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Valuyki () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Urban localities
Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast, a town in Belgorod Oblast
Rural localities
Valuyki, Moscow Oblast, a village in Teryayevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast
Valuyki, Tver Oblast, a village in Staritsky District of Tver Oblast |
The 1988 North Dakota State football team represented North Dakota State University during the 1988 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 92nd season of Bison football. The Bison played their home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1988 team came off a 6–4 record from the previous season. The team was led by coach Rocky Hager. The team finished the regular season with an undefeated 10–0 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Bison defeated the , 35–21, in the National Championship Game en route to the program's fourth NCAA Division II Football Championship.
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Events from the year 2004 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Federal government
Governor General – Adrienne Clarkson
Prime Minister – Paul Martin
Chief Justice – Beverley McLachlin (British Columbia)
Parliament – 37th (until 23 May) then 38th (from October 4)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Hole
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Iona Campagnolo
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Peter Liba (until June 30) then John Harvard
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Herménégilde Chiasson
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Edward Roberts
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Myra Freeman
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – James Bartleman
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Léonce Bernard
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lise Thibault
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Lynda Haverstock
Premiers
Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
Premier of British Columbia – Gordon Campbell
Premier of Manitoba – Gary Doer
Premier of New Brunswick – Bernard Lord
Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – Danny Williams
Premier of Nova Scotia – John Hamm
Premier of Ontario – Dalton McGuinty
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
Premier of Quebec – Jean Charest
Premier of Saskatchewan – Lorne Calvert
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – Jack Cable
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Glenna Hansen
Commissioner of Nunavut – Peter Irniq
Premiers
Premier of the Northwest Territories – Joe Handley
Premier of Nunavut – Paul Okalik
Premier of Yukon – Dennis Fentie
Events
January
January 1 – Montreal Dorval Airport is renamed, after some controversy, Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
January 5 – Canadian dollar value climbs above $0.78 US, for the first time since July 1993.
January 12 – Stephen Harper enters leadership race for the new Conservative Party of Canada.
January 13 – U.S. President George W. Bush allows Canada to bid for contracts in Iraq.
January 16 – Race begins in 2004 Nunavut general election.
January 19 – Government of Canada challenges Department of Justice against repayment of benefits to same-sex couples dating back to 1985.
January 19 – The Sûreté du Québec announce a new police force to fight organized crime.
January 22 – Montreal's Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine warns of a former surgeon who may have infected 2,600 patients with HIV, by letter.
January 27 – a Canadian soldier, Corporal Jamie Murphy, is killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Three other soldiers are also injured.
January 29 – North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer requests Canadian soldiers to keep a presence in Afghanistan after the scheduled return of troops in August.
January 30 – The Supreme Court of Canada upholds a law allowing parents to spank their children within "reasonable limits".
February
February 2 – The Speech from the Throne is read by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in the Senate chamber.
February 6 – Canadian SPCA finds 100 dead cows and 100 more being improperly cared for, on an Alberta farm.
February 6 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announces it will use a broadcast delay during Don Cherry's Coaches Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, after he makes anti-French and European comments, a possible violation of the Official Languages Act of Canada.
February 10 – Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser releases a study on the federal government's advertising and sponsorship in Quebec which notes millions of dollars were mishandled. (See: 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal).
February 12 – The World Health Organization endorses a Health Canada plan to deal with a potential influenza pandemic.
February 12 – A Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan woman, now 18, who became a quadriplegic after being hit by a vehicle at age 4, is awarded $12 million in a lawsuit against the driver, the city and the former police chief. It is the largest lawsuit awarded in Saskatchewan history.
February 13 – Jane Stewart, former Human Resources Development Canada Minister, announces her retirement from politics, to work for the United Nations International Labour Organization.
February 16 – Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament Elsie Wayne announces her retirement from politics.
February 16 – The Canadian Recording Industry Association ask a judge to order many Canadian Internet service providers to hand over names of 29 suspected illegal fileswappers.
February 16 – Polling day, 2004 Nunavut general election. Of the 19 members of the consensus government, 1 is acclaimed and 18 elections are held. Eight members of the previous government are re-elected, five are defeated, and five who did not run again are replaced. MLAs will choose the premier from among themselves on March 5; incumbent Paul Okalik is challenged by Tagak Curley.
February 17 – John Bryden, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot in the House of Commons of Canada, resigns from the party due to the Prime Minister of Canada's sponsorship scandal.
February 17 – Canada donates $800,000 to the World Food Program and $350,000 to the International Red Cross, to help with the current food and medical needs in Haiti, following the recent coup there.
February 18 – Auditor General of New Brunswick Daryl Wilson reports Premier of New Brunswick Bernard Lord lied about the province having a budget surplus of $1,000,000. Lord accuses the Auditor General of "accounting semantics".
February 19 – Jeremy Hinzman, a US soldier from the US 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina, seeks refugee status in Canada as a conscientious objector to serving in Iraq. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and child.
February 19 – Starting in Buffalo, New York, and ending in Niagara Falls, Ontario, a cross-border police pursuit results in dead Canadian woman.
February 20 – The Saskatchewan Minister of Justice, Frank Quennell, announces Alberta Justice Edward P. McCallum will head an inquiry into David Milgaard's wrongful conviction.
February 20 – South Korea, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong ban poultry and birds imports from Canada, after the virus H7 is found. It is not linked to H5N1 (virus), which was blamed for killing 22 people in Asia (See also: avian influenza).
February 20 – Canada is part of multi-national delegation with the United States, France and Caribbean nations sent to Haiti, to help end the conflict.
February 21 – A joint investigation into the February 19 cross-border police chase is made by Niagara Falls, New York Police, Niagara Falls, Ontario Police and Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, to determine if proper procedure was followed.
February 23 – Microcell Solutions Inc. sues Telus Communications, Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Société Tele-Mobile, in a Quebec superior court, for violating its trademark Fido dog image.
February 23 – Toronto nurse Andrea Williams files a $600 million lawsuit against the governments of Canada and Ontario due to her contracting SARS, during the 2003 outbreak.
February 24 – Prime Minister Paul Martin suspends three Crown corporation heads in steps dealing with the sponsorship scandal. Those suspended are Michel Vennat, president of the Business Development Bank of Canada, Via Rail president Marc LeFrançois and Canada Post president André Ouellet.
February 25 – Vancouver International Airport (YVR) announces $1.4 million expansion.
February 26 – Canadian Forces send nine members of elite counter-terrorism unit Joint Task Force 2 to Haiti to aid in evacuating Canadians.
February 28 – Canadian businessman James Sabzali, living in Philadelphia since 1996, fined and sentenced to a year probation for violating the United States embargo against Cuba.
February 28 – Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Jim Galloway shot dead during a standoff.
March
March 3 – United Nations International Narcotics Control Board criticizes Canada for having a provincially run safe house for drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia.
March 3 – RCMP investigate threatening letters sent to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island government and media buildings.
March 3 – Former Jean Chrétien aide Jean Carle linked to 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal.
March 5 – Paul Okalik re-elected as Premier of Nunavut in 2004 Nunavut general election.
March 5 – Canadian Forces plans to send 450 troops, including three infantry platoons and six helicopters from 430 Squadron in Valcartier, Quebec, and members of I Company 2nd Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment, based at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick, to Haiti for a 90-day mission.
March 5 – Prime Minister Paul Martin fires the President of Via Rail, Marc LeFrançois.
March 5 – Abdurahman Khadr, who admitted recently to having Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden links, alleges to working for the Central Intelligence Agency as an informant.
March 6 – Sheila Copps loses nomination to Tony Valeri to represent the riding of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek in the 2004 federal election.
March 7–8 – UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visits Canada to meet with Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson, Prime Minister Martin, and Louise Arbour, who was recently named UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Topic of discussion with the PM will be the Haiti crisis.
March 9 – Sheila Copps files an appeal of the Liberal nomination loss and a complaint to the RCMP.
March 9 – Belinda Stronach wins Conservative Party of Canada nomination for riding of Newmarket—Aurora, defeating Lois Brown 512-412 in total votes.
March 9 – Second form of avian influenza found on British Columbia farm.
March 9 – Ottawa police chief Vince Bevan admits involvement in investigating Maher Arar before he was deported to Syria.
March 9 – Protests across the country against Citizenship and Immigration Canada for arrest of Algerian refugee Mohamed Cherfi by Quebec City police for failing to report an address change. He had been hiding in a church, which is normally considered a refugee safe house.
March 9 – 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal investigation finds $2.3 million missing which was to be used to fund the Bluenose 2.
March 12 – Canadian Forces begin deployment to Haiti to support peacekeeping force.
March 12 – CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick Colonel Barry McLeod named Chief of Staff of United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). He will arrive there in July.
March 12 – 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal investigation results in firing of Michel Vennat, the Business Development Bank of Canada's President.
March 15 – Treasury Board of Canada President Reg Alcock announces a "merit-based" system to appoint new CEOs for Crown corporations.
March 15 – Quebec government warns 1,144 people who attended an acupuncture clinic (owned by Suzanne Sicotte) in Montreal to take blood tests for HIV and hepatitis.
March 15 – Brad Wall appointed leader of the Saskatchewan Party.
March 16 – Equifax confirms security breach resulting in the illegal access to files containing credit information of 1,400 Canadians.
March 17 – House of Commons committee summons 11 federal bureaucrats in investigation of the sponsorship scandal for a private hearing, later to become a public hearing.
March 17 – Canadian Food Inspection Agency creates a programme for routine testing of poultry for avian influenza (bird flu), after British Columbia had to destroy 57,000 chickens.
March 17 – Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan announces increased patrols outside the 320-kilometre limit off Canada's east coast.
March 17 – A stamp is created in honour of former Governor General of Canada Ray Hnatyshyn.
March 17 – 170 Canadian Forces soldiers sent to Haiti to provide security (See Operation Halo).
March 18 – Kickbacks discovered in free flag giveaway discovered from 1996 promise by Sheila Copps to give away one million free flags.
March 20 – In the 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, Stephen Harper wins on the first ballot to become leader of the party and the official opposition.
March 22 – Federal government announces an aid package worth almost $1 billion to farmers hurt by mad cow disease.
March 22 – Conservative Party of Canada leader Stephen Harper appointed Peter MacKay as Deputy Leader.
March 22 – Supreme Court of Canada jurist Frank Iacobucci announces his retirement effective June.
March 22 – Canada condemns Israel's assassination of Hamas founder Shaikh Ahmed Yassin.
March 22 – Canada introduces a bill to protect public service worker whistleblowers.
March 23 – The 2004 Canadian budget is announced.
March 23 – The government of Canada will sell its stake in Petro-Canada within next twelve months.
March 24 – RCMP release documents detailing investigation of newspaper reporter Juliet O'Neill telling how they searched for details of her knowledge of the Maher Arar case. A January 2004 raid of her house was also documented.
March 24 – Canadian Food Inspection Agency orders slaughter of 275,000 chickens and turkeys in British Columbia to fight avian influenza outbreak.
March 24 – Myriam Bédard testifies to a committee investigating the sponsorship scandal that she heard Jacques Villeneuve was paid millions of dollars to wear a Canadian flag on his racing suit; Villeneuve calls this allegation "ludicrous".
March 25 – Supreme Court of Canada rules 9–0 in not holding Catholic Church of Canada responsible for sexual abuse of altar boys by a Newfoundland priest Kevin Bennett.
March 26 – Supreme Court of Canada upholds legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements saying it cannot be considered unfair at the time of signing.
March 26 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham speaks at a memorial conference at the United Nations for the 1994 Rwanda massacre, reminding people to not forget the genocide.
