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Mounir Benmeddour (born 8 May 1988 in Algiers, Algeria) is an Algerian professional footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper of AS Khroub in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.
Statistics
References
External links
1988 births
Algerian men's footballers
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players
Algerian Ligue 2 players
Living people
AS Khroub players
Olympique de Médéa players
Paradou AC players
Footballers from Algiers
USM El Harrach players
USM Blida players
ESM Koléa players
RC Kouba players
Men's association football goalkeepers
21st-century Algerian people |
Bezruky (Безручки) is a village in the Kharkiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. The area was invaded by Russia in 2022 and liberated by Ukraine the same year.
References
Villages in Kharkiv Raion |
What We Almost Made is a 2008 mixtape by London-born entertainer Example. Similar to his previous full-length releases We Didn't Invent the Remix and What We Made, all of the songs in What We Almost Made were mainly written by Example and produced by Rusher. As the title suggests, What We Almost Made was made as a follow-up to What We Made and contains unreleased tracks that weren't included in any of his previous releases (five of which feature various artists); three of the songs, although, were originally B-sides taken from the vinyl releases of the singles "I Don't Want To", "So Many Roads" and "Me & Mandy" (tracks 15, 5 and 6, respectively).
Track listing
"Pedigree"
"Teenage Kicks" (featuring Ali Love)
"Follow Him" (featuring Scroobius Pip)
"Loud!" (featuring Frisco & Tinchy Stryder)
"Take What I Want"
"Mr. Invisible"
"Oh Marie"
"High As A Kite"
"Concrete"
"Nicest Thing"
"Hush Hush"
"Heavy Showers" (featuring Trip)
"Bob, Jimi & Kurt"
"Nip/Tuck" (featuring Goldielocks)
"Who Needs Sunshine?"
"Dirty Face" (Bootleg)
References
2008 mixtape albums
Example (musician) albums |
Alois Dominik Oroz (born 29 October 2000) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Dutch club Vitesse.
Personal life
He was born in Austria, but of Croatian descent.
Club career
In 2006, Oroz began his career at Wiener Sport-Club, before moving to Austria Wien in 2007. In 2015, he moved to the youth team of First Vienna FC. In February 2017 he made his debut for First Vienna II versus Nussdorfer AC in the fifth league. In 2017 he made his first match for First Vienna in the third league as he came on in the 77th minute for Mehmet Sütcü versus SC-ESV Parndorf 1919.
In the 2017–18 season he moved to FC Red Bull Salzburg where he played in the academy team. In the 2018–19 season he played for FC Liefering where he debuted in February 2018 versus SV Horn.
In January 2021 he left Liefering and went to the Dutch football club Vitesse.
On 6 July 2022, Oroz returned to Austria and joined Sturm Graz on a season-long loan with an option to buy. On 2 December 2022, the loan was terminated early.
International career
Oroz has represented Croatia in the U18 and U19 national team.
References
External links
2000 births
Footballers from Vienna
Austrian people of Croatian descent
Living people
Austrian men's footballers
Croatian men's footballers
Croatia men's youth international footballers
Men's association football central defenders
First Vienna FC players
FC Liefering players
SBV Vitesse players
SK Sturm Graz players
Austrian Regionalliga players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Eredivisie players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Croatian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands |
Marti Roca de Torres is a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe main event. He was born in Barcelona and lived in Mataró at the time of his first bracelet. He is a former economics teacher.
World Series of Poker
An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Europe
Notes
External links
Marti Roca de Torres at Hendonmob.com
Spanish poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
Living people
People from Barcelona
People from Mataró
Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The Kinks Greatest Hits! (also spelled The Kinks' Greatest Hits!) is a compilation album by the English rock band the Kinks. Released in the United States in August 1966 by Reprise Records, the album mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966. The band's first greatest hits album, it remained on the Billboard Top LPs chart for over a year, peaking at number 9, making it the Kinks' highest charting album in the US. The album was in print for decades and was the Kinks' only gold record in America until 1980.
Release
Reprise Records released The Kinks Greatest Hits! in the US on 10 August 1966. The band's first greatest hits album, it mostly consists of singles issued by the group between 1964 and 1966, ranging from "You Really Got Me" to "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", recorded in mid-July1964 and February1966, respectively. All the tracks were recorded at Pye or IBC Studios in London and were produced by Shel Talmy. "Something Better Beginning" is the only non-single on the album, first issued on Kinda Kinks (1965).
The album's liner notes include one of the earliest instances of Ray Davies, the Kinks' principal songwriter, being characterised as a genius. Author Thomas. M. Kitts suggests the description of Davies as "a brooding-faced, long-haired genius" was an attempt to connect him to the English poet Lord Byron. Eder writes that Ed Thrasher's cover art for the album, depicting the band in several concert photographs, further added to its collectibility.
Commercial performance and reception
Like subsequent British compilations collecting the Kinks' mid-1960s hits, the album's sales surpassed those of the band's late 1960s studio albums. It remained on the Billboard Top LPs chart for 64 weeks, peaking in November 1966 at number 9, making it the Kinks' highest charting album in the US. It additionally reached number 13 and 8 on Cash Box and Record World charts, respectively. RIAA certified it gold in November1968, indicating retail sales of US$1million (equivalent to US$ million in ). The album remained in print for around 20 years and was the Kinks' only American gold record until Low Budget (1979) certification in 1980.
Crawdaddy magazine critic Sandy Pearlman contemporaneously described it as among the best greatest hits albums available. Authors Steve Alleman and Bruce Eder each retrospectively write that the album's joining of various styles served to indicate the Kinks' earliest musical developments, though Eder suggests the album's shortcoming is its omission of the band's later 1966 songs, like "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dandy". Critic Robert Christgau included the album in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in his book Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
Track listing
All songs by Ray Davies.
Side one
"You Really Got Me" – 2:20
"Tired of Waiting for You" – 2:30
"Set Me Free" – 2:10
"Something Better Beginning" – 2:23
"Who'll Be the Next in Line" – 1:59
Side two
"Till the End of the Day" – 2:20
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" – 2:59
"A Well Respected Man" – 2:38
"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy" – 2:15
"All Day and All of the Night" – 2:20
Personnel
According to band researcher Doug Hinman, except where noted:
The Kinks
Ray Davies lead vocals; electric and acoustic rhythm guitars; piano
Dave Davies backing vocals, electric lead guitar
Pete Quaife backing vocals, bass
Mick Avory drums; tambourine
Additional musicians
Clem Cattini drums
Rasa Davies backing vocals
Perry Ford piano
Bobby Graham drums
Arthur Greenslade piano
Nicky Hopkins piano
Unidentified girlfriends of the Kinks backing vocals
Unidentified session musician rhythm guitar
Production and additional personnel
Bob Auger engineering
Glyn Johns engineering
Alan MacKenzie engineering
Shel Talmy producer
Ed Thrasher art direction
Charts and certifications
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
External links
The Kinks compilation albums
1966 greatest hits albums
Reprise Records compilation albums |
Potbelly Corporation is a publicly traded American fast-casual restaurant chain that focuses on submarine sandwiches and milkshakes. Potbelly was founded in 1977 in Chicago, and its name refers to the potbelly stove. Potbelly's menu features a variety of sandwiches that are all served hot, and the menu includes soup, shakes, smoothies, potato chips and cookies. Some locations have presented live music from local musicians during the lunch hours.
History
In 1971, Peter Hastings started an antique store, Hindsight, at 2264 North Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. The store had an old potbelly stove, which Hastings began using to make toasted sandwiches to serve to shoppers. In 1977, the Hindsight store was retooled into a restaurant, Potbelly Sandwich Works.
In 1996, Bryant Keil purchased the original store and expanded the company, The second store was opened in 1997, and he expanded Potbelly to over 300 stores in several states and the District of Columbia. Investors include Maveron (Founded by Starbucks Founder, Howard Schultz) and American Securities. As of August 2019, approximately 10% of the chain's 450+ locations were franchisees.
In August 2013, Potbelly filed an initial public offering with US regulators to raise up to $75 million. Shares in the company began trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market on October 4, 2013. The market cap shortly after the IPO was approximately $650,000,000.
On November 5, 2007, a new Potbelly store in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, became the first to feature a drive-through. A second drive-through store was added shortly thereafter in Waukegan, Illinois.
In 2011, Potbelly opened two franchise stores in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; these are the first international Potbelly locations.
Potbelly opened its first European store at Westfield Stratford City, London, in July 2015 and its first Canadian store in Toronto in October 2016. By August 2017, 60% of Potbelly's business came from lunch. It had 424 owned stores and 54 franchised stores. Early that month, Potbelly announced it was considering putting itself for sale.
In December 2017, Potbelly opened its first franchise in India with a new location in Cyber City, Gurgaon. The company signed a multi-franchise agreement with India's Kwals Group, with plans to open five franchises in the country by the end of 2018 and 20 locations over the next five years.
Potbelly carries just Zapp's potato chips and has an exclusive Zapp's brand of dill pickle chips that have the flavor of a Potbelly pickle.
In July 2020, Potbelly named Robert Wright, a former executive of Wendy's, its new President and CEO.
In April 2022, Potbelly entered its first delivery-based franchise partnership with REEF, the largest operator of virtual restaurants, logistics and proximity hubs in North America.
Controversies
During the COVID-19 crisis, Potbelly Sandwich Shop applied for and accepted $10 million under the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) which the United States government created for small businesses to maintain workers through the COVID-19 crisis. Potbelly Sandwich Shop announced on April 25, 2020, that they would return the $10 million loan.
See also
List of submarine sandwich restaurants
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Chicago
Restaurants in Chicago
Regional restaurant chains in the United States
Fast-food chains of the United States
Submarine sandwich restaurants
Fast casual restaurants
Restaurants established in 1977
1977 establishments in Illinois
Restaurant chains in the United States
American companies established in 1977
2013 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
Micromelerpetontidae (also spelled Micromelerpetidae) is an extinct family of dissorophoid temnospondyl amphibians that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in what is now Europe, with one Carboniferous species also known from North Africa. They were biologically similar to the related branchiosaurids, but proportionally akin to the unrelated microsaurs.
Micromelerpetontids were neotenic and aquatic, similar to their relatives the branchiosaurids. They had lateral line grooves, poorly ossified skulls and limbs, and evidence of external gills. However, they had a higher number of vertebrae (and therefore more elongated bodies) compared to branchiosaurids, as well as thick, bony scales covering the belly and limbs. Some members of the family had skulls which were longer behind the eyes (rather than in front of them), while the opposite was true of branchiosaurids.
References
Milner, A. R. & Sequeira, S. E. K. (2003) Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 48, #1, pp. 123–141
Witzmann, F. & Pfretzschner, H. U. (2003) Larval ontology of Micromelerpeton credneri (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 23, #4, pp. 750–768
Carboniferous temnospondyls
Permian temnospondyls
Dissorophoids
Pennsylvanian first appearances
Cisuralian extinctions
Prehistoric amphibian families |
Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley (20 November 1418 – 25 September 1442) was a baron in the Peerage of England, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk.
He was the son of Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley and Lady Isabel de la Pole. He married prior to May 1442, Elizabeth, daughter of William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros. and died at age 23 without male issue.
At his death in 1443, the barony was inherited by his daughter Alianore de Morley. She became the wife of Sir William Lovel, who was summoned to parliament as Baron Morley jure uxoris and died in 1476, shortly before her. Their son became Henry Lovel, 8th Baron Morley.
References
1418 births
1442 deaths
Barons Morley |
Conte may refer to:
Conte (literature), a literary genre
Conte (surname)
Conté, a drawing medium
Conte, Jura, town in France
Conté royal family, a fictional family in Tamora Pierce's Tortallan world
Conte, the title of Count in Italy and other European countries
See also
Contes (disambiguation)
Contessa (disambiguation)
Del Conte (disambiguation) |
EINE and ZWEI are two discontinued Emacs-like text editors developed by Daniel Weinreb and Mike McMahon for Lisp machines in the 1970s and 1980s.
History
EINE was a text editor developed in the late 1970s. In terms of features, its goal was to "do what Stallman's PDP-10 (original) Emacs does". It was an early example of what would become many Emacs-like text editors. Unlike the original TECO-based Emacs, but like Multics Emacs, EINE was written in Lisp. It used Lisp Machine Lisp. Stallman later wrote GNU Emacs, which was written in C and Emacs Lisp and extensible in Emacs Lisp. EINE also made use of the window system of the Lisp machine and was the first Emacs to have a graphical user interface.
In the 1980s, EINE was developed into ZWEI. Innovations included programmability in Lisp Machine Lisp, and a new and more flexible doubly linked list method of internally representing buffers.
ZWEI would eventually become the editor library used for Symbolics' Zmacs (Emacs-like editor), Zmail (mail client), and Converse (message client), which were integrated into the Genera operating system which Symbolics developed for their Lisp machines.
Naming
EINE is a recursive acronym for "EINE Is Not Emacs", coined in August 1977. It was a play on Ted Anderson's TINT, "TINT is not TECO". Anderson would later retort with "SINE is not EINE".
ZWEI follows this pattern as an acronym for "ZWEI Was Eine Initially".
With "zwei" being the German word for "two", "EINE" could be (re-)interpreted as being a reference to the German word for "one" (in the feminine adjectival form, as in "eine Implementierung", "one implementation").
Further reading
Symbolics Genera 6.0 documentation, Book 3, Text Editing and Processing, March 1985
Symbolics Genera 7.0 documentation, Book 3, Text Editing and Processing, July 1986
MIT CADR Lisp Machine Source code
References
External links
Entry at the Emacs Wiki
Emacs
Text editors |
Andrew Mulliner (born 3 January 1971) is an English-born Welsh former football goalkeeper who is the academy lead goalkeeper coach at Manchester City.
He spent most of his career in Welsh football, where his 1-game tally in the Welsh Football League is a record for a goalkeeper. He also held the record of the most appearances for TNS, with 266 appearances between 1993 and 1999. This followed brief spells in English football with Telford United, Accrington Stanley, and Curzon Ashton. His career after leaving TNS saw him keep goal for Aberystwyth Town, Rhyl, Bangor City, Connah's Quay Nomads, Newtown, Caersws, Welshpool Town, Ellesmere Rangers, and Airbus UK. He has worked as a goalkeeping coach for Shrewsbury Town, Port Vale, Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy, Kidderminster Harriers, Bury, Stockport County and The New Saints. His coaching qualification include holding the UEFA A Licence outfield, the new UEFA GK A Licence, the FA A Licence Goalkeeping coaching qualification, the FA Advanced Youth Award and the FA Youth Award modules, having previously completed his 'B' licence in both outfield play and goalkeeping.
Playing career
Mulliner started his career as a reserve team player at Port Vale, though he never made a first team appearance for the club or indeed in the Football League. Despite this, in 1988 he won a cap for the Wales under-18 side in a match against Northern Ireland.
After leaving Port Vale, he joined Telford United, appearing once on Boxing Day 1989 in a 3–1 victory at Aggborough. At the start of the 1990–91 season he joined Bangor City playing in the Northern Premier League before dropping down a division to join Accrington Stanley. The following season, he joined Curzon Ashton, before joining Llansantffraid in January 1992, who were playing in the Cymru Alliance.
He first appeared in the Welsh Premier League with Llansantffraid in the 1993–94 season – the second season of the league's establishment. He played 31 league games for the club that season, as well as one on loan at Aberystwyth Town. Staying with Llansantffraid for the following five seasons, he played a further 182 league games for the club and was present when they changed their name to Total Network Solutions.
Between 8 August 1995 and 18 October 1997, Mulliner played 117 consecutive competitive matches for the club, including the 1996 Welsh Cup final, which was the last competitive game to be played at the Cardiff Arms Park. In that final he was blamed for two of Barry Town's three goals, but became the hero by saving two of Town's penalties in the shoot-out. During his time the club were solid mid-table performers. He was not there for their league winning season of 1999–2000, having moved on to Rhyl. He represented the League of Wales in a game against the League of Ireland, and was also capped at semi-professional level in a game against England in 1996. He also played European football for LLansantffraid in the UEFA Cup Winner Cup v Ruch Chorwoz in 1996, for Ebbw Vale FC in the first leg of their Inter-toto Cup games v Konsvinger in 1997 and Bangor City in 2001 v Halmstad in the UEFA Cup.
He spent the 2000–01 season with Bangor City, making 27 league appearances. He then had brief spells with Connah's Quay Nomads, Bangor City (again), Aberystwyth Town and Newtown before playing 22 games of Connah's Quay 2001–02 season. In 2002, he settled with Caersws and spent the next seven seasons at the Recreation Ground, making close to 200 league appearances. During the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons his team reached fifth place, a personal best for Mulliner. He joined Welshpool Town in August 2008 and made seven league and four cup appearances in the 2008–09 season. He moved on to Ellesmere Rangers in July 2009, ending a run of sixteen years of playing in the Welsh league. This ended his 481-game tally in the Welsh Football League, a record for a goalkeeper. He achieved promotion with Ellesmere Rangers out of the West Midlands (Regional) League, and also helped them to victory in the Shropshire Challenge Cup, with a 3–1 win over Market Drayton at the New Meadow in Shrewsbury. In July 2010, Mulliner re-signed for former club Bangor City for a short while for their run in the UEFA Europa League, playing in Finland and Portugal. He then returned to Ellesmere Rangers for the start of the league season. He signed for Welsh Premier League side Airbus UK on August transfer deadline day for the 2011–12 season, making 11 league and two cup appearances before announcing his retirement following their 1–0 defeat to Aberystwyth Town in the Europa League play-offs. His tally of 492 league appearances is the record for a Goalkeeper in the Welsh Premier League.
Coaching career
Mulliner served as assistant manager and player-goalkeeping coach at Ellesmere Rangers from 2009 to 2011. He has also worked as a goalkeeper coach at the Wolverhampton Wanderers academy (2006 to 2012), at Kidderminster Harriers (2006 to 2012), Shrewsbury Town (2006 to 2008) Shrewsbury School (2008 to 2012), Shrewsbury Sixth Form College (2007 to 2014), The New Saints (2010 to 2012), Bury (2011) helping the club achieve promotion to League 1, Port Vale (2011) and Stockport County (2011 to 2012). He was appointed as the Head of Academy goalkeeping at Birmingham City in June 2012, and worked with the Wales under-19 squad for the match against Germany in September 2012. In July 2014 he was appointed lead goalkeeping coach at Norwich City, leaving Norwich in July 2015 to take up the same role at Manchester City. In December 2015 he was promoted to EDS goalkeeper coach as well as leading the academy department. Internationally, in September 2015 he returned to the Welsh international set up, working with Wales under-21 on a part-time basis for their European Championships qualifying campaign, continuing until the end of that campaign in April 2016.
Honours
Llansantffraid
Konica League of Wales Cup: 1995
Welsh Cup: 1996
Bangor City
Welsh Cup: 2000
Caersws FC
Welsh Premier League Cup: 2006
Ellesmere Rangers
Shropshire Challenge Cup: 2010
Ellesmere Rangers
West Midlands (Regional) League promotion: 2010
References
1971 births
Living people
Welsh men's footballers
Footballers from Shrewsbury
Men's association football goalkeepers
Telford United F.C. players
Bangor City F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Curzon Ashton F.C. players
The New Saints F.C. players
Aberystwyth Town F.C. players
Rhyl F.C. players
Connah's Quay Nomads F.C. players
Newtown A.F.C. players
Caersws F.C. players
Welshpool Town F.C. players
Ellesmere Rangers F.C. players
Airbus UK Broughton F.C. players
Cymru Premier players
Northern Premier League players
Association football coaches
Association football goalkeeping coaches
Bury F.C. non-playing staff
Shrewsbury Town F.C. non-playing staff
Port Vale F.C. non-playing staff
Birmingham City F.C. non-playing staff
Manchester City F.C. non-playing staff |
```php
<?php
namespace Laravel\Dusk;
use Exception;
use Facebook\WebDriver\WebDriverBy;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Illuminate\Support\Traits\Macroable;
use InvalidArgumentException;
class ElementResolver
{
use Macroable;
/**
* The remote web driver instance.
*
* @var \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver
*/
public $driver;
/**
* The selector prefix for the resolver.
*
* @var string
*/
public $prefix;
/**
* Set the elements the resolver should use as shortcuts.
*
* @var array<string, string>
*/
public $elements = [];
/**
* The button finding methods.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $buttonFinders = [
'findById',
'findButtonBySelector',
'findButtonByName',
'findButtonByValue',
'findButtonByText',
];
/**
* Create a new element resolver instance.
*
* @param \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver $driver
* @param string $prefix
* @return void
*/
public function __construct($driver, $prefix = 'body')
{
$this->driver = $driver;
$this->prefix = trim($prefix);
}
/**
* Set the page elements the resolver should use as shortcuts.
*
* @param array<string, string> $elements
* @return $this
*/
public function pageElements(array $elements)
{
$this->elements = $elements;
return $this;
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given input "field".
*
* @param string $field
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveForTyping($field)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
"input[name='{$field}']", "textarea[name='{$field}']", $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given select "field".
*
* @param string $field
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveForSelection($field)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
"select[name='{$field}']", $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve all the options with the given value on the select field.
*
* @param string $field
* @param array $values
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement[]
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveSelectOptions($field, array $values)
{
$options = $this->resolveForSelection($field)
->findElements(WebDriverBy::tagName('option'));
if (empty($options)) {
return [];
}
return array_filter($options, function ($option) use ($values) {
return in_array($option->getAttribute('value'), $values);
});
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given radio "field" / value.
*
* @param string $field
* @param string|null $value
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
* @throws \InvalidArgumentException
*/
public function resolveForRadioSelection($field, $value = null)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
if (is_null($value)) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException(
"No value was provided for radio button [{$field}]."
);
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
"input[type=radio][name='{$field}'][value='{$value}']", $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given checkbox "field".
*
* @param string|null $field
* @param string|null $value
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveForChecking($field, $value = null)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
$selector = 'input[type=checkbox]';
if (! is_null($field)) {
$selector .= "[name='{$field}']";
}
if (! is_null($value)) {
$selector .= "[value='{$value}']";
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
$selector, $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given file "field".
*
* @param string $field
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveForAttachment($field)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
"input[type=file][name='{$field}']", $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given "field".
*
* @param string $field
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \Exception
*/
public function resolveForField($field)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->findById($field))) {
return $element;
}
return $this->firstOrFail([
"input[name='{$field}']", "textarea[name='{$field}']",
"select[name='{$field}']", "button[name='{$field}']", $field,
]);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given button.
*
* @param string $button
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement
*
* @throws \InvalidArgumentException
*/
public function resolveForButtonPress($button)
{
foreach ($this->buttonFinders as $method) {
if (! is_null($element = $this->{$method}($button))) {
return $element;
}
}
throw new InvalidArgumentException(
"Unable to locate button [{$button}]."
);
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given button by selector.
*
* @param string $button
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement|null
*/
protected function findButtonBySelector($button)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->find($button))) {
return $element;
}
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given button by name.
*
* @param string $button
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement|null
*/
protected function findButtonByName($button)
{
if (! is_null($element = $this->find("input[type=submit][name='{$button}']")) ||
! is_null($element = $this->find("input[type=button][value='{$button}']")) ||
! is_null($element = $this->find("button[name='{$button}']"))) {
return $element;
}
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given button by value.
*
* @param string $button
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement|null
*/
protected function findButtonByValue($button)
{
foreach ($this->all('input[type=submit]') as $element) {
if ($element->getAttribute('value') === $button) {
return $element;
}
}
}
/**
* Resolve the element for a given button by text.
*
* @param string $button
* @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebElement|null
*/
protected function findButtonByText($button)
{
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KPSP-CD (channel 38) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States, serving the Palm Springs Area as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside Palm Springs–licensed ABC affiliate KESQ-TV (channel 42) and four other low-power stations: Class A Fox affiliate KDFX-CD (channel 33, licensed to both Indio and Palm Springs), Palm Springs–licensed CW affiliate KCWQ-LD (channel 2), Indio-licensed Telemundo affiliate KUNA-LD (channel 15), and AccuWeather affiliate KYAV-LD (channel 12). The six stations share studios on Dunham Way in Thousand Palms; KPSP-CD's transmitter is located on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10.
Along with other major Coachella Valley television stations, KPSP identifies itself on-air using its cable designation (CBS Local 2) rather than its over-the-air channel position. The unusual practice stems in part from the area's exceptionally high cable penetration rate of 80.5% which is one of the highest in the United States.
In addition to its own digital signal, KPSP is simulcast in standard definition on KESQ's second digital subchannel (virtual and UHF channel 42.2) from the same Edom Hill transmitter facility.
History
The station launched September 2, 2002, and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 38. Prior to its sign-on as the Coachella Valley's first ever CBS affiliate, programming from the network came into the market via cable or antenna (in some areas) through Los Angeles owned-and-operated station KCBS-TV. When KPSP went on-the-air, area cable companies displaced KCBS at that outlet's request. KPSP adopted the "CBS 2" moniker following the practice of major local competitors in using its cable designation for branding purposes.
On April 1, 2008, it switched from branding itself "CBS 2" to "KPSP Local 2" although the "CBS 2" logo was retained for several months afterwards. On January 31, 2012, KPSP was sold by Desert Television to the News-Press & Gazette Company becoming a sister station to KESQ. It moved from its own studios on Dunham Way in Thousand Palms to KESQ's facility in Palm Desert. KPSP's transmitter on 38.1, went silent at midnight on March 1, 2012; the station's license was not initially included in the deal. CBS programming is now broadcast on 42.2 on the KESQ-DT digital tier and the lineup has not changed. In January 2013, News Press & Gazette acquired the KPSP-CD license, as well as KYAV-LD, from Desert Television. The Class A channel 38 digital transmitter was turned back on on February 7, allowing CBS programming to be shown over the air in 1080i high definition for the first time in nearly a year. NPG's acquisition of the Desert Television assets was completed on April 26.
News operation
At one point while operating as a separate entity, KPSP aired its early weeknight newscast from 5:00 to 6:30 advertising the slot as a single 90-minute newscast. The CBS Evening News would therefore be seen in the regular time period at 6:30. The station would eventually move the CBS Evening News to 5:30 p.m.
After KPSP was acquired by KESQ, this station had its operations temporarily merged into that outlet's facility. Local news offerings on both outlets were adjusted as a result. Later, both stations moved back to the Dunham Way location and operated separately out of different studios for seven years. On December 2, 2018, the CBS Local 2 news brand was discontinued and all news offerings on CBS Local 2 were offered under a unified News Channel 3 branding. The staff previously assigned to CBS Local 2 newscasts were folded into the News Channel 3 brand on all stations. On April 24, 2019, the space previously occupied by the CBS Local 2 news set was launched with a new set supporting the local Telemundo affiliate's Spanish newscasts.
