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John Preston Amis (17 June 1922 – 1 August 2013) was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for The Guardian and to BBC radio and television music programming.
Life and career
John Amis was born in Dulwich, London, son of James Amis, whose elder brother, William, was father of the novelist Kingsley Amis. James Amis, wealthier than his brother, "held a post in the merchant bank of Seligmann Brothers in Austin Friars", earning "a respectable £800 a year"; the family's house at West Norwood was "a semi-detached, red-brick affair with... a little lawn at the back with vegetables and a loganberry bush at the bottom"; despite the perceptible difference between the Amis brothers' fortunes, John Amis recalled no "feeling of social difference between Norbury (where Kingsley Amis was raised) and West Norwood. We both lived in dreary houses in dreary streets." Amis was educated- "fully paid for"- at Dulwich College (having also attended its preparatory school), where he began a lifelong friendship with his contemporary, Donald Swann. A serious bout of mastoiditis as a child left him deaf in his left ear. He began his career working in a bank for five and a half weeks before leaving to earn a living in music. Amis had a number of roles, including gramophone record salesman, and orchestra manager (at one point turning pages for Dame Myra Hess during the wartime concerts at the National Gallery.), before becoming a music critic, initially with The Scotsman in 1946. He was for several years manager for Sir Thomas Beecham, and also worked for the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1948, William Glock invited Amis to run a summer school for musicians at Bryanston School, Dorset. The summer school moved to Dartington in 1953. Amis remained administrative director until 1981, during which time he brought to the school a long line of international musicians, amongst them Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, and Sir Michael Tippett.
Amis' short career as a tenor began with the role of Ishmael in the 1967 recording of Bernard Herrmann's cantata Moby-Dick. He made his operatic debut in 1990 as the Emperor in Turandot. Amis had started singing in earnest after 1959: in that year he attended Professor Frederick Husler's s singing class at Dartington 'just for fun', and was told not only that he had the makings of a Heldentenor, but that he ought to go to Germany to study.
From the 1950s onwards, Amis became a regular contributor to BBC Radio's music output, and worked on BBC Television from 1961, producing and presenting documentaries, and introducing the BBC2 magazine programme Music Now. As a broadcaster, he is probably best known for his appearances as a team member, from 1974 to 1994, on the BBC Radio 4 panel show, My Music, also appearing in the television version. It was on this show that he disclosed an unexpected talent as a skilled siffleur. His own radio show on Radio 3 interviewed musicians and contemporary witnesses such as Sir Isaiah Berlin. For many years he wrote a column on music in The Tablet, England's best-known Catholic magazine.
His friends in the music industry included Noel Mewton-Wood and Felix Aprahamian, for whom he wrote a tribute following Aprahamian's death in January 2005. He was also closely associated with Gerard Hoffnung and organized many of Hoffnung's concerts until the latter's death in 1959; he performed a comic duet from The Barber of Darmstadt with Owen Brannigan at the 1961 Hoffnung Festival. As a critic, Amis often came across contemporaries including Neville Cardus (Manchester Guardian), Frank Howes (The Times), Scott Goddard (News Chronicle) and Richard Capell (Telegraph).
Amis wrote a number of books, on his own Amiscellany imprint, with titles including My Music in London: 1945-2000. Amis spent much of his time giving talks and one-man shows, after dinner speeches and concert works. Amis was a patron of the Music Libraries Trust and the Tait Memorial Trust, and a vice-president of the Putney Music society.
Personal life
In June 1948, Amis married the violinist Olive Zorian, founder of the Zorian String Quartet. The marriage was dissolved in 1955 and Zorian died in 1965.
In the later years of his life, Amis took up with his partner, Isla Baring OAM, Chairman of the Tait Memorial Trust of which he was a Patron. He once said that she gave him his "Indian summer".
Death and legacy
John Amis died on 1 August 2013. He was survived by his partner for his last six years, Isla Baring. His funeral was held on 20 August 2013 at the Musicians' Church, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London.
In his memory, the Tait Memorial Trust inaugurated the John Amis Award, a scholarship to support students at the Dartington International Summer School.
References
External links
John Amis' official blog
1922 births
2013 deaths
John
BBC radio presenters
BBC television presenters
Classical music radio presenters
English music critics
English music journalists
English radio personalities
The Guardian journalists
People educated at Dulwich College
People from Dulwich
Writers from London
English male non-fiction writers |
Bagh Narges (, also Romanized as Bāgh Narges; also known as Bāgh Nargesān) is a village in Rudkhaneh Bar Rural District, Rudkhaneh District, Rudan County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 280, in 71 families.
References
Populated places in Rudan County |
The College Sailing Team Racing National Championship is one of the seven Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championships.
Winners are awarded the Walter Cromwell Wood Bowl.
Champions
Championships by Team
References
External links
WALTER CROMWELL WOOD BOWL
ICSA championships |
The Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (OFCWC) was formed in 1910 under the name the Oklahoma Federation of Negro Women's Clubs. The name was changed in 1924. An early leader of the OFCWC was Drusilla Dunjee Houston.
The OFCWC protested lynching in 1911. They endorsed woman's suffrage in 1914. They advocated for employment of African-American teachers in 1957.
The banner used by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and is on view there.
References
African-American history of Oklahoma
African-American women's organizations
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
Women's clubs in the United States
Women's organizations based in the United States
Women in Oklahoma |
Liouville's theorem has various meanings, all mathematical results named after Joseph Liouville:
In complex analysis, see Liouville's theorem (complex analysis)
There is also a related theorem on harmonic functions
In conformal mappings, see Liouville's theorem (conformal mappings)
In Hamiltonian mechanics, see Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) and Liouville–Arnold theorem
In linear differential equations, see Liouville's formula
In transcendence theory and diophantine approximations, the theorem that any Liouville number is transcendental
In differential algebra, see Liouville's theorem (differential algebra)
In differential geometry, see Liouville's equation
In coarse-grained modelling, see Liouville's equation in coarse graining phase space in classical physics and fine graining of states in quantum physics (von Neumann density matrix) |
Bangladesh has numerous public holidays, including national memorial, religious and secular holidays of Bengali origin. The Bengali traditional calendar, known as Banggabda is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh. The holidays are celebrated according to Bengali, Islamic or Gregorian calendars for religious and civil purposes, respectively. Religious festivals like Eid are celebrated according to the Islamic calendar whereas other national holidays are celebrated according to the Bengali and Gregorian calendar. While the Islamic calendar is based on the movement of the moon, it loses synchronization with the seasons, through seasonal drift. Therefore, some public holidays are subject to change every year based on the lunar calendar.
There are fifteen public holidays in Bangladesh. Muslims and non-Muslims have four religious holidays each in addition to the seven secular national holidays. For the Muslims, Nine major Islamic holidays: Ashura, Mawlid,Isra' and Mi'raj, Shab-e-Barat ,1st day of Ramadan ,Revelation of the Quran , Laylat al-Qadr, Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha are observed. For the Hindus:Holi , Krishna Janmashtami , Durga Puja , Diwali and Raksha Bandhan are celebrated. As for the Christians:New Year , Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Halloween , Christmas Eve , Christmas , Boxing Day and New Year's Eve are celebrated. And Buddhists: Vesak and Chinese New Year are celebrated.
National holidays
Religious holidays
Islamic holidays
Hindu holidays
Christian holidays
Buddhist holidays
Partial holidays or national days
Festivals in Bangladesh
List of festivals in Bangladesh
References
Bangladesh
Holidays
Society of Bangladesh
Holidays |
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Kalateh-ye Shur () may refer to:
Kalateh-ye Shur, Esfarayen, North Khorasan Province
Kalateh-ye Shur, Jajrom, North Khorasan Province
Kalateh-ye Shur, Khoshab, Razavi Khorasan Province |
Quarteira () is a Portuguese civil parish, in the municipality (concelho) of Loulé in the Algarve. The population in 2011 was 21,798, in an area of 38.16 km².
History
The settlement of the region dates back to, at least, the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula (at one time confused with the village of Carteia). There are still other authors who suggest that settlement of the region may have begun in the era of Phoenician or Carthaginian traders.
For several centuries, Quarteira was a modest fishing village, situated on the edge of a beach, encircled by pines. King Denis authorized a foral (charter) for the settlement on 15 November 1297.
In the 15th century, King John I of Portugal ordered the first cultivation of sugar cane in continental Portugal.
Created in 1916, the civil parish quickly became known for its beaches, fishing and its forests of pine.
Quarteira was elevated to the status of cidade (city) on 13 May 1999.
Geography
Quarteira is a coastal civil parish, located along the southern extent of the Algarve fronting Albufeira Municipality to the west (in the parish of Olhos de Água). In addition, the local area authority is bordered in the east by Almancil, northeast by São Clemente, north by São Sebastião and Boliqueime.
From the Atlantic coast, the frontier with its neighbours extends northwest along the Ribeira de Algibre, before following the M526 municipal roadway to the Estrada Nacional EN125 in Maritenda. From here, the border travels southeast along the EN125 until just after the N396 motorway, where it then divides along a ravine southwest towards the Atlantic Ocean, alongside the Royal Golf Course. The coast includes of normally-classified Blue Flag beach.
Economy
Golf remains a symbol for this parish, municipality, and region, with five distinct golf courses contributing to the economy, particularly during the off-season.
In relation to this sport, the parish is home to Vilamoura, Europe's largest private tourist facility. In addition, the region accommodates various tourists with two hundred hotels and residences, including casinos, bars and discos.
Architecture
Archaeological
Roman ruins of Cerro da Vila ()
Civic
Apartment Complex Avenida de Sagres, 147/149 ()
Apartment Complex Quarteira I ()
Apartment Complex Rua de São Tomé e Príncipe, 26/36 ()
Fiscal Guard Post of Quarteira ()
Lighthouse of Vilamoura ()
Loulé-Praia de Quarteira Railway Station ()
Maritime Delegation of Quarteira ()
Residence Cada do Mirante ()
Residence Gonçalves ()
Residence Villa Sol e Mar ()
Residence Casa Martins Laginha ()
Restaurante-Residencial Toca do Coelho/Hotel D. José
Military
Fort of Armação ()
Religious
Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição ()
Church of São Pedro do Mar ()
Church of Vilamoura ()
Culture
Among other festivities attracting tourism to the region is the Marchas Populares in June.
Town Twinning
Twin towns — Sister cities
The following place is Sister City to Quarteira :
Vilamoura, Portugal
References
External links
Freguesias of Loulé
Seaside resorts in Portugal
Towns of the Algarve |
Efraim Diveroli (born December 20, 1985) is an American former arms dealer and author. His company, AEY, Inc. He was a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. The U.S. government suspended AEY for violating its contract after AEY provided ammunition to China and attempted to hide the origins by repackaging it as being from Hungary, thus violating the American arms embargo against China. As a result of the publicity surrounding the contract and the age of the arms dealers – Diveroli was 21 and partner David Packouz was 25 when AEY landed the ammunition deal – the United States Army began a review of its contracting procedures.
Diveroli was sentenced to four years in federal prison. He is a central subject of the Todd Phillips' film War Dogs, released in 2016, as well as a memoir written in conjunction with convicted fraudster Matthew Cox and published in 2016.
Early life
Diveroli was born on December 20, 1985, in Miami Beach, Florida, the son of Ateret and Michael Diveroli. His family was Orthodox Jewish, strictly observing all traditional Jewish laws. He studied at Hebrew Academy in Miami Beach. His Iranian-born grandfather, Yoav Botach, was one of the wealthiest property owners in Los Angeles, and his uncle is celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
AEY Inc.
Formation of AEY
Diveroli returned home to Miami Beach, Florida in March 2001 at the age of fifteen. After an argument with his uncle, he told his father he wanted to open a business specializing in arms, ammunition trading, and defense contracts with the U.S. government. He convinced his father to sell him a shell company, AEY, Inc., named after the first initials of him and his siblings, which his father had incorporated as a small printing business, but had not done anything with for years. Diveroli showed a penchant for arms dealing and quickly made a name for himself within the industry. His young age and apparent talent led local media outlets to label him as an "arms wunderkind." Diveroli struggled with drug addiction and was also labeled as a "stoner arms dealer" by the media.
During the Cold War, the world engaged in a protracted and massive arms race. Millions of weapons were stockpiled throughout Eastern Europe, ready for a war with the West. When the Cold War ended, and the immediate threat of violence subsided, arms dealers started moving these vast amounts of weapons. The sales that followed formed the "gray market" where non-state actors (such as militia or terrorist groups) and legitimate government-sanctioned buyers could procure arms through illegal foreign government sales. "The Pentagon needed access to this new aftermarket to arm the militias it was creating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The trouble was, it couldn't go into such a murky underworld on its own. It needed proxies to do its dirty work — companies like AEY."
Contracts
Diveroli started working during this period of heavy arms trading as a teenager in a one-room apartment in Miami. Equipped with nothing more than a laptop, he sought to enter the industry from the seat of his couch. He began surfing solicitations on fbo.gov, or FedBizOpps, a government website where contracts are posted. He began by bidding on small contracts with the financial help of Ralph Merrill, with whom he did business during his time working for his uncle. By the age of eighteen, Diveroli had become a millionaire by continuing to beat out big corporations like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed and BAE Systems. In the words of Rolling Stone, Diveroli had "an appetite for risk and all-devouring ambition."
After steadily increasing the size of his contracts and developing a track record of success, Diveroli's company AEY, Inc. was awarded a $298 million contract by the Pentagon to provide arms and munitions to the allied forces in Afghanistan. To fulfill the US government contracts, Diveroli soon found himself dealing with dubious weapons traders, crooked diplomats, and soldiers of fortune; negotiating deals with foreign defense ministers, holding meetings at embassies, and taking calls from high-ranking Army officials.
On March 27, 2008, the U.S. government suspended AEY, Inc. for infringing upon the terms of its contract; in violation of a pre-existing arms embargo, the company was accused of supplying ammunition manufactured in China to the Afghan National Army and police. United States Army documents showed that the company totaled more than $200 million in contracts to supply ammunition, rifles, and other weapons in 2007. As a result of publicity surrounding the contract, the United States Army began a review of its contracting procedures.
The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ruled the ammunition "unserviceable". AEY had also failed to perform on numerous previous contracts, including sending potentially unsafe helmets and failure to deliver 10,000 Beretta pistols to Iraq.
Diveroli's former partner, David Packouz, and Ralph Merrill, the group's former chief financier, later filed separate lawsuits against Diveroli seeking payment of millions of dollars they say they were owed in connection to the weapons contract with the U.S. government.
Trial and conviction
A company Diveroli owns, Ammoworks, continued selling arms while he awaited trial for conspiracy. In late August 2008, he pleaded guilty on one count of conspiracy, and was sentenced to four years in prison on January 4, 2011. He was further sentenced for possessing a weapon while out on bond and had his overall sentence reduced for assisting in the investigation of the prosecution.
Diveroli's former partner David Packouz was sentenced to seven months' house arrest.
War Dogs
The story of Diveroli's arms deals is the subject of the Todd Phillips comedy/drama film War Dogs, starring Jonah Hill as Diveroli and Miles Teller as his partner, David Packouz, based on the reporting done by Canadian journalist Guy Lawson for Rolling Stone. In 2016, Diveroli filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., director Todd Phillips, producer Bradley Cooper, and others, seeking to block release of the film. Diveroli's suit against Warner Bros. claimed that the basis for the film was taken from his self-published memoir Once A Gun Runner, which convicted real estate fraudster Matthew Cox claims to have written while in prison with Diveroli.
References
Further reading
1985 births
Living people
People from Miami Beach, Florida
21st-century American criminals
Arms traders
American people convicted of fraud
Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
American prisoners and detainees
American Orthodox Jews
21st-century American memoirists
Memoirists from Florida |
Przegorzały is a town in the Zwierzyniec district of Kraków (Poland), located west of the city centre. Przegorzały is at the edge of the Wolski Woods, east of Bielany and west of the Kościuszko Mound, overlooking the Vistula river. It has several nature reserves and has retained a semi-rural character.
Originally a separate village, it was first mentioned in 1162 as the property of the Norbertine Sisters. Przegorzały was incorporated into the city of Kraków by the Nazi occupiers in 1941. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, over a thousand people (largely ethnic Poles accused of involvement in resistance against the Nazis) are believed to have been executed in Przegorzały at the spot known as Glinik.
The most famous building in Przegorzały is Przegorzały Castle. What is now known as the "Bastion" was built by the Polish art historian Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz as his own residence in the 1920s, naming it "Belvedere" after the beautiful view. Later, the occupying Nazis confiscated the building and added the larger "Schloss Wartenberg" as a residence for Otto Wächter and Luftwaffe officers. Currently, the buildings house the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University and a restaurant.
References
Ryszard Burek (ed). Encyclopedia Krakowa (2000) pp. 817–818
https://web.archive.org/web/20120314060151/http://zamki.turystyka.eurocity.pl/glowna.php?v=zamek&nr=312
Districts of Kraków |
Elk City is a city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States, along the Elk River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 260.
History
Elk City had its start in the year 1868 by the building of a trading post at that location. The first post office in Elk City was established in November 1869.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 325 people, 132 households, and 91 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 172 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 93.5% White, 0.6% African American, 0.9% Native American, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 0.6% from other races, and 4.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.9% of the population.
There were 132 households, of which 31.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.1% were non-families. 25.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.89.
The median age in the city was 42.3 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.9% were from 25 to 44; 26.7% were from 45 to 64; and 20.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 52.0% male and 48.0% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 305 people, 135 households, and 83 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 170 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.75% White, 2.62% Native American, 0.98% from other races, and 1.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.30% of the population.
There were 135 households, out of which 20.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.9% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.5% were non-families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.93.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $25,000, and the median income for a family was $35,833. Males had a median income of $21,250 versus $17,708 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,152. About 15.0% of families and 18.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.8% of those under the age of eighteen and 5.8% of those 65 or over.
Education
The community is served by Independence USD 446 public school district.
Notable people
Harry Hines Woodring, 25th Governor of Kansas and 53rd United States Secretary of War
See also
Elk City Lake and Elk City State Park
References
Further reading
External links
Elk City - Directory of Public Officials
Elk City map, KDOT
Cities in Kansas
Cities in Montgomery County, Kansas |
Bluebell Falls is an organic goat cheese company in County Cork, Ireland.
History
Bluebell Falls farm is owned by the O'Sullivan family and registered and approved as a Food Business operator. Before 1995, the farm was primarily geared towards the traditional Irish herds of cattle and sheep but at that time, started to develop new products from goat's milk. By 2008, they had a herd of 130 goats being milked. By 2011, the decision was made to switch totally to producing goats milk and cheese. The farm is located at Charleville, County Cork overlooking the Ballyhoura mountains.
Products
Bluebell Falls farm produces a number of goat milk cheeses from their herds of Saanen and Tangenberg goats. Their cheese is sold fresh when 24 hours old, and is made in the style of French chevre.
Cygnus is the main cheese product produced at the farm. It is a fresh goats cheese with a smooth texture.
Cygnus Honey was created in 2008. It is created by the addition of garlic, honey, and thyme to the plain goats cheese.
Cygnus Pepper was also created in 2008 by the addition of garlic, herbs, and black pepper to plain goats cheese.
Delphinus was created in 2010 and is a white mould soft goats cheese with a buttery texture and slight mushroom taste
Orion was created in 2010 and is a semi-hard goats cheese.
Pegasus was created in 2008 and is a white mould soft goats cheese with a soft texture and fresh grassy taste.
See also
List of goat milk cheeses
References
External links
Official website of Bluebell Falls
Dairy products companies of Ireland
Cheesemakers
Goat's-milk cheeses
Irish cheeses |
Beregovoye-Pervoye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Beregovskoye Rural Settlement, Prokhorovsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The population was 318 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.
Geography
Beregovoye-Pervoye is located 11 km northwest of Prokhorovka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Beregovoye-Vtoroye is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Prokhorovsky District |
Okenia pilosa is a species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.
Distribution
This species was described from New Caledonia. It is known from Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Heron Island (Queensland), Australia.
Description
This Okenia has a broad body and many irregularly arranged papillae. The body is translucent and has some spots of dark brown surrounded by pale brown pigment.
Ecology
The diet of this species is a bryozoan, Calpensia sp..
References
Goniodorididae
Gastropods described in 1983 |
The 2019 East Cambridgeshire District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of East Cambridgeshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries. The Conservative Party retained control of the council.
Result summary
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Ward results
Bottisham
Burwell
Downham
Ely East
Ely North
Ely West
Fordham & Isleham
Haddenham
Littleport
Soham North
Soham South
Stretham
Sutton
Woodditton
By-elections
Soham North
References
East Cambridgeshire District Council elections
East Cambridgeshire
2010s in Cambridgeshire
May 2019 events in the United Kingdom |
Octadepsipeptide may refer to:
Emodepside
Anthelmintic |
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Julio Sánchez Cristo is a Colombian radio personality, born 9 January 1959 in Bogotá. He is best known for his morning news, radioshow and variety show La W, in the Spanish-owned broadcasting station W Radio. The show is currently syndicated by different stations in the United States, Panama, and Spain.
Sánchez has worked in most of major mass media and is widely recognized as one of the most important journalists in Colombia. He is regarded as a keen interviewer and has been awarded all the journalism awards granted in Colombia.
Sánchez stands as the lead-in interviewer in many investigative pieces during broadcasting and then hands out to other lower profile journalists which might be the ones fully developing the stories. W Radio in Colombia and most media in particular have become the last resort for many citizens to expose abuse by different sectors of society, they might include the government, authorities and private individuals that take advantage of people with less resources. Sanchez in particular is willing to confront individuals whose actions are under moral or social scrutiny.
Radio history
Julio Sánchez begun his career at his father's broadcasting company. Sánchez intended to enter the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, however most of his journalistic experience was shaped by his empirical approach (See Peter Jennings for other examples of empiric journalists).
Sánchez major influence comes from his professional mentor, Colombian journalist Yamid Amat, with whom he worked in Caracol Radio.
Mr. Sánchez worked with Colombian radio station Caracol Estéreo (predecessor of W Radio) hosting its morning news show Viva FM from 1991 to 1996. In 1996 he moved his show to La FM, a station owned by RCN Radio. In 2003 he came back to Caracol Radio's W Radio, which is currently owned by the Spanish group PRISA.
Morning radio show
Julio Sánchez currently hosts the influential morning show La W in Colombia's W Radio with high national and international ratings. The show is syndicated and can be heard in Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, United States (east coast), and Spain.
References
External links
W Radio Official website
A Gallery of images of Julio Sanchez Cristo
El poder en Colombia , Dinero, 1 May 1995
La fuerza de la opinión, Semana, 6 October 2007
Facebook Fan page
Julio Sanchez on Twitter
1959 births
Living people
People from Bogotá
Colombian radio presenters |
Eighty-three songs are included in Rock Band 3, a 2010 music video game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games and distributed by Electronic Arts. The game, the third main title in the Rock Band series, was released in October 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Nintendo DS. Rock Band 3 allows one to seven players to simulate the playing of rock music by providing the players with peripherals modeled after musical instruments. These include a guitar peripheral for lead guitar and bass gameplay, a drum kit peripheral, a keyboard peripheral, and up to three microphones. Rock Band 3 is the first game in the series to include a "Pro" mode, which allows players to use more realistic peripherals to play the game's songs note-for-note as they would be played on an actual instrument.
All of the songs included in Rock Band 3 were recorded either from master copies or live performances. Many were included to emphasize the keyboard instrument. Existing game content, including prior downloadable content and songs from the Rock Band Network, carries forward into Rock Band 3, with the full Rock Band library consisting of over 2,000 songs by the time the game was released. When Rock Band 3 was first detailed on June 11, 2010, Harmonix announced 22 of the game's songs. The next month, Harmonix used Facebook and Twitter to provide clues about additional songs for both Rock Band 3 and Dance Central, which they then confirmed to be six Rock Band tracks and three Dance Central tracks. During a video interview at the 2010 Gamescom convention, most of the setlist was inadvertently leaked because someone was scrolling through the setlist in the background. Rock Band 3'''s setlist was well-received by video game critics. Eurogamer's Johnny Minkley noted the contrast between it and the heavier style of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock's setlist.
Announcement
When Rock Band 3 was first detailed on June 11, 2010, Harmonix announced 22 of the game's 83 songs. The next month, Harmonix used Facebook and Twitter to provide clues about additional songs for both Rock Band 3 and Dance Central, which they then confirmed to be six Rock Band tracks and three Dance Central tracks. On August 17, just before the 2010 Gamescom convention, Harmonix announced an additional ten songs by bands from around the world.
During a video interview at Gamescom, most of the setlist was inadvertently leaked because someone was scrolling through the setlist in the background. Harmonix released a video response to the leak the next day, officially denying the rumored setlist, while once again showing the setlist in the background and confirming additional songs. The full setlist was formally announced on August 25 on the Rock Band website.
Track listing
The full Rock Band 3 setlist features 83 songs, including a mix of tracks which make use of the new keyboard peripheral and three-part vocal harmonies. The Nintendo DS version of the game features a 25-song subset of the consoles' setlist.
All 83 songs from the Rock Band 3 setlist can be exported into Rock Band 4, as of early December 2015, as long as the player has previously played Rock Band 3 on the same store account for Xbox Live or PlayStation Network.
Downloadable songs
Following the release of Rock Band 3, Harmonix has kept up their commitment to releasing weekly downloadable content for the series, starting with a set of twelve songs from the Doors released the same week as the game. Downloadable songs since the game's release include, when appropriate, support for keyboards and vocal harmonies within the base cost of the song. However, due to the cost and effort to create Pro Guitar and Pro Bass authoring, Harmonix releases these additional authored parts as a separate download for certain songs for per upgrade, in addition to the song's base price. Downloaded content released by Harmonix after Rock Band 3s release is not compatible with previous games in the series due to changes in the song format. Since the game's release, Harmonix has released downloadable songs from a variety of artists, including Bon Jovi, Queen, Billy Joel, Linkin Park, and the Clash.
Most songs already released as downloadable content for the series can be used in Rock Band 3, with the exception of the tracks "Hier Kommt Alex" by Die Toten Hosen, and "Rock 'n' Roll Star" by Oasis. In addition, the songs from many previous Rock Band games can be exported for use in Rock Band 3. More than 2000 potential songs were available at the game's launch between these sources.
Rock Band Network songs are also playable in Rock Band 3. A new version of the Network, called Rock Band Network 2.0, allows songs to be authored with harmonies, Basic and Pro Keys, and Pro Drums, but does not support Pro Guitar and Pro Bass charting due to the complexity of authoring those parts and the number of users able to test them.
Reception Rock Band 3's setlist was well-received by video game critics. Eurogamer's Johnny Minkley called it "strong and varied", and noted the contrast between it and the heavier style of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock's setlist. Will Tuttle of GameSpy praised it as being "the most diverse track list in the franchise's history." G4 TV's Stephen Johnson noted that the addition of the keyboard controller led to the setlist having a more pop-oriented style than the previous games in the series, and he said that Harmonix chose "substance ... over flashy, current bands." Reviewer Ben Kuchera, of Ars Technica, also praised the setlist's variety, stating that it is "one of the best you'll see in rhythm games, spanning decades and genres and bringing a wide variety of songs to suit any taste." In his review of the game in The Atlantic'', Sam Machkovech summed up the setlist by saying that "with keyboards are in the mix, the songs are just plain better."
References
External links
List of songs available for Rock Band 3 at rockband.com.
Rock Band 3
Rock Band 3 |
The Stamps-Baxter Music Company was an influential publishing company in the shape note Southern gospel music field. The company issued several paperback publications each year with cheap binding and printed on cheap paper. Thus, the older books are now in delicate condition. These songbooks were used in church singing events, called "conventions," as well as at other church events, although they did not take the place of regular hymnals. Among the country music and bluegrass "standards" that were first published by Stamps-Baxter are "Rank Strangers to Me", "Just a Little Talk with Jesus", "Precious Memories", "Farther Along", "If We Never Meet Again", "Victory in Jesus", and "I Won't Have to Cross Jordan Alone".
Stamps and Baxter operated a music school which was the primary source of the thousands of gospel songs they published. Another major part of the corporation was its sponsorship of gospel quartets who sang the company's music in churches throughout the southern United States. At the end of World War II they were sponsoring 35 such quartets. The company also had a quartet who sang on radio station KRLD in Dallas, beginning in 1936. This station would boost its transmitting power at midnight, so that it could be heard across the nation. An additional part of the Stamps-Baxter music empire was a magazine, Gospel Music News. Each part of the corporation supported every other part, giving strength to the entire organization.
History
Virgil Oliver Stamps founded the company in 1924 and J. R. Baxter Jr. joined him to form the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, which was based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Pangburn, Arkansas. Stamps got his start working for the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company from which he got many of his business ideas.
In 1945, Frank Stamps, younger brother of V. O. Stamps, left the organization to form the rival Stamps Quartet Music Company. At the same time a number of quartets left Stamps-Baxter resulting in the end of the company’s quartet sponsorship coinciding with the end of the war. Frank’s defection did not hurt the Stamps-Baxter company in the long run, although it did lead to some confusion among the public. The Stamps-Baxter School of Music declined after World War II, but its successor continues to this day as an annual two-week singing school under the leadership of Ben Speer.
Stamps died in 1940, leaving the company to J. R. Baxter. After Baxter died in 1960, his widow, Clarice Howard "Ma" Baxter, ran the company until her death in 1972. In 1974, the company was sold to Zondervan, which became part of the Benson Company in 1986, and is now part of Capitol Christian Music Group.
Songbooks
The "convention" song books typically included 140 songs. The first song would be on the inside front cover, numbered 00 with the first song inside the book being numbered 1-A, and the rest of the songs were numbered 1 through 138. Each book included four or five older public domain songs such as John Newton's "Amazing Grace", Mackay's "Revive Us Again", Stennett’s "I Am Bound for the Promised Land", and Smith’s "America". In addition, one or two songs from earlier Stamps-Baxter publications might be included. The other 134 songs would consist of new material that had never been published before. The authors and composers of these songs were paid as much as $7.00 for each song, which would be the only monetary compensation that they would get.
Copyrights
The Stamps-Baxter company was careful to renew its copyrights under United States copyright law. The collections, not the individual songs, were copyrighted, so that anyone looking up records for the songs must know in which collection it was first published. Under current U. S. copyright law, works published between 1922 and 1963 will not enter public domain until 95 years after their initial year of copyright if the copyright was renewed. Thus, a Stamps-Baxter song last copyrighted in 1929 will enter public domain in 2024.
There is also a claim to copyright on these songs. On October 16, 1998, three corporations, Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc., Stamps-Baxter Music, and Bridge Building Music, Inc., filed for copyright on "Glory Special" & 19,618 other titles. This large collection includes all of the Stamps-Baxter convention songs. Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc now owns Stamps-Baxter Music and Bridge Building Music. Therefore, the copyright is maintained by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.
Titles
See also
Marion W. Easterling
References
Further reading
Fresne, Jeannette. "History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, vol. 30, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21–38. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40215347.
