David Pomeranze) - 3:43
"I Love How You Love Me" (Barry Mann, Larry Kolber) - 2:35
"Faithless Love" (John David Souther) - 3:16
"On The Wings Of My Victory" (Bob Corbin) - 3:35
"(Love Always) Letter To Home" (Carl Jackson) - 2:56
"A Lady Like You" (Jim Weatherly, Keigh Stegall) - 3:34
"Cowpoke" (Stan Jones) - 2:46
"It's Just A Matter Of Time" (Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis) - 2:28
"Call Home" (Troy Seals. Mike Reid) - 3:29
Production
Compilation production - Mike Griffith
Art direction - Aimee McMahan
Design - George Otvos
Photography - Alan A. Taylor
2000 greatest hits albums
Glen Campbell compilation albums
Atlantic Records compilation albums |
Fisheye is a revision-control browser and search engine owned by Atlassian, Inc. Although Fisheye is a commercial product, it is freely available to open source projects and non-profit institutions. In addition to the advanced search and diff capabilities, it provides:
the notion of changelog and changesets - even if the underlying version control system (such as CVS) does not support this
direct, resource-based URLs down to line-number level
monitoring and user-level notifications via e-mail or RSS
Use in open-source projects
Atlassian approves free licenses for community and open-source installations under certain conditions. Many major open source projects use Fisheye to provide a front-end for the source code repository:
Atlassian provides free licences of Fisheye and Crucible for open-source projects.
Integration
Fisheye supported integration with the following revision control systems:
CVS
Git
Mercurial
Perforce
Subversion
Due to the resource-based URLs, it is possible to integrate Fisheye with different issue and bug tracking systems. It also provides a REST and XML-RPC API. Fisheye also integrates with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA via the Atlassian IDE Connector.
See also
Crucible
OpenGrok
Source code repository
Trac
ViewVC
References
External links
, the software's official website
Atlassian products
Browsers
Proprietary cross-platform software
Version control systems
Java (programming language) software
2019 software |
The Coupe de la Martinique is the top knockout tournament of Martinique football. It was created in 1953.
Winners
1953 : Golden Star
1954 : Club Franciscain
1955 : Club Colonial
1956 : Good Luck
1957 : Golden Star
1958 : Golden Star
1959 : Club Colonial
1960 : US Robert
1961 : US Robert
1962 : Club Colonial
1963 : Golden Star
1964 : Aussaut de St Pierre
1965 : Aussaut de St Pierre
1966 : Aussaut de St Pierre
1967 : Aussaut de St Pierre
1968 : Aussaut de St Pierre
1969 : Club Franciscain
1970 : Golden Star
1971–72 : not known
1973 : Good Luck
1974 : Good Luck
1975–76 : not known
1977 : CS Case-Pilote
1978 : RC Rivière-Pilote
1979 : Good Luck
1980 : Club Colonial
1981 : RC Rivière-Pilote 2–1 US Robert
1982: Club Peléen
1983: La Gauloise de Trinité
1984: US Robert
1985: Réal Tartane
1986 : Club Franciscain
1987 : Club Franciscain
1988–89 : not known
1990 : Club Franciscain
1991: La Gauloise de Trinité
1992–94 : not known
1995 : Aiglon du Lamentin
1996 : Aiglon du Lamentin
1997 : not known
1998 : Club Franciscain 4-3 (aet) Aiglon du Lamentin
1999 : not known
2000 : Aussaut de St Pierre 2–2 (aet, 4–2 pen) Club Franciscain
2001 : Club Franciscain 2–1 Réveil Sportif de Gros-Morne
2002 : Club Franciscain 1–0 RC Rivière-Pilote
2003 : Club Franciscain 1–0 New Club
2004 : Club Franciscain 2–2 (aet, 13–12 pen) US Robert
2005 : Club Franciscain 5–1 Club Colonial
2006 : CS Case-Pilote 1–0 Gri-Gri Pilotin
2006–07 : Club Franciscain 4–1 Samaritaine
2007–08 : Club Franciscain 2–1 Golden Star
2008–09 : Aiglon du Lamentin 2–0 Club Franciscain
2009–10 : CS Case-Pilote 2–1 Rapid Club
2010–11 : RC Rivière-Pilote 2–2 (aet, 5–4 pen) Golden Lion
2011–12 : Club Franciscain 2–1 Essor-Préchotain
2012–13 : RC Rivière-Pilote 2–1 Club Franciscain
2013–14 : Club Colonial 1–0 Golden Lion
2014–15 : Club Franciscain 2–2 (aet, 3–2 pen) Club Colonial
2015–16 : Golden Lion 0–0 (aet, 4–3 pen) Club Franciscain
2016–17 : Samaritaine 2–1 Good Luck
2017–18 : Club Franciscain 2–1 RC Rivière-Pilote
2018–19 : Golden Lion 4–0 Essor-Préchotain
2019–20 : Club Franciscain 1–0 Aiglon du Lamentin
2020–21 : CO Trénelle 5–1 US Robert
2021–22: Club Franciscain 2–0 Golden Lion
2022–23: Golden Lion 2–1 Club Colonial
References
Football competitions in Martinique
Martinique
Mart |
Brian Turner is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
See also
Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Notes
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Living people
1933 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Collingwood Football Club players
North Melbourne Football Club players
Old Paradians Amateur Football Club players |
Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods. Most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries. Light industry facilities typically have a less environmental impact than those associated with heavy industry. For that reason, zoning laws are more likely to permit light industry near residential areas.
One definition states that light industry is a "manufacturing activity that uses moderate amounts of partially processed materials to produce items of relatively high value per unit weight".
Characteristics
Compared to heavy industries, light industries require fewer raw materials, space, and power. While light industry typically causes little pollution, particularly compared to heavy industry, some light industries can cause significant pollution or risk of contamination. For example, electronics manufacturing, itself often a light industry, can create potentially harmful levels of lead or chemical wastes in soil without proper handling of solder and waste products (such as cleaning and degreasing agents used in the manufacture).
Industry sectors
Food industry
Paper making
Plastic
Leather industry
Textiles
Household electric appliances
General-use products
Kitchen and dining products
Beauty and personal care
Home textiles
Cleaning and storage
Clock, watch, and eyewear
Gardening and entertainment
Baby goods
Household sundries
Advertising and packaging
History
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "light industry" from 1916 onwards.
Within the later stages of the Industrial Revolution, the development of light industry tended to precede that of heavy industry.
References
Industries (economics) |
Antelope Wells is a small unincorporated community in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. The community is located along the Mexico-United States border, in the New Mexico Bootheel region, located across the border from the small settlement of El Berrendo, Chihuahua, Mexico. Despite its name, there are neither antelope nor wells in the area. The name comes from an old ranch, located north of the current community. The only inhabitants of the community are U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees.
Antelope Wells is the southernmost settlement of New Mexico, situated in the region commonly known as the Bootheel of New Mexico. It is the smallest and least-used border crossing of the 43 ports of entry along the border with Mexico. The crossing, which is open solely for non-commercial traffic, is open every day from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The port was established by Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 and has been staffed since 1928. In 1981, the community had a population of two, living in trailers behind the customs station, and averaged three people entering per day. In 2005, 93 pedestrians crossed over the border in the community, which consisted of just four buildings: the port of entry building, two houses and a trailer. Including domestic and international travelers, fewer than 500 buses and privately owned vehicles pass through the community each month, though traffic has been increasing as of 2006 with more international shuttle van service. Despite its low usage, there is no move to close the port, which is the only port between Douglas, Arizona, and Columbus, New Mexico, and provides the most direct route from the United States to the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Recreation
Antelope Wells is located on New Mexico State Road 81, which links it with Interstate 10 and New Mexico State Road 9. Antelope Wells was the official southern terminus of the long Continental Divide Trail until it was relocated to Crazy Cook, east of the nearby Hatchet Mountains in the mid-1990s and remains the location of the long Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.
Climate
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Antelope Wells has a cold semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Antelope Wells was on June 27, 1994, while the coldest temperature recorded was on February 3, 2011.
See also
Antelope Wells Port of Entry
Notes
External links
Map of port of entry on the New Mexico Border Authority website
New Mexico Bootheel
Unincorporated communities in New Mexico
Populated places established in 1872
Unincorporated communities in Hidalgo County, New Mexico
1872 establishments in New Mexico Territory |
"The Maid" is the 175th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 19th episode of the ninth and final season. It aired on April 30, 1998. In this episode, Jerry hires a maid and ends up having a sexual relationship with her, George tries to get people to give him a good nickname, and Elaine falls into a chain of phone problems after Kramer subscribes her phone number to an incessant fax service.
Plot
Jerry hires a maid, Cindy, whom he then starts having sex with. On one visit Cindy leaves without getting around to any work, but still takes the money he left for her, which Jerry realizes could be considered prostitution. He stops leaving money for Cindy, and when she demands money on her next visit, he points out that she didn't do any work. Angered, she walks out on the job and the relationship. Cindy's boss Maxwell demands that Jerry pay Cindy for this last visit, threatening to publicly expose Jerry's fastidious cleaning requests and make Cindy pay for the visit. Wanting to avoid trouble, Jerry agrees to pay her.
George tries to get a nickname at work, T-Bone, by ordering a T-bone steak for lunch and talking about how much he likes T-bones, but a co-worker makes the same order and gets the nickname instead. George tries reasoning with T-Bone to get the nickname. When this doesn't work, George throws a fit, yelling, crying, and flailing around with a banana in his hand until T-bone agrees to surrender the nickname. However, after witnessing this scene, his coworkers nickname George Koko the monkey. George hires a woman named Coco as vice president of acquisitions; Kruger states there should not be two Koko/Cocos, and George goes back to being George again, much to his satisfaction. However, when Coco mentions her Gammy, Kruger is inspired to give George the nickname "Gammy".
Kramer signs up to receive restaurant menus by fax with a service called "Now We're Cookin'", but uses Elaine's phone number, mistakenly thinking she had a fax machine. Annoyed by the nonstop calls from the fax service, Elaine changes her phone number and gets one with the new 646 area code, so callers have to dial 1-646 in addition to her seven digit number. She gives her number to a prospective date, but when he sees the 646 area code, he says he is already in a relationship and walks off. When her neighbor Mrs. Krantz dies, Elaine gets Mrs. Krantz’s old 212 number. Krantz's grandson Bobby keeps calling the number, because his parents are reluctant to break it to him that his grandmother is dead. Elaine pretends to be Bobby's grandmother for a few weeks; then, fed up with his parents' irresponsibility, she tells Bobby she is dying and hangs up. Bobby dials 9-1-1 and firefighters beat down Elaine's door.
Kramer's girlfriend moves downtown, leading him to struggle with the drawbacks of a "long-distance relationship". He breaks up with her when she refuses to move, and he gets lost in the Lower East Side. Jerry goes to pick him up, spots Cindy, and slows down to give her her money. A patrolling NYPD unit mistakes her for a prostitute and arrests them. Still waiting for Jerry, Kramer is approached by Maxwell and talked into a maid job.
Production
According to Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel, who wrote the teleplay for the episode based on a story by themselves, Kit Boss, and Peter Mehlman, "The Maid" was the last "normal" episode of Seinfeld, since "The Puerto Rican Day" was scripted as a writers' jam involving the entire Seinfeld writing staff and filmed entirely on location, "The Chronicle" was a clip show, and "The Finale" was not written by any of the regular writing staff and was largely a retrospective of the series's history. As such, it became a sort of dumping ground for all of the writers' favorite ideas that they had been unable to work into an episode yet, since the writers all saw it as their last chance. One of the working titles for this episode was "The Long-Distance Relationship".
The story of George wanting a nickname was contributed by Kit Boss. Initially the story developed much differently: Irritated by another employee getting the "T-bone" nickname, George was to issue a stern office-wide memo forbidding the use of nicknames, but misspells his own name in the signature as "Gorge". The office staff would then assign him the nickname "Gorge". In an attempt to dispel the unwelcome nickname, George would get a copy of his birth certificate, only to discover that due to his father misspelling his name in the same exact way, his legal name is in fact "Gorge Costanza". Jerry Seinfeld vetoed this idea, arguing that "Gorge" was essentially just a fat joke. The writers replaced it with George being nicknamed "Koko", which was Seinfeld writer Steve Koren's nickname in the offices, due to the gorilla-like haircut he had at the time.
The Jerry/Cindy story was inspired by the real-life Jerry Seinfeld's relationship with his trainer, who he began dating. Seinfeld had commented to the other writers about the oddity of paying a woman to come to his house while also carrying on a sexual relationship with her. Seinfeld's voice was hoarse during filming, to the point where some of his dialogue had to be re-recorded in post-production.
The phone story grew out of the office trend where employees' phone numbers are almost inevitably mistaken by some other employee for a fax number. Elaine deleting a message from George, though it occupies just a few seconds of screen time, was originally intended to be an entire story. The writers wanted to satirize the practice of deleting messages from friends without listening to them, with the intent of simply calling the person back, but couldn't think up a way to develop the idea.
Jerry's line, "stay alive, no matter what occurs, I will find you," is an allusion to the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans.
When Cindy tells George that one of the girls at the maid service she works at is named Coco, she mentions "That girl's all right." This is a reference to "The Dealership", where Jerry and Puddy discuss Koko, the gorilla that can do sign language, and Puddy says, "That chimp's all right." Mandel later commented, "I don't know why we thought that line was funny."
The table read for "The Maid" was held on March 8, 1998, with filming taking place on March 9, 10, and 12. Sequences which were filmed for the episode but deleted before broadcast include George and Jerry recounting George's first failed attempt at getting a nickname ("Crash" Costanza), Kramer saying he and Madeline did a jigsaw puzzle together over the phone, and Maxwell telling Jerry that the maids at his service are considered the best because they're willing to do anything.
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1998 American television episodes
Television episodes written by Alec Berg
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The Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes up to 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. There are not any great morphological characteristics to distinguish these taxa from others in the order Gentianales.
Many members of the Loganiaceae are extremely poisonous, causing death by convulsion. Poisonous properties are largely due to alkaloids such as those found in Strychnos. Glycosides are also present as loganin in Strychnos.
Earlier treatments of the family have included up to 29 genera. Phylogenetic studies have demonstrated that this broadly defined Loganiaceae was a polyphyletic assemblage, and numerous genera have been removed from Loganiaceae to other families (sometimes in other orders), e.g., Gentianaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Plocospermataceae, Tetrachondraceae, Buddlejaceae, and Gesneriaceae. Some classification schemes, notably Takhtajan's, break the remaining Loganiaceae even further, into as many as four families; Strychnaceae, Antoniaceae, Spigeliaceae and Loganiaceae.
Genera
Some sources indicate the family consists of 13 genera. A more recent study considers some Labordia species synonymous with Geniostoma, resulting in 12 genera in other sources.
Excluded genera
References
Struwe, L., V. A. Albert, and B. Bremer (1994). "Cladistics and family level classification of the Gentianales". Cladistics 10: 175–205.
External links
Asterid families |
Buku FIXI is a Malaysian independent publisher founded in 2011 by filmmaker Amir Muhammad. The company specializes not only in contemporary urban fiction - both in Malay and English - but also Malay translations of foreign titles, and graphic novels. Some of these novels have also been adapted into films, bringing the publisher's name further into the Malaysian mainstream.
On 11 April 2015, Buku Fixi’s own flagship bookstore known as Kedai Fixi was launched in Jaya Shopping Centre in Petaling Jaya. Its current flagship bookstore is in Sunway Putra Mall, Kuala Lumpur. Another store in Setia Alam opened on 1 April 2021.
History
Amir Muhammad, who has directed a number of film titles that were deemed too controversial to be screened in Malaysia, was inspired to establish the company after attending a local book awards ceremony. There, he had discovered that almost all of the Malay language fiction nominees were entirely in the romance genre. Thus, the creation of the label is considered to be his reaction from a need to further diversify the range of popular Malay literature that was produced at that time. He decided on the name "FIXI" for the label, which derives from the Dutch-derived Indonesian word fiksi or 'fiction'. According to him, the naming of the company was his tongue-in-cheek statement hinting that "nothing is original in the world of novels".
Books
The first three books published were Kougar (by Shaz Johar), Cekik (by Ridhwan Saidi) and Pecah (by Khairunizam Bakeri). These books were reprinted for their 10th anniversary in 2021. Since then, Fixi has published over 200 books including short stories, ebooks, trilogies, limited edition titles and those published under imprints of Fixi Novo (English fiction), Fixi Verso (translation of English fictions to Malay) and Fixi Retro (republishing of local Malay novels no longer in distribution or circulation).
A few of Fixi novels were adapted into films. In 2013, Pecah was adapted into a film directed by Asrulhisyam Ahmad and screenplay by Sha Hanim Ramli, starring Tony Eusoff, Sofi Jikan and Izreen Azminda. In the same year, KL Zombi (original title, Zombijaya) written by Adib Zaini was released and starring Zizan Razak, Siti Saleha and Izara Aishah. The film was directed by Woo Ming Jin. Some short stories from Kopi (Fixi's limited edition book release) were adapted into short films. A DVD titled Kumpulan Filem Pendek Kopi was released with eight short films. Nadia Khan's Gantung (published 2013) was adapted into a drama series in 2016 with Malaysian and Indonesian cast. Gantung The Series was released on Tribe in Indonesia, and Astro and Mubi in Malaysia.
Since 2017, Fixi organises its biennial Malay novel writing contest, Sayembara Fixi where six titles are selected as winners. The six winning titles were launched at the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair, except for the 2019/2020 contest where the book fair was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apart from standalone novels, Buku Fixi also publishes a number of trilogies. Originally published with different book covers, the reprinted versions of the trilogies have triptych book cover designs that connect to each other when placed side by side. A number of four trilogies were published and printed in 2015 by Syaihan Syafiq, Gina Yap Lai Yoong, Hasrul Rizwan and Syafiq Aizat.
Buku Fixi also published compilations of short stories from its famous authors. Cerpen Hari Jumaat Vol 1 & 2, and Cerpen Terbaik 2014 & 2016 are compilations of short stories from various authors.
In 2012, Buku Fixi started publishing limited editions series which were novels and themed anthologies. With a limited print of 1,500 copies, Kopi was the first of the series. Some of the short stories were adapted into short films and compiled for a DVD release. Some of the anthologies were published in conjunction with an event. Garis was published in conjunction with the 2015 Malaysia Unesco Day and W an anthology of photographs and proses, was published for Ikal Mayang 2016, a women’s empowerment festival. Limited edition standalone novels were Profesor (Faisal Tehrani) and Budiman (Regina Ibrahim), both published in 2017. Other limited editions were collectible hardbacks of famous novels. Pecah (Khairulnizam Bakeri) was printed in hardback format in conjunction with the release of its film adaptation in 2013. In 2019, Buku Fixi printed hardback versions of Nikina (Nadia Khan), Fantastik (Hasrul Rizwan) and Anomali (Syafiq Aizat) for the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair. A prequel to Nadia Khan’s Gantung, Musketeer was published in hardback format to crowd fund for Gantung The Movie.
Imprints
FIXI Novo
This imprint showcases Malaysian English-language fiction produced in-house by the company. Kris Williamson's Son Complex was the first novel published under Fixi Novo in 2013. Since then, more English pulp fiction novels written by local authors were published, as well as a number of anthologies including the acclaimed KL Noir series (Red, Blue, White and Yellow). The series was revived after seven years with KL Noir Magic in 2021, edited by Deric Ee.
Other anthologies from Fixi were inspired by various locations in Malaysia, with contributors from local authors or anyone who has a story or experience of that certain place. Love In Penang was the first book stemming from this idea, published in 2013, edited by Anna Tan. The last anthology which was based on a location in Malaysia was Chronicles of KK. The KK in the title stands for Kota Kinabalu the capital city of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The anthology was launched in Times Book Store, Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu in 2016.