Fox affiliate KDFX-CD airs a nightly hour prime time newscast at 10:00 produced by KESQ featuring the News Channel 3 branding and anchors. The program competes with low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate KPSG-LP (now KPSE-LD), which had local news seen for thirty minutes at the same time produced by rival NBC affiliate KMIR-TV.
Notable former staff
Adrianna Costa (has since worked as Entertainment Reporter for Good Day L.A., E! Network, CNN, TV Guide Network, Access Hollywood and Extra.)
Rich Fields (former announcer of The Price Is Right on CBS; later with KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV in Los Angeles and WTSP in Tampa)
David Garcia (host of Eye on Riverside County newsmagazine; died in 2007)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
See also
Channel 2 branded TV stations in the United States
Channel 18 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 18 low-power TV stations in the United States
Channel 38 virtual TV stations in the United States
References
External links
KESQ-TV "News Channel 3 HD"
KCWQ-LP/LD "Palm Springs CW 5"
KUNA-LD "Telemundo 15"
PSP-CD
Cathedral City, California
News-Press & Gazette Company
CBS network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in California
PSP |
Lifino () is a rural locality (a village) in Staroselskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002.
Geography
Lifino is located 34 km west of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kharitonovo is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Vologodsky District |
Maharaja Ripudaman Singh (4 March 1883 – 12 December 1942), later known as Sardar Gurcharan Singh, was the Maharaja of Nabha State from 1911 to 1928, when he was deposed by the British. He later became an Indian revolutionary.
Early life
Ripu Daman Singh was born on 4 March 1883 at Nabha, the only son and heir of Hira Singh Nabha. From 1906 to 1908, he was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council of India, where he spoke on behalf of the Sikh interest and pioneered reformist legislation. He represented Nabha in 1911 at the coronation of King George V.
Maharaja
Upon his father's death in 1911, Ripudaman Singh ascended the gadi of Nabha; though recognised as Maharaja, he refused to be crowned by the Viceroy of India as was then the norm for a senior ruling prince in India. Continuing his interest in legal affairs, he reformed the state judiciary and enacted numerous pieces of progressive legislation, including laws providing for female education and a progressive marriage act. He also established a legislature and an executive council to govern Nabha.
A staunch Indian nationalist, Ripudaman Singh befriended Lala Lajpat Rai and other prominent leaders of the swaraj movement. During the First World War, he refused to contribute Nabha state force contingents for the British Indian Army. As a result, he was arguably the only Indian ruler who did not receive any British war service-related honours. Shocked by the events of the Amritsar Massacre of Jalianwala Bagh in 1919, he publicly opposed the British, clashing with his distant cousin Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, who was a strong supporter of British rule in India.
Ripudaman Singh was granted a local salute of 15-guns in 1921, but he would not stay in British favour for much longer. In 1923, he was forced to relinquish control of Nabha to a British administrator after he was suspected of kidnapping and attempted murder through poisoning.
Deposition
In 1923, Ripudaman Singh agreed to leave Nabha and to settle at Dehra Dun. For this he was granted a large allowance. However, he continued to intrigue and attempt to regain control of Nabha to some degree. In 1927, he went on pilgrimage to Sri Abichal Nagar Hazur Sahib and retook the Khalsa initiation rites, taking the name of Gurcharan Singh. The next year, he was formally deposed by the British for sedition and succeeded by his eldest son, Pratap Singh Nabha. He was stripped of his rank and titles and exiled to Kodaikanal in the Madras Presidency. Thereafter, he was known officially as Gurcharan Singh.
Death
Ripudaman Singh died at Kodaikanal on 12 December 1942, aged 59. He had been succeeded in 1928 by his eldest son, Pratap Singh Nabha.
Family
Ripudaman Singh married three times, twice to ladies of royal blood and once morganatically:
1. Jagdish Kaur (1884-20 February 1925). Married at Nabha in 1901. She had a daughter:
Amar Kaur (8 October 1907-)
2. Sarojni Devi (1898-19?). Married at Nabha 10 October 1918 and had issue:
1. Kharak Singh, who succeeded as Maharaja of Nabha
2. Kharak Singh (d. 1970 in Canada)
3. Gurbaksh Singh (d November 1963) Married in 1950 Princess Chandra Prabha Kumari of Rajpipla (11 November 1932 – 22 October 2012, daughter of Vijaysinhji I of Rajpipla). He had one son and two daughters:
Viveck Singh
Krishna Kumari (1951–1994)
Tuhina Kumari
4. Kamla Devi Sahiba
5. Vimla Devi Sahiba
a. Gurcharan Kaur (1904–1983). Married Gurcharan Kaur in 1923 and had issue:
1. Narinder Singh (1924-). A son and a daughter.
2. Fateh Singh (1935-). Two sons.
3. Jasmer Singh
4. Shamsher Singh
5. Vijay Kaur
6. Charanjeet Kaur. Two sons.
7. Nandhem Kaur
Titles
1883-1911: Sri Tikka Sahib Ripudaman Singh
1911-1927: His Highness Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Angrezistan, Brar Bains Sarmour, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Ripudaman Singh Malvinder Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha
1927-1928: His Highness Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Angrezistan, Brar Bains Sarmour, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Gurcharan Singh Malvinder Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha
1928-1942: Sardar Gurcharan Singh
Honours
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)
Delhi Durbar Medal-1903
King George V Coronation Medal w/Delhi Durbar Clasp-1911
References
Indian Sikhs
Indian revolutionaries
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
1883 births
1942 deaths
Maharajas of Nabha
Members of the Imperial Legislative Council of India
Dethroned monarchs |
The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents (also known as the Main Endeavour Field, MEF, or EHV) are a group of hydrothermal vents in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean, located southwest of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The vent field lies below sea level on the northern Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. In 1982, dredged sulfide samples were recovered from the area covered in small tube worms and prompted a return to the vent field in August 1984, where the active vent field was confirmed by HOV Alvin on leg 10 of cruise AII-112.
The temperatures within the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vent fields differs at the various depths despite some vents being just metres apart. This also has an effect on the different microorganisms and invertebrates that live within the region. In order to best grasp the scale of the EHV region, autonomous vehicles have been deployed to survey the areas and cable systems have been put in place so that that better management practices can be taken. The protected area for the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents is located on the ridge of the Juan de Fuca plate, and the established zone is .
The vent field falls under Canadian jurisdiction and designated as a Canadian Marine Protected Area.
Geology and geomorphology
The Endeavour section of the Juan de Fuca Ridge is approximately 90 km long and spreads at 6 cm per year. Along the ridge, there are six major vent fields (including Stockwork) and over 800 individual chimneys have been recorded over a section of the ridge. Other vent fields of this section include High Rise, Mothra, Salty Dawg, Sasquatch, and Stockwork. All sites are basalt-hosted.
The MEF is located on the west side of the spreading axis at a depth of approximately . The mineralogy of the vent field is dominated by metal sulfides, particularly those of iron and zinc. Major sulfide phases consist of pyrite, chalcopyrite, wurtzite, and marcasite. The MEF has a significant amount of inactive chimneys and is estimated to have been active for at least 2,300 years. Within the field, there are 16 named venting sites (as assembled by InterRidge). These sites are: Bastille, Crypto, Dante, Dudley, Easter Island, Grotto, Hulk, Lobo, MilliQ, Peanut, Puffer, Salut, Smoke & Mirrors, Sully, TP, and Quebec.
The Endeavour segment is tectonically active and there have been many reported tectonic events since the discovery of the MEF. Tectonic events like diking, such as those detected by SOSUS in 1999, caused vent geochemistry to change drastically throughout the field. Another diking event was detected in 2005. Following these events, the hydrothermal activity of the MEF has been waning and some venting sites like MilliQ have been confirmed to be extinct.
Vent structure
Hydrothermal vents can sometimes be seen as roughly cylindrical chimney structures. Minerals that are dissolved in the vent fluid give rise to the vents overall structure. This is because minerals precipitate out to produce particles that increase the height of the stacks when the superheated water comes into contact with the sea water that is almost frozen. This can result in the chimney's structure growing up to 60 metres. Only the axial graben and the graben's near rims above the seismically observed magma lens exhibit hydrothermal activity. Main Endeavour has shown very little volcanic activity over the past 4,300 years, and as such, dormant chimneys are not buried as they are on other peaks.
The hydrothermal vents in the area also consist of black and white smoker chimneys that are 20 metres (66 ft) or taller. Black smokers emit black fumes due to being formed from deposits of iron sulfide, whereas white smokers contain barium, calcium, and silicon, and as such emits a lighter-hue of smoke.
Heating and chemistry
Heat of the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents is supplied by the conductive cooling of the Earth's crust along the axis and from magmatic sources beneath the field. Seawater seeps diffusively or through cracks into the Earth's crust, warms at depth, and then rises back up after it is heated at venting orifices. This heated water supplies energy and nutrients for chemoautotrophic organisms to thrive in this environment.
Chemical ecology
A large, intricate ecology is supported on and below the deep ocean floor by hydrothermal vents connected to the system of global oceanic ridges. Fluids from deep ocean vents have a diverse spectrum of chemical compositions and are frequently enriched in metal sulfides, such as those from iron, copper, calcium, silicon, and zinc as well as metalloids. The cooling and mixing of hot hydrothermal fluids with cold seawater results in the formation of hydrothermal vent deposits on the seafloor. Among the major sulphide and sulphate minerals preserved at vent sites, barite (BaSO 4) is unique in that precipitation requires the direct mixing of Ba-rich hydrothermal fluid with sulfate-rich seawater. Barite crystals retain geochemical fingerprints associated with formation conditions due to their extremely low solubility.
Thermal biology
With reported vent temperatures of , phase separation has been inferred to occur within fluids beneath the field. Differing ratios of brine and vapour phases have been used to characterize geochemistry at sites such as Bastille and Dante. High temperatures also allow metals to stay in solution, allowing for distinctive black-smoker chimneys. Through a combination of targeted, high-temperature (350 °C) venting and diffuse, low-temperature (10-25 °C) venting, the Main Endeavour field alone produces a total heat flux of 650±100 megawatts (MW). According to their thermal, particle, and chemical anomalies, vent plumes rise 50 to 350 metres above the seafloor to a level of neutral buoyancy. While the plumes rising above the ridge crests are free to drift with the ambient flow, the deeper portions of the plumes may remain stuck inside the valley.
The environment of the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vent field experiences extreme temperature ranges of 300 °C all the way down to 2 °C from even just a few metres away. Stressors like elevated acidity, carbon dioxide (), sulfide, anoxia, and metal ions are just a few examples of the extreme conditions in fluid vents. The hydrothermal vents wouldn't normally be thought of as able to sustain a reliable habitat due to the turbulent nature of the vent fluid. However, researchers have found that the vents are stable for most of the year except for a 40 °C temperature spikes in the month of April. Although temperatures this high can be lethal to organisms existing there, habitats there can be stable even at well below preferred temperatures. Researchers have theorized that vent animals have adapted to the rapid change in temperatures and thus are able to live within or near these vents.
Biodiversity
Hydrothermal vents are located at mid-ocean ridges, where an abundance of life is present, providing high biodiversity and productivity. They provide habitats for many unique species of animals. Researchers have identified 12 endemic species to the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that do not exist anywhere else in the world including the sea spider (Sericosura venticola). This endemic species is currently classified as imperiled, and is at risk of facing extinction. Many marine mammals, such as Dall's porpoise, sperm whales, Pacific white-sided dolphin, leatherback sea turtle, and northern elephant seal have also been spotted in the waters where vent fields are located. The organisms at the hydrothermal vent systems range from microorganisms to invertebrates where each have an interchanging role with one another. A sulfide-hosted microbe from this site can live in environments up to 121 °C, which is the record for the upper limit for life.
Microorganisms
The microbiome population is made up mostly of proteobacteria and archaea. There is limited archaeal diversity, however, as only 12 phylotypes have been detected in the area. All others have been identified as being clones, with Desulfurococcales being the most common clone. Many of the microbes present in this environment have either a sulfur oxidizing or sulfur reducing metabolism, leading to the possibility of sulfur cycling in these areas. Due to the large amount of microbial biomass, vent fields have become a hotspot for viruses. Researchers found that high flow areas were dominated by sulfur and hydrogen oxidizing bacteria, while low flow areas were dominated by heterotrophic bacteria. Epsilonproteobacteria are dominant bacteria at some sites of the MEF and genes have been identified that are associated with nitrogen fixation.
Invertebrates
The main invertebrate found in these areas is the tubeworm (Ridgeia piscesae), which has a “short fat” morphology when it is in high flow areas near the vents, and a 'long skinny' morphology when in low flow areas farther away from the vents. The dominating invertebrate species that have been recorded are spider crabs (Macroregonia macrochira), sulphide worms (Paralvinella sulfincola), limpets (Lepetodrilus), polynoid scaleworms, and palm worms (Paralvinellae palmiformis) that belong to the Alvinellidae family. Furthermore, symbiotic vent bacteria provide nutrients to the animals living there through the process of chemosynthesis since no sunlight reaches the depths of the Endeavour vent fields.
Expeditions and marine protected area management
The Endeavour hydrothermal vent fields are under the protection of the Marine protected areas (MPA), and was established in 2003 under the Oceans Act because of its diverse and unique biological environment. Under these regulations, activities that pose any harm to vent systems is prohibited. The hydrothermal vent fields—Salty Dawg, High Rise, Main Endeavour, and Mothra—were divided up into four different subfields after being mapped in 1991. A fifth vent field, Sasquatch, was later discovered in 2000 and is situated just north of Salty Dawg. Out of these vent fields, Mothra and Main Endeavour have had more researched performed on them compared to the other three. On the other hand, Salty Dawg and High Rise are labelled as having the highest precaution, limiting the number of observations and activities that can be done in the fields. The last remaining vent, Sasquatch, as well as other minor vents in the area, has yet to be included into any management plans. Although the vents have been under the MPA's since 2003, a management plan for the fields was only enacted in 2010. The management plan focuses on four specific areas of study using "[a] precautionary approach, ecosystem-based approach, adaptive management, and collaboration".
Autonomous underwater vehicle expeditions
An unmanned remote-controlled vehicle, MBARI AUV D. Allan B. and other autonomous underwater vehicle's (AUV) revealed that there were 572 hydrothermal sulfide chimneys total, of which only 47 are known to be currently active within the 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) segment of the ridge. The primary data for this research was done by using MBARI AUV D. Allan B.
First Nations involvement
During the early 2000s, due to the geographical instabilities, many consultations and workshops were held to discuss and process the designation of the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vent system (EHV) as a MPA. During this time, the Central Region Board on Vancouver Island was included in the process. The Central Region Board was made up of all Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Chiefs as well as representatives from local and regional governments. There were no objections from the Board. According to pre-designation presentations to the Central Region Board, there are no substantive First Nation interests in the EHV MPA. However, because the area falls within the statement of intent area of the Nuu-chahnulth Tribal Council (NTC) Treaty claim, the NTC may have an interest in managing the MPA in the future.
Area protection
Since the area is under the protection of the Marine Protected Areas act, any forms of deep-sea mining is prohibited within the area as this could harm the species that currently live there as well damage the hydrothermal vent systems. The area was under the MPA act before any mining could take place within the area. The government of Canada cannot prevent fishing vessels and normal routine traffic from going through the area, however, despite being a Marine Protected Area. This poses a problem because of the risk associated with pollution from the ships, oil spills, and noise that come with them. Any violations of the MPA regulations within the area can face penalties under the Oceans Act, or Fisheries Act depending on the issue.
Cabled observatory
Since 1987, Canada has been utilizing their cabled observatory called North Pacific Time-Series Underwater Experiment (NEPTUNE). NEPTUNE was founded by the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) in joint with the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The US installed a sister cabled observatory at Axial Seamount called the Regional Cabled Array.
Established in 2011, real-time monitoring of the MEF became possible through a NEPTUNE node established at the site Grotto. This enables scientific parameters, such as temperature, to be collected continuously. In 2017, the node was serviced to begin a major expansion to add additional cameras and in situ geochemical sensors.
Although there are five different vent fields that are observed and researched, the NEPTUNE cable observatory only extends from Mothra to Main Endeavour vent fields. Furthermore, the real-time cable system for the Main Endeavour field was only established in 2010 by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) as part of NEPTUNE, and real-time observing has been continuing since 2011. The installation of this cable was established so that better research opportunities and MPA management can be done.
Scientific discoveries
The Endeavour Hydrothermal vents are home to several important scientific discoveries which include:
1982: discovery of the first vents in Juan de Fuca Ridge
1984: exploration of the first extensive seafloor ore deposits
1989: discovery of glowing vents, which are vents that emit thermal radiation due to high temperature fluids above 350 °C coming out of the vent.
1990: discovery of highest neutral water temperatures known to Earth
1991: first extensive usage of undersea robotic vehicles
2000: Discovery of a fifth vent field, Sasquatch
2008-2011: Discovery of 572 chimneys in the area
Discovery of the organism that holds the record for the upper temperature limit to life (121 °C)
First evidence that hydrothermal plumes were zones of greatly enhanced zooplankton aggregation
First measurements of biomass fluxes relating to hydrothermal plumes
To this day, the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents still continues to be a site where scientists such as biologists, geologists, physicists, microbiologists, and oceanographers gravitate toward to find new discoveries.
See also
Marine Protected Areas of Canada
Hydrothermal Vents
Ocean Networks Canada
NEPTUNE
References
External links
MPA regulations can be found in the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area Regulations.
Hydrothermal vents
Volcanism of British Columbia
Marine Protected Areas of Canada
Protected areas of British Columbia
Holocene volcanism
Oceanography of Canada |
WLLD (94.1 MHz)is a commercial radio station licensed to Lakeland, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. Owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, it broadcasts a rhythmic CHR format. WLLD's studios and offices are located in St. Petersburg, and its transmitter site is located in southeastern Hillsborough County near the "Four Corners" approximately 30 miles southeast of Tampa.
Station history
94.1 FM
94.1 began broadcasting as WVFM on August 29, 1965 and aired an easy listening format. The station was off the air for almost a year between November 1966 and September 1967 while in the process of being sold. Easy listening remained the format at WVFM for almost three decades; the station changed its calls to WEZY in 1988. WEZY later evolved from pure beautiful music into soft AC before changing to smooth jazz WSJT on July 1, 1995.
WiLD format
The kayfabe line is that the station was started by two friends, Josh and Brian, who had been drinking on Josh's father's boat claiming to have pirated radio waves. The duo bragged of their contraband and irregulated airwaves until they were bought and turned into what is now the station that is broadcast today. In reality, the station just had a very small budget to start with, often resulting in the same songs playing over and over again. Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing" was the first song the station had played over the air. The fictional friends would claim to have allegiance toward the song during their drunken stupor and continued to play the song repeatedly over the course of days. For the first few days the station was on the air, the song continued to be played in an effort to spark word of mouth attention.
At first, WLLD's musical direction included a balanced mix of hit-driven R&B/Hip-Hop and Dance tracks, mostly to counter rival WFLZ-FM, a move that would pay off up until WBTP (WFLZ's sister station) debuted. Today, the station's playlist is atypical of most rhythmics as it consists of mostly hip-hop and R&B hits, thus is considered to be a rhythmic crossover by "Billboard". It also had competition from Rhythmic-leaning Top 40/CHR WPOI, which debuted in July 2011.
WLLD was located on the 98.7 frequency from May 15, 1998, until 5:00 p.m. on August 19, 2009, when it swapped frequencies with smooth jazz station WSJT (now the current WPBB). The first song played after the switch was Tone Loc's "Wild Thing", the same first song that was played when WLLD was first launched in 1998 when it was on the 98.7 frequency.
On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade all of their radio stations located in Charlotte and Tampa (including WLLD), as well as WIP (AM) in Philadelphia, to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in Miami and Philadelphia. The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.
The Last Damn Show and WiLD Splash
The Last Damn Show is an annual concert put on by WLLD. It is put on in late October or early November every year since 1999. The show got its title from being the "last damn show" before the world ended in Y2K; hence, in continuation with the world remaining unscathed. Past performers include Eminem, Lil Wayne, Destiny's Child, P. Diddy, Busta Rhymes, Bubba Sparxxx, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, Trick Daddy, Luke, Ludacris, Kanye West, and Twista among others. The concert was originally held at The St. Pete Times Forum, but is held in other locations, such as Tropicana Field. It has pulled in over 20,000 in attendance almost every year.
On the evening of September 11, 1999, WLLD broadcast the Last Damn Show concert live from 6 to 11 p.m. Because WLLD did not censor profane language and other instances of indecency from the broadcast, the Florida Family Association filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Association wanted the FCC to revoke WLLD's license. The FCC fined WLLD owner Infinity Broadcasting (now the defunct CBS Radio) $7,000 the following year. Infinity filed an appeal, but the FCC denied the appeal in 2004.
WiLDsplash is the annual concert during spring break out on by WLLD in Clearwater Beach. It has been a Bay Area staple since 2001 and pulls crowds in excess of 15,000 fans consistently. Past performers Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Bubba Sparxxx, 50 Cent, Sean Paul, Buju Banton, JoJo, 112, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Ziggy Marley, Young Jeezy, Stephen & Damian Marley among others.
The 'WILD' branding
WLLD uses the "WiLD" branding in Tampa. The brand has since been trademarked by Clear Channel Communications years later since the debut of WLLD, which is due to Clear Channel owning KYLD/San Francisco, who has used the "WiLD" branding since their launch in 1992.
References
External links
WiLD 94.1 Website
FCC History Cards for WLLD
LLD
Rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1967
LLD
1967 establishments in Florida |
Shart ( Hindi : शर्त, Translation : condition) is a 1954 black-and-white film directed by B. Mitra, starring Shyama, Deepak, Shashikala, I. S. Johar in lead roles. The music was given by Hemant Kumar and lyrics were written by S.H. Bihari. The film was produced by Filmistan and is loosely based on Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.
Cast
Shyama
Deepak
Shashikala
I.S. Johar
Soundtrack
The music of the film was composed by Hemant Kumar and lyrics were written by S.H. Bihari.
Reception
Cineplot said of the film, "Shart, to which filmgoers had been looking forward with expectations whetted by studio reports, was disappointing."
References
External links
1950s Hindi-language films
1954 films
Indian black-and-white films
Indian drama films
1954 drama films |
```java
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package org.apache.weex.performance;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import android.util.Log;
import org.apache.weex.WXEnvironment;
import org.apache.weex.WXSDKInstance;
import org.apache.weex.WXSDKManager;
import org.apache.weex.bridge.WXBridgeManager;
import org.apache.weex.common.WXErrorCode;
import org.apache.weex.common.WXJSExceptionInfo;
import org.apache.weex.ui.component.WXComponent;
import org.apache.weex.utils.WXUtils;
import org.json.JSONObject;
/**
* @author zhongcang
* @date 2018/2/28
*/
public class WXAnalyzerDataTransfer {
private static final String GROUP = "WXAnalyzer";
private static final String MODULE_ERROR = "WXError";
private static final String MODULE_WX_APM = "wxapm";
public static boolean isOpenPerformance = false;
public static final String INTERACTION_TAG = "wxInteractionAnalyzer";
private static boolean sOpenInteractionLog;
public static void transferPerformance(String instanceId,String type,String key,Object value)
{
if (!isOpenPerformance){
return;
}
if (sOpenInteractionLog && "stage".equals(type)){
Log.d(INTERACTION_TAG, "[client][stage]"+instanceId+","+key+","+value);
}
List<IWXAnalyzer> transferList = WXSDKManager.getInstance().getWXAnalyzerList();
if (null == transferList || transferList.size() == 0) {
return;
}
WXSDKInstance instance = WXSDKManager.getInstance().getAllInstanceMap().get(instanceId);
if (null == instance){
return;
}
String data;
try {
data = new JSONObject().put(key,value).toString();
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
Iterator<IWXAnalyzer> itr = transferList.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()){
IWXAnalyzer item = itr.next();
item.transfer(MODULE_WX_APM, instance.getInstanceId(), type, data);
}
}
public static void transferInteractionInfo(WXComponent targetComponent){
if (!isOpenPerformance){
return;
}
List<IWXAnalyzer> transferList = WXSDKManager.getInstance().getWXAnalyzerList();
if (null == transferList || transferList.size() == 0) {
return;
}
long renderOriginDiffTime = WXUtils.getFixUnixTime() - targetComponent.getInstance().getWXPerformance().renderUnixTimeOrigin;
String data;
try{
data = new JSONObject()
.put("renderOriginDiffTime",renderOriginDiffTime)
.put("type",targetComponent.getComponentType())
.put("ref",targetComponent.getRef())
.put("style",targetComponent.getStyles())
.put("attrs",targetComponent.getAttrs())
.toString();
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
for (IWXAnalyzer transfer : transferList) {
transfer.transfer(MODULE_WX_APM, targetComponent.getInstanceId(), "wxinteraction", data);
}
}
public static void transferError(WXJSExceptionInfo exceptionInfo, String instanceId) {
if (!WXEnvironment.isApkDebugable()) {
return;
}
List<IWXAnalyzer> transferList = WXSDKManager.getInstance().getWXAnalyzerList();
if (null == transferList || transferList.size() == 0) {
return;
}
WXSDKInstance instance = WXSDKManager.getInstance().getSDKInstance(instanceId);
if (null == instance) {
return;
}
WXErrorCode errorCode = exceptionInfo.getErrCode();
String data = "";
try {
data = new JSONObject()
.put("instanceId", instanceId)
.put("url", instance.getBundleUrl())
.put("errorCode", errorCode.getErrorCode())
.put("errorMsg", errorCode.getErrorMsg())
.put("errorGroup", errorCode.getErrorGroup())
.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
for (IWXAnalyzer transfer : transferList) {
transfer.transfer(GROUP, MODULE_ERROR, errorCode.getErrorType().toString(), data);
}
}
public static void switchInteractionLog(final boolean isOpen){
if ( sOpenInteractionLog == isOpen || !WXEnvironment.JsFrameworkInit){
return;
}
sOpenInteractionLog = isOpen;
//for jsfm && jsengin
//TODO wait for JSFramework
// WXBridgeManager.getInstance().post(new Runnable() {
// @Override
// public void run() {
// WXJSObject[] args = {new WXJSObject(isOpen?1:0)};
// WXBridgeManager.getInstance().invokeExecJS(
// "",
// null,
// "switchInteractionLog",
// args,
// false);
// }
// });
//for weex_core
WXBridgeManager.getInstance().registerCoreEnv("switchInteractionLog",String.valueOf(isOpen));
}
public static boolean isInteractionLogOpen(){
return sOpenInteractionLog;
}
}
``` |
Sonny Melendrez is an American radio and TV personality, motivational speaker and author.
