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Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and accessories for their products.
Among many other more mainstream products they have created two unusual varieties of catadioptric telescopes with an open tube design instead of the full-aperture corrector plate of the Schmidt–Cassegrain and most Maksutov–Cassegrain designs.
Klevtsov–Cassegrain
This design is based on the Maksutov–Cassegrain. It provides correction of aberrations via a two-element meniscus-shaped corrector lens in front of the secondary mirror. This design was originally envisaged by G. I. Popov with a practical implementation by Yu. A. Klevtsov. It is produced with apertures of 8, 10.25 and 13 inches. The 8-inch model employs a refractor style rack and pinion focuser, while in the larger designs the primary mirror is moved as in most other small to medium-sized Cassegrain designs.
Vixen Sixth-Order Aspheric Cassegrain (VISAC)
Vixen produces an 8-inch aperture-modified Cassegrain design (VC200L) they refer to as a VISAC (Vixen Sixth-Order Aspheric Cassegrain) that is based on a Cassegrain design with a primary mirror that is "sixth order aspheric" – somewhat like a hyperbolic mirror but able to be manufactured using mass-production techniques. To compensate for the aberrations the mirror design introduces, Vixen adds a "field corrector lens" – actually a three-element corrector in the draw tube of the focuser which also reduces field curvature for wide field applications. The design results in an image that is free of coma and astigmatism. These characteristics have led to the VISAC being referred to as a "Poor man's Ritchey–Chrétien". In fact, given that it has no astigmatism and field curvature, it performs better than a true RC. There is the downside of the potential for chromatic aberration due to the refractive elements, but it is hardly noticeable.
This particular design is also unusual in that it is a Cassegrain design but has a fixed primary and refractor-style rack-and-pinion focuser which removes the image shift issues seen with other catadioptric designs.
These features together make for a telescope that is very well suited to astrophotography either at the native f/9 or using the optional focal reducer at around f/6.3.
External links
Vixen's global website
Telescope manufacturers |
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957)—originally published in 1952 as In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present—was Martin Gardner's second book. A survey of what it described as pseudosciences and cult beliefs, it became a founding document in the nascent scientific skepticism movement. Michael Shermer said of it: "Modern skepticism has developed into a science-based movement, beginning with Martin Gardner's 1952 classic".
The book debunks what it characterises as pseudoscience and the pseudo-scientists who propagate it.
Contents
Synopsis
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science starts with a brief survey of the spread of the ideas of "cranks" and "pseudo-scientists", attacking the credulity of the popular press and the irresponsibility of publishing houses in helping to propagate these ideas. Cranks often cite historical cases where ideas were rejected which are now accepted as right. Gardner acknowledges that such cases occurred, and describes some of them, but says that times have changed: "If anything, scientific journals err on the side of permitting questionable theses to be published". Gardner acknowledges that "among older scientists ... one may occasionally meet with irrational prejudice against a new point of view", but adds that "a certain degree of dogma ... is both necessary and desirable" because otherwise "science would be reduced to shambles by having to examine every new-fangled notion that came along."
Gardner says that cranks have two common characteristics. The first "and most important" is that they work in almost total isolation from the scientific community. Gardner defines the community as an efficient network of communication within scientific fields, together with a co-operative process of testing new theories. This process allows for apparently bizarre theories to be published — such as Einstein's theory of relativity, which initially met with considerable opposition; it was never dismissed as the work of a crackpot, and it soon met with almost universal acceptance. But the crank "stands entirely outside the closely integrated channels through which new ideas are introduced and evaluated. He does not send his findings to the recognized journals or, if he does, they are rejected for reasons which in the vast majority of cases are excellent."
The second characteristic of the crank (which also contributes to his or her isolation) is the tendency to paranoia. There are five ways in which this tendency is likely to be manifested.
The pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius.
He regards other researchers as stupid, dishonest or both.
He believes there is a campaign against his ideas, a campaign comparable to the persecution of Galileo or Pasteur. He may attribute his "persecution" to a conspiracy by a scientific "masonry" who are unwilling to admit anyone to their inner sanctum without appropriate initiation.
Instead of side-stepping the mainstream, the pseudo-scientist attacks it head-on: The most revered scientist is Einstein so Gardner writes that Einstein is the most likely establishment figure to be attacked.
He has a tendency to use complex jargon, often making up words and phrases. Gardner compares this to the way that schizophrenics talk in what psychiatrists call "neologisms", "words which have meaning to the patient, but sound like Jabberwocky to everyone else."
These psychological traits are in varying degrees demonstrated throughout the remaining chapters of the book, in which Gardner examines particular "fads" he labels pseudo-scientific. His writing became the source book from which many later studies of pseudo-science were taken (e.g. Encyclopedia of Pseudo-science).
Chapters
As per the subtitle of the book, "The curious theories of modern pseudoscientists and the strange, amusing and alarming cults that surround them" are discussed in the chapters as listed.
In the Name of Science
the introductory chapter
Flat and Hollow
the Flat Earth theory of Wilbur Glenn Voliva
the Hollow Earth theories of John Cleves Symmes, Jr. and Cyrus Reed Teed
Monsters of Doom
Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision
William Whiston’s A New Theory of the Earth
Ignatius Donnelly’s Ragnarok; Hanns Hörbiger’s Welteislehre and Hörbiger’s disciple Hans Schindler Bellamy.
The Forteans
Charles Fort, Tiffany Thayer and the Fortean Society
The Hutchins-Adler Great Books Movement: "most of them regard scientists, on the whole, as a stupid lot."
Flying Saucers
Kenneth Arnold, the Mantell UFO Incident
Raymond Palmer, Richard Shaver, Donald Keyhoe, Frank Scully, Gerald Heard and the Unidentified flying object movement.
Zig-Zag-and-Swirl
Alfred Lawson and his "Lawsonomy"
Down with Einstein!
Joseph Battell, Thomas H. Graydon, George Francis Gillette, Jeremiah J. Callahan and others.
Sir Isaac Babson
Roger Babson and the Gravity Research Foundation.
Dowsing Rods and Doodlebugs
Solco Walle Tromp and radiesthesia
Kenneth Roberts, Henry Goss and their dowsing.
Under the Microscope
Andrew Crosse, Henry Charlton Bastian, Charles Wentworth Littlefield and others who claimed to observe spontaneous generation of living forms.
Geology versus Genesis
Philip Henry Gosse and his Omphalos
George McCready Price and The New Geology
Mortimer Adler’s writings on evolution.
Hilaire Belloc’s debate with H. G. Wells.
Lysenkoism
Lamarck and Lamarckism; Lysenko and Lysenkoism
Apologists for Hate
Hans F. K. Günther and “nordicism”
Charles Carroll, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, and “scientific racism”.
Atlantis and Lemuria
Ignatius Donnelly (again), Lewis Spence and Atlantis
Madame Blavatsky, James Churchward and Lemuria
The Great Pyramid
John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Charles Taze Russell and others with their theories about the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Medical Cults
Samuel Hahnemann, The Organon of the Healing Art, and homeopathy.
Naturopathy, with iridiagnosis, zone therapy and Alexander technique.
Andrew Taylor Still and osteopathy.
Daniel D. Palmer and chiropractic.
Medical Quacks
Elisha Perkins
Albert Abrams and his defender Upton Sinclair.
Ruth Drown
Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali
color therapy
Gurdjieff
Aleister Crowley
Edgar Cayce
(in the Appendix) Hoxsey Therapy and Krebiozen
Food Faddists
Horace Fletcher and Fletcherism
William Howard Hay and the Dr. Hay diet
Vegetarianism ("We need not be concerned here with the ethical arguments...")
J. I. Rodale and organic farming
Rudolf Steiner, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, anthroposophy and biodynamic agriculture.
Gayelord Hauser
Nutrilite
Dudley J. LeBlanc and Hadacol
Throw Away Your Glasses!
William Horatio Bates, the Bates method, Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing.
Eccentric Sexual Theories
Arabella Kenealy
Bernarr Macfadden
John R. Brinkley
Frank Harris
John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community
Alice Bunker Stockham and “karezza”
Orgonomy
Wilhelm Reich and “orgone”
Dianetics
L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. (The term Scientology had only just been introduced when Gardner's book was published.)
General Semantics, Etc.
Alfred Korzybski, Samuel I. Hayakawa and “general semantics”
Jacob L. Moreno and “psychodrama”
From Bumps to Handwriting
Francis Joseph Gall and phrenology
physiognomy; palmistry
graphology
ESP and PK
Joseph Banks Rhine, extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis
Nandor Fodor
Upton Sinclair (again) and Mental Radio
Max Freedom Long
Bridey Murphy and Other Matters
Morey Bernstein and Bridey Murphy
A final plea for orthodoxy and responsibility in publishing
History
The 1957 Dover publication is a revised and expanded version of In the Name of Science, which was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1952. The subtitle boldly states the book's theme: "The curious theories of modern pseudoscientists and the strange, amusing and alarming cults that surround them. A study in human gullibility". As of 2005, it had been reprinted at least 30 times.
The book was expanded from an article first published in the Antioch Review in 1950, and in the preface to the first edition, Gardner thanks the Review for allowing him to develop the article as the starting point of his book. Not all material in the article is carried over to the book. For example, in the article, Gardner writes:
The reader may wonder why a competent scientist does not publish a detailed refutation of Reich's absurd biological speculations. The answer is that the informed scientist doesn't care, and would, in fact, damage his reputation by taking the time to undertake such a thankless task.
And comments in a footnote:
It is not within the scope of this paper, however, to discuss technical criteria by which hypotheses are given high, low, or negative degrees of confirmation. Our purpose is simply to glance at several examples of a type of scientific activity which fails completely to conform to scientific standards, but at the same time is the result of such intricate mental activity that it wins temporary acceptance by many laymen insufficiently informed to recognize the scientist's incompetence. Although there obviously is no sharp line separating competent from incompetent research, and there are occasions when a scientific "orthodoxy" may delay the acceptance of novel views, the fact remains that the distance between the work of competent scientists and the speculations of a Voliva or Velikovsky is so great that a qualitative difference emerges which justifies the label of "pseudo-science." Since the time of Galileo the history of pseudo-science has been so completely outside the history of science that the two streams touch only in the rarest of instances.
While in the book, Gardner writes:
If someone announces that the moon is made of green cheese, the professional astronomer cannot be expected to climb down from his telescope and write a detailed refutation. “A fairly complete textbook of physics would be only part of the answer to Velikovsky,” writes Prof. Laurence J. Lafleur, in his excellent article on "Cranks and Scientists" (Scientific Monthly, Nov., 1951), "and it is therefore not surprising that the scientist does not find the undertaking worth while."
And in the wrap-up of the chapter:
Just as an experienced doctor is able to diagnose certain ailments the instant a new patient walks into his office, or a police officer learns to recognize criminal types from subtle behavior clues which escape the untrained eye, so we, perhaps, may learn to recognize the future scientific crank when we first encounter him.
Reception
A contemporary review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette particularly welcomed Gardner's critical remarks about Hoxsey Therapy and about Krebiozen, both of which were being advanced as anti-cancer measures at that time. The review concluded that the book "should help to counteract some amusing and some positively harmful cults, the existence of which is all too often promoted by irresponsible journalism."
The work has often been mentioned in subsequent books and articles. Louis Lasagna, in his book The Doctors' Dilemmas, considered it to be a "superb account of scientific cults, fads, and frauds" and wrote that "This talented writer combines solid fact with a pleasing style."
Sociologist of religion Anson D. Shupe took in general a positive attitude, and praises Gardner for his humor. But he saysIf there is a single criticism to be made of Gardner ... it is that he accepts too comfortably the conventional wisdom, or accepted social reality, of current twentieth-century science and middle-class American Christianity. Somehow it is evident (to me at least) that he is implicitly making a pact with the reader to evaluate these fringe groups in terms of their own shared presumptions about what is "normal". Thus he is quite confident throwing around labels like "quack", "crank" and "preposterous". In science the use of such value judgments can be quite time-bound; likewise in religions where today's heresy may become tomorrow's orthodoxy. The odds of course are always on the side of the writer criticizing fringe groups because statistically speaking so few of them survive. However, when a group does weather its infancy and go on to prosper, invariably its original detractors look a bit more arbitrary than they did initially, and then the shoe is on the other foot.
In the 1980s a fierce interchange took place between Gardner and Colin Wilson. In The Quest for Wilhelm Reich Wilson wrote of this book(Gardner) writes about various kinds of cranks with the conscious superiority of the scientist, and in most cases one can share his sense of the victory of reason. But after half a dozen chapters this non-stop superiority begins to irritate; you begin to wonder about the standards that make him so certain he is always right. He asserts that the scientist, unlike the crank, does his best to remain open-minded. So how can he be so sure that no sane person has ever seen a flying saucer, or used a dowsing rod to locate water? And that all the people he disagrees with are unbalanced fanatics? A colleague of the positivist philosopher A. J. Ayer once remarked wryly "I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be about everything". Martin Gardner produces the same feeling. By Wilson's own account, up to that time he and Gardner had been friends, but Gardner took offence. In February 1989 Gardner wrote a letter published in The New York Review of Books describing Wilson as "England’s leading journalist of the occult, and a firm believer in ghosts, poltergeists, levitations, dowsing, PK (psychokinesis), ESP, and every other aspect of the psychic scene". Shortly afterwards, Wilson replied, defending himself and adding "What strikes me as so interesting is that when Mr. Gardner—and his colleagues of CSICOP—begin to denounce the 'Yahoos of the paranormal,' they manage to generate an atmosphere of such intense hysteria ...". Gardner in turn replied quoting his own earlier description of Wilson: "The former boy wonder, tall and handsome in his turtleneck sweater, has now decayed into one of those amiable eccentrics for which the land of Conan Doyle is noted. They prowl comically about the lunatic fringes of science ..."
In a review of a subsequent Gardner work, Paul Stuewe of the Toronto Star called Fads and Fallacies a "hugely enjoyable demolition of pseudo-scientific nonsense". Ed Regis, writing in The New York Times, considered the book to be "the classic put-down of pseudoscience". Fellow skeptic Michael Shermer called the book "the skeptic classic of the past half-century." He noted that the mark of popularity for the book came when John W. Campbell denounced the chapter on dianetics over the radio.
Mark Erickson, author of Science, culture and society: understanding science in the twenty-first century, noted that Gardner's book provided "a flavour of the immense optimism surrounding science in the 1950s" and that his choice of topics were "interesting", but also that his attacks on "osteopathy, chiropractice, and the Bates method for correcting eyesight would raise eyebrows amongst medical practitioners today".
Gardner's own response to criticism is given in his preface:
The first edition of this book prompted many curious letters from irate readers. The most violent letters came from Reichians, furious because the book considered orgonomy alongside such (to them) outlandish cults as dianetics. Dianeticians, of course, felt the same about orgonomy. I heard from homeopaths who were insulted to find themselves in company with such frauds as osteopathy and chiropractic, and one chiropractor in Kentucky “pitied” me because I had turned my spine on God’s greatest gift to suffering humanity. Several admirers of Dr. Bates favored me with letters so badly typed that I suspect the writers were in urgent need of strong spectacles. Oddly enough, most of these correspondents objected to one chapter only, thinking all the others excellent.
See also
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences
Survivorship bias
The Demon-Haunted World
Notes
References
Works by Martin Gardner
1952 non-fiction books
1957 non-fiction books
Books critical of Scientology
Science books
Scientific skepticism mass media |
The Public Records Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 51) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom forming the main legislation governing public records in the United Kingdom.
It established a cohesive regulatory framework for public records at the Public Record Office and other places of deposit. It also transferred responsibility for public records from the Master of the Rolls to the Lord Chancellor. The Act stipulated that records would be transferred to the Public Record Office 30 years after creation and that most would be opened 50 years after creation. Subsection 3(4) of the Act allowed government departments to retain records that were either still in use 30 years after creation or were of special sensitivity, such as intelligence agency materials and weapons of mass destruction information. The time of opening was subsequently reduced to 30 years by the Public Records Act 1967 and then access was completely redefined as being on creation, unless subject to an exemption, by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The significance of the updated Public Records Act 1958
The Public Records Act 1958 represents a cornerstone in the UK's approach to record-keeping, transparency, and public access. Its significance is manifold, and here are the key reasons:
Handling of public records
Before the 1958 Act, the whole business of dealing with public records was a bit messy with the population growth and the volume of public records since the 1838 Act. The rules became unorganized in different pieces of legislation, and it wasn’t always clear how to handle the multitude of public records. The 1958 Act tidied things up, essentially bringing all the rules together in one place and making them clearer and easier to resource.
Enacting personal privacy restrictions
The updated act made it so that some records are closed to the public for 30 years before they’re released. This 30-year rule was tweaked a bit in later years, with plans to reduce it to a 20-year rule. The idea behind this time restriction is that, while transparency is important, there are other things to consider, such as national security and personal privacy.
Merging public records and agencies
This updated act provided the foundation for the modern system of records management in the UK. It also led to the merging of the PRO with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form the National Archives.
History
The concept of public records in the UK has a long history, but the legislative structure that governs it mainly stems from the Public Records Act. Here's a concise history:
1838: The birth of the idea
Before the Public Records Act, public records were scattered and poorly kept. The foundation for centralizing these records was laid down by the "Report of the Select Committee on Public Records" in 1838.
1958: The Public Records Act
The Public Records Act 1958 was the foundational legislation in the UK that governed the preservation and access to public records. It was this act that established the principle of transferring records from public offices to The National Archives, and other places of deposit, after 30 years unless they were selected for earlier destruction.
Public Records Act 1967
The Public Records Act 1967 amended the Public Records Act 1958 by reducing the period whereby public records (apart from those deemed "sensitive" by the Lord Chancellor) were closed to the public from fifty years to thirty years, the "thirty-year rule". It took effect on 1 January 1968.
2000: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 built upon the principles of the Public Records Act by giving the public a general right of access to information held by public authorities. While it's a separate piece of legislation, it works in tandem with the Public Records Act to ensure transparency and access to public records. This act reduced the time it took for most public records to become publicly available to just 20 years.
CRAG Act 2010
The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, commonly known as the CRAG Act, was a significant step in a wider effort to update the UK's constitutional structure. This legislation played a pivotal role in refining the operations and transparency of the UK government. Given that the UK doesn't possess a formal written constitution and instead depends on historical customs, established protocols, and various statutes, the introduction of this act marked a notable moment.
2013: The 20-year rule
An important amendment to the Public Records Act came into play, further reducing the time from 30 years to 20 years for transferring records to the public domain. This change was implemented over a 10-year transition period, thus speeding up the release of public records.
Digital age and challenges
With the rise of digital technology, the nature of record-keeping has evolved, introducing new challenges and dynamics to the Public Records Act's remit. Efforts have been ongoing to ensure that digital records are preserved and made accessible in the same vein as physical ones.
Australian Constitution (Public Record Copy) Act 1990
The Australian Constitution (Public Record Copy) Act 1990 was passed in 1990 on the request of Australia to allow the original copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 to be permanently removed from the Public Records Office and given to Australia. The UK government agreed as a gift to celebrate the bicentenary of British settlement in Australia.
References
External links
Text of the Public Records Act on the National Archives' site
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1958 |
The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) is a "non-governmental (second track) process for dialogue on security issues in Asia Pacific." There are currently twenty one member committees of CSCAP (from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States of America, and Vietnam) and one observer (from the Pacific Islands Forum). The importance of CSCAP for regional integration and for discussing sensitive issues that official diplomacy may not be able to take on have been pointed out by various international relations scholars.
Singapore's former President S R Nathan was one of the pioneers of CSCAP - setting the direction and content in its formative years.
References
External links
CSCAP's official website
International organizations based in Asia |
The Browns Lane plant in Coventry, England was built as a Second World War shadow factory run by The Daimler Company Limited. In 1951 it was leased by Jaguar Cars and remained the company's home until 2005. It was the site of all Jaguar production until 1998, when production of the Jaguar S-Type commenced at the Castle Bromwich plant, which first produced Jaguar cars in 1977. It was also the firm's corporate headquarters and the home of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.
Jaguar's production at Browns Lane waned over the years, as new models were gradually assigned to Castle Bromwich Assembly in Birmingham and the former Ford Halewood Body & Assembly in Halewood, Liverpool. However, the core Jaguar XJ and XK ranges remained on the site until they were moved to Castle Bromwich in 2005. Subsequently, the Browns Lane site housed just the headquarters and museum as well as 500 staff responsible for wood veneering for Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Land Rover. Later, the headquarters moved to the Whitley plant, Whitley, Coventry but the Wood Shop (Veneer Manufacturing Centre), Museum and Pilot Build Workshop remained at Browns Lane. Australian property firm Macquarie Goodman announced its purchase of Browns Lane in 2007. This marked the end of Jaguar’s presence at the site after more than 50 years.
The assembly halls were demolished in late 2008.
Current use
In 2010, a portion of the site was purchased by housebuilder Taylor Wimpey.
In 2012, the Browns Lane Jaguar Heritage Museum was demolished. The housing estate which took its place is known as "Swallow's Nest".
Jaguar's Pilot Plant continues in use. A new business park was built on the Browns Lane Plant site called "Lyons Business Park"; access to this site is from Coundon Wedge Drive.
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Ciao Alberto is a 2021 American computer-animated short film written and directed by McKenna Jean Harris, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Set after the events of the 2021 Pixar film Luca, the short was released on November 12, 2021, on Disney+. Like the movie, it received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, humor, and emotional weight, with positive messages being well-received.
Plot
After receiving a letter from Luca, who is away at school in Genoa with Giulia, Alberto writes back about his life in Portorosso and working at the town fishery with Giulia's father Massimo Marcovaldo. Alberto has been fully accepted by the townspeople and no longer hides his identity as a sea monster. However, despite Alberto's enthusiasm for his job, his relationship with Massimo is terse, as the elder fisherman barely speaks to him except to warn him against using their fishing boat without supervision. It becomes apparent that Alberto is desperate for Massimo's approval, and he worries constantly about being "fired" for his mistakes.
Alberto tries to make his fish deliveries more expedient but keeps tossing the wrong fish to the wrong people. He attempts to cook lunch for Massimo but makes a mess of the kitchen. While Massimo converses with a customer, Alberto tries to lift a whole barrel of fish, only to buckle under the weight. Massimo lunges to save him but falls into the water with the barrel, losing their day's catch. That night, Alberto sneaks out of the house and takes the fishing boat to catch more fish, hoping to make up for the loss. He is startled by Machiavelli the cat, who stowed away on the boat, causing him to drop his lantern and accidentally set the boat on fire. They manage to escape just as Massimo races down to see the damage. Alberto sheepishly tries to explain himself, but Massimo only narrows his eyes and silently stares at the boat.
Heartbroken by his inability to impress Massimo, Alberto packs his belongings and leaves. Massimo rushes after him, imploring him to reconsider. Alberto lambastes himself for his failures and questions why Massimo even bothered to come after him. As Massimo reaches out for him, Alberto blurts, "Just let me go, Dad!", shocking them both. Massimo reveals that he once made his own father angry enough to punch through a brick wall, but afterwards they made up by fixing it together. He and Alberto then share a hug, embracing their roles as surrogate father and son.
The next day, Massimo and Alberto work side-by-side to fix the fishing boat, sharing stories and finally communicating with each other more openly.
Voice cast
Jack Dylan Grazer as Alberto Scorfano, Massimo's adopted son, Giulia's adopted brother and Luca's best friend
Marco Barricelli as Massimo Marcovaldo, Giulia's father and Alberto's adoptive father
Jacob Tremblay as Luca Paguro, Alberto's best friend
Gino La Monica
Arturo Sorino
Development
Ciao Alberto was directed by McKenna Jean Harris and produced by Matt DeMartini with Enrico Casarosa as an executive producer.
Music
Dan Romer, who composed the music for the Pixar film Luca, composed the music for Ciao Alberto. The score was released on November 12, 2021.
Track listing
Release
Ciao Alberto was released on November 12, 2021, as a Disney+ exclusive short film.
Reception
Audience viewership
According to Whip Media, Ciao Alberto was the 8th most watched film across all platforms in the United States during the week of November 14, 2022.
Critical reception
Jennifer Roy of CBR.com found the short film to be an example of how communication matters between a parent and a child to build a strong bond, stating, "While Luca did subtextually set up Massimo as Alberto's new parental figure, Ciao Alberto makes this subtext text and shows that a large part of parenting is learning to adapt to each individual child's needs to make sure they feel supported and loved unconditionally." Jay Snook of The Good Men Project complimented the humor of the short film. Stephanie Morgan of Common Sense Media gave the short a 4 out of 5, praised the short film for the depiction of positive messages and role models, citing communication and perseverance, and complimented the diverse representations, writing, "Kids will love the silly adventures, while parents will appreciate the social-emotional lessons, like how Massimo learns to become a better communicator in order to improve his relationship with Alberto."
Accolades
References
External links
Cia Alberto at Rotten Tomatoes
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Javad Saeed () was an Iranian politician who served as the last Speaker of the Parliament of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty, and was the last secretary-general of the ruling Resurgence Party. He represented Sari in the parliament. He resigned from the post of secretary-general of the Resurgence Party on 2 October 1978.
Saeed was appointed as a member of the Regency Council in 1979 and following the revolution, he was arrested and faced seven charges in the Islamic Revolutionary Court, including corruption on earth, war on God and on prophet, insulting the religion, massacre of innocent people, physical torture and procuring; eventually leading to his execution.
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Oklahoma is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States.
History
The community's name may be a direct transfer from the state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma is a name ultimately derived from the Choctaw language meaning "red people".
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Princess Adorndibyanibha or Phra Chao Boromwongse Ther Phra Ong Chao Adorndibyanibha (RTGS: Athon Thiphayanipha) (, 21 April 1889 – 23 March 1958), was a Princess of Siam. She was a member of the Siamese royal family, and the daughter of Chulalongkorn, King Rama V of Siam.
Her mother was Chao Chom Manda Chum Krairoek, daughter of Lord (Phra) Mangkalaratana Rajamontri. She had a younger sister, Princess Suchitra Bharani. She died on 23 March 1958, at the age of 68.