Aside from publishing local and Malaysian based authors, Fixi Novo has contributors from the South East Asian regions with its tryptic anthologies, Heat, Flesh and Trash. Writers were free to interpret the themes of each book but stories must be set in urban Southeast Asia. With 50 selected writers from seven countries, the book covers featured the durian fruit itself, the yellow flesh of the durian and lastly, the durian skin and seeds to represent the theme of each book. Heat, Flesh and Trash were launched in the 45th London Book Fair in 2016.
Also launched during the 2016 45th London Book Fair was Fixi Novo’s annual literary journal, Little Basket, for new Malaysian writings. Little Basket 2016 was an effort of putting together a limited edition book with works from local authors, to fundraise the cost to participate in the book fair. The journal also included drawings, comics and doodles. Little Basket 2018 was the last journal published.
In June 2017, Michelle Yoon published her book, Before We Forget with Fixi Novo. It was adapted from the sequel of The Kid From The Big Apple, based on the screenplay by Jess Teong. The following year, the novel won first prize at the Popular’s Readers Choice Award, organised by BookFest Malaysia. An English language comic book adaptation of The Kid From The Big Apple 2 was published by Maple Comics in 2017, also based on Jess Teong’s screenplay but the comic adaptation was by Comic Soul.
After the call for entries in search for Malaysian Crime Novels, Jill Girardi’s Hantu Macabre was selected as the sole winner among 18 entries. With RM5,000 royalty advance prize, the competition was judged by Brian Gomez, Chuah Guat Eng and Mamü Vies. In 2019, a Singaporean production company, 108 Media in collaboration with Siung Films (Malaysia), announced a horror-action film adaptation of Girardi’s short story, “Don’t Eat The Rice”. The film adaptation by Aaron Cowan will also be based on some of the characters from Hantu Macabre.
In 2020, Fixi Novo held its first Malaysian Novel Contest. Terence Toh's Toyol 'R' Us was chosen as the winning novel.
FIXI Verso
The intent behind Fixi Verso is to translate famous fictions of renowned established authors. The first two books translated and published under this imprint are Stephen King’s Joyland and Neil Gaiman’s Ocean At The End The Lane (Malay language title: Lautan Di Hujung Lorong). Joyland was the first ever Stephen King book to be translated to the Malay language.
Other famous fictions translated to the Malay language were John Green's The Fault In Our Stars (Tertulis Di Bintang-Bintang) and Paper Towns (Pekan-Pekan Kertas), Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Pilgrimage Years (Tsukuru Tazaki Tanpa Warna dan Tahun-Tahun Kembara), Dave Eggers’ A Hologram For The King (Hologram Untuk Raja), and David Cronenberg’s Consume (Konsum).
Malaysian authors whose books published by international publishers also had their books translated into Malay. Malaysian born, London based Felicia Yap’s novel, Yesterday (published under Wildifire Books, UK) was published in 2017 with the title Semalam. Zalikha Yaacob & Anida Adam were the translators.
The Weight of Our Sky, a young adult historical fiction set during the race riot in May 1969 by Malaysian based author Hanna Alkaf was published in 2019 by Salaam Reads, an imprint by Simon & Schuster. Buku Fixi obtained the translation rights and later that year, Disitu Langit Dijunjung was published, translated by Fahmi Mustafa.
GRAFIXI
In 2016, Buku Fixi announced Grafixi, another imprint especially for graphic Novels. DC Comics has sold its translation rights to Buku Fixi, making it the first Malaysian company to have done so, and the Malay translation of Batman and Superman: Public Enemies, and Supergirl were the first graphic novels published. Later in the same year, the next translation from Grafixi was Suicide Squad: Kicked In The Teeth.
Grafixi was discontinued a year after obtaining the translation rights from DC Comics due to poor sales.
FIXI Retro
Under Fixi Retro, out-of-print Malay novels with pulp-fiction themes were published. The Late Tan Sri P Ramlee’s Sitora Harimau Jadian was first to be published under this imprint in 2012. It was a novelisation of his 1964 film of the same name, published in 1965. In 2021, Fangora Studios production company announced that the reboot of Sitora Harimau Jadian will be its first film debut.
Sitora Harimau Jadian was followed by Yang Nakal - Nakal, a compilation of 17 shorts stories and eight poetries by the late Datuk Dr. Usman Awang (Malaysian National Laureate 1983) in June 2013. The book was launched in June that year at The Annexe Gallery, Central Market Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with Art For Grabs & The 6th Kuala Lumpur Alternative Book Festival in collaboration with UA Enterprise.
The third book, Hikayat Raja Babi was written by Usop Abdul Kadir who was a merchant travelling from Semarang to Palembang in 1775. Over two centuries later, the book which was written in Arabic script was transliterated to Roman script by Arsyad Mokthar and published in 2015. In 2020, Hikayat Raja Babi was retold by Heidi Shamsuddin and titled The Malay Tale of the Pig King published under Matahari Books. The English retelling was simplified and illustrated by Evi Shelvia.
Perempuan Gusti Samseng Rumah Kosong is a republication of three novels by the late prolific writer, Hamzah Hussin (1927-2007) published in 1950-1960. Perempuan Gusti is about Fatimah who refused to be confined by gender stereotypes. Samseng is about a Malay anti-hero who’s an alcoholic and a bully. Rumah Kosong was influenced by European existential literature. The book was launched in Ilham Gallery in 2015.
The fifth book, Hikayat Nabi Yusuf, was published in 2018. The original manuscript with the title Hikayat Nabi Allah was written by Muhammad Labai in Perlis in 1802. The manuscript owned by John Leyden who probably obtained the manuscript in 1805-1805 before it was obtained by the British Museum, London and kept there since. This book was transliterated from Arabic script to Roman by Arsyad Mokhtar and illustrated by Ariff Rahman Othman. In 2021, Buku Fixi gave permission to Bibliopress to publish the book.
FIXI Dwi
Fixi Dwi is another imprint from Buku Fixi to publish books with both Romanised and Jawi scripts. The first book, Gothik Puaka Edan by Hasrul Rizwan was published in October 2019, followed by Seloka Anak Rantau (Shaz Johar) and Syawal Tak Boleh Lewat (Syafiq Aizat) both published in February and the latter in July 2020. Syawal Tak Boleh Lewat was the last book for this imprint.
Each title has a limited run of 1,500 copies and are not reprinted. They are sold exclusively by Buku Fixi either at the bookstores, online shopping platforms and events participated by them.
FIXI London
Fixi London was established in 2016 to publish urban contemporary pulp fiction from Southeast Asia. It made its debut in 2017 with William Tham Wai Liang’s King’s of Petaling Street. He contributed some of his writings in a number of Fixi Novo anthologies. Kings of Petaling Street was nominated for the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017, organised by Penang Monthly magazine. Later that year, Fixi London published with its second book, a Muslim erotica novel titled Uqasha written by Maria Isabella. Fixi London ceased operation on 8 January 2019.
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This is a list of science fiction films released in the 2000s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. Collectively, the science fiction films from the 2000s have received six Academy Awards, twenty Saturn Awards, two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, five BAFTA awards, and six Magritte Awards. However, these films also received 17 Golden Raspberry Awards.
List
See also
List of science fiction films of the 2010s
Notes
References
External links
Lists of 2000s films by genre
2000s |
The People's Republic of Benin (; sometimes translated as Benin Popular Republic or Popular Republic of Benin) was a socialist state located in the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent, which would become present-day Benin. The People's Republic was established on 30 November 1975, after the 1972 coup d'état in the Republic of Dahomey. It effectively lasted until 1 March 1990, with the adoption of a new constitution, and the abolition of Marxism–Leninism in the nation in 1989.
History
On 26 October 1972, the Armed Forces led by Commander Mathieu Kérékou overthrew the government in a coup d'état, suspended the constitution and dissolved both the National Assembly and the Presidential Council. On 30 November 1972, it released the keynote address of New Politics of National Independence. The territorial administration was reformed, mayors and deputies replacing traditional structures (village chiefs, convents, animist priests, etc.). On 30 November 1974, before an assembly of stunned notables in the city of Abomey, he gave a speech proclaiming the formal accession of his government to Marxism–Leninism. His government grew closer to the Soviet Union but sought to maintain good relations with Western countries. The People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, designed as a vanguard party, was created on the same day as the country's only legal party. The first year of the government was marked by purges in the state apparatus. President Kérékou condemned and sometimes executed various representatives of the former political regime. On 30 November 1975, with the first anniversary of the speech of Abomey, Kérékou changed the country's name to Benin, named after the Benin Empire that had once flourished in neighboring Nigeria (south-central). The National Day was set for 30 November referring to three days of 1972, 1974, and 1975, dubbed by the regime the Three Glorious.
In 1974, under the influence of young revolutionaries – the "Ligueurs" – the government embarked on a socialist program: nationalization of strategic sectors of the economy, reform of the education system, establishment of agricultural cooperatives and new local government structures, and a campaign to eradicate "feudal forces" including tribalism.
Attempted coup
In January 1977, an attempted coup, called Operation Shrimp, led by the mercenary Bob Denard and supported by France, Gabon, and Morocco failed and it helped to harden the regime, which was officially moving toward the way of a government-political party. The constitution was adopted on 26 August of that year, Article 4 stating:
A basic law established an all-powerful national assembly.
Decline
Benin tried to implement extensive programs of economic and social development, but did not get results. Mismanagement and corruption undermined the country's economy. The industrialization strategy by the internal market of Benin caused an escalation of foreign debt. Between 1980 and 1985, the annual service of its external debt raised from 20 to 49 million, while its GNP dropped from 1.402 to 1.024 billion and the stock of debt exploded from 424 to 817 million. The three former presidents, Hubert Maga, Sourou Migan Apithy, and Justin Ahomadegbe (imprisoned in 1972) were released in 1981.
A new constitution was adopted in 1978, and the first elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in 1979. Kérékou was elected unopposed to a four-year term as president in 1980 and reelected in 1984. The National Revolutionary Assembly was nominally the highest source of state power, but in practice did little more than rubber-stamp decisions already made by Kérékou and the PRPB.
In the 1980s, Benin's economic situation became increasingly critical. The country experienced high economic growth rates (15.6 percent in 1982, 4.6 percent in 1983 and 8.2 percent in 1984), but Nigeria's closure of its border with Benin led to a sharp decline in customs and tax revenues. The state was no longer able to pay the salaries of civil servants. Agriculture was disorganized, the Commercial Bank of Benin ruined, and communities were largely paralyzed due to lack of budget. On the political front, the violations of human rights, with cases of torture of political prisoners, contributed to social tension: the church and the unions opposed more openly the regime. Plans for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposed in 1987 draconian economic measures: 10% additional levy on wages, hiring freezes, and compulsory retirements. On June 16, 1989, the People's Republic of Benin signed with the IMF a first adjustment plan, in exchange for enhanced structural adjustment facility (ESAF) of 21.9 million Special Drawing Rights of the IMF. Changes that were promised in the agreement with the IMF included a reduction in public expenditure and tax reform, privatizations, reorganization or liquidation of public enterprises, a policy of liberalization and the obligation to enter into that borrowing at concessional rates. The IMF agreement set off a massive strike of students and staff, requiring the payment of their salaries and their scholarships. On 22 June 1989, the country signed a rescheduling agreement first with the Paris Club, for a total of $199 million and Benin was granted a 14.1% reduction of its debt.
Dissolution
The social and political turmoil, catastrophic economic situation and fall of the socialist governments in Eastern Europe led President Kérékou to agree to bring down his leadership. In February 1989, a pastoral letter signed by eleven bishops of Benin expressed its condemnation of the People's Republic. On 7 December 1989, Kérékou took the lead and surprised the people disseminating an official statement announcing the abandonment of Marxism–Leninism, the liquidation of the Political Bureau, and the closure of the party's central committee. The Government accepted the establishment of a National Conference bringing together representatives of different political movements. The Conference opened on 19 February 1990: Kérékou expressed himself in person on 21 February, publicly recognising the failure of his policy. The work of the Conference decided to draft a new constitution and the establishment of a democratic process provided by a provisional government entrusted to a prime minister. Kérékou remained head of state on a temporary basis. Kérékou said on 28 February to the attention of the Conference: "I accept all the conclusions of your work."
A transitional government was set up in 1990, paving the way for the return of a multi-party system. The new constitution was adopted by referendum in December 1990. The official name of Benin was preserved for the country, which became the Republic of Benin. In the presidential election in March 1991, Prime Minister Nicéphore Soglo defeated Kérékou, winning 67.7% of the vote. Kérékou accepted the result and left office. He became president again when he defeated Soglo in the next election in March 1996, having meanwhile dropped all references to Marxism and atheism and having become an evangelical pastor. His return to power involved no recovery of a Marxist–Leninist government in Benin.
See also
Cold War § Competition in the Third World
References
Benin
Political history of Benin
20th century in Benin
Benin
1990 in Benin
Benin
Benin
Communism in Benin
Benin
Benin |
Appin () is a coastal district of the Scottish West Highlands bounded to the west by Loch Linnhe, to the south by Loch Creran, to the east by the districts of Benderloch and Lorne, and to the north by Loch Leven. It lies northeast to southwest, and measures . The name, meaning "abbey land", in reference to Ligmore Abbey, is derived from the Middle Irish apdaine.
The district is mainly in Argyll and Bute, with a coastal strip to the north, along Loch Leven, within the Highland council area.
The scenery of the district is a combination of seascapes with rugged and mountainous country inland. Appin forms part of the Lynn of Lorn National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. The principal hills are double peaks of Beinn a' Bheithir – , respectively – and Creag Ghorm – – in the north, and Fraochaidh , Meall Bàn and Beinn Mhic na Cèisich near the western flank of Glen Creran. The chief rivers are the Coe and Laroch, flowing into Loch Leven, the Duror and Salachan flowing into Loch Linnhe, and the Iola and Creran flowing into Loch Creran.
The leading industries are forestry and tourism, with lead mining and slate quarrying being of former importance, but the Glensanda superquarry, in Morvern on the opposite bank of Loch Linnhe also provides local employment. Ballachulish, Duror, Portnacroish, Appin Village and Port Appin are the principal villages.
Appin was the country of a distinct local branch of Clan Stewart.
The A828 road runs along the coast of Appin. A passenger-only ferry to the island of Lismore runs from Port Appin. The district formerly had a railway, but the Caledonian Railway company's branch line from Connel to Ballachulish was closed in 1966.
Appin is where the Appin Murder took place in 1752.
Notable residents
Elizabeth Macquarie (née Campbell), wife of the fifth governor of New South Wales, was born in the area. During his term the governor named the towns of Appin and Airds after his wife's birthplace and her family's estate respectively. The Female Orphan School in Parramatta is said to have been modelled on the estate's main house.
References
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Further information on the history of Appin
Castle Stalker
Geography of Argyll and Bute
Geography of Highland (council area)
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Tasiman (died 7 December 2020) was an Indonesian politician.
Biography
He served as the Regent of Pati Regency, in Central Java province, for two consecutive terms from 2001 to 2011.
Tasiman, who also suffered from diabetes, died from complications of COVID-19 at RAA Soewondo Pati Hospital in Pati city on 7 December 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. He is buried in Juwana, Pati Regency.
References
Date of birth unknown
Year of birth unknown
2020 deaths
Mayors and regents of places in Central Java
People from Pati Regency
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Regents of places in Indonesia |
Broadcasting reform in the United States has a long history beginning in the 1930s. During the 1940s discontent with commercial media, especially radio, was widespread in the United States with the chief complaints centering on media monopolies, advertising and lack of local accountability. Advanced by the contemporary civil rights and antiwar movements, broadcasting reform efforts of the 1960s were undertaken by various organizations at the local and national level including the American Council for Better Broadcasts (ACBB), Action for Children's Television (ACT), Citizens Communication Center (CCC), National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting (NCBB) and the Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ (UCC).
Background
American media has developed through policy confrontations between commercial industry representatives, grassroots activists and regulators in Washington D.C. about both the design and purpose of media institutions. During the 1930s and 1940s reform was driven by progressives, left wing radicals and New Deal liberals. Reformers sought to use state institutions to protect the media's public service responsibilities from commercialism. Though unsuccessful, reformers in the 1930s sought a more public-oriented broadcast. Reform efforts continued in the 1940s; as dissent amongst citizen groups increased so did pressure on broadcasters and the FCC who were inundated by letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and call-ins seeking the "democratization" of public airwaves. These efforts led to the establishment of the Fairness Doctrine in 1949. In the 1960s when social movements like the antiwar and civil rights movements advanced media reform efforts.
History
The Communications Act of 1934 combined earlier regulatory provisions governing broadcasting and telecommunications; many of its terms closely approximated the Calvin Coolidge era Radio Act of 1927 that had emerged from a period of industry pressure during the four National Radio Conferences between 1922 and 1925. The Radio Act had fallen into a state of obsolescence due to its perceived failure to address contemporary concerns about network dominance and commercial advertising. The 1934 Act did not change these earlier provisions, which were not seen as a threat to industry interests, but it broadened their scope to encompass telephone and telegraph. It also strengthened the administrative structure of the FCC.
1940s
Against the backdrop of a post New Deal rightward political shift in the 1940s, public criticism of radio broadcasting in the United States was intense. Numerous groups including the ACLU, women's groups and Jewish organizations became involved in reform efforts. The New York Times published in 1946 that "radio is subjected to more obverse and insistent criticism than the industry had experienced in the whole of its previous twenty-five years", in another article describing it as "articulate disgust". Fortune Magazine called it a "revolt against radio" in 1947.
Broadcasting was still in its infancy during those years and the outcome of early policy disputes helped shaped the media landscape. NBC was forced by the FCC to divest itself of the Blue Network, which went on to become ABC. Published in 1946, the FCC Blue Book detailed the lack of diversity in contemporary radio broadcasting and seeks to define the "public interest" by outlining various public service responsibilities of broadcasters such as experimental noncommercial programming, more local news and the public service responsibilities of broadcasters. Listener councils were founded in Cleveland, Columbus, central Wisconsin, northern California and New York City with the goal of representing members at public hearings before the FCC or during license renewal proceedings.
The listener council model never proved as successful as reformers had hoped but reform efforts continued throughout the 1940s. The radio spectrum was viewed by some as a public resource rather than a primarily commercial one and there were various efforts to insert political messages into commercial broadcasts. The CIO's Radio Handbook instructed labor activists in media tactics and promoted the idea that "Labor has a voice, the people have a right to hear it". They argued "the air over which the broadcasts are being made does not belong to companies or corporations." However, Cold War politics prevailed and red-baiting tactics proved effective to silence reformers.
1960s
Prior to 1966 the FCC did not allow members of the public to be represented at administrative licensing proceedings, until the DC circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC was required to allow citizen participation in these proceedings. Following the United Church of Christ vs WLBT decision numerous broadcast reform groups were formed to promote the interests of groups who felt they were excluded or marginalized by television, including Media Committee of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and the National Black Media Coalition (NBMC).
Major issues
The reform movement has directed significant efforts to the meaning of the public interest standard seeking to include within that standard the rights of audiences, and public access and participation, but reformer attempts to redefine the fundamental purpose of broadcasting has been hampered by the public policy commitment to maintain a private, commercial and network oriented broadcasting industry.
Other major issues have included the rules for license renewals, the Fairness Doctrine, cable television, advertising, media concentration and deregulation.
See also
Media reform
References
1970s in the United States
Broadcasting in the United States
Political movements in the United States |
Oldenlandia aretioides is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Yemen.
References
aretioides
Endemic flora of Socotra
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Bebra is a river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Fulda near the town Bebra.
See also
List of rivers of Hesse
References
Rivers of Hesse
Rivers of Germany |
Prema Tharangaya (Sinhala, Love Contest) is a 1953 Sri Lankan film directed by A. B. Rajj and produced by S. M. Nayagam. The film stars Aruna Shanthi and Ayesha Weerakoon in lead roles along with Hugo Fernando, Mark Samaranayake and Laddie Ranasinghe in supportive roles. Music was directed by R. Muttusamy. The musician Dharmadasa Walpola debuted as a playback singer in this film.
