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Morphinone reductase is an enzyme which catalyzes the NADH-dependent saturation of the carbon-carbon double bond of morphinone and codeinone, yielding hydromorphone and hydrocodone respectively. This saturation reaction is assisted by a FMN cofactor and the enzyme is a member of the α/β-barrel flavoprotein family. The sequence of the enzyme has been obtained from bacteria Pseudomonas putida M10 and has been successfully expressed in yeast and other bacterial species. The enzyme is reported to harbor high sequence and structural similarity to the Old Yellow Enzyme, a large group of flavin-dependent redox biocatalysts of yeast species, and an oestrogen-binding protein of Candida albicans. The enzyme has demonstrated value in biosynthesis of semi-opiate drugs in microorganisms, expanding the chemical diversity of BIA biosynthesis. Enzyme structure Morphinone reductase is a dimeric flavoenzyme comprising two 8-fold α/β-barrel domains, each with a non-covalently bound FMN prosthetic group located toward the center and C-terminal end of the barrel. At the active site, the Cys-191 residue serves as a proton donor in the oxidative half-reaction with a/ß unsaturated enones. Residues His-186 and Asn-189 are involved in ligand binding and they represent a conserved feature which is also observed in Old Yellow Enzymes. The residue Arg-238 contributes to a key interaction with the flavin as the side chain of this group is located close to the N-1/C-2 carbonyl region of the flavin isoalloxazine ring, stabilizing the negative charge developed during enzyme reduction. Enzyme catalysis Morphinone reductase takes two substrates, namely morphinone and codeinone, and converts them to hydromorphone and hydrocodone respectively. The catalysis is part of the degradation pathway of morphine and codeine in Pseudomonas putida M10: morphine dehydrogenase and morphinone reductase together form a two-step catalysis converting morphine to hydromorphone, and codeine to hydrocondone. The prosthetic group FMN serves as a cofactor in the redox reaction catalyzed by morphinone reductase. In the reduction of morphinone to hydromorphone, FMNH2 is oxidized to FMN which is then reduced by NADH (and H+) to regenerate FMNH2. Previous studies showed that NADPH could not be used as a reducing agent, which suggested the enzyme's specific toward NADH as a substrate. Studies have shown that the mechanism of flavin reduction in morphinone reductase involve the rapid formation of an E-NADHCT charge-transfer intermediate prior to FMN reduction. It was suggested that the enzyme adapts a two-step kinetic model where the oxidized enzyme (state A) undergoes an enzyme-coenzyme charge-transfer intermediate (state B) before regenerating the reduced form of FMN cofactor (state C). The reduction mechanism involves transfer of a hydride ion from the N5 atom of FMN to 2-cyclohexenone. The other proton donor for the saturation reaction remained uncertain. Steady-state kinetics experiments suggested that morphinone reductase may follow a hybrid two-site, ping-pong kinetic mechanism in which the alkaloid substrates, i.e. morphinone and codeinone, bind independently at separate sites and sequential redox reaction is facilitated by reducing equivalents passed between the binding sites by means of redox-active prosthetic groups, i.e. FMN. Potential regulatory mechanism The enzyme was shown to be highly similar to an oestrogen-binding protein from the fungus species Candida albicans, in which the binding of oestrogen prevents the reduction of 2-cyclohexenone. In addition, previous experimental characterization results suggested that morphinone reductase activity is competitively inhibited by progesterone and cortisone, which indicates that the regulatory mechanism of morphinone reductase could be related to its structural resemblance to the oestrogen-binding protein. Industrial relevance The enzyme yields hydromorphone and hydrocodone, which are both valuable semi-synthetic opiate drugs. Hydromorphone is a powerful analgesic, which is shown to be more potent than morphine. Hydrocodone is a FDA-approved, mild analgesic and antitussive. Notably, morphine and codeine are natural products of the opiate biosynthetic pathway in opium poppy plant Papaver somniferum. Modern technologies in genetic engineering and metabolic engineering enabled the production of these natural products in microorganisms. Complete biosynthesis of opiate compounds has been achieved in genetically tractable organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli. Morphinone reductase was also successfully expressed in these two organisms. The enzyme represents a promising candidate for downstream modifications of opiate compounds, allowing the biosynthesis of valuable semi-synthetic opiate drugs in microorganisms. As an example, morphinone reductase was used as part of the de novo biosynthetic pathway of hydrocodone in yeast. References Enzymes
Brian Garvey may refer to: Brian Garvey (comics) (born 1961), comic book artist Brian Garvey (footballer) (born 1937), English former footballer
Friedrich Johannes Paul Högner (11 July 1897 − 26 March 1981) was a German organist and church musician. Career Born in , today Ostheim, Högner was the son of the Protestant pastor Andreas Högner and his wife Mathilde, née Städler. He attended the Gymnasium Carolinum (Ansbach), then the in Altdorf and finally studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Erlangen and Leipzig. As a student he became a member of the and the . From 1922 he was cantor for three years in . At the same time he was musical director at the St. Thomas School, Leipzig and in 1924 he took over the representation of Karl Straube at the conservatory . In 1925, Högner went to Regensburg as city cantor and Kirchenmusikdirektor. in Roma Quanta fuit. Wißner Augsburg, 2010, , ]. In 1929 he returned to the Leipzig Conservatory as an organ teacher. There he was organist at the Paulinerkirche and was appointed professor at the Church Music Institute in 1934. From 1937 to 1965 he was the regional church music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 1959 he was also professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich and head of the department for church music. Bell expert His name is mentioned on the homepage of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the context of his work as a bell expert: "...The board of trustees of the foundation Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche decided in its meeting on July 8, 1959, to use the tone sequence Gº Bº C' D' D` Es' F', which had been proposed independently by several experts. Wolfgang Reimann and Friedrich Högner had also pleaded for this tone sequence, which best met the different requirements...". Jury member In 1970 he was jury member of the international organ competition at the in Bruges. Trivia Högner had no driver's license. So he travelled around by train or had relatives take him to his destination. If, for example, as a bell expert he had his bell testing instruments with him, he had to carry the heavy bag with him. Högner died in Munich at the age of 83. Honours 1955: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Bavarian Order of Merit. Literature Friedrich Herzfeld (ed.): Das Neue Ullstein Lexikon der Musik. Ullstein, Frankfurt [et al.] 1993. Bernhard A. Kohl in Das Große Lexikon der Musik. Volume 4, . Freiburg in Br. 1981 [et al.] References External links Högner, Friedrich Johannes Paul on BMLO Hofmann, Friedrich: Friedrich Högner 1897–1981. In Gottesdienst und Kirchenmusik 1981, . German classical organists Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1897 births 1981 deaths Musicians from Bavaria 20th-century classical musicians
Eckard II (; – 24 January 1046) was Margrave of Lusatia (as Eckard I) from 1034 and Margrave of Meissen from 1038 until his death. He was the last of his dynasty, with his death the line of Ekkeharding margraves descending from Eckard I of Meissen (d. 1002) became extinct. Life He was a younger son of Margrave Eckard I of Meissen and his wife Swanehilde. Eckard was a count in the Gau Chutizi east of Merseburg as well as in the burgward of Teuchern. Upon the assassination of his father in 1002, Eckard II and his elder brother Herman I ruled over the Ekkeharding allodial lands, while the Meissen margravial title first passed to their uncle Gunzelin feuding with his nephews until his deposition in 1009. During the German–Polish War around the Lusatian and Milceni lands, the brothers were able to maintain the rule over the Meissen lands until fighting ended with the 1018 Peace of Bautzen. About 1026, Eckard married Uta von Ballenstedt, sister of the Saxon count Esico of Ballenstedt, progenitor of the noble House of Ascania. The marriage remained childless. With the consent of Emperor Conrad II, he and his brother Herman had the seat of the Bishopric of Zeitz relocated to Naumburg Cathedral in 1028–29. In 1034 Eckard II became Margrave of Lusatia (Lower Lusatia) after his followers had slain the Wettin margrave Theoderic II, husband of Eckard's sister Matilda. Four years later he succeeded his brother Herman as Margrave of Meissen. As guardian of the German eastern frontiers against Poland and Bohemia, he was often serving Emperor Conrad II and his successor King Henry III against these menaces, including the "Bohemian Achilles", Duke Bretislaus I. In 1039 Bretislaus, allied with King Peter of Hungary, who was at the same time raiding the Bavarian Avar March, made great gains in Poland, plundering Kraków and Gniezno, where he took along the relics of Saint Adalbert of Prague. In turn, King Henry III launched a campaign against him, together with his loyalest and most trusted allies, Archbishop Bardo of Mainz and Margrave Eckard. The Saxon forces led by the Meissen margrave took part in both of the king's expedition's, in 1040 and 1041: the first unsuccessful, the latter a victory which forced Duke Bretislaus to submit and conclude a peace treaty. Margrave Eckard remained one of Henry's closest advisors until his death during a Saxon epidemic of 1046. He bequeathed his exceptional wealth and his margravial titles and lands to King Henry, who bestowed the margraviate on the Thuringian count William IV of Weimar. He and his wife Uta von Ballenstedt were immortalized by their famous donor portraits by the Naumburg Master in the Naumburg Cathedral. Sources Gwatkin, H.M., Whitney, J. P. (ed) et al. The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 1926. 1046 deaths Margraves of Meissen 11th-century counts in Europe 980s births House of Ekkehardiner
The Commission on Pseudoscience () is a Russian scientific organisation under the , created on the initiative of Vitaly Ginzburg in 1998. Until 2018, the organisation was a member of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research, since 2018 it has been independent. The commission's task is to promote scientific knowledge and counter the discrediting of science and pseudoscientific activity. History The prerequisite for the emergence in the structure of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) of a separate body focused on countering the spread of pseudoscientific theories was their widespread distribution in Russia in the 1990s. Unproven theories were popular even in the highest echelons of power: in the book Scientists from the Highway, Academician of the RAS and future chairman of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research described the case when then Russia's president Boris Yeltsin's security guard Alexander Korzhakov introduced Yeltsin to the author of research on obtaining energy from stone, and Yeltsin approved the allocation of 120 million rubles to the "inventor", despite the protest of the scientific community. It is known from biographical materials that Yeltsin also believed in psychics, and Korzhakov's first deputy, Georgy Rogozin, provided the president's occult protection. Publications about the living dead, torsion fields and other pseudoscientific theories were published in major Russian media outlets, and even in the government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta (RG). Kruglyakov wrote a response article, but due to criticism of the then head of the RG science department, Albert Valentinov, the response article was not published for a long time, despite complaints to the editor-in-chief. The article was published only after Kruglyakov's letter to the Deputy Minister of Science, but it was accompanied by a detailed commentary by Valentinov, in which he accused Kruglyakov of using administrative resources. The future Nobel laureate Vitaly Ginzburg in 1998 proposed to the President of the RAS Yury Osipov to create a special commission on pseudoscience. By pseudoscience, Ginzburg understood "all sorts of constructions and hypotheses that contradict firmly established scientific facts." The Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research was formed by the decree of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 58-A dated March 16, 1999; Kruglyakov became its first chairman. Despite wide support in the RAS, the commission did not receive funding and any instruments of influence, except for the opportunity to officially criticize unscientific inventions and theories on behalf of the scientific community. Kruglyakov headed the commission until his death in 2012, after which physicist Eugene Alexandrov became chairman. In 2018, the Presidium of the RAS approved the division of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research into two independent commissions: one continues to fight against pseudoscience, the second . Activities and high-profile projects The commission on behalf of the RAS publicly criticized pseudoscientific theories, opposed astrology, ufology, alternative medicine, religion in science and education. The commission considered its main task to be the protection of the Russian budget from science-based projects claiming state funding. Since 2006, the commission has published the bulletin In Defence of Science () twice a year before the general meetings of the RAS. Since 2014, publications on the problem of pseudoscience have been published on the commission's website – klnran.ru. Petrik water filters In 2006, Boris Gryzlov, Speaker of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, launched the party project, which was designed to increase the availability of high-quality drinking water. So, in schools, hospitals and kindergartens it was planned to introduce water filters, and the competition for their development was won by the self-proclaimed scientist and author of "sensational" discoveries Viktor Petrik. The media noted that Petrik was close to Gryzlov: he often visited his country house, and they also jointly owned patents for a water purification system. According to Petrik, his filters purified water from any impurities and even radiation. As part of the party program, Petrik filters were installed in kindergartens in Nizhny Novgorod, Gelendzhik and the Irkutsk region; further installation, according to the party's plan, was to be within the framework of the federal target program for a period until 2020 and total funding of up to 15 trillion rubles. The scientific community was aware that Petrik filters are fiction, but in 2009 a number of RAS academicians publicly gave high marks to the "invention". As Aleksandr Sergeev, a member of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research, later asserted, the proposal to express support for Petrik came from above, and the academicians who supported the project met with Petrik at the request of Gryzlov. The incident caused a wide public outcry, and the head of the commission, academician Eduard Kruglyakov, led the fight against Petrik filters. In 2010, an expert group on the problem was created at the RAS, and studies have shown that water passed through Petrik filters is dangerous to health. The scandal, often referred to in the media as "Petrikgate", destroyed the reputation of a pseudo-scientist, and the installation of filters was excluded from the Clean Water programme. Initially, Gryzlov, who accused the commission of obscurantism and opposition to progress, had to publicly distance himself from Petrik. Petrik filed a lawsuit against the RAS and members of the commission, demanding a billion rubles in compensation, but the court dismissed the claim. Non-working engines for Roscosmos The commission has repeatedly opposed the projects of reactionless drive, which were proposed by various Russian inventors, including the state corporation for space activities – Roscosmos. In May 2008, as part of an experiment, a reactionless drive was installed on the Yubileiny educational satellite, which was co-authored by the deputy director of the Khrunichev State Scientific and Practical Center, General Valery Menshikov. The device, the principles of which contradicted the laws of physics, showed zero result during tests in space, receiving the nickname "gravitsapa" () in reference to a Soviet comedy film Kin-dza-dza!, and the commission managed to stop funding the project. In 2019, the Commission on Pseudoscience also publicly criticized the cooperation of Roscosmos with agricultural engineer Vladimir Leonov, who announced the development of a theory and a prototype of a "quantum engine". Advisor to the General Director of Energia corporation Oleg Baklanov, member of the expert council of the State Duma Committee on Defense Mikhail Sautin and honoured tester of space technology Alexander Kubasov took part in testing of this "invention". Memorandum Dermatoglyphics In 2016, the Commission first tested the format of a memorandum, in which it expressed the opinion of the scientific community on the popular dermatoglyphics – the practice of studying patterns on the skin of the palms and feet and using them to determine, for example, personality traits and predispositions. In the memorandum, the commission recommended a wide range of readers not to use such commercial services and not to take the results already obtained seriously. As the co-author of the memorandum, popularizer of science and member of the commission later noted, thanks to the publication of the memorandum and the subsequent speech of the representatives of the commission in the Federation Council, it was possible to suppress the practice of dermatoglyphic testing, which was planned to be used in the selection of students to state educational institutions. Memorandum Homeopathy At the beginning of 2017, the commission issued a second memorandum – "Homeopathy as Pseudoscience". Its authors noted that, despite its 200-year history, the practice of "treatment with ultra-low doses" has no scientific basis and evidence of effectiveness, and its fundamental principles are contrary to the laws of chemistry, physics and biology. In the document, the commission recommended the Ministry of Health to withdraw homeopathic medicines from use in state clinics and introduce labeling about unproven effectiveness, the Federal Antimonopoly Service – to protect citizens from unfair advertising, pharmacies – to change the calculation so that traditional medicines do not coexist with homeopathy, and pharmacists – to stop recommending it to buyers. At first, the Ministry of Health promised to form a working group to discuss homeopathy and the requirements of evidence-based medicine, but in the end, the department did not fulfill any of the recommendations of the memorandum, even issued an order to simplify the rules for registering homeopathic remedies. Not all RAS members agreed with the memorandum. For example, the former minister of health, vice president and head of the medical department of the RAS, , did not support restrictions on homeopathy, and the co-author of the memorandum, Denis Roshchin, was fired from the Central Research Institute of Organization and Informatization of Health Care, headed by Starodubov, the next day after publication of the memorandum. Even one of the members of the commission, academician and adviser to the RAS , refused to work on the memorandum, and later publicly supported homeopathy in his speech at the Public Chamber. Lawsuits against the commission were filed by both homeopathic clinics and a large owner of a homeopathic business, corresponding member of the RAS . Also, the National Council for Homeopathy (NCH) appealed to the prosecutor's office with a complaint that the memorandum was prepared with the support of the . NCH was outraged that the Evolution Foundation was not only created in 2015 by former members of the Dynasty Foundation, recognized as a foreign agent in Russia, but also enjoyed the support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. However, the publication of the memorandum "Homeopathy as Pseudoscience" probably influenced the demand for homeopathic medicines. In the first 6 months of 2018, Russian pharmacies sold 500,000 fewer packs of homeopathic medicines than in the same period in 2017. Losses were incurred by the largest market players, for example, the company Materia Medica owned by RAS Corresponding Member Oleg Epstein (produces drugs Anaferon, , Tenoten and others) reduced profits by half a billion rubles – from 1.9 to 1.4 billion. In 2017, Materia Medica Holding even received a special Anti-Prize at the annual competition For Loyalty to Science. In response, in 2018, the Ministry of Education and Science did not mark any anti-merit in popularizing scientific achievements. Fundamentals of Orthodoxy in the curriculum The Commission on Pseudoscience was also occupied by the struggle against the clericalization of society, the penetration of the church into the system of state education. In 2007, a was published – an open appeal to Russia's President Vladimir Putin. In the text, under which the commission members Alexandrov, Alferov, Ginzburg, Kruglyakov and others left their signatures, for the first time the topic of the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on the life of society was raised. Scientists criticized the study of the foundations of Orthodox culture in schools and the specialty "theology" that appeared in the Higher Attestation Commission. However, the letter did not produce noticeable results. In 2012, the subject "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics" was included in the school curriculum, and in January 2015, the Higher Attestation Commission approved theology as a new specialty. Sergei Konovalov, an employee of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Since 2013, the commission began to receive inquiries about the healing practice of an employee of the (RAMS), Doctor of Medical Sciences Sergei Konovalov. Academician Alexandrov accused Konovalov of conducting regular sessions of mass healing from all diseases "with clear signs of occultism." The ROC took the side of the academicians, whose discontent was caused by the sermons of Konovalov – he introduced people to a certain "Energy of Creation". The Federal Security Service got involved in the investigation, but they did not find any violations of the law in Konovalov's actions. In the leadership of the RAMS, the commission's requests were ignored, the director of the Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology of the RAMS refused to fire Konovalov, and he continued his paid practice. The composition of the commission The initial composition of the commission included 12 people, the list of which was approved by the decree of the Presidium of the RAS No. 68 of March 23, 1999 "On the Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research." The second composition, expanded to 41 people, was approved by the corresponding decree of the Presidium of the RAS No. 195 of September 13, 2005. The third composition was approved in February 2013 by the decree of the Presidium of the RAS No. 42 dated February 26, 2013. As before, the core of the commission was made up of academicians and corresponding members of the RAS; it also included the scientific editor of the journal Vokrug Sveta Alexander Sergeev, popularizer of science , as well as the mentalist – a total of 46 people. In June 2016, by the decree of the Presidium of the RAS No. 160 dated June 28, 2016, the fourth composition of the commission was approved. Due to the unification of the RAS, RAMS and and the wide spread of medical quackery in the previous 5–10 years, a large number of biomedical specialists (14 out of 19 new members of the commission) were included in the new commission, including the founder of the Evolution Foundation, . At the same time, , co-founder of the free network community Dissernet, became a member of the commission. Thus, the commission expanded to 59 members, 6 of which formed a new coordinating body – the Bureau. In December 2018, the commission was divided into two separate advisory bodies – the Commission on Pseudoscience and the Commission on Falsification of Scientific Research, which included a total of 74 people. The new commissions included more philologists, doctors, psychologists, sociologists and representatives of other disciplines. Composition of the Commission on Pseudoscience (since 2018) Eugene Alexandrov – Chairman of the commission, Academician of the RAS Askold Ivantchik – Deputy Chairman, Corresponding Member of the RAS Mikhail Arkhipov – Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University References Organizations established in 1998 Scientific organizations based in Russia Russian Academy of Sciences Scientific skepticism
Nasuiyeh (, also Romanized as Nasū’īyeh) is a village in Dar Agah Rural District, in the Central District of Hajjiabad County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 146, in 36 families. References Populated places in Hajjiabad County
Hudson Bay Industrial Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is in the Northwest section of the North West Industrial SDA. Now named Hudson Bay Industrial, in the early days of the Saskatoon's history, the area between 56th Street and 60th Street was originally to have been Swastika Park. Until the late 1990s, the area was part of the North Industrial subdivision until the City of Saskatoon redesignated the lands north of 51st Street and south of 60th Street with this new name. Hudson Bay Industrial subdivision consists primarily of industrial and retail development. Layout 60th Street is the northernmost perimeter, and 51st the southernmost. The streets are incremented numerically from 51st to 60th Street and run east and west. Wanuskewin Road and the CNR mark the eastern boundary. Idylwyld Drive delimits the eastern edge. History The road names of this industrial subdivision mainly honour pioneers of Saskatoon. Retail Sector There are a number of restaurants serving this industrial area lining 51st Street, some of these are A&W Restaurants, Taco Time, Extreme Pita, Boston Pizza, Wendy's, Tim Hortons to name a few. This arterial retail street also hosts shops such as Peavey Mart. See also List of shopping malls in Saskatoon Recreation Between Tubby Crescent and English crescent are the Rugby fields Transportation Saskatchewan Highway 11, Louis Riel Trail, or Idylwyld Drive connects three main Saskatchewan cities: Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert. City Transit Saskatoon Transit References External links Neighbourhood Profiles Saskatoon Neighbourhoods Word Search Puzzle City of Saskatoon · Departments · Community Services · Community ... City of Saskatoon · Departments · Community Services · City Planning · ZAM Maps Populace Spring 2006 Neighbourhoods in Saskatoon
Joan Marie Dunlop (née Banks, May 20, 1934 - June 29, 2012) was a British women's health advocate and activist. She was the first president of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC). Early life and education Dunlop was born in London to a British father, Sir Maurice Banks, and an American mother, Anne Banks. As a young teenager, Dunlop visited the US, she then decided she wanted to live there. She applied and was accepted at Vassar College but her parents insisted that she attend the Queen's Secretarial College in London. As a young woman, she had an illegal abortion in England, and her experience "fueled her campaign to improve women's reproductive choices." Career After graduation, she worked for the BBC before emigrating to America in 1960. After a brief stint at a Manhattan advertising agency, Dunlop went to work at the Ford Foundation (1960-1967) as an administrative assistant to the Director of Public Affairs, Paul Ylvisaker, at a time when the Public Affairs Programs would soon serve as the model for President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society/War on Poverty programs. In the late-1960s, she worked for the City of New York in the Mayor's Office of the Budget and at the Fund for the City of New York. Dunlop helped raise money for the New York Public Library and was an advisor to John D. Rockefeller III on population. She also worked in the budget office of the Mayor John V. Lindsay. While Dunlop was working for the Ford Foundation, she was told Rockefeller was interested in interviewing her for a position. During her interview with Rockefeller for the job as a population adviser, Dunlop told him the story of her abortion and later she said, "He listened with great attentiveness." Dunlop was hired by Rockefeller in 1973. She worked with Rockefeller on the Population Council where she helped expand research the council did and also promoted the idea that recognizing women's sexuality was important in population control. Dunlop founded the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) in 1984. Part of her motivation in leaving a good job and taking on the task of running the IWHC was that she was "angry at the rise of the anti-abortion movement in the United States" which she considered an organizing tool for a conservative political agenda. She was a strong driving force behind the IWHC, changing what was at first a small project into a global women's health organization. She was a leading voice for women’s health and rights around the world and believed that “[t]his was not about abortion, this was about women.” After retiring from the IWHC in 1998, she worked to put together a women's group to lobby for women's voices in United States foreign policy: A Women's Lens on Global Issues. Death Dunlop died after a battle with cancer on June 29, 2012 in Connecticut. References Sources External links Oral history transcript (2004) Joan Dunlop archives Joan Banks Dunlop papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections 1934 births 2012 deaths American feminists American women's rights activists