March 26 – Canada makes One-Tonne Challenge.
March 29 – The Progressive Canadian Party registers with Elections Canada to elect members into the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 Canadian federal election.
March 29 – RCMP raid an Ottawa area home, arrest Momin Khawaja on terrorism charges.
March 29 – Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario police officer arrested for possessing $2.5 million worth of cocaine.
March 29 – The federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act is signed into law.
March 30 – Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser criticizes flaws in national security.
March 30 – Ottawa area man Momin Khawaja arrested on March 29 is charged with acts of terrorism under the Canada Anti-Terrorism Act.
March 31 – Colin Thatcher is denied early parole.
March 31 – 170 people, including 29 Canadians, arrested in drug bust across Canada and the United States.
March 31 – Discovery finds that million flag promise in 1996 by Sheila Copps was organized by Groupaction.
March 31 – Federal Court of Canada rejects Canadian Recording Industry Association request to obtain names of music fileswappers, making the sharing legal.
March 31 – Saskatchewan government releases 2004 budget, raising the Provincial Sales Taxes from 6% to 7%.
April
April 1 – RCMP confirms arrest of Mohammad Momin Khawaja is related to arrests in United Kingdom.
April 1 – United States Department of Homeland Security exempts Canadians from being fingerprinted and photographed when entering the United States.
April 1 – Federal riding redistribution comes into effect: number of seats rises from 301 to 308.
April 1 – Same-sex marriage in Canada: the first legal same-sex marriage in Quebec is celebrated; Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf wed in Montreal.
April 6 – Canada orders slaughter of 19 million British Columbia poultry due to avian influenza.
April 6 – 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal – Jean Pelletier, former Canadian Prime Minister's Office Chief of Staff, alleges there was "no direction" in the federal sponsorship programme.
April 7 – Fadi Ihsan Fadel, a Canadian humanitarian working in Iraq, taken hostage among group of other nationals.
April 7 – Former Member of Canadian Parliament Jack Ramsay's son Spencer found dead in their family home.
April 8 – Nine Hells Angels members from Montreal are convicted of drug trafficking and gangsterism.
April 8 – Department of Justice considering extraditing alleged mafia leader Vito Rizzuto to the United States. He is accused of three murders in 1981.
April 14 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces extension to deployment of current soldiers in Afghanistan until summer 2005.
April 15 – Member of Parliament Svend Robinson confesses to stealing a ring from an auction firm and then takes medical leave.
April 16 – The auction firm that Svend Robinson stole the ring from says it will not pursue charges against him.
April 16 – Canadian hostage in Iraq, Fadi Ihsan Fadel, freed.
April 16 – Canadian Member of Parliament John Cannis (Scarborough Centre Liberal Party) calls for deportation of Abdurahman Khadr.
April 17 – Dalai Lama visits Canada for 19-day tour.
April 17 – Canadian peacekeeper in Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, injured in road accident, one civilian also injured. (See: Operation Palladium)
April 20 – Rifat Mohammed Rifat, a Canadian citizen, taken hostage in Iraq.
April 27 – Air Canada flight 109, a Halifax to Vancouver 767, is escorted by two CF-18s after a suspicious threat is received by North American Aerospace Defense Command.
April 27 – Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Anne McLellan introduces new $690 million national security and foreign security initiative.
April 29 – Prime Minister Martin speaks at a U.S. conference reaffirming position not to join coalition in Iraq, but says Canada wants to aid in rebuilding Iraq.
April 29 – A North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel rules in favour of Canada in the US - Canada softwood lumber dispute against the United States.
May
May 3 – Canadian businessman Naji al-Kuwaiti is reported to have been taken hostage in Iraq on April 28; he is released May 4.
May 10 – 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal – Jean Brault, president of Groupaction, and Charles Guité arrested by the RCMP for fraud.
May 17 – Ken Dryden announces his candidacy in the 2004 Canadian election representing the Liberal Party in the Canadian electoral district of York Centre.
May 18 – Supreme Court of Canada upholds law on spending limit by Lobby groups during elections.
May 18 – Karlheinz Schreiber ordered extradited to Germany on charges of fraud, bribery, and failure to pay taxes.
May 27 – Conservative Party of Canada official languages critic Scott Reid resigns after making comments suggesting reduction of French language access.
May 27 – Former Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano launches $4.5 million lawsuit against Prime Minister Martin and the federal government.
May 27 – Farmers' income hits 25-year low in 2003 from drought and mad cow crisis.
May 30 – Vandal(s) spraypaint anti-gay messages on the office of Liberal Party of Canada candidate Glen Murray (Charleswood—St. James). Murray was Canada's first openly homosexual municipal leader as the mayor of Winnipeg (1998–2004).
June
June 3 – Canada–United States softwood lumber dispute: United States Commerce Department will cut its tax on softwood lumber exports, effective 2005.
June 3 – Peel, Ontario Police charge another 13 officials at the federal Department of Human Resources Development in fraud, bribery, and receiving secret commissions investigation.
June 10 – Elections Canada's Chief Electoral Officer announces changes to allow televised results of upcoming election without delay after closing of local polling stations.
June 17 – Michael Briere pleads guilty to the murder of Holly Jones, admits to viewing child pornography immediately before the murder.
June 18 – The Conservative Party of Canada issues, retracts, reissues, and re-retracts a news release entitled "Paul Martin Supports Child Pornography?".
June 28 – The Liberal Party of Canada wins a minority government of 135 seats in the 2004 federal election (155 seats were needed for a majority). The Conservative Party of Canada wins 99 seats, New Democratic Party 19, Bloc Québécois 54, and one seat is won by an independent candidate.
June 29 – Lethbridge, Alberta city councillor Dar Heatherington is convicted of public mischief after a police investigation concludes that she falsely alleged being stalked by a constituent. She previously faced similar charges after a 2003 investigation in Great Falls, Montana, concluded that she filed a false report of having been abducted and raped.
July
July 2 – Nine-year-old Djamshid Djan Popal arrives in Toronto. Early diagnoses suggest Popal suffers from patent ductus arteriosus, a condition he cannot get treatment for in his native Afghanistan, but will be able to in Canada thanks to fundraising efforts by the Muslim Association of Hamilton and volunteering doctors.
July 6 – Five-year-old Tamra Keepness, of Regina, is declared missing; massive police search ensues.
July 11 – Hail and torrential rain causes flooding in Edmonton; damage to the West Edmonton Mall is estimated in the millions of dollars.
July 13 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) does not renew the broadcasting license of the Quebec City FM radio station CHOI, citing obscene and offensive content; it is the first time a Canadian station has been forced off the air as a result of crude material.
July 14 – Same-sex marriage in Yukon: Yukon territory becomes the fourth province or territory to legalize same-sex marriage.
July 14 – Foreign affairs minister Bill Graham orders the withdrawal of Canada's ambassador to Iran after Canada is denied attendance at the trial of Mohammed Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, alleged murderer of Canadian-Iranian citizen Zahra Kazemi.
July 15 – Peterborough is hit with 235 mm of rain, backlogging the city's sewer system and flooding streets.
July 16 – Iran announces it will allow some diplomatic observers at the trial of Zahra Kazemi's alleged murderer; Canada suspends the withdrawal of its ambassador to Iran.
July 18 – Trial of Zahra Kazemi's alleged killer abruptly ends; Canadian ambassador to Iran is recalled.
July 19 – Stepfather of missing Regina girl Tamra Keepness is charged with assault causing bodily harm; the alleged altercation occurred at 3 a.m. the morning of July 6, four hours after Tamra was last seen by the family.
July 20 – Prime minister Paul Martin announces his new cabinet, which includes new faces such as ice hockey great Ken Dryden, former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh, and former Progressive Conservative and the openly gay Scott Brison.
July 22 – An arrest is made in the Cecilia Zhang murder case, 9 months after she was abducted.
July 24 – An Iranian court acquits the accused killer of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi of charges of "semi-intentional murder".
July 30 – Two audits claim that suspended Canada Post president Andre Ouellet overlooked contract-tendering and hiring protocols and ran a massive expense budget; he is given a week to explain his actions.
August
August 5 – Bill Clinton signs his autobiography My Life at a Toronto bookstore and draws huge lineups.
August 6 – Former NDP MP Svend Robinson pleads guilty to theft over $5000 for stealing a ring, and receives a conditional discharge; he avoids jail time and a criminal record but receives a sentence of 100 hours of community service.
August 9 – Lethbridge, Alberta city councillor Dar Heatherington resigns after being convicted of public mischief.
August 12 – Andre Ouellet resigns as head of Canada Post.
August 19 – Lyse Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, resigns her position as a result of criminal charges.
August 20 – Groupe TVA and Sun Media announce plans to acquire Toronto, Ontario television station Toronto One from CHUM Limited when CHUM purchases the Craig Media stations.
August 20 – Catherine Clark is announced as the new host of a daily local talk show in Ottawa, Ontario.
August 24 – Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella are nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada.
August 25 – A Toronto man takes one woman hostage outside of Union Station before being shot dead by a Toronto Police Emergency Task Force sniper.
August 26 – Larry Fisher (murderer) denied parole. Saskatchewan plans an inquiry possibly starting in 2005 into the incident.
August 26 – Todd Bertuzzi enters not guilty plea in British Columbia court for assaulting Steve Moore.
August 30 – Charron and Abella are formally appointed to the SCOC.
August 30 – The Canadian Passport Office asks permission to use facial recognition technology to detect potential terrorists.
September
September 8 – Canada gives the United Nations $20 million for Sudan peacekeeping.
September 10 – The federal government announces $500-million to help cattle farmers hurt by the restricted trade of cattle stemming from one case of Mad Cow disease in 2003.
September 10 – Former Lethbridge, Alberta, city councillor Dar Heatherington is given a 20-month conditional sentence for public mischief.
September 13–15 – Health care conference in Ottawa between Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provinces.
September 13 – Canada's first same-sex divorce occurs, in Ontario.
September 16 – Same-sex marriage in Manitoba: The Supreme Court of Manitoba rules the province's ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional.
September 18 – John Tory wins the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
September 19 – Mihai Eminescu Statue, Montreal unveiled.
September 22 – Ottawa forgives debts of Senegal, Ghana and Ethiopia.
September 22 – Canadian Fairuz Yamucky, who was held captive in Iraq for 16 days, is returned home.
September 24 – Same-sex marriage in Nova Scotia: The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia rules the province's ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional.
September 27 – Calgary Health Region investigates E. coli outbreak affecting more than 600 people. Three local restaurants suspected.
September 29 – About 24 North Koreans in Beijing, China, successfully scale the wall of the Canadian embassy seeking asylum.
September 29 – Nelson, British Columbia city council reject plan to build a monument dedicated to American draft dodgers.
September 30 – It is announced that Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will serve an additional year as Canada's viceroy.
September 30 – Air Canada emerges from bankruptcy protection.
October
October 1 – Governor General Adrienne Clarkson's term extended one year.
October 1 – Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Alberta introduce new anti-smoking laws.
October 2 – Poet/musician Meryn Cadell comes out as transgender on CBC Radio One.
October 4 – Canada's first minority government since 1979 is sworn in.
October 4 – Amnesty International releases a report slamming Canada's lack of protection of Aboriginal women.
October 4 – Canada opens an investigation against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for possible relations with Hamas militants.
October 5 – Speech from the Throne.
October 5 – A fire aboard , located off the coast of Ireland.
October 6 – Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada begins three days of hearings to determine the legality of same-sex marriage under the Constitution.
October 13 – Lieutenant Chris Saunders's funeral is held at a Halifax, Nova Scotia church.