Royal decorations
Dame of The Most Illustrious Order of the Royal House of Chakri: received 9 May 1950
Dame Cross of the Most Illustrious Order of Chula Chom Klao (First class): received 2 May 1950
Ancestry
1889 births
1958 deaths
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Achirimbi II was the tenth Fon ("King") who ruled over the town of Bafut and adjoining areas (the Fondom of Bafut) in a semi-autonomous fashion. His reign lasted from 1932 to 1968, and included the time of handover from the British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, part of British Cameroons to the independent Cameroon. He was preceded by Abumbi I and succeeded by Abumbi II.
He alienated himself from other Fons by being sympathetic to the British cause. He was awarded a Certificate of Honour in 1946 by the British government 'as a record of the valuable services rendered by him to his own country and people and to the British Government... and loyal services given to the Administration in the maintenance of good order'.
Achirimbi II took advantage of his favourable standing with the administration and sought compensation for loss of sovereignty to arrogate to himself the residual powers the sub-chiefs or the Atangchuo, had retained over land matters and other disputes.
He was befriended by the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell, who visited Bafut on his animal-collecting expeditions twice, in 1949 and 1957. The Fon helped Durrell substantially in these expeditions. The books written by Durrell about these expeditions, The Bafut Beagles and A Zoo in My Luggage, portray the Fon mostly in a humorous fashion, lampooning his polygamy, anglophile perspective, and high tolerance for alcohol, but also in more flattering ways. The Fon awarded Durrell the ceremonial dress and staff during his second expedition.
Fon Achirimbi II is famous for having remarked about the choice to join independent Cameroon or independent Nigeria from the British Cameroons in 1961, saying it was a choice between the "Fire and the Deep Sea".
He was considered by many as being progressive and willing to experiment with new ideas. He was treated with respect by both colonial administrators and nationalist politicians.
References
Achirimbi II: Fon of Bafut, written by Michael Aletum Tabuwé
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Tee-Van is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Helen Damrosch Tee-Van (1893–1976), American illustrator
John Tee-Van (1897–1967), American ichthyologist and zoologist
See also
Teevan |
Lars Martin Kramm is a British-German politician and scouting official who served as the Regional Chair of the European Regional Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in the time from 2019-2022.
Scouting
Lars Kramm first got involved in German Scouting by joining his local DPSG Cub Scout Pack in 1994 and followed the youth programme through. He became a Cub Scout Leader, Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader and later District Commissioner for Scouts in Essen-South.
Kramm was a member of Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg's International Team between 2007 and 2016 and became International Commissioner in 2008. In this function, he served on the Central Council of the German Scout Federation. He was Head of the German Contingent to the Roverway 2009 in Iceland and the World Scout Jamboree 2011 in Sweden. In the Trinniuem 2013-2016, he served as a member of the regional working group member on External Relations & Funding. Kramm was part of the WOSM delegations at the CoP events of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and attended the COP17 in 2011 in Durban, the COP18 in Doha in 2012, and the COP19 in Warsaw in 2013.
Lars Kramm was first elected to the European Scout Committee at the European Scout Conference in Norway in 2016. He was re-elected to the European Scout Committee in 2019, and subsequently at the first meeting of the new Committee, the Committee elected him its chairperson. As Chairperson of the European Scout Region he also automatically became an ex officio member of the World Scout Committee.
Political work
Lars Kramm was already active in the German Green Party. In his hometown of Essen, Kramm had been involved in the city executive board, as district group spokesman in Rellinghausen/Stadtwald and as a representative in different council committees. Kramm also served two terms as one of four permanent members of the German Greens' Federal Arbitration and Disciplinary Court.
Lars Kramm was first elected as a Green Party councillor to City of York Council as one of three councillors for the Micklegate ward at the 2015 City of York Council election. He got 1,919 votes and ousted incumbent Councillor and Cabinet Member Dave Merrett. It was the first time that a Green councillor was elected to City of York Council in Micklegate, winning the ward from the Labour Party.
Until its abolition in 2018, Kramm was the sole Green representative on the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority.
Lars Kramm stood as a Green Party list candidate for Yorkshire and the Humber EU constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom.
In the 2019 United Kingdom general election, Lars Kramm was selected as Green party parliamentary candidate for the York Outer constituency. York Green Party later offered not to bid for the York Outer seat if the Liberal Democrats and Labour agree to throw support behind a single candidate to beat pro-Brexit incumbent MP Julian Sturdy. The Labour Party did not engage in the discussion, but controversially, Kramm later withdrew his candidacy as part of the Unite to Remain electoral pact to ensure not to split the remain vote and maximise the number of MPs elected who would oppose Brexit.
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Dr Barbara Stokes MB BCh BAO (20 December 1922 – 22 March 2009) was an Irish paediatrician and disability campaigner.
Early life and family
Barbara Stokes was born in London on 20 December 1922. Her parents were Brigadier William Noel (died 1969) and Pauline Mary Stokes (née Reynolds). William was Irish, and her mother was English. Stokes would holiday in Ireland during the summer, and played in the Irish junior tennis championship as a teenager. She attended St Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green, London. Her uncle Adrian Stokes was a pathologist at University College London and Guy's Hospital, and it was from him that Stokes developed an interest in medicine with the two corresponding while he was a remote area of west Africa conducting research. When Stoke's father retired from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the family returned to Dublin in the summer of 1939 and lived at Grianán, Baily, Howth. Stokes entered Trinity College Dublin in September 1939 to study medicine.
Stokes graduated MB BCh BAO in 1945, training as a house physician at the Meath Hospital, Dublin. Her great-grandfather Whitley Stokes, great-uncle Sir William Stokes and uncle Henry Stokes had connections with Meath Hospital. On 10 February 1946 her car struck and killed a young boy on the Ballybough Road. Stokes was convicted of dangerous driving in August and was sentenced to two-months' imprisonment. This sentence was set aside after an appeal at the circuit court in October. In 1947, Stokes was awarded a certificate in public health by University College Dublin. She wished to become an epidemiologist but was prevented from doing so by the marriage bar.
On 10 September 1946, Stokes married Dr Roderick O'Hanlon at University Church, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. He was an obstetrician and later assistant master of the Rotunda Hospital. They had three sons, Andrew, Paul and Denzil, two of whom predeceased her. She was widowed in 1980.
Career
Stokes trained under Dr Robert Collis at the National Children's Hospital, Harcourt Street. Here she started her work on improving the care and outcomes for children with congenital physical and intellectual disabilities. In 1947, she was appointed assistant physician to St Ultan's Hospital for Infants, and also worked at the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street. During the later 1950s, she was a senior demonstrator in pharmacy and in physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland while also developing a private paediatric practice which specialised in neo-natal work. During this period she led a fundraising campaign to upgrade the facilities of the Liberty Creche in Meath Street. The creche had been founded in 1894, and served the working women of The Liberties. Throughout her career, she promoted the Liberty Creche and the establishment and monitoring of new, similar facilities in the 1960s.
Stokes began volunteering with the Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Handicapped Children from 1955, serving as a volunteer part-time medical director of St Michael's House, and later managing the whole organisation. She established a medical advisory service providing nationwide assessment services in 1959, and became the full-time medical director in 1961, opening a day-care service for children with intellectual disabilities. Working with the parents of the children on medical assessment and advice, Stokes was the public face of the organisation while also undertaking the administration and medical oversight of all the new services and facilities which were opened during the 1960s. An administrator was brought on to manage the non-medical work in the mid 1960s, allowing Stokes to focus on the medical services and provisions.
She advocated for community-centred provision of services, criticising the institutionalisation of those with disabilities. She oversaw the opening of a special care unit which was opened in Ballymun in 1967, and the first clinic at St Michael's House in 1968 with a multi-disciplinary team. While she accepted that residential care was sometimes needed, she strongly advocated for it to be the last resort. Stokes promoted the study of each child within their family setting, highlighting the need to assess the needs of the rest of the family as well to take account of the toll on the wider family from full time caring.
Stokes was a frequent public speaker, and contributed to the 1972 Report of the study group on children's hospital services bringing attention to the needs of the parents and families of those with disabilities. She was a consultant editor on the documentary A long way to go (1978) which investigated the social, emotional and medical issues young people with disabilities faced while attempting to integrate into their communities. She fund-raised extensively with Declan Costello (1927–2011), estimating there were 25,000–30,000 children with disabilities in Ireland. Stokes was often combative in her methods of securing government funding, seeing St Michael's House employ over 200 staff by the mid-1970s, largely funded by the state. She led the development of integrated services at Cheeverstown House and a planned village at Templeogue. Recognising the benefit of evidence-based research, she recruited Roy McConkey as director of research at St Michael's House. Stokes also advocated for the use of emerging technologies in the 1990s that could identify genetic markers for chromosomal disorders.
She was awarded the People of the Year Awards, and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Leadership Award in 1990. Stokes was a patron of the Dublin Homeless Girls' Society, and life governor of Stewart's Hospital, Dublin. In 1976 she became a member and in 1978 a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She was a member and later president of the Irish Paediatric Association. She sat on the boards of the St Ultan's Hospital from 1980, the British Paediatric Association, the National Rehabilitation Board from 1975 to 1985, the Medico-Social Research Board from 1978 to 1984, the National Health Council from 1985 to 1986, and the National Association for the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland.
Until she retired in 1987, Stokes was a consultant paediatrician to Baggot Street, St Ultan's and Mercer's hospitals. She then joined the board of Cheeverstown House. She suffered from multiple sclerosis for 35 years, and died on 22 March 2009 while living in Leeson Street Nursing Home.
Stokes was one of the women commemorated as part of the Women on Walls initiative in the RCSI in 2019.
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Ben Parry is a retired American soccer defender who played professionally in the USISL.
Youth
In 1993, Parry graduated from North Stanly High School where he was an All State soccer player. He attended UNC Charlotte where he was a 1997 Second Team All American.
Professional
In 1996, Parry played for the Cocoa Expos. On February 1, 1998, the San Jose Clash selected Parry in the first round (third overall) of the 1998 MLS College Draft. He spent most of the beginning of the season on injured reserve before going on loan to the MLS Project 40 team for three weeks. He contracted a serious stomach virus while touring Mexico during the 1998 pre season. Parry was projected to be the starting right back during the 1998 season. He was released at the end of the 1998 season after sitting on the injured reserve list the entirety of the 1998 season. He signed with the Charleston Battery of the USISL for the remainder of the season. In 1999, he played for the Raleigh Capital Express and in 2001 with the Charlotte Eagles. He had a 2000 pre season trial with the San Jose Earthquakes but failed to earn a contract.
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Men's association football defenders |
Cyril Thomas Demarne, (7 February 1905 – 28 January 2007) was a British firefighter. He served in London during the Second World War, throughout the Blitz. He was later involved in establishing aviation firefighting units in Australasia and in Beirut. In retirement, he wrote several books based on his wartime experiences.
Early life
Demarne was born in Poplar, London, the eldest of three sons and two daughters of a City clerk; when his father lost his job through illness, the family's living standards suffered: "Sometimes we sat in the dark, for there was no penny for the gas." Demarne recalled seeing, as a boy, troops marching from Woolwich through the Blackwall Tunnel with horses pulling the guns. Most distinctly, he remembered the Zeppelin raids on London in 1915 and witnessing the downing of the Schütte-Lanz SL11 (1916) for which William Leefe Robinson was awarded the Victoria Cross. Those dramatic events were a precursor of the relentless bombing of the capital 25 years later.
He joined the West Ham Fire Brigade in 1925 and was a Sub-Officer instructing the Auxiliary Fire Service when war was declared.
World War II
He spent the period from September 1940 to May 1941 serving in West Ham, one of the most heavily bombed areas in the country.
The first day of the Blitz (7 September 1940), Demarne recalled a "lovely sunny day. It was about There were about 300 German aircraft. Some detached and flew along the waterfront from North Woolwich to the tidal basin, bombed the big factories along the River Thames". These included the giant Tate and Lyle factory in Silvertown. The factories had thousands of people working in them and the bombing caused "horrendous casualties". Buildings were ablaze for three miles along the River Thames. Demarne ordered 500 pumps to the scene. His commander thought was this a bit excessive and sent someone to check: he reported that 1,000 engines were needed. Remembering those days 60 years later, Demarne recalled "In the first week of the Blitz I thought London wouldn't be able to stand up to it. There were huge craters and gas flames blazing high in the air and tangled telephone cables everywhere but every night the emergency services got to work and got everything up and running all over again".
The first raid was followed by 57 consecutive nights of bombing; after one night off, when the German aircraft were hampered by bad weather, the air raids resumed until 10 May 1941. The night of 29/30 December 1940 was one of the most destructive air raids of the London Blitz and was quickly dubbed The Second Great Fire of London. The Auxiliary Fire Service worked almost continuously, putting out fires and rescuing the injured and recovering the dead from the ruined buildings.
Demarne was appointed Company Officer at Whitechapel in October 1941, in the new National Fire Service. He was twice promoted in 1943. In January 1944, as Divisional Officer, he was transferred back to West Ham in time for the "Baby" Blitz and flying bomb attacks.
He described how one night in Forest Gate a bus laden with people going home from work was hit. "The top of the bus was completely gone with the remains of the passengers scattered over nearby houses. The passengers on the lower deck had all been decapitated but were sitting in their seats "as if waiting to have their fares collected. It was the most horrific thing I witnessed". He was transferred again to the City and Central London in November 1944, where he was involved in three of the most deadly V-2 rocket attacks, in which more than three hundred people were killed.
Post-war career
After two years service in the West End, based at Manchester Square Station, he was promoted to Chief Fire Officer West Ham. In 1952, he received the OBE.
He retired from the Fire Service in 1955 and moved to Australia, where he became Senior Instructor of the Fire Service Training School at Sydney Airport from its inception in 1956 to 1964. During this period, he travelled widely throughout Australasia and developed the aviation fire departments of Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea. Under secondment to the International Civil Aviation Organization, he set up and ran the Civil Aviation Safety Centre at Beirut Airport until his retirement in 1967.
In retirement
He published his memoirs of his wartime service in The London Blitz – A Fireman's Tale in 1980, followed by Our Girls – A Story of the Nation's Wartime Firewomen (1995). He also contributed to The Blitz Then and Now series of books, published in 1987, and The East End Then and Now (1997).
He appeared in several television documentaries on the war and also in the Humphrey Jennings film Fires Were Started.
He had the idea of raising a memorial to the firefighters of the Blitz. A sculpture by John W Mills has become the National Firefighters Memorial, erected to the south of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1991, and elevated and rededicated in 2003.
Demarne was married in 1930. His wife died in 1986. He is survived by two daughters.
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In Memoriam
Recording of Cyril Demarne recalling VE Day, at the Museum of London
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Senator Gross may refer to:
Chuck Gross (born 1958), Missouri State Senate
Jacob A. Gross (1842–1887), New York State Senate
Jen Gross (fl. 2010s), Montana State Senate
Samuel Gross (politician) (1776–1839), Pennsylvania
See also
William Grose (1812–1900), Indiana State Senate |
Milorad Kosanović (, ; born 4 January 1951) is a Serbian former football player and manager.
During his playing career, Kosanović represented Proleter Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Kikinda and Novi Sad, competing in the Yugoslav First and Second League.
Afterwards, Kosanović was manager of numerous clubs in his country and abroad, having his most successful period with Chinese club Dalian Shide.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Dalian Shide
Chinese Jia-A League: 2000, 2001, 2002
Chinese FA Cup: 2001
Chinese FA Super Cup: 2000, 2002
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Expatriate football managers in Malta
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FK Novi Pazar managers
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FK Proleter Zrenjanin players
FK Vojvodina managers
FK Vojvodina players
Beijing Chengfeng F.C. managers
Malta national football team managers
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Serbia and Montenegro expatriates in China
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Earl Bruce MacNaughton (1919 – January 5, 2015) was the founding dean of the College of Physics at the University of Guelph.
Earl MacNaughton was born near the town of Maple, Ontario in 1919 to Richard Daniel MacNaughton and Pearl Eleanor née Smelser. He attended primary school in Maple, commuted by train to Aurora for secondary school, and then attended the University of Toronto. He graduated from there with a master's degree majoring in physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in 1941. It was in the middle of World War II, and MacNaughton initially served as a civilian training Armed Forces personnel in electronics. Eventually, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and served in the area of operational research. After the war, he returned to the University of Toronto and graduated with a Ph.D. in physics in 1948.
MacNaughton then began teaching physics at the Ontario Agricultural College. In 1952, he was promoted to Head of the Physics Department. Soon after the Ontario Agricultural College was merged with the Ontario Veterinary College in 1964, he became the Associate Dean of Wellington College of Arts and Science at the newly formed University of Guelph. He was installed as the Dean of the College of Physical Sciences (later included Engineering) when it was first opened in 1970. The university renamed the main physical science building after him when he retired in 1981.
"He was a tower of strength" at the university, said William Winegard, who was University of Guelph's president from 1967 to 1975. "We would talk about what was needed, and he had lots of ideas, and he would just go out and do it. He was always thinking of the university and what was best for the university. Earl was one of the finest people you could ever meet," and he was a "tremendous dean" who worked hard to make his college a topnotch school. He was a wonderful man, and you wouldn't find anybody at the College of Physical Science who didn't like their dean."
MacNaughton and his wife Jean (Robinson) had two daughters. Daughter Janis MacNaughton became a doctor of internal medicine in Stratford, Ontario, and daughter Liz Sandals became the Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) for Guelph and rose to the cabinet post of Minister of Education.
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The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Fort Worth is an administrative-security United States federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, for male inmates of all security levels with special medical and mental health needs. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
Originally opening as a Federal Correctional Institution in 1971, the institution was converted to a Federal Medical Center in 1994. At the end of 2006, FMC Fort Worth was returned to FCI status. As of 2017, FMC Fort Worth was again converted back to a Federal Medical Center.
Notable incidents
In February 2012, Michele O'Neal, a correctional officer at the facility, resigned after being charged with sexual abuse of a ward for engaging in a consensual sexual relationship with an inmate at the facility, whom the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not identify. O'Neal pleaded guilty in July, was assigned inmate number 44097-177, and was released in April 2013.
In October 2012, inmate Phillip Monroe Ballard, 71, was charged with soliciting the murder-for-hire of U.S. District Judge John McBryde from FCI Fort Worth. The indictment alleges that Ballard, who was scheduled to go on trial for tax charges before Judge McBryde, approached another inmate about killing Judge McBryde because Ballard believed that McBryde would sentence him to 20 years in prison. The inmate reported Ballard's statement to prison officials and began working as a confidential source for the FBI. The inmate told Ballard that he knew a man on the outside who would do it, upon which Ballard offered to pay the inmate $100,000 in cash and provided him with detailed instructions, such as how it could be done with a high-powered rifle and scope, and even provided a contingency plan of planting a bomb in the judge's vehicle to the inmate. The inmate gave Ballard a handwritten letter from an undercover agent posing as the "killer", which included contact information and notice that the "work" would be completed upon receipt of $5,000. Ballard called the undercover agent four times on September 26, 2012, and the following day, Ballard directed that the $5,000 payment be sent to the address provided by the undercover agent. On March 17, 2014, Ballard was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Notable inmates (current and former)
† Inmates in the Federal Witness Protection Program are not listed on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
Terrorists
Organized crime figures
Corrupt public officials
Others
See also
List of United States federal prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Incarceration in the United States
References
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Sewickley Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,590 at the 2020 census.
History
Sewickley Township was created in 1835 and named after Sewickley Creek. The Bells Mills Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 26.8 square miles (69.5 km2), of which 26.6 square miles (68.9 km2) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.5 km2) (0.75%) is water.
Surrounding and adjacent neighborhoods
Sewickley Township has five land borders, including North Huntingdon Township to the north, Hempfield Township to the east and southeast, Madison borough to the east-southeast, South Huntingdon Township to the south, and Sutersville borough to the southwest. Across the Youghiogheny River in Allegheny County to the west, Sewickley Township runs adjacent with Elizabeth Township. The CDP, Herminie, is also situated within the township.
Demographics
At the 2010 census there were 5,996 people, 2,524 households, and 1,722 families living in the township. The population density was . There were 2,766 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 98.46% White, 0.37% African American, 0.31% Asian, 0.11% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.66%.
Of the 2,524 households 24.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.8% were non-families. 27.4% of households were one person and 12.2% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.88.
The age distribution was 19.9% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 20 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 32.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% 65 or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 98.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males.
The median household income was $32,677 and the median family income was $45,847. Males had a median income of $30,685 versus $20,263 for females. The per capita income for the township was $15,846. About 10.2% of families and 11.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.4% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.
See also
New Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania
North Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania
References
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Maria Gomori (May 25, 1920 – December 10, 2021) was a Hungarian-born Canadian pioneer in the field of systems family therapy. She contributed to the fields of psychiatric and social work training, and designed numerous training programs. She was a proponent of the Satir Method for Family Therapy. In 2004, she was named "Woman of Distinction" for the field of Health and Wellness by the City of Winnipeg. In the same year Winnipeg's Saint Boniface Hospital Research Centre established a lectureship in her name to honour her long and varied contributions to the health system and the people who use it.
Life and career
She earned a B.A. at the Sorbonne, an Economics degree in her native Budapest, an M.S.W. at the University of Manitoba, Dip.C. from the Haven Institute and Ph.D. from the Open International University. Gomori developed the family therapy training program for the residents in psychiatry at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, MB, and was the Coordinator and Director of the Social Work Department at this hospital for 14 years. In her retirement, she continued to lecture and offer seminars and workshops around the world, teaching annually in China and Taiwan and North America, even at the age of 88. She collaborated with Bennet Wong and Jock McKeen for over thirty years, and was an Emeritus Faculty of the Haven Institute.
After enduring the Nazi incursion in her native Budapest in the 1940s, she completed her education and rose quickly in the Hungarian Government's department of Economics. She fled Hungary with her husband and young son in 1956 in the midst of the Hungarian Revolution without money or possessions. They moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where she studied social work. Her life focus was on freedom. She received numerous honours and citations.
Gomori was a family therapist in private practice, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Medicine. Gomori was also a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor with AAMFT, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. She worked intensively with Virginia Satir for over 20 years and was a faculty member and advanced trainer in Satir's Avanta International Training Organization from 1981. Gomori was also a certified practitioner and Master Programmer in Neuro-linguistic programming.
She died in Winnipeg on December 10, 2021, at the age of 101.
Contributions
Gomori established an international reputation as a workshop leader, teaching, demonstrating and applying her interpretation of the Satir model. She conducted workshops throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, South America, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Australia. She co-authored with Virginia Satir et al. The Satir Approach to Communication and The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond; the latter book was chosen by the AAMFT Foundation for the 1994 Satir Education and Research Prize. Gomori worked tirelessly in her international lectures and seminars, and was instrumental in establishing Satir Institutes in Winnipeg, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia. She integrated Virginia Satir's approach with her learnings from other teachers combined with her own experiences.
Publications
Gomori, Maria and Adaskin, Eleanor. "Desperately Seeking French Fries: A Case Example of Satir's Family Sculpting", Issaquah, WA: Anchor Point, March 1993, pp. 11–16.
Gomori, Maria, Baldwin, M., Gerber, J. and Schwab, J. (1990). The Satir Approach to Communication, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books. ISBN
Satir, Virginia; Banmen, John; Gerber, Jane; & Gomori, Maria. (1991). The Satir Model, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books.
Gomori, Maria. "Integrating Satir and PD Concepts", Gabriola Island, BC: Shen, Issue #22, Fall 1998.
Gomori, Maria and Adaskin, Eleanor. (2000). "Finding Freedom, a chapter in Virginia Satir: Her Life and Circle of Influence, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books.
Gomori, Maria. (2001). Meeting the Self: A Family Reconstruction (5 Videos), Taipei, Taiwan: Shiuh Li Liuh Foundation.
Gomori, Maria. (2002). Passion For Freedom, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books.
Gomori, Maria. (2004). Passion For Freedom (Chinese Translation), Taipei, Taiwan: Living Psychology Publishers.
Gomori, Maria, with Adaskin, E. (2008). Personal Alchemy: The Art of Satir Family Reconstruction, Hong Kong: Satir Center for Human Development.
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Maria Gomori: "Integrating Satir and PD Concepts"
Maria Gomori's Faculty Listing at Haven Institute
Edward Marshall: "Lessons in Courage from Maria Gomori"
Satir Professional Development Institute of Manitoba
Taiwan Satir Center
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This article shows all participating team squads at the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship, which will be held in Poland from 24 August – 3 September 2017.
The following is the Belgian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Czech roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Estonian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Finnish roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the French roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the German roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Italian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Dutch roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Polish roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Russian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Serbian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship. Serbia achieved a bronze medal.
The following is the Slovak roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Slovenian roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Spanish roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
The following is the Turkish roster in the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
References
External links
Official Website
S
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Carmaig de Forest (born September 9, 1957) is a singer-songwriter, mainly on the ukulele, but also the guitar, originating from Los Angeles, California. Since starting his career as a ukulele singer-songwriter, he has mostly stayed in the creative musical underground of California and Baltimore, at one time touring with the Violent Femmes, who would later play with him on his DeathGrooveLoveParty album. Perhaps his most recognized achievement was being the warm-up artist for the Ramones in the early 1980s.
De Forest's political songwriting style has been referred to as "Raymond Carver's poems set to music". His songs sometimes have an overtly political focus, such as his 1992 single "George Bush Lies" re-recorded to protest George W. Bush for the 2004 Presidential Election. His song "Hey Judas" compares John Hinckley Jr. to Judas Iscariot, Adolf Hitler, and Jim Jones, suggesting that he might go to Hell for his attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan failing, and making the president more popular.
Many of his songs have been covered by his friends in the Baltimore and Vancouver underground scene, including Canadian accordion player Geoff Berner, who claims to be "touring for two", as Carmaig de Forest plays mainly underground gigs, while Berner is a bit more on the road.
His fourth studio album, Idiot Strings, was released on the Serious Records label on September 9, 2007.