External links
Stamps-Baxter publications
Blog by a student of the Stamps-Baxter school
Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas
Luther Presley Collection, University of Central Arkansas
Music publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in 1924
Shape note
Southern gospel
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The Jets' flagship radio station is WEPN, 1050 ESPN, with "The Voice of the Jets," Bob Wischusen as the play-by-play announcer and former Jet Marty Lyons as the color analyst. Wischusen, who joined WABC in 1997, took over the play-by-play role in 2002 after Howard David left the organization earlier in the year. Lyons would join Wischusen the same year after the team began a re-evaluation of the broadcasting booth that would result in the surprising firing of Dave Jennings, "a smart and credible analyst," after fourteen years in the booth.
WABC, which served three separate stints as the Jets' radio flagship, simulcasted WEPN's coverage over its airwaves from 2002 until 2008. Jets radio broadcasts have also been carried over WCBS, which also served two stints as the Jets' flagship and last carried games over the air in 1992, and WFAN, which aired games from 1993 through 1999.
Any preseason games not nationally televised are shown on WCBS-TV. Ian Eagle, who was previously the radio voice of the Jets, calls the action on those telecasts. SportsNet New York, which serves as the home of the Jets, airs over 250 hours of "exclusive, in depth" material on the team in high definition.
Notable past play-by-play announcers for the Titans/Jets include the legends Howard Cosell, Bob Murphy, Merle Harmon, Marty Glickman and Howard David, who has called the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals for Westwood One and ESPN Radio.
Broadcasters by year
Spanish language stations
WADO (2000-2011)
WEPN (2012-2018)
WADO / WQBU (2019)
Spanish language announcers
Clemson Smith Muñiz (2000-present; play-by-play)
Oscar Benítez (2000-2019; color analyst)
Roberto Abramowitz (2020; color analyst)
Radio affiliates
New York
New Jersey
California
References
American Football League announcers
Lists of National Football League announcers by team
Broadcasters |
The Medici String Quartet is British string quartet.
The Medici Quartet has been ensemble in residence at the University of Surrey since 1996, as well as having a strong link to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. It was formed in 1971 and somewhat disbanded in 2007 when Paul Robertson became seriously ill. Robertson died of a heart condition on 26 July 2016.
Members
Paul Robertson, first violin, who plays a Domenico Montagnana violin made in Venice in 1729.
Stephen Morris, second violin, who plays a Joannes Udalricus Eberle violin made in Prague in 1760.
Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola, who plays a Giovanni Grancino viola made in Milan circa 1690.
Anthony Lewis, cello, who plays a Giacinto Rugeri cello made in Cremona circa 1690.
References
Robertson, Paul, Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey Through Life, 2016, London, Faber & Faber.
English string quartets |
Periclimenes colemani is a species of saltwater shrimp found in the Indo-Pacific Ocean that was first described in 1975 by Alexander James Bruce.
It is found in association with the sea urchin Asthenosoma intermedium at depths to 12 m on coral reefs in the littoral and sub-littoral zones.
References
External links
Periclimenes colemani images & occurrence data from GBIF
Palaemonidae
Crustaceans of the Indian Ocean
Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean
Crustaceans described in 1975 |
The year 2004 was the 3rd year in the history of the Cage Rage Championships, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. In 2004 Cage Rage Championships held 5 events, Cage Rage 5.
Title fights
Events list
Cage Rage 5
Cage Rage 5 was an event held on February 15, 2004, at Caesar's Nightclub in Streatham, United Kingdom.
Results
Cage Rage 6
Cage Rage 6 was an event held on May 23, 2004, at Caesar's Nightclub in Streatham, United Kingdom.
Results
Cage Rage 7
Cage Rage 7 was an event held on July 10, 2004, at Wembley Conference Centre in London, United Kingdom.
Results
Cage Rage 8
Cage Rage 8 was an event held on September 11, 2004, at Wembley Conference Centre in London, United Kingdom.
Results
Cage Rage 9
Cage Rage 9 was an event held on November 27, 2004, at Wembley Conference Centre in London, United Kingdom.
Results
See also
Cage Rage Championships
List of Cage Rage champions
List of Cage Rage events
References
Cage Rage Championships events
2004 in mixed martial arts |
Bangkok Knockout () is a 2010 Thai martial arts film directed by Panna Rittikrai and written by Jonathon Siminoe. The film stars Speedy Arnold, Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Gitabak Agohjit, Supaksorn Chaimongkol, Sorapong Chatree, Virat Kemgrad, Chatchapol Kulsiriwoottichai and Sarawoot Kumsorn.
Premise
After winning a contest to star in a Hollywood film, a group of martial arts students celebrate by hosting a party, but they all get drugged and passed out while celebrating. When they wake up, they are attacked and soon some of their friends have been kidnapped. They quickly learn that a group of assassins are after them and that the contest may not have been what it seemed. The only way to survive is to fight their way out and rescue their friends.
Cast
Speedy Arnold as Mr. Snead
Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul as Bai-Fern
Gitabak Agohjit as Git
Supaksorn Chaimongkol as Joy
Sorapong Chatree as Sergeant Ram Former Border Patrol Police
Virat Kemgrad as Jao
Chatchapol Kulsiriwoottichai as Pod
Sarawoot Kumsorn as U-Go
Krittiya Lardphanna as Kuk Yai
Sumret Muengput as Ao
Deka Partum as Jame
Panna Rittikrai as Suthep Sisai
Puchong Sarthorn as Eddo
Poonyapat Soonkunchanon as Lerm
Tanavit Wongsuwan as Pom
Vinai Weangyanogoong as Black Men
Production
Magnolia Pictures has gained the U.S. distributional rights.
Reception
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
References
External links
- US website
2010 martial arts films
2010 films
Thai-language films
Thai martial arts films
Sahamongkol Film International films
Muay Thai films
Thai Muay Thai films
Martial arts tournament films |
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision.
The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a television licence, the ABC was originally financed by consumer licence fees on broadcast receivers. Licence fees were abolished in 1973 and replaced by direct government grants, as well as revenue from commercial activities related to its core broadcasting mission. The ABC adopted its current name in 1983.
The ABC provides radio, television, online, and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia. ABC Radio operates four national networks, a large number of ABC Local Radio stations, several digital stations, and the international service Radio Australia. ABC Television operates five free-to-air channels, as well as the ABC iview streaming service and the ABC Australia satellite channel. News and current affairs content across all platforms is produced by the news division.
The postal address of the ABC in every Australian capital city is PO Box 9994, as a tribute to the record-breaking batting average of Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman.
History
Origins
After public radio stations were established independently in the state capitals from 1924, a licensing scheme administered by the Postmaster-General's Department was established, allowing certain stations (with "Class A" licences") government funding, albeit with restrictions placed on their advertising content. In 1928, the government established the National Broadcasting Service to take over the 12 A-Class licences as they came up for renewal, and contracted the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924, to supply programs to the new national broadcaster.
After it became politically unpopular to continue to allow the Postmaster-General to run the National Broadcasting Service, the government established the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) on 1 July 1932, under the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932. to take over the Australian Broadcasting Company and run the National Broadcasting Service.
The ABC became informally referred to as "Aunty", originally in imitation of the British Broadcasting Corporation's nickname. The structure and programming was broadly modelled on the BBC, and programs not created in Australia were mostly bought in from the BBC.
In 1940 one of the ABC Board's most prominent members, Dick Boyer, was appointed to the ABC, becoming chairman on 1 April 1945. Today known for the continuing series of Boyer Lectures initiated by him in 1959, he had a good but not too close working relationship with Sir Charles Moses (general manager 1935–1965), and remained chair until his retirement in 1961. He was determined to maintain the autonomy of the ABC.
War years
In 1942, The Australian Broadcasting Act was passed, giving the ABC the power to decide when, and in what circumstances, political speeches should be broadcast. Directions from the minister about whether or not to broadcast any matter now had to be made in writing, and any exercise of the power had to be mentioned in the commission's annual report.
1950–2000
The ABC commenced television broadcasting in 1956. ABN-2 in Sydney was inaugurated by Prime Minister Robert Menzies on 5 November 1956, with the first broadcast presented by Michael Charlton, and James Dibble reading the first television news bulletin. Television relay facilities were not in place until the early 1960s, so news bulletins had to be sent to each capital city by teleprinter, to be prepared and presented separately in each city. In 1975, colour television was permanently introduced into Australia, and within a decade, the ABC had moved into satellite broadcasting, greatly enhancing its ability to distribute content nationally.
Also in 1975, the ABC introduced a 24-hour-a-day AM rock station in Sydney, 2JJ (Double Jay), which was eventually expanded into the national Triple J FM network. A year later, a national classical music network was established on the FM band, broadcasting from Adelaide. It was initially known as ABC-FM (later ABC Classic FM) – referring both to its "fine music programming and radio frequency.
ABC budget cuts began in 1976 and continued until 1998, the largest cuts (calculated by the ABC as 25% "in real terms") coming between 1985 and 1996.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 changed the name of the organisation to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, effective 1 July 1983. Although funded and owned by the government, the ABC remains editorially independent as ensured by the 1983 Act. At the same time, the newly formed corporation underwent significant restructuring, including a split into separate television and radio divisions, and ABC Radio was restructured significantly again in 1985. Geoffrey Whitehead was managing director of the ABC at this time. Following his resignation in 1986, David Hill (at the time chair of the ABC Board) took over his position and local production trebled from 1986 to 1991.
Live television broadcasts of selected parliamentary sessions started in 1990, and by the early 1990s, all major ABC broadcasting outlets moved to 24-hour-a-day operation. In 1991, the corporation's Sydney radio and orchestral operations moved to a new building, the ABC Ultimo Centre, in the inner-city suburb of Ultimo. In Melbourne, the ABC Southbank Centre was completed in 1994. International television service ABC Australia was established in 1993, while at the same time Radio Australia increased its international reach. Reduced funding in 1997 for Radio Australia resulted in staff and programming cuts.
The ABC Multimedia Unit was established in July 1995 to manage the new ABC website, which was launched in August.
The ABC was registered on the Australian Business Register as a Commonwealth Government Entity on 1 November 1999.
2000s–2010s
In 2001, digital television commenced (see Online, below). At the same time, the ABC's multimedia division was renamed "ABC New Media", becoming an output division of the ABC alongside television and radio.
In 2002, the ABC launched ABC Asia Pacific, the replacement for the defunct Australia Television International operated previously by the Seven Network. A digital radio service, ABC DiG, was also launched in November that year.
On 8 February 2008, ABC TV was rebranded as ABC1, and a new channel for children, ABC3, was funded and announced by the Rudd government in June. A new online video-on-demand service launched in July of the same year, titled ABC iview.
ABC News 24, now known as ABC News, a channel dedicated to news, launched on 22nd July 2010. On 20 July 2014, ABC1 reverted to its original name of ABC TV.
In November 2014, a cut of (4.6% ) to funding over the following five years together with the additional unfunded cost of the news channel meant that the ABC would have to shed about 10% of its staff, around 400 people. There were several programming changes, with regional and local programming losing out to national programs, and the Adelaide TV production studio had to close.
In November 2016, the ABC announced that ABC News 24, ABC NewsRadio, as well as its online and digital news brands, would be rebranded under a unified ABC News brand, which was launched on 10 April 2017.
Michelle Guthrie took over from managing director Mark Scott, whose second five-year contract finished in April 2016. Between July 2017 and June 2018, the whole of the ABC underwent an organisational restructure, after which the Radio and Television Divisions were no longer separate entities each under a director, instead being split across several functional divisions, with different teams producing different genres of content for television, radio and digital platforms. The Entertainment & Specialist (E&S) team focussed on comedy, kids' programs, drama, Indigenous-related programs, music, other entertainment and factual content; the new ABC Specialist team created content across the arts, science, religion & ethics, education and society & culture; while the Regional & Local team focussed on regional and local content.
Around 23 September 2018, Guthrie was sacked. A leadership crisis ensued after allegations arose that ABC Chair, Justin Milne, had, according to the MEAA, engaged in "overt political interference in the running of the ABC that is in clear breach of the ABC charter and the role of the chairperson" by interfering in editorial and staffing matters. After pressure for an independent inquiry or statement from Milne, or his resignation, following meetings by ABC staff in various locations, on 27 September Milne resigned.
In February 2019, after the roles of ABC chair and managing director had been vacant for over four months, Ita Buttrose was named chair. Buttrose named David Anderson as managing director in May 2019.
On 5 June 2019, Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided the headquarters of the ABC looking for articles written in 2017 about alleged misconduct by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, later dubbed the Afghan Files. The raid was countered by lawyers for the ABC in litigation against the AFP, challenging the examination of over 9,200 documents, including internal emails. In February 2020 the case was dismissed by the federal court. In June 2020, the AFP sent a brief of evidence to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), the federal public prosecutor, recommending charges be laid against journalist Dan Oakes for breaking the Afghan Files story, but in October 2020, the CDPP dropped the case.
2020s
In June 2020, the ABC announced it needed to cut 229 jobs, a number of programs, and reduce its travel and production budgets after the Turnbull government's announcement of a freeze to indexation of its budget in 2018 this was estimated at the time to cost the ABC over three years, however the actual appropriation did not decrease and the ABC chair was quoted as saying it would actually increase "but by a reduced amount".
In all, over a five-year period, there were 737 redundancies, a further 866 resignations and 203 retirements, but the total number of staff only fell by 313 due to the ABC hiring 650 staff over that period.
In June 2021, the ABC announced its plan to move around 300 staff to offices in Parramatta, in a plan which would see 75% of journalists and producers moving out of the Ultimo building by 2025 in order to reduce costs. Rental from some of the vacant space in the city centre would earn additional income to offset the ongoing effects of the significant funding cuts since 2014 and the recent indexation freeze.
In December 2021 the ABC announced that, in addition to the 83 additional positions already established, it was to create an additional "50-plus" new jobs in regional Australia as a result of commercial agreements with digital platforms flowing from the Morrison government's News Media Bargaining Code.
Lissajous curve logo
The ABC logo is one of the most recognisable logos in Australia. In the early years of television, the ABC had been using Lissajous curves as fillers between programmes. In July 1963, the ABC conducted a staff competition to create a new logo for use on television, stationery, publications, microphone badges and ABC vehicles. In 1965, ABC graphics designer Bill Kennard submitted a design representing a Lissajous display, as generated when a sine wave signal is applied to the "X" input of an oscilloscope and another at three times the frequency at the "Y" input. The letters "ABC" were added to the design and it was adopted as the ABC's official logo. Kennard was presented with £25 (about AU$715 in 2021) for his design.
On 19 October 1974, the Lissajous curve design experienced its first facelift with the line thickened to allow for colour to be used. It would also be treated to the 'over and under' effect, showing the crossover of the line in the design. To celebrate its 70th anniversary on 1 July 2002, the ABC adopted a new logo, which was created by (Annette) Harcus Design in 2001. This logo used a silver 3D texture but the crossover design was left intact and was then used across the ABC's media outlets. After the on-air revival of the 1974 logo since 2014, the ABC gradually reinstated the classic symbol. The most recent change happened in February 2018, with a new logotype and brand positioning under its tagline, Yours. The 2002 silver logo is no longer in use by the corporation.
Governance and structure
The operations of the ABC are governed by a board of directors, consisting of a managing director, five to seven directors, and until 2006, a staff-elected director. The managing director is appointed by the board for a period of up to five years, but is eligible for renewal. The authority and guidelines for the appointment of directors is provided for in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983.
Appointments to the ABC Board made by successive governments have often resulted in criticism of the appointees' political affiliation, background, and relative merit. Past appointments have associated directly with political parties – five of fourteen appointed chairmen have been accused of political affiliation or friendship, include Richard Downing and Ken Myer (both of whom publicly endorsed the Australian Labor Party at the 1972 election), as well as Sir Henry Bland. David Hill was close to Neville Wran, while Donald McDonald was considered to be a close friend of John Howard.
From 2003 the Howard government made several controversial appointments to the ABC Board, including prominent ABC critic Janet Albrechtsen, Ron Brunton, and Keith Windschuttle.
During their 2007 federal election campaign, Labor announced plans to introduce a new system, similar to that of the BBC, for appointing members to the board. Under the new system, candidates for the ABC Board would be considered by an independent panel established "at arm's length" from the Communications Minister. If the minister chose someone not on the panel's shortlist, they would be required to justify this to parliament. The ABC chairman would be nominated by the prime minister and endorsed by the leader of the opposition.
A new merit-based appointment system was announced on 16 October 2008, in advance of the new triennial funding period starting in 2009.
board members are:
As of July 2020 there were 3,730 employees, down from 4,649 in 2019.
Funding
The ABC is primarily funded by the Australian government, in addition to some revenue received from commercial offerings and its retail outlets. The ABC's funding system is set and reviewed every three years.
Until 1948, the ABC was funded directly by radio licence fees; amendments were also made to the Australian Broadcasting Act that meant the ABC would receive its funding directly from the federal government. Licence fees remained until 1973, when they were abolished by the Whitlam Labor government, on the basis that the near-universality of television and radio services meant that public funding was a fairer method of providing revenue for government-owned radio and television broadcasters.
In 2014, the ABC absorbed A$254 million in federal budget deficits.
Since the 2018 budget handed down by then-Treasurer Scott Morrison, the ABC has been subject to a pause of indexation of operation funding, saving the federal government a total of A$83.7 million over 3 years. In fiscal year 2016–17, the ABC received A$861 million in federal funding, which increased to $865 million per year from 2017 to 2018 to 2018–19, representing a cut in funding of $43 million over three years when accounting for inflation. In 2019–20, the federal budget forecast funding of $3.2 billion over three years ($1.06 billion per year) for the ABC. The Enhanced Newsgathering Fund, a specialised fund for regional and outer-suburban news gathering set up in 2013 by the Gillard government, currently sits at $44 million over three years, a reduction of $28 million per year since the 2016 Australian federal election. This came after speculation that the fund would be removed, to which ABC Acting managing director David Anderson wrote to Communications Minister Mitch Fifield expressing concerns.
However, despite the cuts made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the freeze introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, the ABC itself has published financial data that shows an increase in the taxpayer appropriation to the ABC of 10% in real terms (i.e. above inflation) between 1998 and 2021.
The term "where your 8 cents a day goes", coined in the late 1980s during funding negotiations, is often used in reference to the services provided by the ABC. It was estimated that the cost of the ABC per head of population per day was 7.1 cents a day, based on the corporation's 2007–08 "base funding" of .
Services
Radio
The ABC operates 54 local radio stations, in addition to four national networks and international service Radio Australia. In addition, DiG Radio (rebranded as Double J in 2014) launched on digital platforms in 2002, and later spinning off ABC Country and ABC Jazz.
ABC Local Radio is the corporation's flagship radio station in each broadcast area. There are 54 individual stations, each with a similar format consisting of locally presented light entertainment, news, talk back, music, sport and interviews, in addition to some national programming such as AM, PM, The World Today, sporting events and Nightlife.
the ABC operates 15 radio networks, variously available on AM and FM as well as on digital platforms and the internet.
Radio National – A generalist station, also known as RN, broadcasting more than 60 special interest programmes per week covering a range of topics including music, comedy, book readings, radio dramas, poetry, science, health, the arts, religion, social history and current affairs.
ABC NewsRadio – A news based service, also known as ABC News on Radio, broadcasting federal parliamentary sittings and news on a 24/7 format with updates on the quarter-hour. Broadcast's news content produced by the ABC itself, as well as programmes relayed from ABC Radio Australia, the BBC World Service, NPR, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands and CNN Radio.
ABC Classic – A classical music based station, formerly known as ABC Classic FM. It also plays some jazz and world music. ABC Classic was the ABC's first FM radio service. It was originally known simply as "ABC FM", and for a short time "ABC Fine Music".
Triple J – A youth-oriented radio network, with a strong focus on alternative and independent music (especially Australian artists); it is targeted at people aged 18–35.
The ABC also operates several stations only available online and on digital platforms:
ABC Classic 2 – a sister station to ABC Classic, focussing on performances by Australian artists. Only available on streaming platforms.
Double J – a Triple J sister station, focussed on an older audience to Triple J.
Triple J Unearthed – a Triple J sister station, playing unsigned and independent Australian talent.
Triple j Hottest - a Triple J sister station, playing tracks from the past 30 years of Triple J Hottest 100 countdowns.
ABC Jazz – A station exclusively dedicated to Jazz from Australia and the world.
ABC Country – An exclusively country music station, mainly focussing on Australian country music.
ABC Grandstand – Since November 2020 merged to ABC Sport.
ABC Extra – A temporary special events station.
ABC Kids – Children's based programming, and a sister station to the ABC Kids television channel.
There is also ABC Radio Australia, the international radio station of the ABC (see below).
ABC Listen app
The ABC Radio app was launched in 2012. This was replaced by the ABC Listen app in September 2017, which included 45 ABC radio stations and audio networks.
Television
The ABC operates five national television channels:
ABC TV (formerly ABC1 from 2008 to 2014), the corporation's original television service, receives the bulk of funding for television and shows first-run comedy, drama, documentaries, and news and current affairs. In each state and territory a local news bulletin is shown at 7pm nightly.
ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC2 and ABC Comedy), launched in 2005, shows comedic content in addition to some repeats from ABC TV of which the amount has decreased gradually since ABC TV Plus's inception. It is not a 24-hour channel, but is broadcast daily from 7:30pm to around 3am the following night. The channel shares airspace with the ABC Kids programming block from 5am to 7:30pm.
ABC Me (originally ABC3) became a fully fledged channel on 4 December 2009, but has been part of the electronic guide line-up since 2008, broadcasting an ABC1 simulcast until 4 December 2009, then an ABC Radio simulcast and teaser graphic until its official launch. It is broadcast from 6am to around 10pm on weekdays and 6am to 2am the next day on weekends, and consists of a broad range programmes aimed at a young audience aged 6–15, with a core demographic of 8–12.
ABC Kids (formerly ABC For Kids on 2 and ABC 4 Kids) is a preschool children's block featuring children's programming aimed at the 0 to 5 age groups. ABC Kids broadcasts during ABC TV Plus downtime, from 5am to 7:30pm daily.
ABC News (originally ABC News 24), a 24-hour news channel, featuring the programming from ABC News and Current Affairs, selected programs from the BBC World News channel, coverage of the Federal Parliament's Question Time, documentaries and factual, arts programming and state or national election coverage.
Although the ABC's headquarters in Sydney serve as a base for program distribution nationally, ABC Television network is composed of eight state- and territory-based stations, each based in their respective state capital and augmented by repeaters:
ABN (Sydney)
ABV (Melbourne)
ABQ (Brisbane)
ABS (Adelaide)
ABW (Perth)
ABT (Hobart)
ABC (Canberra)
ABD (Darwin)
The eight ABC stations carry opt outs for local programming. In addition to the nightly 7pm news, the stations also broadcast weekly state editions of 7.30 on Friday evenings (until 5 December 2014), state election coverage and in most areas, live sport on Saturday afternoons.
There is also ABC Australia, the international TV service of the ABC (see below).
Online and digital
ABC Online is the name given to the online services of the ABC, which have evolved to cover a large network of websites including those for ABC News, its various television channels, ABC radio; podcasts; SMS, mobile apps and other mobile phone services; vodcasts and video-on-demand through ABC iView.
The official launch of ABC Online, then part of the ABC's Multimedia Unit, was on 14 August 1995, charged with developing policy for the ABC's work in web publishing. At first it relied upon funding allocation to the corporation's TV and radio operations, but later began to receive its own. The ABC provided live, online election coverage for the first time in 1996, and limited news content began to be provided in 1997. This unit continued until 2000, when the New Media division was formed, bringing together the ABC's online output as a division similar to television or radio. In 2001 the New Media division became New Media and Digital Services, reflecting the broader remit to develop content for digital platforms such as digital television, becoming an "output division" similar to Television or Radio. In addition to ABC Online, the division also had responsibility over the ABC's two digital television services, Fly TV and the ABC Kids channel, until their closure in 2003.
ABC TV Plus, a digital-only free-to-air television channel, launched on 7 March 2005, as ABC2. Unlike its predecessors the new service was not dependent on government funding, instead running on a budget of per year. Minister for Communications Helen Coonan inaugurated the channel at Parliament House three days later. Genre restrictions limiting the types of programming the channel could carry were lifted in October 2006 – ABC TV Plus (then ABC2) was henceforth able to carry programming classified as comedy, drama, national news, sport, and entertainment.
In conjunction with the ABC's radio division, New Media and Digital Services implemented the ABC's first podcasts in December 2004. By mid-2006 the ABC had become an international leader in podcasting with over fifty podcast programmes delivering hundreds of thousands of downloads per week, including trial video podcasts of The Chaser's War on Everything and jtv.
In February 2007, the New Media & Digital Services division was dissolved and divided up among other areas of the ABC. It was replaced by a new Innovation division, to manage ABC Online and investigate new technologies for the ABC.
In 2008, Crikey reported that certain ABC Online mobile sites in development were planned to carry commercial advertising. Screenshots, developed in-house, of an ABC Grandstand sport page include advertising for two private companies. Media Watch later revealed that the websites were to be operated by ABC Commercial and distinguished from the main, advertising-free, mobile website by a distinct logo.
In 2015 the Innovation Division was replaced with the Digital Network Division. Angela Clark was head from 2012 until at least the end of financial year 2015/6, but by 2017 she was gone, and the Digital Network fell into the Technology division under the Chief Technology Officer.
In May 2017, Helen Clifton was appointed to the new role of Chief Digital and Information Officer, which continues .
In December 2019, a refreshed ABC homepage was launched. ABC News is one of Australia's largest and most-visited web sites; from its position as 11th most popular in the country in 2008, in recent years up to 2021 it has maintained top position in the rankings.
In June 2023, the broadcaster released its five-year plan, outlining that it would move its resources away from radio and television, and instead dedicate these resources to improving and promoting its digital platforms.
International
ABC International is responsible for its international operations, which include the internationally broadcast Radio Australia, the Asia-Pacific TV channel ABC Australia, and its ABC International Development (ABCID) branch.
In June 2012 Lynley Marshall, former head of ABC Commercial, was appointed CEO of ABC International, filling a role left empty by the retirement of Murray Green. At the time, it was intended that Radio Australia, ABC Australia and ABC News would work together more closely ABC International was at this time a division of the ABC, but it has not been represented as a separate division in the organisational structure of the ABC since 2016, after Marshall's departure in February 2017.
There were fears of job losses in the division after the huge budget cuts in 2014, as well as an earlier termination of a contract with the Department of Foreign Affairs, one year into the 10-year contract.
On 24 May 2021, Claire Gorman was appointed to an expanded role to manage both the International Strategy and the International Development teams.
ABC Australia is an international satellite television service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, funded by advertising and grants from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Aimed at the Asia-Pacific region, the service broadcasts a mixture of English language programming, including general entertainment, sport, and current affairs.
Radio Australia is an international satellite and internet radio service with transmissions aimed at South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands, although its signals are also audible in many other parts of the world. It features programmes in various languages spoken in these regions, including Mandarin, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Khmer and Tok Pisin. Before 31 January 2017 Radio Australia broadcast short-wave radio signals. Radio Australia bulletins are also carried on WRN Broadcast, available via satellite in Europe and North America.
ABC International Development, or ABCID, is a media development unit that promotes public interest journalism and connects with local media in the region. ABCID employs local people in Papua New Guinea and many Pacific countries. The team "provides expertise, training, technical and program support to partner organisations", by working with a variety of organisations, including international development donors, for example through the through the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS).
Independence and impartiality
Under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, the ABC Board is bound to "maintain the independence and integrity of the Corporation" and to ensure that "the gathering and presentation by the Corporation of news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognized standards of objective journalism".
In relation to impartiality and diversity of perspectives, the current ABC editorial policy requires of the broadcaster that:
ABC Commercial
The commercial arm of the ABC was established in 1974 under the name Enterprises as a self-funding unit, marketing products relating to the ABC's activities. It was renamed in 2007 to ABC Commercial, The aim of ABC Commercial was "to create, market and retail high quality consumer products which reflect and extend the scope of the ABC's activities". At this time it comprised the ABC Shop, ABC Consumer Publishing and Content Sales, ABC Resource Hire, and ABC Content Services (Archives).
ABC Commercial was registered as a business name under Australian Broadcasting Corporation in April 2007 and continues to exist . It includes ABC Music, a leading independent record label; ABC Events, which stages concerts and other events; and publishing and licensing activities by ABC Books, ABC Audio, ABC Magazines and ABC Licensing.
ABC Shop Online was wound up at the end of 2018, along with the in-store ABC Centres. In early 2019, ABC Commercial split from the Finance division and became an independent business unit of the ABC.
In the financial year 2018–2019, ABC Commercial turned a profit of , which was invested in content production.
The ABC Studios and Media Production hires out some of the ABC studios and sound stages, operating as part of ABC Commercial. The studios for hire are in Sydney (Studios 21, 22, 16), Melbourne (31), Adelaide (51B) and Perth (61).
Orchestras
Up until the installation of disc recording equipment in 1935, all content broadcast on the ABC was produced live, including music. For this purpose, the ABC established broadcasting orchestras in each state, and in some centres also employed choruses and dance bands. This became known as the ABC Concert Music Division, which was controlled by the Federal Director of Music – the first of whom was W. G. James.
In 1997, the ABC divested all ABC orchestras from the Concerts department of the ABC into separate subsidiary companies, allied to a service company known as Symphony Australia, and on 1 January 2007 the orchestras were divested into independent companies. The six state orchestras are:
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
ABC Friends
ABC Friends, formerly Friends of the ABC (FABC), consists of independent organisations in each state and territory, under an umbrella organisation established in December 2016, ABC Friends National Inc. In 1976, three independent groups were formed: Aunty's Nieces and Nephews in Melbourne, Friends of the ABC (NSW) Inc. (now ABC Friends NSW & ACT) and Friends of the ABC (SA) (since 2007/2008, ABC Friends SA/NT). The groups were formed by citizens who were concerned about government threats to make deep cuts to the ABC's budget. Historian Ken Inglis wrote that "The Friends were in the line of those people who had affirmed over the years that the ABC was essential to the nation". Over the years, independent state organisations were established, run by committees, and in January 2014 the name of each was changed to ABC Friends.
The objectives of ABC Friends National are stated as follows:
Controversies
Defamation
The ABC infamously lost a defamation case against Heston Russell, where they withdrew a truth defence and opted for the case to be heard under a public interest defence.
In the landmark ruling, Justice Lee awarded Heston $390,000 + interest and damages which are ultimately funded by taxpayer dollars. Estimates of legal expenses range from AUD$1.2m – $3m and could have been avoided if an earlier settlement offer of $99,000 and removal of the published articles had been taken by the broadcaster. The ABC Managing Director, David Anderson, who took home a six-figure pay rise shortly after the defamation case loss, outlined in senate estimates that he would not apologise to Russell for the false reporting.
Recordings of Willacy's interviews that formed part of the defamation case were garnished as part of the legal discovery process. They demonstrated the inappropriate and targeted style of journalism employed for the story and were made available to Ben Fordham's 2GB radio program.
Perceived bias
External critics have complained in particular of left-wing political bias at the broadcaster, citing a prominence of Labor Party-connected journalists hosting masthead political programs or a tendency to favour "progressive" over "conservative" political views on issues such as immigration, asylum seekers, the republic, multiculturalism, Indigenous reconciliation, feminism, environmentalism, and same-sex marriage.