October 14 – A Boeing 747 MK Airlines cargo plane crashes after takeoff at Halifax International Airport.
October 17 – The ten finalists in the CBC's The Greatest Canadian series are announced. They are Sir Frederick Banting, Alexander Graham Bell, Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox, Wayne Gretzky, Sir John A. Macdonald, Lester B. Pearson, David Suzuki, Pierre Trudeau and, in a surprise which many Canadian media commentators have heavily mocked, Don Cherry.
October 19 – A lawyer in Toronto successfully challenges a traffic ticket on the basis that the city had not posted bilingual traffic signs in accordance with Ontario's French Language Services Act of 1986. The city is expected to appeal the decision.
October 20 – British Columbia lowers its provincial sales tax from 7.5% to 7%.
October 20 – The Canadian dollar closes at $0.8029, its first time above $0.80 since 1993.
October 25 – Alberta premier Ralph Klein obtains a dissolution of the legislature; an election is called for November 22.
October 28 – Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler sends Steven Truscott's case to the Court of Appeal for Ontario, 45 years after the sentence to hang.
October 28 – Supreme Court of Canada rules Newfoundland and Labrador was justified in deferring pay equity to women during a financial crisis.
November
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November 4 – Two couples file suit for same-sex marriage in Newfoundland and Labrador.
November 4 – Citizenship and Immigration Canada web traffic jumps sharply as many U.S. Democratic Party supporters react to the recent U.S. election.
November 5 – Same sex marriage in Saskatchewan: A Saskatchewan judge declares that same-sex couples have the right to marry in that province.
November 12 – The Saskatoon Police Department fire two constables for their involvement in the Neil Stonechild case.
November 15 – The United States Department of Homeland Security tightens border security at three checkpoints, including Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia, Ontario — 17 other checkpoints will have similar security before 2005, part of the US-VISIT programme.
November 15 – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opens a civil fraud lawsuit against Conrad Black.
November 16 – It is announced that U.S. President George W. Bush will visit Canada November 30 for a two-day visit, his first formal visit to the country since becoming president in 2001.
November 18 – Prime Minister Paul Martin expels Mississauga—Erindale Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal Party caucus, after the controversial MP tells the Canadian Press she feels no loyalty to the party or the prime minister.
November 18 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approves an application by the American news channel Fox News for a digital licence.
November 19 – The CRTC approves CHUM Limited's purchase of Craig Media.
November 21 – The Toronto Argonauts win the Grey Cup for the first time since 1997.
November 22 – Ralph Klein wins his 4th mandate as Premier of Alberta.
November 29 – Tommy Douglas is voted "The Greatest Canadian" in a CBC popular television series poll.
November 30 – U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa for a two-day official visit.
December
December 9 – The Supreme Court of Canada issues its decision for the same-sex marriage reference bill sent to it by the Government of Canada. The court finds that the federal government has jurisdiction over the definition of marriage and can pass a law to change it.
December 19 – Prime Minister Paul Martin arrives in Libya for an official two-day visit. This is the first visit to that country by a Canadian prime minister.
December 21 – The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador legalizes same-sex marriage.
December 23 – Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador pulls down the Canadian flags in a protest of his province's treatment by the federal government.
December 26 – 15 Canadians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
December 27 – The Canadian government donates $4 million to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami relief effort and pledge a further $36 million.
December 29 – The United States Department of Agriculture announces the resumption of beef importation effective March 7, 2005 after banning it after finding mad cow disease in one Alberta pig.
Date unknown
Beach Travellers, a Vancouver-based tour operator is founded.
Ouanani, a world music group is formed in Montréal.
Arts and literature
New books
Wayson Choy, All That Matters
Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
Alice Munro, Runaway
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Bryan Lee O'malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Awards
Giller Prize: Alice Munro, Runaway
Governor General's Awards: See 2004 Governor General's Awards.
Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Simpson, Loop
Stephen Leacock Award: Ian Ferguson, Village of the Small House: A Memoir of Sorts
Juno Awards of 2004
Film
February 29 – Denys Arcand's film The Barbarian Invasions wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Television
January 12 – Rick Mercer Report and This Is Wonderland debut on the CBC
Sport
January to March
January 5 – In the 2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Team USA defeats Team Canada 4–3 in the Final at Helsinki, Finland
January 7 – The National Hockey League suspends the Toronto Maple Leafs' Mats Sundin after he throws his stick into the stands after it breaks. No one was hurt and he was suspended only one game.
January 7 – Randy Ferbey wins Canada Cup opener.
January 29 – Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League jointly announce Vancouver will host the 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
February 9 – Canadian Clara Hughes wins bronze in the world speed skating championship
February 10 – The Canadian softball team wins silver in the world softball championship
February 10 – Canadian François Bourque wins bronze in the world junior alpine ski championship
February 29 – Colleen Jones' curling team wins the Scott Tournament of Hearts, in Red Deer, Alberta, 7–4
March 6–14 – Nokia Brier at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
March 8 – Vancouver Police Department investigate a National Hockey League incident involving Vancouver Canucks Todd Bertuzzi and Colorado Avalanche rookie Steve Moore. Moore was hit by Bertuzzi resulting in Moore's receiving a neck injury and concussion. Moore is out of the lineup indefinitely.
March 11 – Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi suspended without pay for remainder of regular season and playoffs for injuring Steve Moore of the Colorado Avalanche
April to June
April 6 – Canada wins the IIHF 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships defeating the United States, 2–0 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
April 24 – Canada wins the Women's World Curling Championship
May 9 – The Canadian national men's hockey team wins the Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 5–3 over Sweden
May 23 – Kelowna Rockets won their First Memorial Cup by defeating the Gatineau Olympiques 2 to 1. The Tournament was played at Prospera Place in Kelowna, British Columbia
May 29 – Peter Gibbons wins CASCAR's MOPAR 250 at Delaware Speedway
June 6 – Peter Gibbons wins CASCAR's Power Water 200 at Cayuga 2000 Speedway
June 7 – Tampa Bay Lightning won their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Calgary Flames 4 games to 3. Murray Harbour, PEI's Brad Richards was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy
June 12 – Mark Dilley wins CASCAR's Dodge Dealers of Ontario 200 at Peterborough Speedway
June 13 – Michael Schumacher wins the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix held in Montreal, Quebec.
June 20 – Jeff Lapcevich wins CASCAR's Clarington 200 at Mosport International Raceway
July to December
July 4 – Dave Whitlock wins CASCAR's Canada Day Shootout at Cayuga 2000 Speedway
July 10 – Jeff Lapcevich wins CASCAR Toronto Indy 100 km at the Toronto Molson Indy
July 19 – Two-time Olympic medallist Nicolas Gill is chosen by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be Canada's flag-bearer at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
July 24 – Jeff Lapcevich wins CASCAR's Canadian Tire 100 at the Vancouver Molson Indy
July 31 – Dave Whitlock wins CASCAR's MOPAR Parts 300 at Race City Motorsport Park
August 11 – Windsor, Ontario's Petey Williams became the First Canadian to win the TNA X-Division Championship by winning a Gauntlet for the Gold match at Total Nonstop Actions's Weekly PPV #106 at the Tennessee Fairgrounds in Nashville
August 29 – Closing ceremonies for the 2004 Summer Olympics are held. Canada wins 12 medals, its lowest medal count since taking 10 at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
September 2 – Minor league baseball (AAA) Pacific Coast League baseball leaves Canada as the Edmonton Trappers play their last game.
September 14 – Canada wins the World Cup of Hockey
September 29 – The Montreal Expos play their last game in Montreal. The team moved to Washington, D.C. for 2005.
November 21 – Toronto Argonauts won their Fifteenth Grey Cup by defeating the BC Lions 27 to 19 in the 92nd Grey Cup played Frank Clair Stadium in Ottawa
November 27 – Laval Rouge et Or won their Third Vanier Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 7 to 1 in the 40th Vanier Cup played at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario
Births
January 4 – Peyton Kennedy, actress
May 12 – Émilie Bierre, actress
July 6 – Dylan Kingwell, actor
Deaths
January to March
January 4 – Robert Hylton Brisco, politician (born 1928)
January 7
Doug Creighton, founder of the Toronto Sun
Doug Morton, member of the Regina Five (painter)
January 15 – Alex Barris, actor and writer (born 1922)
January 17 – Jim Penner, businessman and politician (born 1939)
February 8 – Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor, administrator, teacher, performer, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director (born 1908)
February 9
Gerald Bouey, 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1920)
Claude Ryan, politician (born 1925)
Janusz Żurakowski, fighter and test pilot, first test pilot of Avro Arrow (born 1914)
February 21 – Guido Molinari, artist (born 1933)
February 29
Toni Onley, painter (born 1928)
Nat Taylor, inventor of the cineplex (born 1905)
March 3 – Tooker Gomberg, politician and environmental activist (born 1955)
March 18 – Harrison McCain, businessman (born 1927)
March 19 – Mitchell Sharp, politician and Minister (born 1911)
March 20 – Pierre Sévigny, soldier, author, politician and academic (born 1917)
March 24 – Dominic Agostino, politician (born 1959)
March 26 – Sheldon Oberman, children's writer (born 1949)
March 30 – Michael H. Rayner, Acting Auditor General of Canada
April to June
April 14 – Micheline Charest, producer (born 1953)
April 23 – Ross Rutledge, field hockey player (born 1962)
May 1 – Larkin Kerwin, physicist, President of the Canadian Space Agency (born 1924)
May 4 — David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965)
May 9 – Eric Kierans, economist and politician (born 1914)
June 4 – Brian Linehan, television host (born 1944)
June 14 – Jack McClelland, publisher (born 1922)
June 17 – Gerry McNeil, ice hockey player (born 1926)
June 29 – Alvin Hamilton, politician (born 1912)
July to September
July 11 – Frances Hyland, actress (born 1927)
July 12 – Betty Oliphant, ballet mistress, co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada (born 1918)
July 19 – Sylvia Daoust, sculptor (born 1902)
July 30 – Andre Noble, actor (born 1979)
August 8 – Fay Wray, actress (born 1907)
August 17 – Frank Cotroni, mobster (born 1931)
September 4 – Moe Norman, golfer (born 1929)
September 5 – Gerald Merrithew, politician (born 1931)
September 10 – Leonard Birchall, World War II hero (born 1915)
September 15 – Walter Stewart, writer, editor and journalism educator (born 1931)
October to December
October 3 – John Cerutti, baseball player (born 1960)
October 16 – Doug Bennett, singer, musician and music video director (born 1951)
October 19
Calvin Ruck, anti-racism activist and Senator (born 1925)
Lewis Urry, chemical engineer and inventor (born 1927)
October 27 – Al Clouston, storyteller, humourist and author (born 1910)
November 13 – Ellen Fairclough, politician and first female member of the Canadian Cabinet (born 1905)
November 15 – John Morgan, comedian (born 1930)
November 30 – Pierre Berton, non-fiction author (b. 1920)
December 16
Agnes Martin, painter (born 1912)
Lawrence D. O'Brien, politician (born 1951)
December 22 – Alice Strike, Canada's last surviving female World War I veteran (born 1896)
See also
2004 in Canadian television
List of Canadian films of 2004
References
Canada
Canada
2000s in Canada
Years of the 21st century in Canada |
Hieracium prolatatum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is found in Sweden and northwestern and northern Russia.