Biography
Melendrez was born in Silver City, New Mexico.
Twice named Billboard Magazine's "Radio Personality of the Year", he is included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the Top 100 Radio Personalities of All Time. In 2004 he was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame and in 2017 he entered the San Antonio Radio Hall of Fame.
In the late 1960's, Melendrez was a DJ at KINT A.M. in El Paso, Texas. This was before the advent of KINT FM in the early 1970's.
In 1971 he was Program Director and on-air personality at KTSA radio in San Antonio.
In the 1970s, he guest hosted American Top 40 on several occasions and entertained on radio at KIIS, KMPC, KFI, KMGG and KRLA in Los Angeles.
He hosted the children's series You and Me Kid, on the Disney Channel in 1983-90.
In 1985, he returned to San Antonio, hosting morning drive radio shows on KTFM 1985-1997, KSMG 1997-2001, KLUP 2001-2003 and KAHL 2003-2005.
In 1997, the City of San Antonio named the Melendrez Community Center located on the city's West Side in his honor for his support of Parks and Recreation youth programs.
In 2005 he became a motivational keynote speaker, delivering presentations nationally and worldwide.
According to Melendrez' own on-line "mini biography", Melendrez is the voice of several characters in the cartoon show The Jetsons; he created many of the sounds heard in the Gremlins movie; was the bug who yelled 'Oh, no! It's Raaaaaaid!' in the popular TV commercial; played opposite Walter Matthau as the voice of Bob Cratchet in the animated TV classic, The Stingiest Man in Town; and was even the voice of the infamous Fred the Cockatoo in the '70s ABC TV series, Baretta.
Notes
External links
SonnyMelendrez.com
SonnyRadio.com
.
1946 births
Living people
Male actors from San Antonio
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Central Catholic Marianist High School alumni
University of Texas at El Paso alumni |
The New York Giants season was the franchise's 2nd season in the National Football League. They ended with an 8–4–1 regular season record and had one postseason appearance against the AFL Philadelphia Quakers, which the Giants won 31–0.
Schedule
Standings
See also
List of New York Giants seasons
External links
1926 New York Giants season at Pro Football Reference
New York Giants seasons
New York Giants
New York Giants
1920s in Manhattan
Washington Heights, Manhattan |
Kessinger Publishing, LLC is an American print-on-demand publishing company located in Whitefish, Montana, that specializes in rare, out-of-print books. According to Kelly Gallagher, vice president of publishing services at a bibliographic information company, Kessinger Publishing is part of a group of publishers that "are opening up new publishing venues by producing titles for very niche markets and also bringing public domain titles back to life." In 2009, the company produced 190,175 titles and was reported to be the third-largest producer of "non-traditional" books that year.
The Register (UK) reported in 2009 that volume 1 of a book by Lafcadio Hearn was not available for a full preview because it was marked as "copyrighted material" and offered for sale by Kessinger Publishing. According to the article, some "scholars were outraged" because the book was previously in the public domain and criticized Kessinger Publishing for making the Internet copy of the book "useless to scholars" by forcing them to purchase it.
References
External links
Book publishing companies based in Montana
Publishing companies established in 1988
Self-publishing companies |
Finland participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.
Athletics
Boys
Track & road events
Field events
Girls
Track & road events
Field events
Diving
Girls
Team
Golf
Individual
Team
Gymnastics
Artistic
Finland qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 European Junior Championship.
Individual Qualification
Individual Finals
Rhythmic
Finland qualified one rhythmic gymnast based on its performance at the European qualification event.
Girls' rhythmic individual all-around – 1 quota
Multidiscipline
Judo
Individual
Team
Shooting
Finland qualified one sport shooter based on its performance at the 2017 European Championships.
Individual
Team
Swimming
Boyss
Girls
Mixed
Table tennis
Singles
Team
References
2018 in Finnish sport
Nations at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Finland at the Youth Olympics |
Andrew O'Donnell is a Scottish actor and was a co-founder of the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance. He served as the director of the organisation from its conception before stepping down from the role on 30 June 2019.his age is currently 42.
As an actor, he is possibly best known for the role of Jimmy Guinness in the film The Greyness of Autumn.
Biography
From a young age, O'Donnell was keen on acting. At school he performed in a wide variety of productions and achieved Grade 8 in Musical Theatre from The London College of Music. After achieving an HND award in Acting and Performance at Langside College he went on to graduate from the University of the West of Scotland with a degree in Contemporary Screen Acting.
In 2011, he made a cameo appearance in the film Perfect Sense as a night clubber. He also provided the voice for the characters of Harbour Master and the Cameraman in the Scottish feature film In Search of La Che. The following year, he landed the role of Jimmy Guinness in the film The Greyness of Autumn. O'Donnell's performance was widely praised by critics with John McArthur of Moviescramble saying "His scene was laugh out loud funny and still raises a smile when thinking about it." Mark Bell of Film Threat wrote "Whether it's Jimmy the construction worker who has a mishap on the job or the awfully-wigged bartender, everyone buys into the general tone of dry and matter-of-fact delivery, even when conversing with a puppet or getting into a fight with one. It gives the entire experience a wonderful flavour."
O'Donnell has also performed in theatre including a version of The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter which was produced by the Hipshot Theatre company in Ayr. In preparation for the role, O'Donnell and his co-star Chris Taylor locked themselves in solitary confinement to appreciated the situations the characters are facing in the play.
Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance
O'Donnell co-founded the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance with Chris Quick in October 2011. The non-profit organisation hosts an online database with the details of film industry professionals and companies operating in and around the city of Glasgow.
In 2012, the alliance was invited by Stephen Paton of Production Attic to form what would become the Glasgow Creative Network which hosts networking events for media professionals in Glasgow.
In 2014, O'Donnell and Quick wrote an open letter on behalf of the independent filmmakers of Glasgow to the director of BAFTA Scotland, Jude MacLaverty. In the letter, the pair asked the film body to consider a proposal of including three new awards at the annual ceremony aimed at low budget / independent filmmakers. On 28 October, it was announced that the proposal would be placed on the agenda of the next Bafta Scotland Committee meeting in December 2014.
Roundsquare Roastery
In September 2013, O'Donnell became the head of sales and new business for the Roundsquare Roastery coffee company in Ayr.
Filmography
Film
Stage
References
External links
Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance Website
Andrew O'Donnell Ayr TV Interview
Living people
Scottish male film actors
Scottish male stage actors
21st-century Scottish male actors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The 2002 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, Europe's primary club football competition. The show-piece event was contested between Bayer Leverkusen of Germany and Real Madrid of Spain at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland on 15 May 2002 to decide the winner of the Champions League. Leverkusen appeared in the final for the first time, whereas Real Madrid appeared in their 12th final.
Each club needed to progress through two group stages, and two knockout rounds to reach the final. Real Madrid won their group and moved into the second group stage, which they also won, before facing the defending champions Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the knockout stage. Bayer Leverkusen finished second in their group behind Barcelona and progressed to the second group stage. There, they won their group, before beating the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United to progress to the final.
Before the match, a minute of silence was held in honour of Ukrainian manager Valeriy Lobanovskyi, who died two days earlier.
Real Madrid were regarded as favourites before the match and took the lead in the eighth minute through Raúl. Lúcio equalised five minutes later, before Zinedine Zidane scored the winning goal on the stroke of half-time, a left-footed volley into the top corner that has since gone down as one of the greatest goals in the history of the competition, to secure Real Madrid's ninth European Cup.
Teams
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.
Route to the final
Match
Details
Statistics
Post match
In the 2001–02 season, Bayer Leverkusen finished second in the Bundesliga and lost in the 2002 DFB-Pokal Final. After the match, Leverkusen manager Klaus Toppmöller expressed his disappointment on finishing this strong season without a title, stating: "the disappointment is huge – you don't always get the rewards you deserve in football, and no-one knows that better than us after what we have been through. We must seek consolation. Doing what we have done means we have had a very good season – but what has happened to us is difficult and makes us feel bitter."
Five Leverkusen players, Michael Ballack, Hans-Jörg Butt, Oliver Neuville, Carsten Ramelow, and Bernd Schneider went on to add a fourth silver medal at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. However, the gold medal-winning Brazil squad also included a Leverkusen player in Lúcio.
See also
2001–02 UEFA Champions League
Real Madrid CF in international football competitions
References
External links
2001–02 UEFA Champions League season at UEFA.com
Final
UEFA Champions League finals
International club association football competitions hosted by Scotland
European Cup Final 2002
European Cup Final 2002
U
Champions
Cham
International sports competitions in Glasgow
2000s in Glasgow
May 2002 sports events in the United Kingdom
Football in Glasgow |
Sun-hye, also spelled Seon-hye, Sun-hae, Sun-hay, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 55 hanja with the reading "sun" and 25 hanja with the reading "hye" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
People
People with this name include:
(born 1973), South Korean voice actress
Sunhye (born 2001, Hwang Sunhye), South Korean singer, member of SHA SHA
Sunhye (born 2003, Yang Sun-hye), South Korean actress
Sunhye (born 2004, Jeong Sunhye), South Korean singer, member of YOUNG POSSE
See also
List of Korean given names
References |
East Timorese passports are issued to citizens of East Timor to travel internationally. Until the UN finished its transitional work in East Timor, residents had to use a UN travel document to visit other countries until 2002 when the country officially became independent from UN control.
East Timor has begun to issue biometric passports on 6 June 2017.
See also
List of passports
Visa requirements for East Timorese citizens
References
Passports by country
Foreign relations of East Timor |
Platform 0 () is an exhibition project of the Madrid Metro consisting of the historical Estación de Chamberí, which has been out of service since 1966, and the Motores de Pacífico generator building. Visitors can view the restored 1919 station with its original ceramic billboards and antique furniture, as well as displays about the history of the Madrid Metro.
References
Madrid Metro
Museums in Madrid
Transport museums in Spain
History museums in Spain
Technology museums in Spain |
"The Bottle" is a song by American soul artist Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson, released in 1974 on Strata-East Records in the United States. It was later reissued during the mid-1980s on Champagne Records in the United Kingdom. "The Bottle" was written by Scott-Heron and produced by audio engineer Jose Williams, Jackson, and Scott-Heron. The song serves as a social commentary on alcohol abuse, and it features a Caribbean beat and notable flute solo by Jackson, with Scott-Heron playing keyboards.
The song was issued as the first and only single for Scott-Heron's and Jackson's album Winter in America (1974). It became an underground and cult hit upon its release, and the single peaked at number 15 on the R&B Singles Chart. Described by music critics as the album's best recording, the commercial success of "The Bottle" helped lead to Jackson's and Scott-Heron's next recording contract with Arista Records. Similar to other compositions by Scott-Heron, the song has been sampled extensively by hip hop artists.
The song describes the lives of the alcoholics living in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Composition
"The Bottle" is a social commentary on alcohol abuse with a Caribbean beat. Scott-Heron wrote it after seeing men line up every day in front of a liquor store called the Log Cabin in Washington, D.C., bringing back their empty bottles to get a discount on their next purchase. Scott-Heron said of his inspiration for the song in an interview for Newsnight, "I discovered one of them was an ex-physician, who'd been busted for abortions on young girls. There was an air traffic controller in the military - one day he sent two jets crashing into a mountain. He left work that day and never went back."
The song also became a popular song played at parties at the time. French music critic Pierre Jean-Critin later described it as "an epic song ... whose infectious groove can still set dance floors alight over thirty years later." The song's pop/dance sensibilities and social message engendered its appeal to listeners following its release as a single. Scott-Heron later said of the single's success and style, "Pop music doesn't necessarily have to be shit."
Cited by critics and music writers as Winter in Americas best track, "The Bottle" also addresses problems of drug addiction, abortion, and incarceration, while featuring Jackson on flute and Scott-Heron on keyboards. While its theme examines the plight of alcoholics and those who have to live with and cope with them, "The Bottle" became a concert favorite and one of Scott-Heron's most popular songs.
Release and reception
"The Bottle" was released in 1974 as the only single for Winter in America. The song became an underground and cult hit upon its release. Scott-Heron and Jackson's version peaked at number 98 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles on the week ending February 18, 1977. The single's success helped lead to Jackson's and Scott-Heron's next recording contract with Arista Records, where they would enjoy more commercial success.
"The Bottle" has been cited by critics as Winter in America's best song. Paul J. MacArthur of the Houston Press called it a "strong anti-alcohol rant with a funky bass hook and chilly flute fills." "The Bottle" was later ranked number 92 on NME's list of The Top 150 Singles of All-Time and was included in Q magazine's 1010 Songs You Must Own! publication.
Track listings and formats
These are the formats and track listings of the U.K. single releases of "The Bottle":
7" Single
A-side
"The Bottle" (Album version)
B-side
"The Bottle" (Sober mix)
12" Single
A-side
"The Bottle" (Drunken mix)
B-side
"The Bottle" (Short version)
"The Bottle" (Sober mix)
Personnel
Gil Scott-Heron – lead vocals, electric piano
Brian Jackson – flute
Danny Bowens – bass
Bob Adams – drums
Perpis-Fall Music, Inc. – producer
Jose Williams – engineer, production assistance
Charts
Covers
Later in 1974, shortly after the release of the original Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson recording, Funk/Soul group Brother to Brother released their own rendition of "The Bottle" with a similar orchestration as the original but slightly more straightforward and uptempo. The Brother to Brother version peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot Soul (R&B) Singles on the week ending October 5, 1974, and number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending November 16, 1974. To this day, it remains the band's signature tune and their biggest hit song to date.
Joe Bataan covered "The Bottle" as an instrumental for his 1975 album Afrofilipino, though slightly re-titled "The Bottle (La Botella)". It was released as a single and peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Soul (R&B) Singles on the week ending April 5, 1975. It became one of his most notable recordings from the album.
C.O.D. released a hit electro version of it in 1983.
The Christians covered "The Bottle" for their 1992 album Happy In Hell.
Paul Weller covered "The Bottle" for his 2004 album Studio 150.
British funk group Jamiroquai performed the song during their 1993 Emergency on Planet Earth Tour.
Notes
References
External links
"The Bottle" at Discogs
Song lyrics at Scott-Heron's website
Music video at YouTube
1974 songs
1974 singles
Gil Scott-Heron songs
Jazz-funk songs |
Bard was an unincorporated community in Louisa County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Geography
Bard was located at .
History
The Cedar Rapids and Burlington Railway Company built a rail line through the Louisa County communities of Morning Sun, Wapello, Bard, and Columbus Junction circa 1869.
Bard became one of 17 villages in the county, with Louisa County historian Arthur Springer in 1912 writing, "The county now has Wapello, Columbus Junction, Morning Sun, Columbus City, Oakville, Grandview, Lettsville, Cotter or Cotterville, Wyman, Cairo, Fredonia, Elrick Junction, Toolsboro, Marsh, Gladwin, Newport and Bard, being seventeen in all." The Bard post office began operations in 1876.
The community's population was 25 in 1890.
The Bard post office closed in 1901.
On April 27, 1929, a tornado hit the Bard area. The tornado damaged a swath of land two miles long and 220 yards wide, causing $2,100 in damages.
Bard's population was 15 in 1940.
See also
Toolesboro, Iowa
References
Unincorporated communities in Louisa County, Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Iowa |
The Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery is an Anglo-Saxon burial ground, dating to the second half of the 7th century AD, that was discovered at Street House Farm near Loftus, in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, England. Monuments dating back as far as 3300 BC are located in the vicinity of the cemetery, which was discovered after aerial photography revealed the existence of an Iron Age rectangular enclosure. The excavations, carried out between 2005 and 2007, revealed over a hundred graves dating from the 7th century AD and the remains of several buildings. An array of jewellery and other artefacts was found, including the jewels once worn by a young high-status Anglo-Saxon woman who had been buried on a bed and covered by an earth mound.
The woman's identity is unknown, but the artefacts and the layout of the cemetery are similar to finds in the east and south-east of England. There are contradictory indications of whether the occupants of the cemetery were Christian or pagan, as signs of both traditions are present. It perhaps represents a fusion of the two traditions during the "Conversion Period" when Christianity was taking hold among the Anglo-Saxons but pagan rituals had not yet been displaced, even among Christians. Archaeologists have suggested that the woman and at least some of the people buried around her may have migrated from the south, where bed burials were more common. They may all have been buried together within the space of a single generation, after which the cemetery was abandoned. The finds were acquired by Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, in 2009 and have been on display there since 2011.
Background
The vicinity of Street House Farm, located on Upton Hill to the north-east of the town of Loftus, has been known to archaeologists for some decades as an area of interest. An Early Neolithic long cairn and mortuary structure dating to about 3300 BC, on which a round barrow was built in the Early Bronze Age, was excavated over the course of three seasons between 1979 and 1981. In 1984, the archaeologist Blaise Vyner discovered the remains of an enigmatic structure that he dubbed the "Street House Wossit" (a contraction of "what-is-it"). This was a segmented circle of 56 wooden posts built around 2200 BC. In the centre of the structure, which was approximately wide, were two D-shaped posts encircled by a raised stone bank. After a short period of usage the Wossit was dismantled and the posts burned. Its purpose is unknown but it is likely to have had some kind of religious or cultic significance.
Excavations
One of those involved in the 1979–81 dig, archaeologist Steve Sherlock, decided to return to the site after aerial photographs revealed the presence of a rectangular Iron Age enclosure in the vicinity of the Bronze Age monuments. Initial excavations were carried out during ten days in September 2004. It was thought initially that the site was purely Iron Age or perhaps Romano-British. A more in-depth excavation was carried out in July 2005 after a geophysical survey revealed the existence of a large roundhouse, dating from the Iron Age, in the centre of the enclosure. The work revealed three roundhouses, several Iron Age ditches and a series of pits that were evidently graves. The latter came as a complete surprise and were found to date from the Anglo-Saxon period. Various artefacts dating to between 650 and 700 AD were excavated but no bones were recovered, as the acidic soil had destroyed any organic material long ago. Thirty graves were found during the initial excavation.
In 2006, the archaeologists returned to search for the settlement that they believed was associated with the graves. There are examples elsewhere, such as at Garton Green Lane Crossing in the Yorkshire Wolds, of 7th-century graves associated with prehistoric monuments, and it was initially thought that the Street House graves were a similar example. However, the excavation uncovered another twelve graves. It was realised that the cemetery was far larger than first thought, so the following year an archaeological survey of the entire site was attempted. A total of 109 graves was found by the end of the 2007 dig, forming a complex monument laid out in a unique square fashion around a central mound, a bed burial and a building that had possibly served as a mortuary.
Further excavations were carried out in 2010 and 2011 to examine a Neolithic cairn and a Bronze Age mound found near the cemetery, as well as to investigate two areas within the Iron Age enclosure. In 2012, a new excavation found the ruins of a sizeable Roman villa dating to around 370 AD, which had possibly been used by an important Romano-British chieftain. It was located only about south of the Saxon graves and would have been part of an agricultural estate.
Layout of the graves
The cemetery consists of neat lines of graves arranged on an east–west alignment, covering a nearly square area of about , in a layout not seen in any other known Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The enclosure within which the cemetery was laid out was many centuries older, dating to about 200 BC; the establishment of a cemetery within its boundaries was probably intended to serve as a deliberate link to the past. It would still have been clearly visible in Saxon times. The layout of the cemetery seem to have consciously reflected that of the earlier enclosure, with its apparent main entrance aligned with that of the enclosure.
Most of the graves were laid out in a highly ordered fashion with a double row on the north and south sides. Each grave was set apart on an east–west axis and apart north to south. None were intercut. They were arranged in a pattern that formed a square enclosure, with a gap in the southern side forming a main entrance and another smaller gap on the eastern side forming a secondary entrance or exit. The degree of precision visible in the layout strongly suggests that the cemetery was planned in advance.
There are several groups of graves, numbering around 22 per cent of the total, that do not fit into the overall square plan of the cemetery. A few of these seem to have been older burials, possibly Romano-British, but the others may have been laid out by different groups of people in Saxon times. The most notable of these "non-standard" burials is that of the woman dubbed the "Saxon Princess" near the very centre of the enclosure. Although her burial has attracted the most attention for the quality of its finds, it may not have been the most important grave in the cemetery. A second larger mound stood a short distance away, partly surrounded by a ring ditch. No burial was found within and the mound has been interpreted as a mausoleum or memorial to an important individual. It is noteworthy that the "Saxon Princess" and a number of burials in the cemetery's north-east quadrant were arranged in an arc around the mound, suggesting that it may have been seen as the focal point of the cemetery.
The discovery of the graves' east–west alignment has prompted suggestions that the cemetery reflected Christian tradition, although the evidence overall is contradictory about whether the occupants were Christians. The individual graves were fairly uniform in size, usually measuring long, wide and in their original form about deep. They had a rectangular plan with rounded corners and a flat base. The bodies were not interred in coffins; the graves' occupants were buried in their clothes, accompanied by various items that they owned or were given as tokens by mourners. Although none of the bodies have survived it is thought from their size that most of the graves were intended for women, laid out fully extended. A substantial number are too small for an adult of normal height to have been laid out in such a way and, judging from analogous Saxon graves found elsewhere in England, it is thought that these might have contained crouched burials. The two different methods of burial – crouched versus fully extended – may therefore indicate some difference in ethnic affiliations or political or religious identities.
Some of the graves are marked by plain triangular stones set at one end. These are not carved or inscribed with names as in Christian cemeteries, but are similar to markers found in pagan cemeteries. Some graves are interrupted by stakeholes cut into them, possibly indicating the presence of wooden poles that might have served as markers or supported wooden structures within the graves. This is unusual in the north of England, though comparable examples have been found in Kent in the south-east.
In addition to the graves, several buildings stood within the cemetery. A larger rectangular structure with an east-west alignment, identified from postholes left in the ground, stood on the east side. It has been interpreted as a chapel or shrine. A smaller grubenhaus – a type of sunken building – which is thought to have been used as a mortuary chapel was located close by in the central area of the cemetery. An Iron Age roundhouse had also once been located within the north-west quadrant but was no longer standing at the time the cemetery was laid out. All of these buildings would have stood on the crest of a ridge, and would have been especially prominent to travelers arriving from the south.
The cemetery seems to have been laid out on a single occasion and used for only a short time afterwards. It is thought that the mourners would have entered through the south side and assembled in the empty south-western area of the cemetery before proceeding to the shrine to carry out the burial rites. After interring the deceased in a grave they may have used the eastern entrance to leave the cemetery. Alternatively, different groups of people may have used the two entrances, perhaps reflecting the fact that some of the graves do not fit into the overall square plan and may therefore belong to a different group.
Artefacts
64 individual graves, comprising 59 per cent of the total in the cemetery, were found to contain artefacts. Certain types of artefact can help to identify the gender of the occupants; male graves, for instance, tend to contain weapons and tools, while female ones are associated with jewellery, shears and chatelaines (belt hooks) which were used to suspend keys or small tools. 34 of the graves contained such gender-specific goods, of which 19 were associated with females and 15 with males. The female graves seem to have been predominantly located in the north and west of the cemetery and the males in the south and east. It is possible that the paired graves may have been those of spouses, a pattern that is apparent from Saxon cemeteries elsewhere in the country.
15 of the graves contained beads and items of ironwork were found in 25 graves. A seax (a type of short sword with a blade on one edge) was found in grave 29 and was the only weapon found in the cemetery. The discovery of such weapons as grave goods is extremely rare, as their value meant that they were typically passed on from father to son rather than being buried with a person. It originally measured about long but had broken into four pieces, and part of the pommel and handle also survived. Its blade had been decorated with a punched pattern along the top edge. Smaller domestic knives were found in 19 graves as well as other items made of iron such as belt buckles and sets of keys. In grave 81, two whetstones for sharpening knives were discovered along with the knives themselves, one resting on top of each whetstone.
A variety of jewellery, beads, and charms was also found. 100 beads in total were recovered from 16 graves, though only two had more than 10 beads. The small number of beads found in the remaining 14 graves is indicative of how styles had changed; in the 6th century it was customary for women to wear up to 100 relatively plain beads at a time in the form of necklaces, but by the mid-7th century, the fashion was for a small number of high-quality beads which may have been attached with wire or carried in a bag. A very unusual discovery was made in grave 21 – the remnants of a necklace comprising eight beads and two Iron Age gold coins minted by the Corieltauvi tribe of modern Lincolnshire some time between 15–45 AD, before the Roman conquest of Britain. Holes had been drilled in the coins, which were more than 600 years old by the time they were buried, to convert them into items of jewellery. Their excellent condition suggests that they had not been used for long, or at all, as currency; it is possible that they had been part of a hoard buried shortly after they were minted and were rediscovered during Saxon times. The discovery of Roman coins in a Saxon grave of this period is unique to the Street House cemetery. It is likely that they were valued because of the cross-shaped designs on the coins' reverse.
An elaborate gold pendant was found in grave 10 along with three beads; all four had apparently been worn together on a chain or a thread, which did not survive. Although it is small – only in diameter – it is intricately decorated with a gold filigree in the shape of figures of eight (though the similarity in form to the numeral is merely coincidental). Its design is typical of jewellery made after 650 AD and comparable examples have been found elsewhere in Yorkshire. In grave 70, a gold pendant measuring in diameter was found during the 2007 excavation. It is decorated with elaborate filigrees like the brooch but it also incorporates four circular settings, each of which was inset with a red gemstone, though only two of the stones have survived. Several beads were found alongside the pendant and seem to have been part of the necklace of which it was a part.
The "Saxon Princess" bed burial
The most important grave, and the most spectacular set of artefacts, was found near the centre of the cemetery. Grave 42 was a deep, wide pit in which a high-status individual was buried on top of a wooden bed with iron fittings. The body lying on the bed was most likely that of a woman of very high-ranking noble descent, possibly royalty, as the quantity and quality of the jewellery found in the grave is indicative of a woman ranking at the top of Anglo-Saxon society. Such burials are highly unusual; only a dozen are known in the whole of the UK, and the one at Street House is the most northerly known.