Barriopsis iraniana is an endophytic fungus first found on Citrus, Mangifera and Olea species in Iran. References Further reading Abdollahzadeh, Jafar, Rasoul Zare, and Alan JL Phillips. "Phylogeny and taxonomy of Botryosphaeria and Neofusicoccum species in Iran, with description of Botryosphaeria scharifii sp. nov." Mycologia 105.1 (2013): 210–220. Trakunyingcharoen, T., et al. "Botryosphaeriaceae associated with diseases of mango (Mangifera indica)." Australasian Plant Pathology 43.4 (2014): 425–438. External links MycoBank Botryosphaeriales
Eugène Bellemare (April 6, 1932 — July 6, 2018) was a Canadian politician. Bellemare was a former Member of Parliament of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Ottawa—Orléans between 2000 and 2004 and previously Carleton—Gloucester from 1988 to 2000. Bellemare was a former administrator and teacher. He was a former parliamentary secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation. Bellemare lost his riding nomination battle to Marc Godbout for the 2004 election. He was one of only eight Liberal MPs to lose their party nomination battle for the 2004 election. His son Michel Bellemare was an Ottawa city councillor. Before entering federal politics, Bellemare served on the council for the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton from 1980 to 1985 and the township and then city council for Gloucester from 1966 to 1988. Bellemare endorsed Dalton McGuinty's bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party in 1996 (Canada NewsWire, 19 August 1996). References 1932 births 2018 deaths Eugene Franco-Ontarian people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Politicians from Ottawa 21st-century Canadian politicians
Legislative Assembly elections Bihar amidst states of India had elections for their legislative assemblies in 2010. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar expired on 26 November. The Election Commission of India (ECI) decided on the dates of the polls. Bihar The Janata Dal (United) was the largest party in the assembly after the 2005 election, and co-ruled with the Bharatiya Janata Party as part of the National Democratic Alliance. The incumbent chief minister was Nitish Kumar. See also S. Y. Quraishi References External links Election Commission of India 2010 elections in India India 2010 in India Elections in India by year
Take Heart is the fifth studio album and second solo album by Juice Newton, released on September 17, 1979 by Capitol Records. Five singles were issued from Take Heart: "Any Way That You Want Me", "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone", "Until Tonight", "Sunshine", and "You Fill My Life". All the singles charted, but the album's fourth single, "Sunshine," was the biggest commercial success, peaking at No. 35 on the Hot Country Songs chart. The album was released on CD for the first time on May 7, 2012 by BGO Records. Track listing Chart listings The following songs charted on the Billboard Country Singles chart: "Any Way That You Want Me" - #81 "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone" - #80 "Until Tonight" - #42 "Sunshine" - #35 "You Fill My Life" - #41 References External links Juice Newton albums 1979 albums Capitol Records albums
Harry's Harbour is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is southeast of Baie Verte. History The way office was established in 1889. The first waymaster was Robert Howard. Census history 1869 In the census of 1869, in the District of Fogo, the communities listed were as follows: #64 – Three Arms, #65 – Jerry's Cove, #66 – Wild Bight, #67 – Jackson's Cove, #68 – King's Cove and #69 – Salmon Cove. The population of Three Arms was 69 persons in that year with 64 in Jackson's Cove, 30 in Kings Cove and 23 in Salmon Cove (which is now referred to as Upward's Cove). It has not been possible to determine where Jerry's Cove is located but of the 23 people in the settlement 21 of them were Newfoundland born and 2 were British born. There was one cripple. Fifteen people were Wesleyan and eight were Church of England. Twelve persons were engaged in the catching and curing of fish and two were employed as AB seamen in the colony. There were three families in three houses and 5 children could read and write but there was no school. There were three stores/barns and 2 fish rooms in use. The inhabitants owned three oxen, 1 cow. 4 pigs, and 6 goats as well as having six acres of land under cultivation producing 1 tonne of hay and 86 barrels of potatoes. Fifty pounds of butter were produced and 16 nets were made in 1868. In Salmon Cove (Upward's Cove) there was also a population of 23 persons of whom 22 were Newfoundland born and one was of English birth. One person was a member of the Church of Rome, 9 were Wesleyan and 13 were Church of England. Three families in three houses and 4 barns/sheds and three fish rooms. Eight persons were engaged in the catching and curing of fish, three were AB seamen employed as fishermen in Newfoundland and other colonies and one was a merchant. Five children could read and write but there was no school. The people in Salmon Cove owned 6 oxen, 3 cows, 6 goats and on 9 acres of land they cultivated 4 tonnes of hay, 150 barrels of potatoes and 6 barrels of turnips plus they made 300 pounds of butter. They owned 1 boat (10 qls.) and 36 nets and seines. 1874 In 1874 the population of Harry's Harbour was 46 persons; sixteen were under the age of 10 years and 4 were over the age of 50. One woman was a widow. Ten people belonged to the Church of England and 36 were Wesleyan. In 1874 a vessel, with 4 crew, went sealing. In the same year, small boats, of approximately 40 tonnes caught and cured 275 quintals of codfish and produced 180 gallons of cod liver oil. In 1874 the people of Harry's Harbour owned 4 cows, 10 sheep, 18 pigs and 8 goats. Two tonnes of hay was produced and 158 barrels of potatoes were grown. In the same year the population of Three Arms was 66, Jackson's Cove – 82, Birchy Cove – 11 and Nick's Nose/Langdown's Cove – 23. 1884 In 1884 the population of Harry's Harbour was 65 persons. Sixteen were under the age of 10 and ten were between the ages of 50 and 70. In 1883 there was 1 birth, 1 death and 1 marriage. Sixty-four persons were Newfoundland born and 1 was English born. There was 1 widow and 1 widower. All 65 persons were Wesleyans. Thirty-four could read and write. Five children between the ages of 5 and 15 were in school but 18 were not. There was 1 school house. Forty persons were fisherfolk. There were 2 fishing boats (10 qls.) with 13 nets and 2 traps. Ninety-three qls. Of codfish and 120 barrels of capelin valued at 79 pounds sterling were caught and 78 gallons of cod liver oil was produced. There were 11 houses, 15 barns/sheds and 7 fish rooms in use. In 1884 5 tonnes of hay and 97 barrels of potatoes were grown on 9 acres of cultivated land. There were 27 sheep, 2 cows, 2 goats and 1 swine. In the same year the population of Three Arms was 102, Western Arm – 13, King's Cove – 45, Salmon Cove – 45, Nick's Nose Cove – 9, Langdown's Cove – 15, Jackson's Cove – 99 and Birchy Cove -15. 1891 In 1891 the population of Harry's Harbour was 101. Eighteen were under the age of 10 years and 17 were over the age of 50 years. There were 18 married couples, 3 widows and 1 widower. In 1890 there were 3 births, 1 death and 2 marriages. Ninety-eight people were Newfoundland born. There was 1 cripple. There was 1 Methodist church with a congregation of 81. Sixteen people were Salvation Army, 3 were Baptist, 1 Church of Rome. There was one full-time farmer and 35 planters (farming & fishing). Thirty-two females were engaged in the curing of fish. One person was otherwise employed. One vessel of 35 tonnes, with a crew of 6 men and 1 woman, went to the Labrador fishery in 1890 and caught 200 qls. of fish. The vessel was built in 1889/1890. Inshore fishermen owned 40 small boats ranging in size from 5 to 30 qls. with 50 nets and 2 traps. They caught 303 qls. of cod, 6 tierces of salmon, 46 barrels of herring and produced 371 gallons of cod liver oil for a total of $2,616. Four men and 5 females were employed in two lobster factories. In 1890 24 lobster traps caught 46 cases of lobsters valued at $103. Forty males and thirty-five females could read and write but none of the 31 children under the age of 15 attended a school. There were 18 houses inhabited by 20 families. Two houses were built in 1890, 2 were under construction and 1 was uninhabited. There were 25 barns/storehouses and 2 fishing rooms in use. Nineteen people owned 216 acres of land valued at 237. In 1890 33 tonnes of hay, 609 barrels of potatoes and 5 barrels of turnips were grown. The livestock consisted of 3 horses, 8 Milch cows, 129 sheep, 67 pigs and 143 fowl. Six cows, 42 sheep and 26 pigs were killed for food plus 176 pounds of butter and 296 pounds of wool were produced. In 1890 the population of Jackson's Cove was 89, Three Arms – 83, Bear Cove – 29, King's Cove – 29, Nicks Nose Cove – 20 and Birchy Cove – 10. 1901 In 1901 the population of Harry's Harbour was 192; 62 persons were under the age of 10 years and 24 persons were over the age of 50 including 1 female and 1 male over the age of 80 years. In 1900 there were 36 married couples, 6 widows, and 4 widowers. In the past year there had been 9 births, 2 deaths and 6 marriages. One person was of English birth and the rest were born ion Newfoundland. There were 130 Methodists, 35 Salvation Army and 27 were Church of England. There was 1 church. In one section of the 1901 census it is stated that "one schoolhouse capable of accommodating "50 scholars" but in another it states that "58 children live at least 1.5 miles from a Schoolhouse". Fifty-four males and 48 females could read and write and 49 males and 35 females could write. There were 34 houses inhabited by 39 families; 4 houses were under construction and 2 were uninhabited. There were 49 barns/outhouses, 20 fishing rooms and 1 business premise. There were 9 farmers, 46 male and 43 female fisherfolk plus 4 persons "otherwise employed". In Harry's Harbour in 1901 there were 8 vessels (total tonnage - 140) engaged in the fishery. One vessel of 20 tonnes, with a crew of 5, caught 170 qls. of fish in Labrador. The inshore fishermen had 66 nets and 8 traps and caught 1,299 qls. of cod, 5 tierces of salmon, 49 barrels of herring plus 5 seals. Along with 1,449 gallons of cod liver oil the total catch value was $5,942. Thirty people owned 247 acres of land and they cleared 131 acres of land in 1900. Fifty-one tones of hay, 540 barrels of potatoes, 14 barrels of turnips and 7,200 heads of cabbage were grown. They owned 5 horses, 26 cattle, 163 sheep, 107 pigs, 34 goats and 259 fowl. They produced 605 pounds of butter and 489 pounds of wool. They killed 23 cattle, 74 sheep and 49 pigs for food. In 1901 the population of Three Arms was 78, Western Arm – 3, Bear Cove – 39, Nicks Nose Cove – 43, Jackson's Cove – 106 and Birchy Cove had 16 persons. In "A YearBook and Almanac of Newfoundland for 1900" it is stated that Robert Upward was the postmaster for Harry's Harbour but the nearest post office was Jackson's Cove or Little Bay. 1911 In 1911 the population of Harry's Harbour was 200 of whom 58 were under the age of 10 years and 17 over the age of 50 and 2 males were over 80. Four people were born in Scotland, 2 from Ireland and 1 from "other British Colonies". There were 2 orphans (1 female and 1 male) and there were 5 paupers. There were 137 Methodist, 59 Salvation Army and 4 Presbyterian citizens. There were 2 teachers, 4 merchants (Roland Evans, John White, Robert Upward and John Upward), 25 planters, 7 mechanics (?), 35 fishermen and 2 "otherwise employed". There were 33 houses, containing 190 rooms and sheltering 34 families. There were 63 barns/outhouses/storerooms, 2 business premises, and 12 fishing rooms in use. A Loyal Orange Hall, valued at $700, could accommodate 150 persons. A Salvation Army church was built with a seating capacity of 100 persons (value - $400). There was also a Methodist church. In 1911 there were 49 students, aged 5 to 15 years, in school. One hundred thirty two people over the age of 5, could, or were learning to, read and write. The 1 room Salvation Army school, valued at $150, had 1 male teacher with 4 female and 5 male students. The 1 room Methodist school, valued at $400, had 1 female teacher with 13 female and 20 male students. In 1910 one vessel of 56 tonnes and a crew of 6 men, went to Labrador and returned with 39 qls. of cured cod. In Harry's Harbour 6 vessels with a combined tonnage of 154, employing 26 persons and 64 nets caught 879 qls. of cod. Also 918 gallons of cod liver oil (value of $184), 2,107 barrels of pickled herring ($6,321), and 10 cases of lobsters ($150) were sold. There was 1 lobster factory. The total value of the 1910 fishery in Harry's Harbour was $12,135. Seventy-four acres of land was under cultivation producing 35 tonnes of hay ($700), 304 barrels of potatoes ($600), 6 barrels of turnips ($8) and 2200 heads of cabbage ($110) were harvested in 1911. Five horses, 18 cattle, 129 sheep, 57 goats and 212 fowl comprised the livestock of the community. Eleven cattle, 49 sheep and 17 pigs were killed for food. They produced 400 pounds of butter, 4,450 gallons of milk (from 10 cows) and 370 pounds of wool. In 1911 the population of Springdale was 369, Kings Point – 259, Jackson's Cove – 127, Rattling Brook – 112, Bear Cove – 64, Three Arms – 54, Kings Cove – 25, Birchy Cove – 18, Nicks Nose Cove – 18, Langdowns Cove – 14 and Donald's Arm was 8. 1921 In 1921 the population of Harry's Harbour was 189 persons of whom 55 were under the age of 10 years and 21 were over the age of 50. One male and one female were over 80 years. There were 41 married couples, 3 widowers, 1 widow, 1 blind person, 3 disabled persons and 1 idiot (morons and lunatics were also categories). Two children, under the age of 15, were motherless but the father was alive. Of the 189 persons 186 were Newfoundland born, 2 were from "other British colonies" and 1 was born in Ireland. There were 56 males and 33 females engaged in the catching and curing of fish, 19 planters, 3 farmers, 1 merchant, 1 government worker and 6 persons otherwise employed. There was 1 Salvation Army church building with a seating capacity of 200. The land and building was valued at $500. The Methodist church building had a seating capacity of 300 and the value of land and building was $600. Six people were Church of England, 54 Salvation Army and 129 Methodist. A one-room Salvation Army school house, with a seating capacity of 30 and a value of $500, had 5 male and 4 female students and 1 male teacher. A one-room Methodist schoolhouse, with a seating capacity of 70 and valued at $1000, had 20 male and 13 female pupils and 1 female teacher. Nine children were not attending school; 104 persons over the age of 10 could read and write but 29 could not. The Loyal Orange Association hall, capable of holding 50 persons, was valued at $700. Fifteen houses, with 73 rooms, were inhabited by 16 families. There were 49 barns/stables, 8 fish rooms and 6 business premises in use. The people of Harry's Harbour had 110 acres of land under cultivation and 3 acres in pasture in 1920. In that year they produced 36 tonnes of hay ($1620), 598 barrels of potatoes ($2,093), 47 barrels of turnips ($141), 4,800 heads of cabbage ($240), and 174 gallons of fruits and small berries valued at $88. They owned 16 horses, 22 cows, 130 sheep, 15 swine, 50 goats and 232 poultry. They produced 8,800 gallons of milk, 880 pounds of butter, 363 pounds of wool and 606 dozen eggs. They killed 21 cattle, 58 sheep and 9 swine for food. Approximately 9000 trees were cut for firewood, 210 for fence posts and 20 were wharf sticks (valued at $10 each). In the inshore fishery, 26 boats, employing 52 persons and using 144 nets and 6 traps, caught 676 qls. of codfish. One lobster factory, employing 2 men and 30 traps caught 4 cases of lobsters valued at $50, Three hundred twenty gallons of cod liver oil was sold. The total value of the 1920 inshore fishery was $5,350. In 1921 the population of Three Arms was 47, Southern Arm – 54, Kings Cove – 43, Nick's Nose Cove – 22, Langdowns Cove – 17, Jackson's Cove – 161, Silverdale – 68 and Birchy Cove – 16. 1935 In 1935 the population of Harry's Harbour was 199 of whom 106 were male and 93 female. There were 37 married couples, 67 single males, 48 single females, 8 widows and 2 widowers. There were 4 orphans with only the mother alive. Forty-one families lived in 39 houses with 217 rooms. Five houses were vacant and 2 were rented. The 37 houses owned by the families living in them were valued at $11,220. There were 61 barns/stables/outhouses valued at $3,050. Fourteen fish rooms, not all in use, were valued at $1,570. The village's fishing gear, valued at $8,547, consisted of 5 cod traps, 1 cod net, 18 salmon nets, 10 herring nets and 5 capelin seines. There were also 37 dories, 19 motor boats and 2 fishing schooners for a total of 56 tonnes. Seven people were Pentecostal, 51 Salvation Army and 141 members of the United Church. There were 35 students (17 male and 18 female) of whom 3 attended class for 3 months or less. Of 150 persons over the age of 10 years (80 male/70 female) 110 could read and write, 7 could read only and 33 could do neither. In 1934 103 acres of land were used for hay, 1 acre for turnips, 19 acres of potatoes, 66 acres of pasture and 11 wooded or timbered. They grew 5 tonnes of hay, 4,400 pounds of cabbage, 80 barrels of turnips (11 were sold) and 3,227 bushels of potatoes (188 bu. were sold). They also picked 570 gallons of small fruits and berries. There were 12 horses, 10 ponies, 14 cows, 3 sows, 1 boar, 108 ewes, 1 ram, 64 lambs, 50 female and 1 male goat, 125 chickens (under 1 year old) and 185 hens. They produced 2,257 gallons of milk, 195 pounds of butter and 472 dozen eggs. In 1935 the population of Three Arms was 23, Southern Arm – 64, King's Cove – 43, Nicky's Nose Cove – 29, Jackson's Cove – 114, Langdown's Cove – 30, Silverdale – 65 and Birchy Cove – 7. In 1935 the only lunatic in Green Bay was from Silverdale. 1945 In 1945, out of a total population of 180 persons (106 male/74 female) 38 persons were under the age of 10 years and 8 were over the age of 70. There were 36 married couples and 98 single persons plus 10 widow(er)s. Two people were Church of England, 9 Pentecostal, 59 Salvation Army and 110 members of the United Church. Twenty-four people were illiterate, 2 could read but not write and 116 could read and write. Of 93 acres of cultivated land, 72 acres were for the cultivation of hay, 20 acres for potatoes and 1 acre of turnips. In 194 they produced 80 tonnes of hay, 2,511 bushels of potatoes and 120 bushels of turnips. There were 17 horses, 27 pigs, 135 sheep, 18 goats, 19 cows, 192 hens and 85 dogs. In 1944 they produced 284 pounds of wool, 525 gallons of milk and 1,383 dozen eggs. There were 6 cod nets, 32 salmon drift nets, 62 herring nets, 3 herring seines, 2 caplin seines and 60 lobster traps for a total value of $9,115. There was a total of 17 fish rooms and 28 motor boats. 2021 On July 17, 2021 the ARF Gang declares war on Harry’s Harbour Geography Harry's Harbour is in Newfoundland within Subdivision P of Division No. 8. Demographics As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Harry's Harbour recorded a population of 73 living in 38 of its 89 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 69. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. Government Harry's Harbour is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Vincent Verge. Transportation In 1960, Harry's Harbour was connected to the provincial road system. See also List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador List of designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador List of local service districts in Newfoundland and Labrador References Populated coastal places in Canada Designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador Local service districts in Newfoundland and Labrador
Cambridge City Police was the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Cambridge, England, from 1836 to 1965. From its creation until April 1951 it was known as Cambridge Borough Police. It subsequently merged with four other police forces to become what is known today as Cambridgeshire Constabulary. History The Cambridge Borough Police was established on 21 January 1836 to police within the boundary of the borough, an area much smaller then than it is today. At this time, the force employed just thirty police officers. Outside the town and borough there were no other police forces in Cambridgeshire until April 1851 when the Cambridgeshire County Constabulary was established, initially employing a total of seventy officers. In 1951 the Borough of Cambridge was granted city status by HM King George VI. The force title was changed accordingly. On 31 March 1965, five police forces — Cambridge City Police, Isle of Ely Constabulary, Huntingdonshire Constabulary, Peterborough Combined Police and Cambridgeshire County Constabulary — were united to form the Mid-Anglia Constabulary, headquartered in Brampton. Following alterations to local government boundaries the force name was changed on 31 March 1974 to Cambridgeshire Constabulary. See also Policing in the United Kingdom Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service East of England Ambulance Service References Defunct police forces of England Local government in Cambridgeshire 1836 establishments in England Government agencies established in 1836
is a railway station in the town of Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, operated jointly by the JR Group company East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the third-sector railway operator Shinano Railway. Lines Karuizawa Station is served by the JR East Hokuriku Shinkansen high-speed line from Tokyo to via . On the Shinkansen line, it is located 146.8 kilometers from Tokyo Station. It is also a terminal station for the 65.1 kilometer Shinano Railway Line which operates between Karuizawa and Nagano. Station layout The JR portion of the station has two elevated island platforms, serving four tracks, with the station building underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Shinano Railway portion of the station has one ground-level island platform serving two tracks, connected to the JR East portion of the station by a footbridge. JR East platforms Shinano Railway platforms History The station began service on December 1, 1888, as the terminal of the Japanese Government Railways between (near the Sea of Japan coast) and Karuizawa. The line was extended from Karuizawa to through the Usui Pass on April 1, 1893, completing the trunk line between (connecting to a Nippon Railway line to Ueno Station in Tokyo) and Naoetsu, which was later named the Shinetsu Main Line. At Karuizawa, all trains were coupled with or separated from helper locomotives that were required for all trains to go through the Usui Pass section. When the Japanese National Railways (JNR) were divided and privatized on April 1, 1987, Shinetsu Main Line became a part of the system of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). On October 1, 1997, JR East opened the Nagano Shinkansen with a stop at Karuizawa. At the same time, JR East ceased to operate the conventional Shinetsu Main Line between Yokokawa and , of which, the section between Yokokawa and Karuizawa (Usui Pass) was closed permanently and the remaining section was transferred to Shinano Railway. Since then, Karuizawa Station has been shared by JR East and Shinano Railway. Passenger statistics In fiscal 2015, the JR East portion of the station was used by an average of 2,889 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Surrounding area Karuizawa Prince Shopping Plaza Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort Hotels Karuizawa Prince Hotel Mampei Hotel Mikasa Hotel Bus routes Track 1 Seibu Kanko Bus For Manza-Kazawaguchi Station For Manza Onsen and Shirane Kazan Track 2 Kusakaru Kotsu For Kita-Karuizawa For Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi Station For Kusatsu Onsen Bus Terminal Track 3 Seibu Bus and Chikuma Bus For Kawagoe Matoba, Nerima Station and Ikebukuro Station For Tamagawa-Josui Station and Tachikawa Station Tokyu Bus For Shibuya Station and Futako-tamagawa Station Kintetsu Bus For Namba Station Track 4 Community bus Around Karuizawa Town Track 5 JR BUS KANTO Usui Line For Yokokawa Station This bus route passes through Megane Bridge during autumn. North Exit Shoei Kotsu For Nagano Station and Suzaka Station For Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station Gallery See also List of railway stations in Japan References External links JR East Karuizawa Station Shinano Railway Karuizawa Station Railway stations in Nagano Prefecture Stations of East Japan Railway Company Hokuriku Shinkansen Shinano Railway Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1888 Karuizawa, Nagano
"The Man of the Crowd" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe about a nameless narrator following a man through a crowded London. It was first published in 1840. Plot summary The story is introduced with the epigraph "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul" — a quote taken from The Characters of Man by Jean de La Bruyère. It translates to This great misfortune, of not being able to be alone. This same quotation is used in Poe's earliest tale, "Metzengerstein". After an unnamed illness, the unnamed narrator sits in an unnamed coffee shop in London. He was fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of the company around". He takes time to categorize the different types of people he sees. As evening falls, the narrator focuses on "a decrepit old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age", whose face has a peculiar idiosyncrasy, and whose body "was short in stature, very thin, and apparently very feeble" wearing filthy, ragged clothes of a "beautiful texture". The narrator dashes out of the coffee shop to follow the man from afar. The man leads the narrator through bazaars and shops, buying nothing, and into a poorer part of the city, then back into "the heart of the mighty London". This chase lasts through the evening and into the next day. Finally, exhausted, the narrator stands in front of the man, who still does not notice him. The narrator concludes the man is "the type and genius of deep crime" due to his inscrutability and inability to leave the crowds of London. Analysis According to the text of the tale, the reason for the narrator's monomaniacal obsession with the man stems from "the absolute idiosyncrasy of [the man's] expression". He is the only person walking down the street the narrator can't categorize. Why the narrator is so haunted by him is not entirely clear, though it is implied that the two men are two sides of the same person, with the old man representing a secret side of the narrator, though the narrator is unable to see this. The old man may be wandering through the crowd in search of a lost friend or to escape the memory of a crime. The possible evil nature of the man is implied by the dagger that is possibly seen under his cloak - whatever crime he has committed condemns him to wander. This lack of disclosure has been compared to similar vague motivations in "The Cask of Amontillado". Poe purposely presents the story as a sort of mystification, inviting readers to surmise the old man's secret themselves. At the beginning of the tale, the narrator surveys and categorizes the people around him in a similar way as Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself". Poe's narrator, however, lacks Whitman's celebratory spirit. While viewing these people, the narrator is able to ascertain a great deal of information about them based on their appearance and by noting small details. For example, he notices that a man's ear sticks out a small amount, indicating he must be a clerk who stores his pen behind his ear. Poe would later incorporate this ability to observe small details in his character C. Auguste Dupin. All of this is a virtuoso performance of the representation of social typicality; it owes something to Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, but there is also something of the moralizing medieval Vice in its parade of degenerates, of depraved women and of social outcasts. In one sense this is a sideshow, a digression from the main line of the narrative, which is concerned with the crowd only as an abstract force; in another, however, it brings to the fore the sense that it is only through these social clichés that the crowd can be made humanly understandable. In describing the man, the narrator “describes a set of contradictory characteristics: ‘there arose confusedly and paradoxically within my mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood-thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense – of supreme despair’. The man’s dress, too, is contradictory: his linen is dirty but ‘of beautiful texture’, and through a tear in his cloak the narrator glimpses a diamond and a dagger.” “The Man of the Crowd” stands as a transitional work between the haunting Gothic tales of the late 1830s and the ratiocinative fiction of the early forties, possessing obvious qualities of both. This story is also the beginnings of Poe's detective stories. Walter Benjamin writes that "[The Man of the Crowd] is something like an X-ray of a detective story. It does away with all the drapery that a crime represents. Only the armature remains: the pursuer, the crowd, and an unknown man who manages to walk through London in such a way that he always remains in the middle of the crowd". In agreeing with Benjamin, William Brevda contributes that “Poe splits the human psyche into pursuer and pursued, self and other, ego and id, “detective” and criminal, past and future…” “Poe also echoes Sophocles in his theme of the guilty knowledge that humans run from and simultaneously toward. In the nightmare Poe dreams for us, the ordinary person, the man in the street is at heart a criminal". The setting of London is one of the few specific details revealed in the tale. By 1840, London was the largest city in the world with a population of 750,000. Poe would have known London from the time he spent there as a boy with his foster family, the Allans, although he may have relied on the writings of Charles Dickens for details of London's streets. In this story and others, Poe associates modern cities with the growth of impersonal crime. Publication history The story was first published simultaneously in the December 1840 issues of Atkinson's Casket and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The latter was the final issue of that periodical. William Evans Burton sold his periodical to George Rex Graham so the inaugural issue was under the name Graham's Magazine. There is some confusion because the December 1840 issue was bound with Burton's Gentleman's Magazine issues ending in November, 1840. It was later included in Wiley & Putnam's collection simply titled Tales by Edgar A. Poe. Reception At the time of the story's publication, Poe's reputation in the United States was mixed, but his reception among many French modernists, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry, was enthusiastic. Charles Baudelaire discusses "The Man of the Crowd" in "The Painter of Modern Life"; it would go on to become a key example in Walter Benjamin's essay "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire", which theorizes the role of the crowd in modernity. Notes External links Visual Culture and the Word in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" Short stories adapted into films Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe Short stories set in London 1840 short stories Works originally published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