Discography
Albums
I Shall Be Released (1987)
DeathGrooveLoveParty (1993)
El Camino Real (1997)
Idiot Strings (2007)
I Shall Be Re-Released (2017) (an expanded edition of 1987 album, combining original album, live EP with four previously unissued tracks from the original album sessions and an additional unissued live recording)
Singles/EPs/Others
5 Songs (1982) cassette-only demo
6 Live Cuts (1988)
George Bush Lies/Love is Strong (1992)
combining the original album, live EP and unissued materialcombining the original album, live EP and unissued material
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070203024849/http://www.carmaig.com// Official Website (Not working)
American male singer-songwriters
Living people
American ukulele players
1957 births
Singers from Los Angeles |
Jim Pons (born March 14, 1943) is an American bassist, author, singer, and video director who most notably played for the Leaves (1964–1967), the Turtles (1967–1970), and the Mothers of Invention (1970–1971) and Flo and Eddie (1971-1973).
After leaving the music scene in 1973, he worked as a video director for the New York Jets, and briefly the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jim designed the team logo for the New York Jets, which lasted from 1978 to 1997.
Early life
Jim Pons was born in Santa Monica, California.
The Leaves
In 1964, he formed the garage rock band The Leaves. The band was founded by Pons and guitarist Robert Lee Reiner, who were Fraternity students at Cal State Northridge (then known as San Fernando Valley State College).
They were originally called The Rockwells, prior to changing their names to The Leaves. They got the name Leaves when one of the members greeted another by saying “What’s happening?”, and the other responding with “The Leaves are happening”.
The Leaves eventually secured a regular gig replacing the Byrds as the house band at the popular nightclub Ciro's on the Sunset Strip. They signed with Mira Records after being heard by Pat Boone, who got them the position.
The Leaves are noted for recording an early version of the song Hey Joe, which they recorded along with their debut album in 1966. Their version of Hey Joe was #1 on the Los Angeles stations and peaked at #31 on the Billboard pop charts in May 1966.
Hey Joe would achieve greater popularity in 1967 when it was covered by Jimi Hendrix. Pons stayed in the Leaves until 1967.
The Turtles
Pons joined The Turtles shortly after the Leaves. He played bass on their hit songs She'd Rather Be With Me, Elenore, She's My Girl, and You Showed Me. As a member of the Turtles, he appeared on television on both of their appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and American Bandstand, among many others. Jim continued to tour with the Turtles until they split in 1970. He played on their albums, Happy Together, The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, Turtle Soup and The Turtles Greatest Hits Vols, 1 and 2.
Since the 2010s, he has occasionally guest-starred with The Turtles alongside Flo & Eddie. Pons will usually join them on stage if they are performing in Florida, where he lives.
The Mothers Of Invention
Pons was a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention (1970-1971). He played bass on their albums "Live at the Fillmore East", "Just Another Band From L.A.", and "Playground Psychotics". Pons portrayed himself in Zappa's 1971 surrealist film 200 Motels, starring the members of the Mothers Of Invention.
Video Directing
In 1973 Pons left the music industry to become the film and video director for the New York Jets football team; he designed the team's 1978–97 team logo. He held this position until around the year 2000.
Pons and his family moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2005, where he did game day video for the Jacksonville Jaguars, until he retired.
Personal life
Pons plays a U bass in a bluegrass band called Lonesome Ride in Jacksonville, Fl.
Book
In 2017, Pons wrote an autobiography titled Hard Core Love: Sex, Football and Rock and Roll in the Kingdom of God which won the 2017 Florida Writers Association BOOK OF THE YEAR award. The book describes his spiritual journey during his careers in the music and sports industries.
Discography
With The Leaves
Albums
Hey Joe (1966)
All The Good That's Happening (1967)
The Leaves 1966 (1982)
Singles
"Love Minus Zero" / "Too Many People"
"Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go" / "Be with You"
"You Better Move On" / "A Different Story"
"Be with You" / "Funny Little Word"
"Hey Joe" / "Girl from the East"
"Hey Joe" / "Funny Little World"
"Too Many People" / "Girl from the East"
"Get Out of My Life Woman" / "Girl from the East"
"Be with You" / "You Better Move On"
"Lemmon Princess" / "Twilight Sanctuary"
With The Turtles
Studio albums
Singles
With The Mothers of Invention
Studio albums
Singles
Filmography
200 Motels (1971) — himself (uncredited)
Bibliography
Hard Core Love: Sex, Football and Rock and Roll in the Kingdom of God'' (2017)
References
External links
1943 births
Living people
American rock bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
California State University, Northridge alumni
The Mothers of Invention members
Musicians from Santa Monica, California
The Turtles members
Guitarists from California
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists |
Jacob Pieter van Helsdingen (7 March 1907 – 7 March 1942) was a pilot of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force. Van Helsdingen and August Deibel were the most successful Dutch pilots on the Brewster F2A fighter. He was twice awarded the Military William Order for bravery in battle.
World War II
Singapore
Van Helsdingen's squadron arrived in Singapore on 9 December 1941 with 9-12 Brewster Buffalo fighters and was stationed at Kallang Airfield.
They first went into action on 12 January 1942 during a Japanese air raid over Singapore. At 10:00 hours, a formation of Japanese bombers appeared, escorted by five Ki-27 Nate fighters. They were intercepted by three Dutch Buffalos, who succeeded in chasing them away, damaging one of the bombers. When they returned in the afternoon, Van Helsdingen and two other pilots were scrambled to intercept them, encountering nine Ki-27s. Four of them were shot down, one by Van Helsdingen, with the Dutch losing one Buffalo.
When the Japanese raided Singapore again on 15 January, Van Helsdingen and two other pilots took off. They ran into an overwhelming number of A6M Zeros, scoring no kills and losing one Buffalo and its pilot. His squadron returned to Java on 18 January, missing out on the Battle of Singapore. Van Helsdingen led eight Buffalos to Semplak, while 23 others flew to Andir and Tjilitian.
Balikpapan
Van Helsdingen was awarded his first Military William Order on 11 February 1942, for carrying out attacks against Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ships in the Battle of Balikpapan on 23 January. Twenty Buffalo fighters carrying two 50 kg bombs each escorted nine Martin B-10 bombers to attack a fleet of IJN ships in the Makassar Strait. Eight hits were scored on four Japanese ships and one destroyer, sinking two transports, with the Dutch losing one Buffalo.
Lembang
Van Helsdingen was killed on his 35th birthday by an A6M Zero while providing air support to Royal Dutch East Indies Army forces fighting in Lembang with three other Buffalo aircraft on 7 March 1942.
Despite the Japanese having an almost complete air superiority over Java, he nevertheless chose to take off from Andir airfield. He ordered another pilot to stand down and hand over his Buffalo aircraft to him because he was married, despite the fact that Van Helsdingen was himself married. Three other pilots, 1st Lieutenant August Deibel, Gerard Bruggink (flying B-3107) and Officer Cadet Jan Scheffer, volunteered to join him using the last three working Buffalo aircraft on the airfield.
The squadron travelled 200 metres before running into three Japanese A6M Zeros. Deibel's plane was hit in the oil tank and had to break off from combat. His wingman, Scheffer, escorted him back to Andir airfield, where Deibel crash landed his aircraft without injury. The other two remained above Lembang, but were now dogfighting six Zeroes. Van Helsdingen shot down a Zero before he too was hit, but Bruggink managed to escape into the clouds before returning to Andir airfield. Jacob's body was never found. The Dutch forces in Lembang surrendered the next day. All four Dutch pilots were awarded the Military William Order, while Van Helsdingen and Scheffer (who died a prisoner of war) were posthumously awarded the honour on 14 July 1948.
References
1907 births
1942 deaths
Dutch World War II pilots
Royal Netherlands Air Force pilots
Royal Netherlands Air Force officers
Royal Netherlands Air Force personnel of World War II
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army officers
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army personnel of World War II
Dutch military personnel killed in World War II
People from Surabaya
Knights Third Class of the Military Order of William
Recipients of the Airman's Cross
Aviators killed by being shot down
Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies |
Leslie Peter Wilkinson (born 9 May 1969 in Liverpool) in an English bass player and singer-songwriter, formerly of Shack, Cast, and Echo & the Bunnymen.
He is currently concentrating on his Aviator project and has recorded and released an album with Michael Blyth as Michael Blyth and the Wild Braid, getting 4/5 star reviews in Uncut/Mojo/Maverick and Classic Rock.
Biography
Although having taught himself to play bass at an early age by listening to new wave bands such as The Stranglers and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wilkinson took an interest in jazz and went on to tour the jazz circuit across the north west of England and North Wales. He gained a college diploma in the genre before deciding that he would never be able to move out of the small clubs he was already playing whilst playing jazz.
In 1990, Wilkinson joined Shack with whom he worked on the album Waterpistol. The album however would not be released until 1995, due to problems with the loss of the master tapes and the original record label folding leading to the band splitting up.
In 1992, he co-founded Cast with former La's bassist John Power whom fronted the band.
Following the band's split in 2001, Wilkinson released a solo album in October 2002 Huxley Pig Part 1 under the guise of Aviator. He also began working as a session musician, playing with artists including Ian McCulloch, Echo & the Bunnymen, Canadian songwriter/vocalist Simon Wilcox and The Hours with whom he took on lead guitar duties.
In 2005, Wilkinson rejoined the reformed Shack, who released two albums on Noel Gallagher's record label, Sour Mash.
Wilkinson also composes and performs music for TV commercials.
In 2010, Wilkinson re-joined the reformed Cast for a UK tour in November 2010. The band went on to release the album Troubled Times in 2012 with drummer Steve Pilgrim replacing Keith O'Neill who was too busy tour managing to participate. Following an abrupt departure from a tour in December 2014, Wilkinson confirmed in March 2015 that he had left the band and wouldn't be working on their forthcoming album or touring with the band,
Wilkinson released the long delayed Aviator follow up album Huxley Pig, Part 2 in 2012 and follow up single Desolation Peaks on limited edition 7" via Eighties Vinyl Records in 2013. He released the third Aviator album No Friend Of Mind in August 2015 on his own label AV8.
Associated acts
Shack (1990–1991, 2005–present)
Cast (1992–2001, 2010–2014)
Aviator (2002–present)
Echo & the Bunnymen (2001–2005)
The Hours (2006–2007)
Michael Blyth and the Wild Braid (2017–present)
Discography
Shack – Waterpistol (1995)
Cast – All Change (1995)
Cast – Mother Nature Calls (1997)
Cast – Magic Hour (1999)
Cast – Beetroot (2001)
Aviator – Huxley Pig, Part 1 (2002)
Ian McCulloch – Slideling (2003)
Echo & the Bunnymen – Siberia (2005)
Shack – ...The Corner of Miles & Gil (2006)
Simon Wilcox – Charm and the Strange (2007)
Baltic Fleet – Baltic Fleet (2008)
Cast – Troubled Times (2011)
Aviator – Huxley Pig, Part 2 (2012)
Aviator – By the By: Unreleased Sessions 2002–2012 (2013)
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band – Artorius Revisisted (2013)
Aviator – No Friend Of Mind (2015)
Aviator – The Strawberry Field Sessions (2016)
Aviator – OMNI (2018)
David Boone – A Bubble to Burst (2018)
Michael Blyth and the Wild Braid – Indigo Train (2018)
Aviator – AV8OR (2022)
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
English rock bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Musicians from Liverpool
Cast (band) members
Echo & the Bunnymen members
Shack (band) members
Britpop musicians |
Government College, Zirapur is a degree college in Jirapur, Madhya Pradesh affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Courses
Following courses are available,
B.A.
Affiliated to: Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Duration: 3 Years
B.Com.
Affiliated to: Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Duration: 3 Years
B.Sc. Science
Affiliated to: Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Duration: 3 Years
M.A. Economics
Affiliated to: Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Duration: 2 Years
M.A. Political Science
Affiliated to: Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Duration: 2 Years
References
Government universities and colleges in India
Universities and colleges in Madhya Pradesh
Rajgarh district |
Hradiště or Hradište (meaning "gord") may refer to places:
Places
Czech Republic
Hradiště (Benešov District), a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region
Hradiště (Domažlice District), a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště (Plzeň-South District), a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště (Rokycany District), a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Blovice in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Bžany (Teplice District) in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Hradiště, a village and part of České Lhotice in the Pardubice Region
Hradiště, a part of Cheb in the Karlovy Vary Region
Hradiště, a hamlet and part of Chlum (Česká Lípa District) in the Liberec Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Kaplice in the South Bohemian Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Klášterec nad Ohří in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Koldín in the Pardubice Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Kolinec in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Malovice in the South Bohemian Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Nová Bystřice in the South Bohemian Region
Hradiště, a part of Písek in the South Bohemian Region
Hradiště, a part of Plzeň in the Plzeň Region
Hradiště, a village and part of Postoloprty in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Hradiště (Těrlicko), a village and part of Těrlicko in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Hradiště, a military training area in the Karlovy Vary Region
Choustníkovo Hradiště, a market town in the Hradec Králové Region
Dolní Hradiště, a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Klášter Hradiště nad Jizerou, a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region
Mnichovo Hradiště, a town in the Central Bohemian Region
Staré Hradiště, a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region
Uherské Hradiště, a town in the Zlín Region
Slovakia
Hradište, Banská Bystrica, a municipality and village in the Banská Bystrica Region
Hradište, Partizánske District, a municipality and village in the Trenčín Region
Hradište, Poltár District, a municipality and village in the Banská Bystrica Region
Hradište pod Vrátnom, a municipality and village in the Trnava Region
See also
Hradištko (disambiguation) (diminutive form)
Gradište (disambiguation) (South-Slavic form)
Horodyshche (Ukrainian form)
Gorodishche, Russia (Russian form)
Grădiştea (disambiguation) (Romanian form)
Grodziszcze (disambiguation) (Polish form) |
Ian Derek Marchant (born 9 February 1961) is an English accountant and businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Scottish and Southern Energy from 2002 to June 2013, and was chairman of Thames Water from 2018 to July 2023.
Early life
Born in Croydon, Marchant attended the independent Trinity School of John Whitgift. Afterwards he studied at Durham University, as a member of Hatfield College, gaining a 2:1 in Economics in 1983.
Career
He was an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1983 to 1992. In 1992, he joined Southern Electric, which became Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) in 1998, when he was appointed the company's finance director. He became CEO of SSE in 2002 when aged 41, making him then one of the youngest FTSE 100 chief executives.
Marchant received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2009
In January 2018, Marchant was appointed chairman of Thames Water, stepping down on 10 July 2023. He is also chair of Logan Energy and a non-executive director of Aggreko, and a past chairman of John Wood Group, Nova Innovation and Infinis.
He founded and chaired the Scotland 2020 Climate Group, and founded Scotland's 'Lights up Malawi' campaign for climate justice. He is a past president of the Energy Institute and honorary president of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
References
SSE plc
English chief executives
1961 births
People educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift
People from Croydon
Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
Living people
English accountants |
Elof Wedin (June 28, 1901 – February 1, 1983) was a Swedish American artist who enjoyed a 50-year career in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. His main choice of medium was oil on canvas, but he also worked with pastels on velour, carved wood, and stainless steel.
Background
Elof Wedin was born in Härnösand, Ångermanland, Sweden. His father was a shopkeeper. Elof learned his trade of insulating and lining boilers while living in Sweden. He immigrated to the United States in 1919, taking up residence in Minneapolis, MN. Elof Wedin entered night school at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in the early 1920s. In 1926, he went to study under George Oberteuffer (1878–1940) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Two years later, he returned to Minneapolis. In 1928, Wedin began his career as a boilermaker, insulating boilers and ductwork with asbestos. While Wedin worked a day job in thermal power stations, he painted on evenings and weekends.
Art
Wedin's works from the 1920s to the mid-1930s were representational. His major influences during this period were Rembrandt, Amedeo Modigliani, and Impressionism. During the 1930s, his portraits featured oval faces and elongated features, inspired by the works of Amedeo Modigliani.
Wedin also painted Landscape art, an interest that was the subject of his entry in the 1934 Minnesota State Fair. During the depression, Wedin painted for several New Deal art projects, producing a series of Minneapolis street scenes under the Public Works of Art Project, as well as works for the post offices of Litchfield, Minnesota titled Street Scene, completed in 1937, and Mobridge, South Dakota titled Return from the Fields in 1938. He was also a Works Progress Administration artist, focusing on Regionalism, depicting scenes from small towns and from the North Shore (Lake Superior) of Minnesota, where he spent significant time. Unlike many regionalists, his style was a highly Geometric abstraction.
Works from Wedin's middle period, 1935 to 1957, were characterized for their experimentation with textures, free form and pastel colors. They are distinctly influenced by Modernism, but not yet completely abstract. His landscapes of the 1930s and 1940s had flattened space with no perspective, minimal sky, and buildings represented as angular shapes. Major influences during this time included Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and the avant-garde Cubism art movement.
In his later phase, 1958 through the mid-1970s, Wedin ventured into Abstract art, using raw colors applied with a palette-knife technique. By the 1960s he had begun to paint large non-objective canvases in thickly applied diagonals of bold color and black. Brilliantly colored areas that appeared to be broken up at close range would fit together at a distance, producing what Wedin called a "hidden abstract" composition.
Wedin's works are represented in many major private and institutional collections, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
In 1996 Wedin was one of 33 artists whose work was featured in the exhibition "Pictures for a New Home: Minnesota’s Swedish-American Artists," at the James J. Hill House Gallery in St. Paul, sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society.
In 2008, Elof Wedin was one of the artists featured in the Weisman Art Museum's "By the People, for the People" exhibit of Works Progress Administration paintings.
Wedin earned awards from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts annual shows, Minnesota State Fair exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Swedish-American Clubs of Minneapolis and Chicago, the Women's Club of Minneapolis, the First New York American Artist Exhibition, the San Francisco Exhibition and the Los Angeles County Exhibition.
Personal life
Elof Wedin wed Lilian Westman in October 1926. Their first son, Winslow, was born in 1933, and their second son, Gary, was born in 1942. Elof Wedin died in 1983 from complications due to prolonged Asbestos exposure.
References
External links
Elof Wedin Paintings (Cambridge Center for the Arts)
1901 births
1983 deaths
Painters from Minnesota
Swedish emigrants to the United States
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Section of Painting and Sculpture artists
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
People from Härnösand
Artists from Minneapolis
20th-century American male artists |
The Shivnetras are an almost extinct community which originated from Varanasi in Northern India. Similar to the Kshatriyas but somewhat more controversial in social context,
the Shivnetras are almost extinct today due to the widespread relocation and displacement of the community.
The word "Shivnetra" translates into "Lord Shiva's third eye", and the first Shivnetra is born out of Shiva's third eye as a Swayambhu (or self manifested) which largely points out to be the Hindu deity Kartikeyya or Kal Bhairav as the first Shivnetra. Temples which have been closely linked with this community had either Kartikeyya or Kal Bhairav as a sub-deity with Shiva as the main deity. The netras were believed to have been heavily guarded by Aghoris of both Ujjain and Varanasi almost akin to a secret society, until the great migration to South India commenced.
Shivnetra mythology
An inscription in Varanasi gives some account:
Southern sojourn
The Shivnetra migration, which started from Varanasi, went through Ujjain, where it is said to have passed Rameshwaram (a temple dedicated to Ujjain Kali is found here, besides that of Shiva), and ended in Trichirapalli and Tanjore. The Shivnetras were sipped into royal appointments by the Chola Empire and formed an integral part of King Raja Raja Chola's court as ministers of defence, treasury and spirituality.
Contribution to society
A Shivnetra is never allowed to accept any form of offering (money, valuable articles) known as dakshina from anyone for conducting puja, instead recommends multiple non-religious work in its community to have resources in the form of food or money.
Shivnetras contribution to astronomy, astrology and mathematics were impeccable, and championed their own ephemerids and equinoxes based on the Vaakya calculation method, mentioned in Puranas, to be guided by the Indian sage Agastya.
Shivnetra evolution
Shivnetras today are only identified with their surname whilst some Shaiva have been completely dissolved into other castes making them completely extinct. Shivnetras re-established their roots in Varanasi over the past century.
The Panchaloga bangle (a semi open bangle made out of gold, silver, copper, lead and iron) found on a Shivnetra male's left hand is forever associated with them, and a Shivnetra is usually associated by it throughout India.
References
Shaivism
Ethnic groups in India |
```java
package org.hswebframework.web.dictionary.webflux;
import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.Operation;
import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.media.Schema;
import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.Parameter;
import org.hswebframework.web.api.crud.entity.QueryParamEntity;
import org.hswebframework.web.api.crud.entity.QueryNoPagingOperation;
import org.hswebframework.web.authorization.annotation.Authorize;
import org.hswebframework.web.authorization.annotation.Resource;
import org.hswebframework.web.crud.service.ReactiveCrudService;
import org.hswebframework.web.crud.web.reactive.ReactiveServiceCrudController;
import org.hswebframework.web.dict.DictDefine;
import org.hswebframework.web.dict.DictDefineRepository;
import org.hswebframework.web.dict.EnumDict;
import org.hswebframework.web.dictionary.entity.DictionaryEntity;
import org.hswebframework.web.dictionary.service.DefaultDictionaryService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/dictionary")
@Resource(id = "dictionary", name = "")
@Tag(name = "")
public class WebfluxDictionaryController implements ReactiveServiceCrudController<DictionaryEntity, String> {
@Autowired
private DefaultDictionaryService dictionaryService;
@Autowired
private DictDefineRepository repository;
@Override
public ReactiveCrudService<DictionaryEntity, String> getService() {
return dictionaryService;
}
@GetMapping("/detail/_query")
@QueryNoPagingOperation(summary = "GET")
public Flux<DictionaryEntity> getItemDefineById(@Parameter(hidden = true) QueryParamEntity query) {
return dictionaryService
.findAllDetail(query, true);
}
@PostMapping("/detail/_query")
@Operation(summary = "POST")
public Flux<DictionaryEntity> getItemDefineById(@RequestBody Mono<QueryParamEntity> query) {
return query
.flatMapMany(param -> dictionaryService
.findAllDetail(param, true));
}
@GetMapping("/{id:.+}/items")
@Authorize(merge = false)
@Operation(summary = "")
public Flux<EnumDict<?>> getItemDefineById(@PathVariable String id) {
return repository
.getDefine(id)
.flatMapIterable(DictDefine::getItems);
}
@GetMapping("/_all")
@Authorize(merge = false)
@Schema(description = "")
public Flux<DictDefine> getAllDict() {
return repository.getAllDefine();
}
}
``` |
Georgatou () is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Diamantina Georgatou (born 1986), Greek Olympic diver
Maria Georgatou (born 1984), Greek Olympic rhythmic gymnast
Eirini Georgatou (born 1990), Greek tennis player
Greek-language surnames
Surnames
Greek-language female forms of surnames |
Stylianos Devaris (, 1745 – 1813), also known as Defaris () and Kornaros () respectively. He was a Greek painter and goldsmith. He was one of the prominent painters from the island of Lefkada. He was a member of the Heptanese School. The island featured many painters namely: Konstantinos Kontarinis, Spyridon Ventouras, Spyridon Maratzos, and Makarios Lefkas. A notable theme popular on the island was John Chrysostom, Criticizing Empress Eudoxia. Stylianos painted his own version of the theme. Spyridon Ventouras and Makarios Lefkas also painted their versions. Devaris mainly painted ecclesiastical themes. According to the Institute of Neohellenic Research, over nineteen of his paintings have survived. His most notable work was John Chrysostom, Criticizing Empress Eudoxia.
History
Devaris was born on the island of Lefkada. His father's name was Tzortzis. The family was associated with the island of Kephalonia. His brother was born there. His name was Ioannis. He was also a painter. He was five years older than Stylianos. They collaborated on several projects together in Lefkada. The church archives in Lefkada contain a rich amount of information about the painter. Stylianos also used the name Kornaros because his name was so popular on the island of Lefkada.
Stylianos created small works and gilded the iconostasis of several churches.
In 1778, the artist worked on the church of Agia Paraskevi. Two years later he worked on the church of Agioi Anargyroi of Lefkada.
He also painted an icon for the church of Saint Mavra in 1783. Saint Mavra was the patron saint of Lefkada. He also painted icons for the church of the Holy Apostles (Agioi Apostoli) in Frini, Lefkada in 1793, 1794, and 1797. In his final years, he worked on the iconostasis of the church Entrance of the Virgin in the city of Lefkada in 1813. He died on the island that same year.
Gallery
See also
Efstathios Karousos
Jean-Paul Laurens
References
Bibliography
1745 births
1813 deaths
18th-century Greek painters
19th-century Greek painters
19th-century Greek people
People from Lefkada
Painters of the Heptanese School |
Hong San See () is a Chinese temple in Singapore, and is located at Mohamed Sultan Road in the River Valley Planning Area, within the Central Area.
Hong San See Temple was constructed between 1908 and 1913, erected by migrants from Nan An County in Fujian province with materials imported from China. Built on a small hill, the temple once overlooked the sea. The temple's vicinity now mainly houses bars, restaurants and expensive apartments.
Singapore Lam Ann Association manages the temple.
History
The original temple to Guang Ze Zun Wang () was built in 1836 on Mount Wallich in Tanjong Pagar by Neo Jin Quee (), an early Chinese pioneer from Nan An County. In 1907, the land was acquired by the government for reclaiming Telok Ayer Bay and the temple trustees were given compensation of $50,000. The temple trustees used the money to buy land on a 999-year lease on Mohamed Sultan Road from Sam Tomlimson who was the Municipal Engineer.
The name of the temple means "Temple on Phoenix Hill". Sited on the side of Institution Hill, the temple was situated on high ground with a view of the sea. According to the principles of Chinese geomancy, this is a prime spot for a temple. The construction of the temple began in 1908 with materials imported from China. The chief director of the temple's Board was Lim Loh, the father of World War II hero Lim Bo Seng. The temple was completed in 1913 at the cost of $56,000. It was renovated once in 1934 and again in 1962. In 1970 renovations to the temple were not done according to restoration guidelines and several features were removed. These are to be restored to make the temple faithful to its original early twentieth century architecture. One major change, now likely to have been removed, was the addition of ornate carvings painted in gold all along the trusses of the temple.
As with some of the other Chinese temples in Singapore, its premises were used as a school for children from nearby villages. Called Nan Ming School, it was closed after ten years when it ran into financial difficulties.
Today, Hong San See has lost its view of the sea, blocked by high-rises which now surround it. However, it remains on high ground, and to reach the temple, devotees have to climb a long flight of stairs.
Hong San See Temple was gazetted as a national monument on 10 November 1978.