References
prolatatum
Flora of Sweden
Flora of North European Russia
Flora of Northwest European Russia
Plants described in 1897 |
Jonh Ingham (born 1951) is an English entrepreneur who has worked in music journalism, pop band and nightclub management, advertising, internet application development and management consultancy. In the mid-1970s he worked for the British pop music newspaper Sounds, and was a key journalist in the development of the punk rock pop and fashion music movement in the United Kingdom when he published the first press interview with the Sex Pistols.
Early life
Ingham was born in Australia to English parents, and grew up in Australia, Canada, and the USA. He received his formal education at South Eugene High School, Eugene, Oregon, and at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, where he took a course in pop music criticism from Robert Christgau of The Village Voice; Christgau helped him get his first work as a journalist. Ingham's articles appeared in Rolling Stone, Creem, and other contemporary magazines whilst he was still in college. With Greg Shaw he was instrumental in launching the influential music fanzine Who Put the Bomp.
Career
Moving to London in 1972 to study at the London International Film School, he was employed as a freelance writer for New Musical Express and other London-based pop music magazines, before joining the staff of Sounds. From 1975 to 1977 he wrote high-profile interviews with the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream and Queen, and was one of the first journalists to champion London's punk music movement, being the first journalist to hold interviews with the Sex Pistols, and publish gig reviews of the Damned and the Clash.
In early 1977 he left journalism to become co-manager of the pop-punk band Generation X for a year, before relocating back to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. In 1980 he returned to pop music as the manager of the Go-Go's; that group became a leading attraction in L.A.'s local music scene under Ingham's influence, leading to their being signed by I.R.S. Records. Ingham started the Fake Club in 1982, the first of LA's many "temporary" nightclubs that were a part of the city's nightlife in the 1980s, before he relocated to Tokyo in 1985 to work in advertising, where he became fluent in Japanese.
Back in London, from 1996 to 1998 he was CompuServe's Head of Content. In 2000, as Head of Content at music startup Worldpop, he created Europe's first content service for mobile phones. From 2001 to 2006 he was O2's Head of Content. Since 2012 he has been Director of the Archer Business Group, a management consultancy.
Ingham published the book Spirit of '76 – London Punk Eyewitness in 2017, detailing the inception of the punk rock movement in the United Kingdom.
Publications
Spirit of '76 – London Punk Eyewitness (2017).
References
Further reading
Blake, Mark (2006, ed.) PUNK – The Whole Story (Dorling Kindersley)
Heylin, Clinton (2007). Babylon's Burning: From Punk To Grunge (Viking)
Savage, Jon (2009). The England's Dreaming Tapes (Faber and Faber)
External links
My Back Pages Jonh Ingham's personal website
MOG – Jonh Ingham
British music journalists
Living people
1951 births |
The 2011 East Dorset District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of East Dorset District Council in Dorset, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.
Background
Before the election the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 25 seats, compared to 11 Liberal Democrats. Every seat was up for election, however 12 Conservative councillors, including the leader of the council Spencer Flower, faced no opposition at the election. The candidates at the election were 36 Conservatives, 18 Liberal Democrats, 10 UK Independence Party and 3 from Labour.
Election result
The Conservatives gained 5 seats from the Liberal Democrats to have 30 councillors, compared to 6 for the Liberal Democrats. Conservative gains including taking seats in West Moors and Corfe Mullen from the Liberal Democrats, with the margin in Corfe Mullen South ward being only 6 votes. Overall turnout at the election was 49.1%.
Ward results
By-elections between 2011 and 2015
A by-election was held in Colehill East ward on 17 July 2014 after the death of the Liberal Democrat councillor since 1973, Don Wallace. The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Barry Roberts with a majority of 416 votes over the Conservatives.
References
East Dorset District Council elections
2011 English local elections
2010s in Dorset |
Beth Torbert is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada.
Early life and education
Bif Naked was born in New Delhi, India, to teenage parents attending private school. She was subsequently adopted by American missionaries. She spent part of her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, where her father was a professor at the University of Kentucky. She went to Kelsey Elementary School in The Pas, Manitoba, for a couple of years. After living for a time in Dauphin, Manitoba, her family eventually settled in Winnipeg. She graduated from John Taylor Collegiate and studied theatre at the University of Winnipeg. After University, she began pursuing a career as a stand-up comic.
The name "Bif" started as a nickname based on the mispronunciation of her real name, Beth.
Career
After spending several years singing with several underground bands, Bif Naked independently released a self-titled solo album, Bif Naked, in 1994, and I Bificus in 1998. In 1999 she toured across Canada.
Another solo album, Purge was released in 2001. She also released a spoken word album called Okenspay Ordway: Things I Forgot To Tell Mommy. In 2005, after narrowing it down from over fifty songs, she released Superbeautifulmonster, which featured thirteen tracks. The Promise, which was recorded while Bif was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, was released in 2009 and was dedicated to her fans. The album featured tracks mixed by Juno Award winner Mike Fraser. In 2011, after doing acoustic sets on tour, Bif released an acoustic record on Her Royal Majesty's Records late-2013, featuring acoustic versions of her past songs as well as four previously unreleased tracks. The album is entitled BIF NAKED FOREVER: Acoustic Hits and Other Delights. Bif has also been involved on a side project, Jakkarta.
Prior to her solo career, Torbert played with punk bands Gorilla Gorilla and Chrome Dog. She has toured Europe, the United States, and Canada as a headlining act, and has performed on bills with: Snoop Dogg, Billy Idol, Dido, Devin Townsend, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Chrissie Hynde, Foo Fighters, The Cult, Prodigy, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry, Green Day, and many more.
Bif's music has been featured in and on soundtracks for shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Moonlight, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Ready To Rumble, The West Wing and Celebrity Deathmatch. She recorded a rendition of the Christmas classic, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" for MTV's Total Request Live CD MTV: TRL Christmas in 1999 and was also featured on the Ready to Rumble soundtrack with a cover of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". (which was additionally used as David Arquette's entrance theme while he was on WCW Monday Nitro). The song "Dawn", taken from Purge, was featured in the film American Psycho 2, starring Mila Kunis and William Shatner.
She made a guest appearance in the song "Fucker", on Strapping Young Lad's album The New Black in 2006. Bif Naked has also made guest appearances with artists such as SNFU on the songs "One Last Loveshove" and "You Make Me Thick". She also appeared on the Dead Celebrity Status album Blood Music on the track titled "In This Day and Age". In 2011, she recorded a duet with Vancouver-based yogi and Nettwerk recording artist Will Blunderfield for the international version of his album Hallelujah.
Bif Naked has also appeared in music videos for other artists including: The Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright", "Believe Me" and "Silver" by Moist and Liveonrelease's "Get with It." In 2009, she appeared in the video for Simple Plan's "Save You" near the end along with other people (such as Sharon Osbourne and René Angélil) who have survived or have been treated for cancer.
Aside from her music career, Bif has also pursued acting. In 1990, she appeared in the film Archangel, where she was credited as "Bif Torbert," playing a Russian soldier. In 1997, she played a liquor store manager in The Boys Club. She appeared in the television series Once a Thief in 1998, playing Nastassja Momomame. In 2000, she voiced the character Alison in the Daria movie, Is It Fall Yet?, playing a bisexual art camp attendee who attempts to seduce Jane Lane. She appeared in the Canadian indie films Lunch with Charles (2001) and Crossing (2005), the latter of which she recorded the song "My Greatest Masterpiece" for. She has done hosting work for the CBC Television series ZeD (becoming their first host in 2002), and for Bodog, hosting Bodog Fight in 2006 as well as a reality series chronicling the days leading up to her marriage with Vancouver Sun sports writer, Ian Walker, in 2007 called Bif Naked Bride. She voiced the character Zoe Payne in the SSX video game series and Sled Storm. In 2003, she made a cameo appearance in the zombie horror film The House of the Dead. That same year, she appeared as a judge of a fictitious reality show in the TV series Cold Squad. In 2006, she guest starred on an episode of The L Word, playing a character named Cynthia. In addition, Bif Naked has appeared as herself in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven and The Chris Isaak Show. Bif Naked also narrated the TV series That's Art?! (2012).
In 2021, Bif appeared as a guest judge on an episode of the second season of Canada's Drag Race.
Personal life
She is heavily tattooed, getting her first tattoo (an Egyptian Eye of Horus) when she was sixteen years old. Her tattoos include a symbol of the Tao, Japanese writing, Buddhist poetry and images (such as the Bodhisattva), and Hindu imagery; she has stated on MTV that her favorite tattoo, on her left arm, reads "Survivor." Bif identifies as polyamorous pansexual. She is also a comic cartoonist.
Her first marriage, which lasted six months, was to her drummer Brett Hopkins in Gorilla Gorilla. She then married former Vancouver Sun sports writer Ian Walker in 2007; they divorced in 2011.
In January 2008, she announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a lumpectomy and chemotherapy.
Bif Naked spoke at the University of the Fraser Valley for International Women's Day on March 8, 2013, at the Abbotsford campus; it was announced she would be awarded an honorary doctorate from the university in June 2013.
In 2015, she became engaged to Steve Allen, a friend of her former bandmate Jacen Ekstrom. They married on July 30, 2016.
Bif is a vegan.
Her memoir I Bificus was published by HarperCollins in 2016.
Band membership
Current band members
Bif Naked – vocals, background vocals
Doug Fury – guitar
Chiko Misomali – drums, background vocals
Peter Karroll – bass
Past members
Steve Allen - Guitar
Ferdy Belland - Bass
Alley Artico – Guitar
Alex Arundel aka XFactor (aka Gene Poole, co-writer of "Chotee") – guitar
Kuryakin – synths and bass backup vocals
Corrine Culbertson CoCo – bass
Mike Sage – drums
Doug Fury (now in Scatterheart) – guitar, bass, co-writer and co-producer
Gail Greenwood (Belly/L7) – bass
Scotty McCarger – drums
Chris Crippin (Everything After/Hedley) – drums
Randy Black (Annihilator) – drums
Jacen Ekstrom (Neurosonic/CrashScene) – bass (deceased)
John Bates (Big John Bates) - guitar
Gillian Hanna – guitar (deceased)
Britt Black – guitar
Rich Priske – bass (deceased)
Scott Cooke – bass
Tim Smyth – bass
Greg Mark (Juno-nominated Vancouver psychedelic pop band Templar) – guitar
Sean Stubbs – drums
Adam (ATOM) Percy (Econoline Crush) – keyboards
Dan Yaremko (Econoline Crush)/(D.O.A.) – bass
Lamar Engel – (vocalist/musician for art rock band An Opiate for Angels) – bass
Dave Martone – bass
Gabe Cipes – bass
Joe Veltri – bass
Discography
Studio albums
Bif Naked – 1994
I Bificus – 1998 (CRIA – Platinum)
Purge – 2001 (CRIA – Gold)
Superbeautifulmonster – 2005 (#12 CAN)
The Promise – 2009 (#30 CAN)
Champion – TBD
EPs and compilations
Four Songs and a Poem – 1994
Okenspay Ordway: Things I Forgot to Tell Mommy – 1997
Another 5 Songs and a Poem – 2000
Essentially Naked – 2003
Bif Naked Forever: Acoustic Hits & Other Delights – 2012
Singles
Music videos
"Everything" (1994)
"My Whole Life"
"Tell on You"
"Never Alone"
"Daddy's Getting Married" (directed by William Morrison 1996)
"Spaceman"
"Lucky" (co-directed by Peter Karroll)
"Moment of Weakness" (1999) (directed by Marcos Siega)
"We're Not Gonna Take It"
"Chotee"
"Twitch" (1999) (directed by Peter Karroll)
"I Love Myself Today"
"Tango Shoes" (directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9 / Chappie)
"Choking in the Truth" (directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9 / Chappie)
"Back in the Day" (co-directed by Peter Karroll)
"Rich and Filthy"
"Let Down" (directed by Peter Karroll)
"Nothing Else Matters"
"Everyday" (directed by Peter Karroll)
"My Greatest Masterpiece" (2007)
"Fuck You 2" (2009)
"Sick" (2009)
"King of Karma" (2009)
"Only One" 2016 directed by Coco Karroll
"Heavy" 2018 directed by Peter Karroll
"Jim" (2020)
See also
Canadian rock
Music of Canada
References
External links
Bodog Music record label
Living people
Bisexual actresses
Bisexual singers
Bisexual songwriters
Bisexual women musicians
Bisexual women writers
Musicians from Delhi
Indian rock musicians
University of Winnipeg alumni
Canadian adoptees
Canadian indie rock musicians
Canadian punk rock singers
Canadian video game actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Canadian women rock singers
Women punk rock singers
Actresses from Winnipeg
Musicians from Winnipeg
Writers from Winnipeg
Canadian LGBT singers
Canadian LGBT songwriters
Canadian bisexual actors
Canadian bisexual musicians
Canadian bisexual writers
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
20th-century Canadian women singers
21st-century Canadian women singers
20th-century Canadian guitarists
21st-century Canadian guitarists
20th-century Canadian bass guitarists
21st-century Canadian bass guitarists
Canadian people of Indian descent
People from The Pas
People from Dauphin, Manitoba
20th-century Canadian LGBT people
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century women guitarists
21st-century women guitarists
21st-century Canadian memoirists
Canadian women memoirists
Bisexual memoirists |
The following is a list of place names in Canada (primarily Western Canada) whose name origin is in the Ukrainian language. Some places – especially in Saskatchewan – were named by ethnic Germans from Ukraine.