Plot
Love story of Premadasa and Mallika.
Cast
Aruna Shanthi as Premadasa
Ayesha Weerakoon as Mallika
Hugo Fernando as Walpola Mudalali
Mark Samaranayake as Wickrama
Laddie Ranasinghe as Gunasiri
Richard Albert as Tarzan
Dharma Sri Ranatunga
Latha Walpola
Girley Gunawardana as Dancer
Benedict Fernando as Teacher
David Dharmakeerthi
Nancy Dias as Piyasili
Jemini Kantha as Podihamy
Devika Rani as Mariyan
Songs
"Sama Malin Ron Soyan" – Latha Walpola and chorus
Hitha Sanasene" – Rudrani
"Pasal Jeevithe"
"Dahasa Diley"
"Pera Kala Pawa Pala Di" – Dharmadasa Walpola
"Ho Hada Di" – Latha Walpola
"Darunu Gini Dalewi" – Latha Walpola
"Ugathu Wiyathu" – Latha Walpola
"Sapatha Siwarage" – Dharmadasa and Latha Walpola
"Hoda Hodama Weya Lowa" – Dharmadasa and Latha Walpola
"Mey Loke Wasi" – Haroon Lanthra
"Wali Wadeney Wena Giye" – Hugo Fernando and Rudrani
References
1953 films
Sri Lankan black-and-white films |
The USA Stadium is a baseball stadium in Millington, Tennessee, in the United States. It is located at 4351 Babe Howard Boulevard in Millington. Between 1986 and 1996, it was the training ground for the USA Olympic Baseball team and once hosted the University of Memphis baseball team. The 1999 Conference USA baseball tournament was held at the stadium.
USA Stadium is the current home of the Southwest Tennessee Community College Salquis Baseball team, coached by Erik Schoenrock.
USA Stadium hosted the NJCAA Division II Baseball World Series from 1993-2008, Conference USA Tournament in 1999, Gulf South Conference Tournament from 2002-2009 and 2011 and Division III College World Series Regional from 2011 to 2013.
It also hosts a number of local community events.
Located on the grounds of USA Stadium is a full Rugby park. Two full sized pitches, permanent bathrooms, a storage shed, along with equipment make up the complex. It hosts 50 regular season games along with the West TN Youth Conference playoffs as well as the Tennessee Rugby Association State Semi-Finals and the Elvis 7s tournament.
References
Baseball venues in Tennessee |
Food safety in China is a widespread concern for the country's agricultural industry. China's principal crops are rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, and cotton in addition to apples and other fruits and vegetables. China's principal livestock products include pork, beef, dairy, and eggs. The Chinese government oversees agricultural production as well as the manufacture of food packaging, containers, chemical additives, drug production, and business regulation. In recent years, the Chinese government attempted to consolidate food safety regulation with the creation of the State Food and Drug Administration of China in 2003; officials have also been under increasing public and international pressure to solve food safety problems. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said, "Food is essential, and safety should be a top priority. Food safety is closely related to people's lives and health and economic development and social harmony," at a State Council meeting in Beijing.
Overview
Food safety has been a concern for many decades in China. The majority of food problems lies within poisonous foods deliberately contaminated by producers for higher profits. The most common types poisonous foods in china include: adulteration, additives, pesticides, and fake foods. These poisonous food production techniques allowed producers to either increase production, increase mass of produce, lower market prices, and increase shelf-life. Poisonous food production was very well-organized and largely scaled, involving government agencies participating in such malpractice.
The growing unrest over food safety in China reached a climax in early 2007, shortly after circulation to the State Council of an Asian Development Bank policy note based on a technical assistance project in collaboration with the State Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. The note and a subsequent report applauded increased efforts by the Chinese government but noted remaining gaps, calling in particular for urgent reforms to strengthen and streamline inter-agency coordination and enact an overarching "basic food law". The State Food and Drug Administration of China also published a survey in early 2007 where 65% of the respondents expressed concern about food safety. Shortly afterwards, Lu Jianzhong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and China's Vice Premier, Wu Yi, issued statements of apology and promised to create a food safety monitoring system.
China's food regulations are complex, its monitoring system can be unresponsive, and the government departments that oversee and enforce policies have overlapping and often ambiguous duties. There are around ten national government departments that share the responsibility to ensure food safety. There are also numerous provincial and local agencies that monitor local food production and sales. The food and drug laws themselves have been created "in an ad hoc way without the benefit of a basic food law," as Henk Bekedam of the World Health Organization told the Wall Street Journal (9 April 2007, B1). The last major revision of the food and drug laws was made in 1995 when the Food Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China established general food safety principles. Both the State Council and the departments under the State Council can issue regulations and directives concerning food.
Changes in China's food production system are generating an awareness of food safety problems. China's agricultural system is composed mostly of small land-holding farmers and subsistence agriculture. China, however, has less arable land than other nations and farmers intensively use fertilizer and pesticides to maintain high food production. Food is sold in both open air markets and urban supermarkets, and by the late 1990s, China's farms were adapting to more specialized crop production as the local markets become more connected to the national and international markets. However, local authorities largely control food regulation enforcement unless the central government steps in. As urban consumers' incomes increase, the demand for quality food goods, safer production, and processed foods also increases, and urban residents and supermarkets attract more national and media attention to food problems.
On July 10, 2007, Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of State Food And Drug Administration, was executed by lethal injection for taking bribes from various firms in exchange for state licenses related to product safety.
Government departments
Approximately ten government departments and ministries under the State Council monitor food safety in China. These include the Ministry of Health, the State Food and Drug Administration, and the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety.
No single agency is responsible for all food safety regulations and enforcement in China, and the departments' duties often overlap. There are also local and regional food safety agencies, but there is no clear hierarchy of agencies at the local or national levels. In response to complexity of numerous agencies monitoring and regulating food safety, the National People's Congress established the State Food and Drug Administration in 2003. The State Food and Drug Administration was supposed to oversee the all aspects of food safety regulations and unify food safety controls. However, the State Food and Drug Administration has not become the main governing department as the government had intended, and the other national agencies have continued to regulate and monitor food safety. This unclear division of duties has created conflict and confusion when citizens have sought to complain or when a major crisis needed to be resolved.
The National People's Congress (NPC) is primarily responsible for implementing food safety laws. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the State Council also regulate food safety issues. The Food Hygiene Law of 1995, passed by the NPC, amended the 1982 Food Hygiene Law and regulates most aspects of food safety.
Ministry of Health
Established in 1949, the Ministry of Health encompasses general health policies, health law enforcement, children's and seniors' health policies, and diseases and emergencies. It provides experts to investigate poisoning cases, enforces food safety and hygiene inspections, and can order local health departments to conduct investigations into food quality violations. The Ministry of Health also oversees the Institute of Food Safety Control and Inspection, an agency that has studied and identified unsafe foods and has helped local health authorities form policies and training programs to combat unsafe food production and handling practices. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has called the Ministry of Health "the most important governing body of food safety."
The general duties of the Ministry of Health are:
To draft health laws, regulations and policies; to propose health development programs and strategic goals; to formulate technical protocols, health standards and to supervise their enforcement.
To propose regional health programs, to conduct overall planning and to coordinate the nationwide allocation of health resources.
To formulate working programs and policies on rural health, as well as maternal and child health care; to guide the implementation of primary health programs and technical protocols on maternal and child health care.
To implement the policy of "Prevention First" and to conduct health education to the general public. To develop programs on the prevention and treatment of diseases that endanger the health of the population; to organize the comprehensive prevention and treatment of major diseases; to publicize the quarantine list of communicable diseases and the surveillance list of infectious diseases.
To guide the reform of medical institutions; to formulate criteria for medical practitioners, medical quality and service delivery, and to supervise their enforcement.
To regulate by law blood collection at blood or plasma centers and the quality of blood for clinical transfusion.
To draft key national development programs on medical science, technology and education; to organize key national medical and health researches; to guide the dissemination and application of medical achievements. To administer the affiliated institutions.
To supervise communicable disease prevention and treatment, food health, occupational, environmental, radiological, and school health. To formulate food and cosmetics quality control protocols and be responsible for their accreditation.
To formulate national development programs on health professionals and professional ethics protocols for health personnel; to draft and implement staffing standards for health institutions and accreditation criteria for health personnel.
To organize and guide multi-lateral and bilateral governmental and non-governmental health and medical cooperation and exchanges and medical aid to other countries, to participate in major health events initiated by international organizations. To coordinate medical and health exchanges and collaborations between China and the World Health Organization and other international organizations.
To implement the policy of developing both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
To do the routine work of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee.
To coordinate and dispatch technical health capacity nationwide, to assist local governments and relevant agencies in emergency response to major epidemics and diseases and in epidemic and disease prevention and control.
To undertake other work as designated by the State Council.
State Food and Drug Administration
The State Food and Drug Administration of China (SFDA) was founded in 2003 as part of China's efforts to improve food safety. The SFDA is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the other health, food, and drug agencies. It is "directly under the State Council, which is in charge of comprehensive supervision on the safety management of food, health food and cosmetics and is the competent authority of drug regulation." The SFDA encompasses ten departments that regulate and oversee different aspects of food and drug law. These include the General Office Department of Planning and Finance, the Department of Policy and Regulations, the Department of Food Safety Coordination, the Department of Food Safety Supervision, the Department of Drug Registration, the Department of Medical Devices, the Department of Drug Safety and Inspection, the Department of Drug Market Compliance, the Department of Personnel and Education, and the Department of International Cooperation.
The general duties of the SFDA are:
To draft health laws, regulations and policies; to propose health development programs and strategic goals; to formulate technical protocols, health standards and to supervise their enforcement.
To propose regional health programs, to conduct overall planning and to coordinate the nationwide allocation of health resources.
To formulate working programs and policies on rural health, as well as maternal and child health care; to guide the implementation of primary health programs and technical protocols on maternal and child health care.
To implement the policy of "Prevention First" and to conduct health education to the general public. To develop programs on the prevention and treatment of diseases that endanger the health of the population; to organize the comprehensive prevention and treatment of major diseases; to publicize the quarantine list of communicable diseases and the surveillance list of infectious diseases.
To guide the reform of medical institutions; to formulate criteria for medical practitioners, medical quality and service delivery, and to supervise their enforcement.
To regulate by law blood collection at blood or plasma centers and the quality of blood for clinical transfusion.
To draft key national development programs on medical science, technology and education; to organize key national medical and health researches; to guide the dissemination and application of medical achievements. To administer the affiliated institutions.
To supervise communicable disease prevention and treatment, food health, occupational, environmental, radiological, and school health. To formulate food and cosmetics quality control protocols and be responsible for their accreditation.
To formulate national development programs on health professionals and professional ethics protocols for health personnel; to draft and implement staffing standards for health institutions and accreditation criteria for health personnel.
To organize and guide multi-lateral and bilateral governmental and non-governmental health and medical cooperation and exchanges and medical aid to other countries, to participate in major health events initiated by international organizations. To coordinate medical and health exchanges and collaborations between China and the World Health Organization and other international organizations.
To implement the policy of developing both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
To do the routine work of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee.
To coordinate and dispatch technical health capacity nationwide, to assist local governments and relevant agencies in emergency response to major epidemics and diseases and in epidemic and disease prevention and control.
To undertake other work as designated by the State Council.
Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture handles farm-level food safety regulations and policies. One of its most important duties is to regulate and enforce the use of chemicals, pollutants, and pesticides on farms. The Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals (CAMA) is responsible for pesticide testing, research, and use regulations, and operates under the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture is also responsible for animal health, and has handled the bird flu (avian influenza) outbreaks and the mad cow disease prevention measures. The Ministry of Agriculture works with local governments, operates disease research laboratories, and administers vaccinations and emergency response measures.
Ministry of Commerce
The Ministry of Commerce handles the regulations governing food trade, foreign investments, food distribution, and domestic and international market activities.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) oversees food imports and exports and quarantines at the national and local levels. It functions as a law enforcement agency. There are 19 departments under the GAQSIQ, and the ones that handle food safety issue are the Department of Supervision on Animal and Plant Quarantine, the Bureau of Import and Export Food Safety, and the Department of Supervision of Food Production. The GAQSIQ manages and supervises the QS mark, which is meant to reassure product safety. The GAQSIQ was made a Ministry in 2001.
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce
The State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) regulates market activity and is directly under the State Council. Under the SAIC, the Consumer Protection Bureau enforces standards for market products and investigates fake products, the Enterprise Registration Bureau issues business licenses, the Department of Personnel and Education oversees local SAIC departments, and the Department of Advertising Regulation works against fake or misleading advertising.
The Mission of the SAIC is as follows:
Draft and promulgate guidelines, policies, laws, rules and regulations concerning administration for industry and commerce.
Handle and administer the registration of all kinds of enterprises (including foreign-invested enterprises), organizations or individuals that are engaged in business activities as well as resident representative offices of foreign companies; examine and ratify the registration of business names; review, approve and issue business licenses and carry out regulation thereof.
Supervise market competition, investigate into illegal trade practices including monopoly, unfair competition, smuggling, selling of smuggled goods, pyramid selling and disguised pyramid selling and mete out corresponding penalties according to law.
Carry out standard supervision and administration in accordance with law to ensure healthy order of business operation in various markets.
Regulate the operation of brokers and brokerage agencies.
Regulate contract performance, auctions and registration of chattel mortgage; investigate and penalize illegal practices such as contract frauds.
Regulate advertising activities, investigate and penalize illegal practices.
Take charge of trademark registration and administration, protect exclusive right of trademark, investigate and penalize trademark infringements and reinforce recognition and protection of well-known trademarks.
Regulate the self-employed, private partnerships and private enterprises.
Lead and guide local administrative authorities for industry and commerce nationwide.
Carry out international cooperation and exchanges in areas related to the functions of SAIC.
Ministry of Science and Technology
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) investigates technological innovation to improve food production, manufacturing, and processing. The MST regulates the quality of market products, oversees the inspection of market products, and punishes sellers who violate product quality standards. The MST also regulates product packaging and can confiscate or destroy illegal products or product ingredients.
National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety
The National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety (NINFS) is a research agency for nutrition and food hygiene. It is affiliated with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The objectives of the Institute are to study the health-related nutrition and food hygiene problems and to train nutrition and food hygiene specialists. These objectives have been established for the purposes of improving nutritional status, preventing food borne diseases, and strengthening the physical fitness of the people. The Institute not only undertakes basic research and field studies, but also organizes and conducts nationwide research programs. In addition, the Institute gives advice on the nutrition and food hygiene projects of the health units at the provincial level. The Institute comprises 13 departments, including Elderly Nutrition, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Community Nutrition, School Nutrition, Food Chemistry, and Food Toxicology. The Institute has been authorized to award doctoral and master's degrees in the field of nutrition and food hygiene. Since 1981, the Institute has been designated as the FAO/WHO Collaborative Center for Food Contamination Monitoring in China. The office of the Chinese Nutrition Society is also located in the Institute building. The Institute was formerly known as the Nutrition Division of the National Institute of Health of the Public Health Administration, which was established in 1941. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Institute was affiliated with the following leading bodies under the title of the Department of Nutrition or the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene:
1950-1957: National Institute of Health, Ministry of Public Health
1957-1983: Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
1983-1985: Institute of Health, China National Center for Preventive Medicine
1985-1986: Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
In 1986, the Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene was established under the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.
Food safety regulations
In October 2007, China approved new legislation aimed at improving and monitoring national standards in food production. New laws will standardize food production and clamp down on illegal activity in the industry. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine drafted the new regulations covering the production, processing and sale of food. They will create national standards and replace the existing patchwork of rules which are overseen by several government agencies.
Food safety incidents
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has received increased international media scrutiny following the reform and opening of the country, its joining the World Trade Organization, and the increased awareness of Chinese people in urban areas to food safety. There have been numerous incidents involving food safety in the PRC including the unconventional use of pesticides or other dangerous chemical additives as food preservatives or additives and the use of unhygienic starting materials as food ingredients. There were two catastrophic food scandals in the past decades that resulted around 300,000 cases of food-borne diseases. The first incident occurred 3 decades ago in Shanghai where consumption of raw clam lead to a Hepatitis A outbreak. The second incident is the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which caused kidney stones in infants, devastating almost 300,000 children. The 2008 Chinese milk scandal received the most attention among food safety incidents. This incident brought China's food safety policy under scrutiny in the international eye, playing a part in the institution of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China in June 2009.
Food Safety Law
The Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China took effect on June 1, 2009 and became the major food safety protection law. This legislation describes all the responsibilities of food safety regulations to the Ministry of Health, who is responsible for food safety risk assessment, formulating food safety standards, food safety information dissemination, and setting codes of practice for food testing organizations. The law also clearly describes the duty to monitor food production, servicing, and circulation by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State of Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the State Food Drug Administration. The Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China does not clearly state how these food safety monitoring duties are divided among these agencies.
This law offers a new aspect of authorizing consumers to seek compensation from the distributor or producer of harmful food products, up to 10 times the price of the said food product. The Food Safety Law does not state clearly whether local governments shall provide compensation if there is malpractice in government action. Food contamination incidents in China have not shown signs of decline after this particular Food Safety law.
In January 2016, the State Council of China issued the "Measures for the Administration of Food and Drug Complaints and Reports", clearly implementing the content and system of the plan, encouraging and supporting the public to report food violations.
Legislative reform after the Food Safety Law
China began a new legislative reform four years after the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China. These amendments contain frameworks stating regulation for online food trading, mandatory food safety liability insurance, infant formula, and enhanced penalties for violations. These amendments encourage regulation from nongovernmental stakeholders in the food industry, such as food industry associations, nongovernmental organizations, the media, and consumers. The promotion of a reporting measure where any person may report alleged food safety violations and receive rewards is an example. Moreover, the amendments will require the National Food Safety Standard Evaluation Committee to include members of consumer associations and food industry associations. These reforms present a shift from a government-centered framework of China's food safety policy.
See also
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Food safety
Food security
Food safety incidents in China
Food policy in China
Soil contamination in China
References
External links
National Food Quality Supervision and Inspection Center
China Academy of Safety Science and Technology
State Food and Nutrition Consultant Committee
Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology
National Food Safety Information Center
China Food Safety Web
Centre for Food Safety, Hong Kong Government
China Food Information Network
Food Safety Network, certification consulting, laws and regulations, and training and education.
China National Food Industry Association- information, food regulations, certification, technology, and statistics
Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Food Safety on China Digital Times
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Penn Program on Regulation's Import Safety Page
Greater China Food Safety Database
Inspection in China |
Jorge Luis Burruchaga (; born 9 October 1962), nicknamed Burru, is an Argentine association football coach and former professional football player. He played both as an attacking midfielder and forward and scored the winning goal in the final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Club career
Born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos, Burruchaga started playing in 1980 for Arsenal de Sarandí in Argentina's then second division.
He contracted with Independiente in 1982 and debuted in a victory against Estudiantes de La Plata on 12 February. He was part of the team that won the Metropolitano 1983, the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup in 1984.
He was then transferred to French team Nantes, where he played for seven years. He also played one year for Valenciennes, where he was involved in a bribing scandal involving the French and European champions Olympique de Marseille 'buying' a 1–0 league win at Valenciennes on 20 May 1993. Marseille midfield player Jean-Jacques Eydelie and the club's general manager, Jean-Pierre Bernès, had offered him money to throw the game, Burruchaga said he agreed but then changed his mind. He was subsequently given a suspended six-month jail sentence when judgment was delivered on 15 May 1995.
He returned to Argentina for his last spell in Independiente, when he won a Supercopa Sudamericana and a Recopa Sudamericana both in 1995.
He retired from professional football on 10 April 1998 in a match against Vélez Sársfield.
International career
Burruchaga was part of the Argentina squad that won the 1986 FIFA World Cup, scoring two goals, including the goal that gave Argentina the 3–2 victory against West Germany in the final match. He also participated in all Argentine matches at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and scored one goal in the tournament. He scored a total of 13 goals for Argentina in 59 games between 1983 and 1990.