Extensive renovations were carried out from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, the temple was given the Award of Excellence for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Architecture
Hong San See is located on a hill with the entrance facing south or the yang position at the back of the complex against higher ground and the cold north that generates yin, which also has a good feng shui. There are granite plaques in the entrance hall, dated between 1868 and 1913 which list the donors who contributed to the building of the temple. There are other modern plaques on the walls commemorating donors in recent years. The granite column on either side of the main entrance are engraved verses extolling the site's once excellent view of the sea and its wealthy neighbourhood. This view has since been blocked by high-rise development in the 1990s. There are four carved granite columns in the temple, with two at the entrance are six-sided columns with entwined dragons and figurines of the Eight Immortals. Just past the entrance on either side of the courtyard are two columns with carvings of peony flowers, magpies and phoenixes.
The main door is made of double-leafed timber and painted with phoenixes. The two side doors flanking the main door are painted with door gods. The main door is usually kept barred except on important occasions. The roof ridges and eaves of the temple have chien nien ornamentation and plaster relief-work. Chen nien ornamentation is the tradition southern Chinese art of creating figures, flowers, leaves and other images with small pieces of colourful porcelain. Another key feature of traditional Chinese building is exposed structural elements. Traditionally constructed without nails, the weight of the roof is supported on the columns on which rest of the beams. Walls in Chinese temples do not bear the weight of the roof. The exposed structure shows off the ingenious carpentry. The roof of the main hall is a two-tiered xie shan roof with curved swallow tail ridge ends. In the centre of the roof ridge are two prancing dragons on either side of a blazing pearl. At the ends of the lower-tier roof are Minnan spirals.
The main hall of the temple with the altar to patron deity Guangze Zunwang is raised on a nine-metre podium and opens out to the internal open-air courtyard in front of it. The courtyard is flanked by covered corridors which lead to the side halls. The secondary altars are dedicated to Cheng Huang (城隍) and Xuan Tian Shang Di (玄天上帝; Heavenly Emperor). These altars are positioned at the back of the main hall to the left and right of the main altar. The main hall has six solid timber columns that are convex in mid-shaft. They rest on carved granite bases. On the black columns are verses written by a Singaporean calligraphist, the late Pan Shou. The side halls have square columns set in granite bases. They are plain and without ornamentation. Nan Ming School used two halls from 1915 as classrooms. The children came from nearby villages such as Bukit Ho Swee and would not otherwise have been able to afford an education. The school closed in 1925 due to financial problems.
References
News articles
Further reading
Chia, Meng Tat Jack (2009), "Sacred Ties across the Seas: The Cult of Guangze Zunwang and its Religious Network in the Chinese Diaspora, 19th Century-2009", M.A. thesis, National University of Singapore.
Lee, Geok Boi (2002), The Religious Monuments of Singapore. Landmark Books.
Preservation of Monuments Board Website
Samuel, D. S. (1991). Singapore's heritage: Through places of interest. Singapore: Elixir consultancy service, p. 211.
Singapore Infopedia
External links
Hong San See Temple
Singapore Government eCitizen website
Chinese-Singaporean culture
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1913
Tourist attractions in Singapore
National monuments of Singapore
Taoist temples in Singapore
River Valley, Singapore
1913 establishments in British Malaya
20th-century architecture in Singapore |
Capivari do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
See also
List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul
References
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul |
The Christian Wetzel Cabin, near Junction City, Kansas, also known as the Louis Kettlass Cabin, was built in 1857 by Isaac H. Loder for $225 for Louis Kettlass. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
It is a one-story log cabin with a loft.
The cabin was relocated in about 1955 by the Kansas District Lutheran-Laymen's League, which restored the structure and opened it as a Lutheran historical site and museum. The site was relocated again in 2004 to the west side of Junction City to the Spring Valley Historic Site.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Houses completed in 1857
National Register of Historic Places in Geary County, Kansas
Log cabins in the United States |
Karl Chandler (born 30 March 1976) is an Australian writer and light entertainer. He co-hosts the popular comedy podcast The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy Dassalo. Chandler grew up in the small rural Victorian town of Maryborough. He has written for many TV shows, like Hard Quiz, Spicks and Specks, and The Project, and written and been part of the cast for shows like Studio A.
In 2011, Chandler collated and published a book called Funny Buggers: The Best Lines from Australian Stand-up Comedy, a collection of jokes from iconic Australian comedians like as Greg Fleet, Tom Gleeson and Dave O'Neil.
In 2014, Chandler auditioned for Australia's Got Talent, but did not make it past the audition stage. This experience served as the basis of the material for his 2014 comedy hour, Karl Chandler's Got Talent.
Chandler has run many comedy rooms in Melbourne, such as Comedy at Spleen on Monday nights (previously co-run with Steele Saunders), Thursday Comedy Club on Thursday nights, and Basement Comedy Club on Saturday nights.
On 2 September 2017, Chandler married his then fiancée Diane, who he had been in a relationship with for 10 years.
He is currently working on pre-production for Phunny Phellas, a comedy program for commercial television audiences.
Stand-up shows
2014 – Karl Chandler's Got Talent
2015 – Karl Chandler - World's Greatest (and Best) Comedian
2016 – Karl Chandler Defends His Title As World's Greatest and Best Comedian
2017 – Karl Chandler: World's Best Comedian in the World
2018 – Karl Chandler's Shit List
2019 – One Man Comedy Factory
2020–21 – Please Call Me Karl, Mr. Comedy Was My Father
Television writing credits
References
1976 births
Living people
21st-century Australian comedians |
László Sinkó (18 March 1940 – 31 July 2015) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1959 and 2009.
Selected filmography
Cat City (1986)
The Conquest (1996)
1 (2009)
References
External links
1940 births
2015 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
Male actors from Budapest |
Maximilian Drum (born 19 September 1991) is a German footballer who plays as a central defender for TSV Buchbach.
Career
Drum joined SpVgg Unterhaching from 1860 Munich in 2005 and came through the youth team, making his debut in a 6–0 win in the 3. Liga against Carl Zeiss Jena in August 2011, as a substitute for Michael Stegmayer. He established himself as a regular in the first-team in the second half of the 2011–12 season. He signed for Wacker Burghausen in July 2013 along with team-mate Stephan Thee. After Burghausen were relegated to the Regionalliga Bayern at the end of the 2013–14 season, Drum left the club, joining TSV Buchbach of the same division.
External links
1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Munich
German men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
3. Liga players
SpVgg Unterhaching players
SV Wacker Burghausen players
SpVgg Unterhaching II players
TSV Buchbach players |
A dastūr, sometimes spelt dustoor, is a term for a Zoroastrian high priest who has authority in religious matters and ranks higher than a mobad or herbad. In this specific sense, the term is used mostly among the Parsis of India. The term has also been used in a secular sense to refer to a prime minister, minister or government councillor.
The first person to be accorded the title Dastur was Meherji Rana (born 1514 at Navsari). He was invited by Akbar to his court in 1578 AD. He was accorded the title in 1579 AD by the local Zoroastrian priests thus establishing a seat (Gaadi, similar to the seat of a Bhattaraka or Sankaracharya). Dastur Kaikhushru Cowasji Ravji became the eighteenth successor to the seat and title of MeherjiRana in 2019. He became a Mobed 59 years earlier.
References
Boyce, Mary (2001). Zoroastrians, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Routledge
Zoroastrian rituals
Religion in Iran
Zoroastrianism in India
Parsi people
Dastur
Persian words and phrases |
Şorsulu (also, Shorsuli, Shorsulu, and Shorsuly) is a village and municipality in the Salyan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,004.
References
Populated places in Salyan District (Azerbaijan) |
Margaret McAleer (16 February 1930 – 30 March 1999) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1974 to 1993.
The daughter of former Geraldton mayor James McAleer, Margaret was born in Perth, and educated in Geraldton and Perth before studying at the University of Melbourne, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1961 she began farming at Arrino, and was elected to Three Springs Shire Council in 1967. She became active in the Liberal Party as a member of the Rural Committee from 1968, President of the Kalgoorlie Central Division from 1970 and State Vice President in 1973.
McAleer was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1974, representing Upper West Province; she was the first non-Labor woman to win a seat in the Council. She was the Government Whip from 1980 and Opposition Whip from 1983 until her retirement in 1993, as well as Shadow Minister for Women's Interests from 1990 to 1992. McAleer died in 1999.
References
1930 births
1999 deaths
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Politicians from Perth, Western Australia
University of Melbourne alumni
Western Australian local councillors
20th-century Australian politicians
Women members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Women local councillors in Australia
20th-century Australian women politicians |
Muttaburrasaurus was a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur, which lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 112 and 103 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian clade Rhabdodontomorpha. After Kunbarrasaurus, it is Australia's most completely known dinosaur from skeletal remains. It was named after Muttaburra, the site in Queensland, Australia, where it was found.
The dinosaur was selected from twelve candidates to become the official fossil emblem of the State of Queensland.
Discovery
The species was initially described from a partial skeleton found by grazier Doug Langdon in 1963 at Rosebery Downs Station beside Thomson River near Muttaburra, in the Australian state of Queensland, which also provides the creature's generic name. The remains were collected by paleontologist Dr Alan Bartholomai and entomologist Edward Dahms. After a lengthy preparation of the fossils, it was named in 1981 by Bartholomai and Ralph Molnar, who honoured its discoverer with its specific name langdoni.
The holotype, specimen QM F6140, was found in the Mackunda Formation dating to the Albian-Cenomanian. It consists of a partial skeleton with skull and lower jaws. The underside of the skull and the back of the mandibula, numerous vertebrae, parts of the pelvis, and parts of the front and hind limbs have been preserved.
Some teeth have been discovered further north, near Hughenden, and south at Lightning Ridge, in northwestern New South Wales. At Lightning Ridge there have been found opalised teeth and a scapula that may be from a Muttaburrasaurus. A skull, known as the "Dunluce Skull", specimen QM F14921, was discovered by John Stewart-Moore and 14-year-old Robert Walker on Dunluce Station, between Hughenden and Richmond in 1987. It originates from somewhat older layers of the Allaru Mudstone and was considered by Molnar to be a separate, yet unnamed species, a Muttaburrasaurus sp. The same area produced two fragmentary skeletons in 1989. There have also been isolated teeth and bones found at Iona Station southeast of Hughenden.
Reconstructed skeleton casts of Muttaburrasaurus, sponsored by Kellogg Company, have been put on display at a number of museums, including the Queensland Museum, Flinders Discovery Centre and National Dinosaur Museum in Australia.
Description
Muttaburrasaurus was about and weighed around . The femur of the holotype has a length of .
Whether Muttaburrasaurus is capable of quadrupedal movement has been debated; it was originally thought to be an "iguanodontid"; thought recent studies indicate a rhabdodont position. Ornithopods this basal were incapable of quadrupedal movement. Originally reconstructing Muttaburrasaurus with a thumb spike, Molnar later doubted such a structure was present. The foot was long and broad, with four toes.
The skull of Muttaburrasaurus was rather flat, with a triangular cross-section when seen from above; the back of the head is broad but the snout pointed. The snout includes a strongly enlarged, hollow, upward-bulging nasal muzzle that might have been used to produce distinctive calls or for display purposes. However, as no fossilised nasal tissue has been found, this remains conjectural. This so-called bulla nasalis was shorter in the older Muttaburrasaurus sp., as is shown by the Dunluce Skull. The top section of the bulla of the holotype has not been preserved, but at least the second skull has a rounded profile.
Classification
Molnar originally assigned Muttaburrasaurus to the Iguanodontidae. Later authors suggested more basal euornithopod groups such as the Camptosauridae, Dryosauridae or Hypsilophodontidae. Studies by Andrew McDonald indicate a position in the Rhabdodontidae. A 2022 phylogenetic analysis recovered Muttaburrasaurus and Tenontosaurus as basal rhabdodontomorphs and found them to likely represent sister taxa to Rhabdodontidae.
The following cladogram was recovered by Dieudonné and colleagues in 2016:
Palaeobiology
Muttaburrasaurus had very powerful jaws equipped with shearing teeth. Whereas in more derived ornithopod species the replacement teeth alternated with the previous tooth generation to form a tooth battery, in Muttaburrasaurus they grew directly under them and only a single erupted generation was present, thus precluding a chewing motion. An additional basal trait was the lack of a primary ridge on the teeth sides, which show eleven lower ridges. In 1981 Molnar speculated that these qualities indicated an omnivorous diet, implying that Muttaburrasaurus occasionally ate carrion. In 1995 he changed his opinion, suspecting that Muttaburrasauruss dental system is evolutionarily convergent with the ceratopsian system of shearing teeth. They would have been an adaptation for eating tough vegetation such as cycads.
References
Further reading
Iguanodonts
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Australia
Paleontology in Queensland
Fossil taxa described in 1981
Taxa named by Ralph Molnar
Ornithischian genera
Albian genera
Early Cretaceous ornithopods
Ornithopods of Australia |
Manisa Celal Bayar University or (MCBU) is a public research university located in Manisa, Turkey. CBU traces its root back to 1959 as an independent sports and teachers' college in Manisa. The main campus is in Muradiye district of Manisa. The university is composed of 14 colleges, 3 schools, and 15 vocational schools. As of 2017 university offers over 70 different undergraduate and over 90 graduate programs.Physical Education and Sports College is also one of oldest in Turkey that began offering sports science and physical education programs.
It is one of the largest universities in Aegean Region with more than 55,000 student body and 1,156 faculty members. As of Fall 2017 there are 652 international students.
History
Early years
The university's roots date back to 1959, when Turkish Armed Forces founded a school named Manisa Armed Forces Physical Education and Sports School. This school then converted to a four-year college in 1975, one of the oldest of its kind in Turkey. Today it is still serving as The School of Physical Education and Sports.
In 1964 Demirci Normal School began its education in Demirci, Manisa, to train high school graduates to be teachers in various parts of Anatolia. Demirci normal school was then converted to a four-year degree offering education college where it continues to serve as The College of Education.
A unique and the only one of its kind, School Of Tobacco Expertise was established in 1975 and then relocated to Akhisar, Manisa in 1987. Today, the school is still serving as School Of Tobacco Expertise.
One of the first higher education in the city of Manisa came to life with Manisa Vocational School of Accounting which was founded in 1975. Between 1975 and 1982 its administration was under Ege University. From 1982 to 1992, with sports and education colleges, it was moved under Dokuz Eylül University administration. Today it is known as The College of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
In 1982, College of Economics and Administrative Sciences, College of Education, and School of Physical Education and Sports became Dokuz Eylül University at Manisa
Name change: Celal Bayar University
In 1992, with the merger of already established colleges, Celal Bayar university began its education. Four new colleges; College of Art and Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Medicine, School of Health Sciences; three colleges that were under Dokuz Eylül University administration; College of Economics and Administrative Sciences, College of Education, and School of Physical Education and Sports and a college that was under the administration of Ege University; School of Tobacco Expertise, and finally other vocational schools that are in and around city limits of Manisa, Celal Bayar University was formed. The university has continued adding new colleges to respond the dynamic needs of communities and students.
University is proud to carry the name Celal Bayar, who is the third president of Turkey.
In order to emphasize its location, the university asked the higher education department to add Manisa in its name. Finally, since 2016 the university became Manisa Celal Bayar University.
Timeline of name changes
The school has had several names in the past:
1959 opened as Manisa Armed Forces Physical Education and Sports School.
1964 designated Demirci Normal School in Demirci, Manisa.
1975 designated Manisa Vocational School of Accounting
1975 designated School Of Tobacco Expertise in Akhisar, Manisa
1982 designated Dokuz Eylül University at Manisa
1992 became Celal Bayar University
2016 became Manisa Celal Bayar University
Campuses
Celal Bayar University is composed of three main campuses; Muradiye, Uncubozkoy, and Downtown Manisa campuses. MCBU also has colleges and schools that are located in its different districts.
Layout
Muradiye Campus
Campus was renamed as "Şehit Prof.Dr. İlhan Varank" campus after professor Varank, who lost his life during 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. College of Art and Science, College of Engineering, College of Economic and Administrative Sciences, School of Business, and School of Applied Sciences are all located at this Campus. Varank campus has a couple of dormitories and a library as well.
Uncubozkoy Campus
Uncubozkoy Campus is located just outskirts of Mount Sipylus. The campus is home to College of Medicine, Hafsa Sultan Celal Bayar University Hospital, College of Health Sciences, and Suleyman Demirel Cultural Center.
Downtown Manisa campus
College of Sports Sciences, College of Theology, and School of Foreign Languages can be found at this location.
Demirci Campus: College of Education is located in the historical district of Demirci which is 3 hours away from the city.
Turgutlu Campus: is established in 2012 for Hasan Ferdi Turgutlu College of Technology.
Salihli Campus: is a new campus of Salihli College of Economic and Administrative Sciences.
Akhisar Campus: is home to School of Tobacco Expertise.
Manisa is only 18 miles (30 km) to third biggest city of Turkey, Izmir. Once a home for the sons of the Sultans of Ottoman Empire the historical and natural beauty of the city has always been attractive to the people.
Landmarks
The Museum of Medicine History
It was constructed for Hafsa Sultan, the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent, in 1539. It served as a hospital until the Turkish Republic was founded. It also served as an asylum after the 1850s.
It was restored from time to time during the Republican era. Later in 1994, it was left to Celal Bayar University and reopened as a Health Museum in 2013.
Mevlevihane
Mevlevihane was constructed in 1368–1369, by the architect Osmanoğlu Emetullah on an order by Sarunhanoğlu İshak Bey. During the Ottoman Empire it was restored three times, in 1664–1665, in 1681 and in 1693–1694.
In 1960, it was restored again; however, it became a ruin after a short time. It was lastly restored by Celal Bayar University in 1999–2001. Mevlevihane turned into a museum in 2005.
Organization
Ahmet Ataç became the seventh president on July 29, 2019. President Ataç has three vice presidents and three advisers.
Presidents
Academic staff
As of fall 2017, MCBU employed 1,609 academic staff, including 1,037 instructional staff (faculty).
Colleges and academic divisions
There are 14 colleges, 3 schools, and 3 graduate schools at Manisa Celal Bayar University (see the table). MCBU is also responsible of governing 15 vocational schools, which are granting associate degrees.
Graduate schools
Manisa Celal Bayar University has 3 graduate schools that are responsible for its all graduate programs. Social and natural sciences graduate schools were established in 1993 and health sciences in 1995.
Graduate School of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Natural Sciences
Graduate School of Health Sciences
Academics
Classification
Manisa Celal Bayar University is one of the largest universities in Turkey and its programs are accredited by Diploma Supplement. Students may transfer their earned credits with confidence.
Also MCBU has accreditation for its engineering programs; EUR-ACE label and its medical degrees.
Degrees conferred
MCBU offers over 70 different undergraduate programs and over 90 different graduate programs.
MCBU conferred 9,755 degrees in the 2016–2017 academic year, including 4,116 bachelor's degrees, 283 master's degrees, and 36 doctorates degrees. The remaining 5,320 were associate degrees.
Research
Manisa Celal Bayar University has 14 research centers. Some examples are; Research Institute of Atatürk's Principles, Research Institute of Local Governance, Research Institute of the Turkish Handcraft of Manisa District, Research Institute of the History and Culture of Manisa District, Research Institute of Computing, Research Institute of Environmental Problems, and Research Institute of Health.
MCBU also houses a research center called Teknokent.
Notable alumni
Alp Kırşan, actor
Bekir Pakdemirli, Minister of Agriculture and Forest
Deniz Baysal, actress
Eray Ataseven, Turkish footballer
Erhan Usta, Turkish politician, Member of Parliament for Samsun from Nationalist Movement Party
Hidayet Karaca, News presenter
Kemal Özdeş, Turkish football manager
Mert Yılmazyerli, Turkish chess player. 2021 Turkish Chess Champion.
Özge Kanbay, was a Turkish woman's footballer, and female football referee
Tevfik Lav, Turkish football manager
References
External links
School's main page
History and information
International Office
Manisa Teknokent
Universities and colleges in Turkey
Manisa
State universities and colleges in Turkey
Educational institutions established in 1992
Buildings and structures in Manisa Province
1992 establishments in Turkey |
Terry Andreas Canales is an American politician.
Canales is from Jim Wells County, Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975 and was a Democrat.
References
Living people
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in Texas
Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Jim Wells County, Texas
20th-century American politicians |
Bispebjerg Bakke is an apartment complex in the Bispebjerg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was designed by leading Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard.
History
The idea of building Bispebjerg Bakke was conceived in 1997 by Klaus Bonde Larsen, chairman of the Copenhagen Association of
Crafts, and Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard. Both sat on the Committee for the Protection of Traditional Craftsmanship (Udvalget til sikring af traditionelle håndværk), which had been appointed by the Minister of Culture and the Minister of the Environment. The idea was to demonstrate that good buildings, in terms of design, craftsmanship and materials, can compete with today’s industrialized construction industry.
The small architectural practice Boldsen & Holm, with which Nørgaard had previously collaborated on the Copenhagen waterfront, was brought in as architects. The first models were executed in clay and Nørgaard has mentioned music as a source of inspiration for the design. Due to the unusual collaboration between artist and architect, the Realdania foundation decided to support the project.
The initial ambition to prove that it was possible to construct high quality buildings with traditional craftsmen instead of contracting firms and industrial building methods had to be moderated along the way. In the end. NCC was hired and concrete sections had to be introduced.
Construction started in August 2004 and the building was completed in 2006.
Architecture
Bjørn Nørgaard was inspired by music when he made the first model of the complex which he moulded in clay. It consists of two buildings that wind like a serpent down the sloping site. The buildings are generally three to four storeys high, in places rising to eight storeys. The complex contains a total of 135 apartments.
In accord with the ethos of the project, it is generally executed in high quality materials. It is built with full-brick walls in a combination of red and yellow coal-burned bricks, a reference to the traditional apartment blocks in the Nørrebro working-class neighbourhood where red was used on the street and yellow on the courtyard side of the houses. The building has detailing in red and yellow glazed Chinese tiles on balconies and in the entrance halls leading to the staircases. Windows are made of wood and aluminium, roofs are capped with a combination of zinc or copper.
Living at Bispebjerg Bakke
Bispebjerg Bakke contains only rental apartments. Although the apartments were originally envisioned as likely to attract "Grey Gold", i.e. well-off older tenants, a large percentage of the tenants are families with young children, some of whom have built walls and made other minor temporary adjustments to their open-plan apartments in order to make them suitable for family living. The complex also includes two purpose-built playgrounds.
See also
Architecture of Denmark
References
External links
Official website
The Story of the Bispebjerg Snake (PDF)
Bispebjerg Bakke at Copenhagen X
Official website at Grontmij Carl Bro
External links
Bispebjerg
Apartment buildings in Copenhagen
Buildings and structures completed in 2006 |
Fassaroe Cross, also called St. Valery's Cross, is a high cross and National Monument located near Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Location
Fassaroe Cross is located to the west of Bray, just off the Berryfield Lane roundabout, northwest of the Bray River.
History
The cross originally stood at Ballyman (about NNW of the present site), and is believed to have been carved in the late 12th century. Other similar crosses in the Rathdown area are located at Rathmichael, Killegar and Shankill, and are collectively known as the "Fassaroe crosses"; they were probably carved by the same mason.
According to the English writer Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), who stayed with the Walker family at St. Valery in 1814–15, the cross was brought from a glen to Fassaroe, and stood originally in the center of a little paddock, round which runs the plantation. Pilgrims travelled from miles around and wore many paths down to the cross.
Description
The cross is made of granite with a band of quartz and stands high and is wide.
The west face bears a crucifixion, while the east face bears two very worn human heads, both bearded and one perhaps wearing a mitre. There are two other heads on the cross: one protruding from the south edge of the ring and another is situated on the north eastern side of the base.
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Bray, County Wicklow
National Monuments in County Wicklow
High crosses in the Republic of Ireland |
The Basingstoke, Thatcham & Newbury Observer was a group of local free newspapers for the Basingstoke and surrounding areas of north Hampshire, and the towns of Thatcham and Newbury in Berkshire, England. It was published weekly, and was available free for readers to pick up from various shops and public outlets in and around Basingstoke, Thatcham & Newbury.
The newspaper was launched as the Basingstoke Observer in association with local radio station Kestrel FM in 2000, and was owned by the Milestone Group until it was sold in a management buyout in September 2006; following several changes of ownership it ended up owned by Taylor Newspapers Ltd. In June 2015 the Observer brand was extended to titles in Newbury and Thatcham.
It was a sister publication to the Oxfordshire Guardian. The newspapers closed in May 2018.
References
in September 2018 the Basingstoke Observer relaunched and is now part of Observer Media Group.
External links
Observer Group website
Observer
Newspapers published in Hampshire
Newspapers published in Berkshire
Newspapers established in 2000 |
Coronda Peak is a peak over high, standing north of Leith Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears on a chart showing the results of surveys by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927 and 1929, and is probably after the SS Coronda whose captain was of assistance to the survey party.
References
Mountains and hills of South Georgia |
RCAF Station Virden was a Second World War, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station. It was a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) flying training station located north of Virden, Manitoba, Canada. It is now the site of Virden/R.J. (Bob) Andrew Field Regional Aerodrome.
In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed at with a Var. 14 degrees 30' E and elevation of 1446'. The runway is listed as a 3600' diameter, turf, all way field.
The station hosted No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School (19 EFTS). Flight instructors were civilian and were members of the Brandon-Virden Flying Club and the Moose Jaw Flying Club. Aircraft used include the de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fairchild Cornell. A relief (emergency) landing field was located near Lenore. No. 19 EFTS opened on May 16, 1941, and closed on December 15, 1944.
References
External links
Hangar picture of Cornell aircraft
Retrieved 2012-3-8
No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School Retrieved 2012-3-8
Royal Canadian Air Force stations
Military airbases in Manitoba
Military history of Manitoba
Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Military installations closed in 1944
Airports in Westman Region, Manitoba
Buildings and structures in Westman Region, Manitoba |
The Royal Victoria Yacht Club is located along the shores of Cadboro Bay in The Uplands a neighborhood of Oak Bay, adjacent to the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and has facilities at Tseheum Harbour in Sidney.
History
The Royal Victoria Yacht Club was formed on June 8, 1892, and moved in 1912 to its current location, at the location of the old Hudson's Bay Company cattle wharf. The Royal Victoria Yacht Club is the oldest yacht club in British Columbia.