Most of these places were rural communities without a railway or grain elevator and accessible solely by gravel road; typically consisting only of a church & cemetery, post office, school, and sometimes a community/national hall, a grocery/"general" store or a blacksmith shop.
Alberta
Places in Edmonton
Neighbourhoods
Baturyn, Edmonton, after Baturyn, a historic castle town in northeastern Ukraine (Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast).
Oleskiw, Edmonton (formerly Wolf Willow Farms), renamed in 1972 after Joseph Oleskiw (1860–1903), professor, writer and promoter of emigration.
Ozerna, Edmonton, literally "lake district".
Pylypow Industrial subdivision, after Ivan Pylypow, early pioneer.
Parks
Oleskiw Park, after Joseph Oleskiw (1860–1903), professor, writer and promoter of emigration
Ukrainian Millennium Park (now Primrose Park), for 1989, the one thousandth anniversary of the Baptism of Kiev (the founding of Christianity in Ukraine).
William Hawrelak Park, after former Edmonton mayor William Hawrelak.
Roads
Eleniak Road, Edmonton, after Wasyl Eleniak, early pioneer.
Schools
Bishop Greschuk Catholic Elementary School, an Edmonton Catholic separate school.
Bishop Savaryn Catholic Elementary School, an Edmonton Catholic separate school named after Bishop Nicholas Savaryn, the first leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton.
St. Vladimir Catholic Elementary School, an Edmonton Catholic separate school named after St. Volodymyr the Great.
Rural communities
Bellis, Alberta, "white woods"; referring to poplars and birch.
Borsczow, Alberta, northeast of Ryley on Secondary Highway 626; Polonized spelling of Borshchiv, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Buchach, Alberta, the Buczacz School District No. 2580, and St. Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Hlus' Church), Buczacz; halfway between Innisfree and Musidora, Alberta off Secondary Highway 870 - from Buchach, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Halych, Alberta (located in Westlock County, east of Tawatinaw), from Halych - the historic city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ispas, Alberta, southeast of Hamlin and northwest of Duvernay, Alberta on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River - after Ispas, Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Jaroslaw School District No. 1478, the Descent of the Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church, Jaroslaw; and St. Demitrius Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Jaroslaw; all northeast of Bruderheim, Alberta on Highway 38 - the Polish name of the city of Yaroslav, now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Kolomea, Alberta and the Kolomea School District No. 1507, both southeast of Mundare, Alberta - phonetic spelling of Kolomyia, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Lanuke, Alberta, south of Two Hills off Highway 36 - possibly after a local family.
Luzan, Alberta, southwest of Andrew - after Luzhany, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Mazeppa, Alberta, northeast of High River and northwest of Blackie - the historical English spelling of the last name of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
Myrnam, Alberta, "peace to us"; from the Ukrainian word myr, "peace".
New Kiew, Alberta and the Kiew School District No. 1693, both north of Lavoy, Alberta off Secondary Highway 631 - German and Polish spelling of the capital city of Ukraine.
Prosvita, Alberta, "enlightenment"; northeast of Athabasca and west of Grassland - possibly comes from the name of the Prosvita "Enlightenment" societies which started in Galicia in the 1860s.
Shalka, Alberta, north of Hairy Hill off Secondary Highway 645; after postmaster Matt (Dmytro) Shalka.
Shandro, Alberta, northeast of Andrew off Secondary Highway 857 near the North Saskatchewan River - after the Shandro family from "Rus'kyi Banyliv", Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Shepenge, Alberta, the Szypenitz School District No. 1470, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Mary, Szypentiz; all northwest of Hairy Hill and northeast of Duvernay, Alberta off Secondary Highway 860 - after Shypyntsi, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Shishkovitzi was a locality southwest of Hilliard and southeast of Chipman, Alberta centering on St. Mary's Holy Dormition Russo-Greek Orthodox Catholic Church - named after Shyshkivtsi, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Slawa, Alberta, northeast of Myrnam on the Edmonton-to-Lloydminster branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "glory" (slava).
Sniatyn, Alberta and the Sniatyn School District No. 1605, both north of Andrew at the confluence of Limestone and Egg Creeks - after Sniatyn, Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Was originally named Hunka, after a settler in the area from Bukovina, and located further upstream on Limestone Creek.
Spaca Moskalyk was a locality northwest of Vegreville and northeast of Mundare, Alberta centered on the Transfiguration of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church - named after both Spas, Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and the Moskalyk family who donated part of their farmland for the church.
Stry, Alberta and the Stry School District No. 2508, both southeast of Vilna and northeast of Hamlin, Alberta - after Stryi, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Ukalta, Alberta, north of Wostok off Secondary Highway 855 near the North Saskatchewan River - possibly a combination of "Ukrayina" and "Alberta".
Wasel, Alberta, west of Hamlin near the North Saskatchewan River on Highway 652 - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian common name "Vasyl".
Wostok, Alberta, Polonized spelling of the Russian word vostok, "east" - named by Galician Russophile immigrant Theodore (Teodor) Nemirsky.
Zawale, Alberta and the Zawale School District No. 1074, both south of Wostok, Alberta off Highway 29 - Polonized misspelling of Zavalya, Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Rural school districts
Bavilla School District No. 1477, part of the community of Wasel west of Hamlin, Alberta near the North Saskatchewan River - ?.
Berhometh School District No. 1499, northeast of Hairy Hill, Alberta - a misspelling of Berehomet, Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Bohdan School District No. 3097, south of Myrnam, Alberta - from the male given name Bohdan ("God-given"); possibly after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
Borowich School District No. 2052, north of Willingdon, Alberta - possibly after a local family.
Brody School District No. 1782, northeast of Mundare, Alberta - after Brody, Brody Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Bukowina School District No. 1162, northeast of Andrew, Alberta; German/Polish spelling of the Austrian crownland of Bukovina - part of which is now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.
Chernowci School No. 1456, northeast of Wostok, Alberta - Polonized misspelling of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Chornik School District No. 2343, northeast of Musidora, Alberta - possibly after a local family.
Czahar School District No. 2322, southwest of Willingdon, Alberta - Polonized spelling of the village of Chahor; now a part of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Ispas School District No. 2765, southeast of Hamlin and northwest of Duvernay, Alberta on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River - after Ispas, Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Koluz School District No. 1631, east of Chipman, Alberta - a Polonized misspelling of Kalush, Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Kotzman School District No. 2325, northeast of Smoky Lake, Alberta - the German spelling of Kitsman, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Krasnahora School District No. 2613, south of Musidora, Alberta - a Ukrainian phrase meaning "beautiful hill".
Krasne School District No. 2245, northeast of Lavoy and south of Two Hills, Alberta - the Ukrainian word for "beautiful".
Kysylew School District No. 1467, northeast of Wostok, Alberta near the Limestone Creek - a Polonized misspelling of Kyseliv, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Leszniw School District No. 2621, south of Morecambe and northeast of Innisfree, Alberta - Polonized spelling of Leshniv, Brody Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Lwiw School District No. 1474, southeast of St. Michael and northeast of Chipman, Alberta on Highway 29 - Polonized spelling of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
Luzan School District No. 2113, halfway between Musidora, Alberta and the North Saskatchewan River - after Luzhany, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Miroslowna School District No. 2528, northeast of Innisfree, Alberta - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "miroslavna", meaning "Glorified Peace".
Molodia School District No. 1486, south of Andrew and north of Mundare, Alberta at the junction of Highway 29 and Secondary Highway 855 - after Molodiia, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Myrnam School District No. 2219, northwest of the modern townsite of Myrnam, Alberta - "peace to us"; from the Ukrainian word myr, "peace".
Nizir School District No. 2179, east of Two Hills, southeast of Duvernay and northwest of Musidora, Alberta - ?.
Oleskow School District No. 1612, southeast of Mundare, Alberta and west of Vegreville; after Joseph Oleskiw (1860–1903) - author of the pamphlets "On Free Lands" (Pro Vilni Zemli, spring 1895), and "On Emigration" (O emigratsiy, December 1895).
Paraskevia School District No. 1487, northeast of Hilliard and north of Mundare, Alberta on Secondary Highway 855 - possibly after one of the saints named Paraskevi.
Peremysl School District No. 2944, southeast of Radway, Alberta on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River on Secondary Highway 831 - a phonetic misspelling of the Ukrainian name ("Peremyshl") for Przemyśl, Poland.
Podola School District No. 2065, south of Hilliard and west of Mundare, Alberta near the Beaverhill Creek - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian region of Podillia.
Pobeda School District No. 1604, southeast of Two Hills and west of Morecambe, Alberta - ?.
Proswita School District No. 1563, northeast of Star and northwest of St. Michael, Alberta off Highway 45 - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word for "enlightenment"; possibly after the Prosvita Society of Galicia.
Provischena School District No. 1476, south of Bellis, Alberta near the North Saskatchewan River - possibly after the Ukrainian word for "prophecy" (provishchennya).
Pruth School Division No. 2064, northwest of Warwick, Alberta - after the Prut river in Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Radymno School District No. 2942, part of the rural community of Leeshore east of Redwater, Alberta on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River - after the town of Radymno, now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Russia School District No. 2069, south of Musidora, Alberta; from school board confusion over Rusyny / Ruthenian vs. Russki / Russian.
Ruthenia School District No. 2408, southeast of Smoky Lake and southwest of Bellis, Alberta - after the Austro-Hungarian name for the Ukrainian territories of Galicia, Bukovina, and Carpathian Ruthenia (now Transcarpathian Oblast).
Shandro School District No. 1438, halfway between Willingdon, Alberta and the North Saskatchewan River - after the Shandro family from "Rus'kyi Banyliv", Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Sheptycki School District No. 2920, southeast of Waskatenau, Alberta on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River - possibly after The Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865–1944).