Managerial career
Burruchaga coached Arsenal de Sarandí since its arrival to first division in 2002, and succeeded in keeping the team far from the bottom of the standings. For the 2005–06 season, he signed with Estudiantes de La Plata. In May 2006, he moved to Independiente and resigned in April 2007. He has also managed Banfield from 2008 to 2009
On 5 May 2009, Burruchaga returned to Arsenal de Sarandí but resigned in 2010. He managed Paraguayan Club Libertad since 2011. He managed Atletico Rafaela in the Argentinian Primera Division from 2012 to June 2014. In 2015, Burruchaga returned to Rafaela in his second period as a coach.
At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Burruchaga served as Argentina national football team's general manager.
Personal life
In 1995, his wife Laura Mendoza died from the injuries sustained in a car crash. Burruchaga is father of the footballer Mauro Burruchaga and aspiring tennis player Román Burruchaga.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Club
Independiente
Primera División: 1983 Metropolitano
Copa Libertadores: 1984
Intercontinental Cup: 1984
Supercopa Sudamericana: 1995
Recopa Sudamericana: 1995
Nantes
Ligue 1 runner-up: 1985–86
International
Argentina
FIFA World Cup: 1986; runner-up: 1990
Individual
Copa América Top Scorer: 1983
French Division 1 Foreign Player of the Year: 1985–86
IFFHS Argentina All Times Dream Team (Team B): 2021
References
External links
Official Twitter
Burruchaga: The longest, most exhilarating run of my life FIFA.com
1962 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine people of Basque descent
People from Gualeguay Department
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football forwards
Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
Club Atlético Independiente footballers
FC Nantes players
Valenciennes FC players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Argentina men's youth international footballers
Argentina men's under-20 international footballers
Argentina men's international footballers
1986 FIFA World Cup players
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1983 Copa América players
1989 Copa América players
Copa Libertadores-winning players
FIFA World Cup-winning players
Argentine football managers
Arsenal de Sarandí managers
Estudiantes de La Plata managers
Club Atlético Independiente managers
Club Atlético Banfield managers
Atlético de Rafaela managers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Ligue 1 players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France
Club Libertad managers
Association football controversies
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
Expatriate football managers in Paraguay
Footballers from Entre Ríos Province |
Leontios Petmezas (1965) is a Greek contemporary theorist, art historian, book critic, author and journalist.
Early life and education
Born in Kavala in 1965. He is a graduate of Political Science and School of Public Administration at Athens University. His teachers included Thanos Veremis, Alexis Mitropoulos, Ioannis Valinakis, Konstantinos Tsoukalas, and Tassos Giannitsis. He graduated from the National Conservatory and the Higher Drama School "Mary Tragas". He studied History of Art at Athens University , journalism at Botsis Foundation and the Journalism School of ANT1. He attended art history and painting in Europe and the United States.
Career
Since the mid-1980s to today collaborates with municipalities, ministries, embassies, prefectures, political offices, spiritual and educational institutions, publishing complexes, educational cultural centers and art galleries.
From 2004 to 2012 he was Artistic Director and Principal advisor artistic institution "Art Flame.".
In the context of cooperation with the artistic institution taught painting and art history.
It contributes to the organization and presentation of exhibitions, festivals and events of art and culture, around the world. deals with the assessment of works of art. Contributed actively to the establishment of new perspectives, negotiations and arrangements in the field of art. He teaches History of contemporary art and exhibits artworks in Greece, and abroad and has received positive reviews from recognized historians of art-critics like Helen Vakalo, Alexander Xidis, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas and others.
Paintings belong to famous art collections (Argostoli Gallery of Contemporary Art, Art Studio Est, Art Way, Art Space, Art Selected Works, etc.) while a substantial proportion allocated to charity. Introduced editions, visual arts, literary and poetry books, exhibition catalogs, exhibitions, events, happenings, performances and other cultural events.
In 2012 presented a study-thesis for the poet Nikiforos Vrettakos in the Philological Association of Parnassos.
For his pen and writing have been expressed with favorable criticism prominent people of the area as Elli Alexiou, Lilika Nakos, Lili Zografou, Dido Sotiriou, Maria Iordanidis and others. He is often a speaker at international conferences and symposium of the art.
To 2014 took part as moderator and rapporteur at first colloquium of Political Party of Syriza
To 2015 he was appointed scientific adviser to the Greek Academy of Art and Culture.
Books
"Dominant thought form" (1988), poetry in free verse.
"Odes people" (1992), poetry with abstract writing.
"Collage" (1994), poetry with prose intervention.
"Life dimension" (1996) unconventional, anti-militarist, antirissiaki poetry.
"The aesthetic contemplation of Costas Evangelatos" (2001) Essay artistic ethos with a foreword by the winning with state award literary Joanna Karatzaferis.
"Moments of color" (2002) Theoretical approach to Fauvism, with reference to the tables of Julia Guerrero.
"Pictorial solution borderline" (2003) Theoretical approach to impressionism.
"Consciousness sayings" (2008), Poems.,
"John Koutsoheras-The moralistic intellectual political consciousness" (2010) Essay-theoretical approach to poetry, with a foreword by the philologist Sophia Petmeza..,
"Consciousness file" (2011). Poetry with visual compositions for the texts created by Costas Evangelatos, with an introduction by actress Anna Fonsou.
"Costas Evangelatos Art- Est (2014)», with his theoretical text for 35 years performance of Costas Evangelatos
Theatrical plays (writer)
The other side is always nothing (1982) (satire statements)
Was false love (1985) (satire)
The upper room (1988) (social)
Where is the paper? (1989) (satire statements)
Smell of sweet (1993) (social)
Case candle counter (1994), (satire social mores)
Strange woman (1996) (satire)
Passion path (1998), (time from the resistance)
Consciousness thinking (1999) (thriller)
Inside the gold box (2000), (existential drama)
Waiting and the second (2001) (social drama)
No mutual attraction (2003) (melodrama)
The first bright day (2004) (existential drama)
Open this door (2006), (theater absurd)
If he comes again (2007), (interfaith reference)
Ballad in myth of Perliplin (2010) (operetta) inspired by Federico García Lorca
Waiting for ...Pinter (2011) (subversive, political theater).
I have to wait you ...for all the life (2014), satire-ethnography social situations.
Theatrical plays (actor)
The summer will reap of Alexis Damianos in municipal regional theater of Kavala (1986).
Winter's tale of William Shakespeare (Leondios old man) (1988)
The Butterfly's Evil Spell of Federico García Lorca, translated by Elli Alexiou (1990)
Instead-Performance of Costas Evangelatos (1995)
Play Strimberg of Friedrich Dürrenmatt (general) (1997)
Old People's Home of Manolis Korres (general) (1999)
Pirliplin and Belissa of Federico García Lorca, translated, adapted from Triantafyllidis Niki and directed by Zoe Masouras who plays the Belissa. (2011)
The myth of Morpheus, the first interactive theater Happening City of Athens Gazi. (2011)
The Geraldine and the elf of Lake of Eva Petropoulos-Lianos, kids, interactive, educational theater project, (grandfather Lionel) (2012).
On the border of Anarchy, political, social work (Police Officer) (2013)
Participation in the movie
Four for four of Alexis Katsaros (1997).
Artistic tributes presented
International art festival of Aegean Sea (2007)
Homage to Maria Callas (2009)
Tribute to Woman (2010),
Tribute to Melina Mercouri (2011)
Tribute to Frida Kahlo.
Tribute to Theo Angelopoulos (2012)
Overview of football Olympic team (2013)
Prefaces written
There of author Irini Falagkas (1998).
In expressionism of love, the anatomy of the apparition (2000) by Mavridis publications
Shipwreck in Hell (2000)
The palakida of Zeus of author Kasiani-Annita Koutsouvelis (2001), by Pitsilos publications
Loneliness of Klinovatis of poet Despina Kontaxis (2010)
The purple kiss of poet Despina Kontaxis (2011).
Nostalgia of poet Hara Dafnas (2011).
Anthology of poetry and prose, dedicated to 100 years from the year born of academician,poet Nikiforos Vrettakos (2012).
Floating shadows of poet Hope Maniatis (2012).
I am angry of poet Gregory Christidis (2013)
Anthology of poetry, dedicated to 150 years from the year born of poet Constantine P. Cavafy (2013). [23]
The Black pomegranate of poet Paul Angel (2013),Vakhikon versions
Crawling of poet Gregory Christidis (2014)
Deposit soul of poet Christina Iakovidis (2014), Arnaoutis versions
Suffice a spark of poet Venus Drakopoulos-Sardis (2015), Ostria versions
Agiographic calendar of painter Marilena Fokas (2016).He curate the calendar and wrote critic prologue.
Agiographic calendar of painter Marilena Fokas(2017).He curate the calendar and wrote critic prologue.
Participation with written versions-albums
In mane of winds of poet Niki Filopoulos (1994)
Asia Minor, Triglia and refuge of author Sofia Yarenis. Historical time for unredeemed lands. (1999)
The history of life from Triglia, Greece and Asia Minor of author Sofia Yarenis. Historical reference and study. (2001)
Pleated, anthology forms of speech. (2001)
Magazine "Kouarios" Issue 33-34 (2004). Posted critical study.
Magazine "Umbrella" issue September–November 2005. Published his critical approach for the book The stars burned of author Kiki Segditsas, ed. Livanis.
Literary Calendar (2005) of Municipality of Kavala, ed. Municipal Library of Kavala.
WesternMakedonika letters, 2nd Volume (2008)
Magazine "Umbrella" of Makis Apostolatos issue March–May 2008. Published by the study The conceptual consciousness approach in painting of painter Nikos Engonopoulos.
Magazine "Umbrella" issue September–November 2008. Posted his study-work The erotic, historical and social element in author M. Karagatsis.
Magazine "Umbrella" issue September–November 2009. Posted his study-work Author Thanasis Kostavaras:Ηe expresses the generation of losers.Tributes to poet Yiannis Koutsoheras (2009).Revealed Enlightened-Illuminati of author Nikolaos Laos. (2009) .In this book there is his study "Mysticism and Art" and a reference to his winning poem Truncated ideologiesThe Excess of Political Economy of author Nikolaos Laos (2012). In the book there is reference to his poem "Other consciousness ."Poetic diary, Iolkos editions (2012). It includes the award-winning poem CloselyPoetic diary, Iolkos editions (2013). Includes poem Consciousness receivedThe Lord of island Ro of author Yiannis Alexakis, (2013). Historical, cultural narrative time.4o Anthology Union Cultural Institutions of Evros (2014)Anthology of poetry, Ostria editions (2015). It includes his award-winning poem life path.Poetic diary, Iolkos editions (2016). Includes his poem.Poetic diary, Iolkos editions (2017). Includes his poem.
Journalism
He works as an art critic in the press and electronic media. As an art critic, he worked with newspapers and magazines. He has published articles and essays on art history, theory of modern art, sculpture, iconography and painting. He compiled monographs and recursive lists artists and essays with aesthetics, philosophy, history, sociology of art.
Actively engaged for several years in the union movement in unions, associations and unions. It is many years a member of the Periodical and Electronic Press Union (ESPIT) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) which has developed industrial action.
DistinctionsDiploma and medal value of Group Athletics Olympias.Official Award by Unesco.Special prize from the Lions Club of Athens.1st prize poem from the Panhellenic Federation of Resistance Organizations (POAO).Honorary plaque from the Athens Association of Parents.1st prize poem by Free Press newspaper.
2010 Bid Excellence for cultural and social action.
Title knight and honorary medal of Officer of Hospitalierice Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.First essay award from the European Society of Scientists Writers - Artists (EEELK).First poetry award from the European Society of Scientists Writers - Artists (EEELK).Award from the Lions Club Maroussi.Honorary plaque from the Association Retired Army Officers (EAAS).,
Personal life
He is married to artist-painter Marilena Fokas.
Sources
Book Asia Minor, Triglia and refuge (1999) pp. 232–235
Book The life story of the Triglia Greece and Asia Minor (2001) pp. 197–205.
Μagazine Alexisfero Annual Volum edition (2001) pp. 26, 27, 76, 77.
Dictionary Dictionary 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th of Cambridge Century (2001) p. 209.
Anthology Pleated, anthology forms of speech, (2001) pp. 290–294.
Magazine National Resistance, Issue 112 October–December 2001, p. 5
Magazine Kouarios, No. 33-34. (2004). pp. 95
Book Art Flame version Ministry of Culture (2005).
Calendar-Album Literary Calendar edition of Municipal Library of Kavala(2005)
Album Art exhibition from 1945 to 2005.60 years later (2006), pp. 91
Album 31 Years of Amateur Theatre in Kavala (2008), pp. 32
Book Consciousness sayings, (2008).
Album WesternMakedonika Letters (2008), p. 280.
Dictionary WHO IS WHO IN GREECE. (2008), p. 1026.
Magazine Umbrella , issue March–May 2008, pp. 95–96
Magazine Umbrella, issue September–November 2008. pp. 29–32.
Album Art exhibition for the 90 years of the Greek Communist Party (2008), pp. 215
Album Art exhibition of the Development Association of West Attica (2008), pp. 87
Magazine Umbrella , issue September–November 2009, pp. 51–54.
Book Tributes to Yiannis Koutsoheras (2009). pp. 84
Book Version History Terms of Kavala, (2010), pp. 216
Book Consciousness Archive (2011).
Encyclopedia Great Encyclopedia of Modern Literature of Haris Patsis, (2011), pp. 224–226.
Book Overcoming the political economy (2012) of Nicholaos Laos, p. 189, bus versions.
Book The Lord of island Ro (2013), pp. 54.
Anthologio 4o Anthologio Union Cultural Institutions of Evros (2014) pp. 105–106
Anthology Anthology of poetry, Ostria editions (2015), pp. 110
Encyclopedia Great Encyclopedia of Modern Literature of Haris Patsis, (2015) pp. 312–315
Diary Poetic Diary, Iolkos Publications (2016), pp. 188
References
1965 births
Greek artists
Living people
People from Kavala |
Swainsona adenophylla, commonly known as violet swainson-pea or violet Darling pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of central Australia. It is a slender, erect or spreading perennial herb with imparipinnate leaves with three to nine linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaflets, and racemes of pink or purplish flowers in racemes of ten to twenty.
Description
Swainsona adenophylla is a slender, erect or spreading perennial herb, that typically grows to a height of up to with densely softly-hairy stems at the base. The leaves are imparipinnate, long with 3 to 9 linear to egg-shaped leaflets, the side leaflets long and mostly wide with stipules up to about long at the base of the petiole. The leaflets have a distinctive spherical, yellow gland at the tip. The flowers are pink or purplish, arranged in racemes of 10 to 20, each flower long. The sepals are softly-hairy and joined at the base, forming a tube with the lobes shorter than the sepal tube. The standard petal is long, wide, and the keel about long. Flowering usually occurs from June to September, and the fruit is a narrowly oblong pod long and wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Swainsona adenophylla was first formally described in 1926 by John McConnell Black in the Transactions and prodeedings of the Royal Society of South Australia.
Distribution and habitat
Violet swainson-pea grows on sandy or stony flats, especially near the edge of lakes, and is widespread in central South Australia. It is also known from single collections in Kinchega National Park in New South Wales, and from Barmah State Forest in Victoria.
Conservation status
Swainsona adenophylla is listed as "endangered" in New South Wales under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and as "critically endangered" in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.
References
adenophylla
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
Flora of South Australia
Plants described in 1926
Taxa named by John McConnell Black |
is a Japanese science fiction mecha space opera anime originally conceptualized by Tow Ubukata. The series first aired on TV Tokyo on April 1, 2007 and ended on September 30, 2007, with 26 episodes.
On July 23, 2007, a manga adaptation began serialization in Kodansha's Magazine Z. Though the story is the same, it is told from the point of view of Iolaous. Five official guidebooks were also published and had consecutive monthly releases from July to November 2007.
Premise
The story's theme is based on stories in Greek mythology, especially those surrounding Heracles, upon whom the main character is based, and his Twelve Labors. Many of the other characters are also based on Greek mythological figures; characters share similar names to their Greek counterparts, and how their relationship is defined with others correspond with Greek stories. The title of the series, Heroic Age, is also a slight testament to the similarities to Greek mythology, referring to the time of the Heroic Age. The tribes featured in the anime are loosely based on Hesiod's Five Ages of Mankind.
Storyline
The show is set in a futuristic universe, controlled by a few races or "tribes" that possess the capabilities for interstellar travel. The universe had once been ruled by a "Golden Tribe" (黄金の種族 Ougon no Shuzoku), who had since left the current galaxy long ago; they passed on their knowledge to the humanoid , the insectoid , and the gigantic . The latter was later punished by the Golden Tribe for causing havoc in the universe and made to serve the other tribes as - extremely powerful beings that play a key role in the story. Before the Golden Tribe departed, Humanity answered the call of the Golden Tribe and was dubbed the . Viewed as a threat to the order of things, the Silver Tribe decided to annihilate the Iron Tribe with the aid of the Bronze Tribe. However, humanity survived their assault on Earth and scattered their numbers across the stars in order to preserve their race.
The story follows the voyages of the starship Argonaut and its crew to find a means to bring peace to the universe. The ship carries the young human clairvoyant princess Dhianeila, who is on a mission to find the mythical savior of the human race. This savior is expected to aid humanity in their war against the Silver and Bronze tribes, who are bent on humanity's extermination.
Initially, the expedition finds a child-hearted boy called Age on a partially destroyed planet. When the Argonaut is attacked by the Bronze tribe, Age is shown to transform into a "Nodos" form, Bellcross, a gigantic and immensely powerful being. He easily fends off the superior attacking force. Having found their messiah, the Argonaut starts its way back to Dhianeila's home-world, Duey. During their journey home, the Silver Tribe launches several attacks on the Argonaut to prevent the ship from returning to their home-world, but Age always managed to stop them.
During the many attacks on the Argonaut the crew begins to warm up to Age, they had been fearful of his powers as a Nodos. The Silver tribesman Phaetho O assigns himself the role of "testing" Age, destroying the Argonaut and all the Iron Tribe on it. After Age drives Phaetho O away and saves his tribe they all begin to accept him. Iolaous Oz Mehelim of the Yunos knights is jealous of Age but warms up to him after the attack on Titarros. Once they escape the battle against Phaetho O at Titarros the Argonaut crew arrives near the Cemetery belt where they are again attacked by Phaetho O and the Bronze Tribe accompanying him, here Age fights another Nodos whom had visited him on Titarros. During the fight the Argonaut manages to escape however in order to do so Age had to stay behind to fight. The Argonaut warps to what they think is an unoccupied place and end up running into stragglers from the Bronze Tribe, rather than fight they attempt to run only to be cornered by an enormous fleet. the fleet is also Iron Tribe, after saving the Argonaut that fleet accompanies them and they leave to help Age.
After reaching back to Duey, word had spread throughout humanity of the Argonaut's success and Dhianeila's brothers used the momentum to successfully convince humanity to launch a counter-offensive against the Silver and Bronze Tribes. With humanity united under the Junos family, the Silver Tribe throws the full might of their forces along with their 4 Nodos's to destroy humanity. As the fighting intensifies, the humans move towards the Golden Tribes' old home world. At the last moment, contact is made both between the Silver Tribe, humanity, and the Nodos of each side. Dhianeila brings the Silver Tribe to accept a ceasefire and Age is shown to be the "key" to opening a portal to the universe into which the Golden Tribe has moved.
When this portal is opened, the Silver Tribe moves on to this other universe and passes all of its knowledge to humanity, including the ability to control the Bronze Tribe. However, during the battle, Age is missing after he opened the gateway; some believed he died in the process, while others believed he'll return one day. Honoring Age's wish, Dhianeila dedicated the next few years of her life to restore Age's home planet.