Although nothing remains of either the body or the bed, surviving artefacts and the 56 pieces of ironwork that held the bed together have enabled the burial to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The bed was made from ash wood, held together with a variety of iron plates, cleats, staples, nails, stays, and decorative scrolls. It measured and may once have been roofed with an ornamental awning or canvas, perhaps made of cloth draped over timber posts. Traces of mineralised cloth and either grass or reed were found still attached to some of the nails, indicating the possible nature of the mattress. Two pieces of ironwork showed signs of repair and reuse, suggesting that the bed had been in use some time before the burial and was not specially made for the interment. This raises the possibility that the bed was either that of the deceased woman or a significant bed of some other person. It may have been dismantled elsewhere, brought to the cemetery and reassembled and repaired so that it could be used for the burial.
The jewellery consists of three gold pendants, two glass beads, one gold wire bead, and a fragment of a jet hair pin. The pendants and beads all seem to have been strung together, probably forming a necklace that was in place around the neck of the body. Two of the pieces consist of gold cabochon pendants inset with jewels, while the third is a very elaborate shield-shaped jewel inlaid with 57 red garnets and a larger scallop-shaped gem in the centre. The garnets rest on a thin layer of gold leaf to reflect the light and increase their luminosity. It may have been created from recycled older pieces of jewellery, as the size, shape and thickness of the individuals garnet are all different.
The quality of the piece is outstanding and comparable to that of the artefacts found at the famous Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. Its design is unique and has no known parallels elsewhere in Anglo-Saxon jewelcrafting; its creator must have been one of the best craftworkers in the country at the time. Its shape is a significant link with early Christianity. The scallop had long been associated with love, fertility and birth and was a symbol of the classical goddesses Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, who was said to have floated ashore on a scallop shell (as in Sandro Botticelli's famous depiction of The Birth of Venus). By the 4th century, however, Christians had adopted the scallop as a symbol of rebirth through baptism and life as a journey towards a heavenly reunion with God. It came to be particularly associated with pilgrimages and was later adopted as a pilgrim's badge.
An analysis conducted using X-ray fluorescence has found that the pendant was made from a highly debased gold alloy, with only 37% of the alloy consisting of gold and the remainder consisting of silver with some copper. It is likely that the gold came from melted-down coins of the Merovingian dynasty of Francia. The Frankish currency underwent a similar debasing at around this time. The link with Francia is illustrative of the trading and cultural links that existed between Anglo-Saxon England and continental Europe at the time.
A grave found a short distance away also contained jewellery, including a gold pendant, silver brooch, and glass beads. It is thought that the occupant may have had a close connection with the woman in the bed burial – perhaps a relative or a lady-in-waiting who was buried with her mistress.
Interpretations and historical context
At the time of the cemetery's use in the latter part of the 7th century, Britain was divided into a number of kingdoms ruled by different ethnic groups – the native Picts in the north (in what is now Scotland), the native Britons in the west of what is now England, Wales and south-western Scotland, and the immigrant Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the east and south of modern England and south-eastern Scotland. Until the early 7th century, the north-east of England and parts of Scotland were ruled by two Saxon kingdoms: Deira in modern Yorkshire, and Bernicia from north of the River Tees to the Firth of Forth. By the time of the burials the two kingdoms had merged to form the powerful kingdom of Northumbria.
There were considerable connections – political, trading, and cultural – between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and this is demonstrated in the burial ground found at Street House. The practice of burying people in beds seems to have been very uncommon in the north; most of the bed burials found so far have been in southern England, in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, and Wiltshire. Several of the brooches and beads found in the graves are thought to have come from Kent and some of the jewellery and beadwork has strong parallels with finds from East Anglia. The Iron Age gold coins found in one grave came from a tribe that lived in the East Midlands, which suggests that their owner, likewise, was not local.
The identity of the woman in the bed is not known, but the archaeologists who excavated the site have suggested that she was "a female member of the local aristocracy, probably a princess and an outsider, whose personal status was strong enough to act as a catalyst for the site" and that her companions were similarly "a group of people of high status from outside the region." Average life expectancy at the time was short – only 32 years for men and 28 years for women – so it is possible that the cemetery was used exclusively by members of the "princess's" community and ceased to be used when the last member died. This would fit with its short period of usage, perhaps only 30 years or so, judging from the age of the artefacts found during the excavations. Steve Sherlock, the site's discoverer, believes that she was buried first and that the other graves were dug around hers afterward. Next to her grave is a probable male grave, to which it may be linked. The close proximity of the graves and their offset from the rest of the graves in the cemetery raises questions about whether the occupants were related.
The cemetery provides some hints to the woman's local connections and religious affiliations. She was buried around or soon after the time when St. Hilda of Whitby was active in the region, first at Hartlepool Abbey, then at Whitby Abbey, which was founded in 657. The woman may well have known St. Hilda, who came from a similar aristocratic background and had lived for a while in East Anglia, where bed burials were more common. It is unclear, however, whether the woman was also a Christian. Features such as the typically Christian east-west orientation of the graves have been cited in support of a Christian affiliation, but on the other hand the cemetery was built on an ancient pagan site and there is no obvious reason why a Christian princess would not have been buried at Whitby alongside fellow Christians. As Christianity was spreading across the region at this time, the possible Christian features of the cemetery could be due simply to local social convention favouring some Christian styles in burial rituals, even for non-Christians. Steve Sherlock considers the bed burial to be "stridently pagan, a sort of rare, female equivalent of ship burials, as she is laid out on a vehicle to deliver her to the afterworld," however, and he suggests that she may have been the centre of a pagan cult that was active alongside local Christians.
Others have argued that the cemetery represents a fusion of Christian and pagan Saxon customs. It was not until the end of the 7th century that the practice of burying people in consecrated ground around a church became the norm. There are examples of known Christians being buried in an ostensibly pagan fashion, as was the case for the late 7th century Kentish princess Eormengyth, sister of the abbess of Minster-in-Thanet. She was buried in a traditional tumulus a mile east of her sister's minster. John Blair argues that the Church in early Saxon England may have tolerated Christians being given pagan burial rites due to the 'Christianising' effect this would have had on a pagan site. This would have been consistent with the advice given by Pope Gregory the Great in 601 that Saxon shrines should be converted to Christian use, rather than being destroyed, and that pagan festivals and rites should be converted into Christian ones. On this interpretation, the cemetery may symbolise the continuity between the pagan past and the increasingly Christianised present.
Conservation, acquisition and display
The discovery was announced on 20 November 2007 and several of the finds were displayed to the press at Kirkleatham Museum near Redcar. Ashok Kumar, the local Member of Parliament at the time, lent his support to a campaign to keep the artefacts in Redcar and Cleveland, saying: "It's essential they are kept in this area at Kirkleatham Museum and not merely deposited at a museum in London where there would be no guarantee of permanent display. I ... want to see these treasures kept here so local people and schoolchildren can view them as part of their local heritage and as an aid to their understanding of the past." The Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, confirmed in a House of Commons debate that the British Museum would not object to Kirkleatham acquiring the finds.
The Teesside coroner held an inquest on 12 October 2008 that found that the finds were treasure trove under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996. The rules of treasure trove require that a panel of experts determine the market value of a find, half of which is paid to the finder and the other half to the landowner. However, the landowner at Street House waived his share because he wanted to ensure that a local museum would be able to purchase the artefacts. The Heritage Lottery Fund provided Kirkleatham Museum with a grant of £274,000 to fund the purchase and create a new Anglo-Saxon gallery to display the artefacts.
The finds were purchased by the museum in April 2009 and underwent conservation by specialists at Durham University and York Archaeological Trust. Using tools of the Anglo-Saxon period, a replica of the bed was created for the exhibition by Richard Darrah, an expert in early woodwork, and blacksmith Hector Cole, a crafter of medieval-style ironwork. A short film about the princess was made at the Anglo-Saxon museum at Bede's World in Jarrow with a narration by Stephen Tompkinson. Prior to the opening of the exhibition at Kirkleatham, the finds were put on display for five days in May 2011 at Loftus Town Hall, where they attracted nearly 1,700 visitors.
The exhibition at Kirkleatham has proved extremely popular; by October 2011 it had already attracted more than 28,000 visitors in only four months. In April 2012 the exhibition attracted further praise when the museum won the prestigious Renaissance Museum title at the annual Journal and Arts Council Awards.
See also
List of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
List of Anglo-Saxon bed burials
References
Bibliography
Further reading
A Royal Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Street House, Loftus, North-East Yorkshire. Stephen J. Sherlock (2012).
External links
Saxon Princess Exhibition, Kirkleatham Museum
Anglo-Saxon burial practices
Archaeological sites in North Yorkshire
2005 archaeological discoveries
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Stephen Lack (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian artist and former actor and screenwriter best known for his leading role in David Cronenberg's Scanners and Allan Moyle's The Rubber Gun, for which he was nominated for two Genie Awards.
Early life and education
Lack was born in 1946 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and gained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from McGill University in 1967, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Universidad de Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1969.
Career
Although he also produces drawings and sculpture, his primary medium is painting; he specializes in American scenes (urban, cultural, and landscapes) in a style that has been described as Neo-Expressionist. His art has won a number of awards and residencies.
He was artist in residence at Ancienne Manufacture Royale, Limoges, and Banff Institute of the Arts in 1988, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan in 1989, and Connecticut College and Skidmore College in 1999. He received awards in the "Painting" category from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and 1993, and the Canada Council for the Arts in 1991. In 2018 Xeno-Optic with the assistance of the Research Services office at St. Thomas University in Canada published a 136-page text on the drawings of Stephen Lack titled There is a War, with an essay by Virgil Hammock, and a foreword by Ronald Edsforth. The text reflects Stephen Lack's ability to see the world dominated by American conflicts as Goya saw his world in his work The Disasters of War, or Jacques Callot's Les Grandes Misères de la guerre (The Great Miseries of War).
The best-known films in which he appeared are Scanners in 1981 and Dead Ringers in 1988, but he has also appeared in cameo roles and independent films. Credits include Montreal Main (1974), The Rubber Gun (1978, which he also co-wrote with Allan Moyle, receiving nominations for Genie Awards for both Performance and Screenplay), Head On (aka Deadly Passion, 1980); Perfect Strangers (1984), and All the Vermeers in New York (1990).
Personal life
He lives and works in New York, and is the father of Asher Lack, front-man of the band Ravens & Chimes.
Filmography
Montreal Main (1974; also writer) – Steve
The Angel and the Woman (1977) – Boss
The Rubber Gun (1977; also writer) – Steve
Head On (1980) – Peter Hill
Scanners (1981) – Cameron Vale
A 20th Century Chocolate Cake (1984)
Perfect Strangers (1984) – Lt. Burns
Dead Ringers (1988) – Anders Wolleck
All the Vermeers in New York (1990) – Mark
Ernstfall in Havanna (2002)
Awards and nominations
1980 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: The Rubber Gun (nominated)
1980 Genie Award for Best Screenplay: The Rubber Gun (nominated)
References
External links
Arts & Minds, bravo.ca
Video profile, akamai.com
Journal of Contemporary Art, NYC, 1988
1946 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
21st-century Canadian painters
Canadian male film actors
Male actors from Montreal
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
Postmodern artists
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The Light Tank Mark I to Mark V were a series of related designs of light tank produced by Vickers for the British Army during the interwar period.
Between the First and Second World Wars, the British produced a series of similar light tanks. They saw use in training, and in limited engagements with British Empire units such as the South African Army during the East African Campaign of 1941. All were around in weight and capable of on roads and around cross-country.
The British did not expect their light tanks to be used against anything except other light tanks at most and as such armament was a machine gun only—Vickers machine guns firing either a .303 inch or .0.5 inch (12.7 mm) round. Suspension was Horstmann coil spring on bogies. The engine was a Meadows six-cylinder petrol. Up until the Mk V, they were crewed by a driver-commander and gunner. The Mk V had a driver, a gunner and a commander helping on the gun.
The various marks were produced in relatively small numbers. By the Mark V, the design was more or less optimised and it was the final development of in the form of the Light Tank Mk VI which was chosen for the British Army expansion programme in expectation of war.
The following designations in the sequence Light Tank Mk VII "Tetrarch" and Light Tank Mk VIII "Harry Hopkins" were produced by Vickers but unrelated to the series of light tanks Mk I to Mark VI.
Development
Tankettes
Following the activities of the Experimental Mechanized Force in the late 1920s, the British Army identified a need for two light tracked vehicles; one to carry a machine gun for the infantry and one with a turret for the Royal Tank Corps. The Carden-Loyd tankette became the infantry vehicle, at the same time Carden privately developed a number of light, two-man tank designs. The Carden Mark VII design was accepted as a prototype for the army's light tank. By that point Carden-Loyd was part of Vickers-Armstrong. Only a few of the first light tanks were built and, although never issued per se, gave useful information for subsequent developments.
The Mark VII was a small machine gun-armed vehicle with a Meadows engine which gave it a maximum speed of . Suspension was two 2-wheel leaf sprung bogies on either side with an external girder to give the suspension strength. Considered a reconnaissance vehicle and a mobile machine gun position, the Mark VI was the final stage of development of the Carden-Loyd series of tankettes. The Carden-Loyd tankette was the prototype for the Universal Carrier.
Tank, Light, Mk I
The Mark I differed in a few points from Carden's Mark VII tankette. The external suspension girder was dropped by strengthening the suspension at the hull supports. The bevelled turret was replaced by a cylindrical design but still carried a single 0.303 Vickers machine gun. Giving it a "basis" of armour, increased weight and dropped the top speed to .
The Meadows engine drove the tracks though a four-speed gearbox to the front drive wheels. Steering was a combination of de-clutching the drive to one track and braking to tighten the turn. The track was tensioned by a rear idler—which, being set at the same height as the drive sprocket, was new in British tank designs—and returned over three rollers.
The Mark IA had a larger superstructure and a larger turret to give room for operating the machine gun. Horstmann suspension with horizontal coil springs replaced the leaf springs of the Mark I. Although it could give an easy ride under moderate conditions, the springs could, under certain circumstances, cause an uncontrollable bounce. The engine was also changed to a Ricardo diesel engine.
The Mark IA tanks sent to India in 1931 for trials received modifications to improve engine cooling in the hotter climate and various means were experimented with to reduce the heat for the crew as well.
Mk I: four or five made, based on the Carden-Loyd Mk VIII
Mk IA: nine produced, four of these were sent for trials in India
Tank, Light, Mk II
The Mark II used a Rolls-Royce engine which was, along with the Wilson preselector gearbox and transmission, on the right-hand side of the tank. This left the left-hand side free for the driver and commander. Tanks for use in India had an Meadows engine and a "crash" gearbox. The turret was rectangular in form and the machine-gun was modified for vehicle use with a pistol grip instead of the spade grips of the infantry version.
MK II: 16 built by Vickers Armstrong from 1929
Mk IIA: 29 constructed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
Mk IIB: 21 built by Vickers-Armstrong
The running gear of the Vickers Light Dragon Mark I artillery tractor used the tracks and suspension of the Light Tank Mk II, and that of the Light Dragon Mark IIA used the components from the Light Tank Mk IIA.
Tank, Light, Mk III
The Mark III light tank suspension was made out of Horstmann coil springs controlling bogies with two rubber-lined wheel sets per bogie. This design, invented by Sidney Horstmann and exclusively used on lightweight vehicles, was also used up to the Light Tank Mk VI. Apart from being relatively easy to build, compact and lightweight, it had the advantage of having a long travel and was easy to replace when damaged in the field. The drive sprocket was in the front while the idler-wheels were placed in the rear, with two return rollers. Power came in the form of a Henry Meadows six-cylinder petrol engine, producing , coupled with a four-speed preselector gearbox. Steering was a combination of de-clutching the drive to one track and braking to increase the turn. The traverse of the turret was electrically actuated.
Forty-two produced from 1934. Rolls-Royce engine and Wilson gearbox. Extended rear superstructure. Revised suspension. Thirty-six sent to Egypt.
The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ordered 73 Mk IIIBs in 1937 and they were used during the Dutch East Indies campaign against Japan
Modified for Belgium as the Vickers T-15 light tank
A single Vickers Light Dragon Mark IIB artillery tractor (which used the chassis and running gear from the Light Tank Mk III) was purchased by Belgium. It was considerably modified to produce the much heavier T-13 B3 tank destroyer armed with a 47 mm Model 1931 anti-tank gun. These vehicles were made in Belgium under licence in Familleureux, Hainaut, by the .
Tank, Light, Mk IV
The Mark IV saw use in training, and weighed about five tonnes. These models had crews of two and were armed with Vickers machine guns. The idler wheels were removed, with the bogie wheels being respaced. The design once again used a Meadows built engine this time rated for 90 HP.
29 of the Mk IV A version are sent to India. These had their turret extended upwards. The British 9th Armoured Car and Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps, were equipped with Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mk.IV Light Tanks. They were sent to the North-West Frontier of India and took part in the 1936-1939 Waziristan campaign against the fiercely independent Pashtun tribesmen that inhabited that mountainous region. They were led by the religious leader Mirzali Khan and deployed guerrilla tactics of ambush and were not drawn into a decisive battle with the well trained and numerically superior British troops. The use of bullet-proof machine-gun armed tanks and air attacks by six RAF squadrons to support the infantry saw the support for Mirzali Khan begin to wane. In 1940 the North-West Frontier quietened down with only the occasional raid on a village by the tribesmen. It remained this way until 1947 and the end of British rule, and the founding of the independent state of Pakistan. Although some were still in use at the start of World War Two, they were removed as not fit for service in armoured divisions.
A Vickers design of 1933, 34 built from 1934.
A surviving MkIV is the oldest running tank in the collection of The Tank Museum,Bovington.
Tank, Light, Mk V
The biggest change from the Mark IV to the Mark V was the introduction of a three-man crew. The turret now carried the commander and the gunner, who was also the radio operator. The increase in the crew size increased the tank's effectiveness and spread the maintenance load. Until then, the commander had to direct the driver, navigate and operate the gun. If troop commander, he also directed the other tanks and their fire.
The armament of the Mark V was an improvement over the earlier marks; a 0.5 inch Vickers machine gun was added to the existing 0.303. The bigger gun gave the tank a reasonable capability against other light tanks—at the time most European light tanks had around of armour—but it was not updated as light tanks with more armour came into use. It was half a ton heavier—and about 18 inches longer—than the Mark IV. The weight increase had the effect of reducing the top speed to though range was largely unchanged. The first tanks produced were sent along with a team from Vickers to the 1st Battalion RTC. This unusual level of co-operation between manufacturer and user led to rapid resolution of problems and implementation of improvements. During 1936, 22 were produced.
Light Tank Mk VI
The Light Tank Mk VI was a continuation of the Mark V design. It also had a three-man crew but a larger turret to accommodate a radio set and had an 88 hp engine for higher speed, despite the heavier weight. Between 1936 and 1940, over 1,300 Mark VIs were built, in several variants that represented solutions to problems with the initial design.
Commercial Carden-Loyd tanks
The basic form of the light tank was used by Vickers for export markets. This included the 1933, 1934, 1936 and 1937 models. Buyers included Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, the Dutch East Indies and China.
Forty-two were produced for Belgium in 1935, based on the Mark III with a different turret on request of Belgium's armed forces. Armed with a French 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine gun, they were designated Char Léger de Reconnaissance Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mod.1934 T.15 by the Belgians.
After two tanks had been bought for trials in 1937, the Dutch East Indies in 1938 ordered a further 73 tanks of the 1936 model, which was "mechanically similar" to the Mark IV but with a hexagonal turret and the armament of a Mark II. Only 20 tanks arrived in Java before the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe, and those which were not delivered were taken into service with the British Army as the "Tank Light, Vickers Carden-Loyd, Model 1936" - in practice they were referred to by the nickname "Dutchman". They were used for training duties only. A number of these tanks were delivered to Greece.
Service history
The light tanks were kept in use for training until around 1942. Some saw active use in the Battle of France, the Western desert or Abyssinia from 1940–1941. They were followed by the Light Tank Mk VI from 1936. Like many of its predecessors, the Mark VI was used by the British Army to perform imperial policing duties in British India and other colonies in the British Empire, a role for which it and the other Vickers-Armstrongs light tanks were found to be well suited.
See also
Tanks of the interwar period
Tanks in World War II
Comparison of early World War II tanks
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
WWII vehicles
Light tanks Mk I, Mk II/III, Mk IV/V at ww2photo.mimerswell.com.
Interwar tanks of the United Kingdom
World War II light tanks
History of the tank |
In geometry, the Cramer–Castillon problem is a problem stated by the Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer solved by the Italian mathematician, resident in Berlin, Jean de Castillon in 1776.
The problem consists of (see the image):
Given a circle and three points in the same plane and not on , to construct every possible triangle inscribed in whose sides (or their elongations) pass through respectively.
Centuries before, Pappus of Alexandria had solved a special case: when the three points are collinear. But the general case had the reputation of being very difficult.
After the geometrical construction of Castillon, Lagrange found an analytic solution, easier than Castillon's. In the beginning of the 19th century, Lazare Carnot generalized it to points.
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Geometry |
Westbury is a hamlet on the border of the Town of Victory in Cayuga County and the Town of Butler in Wayne County, New York, United States. It is located four miles (6 km) south of the Village of Red Creek and six miles (10 km) east of the Village of Wolcott, at an elevation of 400 feet (122 m). The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are Westbury Cut-off Road (CR 267), Westbury Road (CR 266, CR 268) and Victory Road (CR 108). N.Y. Route 370 passes just west of Westbury. The hamlet is a short drive from N.Y. Route 104, N.Y. Route 104A and Ridge Road (CR 163).
Butler Correctional Facility, a New York State medium security prison, was located just west of the hamlet. It closed on July 26, 2014.
References
Hamlets in Cayuga County, New York
Hamlets in Wayne County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state) |
The Algerian U21 Cup is an Algerian football competition run by Algerian Football Federation for under-21 sides. The competition was launched in 2011 and is open exclusively to clubs playing in the top two divisions of Algerian football.
JSM Béjaïa won the inaugural edition of the competition by beating ASO Chlef 2–0 in the 2012 final.
Results
Winners table
References
2011 establishments in Algeria
Youth football in Algeria
Football cup competitions in Algeria
Recurring sporting events established in 2011 |
Jürgen Wielert (born 5 July 1960) is a retired German football midfielder.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Bundesliga players
VfL Bochum players
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players
DSC Wanne-Eickel players
Men's association football midfielders |
Larry Glick (May 16, 1922 – March 26, 2009) was an American talk radio host, based in Boston, Massachusetts, who presented a long-running show on WBZ and later WHDH through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His broadcast at WBZ covered 38 states, Larry was well known wherever he went and was liked by all. A memorable part of his broadcasts were the countless people who would call in to talk about anything and everything, from personal problems to worldly problems. In his heyday many would say he ran the nighttime airways. Larry was known for his easy going manner and great sense of humor.
In Boston, Glick's all-night show went out first over WMEX in 1965. In 1967, he was hired by WBZ, where he worked for the next 20 years. Glick ended his radio career at WHDH in 1992.
From his retirement until 2007, Glick was the Ambassador of Good Will for the Legal Sea Foods Restaurant in the Boca Raton Mall in Florida. In September 2008, he was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame at Massasoit Community College in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Outside of his broadcasting career, Glick was trained as a pilot and was a founding partner in a commercial hypnotherapy business in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Glick died on March 26, 2009, following complications during open-heart surgery.
References
External links
The Larry Glick Pictures and Audio Page by Buffalonian Steve Cichon
The Boston Radio Dial: WBZ(AM)
Nickerblog "Glick University"
Northeast Airchecks
Jerry Williams Memories
The Larry Glick Tribute Site
The Larry Glick Podcast Page - Over 100 Larry Glick air checks from 1976 and 1977
The Larry Glick Podcast Page 2 - Larry Glick air checks from 1978 onward
American talk radio hosts
Radio personalities from Boston
1922 births
2009 deaths |
Bror Jonny Danielson (born 4 September 1964) is a retired Swedish 5000m runner who has also competed at the 1988 as well as in the 1992 Summer Olympics representing Sweden.
See also
Sweden at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Sweden at the 1992 Summer Olympics
References
External links
Sports reference
1964 births
Living people
Swedish male long-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Sweden
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics |
D+H (originally Davis & Henderson) was a Canadian global payments and lending technology provider serving nearly 8,000 financial institutions, specialty lenders, community banks, credit unions, governments and corporations, including Canada's five largest banks. D+H was headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and had more than 5,500 employees in 15 countries, with annual revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. Following its acquisition of Harland Financial Solutions in 2013, over a third of D+H's business was based in the US.
D+H was ranked 21st on IDC Financial Insights's Top 100 FinTech Rankings, and 25th on American Banker's Top 100 Companies in FinTech.
In 2017, D+H was acquired for $4.8 billion by Vista Equity Partners, an American private equity firm. Vista then merged the company with British software provider Misys. The merged company was relaunched in June 2017 and rebranded as Finastra.
History
In 1875, D+H was founded as Davis & Henderson, a Canadian manufacturer specializing in bookbinding and printing. By the latter part of the 1890s, Canadian financial institutions began to form a significant portion of D+H's customer base.
In the 1960s, D+H started to produce printed cheques with Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) encoding and began printing individually personalized bank cheques. It continued to focus on the cheque business through the 1970s and 1980s.
Following a series of acquisitions starting in 2005, D+H shifted its business to providing financial technology services globally. However, a third of D+H's revenue still came from printing and supplying cheques. In 2016, D+H integrated blockchain distributed ledger technology into its payments platform.
D+H went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in January 2011. It acquired Mortgagebot and ASSET Inc. in 2011, Avista Solutions in 2012, Harland Financial Solutions and Compushare in 2013, and Fundtech in 2015.
References
External links
Companies based in Toronto
Financial technology companies
Business software companies
Business services companies established in 1875
Financial services companies established in 1875
Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange |
Rock Ethos, Launched in 2008, is an annual rock music festival which aims to promote anti-piracy. The festival's mission also revolves around encouraging bands to present original songs instead of cover versions. Indian rock bands are allocated 45 minutes to perform their original compositions at the festival. In an attempt to recreate an international rock festival experience, Rock Ethos offers a carnival atmosphere with bungee jumping, paintball contests, and food and refreshment zones serving as added attractions.
Rock Ethos 2008
External links
References
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/feb152008/metro2008021452287.asp
Rock festivals in India |
Frank Kechele (born 3 September 1986 in Nördlingen, Bavaria) is a German racing driver. He has competed in such series as Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. He won the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in 2007 for Motopark Academy by winning eight races and beating Tobias Hegewald and Valtteri Bottas to the title.
Complete GT1 World Championship results
References
External links
Official website
1986 births
Living people
People from Nördlingen
Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria)
German racing drivers
Nordic Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
Dutch Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
German Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC drivers
FIA GT1 World Championship drivers
Racing drivers from Bavaria
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
Abt Sportsline drivers
Motopark Academy drivers
24H Series drivers
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers |
Dharanboodhoo (Dhivehi: ދަރަނބޫދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Faafu Atoll.