Sherentz School District No. 2614, south of Beauvallon and southwest of Myrnam, Alberta - possibly after Shyrivtsi, currently in Dnistrovskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Sich School District No. 1595, northeast of Warwick, Alberta - after the fortresses of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Skeskowicz School District No. 1801, southwest of Willingdon, Alberta - ?.
Skowiatyn School District No. 2483, northwest of Wostok, Alberta near the North Saskatchewan River - after Skoviatyn, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Slawa School District No. 2400, south of the old townsite of Slawa, Alberta - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "glory" (slava).
Stanislawow School District No. 1485, northeast of Mundare, Alberta - Polish spelling of the town of Stanislaviv, now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
Svit School District No. 1491, east of Chipman and northeast of Hilliard, Alberta - the Ukrainian word for "the world" or "light".
Svoboda School District No. 1479, part of the rural community of Skaro northwest of St. Michael, Alberta at the junction of Highway 45 and Secondary Highway 831 - the Ukrainian word for "liberty".
Toporoutz School District No. 1935, east of Warspite and southwest of Smoky Lake, Alberta - German spelling of Toporivtsi, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Ukraina School District No. 1672, southeast of Hilliard and southwest of Mundare, Alberta - phonetic spelling of "Ukraine" in the Ukrainian language.
Uhryn School District No. 2409, southeast of Beauvallon and southwest of Myrnam, Alberta - possibly after one of nine places named "Uhryniv" in Galicia.
Vladymir School District No. 1217, northwest of Mundare, Alberta - after district pioneer Vladymir Svarich (Volodymyr Zvarych).
Wolie School District No. 2591, west of Warwick, Alberta on the south shore of Bens Lake - Polonized misspelling of the Ukrainian word "freedom" (volya).
Zaporoze School District No. 2246, northeast of Lavoy, Alberta - a phonetic spelling of "Zaporizhzhia"; after the Zaporizhian Host of Ukrainian Cossacks.
Zhoda School District No. 1498, southeast of Willingdon and west of Hairy Hill, Alberta - the Ukrainian word for "harmony".
Zora School District No. 2487, northwest of the modern townsite of Slawa, Alberta - possibly a misspelling of the Ukrainian word for "dawn" (zoria).
Manitoba
Rural communities
Chortitz, Manitoba, south of Winkler off Highway 32; German spelling of Khortytsia island, located in the Dnipro river now within the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine - Manitoba hamlet named by "Russian" Mennonite immigrants.
Dneiper, Manitoba (renamed "Fishing River"), east of Ukraina and northeast of Sifton - after the Dnipro river.
Halicz, Manitoba, northwest of Trembowla and north of Ashville near Highway 10 - a Polonized spelling of Halych, a historic Ukrainian city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Horod, Manitoba, north of Elphinstone on Provincial Road 354, near the south boundary of Riding Mountain National Park - the Ukrainian word for "city".
Jaroslaw, Manitoba, southwest of Hnausa; the Polish name of the city of Yaroslav, now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Komarno, Manitoba, the Ukrainian word for "mosquito" - possibly after Komarno, Horodok Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Kulish, Manitoba, northwest of Ethelbert; after Panteleimon Kulish (1819–1897).
Medika, Manitoba, north of Hadashville on Provincial Road 507 - after Medyka on the present Polish-Ukrainian border.
Melnice, Manitoba, west of Dunnottar and southwest of Winnipeg Beach, at the junction of Highway 8 and Provincial Road 225 - the Ukrainian word for "windmill".
Morweena, Manitoba, northwest of Arborg and southeast of Fisher Branch on Provincial Road 329 - ?.
Okno, Manitoba, northwest of Riverton near Shorncliffe - the Ukrainian word for "window".
Oleskiw, Manitoba, west of Stuartburn on Provincial Road 201; after Dr. Joseph Oleskiw (1860–1903) - author of the pamphlets "On Free Lands" (Pro Vilni Zemli, spring 1895), and "On Emigration" (O emigratsiy, December 1895).
Olha, Manitoba, east of Rossburn and north of Oakburn on Provincial Road 577; from female given name Olha (c.f. Russian "Olga") - possibly after Princess Olha (c. 890–969).
Ozerna, Manitoba, southeast of Erickson and northeast of Newdale - literally "lake district".
Petlura, Manitoba, at the junction of Provincial Road 366 and Provincial Road 584 near the north boundary of Riding Mountain National Park - after Ukrainian independence leader Symon Petliura (1879–1926).
Prawda, Manitoba, southeast of Hadashville on the eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway; a Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian (and Russian) word pravda, "truth".
Ruthenia, Manitoba, northeast of Angusville and north of the Waywayseecappo townsite on Provincial Road 264, near the south boundary of Riding Mountain National Park - after the Austro-Hungarian name for the Ukrainian territories of Galicia, Bukovina, and Carpathian Ruthenia (now Transcarpathian Oblast).
Seech, Manitoba, east of Olha and northwest of Elphinstone, near the south boundary of Riding Mountain National Park - a phonetic misspelling of the Ukrainian word "sich"; after the fortresses of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Senkiw, Manitoba, northwest of Roseau River and southwest of Rosa - possibly after a local family.
Sirko, Manitoba, south of Sundown near the Minnesota border - possibly after the Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Sirko (c. 1610–1680).
Szewczenko, Manitoba (renamed "Vita"), west of Stuartburn on Provincial Road 201; a Polonized spelling of Taras Shevchenko's last name.
Trembowla, Manitoba, northwest of Dauphin on Provincial Road 491; the Polish spelling of Terebovlia, Terebovlya Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Ukraina, Manitoba, southeast of Ethelbert and northwest of Sifton on Provincial Road 273; a phonetic spelling of "Ukraine" in the Ukrainian language.
Vidir, Manitoba, northwest of Arborg on Provincial Road 233 - ?.
Zbaraz, Manitoba, southeast of Fisher Branch and northwest of Arborg on Provincial Road 329 - a phonetic spelling of Zbarazh, Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Zelana, Manitoba, northeast of Ukraina and east of Ethelbert on Provincial Road 269 - a misspelling of the Ukrainian word for "green" (zelena).
Zelena, Manitoba, northeast of Makaroff and west of the junction of Provincial Road 594 and Highway 83 - the Ukrainian word for "green".
Zhoda, Manitoba, north of Vita and southeast of Steinbach on Highway 12; the Ukrainian word for "harmony".
Zoria, Manitoba, east of Sifton off Highway 10 - the Ukrainian word for "dawn".
Ontario
Rural communities
Odessa is a settlement in Loyalist Township - originally named "Millcreek", was renamed by its postmaster to commemorate the British naval bombardment of Odesa, Ukraine during the Crimean War.
Saskatchewan
"Krassna" was a parish of German Roman Catholics south of Leader, Saskatchewan - German spelling of Krasne, Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast.
St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Park, Saskatchewan, a campground owned by the Saskatoon branch of the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada; featuring a small Ukrainian Catholic church dedicated to St. Volodymyr.
Places in Regina
Schools
Elsie Mironuck Community School in Regina, a public elementary school.
W. S. Hawrylak School in Regina, a public elementary school.
Places in Saskatoon
Schools
Bishop Filevich Ukrainian Bilingual School in Saskatoon, a Catholic separate school specializing in the study of the Ukrainian language, history and culture.
Bishop Roborecki School in Saskatoon, a Catholic separate school named after Bishop Andriy Roboretsky, the first leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon.
St. Petro Mohyla Institute, Saskatoon, a private college for the study of the Ukrainian language, history and culture - after St. Petro Mohyla.
St. Volodymyr School in Saskatoon, a Catholic separate school named after St. Volodymyr the Great.
Rural communities
Adamiwka School District No. 1994 and the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Adamiwka; both southeast of Rosthern, Saskatchewan - after "Adamivka", now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Antoniwka was a locality north of Canora, Saskatchewan centered on the Ukrainian Catholic parish of the Assumption; named after Antonivka, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
"Belyk's" was a locality north of Borden, Saskatchewan centered on the "Ivan Franko National Home" - built on Yurko Belyk's farmland - and the Redberry Park rural post office; also the location of the Assumption of St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox church.
Beresina, Saskatchewan, northeast of Churchbridge; German spelling of "Berezyna" (now Rozdil in Mykolaiv Raion), Lviv Oblast - Saskatchewan post office named by ethnic Germans from Galicia.
Bobulynci was a locality southwest of Rose Valley, Saskatchewan centered on the Ukrainian Catholic parish of The Transfiguration - named after Bobulyntsi, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Bodnari (or "Kolo Bodnariv") was a locality northeast of Vonda, Saskatchewan named after Teodor Bodnar, who donated part of his farmland to the Ukrainian Catholic parish of Saints Peter and Paul for a church.
Buchach was a locality near Hazel Dell, Saskatchewan centered on the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary; named after Buchach, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Bukowina, Saskatchewan, south of Yellow Creek; German/Polish spelling of the Austrian crownland of Bukovina - part of which is now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. Named by Bukovinian immigrant and postmaster John (Ivan) Fessiuk.
Byrtnyky was a locality between Kelvington and Endeavour, Saskatchewan named after one of three places named "Byrtnyky" in Lviv Oblast.
Chorney Beach, Saskatchewan, a resort beach at Fishing Lake southeast of Wadena; possibly after a local family.
Chortitz, Saskatchewan, south of Swift Current on Highway 379; German spelling of Khortytsia island, located in the Dnipro river now within the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine - Saskatchewan hamlet named by "Russian" Mennonite immigrants.
Dmytruk Lake, north of Cree Lake; after Peter Dmytruk of Wynyard, Saskatchewan (aka "Pierre le Canadien"), a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force who served with the French Resistance after being shot down near Paris in 1943.
Dneiper, Saskatchewan, north of Rhein, after the Dnipro river.
Dneister, Saskatchewan (renamed "Hamton"), northeast of Rhein on Highway 650; after the Dniester river.
Dobrowody, Saskatchewan and the Dobrowody School District No. 2637, both northeast of Rama, Saskatchewan - a Ukrainian phrase meaning "good water"; after a village of the same name ("Dobrovody") in Pidhaitsi Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
Drobot, Saskatchewan, north of Theodore, after Thomas Drobot - postmaster from 1909 to 1917.
Halyary, Saskatchewan, southwest of Preeceville - a Postmaster General/Government of Canada misspelling of "Halychy".
Halycry School District No. 2835, also southwest of Preeceville, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education misspelling of "Halychy".
Havryliuky was a locality south of Prud'homme, Saskatchewan named after Nicholas Hawryluk (Nykola Havryliuk), who donated part of his farmland for Sacred Heart of Jesus Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Hryhoriw School District No. 2390 and the Ukrainian Catholic parish of St. Demetrius, Hryhoriw; both south of Preeceville, Saskatchewan - after Hryhoriv, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Hory (also called Carpenter-Hory) was a locality southwest of Wakaw, Saskatchewan centering on the Ukrainian Catholic parish of The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ - after the Ukrainian word for "mountains" ("hori").
Janow School District No. 2842 and Janow Corners, Saskatchewan, both south of Meath Park; after a village called "Yaniv" (now Ivano-Frankove), in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Kalyna, Saskatchewan, and the Kalyna School District No. 3945, both south of Meath Park, Saskatchewan - after the Ukrainian word for the "highbush cranberry".
Kiev was a locality southwest of Rose Valley, Saskatchewan centered on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church; named after the capital city of Ukraine.
Kobzar School District No. 3597 and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Ascension, Arran-Kobzar; both south of Arran, Saskatchewan - after the book of poems by Taras Shevchenko.