In December 2013, former judge and ABC chair James Spigelman announced that four independent audits would be conducted each year in response to the allegations of bias in the reporting of news and current affairs. ABC Friends have observed that "Most of the complaints about bias in the ABC have come from the government of the day – Labor or Liberal. Significantly both parties have been far less hostile to the ABC when in opposition".
Reviews and investigations
Reviews of the ABC are regularly commissioned and sometimes not released.
Both internal and external research has been conducted on the question of bias at the ABC. These include the following:
A 2004 Roy Morgan media credibility survey found that journalists regarded ABC Radio as the most accurate news source in the country and the ABC as the second "most politically biased media organisation in Australia".
A 2013 University of the Sunshine Coast study of the voting intentions of journalists found that 73.6% of ABC journalists supported Labor or The Greens – with 41% supporting the Greens (whereas only around 10% of people in the general population voted Green).
At the 2016 federal election, a study commissioned by the ABC and conducted by Isentia compiled share-of-voice data and found that the ABC devoted 42.6% of election coverage to the Coalition government (this compares to the 42.04% vote received by the Coalition in the House of Representatives (HOR)), 35.9% to the Labor opposition (34.73% HOR), 8% to The Greens(10.23% HOR), 3.1% to independents (1.85% HOR), 2.2% to the Nick Xenophon Team (1.85% HOR) and 8.1% to the rest. However, the ABC itself notes the "significant limitations around the value of share of voice data" as "duration says nothing about tone or context".
In December 2020, the Board commissioned its 19th editorial review by an independent reviewer, which found that the ABC's news coverage of lead-up to the 2019 Australian election was "overwhelmingly positive and unbiased", although it also found that specific episodes of The Drum and Insiders reflected too narrow a range of viewpoints. The government forced the publication of the report after Coalition senator James McGrath raised a motion in the Senate, which led to ABC Chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson writing to the president of the Senate, Scott Ryan, to express their concerns about the use of the such powers, which went against the public interest.
Relationships with government
Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke considered the ABC's coverage of the 1991 Gulf War to be biased. In 1996, conservative Opposition Leader John Howard refused to have Kerry O'Brien of the ABC moderate the television debates with Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating because Howard saw O'Brien as biased against the Coalition.
Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott perceived the ABC to be left wing and hostile to his government, while Malcolm Turnbull enjoyed better relations with the national broadcaster. Turnbull's successor, Scott Morrison, once again presided over "strained" relations between the Government and the ABC. Under Morrison's leadership, an investigation was launched into the ABC and its complaints-handling process—a decision which was criticised by Ita Buttrose as "political interference". The inquiry was abandoned the following June.
Specific topics
The Catholic Church and George Pell
The ABC's coverage of the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church received praise and criticism. The Melbourne Press Club presented the 2016 Quill for Coverage of an Issue or Event for the report George Pell and Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, and the 2016 Golden Quill award to Louise Milligan and Andy Burns for their extensive coverage of Cardinal George Pell's evidence given at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The ABC Media Watch program of 20 April 2020 noted that the ABC had been accused of leading a "witch hunt" against Cardinal Pell. Media Watch reported that, following his acquittal, Pell said the ABC gave an "overwhelming presentation of one view and only one view". Media Watch also canvassed other criticisms including from The Australian newspaper's editor-at-large Paul Kelly, who charged the ABC with having run a "sustained campaign against Pell". Media Watch also offered criticism of its own, noting Louise Milligan and the Four Corners program had failed to canvass any of Pell's defence from the trial and "lined up witnesses condemning Pell", while social media commentary by Barrie Cassidy and Quentin Dempster had undermined the presumption of innocence. Margaret Simons similarly noted in The Guardian that "there has been some social media activity by ABC journalists that looks very much like lobbying against Pell..."
Environmentalism
Planet Slayer was an ABC website run by scientist Bernie Hobbs to teach children about the environment in around 2008/9. It included a "Greenhouse Calculator" which aimed to help children to work out their carbon footprint by providing an estimate of the age a person needs to die if they are not to use more than their fair share of the Earth's resources. Victorian Liberal senator Mitch Fifield criticised a cartoon series on the site for portraying those who eat meat, loggers, and workers in the nuclear industry as "evil". ABC managing director Mark Scott said the site was not designed to offend anyone, but instead have children think about environmental issues.
See also
History of broadcasting in Australia
Timeline of Australian radio
References
Further reading
Cater, Nick The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class (2013) pp 199–228
Curgenven, Geoffrey. Dick Boyer, an Australian humanist (Bolton, 1967) (Dick Boyer was chair of the ABC Board from 1940 until his death in 1961.)
Inglis, K. S. This is the ABC – the Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932 – 1983 (2006)
Inglis, K. S. Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983–2006 (2006)
Moran, Albert, and Chris Keating. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television (Scarecrow Press, 2009)
Semmler, Clement. The ABC: Aunt Sally and Sacred Cow (1981)
External links
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Żydowo may refer to the following places:
Żydowo, Gniezno County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Żydowo, Kościan County (German: Seide) in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Żydowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)
Żydowo, Poznań County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Żydowo, Września County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Żydowo, Lubusz Voivodeship (German: Elisenfelde) (west Poland)
Żydowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (German: Siddau) (north Poland)
Żydowo, Koszalin County (German: Sydow) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
Żydowo, Myślibórz County (German: Siede) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
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Lubicz coat of arms |
Senate elections were held in Liberia on 20 December 2014, with half the seats in the Senate up for election.
Background
The elections were originally scheduled to be held on 14 October 2014, as defined by the constitution. However, they were postponed until 16 December due to the Ebola epidemic. Shortly before 16 December, they were postponed again until 20 December.
Campaign
In early December President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf banned political rallies, claiming that they could cause the Ebola virus to spread.
A total of 139 candidates ran for the 15 seats. Fourteen parties nominated candidates, with 26 people standing as independents. Among the candidates were former footballer George Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change, who won the Montserrado County election and sat in the Senate until his election as president in 2017.
Results
References
External links
Candidate List National Elections Commission
Senate
Elections in Liberia
Liberia
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Ignatiigränd is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Västerlånggatan to Stora Nygatan, it forms a parallel street to Göran Hälsinges Gränd and Gåsgränd.
History
The alley is called Mårten Klinks gränd ("Mårten Klink's alley") in 1606 in reference to a local proprietor and in 1661 it is referred to as Mårten Klinkas eller Ignatij Grendh ("Mårten Klink's or Ignatius's alley"). The latter was a famous printer named Ignatius Meurer (1589–1672) who was, according to a memorial verse found in the Royal Library, born in Blankenburg, Schwarzburg, Germany, immigrated to Stockholm in 1610 and eventually through marriage became the owner of a printing workshop and settled in the block north of the alley. He is known to have produced the city law of 1628, introducing the Antiqua typeface in Sweden. (See also Staffan Sasses Gränd.)
The first element of the name, Ignatii-, is the Latin genitive form of Ignatius (e.g. Ignatius's; of Ignatius).
See also
List of streets and squares in Gamla stan
References
External links
Stockholmskällan - Historical photo of a portico in the alley
hitta.se - Location map and virtual walk
Streets in Stockholm |
Empogona talbotii is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Sources
Empogona
Vulnerable plants
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Onich (; Gaelic: Omhanaich, 'abounding in froth, frothy place'), also spelled Ounich, is a village in the historic county of Inverness-shire on the east shore of Loch Linnhe, Scotland and, together with North Ballachulish at the entrance to Loch Leven, forms Nether Lochaber.
Area
St Bride’s Church was built in 1874 by the Edinburgh architect John Garden Brown. Onich to North Ballachulish Woods forms a Special Area of Conservation because of its old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum.
Climate
As with the rest of the British Isles, Onich experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. Rainfall is high, approaching an annual average of . Onich holds the record for highest temperature reported, , for this part of Scotland (also the furthest north such a high value has been recorded in the British Isles). It also holds the highest Scottish minimum temperature for July at 20.0.C set in July 1948.
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Kosmopoisk (, full name: Общеросси́йская нау́чно-иссле́довательская обще́ственная организа́ция, ОНИОО, translated "All-Russian Research Public Organization"), also known as Spacesearch, is a group with interests in ufology, cryptozoology, and other mystery investigations. It started in 1980, and expanded in 2001, to an international movement. In 2004, it registered under the name All-Russian Scientific Organization. Many of the activities are in the form of expeditions to sites that are reputed to have extraterrestrial activity or unusual creatures.
Formation
The organization was founded by Russian science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, aerospace engineer Vadim Chernobrov, astronaut Georgy Beregovoy, and other enthusiasts, in order to explore the mysteries of the universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development, and work on breakthrough branches of science. In 1945, Kanzanstev started to research the Tunguska event of 1908 and link it to a UFO crash and explosion. Two years later, there were UFO sightings in the United States.
In 1980, Chernobrov and his colleagues from the Moscow Aviation Institute created the group whose objectives were to collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet Union, to develop a Lovondatr device (also known as "time car"), and to send expeditions to explore the most promising anomalous zones. In 2004, the group registered themselves as Kosmopoisk (All-Russian Scientific Organization). They consider themselves the largest non-commercial public research organization in the world
Membership
The organization has more than 2,500 active members, in more than 100 groups in 25 countries. It has organized more than 250 expeditions.
Expeditions
In the 1990s, the group made expeditions an annual event. To save costs, they would hitchhike as a main way of traveling. For instance, in 1999, the group made an expedition to the remote Labynkyr Lake in Yakutia, Sakha Republic, where an underwater monster, similar to Nessie, has been believed to exist since the 1960s. They hitchhiked the Kolyma federal road to get to Labynkyr Lake in Yakutia. They then collected their results of anomalous events into a database.
One of the events the group would investigate was the meteorite landing at Korenevo in Kaluga Oblast. The meteorite landed in October 1996. The group conducted expeditions annually from 1997 to 2003. They also held a Kosmopoisk conference in May in Korenevo. Its objective was not only to search for the impact point, but also a way to involve a large number of people, mostly from educational institutions, in the public research process. During one expedition to Kaluga they allegedly found a 300 million year old screw.
Another annual event is the "monitoring" expedition to Southern Russia, mostly to Krasnodar Krai to investigate crop circles before they become structurally damaged by tourists. The group deployed "UfoSETI" to collect and analyze the reports about UFO spottings and crop circle discoveries in Russia.
Another popular expedition site is the She-Bear Ridge (Russian: Медведицкая гряда; Medveditskaya gryada), which is situated in Volgograd Oblast. It is considered to be one of the most impressive anomalous zones in Russia, including multiple observations of "triangle UFOs", "crazy lightnings slope", mysterious tunnels, and a possible Lovondatr-7 time travel experiment. The group started exploring the ridge in the 1980s.
In 2002 and 2003, the group made expeditions to Brosno Lake in Tver Oblast in search of the Brosno Dragon, "Brosnya", an underwater creature. The group did a complete sonar underwater scan and coastal monitoring. They concluded that the Brosnya was likely caused by massive gas eruptions from the lake bottom.
From 2002 to 2004, the group made expeditions to Verkhoshizhemye in Kirov Oblast to look for the habitats of bigfoot creatures. They found and photographed some probable camp sites.
In 2002, the group launched a multi-profile expedition to find the Kyshtym dwarf "Aleshenka". They traveled to Kyshtym which is located in the Urals Federal District. The dwarf allegedly appeared in the town in the late 1990s but after it died, its corpse was retrieved by militsiya officers and then was stolen with present whereabouts unknown. The expeditioners collected data, gathered evidence from witnesses, found a possible UFO landing site, and explored a deep Sugomak cave, where they suspect the dwarf beings might have lived.
In May and June 2003, the group held an expedition to the Vitim River in Siberia to investigate the site of the Vitim event, which was a large explosion suspected to be from a comet landing.
In September 2004, the group held an expedition to the Mountains of Ararat in search of Noah's Ark.
See also
List of UFO organizations
References
External links and references
Belarus-Kosmopoisk at ufo-com.net
Cryptozoology
UFO organizations
Clubs and societies in Russia
Organizations established in 2004
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Lachnocnema luna, or Druce's large woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. It is found in Ghana (the Volta Region), eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Larvae have been recorded on Cassia alata. They fed on the secretions of immature ant-attended membracids and jassids.
References
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Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 65 h
Butterflies described in 1910
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John Lyons Doyne (March 13, 1912 – January 29, 1997) was a Wisconsin politician and the first County Executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Doyne received his bachelor's degree from Marquette University and then received his law degree from the Marquette University Law School. Doyne practiced law. From 1941 to 1943, he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Then Doyne served in the United States Navy in the Pacific during World War II. In 1953, he was appointed Milwaukee County Deputy Treasurer and then in 1954, he was appointed to the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. He was vice chairman and then chairman of the board. In 1960, Doyne was elected County Executive of Milwaukee County serving until 1976. His portrait can be seen hanging outside the County Executive offices on the third floor of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Doyne died of cancer on January 29, 1997, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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1997 deaths
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The Jory series consists of very deep, well-drained soils that formed in colluvium derived from basic igneous rock. These soils are in the foothills surrounding the Willamette Valley of the United States. They have been mapped on more than in western Oregon. They are named after Jory Hill, Marion County, Oregon, which itself is named for the Jory family, who settled in the area in 1852, after traveling along the Oregon Trail.
Surface layer: organic material
Subsurface layer: dark reddish brown silty clay loam
Subsoil - upper: dark reddish brown clay
Subsoil - lower: red clay
Jory soils generally support forest vegetation, dominantly Douglas fir and Oregon white oak. They are very productive forest soils. Many areas have been cleared and are used for agricultural crops. The Jory soils and the climate of the Willamette Valley provide an ideal setting for the production of many crops, including Christmas trees, various berries, filberts (hazelnuts), sweet corn, wheat, and many varieties of grass seed. The soils are suitable for the grapes used in the expanding Oregon wine industry.
Growing urbanization of the Willamette Valley is resulting in a great deal of pressure for development in areas of the Jory soils.
Oregon state soil
After several failed attempts to make it an official state symbol, Jory was officially adopted as the state soil of Oregon by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 2011.
See also
Pedology (soil study)
Soil types
List of U.S. state soils
References
Pedology
Soil in the United States
Geology of Oregon
Types of soil
Symbols of Oregon |
Vitaly Valeryevich Fridzon (, born October 14, 1985) is a Russian professional basketball. He also represents the senior Russian national basketball team. Standing at 1.95 m (6 ft 4 in), he mainly plays at the shooting guard position, but he can also play at the point guard position.
Professional career
Early years
Fridzon started his professional career in the Russian team Standart Toliatti, in 2001, and stayed with them until the end of the 2003–04 season.
Khimki Moscow Region
Fridzon then moved to the prominent Moscow-based team Khimki. With Khimki, he won the Russian Cup in 2007, and the VTB United League championship in 2011, while also being the VTB United League Final Four MVP. A year later, he won the EuroCup 2011–12 season championship, the second-tier level European continental championship, thus giving his team a spot in the upcoming EuroLeague 2012–13 season, after a year of absence from that competition. In the 2012–13 season, he averaged a career-high 11.4 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, in 24 EuroLeague games. However, Khimki didn't win any trophies that season.
CSKA Moscow
On June 13, 2013, Fridzon signed a two-year contract, with the option for a third season, with the Russian team CSKA Moscow. In his first season with CSKA, in the EuroLeague 2012–13 season, he averaged 7.5 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game, over 31 games.
In the 2014–15 season, CSKA Moscow managed to advance to the EuroLeague Final Four, for the fourth straight season, after eliminating Panathinaikos for the second straight season. in the quarterfinals series, with a 3–1 series win. However, in the EuroLeague semifinal game, despite being dubbed by media as an absolute favorite to advance, CSKA once again lost to Olympiacos. The final score was 70–68, after a great Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. Fridzon had nearly the same season, statistically speaking, like his first season with the club, averaging 7.8 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game, over 23 games played in the EuroLeague. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League season, after eliminating Khimki, with a 3–0 sweep in the league's finals series.
On June 16, 2016, he re-signed with the team, on a new two-year contract, with the option of another season.
On July 25, 2018, Fridzon and CSKA officially part ways after five seasons.
Lokomotiv Kuban
On July 25, 2018, Fridzon signed a two-year contract with the Russian club Lokomotiv Kuban.
Zenit Saint Petersburg
On July 18, 2020, Fridzon moved to Zenit Saint Petersburg on a one-year contract, marking his return to the EuroLeague. On June 3, 2021, Zenit announced that Fridzon's contract would not be renewed, making him a free agent once more.
On March 5, 2022, he has signed and joined back the team.
National team career
Fridzon is also a member of the senior Russian national basketball team. He won a bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2011, and a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Career statistics
EuroLeague
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| style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=3| Khimki
| 16 || 2 || 19.0 || .375 || .327 || .964 || 2.4 || 2.0 || .4 || .1 || 6.5 || 5.9
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| style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11
| 9 || 7 || 22.5 || .328 || .313 || .759 || 4.1 || 1.4 || .7 || .1 || 8.2 || 7.3
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| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13
| 24 || 5 || 24.0 || .450 || .432 || .813 || 2.5 || 2.2 || 1.0 || .1 || 11.4 || 9.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=5| CSKA Moscow
| 31 || 7 || 17.8 || .520 || .500 || .853 || 1.5 || 1.1 || .5 || .1 || 7.5 || 6.7
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| style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15
| 23 || 18 || 18.3 || .417 || .423 || .872 || 2.3 || 1.4 || .7 || .1 || 7.8 || 6.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;"| 2015–16†
| 27 || 14 || 13.9 || .475 || .429 || .833 || 1.7 || .9 || .6 || .0 || 6.4 || 5.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17
| 35 || 6 || 12.9 || .511 || .417 || .860 || 1.2 || .8 || .6 || .3 || 5.9 || 5.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18
| 30 || 0 || 7.6 || .372 || .382 || .882 || .7 || .4 || .3 || .1 || 2.9 || .9
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:left;"| Career
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 195 || 59 || 15.4 || .447 || .419 || .851 || 1.8 || 1.2 || .6 || .1 || 6.8 || 5.3
References
External links
Vitaly Fridzon at draftexpress.com
Vitaly Fridzon at eurobasket.com
Vitaly Fridzon at euroleague.net
Vitaly Fridzon at fiba.com
Vitaly Fridzon at vtb-league.com
1985 births
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Alexander Jesse Norman (born 23 June 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology since October 2022. He previously served as Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories from September to October 2022. He served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.
Norman was a director at Barclays before leaving the City in 1997 to research and teach at University College London. Prior to that he ran an educational charity in Eastern Europe during and after the Communist era. Despite his unconventional past, Norman was identified by Bruce Anderson, formerly political editor of The Spectator, in January 2013 as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party.
Norman was first elected as the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire at the 2010 general election, having been selected as his party's candidate by open primary in December 2006. He chaired the Culture, Media and Sport Committee from 2015 to 2016. Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2016, Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy. Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport after the 2017 general election, before advancing to Minister of State at the same department in November 2018. In May 2019, Norman was appointed Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury by May; he remained in the latter position under her successor, Boris Johnson, until he stepped down in September 2021.
In September 2022, he returned to government, having been appointed Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, before moving back to the Department for Transport in October 2022.
Early life and education
Norman is the son of Sir Torquil Norman and his wife Lady Elizabeth Montagu (daughter of the 10th Earl of Sandwich), the paternal grandson of Air Commodore Sir Nigel Norman, 2nd Bt, CBE, and the great-grandson of Sir Henry Norman, 1st Bt. He and his sons are therefore in remainder to the Norman baronetcy.
Norman was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Second in Classics.
Career
Academic
Norman pursued further studies at University College London, where he was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow in philosophy, taking an Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in 1999 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2003. His doctoral thesis was titled "Visual reasoning in Euclid's geometry: an epistemology of diagrams". He also lectured in philosophy at University College London and Birkbeck, University of London. He was elected as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2016-17, and a Two-Year Fellow in 2022.
Norman's research interests include Edmund Burke and Adam Smith.
Charity
From 1989 to 1991, Norman ran a charitable project donating new medical textbooks and journals and business and other books and building independent professional networks in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine.
He was for many years a trustee of The Roundhouse, a North London arts venue and charity founded by his father, Sir Torquil Norman. He has also served on the boards of the Hay Festival, the Kindle Centre in Hereford and the Friends of St Mary's church, Ross-on-Wye.
Banking
Norman worked for Barclays from 1991 to 1997.
Think tanks and writing
He was a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and writes regularly for the national press. His book Compassionate Conservatism (2006), co-written with Janan Ganesh, has been described as "the guidebook to Cameronism" by The Sunday Times. Its successor, Compassionate Economics, was favourably reviewed by Daniel Hannan. His other policy publications include "Living for the City" (2006) and "From Here to Fraternity" (2007).
In 2007, Norman founded the Conservative Co-operative Movement.
His books include The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott (ed.) (1992), Breaking the Habits of a Lifetime (1992) and After Euclid (2006); The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics (2010), published by University of Buckingham Press.
His biography of Edmund Burke was long-listed for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and was described as "A must-read for anyone interested in politics and history" by the Sunday Telegraph.
His book Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters (2018), won the Parliamentary non-fiction book award in 2018., and was described as "superb" in the Financial Times.
His first novel, The Winding Stair, about the rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke, was published in June 2023.
Political career
At the 2006 local elections in Camden, Norman was one of the three Conservative candidates for Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward. However, he was unsuccessful, in what was a close contest between the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.
Norman won the new seat of Hereford and South Herefordshire at the 2010 general election with a 5.1% majority over the Liberal Democrats, who had held the predecessor constituency. He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from July 2010 to March 2015, is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership, founder of the PFI Rebate Campaign and founding member of the Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber which campaigns for the House of Lords to be appointed rather than elected.
On 10 July 2012, Norman was identified as a ringleader of the rebellion over the House of Lords Reform package presented to the House of Commons. On the vote being overturned, Government Whips suggested to David Cameron that before the debate "Norman had spread a rumour to rally rebels" the Prime Minister was in reality unenthusiastic about the reforms. Immediately after the intensive debate, culminating in a narrow Government defeat by Labour's rejection of the Lords Election proposals as tabled, Cameron is reported to have confronted Norman in the Members' Lobby telling him that such "conduct [misrepresenting Cameron to rally Lords Reform dissenters] was 'not honourable'"; Norman then withdrew in the direction of the Members' Bar but allegedly was immediately stopped and escorted from the Palace of Westminster by four Whips. A spokesman denied that there had been a heated argument, saying that Cameron had merely told Norman he had misrepresented his views.
On 11 July 2012, Ed Miliband, the then leader of the Labour Party, described the scene involving Cameron and Norman as "fisticuffs in the Lobby" at Prime Minister's Questions. Accounts of the severity of Cameron's words or gestures used vary and The Daily Telegraph wrote that cynics say this "public argument may have been staged" to try to prove to Liberal Democrats that Cameron shared their vision of Lords Reform. Norman rebutted much of this narrative in an article for The Spectator.
In 2013, Norman said that so many Old Etonians were in government positions because of Eton's "ethos" of public service that "other schools don't imbue the same commitment". Later on Twitter, Norman said his comments were "defending one institution, not attacking others". Norman describes his educational background as following "an educational argument between my mother, who despised any form of privilege, and my father, who took the view that he had set up his own business, so he was entitled to spend money on his kids' education".
Norman was dismissed from Downing Street's Policy Board after rebelling against the Government again in opposition to military intervention in Syria.
On 27 June 2014, prior to the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker to the presidency of the European Commission, Norman gave his wholehearted support of Cameron's stance, as being "absolutely right ... in opposing Mr Juncker". He argued that the EU constitution requires elected heads to choose its "President" and secondly that Juncker's manifesto fails to tackle what he (Norman) sees as the President's duty to address the unpopularity of EU mandates. Norman also said that democracy, for the British, involves legitimacy derived from the ballot box, whereas for some Europeans, it involves centralised bureaucracy.
In September 2014, Norman raised the issue of rules concerning football club ownership in the House of Commons, alleging the then-Chairman of Hereford United had a criminal conviction, in support of Supporters Trust's campaign to oust the Agombar régime at Hereford Utd FC. On 19 December 2014, the club was wound up in the High Court.
Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee
On 19 June 2015, his election as Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee was announced.
On 8 September 2015 at a hearing of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee convened to discuss recent allegation of blood doping in athletics, Norman said the following "When you hear the London Marathon, potentially the winners or medallists at the London Marathon, potentially British athletes are under suspicion for very high levels of blood doping... " thus seemingly using parliamentary privilege to implicate Paula Radcliffe as being involved, since she is the only British London Marathon winner since 1996. This prompted Radcliffe to respond with a statement denying any involvement in doping, though Norman said it was not his intention to implicate any individual.
Financial Secretary
After serving as Energy Minister and then Roads Minister, Norman served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 2019-September 2021. During that time, he managed the UK Pandemic Furlough and self-employed schemes, launched a 10 year strategy to digitize the tax system, and set up the UK Infrastructure Bank. He stepped down in September 2021.
Brexit
Almost alone among MPs, Norman has never revealed publicly how he voted over the UK's continued membership of the European Union in the 2016 referendum saying only, "A referendum is not an act of representative government and I am not a minister, so my vote can properly be a private one." He set out his view of Brexit in an Op-Ed "To get this EU debate out of the sewer, it needs the Pulp Fiction treatment"
Other views
In 2017, Norman expressed support for fellow Old Etonian Jacob Rees-Mogg to lead the party. Norman subsequently felt obliged to contact the newspaper concerned to say that his was a light-hearted response to a question in an interview about whether Rees-Mogg would make a good candidate and he was not backing him.
Honours
In November 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Privy Council.
Bibliography
The Winding Stair (London: Biteback Publishing, 2023)
Personal life
In 1992, Norman married Kate Bingham, only daughter of The Lord Bingham of Cornhill, KG, the former Lord Chief Justice. Bingham is known for leading the Johnson government's COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce. They have two sons and one daughter.
Norman lists his recreations as "music, especially jazz and opera, hill-walking, sports, cinema". He is a football fan, and a member of Westfields Football Club.
See also
Norman baronets
Secretary to the Treasury
Notes
References
External links
Jesse Norman MP official website
Jesse Norman campaign website
Profile at the Conservative Party
Top 100 right wingers: 75–51 Iain Dale Daily Telegraph 26 Sep 2008
Compassionate Economics
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Poole Hall is a Regency mansion at Poole, near Nantwich in Cheshire, England. It dates from 1812 to 1817 and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be "exceptionally fine". The hall is a private residence and is not open to the public.
History
The manor of White-Poole was held by the Elcock or Elcocke family from around 1600. An earlier house on the site of the present hall was in existence in 1622. The manor passed into the Massey family early in the 19th century, on the marriage of the heiress Elizabeth Elcocke to the Reverend William Massey, rector of Ditchingham in Norfolk. The present hall was built in 1812–17 for their second son, also William Massey, possibly to the design of Lewis Wyatt.
The Massey family retained ownership of the hall until around 1900. Towards the end of the 19th century it was rented out; tenants included the cricketer A. N. Hornby, as well as his father, William Henry Hornby, MP for Blackburn. Sir William Holland, MP, was living in the hall in 1904.
After several changes of ownership, the hall was purchased in 1988 by Tony Hill, a property developer, who undertook restoration work on the house and also enlarged the estate from to . An avid collector, Hill used the house and its outbuildings to display his extensive collection of antiques, collectibles and cars. Antiques expert Paul Hayes described the collection as including "dozens of teas-maids, lamp stands, mannequins, toy robots, an old pinball machine and ... a stag's head". The car collection included Keith Richards' Bentley, nicknamed "Blue Lena". Hill sold the estate in 2007.
Description
Exterior
The house is located at the end of Cinder Lane at . The two-storey building is in red brick with sandstone trimming under a slate roof. It has three bays to the front and six bays to the south side; a five-bay service wing on the north side is set back with a lower roof. The front face has a semicircular porch with four unfluted Ionic columns. The entrance door is flanked by pilasters and has a fluted frieze. The south side features a prominent canted bay window. The corner finials to the parapet are carved in the form of pineapples.
Interior
Nikolaus Pevsner described the hall's Regency interiors as "exceptionally fine". The four-bay drawing room has a shallow tunnel-vaulted ceiling, panelled in rectangles and octagons and decorated with foliage scrolls, and a frieze with gilt palmettes. At the west side of the room, a screen of two unfluted columns and two Corinthian pilasters supports a decorative beam. The marble Grecian chimneypiece incorporates two female figures. Pevsner described the ceiling as "elegant", and Marcus Binney compares the room with Robert Adam's library at Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath.
The dining room has a shallow alcove at the north side, flanked by pilasters, with a shell-shaped ceiling and a scrollwork frieze. The plasterwork features vines and leaves, and the white marble chimneypiece is decorated with wreaths and torches. The main staircase is cantilevered and follows all four walls of the stair hall; it has limestone steps, a balustrade with cast-iron scrollwork and a mahogany handrail. The sitting room and study contain oak panelling. A window contains stained glass panels dating from the mid-16th and 17th centuries, which possibly originated in the earlier house. The hall's service areas are well preserved, and contain old cooking ranges, meat hooks and a foothole ladder to the attics.
Outbuildings and park
The gardens and park were designed by landscape gardener John Webb of Lichfield in 1815–19. The grounds contain a walled garden, yew hedge and an L-shaped ornamental pond, possibly the remains of a moat to the earlier building. The Crewe and Nantwich Circular Walk passes through the estate.
The outbuildings include a coach house, stables and former forge, as well as various cottages and barns. To the north of the hall stands a two-storey, timber-framed barn, dating from the late 17th century, which is listed at grade II. The barn rests on a sandstone plinth and features small framing with a brick infill.
See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire East
Listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire
References
Sources
Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes. The Cheshire Village Book (Countryside Books & CFWI; 1990) ()
Latham FA, ed. Acton (The Local History Group; 1995) ()
Pevsner N, Hubbard E. The Buildings of England: Cheshire (Penguin Books; 1971) ()
External links
Medieval stained glass information from CVMA
Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire
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Country houses in Cheshire
Parks and open spaces in Cheshire
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The Static vs. The Strings Vol. 1 is the third full-length album by Centro-matic.
Track listing
Calling Up The Bastards
Who’s Telling You Now?
The Execution Of Some Sixty-Odd Drummers
Neighbors. Habits. Downtown.
Recaptured the Silent Way
Repellant Feed
Turning Your Decisions
Wrecking This Show
D. Boon-Free (a Ninth Grade Crime)
Say Something / 95 Frowns
Curb Your Turbulence
Now That You Have Blown Away The Cards
You Might Need This Now
Keep the Phoenix in Slow Motion
Personnel
Will Johnson - vocals, guitars
Scott Danbom - vocals, keyboards, violin
Mark Hedman - bass
Matt Pence - drums
References
External links
Official site
Centro-Matic albums
1999 albums |
Acropora loisetteae is a species of acroporid coral that was first described by C. C. Wallace in 1994. Found in marine, tropical, shallow reefs in sheltered lagoons, it is found at depths between . It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and it is thought to have a decreasing population. It is not common but found over a large area, and is listed under CITES Appendix II.