Geography
The island is southwest of the country's capital, Malé.
Demography
References
Islands of the Maldives |
Sokolniki Wielkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaźmierz, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Szamotuły and north-west of the regional capital Poznań.
References
Villages in Szamotuły County |
The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge in Highland Park, Los Angeles, is more than long and crosses the Arroyo Seco Parkway at an elevation of over . It is the tallest and longest railroad span in the city of Los Angeles, and most likely the oldest such structure still in use.
The bridge crosses the lower part of the Arroyo Seco, a watershed canyon from the San Gabriel Mountains.
The Santa Fe Arroyo Seco bridge, built in 1896, replaced the 1889 wooden trestle used by the Southern California Railway, which was a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad. The 1889 bridge, designed by Santa Fe's chief structural engineer Fred T. Perris, replaced the original 1885 wooden trestle bridge built by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. Rail service ended in 1994 and in the late 1990s, the bridge was retrofitted to accommodate the Los Angeles Metro's Gold Line (now the A Line since 2023) light rail system which opened on July 26, 2003.
Advocated by the Highland Park Heritage Trust and Charles J. Fisher, the bridge was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 339 on January 22, 1988.
See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
History of Trains in Pasadena
Southern Transcon
Union Station (Los Angeles)
Southwest Chief
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Highland Park (Los Angeles Metro station)
South Pasadena (Los Angeles Metro station)
References
External links
Bridges in Los Angeles County, California
Railroad bridges in California
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)
Highland Park, Los Angeles
Steel bridges in the United States
Bridges completed in 1896
1896 establishments in California
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Historic American Engineering Record in California
Trestle bridges in the United States
L Line (Los Angeles Metro) |
The Magic Circle Club was an award-winning Australian children's television show, produced at ATV Channel 0 (now ATV-10) from 23 January 1965 to 1967.
The program's style came from live pantomime and classic fairy tales. It often featured music, original songs and dance routines. Some older female characters were performed by males, in pantomime dame style.
Godfrey Philipp was the producer and director, with many scripts and song lyrics by John-Michael Howson. Max Bartlett became a regular script writer in addition to his on-screen roles. Music was by Bruce Rowland and scenery designs by Brian Thomson.
The show was hosted by Nancy Cato, cousin of the author of the same name. A later addition to the regular cast was Liz Harris, who also took over as hostess when Nancy Cato suffered temporary paralysis and had to use a wheelchair.
In 1966, the TV series won the first Logie Award presented to a children's show, for Outstanding Contribution To Children's Television.
Characters
Regular characters were denizens of the Magic Forest: mute Fredd Bear (Tedd Dunn, also the costume designer); shrill Fee Fee Bear (John-Michael Howson, billed as John Howson); feisty Mother Matilda Hubbard (Fred Tupper, a former radio star); sensible Max (Max Bartlett); Shirley Temple analog Curley Dimples (played by adult Gael Dixon, also the show's choreographer); beautiful enchantress Crystal Ball (Gabrielle Hartley) and her pet, Hep Cat (Nola Finn); Marlena DeWitch (Marion Weir); and villainous Sir Jasper Crookly (Ernie Bourne) and his henchman Gaspar Goblin (Colin McEwan).
Recurring guest characters included BoBo the clown (Charles "Hal" Turner), Montmorency James Rabbit (Ernie Bourne), Sebastian Bear (Gael Dixon), and Aunty Vale (Bunney Brooke). Twoddle & Boddle (Laurie Allen and Bobby Bright, aka Bobby & Laurie of The Go!! Show) were analogs of Tweedledee & Tweedledum, characters the pair had played previously in a pantomime. Max Bartlett often played additional guest characters, including Harley Quin, a harlequin performer, King Size of nearby Enchantmentland, wicked innkeeper Simon Sneak of the Cross and Bones, or Mother Hubbard's accident-prone great-nephew, Claude Clumsy. Ernie Bourne and Colin McEwan often doubled up roles to play guest villains. Even Nancy Cato played a chambermaid, Sweet Nelly, in a Barbary Coast pirate storyline.
Format
Storylines were typically serialized across five days, with the Friday program usually wrapping up the week's adventure. Each episode finished up with the hostess sitting on a large mushroom, with Fredd crouched beside her (usually after dusting off the stool with a handkerchief), while the pair shared viewers' letters and artwork.
Daily features included viewers' riddles with Cassius Cuckoo, during "Cassius Cuckoo's Corn Corner", and limericks with Leonardo de Funbird. These characters were wood and felt bird puppets (created by Axel Axelrad; voiced by Colin McEwan). Cassius inhabited a longcase cuckoo clock next to Mother Hubbard's cupboard in The Magic Cottage, and Leonardo lived inside the IKAN (Instantaneous Knowledge Accumulation Network) computer (voice of Fred Tupper). The IKAN educational segment was eventually dropped, and Leonardo would present his limerick segment from a tree stump in the Magic Forest.
Towards the end of the TV series' run, stories were serialized across only four days, with the Friday program dedicated to a separate story, told by Liz Harris, about toys which come to life in a toyshop when the owner was absent. Liz, herself, played a rag doll, Max Bartlett was a tin soldier, and John-Michael Howson played a glum clown, a portrayal which would inspire his Adventure Island character of Clown.
Stage version
A specially written Magic Circle Club episode, "The Stolen Smile", was performed live on stage at the Tivoli Theatre (Melbourne) from 27 December 1965. In this adventure, Sir Jasper and Gaspar had banished Clocko the chief clown (Max Bartlett, again playing a dual role), and Spangles the trapeze artist (Gael Dixon), from their circus, and taken away Clocko's smile. Appearing on stage with Max, Curley and Nancy were Fredd, Fee Fee, Mother Hubbard, Crystal Ball, Hep Cat, Montmorency, Cassius and Leonardo, all played by the regular TV cast. This production was stage managed by Sue Nattras, Simon Wincer and Jim McElroy.
Gabrielle Hartley was severely burned when her cloak brushed over a hot "flash pot" used in a live, on-stage, special effect, and her role had to be assumed by her understudy. Hartley never returned to her TV role, the character of Crystal Ball being written out.
Cancellation and beyond
After producing 555 thirty-minute episodes, ATV axed the show for cost reasons. Competitor ABC TV wanted to buy it, but ATV refused, which led to the start up of the similar program Adventure Island on the ABC, with many of the same cast and writers from Magic Circle Club.
Recorded in black and white, the program was repeated prior to the official introduction of colour TV in 1975. John-Michael Howson had wanted to produce the show in colour for overseas sales, but management baulked at the added cost. Many episodes of the show have been stored at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).
TV director and costume designer Tedd Dunn stayed with Melbourne's Channel 0. He played the Fredd Bear character (Channel 0's answer to the Nine Network's more enduring Humphrey B. Bear) two years after the demise of Magic Circle Club, as co-host of Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go. His suit has since been donated to the NSFA for restoration and safe storage. Cassius and Leonardo also appeared on Breakfast-A-Go-Go, as did actor Colin McEwan and newsreader Michael McCarthy. Fee Fee, now mute without Howson's unique vocal contribution, was often played by Michael's wife, Caroline McCarthy. Max Bartlett continued to work in television production, moving to Western Australia, where he helped to develop Fat Cat and Friends and The Underground Video Show.
In 2007, Nancy Cato appeared on the "Kids' TV" episode of Bob Downe's The Way We Were discussing Magic Circle Club.
Archival remnants
The Australian National Film & Sound Archive has preserved the following episodes of The Magic Circle Club: 141–146, 150, 151, 155, 157, 160, 166, 168–170, 316, 319, 322, 326–329, 332, 336–339, 342, 343, 345–352, 356, 362, 363, 368, 371, 379, 386, 387, 398, 401, 402, 406–409, 412, 413–416, 419, 421–424, 427, 428, 431–434, 441, 444, 447, 449, 450, 455, 456, 459, 468, 469, 471, 472, 473, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 486, 493–495, 500, 504, 505, 508, 510–516, 518, 519, 521, 525, 526, 527, 533, 538, 451, 544, 545–548, 551, 552, 553, and 555.
References
External links
Credits
Scrapbook clippings
The Age article, Green Guide, 19 August 2004
"The Stolen Smile" stage production
The Magic Circle Club at the National film and Sound Archive
1965 Australian television series debuts
1967 Australian television series endings
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
English-language television shows
Australian preschool education television series |
Gardena may refer to one of the following
Places
Gardena, California, a city
Gardena, North Dakota, a city
Gardena, Idaho, an unincorporated community
Gardena Pass, a high mountain pass in South Tyrol, Italy
Val Gardena, a valley in the Dolomites of northern Italy, best known as a skiing area.
Other uses
Gardena (company), a German manufacturer of gardening tools
Gardena (bug) a genus of thread-legged bug
HC Gardena, the Italian name of the ice hockey team HC Gherdëina
See also
Gardenia (disambiguation) |
Antu is the name given to the principal Pillan spirit in Mapuche mythology. Antü is the most powerful Pillán, who governs the other Pillans. In Mapuche mythology, Antu represents the Sun, as well as light, wisdom and spirit, and is opposite to darkness and the physical world, and is married to Kueyen, a spirit that represents the moon.
Battle of the Pillan
It is said that when Antu decided to take a Wangulén (of Mapudungun wangülen, "star") as wife, all of them wanted to be picked as Antu was the brightest of the Pillan, but when he picked Kueyen, as she was the most luminious, great unrest started between the Wangulén. Peripillán, the red spirit of fire, was behind this, as he, Antu's rival, felt envy at Antu, as Antu's gold was undarkened by the flame, while Antu himself resented Peripillán as the fire was brighter than the gold amidst the darkness, as peace had ceased, the two Pillán fought in battle, and the spirits took sides in battle, many Pillán and all the Wangulén supporting Peripillán.
The battle was long and violent, the land moved, as well as the Minche Mapu (in Mapudungun, "underworld") and the Ankawenu. As the fight extended, the sons of the elder spirits had grown, and in desire to take their parents's place, fought against them. Both Antu and Peripillan, angered by this, grabbed their giant sons by their long hair and threw them down, they fell on the rocky ground, one landing in the Puelmapu and the other in the Lafkenmapu. As they fell their hard bodies marked the land, forming tall mountains as they were broken into pieces and sunk into the depths of the land.
Finally after the battle Antu had topped Peripillán and came out as the victor, blinded in rage and seeking revenge, he threw the defeated Pillán to the land and sunk them to its depths, then he put rocks, hills and mountains over he buried Pillán, forming more mountain ranges and Peripillán, the most powerful one, was buried with the tallest mountains covering him. This wasn't enough to put off his fire's light though, and as Peripillán and his allies try to free themselves the land itself shakes and tremors happen. Sometimes their fire is able to briefly escape their mountain prisons, as the smoke and fire columns coming off volcanos.
Meanwhile, the Wangulén fearing retribution cried as they pleaded for mercy, and their tears fell between and on top of the newly risen mountains, forming lakes and freezing into snow in the mountain tops. Seeing this, Antu decided to be merciful and only weakened their light so it was slight and pale so none of them could rival Kueyen.
Between the body of the fallen were the sons of Antu and Peripillán, and their respective wives cried in sorrow at their lose, so Antu felt for them and decided to bring them back to life, but in new forms, as giant snakes. Peripillán's son was to be known as Coi Coi-Vilu, while Antu's own son was to be known as Ten Ten-Vilu, and these were to be rivals as their fathers, and to do as the elder spirits willed. As a result of the fight, the earth moved so strongly, that the imprisoned malignant Wekufe spirits were freed from it and began roaming the land. And the universe was left with no harmony.
See also
Ngenechen
References
Alberto Trivero (1999); Trentrenfilú, Proyecto de Documentación Ñuke Mapu.
Mapuche gods
Pillan
Solar gods |
The Queen's Birthday Honours 1899 were announced on 3 June 1899 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
The list was published in The Times on 3 June 1899 and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 3 June 1899, and on 13 June 1899.
The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).
It was announced in the list that The Queen had been pleased to confer the title of Lord Mayor upon the Mayor of the City of Bristol.
Baronet
The Right Honourable Samuel James Way, Chief Justice of South Australia
Thomas Brooke, Esq.
Samuel Hoare, Esq., MP
Thomas Salt, Esq.
Professor John Scott Burdon Sanderson
John Usher, Esq.
Knight Bachelor
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA
Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland
William Mitchell Banks, MD, FRCS
John Edmund Barry, President of Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, one of the Justices of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice
Alured Dumbell, Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice and Clerk of the Rolls for the Isle of Man
Charles Bowman Logan, W.S., Society of Writers, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet of Scotland
James Creed Meredith, LL.D, Secretary of the Royal University of Ireland
Thomas Morel, ship- and coalowner and Mayor of Cardiff
Walter Murton, CB, solicitor to the Board of Trade
Henry Evelyn Oakeley, late Chief Inspector of Schools, Education Department
William Pollitt, Railway Company Manager
John Francis Rotton, QC, Legal Adviser to the Local Government Board
John Sibbald, physician, Lunacy Commissioner in Scotland
Joseph Frizelle, late Chief Justice of the High Court of the Punjab
William Fischer Agnew, Recorder of Rangoon
Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay
John Alexander Boyd, Chancellor of the High Court of the Province of Ontario
Thomas Crossley Rayner, Chief Justice of the Colony of Lagos
Robert Alexander Taylor of Coleraine
Matthew Harris, Mayor of the City of Sydney, New South Wales
Thomas Jackson, Hong Kong
Other 1899 Knights Bachelor
Herbert Ashman, Lord Mayor of Bristol (15 November)
George Farwell, judge of the High Court (28 November)
Franklin Lushington, Chief Magistrate, Metropolitan Police courts (28 November)
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Civil division
The Right Honourable Sir Charles Stewart Scott, , Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Saint Petersburg.
Henry Morton Stanley,
Military division
General Sir John Forbes, , Bombay Cavalry.
Admiral Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, .
Admiral the Honourable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, .
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, .
General Sir Robert Biddulph, , Royal Artillery, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Civil division
Colonel John Farquharson, , Royal Engineers, late Director-General of the Ordnance Survey.
George Herbert Murray, , Secretary to the General Post Office.
William Henry Preece, , Consulting Engineer to the General Post Office.
Michael Foster, , Secretary to the Royal Society.
Military division
Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Willis, (since deceased).
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Henry Radford Norman,
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Alexander Hugh Cobbe,
Lieutenant-General Robert Gordon Rogers, , Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General Benjamin Lumsden Gordon, , Royal (late Madras) Artillery.
Major-General Cornelius Francis Clery, , Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Forces.
Vice-Admiral Cyprian Arthur George Bridge.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Civil Division
James Samuel Gibbons, , Chairman of the Prison Commissioners, Ireland.
William Graham Greene, , Admiralty.
Thomas John Pittar, , Principal of the Statistical Department of the Custom House.
William Tucker, , Assistant-Secretary to the Education Department.
Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Royal Navy.
Military division
Surgeon-General Albert Augustus Gore, late-Principal Medical Officer in India.
Colonel Hugh Sutlej Gough, , half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Hay, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel Morgan Samuel Crofton, , Assistant Adjutant-General in South Africa.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Cook, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Samuel Job Lea, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters, Ireland.
Order of the Star of India
Companions of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)
Henry Farrington Evans, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Muir Hunter, Indian Staff Corps.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Guiana.
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony.
David Wilson Esq,. C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras.
Major Henry George Elliot, Chief Magistrate of Tembuland, Transkei, and Pondoland, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Henry Moore Jackson, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar.
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Colonel Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate, C.B., lately Commandant of the West African Regiment, for services rendered while in command of the Forces on the occasion of the Expeditions (1898) against the Sierra Leone insurgents.
Captain the Honourable Maurice Archibald Bourke, R.N., for services as Senior Naval Officer engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries.
John Pickersgill Rodger, Esq., British Resident, Selangor.
John James Graham, Esq., Secretary to the Law Department of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Order of the Indian Empire
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
Robert Giles, Esq.
Frederick Augustus Nicholson, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Vishwanathi Patankar Madhava Rao, Member of the Mysore State Council.
Henry Blois Hawkins Turner, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gawen King, M.B., Indian Medical Service.
James Sykes Gamble, Esq.
Khan Bahadur Cursetji Rustamji Thanawala, Diwan of Ratlam.
George William Forrest, Esq.
Captain Frank Popham Young, Indian Staff Corps.
Reginald Hawkins Greenstreet, Esq.
Khan Bahadur Kazi Jalal-ud-Din Khan, Akhundzada of Kandahar.
Charles Leslie Sutherland, Esq.
Royal Red Cross
Miss Isabella Smith, Royal Naval nursing service
References
Birthday Honours
1899 awards
1899 in the United Kingdom
Queen Victoria |
The following is a list of Registered Historic Places in Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
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See also
List of Michigan State Historic Sites in Grand Traverse County, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan
Listings in neighboring counties: Antrim, Benzie, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Wexford
References
Grand Traverse County
Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Buildings and structures in Grand Traverse County, Michigan |
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing. In Madrid he received his artistic training under Madrazo.
He later worked in Paris, where he became known as a leading portraitist, never without a commission. His many portraits show the influence of Velázquez, Jusepe de Ribera and other Spanish masters, as well as Titian and Van Dyke, whose works he studied in the Prado, which placed him at the forefront of painting in France in the 1850s, opposing neoclassicism and academicism. Following the period in Spain, Bonnat worked the studios of the history painters Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniet (1854) in Paris. Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix de Rome, finally receiving only a second prize. However, a scholarship from his native Bayonne and support from the Personnaz family allowed him to spend three years in Rome (1858–60) independently where he and Antonin Personnaz became lifetime friends. During his stay in Rome, he also became friends with Edgar Degas, Gustave Moreau, Jean-Jacques Henner and the sculptor Henri Chapu.
Career
Bonnat won a medal of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882. Bonnat was quite popular with American students in Paris. In addition to his native French, he spoke Spanish and Italian and knew English well, to the relief of many monolingual Americans. In May 1905 he succeeded Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Julius Kaplan characterised Bonnat as "a liberal teacher who stressed simplicity in art above high academic finish, as well as overall effect rather than detail." Bonnat's emphasis on overall effect on the one hand, and rigorous drawing on the other, put him in a middle position with respect to the Impressionists and academic painters like his friend Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1917, Bonnat was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding member.
Paintings
Bonnat's vivid portraits of contemporary celebrities are his most characteristic works, but his most important works are arguably his powerful religious paintings, such as his Christ on the Cross (now in the collection of the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, but not currently on display), Job (in the Musée Bonnat), St Vincent Taking the Place of Two Galley Slaves (at the church of Saint-Nicholas des Champs in Paris), and the large Martyrdom of St Denis for the Pantheon in Paris. However, he received few commissions for religious and historical paintings, and most of his output consists of portraits. He also produced genre paintings of Italian peasants, and a small number of Orientalist scenes.
The writers Émile Zola and Théophile Gautier were among Bonnat's supporters. Gautier hailed him as "the antithesis of Bouguereau," because of the stark naturalism and lack of surface finish that characterize Bonnat's work. Bonnat is an academic painter. He was a member of the Institute, one of the only 14 painters who had administrative power over the Academy des Beaux Arts and thereby the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He had friends and connections among the independent artists of his time as well, such as Edgar Degas, whom he met during his stay in Rome and who painted two portraits of Bonnat, and Édouard Manet, who shared his predilection for Spanish painting. He taught together with Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the private atelier he ran before becoming professor at the École. He supported Auguste Rodin's candidacy for the Institut, and defended Gustave Courbet's submissions to the salon.
Teacher
As a teacher he encouraged freedom of expression and execution. He recommended traveling to Madrid to visit the Prado Museum, and introduced in Paris the tendency paint in the Spanish way, which influenced the evolution of French painting.
Some of Bonnat's more notable students include: John Singer Sargent, Stanhope Forbes, Gustave Caillebotte, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, Gustaf Cederström, Laurits Tuxen, P. S. Krøyer, Suzor-Coté, Robert Harris, Alfred Philippe Roll, Georges Braque, Thomas Eakins, Raoul Dufy, Jean Béraud, Franklin Brownell, Marius Vasselon, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry, Fred Barnard, Louis Béroud, Paul de la Boulaye, Aloysius O'Kelly, Erik Werenskiold, Graciano Mendilaharzu, Edvard Munch, Alphonse Osbert, Henry Siddons Mowbray, Francis Petrus Paulus, Charles Sprague Pearce, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Hyakutake Kaneyuki, Nils Forsberg, Walter Tyndale, Émile-Louis Foubert, and Harry Watrous.
Later years
In his last years he made his painting evolve, from the influence of seventeenth-century painters and Goya, towards a more modern freedom of execution, scratching the brush and using the spatula, as well as a more colorful color gamut, as can be seen in his Self-portrait of the Prado Museum.
In a gesture of gratitude for the help he had been provided in his youth and with the assistance of Antonin Personnaz, Bonnat built a museum in his native city of Bayonne, the Musée Bonnat. Most of the works in the museum are from the personal collections of Bonnat and Personnaz of works of art, amassed over a lifetime of travelling around Europe. It includes an exceptionally fine collection of Old Master drawings from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Ingres and Géricault. Bonnat died on 8 September 1922 at Monchy-Saint-Éloi, and was buried at the Cimitiére Saint-Etienne, Bayonne.
Personal life
Bonnat never married, and lived for much of his life with his mother and sister in the Place Vintimille (renamed Place Adolphe-Max in 1940).
Honours
1904: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
Criticisms
"We wonder why Velázquez's infant has fake shoulders and why the head doesn't join properly...And how good it looks. While a head by Bonnat joins actual shoulders...And how bad it looks!"
– Paul Gauguin (from Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter Publication 2017, David Zwirner Books)
Gallery
See also
Musée Bonnat
References
Footnotes
1833 births
1922 deaths
People from Bayonne
19th-century French painters
19th-century French male artists
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French portrait painters
Academic art
Prix de Rome for painting
Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Honorary Members of the Royal Academy
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) |
Laurie Davidson Cox (August 18, 1883 – October 1, 1968) was a leading American landscape architect and Hall of Fame coach and contributor to the sport of lacrosse. He was professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, where he was responsible for establishing Syracuse University's lacrosse program. Cox later became the president of New England College.
Early life
Born in Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cox attended high school at Bellows Falls High School in Vermont. Following high school he returned to Canada, attending Acadia University where he would receive a degree in 1903. Cox then attended Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1908 with a Landscape Architecture degree. While at Harvard, Cox played lacrosse, basketball and ice hockey. On September 7, 1910, Cox married Gretchen Smith.
Career
Landscape architecture
Cox was one of the leading landscape architects in the United States. Following his studies at Harvard, Cox worked for four years with the Los Angeles Parks Department. While working there, he designed the exterior landscapes of both the Lincoln Park and Griffith Park,
and called for the creation of a city parkway that would "add to the health and happiness of its citizens." His plan was only partially implemented.
With funding from John D. Rockefeller, in 1915 Cox performed the first census of trees in New York City. In his report, A Street Tree System for New York City, Borough of Manhattan, Cox found that most street trees in Manhattan to be in poor condition. One of his recommendations was to plant 200 trees per square mile on the island.
Cox advocated for a new kind of park in the US National Park system that balanced the desire for recreation and preservation. In 1934, Cox surveyed Vermont's Green Mountains with the intent of creating a national park in the state. Cox's vision of a Green Mountain Parkway (later Green Mountain National Forest) included moving parts of Vermont's Long Trail to allow the trail and the park intersect. Cox's vision also included a concept of a "skyline drive". Revolutionary at the time, Cox recognized the changing American culture and the automobile and included many "windshield" views throughout the park length.
In 1929, the Administration Building at Green Lakes State Park, near Fayetteville, New York, was built according to plans by Cox, who was active in the design of several New York state parks.
Academic
In 1915, Cox was appointed an associate professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. He served a Head of the Department from 1915 to 1947, during his entire tenure at Syracuse. After leaving Syracuse University, Cox served as president of New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire from 1947–1950 and then again from 1952–1955.
He was also a Fellow of the American Institute of Parks and an executive and a life member of the board of directors of the National Conference on State Parks.
Lacrosse
Outside of academics and landscape architecture, Cox is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the game of lacrosse in the United States. His impact on the sport was dramatic, both locally in upstate New York, and nationally. Founding one of the most recognized collegiate programs in the country, Cox was dedicated to the integrity and growth of the game.
Known for his excellent stick handling as a player, Cox was able to play any position on the field. Once Cox was established as a professor at Syracuse University, he recruited forestry students to start a lacrosse team at the school in the spring of 1916. Later that fall, the University recognized lacrosse as a "minor sport." Cox served as head coach of the Syracuse lacrosse team until 1932.
Cox thought of field lacrosse as a gentleman's game that could rise to prominence among collegiate sports. His advocacy of the game lead some to refer to him as the "father of American lacrosse." The sport grew quickly in intercollegiate ranks shifting the game from a primarily Canadian game to one that garnered elite amateur status among affluent Americans. As a matter of principle and respect for the amateur tradition of the game, Cox accepted no salary for his coaching responsibilities. Cox viewed the introduction and spread of box lacrosse with negativity. He abhorred the commercialism of the new version, and thought it was a "peculiar" hybrid sport. His insistence, and the respect he garnered from fellow coaches and contributors, kept the field game the prevalent version played in America.
In 1922, Cox organized an "All-American" team to travel to Europe to play against British teams. This trip was deemed successful, and a return trip in 1923 was scheduled. Cox envisioned an informal international championship. He would go on to coach the American teams in International competitions in 1930, 1935, and 1937. Cox's "All-American" team consisted mostly of Syracuse players, earning Cox some criticism.
Cox, along with William C. Schmeisser and Charles Lattig, helped develop the uniform code of operation for college lacrosse and established early lacrosse athletic conferences. From 1922 to 1933, when the first lacrosse All-American committee was established (which Cox would serve as Chairman), he would select the honorees and even designed and furnished the certificates to the players. Later, when he became president of the New England College, he would start a lacrosse program there and served as the head coach.
Cox was elected to the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in its inaugural class in 1957. In 1966, the New England College elected Cox into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
See also
List of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members
References
Notes
Bibliography
1883 births
1968 deaths
Acadia University alumni
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Canadian landscape architects
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
New England College
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry faculty
Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse coaches
Syracuse University faculty
People from Colchester County |
The 1910–11 season was the 16th season of competitive football in Belgium.
Overview
CS Brugeois claimed their first ever silverware by winning the Division I. SC Courtraisien finished 12th and last of the first division and was relegated to the promotion, and replaced by promotion winner RC de Gand.