Kolo Pidskal'noho (or "Pidskalny's") was a locality west of Cudworth, Saskatchewan named after Ivan Pidskalny, who donated part of his farmland to the Ukrainian Catholic parish of St. Demetrius for a church.
Kolo Solomyanoho was a locality west of Cudworth, Saskatchewan named after Ivan Solomyany, who donated part of his farmland for the (unspecified) Ukrainian Church of the Holy Transfiguration.
Kowalowka School District No. 1739 and the Ukrainian Catholic Church of The Transfiguration, Kovalivka; both northeast of Canora, Saskatchewan - after Kovalivka, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Krasne, Saskatchewan, west of Wishart, the Ukrainian word for "beautiful"; after a village in Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
Krydor, Saskatchewan, after Peter (Petro) Krysak and Teodor Lucyk, local settlers.
Krim was a locality south of Aberdeen, Saskatchewan and is the German spelling of the Crimean peninsula - named by "Russian" Mennonites from the Taurida Governorate of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine.
Kulykiv was a locality north of Invermay, Saskatchewan named after Kulykiv, Zhovkva Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Kvitka, Saskatchewan, south of Jedburgh, after Gregory (Hryhory) Kvitka (1778–1843), Ukrainian novelist.
Kyziv-Tiaziv, Saskatchewan, south of Rama, after Tiaziv, Tysmenytsia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Laniwci, Saskatchewan, and the Laniwci School District No. 2300, both west of Alvena, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of Lanivtsi, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Lemberg, Saskatchewan, German name for Lviv, Ukraine - Saskatchewan town named by ethnic Germans from Galicia.
Leskiw Lake, southwest of Creighton, Saskatchewan; after Anthony Leskiw of Saskatoon, "lost at sea in October 1940 while serving aboard SS Whitford Point, torpedoed in the north Atlantic by a German submarine".
Malonek, Saskatchewan, and the Malonek School District No. 3669, both northeast of Pelly, Saskatchewan; perhaps after "Malynivka" - now Malinówka, Brzozów County, Poland.
New Yaroslau, the name of a Ukrainian block settlement northeast of Yorkton, Saskatchewan; after the ancient city of Yaroslav - now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Odessa, Saskatchewan, after the city of Odesa, Ukraine - Saskatchewan village named by ethnic Germans from the neighbouring Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, which is today split between Moldova and Ukraine.
Orolow, Saskatchewan (also called "Teshliuk's"), south of Krydor - Polonized misspelling of Ordiv, Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Paniowce, Saskatchewan (renamed "Swan Plain"), north of Norquay on Highway 8 - Polonized misspelling of Panivtsi Zelene, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Rak, Saskatchewan, northeast of Vonda on Highway 41 - after Joseph Rak from Lanivtsi, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Rebryna was a locality northeast of Hafford, Saskatchewan centered on the "Redberry Ivan Franko Library and Hall", named after Paul (Pavlo) Rebryna.
Sich School District No. 3454, the Sich community hall and the Ukrainian Catholic parish of St. Michael, "Krydor Sich"; all west of Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan - after the fortresses of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Sokal, Saskatchewan, and the Sokal School District No. 1955, both west of Wakaw, Saskatchewan - named after Sokal, Sokal Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Stanislavtsi was a locality south of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan named after Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukraine; also the location of the "Michael Hrushewski" community hall.
Tarnopol, Saskatchewan, Polonized spelling of Ternopil, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Vasyliv (or "Kolo Vasyleva") was a locality south of Buchanan, Saskatchewan centered on the Ukrainian Catholic parish of Saints Constantine and Helena; named after "N. Wasyliw".
Vorobceve was a locality just west of Krydor, Saskatchewan centered on the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Demetrius; named after the Worobetz family.
Walawa, Saskatchewan, west of Theodore; Polonized spelling of "Valiava" - now in Przemyśl County, Poland.
Welechko (or "Bilya Velychka") was a locality south of Hafford, Saskatchewan, named after Ivan Welechko - who donated part of his farmland to the Ukrainian Catholic parish of The Presentation for a church; also the location of the "Taras Shewchenko" community hall.
Whitkow, Saskatchewan, west of Mayfair on Highway 378, is an Anglo-Polonized spelling of Vytkiv, Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Rural school districts
Bereziw School District No. 3030 (changed to "Slawa School"), south of Hafford, Saskatchewan; after the district (povit) of "Bereziv" - now Brzozów County, Poland.
Bogucz School District No. 1743, southeast of Canora, Saskatchewan; possibly after "Bohusa" - now Bogusza, Nowy Sącz County, Poland.
Bohdan School District No. 3511, east of Mayfair, Saskatchewan; from the male given name Bohdan ("God-given") - possibly after Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
Bridok School District No. 1765, south of Canora, Saskatchewan, after Bridok, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Bukowina School District No. 2012, southeast of Wakaw, Saskatchewan; German/Polish spelling of the Austrian crownland of Bukovina - part of which is now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.
Cheremosz School District No. 4004, north of Endeavour, Saskatchewan, after the Cheremosh river that separated Galicia and Bukovina.
Crimea School District No. 4195, southwest of Eatonia, Saskatchewan, after the peninsula in the Black Sea - School named by ethnic Germans from the Taurida Governorate of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine.
Czernawka School District No. 1712, north of MacNutt, Saskatchewan; Polonized misspelling of "Cherniavka" - now Czerniawka, in Jarosław County, Poland.
Dnister School District No. 1635, southwest of Canora, Saskatchewan, after the Dniester river.
Dobraniwka School District No. 2608, southeast of Rosthern, Saskatchewan; a Polonized variation of the Ukrainian phrase for "extremely good" ("dobraniv").
Drahomanow School District No. 2501, southeast of Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, after Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841–1895).
Fedoruk School District No. 2342, southwest of Veregin, Saskatchewan, after school trustee Nicoli (Mykola) Fedoruk.
Fosti School District No. 1700, south of Sheho, Saskatchewan, after school board treasurer John (Ivan) Fosti.
Franko School District No. 1740, east of Canora, Saskatchewan, after Ivan Franko (1856–1916).
Halicz School District No. 3204, northwest of Wishart, Saskatchewan; Polonized spelling of the historic Ukrainian city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast - named by a "Mr. Bodnarchuk".
Horodenka School District No. 1845, west of Wakaw, Saskatchewan, after Horodenka, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Horosziwci School District No. 2433 (renamed "War End School"), west of Theodore, Saskatchewan; possibly after "Horokhivtsi" - now in Przemyśl County, Poland.
Husiatyn School District No. 791 (renamed "Claytonville School"), south of Meath Park, Saskatchewan, after Husiatyn, Husiatyn Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Jablonow School District No. 1672 (renamed "Wroxton School") at Wroxton, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of Yabloniv, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Jarema School District No. 1731, north of Calder, Saskatchewan, possibly after the town of Yaremche in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Kaminka School District No. 1632 at Tway, Saskatchewan, after "Kaminka"/Kamianka-Buzka, Kamianka-Buzka Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Kiev School District No. 1728 (originally "Kyjiw"), north of Alvena, Saskatchewan - after the capital city of Ukraine.
Kitzman Scholl District No. 2400, northeast of Rhein, Saskatchewan, after Kitsman, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Kolomyia School District No. 1878, west of Wakaw, Saskatchewan, after Kolomyia, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Krasne School District No. 3058, south of Hafford, Saskatchewan - the Ukrainian word for "beautiful".
Krasny School District No. 1121, southwest of Sheho, Saskatchewan - also after the Ukrainian word for "beautiful".
Larisa School District No. 5186, west of Wishart, Saskatchewan, after Larysa Kosach-Kvitka (Lesia Ukrainka, 1871–1913).
Lodi School District No. 3509, north of Okla, Saskatchewan, the Ukrainian word for "ice".
Luzan School District No. 255, south of Veregin, Saskatchewan, after Luzhany, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Lysenko School District No. 494, at Insinger, Saskatchewan, after Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912).
Mazeppa School District No. 2860, southeast of Canora, Saskatchewan, after Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
Monastyr School District No. 2328, north of Buchanan, Saskatchewan, after Monastyryska, Monastyryska Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Mostetz School District No. 1734, northwest of Calder, Saskatchewan, Germanic spelling of "Mostyshche"/Mostyska, Mostyska Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Nauka School District No. 3059, south of Hafford, Saskatchewan - the Ukrainian word for "learning".
Nichlava School District No. 1877 (formerly "Heuboden School"), southeast of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, after the Nichlava river in Ternopil Oblast.
Odessa School District No. 2327, south of Tramping Lake, Saskatchewan; after the city of Odesa, Ukraine - School named by ethnic Germans from the neighbouring Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, which is today split between Moldova and Ukraine.
Oleskow School District No. 540, north of Rhein, Saskatchewan, after Joseph Oleskiw (1860–1903) - author of the pamphlets "On Free Lands" (Pro Vilni Zemli, spring 1895), and "On Emigration" (O emigratsiy, December 1895).
Orolow School District No. 2392, south of Krydor, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education misspelling of Ordiv, Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Osin School District No. 3598, north of Arran, Saskatchewan, the Ukrainian word for "autumn".
Oukraina School District No. 2402, west of Krydor, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education phonetic spelling of Ukrayina (Ukraine).
Ozeriany School District No. 2722 (renamed "Carpathian School"), south of Cudworth, Saskatchewan - the Ukrainian word for "from the lake"; after one of four places named "Ozeriany" in Galicia.
Paniowce School District No. 291 (renamed "Swan Plain School"), north of Norquay, Saskatchewan on Highway 8 - Polonized misspelling of Panivtsi Zelene, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Paseika School District No. 2419, south of Arran, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education phonetic spelling of "pasika"; a Ukrainian word for "beehive" or "apiary".
Podole School District No. 3227, northeast of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - the Polish spelling of the Ukrainian region of Podillia.
Podolia School District No. 2384, northeast of Arran, Saskatchewan - a misspelling of the Ukrainian region of Podillia.
Pohorlowtz School District No. 2578, southwest of Sheho, Saskatchewan - Germanic misspelling of Pohoril'tsi, Peremyshliany Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Poltawa School District No. 2335 (renamed "Carpenter School"), northeast of Cudworth, Saskatchewan; Polonized spelling of the city of Poltava, Ukraine - probably after the famous battle in 1709.
Probizna School District No. 1724 (renamed "Geddes School"), northeast of Wroxton, Saskatchewan, after Probizhna, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Prosvita School District No. 3457, west of Mayfair, Saskatchewan, after the Prosvita Society in Galicia.
Radimno School District No. 2682, southeast of Willowbrook, Saskatchewan; after the town of Radymno, now in Jarosław County, Poland.
Rak School District No. 3244, northeast of Vonda, Saskatchewan on Highway 41 - after Joseph Rak from Lanivtsi, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Rus School District No. 2584, south of Hafford, Saskatchewan, after Kievan Rus'.
Ruthenia School District No. 404, southwest of Cudworth, Saskatchewan; after the Austro-Hungarian name for the Ukrainian territories of Galicia, Bukovina, and Carpathian Ruthenia (now Transcarpathian Oblast).
Sambor School District No. 4057, northeast of Dysart, Saskatchewan; Polonized spelling of Sambir, Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast - School named by ethnic Germans from Galicia.
Scalat School District No. 1623, southeast of Canora, Saskatchewan - misspelling of Skalat, Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Siczynski School District No. 2513, near Meacham, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of the last name of Ukrainian composer and conductor Denys Sichynsky (1865–1909).
Skala School District No. 2712, west of Cudworth, Saskatchewan - after Skala-Podilska, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Slawa School District No. 3030 (formerly "Bereziw School"), south of Hafford, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "glory" (slava).