Through the years, the club has hosted a number of regattas and sailing races, including a racing program for young sailors
References
External links
Royal Victoria Yacht Club
Royal yacht clubs
Yacht clubs in Canada |
```objective-c
#pragma once
#include <c10/util/ArrayRef.h>
#include <c10/util/DimVector.h>
#include <algorithm>
namespace c10 {
// Computes the contiguous strides of a tensor, given its sizes.
inline DimVector contiguous_strides(const IntArrayRef sizes) {
using Int = IntArrayRef::value_type;
const Int dims = static_cast<Int>(sizes.size());
// With this initialisation we get the case dim == 0 or 1 right
DimVector strides(dims, 1);
for (auto i = dims - 2; i >= 0; --i) {
// Strides can't be 0 even if sizes are 0.
strides[i] = strides[i + 1] * std::max(sizes[i + 1], Int{1});
}
return strides;
}
} // namespace c10
``` |
Odetta Sings of Many Things is an album by American folk singer Odetta, issued by RCA Victor in 1964.
Track listing
"Troubled" – 2:25
"Miss Katy Cruel" – 1:57
"Anathea" – 4:32
"Sun's Comin' Up" – 2:55
"Boy" – 3:44
"Looky Yonder" – 3:15
"Froggy Went A-Courtin'" – 2:25
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger" – 3:55
"Four Marys" – 4:35
"Paths of Victory" (Bob Dylan) – 2:25
"Sea Lion Woman" – 1:20
"Deportee" – 2:25
Personnel
Odetta – vocals, guitar
Bruce Langhorne – guitar, tambourine
Les Grinage (aka Raphael Grinage)– bass
References
1964 albums
Odetta albums
RCA Records albums |
Odostomia movilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Description
The white shell has an elongate-ovate shape. Its length is 3.6 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are deeply obliquely immersed in the first of the succeeding turns, above which only the tilted edge of the last volution projects. The five whorls of the teleoconch are feebly rounded in the middle, strongly so at the slopingly shouldered summit, and moderately contracted at the suture. The periphery is weakly angulated. The base of the shell is rather long, moderately rounded and sloping gently from the periphery to the umbilical area. The sutures are well impressed. The entire surface of the spire and base are marked by fine retractive lines of growth and numerous very fine closely spaced wavy spiral striations. The aperture is broadly oval. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is thin. The columella is slender, very strongly curved and very oblique. It is provided with a deep seated fold at its insertion. The parietal wall is covered with a thin callus.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
movilla
Gastropods described in 1909 |
Jangal is a city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran.
Jangal () may also refer to:
Jangal, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan province, Iran
Jangal Tir Ahmad, a village in Hormozgan province, Iran
Jangal, Khash, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Jangal, Qasr-e Qand, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Jangal, Rask, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Jangal-e Mukan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Jangal, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan province, Iran
Jangal District, an administrative subdivision of Razavi Khorasan province, Iran
Jangal Rural District (disambiguation), administrative subdivisions in Iran
an area of India; see History of Bikaner
Jangal (magazine), a political magazine
Jangal, Nadia, a census town in West Bengal, India
Jangal, Tajikistan, a village near Panjakent, Tajikistan |
Ulrich Ruegg Ellis (23 July 1904 – 4 December 1981) was an Australian journalist, political activist, and historian. He was known for his work in developing Canberra, his involvement with the New State Movement, and his behind-the-scenes work with the Country Party. He was the younger brother of the writer Malcolm Henry Ellis.
Early life
Ellis was born in Mount Morgan, Queensland, the youngest child of Constance Jane (née Ruegg) and Thomas James Ellis. His father was an Irish-born miner and his mother was born in England. He was raised solely by his mother from the age of three, when she and the children moved to the Brisbane suburb of Tingalpa. Ellis attended the local state school in Kelvin Grove before going on to Brisbane Grammar School. He became a cadet journalist at the age of 16.
Journalism and life in Canberra
From 1921 to 1922, Ellis worked in Melbourne as a member of a news agency serving regional newspapers. He later worked for metropolitan daily newspapers, and then in 1925 began writing for the Morning Post, the newspaper of the Victorian Country Party. Ellis moved to Canberra in 1927 as one of the first permanent press correspondents; he was one of the forerunners of the Canberra Press Gallery. He married Ray Arnot Maxwell, the daughter of federal MP George Maxwell, on 19 December 1930. Ellis was a "passionate advocate of local self-government" for Canberra and an advocate for the improvement of the capital's amenities, which were those of a small country town. He was the inaugural chairman of the Canberra Tourist Bureau from 1937 to 1940, and served on the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council, an elective office, from 1947 to 1951.
In 1936, Ellis began working for the Department of Commerce as a commercial intelligence officer. He moved to Melbourne in 1940 and joined the Department of Munitions in an administrative capacity overseeing 600 employees. In 1944, Ellis moved back to Canberra and joined the Department of Post-War Reconstruction as deputy director of public relations. He wrote a letter to The Canberra Times in April 1945 criticising Interior Minister Joe Collings, accusing him of "laugh[ing] with contempt in the face of the common principles of administrative justice" and calling him "unfit to administer his Department". He was subsequently charged under the Public Service Act and fined £2 for contravening regulations. Ellis's final public-service position was in the Department of Information from 1946 to 1947. He subsequently established a rural lobby group, the Office of Rural Research.
Politics
In 1928, Ellis was appointed private secretary to Earle Page, the leader of the Country Party. They became close friends, and Ellis shared Page's passion for the New State Movement, which advocated for the creation of new states in regional New South Wales and Queensland. In 1933, Ellis served as the publicity officer for Charles Hardy's Riverina Movement, which advocated the secession of the Riverina from the rest of New South Wales. The following year, he gave evidence before the New South Wales royal commission on new states, chaired by Judge Harold Sprent Nicholas. Ellis served on the executive of the New England New State Movement from 1948, and he and his wife moved to Armidale, New South Wales, in 1960. He campaigned for the "Yes" vote in the 1967 New England secession referendum, which failed.
In the late 1940s Ellis was an early President of the Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council, which was a representative body for Progress Associations in the ACT. Ellis was a member of the ACT Advisory Council from 1947 to 1951, but as an Independent rather than as a representative of the Council, which subsequently ran candidates for Advisory Council elections.
During the 1950s, Ellis served as "publicist, valet, chauffeur, nursemaid and baggage handler" to Arthur Fadden, the leader of the Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister. He published two histories of the Country Party: The Country Party: A Political and Social History of the Party in New South Wales (1958), and A History of the Australian Country Party (1963).
References
1904 births
1981 deaths
Australian political journalists
National Party of Australia
20th-century Australian historians
Australian Capital Territory territorial politicians
People from Mount Morgan, Queensland |
Battle of the Strait of Hormuz or battle off Hormuz may refer to:
Portuguese conquest of Ormuz (1507)
Ottoman campaign against Hormuz (1552–1554)
Battle of the Strait of Hormuz (1553)
Anglo-Persian capture of Ormuz (1622)
Battle off Hormuz (1625)
See also
Piracy in the Strait of Hormuz |
is a throw in judo. It is one of the traditional forty throws of judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current official throws of Kodokan Judo. It is classified as a hand technique, te-waza, and is the second throw performed in the Nage-no-kata. Seoi nage literally means "over the back throw", but has also been translated as a "shoulder throw", as the opponent or uke is thrown over the thrower or tori's shoulder.
Variations
Eri Seoi Nage/kata-eri-seoi-nage: tori grips the sleeve and lapel on the same side.
Illustration Kata-eri-seoi-nage/eri seoi nage
The specific techniques of morote-seoi-nage (two hands seoi-nage), or eri-seoi, are usually generalised as simply seoi-nage.
morote-seoi-nage:
The distinctive technical aspect of this classification is that tori (the one executing the technique) grips with their two hands, as opposed to Ippon Seoi Nage, in which only one hand remains gripping while the other slides under uke's (the one receiving the technique)
reverse seoi-nage:
reverse seoi-nage involves spinning up to 360 degrees so that uke ends up being thrown backwards rather than forward, as in other variations. Renowned seoi-nage martial artists are Isao Okano and Toshihiko Koga, and renowned reverse seoi-nage judoka is Choi Min-ho, who popularised the variation.
It is banned in competitions under IJF rules as uke is unable to breakfall properly.
Origin
Seoi nage is likely to have developed from the jujutsu throw empi nage in which an arm bar is used as leverage to throw uke over tori’s shoulder.
See also
Kodokan
The Canon Of Judo
Ippon Seoinage
Isao Okano
Toshihiko Koga
Notes
References
Ohlenkamp, Neil (2006) Judo Unleashed basic reference on judo. .
Further reading
External links
Information on the Techniques of Judo
Example video demonstration
Judo technique
Throw (grappling) |
The Bengal Hooch Tragedy may refer to two different but similar events:
2011 Bengal hooch tragedy
2015 Bengal hooch tragedy
In each case, a large number of people died in West Bengal after consumption of liquor mixed with methanol. |
Yolett Alessia McPhee-McCuin (born April 30, 1982) is a Bahamian-American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball team. Her team at Jacksonville University won the 2016 ASUN Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Early life and education
Yolett Alessia McPhee was born April 30, 1982, in Freeport, Bahamas. Her parents both worked at Grand Bahama Catholic High School in Freeport: Her father Gladstone "Moon" McPhee was head boys' basketball coach, and her mother Daisy McPhee was school principal.
McPhee-McCuin graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic in 2000. Although she initially signed with Florida Atlantic University out of high school, she instead attended Miami-Dade Community College from 2000 to 2002, playing at point guard on the women's basketball team. In the 2001–02 season, McPhee-McCuin earned all-state honors and averaged 9.0 points and 6.9 assists, ranking third nationally in assists per game. She graduated from Miami-Dade with a 4.0 GPA in 2002.
From 2002 to 2004, McPhee-McCuin attended the University of Rhode Island and played at point guard for the Rhode Island Rams. She averaged 3.2 points, 1.1 rebounds, and 1.8 assists. In her senior season of 2003–04, McPhee played in 29 games with 15 starts, averaging 2.7 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 2.0 assists. She graduated from Rhode Island in 2004 with a B.A. in business management and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 2007 with a master's degree in secondary school physical education.
Coaching career
Early coaching career (2004–2013)
McPhee-McCuin began her basketball coaching career as an assistant at Frank Phillips College, a junior college in Borger, Texas, in the 2004–05 season. Her first NCAA Division I coaching job was at Arkansas–Pine Bluff, as an assistant coach from 2005 to 2007.
After one year as assistant coach at the University of Portland in 2007–08, McPhee-McCuin was an assistant coach at Pittsburgh from 2008 to 2010 under Agnus Berenato. The 2008–09 Pittsburgh Panthers finished the season 25–8 and appeared in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament.
From 2010 to 2013, McPhee-McCuin was an assistant coach at Clemson under Itoro Umoh-Coleman.
Jacksonville (2013–2018)
McPhee-McCuin's first head coaching job was at Jacksonville University from 2013 to 2018. Inheriting a team with four straight losing seasons, McPhee-McCuin delivered a winning season by her third year in 2015–16, with a 22–11 record and NCAA Tournament appearance. The next two seasons, Jacksonville appeared in the 2017 and 2018 WNIT. In five seasons, McPhee-McCuin had a cumulative 94–63 record at Jacksonville.
Ole Miss (2018–present)
After firing Matt Insell in March 2018, the University of Mississippi hired McPhee-McCuin as head Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball coach on April 4, 2018. This hire followed a 12–19 season in 2017–18, including only one win in Southeastern Conference games.
Ole Miss had just 16 wins in McPhee-McCuin's first two seasons. But after a much improved 2020–21 season that had Ole Miss with a no. 42 NCAA Evaluation Tool ranking, Ole Miss extended McPhee-McCuin through the 2024–25 season on March 10, 2021. Ole Miss finished the season 15–12 and runners-up in the 2021 Women's National Invitation Tournament.
In 2021–22, Ole Miss improved even further with a 23–9 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance, the first such appearance since 2007.
Then in 2022–23, Ole Miss made a second straight NCAA Tournament. On March 19, 2023, in the second round, Ole Miss as a no. 8 seed upset no. 1 Stanford 54–49, improving to 25–8 and advancing to the Sweet 16 round for the first time since 2007.
Personal life
McPhee-McCuin is married to Kelly McCuin. They have two children.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Ole Miss Rebels Coaching bio
1982 births
Living people
Bahamian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Bahamian women's basketball players
Clemson Tigers women's basketball coaches
Jacksonville Dolphins women's basketball coaches
Junior college women's basketball coaches in the United States
Junior college women's basketball players in the United States
Miami Dade College alumni
Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball coaches
People from Freeport, Bahamas
Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball coaches
Point guards
Portland Pilots women's basketball coaches
Rhode Island Rams women's basketball players
Bahamian emigrants to the United States
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff alumni |
Fort Wright was constructed in 1861 and located on the second Chickasaw Bluff at Randolph, Tipton County, Tennessee. Fort Wright was a Civil War fortification and the first military training facility of the Confederate Army in Tennessee.
History
On January 20, 1861 the Memphis Appeal published a pro-secessionist proposal to build a fort at Randolph to defend Memphis from invaders. In a communiqué sent to LeRoy P. Walker, the first Confederate States Secretary of War, Brigadier General Gideon J. Pillow endorsed Randolph on April 26, 1861 as "the most eligible situation for a battery to protect Memphis". Within a few days, in late April of that same year, Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris ordered Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Joseph Wright to establish a camp at Randolph and complete the fortification. About 5,000 troops from Tennessee, Arkansas and the Confederate Army were stationed at the location to accomplish the task. It took four months to fortify the bluff at Randolph with earthen defenses and artillery batteries in order to protect the fort from land and naval attacks.
By June 1861, the construction of the fortification was not yet completely finished. However, 50 cannons were reported to be ready at Fort Wright by that time, "mostly thirty-two pounders; the rest larger, 42s and 64s. Thirty-two of them are mounted". The Memphis Bulletin published a status report of Fort Wright after a visit at the fortification on June 22, 1861. By that time, the "earthen breastworks have been sodded with grass" and were reported "twenty to thirty feet in thickness" (6–10 m). Only one "narrow defile on the landward side" was reported by the Bulletin which was "defended by heavy guns" and "crossed by an earthen wall thirty to forty feet in thickness" (10–12 m). A "crescent shaped wall" to the east of the fortification provided a defense from land attacks. Fort Randolph, a second Confederate stronghold in the area, was constructed only months after Fort Wright, in Fall 1861.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–77) and Alexander P. Stewart (1821–1908) trained at Fort Wright. Stewart was promoted to the rank of Major in the "Tennessee Militia" by Governor Harris and was assigned "command of the heavy artillery and water batteries (...) at Fort Wright" shortly after his own training there was completed. Stewart "organized and trained 20 batteries of Tennessee artillery" at Fort Wright at Randolph. Both Forrest and Stewart would later become important figures in the rank of Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Other future leaders in the Army of Tennessee and Forrest's cavalry received training at Fort Wright.
Fort Wright was Tennessee's first military training camp in which soldiers could gain experience in the construction of fortifications and the setup of artillery batteries to counter naval attacks. They could undertake defense drills and acquire general military skills and discipline. Soldiers who were trained at Fort Wright fought in battles on different battlefields later in the war, the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Belmont, the Battle of Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Bentonville. The Confederate stronghold at Fort Wright was the forwardmost defensive position on the Mississippi River until July 1861, it was abandoned by the Confederate infantry by 1862 but sporadically occupied by other southern forces during the Civil War.
In 2008, only a powder magazine is left of Fort Wright.
Location
Fort Wright (historical) was at coordinates .
See also
History of Randolph, Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Fort Randolph (Tennessee)
List of forts in Tennessee
Location of Fort Randolph and Fort Wright
References
Wright
Wright
Randolph, Tennessee
Buildings and structures in Tipton County, Tennessee
Tennessee in the American Civil War
1861 establishments in Tennessee |
Karen Hartman is a Senior Artist in Residence at University of Washington School of Drama in Seattle. She completed her bachelor's degree in Literature at Yale University and received Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. Hartman held the Playwright Center's McKnight Residency and Commission for a nationally recognized playwright in 2014 and 2015.
Biography
Karen grew up in San Diego, California. After graduating from Yale, she moved to New York city. She lived in Brooklyn until 2014, when she became Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington School of Drama. She is married to author and educator Todd London, and she has one son, Grisha.
Career
Karen Hartman's plays have been produced all around the United States, including in New York at the Women's Project, National Asian American Theatre Company, P73, and Summer Play Festival, and regionally at Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, the Magic, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens, Theater J, Horizon Theatre, Unicorn Theater, and elsewhere.
Hartman's essays and commentary have been published in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She is the co-founder of national program #TogetherForAbortion, which brings people together for conversations about women's reproductive rights.
Hartman's work has been supported by many foundations, including the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Helen Merrill Foundation, and Fulbright Scholarship. Also, she was granted with many awards including Daryl Roth “Creative Spirit” Award and New Dramatists Joseph A. Callaway Award. Moreover, she hold Hodder Fellowship and Jerome Fellowship. Hartman's musical book Sea Change was a finalist for O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, scored by AnnMarie Milazzo. She has been a playwright-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
Karen Hartman has four productions of three world premieres in the 2016/17 season: Roz and Ray at Victory Gardens and Seattle Repertory Theater, Book of Joseph, and Project Dawn at People's Light in Malvern, PA.
Musical books
The Magic Flute – librettist. Produced by Seattle Meany Theater
MotherBone –librettist. Produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater
Plays
Gum and The Mother of Modern Censorship –author. Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Troy Women –author. Published by Playscripts
Girl Under Grain –author. Published by NoPassport Press
Leah's Train –author. Published by Playscripts.inc
Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl (adapted from Lewis Carroll) –author. Published by Playscripts.inc
Wild Kate: A Tale of Revenge at Sea (adapted from Moby-Dick) –author. Published by Playscripts.inc
Antigone Project –co-author. Published by NoPassport Press
New America: Contemporary Literature for a Changing Society –co-author. Published by Autumn House
Roz and Ray –author. Produced by Seattle Repertory Theater(2016) and Victory Gardens(2016)
Project Dawn –author. Produced by Peoples Light
The Book of Joseph –author. Produced by Chicago Shakespeare Theater
SuperTrue –author. Produced by Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Goldie, Max and Milk –author. Produced by Florida Stage Company (2011) and The Phoenix Theater (2011)
Going Gone –author. Produced by Cincinnati Playhouse
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
21st-century American women writers |
Charles Joseph Kersten (May 26, 1902 – October 31, 1972) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kersten graduated from Marquette University College of Law, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1925 and was admitted to the bar the same year.
He commenced the practice of law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1928, serving as first assistant district attorney of Milwaukee County from 1937-1943 under District Attorney Herbert Steffes.
Kersten was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949) as the representative of Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. He was a close friend of fellow freshman Congressman Richard Nixon.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.
Kersten was elected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1955) once again representing Wisconsin's 5th district.
He served as chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. during the Eighty-third Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954, and failed in his bid for renomination in 1956, as of 2018 making him the last Republican to represent Milwaukee in the U.S. Congress. In between these campaigns Kersten briefly served in the Eisenhower administration under Nelson Rockefeller as White House consultant on psychological warfare (1955–1956).
He then resumed his law practice, remaining active in anticommunist circles until his death on October 31, 1972, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Sources
External links
Charles J. Kersten Papers
1902 births
1972 deaths
Politicians from Chicago
Politicians from Milwaukee
Marquette University Law School alumni
Wisconsin lawyers
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin
20th-century American politicians
Catholics from Illinois
Catholics from Wisconsin
20th-century American lawyers |
The Taiwanese Ambassador to Honduras is the official representative of the Republic of China to the Republic of Honduras.
History
In 1957 a legation was established in Tegucigalpa.
On May 20, 1965, the diplomatic status of the Legation was elevated to that of an embassy.
List of representatives
References
Honduras
China |
Amyoplasia is a condition characterized by a generalized lack in the newborn of muscular development and growth, with contracture and deformity that affect at least two joints. It is the most common form of arthrogryposis.
It is characterized by the four limbs being involved, and by the replacement of skeletal muscle by dense fibrous and adipose tissue. Studies involving amyoplasia have revealed similar findings of the muscle tissue due to various causes including that seen in sacral agenesis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So amyoplasia may also include an intermediate common pathway, rather than the primary cause of the contractors.
Signs and symptoms
Amyoplasia results when a fetus is unable to move sufficiently in the womb. Mothers of children with the disorder often report that their baby was abnormally still during the pregnancy. The lack of movement in utero (also known as fetal akinesia) allows extra connective tissue to form around the joints and, therefore, the joints become fixed. This extra connective tissue replaces muscle tissue, leading to weakness and giving a wasting appearance to the muscles. Additionally, due to the lack of fetal movement, the tendons that connect the muscles to bone are not able to stretch to their normal length and this contributes to the lack of joint mobility as well.
Causes
There is no single factor that is consistently found in the prenatal history of individuals affected with amyoplasia and, in some cases, there is no known cause of the disorder.
Amyoplasia is a sporadic condition that occurs due to lack of fetal movement in the womb. There is no specific gene that is known to cause the disorder. It is thought to be multifactorial, meaning that numerous genes and environmental factors play a role in its development. The recurrence risk is minimal for siblings or children of affected individuals. There have been no reports of recurrent cases of amyoplasia in a family.
The fetal akinesia in amyoplasia is thought to be caused by various maternal and fetal abnormalities. In some cases, the mother's uterus does not allow for adequate fetal movement because of a lack of amniotic fluid, known as oligohydramnios, or an abnormal shape to the uterus, called a bicornuate uterus.
There may also be a myogenic cause to the fetal akinesia, meaning that fetal muscles do not develop properly due to a muscle disease (for example, a congenital muscular dystrophy). Similarly, connective tissue tendon and skeletal defects may contribute to the fetal akinesia and be the primary cause of amyoplasia. Additionally, malformations may occur in the central nervous system and/or spinal cord that can lead to a lack of fetal movement in utero. This neurogenic cause is often accompanied by a wide range of other conditions. Other causes of fetal akinesia may include a maternal fever during pregnancy or a virus.
Diagnosis
It is the most common form of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), where multiple joint contractures are present at birth. Arthrogryposis is derived from the Greek word meaning "with crooking of joints." It occurs in about one out of every 3,000 live births. There are more than 150 types of AMC. Amyoplasia accounts for 40% of AMC cases.
Characteristic appearance
Children with amyoplasia often suffer from internally rotated shoulders, extended elbows, ulnar flexed wrists. The type of displacement of the hips and knees is more variable, and they often have club feet.
About 10% of children with amyoplasia have evidence of vascular compromise including Intestinal atresia, abdominal wall defects, and gastroschisis.
Treatment
Surgery may be necessary to address the congenital deformities frequently occurring in conjunction with arthrogryposis. Surgery on feet, knees, hips, elbows and wrists may also be useful if more range of motion is needed after therapy has achieved maximum results. In some cases, tendon transfers can improve function. Congenital deformities of the feet, hips and spine may require surgical correction at or about one year of age.
Prognosis
Overall prognosis for children with amyoplasia is good. Intensive therapies throughout developing years include physical therapy, occupational therapy and multiple orthopedic procedures. Most children require therapy for years, but almost 2/3 are eventually able to walk, with or without braces, and attend school.
References
Arthrogryposis
Congenital disorders |
The Kaunisvaara mine is a large iron mine located in northern Sweden in the village of Kaunisvaara in Norrbotten County. Kaunisvaara represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Sweden and in the world having estimated reserves of 872 million tonnes of ore grading 32.7% iron metal.
History
Ore production began late 2012, with annual iron ore production planned to reaching 12 million tonnes later, according to the owner, mining company Northland Resources. Reserves are estimated at 176 million tonnes. The mine and mining company went bankrupt in October 2014 because of low iron ore prices and high debts.
In 2017, the mine rights were sold to Kaunis Iron. The company restarted operation of the mine in 2018.
Transport
To transport the ore there was a proposal to build a broad-gauge railway connecting the mine to the Finnish rail network. When Northland got permission to use the existing iron ore harbour in Narvik, the plans changed. The current system involves transporting the iron ore by truck to Svappavaara, and then along the Malmbanan to Narvik (in Norway) to be exported by ship. In 2012, they got permission to run 90 ton trucks between the mine and the loading facility in Svappavaara. The weight limit was set as the bridge over Tärendö River can't handle more (even if a system was set up to make certain only one truck at a time used the bridge). The trucks are specially-built Scania R-series road-trains.
References
Iron mines in Sweden |
Saqqara (, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in the markaz (county) of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. Saqqara contains numerous pyramids, including the Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes referred to as the Step Tomb, and a number of mastaba tombs. Located some south of modern-day Cairo, Saqqara covers an area of around .
Saqqara contains the oldest complete stone building complex known in history, the Pyramid of Djoser, built during the Third Dynasty. Another sixteen Egyptian kings built pyramids at Saqqara, which are now in various states of preservation. High officials added private funeral monuments to this necropolis during the entire Pharaonic period. It remained an important complex for non-royal burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3000 years, well into Ptolemaic and Roman times.
North of the Saqqara site lies the Abusir pyramid complex, and to its south lies the Dahshur pyramid complex, and together with the Giza Pyramid complex to the far north comprise the Pyramid Fields of Memphis, or the Memphite Necropolis, which was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.
Some scholars believe that the name Saqqara is not derived from the ancient Egyptian funerary deity, Sokar, but from a local Berber tribe called the Beni Saqqar, despite the fact that a tribe of this name is not documented anywhere. Medieval authors also refer to the village as Ard as-Sadr ().
History
Early Dynastic
of nobles can be traced back to the First Dynasty, at the northern side of the Saqqara plateau. During this time, the royal burial ground was at Abydos. The first royal burials at Saqqara, comprising underground galleries, date to the Second Dynasty. The last Second Dynasty king, Khasekhemwy, was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir. It probably inspired the monumental enclosure wall around the Step Pyramid complex. Djoser's funerary complex, built by the royal architect Imhotep, further comprises a large number of dummy buildings and a secondary mastaba (the so-called 'Southern Tomb'). French architect and Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer spent the greater part of his life excavating and restoring Djoser's funerary complex.