Four years later, Humanity has now brought order throughout the universe. With the Silver's Tribe's technology, humanity had advanced further and rebuilt Earth. Dhianeila and the Argonaut's team has succeeded in restoring Age's home, but through it all, she missed Age the most. Just as she was about to leave the only planet that gives her some comfort, the Golden Tribe's gateway opened and revealed that Age was alive, and he and Dhianeila were reunited.
Media
Anime
The television series was produced by King Records, KlockWorx and Xebec and directed by Takashi Noto and Toshimasa Suzuki, with Tow Ubukata handling series composition, Hisashi Hirai designing the characters and Naoki Satō composing the music. It first aired on April 1, 2007, and is now completed with a total of 26 episodes, the last of which having aired on September 30, 2007. Dhianeila gives a short narrative in the first five episodes to explain the Golden Tribe, the Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron Tribes, and the events leading up to the anime series. Since episode 14 a new introduction shows the Iron Tribe members in a different manner than in the first episodes' introduction.
The anime was licensed for North American distribution by Funimation on June 30, 2008. A release date was set for May 12, 2009. As of May 2011, episodes 1-26 of Heroic Age are available dubbed in English via Netflix streaming, and episodes 1-26 are available both dubbed and subtitled at Hulu.
DVDs
The first two DVD volumes had a simultaneous release in Japan on August 8, 2007. It was announced that every volume would contain two episodes. The first two volumes would also contain an eight-page booklet and stickers of the corresponding DVD cover for a limited time only. The illustrations on the cover jackets are designed by Hisashi Hirai.
The third volume was released on September 5, 2007, and also contained a sticker of the jacket cover.
Volumes
Heroic Age I - contains episodes 1 and 2 (Release date: August 8, 2007)
Heroic Age II - contains episodes 3 and 4 (Release date: August 8, 2007)
Heroic Age III - contains episodes 5 and 6 (Release date: September 5, 2007)
Heroic Age IV - contains episodes 7 and 8 (Release date: October 10, 2007)
Heroic Age V - contains episodes 9 and 10 (Release date: November 7, 2007)
Heroic Age VI - contains episodes 11 and 12 (Release date: December 5, 2007)
Heroic Age VII - contains episodes 13 and 14 (Release date: January 9, 2008)
Heroic Age VIII - contains episodes 15 and 16 (Release date: January 9, 2008)
Heroic Age IX - contains episodes 17 and 18 (Release date: February 6, 2008)
Heroic Age: Complete Series - contains episodes 1–26 on Blu-ray 3-disk box set (Release date: February 16, 2010)
Manga
On July 23, 2007, the first volume of the series' manga adaptation began serialization in the Japanese magazine, Magazine Z. The manga is published by Kodansha Publishers, Ltd. The story is the same as the anime; however, the story will be told in Ioraus' point of view.
Volumes
Heroic Age Manga 1 - Release date: July 23, 2007
Heroic Age Manga 2 - Release date: November 22, 2007
Guidebooks
Along with the manga, the first of five official guidebooks was published in Kodansha's Magazine Z on July 23, 2007. The following four volumes had consecutive monthly releases, with the last one being released on November 30, 2007. Each guidebook has a total of 36 colored pages.
Volumes
Heroic Age Official Guidebook Volume 1 - Release date: July 23, 2007
Heroic Age Official Guidebook Volume 2 - Release date: August 23, 2007
Heroic Age Official Guidebook Volume 3 - Release date: September 28, 2007
Heroic Age Official Guidebook Volume 4 - Release date: October 29, 2007
Heroic Age Official Guidebook Volume 5 - Release date: November 30, 2007
Music
Singles
Opening themes
The opening theme of Heroic Age, "Gravitation", was performed by Angela. An opening themes single, performed by Angela and containing six tracks, was released on May 9, 2007.
Lyrics: Atsuko
Composition: Atsuko and KATSU
Arrangement: KATSU
Track listing
"Gravitation"
"Your breath"
"Gravitation" (Karaoke/no vocals)
(Karaoke)
"Your breath" (Karaoke)
Ending themes
The ending theme of Heroic Age, "Azurite", was performed by Tae Urakabe. An ending themes single containing four tracks was released on May 23, 2007.
Lyrics: SHUMA (for Azurite)
Composition and arrangement: YUPA (for Azurite)
Track listing
"Azurite"
"Starry heavens"
"Azurite" (Karaoke)
"Starry heavens" (Karaoke)
Soundtracks
The first original soundtrack album, entitled "Star Way", was released on July 11, 2007. It contains two discs, with the second disc being a Drama CD. The second soundtrack, which was released on September 26, 2007, also contains two discs. The first disc contains 18 tracks, while the second disc is another Drama CD containing the continuation of the story in the first Drama CD.
Star Way
Disc 1
Disc 2
The second disc describes some events surrounding Iolaous, outside the Heroic Age story. The disc also features a bonus track, "Azurite", with vocals by Dhianeila's voice actress, Yui Ishikawa.
Performance
Takashi Kondō as Iolaous
Yukari Tamura as Tail
Rie Kugimiya as Mail
Kaori Shimizu as Aneasha
Kikan
Disc 1
Disc 2
The second disc describes some events surrounding Iolaous, outside the Heroic Age story. The disc also features a bonus track, "Flowery", with vocals by Dhianeila's voice actress, Yui Ishikawa.
Performance
Takashi Kondō as Iolaous
Yukari Tamura as Tail
Rie Kugimiya as Mail
Kaori Shimizu as Aneasha
References
External links
TV Tokyo Official Site
XEBEC Official Site
Starchild Site
The Official Heroic Age Anime Website From FUNimation
Adventure anime and manga
Anime with original screenplays
Funimation
Kodansha manga
IG Port franchises
Mecha anime and manga
Seinen manga
Xebec (studio)
Space opera anime and manga |
The angélique (French, from Italian angelica) is a plucked string instrument of the lute family of the baroque era. It combines features of the lute, the harp, and the theorbo.
It shares the form of its pear-shaped body as well as its vibrating string length of 54 to 70 cm with the lute. Differing from the lute, the 16 string angelica was single-strung like a theorbo, with which it shares its extended neck with a second peg box, bearing six bass strings.
Overview
The angelica was tuned diatonically, like a harp: C – E – F – G – A – B – c – d – e – f – g – a – b – c’ – d’ – e’. That range is the same as that of the French or lesser theorbo, but the latter differs in that its tuning is reentrant: C – D – E – F – G – A – B – c – d – g – c' – e'– a – d'. The diatonic tuning limited its compass, but produced a full and clear tone by the increased use of open strings.
Little surviving music for the angelica as well as few surviving instruments indicate that the angelica flourished during the second half of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries.
Some authors claim that the angelica was invented in England. But that claim is based on the misinterpretation of its name (M. H. Fuhrmann, Musicalischer Trichter, Frankfurt/Spree 1706, p. 91). James Talbot correctly interpreted angelica as “angel lute“ because of its lovely sound (ms. Oxford 532, 1685–1701).
Music for the angelica is notated in French tablature, with the designation of bass courses varying according to respective authors. The Ukrainian Torban is a descendant of the Angélique.
Bibliography
Jakob Kremberg, Musicalische Gemüths-Ergoetzung oder Arien ... (Dresden: 1689), in Tabulature
Adalbert Quadt (Hg.), Gitarrenmusik des 16-18. Jahrhunderts 2, nach Tabulaturen für Colascione, Mandora und Angelica, (Leipzig: 1971)
Hans Radtke (Hg.), Ausgewählte Stücke aus einer Angelica- und Gitarrentabulatur, Musik Alter Meister Heft 17, (Graz: 1967)
Praetorius, Theatrum instrumentorum
L. Brugmans, Le séjour de Christian Huygens à Paris (Paris,1935), 151
F. Lesure: ‘The angélique in 1653’, GSJ, vi (1953), 111–12
F. Lesure: ‘Les luthistes parisiens à l’époque de Louis XIII’, Le luth et sa musique (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1957), 222–3
M. Prynne: ‘James Talbot’s Manuscript: IV: Plucked Strings – the Lute Family’, GSJ, xiv (1961), 52–68
E. Pohlmann, Laute, Theorbe, Chitarrone: die Instrumente, ihre Musik und Literatur von 1500 bis zur Gegenwart (Bremen, 1968, 5/1982), 394–7
E. Vogl: ‘Die Angelika und ihre Musik’, HV, xi (1974), 356–71
G. Hellwig, Joachim Tielke: ein Hamburger Lauten- und Violenmacher der Barockzeit (Frankfurt, 1980), 304–5
F. und B. Hellwig, Joachim Tielke. Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock (Berlin/München, 2011), 108–111, 123-8
C. Meyer and M. Rollin, Oeuvres de Gumprecht (Paris, 1993), xvii
References
String instruments
Necked bowl lutes
Lutes
Early musical instruments
Baroque instruments |
Marc Ferrez (December 7, 1843 – January 12, 1923) was a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro.
Marc Ferrez was the son of the French sculptor and engraver Zepherin Ferrez who moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1816. Marc Ferrez was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied in Paris then came back to Rio as an apprentice to photographer Franz Keller of Germany. In 1865, Ferrez opened his own photography studio where he primarily focused of landscapes and Brazilian nature. His work became so popular that Emperor Dom Pedro II gave him funds to support his art, allowing Ferrez to explore every angle that the camera had to offer. Just eight years after its opening, in 1873, his studio burned down. He returned to France to purchase a new camera, opting for one that had the capability of taking panoramic photos. This was a view of photography that was still in its infancy. When he finally returned to Rio de Janeiro, he focused on rural landscapes and slaves working on the plantations. From 1875 to 1876 Ferrez joined American Charles Frederick Hartt on a geological and geographic expedition to the inner province of Bahia. It was during this trip Ferrez took pictures of indigenous Botocudo tribe, and used the panorama and became the master of it.
Ferrez's life was dedicated to the art of photography and he is considered one of the greatest photographers of his time. His production was massive, and his photographs document the consolidation of Brazil as a nation and Rio de Janeiro as a metropolis. Emperor Pedro II declared Ferrez the "photographer of the Royal Navy", because of his superior skill of neutralizing the ships movements. In 1876, he entered his photos into an exhibition, with an ethnological interest, called Exhibition of the Century in Pennsylvania. He won a gold medal. In 1882 he won in the South American Continental Exhibition in Buenos Aires. In 1904, he entered his material into the world fair in St. Louis. He was the only photographer to win a gold medal. In 1907, he opened his own picture house in Rio de Janeiro, Pathé Cinema. It was here that he tried out new technology that enhanced the field of photography. During the end of his life he focused more on photographing architecture and street scenes in Rio de Janeiro. Ferrez's most popular works were of Brazilian landscapes. Natural features: mountains, waterfalls, jungles. Man-made engineering, railroads, bridges, and urban buildings. Ferrez is considered by photography historians to be a master at his craft; his work is on the same level as famous photographers William Henry Jackson and Eadweard Muybridge.
He photographed Brazil from south to north, but paid more attention to his home city, Rio de Janeiro. His masterpieces are the great albums of railway constructions and the great panoramic views of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its development.
Ferrez died in 1923 and left thousands of pictures and reproductions of his works.
References
External links
Marc Ferrez photographs of Avenida Central from the CCA Collection
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1439/marc-ferrez-brazilian-1843-1923/
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T028051
1843 births
1923 deaths
Brazilian photographers
Brazilian people of French descent |
Norton is a hamlet on the outskirts of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight, England. Its population is included in the count of the town of Yarmouth. It is situated in the West of the island and has a coast on the Solent. It is located southeast of Lymington, Hampshire.
Transport
The A3054 road runs through the hamlet on its way towards Norton Green to the south and to Newport to east.
In the nearby Yarmouth, the Vehicle Ferry departs from Yarmouth Pier and goes to Lymington on the mainland.
The hamlet is served by the 7, A, Island Coaster and Needles Breezer buses which go to Newport, Alum Bay and Totland (Route 7), Yarmouth (Needles Breezer), Ryde (Island Coaster) and Freshwater Bay (Route A).
References
Hamlets on the Isle of Wight |
Conus augur, common name the auger cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 45 mm and 76 mm. The creamy white shell is encircled by close rows of very small chestnut dots, with two bands of irregular brown markings, one above, the other below the middle of the body whorl. The spire is maculated with brown.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll and Madagascar; and in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
References
Richard G. , 1990 Révision des Conidae (Mollusques Gastéropodes) du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, p. 231 pp
Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. 4 September 2009 Edition
Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing.
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23
Franklin, J.B,, S. Antony Fernando, B. A. Chalke, K. S. Krishnan. (2007). 'Radular Morphology of Conus (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Conidae) from India'. Molluscan Research. Vol. 27 (3): 111–122.
Franklin, J.B, K. A. Subramanian, S. A. Fernando and Krishnan K. S. (2009). Diversity and distribution of cone snails (Vallapoo) along the Tamilnadu coast, India, Zootaxa 2250: 1–63 (Monograph).
Gallery
External links
The Conus Biodiversity website
Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
augur
Gastropods described in 1786 |
The 2nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from October 13, 1778, to March 17, 1779, during the second year of George Clinton's governorship, at Poughkeepsie.
Background
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, the State Senators were elected on general tickets in the senatorial districts, and were then divided into four classes. Six senators each drew lots for a term of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years and, beginning at the election in April 1778, every year six Senate seats came up for election to a four-year term. Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole assembly being renewed annually.
On May 8, 1777, the Constitutional Convention had appointed the senators from the Southern District, and the assemblymen from Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond and Suffolk counties—the area which was under British control—and determined that these appointees serve in the Legislature until elections could be held in those areas, presumably after the end of the American Revolutionary War. Vacancies among the appointed members in the Senate should be filled by the Assembly, and vacancies in the Assembly by the Senate.
Elections
The State elections were held from April 28 to 30, 1778. Under the determination by the Constitutional Convention, the senators Isaac Roosevelt and John Morin Scott, whose seats were up for election, continued in office, as well as the assemblymen from Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond and Suffolk counties. Two vacancies in the Senate—caused by the death of Philip Livingston and the election of Pierre Van Cortlandt as Lieutenant Governor—were filled by the State Assembly. Henry Wisner (Middle D.) and Abraham Yates Jr. (Western D.) were re-elected. Assemblymen Ebenezer Russell (Eastern D.) and Jacob G. Klock (Western D.) were elected to the Senate.
The State Legislature met in Poughkeepsie, the seat of Dutchess County, on October 13, 1778, and adjourned on November 6. The Senate reconvened from January 27 to March 17, the Assembly from January 28 to March 16, 1779. Due to the difficult situation during the American Revolutionary War, four senators and several assemblymen could not attend the meeting.
State Senate
Districts
The Southern District (9 seats) consisted of Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties.
The Middle District (6 seats) consisted of Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties.
The Eastern District (3 seats) consisted of Charlotte, Cumberland and Gloucester counties.
The Western District (6 seats) consisted of Albany and Tryon counties.
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties. In 1784, Charlotte Co. was renamed Washington Co., and Tryon Co. was renamed Montgomery Co.
Senators
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Ebenezer Russell and Jacob G. Klock changed from the Assembly to the Senate.
Employees
Clerk: Robert Benson
State Assembly
Districts
The City and County of Albany (10 seats)
Charlotte County (4 seats)
Cumberland County (3 seats)
Dutchess County (7 seats)
Gloucester County (2 seats)
Kings County (2 seats)
The City and County of New York (9 seats)
Orange County (4 seats)
Queens County (4 seats)
Richmond County (2 seats)
Suffolk County (5 seats)
Tryon County (6 seats)
Ulster County (6 seats)
Westchester County (6 seats)
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties. In 1784, Charlotte Co. was renamed Washington Co., and Tryon Co. was renamed Montgomery Co.
Assemblymen
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
Employees
Clerk: John McKesson
Sergeant-at-Arms: Stephen Hendrickson
Doorkeeper: Richard Ten Eyck
Notes
Sources
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [see pg. 108 for Senate districts; pg. 110 for senators; pg. 148f for Assembly districts; pg. 157f for assemblymen]
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Precious Blood Church of Holyoke, Massachusetts, burned on May 27, 1875, killing 78 people. There was a crush of people through the entrance at the back left and many people could not leave. It is one of the deadliest fires in American history, and was also known by newspapers domestic and foreign as "The Holyoke Disaster".
Event
The fire started at the front of the church as a candle flame ignited a curtain.
Panic caused people to rush from the upper levels to a front door. The door was made to open inward only, so many were trapped against the door. Reverend Andre Dufresne was the parish priest. He tried to calm the people and direct them as much as possible.
The event and its aftermath were also later depicted in some detail in the Franco-American novel Mirbah by Emma Port-Joli Dumas, originally published in Holyoke's La Justice.
Location
The church complex is located on the city block formed by Cabot, South East, Clemente, and Hamilton Streets. The wooden church had been built in 1870 and was replaced in 1876 by a brick church. The Park Street School was located on the other side of Hamilton Street between Park and South East Streets. The school was used as a temporary morgue for the fire victims. Only the convent and rectory remain today since the brick church and school were dismantled.
The cemetery is on Willimansett Street Extension near the intersection of Routes 33 and 202 in South Hadley. There is a monument for the dead at the church cemetery. The parish priest was also reburied there. The black memorial is in the center of the cemetery and the priest is buried behind that.
Fatalities
A list of the dead is given below by first and last name and then age. Many were buried in a common grave on May 29 at the Precious Blood Cemetery in South Hadley. All were French Canadians.
The names have been taken directly from the monument. The list on the monument was compiled from the Holyoke Deaths Register and from various newspaper articles. Some French names may have been recorded incorrectly due to the use of English rather than French spelling conventions.
Notes
References
External links
History of Holyoke, Massachusetts
1875 disasters in the United States
1875 in Massachusetts
Fires in Massachusetts
French-Canadian American history
May 1875 events
1870s fires in the United States
1875 fires |
Luke James Hannant (born 4 November 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Gateshead.
He spent his youth with Norwich City and Cambridge United, before embarking on a degree at Northumbria University. During his time as a student he played non-League football for Dereham Town and Team Northumbria. He helped Dareham to win the Eastern Counties League Premier Division championship title in 2012–13. He joined Gateshead in 2016, and after returning from a dual registration spell at South Shields managed to established himself in the first-team. He was signed by Port Vale in January 2018, before he made a return to Cambridge United in May 2019 and helped the club to win promotion out of League Two at the end of the 2020–21 season. He remained in League Two however, as he left Cambridge to join Colchester United. He joined Scottish club Dundee on loan in January 2023. He rejoined Gateshead in August 2023.
Career
Early career
Hannant spent his youth at the Academy at Norwich City before being released at the age of 14, at which point he joined the Cambridge United youth team. Released by Cambridge at the age of 18, he took up a football scholarship at Northumbria University, and would go on to graduate with a 2:1 degree in Sport & Exercise Science in 2016. During this time he also played in the Eastern Counties League and Isthmian League for Dereham Town and in the Northern League for Team Northumbria. He was an important part of the "Magpies" side that finished the 2012–13 season as champions of the Eastern Counties League Premier Division.
Gateshead
He spent the summer of 2016 on trial at Gateshead before agreeing to join the club on non-contract terms. He went on to join Northern League Division One club South Shields on a dual registration deal. He scored on his debut for the "Mariners" in a 5–0 home win over Jarrow Roofing Boldon Community Association on 27 September. He played a total of four games for South Shields. He made his National League debut for the "Tynesiders" on 22 October, in a 2–0 win at Maidstone United. He scored his first goal for the "Heed" on New Year's Eve, in a 4–1 victory over Barrow at the Gateshead International Stadium, where he was also named as man of the match. He was signed to a contract at Gateshead in March 2017, which would keep him tied to the club in summer 2018. He ended the 2016–17 season with two goals in 21 appearances, and scored three goals in 23 games in the first half of the 2017–18 campaign. Speaking in January 2018, manager Steve Watson said that "Hannant has been one of our best players this season".