Description
Acropora loisetteae is found in colonies of tree-like structures, and is blue or pink in colour. Branches are circular, straight, thin and up to long and between wide. Branchlets contain axial corallites on the end, which are obvious and tube-shaped. The sides of the branchlets contain radial corallites up to 2.8mm wide, which are uniform in size and small. It is similar to Acropora abrolhosensis, Acropora parilis, and Acropora pulchra. It is found in a marine environment in tropical, shallow reefs, located in lagoons sheltered from wave action. It occurs at depths between , and is composed of aragonite (calcium carbonate).
Distribution
Acropora loisetteae is often uncommon and is found over a large area; the Indo-Pacific, Australia, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Philippines, the Adamans, and Banggai. It occurs in two regions of Indonesia, and in four locations in the Marshall Islands. Despite this, it is believed that this species may dominate others in some locations. There is no exact population for the coral, but numbers are known to be declining. It is threatened by climate change, rising sea temperatures causing bleaching, coral disease (cases increasing in the range of the species), reef destruction, being prey to starfish Acanthaster planci, and human activity. It is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List, is under CITES Appendix II, and may occur within Marine Protected Areas.
Taxonomy
It was described by C. C. Wallace in 1994 in the Indian Ocean as Acropora loisetteae.
References
Acropora
Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean
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"His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison, released in 1975 as the closing track of his album Extra Texture (Read All About It). The song is a tribute to "Legs" Larry Smith, the drummer with the 1960s satirical-comedy group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and one of many comedians with whom Harrison began associating during the 1970s. Smith appears on the recording, delivering a spoken monologue, while Harrison's lyrics similarly reflect the comedian's penchant for zany wordplay. The song serves as a precursor to Harrison's work with Monty Python members Eric Idle and Michael Palin, including his production of the troupe's 1975 single "The Lumberjack Song" and films such as Life of Brian (1979) that he produced under the aegis of his company HandMade Films.
Harrison recorded "His Name Is Legs" at his Friar Park home studio during sessions for his 1974 album Dark Horse. The song remained unfinished until he returned to it the following year while working in Los Angeles on Extra Texture. Aside from Harrison and Smith, the musicians on the recording include Tom Scott, Billy Preston, Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark, all of whom were part of Harrison's 1974 tour band. The song's arrangement reflects Harrison's adoption of the funk genre.
As with the album's humorous artwork, the inclusion of "His Name Is Legs" on Extra Texture marked a rare example of light-heartedness among a collection of mostly downbeat songs. Several commentators view the track as an indulgence by Harrison. These detractors cite the in-joke nature of the composition, together with the largely unintelligible vocals on the recording. Harrison acknowledged that the song's appeal might be limited to "maybe two people".
Background
Although often noted for the serious, religious nature of his song lyrics, George Harrison was an avowed fan of British comedy, beginning with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan's work in The Goon Show during the 1950s. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison writes of comedy – specifically, Monty Python's first TV series and the satirical Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – as having "filled that empty space for me" in the late 1960s, when relationships with his Beatles bandmates had fractured. The Bonzo Dog Band (as they became known in 1969) were a favourite of the Beatles, who cast the group in their 1967 TV film Magical Mystery Tour. Harrison subsequently performed with the Bonzos' drummer, "Legs" Larry Smith, along with Eric Clapton and other members of Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, at John Lennon's "Peace for Christmas" charity concert, held at London's Lyceum Ballroom in December 1969. In I, Me, Mine, Harrison suggests an alternative scenario to the Beatles' 1970 break-up: "What should have happened is that the Bonzos and the Beatles ... turned into one great Rutle band with all the Pythons and had a laugh."
By 1973, Sellers and Milligan were among the comedians who formed part of Harrison's social circle at his Friar Park estate in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. This period coincided with the end of his marriage to Pattie Boyd, who has described their home as "a madhouse" during their final year together. Harrison became reacquainted with Smith through longtime Beatles aide Terry Doran. Harrison admired Smith as "a wonderfully eccentric person", a quality that had similarly inspired him about Sir Frank Crisp, the original owner of Friar Park. Author Dale Allison suggests that Smith became a court jester figure for Harrison, who wrote the song "His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" as a tribute to Smith. In his autobiography, Harrison terms the composition "a piece of personal indulgence, like some other of my songs about things nobody else knows or cares about, except maybe two people".
Composition
Harrison wrote "His Name Is Legs" around Christmastime in 1973, on a piano at Friar Park. Author Ian Inglis describes it as a song "peppered with oblique references and in-jokes about [Smith's] idiosyncratic mannerisms and behavior". Harrison's lyrics incorporate some of Smith's favourite sayings, the first verse beginning:
Examples of Smith's penchant for zany wordplay include the lines "Never over-sits he under-stands" and "Get lined up come Sikh come Czar" – the latter being partly a misappropriation of the French phrase "comme ci comme ça". In the second verse, the line "People think he's loopy loo when they look at his shoes" refers to the comedian's unusual dress sense, which included "toy cows grazing on his shoes", according to Harrison biographer Alan Clayson, while "rocking sausage roll" was Smith's phrase for rock 'n' roll.
The song title appears in the two bridge sections, the first of which states:
Musically, the composition is in the funk rock style, while the device of introducing Smith to listeners recalls the show tune aspect of Harrison's collaboration with Mal Evans, "You and Me (Babe)", which closed former Beatle Ringo Starr's 1973 album Ringo. In the lyrics to "His Name Is Legs", Harrison biographer Simon Leng recognises the same "nonsense word games" favoured by Monty Python. Leng comments that the latter's composition "The Lumberjack Song" particularly resonated with Harrison during this period, as he sought to challenge the public's perception of him as a Beatle, in the same way that Michael Palin's character in the Python song challenged the stereotypes associated with an "all-action" lumberjack.
Recording
1974 basic track
Harrison taped "His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" during sessions for his 1974 album Dark Horse, but it was one of a number of tracks he left unfinished. The sessions took place at his Friar Park studio, FPSHOT, in August–September that year, with Phil McDonald as recording engineer. Harrison played piano and electric guitar on the recording; the other musicians were Billy Preston (electric piano), Tom Scott (saxophones), Willie Weeks (bass) and Andy Newmark (drums). These four musicians then joined Harrison for tour rehearsals in Los Angeles, where he rushed to complete Dark Horse before undertaking a much-anticipated North American tour with Ravi Shankar. With Peter Sellers among his entourage, Harrison alternatively adopted comedy and his Hindu-aligned spiritual goals as a defence against expectations related to his Beatle past during the tour.
When discussing "His Name Is Legs" with BBC Radio 1 DJ Paul Gambaccini in September 1975, Harrison said that after recording the basic track, he invited Smith to sing the first two lines of each of the bridges. Smith did these vocal parts in two takes, and improvised dialogue through the rest of the song each time. In Clayson's description, Smith sang the bridge sections in English "officer-and-gentleman tones" and adopted an American accent for the monologues.
1975 overdubs
Harrison returned to the track in April 1975 when recording his album Extra Texture (Read All About It) at A&M Studios in Los Angeles. The sessions coincided with a period that author Gary Tillery describes as a "spiritual funk" for Harrison, in reaction to scathing reviews for his 1974 tour and the Dark Horse album. Harrison's despondency was alleviated by his new relationship with Olivia Arias, and a friendship begun with Monty Python star Eric Idle immediately after the Los Angeles premiere of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Idle has spoken of them sharing "a dialogue that went on for about 48 hours" following the premiere, which led to Harrison producing a re-recording of "The Lumberjack Song" in London, in October 1975, for release as a UK single. The pair then wrote a comical sea shanty called "The Pirate Song" for a sketch in Rutland Weekend Television, Idle's TV show with Neil Innes, Smith's former bandmate.
Overdubs on the 1974 basic track for "His Name Is Legs" included tack piano, played by Canadian musician David Foster, and a new horn arrangement, played by Scott and Chuck Findley, another member of Harrison's tour band the previous year. Scott and Findley recorded their contributions at A&M Studios over 2–3 June, with each musician overdubbing two horn parts.
The released recording begins with an introductory bass riff from Weeks, which is then joined by Foster's tack piano. Commentators note the lack of clarity in the mix, which author Elliot Huntley attributes to the "three-pronged piano attack" and the low level of Harrison and Smith's vocals. At times during the sections featuring Smith's improvised dialogue, Harrison let both recorded takes run simultaneously, and he admitted to Gambaccini that he chose to mix the track in this way "so people have to strain with headphones to hear what it is".
Release and reception
"His Name Is Legs" was released on 22 September 1975 as the final track on Extra Texture (Read All About It). Together with Roy Kohara's album artwork, which "tried to incorporate a 'wacky' theme", according to authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter, the song's inclusion contrasted with the melancholic musical content of Extra Texture. The artwork included an inner-sleeve photo of Harrison "grin[ning] like a Monty Python choirboy", in the words of Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, while the face labels credited production to "Ohnothimagen" (Oh, not him again) and showed the Apple Records logo reduced to an apple core. With the "Ohnothimagen" moniker, which also appeared below the LP's inner-sleeve photo and in advertising for the album, Harrison acknowledged his recent unpopularity with music critics. While this gesture was intended as self-deprecation on Harrison's part, Smith has cited it as an example of Harrison's lack of confidence at the time and his need for "a cuddle now and then". Smith was listed in the performer credits as appearing "courtesy of the Oxfordshire County Council".
Author Robert Rodriguez describes "His Name Is Legs" as a "comedy number" and "a self-indulgent in-joke" that appeared to show Harrison "doubling down on efforts to alienate his audience", after the bad press he had received over the winter of 1974–75. On release, Dave Marsh of Rolling Stone said that the song "might be Harrison's way of countering charges of humorlessness" but that "since neither Smith nor Harrison is very funny, it does more to confirm the charges." In the NME, Neil Spencer referred to the image of Harrison with "a chirpy smirk plastered across his dial" as "misleading", given the album's overall mood, and added: "'His Names Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)' is the odd track out because it's (ulp) not serious. It seems like an attempt to recapture some of the innocent light-heartedness of Beatle days." Ray Coleman of Melody Maker predicted that Extra Texture would "re-establish [Harrison] as a powerful artist with an ear for unusual but attractive tunes allied to some quirky lyrics", and he described the closing song as an "up-tempo splash of fun, and it jumps, too".
In the 1978 edition of their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler said that Harrison had "desperately" employed "last-minute devices" to save Extra Texture, by featuring "'zany' ex-Bonzo Dog Band drummer 'Legs' Larry Smith on a track, and by instructing his graphic designers to 'get a little humour into the packaging'. They do; and 'Legs' duly sings; but it is all too little, too late." Writing in 1981, NME critic Bob Woffinden identified the song and the album art, as well as the single "You", as evidence that Harrison was attempting to re-engage with his listeners. Woffinden welcomed this approach but, noting the lack of a lyric sheet with the album, he added: "['His Name Is Legs'] is not a success, since most of the vocals are lost in the raucous mix; Larry might have had pearls of wisdom to impart, but who could tell?" More recently, Richard Ginell of AllMusic has described the song as a "baffling salute" to Smith, while former Mojo editor Mat Snow dismisses it as "a throwaway among throwaways".
Also writing for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer views "His Name Is Legs" as "somewhat silly but nonetheless thoroughly entertaining", a song that "[allows] Harrison the opportunity to close the disc on a lighter note and unleash his admittedly askew and undeniably rich sense of humor". In his review for Rough Guides, Chris Ingham calls the track a "manically intricate tribute" and considers it to be a redeeming feature of Extra Texture, along with "Tired of Midnight Blue". Writing for Goldmine magazine in January 2002, Dave Thompson described it as "whacked" and "a six-minute semi-jam" that should not be "overlook[ed]".
Legacy
Snow, Huntley and Inglis each discuss "His Name Is Legs" as a precedent for Harrison's well-received work with Idle. Snow writes that, as unlikely as it seemed during Harrison's fallow period of 1975, "surreal English comedy would provide him with a new career." Aside from Harrison's production of "The Lumberjack Song", for which he again used the Ohnothimagen moniker, their collaborations began with his guest appearance on Rutland Weekend Television, which aired on BBC2 on 26 December 1975. In 1978, Harrison participated in The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a TV film starring Idle, Innes and Palin that satirised the Beatles' history, and he formed HandMade Films that year in order to fund the production of Monty Python's third movie, Life of Brian (1979), in which he also appeared. HandMade became Britain's most successful independent film company and went on to make other films involving one or more members of Monty Python, including Time Bandits (1981), The Missionary (1982), A Private Function (1984) and Nuns on the Run (1990).
Leng recognises an increasing Python-based comedy influence in Harrison's songwriting and musical arrangements, beginning with his 1979 track "Soft-Hearted Hana" and subsequently including "Save the World", with that song's "groove … horn charts and moog riffs" reminiscent of "His Name Is Legs", and "Greece". Following his guest appearance on "His Name Is Legs", Smith became part of a coterie of local musicians known as the Henley Music Mafia, which also included Harrison, Alvin Lee, Jon Lord and Joe Brown. Smith appeared in the HandMade comedy Bullshot (1983) and also designed the cover for Harrison's 1982 album Gone Troppo.
Personnel
George Harrison – vocals, piano, electric guitar, backing vocals
Legs Larry Smith – vocals
Billy Preston – electric piano
Tom Scott – saxophones, horn arrangement
Chuck Findley – trumpet, trombone
Willie Weeks – bass
Andy Newmark – drums, shaker
David Foster – tack piano
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References
Sources
Dale C. Allison Jr., The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ).
Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001, Omnibus Press (London, 2001; ).
Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor, Wonderful Today: The Autobiography, Headline Review (London, 2007; ).
Roy Carr & Tony Tyler, The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Trewin Copplestone Publishing (London, 1978; ).
Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975, Ballantine Books (New York, NY, 1976; ).
Alan Clayson, George Harrison, Sanctuary (London, 2003; ).
Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup, It Books (New York, NY, 2011; ).
The Editors of Rolling Stone, Harrison, Rolling Stone Press/Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 2002; ).
Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ).
George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ).
Olivia Harrison, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Abrams (New York, NY, 2011; ).
Bill Harry, The George Harrison Encyclopedia, Virgin Books (London, 2003; ).
Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles, Guernica Editions (Toronto, ON, 2006; ).
Chris Ingham, The Rough Guide to the Beatles, Rough Guides/Penguin (London, 2006; 2nd edn; ).
Ian Inglis, The Words and Music of George Harrison, Praeger (Santa Barbara, CA, 2010; ).
Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ).
Simon Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard (Milwaukee, WI, 2006; ).
Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Pimlico (London, 1998; ).
Thomas MacFarlane, The Music of George Harrison, Routledge (Abingdon, UK, 2019; ).
Chip Madinger & Mark Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium, 44.1 Productions (Chesterfield, MO, 2000; ).
Douglas McCall, Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, McFarland (Jefferson, NC, 2014; ).
Barry Miles, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years, Omnibus Press (London, 2001; ).
The Pythons, The Pythons Autobiography, Orion (London, 2005; ).
Robert Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980, Backbeat Books (Milwaukee, WI, 2010; ).
Nicholas Schaffner, The Beatles Forever, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY, 1978; ).
Mat Snow, The Beatles Solo: The Illustrated Chronicles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo After The Beatles (Volume 3: George), Race Point Publishing (New York, NY, 2013; ).
Bruce Spizer, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, 498 Productions (New Orleans, LA, 2005; ).
Gary Tillery, Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison, Quest Books (Wheaton, IL, 2011; ).
Bob Woffinden, The Beatles Apart, Proteus (London, 1981; ).
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The Rat is a play by the British writers Ivor Novello and Constance Collier which first premiered in 1924. It ran for 282 performances in its original West End run, initially at the Prince of Wales Theatre before transferring to the Garrick Theatre. Novello himself starred as the title character, an Apache dancer who frequents Paris nightclubs. The cast also included James Lindsay and Isabel Jeans. On Broadway it enjoyed a run of 126 performances at the Colonial Theatre.
The play's success led to a film adaptation The Rat, released the following year by Gainsborough Pictures with Novello again in the title role. This in turn was followed by two sequels The Triumph of the Rat and The Return of the Rat.
References
Bibliography
Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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Shaun Kalnasy (born November 4, 1981) is a former American soccer player who spent his professional career with Spokane Shadow, Chivas USA and Atlanta Silverbacks.
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The Ontario Amateur Softball Association (OASA), a member association of Softball Ontario. The OASA is the governing body for male competitive fast-pitch softball in Ontario. The association organizes qualifying tournaments and provincial championships. Each year the association inducts one or more members who have contributed to the development of amateur softball in Ontario into its Hall of Fame.
The OASA conducts "elimination tournaments" which qualify teams for Softball Canada men's and boys' national championships at the Masters, Senior, U23, U20, U17 and U15 levels.
History
Beginning in the early 1890s, softball, a derivative of baseball, extended into Canada as a popular summer activity. While initially only played indoors, in 1908, softball was played outdoors at Burlington Beach, Ontario. Two years later in 1910, an informal public-school league was formed in Hamilton, Ontario.
At the time of its formation in 1923, the OASA was the world's first amateur softball organization. The association standardized the rules for softball throughout Ontario. The association began organizing local softball teams into leagues and organizing games and tournaments.
The OASA celebrated its 100th anniversary on April 22, 2023 with a celebration in Cambridge, Ontario.
The game is now played in many places around the world. During World War II, Canadians introduced the sport to the Netherlands. in fact, the Netherlands acquired and published the official OASA rules in 1946.
Softball was an Olympic sport for women starting in 1996, but was dropped by the International Olympic Committee for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Women's softball was added to the program for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The highest level of play for male softball is the Men's Softball World Cup, organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, at which various nations compete for the title of World Champion.
Activities
The OASA is one of four member associations within the provincial organization Softball Ontario, which is, in turn, a member of Softball Canada. The OASA has three votes at the annual general meeting of Softball Canada.
Each year OASA nominates several athletes for the Quest for Gold Ontario Athlete Assistance Program, an initiative set forth by the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport of Ontario to promote and assist exceptional athletes in Ontario.
The OASA also conducts "Softball in Schools" clinics as well as "Springboard" events to promote softball to young athletes in Ontario.
Game Play
The OASA follows Softball Canada rules, with some modifications. The seven-inning game consists of two teams competing against each other with the end goal of attaining more runs than the opposing team. Each team is permitted to have nine players on the field in fastpitch softball.
In fastpitch softball, a "windmill" style of pitching is utilized, as the pitcher's arm makes a complete backward rotation before completing the pitch. With this style of pitching, elite male pitchers have been known to reach around 70 mph.
Players
Each player on the team must belong to the appropriate age category for their division. Each player must wear a uniform of the same colour, style and trim as that of the rest of the team. Ball caps are permitted but all players must wear the same colour. All participating players in any single game must be included in the lineup card submitted to the official umpires prior to the beginning of the game.
The Field
The OASA requires field dimensions to follow those as directed by Softball Canada. Pitching distances depend on age classification and range from 30 feet for players aged nine and under, up to 46 feet for adult men. The distances between bases also depend on age classification and range from 45 feet for players nine and under, up to 60 feet for adult men.
Age and Divisions
The following table lists the age classification for the OASA. Ages are as of January 1 of the year of competition.
Executive
The association is run by an elected executive and appointed committee members.
References
External links
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Snowy Owl is an engraving by naturalist and painter John James Audubon. It was printed full size and is an early illustration of a snowy owl and part of The Birds of America. It was first published as part of a series in sections around 1831. This specific engraving of the snowy owl, like others in The Birds of America, consists of a hand-coloured engraving, made from copper engraved plates, measuring around . The same book includes images of six now-extinct birds. Art historians describe the quality of Audubon's work as being high and printed with "artistic finesse".
The plant life backgrounds of this engraving were done by Audubon's assistants and Joseph Mason but they are not credited in the book. The piece was created by shooting the owls and then painting them after Audubon set them into poses. He then directed the production of the printing plate based upon his painting. Audubon included details on the bird itself in his Ornithological Biographies. The Snowy Owl engraving was made by Robert Havell. The original prints were printed on J. Whatman watermarked paper. The border of the image is labelled "Snowy Owl (No. 25, Plate CXXI)" and "Strix Nyctea". On the lower left is written "Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon F.R.S.F.L.S." "Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R.R.Havell, London" appears on the lower right.
Background publication history
Though Audubon typically used oil colours, for this piece he used watercolours and pastel crayons (and occasionally pencil, charcoal, chalk, gouache, and pen and ink). His first depiction of the snowy owl was done in pastels in 1809. The Snowy Owl was part of the original edition of The Birds of America (sometimes called the Havell Edition after its printer, and sometimes called the "Double Elephant Folio", because of its size). It was printed on handmade paper 39.5 inches tall by 28.5 inches wide (100.3 × 72.4 cm). The principal printing technique was copperplate etching, but engraving and aquatint were also used. Colourists applied each colour in an assembly-line fashion (over fifty were hired for the work). He was able to sell the Snowy Owl engravings to his wealthy patrons as part of The Birds of America.
Audubon described the snowy owl in his Ornithological Biographies, which he wrote with Scottish naturalist and ornithologist William MacGillivray. Part of his role as a naturalist was his examination of the stomach contents of owls. As was his habit, Audubon included his assessment of the owl's use as a food source. He stated that snowy owls were "not indelicate eating".
Critique
One art historian described the piece, as an image that depicts the owls as "...gazing directly into the eyes of the observer." The owls stand out from their dark background, as a developing winter storm is seen behind them. Though Audubon depicted the birds perched on the branch of the tree, the owls do not typically use trees as perches since much of their hunting ground is tundra and lacks trees. The female bird is realistically displayed as being larger than the male.
Public exhibitions
The Snowy Owl engraving has displayed individually and as part of exhibitions of The Birds of America by the following organizations:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Louisiana State University
University of Pittsburgh
Teylers Museum
New-York Historical Society
Collections and archives
The Darlington Collection
Meisei University
Trinity College
References
Bibliography
Rhodes, Richard (2004). John James Audubon: The Making of an American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
External links
Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh — with high resolution images of all 435 double elephant folios.
Meisei University: Birds of America — the complete sets of 435 plates of drawings, with the accompanying five volumes of textbooks.
Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/September 1887/Sketch of J. J. Audubon
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Tomice is a village in Wadowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Tomice. It lies approximately north-west of Wadowice and south-west of the regional capital Kraków.
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Norman Park Ramsey (September 1, 1922 – June 15, 1993) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Education and career
Born in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, Ramsey served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, from 1943 to 1946, achieving the rank of First Lieutenant. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1947. He was a law clerk for Judge William Calvin Chesnut of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1946 to 1947. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Maryland from 1947 to 1950, entering private practice in Baltimore, Maryland from 1950 to 1955, and then serving as a deputy state attorney general of Maryland from 1955 to 1957. He returned to private practice in Baltimore from 1957 to 1980.
Federal judicial service
On July 25, 1980, Ramsey was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge Charles Stanley Blair. Ramsey was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 29, 1980, and received his commission on September 30, 1980. He assumed senior status on November 1, 1991, serving in that capacity until his retirement, on September 30, 1992. He then returned to private practice, until his death on June 15, 1993, in Baltimore.
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Ellishadder () is a crofting township, situated close to the north shore of the freshwater Loch Mealt, on the Trotternish peninsula of the island of Skye, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Ellishadder is one of 23 townships making up the district area of Staffin.
The Kilt Rock viewpoint is situated to the east of the township; it comprises sea-cliffs tall, made of dolerite rock strata in many different colours. Kilt Rock has a waterfall, Mealt Falls, created from the outflow of Loch Mealt
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Peter Driscoll (born October 27, 1954) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left wing who played in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League between 1974 and 1981. He was born in Powassan, Ontario.
Selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1974 NHL amateur draft and the Vancouver Blazers in the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft, Driscoll signed with the Blazers, moving to Calgary with them when they relocated.
After the Calgary Cowboys folded, he signed as a free agent with the Quebec Nordiques and was later traded to the Indianapolis Racers. A year later, Driscoll was part of the deal that sent Wayne Gretzky to the Edmonton Oilers on November 2, 1978 with Eddie Mio.
Moving to the NHL with the Oilers, he did not see much action and split time between Edmonton and their CHL affiliates, Houston Apollos and Wichita Wind.
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In mathematics, the ratio test is a test (or "criterion") for the convergence of a series
where each term is a real or complex number and is nonzero when is large. The test was first published by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and is sometimes known as d'Alembert's ratio test or as the Cauchy ratio test.
The test
The usual form of the test makes use of the limit
The ratio test states that:
if L < 1 then the series converges absolutely;
if L > 1 then the series diverges;
if L = 1 or the limit fails to exist, then the test is inconclusive, because there exist both convergent and divergent series that satisfy this case.
It is possible to make the ratio test applicable to certain cases where the limit L fails to exist, if limit superior and limit inferior are used. The test criteria can also be refined so that the test is sometimes conclusive even when L = 1. More specifically, let
.
Then the ratio test states that:
if R < 1, the series converges absolutely;
if r > 1, the series diverges; or equivalently if for all large n (regardless of the value of r), the series also diverges; this is because is nonzero and increasing and hence does not approach zero;
the test is otherwise inconclusive.
If the limit L in () exists, we must have L = R = r. So the original ratio test is a weaker version of the refined one.
Examples
Convergent because L < 1
Consider the series
Applying the ratio test, one computes the limit
Since this limit is less than 1, the series converges.
Divergent because L > 1
Consider the series
Putting this into the ratio test:
Thus the series diverges.
Inconclusive because L = 1
Consider the three series
The first series (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + ⋯) diverges, the second one (the one central to the Basel problem) converges absolutely and the third one (the alternating harmonic series) converges conditionally. However, the term-by-term magnitude ratios of the three series are respectively and . So, in all three cases, one has that the limit is equal to 1. This illustrates that when L = 1, the series may converge or diverge, and hence the original ratio test is inconclusive. In such cases, more refined tests are required to determine convergence or divergence.
Proof
Below is a proof of the validity of the original ratio test.
Suppose that . We can then show that the series converges absolutely by showing that its terms will eventually become less than those of a certain convergent geometric series. To do this, consider a real number r such that . This implies that for sufficiently large n; say, for all n greater than N. Hence for each n > N and i > 0, and so
That is, the series converges absolutely.
On the other hand, if L > 1, then for sufficiently large n, so that the limit of the summands is non-zero. Hence the series diverges.
Extensions for L = 1
As seen in the previous example, the ratio test may be inconclusive when the limit of the ratio is 1. Extensions to the ratio test, however, sometimes allows one to deal with this case.
In all the tests below one assumes that Σan is a sum with positive an. These tests also may be applied to any series with a finite number of negative terms. Any such series may be written as:
where aN is the highest-indexed negative term. The first expression on the right is a partial sum which will be finite, and so the convergence of the entire series will be determined by the convergence properties of the second expression on the right, which may be re-indexed to form a series of all positive terms beginning at n=1.
Each test defines a test parameter (ρn) which specifies the behavior of that parameter needed to establish convergence or divergence. For each test, a weaker form of the test exists which will instead place restrictions upon limn->∞ρn.
All of the tests have regions in which they fail to describe the convergence properties of Σan. In fact, no convergence test can fully describe the convergence properties of the series. This is because if Σan is convergent, a second convergent series Σbn can be found which converges more slowly: i.e., it has the property that limn->∞ (bn/an) = ∞. Furthermore, if Σan is divergent, a second divergent series Σbn can be found which diverges more slowly: i.e., it has the property that limn->∞ (bn/an) = 0. Convergence tests essentially use the comparison test on some particular family of an, and fail for sequences which converge or diverge more slowly.
De Morgan hierarchy
Augustus De Morgan proposed a hierarchy of ratio-type tests
The ratio test parameters () below all generally involve terms of the form . This term may be multiplied by to yield . This term can replace the former term in the definition of the test parameters and the conclusions drawn will remain the same. Accordingly, there will be no distinction drawn between references which use one or the other form of the test parameter.
1. d'Alembert's ratio test
The first test in the De Morgan hierarchy is the ratio test as described above.
2. Raabe's test
This extension is due to Joseph Ludwig Raabe. Define:
(and some extra terms, see Ali, Blackburn, Feld, Duris (none), Duris2)
The series will:
Converge when there exists a c>1 such that for all n>N.
Diverge when for all n>N.
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
For the limit version, the series will:
Converge if (this includes the case ρ = ∞)
Diverge if .
If ρ = 1, the test is inconclusive.
When the above limit does not exist, it may be possible to use limits superior and inferior. The series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
Proof of Raabe's test
Defining , we need not assume the limit exists; if , then diverges, while if the sum converges.
The proof proceeds essentially by comparison with . Suppose first that . Of course
if then for large , so the sum diverges; assume then that . There exists such that for all , which is to say that . Thus , which implies that
for ; since this shows that diverges.
The proof of the other half is entirely analogous, with most of the inequalities simply reversed. We need a preliminary inequality to use
in place of the simple that was used above: Fix and . Note that
. So ; hence .
Suppose now that . Arguing as in the first paragraph, using the inequality established in the previous paragraph, we see that there exists such that for ; since this shows that converges.
3. Bertrand's test
This extension is due to Joseph Bertrand and Augustus De Morgan.
Defining:
Bertrand's test asserts that the series will:
Converge when there exists a c>1 such that for all n>N.
Diverge when for all n>N.
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
For the limit version, the series will:
Converge if (this includes the case ρ = ∞)
Diverge if .
If ρ = 1, the test is inconclusive.
When the above limit does not exist, it may be possible to use limits superior and inferior. The series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
4. Extended Bertrand's test
This extension probably appeared at the first time by Margaret Martin in 1941. A short proof based on Kummer's test and without technical assumptions (such as existence of the limits, for example) was provided by Vyacheslav Abramov in 2019.
Let be an integer, and let denote the th iterate of natural logarithm, i.e. and for any ,
.
Suppose that the ratio , when is large, can be presented in the form
(The empty sum is assumed to be 0. With , the test reduces to Bertrand's test.)
The value can be presented explicitly in the form
Extended Bertrand's test asserts that the series
Converge when there exists a such that for all .
Diverge when for all .
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
For the limit version, the series
Converge if (this includes the case )
Diverge if .
If , the test is inconclusive.
When the above limit does not exist, it may be possible to use limits superior and inferior. The series
Converge if
Diverge if
Otherwise, the test is inconclusive.
For applications of Extended Bertrand's test see birth–death process.
5. Gauss's test
This extension is due to Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Assuming an > 0 and r > 1, if a bounded sequence Cn can be found such that for all n:
then the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
6. Kummer's test
This extension is due to Ernst Kummer.
Let ζn be an auxiliary sequence of positive constants. Define
Kummer's test states that the series will:
Converge if there exists a such that for all n>N. (Note this is not the same as saying )
Diverge if for all n>N and diverges.
For the limit version, the series will:
Converge if (this includes the case ρ = ∞)
Diverge if and diverges.
Otherwise the test is inconclusive
When the above limit does not exist, it may be possible to use limits superior and inferior. The series will
Converge if
Diverge if and diverges.