The Siege of Esztergom occurred between 25 July and 10 August 1543, when the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, besieged the city of Esztergom in modern Hungary. The city was captured by the Ottomans after two weeks. Background The siege was part of a struggle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans following the death of the ruler of Hungary, John Zápolya, on 20 July 1540. This is part of the "Age of castle wars" in Hungarian history. Suleiman had captured the cities of Buda and Pest in 1541, giving him a powerful control over central Hungary. The Province (Beylerbeylik) of Buda was created in this occasion. As part of the Franco-Ottoman alliance, French troops were supplied to this Ottoman campaign in Hungary: a French artillery unit was dispatched in 1543-1544 and attached to the Ottoman Army. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean Sea, Suleiman had sent his fleet admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa to cooperate with the French, leading to the siege of Nice. Siege The Siege of Esztergom followed the failed attempt by Ferdinand I of Austria to recapture Buda in 1542. It would be followed in turn by the capture of the Hungarian coronation city of Székesfehérvár in September 1543. Other cities that were captured during this campaign are Siklós and Szeged in order to better protect Buda. However, Suleiman refrained from moving further on to Vienna this time, apparently because he had no news of the campaigns of his French allies in western Europe and in the Mediterranean. After the successful Ottoman campaign, a first truce of one year was signed with Charles V in 1545, through the intermediary of Francis I of France. Suleiman himself was interested in ending the hostilities, as he had a campaign going on in Persia as well, the Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555). Two years later, Ferdinand and Charles V recognized total Ottoman control of Hungary in the 1547 Treaty of Adrianople, and Ferdinand even agreed to pay a yearly tribute of 30,000 gold florins for their Habsburg possessions in northern and western Hungary. Following these conquests, central Hungary was to remain under Ottoman control until 1686. Gallery See also Little War in Hungary Ottoman wars in Europe Battle of Párkány Notes Esztergom Esztergom Suleiman the Magnificent Conflicts in 1543 16th century in Hungary 1543 in the Ottoman Empire 1543 in the Habsburg monarchy
Platts Heath is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lenham, Kent, England. It is also the source of the River Len, which flows in a westerly direction to join the River Medway at Maidstone. References Villages in Kent
Domat/Ems railway station is a railway station in Domat/Ems, Switzerland. It is located on the Landquart–Thusis line of the Rhaetian Railway. Services The following services stop at Domat/Ems: InterRegio: hourly service to . RegioExpress: hourly service to . Regio: limited service between or St. Moritz and or Scuol-Tarasp. Chur S-Bahn: : hourly service between Rhäzüns and Schiers. : hourly service between Thusis and Chur. References External links Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1896 Railway stations in Graubünden Rhaetian Railway stations
Karl Langer (1903–1969) was an Austrian-born architect in Queensland, Australia. A number of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. Early life in Austria Karl Langer was born in Vienna in 1903, where he lived until emigrating to Australia in 1939 with his wife Gertrude. Karl studied architecture in Vienna, most notably in the Master Class run by Peter Behrens, at the Viennese Academy graduating in 1926. During this time Karl worked in the office of Josef Frank, who was to become well known in Swedish modernism, and later in the office of Schmidt and Aichinger. In 1928 he was appointed the architect in charge of Behrens Vienna office, where he designed and supervised important works such as the tobacco factory in Linz, Austria. At this time he also commenced studies in Art History at the University of Vienna, graduating as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1933 with a thesis entitled "Origins and Development of Concrete Construction". In 1935 Karl established his own practice in Vienna. In 1932 he married a fellow student Gertrude Froeschel. They graduated the following year on the same night, with Doctorates of Philosophy in Art History. In 1938 with the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich, Gertrude, who was Jewish, and Karl left Vienna and traveled via Athens to Australia. Career in Australia Karl and Gertrude arrived in Sydney in May 1939 proceeding to Brisbane in July so that Karl could commence work for architects Cook and Kerrison. From the time of their arrival until their deaths the Langers dedicated themselves to a great variety of civic and professional activities. Their combined efforts greatly influenced the development of the arts and design in Queensland, especially through such organisations as the Queensland Art Gallery Society, the Australian Council for the Arts and the Vacation Schools of Creative Art in which they fulfilled key roles over many years. Karl became well known throughout Australia shortly after his arrival when his appointment to the position of Assistant Town Planner with the Brisbane City Council in 1944 resulted in a Parliamentary Enquiry. The primary cause for complaint was the appointment of an "alien refugee" over a returned soldier. The outcome of this enquiry found that Karl Langer was an individual whose talent and experience clearly distinguished him as the most suitable applicant. He was still prevented from taking up the position, as Queensland Railways, his employer, refused to release him invoking wartime manpower regulations. He remained in the service of the Queensland Railways until 1946 when he left to establish his architectural and planning practice in Brisbane. He worked throughout Australia and was the initiator of many influential urban design ideas such as the site for the Sydney Opera House and the pedestrianization of Queen Street. Karl lectured at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Institute of Technology in design, town planning and landscape architecture. Research carried out when he first arrived in Brisbane pioneered the field of climatic design and resulted in the 1944 publication of an influential booklet called "Subtropical Housing". He was instrumental in establishing, and was the first president of the Brisbane division of the Australian Planning Institute and the Queensland Branch of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Later life Karl Langer died in 1969. His funeral was held in the Chapel of St Peter's Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, which he had designed. He was cremated at the Mount Thompson Crematorium where he had constructed the East Chapel. Karl Langer's work was featured in the Hot Modernism exhibition at the State Library of Queensland in 2014. State Library of Queensland also holds a large number of his architectural plans. The University of Queensland Fryer Library holds 89 boxes and around 1800 of Langer's architectural plans. Works He was the designer of buildings, including: the Main Roads Building at Spring Hill St Peter's Lutheran College Chapel at Indooroopilly his own home Langer House at St Lucia Val Vallis' home in Twigg St, Indooroopilly the Four Seasons Hotel West's Furniture Showroom at Fortitude Valley (1952) extensions to Lennons Hotel, Brisbane (1957) and worked in the regional centres of Queensland as an architect, town planner and landscape architect, producing these works: the assembly hall at Ipswich Girls Grammar School St John's Lutheran Church at Bundaberg Sugar Research Institute at Mackay Lennons Broadbeach Hotel on the Gold Coast Lennons Hotel, Toowoomba He also authored a number of books, including Sub-tropical housing, published in 1944 by the University of Queensland. See also :Category:Karl Langer buildings References Attribution Bibliography Neale, Douglas, "The 'Essentials' of The Sub-Tropical House: An Exegesis of the 'Modernistic' Town Planning Principals', LIMITS: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, ed. H. Edquis and H. Frichot (Melbourne: SAHANZ, 2004), 346–352 Sinnamon, Ian. 'Langer, Karl (1903–1969)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2000. Sterken, Sven & Lisa Daunt, “From Austria to Australia: Three Lutheran Churches by Karl Langer” in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand 36, Distance Looks Back, edited by Victoria Jackson Wyatt, Andrew Leach and Lee Stickells (Sydney: SAHANZ, 2020), 350-61. Wilson, Andrew, "Karl Langer's subtropical housing", AAANZ 2008 Annual Conference, 4-6 December, 2008, Brisbane, Australia. External links Langer, Karl (1940-1968), Karl Langer Architectural Plans, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Karl Langer Papers, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Digitising the Karl Langer architectural plans, John Oxley Library blog, State Library of Queensland 20th-century Australian architects 1903 births 1969 deaths Artists from Vienna University of Vienna alumni Architects from Brisbane Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss Austrian emigrants to Australia 20th-century Austrian architects Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
Ypiranga Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Ypiranga de Erechim or Ypiranga, is a Brazilian professional club based in Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul founded on 18 August 1924. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Gaúcho, the top flight of the Rio Grande do Sul state football league. History The origins of Ypiranga Futebol Clube go back to the rivalry with the Ítalo-Brasileiro, then the only club in the city of Erechim. In 1924, a match between the Ítalo-Brasileiro and Douradense, team from Linha Dourado, was being played in the field where today is located the Júlio de Castilhos square, in the center of Erechim. A group of people who had recently arrived in town showed support for Douradense - a fact that caused a general confusion at the end of the match. The next day, gathered in the ballroom of the Hotel Central on Avenida Maurício Cardoso, the group of soccer enthusiasts decided to create a new club. Their patriotic motivation gave the new association the colors green and yellow, as well as a name that referred to Brazil's independence: on 18 August 1924, Ypiranga Futebol Clube was born. Among the founders, names like Arthur Incerti, Favorino Pinto, Ercilia Di Francesco Amorim, Fioravante Tagliari, Florêncio Antunes de Oliveira, Francisco de Oliveira Dias, Heraclides Franco, Jacinto Godoy, João Antonio Sírtoli, João Magnabosco, João Reis Solon, João Vitorino dos Reis are registered, José Maria de Amorim, Lizandro Araújo, Nilo Amorim, Otto Feldmann, Paulo Damasceno Ferreira, Sigismundo Pllak, Sebastião César, Silvestre Péricles Monteiro - later on the author of the club's anthem -, Simão Vasconcelos de Souza, Themistocles Ochoa, Theodoro Tedesco, and Vitório Alovise. Stadium Since the beginning of its activities in the soccer department, in 1924, Ypiranga played its matches in a stadium known as "Estádio da Montanha", located at Rua Bento Gonçalves, Ipiranga district, in a field that deteriorated over time and was abandoned. At that time, the club's headquarters was on Rua Alemanha, in the city center. After receiving the support of the club's president in 1964, Oscar Abal, the idea of building its own stadium was started, on a piece of land that had a lagoon and a quarry around it. In 1967, the construction of Ypiranga's own stadium began, located on Avenida Sete de Setembro, considered one of the city's most traditional avenues. The enterprise only became viable due to the sale of patrimonial titles and with the raffle of cars and household appliances, in a moment when the club reached 50 thousand patrimonial members, including abroad. With the decision taken, it also became necessary to sell and subsequently demolish the Mountain Stadium to pay for the financial costs of building its own stadium. The capacity of the stadium Colosso da Lagoa, at the time of its construction, was 30,000 people. However, with the standardization of soccer in order to avoid problems caused by overcrowding, its maximum capacity was reduced to 22,000 spectators. This reduction is also due to the implementation of two thousand white chairs in a sector of the bleachers, which come from the Estádio Beira-Rio, which would no longer be used after the renovation made for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Despite the reduction in capacity by about eight thousand seats, the Colosso da Lagoa is the fourth stadium in number of spectators in Rio Grande do Sul, and the largest in the countryside. Honours Campeonato Gaúcho Série A2 Winners (5): 1967, 1989, 2008, 2014, 2019 References External links Official Site Ypiranga on Globo Esporte Ypiranga Futebol Clube Association football clubs established in 1924 Football clubs in Rio Grande do Sul Football clubs in Brazil 1924 establishments in Brazil
Darling Anatole (French: Anatole chéri) is a 1954 French comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and starring Alice Field, Paul Demange and Jim Gérald. It is based on a comic strip by Albert Dubout. Demange had previously played the role of Anatole in Street Without a King (1950). Cast Alice Field as Caroline Paul Demange as Anatole Jim Gérald as Mme Anatole Fernand Gilbert as Sparadra Christine Carère René Hell as Le docteur Jacqueline Noëlle as Lolotte Mériel Pierre Gallon Lina Roxa Denise Kerny Georges Sauval Anne-Marie Mersen References Bibliography Parish, Robert. Film Actors Guide. Scarecrow Press, 1977. External links 1954 films 1954 comedy films French comedy films 1950s French-language films Films directed by Claude Heymann Films based on French comics Live-action films based on comics French sequel films French black-and-white films 1950s French films
Chanda Gerald, known professionally as C4, is a grime MC from Birmingham, England. He's known for his songs "Off Track" and "Crazy Song", both of which were playlisted on BBC Radio 1Xtra. Biography C4's real name is Chanda Gerald from which he derived the C in C4. As a boy, C4 sang in his local church choir. His older brother is the garage producer Preditah. In November 2011, C4 released "OoRITE Time", produced by Preditah. In 2012 he released "Off Track", along with a remix by grime crew Boy Better Know that features JME, Jammer and Frisco. In September 2012 C4 released "Crazy Song", with production by Mike Delinquent. In 2015, C4 released the major tune Go back featuring JME. C4 appears frequently on the BBC's digital radio station, 1Xtra. He is related to Chrysie 'Tam' Gerald, an upcoming urban gospel singer/songwriter. References "On the Come Up" - October Edition ASCAP 13 November 2012 Living people Grime music artists Year of birth missing (living people)
Godfrey Davies (13 May 1892 – 28 May 1957) was an English historian of the 17th century and member of the research staff of the Huntington Library. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review summarized his contributions by noting: "Through his published works he came to be recognized as a leading authority in seventeenth-century English history, and through his innumerable services to British and American students who have worked at the Huntington Library during the past quarter of a century he made a leading contribution not only to his own but also to many fields of historical scholarship." Early life, family, and education Godfrey Davies was born on 13 May 1892 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, the second son of (Sir) Thomas Davies (d. 1939), Member of Parliament for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, 1918–1929. Godfrey was educated at Chipping Campden Grammar School and was elected in 1910 to a Townsend Scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received his second class bachelor's degree in modern history on 26 November 1914 and his master's degree on 26 May 1917. He married Margret Fitz Randolph Gay (1901-1989) on 17 June 1939. The couple are buried in the Mountain View Columbarium. Professional career As early as 1915, C. H. Firth, the Regius Professor of History at Oxford from 1904 to 1925, used Davies an assistant. In that year, as Davies related it, Firth entrusted him to "try my 'prentice hand on the task of preparing them for the press." As Firth's assistant, Davies became a member of the Faculty of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1919 until Firth's retirement in 1925. After Firth's death in 1936, Davies wrote the memoir of Firth's life for the Proceedings of the British Academy published in 1937, edited for publication Firth's A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England (Macmillan, 1938), saw through publication Firth's posthumously published Essays, Historical and Literary (Oxford University Press, 1938) and completed his Regimental History of Cromwell's Army (1940). Davies' mentor and his working library remained an inspiration throughout Davies' career. In the introduction to his last major book, The Restoration of Charles II, 1658-1660 (1955), Davies wrote "Though Sir Charles Firth had passed away before I wrote a sentence of this book, his inspiration has remained with me until its completion. Much of it has been written from books and pamphlets that were once his. The memory of many conversations with him has often guided me in my researches and composition. My debt to him is greater than I can find words to acknowledge."<ref>Godfrey Davies, The Restoration of Charles II, 1658-1660 (San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1955), p. viii.</ref> In February 1923, a joint committee of the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Society nominated Davies to be the editor of what would become Davies' most widely used work, Bibliography of British History. Stuart Period, 1603–1714. Sir Charles Firth played an important role for Davies in compiling this work. As Davies noted in his introduction to the first edition in 1928, "He has assisted at every stage of the growth of this bibliography; his library and unrivalled store of knowledge were always open to me. he has read the typescripts and the proofs, and encouraged me in every way." In 1925, the University of Chicago appointed Davies an assistant professor of history. Five years later, in 1930, he joined the research staff of the Huntington Library, rising to become its chairman in 1949–1951. He also served as editor of the Huntington Library Quarterly from 1937 to 1948. In 1930, the California Institute of Technology appointed him an associate professor, a post he held until his death in 1957. Between 1938 and 1945, he was also a lecturer in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.Death Notice, Journal of Southern History, vol. 23, no. 3 (August 1957), p. 412. He lived the latter part of his life in San Marino, California, where he was a research scholar at the Huntingdon Library. The British Academy elected him a Corresponding Fellow and Pembroke College, Oxford, elected him an Honorary Fellow in 1955. He died on 28 May 1957 in Los Angeles. Publications Dundee Court-martial Records: 1651. Clarke Papers, vol. 21, S.l.: S.n., 1917. Autobiography of Thomas Raymond and Memoirs of the family of Guise of Elmore, Gloucestershire; edited for the Royal Historical Society by G. Davies, Camden, Third Series, vol. 28. (London, 1917). A Student's Guide to the Manuscripts Relating to English History in the Seventeenth Century in the Bodleian Library. Helps for Students of History, No. 47. (London: New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Macmillan, 1922). The Early History of the Coldstream Guards. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924). Papers of devotion of James II : being a reproduction of the MS. in the handwriting of James the Second now in the possession of Mr. B. R. Townley Balfour with an introduction by Godfrey Davies. Publications of the Roxburghe Club, no. 181. (London: Roxburghe Club, 1928). Bibliography of British History: Stuart Period, 1603–1714. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928; 2nd edition, 1970). The Early Stuarts, 1603–1660. Oxford History of England, vol. 9. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937, 1945, 1959). Essays, Historical & Literary, by C. H. Firth and Godfrey Davies. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938). The Leveller Tracts, 1647–1653, edited by William Haller and Godfrey Davies. (New York: Published by Columbia University Press in Cooperation with Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1944; reprinted Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1964). The Regimental History of Cromwell's army by Sir Charles Firth ... assisted by Godfrey Davies. (Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1940). The Western country in 1793: reports on Kentucky and Virginia ed. by Marion Tinling and Godfrey Davies. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1948). The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. . . by Daniel Defoe. Introduction by Godfrey Davies. New York [and Toronto]: Rinehart & Co., Inc. [1949]) Supplements to the Short-title Catalogue, 1641–1700, by Mary Isabel Frey, Godfrey Davies, Donald Goddard Wing, and W. H. Hutchinson. . San Marino, Calif.: [Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,], 1953). Wellington and His Army. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954). G. A. Henty and History. 1955. The Restoration of Charles II, 1658–1660. (San Marino: Huntington Library Publications, 1955; Oxford University Press: London, 1969). The works of John Dryden, edited by H.T. Swedenberg, associate editors: Frederick M. Carey, Godfrey Davies, Hugh G. Dick, Samuel H. Monk, John Harrington Smith. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956) volume 1. Essays on the Later Stuarts.'' (Huntington Library Publications. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1958; reprinted Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975). [Pages 125-133 contain a "Bibliography of the Writings of Godfrey Davies."] Papers The Godfrey Davies Papers and Correspondence are located at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA, and consist of 4,500 pieces in 128 boxes with an additional deposit of 4 boxes. External links References 1892 births 1957 deaths Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford University of Chicago faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty California Institute of Technology faculty People from Cirencester 20th-century English historians People from San Marino, California
The Lawless Rider is a 1954 American black-and-white western film directed by Yakima Canutt and starring Johnny Carpenter, Frankie Darro and Noel Neill, and marketed by United Artists. Ed Wood helped co-write the screenplay, which was originally to be titled The Outlaw Marshall. The film was shot in 1952 but was not released until July 1954 due to cost overruns and legal difficulties. Plot The Bascom Ranch, owned by Texas Rose Bascom, is targeted by an outlaw gang with the intent to steal cattle off the ranch. Outlaw Freno Frost runs the rustling gang. One of the gang members is Jim Bascom, Texas Rose Bascom's wayward brother. When she discovers that her brother is running with the outlaws, she seeks help from the law. Sheriff Brown is unable or unwilling to help, so Texas Rose asks her boyfriend, U.S. Marshall Johnny Carpenter, to come to her aid. Johnny Carpenter shows up in town, in disguise, and impersonates the gunslinger Rod Tatum in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang. Texas Rose Bascom performs her fancy trick roping act for the townfolk, but ruffians interrupt the event. Confusion follows when the real Rod Tatum and the impersonator meet on the street. Cast Johnny Carpenter as Johnny Carpenter and Rod Tatum Earl W. Bascom (a co-producer) as an outlaw Noel Neill as Nancy James Texas Rose Bascom as Texas Rose Bascom Frankie Darro as Jim Bascom Kenne Duncan as Freno Frost Dale Barrell as The Kid Douglass Dumbrille as Marshall Brady Bud Osborne as Tulsa Weldon Bascom as Sheriff Brown Shirley Belger as Sis Bob Burns as a rancher of the Saddle Kings Band Roy Canada as Andy Tap Canutt as Young Marshall Frank "Red" Carpenter as Big Red Fred Carson as Snake Eyes Bill Chaney as Bill Bill Coontz as Red Rock Johnny Dew as Carson Hank Caldwell as leader Leonard P. Geer as Jack Ray Morgan as Scar Blackie Pickerel as Raven Lou Roberson as Black Jack Ketchum Frank Robbins as Larrabie Lennie Smith as Lennie Ted Smith as Ted Tommy Thomas as a blacksmith Sound track "Thinking of You", sung by Texas Rose Bascom Stunts Weldon Bascom Tap Canutt Yakima Canutt, director Frank "Red" Carpenter Fred Carson Bill Coontz Other credits and crew members Rudy DeSaxe, music William C. Thompson, director of cinematography Carlo Lodato, film editing Micky Meyers, costume design Bud Sweeney, makeup artist Willard Kirkham, assistant director Glen Glenn, sound Fred Grossi, still photography John C. Fuller, editor George N. Brown, transportation Winifred Gibson, script supervisor Sam Tilden, public relations Producers Alex Gordon, executive producer Johnny Carpenter, producer Edward D. Wood Jr., producer Weldon Bascom, associate producer Production history The film was financed by a group of Mormons. The original budget was $20,000 but it went over budget. There were legal troubles which meant the film took two years to be released. Producer Alex Gordon became entangled in debt over the film's cost overruns and got Samuel Z. Arkoff involved in the negotiations to get the film released. Arkoff got Gordon out of the financial mess he was in and got the film released eventually through United Artists. Gordon would go on to make several other movies with Arkoff. Gordon's friend/ roommate Ed Wood worked on the movie's screenplay with the film's star Johnny Carpenter. References External links 1954 films 1954 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by Yakima Canutt United Artists films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films
John Brimmer Tobacco Warehouse is a historic tobacco warehouse located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1901, and is a three-story, rectangular brick building with a stone foundation and flat roof. It is four bays wide and approximately 148 feet deep. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. References Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Industrial buildings completed in 1901 Buildings and structures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Warehouses on the National Register of Historic Places Tobacco buildings in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Empress Zhu (祝皇后, personal name unknown) (died February 12, 914) was one of the two wives of Liu Shouguang, the only emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Yan. Very little is known about Empress Zhu, and it is not known whether she bore any of Liu Shouguang's children. (Indeed, it is not completely clear that she was given an empress title when he declared himself emperor in 911, although the modern Chinese historian Bo Yang asserted that she was, as was Liu's other wife Empress Li.) When Yan's capital You Prefecture (幽州, in modern Beijing) fell in late 913 under siege by Li Cunxu the Prince of Jin, she, Liu Shouguang, Empress Li, and Liu Shouguang's three sons Liu Jixun (劉繼珣), Liu Jifang (劉繼方), and Liu Jizuo (劉繼祚) fled You Prefecture, but were eventually captured at Yanle (燕樂, in modern Beijing) and delivered to Li Cunxu. (They were captured after Liu Shouguang had sent Empress Zhu out of their hiding place to beg for food; the farmer Zhang Shizao (張師造) realized who she was and forced her to reveal where Liu Shouguang was; he then took them captive.) Li Cunxu took them on a victory tour through the lands of his allies Wang Chuzhi the military governor of Yiwu Circuit (義武, headquartered in modern Baoding, Hebei) and Wang Rong the Prince of Zhao, but eventually took them back to his capital Taiyuan and executed them there. As they were to be executed, Liu Shouguang was begging for his life, and Empresses Li and Zhu rebuked him for not acting bravely like an emperor should, while they accepted their own executions. Notes and references \|- \|- 9th-century births 914 deaths Yan (Five Dynasties period) empresses Executed Yan (Five Dynasties period) people People executed by Jin (Later Tang precursor) People executed by a Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms state by decapitation 10th-century executions