Port Vale
On 18 January 2018, Hannant signed an 18-month contract with EFL League Two side Port Vale after being signed for an undisclosed fee – reported to be a low five-figure sum – by Neil Aspin, his former manager at Gateshead. Despite being a newcomer to the English Football League, he was described as "a rare positive for the Valiants in a difficult start to 2018", and credited his good start to his career to the support of fellow midfielders Michael Tonge, Antony Kay and Danny Pugh. On 17 March, he scored his first goal in the Football League with curling effort from outside the box in a 2–2 draw with Stevenage at Vale Park; he went on to say that "I was a bit speechless when it went in".
He began the 2018–19 season in good form on the left-side of midfield, scoring two goals in the opening five games, including a brilliant curling free-kick away at Carlisle United. This led to reports that he was being monitored by EFL Championship club Bolton Wanderers. However, despite making 50 appearances during the campaign, manager John Askey confirmed that he would not be offering Hannant a new contract on 16 May.
Cambridge United
On 28 May 2019, Hannant returned to Cambridge United to sign on a two-year deal with an option for a further year. Manager Colin Calderwood said that "Luke has good experience in senior football and caught my eye against us at the Abbey". He picked up an ankle injury in February 2020 and was sidelined for six weeks. However the COVID-19 pandemic in England meant that he had to wait until August to complete a full day's training with the club.
He enjoyed a strong first half to the 2020–21 season, playing on both wings and either side of a midfield diamond, providing eight assists and scoring five goals by February. Cambridge went on to secure promotion at the end of the season, with Hannant scoring seven goals from 48 appearances.
Colchester United
Hannant opted to leave Cambridge after failing to reach an agreement on a new contract and chose to remain in League Two, joining Colchester United on a two-year deal on 10 June 2021. Hannant stated that "I'm 27 now and I needed to go somewhere where I know I'm going to play a lot of minutes". He made his debut at the Colchester Community Stadium on 14 August 2021, coming on as a substitute in Colchester's 1–0 defeat to Northampton Town. He was a regular first-team player under Hayden Mullins, before being sidelined by interim head coach Wayne Brown. He made 27 starts and 16 substitute appearances in the 2021–22 season, picking up two assists and five yellow cards. He featured in 29 matches during the first half of the 2022–23 campaign, scoring three goals. Hannant was released at the end of the season.
Dundee (loan)
On 31 January 2023, Hannant joined Scottish Championship club Dundee on loan until the end of the 2022–23 season. He joined Colchester teammate Ryan Clampin, who was already on loan at Dundee. Hannant made his debut as a substitute on 12 February in a 3–0 league victory over Cove Rangers. Hannant scored his first goal for the Dark Blues on 15 April in a 3–3 draw at home to Greenock Morton. He would complete a successful loan spell by starting in Dundee's win over Queen's Park which would clinch the Scottish Championship title for the Dee.
Return to Gateshead
On 2 August 2023, Hannant rejoined Gateshead on a two-year deal.
Style of play
Hannant is a versatile two-footed attacking midfielder, who is able to play in central midfield or as a winger. Port Vale teammate Tom Pope described him as a player with "good energy, is positive, doesn't mind a tackle, is decent in the air and can play as well".
Career statistics
Honours
Dereham Town
Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division: 2012–13
Cambridge United
League Two second-place promotion: 2020–21
Dundee
Scottish Championship: 2022–23
References
1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Great Yarmouth
Footballers from Norfolk
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Norwich City F.C. players
Cambridge United F.C. players
Dereham Town F.C. players
Team Northumbria F.C. players
South Shields F.C. players
Gateshead F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
Eastern Counties Football League players
Isthmian League players
Northern Football League players
National League (English football) players
English Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Alumni of Northumbria University |
Emlak Kredi Bank () was a former Turkish public bank specialized in real estate that operated from 1946 until the government liquidated the bank in 2001.
History
It was founded on 1 September 1946 with a founding capital of 110.000.000 Turkish lira. A former bank named Emlak ve Eytam Bank was merged to Emlak Kredi Bank. In the following years, the number of its branch offices was increased to 307. Some of the important housing projects financed by the bank were in Ankara , İstanbul, Eskişehir, Edirne, İzmir, Urfa, Çankırı and Diyarbakır. The bank also built a number of notable public buildings such as the central headquarters of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey central headquarters of Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, public housing of Turkish parliament members etc.
Beginning by 1980s, some other small banks were merged to Emlak Kredi. On 8 January 1988, Anadolu Bank (which itself was a merger of two former banks) and on 29 November 1992, Denzicilik Bank were merged to Emlak Kredi Bank.
However, on 3 July 2001, the government decided to liquidate the bank. Its shares were bought by Ziraat Bank and Halkbank, two other public banks.
References
Banks established in 1946
Banks disestablished in 2001
Banks of Turkey
Turkish brands
Defunct banks of Turkey |
Trnovec () is a village in northern Croatia, part of the Nedelišće municipality within Međimurje County.
History
Trnovec is first time mentioned in charter issued in year 1478 as Ternacz Maius.
Catholic Chapel in Trnovec was built in the year 1908.
Geography
Trnovec is about 11 kilometres west from the centre of Čakovec, and some 90 kilometres north of Zagreb.
Trnovec is situated in the alluvial plane of river Drava, on rivers left bank.
There is a border crossing with Slovenia just outside the village. Border crossing is located on road that connects county seat Čakovec with town of Ormož in Slovenia.
Trnovec had a population of 390 in 2011 census.
References
Footnotes
Citations
Populated places in Međimurje County |
That’s Live is a live album by Eric Burdon and his band, recorded live in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 8 March 1985, during a European tour. It was originally marked Limited Compact Disc Reference Edition in 1985, and achieved more widespread release in 1992.
That’s Live is the only recording made of this line-up which, during the immediately prior period of 1981-84, had been one of the first Western rock acts to play extensively in the Eastern Bloc, including pre-unification East Germany, where, according to bassist Rob Burns, the band were "treated like royalty".
Track listing
"Intro" – 0:24
"Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) – 6:24
"When I Was Young" (Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch) – 7:41
"Working Life" [aka "Factory"] (Bruce Springsteen), featuring Robbie Burns, bass – 10:40
"We Got To Get Out Of This Place" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 10:20
"Poor Man" (Woody Guthrie), featuring Tom Blades, guitar – 7:52
"River Deep, Mountain High" (Phil Spector) – 7:06
"I‘m Crying" (Eric Burdon, Alan Price), featuring Mitch Harwood, drums – 10:09
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Lloyd Price) – 8:50
Personnel
Performance
Eric Burdon - vocals
Tom Blades - keyboard and guitar
Rob Burns - bass
Mitch Harwood - drums
Production
Alex Manninger - executive producer, cutting consultant
Andre Ulmann - recording engineer
Harald Hassler - technical assistant
Dr. Benjamin Bernfeld - cutting engineer
Günther Sümser - photos
Bruno Kassel - cover photo
wachner design/Freiberg - design
Sanyo Electric/Japan - manufacturer
References
External links
Eric Burdon albums
1985 live albums |
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Shrimaan Shrimati (Translation : Mr.and Mrs.) is an Indian Hindi-language sitcom that aired on Doordarshan from 1994 to 1999. It starred Jatin Kanakia, Rakesh Bedi, Reema Lagoo and Archana Puran Singh. The show was created by Ashok Patole, directed by Rajan Waghdhare and produced by Gautam Adhikari and Markand Adhikari (popularly referred to as the "Adhikari brothers").
The show was dubbed in Tamil as Thiruvallar Thirumathi. In 1999 it was remade in Sinhalese as Nonawaruni Mahathwaruni, which was aired on Sirasa TV. In 2015, a show named Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hai! which is based on this show started airing on &TV. A reboot series titled Shrimaan Shrimati Phir Se premiered on Sony SAB on 13 March 2018. Doordarshan re-telecast the series on DD National in month of April 2020, during COVID-19 lockdown in India.
Plot
Shrimaan Shrimati was based on the premise of "love thy neighbor's wife". Keshav Kulkarni (Jatin Kanakia) is married to Kokila Kulkarni (Reema Lagoo). They are neighbors with popular film actress Prema Shalini (Archana Puran Singh) and her effeminate husband Dilruba Jarnail Singh Khurana (Rakesh Bedi). Keshav is attracted to Prema's glamor and pretentious lifestyle, while Dilruba is attracted to Kokila who is a smart elegant housewife and unpretentious. The husbands use every possible opportunity (and create many of their own) to seek the affections of the others' wives behind their own wives' backs. Often their efforts come to naught.
The other important characters in the TV series are Keshav and Kokila's son Ajay 'Chintu' (Ajay Nagrath), another neighbor Ganga (Hema Diwan), Keshav's boss Dayashankar (sometimes Bablu Prasad) Sharma (Shail Chaturvedi). Office co-worker Gokhale (Vijay Gokhale) is Keshav's frequent coconspirator---an aspiring actor, Gokhale often overdoes his performances in the many schemes he hatches for Keshav.
Cast and characters
Main
Jatin Kanakia as Keshav Kulkarni a.k.a. Keshu, Pappu or Keku. He is the central character in the serial. Keshav is dreadfully confrontational, remorselessly flirtatious and generally distrusting. Generally, he is very disapproving of the actions of his wife, his son, his neighbor Dilruba, his manager at work, and with other office employees. The only person Keshav seems to trust is his colleague and frequent co-conspirator, Gokhale. Most of the show's plots center around Keshav's escapades and its hilarious upheavals. Although he adores his wife and loves her, he is annoyingly faultfinding and taking dirty digs on her. Keshav engages in flirtatious inoffensive behavior with his neighbor and film actor Prema Shalini, and craves her attention. He is also frequently seen flirting with Prema Shalini's friend and guest Sapna, his boss's niece, and other women in his office.
Reema Lagoo as Kokila Kulkarni a.k.a. Koki. She plays Keshav's wife. She is a smart homemaker and whose admirer is Dilruba Jarnail Singh Khurana. She is an intelligent lady who is frustrated with her husband's crush on other ladies specially their neighbour Prema Shalini.
Archana Puran Singh as Prema Twins Shalini a.k.a. Doll or Prema ji. She plays a popular Bollywood film actress and speaks with an anglicised accent. Her name in the serial is a pun on real-life popular Bollywood actress Hema Malini. Mostly, she relishes the amorous attention from Keshav Kulkarni, but occasionally resents his dropping by unannounced at her home. Prema also contends with Keshav slipping into her film-making locations and interfering with the filmmakers.
Rakesh Bedi as Dilruba Jarnail Singh Khurana a.k.a. Dilruba a.k.a. Dil. He plays Prema's submissive homemaker husband, and is rather effeminate by voice and body language. He has a huge crush on Koki
Ajay Nagrath as Chintu, Keshav and Kokila's mischievous but adorable son. He has a tendency to deliberately and comically jumble up certain words. For instance, he addresses Dilruba as "Dil-bura uncle", which literally translated means "a person with ill will." Chintu always is seen to fail in his academics, and ends up getting it from Keshav most of the time.
Recurring
Shail Chaturvedi as Mr. Bablu Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Mr. Sharma, is a director of a pharmaceutical company and Keshav & Gokhale's boss. He thinks of Keshav and gokhale as a useless and incompetent employee, and often refers to him as "luccha" (meaning "a cheat" in Hindi) or "bhikmanga Kulkarni" (meaning "beggar") and the most popular one, "3rd class aadmi". Keshav and gokhale thinks of him as a nuisance and calls him "taklu Sharma" behind his back (meaning "bald" in Hindi, as Mr. Sharma is semi-bald).
Hema Diwan as Ganga Mausi. She is a good friend of Koki and resides along with her husband Gangoba Tope (appeared only in one episode) in Gulmohar society. Ganga Mausi is the first person who provides any news or advice to Koki. Both Keshav and Chintu dislike Ganga Mausi. There is always an argument and verbal fight between Keshu and Ganga Mausi. She sometimes gives advices to Koki, which lead to a fight between Koki and Keshu. Dilruba calls her Ganges Mausi.
Vijay Gokhale as Gokhale, Keshav's office colleague and best friend who helps Keshav in his schemes to impress women or in difficult situations but in some cases it backfires for both Keshav and Gokhale. He is best friend of Keshav and his most trustworthy person who always help Keshav to get out of trouble. Keshav and Gokhale's comedy timing and chemistry are highlights of the serial.
Neena Gupta as Sapna. She had entered the cast of the series, when Archana Puran Singh (Prema Shalini) had taken a sabbatical for her pregnancy. It was shown that Prema Shalini had gone to Hollywood for playing a role in Filmmaker Evan Eelberg's (reference to Steven Spielberg) movie Children's Park (reference to Jurassic Park). Neena Gupta was a part of approximately 22-23 episodes and was shown to be married when Archana Puran Singh resumed shooting. The makers of the show had very tactfully managed the entry and exit of her character.
IBM Laxmi Her real name is not known. She is one of the office staff in the series. She is a South Indian, who does her house hold work such as vegetable cutting, during office hours. She also gossips with her other colleagues such Ms. Joshi and Mr. Bombaywala.
Ms. Joshi. Her real name is not known. She is another office colleague of Keshav Kulkarni. She sits in the outer part of the office along with IBM Laxmi and Mr. Bombaywala. She always does make up while in office and gossips with her colleagues.
Mr. Bombaywala. His real name is not known. He another colleague of Mr. Keshav Kulkarni. He always keeps interrupting conversations of his office staff and gossips with them.
Baby Gazala Selmin as Pinky/Beggar child
Sanchi Peswani as Soniya Verma a.k.a. Sonu/Sonu Baby - Sharma's Saali
Vinay Yedekar as Captain Pushpakamal(Episode 81)
Muni Jha as Koki's cousin/Dharmanand Nagar /Chaman who marries Sapna
Sharad Vyas as various characters
Deven Bhojani as Old Chintu
Kishore Nandlaskar as Gangoba Tope
Jaywant Wadkar as Raju Chilka
Viju Khote as Sethia (Episode 17) Kala Kauwa (Episode 28)
Sequel and reboot
A sequel series Aaj Ke Shrimaan Shrimati based on same concept but with a new cast and characters aired on SAB TV in 2005.
&TV show Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain! is noted to have been inspired by Shrimaan Shrimati.
A reboot series Shrimaan Shrimati Phir Se premiered on SAB TV in 2018.
See also
List of Hindi comedy shows
List of programs broadcast by DD National
References
External links
DD National original programming
Indian television sitcoms
1994 Indian television series debuts
1999 Indian television series endings |
Taenitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. Species are native to south-east tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Species
, Plants of the World Online and the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World recognized the following species:
Other species:
T. brooksii Copel.
T. flabellivenia (Baker) Holttum
T. hosei (Baker) Holttum
T. intermedia M.Kato
T. marginata Holttum
T. mediosora M.Kato
T. obtusa Hook.
T. requiniana (Gaudich.) Copel.
T. trilobata Holttum
T. vittarioides Holttum
References
Pteridaceae
Fern genera |
Noolaham Foundation is a legally registered (GA 2390), non-profit, non-partisan, secular entity, founded to provide enhanced access to information sources and foster knowledge-based development in Sri Lanka. It maintains an online digital library and archive, facilitates information preservation programs, provides financial assistance and technical guidance for digitization initiatives and actively participates in awareness-raising campaigns. It also co-ordinates a range of fund-raising activities and collaborates with other organizations and individuals.
Noolaham Digital Library (noolaham.org) and Noolaham Multimedia Archive (aavanaham.org) maintained by the Noolaham Foundation serves as Learning Centres incorporating local knowledge. They enable social interaction with a view to achieve constructive social outcomes. The digital library and archive function as a repository for various community institutions and fulfill the information needs of students, researchers, historians, activists and the public.
Noolaham Foundation was created with a view to documenting, preserving and disseminating texts and sources that speak about the social, economic, cultural and political discourses related to the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities. In the post-independence Sri Lanka, sites of knowledge production and knowledge preservation of the Tamil speaking communities such as the Jaffna Public Library has been lost. Therefore, it is important that we create alternative, virtual platforms where this knowledge could be preserved. Such platforms can also cater to the needs of local and international researchers who are interested in studying the various aspects of the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities. Noolaham Foundation is one such platform.
History
Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities have transmitted their knowledge through written, oral, visual and artifact sources over millennia. The communities adopted evolving technologies and institutions to support their knowledge preservation and access needs. For example, Sri Lankan Tamil speaking scholars played an instrumental role in collecting, printing, publishing ancient palm-leaf manuscripts in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the late 20th century, they helped establish village libraries and contributed significantly to Tamil library science. As computers and the Internet became widespread in the 1990s, several initiatives were undertaken to adopt those technologies for community' knowledge needs.
In 1998, Project Madurai, following the Project Gutenberg example was initiated to bring Tamil resources online. Project Madurai was the first online Tamil digital library. It engaged volunteers all over the world virtually to coordinate, type, proofread and bring resources online. In 1999, R. PathmanabaIyer began contributing works by Sri Lankan Tamil authors to Project Madurai. He digitized 40 books of which 13 of them were added to Project Madurai after quality review. Parallelly, Era Kanagaratnam led International Tamil Archives undertook microfilming of its collections.
In the early 2000s, there were discussions in the Tamil blog/Internet and offline communities to bring Sri Lankan Tamil language works online. Few individuals initiated and experimented digitization initiatives such as Eelanool (2004) and E-Suvadi (2005) of Sri Lankan Tamil books. In 2005, based on the lessons learnt from Ealanool, E-Suvadi, Project Madurai and other initiatives, like-minded individuals initiated the digital library project named Project Noolaham, which emphasized volunteerism, community and openness.
Since 2006, Project Noolaham started accepting donations and in-kind support to accelerate digital preservation efforts. For content management, Project Noolaham initially used a basic HTML website, and then it migrated to Joomla, and is currently using Mediawiki and Islandora. The first collaborative digitization began in 2007 with Women's Education and Research Center (WERC) and Colombo Tamil Sangam. By the end of 2008, the user rate had increased significantly and the server was insufficient for the increased traffic.
In 2008, pioneers of Project Noolaham in consultation with all the stakeholders formed Noolaham Foundation to sustain the digital archiving initiatives in Sri Lanka. In 2010, Noolaham Foundation was formally incorporated as a guaranteed company. In 2011, Noolaham Foundation invited all stakeholders to participate in a strategic planning process and developed its Roadmap 2020 with the emphasis on institutionalization, global transformation, and observance of ethical and professional standards. Initiatives were taken to form global chapters of Noolaham Foundation and streamline its operations.
Mission, Objectives and Guiding Principles
Mission
Document and preserve knowledge, properties and values of all spheres related to Sri Lankan Tamil Speaking communities, make such knowledge accessible to all and capacitate communities to engage in knowledge building and learning.
Objectives
Document, preserve and digitally archive ethnography and knowledge bases of mainstream and marginalized communities including dialects, belief systems, myths, rituals, folklore, games, indigenous medicine, law and administrative systems, technologies and arts.
Engage in and support preservation and digital archiving of written, print, multi-media and electronic resources related to Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities.
Provide knowledge and information services to ensure free and open access, thereby supporting educational, research and development endeavors related to Sri Lankan Tamil speaking communities.
Build communities of practice, processes, technologies and standards of archival, library and information sciences through communication, networking and collaboration.
Guiding Principles
Unity: Entities of Noolaham Foundation shall exist in different geographical, legal and political territories. Noolaham Foundation always ensures unity in its strategic framework, design, program, budget and communications.
Diversity: Diversity, exclusivity and pluralism are at the core of our mission. Noolaham Foundation recognizes and energetically affirms the dignity of those it serves, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, social background, religion/irreligion, place of origin, age, socio-economic status, physical or mental capabilities. Noolaham Foundation is committed to these values in its organizational governance, programs and collections.
Openness: As the driving force of Noolaham Foundation is centered on open data, open access and open knowledge, it does not charge end-users for accessing its archives. End-users should not use the contents for individual or corporate economic gain.