Special cases
All of the tests in De Morgan's hierarchy except Gauss's test can easily be seen as special cases of Kummer's test:
For the ratio test, let ζn=1. Then:
For Raabe's test, let ζn=n. Then:
For Bertrand's test, let ζn=n ln(n). Then:
Using and approximating for large n, which is negligible compared to the other terms, may be written:
For Extended Bertrand's test, let From the Taylor series expansion for large we arrive at the approximation
where the empty product is assumed to be 1. Then,
Hence,
Note that for these four tests, the higher they are in the De Morgan hierarchy, the more slowly the series diverges.
Proof of Kummer's test
If then fix a positive number . There exists
a natural number such that for every
Since , for every
In particular for all which means that starting from the index
the sequence is monotonically decreasing and
positive which in particular implies that it is bounded below by 0. Therefore, the limit
exists.
This implies that the positive telescoping series
is convergent,
and since for all
by the direct comparison test for positive series, the series
is convergent.
On the other hand, if , then there is an N such that is increasing for . In particular, there exists an for which for all , and so diverges by comparison with .
Tong's modification of Kummer's test
A new version of Kummer's test was established by Tong. See also
for further discussions and new proofs. The provided modification of Kummer's theorem characterizes
all positive series, and the convergence or divergence can be formulated in the form of two necessary and sufficient conditions, one for convergence and another for divergence.
Series converges if and only if there exists a positive sequence , , such that
Series diverges if and only if there exists a positive sequence , , such that and
The first of these statements can be simplified as follows:
Series converges if and only if there exists a positive sequence , , such that
The second statement can be simplified similarly:
Series diverges if and only if there exists a positive sequence , , such that and
However, it becomes useless, since the condition in this case reduces to the original claim
Frink's ratio test
Another ratio test that can be set in the framework of Kummer's theorem was presented by Orrin Frink 1948.
Suppose is a sequence in ,
If , then the series converges absolutely.
If there is such that for all , then diverges.
This result reduces to a comparison of with a power series , and can be seen to be related to Raabe's test.
Ali's second ratio test
A more refined ratio test is the second ratio test:
For define:
By the second ratio test, the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
If then the test is inconclusive.
If the above limits do not exist, it may be possible to use the limits superior and inferior. Define:
Then the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
If then the test is inconclusive.
Ali's mth ratio test
This test is a direct extension of the second ratio test. For and positive define:
By the th ratio test, the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
If then the test is inconclusive.
If the above limits do not exist, it may be possible to use the limits superior and inferior. For define:
Then the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
If , then the test is inconclusive.
Ali--Deutsche Cohen φ-ratio test
This test is an extension of the th ratio test.
Assume that the sequence is a positive decreasing sequence.
Let be such that exists. Denote , and assume .
Assume also that
Then the series will:
Converge if
Diverge if
If , then the test is inconclusive.
See also
Root test
Radius of convergence
Footnotes
References
.
: §8.14.
: §3.3, 5.4.
: §3.34.
: §2.36, 2.37.
Convergence tests
Articles containing proofs
it:Criteri di convergenza#Criterio del rapporto (o di d'Alembert) |
Racha Range () is a longitudinal mountain range in Georgia, a southern part of the Caucasus mountains. Administratively, the Racha Range is located in Ambrolauri, Oni, Sachkhere and Tkibuli Municipalities.
It extends from the mountain Zekara (3828 m) to Rioni river left side. The length of the ridge is 107 km and width is about 25 km. The highest point of the Racha Range is 2,862.7 metres high mount Lebeuris mta. Other notable peaks include Daghverila (2726 m), Potskhvrevi (2,402.3 m), Khikhata (2239,2 m), Satsalike (1996 m), Veltkevi (1,927.1 m), Garjila (1829 m), Nakerala (1570 m). Multiple passes throughout the range: Leta Pass (3001 m), Khikhata pass (2030 m), Ertso pass (1790 m), Nakerala pass (1218 m) and other. Its eastern part composed mainly jurassic slates and porphyritic series, and west side cretaceous limestone.
Its north side located Shaori karst depression. Racha Range has glacial and karst landform, including cirque, sinkhole and polje. It is mostly covered by broad-leaved forests, beech forest, hardwood forests. Highest part has alpine and subalpine landscapes.
References
Mountain ranges of Georgia (country)
Mountain ranges of the Caucasus |
German submarine U-674 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 7 April 1942 at the Howaldtswerke yard at Hamburg, launched on 8 May 1943, and commissioned on 15 June 1943 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Harald Muhs.
Attached to 5th U-boat Flotilla based at Kiel, U-674 completed her training period on 31 January 1944 and was assigned to front-line service.
Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-674 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert GU 343/38–8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-674 was fitted with five torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one SK C/35 naval gun, 220 rounds, and two twin C/30 anti-aircraft guns. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.
Service history
While operating against convoy RA 59, U-674 was detected by Swordfish B of 842 Naval Air Squadron embarked on , an escort carrier, north of Tromsø on 2 May 1944. The aircraft attacked, destroying the U-boat. All 49 crew members perished in the attack.
References
Bibliography
External links
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Ships built in Hamburg
U-boats commissioned in 1943
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U-boats sunk by depth charges
Submarines lost with all hands
World War II submarines of Germany |
Marian Elizabeth Fiorina (October 10, 1919 – February 25, 2010) was an American politician who served three terms as Secretary of State of New Mexico. She was elected to two consecutive terms between 1959 and 1962, and succeeded Ernestine D. Evans in 1970. She left office in 1974, when Evans was reelected.
Career
Marian Elizabeth Fiorina was a native of El Paso, Texas, born to Delphine Sauders and Jules Vicknair Sr. She moved to New Mexico, married Anthony Fiorina, and began working for the New Mexico House of Representatives by 1951 as a deputy chief clerk. First elected as secretary of state in 1958, she won a second term in 1960. During her first stint in office, she sought to end political patronage across the state. Fiorina was succeeded by Alberta Miller in 1963. Upon stepping down, Fiorina became the clerk for a state constitutional convention convened in the 1960s. Fiorina won a four-year term as secretary of state in 1970, and left office in 1974. In the following decades, she helped her son Tom win election as a municipal judge in Santa Fe. Fiorina died on February 25, 2010, of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90. A memorial was held on March 3, 2010, and she was interred at Santa Fe National Cemetery.
References
1919 births
2010 deaths
Secretaries of State of New Mexico
Politicians from El Paso, Texas
Politicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Mexico Democrats
Women in New Mexico politics
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Neurological disease deaths in New Mexico
Burials at Santa Fe National Cemetery
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
21st-century American women |
```php
<?php
/**
* FecShop file.
*
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*/
namespace fecshop\app\console\modules\Product\controllers;
use Yii;
use yii\console\Controller;
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* @author Terry Zhao <2358269014@qq.com>
* @since 1.0
*/
class MysqldatatomongoController extends Controller
{
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public function init()
{
parent::init();
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}
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'asArray' => false,
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$count = Yii::$service->product->collCount();
echo ceil($count / $this->numPerPage);
}
}
``` |
Rodolfo Vanoli (born 11 January 1963) is an Italian professional football manager and former player.
Playing career
Vanoli, a defender, started his career with Varese. He then went on to play football professionally, making his Serie A debut in 1985 with Lecce. In 1989 he joined Udinese, playing Serie A and Serie B with the Friuliani. He retired in 2000 after a single season with Swiss club FC Chiasso.
Managerial career
Vanoli started his career as a coach in Switzerland. In 2010 he returned to Italy and took charge at Colligiana. He moved to Pordenone in 2011. Vanoli worked in Slovenia as a manager of Koper and Olimpija Ljubljana.
In 2019, he was appointed head coach of Serie C club Bisceglie, eventually saving them from relegation and being confirmed for the 2019–20 season. He was dismissed on 2 October 2019 due to poor results.
In February 2021, Vanoli returned to Koper and signed a contract for the remainder of the 2020–21 season.
Personal life
He has a younger brother, Paolo, who is also a former footballer and current coach.
Honours
Manager
Koper
Slovenian Cup: 2014–15
Slovenian Supercup: 2015
Olimpija Ljubljana
Slovenian PrvaLiga: 2015–16
References
External links
Lecce.it profile
1963 births
Living people
Footballers from the Province of Varese
Italian men's footballers
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
SSD Varese Calcio players
US Lecce players
Udinese Calcio players
SPAL players
FC Chiasso players
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Serie B players
Serie C players
Serie A players
Italian football managers
Italian expatriate football managers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Albania
FC Lugano managers
AC Bellinzona managers
Pordenone Calcio managers
FC Koper managers
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) managers
FC Dinamo City managers
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in Slovenia
Expatriate football managers in Albania
Slovenian PrvaLiga managers |
Mary Osborn or Osborne may refer to:
Mary Osborn (born 1940), English cell biologist
Mary Jane Osborn (1927–2019), American biochemist and molecular biologist
Mary Osborne (1921–1992), American jazz guitarist and guitar manufacturer
Mary Pope Osborne (born 1949), American author
Mary Osborne, Duchess of Leeds (1723–1764), noblewoman
See also
Mary Osbourne (born 1982), winner of the MTV reality television show Surf Girls
Emily Mary Osborn (1828–1925), English painter of the Victorian era
Mary Osburn Adkinson (born Mary Almira Osburn, 1843–1918), American social reformer active in the temperance movement
Mary Osborn Douthit (1850–1908), early white Oregon settler, teacher, and advocate of woman suffrage |
CHOM-FM is an English-language radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 97.7 MHz from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, with an effective radiated power of 41,200 watts (class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna, while its studios are located at the Bell Media Building at 1717 René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal.
The station has a mainstream rock format since the station started using the brand name CHOM, and is sometimes pronounced , but other Bell Media Radio personalities have also pronounced it as .
History
Early years (1963-1974)
CKGM-FM, as the station was originally known, was founded by Geoff Stirling as a sister station to AM station CKGM, and opened on July 16, 1963. After a few weeks as a simulcast of CKGM, CKGM-FM launched a beautiful music format on September 1, 1963.
On October 28, 1969, CKGM-FM changed its format to album-oriented rock. On-air advertising was kept at a minimum. The first song played by Doug Pringle after the format switch was Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra", followed by The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun". The station would change its call sign to CHOM-FM almost two years later, on October 19, 1971.
Going bilingual (1974-1977)
In 1974, CHOM proposed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission a plan in which the station would become bilingual (English/French). The CRTC accepted this plan but only on an experimental basis that would last three years; it also blocked a plan to implement quadraphonic broadcasting. In 1977, the station was forced by the CRTC to opt between the two languages, and after considering becoming a French-language station, it finally reverted to English full-time. On-air advertising steadily increased during the late 1970s. Furthermore, CHOM's original format of AOR and "underground" rock tunes (many of which were longer than the average 3 minutes in length) changed to include the playing of more top 40-type hits.
Rise and fall and CHUM takeover (1979-2002)
CHOM-FM became increasingly popular, and in 1979 surpassed sister station CKGM in Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings. Both stations were sold to CHUM Limited on August 20, 1985.
The station acquired the rights to the syndicated show by Howard Stern which made its debut on CHOM on September 2, 1997, amid much controversy as he launched himself on his very first show heard in Montreal in an anti-Francophone/anti-French tirade. His show was cancelled a year later, on August 27, 1998, after numerous complaints to the CRTC about politically incorrect remarks interpreted by complainants as sexist and homophobic.
Return to their classic rock direction and Standard Radio takeover (2002-2007)
Effective in January 2002, the station was sold to Standard Broadcasting, which already owned CJAD and CJFM-FM in Montreal, in exchange for Standard's CFWM-FM in Winnipeg.
Astral takeover and new direction (2007-2013)
Ownership changed hands again when on October 29, 2007, Astral Media took control of Standard Broadcasting and its assets.
On October 19, 2010, CHOM celebrated its 40th anniversary as a radio station.
On June 22, 2011, it was announced that Terry DiMonte would be making a return to the station.
Bell Media
In July 2013, Astral Media was acquired and dissolved by Bell Media. With the merger, CHOM was reunited with its original AM sister station CKGM, which CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) acquired from CHUM in 2007.
On September 22, 2017, longtime radio personality Robert "TooTall" Wagenaar retired from his mid-day show after over 40 years at CHOM. His replacement is Randy Renaud, a 30-year veteran of the radio station.
On May 28, 2021, Terry Dimonte left the station.
Location
When first launched in 1963, CHOM (then known as CKGM-FM) was originally based at 1455 Drummond Street in Montreal, along with the CKGM-AM. Like CKGM, it moved to 1310 Greene Avenue in Westmount in the late 1960s.
In 1972, CHOM relocated across the street to 1355 Greene Avenue, while CKGM opted to stay at 1310 Greene. CHOM eventually returned to the CKGM building a few years later and remained located there until its acquisition by Standard Broadcasting in 2002. At this point, CHOM was moved to 1411 Fort Street in Montreal (the building that housed Standard's other two existing Montreal radio stations, CJFM-FM and CJAD).
In September 2012, Astral Media relocated its local English-language radio stations (including CHOM) to its French-language radio studios at 1717 René Lévesque Boulevard East in Montreal.
References
External links
CHOM 97.7
CHOM 97.7 on FindRadio
HOM
HOM
HOM
HOM
Radio stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in Quebec |
Song Li () is a Chancellor Professor and Department Chair of Bioengineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from University of California, San Diego. Dr. Li was a Bioengineering faculty at University of California, Berkeley (2001-2015), and he moved to UCLA in 2016. His research is focused on cell engineering, mechanobiology, biomaterials, and regenerative medicine. He is well recognized bioengineer, and has been elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Education
Dr. Li received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanics and Engineering Science and also his Master of Science in biomechanics from Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego, working with Professor Shu Chien.
Selected Recent Publications
• Yang Song, Jennifer Soto, Binru Chen, Tyler Hoffman, Weikang Zhao, Ninghao Zhu, Qin Peng, Longwei Liu, Chau Ly, Pak Kin Wong, Yingxiao Wang, Amy C Rowat, Siavash K Kurdistani, Song Li. Transient nuclear deformation primes epigenetic state and promotes cell reprogramming. Nature Materials, 1-9
• J Zarubova, MM Hasani-Sadrabadi, R Ardehali, S Li. Immunoengineering strategies to enhance vascularization and tissue regeneration. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 114233
• Xuexiang Zhang, Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, Jana Zarubova, Erfan Dashtimighadam, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Ali Khademhosseini, Manish J Butte, Alireza Moshaverinia, Tara Aghaloo, Song Li. Immunomodulatory microneedle patch for periodontal tissue regeneration. Matter 5 (2), 666-682
• Y Zhou, X Zhao, J Xu, Y Fang, G Chen, Y Song, S Li, J Chen. Giant magnetoelastic effect in soft systems for bioelectronics. Nature Materials 20 (12), 1670-1676
• X Zhao, Y Zhou, J Xu, G Chen, Y Fang, T Tat, X Xiao, Y Song, S Li, J Chen. Soft fibers with magnetoelasticity for wearable electronics. Nature communications 12 (1), 1-11
• Zhaowei Chen, Hongjun Li, Yijie Bian, Zejun Wang, Guojun Chen, Xudong Zhang, Yimin Miao, Di Wen, Jinqiang Wang, Gang Wan, Yi Zeng, Peter Abdou, Jun Fang, Song Li, Cheng-Jun Sun, Zhen Gu. Bioorthogonal catalytic patch. Nature Nanotechnology 16 (8), 933-941
• Fang J, Sia J, Soto J, Wang P, Li L, Hsueh Y, Sun R, Faull K, Tidball J, Li S. Skeletal muscle regeneration via the chemical induction and expansion of myogenic stem cells in situ or in vitro. Nat Biomed Eng. March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00696-y
• Song Y, Soto J, Wang P, An Q, Zhang X, Hong S, Lee LP, Fan G, Yang L, Li S. Asymmetric cell division of fibroblasts is an early deterministic step to generate elite cells during cell reprogramming. Advanced Science. 2021 Feb; 2003516.
• Zarubova J, Zhang X, Hoffman T, Hasani-Sadrabadi MM, Li S. Biomaterial-based Immunoengineering to Fight COVID-19 and Infectious Diseases. Matter. 2021 4(5): 1528-1554
• Qiu X, Lee BL, Wong SY, Ding X, Xu K, Zhao W, Wang D, Sochol R, Dong N, Li S. Cellular remodeling of fibrotic conduit as vascular graft. Biomaterials. 2021 Jan; 268:120565.
• Choi YS, Hsueh YY, Koo J, Yang Q, Avila R, Hu B, Xie Z, Lee G, Ning Z, Liu C, Xu Y, Lee YJ, Zhao W, Fang J, Deng Y, Lee SM, Vázquez-Guardado A, Stepien I, Yan Y, Song JW, Haney C, Oh YS, Liu W, Yun HJ, Banks A, MacEwan MR, Ameer GA, Ray WZ, Huang Y, Xie T, Franz CK, Li S*, Rogers JA*. Stretchable, dynamic covalent polymers for soft, long-lived bioresorbable electronic stimulators designed to facilitate neuromuscular regeneration. Nature Communications. 2020; 11:5990.
• Hasani-Sadrabadi MM, Sarrion P, Pouraghaei S, Chau Y, Ansari S, Li S, Aghaloo T, Moshaverinia A. An engineered cell-laden adhesive hydrogel promotes craniofacial bone tissue regeneration in rats. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Mar 11;12(534).
• Fang J, Koh J, Fang Q, Qiu H, Archang MM, Hasani-Sadrabadi MM, Miwa H, Zhong X, Sievers R, Gao D, Lee R, Di Carlo D, Li S. Injectable Drug‐Releasing Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffolds for Treating Myocardial Infarction. Adv Func Mater. 2020; 30(43):2004307.
• Hasani-Sadrabadi MM, Majedi FS, Miller M, Thauland TJ, Bouchard LS, Li S*, Butte MJ* Augmenting T-cell responses to tumors by in situ nanomanufacturing. Materials Horizons. 2020; 7:3028-3033.
• Zhang X, Kim T, Thauland TJ, Li H, Majedi FS, Ly C, Gu Z, Butte MJ, Rowat AC, Li S. Unraveling the mechanobiology of immune cells. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 2020; 66:236-245.
• Song Y, Soto J, Chen B, Yang L, Li S. Cell engineering: Biophysical regulation of the nucleus. Biomaterials. 2020 Mar; 234:119743.
• Fang J, Hsueh YY, Soto J, Sun W, Wang J, Gu Z, Khademhosseini A, Li S. Engineering Biomaterials with Micro/Nanotechnologies for Cell Reprogramming. ACS Nano. 2020 Feb 25; 14(2):1296-1318.
• Downing T, Soto J, Morez C, Houssin T, Yuan F, Chu J, Fritz A, Patel S, Schaffer D, Li S Biophysical regulation of epigenetic state and cell reprogramming. Nature Materials. 2013; 12:1154-1162.
• Yu J, Wang A, Tang Z, Henry J, Li-Ping Lee B, Zhu Y, Yuan F, Huang F, Li S. The effect of stromal cell-derived factor-1α/heparin coating of biodegradable vascular grafts on the recruitment of both endothelial and smooth muscle progenitor cells for accelerated regeneration. Biomaterials. 2012; 33(32):8062-8074.
• Tang, Z, Wang, A, Yuan, F, Yan, Z, Liu, B, Chu, JS, Helms JA, Li S. Differentiation of multipotent vascular stem cells contributes to vascular diseases. Nature Communications. 2012; 3:875.
• Wang A, Tang Z, Park IH, Zhu Y, Patel S, Daley GQ, Li S. Induced pluripotent stem cells for neural tissue engineering. Biomaterials. 2011; 32(55):5023-32.
• Park JS, Chu JS, Tsou AD, Diop R, Tang Z, Wang A, Li S. The effect of matrix stiffness on the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in response to TGF-β. Biomaterials. 2011; 32:3921-3930.
References
20th-century Chinese scientists
21st-century Chinese scientists
Chinese bioengineers
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Peking University alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
Living people
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Thomas Metcalfe was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 7 July 1483 - 13 September 1486. He was a Privy Councillor in 1460. He was a trusted member of King Richard III's council, and, by reason of his position, judge of the Duchy court that sat at Westminster.
Thomas Metcalfe built Nappa Hall in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire in the 1470s.
He married Elizabeth Hartlington of Hartlington, in Craven, Yorkshire, heiress of an ancient family of Clifford tenants who had been bailiffs of Kettlewelldale.
On 30 September 1484, Richard III granted him wardship and control of the marriage of Henry Gage, the son and heir of John Gage, a gentleman who had held land direct from the Crown.
References
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster
15th-century English people
Year of birth unknown
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Ambroise-Louis-Marie d'Hozier (1764–1846), nephew of Louis-Pierre d'Hozier, was the last of the juges d'armes of France.
He held the position of president of the cour des comptes, aides et finances of Normandy, and was therefore generally known as President d'Hozier, to distinguish him from the other members of the family.
After the Bourbon Restoration he was employed to verify French armorial bearings for the conseil du sceau des titres. He died in obscurity.
His collection, which was purchased in 1851 by the Bibliothèque Nationale, comprised 136 volumes, 165 portfolios of documents and 200 packets of extracts from title-deeds, known as the Carrés d'Hozier.
References
1764 births
1846 deaths
French jurists
Officers of arms
19th-century jurists |
The City of London and Westminster South by-election on 24 February 1977 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Christopher Tugendhat resigned the seat upon his appointment to the European Commission. A safe Conservative seat, it was won by their candidate, Peter Brooke.
Candidates
The election was contested by a record ten candidates, beating the nine who had contested the 1976 Walsall North by-election. This total was topped at the 1978 Lambeth Central by-election. The candidates were:
Bill Boaks stood under the title "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident". Boaks was a road safety campaigner and serial by-election candidate.
Peter Brooke, a graduate of Harvard Business School was the Conservative Party candidate.
Dennis Delderfield was the candidate for the New Britain Party, of which he was founder and leader. Delderfield was also a common councilman of the Corporation of London.
Ralph Herbert was an independent who stood under the title "Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution".
Paul Kavanagh was the candidate for the National Front.
Michael Lobb was the candidate for the National Party, a splinter group of the National Front. He was candidate for the National Front in Newham South in the February 1974 general election and the subsequent by-election in the same seat.
Peter Mitchell stood under the banner "Pro-Homosexual Civil Rights". He was involved in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality pressure group.
Malcolm Noble was the Labour Party candidate.
Angus Scrimgeour was the Liberal Party candidate.
William Thompson was an independent who stood under the title "Christian Outreach to Britain, Anti-Pornography".
Aftermath
Brooke would retain the seat at the 1979 general election, and hold it until his retirement at the 2001 general election (it reverted to its former name of Cities of London and Westminster in 1997). He held a number of front-bench Government posts during his tenure, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Results
The results for the previous election were:
See also
United Kingdom by-election records
References
City of London and Westminster South by-election
City of London and Westminster South,1977
City of London and Westminster South,1977
City of London and Westminster South,1977
City of London and Westminster South by-election
City of London and Westminster South by-election
1970s in the City of Westminster |
The JSC Admiralty Shipyards () (formerly Soviet Shipyard No. 194) is one of the oldest and largest shipyards in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg. The shipyard's building ways can accommodate ships of up to , in length and in width. Military products include naval warships such as nuclear and diesel-powered submarines and large auxiliaries.
History
The shipyard was founded as the Galley Yard by Peter the Great during the Great Northern War on 5 November 1704 and located in the open ground along the Neva River behind the Admiralty building. It was administered by the Russian Admiralty, hence its later name. In 1721 it was renamed Galley Wharf and in 1800 the New Admiralty Yard, supplementing and in 1841 soon replacing the Galley Wharf. In 1908, it was renamed the Admiralty Shipyard. In 1937 its two sections were known as Andre Marti and Sudomekh, Shipyards No. 194 and No. 196, respectively. In 1966 it once again became the New Admiralty Shipyard as in 1800 and, in 1972, the Leningrad Admiralty Association. The latest name changes occurred in 1992 – State Enterprise "Admiralty Wharves" – and in 2001 – Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Admiralty Wharves". Finally, in 2008, it became an open stock company – OAO "Admiralty Wharves".
From its founding through 1917 the shipyard built more than 1000 vessels and ships, including 137 large sail warships, about 700 medium and small sail and oared vessels, and more than 100 iron ships, including 25 armored warships and 8 cruisers. In 1959 it delivered the world's first non-naval nuclear-powered vessel, the icebreaker .
In the 19th century it was a major builder of battleships and submarines and cruisers in the 20th. Since the mid-1950s its surface-ship facilities have specialized in large merchant ships, icebreakers, large rescue and salvage ships, fish-factory ships, floating dry docks, and a few naval auxiliaries.
Examples of non-military production from the Admiralty Wharves abound in St. Petersburg, from the bronze tablets, candelabra, and angel of the Alexander Column in Palace Square, the statuary and roof of St. Isaac's Cathedral, a number of bridges over the canals, and most of the ornate cast iron fencing in old St. Petersburg. All were products of the shipyard's foundry.
Submarines
In 1966, the shipyard delivered the Victor I-class nuclear attack submarine, and later the Victor II and Victor III-class submarines as well as the titanium hulled .
From 1973 to 1998, the shipyard has built 298 submarines, including 41 nuclear submarines, as well as 68 submersibles. The specialized submersibles produced include the civilian Sever-2 (1969), Tinro-2 (1972), Bentos (1975–1982), Tetis (1976), Osa, Argus, and Osmotr (1988) types, plus the naval Lima, Uniform, Xray, Beluga, and Paltus classes.
Admiralty Shipyards still specializes in submarine shipbuilding. The most recently built submarines include s () and the smaller Petersburg/ (). In 1992 Iran purchased two Kilo-class submarines for $600 million from the United Admiralty Sudomekh shipyard, with an option to buy a third. The shipyard's latest development are the Lada-class submarine and its export version, the , which does not yet have a customer.
A unique deep-sea research vehicle "Konsul" is the first Russian deep-diving vehicle of the third generation, capable of diving as deep as and working for 10 hours using a manipulator as well as lifting to the surface a load of up to . The construction of underwater vessels constitutes 70% of the total production volume of the shipyard. Out of all submarines built in the world, 15% by tonnage are produced at the Admiralty Shipyards.
Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg will build six Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines for delivery to Vietnam, the Russian business daily Kommersant said in April 2009. The paper quoted company general director Vladimir Aleksandrov as saying that Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport would soon sign a contract with a foreign state, and that Admiralty Shipyards had been chosen to fulfill this contract. Sources in Rosoboronexport later confirmed that Russia and Vietnam had been negotiating a $1.8 billion deal on the delivery of six Kilo-class submarines to the Vietnamese navy for about a year. Admiralty Shipyards is currently building two Kilo-class submarines for Algeria to be delivered in 2009 and 2010.
Oil tankers
In the 1990s, Admiralty Shipyards became a joint stock company and in 1997 it started construction of ice class tankers of , designed for simultaneous transportation of up to four different cargo grades. The tanker has double hull and is able to run in solid-ice up to a half-meter thick at a speed of 1½–2 knots. During recent years the shipyard constructed five ships for Russia's largest oil company (Lukoil)—Astrakhan, Magas, Kaliningrad, Saratov, Usinsk. All of which are working on the Northern Sea Route.
Present day
Military shipbuilding consists of orders from the Russian Ministry of Defense and export orders for foreign governments. The shipyard's military orders are primarily submarines, but also include non-military repair, modernization and building of other underwater technical innovations for oceanic development.
The shipyard announced on December 24, 2022 that general director Alexander Buzakov had died suddenly that day. it did not give a reason. He had been in the job since August 2011. United Shipbuilding Corporation released a statement: “The United Shipbuilding Corporation, the Admiralty Shipyards and the entire national shipbuilding industry have suffered an irreparable loss, as Alexander Sergeevich Buzakov, Director General of the Admiralty Shipyards, passed away at the age of 66,”
Extension on Kotlin Island
It is unknown what will happen with the project to have new shipyards built on Kotlin Island. These shipyards were to be created specifically for building of two amphibious-assault ships. The construction of these ships is all but cancelled.
Facilities and services
See also
Charles Baird (engineer)
Baltic Shipyard
Severnaya Verf
Sovkomflot
List of ships of Russia by project number
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Made in Russia:Admiralty Shipyard (English)
Shipbuilding companies of Imperial Russia
Shipbuilding companies of the Soviet Union
Manufacturing companies based in Saint Petersburg
1704 establishments in Russia
Ships built at Admiralty Shipyard
Companies nationalised by the Soviet Union
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The Royal George Hotel is a heritage listed building that operates as a hotel in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
It is located along Stirling Terrace, overlooking Princess Royal Harbour adjacent to the White Star Hotel.
The three storey building is an example of Victorian Free Classical architecture and is part of a group of commercial buildings with an asymmetrical façade and inter-columnisation. The building has a painted rendered brick facade on the second and third storeys with painted brick below. The roof is concealed by a parapet wall with gables and classical decorative motifs. Street level windows are arched and a cantilevered box verandah provides some shade and cover.
The hotel was built in 1885, during the Western Australian goldrush of the 1890s and 1890s when thousands of prospectors arrived in Albany en route to the Kalgoorlie goldfields resulting in a building boom in Albany.
The site on which the hotel is found was where Aberdeen House, constructed prior to 1867 and the home of Alexander and Catherine Moir, once stood. Some of the house was later incorporated into the rear of the hotel. The Moir's leased the building to Frederick Watts in the mid-1880s; he then converted it to a hotel. He named it the Railway Hotel after the Great Southern Railway station that had been built just below the site. By 1892 Moir leased the hotel to Charles Bailye, who changed the name to the Royal George Hotel.
In 1897 the licensee was Edward Reynolds and the building had five sitting rooms and 22 bedrooms.
The Cremorne Gardens were once located behind the hotel. The gardens included an outdoor cinema and a roller skating rink. The gardens have since been demolished.
In 1910 work commenced on extensions to the hotel. The top storey was added along with a front balcony with cast iron lacework. The walls were made of tuck-pointed brickwork with stucco bands and sills. The first floor level had 18 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and toilets and a sitting room. The second floor had 13 bedrooms with 2 baths and toilets. The bar facilities took up the ground floor.
The balcony has since been removed and replaced with a cantilevered box verandah.
Guests had to be evacuated when a fire broke out in one of the rooms in 2005, causing 35,000 worth of damage.
In 2014 a heritage grant was awarded to the Royal George and other heritage buildings for work such as painting and repairs to facades, brickwork and windows as part of Anzac Centenary commemorations.
See also
List of places on the State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Albany
References
1885 establishments in Australia
Heritage places in Albany, Western Australia
Hotel buildings completed in 1885
Hotels in Albany, Western Australia
Hotels established in 1885
Stirling Terrace, Albany
State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Albany |
A collective network is a set of social groups linked, directly or indirectly, by some common bond. According to this approach of the social sciences to study social relationships, social phenomena are investigated through the properties of relations among groups, which also influence the internal relations among the individuals of each group within the set.
Overview
A collective network may be defined a set of social groups linked, directly or indirectly, by some common bond, shared group status, similar or shared group functions, or geographic or cultural connection; the intergroup links also reinforce the intragroup links, hence the group identity. In informal types of associations, such as the mobilisation of social movements, a collective network may be a set of groups whose individuals, though not necessarily knowing each other or sharing anything outside the organising criteria of the network, are psychologically bound to the network itself and are willing to maintain it indefinitely, tying the internal links among the persons in a group while forming new links with the persons in other groups of the collective network.