KF Uniteti () is a professional football club from Kosovo which competes in the Third League (Group B). The club is based in Sadovin e Jerlive [Viti]. Their home ground is the Viti Sports Complex which has a viewing capacity of 1,000. See also List of football clubs in Kosovo References Football clubs in Kosovo Association football clubs established in 1976
Tengwang Ge Xu (, Preface to the Prince Teng's Pavilion), full name Preface to a Farewell Feast Atop the Prince Teng's Pavilion in Autumn () or Preface to Poems on the Prince of Teng's Pavilion (), is a piece of literature by Wang Bo of the Tang dynasty. It is considered a founding piece of Tang Literature. It is classified as Pianwen (), which depends greatly on rhythm, somewhat like classical Chinese poetry, but does not have a restriction of how many characters should be in one sentence, and how many sentences in one paragraph. It is named after Pavilion of Prince Teng, a pavilion standing by the Gan River of Nanchang City, which was then called Hongzhou () and is the capital of the current province of Jiangxi. It was first built in the early Tang dynasty. Wáng Bó was on his way to Jiaozhi County, in present-day northern Vietnam, visiting his father, and encountered a grand banquet held there. It is acknowledged that he actually finished the work at the banquet. The author expressed his sadness at being unable to make use of his talent. In fact, he was drowned in the South China Sea not long after he finished this classic before he reached Vietnam to see his father. ...x170px\|Wen Zhengming's calligraphy of Tengwang Ge Xu Wen Zhengming's calligraphy of Tengwang Ge Xu External links Nanchang Chinese classic texts
Lord Black may refer to the following: William Black, Baron Black (1893–1984), British automotive executive Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 1944), Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood (born 1964), Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group
Frank James Dixon (March 9, 1920 – February 8, 2008) was an biomedical researcher, best known for his research into diseases of the immune system that can damage other organs of the body. Dixon was also noted for having developed techniques involving trace iodines to study proteins. Born in St. Paul, Dixon received his bachelor's degree and M.D. from the University of Minnesota. He joined the United States Navy in 1943, after completing his M.D. Dixon was a co-founder and director of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. In 1981, Dixon became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. Awards Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1969 Lasker Award, 1975 Dickson Prize in Medicine, 1976 Rous-Whipple Award, 1979 Member, United States National Academy of Sciences References Further reading "Frank J. Dixon, La Jolla pioneer, dies Feb. 8", La Jolla Light, Feb. 13, 2008. External links National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1920 births 2008 deaths University of Minnesota Medical School alumni American immunologists Scripps Research faculty Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Founding members of the World Cultural Council Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences United States Navy personnel of World War II
Sheikh Ibrahim al-Sakran (born 4 April 1976) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, writer, researcher, lawyer and thinker. Education He entered the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and studied for one year and then left the university and went to the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. After graduation he obtained a master's degree in Sharia politics from the Higher Institute of The Judiciary of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, then he went to the United Kingdom and received a master's degree in international trade law at the University of Essex in Colchester. Arrest In June 2016, Sheikh al-Sakran was arrested at his home in Riyadh by Saudi officials and sentenced to five years of prison. He was then released in 2020 after four years of prison and was rearrested shortly in 2020 after the release. References Living people 1976 births Saudi Arabian Islamic religious leaders Saudi Arabian writers King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals alumni Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University alumni Alumni of the University of Essex Saudi Arabian prisoners and detainees
Sir Separanlu-ye Olya (, also Romanized as Sīr Seprānlū-ye ‘Olyā and Sīrseprānlū-ye ‘Olyā; also known as Sīr Separānlū-ye Bālā, Sīrseparānlū Bālā, and Sīsparānlū-ye Bālā) is a village in Jirestan Rural District, Sarhad District, Shirvan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 196, in 37 families. References Populated places in Shirvan County
Emu is a British television puppet, modelled on the Australian flightless emu bird and operated by the performer Rod Hull. After appearing on a number of variety shows, he was given his own television series on the BBC, then on ITV. Cast The Pink Windmill Kids In the first series, The Pink Windmill Kids were all students of Pattison College, which at the time was known as The Betty Pattison Dancing Academy. Subsequently they came from the Corona Theatre School, known at the time as the Corona Stage School. Abbie Shilling appeared in the most episodes of all the Pink Windmill Kids, closely followed by Kelly Rossiter. BBC Emu's Broadcasting Company Emu's Broadcasting Company (1975–1980) is a children's television series featuring Rod Hull and Emu running their own television station, which parodied many BBC series of the time. Supporting Rod Hull and his emu puppet were Billy Dainty who played a James Bond pastiche called Captain Perceval and Barbara New who played the tea lady. Transmissions Series 1: 6 editions from 18 November 1975 – 23 December 1975 Series 2: 6 editions from 12 November 1976 – 17 December 1976 Series 3: 6 editions from 10 October 1977 – 14 November 1977 Series 4: 8 editions from 26 October 1978 – 14 December 1978 Series 5: 8 editions from 2 December 1979 – 27 January 1980 Christmas Special: 24 December 1977 BBC Specials Rod and Emu became staples of early-evening variety entertainment on or around Bank Holidays, and the following one-off specials were made for the BBC: Emu's Blackpool Walkabout: 29 August 1977 (30 Minutes) Emu's Cornish Walkabout: 28 August 1978 (30 Minutes) Emu's Scottish Walkabout: 27 August 1979 (35 Minutes) Emu's Magical Music Show: 27 December 1980 (35 Minutes) Emu's Magical Christmas Show: 27 December 1981 (35 Minutes) Emu's Magical Easter Show: 12 April 1982 (35 Minutes) Rod and Emu's Saturday Specials (BBC) Series 1: 6 editions from 1 January 1983 – 5 February 1983 The Rod & Emu Show (BBC) Series 1: 6 editions from 28 January 1984 – 10 March 1984 ITV Emu's World In 1981, Rod Hull was offered the opportunity to make a series for younger children by the newly-awarded ITV franchise Central Independent Television. This led to the birth of the Pink Windmill in which Rod and Emu lived, the green witch named Grotbags (played by the singer and comedienne Carol Lee Scott), and her hopeless assistant Croc. The premise of the show was simple: each week Grotbags attempted to steal Emu so that, once captured, (in Grotbags's own words) she would be able to use its "special powers" to control all the "brats" in the world. Children from the Corona Theatre School—referred to collectively as the Pink Windmill Kids—were on hand to offer protection and break into one or two song and dance routines per episode. The show featured Rod Hull's chanted catchphrase "There's somebody at the door, oh, there's somebody at the door" every time a visitor rang the doorbell of the Pink Windmill—which 'sneezed' loudly when pressed. Transmission Series 1: 6 editions from 5 January 1982 – 9 February 1982 Series 2: 6 editions from 27 October 1982 – 1 December 1982 Series 3: 6 editions from 2 March 1983 – 6 April 1983 Series 4: 6 editions from 7 September 1983 – 12 October 1983 Special: Emu's World at Christmas – 21 December 1983 Series 5: 6 editions from 9 March 1984 – 13 April 1984 Special: Emu at Easter: 20 April 1984 Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show The success of Emu's World led to the series being expanded in mid-1984 from 20-minute to 42-minute episodes and re-branded as the Pink Windmill Show. The target age range was broadened, and the programme now featured viewer phone calls, a studio audience, games such as one in Grotbags's grotto based on the format of the "take the money or open the box" segment of Take Your Pick!, the Post Office (for viewers to send their letters and pictures), and Boggle's Kingdom—a mini-series featuring Rod's ancestor who is trapped in Tudor times. A subsequent addition was the Twin Schools section, which aimed to pair British schools with similar ones in Australia, Canada, or the US. The singing and dancing of the Pink Windmill Kids was retained, extra character Robot Redford introduced, and the show in this format achieved enormous popularity (evidenced by being broadcast in the coveted Children's ITV slot of last thing on a Friday). Three series were broadcast live from 1984 to 1986 (despite the third run dropping "All Live" from the title), and in 1987 two series of Emu's Wide World were made. These followed a similar formula to the Pink Windmill Shows, but were pre-recorded, resulting in the phone-based Spin Quiz being replaced by Emu's Bargain Basement—an obstacle course in a supermarket. A final series of Emu's World aired in 1988, which retained Boggle's Kingdom and introduced an outdoors obstacle course despite being cut to a 20-minute run time. All series were produced and directed by Colin Clews for Central Independent Television and broadcast from the now-defunct East Midlands Television Centre in Nottingham. A clip from the first live episode (13 July 1984), in which the Pink Windmill Kids enthusiastically introduce themselves before launching into a rendition of the Village People song "Can't Stop the Music", became an Internet meme in late 2016, and in early 2017 the kids in the sequence (with the exception of Spencer, who was unavailable) reunited to remake the segment in aid of Comic Relief. Transmission Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show Series 1: 7 editions from 13 July 1984 – 24 August 1984 Emu at Christmas – 25 December 1984 Series 2: 13 editions from 12 April 1985 – 5 July 1985 Emu's Pink Windmill Show Series 1: 10 editions from 14 February 1986 – 25 April 1986 Emu at Easter – 29 March 1986 (repeat of 1984 special) Emu at Christmas – 26 December 1986 (repeat of 1984 special) Emu's Wide World Series 1: 9 editions from 3 April 1987 – 5 June 1987 Series 2: 8 editions from 3 November 1987 – 5 January 1988 Emu's World Series 6: 13 editions from 12 May 1988 – 4 August 1988 EMU-TV Following the demise of Emu's World, Rod Hull went to Canada and recorded a single series of EMU-TV, based heavily on his earlier Emu's Broadcasting Company series. His co-stars this time were Murray Langston and Carolyn Scott, while Les Foubracs made regular guest appearances. These episodes were brought back to the UK and re-edited for a British audience by Central Independent Television, with a small number of additional segments featuring Grotbags and the Pink Windmill Kids also being shot. Episode 5 of this series features future England international footballer Emile Heskey running an obstacle course and accidentally being called "Emily". Transmission Series 1: 22 editions from 15 March 1989 – 20 September 1989 Rod 'n' Emu Emu The first episode of Emu's new series, simply called Emu, was broadcast on 8 October 2007. The first series was filmed in Belfast with shots at Queens Street Flats. The main characters are four-(five in the second series)-year-old Emu and his owner, Toby (Toby Hull), a computer games designer. Toby has to keep Emu a secret from Ken Cole, a grumpy security guard. Toby's neighbours, who are children, seven-and-a-half-year old Charlie and eight-and-a-half-year-old Dani, help him to keep Emu a secret. Toby's other neighbour, Sophie, is the villainess of the show: an air hostess who becomes obsessed with making money off of Emu, but her plans always backfire on her. At the end of the first series, Emu and Toby moved back to Australia. In June 2009, it was announced that a second series of the show with 26 episodes was produced by the Gibson Group a New Zealand film and broadcast company. Most of the cast was done by New Zealand actors. The plot in the second series is where Toby has a job in a kids' cafe. He meets Kelly (Bryony Skillington), the cafe manager, who is allergic to birds, especially Emu, although she still adores Emu. Cafe kids, seven-year-old Sam and eight-year-old Georgia live upstairs above the cafe. They are good friends with Emu. They all must watch out for Leo Leach (Toby Leach), the town inspector who is strict with pest control; he will close the cafe down if an animal is found. The first episode of the second series was broadcast on 13 September 2009 on ITV at 9:45am. The second-series puppeteer was Nick Blake and the director was Danny Mulheron the same director of Paradise Café by the same company. The second episode was broadcast on the same day as well. It was shown on CITV with repeats until April 2014. References External links Emu's Broadcasting Company (Ebc1) (TV series) Emu's World (TV series) 1975 British television series debuts 1989 British television series endings 1970s British children's television series 1980s British children's television series BBC children's television shows British television shows featuring puppetry BBC television comedy English-language television shows ITV children's television shows ITV comedy Television articles with incorrect naming style Television series by ITV Studios Television shows produced by Central Independent Television
Kisan is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Sibi Malayil. The film stars Biju Menon, Kalabhavan Mani, Bhavana, and Geethu Mohandas. This film was first titled Ilakal Pacha Pookal Manja and was planned to release in early 2004, but because of some technical difficulties, the film was shelved and restarted shooting in 2006. Cast Biju Menon as Devan Kalabhavan Mani as Velu Bhavana as Kilimathi, Velu's Sister Geethu Mohandas as Ammu/Ambili Varma Thilakan as Muthassan Shalu Menon as Kalyani I.M Vijayan as Football Coach (himself) Zeenath as Savithri Hakim Rawther as Velichapaadu Kalashala Babu as Education Minister Ponnamma Babu as Minister's PA Risabawa as Balaraman Varma Nishanth Sagar as Ambadi Kalabhavan Shajon as Kuyilan Geetha Salam as Ayyappan Dinesh Prabhakar as Velayudhan Kaviraj as Vinu Ambika Rao as Ammalu Bindu KS as Ammu's mother KPAC Sabu as MLA Kuttappayi Reception A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "Kisan could have worked if it were technically superior and based on firmer narrative ground. Coming from a director of Sibi Malayil's stature though, it is a complete disappointment". References External links 2000s Malayalam-language films 2006 films Films about farmers Films scored by Johnson Films scored by Kaithapram Viswanathan Namboothiri
Manta is a steel flying roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando. The attraction allows guests to encounter numerous species of ray before boarding a manta ray-shaped train that takes them on a roller coaster ride above the park, reaching top speeds of . Designed by Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard, Manta restrains riders in the prone position and features four inversions. The well-received attraction officially opened to the public on May 22, 2009. Their slogan is "Dive deep, fly high…". History SeaWorld Orlando revealed the concept that was to become Manta to a gathering of travel industry representatives and community leaders on April 2, 2008, although it had been in the planning stages for years. The exact specifications were not immediately revealed, but the park said it would be their largest single investment in an attraction and that it would open sometime in 2009. The park also announced that the attraction would include a roller coaster, but that it would be more than just a roller coaster. Joseph Couceirovice president of sales and marketingdescribed the ride as "the next generation SeaWorld attraction" that would immerse guests in elements of marine life. Artists' concepts of the new attraction were leaked onto the Internet in April 2008; however, SeaWorld officials would not confirm whether the images were accurate representations of the final design, but said that the roller coaster would have a gliding sensation. At that point, construction on a large site within the park had already begun. On May 29, 2008, park officials confirmed that the attraction would be named Manta, and announced additional details about the attraction. Construction of the roller coaster track and attraction buildings began in September 2008. Superior Rigging & Erection built the supports and track. The ride's layout was completed in December 2008 and construction on other parts of the roller coaster continued into early 2009. SeaWorld began previewing the attraction in early May 2009, before it was officially opened on May 22. Design Theme and surrounding experience Manta is an attraction which encompasses a themed queue and a roller coaster. The queue is designed to resemble a seaside village decorated with mosaics and artwork inspired by rays. Within the attraction's site are ten aquaria containing of water. Approximately 3,000 animals representing over 60 species are visibleincluding over 300 rays, such as cownose rays and spotted eagle rays. Other creatures on display include sea horses, leafy seadragons and tropical fish. Portions of the aquarium exhibit can be viewed by guests who do not wish to ride the roller coaster. Non-riding guests can use a second entrance to the attraction area, which is separated from those waiting for the roller coaster. Guests in the ride's queue have access to special exhibit components, such as a Plexiglas "pop-up" window into the aquarium. Mantas rails, supports and track are filled with sand to reduce noise. Trains and loading procedure Manta is a flying roller coaster, which simulates the sensation of flight. It is designed to resemble the way rays—mantas in particular—appear to fly through seawater. Guests are initially seated upright on the trains in one of eight rows that hold four passengers each, accommodating up to 32 riders. Manta operates with three trains. Before departure, mechanisms in the station raise the cars up to the track, such that the riders' spines are parallel to the track. Guests are secured in their seats using a locking lap bar, a vest-like harness and flaps at the riders' ankles to hold their feet in place. The cars are highly stylized. The lead car is shaped like a manta ray with a wingspan of . In the original plans, the wing of the car was intended to make contact with water at a certain point of the ride, but Bolliger & Mabillard said the idea would not work and a fountain was used instead. The roller coaster's wings appear to skim the water's surface. Water jets in the attraction's main lagoon create a splash effect as the train passes. SeaWorld can adjust several features of the splash effect, including its duration and the train's speed when it enters the area. The roller coaster's color scheme includes deep purple, ultramarine blue and cobalt. Track The steel track of Manta is long and lift hill is high. There are four inversions; a pretzel loop, two inline twists and one corkscrew. The track is dark blue and the supports are light blue. Sand is placed inside some sections of track to reduce the noise produced by the trains. Friction brakes are used to control the speed of the train. The track was fabricated at the Ohio-based Clermont Steel Fabricators. In 2015, a clone of Manta opened at Nagashima Spa Land under the name of Acrobat. Ride experience Manta features a dual station configuration, which allows two trains to be loaded at the same time, thus increasing the ride's capacity. After departing from the station, the train will make either a slight left or right turndepending on which station it leavesinto the chain lift hill. From the top of the lift hill, the train makes a downward right turn into a -tall pretzel loop, after which it turns left, leading into the first of two inline twists. The train then makes a right turn followed by a slight upward left turn into a corkscrew, before turning right into the mid-course brake run. The train then drops to a point just above a body of water, at the same time making a 270-degree right turn, where water jets spray up near the train to produce the effect of the train actually hitting the water. After exiting the turn, the train goes by a waterfall, goes through the second inline twist, makes a left turn into the final brake run, then makes a left turn into one of the two stations where the next riders board. Reception Manta has been lauded by the mainstream media and industry press since its debut in May 2009. Busch Entertainment Corporation, SeaWorld Orlando's parent company, credited Manta with improving park attendance. In July 2009, ThemeParkInsider.com named Manta "best new attraction". In September 2009, Manta placed third in Amusement Today magazine's poll for the Best New Ride of 2009. See also Manta (SeaWorld San Diego) Texas Stingray (SeaWorld San Antonio) References External links Official Manta website SeaWorld Orlando Roller coasters introduced in 2009 Roller coasters operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment 2009 establishments in Florida Roller coasters in Florida Flying roller coasters manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard
Liu Cong may refer to: Liu Cong (Han dynasty) (fl. 207–208), younger son of the late Han dynasty warlord Liu Biao Liu Cong (Han-Zhao) (died 318), emperor of Han Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms
Cheshmeh Mirza (, also Romanized as Cheshmeh Mīrzā; also known as Roshnow) is a village in Kunani Rural District, Kunani District, Kuhdasht County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 151, in 29 families. References Populated places in Kuhdasht County
Austroclupea is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Pliocene epoch. References Clupeiformes Pliocene fish
Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co-founded Commodore Books with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon in 2006, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada. He also co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project in 2002, a grassroots organization that promotes the history of Vancouver's black community. Compton teaches in the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College. In 1996 he penned the semi-autobiographical poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation". Bibliography Anthologies Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001) The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (with Renee Sarojini Saklikar) (2015) Fiction The Outer Harbour: Stories (2014) Graphic fiction The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration (illustrated by April dela Noche Milne) (2019) Non-fiction After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (2010) Poetry 49th Parallel Psalm (1999) Performance Bond (2004) See also Canadian literature Canadian poetry List of Canadian poets List of Canadian writers References External links Hogan's Alley Memorial Project blog 1972 births 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian short story writers Black Canadian writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian male poets Canadian male short story writers 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers Living people Writers from British Columbia Writers from Vancouver
"Struggle for Pleasure" is a musical piece released in 1983 by Belgian composer Wim Mertens. It is the theme music used by the Belgian phone operator Proximus. It was featured in the Peter Greenaway movie The Belly of an Architect. Energy 52's track "Café Del Mar" features a main melody based on "Struggle for Pleasure". It was also covered by Belgian dance music group Minimalistix in 2000 and reached dance charts across Europe. Notes and references 1983 songs Minimalistic compositions
Arthromeris mairei is a fern species in the genus Arthromeris. Two afzelechin glycosides, arthromerin A (afzelechin-3-O-β-D-xylopyranoside) and arthromerin B (afzelechin-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside), can be isolated from the roots of A. mairei. References External links Polypodiaceae
The 1st New York Regiment was authorized on 25 May 1775 and organized at New York City from 28 June to 4 August, for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Alexander McDougall. The enlistments of the first establishment ended on 31 December 1775. The second establishment of the regiment was authorized on 19 January 1776. The regiment was involved in the Invasion of Canada, the Battle of Valcour Island, the Battle of Saratoga, the Battle of Monmouth, the Sullivan Expedition, and the Battle of Yorktown. The regiment was furloughed 2 June 1783 at Newburgh, New York and disbanded 15 November 1783. References Sources Égly, T. W., History of the First New York Regiment, 1775-1783, Hampton, NH: P.E. Randall, 1981 Fernow, Berthold, New York in the Revolution, 1887 Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. New, enlarged, and revised edition., Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914 Wright, Robert, The Continental Army, 1983 External links Bibliography of the Continental Army in New York compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History 1st New York Regiment
Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone () is a commercial development in Shenzhen, Guangdong that is also known as Qianhai New District. Located in Nanshan District and encircled by the Shuangjie River, Yueliangwan Boulevard, Mawan Boulevard and Qianhai Bay, Qianhai covers an area of approximately , comprising almost entirely reclaimed land. The project is expected to be completed by 2020. Strategic positioning According to plans made by the Qianhai administration, as the pilot district for cooperation between mainland China and Hong Kong and innovation in the service industry, Qianhai undertakes four functions: An area that will aim to facilitate innovation in the modern service industry An area that will aim to become a hub of modern services and modern service development A pilot area for closer cooperation between mainland China and Hong Kong A facilitator in the industrial reform and sustainable economic development of the Pearl River Delta Features Location Qianhai is situated in the Pearl River Delta. With the completion of railways and roads by 2020, Qianhai will be within a one-hour commuting radius of the Pearl River Delta and within a 30-minute commuting radius of Hong Kong. The main arteries of traffic in the region, including the Shenzhen-Zhongshan corridor, Shenzhen Western Port, Shenzhen North Station and Guangzhou-Shenzhen Yanjiang Highway all pass through Qianhai. Industrial support The city of Shenzhen, where Qianhai is located, is one of the most economically developed regions in the Pearl River Delta and mainland China. As one of the most economically productive cities in China, Shenzhen has the highest GDP per capita, foreign export volume, the number of patent applications and the number of patents owned per capita among all major cities in China. Special policies The following policies were approved by the State Council on June 27, 2012. Financial policies Qianhai shall experiment with the expansion of offshore RMB fund flow-back channels. Qianhai will support the development of Hong Kong as an offshore RMB settlement centre and establish a cross-border RMB innovation zone in order to facilitate the development of RMB financial services. Qianhai shall support the issuance of RMB loans from local banking institutions to international projects, and from Hong Kong-based banking institutions to Qianhai projects under the stipulations of the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). Qianhai shall be supported in its efforts to establish an equity investment parent fund in Qianhai. Hasten the internationalization of Qianhai's financial market by opening up to Hong Kong under the stipulations of CEPA Qianhai supports the development of innovative financial instruments, and financial products that support the development of the real economy. Hong Kong and international banking institutions shall be encouraged to establish their headquarters in Qianhai in order to quicken the pace of the internationalization of Qianhai's financial industry. Taxation policies Eligible companies registered in Qianhai are subject to a 15 percent preferential corporate income tax rate. Eligible professionals who are employed in Qianhai are exempt from personal income tax. Legal policies Qianhai shall support Hong Kong arbitration agencies' establishment of affiliated agencies in Qianhai. Qianhai shall support the joint operation of mainland and Hong Kong law firms under CEPA and its supplementary agreements. Human resource policies Qianhai's human resource management mechanism shall be innovated and relevant policies and measures shall be formulated to attract a professional, international workforce, including but not limited to professionals from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as Chinese professionals who are currently working or studying abroad or those who have returned to China. Professionals with certification from Hong Kong shall be permitted to provide professional services, the boundary of which is confined to Qianhai and to the enterprises and residents of Qianhai. The specific policies, measures, and regulations of such services shall be formulated by relevant regulatory departments. Professionals from Hong Kong with the certificates of Certified Public Accountant of China shall be permitted to serve as partners of mainland Chinese accounting firms. The pilot trial procedures will be formulated by Shenzhen and will be implemented in Qianhai upon the approval of the Ministry of Finance. Education and health care policies Hong Kong education service providers are permitted to set up international schools invested by Hong Kong investors in Qianhai upon approval. Hong Kong health care service providers are permitted to establish hospitals invested by Hong Kong investors in Qianhai. Telecommunications policies Hong Kong and Macau telecom operators are permitted to establish telecom joint ventures with mainland Chinese operators in Qianhai under the stipulations of CEPA. Qianhai will establish a dedicated telecommunications channel in order to provide a better and faster channel for telecom businesses as well as other firms in Qianhai. Future leading industries As a modern service industry cooperation zone, Qianhai's administration has planned to focus on finance, modern logistics, information services, technology services, and other professional services. Finance The Qianhai administration plans to promote innovation and partnership within the financial industry by relaxing currency flows between Qianhai and Hong Kong, reinforcing Hong Kong's position as an offshore RMB settlement centre. This initiative is meant to spearhead the internationalisation of Shenzhen's capital market, as well as strengthen the partnership between securities markets in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Qianhai's financial services will aim to complement that of Hong Kong's, in a conscious effort to avoid direct competition and create a win-win situation. More specifically, Hong Kong banks will be allowed to extend commercial RMB loans to Qianhai-based onshore mainland entities. The People's Bank of China has also indicated that such loans will for the first time not be subject to the benchmark rates set by the central bank for all other loans in the rest of China. The beginning of this "cross-border yuan loan program has opened a new channel for the back flow of overseas yuan funds, which will increase the yuan’s global liquidity and promote its internationalisation,” according to Linan Liu, a senior strategist for greater China at Deutsche Bank AG. Qianhai Equity Trading Centre The Qianhai Equity Trading Centre will provide loans to Qianhai enterprises by launching RMB-denominated wealth management products (WMPs) on the Hong Kong capital market. Modern logistics Qianhai has implemented preferential policies which will effectively allow logistics providers to offer improved and more flexible services across mainland China and globally. Qianhai Bay Free Trade Port Zone The Qianhai Bay Free Trade Port Zone is one of the vital components of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone. The construction of 7 warehouses with a total area of 400,000m² has been completed, among which are for refrigerated bonded warehouses. Information services The Qianhai administration will promote the development of software and information technology services, as well as facilitate the cooperation between mainland and Hong Kong telecom operators. Technology and other professional services Qianhai will give priority to the development of innovative technologies, creative design services, as well as professional services such as consulting and management. As industrial reform is now underway in the Pearl River Delta, Qianhai's strategic positioning includes the plan to provide manufacturers with new technologies and other professional services to support their reforming efforts and facilitate a smoother transition. Urban planning With a planned area of and total construction area of 26-30 million m2, Qianhai is expected to create 650,000 jobs and house 150,000 residents by 2020. According to the city blueprint, Qianhai's residents will have access to a park and greenery within , the ability to reach public transportation within , shopping malls, restaurants, and hotels within , and education and health care services within of any given point in the city. In order to attract and retain a creative workforce, the Qianhai administration has claimed that it will aim to establish an internationalised education system, as well as a Hong Kong-standard health care system. The Qianhai administration has stated that it will prioritise public transportation and sustainable development. All Qianhai buildings will meet international environmental standards, and the energy consumption of buildings will be closely monitored and controlled. There is a planned 150 million yuan investment in reforestation, and investments in clean energy, water and waste recycling as well as sustainable urban management. Current projects Qianhai Enterprise Dream Park An example of Qianhai's future work environment, the Qianhai Enterprise Dream Park is modelled after the Silicon Valley, with 58 office buildings and a multi-purpose building that can be used as a conference and exhibition hall and an exchange platform. Companies who are planning to move in or have already moved in include the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Hang Seng Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Mobile, etc. Although some companies have moved in, there is still ongoing construction. The area will be completed by the end of 2014. Qianhai Youth Entrepreneur Innovation Hub The Qianhai Youth Hub is an area that will become a community dedicated to the facilitation of innovation in young entrepreneurs, providing them with sources of venture capital, the advantage of starting up in one of the most active economies in China, and the opportunity to network with companies as well as like-minded individuals from abroad, particularly Hong Kong youths. The cost of research and startup in the Qianhai Youth Hub will be partially subsidised. The prioritised industries in this area are consistent with Qianhai's overall blueprint, including innovative technology, information technology, modern logistics, and cultural and artistic innovation. The development of professional services such as finance, accounting, and law, as well as computer science, e-commerce, statistical analysis, animation, new media, 3-D printing, design, virtual reality, and clean energy are strongly supported by the Qianhai administration. The Hub will have facilities that help youth entrepreneurs obtain funds from venture capital, public funds, and subsidies from the Qianhai administration, providing them with the resources to either initiate an idea or continue developing their innovation. In addition, the Qianhai Youth Hub is situated beside the Qianhai Enterprise Dream Park, giving the youth entrepreneurs a chance to network with companies, offers for careers, and venture capital. In addition to a lab area with facilities such as recording studios and 3-D printing labs, participants in the Qianhai Youth Hub will have access to the facilities in most public labs for free. There is an instructional building where professors and professionals give seminars, career advice, or provide professional guidance to youth entrepreneurs, and an exhibition hall for the participants' work and ideas. International and Hong Kong youth participation in this hub is strongly supported by the Qianhai administration. This community will be managed by the Qianhai administration, the Hong Kong Federation of Youths, and the Shenzhen Youth Federation. This project will be completed by the end of 2014. References External links Official Chinese Website Regulations on Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industrial Cooperation Area of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Shenzhen
Rolando Chaparro (born August 2, 1965 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan musician. Son of Rolando Chaparro (professional photographer) and Celia María Benítez (actress) First steps He was very interested in music since an early age and at the age of 9 he made of the guitar his main instrument. He studied with Kuki Rey and initiated in the jazz studying by 4 years with Carlos Schvartzman. He formed later with Carlos Schvartzman, Remigio Pereira and Mario Rodríguez an experimental musical quartet with jazzy tendencies. Career In 1984 he grouped with Berta Rojas and Carlos Noguera. in 1985 he joined to “Síntesis” (Synthesis), a jazz-fusion and folkloric projection group, performing in many places of Asunción. Between 1987 and 1991 worked with Ñamandu (the duet of Alejandrino “Chondi” Paredes and Ricardo Flecha), forming a folkloric tendency trio, touring and recording in many Latin American countries. In 1991 joined back to Síntesis, this time with new people. Parallelly, he also joined the jazz-fusion and folkloric projection band of the saxophonist William “Palito” Miranda, performing in the international festivals of Posadas, Argentina; Viña del Mar, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In May 1994 he performed with Síntesis in the Memorial of Latin America of Sao Paulo and in Buenos Aires. Later that year he definitively left Síntesis to form a new band “Krhizya”, with rock tendency. With Krhizya he records an album in which could be found a classic in the Paraguayan folkloric music, "Reservista Purahéi", but in a blues version, something never done before. This way, Rolando Chaparro marked a hit referring to rock covers of Paraguayan folkloric music. As a composer he's one of the most outstanding. His production is of about a thousand pieces including jazz-fusion, folkloric projection, music for theater plays, commercial jingles, music for TV shows, among others. He also developed soloist projects, like “Guitarreros”, with Efrén Echeverría, Juan Cancio Barreto and Barni Chaparro, performing in various theaters of Paraguay. He played in a concert with the harpist César Cataldo, obtaining very positive critics from the press. He performed many times with the Symphonic Orchestra of the City of Asunción in very important concerts, recording two discs due to the amazing success of them. He participated in the soundtrack of the Paraguayan film “Miramenometokéi” with a song of his own “Espinas del alma” and with a version of the Paraguayan popular music “Soy algo fácil de olvidar” (I'm something easy to forget). He was awarded many times by the radio show The Lost Flare. Work Discography: all of them include music made by him Rolando Chaparro performed in countries like México, Perú, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, among others, many times and with different styles. Actually he's teaching at the National Conservatory of Asunción. He might be considered as the most diverse instrumentalist in the new generation of Paraguayan musicians. Some of his most famous works References Luis Szaran Pilsen Rock Paraguayan guitarists 1965 births Living people
Banksia seneciifolia is a species of column-shaped shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has linear, pinnatifid leaves, yellow flowers in heads of about twenty-five, and narrow egg-shaped follicles. Description Banksia seneciifolia is a column-shaped shrub that grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has linear, pinnatifid leaves long and wide on a petiole up to long. There are between two and five linear lobes up to long on each side of the leaves. About twenty-five yellow flowers are arranged in heads surrounded by linear, tapering, hairy involucral bracts up to long at the base of each head. The perianth is long and curved downwards, and the pistil is long and also curved downwards. Flowering occurs from July to August. A single, narrow egg-shaped follicle long forms in each head. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Dryandra seneciifolia and published the description in the Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens collected by William Baxter near King George's Sound in 1829. The specific epithet (seneciifolia) refers to the genus Senecio with the ending -folia from the Latin -folius meaning "-leaved". In 2007, Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred all the dryandras to the genus Banksia and this species became Banksia seneciifolia. Distribution and habitat Banksia seneciifolia grows in mallee-kwongan in the Stirling Range National Park but there are record from before 1900 as far south as Albany. Conservation status This banksia is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened. References seneciifolia Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1830
The Crayenborgh lecture series is the Honours Class of the history department at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The Crayenborgh was started in the 1993–1994 academic year by Dr Leonard Blussé. The concept was based on the Friday afternoon seminars at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, but Blussé decided to aim the lecture series at third and fourth year students. Twelve high-performing students are selected to participate in the twelve lectures given by experts in the field. Each year a different theme is chosen. The Crayenborgh was the first honours programme in the Netherlands. Leiden University Education in the Netherlands 1993 establishments in the Netherlands
Banyeres del Penedès is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. See also No Fem el CIM References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Baix Penedès
Vatnahalsen Station () is a railway station on the Flåm Line in Aurland, Norway. It is from Myrdal Station, from Oslo Central Station and above mean sea level. The station opened on 1 August 1940. References Bibliography Railway stations on the Flåm Line Railway stations in Aurland Railway stations opened in 1941 1941 establishments in Norway Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1940s
A () is a sweet or savory casserole made of groats (wheat, buckwheat, barley or rice) and , or Russian farmer cheese. It is a dish that is typical of Russian cuisine. See also List of casserole dishes List of Russian dishes Sources Сладкий крупеник из гречки / Sweet krupenik from buckwheat (rus.) Russian cuisine Casserole dishes
Jibiya is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. Location Jibiya is located north of Ramallah. It is bordered by Burham to the east, Umm Safa the east, north and west, and Kobar to the west and south. History Pottery sherds from the Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Umayyad/Abbasid eras have been found here. It has been suggested that this was Geba in the Onomasticon, and the Crusader place called Gebea, but both these identifications have now been discarded. Pottery sherds from the Mamluk era have also been found here. Ottoman era Pottery sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here. In the spring of 1697, Henry Maundrell noted two "Arab villages," first "Geeb" and then "Selwid," both on the west side of the road on the way south from Nablus to Jerusalem. Edward Robinson identified these two villages as Jibiya and Silwad. In 1838 Jibia was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zaid district, north of Jerusalem. In 1863 Victor Guérin noted it as a small village, with a shrine, dedicated to a Sheikh Baiezed. An official Ottoman village list from about 1870, listed Dschibija as having 12 houses and a population of 39, though the population count included men, only. In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jibia as "a small village on high ground, with olives below." In 1896 the population of Dschibja was estimated to be about 84 persons. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jebia had a population of 62 Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 63, in 17 houses. In 1945 statistics, the population was 90, all Muslims, while the total land area was 1,666 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 100 were plantations and irrigable land, 815 for cereals, while 4 dunams were classified as built-up areas. Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jibiya came under Jordanian rule. Post-1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jibiya has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 51.4% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 48.6% is defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Jibiya in order to construct Israeli bypass roads 4 and 566, to Israeli settlements. References Bibliography (p. 30) External links Welcome To Jibyya Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons Jibiya Village (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ Jibiya Village Profile, ARIJ Jibiya aerial photo, ARIJ Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Jibiya Village, ARIJ Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate Municipalities of the State of Palestine
Aleksandr Severov (24 February 1889, date of death unknown) was a Russian Empire wrestler. He competed in the middleweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. References External links 1889 births Year of death missing Olympic wrestlers for the Russian Empire Wrestlers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Male sport wrestlers from the Russian Empire Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
The Walter NZ 85 was a seven-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft use built in Czechoslovakia by Walter Aircraft Engines in the late-1920s. Design and development Using common cylinders and parts from the earlier Walter NZ 60 (Novák-Zeithammer) engine the NZ 85 and the nine-cylinder NZ 120 were designed together. Lightened and tuned developments were known as the NZ 90 and NZ 95. Applications Aero A.34 Avia BH-20 Avia BH-29 Breda Ba.15 Couzinet 30 (intended application) Gribovsky G-8 Hopfner HS-8/29 IMAM Ro.5 Letov Š-118 Orta-Saint Hubert G.1 Savoia-Marchetti S.56 Shavrov Sh-1 Specifications (NZ 85) See also References Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. Němeček, Václav. Československá letadla I (1918-1945) (Czechoslovak Aircraft I (1918-1945)). Third edition, Naše vojsko, Prague. 1983. NZ 85 1920s aircraft piston engines Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
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Chingiz Farzaliyev (), is an Azerbaijani artist and professor. He is the director of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art. He received the honorary title of Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan for fine arts. Life Chingiz Farzaliyev was born on November 20, 1943 in Baku. In 1973, he graduated from the faculty of painting of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute. In 1975, he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1966, he has been a participant of national, All-Union, and international exhibitions. Since 2004, he has been working as the head of the fine art chair at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006, he was awarded the honorary title of «Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan». Since 2008, he works as a professor in the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2010, he was appointed the director of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art. He has also been the Chairman of the State Commission for Fine Arts since 2010. Honorary titles Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan Republic, 2006; Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 2009; Honorary Professor of the Academy of Fine Art of Uzbekistan, 2012; Honorary Professor of the International Biographical Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2015; Honorary Doctor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, 2015; Honorary Professor of the Moscow State Art Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov, 2017; Full member of the Turkic World Studies International Academy of Sciences, 2019; ″Honoured Scientist and Cultural Worker of Europe″ for the contribution to the world science and culture, European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hannover, Germany, 2021; Orders and awards 2nd prize at All-Union exhibition ″Youth of the Country″, a silver medal, USSR, 1976; 1st prize of All-Union competition ″Korchagins of the 70s″, USSR, 1977; Diploma of the International Association of the Union of Architects of the CIS countries, 1998; The ″Outstanding Personality in Art″ of the International Biographical Centre award from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2014; Grand Decoration of Honour for services to the Republic of Austria, 2015; Gold medal for ″The Best Patriotic Research Scientist of the Year″, European Press and Publishing House, Azerbaijan 2015; Grand Decoration of Honour for services to the Republic of Austria, 2015; Laureate of the Humay Award, 2015; Diploma of I degree in the nomination ″Art-book″ of XIII International Competition of the CIS countries, 2016; The Presidential Order of Brilliance, Georgia, 2016; Medal of TURKSOY for contribution to the promotion of Turkic art, 2018; Shohrat Order for merits in the development of fine art in Azerbaijan, 2018; Medal of the Azerbaijani Cultural Association ″Simurg″, 2019; Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 2019; The Order of Arts and Letters, France, 2019; ″International Ataturk prize″ of the Turkic World Studies International Academy of Sciences for contribution to propaganda of Turkish world culture, Turkey, 2019; ″International Golden Star″ of the Turkic World Studies International Academy of Sciences for contribution into propaganda of Turkish culture, Turkey, 2019; Badge ″İlhamli (İnspired) Azerbaijan″ of public organization ″The Caucasus Media″ for services in the field of art, 2020; İnternational reward ″Medal of Leonard Eichler″ for the contribution into world science and culture, European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hannover, Germany, 2021; Silver medal of The Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, 2022; Medal on behalf of Nizami Ganjavi of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2022; Published works All About Still Life, Baku, 2004; All About Portrait, Baku, 2005; All About Landscape, Baku, 2006; Anthology of the Azerbaijani Painting, Baku, 2007; Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku, 2010; Folk Art of Azerbaijan, Baku, 2013; 36 books from ″Sarvat″ series dedicated to 45 prominent representatives of Azerbaijani National Art of the 20th century, Baku, 2014; The book ″Varga and Gulshah″ devoted to the miniatures of manuscript of XIII century, Baku (2021); Curator of exhibitions ″At the Turn of Centuries″, 2010; ″In Between″ - Exhibition of Austrian modern art , 2011; ″The spirit of Budo - The History of Japan's Martial Art″, 2012 ″Azerbaijani art through millenniums″, 2013; ″Russian Avant-Garde As Phenomenon in the Art of XX century″, 2015; ″French art from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art″, 2017; ″Japanese art from the collection of Azerbaijan National Museum of Art″, 2018; ″German art from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art″, 2019; ″On the Steps of Time″, 2019; Works References 1943 births Azerbaijani academicians Recipients of the Shohrat Order Living people Artists from Baku Directors of museums in Azerbaijan
Votolato is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cody Votolato (born 1982), American rock guitarist Rocky Votolato (born 1977), American singer-songwriter
Explosive City is a 2004 Hong Kong action film written, produced and directed by Sam Leong and starring Simon Yam, Alex Fong, Hisako Shirata and Sonny Chiba. Plot Macau government official Kent Yung (Joe Cheung) who arrived in Hong Kong to attend an international conference. At the Hong Kong International Airport where he was speaking to the press, he was shot thrice by a mysterious woman (Hisako Shirata) who emerged from the crowd. As havoc ensues in the airport, Special Forces superintendent Charles Cheung (Simon Yam), whose squad was in charge of protecting Yung, gives chase to the woman who eventually falls down a building as loses her memory. This assassination attempt at the airport caused a great shock to the Hong Kong police and CID chief inspector Tim Yiu (Alex Fong) was sent to assist Cheung in the investigation. After investigation, the assassin, named Jade, belongs to an international terrorist organization. According to the information, Jade was born into a happy family in Japan, but at the age of three, she was abducted by the leader of the terrorist group, Otosan (Sonny Chiba), where she was brainwashed and trained to become an elite assassin. For this assassination attempt, she snuck into airport as a reporter in order to get close to her target. While the Hong Kong police was spending great efforts solving the case, Otosan also secretly leads his organization into Hong Kong as he was unsatisfied with the previous assassination and plans to take action himself. Under his command, his underlings murder Yiu's wife, Monica (Chan Lik), and kidnap his son, Joe (Jacky Wong), in order to blackmail Yiu to killing Jade. Yiu helplessly executes Otosan's command and shoots and hijacks Jade, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, when she was being escorted by his team of CID, leading him to become a wanting criminal. While avoiding being hunted by the police, Yiu also struggles to find the whereabouts of Otosan to save his kidnapped son. While on the process of pursuing Otosan with Yiu, Jade gradually regains her memory and reveals to Yiu that Otosan has planted a mole in the police force - Cheung. However, Yiu and Jade were puzzled by the question of why Cheung did not carry out the assassination of Yung since he was in charge of protecting him for his stay in Hong Kong but Jade was chosen instead. Cast Simon Yam as Superintendent Charles Cheung Alex Fong as Chief Inspector Tim Yiu Hisako Shirata as Jade Sonny Chiba as Otosan Edwin Siu as Jack Chan Crystal Kwok as Ada Chan Samuel Pang as Glen Eddy Ko as Police Commander Fung Lam Suet as Mendosa Joe Cheung as Senior Officer Kent Yung Alexander Chan as Officer Ken Ma Zac Ko as Motoki Wong Mei-yin as Tina Chan Man-lei as Uncle Suen Lee Lam-yan as Marco Roderick Lam as Ken Johnnie Guy as Ronald Smith Law Yau-kuen as Kent Yung's secretary Jacky Wong as Joe Mark Le Gartha as Basung Kawoma Mark Zetterlund as Luther Murata Hiroki as Daiki Ho Sze-ting as Lina Chan Lik as Monica Lau Ching-lam as Hoko Mart Kamiyama Norihisa as Jade's father Risa Kosetsuki as Jade's mother Lam Kwok-kit as Smith's bodyguard Rick Smith as Macau official Kawoma as Ahmed Alan Ng as Glen's man Benjamin Yuen as Glen's man Suzuki Taukya as Otosan's man Nishimura Shin as Otosan's man Paul Logan as Otosan's man Lau Tin-lung as Otosan's man Luk Chun-kwong as Otosan's man Alex Cheng as Otosan's man Pang Wai-ming as Tom's subordinate fong Chi-kui as Tom's subordinate Woo Shui-chuen as Tom's subordinate Lau Hing-kuen as Tom's subordinate Adam Chan as Charles's subordinate Vincent Chik as Charles's subordinate Lee Miu-mak as Charles's subordinate Wong Chun-man as Otosan's bodyguard Tony Lui as Priest John Cheung as Neurologist treating Jade Ng Kim-wai as Underground doctor Che Kim-fai as Macau's special force Luk Man-wai as Macau's special force Eddie Che as Macau's special force Wong Ho-kwan as Macau's special force Wong Kin-chung as Macau's special force Cheng Wai-kei as Airport police Yip Seung-hung as Airport police Victy Wong as Special force driver Lui Siu-ming as Special force driver Joyce as Newscaster Hon Ping Reception Critical Andrew Chan of the Film Critics Circle of Australia rated the film a score of 8.75/10 and praised the film's plot and acting and director Sam Leong's original use of camera angles and shots. LoveHKFilm praises the performances of Simon Yam, Alex Fong and Hisako Shirata, the films' pacing, tone and emotions but criticizes the inconsistent language but overall, considers the film engaging. Beyond Hollywood praises the film's action sequences, but criticizes its predictable and unoriginal plot and the casting choice of Shirata. Box office The film grossed HK$346,565 during its theatrical run from 4 to 24 November 2004. References External links Explosive City at Hong Kong Cinemagic 2004 films 2004 action thriller films Hong Kong action thriller films Police detective films 2000s Cantonese-language films Films about terrorism Films about amnesia Films about assassinations Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in Hong Kong Films set in Macau Films shot in Macau 2000s Hong Kong films