Transparency: Noolaham Foundation strives to be open and transparent in all of its operations. Our commitment includes detailed accounting, project and annual reports, timely dissemination of information and responsiveness to requests for information.
Unbiased: Noolaham Foundation is an unbiased entity. While it engages volunteers from different political thoughts and parties, it does not allow volunteers to use Noolaham Foundation for their political engagement and leverage. Noolaham Foundation shall take appropriate measures to prevent it from being politicized or labeled.
Volunteerism: Volunteerism is the basis for all Noolaham Foundation operations. The Annual Work Plan will be formulated emphasizing volunteer contribution in order to optimize the operational overheads and performance targets for each team.
Collaboration: Noolaham promotes synergy among similar organizations in digital documentation and preservation, thereby avoiding duplication and repetition of work. Noolaham Foundation shall collaborate with institutions when such collaboration optimizes Noolaham's productivity.
Participation: Broadening and strengthening the participation of the stakeholders of Noolaham Foundation is part and parcel of the Noolaham culture. It consults with stakeholders regarding policies and decisions that affect the business of Noolaham Foundation.
Chapters
Noolaham Foundation has registered Chapters in Canada, UK and Norway.
In addition, Noolaham Foundation receives key contributors from Australia, US and Switzerland.
Organizational Structure
Noolaham Foundation is a community digital library and a community digital archive. Community leadership, stewardship and ownership are key organizing principles for the organization. Noolaham Foundation encourages a collaborative-leadership framework whereby contributors lead one another to achieve organizational and community goals. We steward community resources consciously to support social justice and knowledge based community development of all the communities we serve.
All of Noolaham Foundation ongoing activities have been organized into sectors, and sectors into processes. In addition, Noolaham Foundation undertakes time bound projects. Each process and project with the exception of governance, governance board meeting, and resource mobilization processes are managed by staff. Volunteers in Sri Lankan and diaspora contribute to processes and projects as process/project mentors, subject matter experts and contributors. Staff and volunteers of a process or project together consist of the team for that process or project. A Processed/Project Based Management (PBM) has been adopted to effectively manage Noolaham endeavors to serve the community needs. Currently, there are seven sectors and forty five processes.
Sector 00: Governance, Policy and Strategy
Sector 01: Organizational Management and Operations
Sector 02: Program and Projects
Sector 03: Digital Processing and Preservation
Sector 04: Digital Library, Archive and Information Services
Sector 05: Technology Infrastructure and Development
Sector 06: Finance, Human Resources and Administration
Sector 07: Advocacy, Communications and Public Relations
The Governance Board is the primary decision making body for Noolaham Foundation. It consults with Gray Board, Advisory Pool, Management, Staff as well as other stakeholders as needed to direct Noolaham Foundation activities.
In addition to volunteers and staff, Noolaham Foundation relies on and answerable to the wider Noolaham Foundation Community. The wider Noolaham Community consists of Content Contributors, Source Contributors, Donors, Supporters, and Users.
Further details about Chapters, governing bodies etc are discussed in the following chapters.
Reporting Flow
Noolaham Foundation is organized as processes and projects to enable high level of collaboration while maintaining clear lines of communication and accountability. Noolaham Foundation reports to the wider community via monthly reports, project reports, audit reports and annual reports. These reports are the responsibility of the Chief Operating Officer, who shall engage appropriate staff resources in preparing these reports. These reports are to be reviewed and signed offed by the Governance Board.
Sector managers report to the Chief Operating Officer weekly. Project coordinators provide Project Status Report to Chief Program Officer weekly. Sector (including program) and project updates must be compiled into the Monthly Report for review & sign off by the Governance Board as well as the wider Noolaham Foundation community.
The stats compilation for sector, monthly and project reports for ongoing activities such as digital preservation, multimedia documentation etc should be automated as much as possible via the Noolaham Dashboard.
All recurring activities must be tracked using the Sector and Project Tracking sheets. Backlog tasks, new tasks, issues must be tracked using the Operational and Governance Tracking sheets. These items are also known as tickets. Sector managers should flag overdue or long pending tasks and bring to the COO attention as needed via the weekly sector reports. COO shall aid the Sector Managers to engage relevant parties as needed to address the overdue tasks. Any long standing tasks/issues with challenges should be brought to the Governance Board by the COO.
Volunteers are encouraged to contribute and collaborate on tasks, activities at process and project levels. However, please respect the reporting lines and don't ask for individual reporting.
Internal Communications Flow
Noolaham Foundations seeks to build an open, positive, collaborative, respectful atmosphere for all staff and volunteers. Noolaham Foundation seeks to be a self-archiving, learning organization. Open communication and transparency are key to these goals.
All of Noolaham Foundation meetings must be pre-announced on respective process or project email threads, with reasonable notice period. Summary of all meetings should be shared via email or slack.
Sector Lead/Project Co-Ordinator and/or their Department Manager, and/or Chief Operating Officer must always be present at the meeting. The Chief Operating Officer must be present in all meetings where a job assignment/change or a priority establishment/change is needed. It is not mandatory for COO to attend technical advisory process/project meetings. However, the sector lead and/or department manager must be there and notify the summary of discussions in the slack thread or via email.
Use official channels for internal communications: Process/Project email threads, slack channels, wiki, document management system (Google Docs), website, and GitHub repository.
Do not use WhatsApp, use Slack instead. Avoid creating email threads outside of processes and project email threads. It is recommended that regular policy discussions happen face to face during the Governance Board meetings, rather than through drawn out email thread discussions. Staff can prepare background information.
For work related matters, volunteers should avoid communicating with staff outside of the following official meetings.
External links
Official Site
Noolaham Digital Library
Noolaham Multimedia Archive
Open Education Resources (Epallikoodam)
References
Sri Lankan digital libraries
Tamil organisations |
Hunter Hunted is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, California. The group is composed of Michael Garner (keyboards, vocals) and Dan Chang (bass, vocals). The group's music, described as melodic dance infused pop, spans many genres.
History
Garner and Chang formed the group in December 2012 after the dissolution of their former band Lady Danville. KCRW DJs Chris Douridas and Jason Kramer soon began playing their song "Keep Together", as did KCSN DJ/LA Buzz Band blogger Kevin Bronson. The band went on to play their first show, at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. With the support of the newfound radio and blog buzz the show sold out a week in advance.
After the success of the Troubadour show, the band was asked to play on Conan O'Brien's late-night show on February 27. The band then headlined a KROQ presented residency at The Bootleg Theater in the month of March. In the middle of the residency the band travelled to the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas to perform at the Paradigm Agency showcase as well as Nokia/Rocnation's Raptor House party.
After the group finished their Los Angeles residency, they flew to New York City where they sold out the Mercury Lounge. The band then did an East Coast run with Family of the Year and The Mowgli's. After those dates, the band headed out on tour with Fitz and the Tantrums, playing shows in the Midwest, the South and Northeast.
The group was then named by Billboards Scouting Report as well as MTV as an artist to Watch. Following these accolades, the band was flown to New York by A&M/Octone Records to showcase for the label. The band signed with the label in June 2013. During summer of 2013, the band went on tour with Weezer, Fitz and the Tantrums, The Mowgli's and American Authors, and made stops at Summerfest in Milwaukee and Neon Gold's Popshop in Los Angeles.
In October 2013, the band went on tour with FUN. On October 29 the band performed alongside Ashton Kutcher in Lenovo's livestream. That same month Starbucks chose their song "End of the World" as Pick of the Week.
In December, they performed alongside Victoria's Secret models Lily Alridge and Martha Hunt at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show pre-show They were also featured on the cover of Dlist Magazine'''s Winter issue
Discography
Studio albums
Ready for You (2015)
EPs
Hunter Hunted'' (2013)
References
External links
Indie pop groups from Los Angeles
Indie rock musical groups from California |
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik (, 12 May 1938, Moscow – 12 November 1980, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain), alternatively spelled Andrei or Andrey, was a Soviet writer and dissident.
Amalrik was best known in the Western world for his 1970 essay, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?.
Early life
Amalrik was born in Moscow, during the time of Joseph Stalin's purges.
When the Soviet revolution broke out, Andrei's father, then a young man, volunteered for the Red Army. After the war he went into the film industry. Andrei's father fought in World War II in the Northern Fleet and then the Red Army. He was overheard uttering negative views about Stalin's qualities as a military leader, which led to his arrest and imprisonment; he feared for his life, but shortly afterward was released to rejoin the army. In 1942 he was wounded at Stalingrad and invalided out of the service. Andrei's father's hardships explain Andrei's decision to become a historian. For his father, after climbing the educational ladder, was after the war refused permission to study at the Academy of Sciences' Institute of History on account of what authorities felt was his own compromised political past. But as historian John Keep wrote: "Andrei has gone one better by not only writing history but by securing a place in it."
Andrei's father developed a serious heart condition which required constant nursing. This care was provided first by his wife, and on her death from cancer in 1959 by his son Andrei, until Andrei's arrest prevented him from ministering to his father's needs. He died when Andrei was in prison.
In high school, Andrei Amalrik was a restless student and truant. He was expelled a year before graduation. Despite this, he won admission to the history department at Moscow State University in 1959.
In 1963, he angered the university with a dissertation suggesting that Scandinavian warrior-traders (Vikings, usually called Varangians in Russia) and Greeks, rather than Slavs, played the principal role in developing the early Russian state in the ninth century. Amalrik refused to modify his views and was expelled from Moscow University.
First prison sentence
Without a degree, Amalrik did odd jobs and wrote five unpublished plays but was soon under the gaze of the security police for an attempt to contact a Danish scholar through the Danish Embassy. He also became close to the unofficial youth literary group SMOG. Amalrik's plays and an interest in modern non-representational art led to Amalrik's first arrest in May 1965. A charge of spreading pornography failed because the expert witnesses called by the prosecution refused to give the needed testimony. However, the authorities then accused Amalrik of "parasitism," and he was sentenced by an administrative tribunal to banishment in western Siberia for a two-and-a-half-year term.
He was freed briefly and then rearrested and sent to exile in a farm village near Tomsk, in Siberia. Allowed to make a brief trip to Moscow after the death of his father, Amalrik persuaded Tatar expressionist artist, Gyuzel Makudinova, to marry him and share his exile.
It was this exile he described in Involuntary Journey to Siberia (1970). Thanks to the efforts of his lawyer, his sentence was overturned in 1966 and Amalrik returned to Moscow, moving with Gyuzel into a crowded communal apartment with shared bath, kitchen, and telephone.
Protest at trial
During the trial of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel in February 1966, Amalrik and other dissenters stood outside of the trial to protest.
Amalrik often met with foreign correspondents to relay protests, took part in vigils outside courthouses and even gave an interview to an American television reporter.
In June 1966, after being released early from exile, Amalrik returned to Moscow. He got a job as a freelancer at the Novosti Press Agency. This work allowed him to create a circle of acquaintances among foreign correspondents. He handed over to a foreign correspondent the "Memorandum" of Andrei Sakharov. Amalrik was published abroad. Together with Pavel Litvinov, he wrote the collection "Trial of the Four" about the trial of Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskov, Alexey Dobrovolsky, and Vera Lashkova. In October 1968, he gave the collection to foreign correspondents, with whom he talked a lot. At the end of 1968, he was fired from Novosti and began working as a postman.
After the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, pressure on Russia's intellectuals was stepped up by the authorities. Amalrik's apartment was twice searched, in May 1969 and February 1970.
Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
Amalrik was best known in the Western world for his essay Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, published in 1970. The book predicts the country's eventual breakup under the weight of social and ethnic antagonisms and a disastrous war with China. This was in direct contrast to Andrei Sakharov's famous essay "Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom", published only two years before, which argued that a convergence between Soviet and western systems was already taking place, while Amalrik's essay argued that the two systems were in fact growing further apart.
Writing in 1969, Amalrik originally wanted to make 1980 as the date of the Soviet downfall, because 1980 was a round number, but Amalrik was persuaded by a friend to change it to the Orwellian inspired year of 1984. Amalrik predicted the collapse of the regime would occur between 1980 and 1985.
Amalrik said in his book:
Amalrik was incorrect in some of his predictions, such as a coming military collision with China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, not 1984. Correct was his argument that:
Amalrik predicted that when the breakup of the Soviet empire came, it would take one of two forms. Either power would pass to extremist elements and the country would "disintegrate into anarchy, violence, and intense national hatred," or the end would come peacefully and lead to a federation like the British Commonwealth or the European Common Market.
As 1984 drew nearer, Amalrik revised the timetable
but still predicted that the Soviet Union would eventually collapse.
U.S. reaction
Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many, if not most, Western academic specialists, and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. "Amalrik's essay was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "[v]irtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
Soviet reaction
Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky described that "in 1984 KGB officials, on coming to me in prison" when Amalrik's essay was mentioned, "laughed at this prediction. 'Amalrik is long dead', they said, 'but we are still very much present.'"
Post-USSR views
Of those few who foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union, including Andrei Amalrik, author Walter Laqueur argued in 1995 that they were largely accidental prophets, possessors of both brilliant insight into the regime's weaknesses and even more brilliant luck.
On an essay published in Foreign Affairs, Charles King called Amalrik's predictions "deserving of an award", praising his logical method for exploring the historical outcomes that arise from a nation's tendency to bet in its own prolonged stability — "to consider, for a moment, how some future historian might recast implausible concerns as inevitable ones.", as well as his insight into what the post-Soviet geopolitic scenario would look like. King argues that, while Amalrik was wrong about the likelihood of conflict with China, the Soviet–Afghan War played out perfectly as a stand-in for what Amalrik predicted: "a drawn-out, exhausting war, prosecuted by decrepit leaders, which drained the Soviet government of resources and legitimacy".
Second prison sentence
For several months after the publication of Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? (1970) and Involuntary Journey to Siberia (August 1970), abroad, a criminal offence under Soviet law, Amalrik remained free to walk the streets of Moscow and to associate with foreigners.
Inevitably, for "defaming the Soviet state", Amalrik was arrested on May 21, 1970 and convicted on November 12, receiving a sentence of three years in a labor camp in Kolyma. At the end of his term, he was given three more years, but because of his poor health (he almost died of meningitis) and protests from the West, the sentence was commuted after one year to exile in the same region. After serving a five-year term, he returned to Moscow in 1975. Although the Amalriks were not Jewish, the authorities tried to persuade him and his wife to apply for visas to Israel, the common channel for emigration from the Soviet Union; they refused. On September 13, 1975, Amalrik was arrested again. The police captain told his wife that he was arrested for not having permission to live in Moscow; he could have faced a fine or up to one year in prison for violating Soviet passport regulations.
In early 1976, Amalrik and other dissidents conceived the idea of the Moscow Helsinki Group; it was formed in May 1976.
Exile
The KGB gave Amalrik an ultimatum: to emigrate or face another sentence. In 1976 his family got visas to go to the Netherlands. He made a farewell tour of Russia before emigrating.
Amalrik worked in the Netherlands at the Utrecht University, then moved to the United States to study and lecture. Later, he and Gyuzel bought a villa in France, near the Swiss border, where he worked on his book, Notebooks of a Revolutionary.
He scorned détente with the Soviet Union. He urged that Western trade and technology be linked to liberalization within the Soviet Union.
Death
On November 12, 1980, Amalrik, his wife, and two other Soviet exiles, Vladimir Borisov and Viktor Fainberg, were on their way to Madrid to attend an East-West conference called to review the Helsinki Accords of 1975. "Spanish police stated that Amalrik, coming from southern France, swerved out of his lane on a wet road near the city of Guadalajara and his car struck an oncoming truck. Mr. Amalrik was instantly killed by a piece of metal, probably from the steering column, which was embedded in his throat, according to the police. His widow, Gyuzel, received only slight injuries," as did the two other passengers.
Timeline
Quotes
In Russian history, man has always been a means but never an end
Quotes from Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
"There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels of society: this is the extreme isolation in which the regime has placed both society and itself. This isolation has not only separated the regime from society, and all sectors of society from each other, but also put the country in extreme isolation from the rest of the world. This isolation has created for all—from the bureaucratic elite to the lowest social levels—an almost surrealistic picture of the world and of their place in it. Yet the longer this state of affairs helps to perpetuate the status quo, the more rapid and decisive will be its collapse when confrontation with reality becomes inevitable."
"...any state forced to devote so much of its energies to physically and psychologically controlling millions of its own subjects could not survive indefinitely."
Quote from "Notes of a Revolutionary"
"We had left a great country that we both loved and hated. Could it really be that we would never return?"
"Even when examining the subject most critically, I do not regard the Russians as a hopeless people, for whom slavery is a natural mode of existence. ... I can see that in the authoritarian stream of Russian history there is an undercurrent, sometimes strong, of a sense of law."
Before being exiled, Amalrik made a pilgrimage to those places where, in the 14th century, Muscovy was born. Standing before an amazing complex of wooden churches of Kizhi Pogost on the banks of Lake Onega, he felt a stab of wonderment: "How could one and the same people have created such churches and destroyed so many of them in blind rage?"
References
Books and articles
Books
Articles
Further reading
Jones, M. (2009) Constructing Cassandra: The Social Construction of Strategic Surprise at Central Intelligence Agency, 1947 – 2001. https://catalogue.kent.ac.uk/Record/764718
1938 births
1980 deaths
Writers from Moscow
Burials at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Soviet dissidents
Russian anti-communists
Moscow State University alumni
Road incident deaths in Spain
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
French people of Russian descent
Soviet non-fiction writers
Soviet male writers
20th-century male writers
Russian political writers
Soviet emigrants to the Netherlands
20th-century Russian writers
Truck road incident deaths
20th-century Russian journalists
Male non-fiction writers |
Grič is a naselje (settlement) in the municipality of Žumberak, Zagreb County, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, it has 14 inhabitants.
The village of Grič is the highest populated place in Žumberak, at an altitude of 780 meters.
References
Populated places in Zagreb County |
Tradimento is the third studio album by Italian rapper Fabri Fibra. It was also his first LP to be distributed by a major label, the Universal Music Italia.
The production is covered mainly by his rapper and younger brother Nesli who produces 12 out of 17 tracks and the remainder are by Italian hip-hop producer Fish as well as Dj Nais. The album was certified platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.
Tradimento is considered the album that opened the hip hop music to the great audience in Italy, giving to it mainstream popularity.
Background
After his underground success with his second studio album Mr. Simpatia he signed a contract with Universal, a major label, and this was considered a betrayal by his older fans, so he decided to call the album Tradimento, which means betrayal. But even if he signed with a major label he decided to keep his hardcore style which attacks various political and social downsides.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications
References
2006 albums
Fabri Fibra albums
Universal Music Italy albums |
Pedro de Olivera y Fullana, was the governor and captain general of Spanish Florida from July 13 to October 30, 1716. He died at the provincial capital, St. Augustine, just over three months into his term of office.
Biography
In 1716, Chislacaliche, a mico, or chief, of the Lower Creek peoples, asked Olivera to send a Spanish envoy to the Creek territory to restore friendly relations and distribute gifts, as was customary among the Indians. Olivera, wanting to persuade the other Creeks to follow Chilacaliche and return to Apalachee Province in Florida, sent the retired lieutenant Diego Peña and four soldiers to their rebuilt towns on the Chattahoochee River. Peña departed St. Augustine on August 4 of that year, and on September 28 arrived at Apalachicola, where he summoned the chiefs of the province to distribute their expected gifts and beseech them to relocate to the "old fields" of Apalachee. He distributed firearms and ammunition to the chieftains, who in their turn gained stature among their own people by redistributing them to their warriors.
Olivera died in Saint Augustine on October 30, 1716, just over three months into his term of office, and was succeeded by interim governor Juan de Ayala y Escobar.
References
Royal Governors of La Florida
Spanish colonial governors and administrators
1716 deaths |
Ajmal Ahmady (Persian/Pashto: ) is an Afghan-American economist and politician who formerly served as the Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Da Afghanistan Bank, the Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry of Afghanistan, the Senior Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan, and represented Afghanistan on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline.