Background
It may be interesting to note that the term collective network was firstly officially used in the public domain not in science, instead in a global meeting called by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN): on July 27, 1996, over 3,000 activists from more than 40 countries converged on Zapatista territory in rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, to attend the “First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism”. At the end of the Encuentro (Meeting), the General Command of the EZLN issued the “Second Declaration of La Realidad (The Reality) for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism”, calling for the creation of a “collective network of all our particular struggles and resistances, an intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, an intercontinental network of resistance for humanity.”
In science, the term collective network is related to the study of complex systems. As all complex systems have many interconnected components, the science of networks and the network theory are important aspects of the study of complex systems, hence of the collective network, too. The idea of collective network rises from that of social network and its analysis, that is the social network analysis, SNA.
Cynthia F. Kurtz’s group (Snowden 2005) developed methods of carrying out SNA in which people were asked questions about groups (SNA for identities) and about abstract representations of behavior (SNA for abstractions). Whilst the SNA is primarily concerned with connections among individuals, according to Cynthia F. Kurtz the collective network analysis involves the creation of ‘identity group constructs’ as abstract expressions of group-to-group interactions.
Since 2007 the campus-wide interdisciplinary research group CoCo at Binghamton University, U.S. state of New York, studies the collective dynamics of various types of interacting agents as complex systems. CoCo’s goals are (i) to advance our understanding about the collective dynamics of physical, biological, social, and engineered complex systems through scientific research; (ii) promote interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and students in different schools and departments; (iii) translate the understanding to products and processes which will improve the well-being of people at regional, state, national and global scales.
In 2011 Emerius, the Euro-Mediterranean Research Institute Upon Social Sciences, based in Rome, started the development of an experimental collective network named Yoosphera with the purpose of studying the intra- and intergroup dynamics in order to reinforce the sense of community in territorial groups along four main components: (i) the rational and affective perception of the affinities with other individuals both within a person’s main group and other groups; (ii) the consciousness and acceptance of the dependence to the intra- and intergroup bonds; (iii) the voluntary commitment to keep the dependence as far as it is valuable and useful for both the person, his main group and the perceived macrogroup (the Yoosphera); (iv) the will of not being detrimental to other individuals, groups or macrogroups.
Experiments
Emerius’s research on collective networks incorporates the small-world network graph, with the nodes represented both by the individuals and their groups, as well as it embeds the idea of Malcolm Gladwell expressed in his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, though whilst Gladwell considers that “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts,” according to Emerius the success of any social epidemic is also strongly dependent on the involvement of special groups with a strong intra- and intergroup degree of cohesion.
Social sciences aim also at the development of new models to manage groups and their internal and external relations according to the limits and the abilities of the human nature, so that to increase the efficiency of the groups. This is the reason behind the Yoosphera, the experimental collective network which is being continuously monitored and developed through a specific piece of software, also named Yoosphera, which reinforces the sense of community in territorial groups as mentioned above. It also nurtures the creation of small groups organised in concentric rings, being small groups easily to be managed according to the theories of Professor Robin Dunbar, in particular Dunbar’s number.
The first observations of the Yooshpera experiment seem to point out that it tends to improve the quality of the relationships between each individual and its environment through the organisation of small cooperative groups which back their own members and the closest groups both in the material and the psychological aspects, thus creating also emotional and affective links.
To the function of socialisation, typical of the social networks, the collective networks add those of organisation and cohesion within and among the groups, that balance the need of maximising the community’s potentialities with that of respecting the different conditions of their members as regards with their culture, profession, family commitments, wealth, time, as well as keeping into account the tidal of those conditions and seconding them with the utmost flexibility.
Related to that of collective network is the definition of collective network intelligence, or colnetigence, which is close to collective intelligence though differs from it as colnetigence emerges from both intra- and intergroup competitive cooperation.
Notes
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The 1971 season of the Soviet Top League saw Dynamo Kyiv clinching their title after three unsuccessful seasons. This season was also unique for successful performances of non-RSFSR clubs: Ararat Yerevan from the Armenian SSR took the second place, while bronze medals were awarded to Dinamo Tbilisi.
Final league table
Results
Top scorers
16 goals
Eduard Malofeyev (Dinamo Minsk)
14 goals
Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
10 goals
Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)
Vitaliy Shevchenko (Neftchi)
9 goals
Valery Yaremchenko (Shakhtar)
Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
8 goals
Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
Anzor Chikhladze (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar)
Anatoliy Puzach (Dynamo Kyiv)
Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1969
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Soviet
Soviet |
On 23 May 2013, it was announced by the New Zealand Rugby Union that following a successful tour in 2012, the Māori All Blacks will tour North America to take on Canada and the United States. The fixtures would not be the first time the national sides have met the invitational side, as the teams participated in the now defunct Churchill Cup, and the Māoris faced Canada during their 2012 tour where the Māoris were victorious 32-19. The head coach for the tour was announced as Taranaki's head coach Colin Cooper. He was assisted by Crusaders assistant coach Tabai Matson, and former All Black Carl Hoeft as the scrummage coach.
Fixtures
Canada
United States
Squad
New Zealand Māori 29-man squad for the 2013 North America November Tour, facing Canada (3 November) and United States (9 November).
Head coach: Colin Cooper
Note: Bold denotes players that have represented the Māori All Blacks in previous tours.
Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.
Squad notes
Tim Bateman took captaincy from Tanerau Latimer, who has made himself unavailable to have surgery on a long-standing arm injury. Several players were not considered due to injury including Ross Filipo and Bronson Murray. Ash Dixon replaced Corey Flynn after being ruled out of the tour through injury. Hika Elliot and Piri Weepu sustained injuries during the North American Tour and were replaced by Quentin MacDonald and Chris Smylie.
Player statistics
Key
Con: Conversions
Pen: Penalties
DG: Drop goals
Pts: Points
References
Maori All Blacks
Māori All Blacks tours
Rugby union tours of Canada
Rugby union tours of the United States
2013 in American rugby union
2013 in Canadian rugby union
2013 in New Zealand rugby union |
Mega Man Xtreme is a 2000 video game developed by Capcom for the Game Boy Color handheld console. It is a spin-off title in the Mega Man X series of video games that originated on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Mega Man Xtreme takes place within the series timeline during the 22nd century, in which a group of "Maverick" androids called the "Shadow Hunters" hack into the world's "Mother Computer" system, destabilize all of the networks, and allow other Mavericks to cause rampant destruction all over the world. The heroic "Maverick Hunter" X is tasked with going into cyberspace to relive his past missions and put a stop to the group's plans.
Mega Man Xtreme contains the same gameplay as its home console counterparts. An action-platform game, the player must attempt a series of stages, gain various power-ups such as armor parts, and defeat each stage's boss, assimilating its signature weapon. The game features stages, enemies, and bosses from both Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Mega Man Xtreme was met with a mixed critical response. Reviewers enjoyed its familiar gameplay, but were disappointed by graphical issues and a high difficulty level. The game was followed by a sequel, Mega Man Xtreme 2, also for the Game Boy Color. In 2013, Mega Man Xtreme was made available on the Virtual Console of Japan's Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS. It was later released in the North American eShop the following year in 2014.
Plot
Mega Man Xtreme takes place within the Mega Man X series timeline, during the 22nd century in which humans and intelligent androids called "Reploids" coexist. Daily life is under constant threat by "Mavericks", Reploids that have turned to a life of crime. The series follows the exploits of X and his partner Zero, a pair of "Maverick Hunters" led by the benevolent Dr. Cain. This police force has been responsible for suppressing the threat of robotic, criminal activity, particularly that of a dangerous Maverick leader named Sigma. At the opening of the normal difficulty mode of Mega Man Xtreme, a hacker named Techno from a band called the "Shadow Hunters" breaks into the world's Mother Computer, destabilizing all of the networks and allowing Mavericks to run wild everywhere. X awakens to find himself on the highway from his first adventure to stop Sigma. Realizing it is merely a simulated replication, the protagonist is greeted by Zero, who informs X that the Maverick Hunters have partnered with a computer genius named Middy to halt the madness.
With Middy's help, X dives into cyberspace to erase the battle data of four Maverick bosses from his previous missions. Once they are beaten, X makes his way to Mother Computer core and defeats the Shadow Hunter Zain, only to see Zain's companions Techno and Geemel retreat and Sigma unveils himself as the mastermind behind the hack. Dr. Cain manages to find Sigma's hideout, and X warps there via the Mother Computer core. At the hideout, X confronts Techno, firing his buster at the computer used to hack into the Mother Computer. Techno reveals that in order to hack into the Mother Computer he had to upload his own CPU into the computer X destroyed. Middy arrives, revealing that Techno is his twin brother. Having been controlled by Sigma, Techno comes to his senses and dies. X continues on, finds Sigma, and finishes the Maverick off. The computer core begins to detonate, but as X escapes, Middy chooses to stay, stating that he and his twin brother share a CPU and perishes alongside Techno. The hard mode of Mega Man Xtreme partially extends the storyline, where Zero informs X that someone else has illegally accessed records from the Mother Computer and reproduced more Maverick data. The heroes soon learn that Geemel and Sigma are again responsible and destroy both villains in a similar fashion.
Gameplay
Mega Man Xtreme is an action-platform game that features the same gameplay as the Mega Man X games on non-handheld game consoles. As the titular protagonist, the player is tasked with completing a series of selectable, side-scrolling stages in any order desired. X has the ability to run, jump, scale walls, and fire his chargeable "X-Buster" arm cannon to overcome enemies in each stage. These stages consist of various obstacles, enemies, and a boss at the end. As the player progresses, helpful power-ups such as health, weapon energy and extra lives can be found or dropped from slain foes. Permanent power-ups include special tanks that extend the player's life bar, storage units that allow for surplus health energy to be saved for later use and armor parts that grant X new abilities such as improved damage resistance and ability to dash-jump off walls. Fully depleting the health of the end-stage boss will clear the stage and allow X to add the boss' weapon to his arsenal. As each boss is weak to another's weapon, the player can defeat the bosses more easily by choosing to complete the stages in a specific order.
Like the portable incarnations of the original Mega Man series, Mega Man Xtreme borrows content from its home console counterparts released on the Super Nintendo. The game is composed mostly of elements from Mega Man X and X2, as well as new content made specifically for the game. Mega Man Xtreme contains three difficulty levels with Normal and Hard mode making up the game's main narrative and featuring only four of the eight main bosses in each, while Xtreme mode acts as a bonus scenario with all eight bosses available to fight from the beginning.
Development and release
Mega Man Xtreme was developed and published by Capcom. The Japanese version of the game was initially debuted as a playable demo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May 2000. The game was shown at the Tokyo Game Show the following fall. Haruki Suetsugu was the sole artist responsible for the game's character designs and cover art, just as he had been for both Mega Man X4 and Mega Man X5. He designed the twins Middy and Techno so that if one's helmet is turned 90 degrees, it is shaped like the other's helmet. Additionally, Middy was illustrated with soft, round lines and Techno was given sharper, pointed angles, each to reflect their personalities. Going by his instructions, Suetsugu designed Zain and Geemel in contrast to one another by giving them heavy and light armor plating respectively. He felt his illustrations may be too complex for the Game Boy Color's hardware, but he was greatly satisfied with the outcome by graphics designers. Mega Man Xtreme was released in Japan on October 20, 2000, and in North America on January 10, 2001.
Reception and legacy
Mega Man Xtreme has an aggregate score of 79% on GameRankings. Opinions on the presentation of Mega Man Xtreme have somewhat varied, though all agreed the game appears as a compact version of the SNES titles. Allgame contributor Jon Thompson justified the game's graphical inferiority to the SNES titles. "While obviously some graphic cutbacks have been made, due to the limitations of the system, the levels are still colorful and vibrant," he explained, "And the enemies, while many have been scaled down from their original sizes, are still clear and visually pleasing as ever." Frank Provo of GameSpot and Marc Nix of IGN both noted the animation of the protagonist to stand out among the other sprites. Provo overall called the backgrounds "neither garish nor ugly", but complained about the frame rate, control, and collision detection in certain areas and an apparent flicker throughout the game. Nix only noticed these irritations when playing Mega Man Xtreme on an original Game Boy or Game Boy Pocket, and that they can be alleviated by using a Game Boy Color. Associated Press writer William Schiffman found the controls relatively easy, even for younger gamers. Thompson and Provo were each satisfied with the "catchy" background music, though the latter reviewer believed the sound instrumentals to be "laughably tinny".
In terms of gameplay, critics saw Mega Man Xtreme as a competent entry among home console titles in the franchise. Thompson and Nix pointed out that like other Mega Man X games and unlike the classic Mega Man series, Mega Man Xtreme focused more on the end-stage boss battles than the stages themselves. A universal complaint about the game was its high difficulty. Provo largely traced this to the graphical issues and hard bosses. However, though he suggested that the player can overcome the challenge of earlier bosses with practice and patience, the final few battles become "an exercise in frustration", particularly in Xtreme mode. Nix attributed the difficulty to the player's need for Sub-Tanks and armor upgrades hidden in very remote locations. "Since there's no indicator to let players know when they've finished a stage 100%, most won't know that these bonuses are even there, and there's so few of them hidden that some gamers may never even guess that hidden stuff is even part of the gameplay," he concluded. "Without those obscure items, even the best gamers would find the further battles of this game a nightmare." 1UP.com editor Jeremy Parish was less specific about his objections with the game, but nonetheless called it a "rough transition" from SNES to Game Boy Color, "bordering on unplayable".
Mega Man Xtreme was the fourth best-selling video game in Japan during its week of release at 15,312 copies. The game dropped to the eighth slot the next week, selling an additional 11,279 copies. Media Create sales information shows that Mega Man Xtreme was the 182nd best-selling game in Japan in 2000 at 64,011 copies sold. Mega Man Xtreme was followed by a sequel, Mega Man Xtreme 2, released for the Game Boy Color in 2001. In 2012, IGN listed both games among titles they wished to see downloadable from the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. On July 18, 2013, Capcom confirmed that Mega Man Xtreme was planned for release on the 3DS Virtual Console. It was released on the platform in Japan on December 4, 2013, and in North America on May 1, 2014.
Notes
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Mega Man X games
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Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS
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Sukhothai Thani (, ) is a small town about north of Bangkok on the River Yom, a tributary of the Chao Phraya River. The population is 37,000. The town is east of the historic city of Sukhothai. This city was the capital of the first Thai kingdom, usually called the Sukhothai Kingdom, hence the modern city is often called New Sukhothai. Sukhothai Thani is the capital of Sukhothai province.
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Populated places in Sukhothai province |
Emerson "Emmo" Fittipaldi Jr. (born 7 March 2007) is a Brazilian racing driver. He most recently competed in the Formula Regional European Championship for Saintéloc Racing.
He previously raced in the Italian F4 Championship and is a former member of the Sauber Academy.
Career
Formula 4
2021
Fittipaldi began his single-seater career in 2021, competing in the F4 Danish Championship with FSP Racing. His season started out with a podium at the season opener, before he scored his maiden pole position at the following round. Having fought for the win, Fittipaldi was involved in a late-race collision with Juju Noda, which forced the Brazilian to retire from the race. After scoring a podium in Race 3, Fittipaldi took his first victory in car racing at Jyllandsringen in the third event. Another win followed at Padborg Park, before Fittipaldi took two further podiums in Djursland. He finished the season in third place, having amassed eight podiums.
2022
The following year, Fittipaldi progressed into the Italian F4 Championship, where he completed a full season for Van Amersfoort Racing, whilst also taking part in two rounds of the ADAC Formula 4 Championship. He took four points and ended up 23rd in the drivers' standings.
FIA Formula 3
In September 2022, Fittipaldi took part in the FIA Formula 3 post-season test, driving for Charouz Racing System on the first day.
Formula Regional
Fittipaldi stepped up to the Formula Regional European Championship in 2023 with Saintéloc Racing.
On 1 July 2023, at a FRECA race at Spa-Francorchamps, Fittipaldi was involved in a multi-car crash at Kemmel-Radillon initiated by Tim Tramnitz. One of the racers that crashed Dilano van 't Hoff, was killed in the incident.
Formula One
In 2020 Fittipaldi became a member of the Sauber Academy.
In October 2022 he was a finalist in the Ferrari Driver Academy’s Scouting World Final.
Personal life
He is the son of two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi.
Racing record
Racing career summary
† As Fittipaldi was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
Complete F4 Danish Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Italian F4 Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula Regional European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
External links
Living people
2007 births
Brazilian racing drivers
Emerson Fittipaldi Jr.
Danish F4 Championship drivers
Italian F4 Championship drivers
ADAC Formula 4 drivers
Van Amersfoort Racing drivers
Formula Regional European Championship drivers
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Thiacidas is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. Species are distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Description
Palpi porrect (extending forward) and slender, reaching vertex of head. Second joint is hairy. Legs naked with short spurs. Antennae fasciculated in male. Metathorax with a slight tuft. Abdomen with thick woolly hair on dorsum of proximal segments. Tibia hair and spineless. Forewings are longer and narrow with somewhat arched costa towards apex. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 usually stalked and veins 6 and 7 usually from cell.
Species
Thiacidas acronictoides (Berio, 1950)
Thiacidas adnanensis (Wiltshire, 1980)
Thiacidas alboporphyrea (Pagenstecher, 1907)
Thiacidas berenice (Fawcett, 1916)
Thiacidas callipona (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
Thiacidas cerurodes (Hampson, 1916)
Thiacidas cerurodes asiriensis Hacker & Fibiger, 2002
Thiacidas cerurodes cerurodes Hampson, 1916
Thiacidas cookei (Pinhey, 1958)
Thiacidas duplicata (Grünberg, 1910)
Thiacidas egregia Staudinger, 1892
Thiacidas fasciata (Fawcett, 1917)
Thiacidas fractilinea Pinhey, 1968
Thiacidas fuscomacula Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas hampsoni (Hacker, 2004)
Thiacidas intermedia Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas ivoiriana Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas juvenis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas khomasana Mey, 2011
Thiacidas krooni Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas legraini Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas leonie Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas meii Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas morettoi Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas mukim (Berio, 1977)
Thiacidas nigrimacula (Pinhey, 1968)
Thiacidas occidentalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas orientalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas permutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas politzari Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas postalbida (Gaede, 1939)
Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855
Thiacidas robertbecki Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas roseotincta (Pinhey, 1962)
Thiacidas roseotincta albata Wiltshire, 1994
Thiacidas roseotincta roseotincta Pinhey, 1962
Thiacidas schausi (Hampson, 1905)
Thiacidas senex (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
Thiacidas smythi (Gaede, 1939)
Thiacidas somaliensis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas subhampsoni Hacker & Zilli, 2010
Thiacidas submutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
Thiacidas triangulata (Gaede, 1939)
References
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Berio (1977). Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 81: 338, fig. 24.
Bethune-Baker (1911). Annals and Magazine of Natural History Serie 8(8): 533–534.
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Hacker (2004). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 1: 274, pl. 13, fig. 6.
Hacker & Fibiger (2002). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 9: 193, pl. 6, fig. 18
Hacker & Zilli (2007). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 3: 179–246.
Hampson (1905). Annals and Magazine of Natural History Serie 7(16): 19.
Hampson (1916). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916: 129, pl. 1, fig. 43
Pagenstecher (1907). Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 pp. 114, pl. 6, fig. 17.
Pinhey (1958). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 22(B): 117, pl. 1.
Pinhey (1962). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 3 (B): 872, pl. 2, figs. 6 & 7.
Pinhey (1968). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 25: 166, pl. 15, figs. 2–4.
Staudinger (1892). in Romanoff. Mémoires sur les lépidoptères 6: 404, pl.7, fig. 2.
Walker (1855). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 5: 1028.
Wiltshire (1980). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2: 226, pl. 2, fig. 57.
Wiltshire (1994). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 125, pl. 17.
Noctuidae
Moth genera |
Bishopcroft is a historic house located in the Southwest Hills neighborhood of Portland, in the US state of Oregon. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was built in 1911 for the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon as a residence and headquarters. Designed by David C. Lewis, the Tudor Revival home once contained a private chapel, a ballroom, and a wine cellar.
History
The current structure known as Bishopcroft was constructed at Elm Street and 19th Avenue in Portland in 1911 with David C. Lewis as its architect. It was constructed as the residence for Charles Scadding, the then-Episcopal Church Bishop of Oregon, after Ascension Episcopal Chapel had been moved to an adjacent lot in the "prestigious" Portland Heights (now Southwest Hills) neighborhood the same year.
The Portland Heights Bishopcroft was not the first episcopal residence known as "Bishopcroft" in Portland. The older Bishopcroft had served as Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris's residence until his death in 1906. Towards the end of his episcopate, Morris's advanced age had proved a problem and the old Bishopcroft was in disrepair upon his passing.
In 1910, Scadding commissioned Lewis to construct the new Bishopcroft on the former site of Ascension. After it was completed in 1911, The Oregon Daily Journal called it "the finest clergyman's home in the city" featuring a library, study, and chapel, and noted that it cost roughly $15,000 to build. According to the article, in addition to serving as the residence for the bishop and his family, Bishopcroft was also intended to host visiting clergymen. Bishop Scadding died at home at Bishopcroft on May 27, 1914.
After Walter Taylor Sumner replaced Scadding upon the latter's death, the old Bishopcroft was modified to serve as a home for members of the Anglican Sisters of St. John the Baptist after a 1914 fire destroyed their school at St. Helen's Hall, with Sumner to take residence at the new Bishopcroft in 1915. Bishop and Mrs. Sumner entertained many visiting clergy and hosted many dinner parties at Bishopcroft. In September 1922, they hosted what newspapers called "possibly the outstanding social event of the convention" during the 47th triennial gathering of Episcopal Church delegates representing nearly every county in every American state, and many from abroad.
Bishopcroft remained an episcopal residence until it was sold in 1939. It was entered into the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2000.
Design
The structure is a Tudor Revival house with an exterior of brick with scored stucco and half timbering siding. Some qualities of Bishopcroft, including its semi-elliptical arched entry porch, have been identified as distinctively Tudor Revival in character. There have been several renovations to the structure since 1939, including the addition of a garage and deletion of a closet and a pantry on the second floor.
Bishopcroft was originally constructed with a ballroom, a grand staircase, and a private chapel adjoining the bishop's office; the chapel's altar has since been removed and the ballroom converted to an entertainment space with a home theater. When it was added to the NRHP, it had four bedrooms on the second floor and two on the third.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
Episcopal Church in Oregon
Tudor Revival architecture in Oregon
Southwest Hills, Portland, Oregon
Residential buildings completed in 1911 |
The Leixlip Spa () (also known as Louisa Bridge Spa) is an archaeological and hydrogeological complex at Louisa Bridge, Leixlip, Ireland, situated close to the Royal Canal, Ireland. It was a popular health spa in the late 18th and early 19th century. The site is known to contain a warm mineralised spring and a cold spring originating from different sources. The archaeological structures comprise a hexagonal spring well and a Romanesque bath. The warm spring was uncovered in 1794 during the construction of the Royal Canal. The mineral spring, marsh and seepage areas at Louisa Bridge are included in the Rye Water Valley/Carton Special Area of Conservation
History
The Royal Canal was built to compete with the Grand Canal and was conceived by a member of the Grand Canal Board. The Royal Canal was to be 175.4 kilometres long (it ended up being 144.8 kilometers in length). Construction began in 1790.
When plans for the Royal Canal were being devised in the mid-18th century, William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster, a shareholder of the Royal Canal scheme, may have insisted that the Canal be re-routed south of Maynooth (where he had an estate at Carton House) rather than the initially planned route north of Maynooth (according to Caesar Otway. However, other reasons for the change in route are mentioned by Delaney including that the northern route would involve an additional lock, that this route would not serve Maynooth and that the estimates in cost were similar for both routes. The estimates would prove to have been grievously miscalculated. This route would require the creation of an aqueduct crossing the River Rye (Ireland). The selection of this route led to the discovery of the springs at Leixlip Spa.
The area around Leixlip where the spa was built saw one of the most expensive civil engineering tasks ever undertaken in Ireland as the canal (built alongside the newly discovered spa) had to cross the Rye Water valley, 26 metres (85 ft) below the level of the canal. The engineering effort took 6 years to complete. The aqueduct was claimed, at the time, to be the tallest in the world at 100 feet high.
Construction of the Rye Water aqueduct commenced in 1790-1 and was fraught with difficulties, both technical and financial. A spring was discovered in 1793 while digging was being carried out at this section of the Royal Canal. The water from this spring was diverted to a hexagonal basin beside the canal. A bucket was added to the construction so that visitors could draw a bucket of spring water from the canal tow path without descending from their carriages. A channel was constructed from the basin to an elongated oval stone well chamber with steps descending to the interior at either end. This was known as the Roman Bath or Romanesque Bath. This construction was approximately 0.7 m deep. Water entered the Bath from a single point at one end. The Bath gave views of the River Rye (Ireland) waterfall (canal overflow) and Aqueduct 100 feet below it at the time. Between the Roman Bath and the River Rye are a series of terraces, down which seepage from the springs flows.
William Conolly, who acquired Leixlip Castle in 1732, planned to develop the spa into a classical thermal spa, but to no avail
The spring was used as a health spa for at least 20 years. Caesar Otway in 1839 described this spa as "one of the most beautiful and abundant in Ireland" and noted that as the spring was discovered in winter, its warmth was apparent compared to other springs. Otway says that the spring is reputed to contain a red worm which may be used to cure a sore leg, and that drinking a quart or two of this water is known to cure "whiskey fever" - he himself had witnessed this cure In the Anthologica Hibernica of 1794, an observer estimated that approximately 12,000 persons who made their way towards the Spa on one Sunday alone between 6 am and 5 pm.
A caricature of the Leixlip Spa and its attendant crowds is held in the Robinson Collection of Caricatures at Trinity College Dublin.
The Conservation Management Plan for the Leixlip Spa, commissioned by the Heritage Council (Ireland), notes that there are no other examples of such a thermal Bath architectural construction in Ireland.
The popularity of the Louisa Bridge Spa waned later on, and it is noted that after 1820 people just stopped visiting. The Spa remained neglected for many years, until 1972 when An Foras Forbartha (who were later absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland)) reported the area as being of scientific interest. In 1974 the Royal Canal Amenities Group was formed to restore the Canal and surrounding areas. In 1975 the Kildare Branch of An Taisce did restoration work on the Leixlip Spa and there has been much restoration and maintenance work done by several local groups since then - a full timeline history of the development of the Leixlip Spa is included in the 2009/10 Conservation Plan for the Spa.
To preserve the spa, a committee was set up from members of Leixlip Town Council, Kildare County Council, An Taisce, Duchas and the Irish National History Museum.
The Louisa Bridge Spa lies along the Great Famine Heritage Trail and a sculpture of a pair of bronze shoes is located close to the Leixlip Spa, commemorating the travel of Strokestown's Famine Emigrants from Roscommon to Dublin.
Folklore
A document from the Manuscript Collection of Ireland at Dúchas (Irish Folklore Commission) describes folklore information collected in 1938 about the Spa – known as the Iron Spa or the Iron Well. Here the Spa is described as having the cure for eye problems and chilblains. A small worm was thought to live in the waters, and this would be placed between two pieces of cloth and held to the eyes to cure 'weak eyes'. It is noted that some people left the pieces of cloth on the nearby briars, however, more did not as there was no saint associated with this well. There were two other wells in Leixlip associated with saints: St Catherine's Well and St Columcille's Well.Well.
Ecology
The Louisa Bridge Spring and Roman Bath is situated in the Rye Water Valley/Carton Special Area of Conservation (Site code: 001398).
The site achieved Special Area of Conservation status in 2018
One of the qualifying features of this area for SAC status is the presence of the Habitats Directive Annex I priority habitat as 'petrifying springs with tufa formation (cratoneurion)' (the other qualifications are the presence of the Narrow-mouthed Whorl Snail (Vertigo angustior) and Desmoulin's Whorl Snail (Vertigo moulinsiana). The European Environment Agency notes that the Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), a species protected by the EU Birds Directive, occurs at this site.
The seepage of the springs of the Leixlip Spa flows down the terraces at the site to the River Rye, providing an interesting ecosystem, as described in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (Ireland) Site Synopsis:
The marsh, mineral spring and seepage area found at Louisa Bridge supports a good diversity of plant species, including stoneworts, Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), sedges (Carex spp.), Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Marsh Lousewort (Pedicularis palustris), Grass-of-parnassus (Parnassia palustris) and Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis). The mineral spring found at the site is of a type considered to be rare in Europe and is a habitat listed on Annex I of the E.U. Habitats Directive. The Red Data Book species Blue Fleabane (Erigeron acer) is found growing on a wall at Louisa Bridge"
In this Special Area of Conservation, the site surveyed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (Ireland) was found to contain a complex of tufa-forming springs, flushes and pools as well as paludal tufa, oncoids/ooids and marl.
The Revised Conservation Plan for the Spa (2009/10) notes that the habitats, flora and fauna of this site give it international scientific significance, and that it is one of the most important examples of the Annex I Priority Habitat Petrifying Springs with Tufa Formation. "The petrifying springs at Leixlip Spa give rise to a mosaic of wetland habitats of immense significance for the rarity, fragility and species-richness of the flora and fauna they support , creating a unique and irreplaceable natural resource. The ecological and hydrological aspects of this site must be considered to be of the utmost importance and must be afforded the greatest priority for conservation"
Hydrogeology
Of the two known springs at the Leixlip Spa complex, the warm spring is believed to be derived from Carboniferous Limestone bedrock at depth while the cold spring is thought to be derived from shallow bedrock or Quaternary deposits
Temperatures in the cold spring range between 6-14 degrees C. Monitoring work by Blake showed the maximum temperature at the Spring was 17.5 °C. The electrical conductivity of the waters at Louisa Bridge Spa Well was recorded as one of the highest measured in thermal wells in Ireland, at 1644 μS/cm. The pH range is 6.95-7.77.
The work by Blake noted that the Irish thermal springs are found in Carboniferous limestone bedrock along a lineament running from North East to South West Ireland, broadly along the line of the Iapetus Suture Zone. Blake also noted that this spring has a residence time in excess of 30,000 years, suggesting the waters are a mixture of groundwaters from different recharge areas and sources.