Yoram Danziger (, born 1953) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel who served on the Court from 2007 to 2018. Formerly he was managing partner and co-founder of a Ramat Gan-based law firm founded in 1984 named Danziger, Klagsbald & Co. Born in Israel, Danziger served in the Israeli army from 1972 until 1975. He received his LL.B. degree with honors from Tel Aviv University in 1980, and his LL.M. Degree with honors from the same University in 1981. In 1983 he earned his PhD in law (take-over bids/tender offers) from the London School of Economics. Danziger served as co-editor of the Israeli Bar Law Review. He taught Commercial Law at the Tel Aviv University and at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. Danziger was a board member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He published numerous legal articles in Israel and in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on corporate law. In 2000 he published a book entitled 'The Right to Information about the Company'. Danziger, who was a top commercial lawyer along with his partner Avigdor Klagsbald, was appointed with no opponents on the Judicial Appointments Committee. The appointment of a private sector attorney to the Supreme Court of Israel is not a common event. References 1953 births Living people Israeli Jews Israeli lawyers Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Gregory Bernard Favors (born September 30, 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played high school football at Southside High School in Atlanta and college football at Mississippi State. Favors also played for the Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, and Jacksonville Jaguars. In 1999, the Titans made it to Super Bowl XXXIV in which Favors appeared as a substitute, however they lost to the Kurt Warner-led St. Louis Rams. References 1974 births Living people Players of American football from Atlanta American football linebackers American football defensive ends Mississippi State Bulldogs football players Kansas City Chiefs players Tennessee Titans players Indianapolis Colts players Buffalo Bills players Carolina Panthers players Jacksonville Jaguars players
King's Highway 81, also known as Highway 81, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The winding north–south route connected Highway 2 in Delaware with Highway 21 in Grand Bend, passing through Mount Brydges, Strathroy and Parkhill en route. Highway81 was first designated in 1936 and extended in 1937, and retained generally the same route throughout its existence until it was transferred to the responsibility of Middlesex County and Huron County in 1997 and 1998. Today the entire route is known as Middlesex County Road81 and Huron County Road81. Route description Highway81 once served as a connecting route between Highway2 and Highway7 before its role was largely supplanted by the completion of Highway402, which generally parallels the southern half of the route. Beginning at former Highway2 in Delaware, what is now known as Middlesex County Road81 travels west through Campbellvale, Mount Brydges and Caradoc, curving slightly to the northwest. The route travels through a large swath of farmland between Caradoc and Strathroy, the latter from which it exits to the north. After crossing Highway402 at Exit65, the highway encounters former Highway 22 at Wrightmans Corners. Continuing north, the highway takes a veering route north and west towards Parkhill, bisecting the communities of Crathie and Bornish. Immediately southeast of Parkhill, Highway81 and Highway7 shared a brief concurrency, though neither are provincial highways today. North of Parkhill, former Highway81 continues to zig-zag north and west towards Grand Bend on the shores of Lake Huron. A onekilometre (0.6mi) section of the route between Corbett and Greenway straddles the boundary of Middlesex County and Huron County. Beyond there, the final lay in the latter. The highway ends approximately onekilometre northwest of Highway21 at Government Road, a beach access road along the shoreline of Lake Huron. History Highway81 was first established by the Department of Highways (DHO) in late-1936 to connect Highway2 at Delaware and Highway22 at Strathroy. On September16, 1936, of roadway was assumed from Middlesex County by the DHO. The following year, several more roads were assumed on September1 and numbered as an extension of Highway81 to Grand Bend, bringing the highway to a length of . Originally, the mostly-gravel-surfaced highway passed through the community of Springbank via Springbank Road and Glasgow Street. However, it was relocated to the southwest in 1946 to eliminate several sharp corners along the route. It was already paved between Highway2 near Delaware and Mount Brydges, as well as between Highway7 in Parkhill and Moray when it was assumed by the DHO. Paving between Mount Brydges and Strathroy was completed by 1950; the section between Moray and Grand Bend was paved within the next two years. A short section between Strathroy and Highway22 was paved by 1954. The remainder of the route was paved by 1965, between Highway22 north of Strathroy and Highway7 east of Parkhill. In 1969, the Parkhill Dam was constructed, creating the Parkhill Reservoir. As a result of this work, Highway81 was diverted to the east, removing the slight jog at McGuffin Hills Drive. As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were decommissioned and responsibility for the routes transferred to a lower level of government, a process referred to as downloading. Highway81 was deemed to serve a local function and was transferred to Middlesex and Huron counties in two separate downloads. The section of the route between Delaware and Strathroy was transferred on April1, 1997. The remainder of the highway, between Strathroy and Grand Bend, was transferred, on January1, decommissioning the route in the process. Major intersections References 081 1936 establishments in Ontario 1998 disestablishments in Ontario
Kahur (, also Romanized as Kahūr) is a village in Sarduiyeh Rural District, Sarduiyeh District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 26 families. References Populated places in Jiroft County
Arcieri is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Leila Arcieri (born 1973), American actress, model, and businesswoman Maurizio Arcieri (1942–2015), Italian singer
The Union of Greens of Russia (UGR; ; Soyuz zelonykh Rossii, SZR) or Green Russia (; Zelonaya Rossiya) was a political party in Russia that was active from 2005 until 2006. In 2005, the organization was founded as an independent party, but in 2006, it merged with the party Yabloko as an ecological faction "Green Russia". The "Union of Greens of Russia" and the faction "Green Russia" of Yabloko were headed by professor Alexey Yablokov, the founder of Greenpeace USSR in the 1980s. The faction "Green Russia" is an associate member of the European Green Party. See also Green party Green politics List of environmental organizations Civil United Green Alternative Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" (former KEDR Party) Alliance of Greens – The People's Party (political party founded in 2012) References External links Green Russia faction Green Russia (europeangreens.eu) Green political parties in Russia Yabloko European Green Party Defunct political parties in Russia Political parties established in 2005 Political parties disestablished in 2006 2006 disestablishments in Russia 2005 establishments in Russia
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Rigan Machado (born 2 July 1966) is an 8th degree red and White belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, earning his rank under Carlos Gracie, Jr. He is a former Pan American Champion (1996, 1997 weight and absolute) and a veteran medalist of the ADCC. Machado currently teaches out of his Beverly Hills, California academy and is instructor to several Los Angeles-based celebrity students. Biography Machado was born in Rio de Janeiro, and is one of five brothers in the Machado family. He began training at the age of five with his cousins, "The Gracie Family". In an interview, when asked about his exact relationship with the Gracies, he said: "My mother's sister married the founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Carlos Gracie." Machado was awarded the first black belt under Gracie Barra founder Carlos Gracie Jr. and is one of the original teachers who taught in the garage of Rorion Gracie in the early days of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in America. He also trained with his other cousins such Rickson Gracie, Rorion Gracie, Rillion Gracie, his uncle Carlos Gracie Sr, and his brothers. At one point in 1986, he even publicly competed against Rickson Gracie at a Jiu-Jitsu competition in one of the earliest public matches between members of the family. He is widely regarded as one of the top competitors in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu history. He also competed and won many tournaments in judo, sambo, and wrestling. In Sambo he was placed second at the 198 lbs division, and third at the open class of the 1993 Pan American Sambo Championships in Chula Vista; and at some point between 1990 and 1994, he was seen submitting several Judo black belts in at least one Judo competition at the West Covina Dojo. Instructor lineage Kanō Jigorō → Tomita Tsunejirō → Mitsuyo "Count Koma" Maeda → Hélio Gracie → Rolls Gracie & Carlos "Carlinhos" Gracie Jr → Rigan Machado As an instructor Machado currently teaches at his school, "The Academy Beverly Hills", located in Beverly Hills, California. He is also the commissioner of Jiu Jitsu World League. Due to the location of his gym, many students of his gym are celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Vin Diesel, Wiz Khalifa, Bryan Callen, and Charlie Hunnam. See also List of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners References External links Rigan Machado Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association BJJ Legends Magazine Video Interviews with Rigan BJJ Legends Magazine Interview (Portuguese) Machado brothers BJJ victoire Sambo Pan-American 1993 – Dailymotion Brazilian jiu-jitsu trainers Living people Sportspeople from Redondo Beach, California 1966 births Rigan Martial arts trainers People awarded a coral belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
The individual All-Around competition of the rhythmic gymnastics events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on October 15 at the Nissan Gymnastics Stadium. The draw for the competition took place on August 1, 2011 in Guadalajara. The defending Pan American Games champion was Lisa Wang of the United States, while the defending Pan American Championship, champion was Julie Zetlin also of the United States. Schedule All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6). Results References Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games 2011 in women's gymnastics
Robert Leonard Arber (born 13 January 1951) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender. Arber was born on 13 January 1951 in Poplar, London. He started his footballing career as a youth player with Arsenal before joining Leyton Orient in March 1968. He made 28 League appearances for Orient in the 1972-73 season but could not tie down a place in the first team and went to Southend United on loan, and then to play in South Africa. After retiring from playing, he worked as a coach at Barking and Woodford Town, and managed Barking between January 1985 and December 1986. He later worked as a youth coach at Tottenham Hotspur and a full-time scout at Arsenal. Personal life Arber is the father of former footballer Mark Arber. References General . Retrieved 31 October 2013. NASLJerseys profile. Retrieved 31 October 2013. Specific 1951 births Living people Footballers from Poplar, London English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Arsenal F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players Southend United F.C. players Tooting & Mitcham United F.C. players Barking F.C. players English Football League players English expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Sacramento Gold (1976–1980) players American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Atlanta Chiefs players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players English football managers Barking F.C. managers English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff
The Five storied stone pagoda of Jeongnimsa Temple site () is a five-story pagoda standing on a single narrow and low base pedestal. It was built in the Baekje Era. Origin On the first floor of this stone pagoda, it is referred to as the Pyeongsung Tower of Baekje. Recently, a tile engraved with the temple name Jungrimsa was found at this temple site and the site was named Jeongnimsa Temple Site. Configuration Each pedestal is fixed by a pillar stone. Each corner of the pagoda body in each story holds a pillar stone using the beheullim technique, where a pillar's upper and lower extremities are narrow while its middle is convex. Thin and wide roof stones covering the edges of the eaves display what is described as "lofty elegance." Value It is valued in that it shows refined and creative figures as well as the typical form of a wooden building like a thin pedestal, with pillars exhibiting the beheullim technique and thin and wide roof stones. The pagoda is also highly valued as one of the two last remaining stone pagodas from the Baekje Era. Characteristics The surface of the stone pagoda is engraved with Chinese characters celebrating the victory of the Tang dynasty over Baekje in 660, indicating the symbolic importance of its location for Baekje. It was carved into the pagoda itself by the commanding Tang general who defeated Baekje once and for all during the Baekje–Tang War. The Tang dynasty and Silla kingdom joined forces to destroy Baekje. See also National Treasures of South Korea Baekje Korean Buddhist sculpture Korean Buddhism References External links Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea Korean pagodas Stone pagodas Buildings and structures in South Chungcheong Province National Treasures of South Korea Three Kingdoms of Korea Tourist attractions in South Chungcheong Province Pagodas in South Korea
Lazlo Woodbine is a fictional character in some of Robert Rankin's novels. He is generally portrayed as a metafictional character, being in the novels themselves the creation of mystery writer P.P. Penrose and described by himself as the last of the nineteen-fifties private detectives. Physical Appearance Throughout his appearances, Lazlo Woodbine has never been specifically described barring his traditional attire of a trenchcoat and fedora, with all his stories being narrated in the first person. According to the character himself, this lack of description allows readers to picture Lazlo as anyone they care to imagine, thus imposing their own face or that of their hero onto Woodbine, and allowing them to feel more like they are part of the story. Lazlo's Rules In any Lazlo Woodbine story, Lazlo commonly begins his appearance by explaining that he goes through the novel in his trenchcoat and fedora, armed with his trusty Smith & Wesson (whose name is constantly mispronounced for no apparent reason other than a desire to do so), and only ever works four locations, regarding these four as the maximum number that a truly great private detective requires. These locations are: Lazlo's office, where he is hired by his clients; Fangio's bar, where he talks toot with Fangio the fat barman and is subsequently knocked on the head by the dame that does him wrong; An alleyway, where Lazlo gets into sticky situations that involve him having to shoot somebody; The final rooftop showdown, where, after a climatic confrontation, Lazlo sends the villain plunging to oblivion in the final chapter. Throughout the novels, Lazlo avoids explicitly describing any of these four settings, thus allowing him to use them for multiple locations, such as arguing that any occasions where he is in an office feature him being inside his office as they all look alike. However, in any of Rankin's novel where he plays a long-term role, Lazlo commonly finds his way around his four-set rule to move from location to location, such as closing his eyes while travelling from the alley to the rooftop – thus avoiding actually seeing anything, and hence not breaking the rule – or assuming another persona altogether to account for the travel time. The only occasion where Woodbine has clearly violated his four-set-rule was in Armageddon III, when he briefly shared a bedroom with Rex Mundi and a two-headed baby that had been abducted and experimented on by aliens. According to Woodbine, when reading one of his novels the reader can always expect a lot of gratuitous sex and violence, a trail of corpses, no small degree of name mispronunciation – characters commonly pronounce his name wrong, calling him everything from Woodlouse to Woodstock – and enough trenchcoat humour and ludicrous catchphrases to carry you through a month of rainy Thursdays. (Although some novels point out that the sex would be difficult given that Woodbine's four scenes lack a bedroom.) "Metafictional" Status Unlike most characters in Robert Rankin's work, who appear at inconsistent times and places but are nevertheless consistently the same person, Lazlo Woodbine's status as a real person is often questionable, with most of his appearances explicitly referring to his status as a character in fiction, and his appearance in the novel being simply an artificial creation (The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag) or simply the result of an individual suffering from delusions (Waiting for Godalming). Only in The Suburban Book of the Dead (Armageddon III: The Remake) has Lazlo Woodbine explicitly appeared as a real person, and even then he came from an alternate future and travelled back into the past to investigate a case (aided by Barry the Time Sprout). List of Appearances To date, Lazlo Woodbine – or some variation of him – has appeared in the following novels; The Suburban Book of the Dead (Armageddon III: The Remake) (working alongside Rex Mundi and Barry the Time Sprout The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (appears as a fictional character in a VR simulation that the main character is trapped in; results in some brief confusion as both characters are attempting to simultaneously write the story in the first person until they agree to allow Lazlo to do so) Waiting for Godalming (revealed over the course of the novel to be the 'barking mad' brother to the novel's main character of Icarus Smith, although Woodbine passes off his temporary assumption of the idiot brother identity as a means of allowing him to travel through the streets to the building where the final rooftop showdown will take place) Fandom of the Operator (The "real" Lazlo Woodbine briefly appears in the afterlife, complaining about his fictional namesake's treatment by the author) The Brightonomicon (Rizla – later revealed to be Jim Pooley of The Brentford Trilogy – dresses as Lazlo to tackle The Curious Case of the Woodingdean Chameleon in Hugo Rune's absence) Necrophenia (Lazlo takes centre stage in the 30th novel by Robert Rankin, although by means of the assumed identity device used in previous novels. The real LB does make a cameo appearance though.) Fictional private investigators
Vysotsky Monastery () is a walled Russian Orthodox monastery commanding the high left bank of the Nara River in Serpukhov, about 2 km from its confluence with the Oka. Its name stems from the Russian word for "heights". The monastery was founded in the 1370s by Vladimir the Bold and long served as a border fortress defending the southern approaches to Moscow from the Tatars. The first hegumen, Afanasy the Elder, was a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, whose successor, St. Nikon of Radonezh, is believed to have been tonsured a monk in this monastery. After the Russo–Crimean War (1571), which saw the monastery reduced to ashes, it was restored on a grander scale. The five-domed Cathedral of the Conception dates from that building campaign, financed by Ivan the Terrible. The cathedral was almost certainly preceded by a medieval limestone church of which little is known. In the mid-17th century the monastery was fortified with stone walls and four corner towers. It rivalled the Vladychny Monastery as the most important shrine of Serpukhov and welcomed rich patrons wishing to be buried within the monastery walls. Among those buried there are Gavrila Golovkin, the Chancellor of Peter the Great, and Fyodor Soimonov, the Governor of Siberia. The Neoclassical belfry was completed in the 1840s. The monastery celebrated its 500th anniversary with the construction of the All Saints church, designed by Roman Klein in a fashionable Neo-Byzantine style. The church was destroyed after the Russian Revolution, when the monastery was given over to the Latvian Riflemen to be used as barracks. By the end of the Soviet period the monastery had lost most of its walls and was very dilapidated. Restoration work on one of the greatest monasteries of the Moscow region started immediately after its return to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991. Repairs were made in the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, dating from the 17th century and containing an icon screen and royal doors from the 16th century. Reconstruction of the missing sections of the wall is in prospect. The modern monastery derives its prosperity from the venerated copy of the icon of the Inexhaustible Chalice, which attracts hundreds of pilgrims from all over Russia and abroad. The icon was brought to the monastery from the Vladychny Convent (also in Serpukhov) and is said to be particularly effective in the treatment of alcoholism. References External links Official monastery website Aerial view of monastery Russian Orthodox monasteries in Russia 1373 establishments in Europe 14th-century establishments in Russia Buildings and structures in Moscow Oblast Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow Oblast
Ferdinand Maria (31 October 1636 – 26 May 1679) was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. The elector modernized the army and introduced Bavaria's first government code. Besides encouraging agriculture and industry, he also improved building and restoration works on churches and monasteries since the damage caused during the Thirty Years' War. Electoral Prince of Bavaria He was born in Munich. He was the eldest son of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (whom he succeeded), and his second wife, Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of the emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. Born during the reign of his father, he was known as the Electoral Prince from birth. Through his mother, he was a first cousin of Queen Mariana of Spain as well as Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. On 8 December 1650, he married Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, daughter of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and Christine Marie of France. The couple had seven children, only two of whom would have offspring. Elector Still a minor when he succeeded his father in 1651, his mother became his guardian and his uncle, Albert VI of Bavaria served as Prince Administrator of Bavaria for three years. Ferdinand Maria was crowned on 31 October 1654. His absolutistic style of leadership became a benchmark for the rest of Germany. Though Ferdinand Maria allied with France, he abstained from the imperial crown in 1657 after the death of his uncle Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor to avoid conflict with the House of Habsburg. Ferdinand Maria supported the wars of the Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire with Bavarian auxiliary forces (1662–1664). Under his leadership, Bavaria was officially neutral during the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678). Plans for a Bavarian colony near New York were discussed but soon abandoned. The marriage of his eldest daughter Maria Anna Victoria and her cousin le Grand Dauphin in 1680 was the outcome of the Bavarian alliance with France. Ferdinand Maria was the great grandfather of French monarch King Louis XV. Ferdinand Maria modernized the Bavarian army and introduced the first Bavarian local government code. The elector did much indeed to repair the wounds caused by the Thirty Years' War, encouraging agriculture and industries, and building or restoring numerous churches and monasteries. In 1669, moreover, he again called a meeting of the diet, which had been suspended since 1612. The electorate he left with a very wealthy treasury. He died at the Old Schleissheim Palace and was succeeded by his son Maximilian II Emanuel. He was buried in the crypt of the Theatiner Church in Munich. Cultural legacy Ferdinand Maria married Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy in 1650; and with her, the Italian Baroque was introduced in Bavaria. The Theatiner Church in Munich was built from 1663 onwards as a gesture of thanks for the birth of the long-awaited heir to the Bavarian crown, Prince Maximilian II Emanuel. After that in 1664, Ferdinand Maria and his wife commissioned the building of the Baroque style Nymphenburg Palace near Munich based on the designs of Italian architect Agostino Barelli. Lake Starnberg was purchased by Ferdinand Maria from the Horwarth family and it became the venue of numerous festivities of the court with the famous fleet of Venetian Gondolas. On the lake's shores, he ordered the construction of Berg Castle in 1676. The castle was used for festivities there and later reached its zenith when it became the scene of spectacular entertainments and hunts under the rule of his successors, Maximilian Emanuel and Emperor Charles VII. For the Munich Residenz, Ferdinand Maria ordered the creation of the Papal Rooms. Issue Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (28 November 1660 – 20 April 1690) married Louis, Dauphin of France, and had issue. Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (11 July 1662 – 26 February 1726); married Maria Antonia of Austria and had issue; married Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska and had issue. Luise Margarete Antonie of Bavaria (18 September 1663 – 10 November 1665) died in infancy. Ludwig Amadeus Victor of Bavaria (6 April 1665 – 11 December 1665) died in infancy. Stillborn son (4 August 1666). Kajetan Maria Franz of Bavaria (2 May 1670 – 7 December 1670) died in infancy. Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (5 December 1671 – 12 November 1723) Elector and Archbishop of Cologne died unmarried. Violante Beatrix of Bavaria (3 April 1673 – 3 June 1731) married Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany and died childless. In addition, the Electress suffered three miscarriages: in June 1661, March 1664 and 1674. Ancestors References 1636 births 1679 deaths 17th-century prince-electors of Bavaria Nobility from Munich House of Wittelsbach Modern child monarchs Burials at the Theatine Church, Munich Imperial vicars
Lieutenant General Richard Phillip Klocko (February 26, 1915 – April 19, 2011) was an American Air Force lieutenant general and command pilot who was director, Defense Communications Agency, Washington, D.C. Biography Klocko was born in Dunkirk, New York, in 1915. He graduated from Dunkirk High School in 1933, received a congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy and graduated from there in 1937. After graduation, he completed primary and advanced flying training in October 1938. The general's first assignment in the Army Air Corps was a -year tour with the 36th Pursuit Squadron, Langley Field, Va. In January 1941, he was transferred to the 36th Pursuit Group at Losey Field, Puerto Rico, where he served until June 1942. At that time he was reassigned to England where he served in the Headquarters European Theater of Operations until October 1942. In October 1942, he was assigned to command the 350th Fighter Group being formed in England. Klocko readied the unit, equipped with P-39 fighters, for combat and moved to North Africa to support the invasion. In February 1943, while on a special mission over enemy lines, dropping messages to isolated units, he was taken a prisoner of war. For this special mission, Klocko received the Silver Star from the commanding general of the 1st Armored Division. He remained a prisoner of war in Germany until April 1945. Following the end of the war, Klocko was assigned to the War Department General Staff, Washington, D.C., from August 1945 to October 1947. He was then appointed chief, Supplemental Research Branch, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. From August 1949 to July 1950 Klocko attended the Air War College, and from July 1950 until July 1952, he served both as an instructor and member of the Air War College faculty. Klocko remained at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., until July 1954 serving as a member of the Graduate Study Group, working on policy and doctrine for Air Force operations. Klocko was then assigned to the U.S. Air Force Security Service, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, as deputy chief of staff operations. He served in this capacity until June 30, 1955, when he was reassigned as chief of staff, U.S. Air Force Security Service, a position he held until July 1956. During these assignments, he received the Legion of Merit for his contribution to the Security Service mission. In July 1956, Klocko was appointed commander, 6900th Security Wing, Frankfurt, Germany. He commanded the wing until August 1960. During this assignment he was promoted to brigadier general. In August 1960, Klocko was reassigned as deputy commander, U.S. Air Force Security Service. He was promoted to major general in January 1962 and became commander of U.S. Air Force Security Service on Sept. 1, 1962. His decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster. Died on April 19, 2011, in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, He was buried at the West Point Cemetery. References 1915 births 2011 deaths American prisoners of war in World War II Air War College alumni Burials at West Point Cemetery United States Air Force generals Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Recipients of the Air Medal Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Silver Star People from Dunkirk, New York United States Military Academy alumni