National team
* Belgium score given first
Key
H = Home match
A = Away match
N = On neutral ground
F = Friendly
o.g. = own goal
Honours
Final league tables
Division I
Promotion
References
RSSSF archive - Final tables 1895-2002
Belgian clubs history
Belgium Soccer History |
Belper United Football Club is a football club based in Belper, Derbyshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Coronation Park, the home of Eastwood.
History
A Belper United was established in the 1921. By the late 1970s the club was playing in the East Midlands Regional League. They were Division One champions in 1979–80, earning promotion to the Premier Division. In 1984–85 the club were the league's last Premier Division champions, with the league merging with the Central Alliance to form the Midlands Regional Alliance at the end of the season. Belper were placed in the Premier Division of the new league and became its inaugural champions in 1985–86. They won the league's Challenge Cup in 1992–93, before securing a second Premier Division title in 1994–95 and another Challenge Cup the following season. They were later relegated to Division One, which they won in the 2004–05 season to earn promotion back to the Premier Division.
Despite finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 2008–09, Belper were not relegated to Division One. In 2010 they switched to the South Division of the Central Midlands League. In 2014–15 they won the Central Midlands League Floodlight Cup, beating Clay Cross Town 3–2 in the final. After finishing as runners-up in the South Division in 2015–16, the club were promoted to the East Midlands Counties League. They remained members of the league until it was disbanded at the end of the 2020–21 season, at which point they were transferred to Division One of the United Counties League. In their first season in the league they finished third, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After defeating Radford in the semi-finals, they beat Hinckley 1–0 in the final to earn promotion to the Premier Division North.
Ground
The first team plays at Eastwood's Coronation Park. They played at Belper Town's Christchurch Meadow from the 2013–14 season, but later relocated to Asterdale Bowl, the home ground of Borrowash Victoria. The club returned to Christchurch Meadow at the start of the 2018–19 season. They moved on again to Coronation Park before the 2023-24 season
Honours
Central Midlands League
Floodlit Cup winners 2014–15
East Midlands Regional League
Premier Division champions 1984–85
Division One champions 1979–80
Midlands Regional Alliance
Premier Division champions 1985–86, 1994–95
Division One champions 2004–05
Challenge Cup winners 1992–93, 1995–96
Records
Best FA Cup performance: Extra preliminary round, 2018–19, 2022–23
Best FA Vase performance: Third round, 2022–23
References
External links
Official website
Football clubs in Derbyshire
Football clubs in England
Association football clubs established in 1921
1921 establishments in England
Belper
East Midlands Regional League
Midlands Regional Alliance
Central Midlands Football League
East Midlands Counties Football League
United Counties League |
The Manchester Football League is a football league in England, affiliated with Manchester FA, covering a 30-mile radius from Manchester Town Hall. It was formed in 1893, although play ceased between 1912 and 1920. Currently it consists of five divisions, with the Premier division being at level 11 of the English football league system.
Structure
The League consists of six divisions, from Premier Division to Division five. The Premier Division, Division One and Division Two can incorporate both first teams, and reserve teams of clubs who are playing at a higher level, while Divisions Three and Four and Five usually consist entirely of reserve or lower teams.
However, for the 2018–19 season only, the constitution was amended to allow a small number of reserve teams into the bottom division of the first teams (Division Two) to even up the numbers. This was put in place in the hope of keeping all teams playing regularly as opposed to the old structure which meant teams could go without a fixture for a few weeks at a time.
For the 2023-24 season Division 5 will become a new Development Division for U23's teams.
The Premier Division has a promotion and relegation arrangement with the North West Counties Football League (NWCFL), placing it at level 11 of the English football league system. However, the NWCFL's ground requirements are considerably higher than those of the Manchester League, so meeting them usually requires expensive improvements, and consequently few teams take up the opportunity of promotion. Ashton Athletic took the step up in 2006, despite only finishing 4th in Division One. Teams such as Salford City, Maine Road and Northern Nomads have all played in the league at some point. The latest teams to make the step up were Prestwich Heys, Avro and most recently Stockport Georgians.
Teams from the Premier Division are relegated to Division One, making Division One the twelfth level of the English league system. However, first teams from Division One could be relegated to Division Two after the realignment of the league structure at the start of the 2017–18 season.
Following the introduction of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) national lockdown restrictions in March 2020, the 2019/20 season was unable to be completed and was therefore declared null and void. The following season suffered the same outcome with only around a third of fixtures being completed.
Current member clubs (2022–23)
Premier Division
Atherton Town
Bolton County
Chadderton Reserves
Dukinfield Town
Heyside
Heywood St James
Hindsford
Manchester Gregorians
Moorside Rangers
Old Altrinchamians
Pennington
Rochdale Sacred Heart
Royton Town
Springhead
Uppermill
Walshaw Sports
Division One
Altrincham Hale
Avenue
Avro Reserves
Bolton Borough
Bolton Lads & Girls Club
Bolton United
Boothstown
East Manchester
Elton Vale
Govan Athletic
Hindley Juniors
Manchester Central
Tintwistle Athletic
Wilmslow Albion
Division Two
Ashton Athletic Reserves
Astley & Tyldesley
Baguley Athletic
Breightmet United
Cavaliers
Chadderton Cott
De La Salle
Eccles United
Hollinwood
Horwich RMI
Leigh Genesis
Stockport Georgians Reserves
Tottington United
Recent champions of Premier Division, Division One & Division Two
External links
Manchester Football League at FA Full-Time
1893 establishments in England
Football in Greater Manchester
Football leagues in England
Sports leagues established in 1893 |
Tseng Chung-ming () was a Taiwanese physician and politician. He was the Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare from 2013 to 2015, and had previously served in the same position within the Ministry of the Interior.
Education
Tseng obtained his bachelor's degree from Soochow University in 1979 and master's degree from National Chengchi University in 1981.
Political career
Tseng worked in various positions at the Kaohsiung City Government from September 1983 to October 1986. From October 1984 until March 1994, he held various positions at the Taipei City Government. In March 1994, he moved to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI). Tseng was the deputy director of the Department of Social Affairs of the MOI from February 1999 to February 2006. He then served as the director of the Department of Social Affairs of the MOI from February 2006 to March 2009.
Death
Tseng died on 21 June 2015 at the age of 60 at Taipei Veterans General Hospital due to cirrhosis and lung cancer.
References
2015 deaths
Government ministers of Taiwan
Deaths from lung cancer in Taiwan
Deaths from cirrhosis
21st-century Taiwanese politicians
20th-century Taiwanese politicians
1950s births
Soochow University (Taiwan) alumni
National Chengchi University alumni |
The Berkeley Digital Film Institute was a San Francisco Bay Area film school founded in early 2007.
The school was founded and led by Patrick Kriwanek, who previously had been the head of the Academy of Art University's Motion Picture and Video division, for six years. Kriwanek stated that part of the impetus for creating a digital film school was reducing the high cost for students to film in analog, as he had previously witnessed students struggle to complete their film theses due to the cost of film stock. The school underemphasized theory courses and focussed on vocational, practical training.
The school was located at the Saul Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley, California; an editing and sound-mixing facility established by Saul Zaentz which also housed multiple film and music production companies.
The school opened in 2007, with a 15-week program and a class of twelve. By 2011 the school had switched to offering two programs: a 16-month producing and directing program and the seven-week intensive program, with 32 students.
See also
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
Digital cinematography
References
External links
Official Site (archived)
Film schools in California
Education in Berkeley, California
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in California |
Begishevo Airport (, ) is an airport in Russia located 19 km east of Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. It has a very large apron and a number of hangars and buildings.
History
The construction of Begishevo airport started in 1970 on initiative of Nizhnekamskneftekhim. A first, technical flight was effected on 25 December 1971 on an An-24 airplane. Regular flights within Tatarstan (Kazan, Chistopol, Muslyumovo, Aktanysh, Yelabuga) started in 1972. During the next few years, Begishevo Airport established connections with the main cities of European Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. The airport obtained international status in 1998. In 2008, it became independent from Tatarstan Airlines as OAO Begishevo Airport. 99.95% of its shares belong to OAO KAMAZ (as of 30 June 2011).
Airlines and destinations
External links
References
Airports built in the Soviet Union
Airports in Tatarstan |
Ryszard Bugajski (27 April 1943 – 7 June 2019) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 23 films and television shows since 1972. His 1982 film Interrogation starring Krystyna Janda and Adam Ferency, described as "the most anti-Communist film in the history of Polish People's Republic" was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival after being suppressed by the Polish communist authorities for several years.
Life and career
He was born on 27 April 1943 in German-occupied Poland. His family was slated to be killed by firing squad, but a bomb fell before the wall they were lined up to be shot that saw the squad killed instead. His father was Edward Bugajski, a member of the pre-war Polish Socialist Party (PPS). He had told his family to hide in a safe place, which led to them staying in suburban Warsaw in a place called Choszczowka. Bugajski had numerous interests as a youth, initially aspiring to become a musician, but he later thought he would become a painter. However, he did not know exactly what he wanted to be by the time he graduated high school. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw for three years, but an accidental viewing of 8½ spurred him into wanting to become a filmmaker. He was accepted into studying directing at the National Film School in Łódź, which he graduated from in 1973.
In 1976, he joined the X Film Unit managed by Andrzej Wajda, where he directed the films A Woman and a Woman and Classes. In 1981, he made the full-length feature film Interrogation, which was banned by the communist censorship because of the film's message being incompatible with the political line of the Polish authorities after the imposition of martial law. As a result of this, the X Unit was officially dissolved. In 1985, Bugajski decided to emigrate to Canada where he became a director of popular television series. The official premiere of Interrogation took place in December 1989, after the collapse of communism in Poland. He had kept the film alive in the underground movement by making copies of the film and giving them out for showings in church basements.
He was a recipient of numerous film awards including the Golden Grape Award, Special Award at the Gdynia Film Festival and Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.
In June 2008, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for "his outstanding contributions to the democratic transformations in Poland as well as for achievements for the country in his professional and social work".
In October 2008, he received the Golden Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis from the-then Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski.
He died on 7 June 2019 in Warsaw after a long illness.
Selected filmography
Kobieta i kobieta (1979)
Interrogation (made in 1981 but not released until 1989)
Clearcut (1990)
Gracze (1995)
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006)
Generał Nil (2009)
Układ zamknięty (2013)
Blindness (2016)
See also
Cinema of Poland
List of Poles
References
External links
Ryszard Bugajski at Culture.pl
1943 births
2019 deaths
Film people from Warsaw
Polish film directors
Polish screenwriters
Łódź Film School alumni
Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
Ibrahim Mohamedin Aboubaker (born 10 December 1982) is a Qatari triple jumper.
He won the 1999 World Youth Championships, finished eighth at the 2000 World Junior Championships, sixth at the 2000 Asian Championships and sixth at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 1998 World Junior Championships and 2004 Olympic Games and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.
His personal best jump is 17.15 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Doha.
At the 2006 Asian Games he also finished tenth in the long jump. His personal best in that event was 7.53 metres, achieved in March 2006 in Abu Dhabi.
References
1982 births
Living people
Qatari male long jumpers
Qatari male triple jumpers
Olympic athletes for Qatar
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Qatar |
Adam Randle Bass (born July 31, 1981) is an American former baseball player who played professionally in the Japan Pacific League.
Biography
A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Bass attended high school at Madison Academy, and played college baseball at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In 2002, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Bass was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 10th round of the 2003 MLB Draft. In 2007, he played for the Japan Pacific League with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
References
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Living people
1981 births
Sportspeople from Kokomo, Indiana
Alabama–Huntsville Chargers baseball players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Baseball players from Indiana |
Federated Insurance Company of Canada (also known simply as, Federated Insurance) is a direct writer of property and casualty insurance products headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The company has approximately 370 employees in nine offices across Canada, with approximately 150 in Winnipeg. Federated Insurance has an A. M. Best rating of "A (Excellent)."
History
During the 1890s, the retail implement dealers in Minnesota formed an association, which proved to be very successful. In 1904, these dealers decided to try to reduce their insurance costs by organizing their own insurance company.
Initially, the company was known as the Minnesota Implement Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and retained this name for many years. They would later become the Mutual Implement and Hardware Insurance Company, then Federated Mutual Implement and Hardware Insurance Company and, finally, Federated Mutual Insurance Company ("Federated Mutual").
In Canada
In September 1920, Federated Mutual began its Canadian operations. By 1933, the sales force had increased from two to 17 representatives, and the annual premium income was approximately $1 million, primarily from hardware and implement business.
Early in 1944, Federated Mutual aggressively went after and obtained endorsements from farm equipment manufacturers and associations across the country. This paved the way for writing insurance for many farm equipment dealers during the next few years.
On January 1, 1948, Federated Mutual entered the casualty insurance field, and was one of the first major insurance companies to write both fire and casualty insurance. This brought a tremendous boost to the growth and development of the Canadian operation. In November 1949, accident and health coverage was added, with group accident and health insurance being written for various trade associations and employer groups.
On January 1, 1964, Federated Mutual would bring its life insurance business, Federated Life Insurance Company ("Federated Life"), established in 1959, to Canada.
Growth continued as the company entered the group health insurance field. Group plans were sold until the provincial governments introduced socialized medicine. A supplemental health plan and dental plan was introduced in 1987.
In November 1987, the Canadian division was converted to a wholly-owned corporate subsidiary operation, Federated Holdings of Canada Ltd., which holds all the stock in the two operating subsidiaries: Federated Insurance Company of Canada and Federated Life Insurance Company of Canada.
On January 1, 1990, Federated Insurance Holdings of Canada Ltd. was purchased from Federated Mutual by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario, and Federated Insurance and Federated Life became fully Canadian-owned and operated subsidiaries of Fairfax.
In 1998, Contact+ Insurance Network Ltd. was incorporated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Federated Insurance.
The year 2000 saw Federated Insurance poised to undertake a series of major change initiatives in response to recognized external and internal drivers. Restructuring came about as result of a desire to improve proximity to and relationships with customers, and to generally, work under more efficient processes. Federated also sought to devote considerable resources to the enormous potential represented in various e-business opportunities.
In April 2003, Fairfax Financial Holdings formed Northbridge Financial Corporation to serve as the holding company for their Canadian insurance subsidiaries including, Federated Insurance, Lombard Canada Ltd, Commonwealth Insurance Company, and Markel Insurance Company of Canada. Northbridge Financial Corporation is a financial services holding company that, through its operating subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance in Canada and in selected US and international markets. Northbridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
In May 2004, Federated Holdings of Canada Ltd. announced an agreement to sell Federated Life to Western Financial Group Inc. Effective February 28, 2005, the sale of Federated Life to Western Financial was complete.
Products and services
Below is a list of products offered by Federated Insurance Company of Canada:
Commercial Property and Casualty insurance
Life, disability, and critical illness insurance
Home and auto insurance
Markets in which Federated Insurance Company of Canada operates include:
Automotive Dealers
Automotive Repair Garages
Commercial Property
Equipment Dealers
Electrical Contractors
Fuel Dealers
Grocery Stores
Home-Builders
Manufacturers
Mechanical Contractors
Motorcycle and Powersports Dealers
Petroleum Dealers
Printers
Professional & Health Services
Restaurants
RV Dealers
Tire Dealers
Trade Contractors
References
Financial services companies based in Manitoba
Financial services companies established in 1920
Companies based in Winnipeg
Property insurance companies
Auto insurance in Canada
Insurance companies based in Manitoba |
ExitMundi.nl is a website with a collection of end of the world articles. The writing mixes scientific analyses and theories of apocalyptic scenarios with dark humour relating to the end of times. Theories presented cover a range of possible sources of human demise. The site is based in the Netherlands. Disease, nuclear war, asteroids, even fictional scenarios like zombies are laid out in detailed and thoroughly researched descriptions.
In May 2008, a rewritten selection of 50 end-of-world scenarios was published as a book in the Netherlands: Exit Mundi, het einde van de wereld. De beste 50 scenario's. Translations are in the works. The German edition was published in June 2010 by dtv.
In February 2011, the German artist Bela B recorded the double cd Exit Mundi, with ten scenarios from the German translation of Exit Mundi. At the release of the cd, Bela B. did a 15 location-tour with the Exit Mundi cd through Germany, Switzerland and Austria, reading the texts from Exit Mundi on stage and even singing texts from the book to the tune of R.E.M.'s hit single It's The End Of The World As We Know It.
Early history
Maarten Keulemans launched the website in 2001 strictly for fun. In several interviews, he points out that the main reason for launching the site was that as a professional science journalist, he came across many apocalyptic scenarios, ranging from well-known disasters like black holes and supervolcanoes to less well-known events like the Big Crunch or mass suicide.
As time passed, Keulemans kept on collecting more and more scenarios, aided by a growing number of devoted Exit Mundi fans. His mix of sardonic humor and scientific correctness gave the website cult status. The website got many good reviews on- and offline, in magazines as diverse as New Scientist, Playboy and several Dutch leading newspapers.
Meanwhile, Keulemans, who always insisted on keeping the website low profile and not for profit, ended up in many radio shows, written interviews and on TV. 'I sort of became Mister Apocalypse', he muses in the introduction to Exit Mundi the book.
Books and projects
In May 2008, a rewritten selection of 50 end-of-world scenarios was published as a book by AW Bruna in the Netherlands: Exit Mundi, het einde van de wereld. De beste 50 scenario's. The book takes the formula of the website to the extremes: the scenarios are more carefully researched, and written with even more puns than the website. In The Netherlands, the book was quite successful, ending up in the non-fiction bestseller lists of 2008, selling out two editions and receiving a lot of praise in the press.
Meanwhile, Keulemans himself went on tour, talking about the end of the world in his own words, aided only by a powerpoint and a few simple gimmicks. The tour took him to most Dutch universities, several art festivals and other small venues.
At the 3 October Festival in Leiden 2009, a group of artists adapted Exit Mundi into a show of scary tableaux vivants.
In June 2010, publisher dtv released the German edition of Exit Mundi, the book. The book got some good reviews, and even made it to the non-fiction bestseller charts of Der Spiegel. But more was to come, as German singer/artist Bela B took notice of the book. Bela decided to do an Exit Mundi audio book in German, which was released in early 2011 by Random House.
It turned Exit Mundi into a big success in Germany, especially when Bela B started touring Germany, Switzerland and Austria, reading and even singing from the book on stage.
"I was amazed", Keulemans recalled in a radio interview. "Suddenly, there was this nice, crazy German guy I had never heard of myself, reading Exit Mundi in front of all these sold-out theatres. Bela turned out to be the perfect guy to come up with the black humour gothic-punk-science-crossover style Exit Mundi always intended to be."
References
External links
Exit Mundi Website
Dutch websites |
Far from the Light of Heaven is a 2021 science fiction mystery novel by Tade Thompson. It was a finalist for the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award and 2022 Nommo Award for Best Novel.
Plot
Captain Michelle “Shell” Campion boards the starship Ragtime for a journey to the colony planet Bloodroot. She awakens to find that the AI captain is compromised and that 31 passengers have been murdered and dismembered. The victims include Yan Maxwell, the richest man in the solar system and owner of the mega-corporation MaxGalactix. Investigator Rasheed Fin is on Bloodroot when he receives a distress call from Campion. On Bloodroot, humans and alien Lambers share a mostly peaceful existence. Fin's most recent assignment went wrong and a high-ranking Lamber was killed. Despite being on suspension, Fin is sent into orbit discover what has transpired with Ragtime. He and Salvo, an AI companion, meet Campion.
Lawrence “Larry” Biz, Governor of Space Station Lagos, learns that the Ragtime has not landed on Bloodroot as scheduled. Larry and his half-Lamber daughter Joké take a shuttle to Ragtime. Several catastrophes occur on the ship, including the loss of life support, disruption of communication with Bloodroot, and the release of experimental animal and plant species which attack the survivors. Shell finds a man named Jeremiah Brisbane aboard the ship.
A flashback reveals how Brisbane arrived on the ship. He is a member of the Tehani, a group of miners. They have been working for MaxGalactix under terrible conditions, resulting in early death due to poisoning. The Tehani equipped Brisbane with an AI named Carmilla and sent them to assassinate Maxwell. On Ragtime, Brisbane confronted Maxwell but was unable to kill him in cold blood. Carmilla killed Maxwell and several other passengers, then disabled Ragtime. Carmilla wishes to broadcast an anti-capitalist message to other mining colonies like the Tehani. Carmilla steals a shuttle and forces Brisbane aboard. Ragtime begins to crash into Bloodroot's atmosphere, killing Larry and many sleeping passengers. Brisbane fights against Carmilla and is killed by Bloodroot soldiers. Carmilla uses Lamber technology to broadcast her message before shutting down.
In retaliation for Maxwell's death, MaxGalactix ships attack Space Station Lagos. The station severs the portal between Lagos and Earth, giving them several decades to begin a weapons program before resuming contact. Campion and Fin remain stranded on Bloodroot. Campion cannot her escape feelings of responsibility for the Ragtime disaster.
Major themes
Writing for Locus, Ian Mond writes about the intersection between the Lagos solar system and MaxGalactix. The novel explores Afrofuturist ideas and "depicts a future where black folk, particularly those descended from Nigeria, are flourishing in the dark reaches of space." However, this is only possible because they "serve, or at least don’t interfere with, the interests of Yan Maxwell".
In Mond's view, Maxwell is "more of a Musk than a Bezos", and his exploitation of the Tehani is the "very act of slow genocide that the plot of the novel pivots around". Writing for Tor.com, Alexis Ong states that the Tehani "serve mostly as a stand-in for the multitude of oppressed indigenous communities in our current reality, as well as those that will inevitably fuel the future wave of space colonization with their bones and blood."
Style
A review by Grant Wythoff in the Los Angeles Review of Books states that Tade Thompson's novel is a re-working of the idea of space opera. According to Wythoff, space opera is "typically seen as (and often [is]) the least literary form of [science fiction]". Modern-day authors in this subgenre "are processing the consequences of having left [Earth]", especially in terms of the modern-day climate crisis. Authors like Thompson are "fully aware of the subgenre’s legacy as a literature of colonial expansion and military conquest". Thompson's use of the subgenre contrasts with an older view of space exploration that is mostly lead by government programs such as NASA. The character of Yan Maxwell is the head of a private company that expands into space, which is comparable to the figures of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos; Maxwell was also inspired by the short fiction of Robert Heinlein.
Reception
Writing for The Guardian, Lisa Tuttle called the novel "probably the best science fiction novel of the year", writing that it is "like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters and fascinating future settings". A review for Tor.com stated that the novel "offers refreshing perspectives on both terrestrial and space colonialism, the impact of multiculturalism and Blackness in a realm historically dominated by white capitalism."
A review in Kirkus called the novel "gripping and bloody as a beating heart but with a strong need for follow up". The novel commented that the plot initially reads as a locked room mystery in the style of Agatha Christie, but that the author does not give the reader enough clues to solve the mystery. Instead, he reveals most of the answers halfway through the novel, creating a "genuinely exciting race against time". The review also notes that the novel is "considerably less drenched in the hallucinatory than Thompson's Wormwood Trilogy", but that the supernatural elements at the end of the novel leave it open-ended for the possibility of a sequel. Author Amal El-Mohtar wrote that the "short, choppy chapters are both methodical and kaleidoscopic". She felt that the style is "sometimes disorienting and sometimes curt" but that "I’ll keep my fingers crossed for any of the several potential sequel hooks ".
A review in Lightspeed Magazine praised Thompson's ability to combine elements from various different genres and found Shell's voice to be gripping, but criticized the reveal of the killer as "spoon-fed". Ian Mond of Locus stated "I loved Thompson’s characters and the hectic plot ricocheting from one revelation to the next". Despite this, Mond found the prose to be too expository and felt that the "screech-to-a-halt-ending gives the book an unfinished feel."
The novel was a finalist for the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award and the 2022 Nommo Award for Best Novel.
References
Africanfuturist novels
Novels about murder
Novels set in outer space
Space opera novels
2021 British novels |
Chief Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi CFR, CMG (; 17 August 1916 – 11 April 2012) was a Nigerian gynaecologist and obstetrician. He was Minister of Health in the Nigerian First Republic.
As an Oloye of the Yoruba people, he held the chieftaincy titles of the Mayegun of Lagos and the Otun Balogun of the Christians of Egbaland.
Early life and education
Moses was born in Abeokuta in August 1916. He studied at Abeokuta Grammar School, St. Gregory's College, Lagos, before proceeding to Trinity College Dublin where he earned a degree in Anatomy and Physiology in 1936. He also earned a 1st Class degree in Bacteriology and Clinical Medicine in 1940.
Medical career
In Ireland, he worked as an in-house physician at the National Children's Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital from 1941 to 1942. In 1943, he joined the Federal Government Medical Services as a medical doctor and established his medical practice. He played key roles in the establishment of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and also founded Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lagos, which opened in March 1968.
Political career
He was elected into the Nigerian Senate in 1960. He was appointed sole administrator of the Western Region in June 1962 after a political crisis in the region, holding office in place of Premier Samuel Akintola until December of that year.
The crisis was due to a struggle between Akintola and the former Western Region Premier and current leader of the opposition Obafemi Awolowo, which had led to violent scenes in the House of Assembly.
On advice from the police, one of his first acts was to sign restriction orders to detain leaders of both factions.
After the situation had stabilized, Akintola resumed office on 1 January 1963.
See also
Olufemi Majekodunmi
Bibliography
References
Health ministers of Nigeria
1916 births
2012 deaths
Yoruba royalty
Nigerian royalty
Politicians from Abeokuta
Yoruba physicians
Yoruba politicians
Nigerian gynaecologists
University of Lagos people
Nigerian Christians
20th-century Nigerian politicians
20th-century Nigerian medical doctors
St Gregory's College, Lagos alumni
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Physicians from Lagos
Nigerian obstetricians
Honorary Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George |
The Madhya Pradesh cricket team formerly known as Holkar cricket team, is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It competes in the Ranji Trophy.
History
Holkar cricket team
A Central India team competed in the Ranji Trophy between 1934–35 and 1939–40, playing 12 matches. In 1941, Holkar entered the competition, organised and managed by King Yashwantrao Holkar II belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Marathas. In the fourteen years of its existence Holkar, which included such players as C. K. Nayudu and Mushtaq Ali, won the title four times and finished second on six other occasions.
Another Ranji Trophy team later to be absorbed by Madhya Pradesh was Gwalior (one match in 1943-44).
Madhya Pradesh team
Madhya Pradesh began competing as a team from 1950-51. Holkar appeared in the Ranji Trophy till 1954-55 after which it was dissolved and replaced by a Madhya Bharat team. This became part of the Madhya Pradesh team after two years as the states were reorganised.