Other
From an Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) newsletter of 2003, a cleanup of the Spa was described. The authors suggest then that it was at that point the responsibility of the Kildare County Council and Leixlip Town Council to continue with the work to restore the spa which is part of Ireland's National Heritage and an important feature in the Kildare area. The clean-up of the Leixlip Spa was described on Irish television (RTÉ or Raidió Teilifís Éireann) in 1975
References
Leixlip
Spas
Archaeological sites in County Kildare
Springs of Ireland
Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland
Geology of Ireland |
USS Snapper has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
USS Snapper (Submarine No. 16), a submarine commissioned in 1910, renamed in 1911, and decommissioned in 1919
, a patrol boat in commission from 1918 to 1919
, a submarine in commission from 1937 to 1945
United States Navy ship names |
```shell
#!/bin/bash
#test:disabled
set -euo pipefail
source $(dirname $0)/../../utils.sh
TEST_ID=$(generate_test_id)
echo "TEST_ID = $TEST_ID"
ROOT=$(dirname $0)/../../..
env=jvm-$TEST_ID
fn_n=jvm-hello-n-$TEST_ID
fn_p=jvm-hello-p-$TEST_ID
cleanup() {
echo "previous response" $?
log "Cleaning up..."
clean_resource_by_id $TEST_ID
}
if [ -z "${TEST_NOCLEANUP:-}" ]; then
trap cleanup EXIT
else
log "TEST_NOCLEANUP is set; not cleaning up test artifacts afterwards."
fi
cd $ROOT/examples/jvm/java
log "Creating the jar from application"
#Using Docker to build Jar so that maven & other Java dependencies are not needed on CI server
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)":/usr/src/mymaven -w /usr/src/mymaven maven:3.5-jdk-8 mvn clean package -q
log "Creating environment for Java"
fission env create --name $env --image $JVM_RUNTIME_IMAGE --version 2 --keeparchive=true
log "Creating pool manager & new deployment function for Java"
fission fn create --name $fn_p --deploy target/hello-world-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar --env $env --entrypoint io.fission.HelloWorld
fission fn create --name $fn_n --deploy target/hello-world-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar --env $env --executortype newdeploy --entrypoint io.fission.HelloWorld
log "Creating route for pool manager function"
fission route create --name $fn_p --function $fn_p --url /$fn_p --method GET
log "Creating route for new deployment function"
fission route create --name $fn_n --function $fn_n --url /$fn_n --method GET
log "Waiting for router & pools to catch up"
sleep 5
log "Testing pool manager function"
timeout 60 bash -c "test_fn $fn_p 'Hello'"
log "Testing new deployment function"
timeout 60 bash -c "test_fn $fn_n 'Hello'"
log "Test PASSED"
``` |
Gonzalo Tanoira (24 June 1944 – 17 December 2004) was an Argentine polo player.
Biography
He attained 10 goals in Argentina in 1970 and he was rated at 10 goals in U.S. in 1976. He won the USPA Gold Cup in 1982. He has won several thirty-goal World Cups played in Palm Beach, Florida. He was named World Cup MVP four times, in 1977, 1980, 1981 and 1982.
He has served as president of the Argentine Polo Association. He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida on February 13, 2009.
He died in 2004. His wife, Luisa Miguens, published Passion & Glory: A Century of Argentine Polo. His son, Javier Tanoira, published Reflections on Argentine Polo.
References
1944 births
2004 deaths
Argentine polo players |
Maro Charitra () is a 2010 Telugu-language film, which is a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, starring Kamal Haasan and Saritha. The film stars Varun Sandesh and newcomer Anita Galler. The film is produced by Dil Raju and directed by Ravi Yadav, Story by K. Bala Chandar, Dialogues by Umarji Anuradha, cinematography by Ravi Yadav of 2008 Hindi film Race. Music is composed by Mickey J Meyer and background score is composed by Thaman. The film released on 25 March 2010 to negative feedback and was a flop at the box office.
Plot
Balu is a US-born care-free boy. He dropped the course that he was doing because he was missing home and didn't wanted to carry on with his course. His dad tells him off for dropping the course, as he want his son to be like him. He and his dad argue with Balu over every matter, as their points of view don't match. Meanwhile, Swapna, born in India, moved to the US and is Balu's neighbour. She doesn't know English so she doesn't speak when she is outside home, so everyone in the area thinks she is mute and can't speak. When Balu sees Swapna he tried to talk to her but she doesn't reply. He follows her, as he wants to talk to her and want to know her name. One day in the temple where both family was present, Balu sees Swapna talking. One day Swapna tells him that she loves him and want to be with him forever, he also says that he loves her too. But their families dislike one another, as Balu's dad feels Swapna's family is a low class Indian family who don't know how to live in the US. When they find out about Swapna and Balu's love, they both get separated by their family. In order to convince Balu and her family, Swapna tell them that they will have a contract which will say that if Balu and Swapna see or talk to each other in a year's time which includes no texting, e-mail, or messages, their family can get their marriage where ever they like.
Balu moves to New York for a job, where he meets Sandhya, his boss; she is very strict but a nice person. She lost her love and father on same day in car accident, but she didn't move on in her life and still loves her dead lover. Swapna's cousin who likes Swapna comes to the US and wants to marry her. Swapna's mom wants the same, but can't get her married due to the one-year contract. Swapna's cousin creates a misunderstanding and tells Balu that she is marrying him and shows some fake engagement photos. Balu believes him and breaks down and starts dating Sandhya. Swapna's cousin creates the same misunderstanding by telling Swapna that Balu is to wed, but Swapna doesn't believe it. One day Sandhya finds Swapna and Balu's video on his phone and pay a visit to Swapna without telling her that she will soon marry Balu. Swapna in excitement tells Sandhya how much she loves him and their love story. She also tells her that people believe he is marrying another girl, but she doesn't believe as she trusts Balu and will wait forever. Sandhya, who has lost her love before, goes back to New York and tells Balu that it was all misunderstanding, and Swapna still loves him as much she did before and she is waiting for him to return so he should go back to her. After a year when Balu returns, both families break the contract and say that they will not let this marriage happen. Balu and Swapna jump off a waterfall in front of their parents, telling them that if they can't let them live happily they rather die. Swapna and Balu's parents believe that they are dead but the truth is that they came out live from waterfall and ran away so they can live together.
Cast
Varun Sandesh as Balu
Anitha Galler as Swapna
Shraddha Das as Sandhya
Aadarsh Balakrishna as Maddy
Pratap K. Pothen as Balu's father
Urvashi as Durga, Swapna's mother
Thalaivasal Vijay as Swapna's father
Naresh as a police officer
Janaki Sabesh as Balu's mother
Soundtrack
Music of Maro Charitra was launched at Taramathi – Baradari, Golkonda evening on the eve of Valentine's Day i.e. 14 February 2010. Ram Charan Teja, Anushka, Keeravani, VV Vinayak, Allu Arvind, Chota K Naidu, Bhogavally Prasad, Dasarath, Paidipally Vamsi attended this function as guests. Varun Sandesh, Anita Galler, Shraddha Das, and Adarsh Balakrishna attended from the cast of the movie. Ram Charan Teja launched the audio CD and gave the first unit to VV Vinayak.
Reception
A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "Somehow the remake seems bereft of the spirit and soul which characterised the original!" A critic from The Times of India wrote that "Barring some breath-taking visuals and a couple of touching moments, this remake of the yesteryear classic fails to live up to expectations".
References
2010 films
2010s Telugu-language films
Indian romance films
Films scored by Mickey J Meyer
Remakes of Indian films
Films based on Romeo and Juliet
Films with screenplays by K. Balachander
2010 romance films
Sri Venkateswara Creations films |
Christian Letard (born 23 November 1947) is a French retired football manager who most recently managed Congo. Besides Congo, he has managed France and Vietnam.
Career
In 1981, Letard was appointed manager of French third division side Roche-sur-Yon, helping them earn promotion to the French second division. In 1989, he was appointed manager of Le Mans in the French second division, where he suffered relegation to the French third division. In 1994, Letard was appointed manager of French fourth division club Grenoble.
In 2002, he was appointed manager of Vietnam U23, where he successfully sued the Vietnam Football Federation for unfair dismissal. In 2004, Letard was appointed manager of Congo, where he said, "I am not Zorro. Nor those marabouts of illusions who manage, alas, to convince their credulous employers in Africa that four months of intensive preparation is enough to compete with the best teams on the continent".
References
1947 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Vendée
French men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
French football managers
Le Mans FC managers
Grenoble Foot 38 managers
Tours FC managers
Angoulême Charente FC managers
Congo national football team managers
Ligue 2 managers
French expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Vietnam
Footballers from Pays de la Loire |
Kevin Ashcroft (born 5 June 1944) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and Lancashire, and at club level for the Rochdale Hornets, Dewsbury, Leigh, Warrington and Salford, as a . and coached at club level for Leigh (two spells) and Salford. Ashcroft is a Warrington Hall of Fame inductee.
Playing career
Rochdale Hornets
Ashcroft played in Rochdale Hornets' 5-16 defeat by Warrington in the 1965 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1965–66 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Friday 29 October 1965.
Leigh
Ashcroft played in Leigh's 5-8 defeat by Castleford in the 1967 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1967–68 season at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 16 January 1968, played in the 11-6 victory over Wigan in the 1969 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1969–70 season at Central Park, Wigan on Tuesday 16 December 1969.
He played in Leigh's 2-11 defeat by Swinton in the 1969 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1969–70 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 1 November 1969, and played in the 7-4 victory over St. Helens in the 1970 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1970–71 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 28 November 1970.
Ashcroft played in Leigh's 24-7 victory over Leeds in the 1971 Challenge Cup Final during the 1970–71 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 15 May 1971, in front of a crowd of 85,514.
Warrington
He played in Warrington's 24-9 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1974 Challenge Cup Final during the 1973–74 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 11 May 1974, in front of a crowd of 77,400, and played in the 7-14 defeat by Widnes in the 1975 Challenge Cup Final during the 1974–75 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 10 May 1975, in front of a crowd of 85,998.
He played in Warrington's 0-0 draw with by Salford in the 1974 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1974–75 season at The Willows, Salford on Tuesday 17 December 1974, played in the 5-10 defeat by Salford in the 1974 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final replay during the 1974–75 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Tuesday 28 January 1975.
Ashcroft played , was captain, and was man of the match in Warrington's 27-16 victory over Rochdale Hornets in the 1973–74 Player's No.6 Trophy Final during the 1973–74 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 February 1974, Ashcroft gave his £25 man of the match prize to Wigan's groundsman Billy Mitchell who had managed to get the water-logged pitch into a playable condition, (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £442.70 in 2014).
Ashcroft played in Warrington's 4-0 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1973–74 Captain Morgan Trophy Final during the 1973–74 season at The Willows, Salford on Saturday 26 January 1974, in front of a crowd of 5,259.
Return to Leigh
Ashcroft played , was the coach, and scored a drop goal in Leigh's 4-12 defeat by Castleford in the 1976 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1976–77 season at Hilton Park, Leigh on Tuesday 14 December 1976.
International honours
On 3 April 1965, Ashcroft played in the first ever Great Britain under-24 international match in a 17–9 win against France under-24's.
Ashcroft won caps for Great Britain while at Leigh in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup against Australia, in 1968 against France, in 1969 against France, in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup against France, and New Zealand, and on the 1974 Great Britain Lions tour against New Zealand (interchange/substitute).
Coaching career
County Cup Final appearances
Ashcroft was the coach in Warrington's 16–0 victory over St. Helens in the 1982 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1982–83 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 23 October 1982, and the coach in Salford's 17–22 defeat by Wigan in the 1988 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1988–89 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Sunday 23 October 1988.
References
External links
Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk
Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk (martini)
(archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk
(archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk (martini)
1944 births
Living people
Blackpool Panthers coaches
Dewsbury Rams players
English rugby league coaches
English rugby league players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Lancashire rugby league team players
Leigh Leopards captains
Leigh Leopards coaches
Leigh Leopards players
Rochdale Hornets players
Rugby league hookers
Rugby league players from St Helens, Merseyside
Rugby league props
Salford Red Devils coaches
Salford Red Devils players
Warrington Wolves coaches
Warrington Wolves players |
The book International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics is an authoritative encyclopedia for systems theory, cybernetics, the complex systems science, which covers both theories and applications in areas as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences. This book first published in 1997 aimed to give an overview over more than 40 years developments in the field of Systems and Cybernetics.
This book offers a collection of more than 3000 keywords and articles of Systems and Cybernetics. Many items contain quotes from authors from the field.
The book is edited by Belgian systems scientist and diplomat Charles François with an Academic board including members such as John N. Warfield, Robert Trappl, Ranulph Glanville, G. A. Swanson,
Nicholas Paritsis,
Daniel Dubois, Heiner Benking, Francisco Parra Luna, Anthony Judge, Markus Schwaninger, Gerhard Chroust, G. A. Swanson, Matjaž Mulej and Stuart Umpleby.
The first edition was published in 1997 in one volume with 450 pages by publisher K.G. Saur in Munich. The second edition was published in 2004 in two volumes and 741 pages by the same publisher. This update consisted of 1700 articles, some of them with figures, tables and diagrams, and 1500 bibliographical references. The genesis of the Encyclopedia was published by Anthony Judge in the Wall Street Journal and as Festschrift in 2001: UIA - Saur Relations: Sharing a Documentary Pilgrimage
References
External links
International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics short intro.
Book review: International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, by: John P. van Gigch.
Some general references and terms in the 2nd edition
1997 non-fiction books
Systems theory books |
Agápē is the second mixtape by American pop-R&B singer JoJo. It is of EP length, unlike the previous mixtape. The mixtape was announced in early November 2012. JoJo recorded material specifically intended for the mixtape as she did not want to keep her fans waiting for new music any longer. Released on her 22nd birthday on December 20, 2012, it marked the follow-up to her 2010 mixtape Can't Take That Away from Me, which spawned the single and video for "In the Dark". The mixtape's first single "We Get By" was released for free online on November 15, 2012 on JoJo's official SoundCloud with a limited number of downloads, with JoJo stating that "there's a limit on the download because we want you to download the entire mixtape once it's released". She recorded the song with a group of her friends known as The Backpackkids who all got together to create what they call "genre-less music".
Background
In late 2012 Interscope Records dropped Blackground Records from their distribution, resulting in JoJo's third album, then titled Jumping Trains, being unable to be released. JoJo has experienced ongoing issues with her label including a reluctance to release new music including the album's first single "Demonstrate", leading to the album's release being delayed many times. As a result, JoJo began recording new material to be used specifically for a new mixtape to be released by the end of 2012.
JoJo describes Agápē as a "labor of love from the heart without limits or boundaries." In an interview with VibeVixen when describing the tape JoJo said "I would say this is definitely the most cohesive body of work. It's more of an experience, there's more interludes," she says. "It'll kind of let you in on what's been happening in my personal life, my family. It really plays on me being from Massachusetts, me living in L.A. and finding myself in between those two worlds, not feeling like I necessarily belong anywhere, but I guess that's how most people feel in their 20s anyway."
Recording and composition
On November 15, 2012, just two months before the mixtape's release, JoJo officially announced that she had been working on her second free mixtape that was scheduled to be released on her 22nd birthday on December 20, 2012, however recording for the mixtape had already begun as early as January 2012 as she "didn't wan't to keep the fans waiting for new music any longer". Due to ongoing issues with her label, Blackground Records, which have been reluctant to release any new music (including the single, "Demonstrate", which has led to the album's release to be delayed many times), JoJo began recording new material to be used specifically for a brand new mixtape.
Agápē was written and recorded over six days while Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope Tour played on a studio television for inspiration, with one song completed each day. While "Andre" and "Can't Handle the Truth" had already been recorded prior to the mixtape's production, as "Can't Handle the Truth" was originally recorded for JoJo's much delayed third album, she gained permission from the songs producer Boi-1da to release the track on the mixtape instead. The first track written for the tape was the mixtape's lead single "We Get By".
The mixtape is predominantly R&B/pop; however, JoJo describes the mixtape's sound as genre-less. On the first track of the tape "Back2thebeginningagain" JoJo talks about her constant record label struggles and how she finally feels okay to record the type of music she has always wanted to. JoJo states "It's about driving around Foxborough in my mom's Toyota Echo with the dents on the side of it and just getting in touch with my roots: Who I am; where I came from. I'm talking about some of those dark times where I've drank until I've gone to sleep and woken up and feeling like 'ok, everything else is in the past. Today I start forward and start fresh.'" The mixtape's second track "We Get By" is mainly of an old school R&B/pop genre. It is written by JoJo who expresses remaining optimistic in spite of the obstacles she faces. "I know it will be OK. I believe in myself" she sings, referring to her constant label troubles. JoJo states "It's kind of about me moving from South Boston to Los Angeles and my decision to do that. Feeling like I needed a place to explore and grow." She goes on further in another interview stating "It's the mission statement for what we were going to expand upon, and I was touching on the feeling like you don't belong anywhere but you still feel like you're going to be okay no matter where you're at." The third track on the tape "Take the Canyon" is influenced by an old relationship. JoJo says "'Take the Canyon' is about cheating, and it's about only having a window of time to be with that lover and needing to get there as soon as possible for this illicit rendezvous. It's about taking the canyon–Beverly Glen or Laurel Canyon or whatever it may be." The fourth track is titled "Billions" and was originally written about an old lover. JoJo states "it became about my family. As much as I can see in the world, there's nothing more important to me than that foundation of family, friendship and real love."
The fifth track "Thinking Out Loud" "Is about hooking up with an ex. And it's about how your heart hasn't really mended from the way that things ended. You realize that it hurts even more, even though you guys don't have a title; it hurts even more being with that person knowing that they don't feel the way that you do." The sixth track on the mixtape is a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris" which, serving as a tribute to Mitchell, was renamed "White Girl in Paris". The mixtape's seventh track and second single from the tape "Andre" was also written by JoJo while production was handled by Mr. Franks. In discussion of the track, JoJo says "Andre" isn't necessarily a direct tribute to Outkast's André 3000; rather, the 37-year-old rapper/singer provided inspiration for the song. "I absolutely admire André and both of the guys from Outkast — their incredible artistry and creativity," she explains. "The man that André is, I think that's super-sexy — someone who is themselves, who isn't confined and just expresses themselves. He has such a great style. I was inspired by that, for sure." The mixtape includes music from Dropkick Murphys' "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" on the "St. Patrick's Day Interlude".
The final track, "Can't Handle the Truth", was written by JoJo while production was handled by Boi-1da. Originally, the song was recorded for her third album but was used on the mixtape instead. When describing the song JoJo states "It's about cheating and basically blaming it on the guy. Saying like 'You are responsible for my infidelity because you made me this way and you can't handle it because you're such a fucking idiot.'"
Agápē is JoJo's first official release to contain explicit lyrics. There are a few tracks on the tape that refer to drug use and sex as heard on "We Get By" and "Billions", respectively. "Take the Canyon" contains the lyrics "I'm always coming over and smoking you out because everything is better with a blunt in your mouth". When asked about the drug references during an interview with TheYoungFolks.com, JoJo states
"I knew that it was just going to be an opportunity to present myself in a way that was true to what some kids my age are doing, experiencing and thinking about. I just wanted to paint a true picture... and I think that there are still some things that women aren't "suppose [sic] to say," you know what I mean? So, it's kind of jarring to hear that. I was more concerned about being respected as a good woman but still expressing myself like the Bostonian I am."
Promotion
In promotion for the tape JoJo performed songs for the first time at the Roxy in Los Angeles such as "Andre" and "We Get By". During the release week of the tape JoJo did a four song acoustic set list on the Splash at ThatGrapeJuice.com, where fans got to choose which songs they wished to see her perform including "Too Little Too Late", "André", "Demonstrate" and "The Christmas Song". JoJo performed a mini-concert from her keyboardist’s living room and broadcast it live online via Stageit.com where fans were able to purchase tickets and stream her entire performance online where she performed several tracks from the tape including "Andre", "We Get By", the full extended version of "Thinking Out Loud" and "Billions". She has since performed tracks from the tape at several live performances and interviews including a benefit concert titled "Love is Heroic" where she performed the full version of "Thinking Out Loud". she also performed the song during an interview with YoungHollywood.com.
JoJo did a four song acoustic set list on the "Rap-UpTV Sessions" through Rap-Up.com where she performed "Andre", "Demonstrate", "Marvin's Room" and "Like That", a cut from her 2006 sophomore album The High Road. Due to popular demand JoJo is set to release the full extended version of "Thinking Out Loud". JoJo's reasons for not releasing the whole song on the mixtape is because she gets very self-conscious of her work, and wasn't sure whether she was going to release it or not. JoJo also scheduled several music video for songs from the mixtape including "Andre", "Thinking Out Loud" and "Can't Handle the Truth".
Tour
In support of the mixtape JoJo embarked on a nationwide tour hitting the East Coast and other cities in the United States as well as Canada. She met with her agency in January 2013 to sort out a specific route for the tour. On August 28, 2013 JoJo announced the first five tour dates entitled "The Agápē Tour" via her official Twitter page with special guest Leah Labelle as the opening act.
Singles
"We Get By" was released as the lead single from the mixtape and premiered online on November 15, 2012. the song was written by JoJo, Austin Brown, Scott Bruzenak, and Tommy Parker, while production was handled by the Backpackkids. JoJo has described the song as "genre-less music". When describing the song, JoJo claimed "It's kind of about me moving from South Boston to Los Angeles and my decision to do that. Feeling like I needed a place to explore and grow."
"André" was released as the second single and premiered online on November 30, 2012. The song was written by JoJo and production was handled by Mr. Franks. The song was inspired by the OutKast rapper’s 2003 album The Love Below. The song gained some airplay like her previous single "Demonstrate" despite not being serviced to radio. The music video for "Andre" was directed by Patrick "Embryo" Tapu, while the treatment for the video was handled by Blackwell Cooper and produced by Samuel Sanchez. Filming for the video began on January 27, 2013 in Downtown Los Angeles and took fourteen hours for shooting to complete. In a behind-the-scenes photo taken on the set we see JoJo wearing hipster chic looks designed by Joy Rich Clothing as she performs on a rooftop overlooking the city and in front of artwork at The Hive gallery. The music video for "Andre" made its official worldwide premiere on March 21, 2013 exclusively through Complex magazine. The video follows JoJo as she wakes up in her boyfriend's downtown loft and visits him at his job at an art gallery where his identity is a mystery until the end when his actions reveal how he feels towards her as he praises her in a special art exhibit at the gallery. The video includes cameos from her girlfriends including Leah LaBelle, Karina Pasian, Francia Raisa, Leven Rambin, Denise Janae and her guitarist JinJoo Lee. Agápē is show in both the video and on screen at the end with the words below reading "Rescue is the Best Breed ADOPT".
"Thinking Out Loud" was released intended as the mixtape's third single, including the full extended version of the song (as Agápē only includes a snippet of the song) and premiered in May 2013. The song was written by JoJo, Austin Brown and Scott Bruzenak who also handled the song's production. Due to popular demand for the extended version of the song JoJo decided to choose "Thinking Out Loud" as the mixtape's third single. The accompanying music video for "Thinking Out Loud" was directed by Aaron A. Filming for the video began on March 29, 2013 in downtown Los Angeles. The music video has yet to be released.
Concept, title and artwork
JoJo didn't want to keep her fans waiting for new music due to ongoing label issues; thus, she began recording material specifically for the mixtape. Originally JoJo thought of naming the mixtape Live Free or Die after the New Hampshire state motto (which inspired the tattoo on the back of her neck), but upon further thought, JoJo stated "it sounded dramatic and militant and scary. And that is SO not what this is all about! Its really about friends coming together and bonding over a mutual love for music then seeing what grows out of it. Not about industry politics, agendas, empty-promises, ego, swag, pretension, or a budget of any kind."
The mixtape's title "agape", which means "unconditional love" in Greek, is also the name of a mixed breed dog she recently adopted who is featured on the album's cover. JoJo describes agape as "unconditional love without pretense, regardless of circumstance." The title was also inspired by an 11‑year-old concert violinist whose name was also Agape, JoJo states "I remember meeting a girl, this incredible concert violinist — she was like 11 years old and her name was Agápe. I'll never forget her. So [that incident] inspired this."
When describing the mixtape JoJo says "This mixtape is meant to be experienced when you have 27-28 minutes to go on a little journey with me and listen to some stories. There are interludes, outerludes, random shit, my dad playing harmonica, and a conversation between my whole family at Thanksgiving." Agápē has been described as a "labor of love from the heart without limits or boundaries."
Track listing
References
External links
The Mixtape on Audiomack
JoJo (singer) albums
Albums produced by Boi-1da
2012 mixtape albums |
Play Me: The Complete Uni Studio Recordings...Plus! is a box set of Neil Diamond's recordings for Uni Records.
This anthology contains all of the tracks from:
Velvet Gloves and Spit (1968)
Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)
Touching You, Touching Me (1969)
Tap Root Manuscript (1970)
Stones (1971)
Moods (1972)
The Plus! part of the collection contains live tracks from:
Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour (1970)
Hot August Night (MCA, 1972)
In addition to all of the album and bonus tracks, Play Me contains the CD debuts of Broad Old Woman (6 A.M. Insanity) (B-side of Two-Bit Manchild), and the live single version of "Cherry Cherry" from Hot August Night. It also contains the re-recorded version of Shilo, which was added to Velvet Gloves and Spit after its initial release, as well as the hit single Sweet Caroline, which started as a non-album single, but was later added to the album Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show, which was then reissued as Sweet Caroline.
While this album can be said to contain every track from the studio albums, it does not contain every note. For whatever reason, Shilo is missing the opening note, while Stones is missing a couple of measures from the intro.
Track listing
References
Neil Diamond compilation albums
2002 compilation albums
MCA Records compilation albums
Albums arranged by Lee Holdridge
Albums conducted by Lee Holdridge
Albums produced by Tom Catalano
Albums arranged by Don Costa
Albums produced by Tommy Cogbill
Albums produced by Chips Moman
Albums recorded at the Troubadour
Albums arranged by Marty Paich
Albums conducted by Marty Paich
Albums arranged by Larry Muhoberac
Albums conducted by Larry Muhoberac
Albums recorded at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles) |
Saločiai is a small town in Panevėžys County, in northeastern Lithuania next to the border with Latvia. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 720 people.
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Panevėžys County |
Csévharaszt is a village in Pest county, Hungary.
References
Populated places in Pest County |
Vozrozhdeniye () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Semigorodneye Rural Settlement, Kharovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 37 as of 2002.
Geography
Vozrozhdeniye is located 36 km south of Kharovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semigorodnyaya is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kharovsky District |
After the Ballot (Original French title: Chers électeurs) is a documentary film by Manuel Foglia, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film was released in 2008. It follows the lives of two members of the National Assembly of Québec - Charlotte L'Écuyer, a Liberal back bencher, and Daniel Turp, a Parti Québécois (PQ) Shadow Minister. The film follows L'Écuyer and her troubles with her own government. She wants to preserve her riding's lumbering jobs, although her government, insofar as it is presented in the film, is committed to preserving forests. Turp, on the hand, does not seem to have the same constituency problems. Here, the film focuses on his reaction to various political actions undertaken by the PQ, and his considering running for PQ leadership.
Of these two MNAs only Charlotte L'Écuyer has held on to her seat in subsequent elections. Daniel Turp lost his seat to Québec solidaire member Amir Khadir.
The filming took place during the Liberal Party's first majority government (2003–2007), under Premier Jean Charest.
During the filming, Bernard Landry faced a leadership challenged, launched, in part, by Pauline Marois. Landry lost support of his party, and stepped down as leader. Marois would not win the following leadership election, the prize instead going to André Boisclair. Although, following a terrible showing in the 2007 provincial election, Boisclair gave up leadership of his party. Marois would then become leader of the PQ, and is still today.
Thomas Mulcair, former Leader of the Official Opposition in Canadian federal politics, also features in the film as Minister of Sustainable Development in Jean Charest's Liberal government.
References
External links
Watch After the Ballot at NFB.ca
2008 films
Documentary films about Quebec politics
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
2008 documentary films
2000s Canadian films |
```hack
/*
*/
/*
* This file is part of Scylla.
*
* Scylla is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Scylla is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
*
* along with Scylla. If not, see <path_to_url
*/
#pragma once
#include <seastar/core/sstring.hh>
#include <seastar/core/future.hh>
#include <seastar/core/distributed.hh>
#include "auth/service.hh"
#include "db/config.hh"
#include "db/system_distributed_keyspace.hh"
#include "database.hh"
#include "log.hh"
namespace db {
class extensions;
}
extern logging::logger startlog;
class bad_configuration_error : public std::exception {};
void init_storage_service(distributed<database>& db, sharded<auth::service>&, sharded<db::system_distributed_keyspace>&);
struct init_scheduling_config {
scheduling_group streaming;
scheduling_group statement;
scheduling_group gossip;
};
void init_ms_fd_gossiper(sstring listen_address
, uint16_t storage_port
, uint16_t ssl_storage_port
, bool tcp_nodelay_inter_dc
, sstring ms_encrypt_what
, sstring ms_trust_store
, sstring ms_cert
, sstring ms_key
, sstring ms_tls_prio
, bool ms_client_auth
, sstring ms_compress
, db::seed_provider_type seed_provider
, size_t available_memory
, init_scheduling_config scheduling_config
, sstring cluster_name = "Test Cluster"
, double phi = 8
, bool sltba = false);
/**
* Very simplistic config registry. Allows hooking in a config object
* to the "main" sequence.
*/
class configurable {
public:
configurable() {
// We auto register. Not that like cycle is assumed to be forever
// and scope should be managed elsewhere.
register_configurable(*this);
}
virtual ~configurable()
{}
// Hook to add command line options and/or add main config options
virtual void append_options(db::config&, boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init&)
{};
// Called after command line is parsed and db/config populated.
// Hooked config can for example take this oppurtunity to load any file(s).
virtual future<> initialize(const boost::program_options::variables_map&) {
return make_ready_future();
}
virtual future<> initialize(const boost::program_options::variables_map& map, const db::config& cfg, db::extensions& exts) {
return initialize(map);
}
// visible for testing
static std::vector<std::reference_wrapper<configurable>>& configurables();
static future<> init_all(const boost::program_options::variables_map&, const db::config&, db::extensions&);
static future<> init_all(const db::config&, db::extensions&);
static void append_all(db::config&, boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init&);
private:
static void register_configurable(configurable &);
};
``` |
World Services Group (WSG) is a global multidisciplinary professional services network composed of independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. It ranks as one of the largest among the more than 200 professional service networks in the world. WSG members are independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. According to the organization's website , WSG was formed in 2002 as a multidisciplinary network comprising over 120 member firms in 150 jurisdictions and 23,000 professionals. Its global headquarters are located in the Houston, Texas.
Governance
WSG is a global professional services network of independent firms who represent their own individual client. In WSG, like most of these organizations member firms are highly vetted and are required to be top tier firms. WSG is governed by a board of directors consisting of representatives from each region and from the various services that the members provide. WSG operates and is managed by a staff out of Houston, Texas.
Officers
Herman H. Raspé, Patterson Belknap - Chair
Anastasia Campbell, Graham Thompson - Chair Elect
André Vautour, Lavery - Secretary
David Gutierrez, BLP -Treasurer
Stefan Erhag, Delphi - Chair Emeritus
Maricarmen Trujillo, World Services Group - Chief Operating Officer
Directors
The directors are representative of their industry and regions.
Bashir Ahmed, Afridi & Angell (Legal - United Arab Emirates)
Rafael Calvo Salinero, Garrigues (Legal - Spain)
Paul Carlyle, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP (Legal - Scotland)
Jesus Colunga, Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C. (Legal - Mexico)
Matthew P. Fisher, Hanson Bridgett (Legal - San Francisco, CA, USA)
Bonnie L. Dixon, Atsumi & Sakai (Legal - Japan)
Shahira Khaled, Al Kamel Law Office (Legal - Egypt)
Xiaoming Li, Han Kun Law Offices (Legal - China)
Jaime Robledo Vasquez, Brigard Urrutia (Legal - Columbia)
Martin Simovart, Cobalt (Legal - Estonia)
Global structure
WSG is divided into six regions: Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Each region has a regional Council consisting of five WSG member representatives. All WSG members are recognized as leading independent firms in their region by the top ranking publications and awards including, Members regularly rank in Chambers and Partners, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Legal 500, International Financial Law Review 1000 and other rating organizations.