He was born in Afghanistan and grew up in the United States. He studied at Harvard University, and worked in the fields of economic development and investment management before returning to Afghanistan in 2014 to work in senior positions within the Afghan government.
He left Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, and is now a M-RCBG Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Early life
Ajmal Ahmady was born in Kabul during the same week as the Saur Revolution. He spent his childhood in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Germany, and the United States.
His father is from Ghazni Province and is a practicing doctor. His mother is a kindergarten teacher. His brother received a master's degree in finance from Oxford University.
Education
Ajmal Ahmady received two master's degree from Harvard University. He received a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School and a Master of Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. For his masters thesis, he applied the Growth Diagnostic Framework to Afghanistan under the supervision of economist Dani Rodrik.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossovar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this position, he teaches student seminars and conducts research on Central Banking in developing economies, including in monetary policy, fintech regulation, banking supervision, reserves management, and AML/CFT compliance.
Career
Economic Development and Asset Management
Mr. Ahmady has had an extensive career at the intersection of economic development, asset management, and policy. He worked as a Microfinance Peace Corps Volunteer in the city of Kumba in Cameroon (2001-2003), the World Bank (2004), as a Senior Advisor at the Afghan Ministry of Finance (2004-2005), the US Treasury Department within the Office of International Monetary Policy researching sovereign debt restructurings (2005), ACAP Partners - an emerging markets private equity group, and Booz Allen Hamilton (2007).
Upon graduating from Harvard University, Ahmady spent eight years in the asset management industry investing in global macro and emerging market strategies. He began as a fixed income corporate bond analyst at T. Rowe Price (2008-2009), became a sovereign CEEMA analyst at Acadian Asset Management (2009-2012), and was the sole global economist and conducted trades at various emerging market funds at Fortress Investment Group (2012-2014).
Senior Economic Adviser to the President
After the establishment of a National unity government, Ahmady served as the senior advisor for banking and financial affairs to President Ashraf Ghani for four years. In this position, Ahmady worked to improve the business environment, where he led commercial reform efforts, including working with global law firm DLA to make changes to Afghanistan's commercial procedure code, municipal law, insolvency law, limited liabilities law, minerals law, and hydrocarbons law. He also helped coordinate a response to improve Afghanistan's banking sector.
Due to Ahmady's efforts, Afghanistan became the World Bank's largest business reformer in 2018. This included a significant increase in Afghanistan's position in the following categories: protecting minority investors, resolving insolvency, and starting a business.
He contributed to Afghanistan's anti-corruption agenda by drafting the national anti-corruption strategy and followed up with key anti-corruption benchmarks. He represented Afghanistan at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Copenhagen, where he sat on a panel with then World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgia and other dignitaries.
Minister of Commerce and Industry
While working as the acting minister of Industry and Commerce of Afghanistan, Ahmady attempted reforms to boost exports, increase industrial production, and improve the business environment.
To improve trade, Ahmady created and was instrumental in leading Afghanistan's National Air Corridor Program that now exports $100 million per year to more than 50 markets around the world and renegotiating a number of transit agreements that should help to reduce transit costs for traders and helped export $1 billion for the first time in the country's history (2020).
To improve industrial capacity, Minister Ahmady restructured the Industrial Parks Directorate, signed trilateral MOUs with our electricity provider DABS and the Chamber of Industry and Mines, and provide greater funding for the development of new industrial parks.
To improve the business environment, Minister Ahmady simplified the business licensing process and lowered the price of a business license from approximately 30,000 afghanis to only 100 afghanis.
Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank
Based on presidential decree 544 on 3 June 2020, Ahmady was appointed Acting Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, which regulates all banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan. His responsibilities included managing monetary policy, financial sector supervision, financial intelligence, payment systems, and banking operations.
Despite challenging circumstances, Governor Ahmady was able to maintain macroeconomic stability, including bringing inflation down from double digits to only 1.6% (as of July 2021), proving strong oversight of the financial sector, and inaugurating a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system in December 2020. Governor Ahmady launched a successful mobile payments system, and was in the process of nationally launching the program when the Taliban overthrew the government.
He negotiated an IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) program and loan of $370 million in November 2021 and led the successful first review of the program in June 2021.
Departure from Afghanistan
Ahmady left Afghanistan on an American military flight on 15 August, as the Islamic Republic collapsed in light of the 2021 Taliban offensive. As he left he posted his final experiences in a tweet that went viral.
Media Appearances
Governor Ahmady has given live interviews, spoken at conferences, written op-eds, interviewed in podcasts, and been featured in numerous media outlets.
His conference appearances include at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum (NEF) where he spoke on a panel with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ian Bremmer, at a Financial Times webinar with General Petraeus, and in India at the Indian Ocean Conference and Global Business Summit.
He has also attended multilateral forums including the IMF 2020 Annual Meetings, the 2018 Geneva Conference on Afghanistan, and the World Bank Seminar on Policy Challenges for the Financial Sector; as well as spoken at numerous think tanks, including describing economic reforms at the Wilson Center (2018), investment opportunities at the Heritage Foundation (2019), and the collapse of the government at the Atlantic Council (2021).
In his Op-Eds, he outlined three internal and three external factors that led to Afghanistan's collapse in Foreign Affairs, has argued for continued engagement in Afghanistan in the Financial Times, has outlined continued challenges that the Taliban would face in Bloomberg, highlighted earlier positive economic reforms in The Hill, and outlined financial sector reforms in Bahktar News.
In his television and online interviews, he has described Afghanistan's challenges and his escape from the country in CNN, Sky News, BBC, TRT World, G-Zero Media, and WION News.
He has been able to provide greater detail of his time as Acting Governor of DAB in various podcasts, including in Bloomberg Odd Lots, Mercatus Center Macro Musings, and Schroder's 'Running a Central Bank with the Taliban at the Door.' He was able to provide his personal experiences and economic views in NPR's Planet Money and Marketplace.
Governor Ahmady's work and commentary have been referenced around the world in global publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, National Interest, CNBC, Axios, Al-Jazeera, Nikkei Asia, Japan Times, Radio Free Europe, Economic Times of India, Asia Money, TRT World, Les Echos in France, Independent U.K., Khaleej Times, Straits Times of Singapore, Irish Times, Money Control, Turkish Press, and German Press publications.
He has also given briefings to representatives of the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. State Department, and the Senate Committee on Banking and Finance. Governor Ahmady was referenced in a letter that Portman and Rubio sent to the U.S. Treasury.
Personal life
Ahmady is an Afghan Muslim.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Governors of Da Afghanistan Bank
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Afghan Sunni Muslims
Afghan Muslims
Central bankers
People from Ghazni Province
Afghan government officials
Afghan emigrants to the United States
Naturalized citizens of the United States |
Looking Glass Networks, Inc. was an American telecommunications company headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company provides rapid delivery of data transport services including SONET/SDH, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Ethernet as well as IP connectivity, dark fiber and carrier-neutral colocation. Looking Glass also offers custom design and build services for specific campus or data center requirements. On August 3, 2006, Level 3 Communications acquired Looking Glass, at which time the company's dark fiber offerings were deemphasized in favor of managed lit services. On November 1, 2017, CenturyLink completed its acquisition of Level 3 Communications.
Service locations
Services are available in the largest U.S. metro areas including:
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
Los Angeles, California
New York City Metro Area
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Silicon Valley, California
Seattle, Washington
Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Service detail
The company's physically diverse networks provide customers with connections to primary carrier hotels, incumbent local exchange carrier central offices, key enterprise buildings and other major data aggregation facilities. Looking Glass interconnects with more than 140 carriers, has over 760 points of presence, 430 on-net buildings and 860 Type II buildings. This connectivity, coupled with their protocol "agnostic" platform, allows Looking Glass to deliver flexible service options and fast delivery intervals to customers with significant bandwidth needs.
References
Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois
Oak Brook, Illinois
Level 3 Communications
Lumen Technologies
Telecommunications companies of the United States
2006 mergers and acquisitions |
The Exit... Stage Left Tour was a concert tour by Canadian rock band Rush, in support of the band's second live album Exit... Stage Left and its accompanying video.
Background
The European leg of the tour was supported by Girlschool. Riot was the opening act for the band on the North American leg, performing in arenas.
Setlist
This is an example setlist adapted from Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth – The Official Touring History of what were performed during the tour, but may not represent the majority of the shows. The setlist was similar to the setlist from the previous tour, but featured the song "Subdivisions" which would later be featured on the band's 1982 studio album Signals. "New World Man" and "Chemistry" were both performed only at the soundchecks before a show.
"2112: Overture/Temples of Syrinx"
"Freewill"
"Limelight"
"Book II: Hemispheres – Prelude"
"Beneath, Between and Behind"
"Subdivisions"
"The Camera Eye"
"YYZ"
"Broon's Bane"
"The Trees"
"Xanadu"
"The Spirit of Radio"
"Red Barchetta"
"Closer to the Heart"
"Tom Sawyer"
"Vital Signs"
"Working Man"
"Book II: Hemispheres – Armageddon"
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog"
"In the End"
"In the Mood"
"2112: Grand Finale"
Encore
"La Villa Strangiato"
Tour dates
Box office score data
Personnel
Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, keyboards
Alex Lifeson – guitar, backing vocals
Neil Peart – drums
References
Citations
Sources
Rush (band) concert tours
1981 concert tours
Concert tours of North America
Concert tours of the United States
Concert tours of the United Kingdom
Concert tours of Germany
Concert tours of the Netherlands |
Soul Talk is an album by American jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1969.
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars, calling it "a solid, no-surprise set of soul-jazz".
Track listing
All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except where noted
"Soul Talk" - 9:30
"All Soul" (Curtis Lewis) - 5:30
"Up to Date" - 7:50
"Purty Dirty" (Wally Richardson) - 6:05
"This Guy's in Love with You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 4:25
Personnel
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ
Rusty Bryant - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, varitone
Wally Richardson - guitar
Bob Bushnell - electric bass
Bernard Purdie - drums
Production
Bob Porter - producer
Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
References
Johnny "Hammond" Smith albums
1969 albums
Prestige Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Porter (record producer)
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
cAMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitor beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PKIB gene.
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitor family. Studies of a similar protein in rat suggest that this protein may interact with the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and act as a competitive inhibitor. At least three alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been reported.
References
Further reading |
Cannabis regulatory agencies exist in several of the U.S. states and territories, the one federal district, and several areas under tribal sovereignty in the United States which have legalized cannabis. In November 2020, 19 state agencies formed the Cannabis Regulators Association.
The agencies include:
Federal
Drug Enforcement Administration
Food and Drug Administration
United States Department of Agriculture (hemp)
Cannabis Justice Office (grantmaking office, proposed under Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019)
Territorial or Federal district
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Cannabis Commission (in formation as of October 2018 pursuant to CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018)
District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (was Department of Health Division of Medical Marijuana and Integrative Therapy until October 1, 2020); medical cannabis only – there is no regulatory agency for other use
Puerto Rico Medical Cannabis Regulatory Board (a division of the Puerto Rico Department of Health). The Board was created in 2017 under the MEDICINAL Act of 2017.
State
Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (as of 13 September 2021, since 8/3/2021, agency has met 3x regular, 2x special/called, but does not yet have a website)
Alaska Marijuana Control Board (MCB)
Arizona Department of Health Services (under 2020 Arizona Proposition 207)
California Bureau of Cannabis Control
San Francisco Office of Cannabis
Colorado Department of Revenue Enforcement Division Marijuana Enforcement (MED)
Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection
Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Cannabis Regulation Oversight Officer
Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board
Maine Office of Marijuana Policy
Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission
Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency
Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management
Montana Department of Revenue
Nevada Department of Taxation
New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission
New Mexico Cannabis Control Division
New York Office of Cannabis Management
Ohio Department of Commerce
Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program
Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority
Oregon Liquor Control Commission
Rhode Island Office of Cannabis Regulation
Virginia Cannabis Control Authority
Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
Bureau for Public Health
Office of Medical Cannabis
Proposed
Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission
Arkansas Bureau of Cannabis Control
Delaware Office of Marijuana Control Commissioner
Hawaii Department of Taxation
Indiana Cannabis Compliance Commission
Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control
Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control
Cannabis Management Office
Ohio Department of Commerce
Division of Cannabis Control (Regulate Cannabis Like Alcohol initiative)
Pennsylvania Cannabis Regulatory Control Board
Vermont Cannabis Control Board
Tribal
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Cannabis Commission
Puyallup Tribal Cannabis Committee, Puyallup Tribe, Washington
Squaxin Island Tribe, Washington
Suquamish Tribe has direct tribal council control via Suquamish Evergreen Corporation (Washington)
Tulalip Tribal Cannabis Agency, Tulalip Tribes of Washington, became the first tribal regulatory agency in mid-2018
Cannabis Compliance Office reporting to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Cannabis Control Board
Swinomish Tribe Swinomish Development Authority
See also
Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction
List of Canadian cannabis regulatory agencies
Mexican Cannabis Institute
Notes
References
Cannabis regulatory agencies
Regulatory agencies
United States regulatory agencies |
Samuel Works (c. 1781 – January 2, 1868) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was born December 4, 1781, at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, the son of Samuel Works and Susanna (Chandler) Works. In 1816, he removed to Rochester, New York and was co-owner of a tannery there. In 1826, he was elected Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and later became Fire Chief and City Superintendent.
In February 1831, he was the Anti-Masonic candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, but was defeated by Jacksonian William L. Marcy. The same year, Works removed to Lockport.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.) from 1837 to 1844, sitting in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th and 67th New York State Legislatures.
In November 1844, he ran on the Whig ticket for Canal Commissioner, but the Democratic ticket was elected. In 1850, he was appointed Superintendent of Repairs for Section 12 of the Erie Canal.
He died at his residence in Lockport on January 2, 1868, and was buried at the Cold Springs Cemetery there.
Sources
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 131ff and 147; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Buffalo City Directory (1850; pg. 75)
History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and Morris' Reserve (Rochester NY, 1851; pg. 612) [says "removed from Vermont"]
Death of Hon. Samuel Works in NYT on January 6, 1868 [says "he was a native of New Hampshire"]
External links
1780s births
1868 deaths
New York (state) state senators
Politicians from Rochester, New York
Politicians from Lockport, New York
New York (state) Whigs
19th-century American politicians
Anti-Masonic Party politicians from New York (state) |
Let Go is the tenth album from American gospel music artist Susie Luchsinger. It was released on November 7, 2008 on SLM Records. It features the song "Sky Full Of Angels" which was originally recorded by her sister Reba McEntire on her album Room to Breathe back in 2003, and "Sticks and Stones" which is composed by Tim Matthews, Susie Luchsinger, and her niece Autumn McEntire.
Track listing
"Never Alone" (Sarah Buxton, Gary S. Burr, Victoria Shaw)
"Sky Full Of Angels" (Burton Collins, Clay Mills, Lisa Stewart)
"Sticks and Stones" (Autumn McEntire, Tim Matthews, Susie Luchsinger) - 4:04
"Lily of the Field" (Chapin Hartford) - 3:40
"In The Name of Jesus" (Steve Bard) - 3:29
"Let Go" (Amy Douglas) - 3:41
"Less One Day" (John Ritter, Billy Aerts)
"Cowboy Medley" (Tim Spencer, Cole Porter, Robert Fletcher, Dale Evans Rogers)
"Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" (Chris Tomlin)
"Help Is On The Way" (Barrie Shorrock)
"If There Hadn't Been You" (Ron Hellard, Tom Shapir) - 3:24
"Old Chunk of Coal" (Billy Joe Shaver) - 3:30
"I Will Rest In You" (Billy Aerts, Burton Collins)
2008 albums
Susie McEntire albums |
Count Johann Adam von Questenberg (baptized 24 February 167810 May 1752) was an Austrian nobleman, Reichshofrat, amateur musician, and patron of the arts. He was a councilor of the Imperial Court in Vienna from 1702 to 1735. He organised concerts at his palaces in Vienna and Jarmeritz, and commissioned compositions by contemporary composers. He made his palace a music centre of Central Europe.
Biography
Questenberg was baptised in Vienna, as the son of Count Johann Anton (1633–1686) and his wife, Baroness Maria Katharina von Stadel (b. 1641). He was coming from the Cologne branch of the noble . His paternal grandfather, , entered the service of the Habsburgs, thereby acquiring several Herrschaften (domains) in Bohemia, Moravia and Lower Austria, including . Questenberg's father chose this palace for his headquarters.
Questenberg studied philosophy in Vienna (1692–1694), and jurisprudence in Prague (1694–1696). Upon graduating, he received the title of Graf (Count) in 1696. In 1702, after spending three years taking his "Grand Tour" through Europe, he came to the Imperial Court in Vienna, in the capacity of a councilor. He was promoted to Reichshofrat in 1706, becoming a Privy Councilor and Chamberlain in 1723. His Viennese palace, now known as the Questenbergpalais, and mansions were all expanded in Baroque style. His tenure at the Court ended in 1735, when Emperor Charles VI sent him to the Moravian Landtag as (the Emperor's personal representative).
During his stay in Vienna, he organized concerts at his palace. After 1722, he also held performances at the palace theatre in Jarmeritz. There, he maintained a permanent musical ensemble, with his own composers, twenty vocalists, and seventy instrumentalists, who also took part in church music and school concerts. By the 1730s, his palace had become a national music centre.
Questenberg himself was an amateur composer and musician, playing the lute and theorbo; only two pieces of his have survived. He was also an enthusiastic collector of music; commissioning numerous works by contemporary composers. In addition, he maintained correspondence with Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach. He may have met Bach in Karlsbad, where he had accompanied the court music director, Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen, in 1718 and 1720. There is also evidence of a professional contact with Bach, through a middleman, in 1749. The Bach scholar Michael Maul suggested that Questenberg may have commissioned the Mass in B minor.
Questenberg was married twice; to Countess Maria Antonia von Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer (1691–1736) in 1707, and to Countess Maria Antonia von (1708–1778) in 1738. There were six children from his first marriage, but only one daughter, Maria Carolina (1712–1750), reached adulthood. He appointed , his second wife's nephew, as heir to his properties and title. He died in Jarmeritz.
References
Further reading
External links
Perutkovà, Jana: Der glorreiche Nahmen Adami – Johann Adam Graf von Questenberg (1678–1752) / Johann Adam Graf von Questenberg (1678–1752) als Förderer der italienischen Oper in Mähren (in German) Doblinger
Questenberg, John Adam (in German) LMU August 2021
Ansicht des Palais Questenberg-Kaunitz in Wien, Kupferstich, um 1750? deutschefotothek.de
1678 births
1752 deaths
Austrian noble families
Counts of Austria
Austrian patrons of music
Austrian lutenists
Nobility from Vienna |
Utilia is a genus of moths in the family Oecophoridae.
Species
Utilia falcata Clarke, 1978
Utilia florinda Clarke, 1978
Utilia hualpensis Parra & Ramos-González, 2019
Utilia luridella (Zeller, 1874)
Utilia ochracea (Zeller, 1874)
References
Oecophorinae
Moth genera |
NGC 64 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis Swift in 1886, and is located in the Cetus constellation.
References
External links
Barred spiral galaxies
Cetus
0064
18861021
Discoveries by Lewis Swift |
The New Year's Rate Plan () is a 2008 Russian comedy film directed by Evgeny Bedarev.
Plot
Today, technological advances often give birth to miracles, and Ded Moroz may turn out to be a usual phone seller.
Cast
Valeriya Lanskaya as Alena
Maksim Matveyev as Andrey
Svetlana Sukhanova as Rita
Evgeniy Slavsky as Vadim
Boris Korchevnikov as Pashka
Roman Polyanskiy
Miroslava Karpovich as Olechka
Ekaterina Malikova as Masha
Mark Bogatyryov as Maks
Stanislav Belyaev as Danilov (as Stas Belyaev)
References
External links
2008 films
2000s Russian-language films
Russian romantic comedy films
Russian fantasy comedy films |
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