Madhya Pradesh's first title was the 1998-99 Wills Trophy, where they defeated Bengal in the final. Madhya Pradesh team reached the final of the Ranji Trophy for the first time in the same season. They took the first innings lead against Karnataka and needed only a draw to win the title but collapsed in the final session of the last day to lose with five overs to spare.
Finally in the 2021–22 season, Madhya Pradesh defeated the 41-time Champions Mumbai in the final in Bengaluru to win the Ranji Trophy for the fifth time and first time as Madhya Pradesh.
Honours
Holkar
Ranji Trophy
Winners (4): 1945–46, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1952–53
Runners-up (6): 1944–45, 1946–47, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1954–55
Madhya Pradesh
Ranji Trophy
Winners: 2021–22
Runners-up: 1998–99
Wills Trophy
Winners: 1998–99
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Runners-up: 2010-11
Famous players
Players from Holkar and Madhya Pradesh who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:
Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu (1932)
Janardan Navle (1932)
Cottari Subbanna Nayudu (1934)
Syed Mushtaq Ali (1934)
Chandu Sarwate (1946)
Hiralal Gaekwad (1952)
Narendra Hirwani (1988)
Rajesh Chauhan (1993)
Naman Ojha (2015)
Players from Madhya Pradesh who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:
Amay Khurasiya (1999)
Kuldeep Sen (2022)
Cricketers from other state teams who also played for Madhya Pradesh, and played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:
Khanderao Rangnekar (1947)
Chandrakant Pandit (1986)
Cricketers from other state teams who also played for Madhya Pradesh, and played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:
Jai Prakash Yadav (2002)
Notable players at the domestic level:
Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
Narayan Nivsarkar
Devendra Bundela
Ishwar Pandey
Jalaj Saxena
Rajat Patidar
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Updated as on 1 March 2023
Coaching staff
Coaching staff for team are listed below:
Head Coach: Chandrakant Pandit
Trainer: Mayank Agarwal
Physio: Balasaheb Tate
Former players
List of Madhya Pradesh first-class players
List of Madhya Pradesh List A players
List of Madhya Pradesh Twenty20 players
Records
For more details on this topic, see List of Madhya Pradesh first-class cricket records, List of Madhya Pradesh List A cricket records, List of Madhya Pradesh Twenty20 cricket records.
Grounds
Holkar Stadium
Madhya Pradesh play the majority of their home matches at the Holkar Stadium.
Captain Roop Singh Stadium
Madhya Pradesh's second home is Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior
Other grounds
References
Indian first-class cricket teams
Cricket in Madhya Pradesh
1950 establishments in India
Cricket clubs established in 1950 |
The Rolling Stones' 1966 American Tour was a concert tour by the band. The tour commenced on June 24 and concluded on July 28, 1966. Two weeks prior to the start of the tour, Mick Jagger collapsed from "nervous exhaustion" and was hospitalized. On this tour, the band supported their album Aftermath. The last gig of the tour in Honolulu, Hawaii was broadcast on Hawaiian radio station KPOI.
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – guitar, harmonica, electric dulcimer, organ, backing vocals
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums
Tour set list
Songs performed include:
Not Fade Away
The Last Time
Paint It Black
Under My Thumb
Stupid Girl
Time Is On My Side
Lady Jane
Play With Fire
Doncha Bother Me
The Spider And The Fly
Mothers Little Helper
Get Off Of My Cloud
19th Nervous Breakdown
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Tour dates
It has been mistakenly believed the group played two shows in Bakersfield, CA on July 24 but in fact, they had an afternoon show in San Bernardino followed by an evening show in Bakersfield.
Hartford set list:
Intro / "Not Fade Away"
"The Last Time"
"Paint It, Black"
"Lady Jane"
"Mother's Little Helper"
"Get Off Of My Cloud"
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
References in popular culture
The show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York provided the setting for a number of scenes in an episode of US TV drama Mad Men, entitled Tea Leaves.
References
Carr, Roy. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record. Harmony Books, 1976.
The Rolling Stones concert tours
1966 concert tours
Concert tours of Canada
Concert tours of the United States |
The 2015 UK Music Video Awards were held on 5 November 2015 at the Roundhouse in London and was hosted by Adam Buxton to recognise the best in music videos and music film making from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominations were announced on 30 September 2015. American rapper Kendrick Lamar won Video of the Year for "Alright", directed by Colin Tilley and The Little Homies. British director David Mallet received the Icon Award.
Video of the Year
Icon Award
Video Genre Categories
Technical Achievement Categories
Non-traditional Music Visual and Public Vote Categories
Individual Categories
References
External links
Official website
UK Music Video Awards
UK Music Video Awards
UK Music Video Awards |
Le Génépi (2,884 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Mont Blanc massif, located west of Champex in the canton of Valais. It is the culminating point of the group lying north of the Fenêtre d'Arpette.
References
External links
Le Génépi on Hikr
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Valais
Mountains of Switzerland
Two-thousanders of Switzerland
Mont Blanc massif |
Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The fort was built on a natural island known as Hendrick's Reef. Construction on the fort began during the War of 1812 and was completed in 1822. The fort, originally named Fort Diamond after its shape, was renamed in 1823 to celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette, a hero of the American Revolution who would soon commence a grand tour of the United States. During the American Civil War, the island fort became a prison, mostly for civilians viewed as disloyal to the Union; the fort became known as an "American Bastille." The fort was demolished in 1960 to make room for the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; the Brooklyn-side bridge tower now occupies the fort's former foundation site.
Construction
Fort Lafayette was in the form of a square set on end, hence its first name of Fort Diamond. It held approximately 72 cannon (references vary) in three tiers, two in casemates and one in barbette mountings on the roof. The design allowed all the cannon in the southwest front to engage enemy ships entering the Narrows, with the northwest front also engaging if ships passed the fort. The fort was designed at the very end of the second system of US fortifications, and is not fully characteristic of either the second system or the third system. The fort was built of sandstone and brick. The fort was, however, vulnerable to bombardment from Brooklyn, and Fort Hamilton was built circa 1830 to prevent this. In the 1840s, as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, Robert E. Lee worked on repairs and improvements to the fort.
Civil War prison
Before 1861, the fort's 72 heavy cannon commanded the primary approaches to the harbor, but during the Civil War, the casemates were used to house Confederate prisoners of war and politicians opposed to the administration's policies, detained under Abraham Lincoln's selective suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Fort Lafayette came to be known as the "American Bastille" to some.
Robert Cobb Kennedy, formerly a captain in the 1st Louisiana Regular Infantry (CSA), was one of the Confederate conspirators in the plot to burn New York on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1864, and was the only one caught. He was imprisoned, court-martialed, and hanged at the fort on March 25, 1865. The plot to burn New York was in retaliation for Sherman burning Atlanta. Several hotels and P. T. Barnum's museum were set on fire.
Francis Key Howard, grandson of Francis Scott Key, was a newspaper editor of the Baltimore Exchange, a newspaper sympathetic to the southern cause. He was arrested on September 13, 1861, by U.S. Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks on the direct orders of General George B. McClellan, enforcing the policy of President Abraham Lincoln. The basis of his arrest was for writing a critical editorial in his newspaper on Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and the fact that the Lincoln administration had declared martial law in Baltimore and imprisoned numerous persons without due process, including George William Brown, mayor of Baltimore, Congressman Henry May, the police commissioners of Baltimore, and the entire city council. Howard was then transferred to Fort Lafayette and from there to Fort Warren in Boston harbor.
Later use
Rebuilt after a catastrophic fire in 1868, the fort was used in 1883 by Edmund Zalinski for experiments with his dynamite gun, which was briefly adopted by both the US Army and US Navy. The fort was used by the Navy for ammunition storage and transfer from 1898-1946. It was demolished in 1960 when the island was used for the base of the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
References
External links
Fort Lafayette at New York State Military Museum
Portals to Hell, book
The New York Times 1903
List of prisoners, 1861
Public Works of the Navy
American Bastille (1881)
FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts
Installations of the United States Army in New York (state)
New York (state) in the American Civil War
Lafayette
American Civil War prison camps
Military facilities in Brooklyn
Lafayette
Demolished buildings and structures in New York (state)
Buildings and structures demolished in 1960
Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan
1815 establishments in New York (state)
1960 disestablishments in New York (state)
Former islands of New York City
Islands of Brooklyn |
Badinogo is a village in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso. It lies to the west of Kongoussi. It has a population of 297. It is sometimes listed as Badinogo-2 to distinguish it from the larger village Badinogo-1 which lies north of Kongoussi.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in the Centre-Nord Region
Bam Province |
Avram Miller (born January 27, 1945) is an American businessman, corporate venture capitalist, scientist and technologist. He served as vice president, Business Development for Intel Corporation (1984-1999). With Leslie L. Vadász, he co-founded Intel Capital. He led Intel's initiative to help create and expand residential broadband Internet access.
After leaving Intel, he founded The Avram Miller Company, a consulting firm for technology companies. Miller has served as a senior advisor to Lazard, and has served as a director of various companies including CMGI, World Online, PCCW, and entertainment companies including Maxis and King World Productions.
Miller was the founding chair of Plugged In, a non-profit computer literacy program for underserved urban youth (1992-1999), a senior advisor to Equal Access (1999-2012) and a trustee of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) (1998-2002).
Early life and education
Avram Miller is a San Franciscan from a middle-class Jewish family. After graduating from Drew School, a private high school in San Francisco, in 1963, Miller joined the United States Merchant Marine as a steward. He was active in both the civil rights and anti-war movements.
Career
Langley Porter (1966-1969)
Toward the end of 1966, Miller began work at the Langley Porter Institute, University of California San Francisco Medical School, under Joseph Kamiya, PhD, who was a pioneer in the study of biofeedback. Miller developed much of the equipment that was used in this research.
Thoraxcenter (1969-1974)
In early 1969, Miller joined cardiologist Paul Hugenholtz, who was starting a new cardiovascular institute at Erasmus University Rotterdam, called The Thoraxcenter. His primary task was to build a computer department.
Mennen-Greatbatch (1974-1979)
Moving with his family to Israel in 1974, Miller joined medical technology manufacturer Mennen-Greatbatch (now Mennen Medical) as founder and director of their computer division. He also was named Adjunct Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, working in the Department of Cardiology under Professor Henry N. Neufeld.
Digital Equipment Corporation (1979-1983)
Returning to the United States in 1979, Miller joined the Central Engineering Department of Digital Equipment Corporation. Miller managed the group responsible for hardware development and support of low-end computers.
A year later, Ken Olsen, Digital's founder and CEO, chose Miller to head a new group dedicated to developing the company's entry into the personal computer market. The products were known as the Professional Series. The Professional 350, introduced at the 1982 National Computer Conference in Houston, TX, ran a multiprocessing operating system, a fully bitmapped display, and had built-in Ethernet capability.
Franklin Computer (1983-1984)
In 1983, Miller became Chief Operating Officer at Franklin Computer Corporation (now Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.), an early-stage Apple II clone manufacturer. Miller was later named president.
Under Miller, Franklin reached $80 million in sales, but a legal battle with Apple hindered it greatly. Miller left Franklin in April 1984.
Intel (1984-1999) and the birth of Intel Capital
Miller joined Intel Corporation in August 1984, initially working with "The System Group," a division that developed computer systems. Miller reported to Les Vadász, who had led the company's efforts to develop its first microprocessor. Miller focused on mergers, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and minority investments.
In 1988, Miller was named Vice President, Business Development, and later was elected Corporate Vice President by the Intel board.
With the support of Intel's CEO Andy Grove, Vadász and Miller created the Corporative Business Development group (CBD), later renamed Intel Capital. Intel Capital became a successful corporative venture group in the technology sector.
Miller's group was an investor in Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com, internet infrastructure and security services company Verisign, communications semiconductor maker Broadcom, interactive publications innovator LAUNCH Media, the web-hosting service Geocities, the tech media site CNET and broadband network provider Covad (now part of MegaPath Corporation). Miller's group also invested in CMGI (now ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc.) and PCCW.
Development of Residential Broadband
In 1992, Miller was asked by Andy Grove to be the Intel point person working with Microsoft to develop a number of consumer initiatives. They sought to develop an interactive set-top box for the cable television industry. This project also involved General Instrument (GI) owned Jerrold, a large supplier of set-tops. Working with Intel and Microsoft was GI CTO Matt Miller (no relation).
By the end of 1992, it was determined that an interactive set-top box would be too expensive. With Matt Miller, Avram Miller recognized much of the digital TV technology could be used for high-speed residential broadband connections. GI and Intel began to develop both cable modems and the head-end equipment used as a gateway to the Internet.
Speaking to this faster Internet access in 1996, Miller predicted:
"It's not about playing cards, it's about talking. It's known as social computing, people interacting through the personal computer.
"And I see this as a major driver to the use of PCs."
"This will make the PC indispensable to our lives and it will change the way we communicate," he said. "PCs will be on all the time."
Miller organized the first major trials of cable modems with Comcast and Viacom (which then owned a cable business). In 1993, Intel demonstrated working cable modems at The Western Cable Show in Anaheim, CA.
Miller got such companies as America Online (AOL) and Prodigy to participate in the broadband trials. Intel then provided the key specification to CableLabs (the research arm of the cable industry), which became the DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) standard.
Because the cable industry did not have the technical capabilities to manage an internet business, Miller conceived of a company that would provide these services, and convinced the venture group Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB, also known as Kleiner Perkins) to work with the cable industry to create the company @Home Network. Intel would also invest in this high-speed cable Internet service provider.
In addition to the development of broadband cable, Miller oversaw Intel's activities to create high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) Internet access, working extensively with telephone companies.
The Avram Miller Company
Miller left Intel in April 1999 to start The Avram Miller Company, a strategy and business development group providing services to Internet companies internationally.
In addition, Miller served on the boards of many public (CMGI, World Online, and PCCW) and private companies (Heavy.com), and was a senior advisor to Lazard Frères & Co. (now the Lazard Group LLC).
Miller currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Sheba Hospital in Israel as well as The Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic.
In 2003, Miller was ranked number eight on the Forbes Midas List of the top 100 tech investors.
Personal life
Two grown children from his first marriage and four grandsons. Married to Deborah Neasi-Miller in 2003.
References
External links
CSPAN: Digital High Definition Television; House Committee on Commerce Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection April 23, 1998
NerdTV#8: Avram Miller
Intel Corp. Details Three-Prong Plan for Cable Modems, Multichannel News
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Intel people
1945 births
Living people
American computer businesspeople
Drew School alumni |
St Aubin railway station, also known as St Aubins was a railway station in Saint Aubin, a port in Jersey in the Channel Islands. Opened in 1870 by the Jersey Railway, it was in passenger operation until the line closed in 1936.
History
The Jersey Railway first opened in 1870, running services between Saint Helier and Saint Aubin with trains stopping at the three intermediate stations, First Tower, Millbrook and Beaumont. The first trial service ran on 28 September, and on the following day a train carrying 300 invited guests departed from Saint Helier. The line was formally opened to passengers on 17 October with a grand ceremonial opening followed by a banquet at Noirmont Manor, the residence of the contractor, Mr E. Pickering. On the opening day, 4000 single journeys were made on the line.
The station as originally built had two platforms under a trainshed. A hotel opened at the station in 1871.
In 1885, a third platform was built to serve trains on the extension to Corbière.
In 1922 the trainshed was demolished due to its poor condition and replaced with canopies over the platforms.
Closure
On 15 October 1936, a fire damaged the station and destroyed most of the railway's rolling stock. The company sold all of its land and stations to the States of Jersey for £25,000 in 1937. The main station building and hotel are now Saint Brélade's parish hall.
References
External links
Transport in Jersey
History of Jersey
Railway stations opened in 1870
Railway stations closed in 1936
Disused railway stations in the Channel Islands
1870 establishments in Jersey
1936 disestablishments in Jersey |
Develop was a monthly UK trade magazine for the video game industry. Its online portal, complete with a digital version of the print publication, was active since July 2007.
Develop 100 was an annual rating system for game developers produced by Develop. It was a ranking of the world's games development studios based on a variety of criteria including sales data, critical success and industry standing.
The Develop Industry Excellence Awards, also annually, honoured the development of video games and award studios across a range of categories.
In November 2017, NewBay Media, the owner of Develop at the time, announced that the websites, magazines and events of Develop and sister magazine Esports Pro would be absorbed into MCV by early 2018, with the combined magazine moving to a monthly frequency.
References
External links
(archived)
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom
Internet properties disestablished in 2018
Video game development websites
Mass media in Hertfordshire
Professional and trade magazines |
Heinz Radzikowski (7 September 1925 – 18 April 2017) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stolp.
References
External links
1925 births
2017 deaths
German male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for the United Team of Germany
Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United Team of Germany
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Sportspeople from Słupsk
Sportspeople from the Province of Pomerania
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
20th-century German people |
This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Oldhamstocks in East Lothian, Scotland.
List
|}
Key
See also
List of listed buildings in East Lothian
Notes
References
All entries, addresses and coordinates are based on data from Historic Scotland. This data falls under the Open Government Licence
Oldhamstocks
Oldhamstocks |
The Federação Maranhense de Futebol (English: Football Association of Maranhão state) was founded on January 11, 1918, and it manages all the official football tournaments within the state of Maranhão, which are the Campeonato Maranhense, the Campeonato Maranhense lower levels and the Copa União do Maranhão, and represents the clubs at the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
References
Maranhense
Football in Maranhão
Sports organizations established in 1918 |
```c++
#include <Common/Config/ConfigHelper.h>
#include <Poco/AutoPtr.h>
#include <Poco/Util/XMLConfiguration.h>
#include <Poco/DOM/DOMParser.h>
#include <gtest/gtest.h>
using namespace DB;
TEST(Common, ConfigWithDotInKeys)
{
std::string xml(R"CONFIG(<clickhouse>
<foo.bar>1</foo.bar>
</clickhouse>)CONFIG");
Poco::XML::DOMParser dom_parser;
Poco::AutoPtr<Poco::XML::Document> document = dom_parser.parseString(xml);
Poco::AutoPtr<Poco::Util::XMLConfiguration> config = new Poco::Util::XMLConfiguration(document);
/// directly
EXPECT_EQ(ConfigHelper::getBool(*config, "foo.bar", false, false), false);
EXPECT_EQ(ConfigHelper::getBool(*config, "foo\\.bar", false, false), true);
/// via keys()
Poco::Util::AbstractConfiguration::Keys keys;
config->keys("", keys);
ASSERT_EQ(1, keys.size());
ASSERT_EQ("foo\\.bar", keys[0]);
}
``` |
Newton–Wigner localization (named after Theodore Duddell Newton and Eugene Wigner) is a scheme for obtaining a position operator for massive relativistic quantum particles. It is known to largely conflict with the Reeh–Schlieder theorem outside of a very limited scope.
The Newton–Wigner position operators 1, 2, 3, are the premier notion of position
in relativistic quantum mechanics of a single particle. They enjoy the same
commutation relations with the 3 space momentum operators and transform under
rotations in the same way as the , , in ordinary QM. Though formally they have the same properties with respect to 1,
2, 3, as
the position in ordinary QM, they have additional properties: One of these is that
This ensures that the free particle moves at the expected velocity with the given momentum/energy.
Apparently these notions were discovered when attempting to define a self adjoint operator in the relativistic setting that resembled the
position operator in basic quantum mechanics in the sense that at low momenta it
approximately agreed with that operator. It also has several famous strange behaviors (see the Hegerfeldt theorem in particular), one of
which is seen as the motivation for having to introduce quantum field theory.
References
M.H.L. Pryce, Proc. Roy. Soc. 195A, 62 (1948)
V. Bargmann and E. P. Wigner, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 34, 211-223 (1948). pdf
V. Moretti, On the relativistic spatial localization for massive real scalar Klein–Gordon quantum particles Lett Math Phys 113, 66 (2023).
Quantum field theory
Axiomatic quantum field theory |
Chase Andrew Budinger (born May 22, 1988) is an American professional volleyball player and former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 44th overall pick in 2009 NBA draft after playing three years of college basketball for the University of Arizona.
High school career
Budinger was a standout basketball and volleyball player at La Costa Canyon High School while living in Encinitas, California; his teammates on the basketball team included future NFL quarterback Kevin O'Connell. In basketball, he led La Costa Canyon to the CIF San Diego Section title in 2006. In volleyball, he led his school to three state championships and was named by Volleyball Magazine as the National Player of the Year as a senior.
Budinger was a McDonald's All-American and was the runner-up in the 2006 McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk Contest.
Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Budinger was listed as the No. 2 small forward and the No. 4 player in the nation in 2006.
College career
Budinger chose to concentrate on basketball, signing with Arizona—a school that did not (and still does not) sponsor varsity men's volleyball—although he received offers from many other schools, most notably offers by USC and UCLA to play both basketball and volleyball. He averaged 15.6 points in his freshman season, starting all 30 games for the Wildcats. At the conclusion of the season he announced that he planned to stay with Arizona for his sophomore season, despite speculation that he could be picked early in the NBA draft. However, he later announced that he would declare for the draft and not hire an agent. He was projected as a mid-first-round pick by most draft analysts. However, on the final day of the deadline for pulling out of the early entry list, Budinger opted not to remain in the draft and returned to school instead.
After the 2008–09 season, he declared for the NBA draft a second time. Under an NCAA rule back then, declaring for the draft a second time ended a player's college eligibility. In 2016, that rule was revised to allow a player to enter and withdraw from the draft multiple times without losing eligibility.
College statistics
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| align="left" | 2006–07
| align="left" | Arizona
| 31 || 31 || 33.0 || .485 || .368 || .845 || 5.8 || 2.0 || 1.2 || 0.4 || 15.6
|-
| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Arizona
| 34 || 34 || 35.3 || .446 || .380 || .718 || 5.4 || 2.9 || 1.1 || 0.2 || 17.1
|-
| align="left" | 2008–09
| align="left" | Arizona
| 35 || 35 || 37.6 || .480 || .399 || .801 || 6.2 || 3.4 || 1.4 || 0.5 || 18.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2" |Career
| 100 || 100 || 35.4 || .469 || .383 || .782 || 5.8 || 2.8 || 1.3 || 0.4 || 17.0
|-
Professional career
Houston Rockets (2009–2012)
In 2009, he was drafted by the Detroit Pistons, and then traded to the Houston Rockets on draft night. He joined the Rockets' Summer League team, and averaged 17.8 PPG. In the 2009 season opener for the Rockets, Budinger came off the bench and logged 15 minutes of playing time while scoring 6 points and collecting one rebound. On March 30, 2010, Budinger scored 24 points in a 98–94 home win against the Washington Wizards. Three days later he matched this total in a 119–114 road win at the Boston Celtics. On February 23, 2011, Budinger scored a new career-high 30 points in a 124–119 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. During the Rockets' season finale against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Budinger scored a new career-high 35 points on 12 of 21 shooting, including 4 for 8 from 3-point range.
During the 2011 NBA lockout, Budinger agreed to play for the Russian team PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban; however, before he signed the deal, the lockout ended and the agreement fell through.
In 2012, Budinger competed in the 2012 Slam Dunk Contest, where he performed a dunk over P. Diddy, a wheelhouse slam, and a blindfolded reverse dunk honoring former Slam Dunk Contest winner Cedric Ceballos. However, he ultimately lost to Jeremy Evans by one percent of the votes.
Minnesota Timberwolves (2012–2015)
On June 25, 2012, Budinger, along with the rights to Lior Eliyahu, was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves for the eighteenth pick in the 2012 NBA draft. On November 2, he made his debut for the Timberwolves in a 92–80 win over the Sacramento Kings, recording nine points, five rebounds and one block in 21 minutes off the bench.
Indiana Pacers (2015–2016)
On July 12, 2015, Budinger was traded to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Damjan Rudež. On October 28, he made his debut for Indiana in a 106–99 loss to the Toronto Raptors, recording two rebounds and one assist in 15 minutes off the bench. On March 5, 2016, he was waived by the Pacers.
Phoenix Suns (2016)
On March 8, 2016, Budinger signed with the Phoenix Suns. He made his debut for the Suns the following night, recording two points, two rebounds and one assist in a loss to the New York Knicks.
On September 26, 2016, Budinger signed with the Brooklyn Nets, but was waived on October 18 after appearing in four preseason games.
Baskonia (2016–2017)
On October 27, 2016, Budinger signed with Baskonia.
Volleyball career
In 2017, Budinger decided to retire from basketball to focus on playing professional beach volleyball. He made his debut on the AVP tour with Sean Rosenthal in 2018, and in 2019 is partnering with Casey Patterson.
Personal life
Budinger's parents are Duncan and Māra Budinger. His maternal grandfather, Andrejs Eglītis, was Latvian, and moved to the United States shortly after World War II. Andrejs was proud of his descent and wrote a book about it called A Man From Latvia. Budinger's older sister, Brittanie, played volleyball at the University of San Francisco and as a professional in Europe. His older brother, Duncan, also plays volleyball and tours professionally.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Houston
| 74 || 4 || 20.1 || .441 || .369 || .770 || 3.0 || 1.2 || .5 || .2 || 8.9
|-
| align="left" |
| align="left" | Houston
| 78 || 22 || 22.3 || .425 || .325 || .855 || 3.6 || 1.6 || .5 || .2 || 9.8
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Houston
| 58 || 9 || 22.4 || .442 || .402 || .771 || 3.7 || 1.3 || .5 || .1 || 9.6
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 23 || 1 || 22.1 || .414 || .321 || .762 || 3.1 || 1.1 || .6 || .3 || 9.4
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 41 || 8 || 18.3 || .394 || .350 || .821 || 2.5 || .8 || .5 || .0 || 6.7
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 67 || 4 || 19.2 || .433 || .364 || .827 || 3.0 || 1.0 || .7 || .1 || 6.8
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| align="left" |
| align="left" | Indiana
| 49 || 2 || 14.9 || .418 || .290 || .708 || 2.5 || 1.0 || .6 || .2 || 4.4
|-
| align="left" |
| align="left" | Phoenix
| 17 || 0 || 11.8 || .511 || .235 || .625 || 1.7 || .9 || .2 || .1 || 3.2
|- class="sortbottom"
| align="center" colspan="2"| Career
| 407 || 50 || 19.7 || .430 || .352 || .797 || 3.0 || 1.2 || .5 || .2 || 7.9
EuroLeague
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| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=1| Baskonia
| 29 || 16 || 18.5 || .584 || .328 || .852 || 3.8 || 1.2 || .6 || .1 || 6.8 || 7.8
|- class="sortbottom"
| align="center" colspan="2"| Career
| 29 || 16 || 18.5 || .584 || .328 || .852 || 3.8 || 1.2 || .6 || .1 || 6.8 || 7.8
Awards
2006 Mizuno National Player of the Year in high school boys' volleyball
Co-MVP of the 2006 McDonald's High School All-American Game (with Kevin Durant)
2006 First-team Parade All-American
Named the Most Valuable Player of the Nike Junior World Championships in Douai, France
Named the Most Valuable Player of the 2006 US Junior Olympic Volleyball Tournament in the 18 and under division.