Early Dynastic monuments
tomb of king Hotepsekhemwy or Raneb
tomb of king Nynetjer
Buried Pyramid, funerary complex of king Sekhemkhet
Gisr el-Mudir, funerary complex of king Khasekhemwy
Step Pyramid, funerary complex of king Djoser
Old Kingdom
Nearly all Fourth Dynasty kings chose a different location for their pyramids. During the second half of the Old Kingdom, under the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, Saqqara was again the royal burial ground. The Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids are not built wholly of massive stone blocks, but instead with a core consisting of rubble. Consequently, they are less well preserved than the world-famous pyramids built by the Fourth Dynasty kings at Giza. Unas, the last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, was the first king to adorn the chambers in his pyramid with Pyramid Texts. During the Old Kingdom, it was customary for courtiers to be buried in mastaba tombs close to the pyramid of their king. Thus, clusters of private tombs were formed in Saqqara around the pyramid complexes of Unas and Teti.
Old Kingdom monuments
Mastabat al-Fir'aun, tomb of king Shepseskaf (Dynasty Four)
Pyramid of Userkaf of the Fifth Dynasty
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
Pyramid of king Menkauhor
Mastaba of Ti
Mastaba of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum
Pyramid of Unas
Mastaba of Ptahhotep
Pyramid of Teti (Dynasty Six)
Mastaba of Mereruka
Mastaba of Kagemni
Mastaba of Akhethetep
Pyramid of Pepi I
Pyramid of Merenre
Pyramid complex of king Pepi II Neferkare
Tomb of Perneb (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York)
First Intermediate Period monuments
Pyramid of king Ibi (Dynasty Eight)
Middle Kingdom
From the Middle Kingdom onward, Memphis was no longer the capital of the country, and kings built their funerary complexes elsewhere. Few private monuments from this period have been found at Saqqara.
Second Intermediate Period monuments
Pyramid of king Khendjer (Dynasty Thirteen)
Pyramid of an unknown king
New Kingdom
During the New Kingdom, Memphis was an important administrative and military centre, being the capital after the Amaran Period. From the Eighteenth Dynasty onward, many high officials built tombs at Saqqara. While still a general, Horemheb built a large tomb here, although he later was buried as pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes. Other important tombs belong to the vizier Aperel, the vizier Neferronpet, the artist Thutmose, and the wet-nurse of Tutankhamun, Maia.
Many monuments from earlier periods were still standing, but dilapidated by this period. Prince Khaemweset, son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, made repairs to buildings at Saqqara. Among other things, he restored the Pyramid of Unas and added an inscription to its south face to commemorate the restoration. He enlarged the Serapeum, the burial site of the mummified Apis bulls, and was later buried in the catacombs. The Serapeum, containing one undisturbed interment of an Apis bull and the tomb of Khaemweset, were rediscovered by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette in 1851.
New Kingdom monuments
Several clusters of tombs of high officials, among which the tombs of Horemheb and of Maya and Merit. Reliefs and statues from these two tombs are on display in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, the Netherlands, and in the British Museum, London.
After the New Kingdom
During the periods after the New Kingdom, when several cities in the Delta served as capital of Egypt, Saqqara remained in use as a burial ground for nobles. Moreover, the area became an important destination for pilgrims to a number of cult centres. Activities sprang up around the Serapeum, and extensive underground galleries were cut into the rock as burial sites for large numbers of mummified ibises, baboons, cats, dogs, and falcons.
Monuments of the Late Period, the Graeco-Roman and later periods
Several shaft tombs of officials of the Late Period
Serapeum (the larger part dating to the Ptolemaeic Period)
The so-called 'Philosophers circle', a monument to important Greek thinkers and poets, consisting of statues of Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Plato, and others (Ptolemaeic)
Several Coptic monasteries, among which the Monastery of Apa Jeremias (Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods)
Site looting during 2011 protests
Saqqara and the surrounding areas of Abusir and Dahshur suffered damage by looters during the 2011 Egyptian protests. Store rooms were broken into, but the monuments were mostly unharmed.
Recent Discoveries
2010s
During routine excavations in 2011 at the dog catacomb in Saqqara necropolis, an excavation team led by Salima Ikram and an international team of researchers led by Paul Nicholson of Cardiff University uncovered almost eight million animal mummies at the burial site next to the sacred temple of Anubis. It is thought that the mummified animals, mostly dogs, were intended to pass on the prayers of their owners to their deities.
In July 2018, German-Egyptian researchers’ team head by Ramadan Badry Hussein of the University of Tübingen reported the discovery of an extremely rare gilded burial mask that probably dates from the Saite-Persian period in a partly damaged wooden coffin. The last time a similar mask was found was in 1939. The eyes were covered with obsidian, calcite, and black hued gemstone possibly onyx. "The finding of this mask could be called a sensation. Very few masks of precious metal have been preserved to the present day, because the tombs of most Ancient Egyptian dignitaries were looted in ancient times." said Hussein.
In September 2018, several dozen cache of mummies dating 2,000 years back were found by a team of Polish archaeologists led by Kamil Kuraszkiewicz from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw. The Polish-Egyptian expedition works under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw. Investigations were carried out for over two decades in the area to the west of the Djoser Pyramid. The most important discoveries include the tomb of vizier Merefnebef with a funerary chapel decorated with multi-colored reliefs, which was uncovered in 1997. as well as the tomb of courtier Nyankhnefertem uncovered in 2003. The expedition also explored two necropoles. Archaeologists revealed several dozen graves of noblemen from the period of the 6th Dynasty, dating to the 24th–21st century BC, and 500 graves of indigent people dating approximately to the 6th century BC – 1st century AD. Most of the bodies were poorly preserved and all organic materials, including the wooden caskets, had decayed. The tombs discovered most recently (in 2018) form part of the younger, so-called Upper Necropolis.
The research of the Polish-Egyptian expedition also focuses on the interpretation of the so-called Dry Moat, a vast trench hewn around the Djoser Pyramid. The most recent discoveries confirm the hypothesis that the Dry Moat was a model of the pharaoh's journey to the netherworld, a road the deceased ruler had to follow to attain eternal life.
In November 2018, an Egyptian archaeological mission located seven ancient Egyptian tombs at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. Three of the tombs were used for cats, some dating back to the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, while one of four other sarcophagi was unsealed. Among the dozens of cat mummies were 100 wooden and gilded statues of cats and one in bronze dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, and funerary items dating back to the 12th Dynasty. Another of the seven tombs belongs to Khufu-Imhat, the overseer of buildings in the royal palace.
Also in November 2018, a collection of rare mummified scarab beetles was unearthed in two sarcophagi, one of which was decorated with paintings of large black beetles.
Also in November 2018, the Egyptian government announced the discovery at Saqqara of a previously unknown 4,400-year-old tomb. It belongs to Wahtye, a high-ranking priest who served under King Neferirkare Kakai during the Fifth Dynasty, and his wife, four children and mother. The tomb is about long by wide and has five burial shafts and a basement. It contains more than fifty sculptures, and is painted with scenes of the family, wine and pottery making, musical performances, sailing, hunting, and furniture making.
On 13 April 2019, an expedition led by a member of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Mohamed Megahed, discovered a 4,000-year-old tomb near Egypt's Saqqara Necropolis. Archaeologists confirmed that the tomb belonged to an influential person named Khuwy, who lived in Egypt during the 5th Dynasty. "The L-shaped Khuwy tomb starts with a small corridor heading downwards into an antechamber and from there a larger chamber with painted reliefs depicting the tomb owner seated at an offerings table", reported Megahed. Some paintings maintained their brightness over a long time in the tomb. Mainly made of white limestone bricks, the tomb had a tunnel entrance generally typical for pyramids. Archaeologists say that there might be a connection between Khuwy and pharaoh because the mausoleum was found near the pyramid of Egyptian Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, who ruled during that time.
In October 2019, a cache of 30 coffins with mummies was discovered, at the time Egypt's largest in more than a century and the first cache to be discovered by a solely Egyptian mission. The coffins were stacked on top of each other and arranged in two rows about three feet below the sandy surface. The first coffin's head was partially exposed in the sand, which led to the cache's discovery. Two of the coffins belonged to children, a rare occurrence in archeology. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, explained that one could identify the mummy's gender by the shape of the hands on the coffin, open hands being female and hands balled into fists being male. The colors of the coffin inscriptions---made from limestone, red oak, turquoise, and other natural stones mixed with eggwhites—stayed intact, and the mixture of egg yolk and candle wax spread over the coffins to make them shine was still visible, making this a unique find.
2020s
On April 28, 2020, archeologists announced they had found a 30-foot-deep (9 meter) burial shaft containing five limestone sarcophagi, four wooden coffins with human mummies, and an array of other artifacts. Among them were 365 faience ushabti and a small wooden obelisk about 40 centimeters tall that had been painted with depictions of Horus, Isis and Nepthys.
In September 2020, a deep burial shaft revealed almost 30 sarcophagi that had remained completely sealed since their interment.
On 3 October 2020, Khalid el-Anany, Egypt's tourism and antiquities minister announced the discovery of at least 59 sealed sarcophagi with mummies more than 2,600 years old. Archaeologists also revealed the 20 statues of Ptah-Soker and a carved 35-centimeter tall bronze statue of god Nefertem.
On 19 October 2020, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of gilded, wooden statues and more than 80 coffins in three burial shafts. Officials believed the coffins contain senior officials and priests from the 26th Dynasty.
In November 2020, archaeologists unearthed more than 100 delicately painted wooden coffins dating to the 26th Dynasty and 40 statues of the local goddess Ptah Soker. Other artifacts discovered include funeral masks, canopic jars and 1,000 ceramic amulets. “This discovery is very important because it proves that Saqqara was the main burial of the 26th Dynasty,” said Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist and Egypt's former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs.
In January 2021, the tourism and antiquities ministry announced the discovery of more than 50 wooden sarcophagi in 52 burial shafts which date back to the New Kingdom period, each around 30 to 40 feet deep, and a 13 ft-long papyrus that contains texts from Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead. The papyrus scroll belonged to a man named Bu-Khaa-Af, whose name is written on it, on his sarcophagus, and on four ushabtis. Excerpts from the Book of the Dead were also painted onto the surface of other coffins. Also found in the shafts were wooden funerary masks, board games, a shrine dedicated to god of the dead Anubis, bird-shaped artifacts and a bronze axe. A limestone stelae dated to the reign of Ramesses II was found in one of the shafts, depicting the overseer of the king's military chariot Kha-Ptah and his wife Mwt-em-wia worshipping Osiris and sitting with six of their children.
Also in January 2021, a team of archaeologists led by Zahi Hawass found the funerary temple of Naert or Narat and three warehouses made of bricks attached to the southeastern side for storage of temple provisions, offerings and tools. Researchers also revealed that Narat's name was engraved on a fallen obelisk near the main entrance. Previously unknown to researchers, Naert was a wife of Teti, the first king of the sixth dynasty.
In November 2021, archeologists from Cairo University discovered several tombs, including that of Batah-M-Woya, chief treasurer during the reign of Ramesses II, and of a military leader named Hor Mohib.
In March 2022, five 4000-year-old tombs belonging to senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediary Period were discovered. On 30 May 2022, 250 sarcophagi and 150 statuettes were displayed at Saqqara, dated back to the Late Period more than 2,500 years ago, in addition to a 9-meter-long papyrus scroll which could be a depiction of a chapter of the Book of the Dead.
In May 2022, the discovery of the nearly 4,300-year-old tomb of an ancient Egyptian high-ranked person who handled royal, sealed documents of pharaoh was announced. According to University of Warsaw’s Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, the elaborately decorated tomb belonged to a man named Mehtjetju who served as a priest and an inspector of the royal property. Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, expedition director stated that Mehtjetju most likely lived at about the same time, at some point during the reigns of the first three rulers of the Sixth Dynasty: Teti, Userkare and Pepy I.
In January 2023, Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of four tombs at Saqqara including a 4,300-year-old mummy to a man named Hekashepes covered with gold, in addition to finds date back to the 5th and 6th dynasties, such as a priest inspector named Khnumdjedef, secret keeper called Meri and a judge and writer named Fetek.
See also
Bubasteum
List of Egyptian pyramids
Saqqara Bird
Saqqara Tablet
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, 2020 documentary
References
External links
Information on Saqqara
Saqqara.nl (Friends of Saqqara Foundation)
Discoveries on the site from February 2007
University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations at Saqqara
Saqqara Information - Historvius
Giza Governorate
Memphis, Egypt
Tourist attractions in Egypt |
The Governor General's Award for French-language children's writing is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a children's book written in French. It is one of four children's book awards among the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, one each for writers and illustrators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council.
In name, this award is part of the Governor General's Award program only from 1987 but the four children's literature awards were established in 1975 under a Canada Council name. In the event, the "Canada Council" and "Governor General's" awards have recognized writing in a French-language children's book every year from 1975.
Canada Council Children's Literature Prize
In 1975 the Canada Council established four annual prizes of $5000 for the year's best English- and French-language children's books by Canadian writers and illustrators. Those "Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes" were continued under the "Governor General's Awards" rubric from 1987, and continue today. Among them the French-language writing prize was awarded every year from 1975.
1975: Louise Aylwin, Raminagradu: Histoires ordinaires pour enfants extraordinaire
1976: Bernadette Renaud, Emilie, la baignoire à pattes
1977: Denise Houle, Lune de neige
1978: Ginette Anfousse, La chicane
1979: Gabrielle Roy, Courte-Queue, ill. François Olivier;
English translation, Cliptail (McClelland & Stewart, 1980, )
1980: , Hébert Luée
1981: Suzanne Martel, Nos amis robots;
English translation, Robot Alert (Kids Can Press, 1982, )
1982: Ginette Anfousse, Fabien 1: Un loup pour Rose and Fabien 2: Une nuit au pays des malices
1983: , Hockeyeurs Cybernétiques
1984: Daniel Sernine, Le cercle violet
1985: , Casse-tête chinois
1986: , Le derneir des raisins
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration
Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration
References
Canadian children's literary awards
French
Awards established in 1987
1987 establishments in Canada
Children
French-language literary awards |
Lemonstown Motte is a motte and National Monument located in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Location
Lemonstown Motte is located halfway between Dunlavin and Hollywood. The Toor Brook flows to the east.
History
The motte was built in the Norman period, i.e. the 12th or 13th century AD.
Description
Lemonstown Motte is round, in diameter, with an entrance to the north.
Gallery
See also
List of National Monuments in County Wicklow
References
Archaeological sites in County Wicklow
National Monuments in County Wicklow |
The Lacave Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in France
References
Cretaceous France |
General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport (, ), also known as Tampico International Airport () formerly , is an international airport located at Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is named after General Francisco Javier Mina, a leader in Mexico's War of Independence. It handles national and international air traffic of the metropolitan area of Tampico, Ciudad Madero and Altamira.
It handled 270,835 passengers in 2020, and 397,191 passengers in 2021.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Passengers
Busiest routes
Gallery
See also
List of the busiest airports in Mexico
References
External links
Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte de México
Aeropuerto de Tampico
Airports in Tamaulipas
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces |
The Karen national football team represents the Karen people, an ethnic group in Kayin State, Myanmar. They are not affiliated with FIFA and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup. Instead, they are part of ConIFA and can compete in their competitions.
History
Karen joined ConIFA in 2019.
References
Asian national and official selection-teams not affiliated to FIFA
CONIFA member associations
North American national and official selection-teams not affiliated to FIFA |
John McBeth (born 31 May 1944) is an author and journalist from New Zealand, with the majority of his career spent in Southeast Asia.
Early life and career
McBeth is the son of Sandy McBeth, a Taranaki dairy farmer, and Isla Dickinson, and was born in Whanganui, New Zealand. He attended New Plymouth Boys' High School. McBeth commenced work at the Taranaki Herald on 8 February 1962 and moved to the Auckland Star in late 1965.
Move to Southeast Asia
McBeth left New Zealand around 1970 and headed for Fleet Street in London, but never made it there. The cargo vessel that he was aboard ran aground during its night-time entry into Tanjung Priok Harbour in Indonesia so he spent time in Jakarta before travelling to Singapore and on to Bangkok.
Work at the Bangkok Post and in Thailand
McBeth started employment at the Bangkok Post shortly after arriving in Thailand. He covered stories relating to the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia and the Indochinese refugee crisis and appeared briefly as an extra in Michael Cimino's film The Deer Hunter (1978). McBeth also worked as a freelance reporter in Thailand for Agence France-Presse, United Press International (UPI), London's Daily Telegraph and spent three years writing for Hong Kong's Asiaweek.
In 1972, during the Vietnam War, McBeth reported that US Airforce B-52 aircraft were being disproportionately brought down in bombing raids because they were flying at low altitudes and on predictable routes in and out of Hanoi.
In December 1972, four Black September Arab guerillas took over the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok. Six Israeli hostages were taken but released after a 19-hour drama that ended when Supreme Command Chief of Staff Air Chief Marshall Dawee Chullasapya and Deputy Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan took the places of the hostages. They flew with the terrorists to Egypt. During the siege, McBeth spoke to one of the hostage takers on the telephone. In hindsight, he was of the view that the conversation revealed what was finally to break the siege: the terrorists expressed remorse that, unknown to them, they had made their move on the auspicious day marking the investiture of Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, King Bhumibol Adulyadej's son.
In 1975–76, McBeth reported on the wave of refugees that washed across Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, the Thai fishermen/pirates who raped and murdered Vietnamese boat people, and the Thai soldiers who forced Cambodian refugees back into a Khmer Rouge minefield instead of allowing them to enter Thailand. He was one of the few journalists who detected early on the horrifying extent of the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields purges, though this was initially met with incredulity by other correspondents.
Career at the Far Eastern Economic Review
In May 1979, McBeth joined the staff of the Far Eastern Economic Review;. In his five years there, he saw five coups in Thailand, including the aborted one that killed his close friend, the Australian cameraman, Neil Davis, in September 1985.
McBeth then went to head the Review's South Korean bureau. In his three years in Seoul, he focused on the country's transformation from an authoritarian to a fledgling democratic state. He reported on the arrest and trial of the North Korean spy Kim Hyon-hui, who helped bring down Korean Air Flight 858 over the Gulf of Martaban in November 1987, later became a Christian, and married her South Korean bodyguard; and the spectacular 1988 Seoul Olympics.
McBeth, together with Nayan Chanda and Shada Islam, revealed in the Review North Korea's efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. American and South Korean officials feared that North Korea was building a reprocessing plant next to a 30 mW nuclear reactor north of Pyongyang. They broke the story in the Review after it was leaked by the Australian Ambassador to South Korea, Richard Broinowski, who had seen American satellite photographs of the Yongbyon site.
McBeth also worked in the Review's offices in Manila in the Philippines, and in Jakarta, Indonesia, where, among other things, he wrote about feuding Filipino warlords and the fall of President Suharto. In Manila, in 1989, he wrote a series of articles in the Review analysing the reasons for the Philippines' continuing economic malaise at a time when other countries in the region were beginning to prosper. In the 1990s, McBeth became the Review's bureau chief in Jakarta. He chronicled growing tensions between President Suharto and some of Indonesia's top politicians, and increasing social disturbances, including anti-Chinese riots and troubles in West Kalimantan, which preceded Suharto's resignation and the succession of B. J. Habibie in 1998. In a series of articles in the Review in 2002, McBeth analysed the investigation into the Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
Books
McBeth's 2011 book, Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia, describes many of his stories. His 2016 book, The Loner: President Yudhoyono's Decade of Trial and Indecision, provides a review of the decade that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spent in power.
Recent work
McBeth wrote for Singapore's The Straits Times from the end of 2004 until early 2015, specializing in Indonesian affairs. His work has also appeared in The National (Abu Dhabi), the Nikkei Asian Review, the South China Morning Post and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's official blog The Strategist. He currently writes for the Asia Times.
Personal life
McBeth lives in Bali and Jakarta with his wife, an Indonesian journalist named . Ismartono is the mother of CNN correspondent Atika Shubert.
References
Sources
Living people
1944 births
New Zealand journalists
New Zealand amputees
New Zealand expatriates in Indonesia |
Willowbrook High School (WBHS) is a public four-year high school in Villa Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The school is located approximately half a mile north of Illinois Route 38 on Ardmore Ave. It is a part of the DuPage High School District 88, which also includes Addison Trail High School. Willowbrook draws its students from Villa Park, Oakbrook Terrace, and portions of Elmhurst, Oak Brook and Lombard.
History
Planning for the school began as early as 1950 when projected growth for the area suggested that a new high school would soon be needed. In January, 1958, the school board not only decided that the new school was to be called Willowbrook (referring to a nearby creek running through a stand of weeping willow trees), but that the school would be prepared to admit students in all four grades once the school opened in 1959.
When the school opened, the principal drafted a group of upperclassmen to help shape the schools traditions (colors, team nickname, student council constitution, etc.). Until the middle of the 1969-1970 school year, students were required to follow a dress code which prohibited (among other things) jeans for all students and long hair for young men.
In 1961, a bust of what was alleged to be Thomas Jefferson but has since been determined to be German Composer, Franz Joseph Hayden was added to the southeast wall of the school's music wing. The bust had been recovered from the demolition of the Louis Sullivan designed Garrick Theater in Chicago by relatives of a (then) current student who were contractors in the theater's demolition.
In 1963, a north wing was added, including district offices located on the first floor portion of the wing.
In the 1980s, improved vocational education areas were added, as was a greenhouse, and expansion of the library.
In 2007, a referendum was passed to make infrastructure improvements and help improve the students' learning environment. Groundbreaking began the week of June 9, 2008 and continued year-round. Some holidays were ignored in order to allow construction to be continue longer during summer recesses. Such improvements included the expansion of music facilities, addition of a fieldhouse and other athletic areas, enhancements to existing science labs, mass improvement to electrical/plumbing, technological enhancements, a more student-centered foyer/commons and guidance areas, renovation to the library/media center, expansion of learning spaces and classrooms, installation of air-conditioning, enhancement to traffic flow and parking, the updating of handicap accessibility, and funds put toward the improvement of the auditorium/drama facilities.
In 2008, the district offices were relocated from the first floor of the north wing to the building previously used by the Addison Public Library.
In 2010, referendum totals came out to be $115.3 million among Willowbrook and sister school Addison Trail High School. After completion of "Building the Future" in the Fall of 2010, dedication ceremonies were held at Willowbrook and Addison Trail on October 17, 2010.
Academics
In 2008, Willowbrook had an average composite ACT score of 21.6 and graduated 94.2% of its senior class. Willowbrook made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, which with the ACT, are used as the assessment tools to fulfill the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
In June 2009, Newsweek, using the Challenge Index, ranked Willowbrook #1464 on their annual list of top American high schools. The school had been on the list once before; ranked #1343 in 2008.
Student life
Athletics
Willowbrook competes in the West Suburban Conference. The school is also a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), which governs most interscholastic sports and competitive activities. Teams from the school are stylized as the "Warriors" (in the tradition of a mj≠Roman soldier).
The school sponsors interscholastic athletic teams for young men and women in: basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. Young men may also compete in baseball, football, and wrestling, while young women may compete in badminton, bowling, cheerleading, and softball. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors a poms team, as well as a basketball, volleyball, and track and field team which competes in the Special Olympics.
The following teams have finished in the top four of their respective IHSA sponsored state tournaments or meets:
Badminton: 4th place (1999—2000, 2005—06); 3rd place (1994—95, 2002—03); 2nd place (1985—86, 1995—96, 1996—97); State Champions (1997—98, 1998—99)
Baseball: Regional (1962—63, 1972—73, 2011—12, 2016—17, 2017-2018); Sectional (1972—73); State Final Qualifier, Semifinals (1973)
Basketball (boys): Regional (1962—63, 1969—70, 2003—04, 2017—18)
Cross Country (boys): 2nd place (1978—79)
Football: quarterfinals (1990-1991, 2016—17, 2017—18, 2018—19); semifinals (1974—75, 1975—76, 2019—20)
Gymnastics (boys): 4th place (1959—60, 1964—65, 2014—15); 2nd place (1961—62, 1965—66); State Champions (1963—64)
Theatre
Theatre at Willowbrook High School is one of the largest student organizations at the school, with over 200 students involved across three yearly productions, performing in the historic Doris E. White Auditorium. Students run every facet of the program under the guidance of several tech and acting directors. Opportunities for students include acting, instrumental performance, and the following technical crews: Sound/Projection Crew, Lights Crew, Props Crew, Construction Crew, Paint Crew, Costumes Crew, and Student Leadership. Since entering the Illinois High School Association Drama & Group Interpretation competition in 2014, the Willowbrook High School Theatre contest play has received the following accolades:
Sectional Runner Up (2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18)
2nd Place State Drama Production (2021–22)
3rd Place State Drama Production (2013-2014, 2016–17)
5th Place State Drama Production (2020–21)
All-State 1st Place Technical Performance Midsize set (2021–22)
All-State Technical Award (2017–18)
Music
The Willowbrook High School music department hosts several levels of auditioned curricular ensembles: three choral ensembles, three concert bands, and two string orchestras; as well as an extracurricular show choir, dubbed "Center Stage", rock band, marching band, and two levels of auditioned jazz ensembles. Music at Willowbrook has always been distinguished, yet there has been a recent uptick in musical accolades for the department.
Under the direction of Mr. John Clemons, bands at Willowbrook High School have received the following accolades:
Jazz I:
Illinois State University Jazz Festival: Division III 2nd place (2017), Division III Champions (2018, 2019)
Chicago Area Jazz Festival: "Outstanding Jazz Performance" (2019)
Jazz II:
Illinois State University Jazz Festival: Division II 3nd place (2017), Division II 2nd place (2018), Division II Champions (2019)
Chicago Area Jazz Festival: "Outstanding Jazz Performance" (2019)
Wind Ensemble:
Midwest Music Festival: 3rd place (2019), Esprit de Corps Award (2019)
Under the direction of Mrs. Karyn Wolcott, the Willowbrook High School Concert Choir has earned the following honors:
Featured IMEC Choral Division Choir (2010, 2018)
Math Team
Willowbrook used to compete in the North Suburban Math League (NSML), however since the founding of the West Suburban Math League (WSML), it has opted to compete only in the WSML, the West Suburban Gold math league, and the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) math league. The team has four coaches and is open to grades 9-12, utilizing both group teams as well as individual competitors. In recent years, the team has earned a plethora of individual awards as well as the following group titles:
WSG Conference: Champions (2017)
ICTM Regionals: 2nd place (2016, 2018, 2019), Champions (2017)
WSML Conference Orals: Champions (2019)
The Rock
The Rock is a tradition in Willowbrook High School. It was dug up when the new Doris E. White auditorium was built in the 1960s. It was then positioned outside the main athletic doors of the high school. Students usually paint it at night with various slogans or colors to celebrate accomplishments or mark special occasions.