Clarence McNair (born 30 November 1977) is an American writer and former Motown recording artist known by the stage name KD of the male R&B group "Prophet Jones". McNair quit his R&B career after losing his record label deal with Universal Motown Records in 2000s and later became a successful writer and entrepreneur. Background and career McNair was born and raised in East Baltimore MD. He attended Patterson High school. McNair started his R&B career with Prophet Jones before leaving to record his first album. He lost a record label deal for his second album in 2002 and suffered anxiety and panic attacks for several years. After evolving from this, McNair wrote his first book Give It One More Try to share his experience and help depressed people. This was followed with other books including The Black Father Perspective: What we want America to know and Blessings In Uncertain Times: God Is Always Present which is a number one selling book in prayer book category on Amazon. References American writers Writers from Baltimore American motivational writers 1977 births Living people
"Dad" is episode 10 of season 3 in the television show Angel. After Darla sacrifices herself to save her baby, Angel takes the newborn back to the hotel where he tries to be a good father to his child. But Angel and the gang's problems multiply when they are trapped at the hotel by several groups of enemies, including vampire cults, demon cults and satanic humans, bent on kidnapping his infant son. After brushing off Sahjhan, Holtz goes about Los Angeles recruiting new help for his quest to kill Angel by hiring humans whose families were also victims of vampires, starting with one bitter, working-class woman, named Justine Cooper, as his right-hand person and recruiter. Plot The gang returns with the baby after purchasing supplies for him to find the hotel a mess. Lorne announces he'll be moving in on account of Caritas being destroyed yet again. Although everyone adores the baby and wants to hold him, Angel is paternally attached to his son and holds him overprotectively, keeping everyone at bay. Angel struggles with parental duty when he cleans a cut on his son's face, while the rest of the gang plan to keep the baby safe from the inevitable attackers looking to steal and kill him. A demon barges into the hotel but is quickly killed by Gunn and Wesley. Angel realizes his son is crying because he needs to be changed and attempts to change the diaper on Wesley's desk. Back at the underground lair, Sahjhan complains about Holtz's refusal to kill Angel, but Holtz is content with his behavior. They discuss Darla's pregnancy and suicide, and Holtz goes on about his plans despite Sahjhan's insistence that Angel just be staked quickly to stick with the prophecies. Sahjhan's temper rises as he discovers that Holtz poisoned all of his hired demon minions. Holtz explains he doesn't need mercenaries but soldiers who believe in his cause. While the Furies set up a mystical barrier around the Hyperion Hotel, Angel continues to care for his fussy child and Cordelia and Fred investigate the demon websites offering bounties for the baby. Cordelia informs Angel that the newborn needs to see a doctor, and that he can't do everything for his child - for example, be outside in the sun - and needs to accept their help. While watching the hotel via their spy cameras, the lawyers at Wolfram & Hart ponder how Angel's baby could have been born despite the prophecy's translation stating it would not happen (Lilah explains that because Darla staked herself, leaving the baby, that the child was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped"). Meanwhile, Angel can't get his son to stop crying until he changes to his vampire visage, which fascinates the baby enough to stop him from crying before Angel playfully makes silly noises to him, and thus provides the baby the attention he desires from him. In attempts to discover Holtz's identity, Lilah has "Files and Records," a W&H employee with near-infinite total recall, retrieve information about how Angelus and Darla killed Holtz's entire family back in the 18th century. Holtz tracks a young woman named Justine, whose twin sister was killed by a vampire six months before. She had been killing vampires on her own since then, and Holtz offers to be her mentor. Gunn returns with weapons and news of the crowd forming outside waiting to break the barrier and claim the child. The Lilliad demons outside chant and break down the barrier around the hotel while inside, the gang prepares to defend themselves and retreat if necessary. Angel decides to leave with the baby, as Wolfram & Hart watch on television screens. They send their teams out to get the baby from him. The gang ready themselves for the attack as the barrier is broken down and demons are free to enter. Angel escapes through the sewers and drives away in his car. While the gang disposes of the demons and vampires who enter the hotel with a flame-thrower, Angel drives to an abandoned mine shaft. His pursuers demand the child, and surprisingly Angel throws it to them as he escapes to the surface. The demons unwrap the child to find that it's actually a teddy bear with a ticking time bomb strapped to it - the bomb destroys them and the mine shaft, as Cordelia, Wesley and Fred take the baby to the hospital for care. At Wolfram & Hart, Linwood examines footage from the hotel and discovers a moment when Lorne slipped Angel a note into his coat and in the conversation, identifies a location where Angel could read the note without being seen by the cameras. Earlier, Lorne heard a humming noise and concluded that the gang was being spied upon. The vampire alarm goes off, and Angel barges in and attacks Linwood with a knife, giving him a cut equal to the one on his child's cheek. Angel promises that any harm that comes to his son will be equally repaid to Linwood. As appointed "godfather," Linwood is given the job of keeping everyone and everything away from the vampire's child unless he looks forward to revenge at Angel's hands; in addition, he threatens Linwood for his son's college funds; Angel hopes to see his son graduate at University of Notre Dame. At the hospital, the doctors report that the baby is healthy, and Angel shows up in time to announce the name of his son, Connor. Gunn arrives with a stroller, and the gang head home where they hope to be safe for a while. Production Angel's son Connor - a traditional Irish name meaning 'counsellor' - is played by a set of identical triplets, Connor Hanley, Jake Matthew and Trenton Lee Tupen, so that no individual baby would have to be on set for too long. They were born on August 9, 2001, at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center to Julie and Matt Tupen. Continuity One of the names on the list of potential threats is The Scourge, the group of demons that appeared in "Hero". Justine makes her first appearance on the show and joins forces with Holtz and Sahjhan. Connor is named at the end of this episode. The Angel Investigations team discovers they are being watched by surveillance equipment. References Further reading John Kenneth Muir. The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television (2nd edn), p. 65 (McFarland; 2008) External links Angel (season 3) episodes 2001 American television episodes
KBSV (channel 23) is a non-commercial independent television station licensed to Ceres, California, United States, broadcasting Assyrian programming to the southern portion of the Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto market. Owned by Bet-Nahrain, Inc. it is a sister station to KBES radio (89.5 FM). The two stations share studios at the Bet-Nahrain Assyrian Cultural Center on South Central Avenue in Ceres; KBSV's transmitter is located atop Mount Oso in western Stanislaus County. Even though KBSV is licensed as a full-power station, its broadcast radius is comparable to that of a low-power station, only extending about from its transmitter. It is only carried on cable in the Stockton, Modesto, Sonora and Turlock areas (primarily on channel 15), and is not available on DirecTV or Dish Network. KBSV was the first Assyrian television station in the world, and began broadcasting on April 14, 1996. It began webcasting 24 hours a day in 1997. Subchannel See also ANB SAT Suroyo TV Suryoyo Sat Ishtar TV References External links BSV Aramaic-language television channels Assyrian-American culture in California Ceres, California Television channels and stations established in 1996 1996 establishments in California
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (; ; c. AD 27 – 66; sometimes Titus Petronius Niger) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era (54–68 AD). He is one of the most important characters in Henryk Sienkiewicz' historical novel Quo Vadis (1895). Leo Genn portrays him in the 1951 film of the same name. Life A reference to Petronius by Sidonius Apollinaris places him and/or his Satyricon in Massalia (ancient Marseille). He might have been born and educated there. Tacitus, Plutarch and Pliny the Elder describe Petronius as the elegantiae arbiter (also phrased arbiter elegantiarum), "judge of elegance", in the court of the emperor Nero. He served as suffect consul in 62. Later, he became a member of the senatorial class who devoted himself to a life of pleasure. His relationship to Nero was apparently akin to that of a fashion advisor. Tacitus gives this account of Petronius in his historical work the Annals (XVI.18): None of the ancient sources give any further detail about his life, or mention that he was a writer. However, a medieval manuscript written around 1450 of the Satyricon credited a "Titus Petronius" as the author of the original work. Traditionally, this reference is linked with Petronius Arbiter, since the novel appears to have been written or at least set during his lifetime. The link, however, remains speculative and disputed. As a writer Petronius' development of his characters in the Satyricon, namely Trimalchio, transcends the traditional style of writing of ancient literature. In the literature written during Petronius' lifetime, the emphasis was always on the typical considerations of plot, which had been laid down by classical rules. The character, which was hardly known in ancient literature, was secondary. Petronius goes beyond these literary limitations in his exact portrayals of detailed speech, behaviour, surroundings, and appearance of the characters. Another literary device Petronius employs in his novel is a collection of specific allusions. The allusions to certain people and events are evidence that the Satyricon was written during Nero's time. These also suggest that it was aimed at a contemporary audience which consisted in part of Nero's courtiers and even Nero himself. One such allusion, found in chapter 9, refers to the story of the good wife Lucretia which was well known at the time: The message Petronius tries to convey in his work is far from moral and does not intend to produce reform, but is written above all to entertain and should be considered artistically. Nevertheless, his writings can be a valuable tool to better comprehend the customs and ways of life of Roman society at that particular time, since the author strives to preserve the plausibility of his representation, as can be noted by the frequent use of allusions and detailed descriptions of characters and behaviours. As the title implies, the Satyricon is a satire, specifically a Menippean satire, in which Petronius satirizes nearly anything, using his taste as the only standard. It is speculated that Petronius' depiction of Trimalchio mirrors that of Nero. Although the author's own opinion is never alluded to, the opinions of the characters involved in the story are evident, as is how Encolpius criticizes Trimalchio. Death Petronius' high position soon made him the object of envy for those around him. Having attracted the jealousy of Tigellinus, the commander of the emperor's guard, he was accused of treason. He was arrested at Cumae in 65 AD but did not wait for a sentence. Instead, he chose to take his own life. Tacitus again records his elegant suicide in the sixteenth book of the Annals: According to Pliny the Elder: "T. Petronius, a consular, when he was going to die through Nero's jealousy and envy, broke his fluorspar wine-dipper so that the emperor's table would not inherit it. It had cost 300,000 sesterces". T. Petronius and G. Petronius have been said to have been the same man. See also Asteroid 3244 Petronius, named after the satirist Glossarium Eroticum Supplements to the Satyricon Notes Further reading Breitenstein, Natalie, Petronius, Satyrica 1–15. Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar (2009. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter) (Texte und Kommentare, 32). Conte, Gian Biagio, The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon (1997. Berkeley: University of California Press). Connors, Catherine, Petronius the Poet: Verse and Literary Tradition in the Satyricon (1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Habermehl, Peter, Petronius, Satyrica 79–141. Ein philologisch–literarischer Kommentar. Band I: Satyrica 79–110. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2006. Habermehl, Peter, Petronius, Satyrica 79–141. Ein philologisch–literarischer Kommentar. Band II: Satyrica 111–118. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2020. Habermehl, Peter, Petronius, Satyrica 79–141. Ein philologisch–literarischer Kommentar. Band III: Bellum civile (Sat. 119–124). Berlin: de Gruyter. 2021. Jensson, Gottskalk, The Recollections of Encolpius. The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction (2004. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing and Groningen University Library) (Ancient narrative Suppl. 2). Prag, Jonathan and Ian Repath (eds), Petronius: A Handbook (2009. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell). Reeve, Michael D. 1983. Petronius. In Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics. Edited by Leighton D. Reynolds, 295–300. Oxford: Clarendon. Repath, Ian. 2010. "Plato in Petronius: Petronius in Platanona". The Classical Quarterly, 60(2), new series, 577–595. Rose, Kenneth F. C. 1971. "The Date and Author of the Satyricon". Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Supplementum 16. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill. Schmeling, Gareth. 2011. A Commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Slater, Niall W. 1990. Reading Petronius. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Sullivan, John P. 1985. "Petronius' Satyricon and its Neronian Context". In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neuren Forschung, Vol. II, Part 32.3. Edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 1666–1686. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Vannini, Giulio, Petronius 1975–2005: bilancio critico e nuove proposte (2007. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) (Lustrum, 49). Vannini, Giulio, Petronii Arbitri Satyricon 100–115. Edizione critica e commento (2010. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter) (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 281). External links Works by Petronius at Perseus Digital Library Latin text of the Satyricon from The Latin Library Petronii satirae et liber priapeorum, iterum edidit Franciscus Buecheler, adiectae sunt Varronis et Senecae satirae similesque reliquiae, Berolini apud Weidmannos, 1871. 20s births Year of birth uncertain 66 deaths Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome Suicides in Ancient Rome Classical Latin novelists Ancient Roman poets Silver Age Latin writers Suicides by sharp instrument in Italy 1st-century Romans 1st-century writers Ancient Roman satirists Petronii Ancient Massaliotes
Swisher Sweets is a cigar brand manufactured by Swisher, formerly Swisher International Inc. Their headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida was established in 1959. Swisher Sweets cigars were first introduced in 1958 and are now available in varying tastes and blends. Lawsuit Swisher Sweets was involved in a lawsuit in 2016 in which Swisher International was fined $84.6 million for anticompetitive business practices. Products Swisher Sweets products include: Swisher Sweets Classics: Available in different blend including Original, Diamonds, Green Sweets, Mango, Black, Strawberry, Grape, Peach, Blueberry, Chocolate and Tropical Fusion. Swisher Sweets Encore Edition: Blends include Sticky Sweets, Banana Smash, Wild Rush, Arctic Ice, and White Grape. Swisher Sweets Limited Edition: Only available for a limited time in blends including Sweet Cream, Swerve, Coastal Cocktail, Coco Blue, Boozy Watermelon, Maui Pineapple, Cherry Dynamite and Purple Swish. Swisher Sweets Minis: Available in blends including Original, Green Sweets, Diamonds, Island Bash, Sticky Sweets, Grape, Tropical Storm, and Blueberry. Swisher Sweets BLK: Flavors include Smooth, Grape, Cherry, Berry, and Wine. Swisher Sweets: Available in Original, Mellow, Sweet Cherry, Grape, Peach, Full Blend, and Menthol. References External links A Look Back: Jacksonville-based Swisher International Swisher International Swisher International Looks Toward 'Record Growth' With Internal Moves Swisher Wins Three FCMA Awards Swisher Reaches Sesquicentennial Cigar brands
Shchuchye Ozero () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Shchuchye Ozerskoye Rural Settlement, Oktyabrsky District, Perm Krai, Russia. The population was 1,652 as of 2010. There are 28 streets. Geography Shchuchye Ozero is located 46 km west of Oktyabrsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Melnikovsky is the nearest rural locality. References Rural localities in Perm Krai
Epidemas obscurus is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. The MONA or Hodges number for Epidemas obscurus is 10003. References Further reading Xylenini Articles created by Qbugbot Moths described in 1903
```c++ #include <cstdio> using namespace std; int n; double a[15][15], s[15]; void gaussian_elimination() { for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { for (int k = n; k >= i; k--) { a[j][k] -= a[i][k] * (a[j][i] / a[i][i]); } } } for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) { double b = a[i][n]; for (int j = n - 1; j > i; j--) { b -= a[i][j] * s[j]; } s[i] = b / a[i][i]; } } int main() { scanf("%d", &n); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) { scanf("%lf", &a[i][j]); } scanf("%lf", &a[i][n]); } gaussian_elimination(); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { printf("x[%d] = %.2lf\n", i, s[i]); } return 0; } ```
Gangolihat is a town in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, India. It is the headquarters of an eponymous tehsil ~ one of the 12 revenue subdivisions of the Pithorarh district. It is said that here Adi Shankaracharya did penance to please Adi Shakti. Gangolihat is known for its Shakti Peeth of Haat Kalika Temple - Adi Shakti and Destroyer of Demon's. History Being situated between the Saryu Ganga and Ram Ganga rivers, the region where Gangolihat is situated was earlier called Gangavali, which got corrupted to Gangoli over the course of time. Gangolihat was the primary market and main trading center of this Gangoli region. Before the thirteenth century, this region was under the rule of the Katyuri kings. Around the thirteenth century, Gangolihat came under the rule of the Mankoti kings, who had their capital at Mankot. In Janhavi naula at Gangolihat belonging to 1264 A.D. there is a piece of stone with the names of the Gangoli kings and also records an inscription about a possible invasion of Mankot by the Delhi Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah. On the piece of stone of 1352, found in the temple of Baijnath, is written that the kings of Gangoli (Hamirdeo, Lingarajdeo, Dharaldeo) built the kalash of the temple. The kingdom of Gangoli was invaded by the Chand king, Balo Kalyan Chand, in the 16th century. Following its defeat, Mankot was merged into the Kumaon Kingdom. In the nineteenth century, Gangoli was made a pargana of Almora district, and the pargana headquarters were established in Gangolihat town itself. Geography Gangolihat is located at . It has an average elevation of 1,760 metres (5,773 feet). It is 78 km from Pithoragarh. The main town is at a hill top. The region is surrounded by two rivers Saryu and Ramganga. Which meet at Ghat at the foothill of the region. These two rivers make it like a Garland on the shoulders of mighty Himalaya. These two rivers gave the name to the region Gang (River in Kumaoni) + Awali (Garland) making Gangawali which became Gangoli later on. and Hat were the main markets/ gathering place for local people in past. Which made the name of Gangolihat. Gangolihat is native of Mehta, Pant, Karki, Kothari, Bhatt's(at Futsil&balatari), Joshi's, Khati, Gusain, Upreti's, Pathak's, Pargai and Mahara. Dhanik, Negi's, Bisht, Rawal's, Verma's, Shah, Bora, Dasoni and Aryas are other major surnames found. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India, Gangolihat town is spread over an area of 7 sq km and has a population of 7,112. Gangolihat has an average literacy rate of 74.11%. Places of interest Gangolihat is the site of a number of ancient temples and caves, including the templates of 'Haat Kalika'in the east, 'Ambika Dewaal'in North, 'Chamunda Mandir to the west' and 'Vaishnavi Mandir'. From 'Vaishnavi Mandir' it is possible to clearly view the Himalayas. This temple is situated on a mountain that was called 'Shail Parvat', which is written in Hindu holy books. The caves in Gangolihaat include 'Patal Bhuvneshwar' (पाताल भुवनेश्वर), 'Shailashwer Gufa' and 'Mukteshwar Gufa'. A cave has also been recently found and that is called 'Bholeshwar Gufa'. The peak Bhurgottam near village Mallagrkha is famous as place of Bhrigu who was one of the seven great sages, The Saptarshis.. Patal Bhuvneshwar cave is believed to be the abode of 33 crore Gods and Goddesses. 'Haat Kalika Mandir' was built by Adi Guru Sankaracharya for installation of one of the Shakti Peethas. It is believed that the goddess Kalika Mata, who is thought to reside in West Bengal, moved from West Bengal to North (Gangolihat). Posthumous Param Veer Chakra award winner Captain Bikram Batra was a great devotee of the goddess. The goddess Mahakali is the designated goddess of the Kumauon Regiment. The Kumaon regiment has created an Army Rest House near the Temple for Army Personnel, who come Gangolihat to get the blessing of Goddess. Several dharamshalas and gates have been built by kumaun regiment. There are historical monuments made during 8-11th century near the temple. Which is a site preserved by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). It depicts the nervelessness of the artistic creation at that time. And there is a source of water called janhvi nohla, its water comes from an oak tree. Its water believed so much pure. The highest peak in the range, Lamkeshwar which is a temple of Lord Shiva, The view of greenery rich valleys of Kumaun Himalayas from this hilltop is memorable and heavenly. It has always been a great trekking site. References External links Tourism in Uttarakhand Hill stations in Uttarakhand Cities and towns in Pithoragarh district
Air Headquarters Levant (AHQ Levant) was a command of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) established on 1 December 1941, by renaming the command known as H.Q. RAF Palestine and Transjordan. It controlled RAF units in the Mandate of Palestine and in the Emirate of Transjordan. Prior to being disbanded on 27 July 1948, Air H.Q. Levant was a sub-command of RAF Middle East Command and its successors. RAF Middle East Command became a sub-command of the Mediterranean Air Command in February 1943. An AHQ Levant was reformed on 1 May 1955 when AHQ Iraq was renamed AHQ Levant as an interim measure following a new agreement with the Iraq Government for the defence of Iraq and use by the RAF of bases in Iraq. On 1 December 1955 AHQ Levant started to transfer from RAF Habbaniya to Cyprus (probably RAF Nicosia) and on 15 January 1956, when the move was complete, AHQ Cyprus and AHQ Levant were amalgamated as AHQ Levant. AHQ Levant was disbanded, 1 Apr 1958. Orders of battle (1941-1945) H.Q RAF Palestine and Transjordan 11 November 1941 Air Commodore Leslie Brown No. 259 Wing No. 263 Wing Air H.Q. Levant 27 October 1942 Group Capt Herbert Mermagen No. 1438 Flight, Bristol Blenheims No. 1413 Flight (Met.), Gloster Gladiators No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF (Detachment), Hawker Hurricanes No. 213 Group No. 241 Wing No. 451 Squadron RAAF, Hurricane Air H.Q. Levant 10 July 1943 A/Cdre Bernard McEntegart No. 208 Squadron, Hurricane No. 1413 Flight (Meteorological), Gladiator Air H.Q. Levant June, 1944 Air Commodore John Coleman Air H.Q. Levant January, 1945 Air Commodore Hector McGregor (RNZAF) Reformation of Air H.Q. Levant 1 May 1955 1 May 1955 - April 1956, on renaming of A.H.Q. Iraq, A.V.M. Hugh Hamilton Brookes Met.= Meteorological Det.=Detachment;RAAF=Royal Australian Air Force. References Citations Bibliography David Lee, Flight from the Middle East: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent territories 1945-1972, HMSO 1980 Royal Air Force overseas commands Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War II Military units and formations established in 1941 Military units and formations disestablished in 1958 Military units and formations in Mandatory Palestine in World War II
Bernard Dubourdieu (28 April 1773 – 13 March 1811) was a French naval officer who led a Franco-Italian fleet at the Battle of Lissa in 1811, during which he was killed in action. Life A native of Bayonne, Dubourdieu started sailing on a merchantman at 16, before joining the Navy in 1792. He quickly rose to ensign aboard the Entreprenant. He transferred to the frigate Topaze the next year in Latouche-Tréville's squadron. Captured at Toulon by the British and transferred to Gibraltar, he escaped to Lorient. Promoted to enseigne de vaisseau, Dubourdieu sailed on the corvette Gaieté. Gaieté was captured and Dubourdieu was imprisoned again until 1799. Captured a third time in Alexandria in 1800, he was exchanged and promoted to lieutenant de vaisseau. In 1805, he was made a capitaine de frégate. In 1807, he took command of the frigate Pénélope and captured thirteen British merchantmen. In the action of 27 February 1809, along with the frigate Pauline, he captured blockading Toulon. On 23 October 1810, he raided Lissa and captured six ships in the harbour. He was then tasked to capture the island and establish a base there. Promoted to contre-amiral, Dubourdieu set sail with six frigates. In the ensuing Battle of Lissa, the French were routed and Dubourdieu was killed. References Bibliography External links 1773 births 1811 deaths People from Bayonne French Navy admirals French military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Murray Beach Provincial Park, is a provincial park in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. Located on Route 955 on the Northumberland Strait near the Little Shemogue River. See also List of New Brunswick parks References External links Murray Beach Provincial Park Provincial parks of New Brunswick Geography of Westmorland County, New Brunswick Tourist attractions in Westmorland County, New Brunswick Beaches of New Brunswick 1959 establishments in New Brunswick
"Smoke" is the fourth season premiere of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, a spin-off series of Breaking Bad. The episode aired on August 6, 2018, on AMC in the United States. Outside of the United States, the episode premiered on streaming service Netflix in several countries. Plot Opening In a flashforward, "Gene Takavic" has collapsed at the Omaha Cinnabon and is raced to the hospital, but is discharged after doctors confirm he did not suffer a heart attack. As Gene leaves, the receptionist stops him to obtain billing information. She has difficulty processing Gene’s identification, making him apprehensive, but she quickly realizes her mistake and corrects her error. Gene takes a taxi to the mall, where his car is parked, but becomes uneasy when he sees the driver making eye contact and he recognizes an Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener on the rearview mirror. He asks to be let out before reaching the mall, then walks quickly and anxiously around the corner and out of the driver's sight. Main story Howard Hamlin calls Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler about the fire at Chuck McGill's, and they arrive as Chuck's body is taken away. Jimmy sees the appliances outside Chuck's home and surmises his electromagnetic hypersensitivity symptoms had returned. He falls into a deep depression from which Kim tries to help him recover. Howard takes on the responsibility of arranging Chuck's funeral. Mike Ehrmantraut receives his first payment from Madrigal Electromotive as a contracted security consultant, which Gus Fring arranged to launder the money Mike stole from the Salamancas. Though it was meant to be a paper transaction, Mike enters a Madrigal facility, performs a detailed inspection, and turns the results over to the manager with instructions to let Lydia Rodarte-Quayle know he was there. Following Mike's advice, after Hector Salamanca's stroke Nacho Varga takes the fake capsules containing ibuprofen from Hector and replaces them with Hector's real nitroglycerin. He tries to dispose of the fakes but is interrupted by Gus, who says they need to meet with Juan Bolsa. Juan puts Nacho and Arturo in charge of the Salamanca operation for the time being. Afterward, Nacho drives to a bridge and throws the fakes away, unaware Victor has followed him. Several of Chuck's friends and associates attend his funeral and give Jimmy their condolences. After the service, Howard tells Jimmy and Kim he believes he is responsible for Chuck’s death because he forced Chuck out of HHM after their malpractice insurance premium increased. Jimmy responds, "Well Howard, I guess that's your cross to bear", conceals his role in causing the increase, and immediately regains his happy-go-lucky demeanor. Production In the opening scene, Saul is at his workplace, a Cinnabon mall store. Though set in Omaha, Nebraska, the flash-forward was filmed at the Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The episode marks the first appearance of Jeff, played by Don Harvey. Reception "Smoke" received critical acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it garnered a perfect 100% rating with an average score of 8.76/10 based on 17 reviews. The site consensus reads, "'Smoke' kicks off Better Call Sauls fourth season by finally shifting Jimmy's disturbing transition to Saul into full gear." Matt Fowler of IGN gave "Smoke" a positive review, with an 8.3/10.0 rating writing, "It's a heavy, reflective chapter that readily relies on silence to create both suspense and sorrow." Ratings "Smoke" was watched by 1.77 million viewers in the United States on its original air date, fewer than the third-season finale which brought in 1.85 million American viewers. Notes References External links "Smoke" at AMC Better Call Saul (season 4) episodes 2018 American television episodes Television episodes written by Peter Gould Television episodes set in Nebraska