2006 California Mr. Basketball
2006 McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk Contest Runner-Up
Named the 2007 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year
See also
2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans
References
External links
Chase Budinger at euroleague.net
Chase Budinger at acb.com
Chase Budinger at arizonawildcats.com
1988 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American men's basketball players
American men's beach volleyball players
American people of Latvian descent
Arizona Wildcats men's basketball players
Detroit Pistons draft picks
Houston Rockets players
Indiana Pacers players
Liga ACB players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Minnesota Timberwolves players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Sportspeople from Encinitas, California
Phoenix Suns players
Saski Baskonia players
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Carlsbad, California
Basketball players from San Diego County, California |
Axtell is a village in western Kearney County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 732 at the 2020 census.
History
The first settlement at Axtell was made in the 1870s. Axtell was incorporated as a village in 1885 when the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for a railroad worker.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 726 people, 276 households, and 208 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 293 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 97.4% White, 0.6% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.8% from other races, and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.2% of the population.
There were 276 households, of which 39.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.9% were married couples living together, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 24.6% were non-families. 21.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.06.
The median age in the village was 36.2 years. 28.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.8% were from 25 to 44; 27.1% were from 45 to 64; and 13.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 696 people, 258 households, and 190 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 277 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 98.85% White, 0.14% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.43% from other races, and 0.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.58% of the population.
There were 258 households, out of which 41.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.0% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.0% were non-families. 22.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.15.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 32.3% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.4 males.
As of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $40,625, and the median income for a family was $41,750. Males had a median income of $28,693 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,459. About 7.5% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.0% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.
Economy
Basic economic activities in Axtell include farming and farm related occupations.
Culture
Axtell became known as "The Windmill City" for the large number of windmill within the community.
Axtell is also known as the home of Mosaic - Bethphage Village of Axtell, which provides services for the developmentally disabled. Bethphage was founded in 1913 by K. G. William Dahl, a minister of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church.
See also
List of villages in Nebraska
References
External links
Villages in Kearney County, Nebraska
Villages in Nebraska
Kearney Micropolitan Statistical Area |
The political parties based in Indian state of Goa
Parties
Registered Unrecognised Parties
United Goans Party
Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) led Muzaffar Xec and Zabir Ahmed Shaikh
United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) led by Jorson Fernandes
Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) led by Subhash Velingkar and Anand Shirodkar
Goa Praja Party (GPP) led by Pandurang Raut
Goa Su-Raj Party (GSRP) led by Mathias Xavier Vaz
Goa Vikas Party (GVP) led by Lyndon Monteiro
Niz Goenkar Revolution Front (NGRF)
Goa Nationalist Party
Goemcarancho Otrec Asro
Sattari Yuva Morcha
Defunct Regional Parties
United Goans Party (Sequiera Group), led by Late Dr. Jack de Sequeira
United Goans Party (Furtado Group), led by Late Alvaro de Loyola Furtado
United Goans Party (Naik Group), led by Late Babu Naik
United Goans Party (Monserratte Group), led by Atanasio Monserratte (merged with Bharatiya Janata Party)
Frente Popular, led by Late Bertha Menezes Braganza
Gomant Lok Pokx, led by Late Mathany Saldanha
Goa People's Party, led by Late Luis Proto Barbosa
Goa Congress, led by Late Wilfred de Souza
Goa Rajiv Congress Party, led by Late Wilfred de Souza
Goa People's Congress, led by Francisco Sardinha
Save Goa Front, led by Churchill Alemao
Indian National Congress (Sheik Hassan), led by Sheikh Hassan Haroon (merged with Bharatiya Janata Party)
Partido Indiano
United Front of Goans
Goa Democratic Front (GDF) led by Dayanand Narvekar (merged with Aam Admi Party).
References
Political parties in Goa
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Akulik Creek is a stream in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. It flows to the Chukchi Sea.
Akulik is derived from an Eskimo word meaning "fancy trimming".
See also
List of rivers of Alaska
References
Rivers of North Slope Borough, Alaska
Rivers of Alaska |
Dening is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Wesley Dening (born 1983), Australian television host and comedian
Mitch Dening (born 1988), Australian baseball player
Greg Dening (1931–2008), Australian historian
John Pitt Dening (1894–1929), British polo champion
Fernando Emanuel Dening (born 1988), Argentine footballer |
Elections in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Freien Hansestadt Lübeck) to its state parliament, the Bürgerschaft, during the Weimar Republic were held at irregular intervals between 1919 and 1932. Results with regard to the total vote, the percentage of the vote won and the number of seats allocated to each party are presented in the tables below. On 31 March 1933, the sitting Bürgerschaft was dissolved by the Nazi-controlled central government and reconstituted to reflect the distribution of seats in the national Reichstag. The Bürgerschaft subsequently was formally abolished as a result of the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 30 January 1934 which replaced the German federal system with a unitary state.
1919
The 1919 Lübeck state election was held on 9 February 1919 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
1921
The 1921 Lübeck state election was held on 13 November 1921 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
1924
The 1924 Lübeck state election was held on 10 February 1924 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
1926
The 1926 Lübeck state election was held on 14 November 1926 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
1929
The 1929 Lübeck state election was held on 10 November 1929 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
1932
The 1932 Lübeck state election was held on 13 November 1932 to elect the 80 members of the Bürgerschaft.
References
Elections in the Weimar Republic
Elections in Schleswig-Holstein
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Azzone Visconti (7 December 1302 – 16 August 1339) was lord of Milan from 1329 until his death. After the death of his uncle, Marco Visconti, he was threatened with excommunication and had to submit to Pope John XXII. Azzone reconstituted his family's land holdings, taking numerous cities. He died in 1339.
Biography
Born in Ferrara, he was the sole legitimate son of Galeazzo I Visconti and Beatrice d'Este. In 1322 he was lord of Piacenza, but in the same year, together with his father, was forced to flee. In 1325, Azzone commanded troops at the battles of Altopascio and Zappolino, both victories over the Guelphs.
In 1327, his father Galeazzo and all of the other leading members of the Visconti family were arrested under suspicion of assassinating Galeazzo's younger brother Stefano. Their territories were confiscated by the Emperor, and local families took control of many cities that had long been tied to the Viscontis. Milan itself was ruled by a new Imperial appointee and a council that was hostile to the Viscontis. Therefore, when Galeazzo died later that year, Visconti power was at a low point.
Azzone immediately became involved in a struggle with his uncle Marco for control of Milan.
In 1329, with the support of another uncle, Giovanni, he bought the title of imperial vicar of Milan from the emperor Louis IV for 60,000 (or 125,000) florins. (At the same time, Giovanni was appointed to several high offices by Nicholas V, the Imperial antipope.) Azzone paid only 12,000 of the promised florins, the feeble Louis being unable to force the payment. In the same years, Marco was killed and Azzone was named as one of the assassins, but he was never condemned.
This maneuver drew the ire of Pope John XXII, who excommunicated Azzone, placed the city of Milan under interdict, and threatened an invasion by his French allies. Under this pressure, Azzone was forced to submit to the Pope and renounce his Imperial vicariate, although he did retain political power within Milan, and on 15 March 1330 he was appointed signore of Milan.
In 1331, Azzone married Catherine of Savoy, daughter of Louis II of Vaud. In the August of the same year he allied with Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat, against King Robert of Anjou, in order to capture his possessions in north-western Italy. In 1332 he also conquered Bergamo and Pizzighettone, continuing in 1335 with Lodi, Crema and other Lombardy lands who had ceded themselves to the Papal States, as well as Vercelli and Cremona.
By February 1339, Azzone was suffering from gout. Faced with a revolt by Lodrisio Visconti, who had hired a company of mercenary troops, he had Luchino Visconti command the Milanese army. Lodrisio was defeated by the Milanese at the battle of Parabiago and imprisoned in the castle of San Colombano al Lambro.
Azzone died 16 August 1339 of a gout attack, and was buried in the church of San Gottardo, which he had commissioned some years before. He had no male heirs (having had only a daughter, Luchina) and was succeeded as lord of Milan by Giovanni and another uncle, Luchino. Besides his political and military career, he is remembered for his great construction works in Milan and other cities of Lombardy.
Notes
References
Sources
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Tanner Moor is one of the largest moorlands in Austria with a surface area of 120 hectares. Tanner Moor is a Natura 2000 ecologically protected area located on a high granite plateau in the Freistadt district, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria at an average elevation of 900 m.
The moorland is watered exclusively by rain and is almost completely covered with pine trees. There are gaps, however, where typical moorland plants such as Bog-rosemary, Cotton-grass and the Ericaceae, for example upland berries (Vaccinium) and heather (Calluna), flourish. The central area of the moorland has never been used economically, but some of the areas around the edges were planted in spruce in the Twentieth Century. A small dam created Rubener pond was which formerly used in lumbering, but is now just for swimming and fishing. It is a high tannin pond. A six kilometer long trail leads through the moorland, over bridges and past bogs to highlands of mountain pine (Pinus mugo), whence the entire moor can be viewed.
References
Feltzmann, Elsalore (1961) "Vegetationsstudien im Tanner Moor" S. Oesterr. Akad. Wiss. Math.-naturw. Kl. Abt. 1(170): pp. 69–77.
External links
"Tanner Moor" Natura 2000
Woodland Sites of Special Scientific Interest
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The British Rail Class 504 was a unique type of electric multiple unit that ran on 1,200VDC third rail with side-contact current collection. All other mainline UK third rails have the electric "shoe" on top of the rail. The type was used only on the Bury Line between Manchester and Bury. They were built in 1959 at Wolverton Works, and the body was a standard type used for several electrification schemes of the time, but the high DC voltage through a side-contact third rail was unique in Britain. The trains replaced the previous five-car units built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) for the route, which had inaugurated this electrification scheme in 1916.
All were withdrawn in 1991 when the line was closed for conversion to form part of the Manchester Metrolink light rail system. One unit, No. 65451+77172, is preserved at the East Lancashire Railway.
Numbering
British Railways numbers were:
Motor Open Brake Second
M65436-M65461 (26 cars 1959, Wolverton Works)
Driving Trailer Composite (later Driving Trailer Second)
M77157-M77182 (26 cars 1959, Wolverton Works)
For an explanation of terms, see British Rail coach type codes
Incidents
All maintenance was conducted by the constructing workshops of Wolverton. The units were diesel hauled from Bury to and from Wolverton.
In 1986, a condemned vehicle (possibly 77169) was given (on temporary bogies) to the newly formed East Lancashire Railway (ELR). The carriage was used for a mock fire emergency exercise in Bury Tunnel (at Bolton Street station) with local fire services, British Rail Staff, and soon-to-be volunteers of the new ELR. After this exercise, the carriage was sold to a local scrap merchant in Bury and cut up early in 1987. The bogies were returned to the Bury EMU Depot. The bogies themselves were of interest, being a set of the original Lancashire and Yorkshire EMU unit bogies, which after the scrapping of LYR 1920s EMUs were retained to move objects around Bury Depot. These bogies were cut up into parts and dumped in a skip at Bury depot on its closure in 1991.
Withdrawal from service
Substantially more units were built than were soon required, and the unique electrical system prevented redeployment. By the 1966 LMR timetable, only 6 to 7 years after the units were introduced, the peak hour service was down to a 10-15 minute interval. This required only five 4-car trains in service, so only ten units from the fleet of 26 were required each day by this time. The reduced service (off peak was down to a 30-minute interval, requiring just two 2-car units) was responsible for much business being driven away to the frequent parallel bus services on this quite short urban route.
By the early 1970s, only 18 sets remained in use, reduction in demand on the service having led to years of storage for the first seven sets from the late 1960s onwards (65436-65442; 77157-77163). Additionally, Driving Trailer 77164 was transferred to the Tilbury lines of the Eastern Region 1970 to replace car 75292 in 302244, which had been written off in an accident. Its running mate 65443 was thereafter a spare car at Bury depot. 65436 and 65437 were used as the depot shunting set for a time, having had some front wiring and internal fittings removed, and were repainted in plain blue with yellow ends. The train was known locally for its speed and power over a normal power-trailer set.
Many of the early stored vehicles were still in BR Green with small yellow warning panels (inc 65438/439 and 77157-77160), with others in early versions of BR blue with; full yellow ends (inc 65436/437 - see above); wrap round yellow ends (65443); or even with small yellow warning panels (65442, 77162 and 77163).
In the late 1970s some cars, including 65439/443 and 77158/160, were stored at Croxley Green to supply spares to Class 501s. In February 1982, 65436/437 and 77157/158/163 were noted at Watford Junction as their Southern tour continued. Some finally went on to Wolverton Works (inc 77158) for further spares recovery.
After being stripped for spare parts at their southern locations, three cars (Blue 65436/443 and Green 77158) were dumped at Cockshute in Stoke-on-Trent in sight of the West Coast Main Line.
The eventual disposal of the early losses saw 65440 and 77161 scrapped at Bury in 1970/71; 65438 was sent to CF Booth in 1979; 65437 and 77157/163 disposed of at Horwich Works in 1982/83; 65439/441/442 and 77160/162 to Bird Group at Long Marston in 1983; finally 65436/443, together with the final green vehicle 77158, were sent to Vic Berry at Leicester for disposal in 1985. Of note was that despite the years of storage, none were officially withdrawn until just before disposal.
77164 retained its place in 302244 until 1985 when a replacement Class 302 driving trailer was located. The Class 504 vehicle was sent for scrap in June the same year to Marple and Gillott.
Apart from two vehicles, 65448 and 77169 withdrawn in the mid 1980s, no further significant withdrawals began until the closure of the line in the 1990s.
The first batch of latter day redundant Bury Class 504 units were hauled from Bury to Warrington before going to MC Metals of Glasgow for scrapping in early 1991. After this point the reduced Bury–Crumpsall service was operated in four-car formation. In August 1991, the entire line was closed. The next day a Class 31 diesel hauled all the units from Bury to Warrington in two trains of units. From Warrington, the entire collection was towed to MC Metals in Glasgow.
Two units remained at Bury, one purchased for the East Lancashire Railway, and another bought, reputedly as a joke, for £504 by Harry Needle Railroad Company. The latter was sold to the East Lancashire Railway Preservation Society (ELRPS). Much debate took place amongst ELR volunteers as the Class 31 pushed the units over the Buckley Wells crossing to a waiting Class 40. (The Bury Depot side of the crossing was still owned by BR until midnight that Saturday and the ELR was prevented from using its own locomotives to collect the units). From the Sunday after closure, the ELR moved over the crossing and took possession of the (BQ) Bury Depot Complex.
Preservation
The ELR found itself with two unique Class 504 Units, having only expected one. One unit was refurbished in the late 1980s, with modern strip lighting, and complete running boards outside. The other unit was refurbished in the 1970s, and has incandescent bulbs and individual running boards to each door. The unit was eventually given to the ELRPS.
At the ELR annual diesel gala in October 1991, Harry Needle, with his then-owned Class 25 No. (25262), placed his locomotive in the centre of the two units. The units were through wired to have the diesel in the middle and the capability to be driven from both ends of the units in a push pull mode. This was a major success for the October diesel gala, and pointed numerous possibilities to the future for having two units. This weekend saw a Class 504 Unit running north of Bury station for the first time.
One unit has since been scrapped and the parts stored in a container at Buckley Wells. The remaining unit is still awaiting restoration, but as of November 2015 was in danger of being scrapped as well.
A new Class 504 preservation society was launched on 8 November 2015, and work on restoring the units began on 24 January 2016.
Besides the Class 504 at Bury, an example of the unique side contact third rail gear and a section of electric rail was retained for the National Railway Museum at York; this is now restored and on display.
See also
British Rail Class 304 - an AC electric multiple unit externally similar to Class 504
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
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The City of Vancouver held a municipal election on November 19, 2011, along with other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia. All local government elections were for a three-year period. The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. A $180 million capital borrowing plan was also put to a vote.
Incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson and the Vision Vancouver Party sought and won their second term in office following their victory in the 2008 election. All Vision Vancouver candidates won seats in their respective categories.
Suzanne Anton lost her bid as mayor but the NPA team gained seats in council, park board and school board. COPE was nearly wiped out this election, losing both seats in city council. Its only elected official was school board trustee incumbent Allan Wong. On December 8, 2013, Wong resigned from the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) and joined Vision as a sitting trustee.
The Green Party of Vancouver had its first elected city councillor with Adriane Carr, but lost its incumbent seat on the park board. New party Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) did not win any seats in council. NSV leader Randy Helten placed a distant third in the mayoral race.
Candidates and results
The nomination period officially opened on October 4, 2011, and closed on October 14, 2011. This was the second election where Vision Vancouver and COPE signed an electoral agreement to support each other's candidates for election.
(I) denotes incumbents.
Mayor
Twelve candidates sought election to the position of mayor. Four were affiliated with a political party and eight were independents. Incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver was re-elected.
City councillors
Ten councillors were elected out of 41 candidates. Of the candidates, 28 were affiliated with a political party, and 13 were independent. Seven incumbent councillors sought re-election: six from Vision Vancouver and one from COPE. Of those subsequently elected, Vision Vancouver held seven seats, the NPA two and the Green Party of Vancouver one.
Park board commissioners
Seven commissioners were elected out of 21 candidates. Of the candidates, 15 were affiliated with a political party, and six were independent. Four incumbent commissioners sought re-election: three from Vision Vancouver and one from the Green Party of Vancouver. Of the elected commissioners, Vision held five seats and the NPA two.
School board trustees
Nine school board trustees were elected out of 20 candidates. Of the candidates, 15 were affiliated with a political party, and five were independent. Seven incumbent trustees were seeking re-election: three from Vision Vancouver, three from COPE, and one from the NPA. Of the elected trustees, five were from Vision Vancouver, three from the NPA and one from COPE.
Capital Plan questions
1. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $65,800,000 for the following purposes?
Community Facilities at $58,600,000
Parks at $7,200,000
2. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $66,300,000 for the following purposes?
Street and Bridge Infrastructure at $41,150,000
Transit and Safety Improvements at $8,500,000
Street Lighting, Traffic Signals and Communications Systems at $16,650,000
3. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $47,700,000 for the following purposes?
Public Safety Facilities at $13,200,000
Civic Facilities at $34,500,000
Voter and party statistics
Voter turnout
Of the 418,878 registered voters, there were 144,823 recorded ballots, marking the voter turnout at 34.57 percent. This is an increase from the 30.79-percent turnout during the previous municipal election in 2008.
Elected percentage by party
Of the parties represented, only Vision Vancouver had its entire slate of candidates elected in all fields.
Seat changes by party
References
External links
Vancouver Votes on city website
Vancouver municipal election
Municipal elections in Vancouver
Vancouver municipal election
Vancouver municipal election |
Oxford Township may refer to:
Canada
Oxford Township, now part of North Grenville, Ontario
Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario
United States
Illinois
Oxford Township, Henry County, Illinois
Iowa
Oxford Township, Johnson County, Iowa
Oxford Township, Jones County, Iowa
Kansas
Oxford Township, Johnson County, Kansas
Oxford Township, Sumner County, Kansas, in Sumner County, Kansas
Michigan
Oxford Charter Township, Michigan
Minnesota
Oxford Township, Isanti County, Minnesota
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Oxford Township, New Jersey
North Carolina
Oxford Township, Granville County, North Carolina, in Granville County, North Carolina
Ohio
Oxford Township, Butler County, Ohio
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Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio
Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio
Oxford Township, Guernsey County, Ohio
Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Pennsylvania
Oxford Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Oxford Township, Hamlin County, South Dakota, in Hamlin County, South Dakota
Township name disambiguation pages |
Constance "Connie" G. Maine is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
References
Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Pennsylvania
Living people
1942 births
21st-century American women |
The 2018–19 season was Lille OSC's 75th season in existence and the club's 19th consecutive season in the top flight of French football.
Players
Squad information
Out on loan
Reserve team
Competitions
Ligue 1
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Coupe de France
Coupe de la Ligue
Statistics
Appearances and goals
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References
Lille OSC seasons
Lille OSC |
Neoepiscardia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.
References
Tineidae
Tineidae genera |
Juan Sebastián Palma Micolta (born 18 July 1999) is a Colombian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Charleston Battery in the USL Championship.
On 27 December 2022, Palma signed with Charleston Battery in the USL Championship, the American second division.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
Honours
Colombia U-21
Central American and Caribbean Games: 2018
References
1999 births
Living people
Colombian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Once Caldas footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Colombia men's under-20 international footballers
Charleston Battery players
Colombian expatriate men's footballers
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States |
A Territorial Unit () was a type of Lithuanian partisan military unit that existed from the end of 1944 to 1954, who fought against the second Soviet occupation of Lithuania. Instead of destroyed or disintegrated units, new ones were founded, often with different names.
Due to the difficulties of guerrilla warfare, as well as for tactical reasons, the territorial units' boundaries changed, so, depending on the case, they operated in one county, a part of thereof, or several neighboring counties. Sometimes territorial units were transferred from one military district to another. Territorial units, thought not all, published their own press.
Beginning
The first territorial units were formed in Southern and Eastern Lithuania at the end of 1944. At the beginning of the partisan war in Lithuania, some territorial units formed and operated independently (e.g. Perkūnas, Deer, Vytautas in the Tauras military district).
Composition
A territorial unit was made up of several squads, companies, battalions, districts. Most frequently, it included several companies. In turn, several territorial units made up a military district (). After the founding of the Lithuanian Freedom Fighters Union in 1949, a territorial unit was composed of several homelands ().
Territorial units differed in the number of fighters (from roughly 50 to about 200 people). Sometimes, they were 700-strong. They were active anywhere from several to 8 years.
Command
The military district's commander appointed the territorial unit's commander. The people chosen were either staff officers or distinguished commanders of companies or other formations. Generally, these were Lithuanian army officers and school teachers.
List of territorial units
The following territorial units were active at various times:
Notes
Footnotes
Citations
Bibliography
Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia
Lithuanian partisans |
Troy Jaques (born 11 March 1972) is an Australian former professional rugby union player.
Jaques grew up in Tamworth, New South Wales, attending Our Lady of the Rosary College. He completed his schooling at Waverley College in Sydney after receiving a swimming scholarship. An Australian schoolboys representative, Jaques played his early rugby with Eastern Suburbs and Northern Suburbs, before joining the ACT Brumbies.
A back-rower, Jaques was capped twice for Australia in 2000, coming off the bench in Tests against South Africa in Melbourne and New Zealand in Sydney. He left Australian rugby to play professionally in France, where he competed for CA Brive and then Clermont. From 2003 to 2006, Jaques played for the Ricoh Black Rams in Japan.
See also
List of Australia national rugby union players
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
Sportspeople from Tamworth, New South Wales
Rugby union players from New South Wales
ACT Brumbies players
CA Brive players
ASM Clermont Auvergne players
Black Rams Tokyo players
Eastern Suburbs players
Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players |
Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, officially known as Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Athletics Complex, is a stadium in the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of the island of Manhattan, New York City. Part of Columbia University's Baker Athletics Complex, it is primarily used for American football, lacrosse, and track and field events. The stadium opened in 1984 and holds 17,100 people.
Baker Athletics Complex history
The Baker Athletics Complex, originally Baker Field, is Columbia's outdoor athletic complex. Previously, all outdoor teams had played on South Field, across 116th Street from Low Memorial Library, the field where Lou Gehrig played for the Lions; it is now partially covered by Butler Library.
The athletic complex is located between the corner of Broadway and West 218th Street and Spuyten Duyvil Creek – the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson rivers – in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, at the northern tip of Manhattan Island. It was purchased for the university by financier George Fisher Baker for $700,000 in December 1921. It was dedicated the following April, but it was not until 1923 that the team began playing there. A 32,000-seat wooden stadium was built on the site in 1928; this was in use until 1982, when it was demolished to make room for the current Wien Stadium.
The "new" stadium
Wien opened on September 22, 1984, with a game that ended in a loss to Harvard. The first home win at the stadium came on October 8, 1988, over Princeton. The 10,500-seat southeast (home side) stands were built first; the 6,500-seat northwest stands opened two years later. The stadium is named for Lawrence Wien, class of 1925, a former trustee, philanthropist, lawyer and entrepreneur. After a $5 million donation by Robert Kraft, class of 1963, the field was named in his honor on October 13, 2007. For the first 11 seasons, Wien Stadium had grass and then AstroTurf from 1995 to 2004 but as of 2005 has since switched to FieldTurf.
Possible replacement
In April 2015, New York City FC of Major League Soccer was reported to be considering building a new stadium at the Baker Athletics Complex. The Lawrence A. Wien Stadium would be demolished and replaced by a 25,000-seat stadium to be used by both NYCFC and the Columbia Lions.
Transformation to COVID field hospital
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center turned Robert K. Kraft Field and Columbia Soccer Stadium into a 288-bed field hospital. The field hospital is named for decorated US Navy SEAL Ryan F. Larkin (1987–2017), who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kate Kemplin, head nurse of the operation, described Larkin as "exactly the kind of person who would have set up a tent to treat patients, if he were alive today." The care center was staffed primarily with former US military personnel in conjunction with NewYork-Presbyterian's frontline staff.
See also
List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums
References
External links
Columbia Athletics Facilities: Lawrence A. Wien Stadium
Baker Field history
Columbia Lions football
Columbia University
Inwood, Manhattan
U.S. Route 9
College football venues
College lacrosse venues in the United States
College soccer venues in the United States
College track and field venues in the United States
Giants
Athletics (track and field) venues in New York City
Lacrosse venues in New York City
Soccer venues in New York City
Sports venues in Manhattan
Sports venues completed in 1984
1984 establishments in New York City |
Tigliole is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about west of Asti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,676 and an area of .
The municipality of Tigliole contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Valperosa, Pocola, Pratomorone, Remondini, and San Carlo.
Tigliole borders the following municipalities: Asti, Baldichieri d'Asti, Cantarana, San Damiano d'Asti, and Villafranca d'Asti.
Demographic evolution
References
External links
www.provincia.asti.it/comuni/tigliole/homepage.htm
Cities and towns in Piedmont |
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