Notable alumni
Hawk Wolinski (class of 1966) American keyboardist, songwriter and record producer.
Tino Insana (class of 1966) was an American actor, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian.
Steve Beshekas (class of 1966) member of the comedy group the West Compass Players along with Tino Insana and John Belushi. Beshekas ran the Sneak Joint in Old Town during the filming of The Blues Brothers. He later opened another Old Town establishment, U.S. Blues Bar.
Tom Hicks was an NFL linebacker (1976—80), playing his entire career for the Chicago Bears.
Rick Nishimura (class of 1971) is the Judd and Mary Morris Leighton Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His subspecialty interests include valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pericardial disease.
Mike Rowland, major league baseball pitcher, San Francisco Giants, 1981-1982
Dan Schatzeder (class of 1972), major league baseball pitcher, and World Series game winner with the Minnesota Twins.
Robert Falls (class of 1972) is the Artistic Director for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago (1986—present). He won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, for his direction of Death of a Salesman.
Drew Peterson (class of 1972) is a former Bolingbrook police sergeant and notable murderer.
Bruce Hajek (class of 1973), head of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rick Santelli, (Class of 1974) is an on-air editor/reporter for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products. He is credited with being a catalyst of the Tea Party movement via a statement he made on February 19, 2009.
Thomas Domin (class of 1976) member Notre Dame Football, National Champions 1977
Catherine Cook (class of 1980) Frederica Von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice (San Francisco Conservatory of Music) San Francisco Opera
Jeffrey Carter (class of 1980) founder of Hyde Park Angels, Chicago
Virginia Boyd (class of 1980) initial Chief Operating Officer, Intuit
Michael Spehn (class of 1980) scriptwriter and co-author of book The Color of Rain, made for television movie The Color of Rain, Hallmark Channel
Jocelyn (Patterson) Seng (class of 1980) 2 star general, US Air Force
Patrick Baldwin Jr. (class of 1981) Director of Crime Analysis for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Analytical Section-ANSEC
Mike Sheldon (class of 1991) was an NFL offensive lineman (1997—99) for the Miami Dolphins.
Jody Gerut is a former Major League Baseball outfielder (2003—2010) who played for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Daniel Castady (class of 1997) is the former drummer for the rock band Showoff and vocalist for The Fold.
Tom Higgenson (class of 1997) is the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated band, Plain White T's.
Graham Jordan (class of 1997) is the former guitarist for the rock band Showoff
Dave Tirio (class of 1997) is the guitarist for the Grammy-nominated band, Plain White T's.
Athena Aktipis (class of 1998), professor of psychology at the Arizona State University and previous cofounder and codirector of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California, San Francisco
Steve Mast (class of 2000) is the former guitarist of the Plain White T's
Matt Roth (class of 2001) is an NFL defensive end (2005—2011), having played for the Miami Dolphins after college until 2009 when he was traded to the Cleveland Browns. Before the 2011-2012 season, he was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1959
Public high schools in Illinois
Schools in DuPage County, Illinois
Villa Park, Illinois
1959 establishments in Illinois |
Apipoo Suntornpanavej (, born 18 July 1986), simply known as Bas (), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Suntornpanavej played for Osotsapa in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stages, scoring four goals.
International career
He played for the Thailand national under-23 football team at the Southeast Asian Games 2007 and 2009. He also represented Thailand's full national team in 2014 World Cup qualifying, playing 35 minutes in Thailand's group-stage match against Saudi Arabia.
He scored a header against Myanmar in the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup.
International goals
Scores and results list Thailand's goal tally first.
Honours
Club
Songkhla
Thai League 3 Southern Region: 2022–23
International
Thailand U-23
Sea Games Gold Medal (1): 2007
References
External links
Apipoo Suntornpanavech profile at PTT Rayong website
1986 births
Living people
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Men's association football midfielders
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
SEA Games medalists in football
Apipoo Suntornpanavej
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games |
Matthew DeLisi (born March 28, 2000), better known as super or supertf, is a former professional Overwatch player from the United States. He competed in the Overwatch League (OWL) as a member of the San Francisco Shock. Prior to his time in OWL, DeLisi played for teams such as Bird Noises, Hammer Esports, and Luminosity Gaming Evil (LGE).
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, DeLisi began his Overwatch career with Bird Noises and later joined Hammer Esports, which was then acquired by LGE. In late 2017, he signed with the San Francisco Shock in preparation for the inaugural OWL season in 2018. Being underage initially, DeLisi made his professional debut in April 2018. Throughout his tenure with the Shock, DeLisi achieved numerous accolades, including being a two-time OWL All-Star, an OWL Role Star, an OWL MVP finalist, and a winner of three midseason tournament titles. He also secured two OWL championships in 2019 and 2020, as well as won the 2019 Overwatch World Cup as part of Team USA. DeLisi announced his retirement on March 27, 2022.
DeLisi's prominence extended beyond his gameplay, as he made two appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for interviews about the Overwatch League.
Early life
DeLisi was born on March 28, 2000, and was raised in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Professional career
Early career
DeLisi's esports journey began in Team Fortress 2 as a member of Bird Noises. However, the team transitioned to Overwatch shortly after his arrival, where he specialized in playing as the tank hero Reinhardt. In January 2017, Bird Noises was acquired by Hammer Esports, which, six weeks later, merged with Luminosity Gaming to form Luminosity Gaming Evil (LGE). During his time with LGE from January to August, the team achieved notable successes, including winning the CyberPowerPC 2017 Extreme Gaming Series minor, securing second place in the Overwatch Carbon Series major, and qualifying for Overwatch Contenders 2017 Season Zero. LGE disbanded in August 2017 as many players, including DeLisi, were expected to sign with teams in the upcoming Overwatch League (OWL).
San Francisco Shock
DeLisi joined the San Francisco Shock, the Overwatch League team of NRG Esports based in San Francisco, on September 28, 2017. However, due to age restrictions, DeLisi was unable to compete until March 2018. His Overwatch League debut took place on April 5, 2018, when the San Francisco Shock achieved a 3–1 victory over the Los Angeles Gladiators. With the eligibility of DeLisi and his teammate Jay "sinatraa" Won, the San Francisco Shock experienced an upturn in their performance during the second half of the season, achieving a 11–9 record during that time.
During the initial stages of the 2019 season, the prevailing OWL meta involved a team composition of three tanks and three supports. DeLisi, specializing in playing Reinhardt, showcased exceptional skill in this meta and held the record for the fewest deaths among OWL players at various points throughout the season. The San Francisco Shock, as a team, achieved significant milestones by winning the Stage 2 playoffs and finishing as runners-up in the Stage 1 and Stage 3 playoffs. However, the introduction of a 2-2-2 role lock in Stage 4 altered the team composition meta, leading to DeLisi being benched for the majority of the remainder of the season. DeLisi made a notable appearance in the playoffs, helping the Shock secure victory against the London Spitfire. The Shock ultimately triumphed over the Vancouver Titans in the Grand Finals. DeLisi's performance during the 2019 season earned him several accolades. He was selected as a 2019 All-Star and recognized with a Tank Role Star commendation, which was voted on by OWL general managers, coaches, broadcast talent, and the media. Additionally, DeLisi was a finalist for the 2019 Overwatch League Most Valuable Player award.
DeLisi faced limited playing time at the start of the 2020 season due to the prevailing use of Orisa and Winston as the primary tank choices in the league. However, he made a significant impact when given the opportunity. The San Francisco Shock reached the finals of the May Melee tournament, where they emerged victorious against the Florida Mayhem, with DeLisi showcasing an aggressive playstyle on various maps. As the meta shifted in the Countdown Cup qualifiers, Genji became a popular damage character. Since the Shock did not have a dedicated Genji player on their roster, DeLisi filled the role in a win against the Boston Uprising. The Shock went on to win the Countdown Cup finals against the Philadelphia Fusion, with DeLisi occasionally subbing in as the team's main tank. Despite his limited playing time, DeLisi's was selected to participate in the North America All-Star Game for the second consecutive season. In the playoffs, the meta shifted again, with Roadhog becoming a prominent tank choice. DeLisi was substituted back into the starting roster, primarily playing as Roadhog throughout the playoffs. The Shock secured their spot in the Grand Finals bracket as the top seed from North America. After defeating the Shanghai Dragons in the upper bracket finals, they faced the Seoul Dynasty in the Grand Finals. DeLisi played a crucial role as Roadhog in the finals, helping the Shock defeat Seoul and secure their second Overwatch League championship.
DeLisi made the decision to retire from professional Overwatch on March 27, 2022, just a month before the start of the 2022 season. He cited the emotional and mental strain caused by the preparation for the upcoming season as the reason for his departure.
National team career
DeLisi represented Team USA in the 2019 Overwatch World Cup (OWWC). Throughout the event, he played as Orisa, a hero he had rarely used in the Overwatch League. Team USA progressed beyond the group stages and faced three-time reigning champions Team South Korea in the semifinals. In a 3–1 victory, they defeated Team South Korea and advanced to the finals against Team China. Team USA dominated the finals with a 3–0 sweep, securing their first OWWC title. This achievement made DeLisi one of four players to win both OWL and OWWC titles.
Esports ambassador
After winning their first Overwatch League OWL title, DeLisi and teammate Jay "Sinatraa" Won made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October 2019, making them the second and third esports professionals to be featured on the show. Throughout the third season of the Overwatch League, DeLisi emerged as a de facto representative of the league, consistently appearing in OWL interviews and amassing a dedicated fanbase. In October 2020, following the Shock's second OWL championship victory, DeLisi returned to The Tonight Show for a second appearance.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Career statistics and player information from the Overwatch League.
2000 births
American esports players
Living people
People from Philadelphia
Luminosity Gaming players
San Francisco Shock players |
Workism is the belief that employment is not only necessary for economic production but is also the centrepiece of one's identity and life purpose. The term was coined by American journalist Derek Thompson, in a 2019 article for The Atlantic magazine.
See also
Protestant work ethic
Notes
References
Work
Philosophical terminology
2019 neologisms |
```php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
namespace Brick\Math;
/**
* Specifies a rounding behavior for numerical operations capable of discarding precision.
*
* Each rounding mode indicates how the least significant returned digit of a rounded result
* is to be calculated. If fewer digits are returned than the digits needed to represent the
* exact numerical result, the discarded digits will be referred to as the discarded fraction
* regardless the digits' contribution to the value of the number. In other words, considered
* as a numerical value, the discarded fraction could have an absolute value greater than one.
*/
final class RoundingMode
{
/**
* Private constructor. This class is not instantiable.
*
* @codeCoverageIgnore
*/
private function __construct()
{
}
/**
* Asserts that the requested operation has an exact result, hence no rounding is necessary.
*
* If this rounding mode is specified on an operation that yields a result that
* cannot be represented at the requested scale, a RoundingNecessaryException is thrown.
*/
public const UNNECESSARY = 0;
/**
* Rounds away from zero.
*
* Always increments the digit prior to a nonzero discarded fraction.
* Note that this rounding mode never decreases the magnitude of the calculated value.
*/
public const UP = 1;
/**
* Rounds towards zero.
*
* Never increments the digit prior to a discarded fraction (i.e., truncates).
* Note that this rounding mode never increases the magnitude of the calculated value.
*/
public const DOWN = 2;
/**
* Rounds towards positive infinity.
*
* If the result is positive, behaves as for UP; if negative, behaves as for DOWN.
* Note that this rounding mode never decreases the calculated value.
*/
public const CEILING = 3;
/**
* Rounds towards negative infinity.
*
* If the result is positive, behave as for DOWN; if negative, behave as for UP.
* Note that this rounding mode never increases the calculated value.
*/
public const FLOOR = 4;
/**
* Rounds towards "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case round up.
*
* Behaves as for UP if the discarded fraction is >= 0.5; otherwise, behaves as for DOWN.
* Note that this is the rounding mode commonly taught at school.
*/
public const HALF_UP = 5;
/**
* Rounds towards "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case round down.
*
* Behaves as for UP if the discarded fraction is > 0.5; otherwise, behaves as for DOWN.
*/
public const HALF_DOWN = 6;
/**
* Rounds towards "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case round towards positive infinity.
*
* If the result is positive, behaves as for HALF_UP; if negative, behaves as for HALF_DOWN.
*/
public const HALF_CEILING = 7;
/**
* Rounds towards "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case round towards negative infinity.
*
* If the result is positive, behaves as for HALF_DOWN; if negative, behaves as for HALF_UP.
*/
public const HALF_FLOOR = 8;
/**
* Rounds towards the "nearest neighbor" unless both neighbors are equidistant, in which case rounds towards the even neighbor.
*
* Behaves as for HALF_UP if the digit to the left of the discarded fraction is odd;
* behaves as for HALF_DOWN if it's even.
*
* Note that this is the rounding mode that statistically minimizes
* cumulative error when applied repeatedly over a sequence of calculations.
* It is sometimes known as "Banker's rounding", and is chiefly used in the USA.
*/
public const HALF_EVEN = 9;
}
``` |
Daouda Badarou (born 7 January 1929) is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1968 to 1969 and again from 1970 to 1971.
References
1929 births
Living people
Foreign ministers of Benin
20th-century Beninese politicians |
A special election was held in on October 10, 1797 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George Ege (F).
See also
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References
Pennsylvania 1797 05
Pennsylvania 1797 05
1797 05
Pennsylvania 05
United States House of Representatives 05
United States House of Representatives 1797 05 |
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters is a work of juvenile fiction. It is an anthology of short stories compiled and edited by Bruce Coville for Avon Camelot Books. It was first printed October 1999. Steve Roman is credited in the book as assisting in its creation. Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors and Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds are in the same series. These books are similar to Coville's anthologies for Scholastic Publishing, starting with Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters. Both series include stories by award-winning fantasy and science-fiction authors such as Jane Yolen and Ray Bradbury, as well as other supernatural and extraterrestrial stories from a broad range of other writers.
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters includes fourteen stories about humans or other beings shapeshifting into animals, mythical creatures, and inanimate objects, as well as Bruce Coville's introduction What shape are your dreams?
Illustrations
The book includes fourteen black-and-white illustrations by Ernie Colon and John Nyberg. The cover of one Avon Camelot paperback printing, possibly the first, is by Ernie Colon. That cover features an alien/robot/human from surrounded by reptilian worms and silhouetted by an orange sky. It resembles comic book art rather than realistic art.
Stories
"Homeward Bound," by Bruce Coville, is about a boy transforming into a unicorn and the following life and death struggle that ultimately results in an uplifting ending with an even more celestial transformation. Originally published in The Unicorn Treasury.
"I was a Best-selling Teenage Werewolf," by Lawrence Watt-Evans, is a comedic, satirical piece.
"Myself," by Mark Garland, is a suspenseful science-fiction piece.
"Frog Princes," by Janni Lee Simmer, is a lightly comedic fairy tale spoof about a young girl and a frog that turns into a prince.
"Tricky Coyote," by Susan J. Kroupa, is about a Hopi boy who must come to terms with his tough life at school as well as with his newfound power that comes from having the coyote as his animal guide.
"Swan Sister," by Anne Mazer, is a fairy tale about a young woman's determination to join her shapeshifting brothers in the sky as a swan. Originally published in A Sliver of Glass and other Uncommon Tales.
"The Changelings," by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, is based on Native American legend and follows a father trying to regain two of his children who have been adopted by the strange and terrifying Huluk. Originally published in Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes, and Shores.
"The Talking Sword," by Jack Dann, is a darkly humorous fantasy told by a sarcastic sword.
"Freedom," by Connie Wilkins is a wistful story which follows a young man who is confined to a wheel chair, a friendly, outgoing young women, and some mysterious stone wolves' heads on an old building.
"Fever Dream," by Ray Bradbury. An adolescent boy finds his body being taken over by an alien presence. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.
"The Electronic Werewolf," by Lael Littke and Lori Littke Silfen, is about a boy who is infected with lycanthropy through a technology. It is somewhat comedic as well as somewhat scary, but does not involve any death.
"Wilding," by Jane Yolen, follows a group of teenagers in the future who find themselves in great danger when they visit a theme park in which, using advanced technology, they are able to transform themselves into the animal of their choice. (First printed in Michael Stearn's anthology A Starfarer's Dozen).
"Jonas, Just Jonas," by Nancy Varian Berberick and Greg LaBarbera is about a boy who can turn into a hawk and who is misunderstood by his neighbors and the larger society. It can be described as emotionally uplifting to a certain degree.
"A Million Copies in Print," by John C. Bunnell, is an unconventional story featuring a cat and a large number of cheap young adult/children's paperback books, but which actually details a supernatural, extraterrestrial conspiracy.
1999 anthologies
American children's books
Children's short story collections
Fiction about shapeshifting
1999 children's books
Works by Bruce Coville
Science fiction anthologies
Fantasy anthologies |
The Mainzer Adelsverein at Biebrich am Rhein (Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, "Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas"), better known as the Mainzer Adelsverein (, "Nobility Society of Mainz"), organized on April 20, 1842, was a colonial attempt to establish a new German settlement within the borders of Texas.
History
The Adelsverein was organized on April 20, 1842, by 21 German noblemen at Biebrich on the Rhine. They gathered at the castle of the German Duke of Nassau, the future Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who was named Protector of the Society. In Germany, the society was referred to as Mainzer Adelsverein after the city of Mainz, where it was officially registered. The society represented a significant effort to establish a new Germany on Texas soil through organized mass emigration. The land for the emigrants was to be purchased by the Adelsverein or secured through land grants from the Republic of Texas.
On January 9, 1843, Count Ludwig Joseph von Boos-Waldeck bought the 4,428-acre Nassau Plantation in Fayette County, Texas, for $0.75 an acre and named it for the Duke of Nassau. Twenty-five slaves were bought to work the property, which initially was considered as the primary base for arriving German immigrants. When Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels inspected the plantation in 1844, he recommended the Verein divest itself of the property, rather than be associated with slavery. Gustav Dresel, Special Business Agent for the Adelsverein, sold Nassau Plantation on July 28, 1848, to Otto von Roeder. Von Roeder had been the first settler in Shelby, Texas, in 1841, a year before the Adelsverein was founded in Germany, and three years before the Adelsverein sent its first colonists to Texas. Von Roeder had emigrated to Texas from Westphalia in the 1830s and was not affiliated with the Adelsverein's colonization efforts. The community of Shelby had been named for David Shelby, one of the Old Three Hundred under Stephen F. Austin. Shelby became the home of many Adelsverein colonists in 1845, but it was not founded by the organization. Shelby was one of the Latin Settlement communities populated by German intellectuals who had settled in Texas after 1848.
Prince Carl was appointed commissioner general by the Adelsverein in May 1844 to lead its colony in Texas. Each head of household was required to deposit 600 gulden (300 gulden for a single person) with the Adelsverein to cover transportation and housing at the colony and as credit to draw upon until they made their first harvest. The first Adelsverein-sponsored immigrants arrived in Galveston in July 1844. They traveled from Galveston to Indianola in December 1844, then moved inland to land grants acquired by the Adelsverein near Comal Springs. Prince Solms named the first colony New Braunfels in honor of his homeland.
Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller sold their 1842 land grant to the Adelsverein on June 22, 1844. This grant was intended to provide for more settlements in Texas. After Prince Solms returned to Germany, John O. Meusebach was appointed the second commissioner general of the Adelsverein in April 1845. He founded the first settlement on the outskirts of the land grant, and named it Fredericksburg, in honor of Adelsverein member Prince Frederick of Prussia. The land grant was located in Comanche territory, and to colonize, Meusebach first negotiated a treaty between the German Immigration Company (Adelsverein) and the Penateka Comanche. A separate agreement was made with the Darmstadt Forty, to settle socialist colonies within the land grant.
In 1853, due to a large amount of debt, Adelsverein ended its colonization campaign in Texas.
Darmstadt Society of Forty
Count Castell negotiated with the separate Darmstadt Society of Forty to colonize 200 families on the Fisher–Miller Land Grant territory in Texas. In return, they were to receive $12,000 in money, livestock, equipment, and provisions for a year. After the first year, the colonies were expected to support themselves. The colonies attempted were Castell, Leiningen, Bettina, Schoenburg and Meerholz in Llano County; Darmstädler Farm in Comal County; and Tusculum in Kendall County. Of these, only Castell survives. The colonies failed after the Adelsverein funding expired, and also due to conflict of structure and authorities. Some members moved to other Adelsverein settlements in Texas. Others moved elsewhere, or returned to Germany.
Texas settlements
Fisher–Miller Land Grant colonies
Bettina, Llano County
Castell, Llano County
Leningen, Llano County
Meerholz, Llano County
Schoenburg, Llano County
Elsewhere
Indianola, Calhoun County
Fredericksburg, Gillespie County
Nassau Plantation, Fayette County
New Braunfels, Comal County
Sisterdale, Kendall County
Tusculum, Kendall County
Gruene, Comal County
New Ulm, Austin County
Schertz, Texas
Members
Founding members
Source:
Adolf, Duke of Nassau
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Frederick of Prussia
Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen
Prince Hermann von Wied
Prince Ferdinand von Solms-Braunfels
Prince Franz von Colloredo-Mansfeld
Prince Otto Victor von Schoenberg-Waldenburg
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels (Prince of Solms-Braunfels Rheingrafenstein)
Prince Alexander von Solms-Braunfels
Count Christian von Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg
Count Viktor August of Leiningen-Westerburg-Alt-Leiningen
Count Carl Frederick Christian of Castell-Castell
Count Carl von Isenburg-Meerholz
Count Edmund von Hatzfeld
Count Carl William von Inn und Knyphausen-Lutelsberg
Count Armand von Rennesse
Count Carl von Castell
Baron Paul Scirnay
Leadership
Archduke of Nassau – Protector
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen – President
Count Carl Frederick Christian of Castell-Castell – Vice President, Executive Secretary-Business Director
Count Viktor August of Leiningen-Westerburg-Alt-Leiningen – Co-founder
Count Ludwig Joseph von Boos-Waldeck – Co-Founder
Baron August von Bibra – General Manager
Gustav Dresel – Special Business Agent
Philip Cappes – Special Commissioner
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels – First Commissioner-General
John O. Meusebach – Second Commissioner-General
Hermann Spiess – Third Commissioner-General
See also
American Redoubt
Free State Project
German colonial projects before 1871
References
Sources
External links
A Guide to the Solms-Braunfels Archives, 1842–1957 at UT-Austin
August von Bibra in Handbook of Texas Online
Article: From "The Germans: Geh Mit Ins Texas"
Adelsverein in Handbook of Texas Online
Immigration Contract 1845
Collection of Adelsverein Documents, 1845-1864 This collection includes 44 documents relating to the German colonization of Texas and the Adelsverein, also known as Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas (Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas). The Adelsverein brought thousands of German emigrants to Texas beginning in 1844. These documents include land grants, emigration contracts, promotional materials, and fiscal documents.
Pre-statehood history of Texas
German-American culture in Texas
Former territorial entities in North America
Former regions and territories of the United States
States and territories established in 1842
1842 establishments in North America
Texas Hill Country |
Hypercompe bricenoi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in Venezuela.
References
bricenoi
Moths described in 1909 |
Expedition 35 was the 35th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition started 13 March 2013, and marked the first time a Canadian astronaut – Colonel Chris Hadfield – was in command of the station. Expedition 35 was also only the second time an ISS crew is led by neither a NASA astronaut, nor a Roscosmos cosmonaut, after Expedition 21 in 2009, when ESA astronaut Frank De Winne was in command. The expedition lasted two months.
Crew
Source
NASA
Mission highlights
The mission generated considerable media attention and turned Cmdr. Chris Hadfield into a minor celebrity. The expedition made extensive use of social media, and several videos uploaded to YouTube have generated millions of hits. In particular, Cmdr. Hadfield was involved in the "first music video recorded in space", a rendition of David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity". Cmdr. Hadfield was also involved in the revealing of the Bank of Canada's new $5 note, part of the Frontier Series of polymer bills released in 2013. The revealing occurred via video on the ISS.
During Expedition 35, the SpaceX CRS-2 mission successfully delivered supplies to the station and returned some cargo from space. This was the second of SpaceX's contracted cargo flights to the ISS and the first to use the unpressurized trunk section.
On 11 May 11 2013, Christopher Cassidy and Thomas Marshburn performed an unplanned spacewalk to replace a pump controller box suspected to be the source of an ammonia coolant leak.
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
An edited version of Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity music video
Expeditions to the International Space Station
2013 in spaceflight |
Rapsécourt () is a commune in the department of Marne in the Grand Est Region of north-eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Marne department
References
Communes of Marne (department) |
Missa de Beata Virgine may refer to:
The Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin), by Josquin des Prez
Missa de Beata Virgine, by Pierre de La Rue
Missa de Beata Virgine, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa de Beata Virgine, by Cristóbal de Morales
Missa de Beata Virgine, by Antoine Brumel
Missa de Beata Virgine, by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Marian hymns |
Melittia auriplumia is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from the Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
References
Sesiidae
Insects of Uganda
Moths of Africa
Moths described in 1910 |
Rosita is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Rosita Amores, Spanish singer and burlesque performer
Rosita Arenas (born 1933), Mexican actress
Rosita Baltazar (1960–2015), Belizean choreographer, dancer, dance instructor and director
Rosita Bradborn (born 1973), Filipino lawn bowler
Rosita Contreras (1913–1962), Argentine actress, singer and vedette
Rosita Fernández (1918–2006), American singer, humanitarian, and actress
Rosita Forbes (1890–1967), English travel writer and explorer
Rosita van Gijlswijk (born 1974), Dutch politician
Rosita Díaz Gimeno (1908–1986), Spanish actress
Rosita Melo (1897–1981), Argentine-Uruguayan pianist, composer and poet
Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield (1936–2015) Turks and Caicos Islands politician
Rosita Marstini (1887–1948), French-American actress and dancer
Rosita Moreno (1907–1993), Spanish actress
Rosita Quintana (1925–2021), Argentina-Mexican actress and singer
Rosita Quiroga (1896–1984), Argentine singer, lyricist and composer
Rosita Fornés (1923–2020), Cuban singer and actress
Rosita Runegrund (born 1947), Swedish politician
Rosita Serrano (1914–1997), Chilean singer
Rosita Sokou (1923–2021), Greek journalist, author and translator
Rosita Vai (born 1981), New Zealand singer
Rosita Worl (born 1938), American anthropologist
Rosita Yarza (1922–1996), Spanish actress
Rosita Youngblood (born 1946), American politician
Fictional characters
Rosita, one of the main characters from the film Sing
Rosita, one of the main characters from the TV show Sesame Street
See also
Rosa (given name)
Rosie (given name)
Feminine given names |
Replanting Family Tree is a remix extended play by Danish singer-songwriter Oh Land and American musician Arthur Moon. It was released digitally in Denmark on 18 September 2019, through Tusk or Tooth Records. The EP is the companion release to Oh Land's fifth studio album, Family Tree (2019). The former contains four remixes of songs, created by Moon, that originally appeared on the parent album. Additionally, the previously unreleased "When a Hawk Comes By" appears as a bonus track on it, co-written by the sole producer, Thomas Bartlett, and Oh Land's boyfriend, Adnan Zukanovic.