NA-172 Rahim Yar Khan-IV () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Chaudhry Zaffar Iqbal Warriach of PPP won by 48,896 votes. Election 2008 General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Javed Iqbal Warraich of PPP won by 50,090 votes. Election 2013 General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Mian Imtiaz Ahmed of PML-N won by 106,595 votes and became the member of National Assembly. Election 2018 General elections are scheduled to be held on 25 July 2018. See also NA-171 Rahim Yar Khan-III NA-173 Rahim Yar Khan-V References NA-196
Greg Sage (born October 21, 1951) is an American songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, regarded as an important influence on many punk rock and post-punk artists. Sage is best known as the principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist of the influential Portland, Oregon-based band Wipers. Early years Greg Sage was born in Portland, Oregon, on October 21, 1951. His involvement with music began with cutting records at home as an adolescent, due to his father being involved in the broadcast industry. Sage’s first instrument was bass guitar, because of the low tones that made larger grooves in the vinyl records due to slower modulations. Basses were harder to find and much more expensive when Sage was in grade school, so he used guitar instead. Sage has been involved in music professionally since the age of 17, when he worked on a full-length album by the professional wrestler Beauregarde (Beauregard, 1971; re-released 2004). After several years of playing and recording guitar, Sage founded Wipers in Portland in 1977. The mood of Sage's lyrics is frequently dark, and rife with references to confusion and severe alienation. His song structures often take unexpected turns and are typified by fractured melodic passages punctuated by massive, intricate guitar parts, and use of heavy distortion. He usually plays on a 1969 left-handed Gibson SG with attached Bigsby tremolo. Wipers In 1977, Sage founded the Wipers. The name was inspired by a job he had picked up cleaning windows at a movie theatre; the crystal clear transparency of the glass was what he realized he wanted to emulate with his music. Its inception was at first an exclusive recording project. Then Sage planned to record 15 LPs in 10 years without touring or promoting. He believed it would be possible to avoid live shows, press, pictures and interviews, and this – coupled with the mystique of his unorthodox music – would encourage a deeper, more imaginative engagement with the recordings. In 1979, Sage established his own record label, Trap, and asked several Portland punk bands to record singles. Some of those early bands were The Stiphnoyds, The Neo Boys and Sado Nation. Sage later re-released some of the material on a compilation record entitled The History Of Portland Punk. Solo career Since the demise of Wipers, Sage has also recorded several albums as a solo musician and operates his own label, Zeno Records, based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he currently resides. Discography Solo albums Straight Ahead (1985) Sacrifice (For Love) (1991) with Wipers Is This Real? (1980) Youth of America (1981) Over the Edge (1983) Land of the Lost (1986) Follow Blind (1987) The Circle (1988) Silver Sail (1993) The Herd (1996) Power in One (1999) External links The Wipers official homepage Greg Sage at TapeOp.com Wayback Machine – Greg says he was 17 when he met Beauregarde in 1969. References 1952 births American punk rock guitarists American punk rock singers Living people Musicians from Portland, Oregon Singers from Oregon Guitarists from Los Angeles Guitarists from Oregon American male guitarists 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians Restless Records artists Enigma Records artists
Carlos Callejas (born September 17, 1985 in Granada, Nicaragua) better known as Torombolo is a reggaeton and hip hop singer with "Camillion Entertainment Latino". Early life Torombolo grew up in Granada, Nicaragua mainly raised by his mother. At the age of 11 he, along with his family, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. At the age of 16 Carlos decided to start his own project, he began making rap and reggaeton, being the second genre he knew well and along with other members of Camillion Ent. invented their own style of music called "Bayggeaton", which mixed reggaeton with elements identified in Bay Area music. 2007: Calibre Torombolo's debut album, Calibre, was released in April 2007. It is Torombolo's first CD, which he named after his home state of California, he respectfully added "libre" (free) and created the name for the album, Calibre. The CD contains 15 tracks features singles such as California, Triquitraca, and Nuevo Ritmo which can be heard on the radio internationally. Calibre also features collaborations with other local Bay Area artist such as Dego and also Catracho on Tu Idolo, and Loco. The songs on the CD reflect Torombolo's style of "Bayggeaton", a style of music which he invented along with members of Camillion Ent. Bayggeaton is reggaeton mixed elements usually found in local Bay Area music. Discography Cammilion Ent. Mixtape (2006) Calibre (2007) See also Music of Nicaragua References External links Torombolo's Official Myspace ToromBolo ToromBolo ToromBolo Nicaraguan reggaeton musicians 21st-century American singers 21st-century American male singers
Boral Limited is an Australia-based integrated construction materials company. The Company is engaged in producing and selling a broad range of construction materials including quarry products, cement, concrete, asphalt and recycled materials. The Company's segments include Construction Materials and Property. The Company's Construction Materials segment operates across Australia and offers quarries, concrete, asphalt, landfill, cement, recycling, transport and placing. Its Property segment is engaged in the development or divestment of surplus properties. The Company's products are offered to end-use markets, which include residential and non-residential construction and the engineering and infrastructure markets. With revenue for total operations of A$3.46 billion (2023), Boral has about 7,500 employees and contractors working across 360 operating and distribution sites. Its headquarters are located in Sydney, Australia. History Boral was founded by David Craig on 4 March 1946 as Bitumen and Oil Refineries (Australia) Limited with Caltex having a 40% shareholding. In March 1947, it opened Matraville Refinery, Australia's first bitumen and oil refinery. In 1963, the company was renamed Boral Limited having been commonly referred to by its acronym since it commenced trading. In 1964, it purchased the Gas Supply Company with 28 coal gas companies in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. In 1968 Boral sold a 50% stake in its refining business to Total, before selling it the remainder in January 1972. In 1969, it entered the building materials industry through a number of acquisitions. In 1979, Boral entered the United States market, purchasing a 55% shareholding in California Tile from Amalco. In February 1987 Boral purchased cement manufacturer Blue Circle Southern Cement from BHP and Blue Circle Industries. In 1990, Midland Brick was purchased. In January 2000, Boral sold its tyre business to Bridgestone. In February 2000, Boral's energy assets were spun off into a separate listed entity, Origin Energy. In December 2020, Boral sold Midland Brick to the Buckeridge Group of Companies. This followed Boral selling its bricks business on Australia's east coast in 2016. In April 2021, Boral divested its plasterboard business, completing the process with the sale of its 50 per cent interest in the USG Boral joint venture to Knauf group for US$1.015 billion. In May 2021, Seven Group Holdings launched a takeover bid. In June 2021, Boral sold its United States operations to Westlake Chemical. In July 2021, Seven gained control of Boral with a 70% shareholding. References External links Boral Corporate Boral Australia Contact Boral Building materials companies of Australia Cement companies of Australia Manufacturing companies based in Sydney Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Multinational companies headquartered in Australia Manufacturing companies established in 1946 Australian companies established in 1946 Seven Network
Trams in Spain go back to an animal-drawn Madrid tramway network, which opened in 1871. Steam tramway traction started in Spain in 1879, and electric trams first operated in 1899. Spanish tramway networks were dismantled in the 1960s and 1970s, but have gradually been reintroduced since 1994. At present, there are plans to add 13 new Spanish tram networks to the nine currently operating. History The history of tramways in Spain began with animal-drawn trams in the nineteenth century, in Madrid (1871), Barcelona and Bilbao (1872), Valencia (1876), Valladolid (1881), Zaragoza (1885), Sevilla (1887) and Palma de Mallorca (1891). In 1879, the Madrid-Leganés tramway began working with steam traction, and in 1899 the first electrified line ran. In Barcelona, steam traction was introduced in 1877 (at Sant Andreu), and the first electrified line in 1899. The first Spanish city to introduce an electric tram service was Bilbao, with the line Bilbao-Santurtzi, electrified in 1896 and managed by a predecessor of the current Transportes Colectivos. Steam trams began running in Valencia in 1892 and the first line was electrified in 1900. In Zaragoza, the Torrero line was electrified in 1902, and electric trams came to Palma de Mallorca in 1916. Valladolid network was totally electrified in 1911. In many other cities, trams were common through much of the twentieth century. However, they were dismantled in the 1960s and 1970s, on the basis that they obstructed traffic on the streets of large cities. Then, in the late twentieth century, they were once again considered and, in some cities, began running again. Today's tramway networks Valencia was the first Spanish city to reintroduce the tram, in 1994. The success of the modern tramway network in Valencia led to the extension of its lines on three occasions. After Valencia came Bilbao (2002), Alicante (2003), Barcelona (2004) and, in October 2006, the inauguration of the long Vélez-Málaga Tram (which linked Vélez-Málaga with the coastal part of Torre del Mar). These lines were followed by the Metro Ligero de Madrid (2007), in the Madrid neighborhoods of Sanchinarro and las Tablas (ML-1), and linking the capital with Boadilla del Monte, Alcorcón and Pozuelo de Alarcón (ML2, ML3). Parla Tram (ML-4) was also inaugurated in 2007. Then came Seville, where a tramway network named MetroCentro has been running since spring 2007, Tenerife (2007), Murcia (2007), and Vitoria (2008). In Zaragoza, the commercial service began on 19 April 2011. The Jaén Tram opened in 2011 but was closed a few weeks after service began. After numerous delays, the Granada Metro opened in 2017 and the Cádiz opened in 26 October 2022. Projects In Spain, 13 tram networks are currently planned to be added to the nine already operating. New projects, in Cordoba, Jerez, Palma, Tarragona and Toledo, total in length and two billion euros in investment. Active construction on the Tranvía Metropolitano de Alcalá de Guadaíra has been taking place since 2007, along with lines in Dos Hermanas and Mairena del Aljarafe. Other networks are proposed for Jerez de la Frontera, Córdoba, Huelva, Pamplona, Almeria, León, Elche, Burgos, Salamanca, Toledo, Palma de Mallorca, Leioa-Sestao, Baracaldo, el Alto Deva. There have also been plans to install a tramway in Oviedo (a project to implement this mode of transport, by the PSOE, was discarded after the PP defeated it at an election). In addition, Madrid is expanding its LRT (light rail) network on its outskirts. Finally, an historic tramway has been operating in the city of La Coruña since 1997, following additions and alterations to the road. Suspended since 2011. Plans tot reopening. See also History of rail transport in Spain List of town tramway systems in Spain List of trolleybus systems in Spain Rail transport in Spain References External links This article is based upon a translation of the Spanish language version as at September 2011.
Lewis Bayly Wallis (1775 – 10 August 1848) was an officer in the British Army and briefly a Member of Parliament. Biography He was born Lewis Bayly in 1775, the only son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, by his second wife Anne Hunter. After his father's death in 1782 the London solicitor Albany Wallis became his guardian. On 31 December 1791 he joined the Army as a cornet in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and became captain of an independent company of foot on 19 March 1793, transferring to Edmeston's Regiment of Foot (95th) on 16 November that year. He purchased his promotion to major in the 95th Foot in 1794 and was granted rank as a lieutenant-colonel on 2 February 1796. In 1799 Sir Robert Clayton died. He was one of the members of Parliament for the rotten borough of Ilchester, and Bayly was returned to Parliament in his place on the nomination of Albany Wallis's business partner Richard Troward, who owned the seat. Wallis died on 3 September 1800, leaving Lewis Bayly as his heir, and on 17 September Bayly was granted a Royal Licence to assume the surname and arms of Wallis in addition to those of Bayly. Bayly Wallis was not an active MP and in April 1802 he sold his interest in the borough to Sir William Manners. He did not stand in the general election later that year. On 3 June 1802 Bayly Wallis married Frances, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Blacket Bosville and daughter of the painter Benjamin Wilson. They had one daughter, Louisa, who married her cousin Belford Hinton Wilson. In 1806 he was appointed Sheriff of Cardiganshire. Though on half-pay since 1798, he continued to advance in rank through the Army, becoming colonel on 1 January 1805, major-general on 25 July 1810, lieutenant-general on 12 August 1819 and general on 10 January 1837. On 10 August 1848 General Bayly Wallis died aboard his yacht at Rottingdean; his heir was his grandson Robert Belford Wallis-Wilson. References 1775 births 1848 deaths British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies UK MPs 1801–1802 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies British Army generals Younger sons of baronets 3rd Dragoon Guards officers High Sheriffs of Cardiganshire
Japan participated in the 2007 Asian Winter Games held in Changchun, China from January 28, 2007 to February 4, 2007. Medal summary Medal table Medals as of January 30, 2007 References Nations at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Asian Winter Games Japan at the Asian Winter Games
Fisseha Adugna (born 27 September 1955) is an Ethiopian diplomat who was the Ethiopian ambassador to the United Kingdom. He served in this post from 8 March 2002 until March 2006. He was succeeded by Berhanu Kebede. Fisseha was born in Fiche, Shoa in Ethiopia and attended Teferi Mekonnen High School in Addis Ababa. He matriculated to Addis Ababa University and earned a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations. He earned a Master's Degree in Diplomatic Services and International Organisations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria. Fisseha began his diplomatic career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He steadily moved up the ranks and eventually was appointed to the Ethiopian Mission to the United States in April 1992. Fisseha served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington, D.C. until December 2000, whereupon he was appointed as Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Ethiopia in London. He was made Ambassador on March 8, 2002. Fisseha is married and has two children. He speaks Oromiffa, Amharic, English, French and German. References External links Official biography 1955 births Living people Addis Ababa University alumni Ambassadors of Ethiopia to the United Kingdom
Brayton is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Ada Margaret Brayton (fl. 1920s–1930s), American astronomer Charles R. Brayton (1840–1910), American Republican politician Charles Brayton (judge) (1772–1834), justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Chuck Brayton (1925–2015), American baseball head coach for the Washington State Cougars George Brayton (1830–1892), American mechanical engineer George Brayton (New York politician) (1772–1837), New York politician George A. Brayton (1803–1880), associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Lee Brayton (1933–2022), American racing driver Lily Brayton (1876–1953), English actress Scott Brayton (1959–1996), American race car driver Tyler Brayton (born 1979), American football for the Carolina Panthers William Brayton (Vermont judge) (1787–1828), justice of the Vermont Supreme Court William Daniel Brayton (1815–1887), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island Given name: Brayton Biekman (born 1978), Dutch footballer Brayton Bowman (fl. 2010s–2020s) American singer-songwriter Brayton Ives (1840–1914), president of Northern Pacific Railway, of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Western National Bank of New York Brayton Knapp (born 1986), American professional soccer player Brayton Laster (born 2002), American professional stock car racing driver Brayton H. Ransom (1879–1925), American zoologist and veterinary parasitologist Brayton Vázquez (born 1998), Mexican professional footballer English-language surnames
An interior design magazine is a publication that focuses primarily on interior design in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet. Interior design magazines document the interior of homes, furniture, home accessories, textiles and architecture usually in a highly stylized or staged format. They may also feature cafes, historic houses, eco-friendly living and cutting-edge design. Each issue or publication often acts as a “how to” guide for interior decorating and styling, as well as providing readers up to date design news and the latest trends. Contemporary houses in the magazines today are often highly styled photographs, which are done by interior stylists or decorators. They often do not feature people and just focus on the furniture or interior. Some magazines, such as Apartamento, feature homes that are not staged, but rather highlight elements of the house just as the inhabitant has left them. 18th-century origins The 18th century was the first period in which English domestic interiors were represented in both text and image. The format and writing of interior design magazines were mainly modeled on architecture and art journals, which began publication from the 1890s. These magazines began to lay the origins of domesticity, homemaking and decorating, which would later continue to grow into separate titles. It was Alexander Koch who was responsible for Germany's first serial publications specifically on interior design. Koch's Innendekoration started publication in January 1890, while his Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (1897–1932) also focused primarily on interiors. They were joined by others such as Das Interieur (1900–1915) in Vienna, and House Beautiful (1896–1930) in Chicago. House Beautiful was a consumer driven magazine that aimed to fulfill the aspirations of the reader, rather than presenting an actually achievable or affordable home. These magazines circulated internationally and their impact can be measured by the second generation of magazines, often similar in format, that were formed in their mould in the years to follow. Graphic layouts became an important feature for interior design magazines, as many began following each other or beginning their own trend. It began allowing more space, focusing on the arrangement and layout of text, image and font. The titling of the drawings, in stylized capitals, was carried out in a specific style associated with the Rudolf von Larisch school of lettering. Often the interior schemes were represented from above and from a diagonal axis, emphasizing the angularity of the composition with a rapidly receding vanishing point. Illustrations ranged from full colour paintings to carefully reproduced lithography prints of interiors and drawings, usually in colour. From the 1920s onwards, design publishing was driven by avant-garde design ideals and commercial publishing practices. The introduction of the digital camera in the late 20th century allowed photographers to capture the interiors of celebrities as well as everyday people. Domestic advice books The second half of the 19th century brought about the development of several publications offering advice on how to manage and decorate the home. Suggestions ranging from fashioning gothic architecture inspired furniture and embroidery were featured in household manuals Cassell's Household Guide and Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, published in the 1860s. Aimed at the increasing Victorian middle class, these manuals encouraged the purchase of material goods for their homes. The manual Hints on Household Taste by Charles Eastlake first published in 1868 dealt explicitly with decorative choice and consisted of articles that were first successive in magazines. Inspired by American advice manuals, these books often reflected on the gendered nature of society, drawing divisions between the ‘masculine’ dining room and ‘feminine’ drawing room. Design suggestions for the drawing room included using light colours while methods for dining rooms, libraries and studies featured heavy furniture and animal skins. However, domestic manuals in the 1920s revealed the changes in the gendered division of space and pushed the rise of the sitting room as a shared space. From the 1920s to the 1970s, advice literature was increasingly concerned with the shift from a service culture to a self-service culture. This stems from the idea that readers now had to learn how to host dinner parties or functions with the absence of a butler or housekeeper. Advice writers catered to a new group of readers keen to entertain in a manner different from the one they had known growing up. The hostess performed the conflicting roles of both entertaining the guests and cooking, which involved her in both front and backstage regions of the home. Retail catalogues for interiors A rise in interest of home furnishings for 19th-century middle-class Britain and US meant there was a higher demand for furniture in department stores and furniture shops. Capitalizing on the power of the wealthy class to whom they appealed, retailers took advantage of cheaply available printing methods and began selling retail catalogues. These pamphlets presented information of furniture and interiors available to all consumers and in particular, Sears, who offered to deliver any item countrywide. Terrance Conran's Habitat, founded in 1964, came about to service a growing number of affluent consumers, intent on purchasing a cost-efficient interior presented in ready-to-made rooms. The first Habitat catalogue in 1966 was marketed as a guide to decorating a home and not just a telling tool. Swedish company IKEA created the same room-set device to document its tens of thousands of products and in the process dominated the global market in the late 20th century. Founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943, the catalogue was first produced in 1951 and by 2002 had a distribution figure of 110 million across 34 languages. List of interior design magazines in circulation Below is a list of popular interior design magazines: US magazines Architectural Digest Better Homes and Gardens Dwell Elle Decor Founterior HGTV Magazine House Beautiful Interior Design Metropolis Veranda Vogue Living UK magazines House & Garden House Beautiful Wallpaper World of Interiors Digital magazines Dezeen References Arts and crafts magazines magazine
Wantirna South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Wantirna South recorded a population of 20,754 at the 2021 census. 5 Wantirna South is a border suburb to City of Whitehorse and City of Monash. History Wantirna South was mostly orchards until around 80 years ago. Demand for housing grew in the 1920s and Wantirna South and surrounding communities became a new place for housing development. One of the first buildings was Wantirna South Post Office, opened on 1 December 1936, but was renamed Studfield in 1990, being at the Studfield Shopping Centre. Wantirna South Primary School had a significant impact on the growth and housing around the Knox City area. Today Wantirna South serves as the headquarters of the Knox City Council. The Knox City Council's building was burnt down in 1994, and took a few years to be rebuilt. It is now a meeting place for councillors and the mayor. Another Wantirna South attraction is the Westfield Knox shopping centre, which was first built in the 1970s. It had a major refurbishment in 2002 to make it a more popular area for young people. This area is now known as Knox O-Zone, a popular night spot containing a pub, restaurants, clubs and cinema. A$500 million renovation of the shopping centre which has been approved by the local council is underway and will make Westfield Knox the biggest shopping centre in Australia, rivaling Chadstone Shopping Centre also in Victoria. Knox Police Complex is situated on Burwood highway opposite Westfield Knox. Another important building, across the road from the Knox Council headquarters, was the Rembrandts building. Rembrandts was a ballroom and formal eating place where social life took place, including over-28s and debutant balls from various schools. The building is now currently a part of St. Andrews Christian College. There is also a skatepark in Wantirna South, which is located near Knox City Shopping Centre. 1st Wantirna South Scout Group has been a part of the community since the early 1950s. Wantirna South is also home to the Knox District Scout Centre, a popular venue for parties. Several new residential estates have expanded residential dwelling capacity in Wantirna South. New facilities including a lake, shopping centre and various parks and community gardens have been established as a result. Like many suburbs around Melbourne, Knox has seen an increase in dwelling density with the construction of the new apartment complexes which is forecast to continue into the future. Education Schools in Wantirna South include Knox Gardens Primary School, Knox Central Primary School, Knox Park Primary School, St Andrews Christian College, Waverley Christian College, Wantirna South Primary School and The Knox School. A campus of the Swinburne University of Technology is also located in Wantirna South. Sport The Wantirna WASPS Basketball club is the local basketball club. WASPS were established in 1988, and with over 70 boys and girls teams has grown to be the largest club competing in the Knox Basketball Association. The Wantirna South Football Club, The Devils, competes in the Eastern Football League. The Knox Football Club, The Falcons, is situated next to Knox Gardens Primary School and also competes in the Eastern Football League. The Knox City Tennis Club is located in the heart of Wantirna South and backs onto the well known flood basin. The Knox Basketball Club are based in the Suburb at the State Basketball Centre. Which is also the Training and Corporate Home to the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the Australian NBL. The South East Melbourne Phoenix also play Select Home Games at the State Basketball Centre each NBL Season. References Suburbs of Melbourne Suburbs of the City of Knox
Laim (Central Bavarian: Loam) is a district of Munich, Germany, forming the 25th borough of the city. It had around 49,000 inhabitants in 2005. History Originally its own independent locality, Laim was in existence before Munich. It was first documented between 1047 and 1053 as loco leima (in Leim village). The municipality was formed in 1818 and consolidated into Munich on 1 January 1900. At that time the village centre was Laim meadow, which was inaugurated on its return to the people on 1 and 2 July 2000, with festivities celebrating the 100 year incorporation of Laim into Munich. Opposite the meadow is the Catholic St. Ulrich-Kirche (St. Ulrich's Church). The name Leim comes from the German word Lehm meaning clay and Lehmboden meaning clay soil. Earlier Laim used the 21 series post code, however nowadays the codes 80686 - 80689 are utilised. Laim is not to be confused with Berg am Laim, the 14th borough of Munich 10 km away to the east. Boroughs of Munich
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Willie Ross (born in Scotland) was a Scottish football player and manager. References Scottish men's footballers Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players Scottish Football League players Derry City F.C. players NIFL Premiership players Cork United F.C. (1940–1948) players League of Ireland players Derry City F.C. managers Portadown F.C. managers 1985 deaths Year of birth missing Cork City F.C. (1938–1940) players Men's association football forwards Scottish football managers

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