See also
Umbrella organization
Business networking
Organizational Studies
Professional services networks
References
Professional networks
International law organizations
International organizations based in the United States |
The Phantom Agony is the debut studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Epica. It was released in 2003 by the Dutch label Transmission Records. It is the first album recorded by guitarist Mark Jansen after his departure from the band After Forever. On this album, Jansen continues with the collection of songs that make up The Embrace That Smothers. The first three parts can be found on Prison of Desire (2000), After Forever's debut album, and the following three parts can be found on The Divine Conspiracy (2007), Epica's third album. These songs deal with the dangers of organized religion.
The album was re-released on 23 March 2013, which coincided with Epica's 10th anniversary Retrospect show, as a 2-disc expanded edition by Epica's former record label Transmission Records.
Track listing
Personnel
All credits adapted from the original release.
Epica
Simone Simons – lead vocals
Mark Jansen – rhythm guitar, grunts, screams
Ad Sluijter – lead guitar
Coen Janssen – synths, piano
Yves Huts – bass
Jeroen Simons – drums
Additional musicians
Olaf Reitmeier – acoustic guitars on "Feint" and "Run for a Fall", engineer
Annette Berryman – flute on "Run for a Fall"
Production
Sascha Paeth – producer, engineer, mixing
Mark Jansen – orchestral arrangements
Coen Janssen – orchestral and choir arrangements
Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – orchestral arrangements
Hans van Vuuren – executive producer, coordination and research
Peter van 't Riet – mastering
Orchestra
Thomas Glöckner – violin
Andreas Pfaff – violin
Tobias Rempe – violin
Marie-Theres Stumpf – viola
David Schlage – viola
Jörn Kellermann – cello
Cordula Rhode – cello
Andrè Neygenfind – contrabass
Choir
Melvin Edmonsen – bass
Previn Moore – tenor
Bridget Fogle – alto
Cinzia Rizzo – alto
Annie Goeble – soprano
Amanda Somerville – soprano, vocal coach
Singles
The Phantom Agony
"The Phantom Agony" was the first single.
Track listing
"The Phantom Agony" (Single Version) - 4:35
"Veniality" - 4:36
"Façade of Reality" - 8:17
"Veniality" (Orchestral Version) - 4:37
Feint
Feint was the second single.
Track listing
"Feint" - 4:18
"Feint (Piano Version)" - 4:53
"Triumph of Defeat" - 3:56
"Seif al Din" - 5:46
Cry for the Moon
Cry for the Moon was the third single. The song originated from a two-track demo released under the band name Sahara Dust, with the other track being a demo version of "Illusive Consensus".
Track listing
Demo
"Cry for the Moon" - 6:46
"Illusive Consensus" - 5:00
Single
"Cry for the Moon" (Single Version) - 3:33
"Cry for the Moon" - 6:44
"Run for a Fall" (Single Version) - 4:29
"Run for a Fall" - 6:31
References
Epica (band) albums
2003 debut albums
Transmission (record label) albums |
The 2007 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania.
The 2006 season began with the Nittany Lions ranked #19 in the AP and Coaches preseason polls. The team dropped out of the rankings with losses to Notre Dame and Ohio State, but finished the season ranked #25 in the Coaches Poll and #24 in the AP Poll with a final record of 9–4.
Preseason
Shortly after the end of the 2006 season, junior linebacker and 2006 Bednarik Award finalist Dan Connor announced he would remain at Penn State for his senior year.
Redshirt junior offensive lineman Elijah Robinson was forced to give up football after being diagnosed with a tight spinal canal, a condition that could lead to paralysis if Robinson ever sustained a head impact that pinches the spinal cord. Redshirt junior safety Spencer Ridenhour chose to transfer from Penn State, after being unable to win a starting position with returning safety Anthony Scirrotto and converted cornerback Tony Davis ahead of him on the depth charts.
Seniors Dan Connor, Terrell Golden, and Anthony Morelli were elected tri-captains by their teammates prior to the season.
Penn State was ranked #17 in the AP and #18 in the Coaches college football preseason polls.
Recruiting class
The Nittany Lions received 21 letters of intent on National Signing Day, February 7, 2007.
Spring practice
The public got their first look at the 2007 squad during the annual Blue-White Game at Beaver Stadium on April 21, a 70-degree sun-splashed day. A record crowd of 71,000 turned out for the scrimmage, the third highest in the nation for a spring football game, and surpassing the previous record of 62,000 set in 1996.
Thousands of fans in the huge crowd wore maroon and orange shirts, in tribute to the victims of the previous week's events at Virginia Tech, including a section of 800 fans that formed a large "VT" block.
The White team defeated the Blue team 30–6, led by junior quarterback Paul Cianciolo who ran for one touchdown and passed for two more, finishing 8-of-9 for 126 yards passing, and sophomore receiver Chris Bell who led all receivers with 116 yards receiving and two touchdowns, including a 74-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Daryll Clark.
Criminal charges
On April 27, 2007, State College police announced that six members of the squad were charged with a range of criminal charges related to an altercation that occurred in an apartment in downtown State College earlier that month. The charges include burglary, criminal trespass, simple assault, and harassment, and players charged include junior safety Anthony Scirrotto, who led the Big Ten in 2006 with six interceptions and was named 2006 first-team All-Big Ten, and junior cornerback Justin King, named second-team All-Big Ten in 2006.
Charges against King were withdrawn before the preliminary hearing on May 4, 2007. After the hearing, charges against Jerome Hayes, Tyrell Sales and Lydell Sargeant were dismissed, citing weak evidence. However, Scirrotto and Chris Baker still face a possible trial in county court.
Coach Paterno announced that, because of the incident, the entire football team will clean Beaver Stadium on Sundays after home games, a task usually handled by members of Penn State's club sports teams. The team began serving this punishment following their 59–0 victory over Florida International. The players arrived at the stadium just prior to 8:00 a.m. and cleaned eight sections of the stadium. They were joined by members of various sports clubs and teams. The football team and other organizations worked together to clean the entire stadium.
Penn State's Office of Judicial Affairs expelled Scirrotto, Baker, Sargeant and Hayes for the second summer semester, but all four players were allowed to return to campus on August 6 for preseason workouts. Sargeant and his family requested formal Judicial Affairs hearings to appeal the decision.
Charges of burglary, simple assault and criminal solicitation against Scirrotto were subsequently dismissed by Centre County Presiding Judge, Charles C. Brown, Jr., but a felony charge of criminal trespass and a summary offense of harassment are still pending. Trials for Scirrotto and Baker are scheduled for December.
Preseason awards
Jeremy Boone
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award
Deon Butler
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
Gerald Cadogan
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award
Dan Connor
First-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-American
First-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team Sporting News pre-season All-American
First-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team CBS Sports pre-season All-American
College Football News pre-season Defensive Player of the Year
First-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
Devin Fentress
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award
Kevin Kelly
Third-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Justin King
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
First-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
Sean Lee
Third-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
Anthony Morelli
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Rich Ohrnberger
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Andrew Quarless
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Anthony Scirrotto
First-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
A.J. Wallace
Third-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Derrick Williams
Second-team Athlon Sports pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team Sporting News pre-season All-Big Ten
Second-team College Football News pre-season All-American
First-team College Football News pre-season All-Big Ten
Schedule
Penn State did not play Big Ten teams Northwestern and Minnesota this year.
Personnel
Roster
Coaching staff
Joe Paterno – Head Coach
Dick Anderson – Offensive Line (Guards and Centers)
Tom Bradley – Defensive Coordinator and Cornerbacks
Galen Hall – Offensive Coordinator and Running Backs
Larry Johnson, Sr. – Defensive Line
Bill Kenney – Offensive Tackles and Tight Ends
Mike McQueary – Wide Receivers and Recruiting Coordinator
Brian Norwood – Safeties
Jay Paterno – Quarterbacks
Ron Vanderlinden – Linebackers
John Thomas – Strength and Conditioning
Coaching changes
Safeties coach Brian Norwood left the staff at the conclusion of the regular season to accept the defensive coordinator position at Baylor. Former Coordinator of Player Personnel Kermit Buggs was named his replacement and assumed coaching duties prior to the Nittany Lions' postseason appearance in the Alamo Bowl.
Game summaries
September 1: Florida International
The Nittany Lions shut out the Golden Panthers in their first-ever meeting. Quarterback Anthony Morelli was 23 of 38 for 295 yards, with touchdown passes to Terrell Golden, Mickey Shuler, Jr., and Matt Hahn. The running backs scored five touchdowns, including two by Austin Scott.
Led by linebackers Dan Connor and Sean Lee, the defensive unit forced five turnovers and held FIU to −3 yards rushing.
Lee was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for his performance.
September 8: Notre Dame
In front of a crowd of 110,078 spectators, the second-largest ever at Beaver Stadium, the Nittany Lions overpowered an inexperienced Fighting Irish team in a 31–10 win. Derrick Williams returned a punt 78 yards for a touchdown to start Penn State's scoring, after the Irish took a 7–0 lead on an interception return for a touchdown. Austin Scott rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries. Anthony Morelli finished 12 of 21 for 131 yards, including a 51-yard strike to Chris Bell and a 10-yard touchdown to Jordan Norwood.
Led by Dan Connor, the defense sacked the Irish's highly touted freshman quarterback Jimmy Clausen six times for −50 yards. The defensive unit held the Irish to zero rushing yards and just 144 yards total. The Irish committed 14 penalties for 97 yards, partly due to the loud, mostly white-clad crowd.
Recording 12 tackles, Connor was selected Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week as well as Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week. Derrick Williams' punt return for a touchdown was selected the week's Pontiac Game Changing Performance in a landslide vote.
September 15: Buffalo
Backup tailback Rodney Kinlaw had his first 100-yard game, tallying a career-high 129 yards on 23 carries and a touchdown after replacing starter Austin Scott, who fumbled on each of Penn State's first two drives. Scott's first fumble at the Penn State 8-yard line allowed the Bulls to take the lead, 3–0.
After a slow start, quarterback Anthony Morelli finished 20 of 27 for 202 yards and a career-high four touchdowns, including two to tight end Andrew Quarless, who was playing in his first game this season after being suspended for an underage drinking citation. Jordan Norwood's acrobatic 5-yard touchdown catch was highlighted as the Top Play for September 15, 2007 on ESPN's SportsCenter.
On defense, Dan Connor and Sean Lee each recorded 12 tackles. Safety Anthony Scirrotto also recorded an interception and recovered a fumble forced by Tony Davis.
September 22: @ Michigan
The Wolverines defeated the Nittany Lions 14–9, their first loss of the season. Michigan's Mike Hart carried the ball a record 44 times for 153 yards, helping the Wolverines control the clock and executed 26 more plays than Penn State.
The Nittany Lions defense permitted only three drives above 40 yards, forced two turnovers and limited Hart to 3.5 yards per carry, but the Wolverines were 10 of 18 on third down conversions. Sean Lee finished with 12 tackles, and cornerback Lydell Sargeant made a career-high 10 tackles including a tackle for loss and an interception.
Anthony Morelli was 15 of 31 for 169 yards, with no touchdowns or interceptions, but lost a fumble early in the game on the Penn State 10-yard line. Michigan needed only two plays to convert the turnover into a touchdown.
September 29: @ Illinois
The Nittany Lions fell 27–20 to the Fighting Illini in a turnover-filled game, Illinois's first win over a ranked opponent since 2001. The Illini would take a 7–3 lead on a 90-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, the first given up by Penn State since 1994.
Quarterback Anthony Morelli was 21 of 38 for a career-high 298 yards but was intercepted three times inside the Illinois 30-yard line. Morelli also had a crucial fumble on a fourth down scramble after appearing to have gained enough yards for the first down. The offense started five drives in Illinois territory but could only score three points on those drives.
The defense struggled early to defend the Illini's option running game, giving up 216 yards rushing. Linebacker Sean Lee recorded a career-high 17 tackles. Justin King and Tony Davis each intercepted the ball once, the second of the season for both players.
October 6: Iowa
Quarterback Anthony Morelli overcame first-half boos from the Beaver Stadium crowd to finish 18 of 31 for 233 yards and a touchdown in a 27–7 win over the Hawkeyes. Rodney Kinlaw, playing in place of suspended tailback Austin Scott, ran for a career-high 168 yards and two touchdowns. Redshirt freshman Evan Royster had 86 yards on 16 carries before leaving the game in the third quarter with an injury.
Placekicker Kevin Kelly connected on 2 of 3 field goals, including a personal-best 53-yarder. Deon Butler led Nittany Lions receivers with 3 catches for 55 yards. Maurice Evans and Aaron Maybin each sacked Iowa's Jake Christensen twice, and the Hawkeyes were held scoreless until Trey Stross caught an 11-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter.
October 13: Wisconsin
Penn State capitalized on early turnovers by the Badgers, including a P.J. Hill fumble on the first play from scrimmage, to take control of the game early.
Quarterback Anthony Morelli completed 16 of 28 passes for 216 yards and a touchdown for the Nittany Lions. Tailbacks Rodney Kinlaw and Evan Royster each scored touchdowns while rushing for 115 and 68, respectively. Wide receiver Deon Butler caught seven passes for 93 yards and a touchdown. Backup quarterback Daryll Clark, who saw playing time in mop-up duty, scored on a 1-yard run. The Penn State defense intercepted Badgers quarterback Tyler Donovan twice. Linebackers Sean Lee and Dan Connor each ended with 12 tackles. The Lions were only penalized once for 10 yards, continuing their streak as the Big Ten's least-penalized team.
Defensive end Jerome Hayes was lost for the season after tearing his ACL in the third quarter.
October 20: @ Indiana
The Penn State defense, despite giving up 386 total yards, forced four second-half Hoosiers turnovers, including two forced fumbles by defensive end Maurice Evans who scooped up one fumble and returned it 55 yards. Although the Hoosiers had the lead early on, the Nittany Lions took the lead in the final minute of the first half. Penn State held off an Indiana comeback in the fourth quarter, ensuring the continuation of their perfect record over the Hoosiers. The win also gave the Nittany Lions their first road win of the year.
On offense, Anthony Morelli finished 22 of 32 for 195 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Jordan Norwood led all receivers with 8 receptions for 65 yards.
Evans was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. In addition to his two forced fumbles, he also recorded 4.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks.
Defensive tackle Jared Odrick left the game with a broken ankle, and fullback Matt Hahn left with a torn ACL. Both are out for the season.
October 27: Ohio State
ESPN's College GameDay aired from State College, the second time in three seasons the show originated from Happy Valley for the visit by the Buckeyes. After a close first quarter, Ohio State pulled away to win 37–17. First Ohio State scored a field goal, then Penn State scored a touchdown. Ohio State then scored another touchdown to end the quarter 10–7. After another Ohio State touchdown to put the Buckeyes up 17-7, Penn State linebacker Dan Connor intercepted a Todd Boeckman pass, Ohio State's only meaningful possession to not end in a score, to give the Nittany Lions a chance to close the gap before halftime. However, Penn State ended up punting, and the Buckeyes dominated the second half, allowing only a field goal and a late kickoff return touchdown. Ohio State never punted in the game.
November 3: Purdue
In his final Beaver Stadium performance, linebacker Dan Connor made 11 tackles against the Boilermakers to give him 379 career stops and became Penn State's all-time tackler, passing Paul Posluszny (372).
Senior Anthony Morelli was 22 of 35 for 210 yards and a touchdown, giving him 2,060 yards passing for the season. With 2,424 passing yards last season, Morelli became the first Nittany Lion quarterback with at least 2,000 passing yards in multiple seasons.
Redshirt freshman tailback Evan Royster recorded his first career 100-yard rushing game, finishing with 126 yards on 21 carries and a touchdown. Derrick Williams also made a career-high 10 receptions for 95 yards and rushed for 12 yards and a touchdown, finishing with a career-high 151 all-purpose yards.
Linebacker Sean Lee was named Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week. Lee finished with 12 tackles and two forced fumbles, including a game-changing play late in the first quarter. On third-and-goal from the one yard line, Lee stripped and recovered the football to halt a potential Purdue scoring drive.
November 10: @ Temple
Senior tailback Rodney Kinlaw eclipsed the 1,000 yard mark as the Nittany Lions shut out the Owls for the second consecutive year. Kinlaw tied his career-high 168 yards and also caught a career-high five passes for 27 yards.
Anthony Morelli was 22 of 33 for 260 yards with three touchdowns, two of them to Jordan Norwood. Derrick Williams had a game-high seven receptions for a career-high 104 yards, and teammate Deon Butler made five receptions for 43 yards and a touchdown.
The Nittany Lions defense posted its fourth shut-out in 17 games, and its second road shutout in 17 games, dating back to the 12–0 win over Purdue in Ross–Ade Stadium in 2006. The defense was led by Dan Connor who tied his career-high of 18 tackles and Sean Lee who had 10 tackles and a fumble recovery.
For the second time this season, Connor was selected the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week as well as Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.
November 17: @ Michigan State
The Nittany Lions took a 24–7 lead in the third quarter on kicker Kevin Kelly's 5-yard touchdown run on a fake field goal. However, the Spartans outscored Penn State 28–7 the remainder of the game to take possession of the Land Grant Trophy. Penn State was awarded a 4th timeout in the final minute of the game.
The Nittany Lions defense forced three turnovers and limited the Spartans to 145 rushing yards, but Spartans quarterback Brian Hoyer was 16 of 21 for 257 yards, with four touchdowns and two interceptions. The Spartans had eight pass plays of 20 yards or more, with seven coming in the second half.
Anthony Morelli was 16 of 35 for 188 yards, with one touchdown and no interceptions. However, down 35–31 in the game's final minutes, Morelli threw four consecutive incompletions to end Penn State's last drive.
December 29: 2007 Alamo Bowl – Texas A&M
Penn State rallied from a 14–0 first quarter deficit to win 24–17 on the strength of the running game provided by the offensive line and Rodney Kinlaw, Daryll Clark and Evan Royster. The defense came up with a key goal line stand in the fourth quarter stopping an option play on fourth and goal from inside the five yard line. The comeback from 14–0 has been compared to the 1981 Penn State vs Pittsburgh game where Penn State fell into an early 14–0 hole after one, but came back to win in a 48–14 blowout. In this game, Penn State went on a 24–3 run in the second and third quarters.
Rankings
Awards
Watchlists
Deon Butler
Fred Biletnikoff Award watchlist
Maxwell Award watchlist
Dan Connor
Lombardi Award watchlist and semifinalist
Chuck Bednarik Award watchlist, semifinalist, and finalist
Dick Butkus Award watchlist, semifinalist and finalist
Bronko Nagurski Trophy watchlist
Lott Trophy watchlist
Walter Camp Player of the Year semifinalist
Maurice Evans
Ted Hendricks Award finalist
Justin King
Jim Thorpe Award watchlist
Anthony Morelli
Davey O'Brien Award watchlist
Manning Award watchlist
Andrew Quarless
John Mackey Award watchlist
A. Q. Shipley
Dave Rimington Trophy watchlist
Derrick Williams
Fred Biletnikoff Award watchlist
Players
Jeremy Boone
First-team All-Big Ten
ESPN All-Big Ten Team
Gerald Cadogan
ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
First-team ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-American
Dan Connor
2007 Bednarik Award winner
First-team Walter Camp All-American
First-team Associated Press All-American
First-team ESPN All-American
Second-team Sporting News All-American
First-team Rivals.com All-American
College Football News All-American
First-team Scout.com All-American
Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week (September 8)
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (September 8)
Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week (November 10)
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (November 10)
First-team All-Big Ten
ESPN All-Big Ten Team
Second-team Sports Illustrated mid-season All American
Under Armour Award (Most Valuable Player, 2008 Senior Bowl North team)
Maurice Evans
Third-team Scout.com All-American
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (October 20)
First-team All-Big Ten
Justin King
First-team All-Big Ten
Sean Lee
First-team Pro Football Weekly All-American
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (September 1)
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (November 3)
ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
Second-team All-Big Ten
ESPN.com All-Bowl Team
Aaron Maybin
Sporting News Freshman All-Big Ten
Anthony Morelli
Big Ten Sportsmanship Award
Jordan Norwood
ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
Rich Ohrnberger
Second-team All-Big Ten
Evan Royster
Sporting News Freshman All-Big Ten
Mark Rubin
ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
A. Q. Shipley
First-team All-Big Ten (conference coaches selection)
ESPN All-Big Ten Team
ESPN.com All-Bowl Team
Derrick Williams
Pontiac Game Changing Performance (Sep. 8)
Stefen Wisniewski
Sporting News Freshman All-Big Ten
Post season
Penn State finished the season ranked #25 in the final USA Today college football poll, earning Penn State its 33rd Top 25 finish under Joe Paterno.
Penn State finished second in football attendance for the fifth time this decade and in the top four for the 17th consecutive year, averaging 108,917 for seven home games, including two primetime crowds of 110,134 on October 27 to watch Penn State host Ohio State, the second-largest in Beaver Stadium history, and 110,078 on September 8 to watch Penn State beat Notre Dame, the third-largest in Beaver Stadium history. Penn State finished the season with a sellout crowd of 66,166 at the Alamo Bowl.
In January, junior cornerback Justin King announced that he was going to declare for the 2008 NFL Draft, skipping his final year of eligibility. King had graduated the previous semester with a degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in sports management. According to King's stepfather and high school coach, "He wanted to get an education and a degree from Penn State, which he did. He wanted to help turn Penn State around, and he did that, too."
Three players were invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, held February 20–26 in Indianapolis, Indiana: Dan Connor, Justin King, and Anthony Morelli.
NFL draft
Two Penn State players were selected in the 2008 NFL Draft.
All-star games
References
Penn State
Penn State Nittany Lions football seasons
Alamo Bowl champion seasons
Penn State Nittany Lions football |
Redwanki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ustka, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately east of Ustka, north of Słupsk, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
References
Redwanki |
Erica Barbieri (born 2 March 1981 in La Spezia) is an Italian judoka. She competed in the 70 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and lost in the first round to Hwang Ye-Sul.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Italian female judoka
Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for Italy
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Universiade medalists in judo
Mediterranean Games medalists in judo
Universiade bronze medalists for Italy
Judoka of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
20th-century Italian women
21st-century Italian women
Sportspeople from La Spezia |
Audrius Raizgys (born 4 April 1969) is a retired male triple jumper from Lithuania. His personal best jump is 17.29 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Vilnius. This is the current Lithuanian record.
He finished eighth at the 1994 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki with a jump of 16.59 metres. In addition he competed at the World Championships in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999, the World Indoor Championships in 1993 and 1995 and the 1996 Summer Olympics without reaching the finals there.
International competitions
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Lithuanian male triple jumpers
Olympic male triple jumpers
Olympic athletes for Lithuania
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania
Russian Athletics Championships winners |
Vallikavu is a small village in Kollam District of Kerala. Vallikavu is chiefly inhabited by farmers, fishermen and other sections of the society. Fishermen here were traditional Canoe builders and are skilled at making Changadam Vallam (the present House-Boats) using planks and coir ropes to tie the planks together and coating the Vallam with melted pith. The Vallam making artisans have died and with the advent of motor transport the industry died.
The people of the village are very industrious and are good at various skills. The women used to collectively manufacture coir from the coconut, while few were engaged in making Mats out of Screw Pine. The community and is located about north-west of Karunagappally and north of Kollam. People of this village are literate and have contributed to the armed services, as many of them have worked in various armed forces for the country.
Vallikavu became world famous by the birth of Mata Amritanandamayi, the Hindu spiritual leader. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's Amritapuri Campus is situated here. Many people from different states and countries comes here for Amma's Dharshan. As many people came, Vallickavu developed to a small town in a short time span and shops, markets, textiles, etc. began to flourish. Many commercial banks set up their branches and the major one is the State Bank of India Vallikavu Branch on Cherukara Building.
Transportation
Trivandrum International Airport is the nearest airport. Karunagappally railway station serves Vallikavu as the nearest Railway station. Regular buses connect the village with Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Karunagappally, Ochira and Kayamkulam.
References
Cities and towns in Kollam district
ml:ചങ്ങംകുളങ്ങര |
I Left My Heart in Sorsogon is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Heart Evangelista, Richard Yap and Paolo Contis. It premiered on November 15, 2021 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Legal Wives. The series concluded on February 11, 2022 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by First Lady in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Heart Evangelista as Celeste Diesta
Richard Yap as Antonio "Tonito" Wenceslao III
Paolo Contis as Michael Angelo "Mikoy" Macedonio
Supporting cast
Kyline Alcantara as Tiffany "Tiff" Wenceslao
Mavy Legaspi as Sebastian "Basti" Estrellado
Rey Abellana as Patricio Estrellado
Shamaine Buencamino as Isadora "Adora" Estrellado
Isay Alvarez as Lucinda Diesta-Estrellado
Marina Benepayo as Vivian Wenceslao
Debraliz Valasote as Ericka "Ikay" Macedonio
Michelle Dee as Hazelyn "Hazel" Pangan
Issa Litton as Aurelia Limjoco
Jennie Gabriel as Mylene "May-May" Regor
Jeniffer Maravilla as Jamaica Figueroa
Zonia Mejia as Claudette "Clau" Pangan
Elias Point as James Figueroa
Victor Sy as Winston Wenceslao
Guest cast
Bryce Eusebio as young Mikoy
Dayara Shane as young Celeste
Production
Principal photography commenced in Sorsogon on July 19, 2021.
Episodes
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References
External links
2021 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in Sorsogon |
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces of León, Cantabria, Burgos, and Valladolid.
Overview
Of the population of 176,125 (2002), 45% live in the capital, Palencia which is located on the Canal de Castilla. There are 191 municipalities in the province, of which more than half are villages with fewer than 200 people. The major towns in this province are: Guardo, an industrial-mining town; Aguilar de Campoo, a biscuit and tourist village in northern Palencia; Herrera de Pisuerga, a village that is the gateway to the Palencine mountain, is also known for its summer activities and Crab Festival; Venta de Baños, an important railway and industrial junction south of the province; Villamuriel de Cerrato, a village to the south of Palencia that owes its development to the Renault factory and its proximity to Palencia; Cervera de Pisuerga, in the heart of the Palencine mountains; Barruelo, a mining town that was the most populated town until the 1960s. During the Middle Ages, the Visigoths ruled Palencia. Basílica de San Juan, the oldest Visigothic church in Spain, was built in 661 in the province's Baños de Cerrato. During the thirteenth century a university was founded in the province. It was the first university in Spain and one of the first in the world. It was later shifted to Valladolid.
The province is bordered on the north by Cantabria, on the west by the province of León, on the east by the province of Burgos and on the south by the province of Valladolid. Two exclaves of the province, Cezura, and Lastrilla, are enclaves within Campoo, Cantabria, with the former being under 200 metres and the latter being just over 200 metres from the border at their closest point.
In Palencia large protected areas such as the Natural Park of Fuentes Carrionas and Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palencia are located. The term historical region in Palencia, refers to those regions created in the fourteenth century, under the name merindades. Cantabrian Mountains are located in the northerns parts of the province. The high Curavacas peak is located in the province. The major commercial products produced in the province are barley, wheat, sugar beets, hemp, linen and woolen clothes, porcelain, leather, paper, and rugs. Food processing and metallurgy are major industries. The province has three judicial districts–one each in Palencia, Carrión de los Condes and Cervera de Pisuerga.
Population development
The historical population is given in the following chart:
See also
List of municipalities in Palencia
The Arauz Formation is situated in Palencia (Devonian of Spain).
El Golobar
References
External links |
Brasenia, commonly known as watershield, is a genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one species, Brasenia schreberi. It is widely distributed in North America, the West Indies, northern South America (Venezuela, Guyana), eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Primorye), Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Africa.
Brasenia is a perennial aquatic plant with floating, peltate leaves and rhizomatous stems. It is identified by its bright green leaves, small purple flowers that bloom from June through September, and a thick mucilage that covers all of the underwater organs, including the underside of the leaves, stems, and developing buds. This mucilage may be an anti-herbivore defence trait, perhaps to deter snail grazing. It grows in shallow water of lakes, rivers and beaver ponds, particularly those with somewhat acidic water.
Characteristics
Brasenia exhibits wind pollination. The flowers have a two-day blooming period. On the first day, the functionally female, or pistillate flower, extends above the surface of the water and exposes the receptive stigmas. The flower then recedes below the water surface and on the following day emerges as a functionally male, or staminate flower. It is elevated higher than on the previous day and the anther-bearing filaments are extended beyond the female carpels. The anthers dehisce, releasing the pollen, and the flower is then withdrawn below the water where the fruit develops.
Uses
Brasenia is cultivated as a vegetable in China (where it is known as , Pinyin: ) and where it is used in Hangzhou in the well-known local speciality "West Lake Water Shield Soup" () and in Japan (where it is known as junsai).
The mucilage it produces has been found to have anti-algal and anti-bacterial properties that may be useful as a natural weed control
History
Species of Brasenia occurred during the interglacial of Europe, but like many other aquatic plant species and genera, it does not occur there now.
Name
Brasenia schreberi (syn. B. nymphoides, B. peltata) has the common name water-shield (also watershield or water shield).
The genus may commemorate the surgeon and Moravian missionary Christoph Brasen (1738-1774), who was the first superintendent of the Moravian mission at Nain in Labrador.
See also
List of vegetables
References
External links
Washington State Department of Ecology: Brasenia schreberi
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery
Nymphaeales genera
Monotypic angiosperm genera
Freshwater plants
Flora of Northern America
Flora of Venezuela
Flora of Asia
Flora of Australia
Flora of Africa
Japanese vegetables
History of the Labrador Province of the Moravian Church
Nymphaeales |
"Live in Life" is a song by Australian alternative rock group The Rubens. The song was released on 14 November 2019 as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album, 0202 (2021). The song has peaked at number 21 on the ARIA Charts.
The Ruben's Sam Margin explained the meaning of the song during its premiere on Triple J: "I see it as this guy who has messed up and lost someone in his life, and he's telling himself 'No, this is fine. Change is fine, I'm ok with this'. But then realising he's not ok and trying to rectify things but realises it's too late."
The song won Most Performed Alternative Work at the APRA Music Awards of 2021.
Music video
The music video was directed by Luca Watson and Harry Welsh and released on 9 December 2019.
Critical reception
Al Newstead from Triple J said the song "incorporates sleeker pop production and ups the beat factor for a track that follows a narrator over the course of one night during the back-and-forth of a relationship breakdown."
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2019 singles
2019 songs
APRA Award winners
Song recordings produced by Konstantin Kersting
The Rubens songs |
Yuanshi may refer to:
The Yuanshi era marks the period of the rule of Emperor Ping of Han
Yuanshi County (元氏县), Hebei, China
History of Yuan, also known as the Yuanshi, official Chinese historical work for the Yuan Dynasty
Yuanshi Tianzun, one of the highest deities of religious Taoism |
Centory may refer to
Centaurea, a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
Centory (group), a 1990s German Eurodance group
Disambiguation pages
de:Centory
fr:Centory |
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