Two weeks prior to the release of Replanting Family Tree, Moon's remix of "Salt" was released as its lead single. Furthermore, the remix was distributed to United States campus radio stations for airplay. The remixes on the EP are electropop tracks and are completely reworked from their original versions, which was Moon's intention. Jared Winkel from River Beats included it on his list of "The Best New Music You Haven't Heard Yet".
Background and release
In 2018, Oh Land confirmed that she would be releasing her fifth studio album in 2019. The project was inspired by several recent events in her personal life, including a divorce from her husband, second pregnancy, and relocation back to Denmark. She began to focus on playing the piano again, resulting in songwriting sessions and a shift in sound and tempofor the album. It was officially announced as Family Tree and released in various countries on 3 May 2019. The album was promoted with various singles as well as Oh Land embarking on a supporting United States promotional concert tour in the fall of 2019.
BlackBook first reported on the release of Replanting Family Tree on 27 August 2019, when they published a review of Arthur Moon's remix of "Salt" in advance. The EP's cover artwork was also unveiled, which was created by the Danish graphic design firm Hvass&Hannibal, a frequent collaborator with Oh Land. Ultimately, it was released for digital download and streaming in Denmark on 18 September 2019, through Tusk or Tooth Records. Outside of Denmark, Replanting Family Tree was self-released by Oh Land to digital retailers in various countries. Oh Land is credited as the primary artist on all editions of the EP, except the Spotify version, where Moon is also credited. American musician Thomas Bartlett solely produced Replanting Family Tree and is credited with co-writing four of the five tracks.
On 27 August 2019, the Arthur Moon remix of "Salt" was announced as the EP's lead single. It was released for digital download and streaming in various countries on 4 September of the same year. In the United States, the remix was distributed to campus radio stations for airplay on 24 September 2019, according to the North American College and Community Radio Chart. The track listing for Replanting Family Tree revealed four remixes of songs, created by Moon, that also appear in their original forms on Family Tree. The "Human Error" remix premiered, in advance, days before the release of the EP. The final song on Replanting Family Tree, "When a Hawk Comes By", is a previously unreleased song that was included as a bonus track.
Music and songs
Replanting Family Tree is an electropop remix EP with an "energetic" and electronic-inspired sound that completely reworks the songs on Family Tree.River Beats Jared Winkel called the EP a complete rework of Family Tree, which he described as a musical departure from Oh Land's previous works and "far more personal than anything she's ever released". When working on the remixes, Moon was inspired to completely "reimagine" the songs on Family Tree and present them with an electronic-heavy production, unlike their original versions. Regarding the opportunity to work with Oh Land on the project, Moon explained: "It was such a privilege to get to dig into the magical worlds Oh Land and Thomas Bartlett created on these recordings." Oh Land described the concept: "Replanting Family Tree is like the upside down of my album Family Tree. It's got a very electronic and playful vibe which gives the songs a different meaning... New soil, rainwater, sunlight gives an old tree with new roots in my forest."
Replanting Family Tree contains four remixes of songs from the parent album ("Salt", "Open", "Human Error" and "After the Storm") and one original song, "When a Hawk Comes By", which was written by Oh Land, her boyfriend Adnan Zukanovic, and Bartlett. The EP opens with Moon's remix of "Salt", which adds "electro-handclaps, jittery beats, and piercing synth-blasts" to the original composition. Eric Keith from Vinyl Chapters called it a "genre-busting" remix that is a "haunting and inventive piece". Replanting Family Tree proceeds with "Open", a track that deconstructs its original version and is just over two minutes in length. On Family Tree, Bartlett receives a writing credit for "Open", but on Replanting Family Tree, Oh Land is credited as the song's sole writer and composer. The sound of the "Human Error" remix is noticeably "stripped down" compared to its original version. Moon's final Family Tree collaboration is for "After the Storm", which was described as an ambient pop remix about "living in the moment".
Critical reception
Keith called the EP a "refreshing and lush record", and hoped that Oh Land and Moon would collaborate again in the future. He also enjoyed "When a Hawk Comes By", writing that the song was "simply one of the most pleasant sounding things" he had listened to recently. Winkel featured Replanting Family Tree on his semi-regularly published list of "The Best New Music You Haven't Heard Yet"; in his summary of the EP, he described Oh Land's vocals as powerful and commended Moon's ability to reimagine them in a "whole new atmosphere". Barbara Streidl from Bayerischer Rundfunk's Bayern 2 channel reviewed "When a Hawk Comes By" on her weekly playlist in November 2019, giving it 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Track listing
Notes:
signifies a remixer
"When a Hawk Comes By" is listed as a bonus track on every edition of the EP
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Spotify.
Nanna Øland Fabriciusperformer, writer
Arthur Moonperformer (tracks 1–4), remixer (tracks 1–4)
Thomas Bartlettwriter (tracks 1, 3–5), producer
Adnan Zukanovicwriter (tracks 2, 5)
Release history
Notes
References
2019 EPs
2019 remix albums
Collaborative albums
Oh Land EPs
Remix EPs
Self-released EPs |
Lupinus saxosus is a species of lupine known by the common name rock lupine. It is certainly native to eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and the northeast corner of California,where it grows in sagebrush and other habitat. It may also be native to Idaho and Nevada.
Description
This is a perennial herb growing erect 20 to 30 (6-10 inches) centimeters tall. Each palmate leaf is made up of 7 to 13 hairy leaflets 1 to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of many flowers sometimes arranged in whorls. The flower is between 1 and 2 centimeters long and blue in color with a yellowish or violet patch on its banner. The fruit is a shaggy-haired legume pod up to 4 centimeters in length. Stiff long hairs are found on the underside of the leaves, with no hair on top. The flowering time is early spring. The 8-12 leaflets have acute or rounded tips. It is shorter than most lupine species. The bloom period is between the months of May and June. You shouldn’t eat any part of the lupine. It is most commonly found between the elevations of 4,000-6,000 feet. 52.3% of the time it was found, it was found in May, and 19.8% of the time, it was found in June.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
saxosus
Flora of the Western United States
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Flora of Oregon
Flora of California
Flora of Washington (state) |
Jens Heppner (born 23 December 1964) is a German former road bicycle racer. He wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Although he rode for Telekom during ten years, he has consistently denied ever having doped.
His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. He won the German National Road Race in 1994. After his career, he worked in his own company in Hergenrath (Germany).
Major results
1982
World Junior Team Time Trial Championship
1986
7th Overall GP Tell
1987
1st Overall Hessen Rundfahrt
1st Overall Sachsen Tour
1990
7th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1992
10th Overall Tour de France
1993
3rd Amstel Gold Race
4th Züri-Metzgete
9th Rund um den Henninger Turm
1994
1st Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 1
1st Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Rund um Köln
3rd GP Ouest–France
1995
1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin
2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm
9th Overall Route du Sud
10th Subida a Urkiola
1996
2nd Overall Regio-Tour
1st Stage 1
2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm
2nd GP Rik Van Steenbergen
9th Amstel Gold Race
1997
1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
3rd HEW Cyclassics
1998
1st Stage 3 Tour de France
3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
3rd Luk-Cup Bühl
1999
1st Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Rund um Köln
2000
1st Hof
1st Rund um den Pfaffenteich
3rd Rund um Köln
3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
6th Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Stage 1
2001
1st Hürth-Gleuel
2003
1st GP Buchholz
1st Gladbeck
3rd Hel van het Mergelland
3rd Rund um die Hainleite
2004
1st Stolberg-Gressenich
3rd Hel van het Mergelland
2005
1st Jena
6th Hel van het Mergelland
References
External links
Official Tour de France results for Jens Heppner
1964 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gera
German male cyclists
German Tour de France stage winners
Cyclists from Thuringia
German cycling road race champions
20th-century German people
21st-century German people |
The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program is a college football team that represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater as part of the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had 22 head coaches since organized football began in 1901 with the nickname Aggies. The team played without a head coach until 1906. The university, then known as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, was renamed Oklahoma State University in 1957 and its nickname was changed to Cowboys. Oklahoma State was an original member of the Southwest Conference, joining in 1915. They later joined the Missouri Valley Conference in 1925 and the Big Eight Conference in 1960. The Cowboys became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996. The Cowboys have played in more than 1,000 games during their 108 seasons. In those seasons, eight coaches have led the Cowboys to postseason bowl games: Jim Lookabaugh, Cliff Speegle, Jim Stanley, Jimmy Johnson, Pat Jones, Bob Simmons, Les Miles and Mike Gundy. Six coaches have won conference championships with the Cowboys: John Maulbetsch, Lynn Waldorf, Lookabaugh, , Stanley, and Gundy.
Gundy is the all-time leader in games coached (138), wins (94) and years coached (14), while Waldorf is the all-time leader in winning percentage (.735). Theodore Cox finished his career with a .250 winning percentage, the worst in team history. Of the 22 Cowboy coaches, Waldorf and Johnson have been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame. Three coaches are also graduates of the university: Lookabaugh, Floyd Gass, and Gundy. The first coach was F. A. McCoy, who serviced only one season, in 1905. The current coach, Mike Gundy, was hired in January 2005.
Coaches
Updated through 2022 season
Key
Notes
References
General
Specific
Lists of college football head coaches
Oklahoma sports-related lists |
Prawn rougaille is a Mauritian dish which is usually cooked with king prawns in a rougaille sauce.
Method
Firstly, a tomato-based sauce called rougaille is prepared. This is a Creole sauce. Prawns are added to the sauce and cooked only for a few minutes to prevent overheating.
See also
Cuisine of Mauritius
List of shrimp dishes
References
Mauritian cuisine
Shrimp dishes |
"I Can't Go on Without You" is a 1948 song by Bull Moose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats. The song was composed by Henry Glover and Sally Nix. The single was Jackson's most successful release on the US Billboard R&B chart, reaching number one for eight weeks.
See also
List of Billboard number-one R&B singles of the 1940s
References
1948 songs
Bull Moose Jackson songs |
The Ministry of Culture () is a government ministry of Lebanon.
History
The Ministry was formed in 1993, originally as part of the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education from which it became a separate entity in August 2000. A new law was passed in October 2008 regarding a re-structuring for the Ministry. It now has responsibility over matters of heritage, antiquities, arts, literature, cultural industries and management of cultural and historical property.
Tasks and responsibilities
The ministry's remit includes various tasks such as planning cultural and sectoral policy, organising and sponsoring literary and artistic affairs, developing the knowledge economy and establishing and co-ordinating expertise. Responsibilities include proposing draft laws and regulations, promoting creativity, research and productivity, promoting innovative products, establishing cultural facilities, archaeological surveys and excavations, preservation and public display of antiques and managing ancient sites. The ministry also supports and facilitates research in cultural fields organizes cultural events and conferences.
Structure
The Ministry is divided into three units, The Directorate General of Cultural Affairs, The Directorate General of Antiquities and The Joint Administrative Service. It also runs The Baakleen National Library, the General Authority for Museums and the National Higher Institute of Music. It is also attached to the National Committee for Education, Knowledge and Culture.
Former ministers
Michel Edde (1993–1996)
Fawzi Hobeiche (1996–1998)
Muhammad Baydoun (1998–2000)
Ghassan Salamé (2000–2003)
Ghazi Aridi (2003–2004)
Naji Al-Boustani (2004–2005)
Karam Karam (2005)
Assaad Rizk (2005)
Tarek Mitri (2005–2008)
Tammam Salam (2008–2009)
Salim Wardeh (2009–2011)
Gaby Layyoun (2011–2014)
Rony Araygi (2014–2016)
Ghattas Khoury (2016–2019)
Mohammad Daoud (2019–2020)
Abbas Mortada (2020–2020)
Mohammad Wissam El-Mortada (2021-present)
See also
Archaeology in Lebanon
References
1993 establishments in Lebanon
Ministries established in 1993
Government ministries of Lebanon
Culture ministries |
A riot shield is a lightweight protection device, typically deployed by police and some military organizations, though also utilized by protestors. Riot shields are typically long enough to cover an average-sized person from the top of the head to the knees, though smaller one-handed models may also be used. They are generally intended to be used in riot control, to protect the user from melee attacks with blunt or edged weapons and also thrown projectiles, or non-lethal weapons such as rubber bullets and water cannons. They can also be used as short-ranged melee weapons to push back the opposing force. Most riot shields do not offer ballistic protection; ballistic shields are instead used in situations where heavily armed resistance is expected.
Riot shields are used in almost every country with a standardized police force and are produced by many companies. Law enforcement often use them in conjunction with a baton. Riot shields made for law enforcement are typically constructed from transparent polycarbonate to enable the bearer to see incoming thrown objects. Riot shields used by protesters are often constructed from improvised materials, such as wood, scrap metal or plastic barrels. While riot shields are shown to be effective in protecting the bearers and preventing protesters from breaking through police lines, their use may actually encourage people to throw objects.
History
The Police Federation of England and Wales began lobbying for the introduction of riot shields following the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival riot, during which many officers were injured with thrown stones, bricks and bottles. At the time riot shields were already common in Northern Ireland and mainland Europe; British forces deployed them during the Cyprus Emergency in the 1950s, French police used them during the May 1968 riots, and British forces had been using them in Northern Ireland since at least 1969. Riot shields were first used in England during the 1977 Battle of Lewisham. While the Metropolitan Police Service designed them to be a passive and defensive item only, New Scientist reported "the production of the shields [at Lewisham] was part of what can only be described as an extremely aggressive operation". Many protesters were deliberately struck with the shields. A police spokesperson stated that a police officer who feels threatened would strike with whatever he had in his hands, adding "I don't see how you can stop him using the riot shield to hit a person".
During riots in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, the lack of riot shields was noted. Army personnel responding to a protest at Curragh chose to use bayonets for crowd control when riot shields were available. When a riot in Lifford resulted in nine injuries to the Garda Síochána, it was reported that riot shields had not been available. Forty-four army personnel turned up to a riot in Monaghan with only five riot shields between them. In response to the shortage, 200 riot shields were manufactured in Dublin in 1972.
Design and types
Riot shields are typically made out of transparent polycarbonate between in thickness. Shields are designed to be shatter resistant, though are typically not ballistic resistant. Some shields used to counter rioters offer a form of ballistic protection against lower velocity ammunition fired from handguns or shotguns. However, ballistic shields are instead used in situations where heavily armed resistance is expected.
Shields are typically either round or rectangular in shape, with lengths between and varying widths. Most riot shields, when utilised properly, will protect the user from the top of the head to the knees. Shields will typically be slightly cylindrical and have handles made out of either metal or reinforced plastic affixed to them with either glue or grommets. Handles will be designed so that the shield-bearer can hold onto them with a fist, and the shield will often feature additional protection at the point where the forearm rests against it, as well as Velcro-strapping to keep the forearm in place. A shield may have a storage compartment for a baton or non-lethal weapon, and some may be designed to be interlocking with a shield on either side, so as to form a more effective shield wall. The type of shield used will vary, depending on both the situation and objective of a mission and also department budgets.
Concave shields have been designed for pinning down and hand-cuffing rioters or prisoners, and electric shields designed to deliver a non-lethal electric shock to the person the shield is in contact with also exist. These shields, which began being manufactured in the 1980s, feature metal strips on the outside of the polycarbonate. A shock is delivered through the strips via a button on the side held by the bearer. Electric shields have caused several deaths. In 2011, Raytheon filed a patent for an acoustic riot shield that emits "a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe".
Protesters may also deploy their own improvised riot shields, made from material such as wood, particle board or scrap metal.
Use and effectiveness
Whether riot shields are used will depend on the commanding officer's choice of force in combating protesters. It is recommended that security forces equipped with riot shields also utilise non-lethal weapons, overwatch, and reserve forces. The riot shield is designed primarily as a defensive weapon, though it can be used in an offensive manner when in direct contact with protesters. They are designed to be affixed to the non-dominant arm and held at a slightly inward angle to deflect thrown objects into the ground. When protesters come in direct contact with riot shields they will typically try and take hold of them. If protesters attempt to grab the top of a shield, security forces are instructed to strike at them with their free hand. If protesters attempt to grab the bottom of a shield, they are instructed to drop to one-knee and ram the shield into the ground with force, thereby pinning the protester's fingers or hands. Riot shields are frequently used in combination with batons.
Riot shields have been shown to be an effective way of driving back protesters and preventing them from pushing through police lines. A National Union of Mineworkers official stated that while it had been very difficult to break through police lines in the 1972 UK miners' strike when police had no shields and were relying heavily on the wedge formation, it had become outright impossible by the 1984 strike as by then the police had abandoned the wedge and instead adopted the riot shield and baton combination. The official concluded that unarmed protesters stand no chance against police with riot shields. The riot shield and baton combination is considered strong enough to handle all but the most extreme riots. If this combination is not deemed sufficient police may escalate to using additional methods such as water cannons, CS gas and rubber bullets.
Riot shields may be used in conjunction with non-lethal weapons such as CS gas in a method known as the "Tap-down technique". In this method, an officer with a projectile weapon will approach a shield-bearer from behind and tap on their shoulder. In response, the shield-bearer will drop to one knee while keeping the riot shield affixed in front. The officer with the projectile weapon will lean into the shield-bearer's back with their knee, extend the barrel of their weapon over the shield and fire. This method allows maximum protection to both the firer and the shield-bearer. "Extraction teams" also use shields to their advantage. An extraction team is generally made up of reserve forces, and serves to extract personnel in danger or capture individual protesters. The team can be deployed from any point behind a shield wall. On instruction two officers on the front line will take a step back and to the left and right respectively, allowing a temporary gap from which several officers will depart; the gap will be closed after the last officer has gone through. A target will be identified, and it will be the pre-assigned goal of one officer to control the target and another to cuff them. Additional officers will provide cover. Once the protester has been restrained the shield wall will temporarily open to allow the protester to be dragged through. It is recommended that extraction teams venture no further than 10 meters from the shield wall.
While riot shields offer an effective form of protection in themselves, their use may encourage people to throw objects at the bearers. A chief superintendent in the UK stated that while protesters were generally reluctant to assault police, that reluctance seemed to disappear if officers had riot shields. It has been observed that protesters may not throw objects until the police bring in shields, and some people will deliberately throw objects at the shields themselves, indicating that they do not actually want to injure the police.
References
Law enforcement equipment
Shield, Riot
Shields
Riot control equipment |
Peter Birt ( – June 1791) was a businessman from Airmyn, Yorkshire, England, who made his fortune from the Aire and Calder Navigation and used part of his wealth to build the mansion named Wenvoe Castle.
He became High Sheriff of Glamorgan.
Businessman
Peter Birt was born around 1723 in Yorkshire.
One source says his family was well-off yeomen from Berkshire, but others said he had been "bred a tailor".
He became a merchant in the trade with Russia.
Birt became involved with Sir Henry Ibbetson in a coal-mining venture.
In 1758 Birt and Ibbetson acquired a 14-year lease on the tolls of the Aire and Calder Navigation for £6,000.
This privately-managed waterway in the West Riding of Yorkshire was one of the first river navigation schemes in Britain.
It provides a water route from the North Sea inland to the Pennine waterways by way of the Humber estuary and the River Ouse.
The partners agreed with the request of the proprietors of the Navigation to give up trading so they could not be accused of giving their goods preferential treatment.
Birt was described as unpopular but efficient.
In 1771 Birt asked John Smeaton for advice on improving the navigation to head off the threat of a proposal to build a trans-Pennine canal that would bypass the navigation.
Smeaton issued a report on 28 December 1771 that recommended construction of new locks and canal cuts, large-scale dredging to ensure that even in a dry season the water was at least deep, and a bypass canal cut below Haddlesey.
The planned cut was extended in 1772 to almost between the River Aire at Haddlesey and the Ouse at Selby.
In 1772 Peter Birt became the sole lessee of the Navigation, with a 21-year lease for which he paid £8,500.
This in effect gave him a monopoly of transport on the Navigation, which he exploited ruthlessly.
Birt soon owned many boats on the waterway and several important collieries in the region.
The local industrialists and woollen merchants resented Birt's control, said the Navigation was poorly maintained and demanded reform.
Birt agreed to give up his lease in return for a share of the Navigation Company.
In May 1774 Birt was given a 10% share of the Aire and Calder Navigation estates and profits by Act of Parliament.
The planned works on the Navigation were undertaken in 1775–79 and cost £40,000.
The new Selby Canal was inaugurated on 29 April 1778.
The Navigation Company was immensely profitable for the next fifty years or so, with Birt and his heirs receiving 10% of the income.
Birt decided to move away from his residence at Airmyn Hall and find a place to spend his retirement where he was less well-known.
Wenvoe castle
The owner of the estate of Wenvoe, near Cardiff, died suddenly in October 1767 leaving many debts.
The estate was put up for sale in September 1769, and was bought by Birt in September 1774 for £41,000.
The legalities were completed in May 1775.
Birt had the old castle completely demolished, although some material was reused in the new Wenvoe Castle that replaced it.
The new building was based on designs by Robert Adam dated 1776, with Birt's friend Thomas Roberts as executant architect.
Most of the new building was of locally-quarried "blue stone", but Bath stone was brought via the port of Cardiff, probably for the quoins and corner stones.
The foundations were almost complete by 29 April 1776, and the roof was on before the end of that year.
The building was massive, with a large central rectangular block from which low wings extended from each side.
The main front was three stories high and long including the two wings.
The whole length was topped with battlements.
A contemporary writer said the house and grounds, "exhibits a charming effort of bad taste and bourgeoisity."
Birt was High Sheriff of Glamorgan for 1780.
He died in June 1791 and was buried at Wenvoe.
He was predeceased by his wife (1787), his son Peter (1788) and his daughter Mary, wife of John Richards of Cardiff (1790).
Legacy
Peter Birt had three surviving daughters at the time of his death, Ann, Jane and Judy.
Ann Birt married Robert Jenner (1743–1810) of Chislehurst, Kent.
Their son Robert Jenner (1776–1824) inherited Wenvoe Castle.
The castle was passed in turn to his son Robert Francis Jenner (1802–1860) and grandson Robert Francis Lascelles Jenner (1826–83).
The second son of Ann Birt and Robert Jenner was Herbert, who later took the name Herbert Jenner-Fust (1778–1852), and became an English judge.
Herbert's son, Dr. Henry Lascelles Jenner (1820–98), was the first Bishop of Dunedin.
The Bishop's son Henry Jenner (1848–1934) was an authority on the Cornish language.
Jane Birt married John Price of Llandaff.
Judy Birt married Sir John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr on 8 September 1787.
Their marriage took place at Wenvoe.
They had one surviving son and three daughters.
The main block of Wenvoe Castle was badly damaged by fire in 1910, and later the whole building was torn down apart from a pavilion.
The estate is now a golf course.
Notes
Sources
1723 births
18th-century English businesspeople
British businesspeople in transport
History of the Vale of Glamorgan
1791 deaths
Businesspeople from Yorkshire |
Angelo Boucheron (circa 1780 – 1 February 1859) was an Italian painter and engraver.
He studied sculpture and engraving under his father. His brother was professor of eloquence at university and of history of art at academy and for the military academy. On March 19, 1796, Boucheron was approved as architect by university of Turin. In the following years, he had made his way to Rome, but the times were turbulent. Boucheron had stayed in Rome during the brief French-sponsored Republic (1798–99) and even joined its military corps. Canova had fled from Rome during this time.
He returns to Turin by the turn of the century. By 1811, he had been named professor of design at the school of Monte (dei Cappuccini) of Turin. His main productions at the time were busts, for example, of Homer and of Giovanni Battista Beccaria. He also made copies and engravings of artworks, and pen-drawn portraits colored in acquaforte.
In 1812 he exhibited a series of drawings to the exhibition of arts and manufactures in Italy, and two years later, a portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele in addition to the Return of the King in Turin, which was then engraved by Faustino Anderloni. In 1816 he was appointed professor of drawing the Military Academy in Turin. In 1817 he married Margaret Adelaide Bernero, daughter of the court painter Luigi Bernero (1775-1848). In 1820 he exhibited his drawings at the exhibition held at the building of the University of Turin. The April 4, 1823 Carlo Felice granted him the title of designer of the Royal Gallery, with the annual pension of 600 Lire. He was later appointed director of the Accademia Albertina, a member of the Board of Fine Arts, and in 1830, and tutor to the princes Vittorio Emanuele and Ferdinand. In 1839 he was retired from the Military Academy, with pension equal to the salary. He also earned money as a seller of artworks. Among his pupils was the Count Balbiano de Colcavagna.
References
1780 births
1859 deaths
Artists from Turin
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian painters
Italian engravers
Academic staff of Accademia Albertina
Year of birth uncertain
Place of birth missing
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists |
Akari Shiraki (born 4 November 1996) is a Japanese retired professional footballer. She last played as a forward for WE League club MyNavi Sendai.
Club career
Shiraki made her WE League debut on 12 September 2021. On 25 June 2022, MyNavi Sendai would announced that she retired from football
References
Living people
1996 births
Japanese women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
Association football people from Hokkaido
Mynavi Vegalta Sendai Ladies players
Mynavi Sendai Ladies players
WE League players |
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