Sniatyn School District No. 1729, west of Wakaw, Saskatchewan, after Sniatyn, Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Stanisloff School District No. 3105, south of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education phonetic misspelling of "Stanislav", after Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Ukraine.
Stawchan School District No. 1826, north of Rhein, Saskatchewan - a Polonized misspelling of Stavchany, Horodok Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Stryj School District No. 3201, north of Goodeve, Saskatchewan - German/Polish spelling of Stryi, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Svoboda School District No. 1704, northwest of Alvena, Saskatchewan - the Ukrainian word for "liberty".
Taras School District No. 4880, north of Gronlid, Saskatchewan, after Taras Shevchenko.
Toporoutz School District No. 1666 (renamed "Chaucer School"), north of Calder, Saskatchewan - German spelling of Toporivtsi, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Torsk School District No. 1713, east of Calder, Saskatchewan - after Torske, Zalishchyky Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Vasloutz School District No. 2642, south of Buchanan, Saskatchewan - Germanic misspelling of Vasylkivtsi, Husiatyn Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Verenczanka School District No. 264 (renamed "New Canadian School"), east of Rhein, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of Verenchanka, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Vesna School District No. 736, southeast of Arran, Saskatchewan, the Ukrainian word for "spring (season)".
Verbowska School District No. 1737, north of MacNutt, Saskatchewan; a Polonized misspelling of Verbivka, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Vladimir School District No. 2193, west of Alvena, Saskatchewan, after St. Volodymyr the Great.
Wasileff School District No. 1692 (renamed "Yemen School"), west of Insinger, Saskatchewan - an Anglo-Polonized spelling of Vasyliv, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (Bukovina).
Whitkow School District No. 4508 and Whitkow Hamlet School District No. 5118, both west of Mayfair, Saskatchewan on Highway 378; an Anglo-Polonized spelling of Vytkiv, Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Wisnia School District No. 2870, southeast of Veregin, Saskatchewan - Polonized misspelling of the Vyshnia river in Lviv Oblast.
Wolia School District No. 3503, southwest of Glaslyn, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "freedom" (volya).
Wolna School District No. 3503, east of Rama, Saskatchewan - Polonized spelling of the Ukrainian word "free" (vilna).
Wysla School District No. 4106, southwest of Canora, Saskatchewan - Polonized misspelling of the Ukrainian word (Vysla) for the Vistula river.
Zamok School District No. 784, south of Meath Park, Saskatchewan, after Zamok, Zhovkva Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Zaporoze School District No. 3188, west of Krydor, Saskatchewan - a Department of Education phonetic spelling of "Zaporizhzhia"; after the Zaporizhian Host of Ukrainian Cossacks.
Zayacz School District No. 3416 (renamed "Liberal School"), north of Calder, Saskatchewan, after school trustee "A. Zayacz" (Zayach?).
Zazula School District No. 4526, northwest of Hendon, Saskatchewan, after district pioneer Fred Zazula.
Zbaraz School District No. 2403, south of Krydor, Saskatchewan, a misspelling of Zbarazh, Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
Zhoda School District No. 2377, south of Mikado, Saskatchewan, the Ukrainian word for "harmony".
Zoria School District No. 3471, west of Mayfair, Saskatchewan, the Ukrainian word for "dawn".
Rural roads
Dochylo Road at Christopher Lake, Saskatchewan, after a local family.
Hryciw Road near Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, also after a local family.
See also
References
Sources
City of Edmonton (2004). Naming Edmonton : From Ada to Zoie. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press.
Hunt, Tina (200-). Lamont County : Church Capital of North America (booklet) (2nd ed). Edmonton, Alberta: Lamont County [distributor].
Ukraine
place names
place names
place names
Canada
Ukraine |
Lucien Plantefol (1891-1983) was a French botanist and member of the French Academy of Sciences who developed a theory of leaf helices to explain phyllotaxis.
Life and Work
Plantefol was born in Falaise on 24 April 1891 and spent his youth in Montbéliard. He was called up in 1914 as a second lieutenant in the 82nd Infantry Regiment, but was quickly wounded in the Battle of the Meuse and returned from the front to work in the physiology and chemistry laboratories of the National Defense. There he helped to develop the gas mask.
He became an associate professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and then assistant director at the Collège de France, where he devoted himself to the study of plant physiology. After becoming Professor of Botany at the Sorbonne, he carried out the work for which he is best remembered. This work on phyllotaxis—observing the arrangement of the leaves on the stem of a plant—led to his theory of foliar helices ("helices foliaires"). He carried on other studies on the origin of the petals of certain flowers, and in the history of science. He was particularly interested in the eighteenth century and the botanical knowledge of that period.<ref name="history">Trois siècles d'Académie des Sciences" court sur la période 1666-1966</ref>
Plantefol wrote a text, Cours de botanique et de biologie végétale (Course in Botany and Plant Biology), which came to be considered a basic work in the teaching of this discipline.
He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on 13 May 1957.
Plantefol died in Paris on 9 September 1983.
Works
Cours de botanique et de biologie végétale, E. Belin, Paris, 1939
La Théorie des hélices foliaires multiples, Masson, Paris, 1948
Fondements d'une théorie florale nouvelle - l'ontogénie de la fleur, Masson, Paris, 1949
Cours de biologie cellulaire et végétale, à l'usage des candidats au P.C.B., E. Belin, Paris, 1959
Trois siècles d'académie des sciences (1666-1966)'', Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1967
Biography
Plantefol has been the subject of a biographical article.
References
1891 births
1983 deaths
20th-century French botanists
French military personnel of World War I
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of the University of Paris |
Trollbabe is an indie role-playing game by Ron Edwards, cofounder of The Forge. It is an outworking of his Narrativist design philosophy. Edwards self-publishes it as a PDF through his Adept Press website.
Trollbabe requires a gamemaster and one or more other players. All players play Trollbabes, large, horned female beings which are somewhere between humans and trolls.
The players each have a single number, the "Trollbabe Number". They must roll a 10-sided die under the number for their trollbabe character to succeed at fighting, over the number for their trollbabe to succeed at magic, and whichever of the two is worse including the number (better in the first edition) to succeed at social challenges such as talking people into doing something.
Various circumstances give modifiers to the roll. The players also get re-rolls in one of two ways:
Each player has a series of circumstances, such as "remembered spell" or "unexpected ally", which they can use once per gaming session to get a re-roll.
They can also get a re-roll through forming relationships with non-player characters they encounter in the course of the adventure (including enemies).
Every adventure opens with the trollbabe going somewhere on foot. If there is more than one player, their trollbabes do not need to be together; the GM can cut between their adventures.
The GM predetermines "stakes" for each adventure - something that will or will not happen as a result of the trollbabes' actions.
The game also has a concept of "scale", beginning with adventures that affect one or two people and escalating between sessions (on player request) up to a scale where the trollbabes' actions affect, potentially, all humans and all trolls.
External links
RPGGeek entry
Adept Press games
Fantasy role-playing games
Indie role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 2002 |
Dorymyrmex hypocritus is a species of ant in the genus Dorymyrmex. Described by Snelling in 1975, the species is endemic to Chile.
References
Dorymyrmex
Hymenoptera of South America
Insects described in 1975
Endemic fauna of Chile |
Sem is a village in Viken, Norway.
Villages in Akershus |
Desnyansky () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Utynskoye Rural Settlement, Vygonichsky District, Bryansk Oblast, Russia. The population was 474 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.
Geography
Desnyansky is located 31 km south of Vygonichi (the district's administrative centre) by road. Uty is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Vygonichsky District |
Naquetia annandalei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The species attains a size of 100 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Bay of Bengal; off Vietnam; the Philippine Islands; Taiwan; South Japan; Queensland, Australia; and the Marquesas
References
Preston, H.B. (1910) Description of five new species of marine shells from the Bay of Bengal. Records of the Indian Museum, 5, 117–121.
Houart, R., Moe, C. & Chen C. (2021). Living species of the genera Chicomurex Arakawa, 1964 and Naquetia Jousseaume, 1880 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex. 22 (hors-série 14): 1-52.
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1910 |
21st Visual Effects Society Awards
February 15, 2023
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature:
Avatar: The Way of Water
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode:
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - "Udûn"
The 21st Visual Effects Society Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Visual Effects Society to recognize the best in visual effects in film, television and other media in 2022. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2023, and the ceremony took place on February 15, 2023. Avatar: The Way of Water received a record number of nominations with fourteen, surpassing the number of previous nominations for film (Avatar) and television (The Mandalorian). The society introduced a new "Emerging Technology Award" this year.
Nominees
Honorary Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Gale Anne Hurd
VES Award for Creative Excellence
Eric Roth
Film
Television
Other categories
References
External links
Visual Effects Society
2023
2022 film awards
2022 television awards
Award ceremonies |
```javascript
/**
* @author Marton Csordas
* See LICENSE file in root directory for full license.
*/
'use strict'
const path = require('path')
const casing = require('../utils/casing')
const utils = require('../utils')
const RESERVED_NAMES_IN_VUE3 = new Set(
require('../utils/vue3-builtin-components')
)
module.exports = {
meta: {
type: 'suggestion',
docs: {
description: 'require component names to be always multi-word',
categories: ['vue3-essential', 'vue2-essential'],
url: 'path_to_url
},
schema: [
{
type: 'object',
properties: {
ignores: {
type: 'array',
items: { type: 'string' },
uniqueItems: true,
additionalItems: false
}
},
additionalProperties: false
}
],
messages: {
unexpected: 'Component name "{{value}}" should always be multi-word.'
}
},
/** @param {RuleContext} context */
create(context) {
/** @type {Set<string>} */
const ignores = new Set()
ignores.add('App')
ignores.add('app')
for (const ignore of (context.options[0] && context.options[0].ignores) ||
[]) {
ignores.add(ignore)
if (casing.isPascalCase(ignore)) {
// PascalCase
ignores.add(casing.kebabCase(ignore))
}
}
let hasVue = utils.isScriptSetup(context)
let hasName = false
/**
* Returns true if the given component name is valid, otherwise false.
* @param {string} name
* */
function isValidComponentName(name) {
if (ignores.has(name) || RESERVED_NAMES_IN_VUE3.has(name)) {
return true
}
const elements = casing.kebabCase(name).split('-')
return elements.length > 1
}
/**
* @param {Expression | SpreadElement} nameNode
*/
function validateName(nameNode) {
if (nameNode.type !== 'Literal') return
const componentName = `${nameNode.value}`
if (!isValidComponentName(componentName)) {
context.report({
node: nameNode,
messageId: 'unexpected',
data: {
value: componentName
}
})
}
}
return utils.compositingVisitors(
utils.executeOnCallVueComponent(context, (node) => {
hasVue = true
if (node.arguments.length !== 2) return
hasName = true
validateName(node.arguments[0])
}),
utils.executeOnVue(context, (obj) => {
hasVue = true
const node = utils.findProperty(obj, 'name')
if (!node) return
hasName = true
validateName(node.value)
}),
utils.defineScriptSetupVisitor(context, {
onDefineOptionsEnter(node) {
if (node.arguments.length === 0) return
const define = node.arguments[0]
if (define.type !== 'ObjectExpression') return
const nameNode = utils.findProperty(define, 'name')
if (!nameNode) return
hasName = true
validateName(nameNode.value)
}
}),
{
/** @param {Program} node */
'Program:exit'(node) {
if (hasName) return
if (!hasVue && node.body.length > 0) return
const fileName = context.getFilename()
const componentName = path.basename(fileName, path.extname(fileName))
if (
utils.isVueFile(fileName) &&
!isValidComponentName(componentName)
) {
context.report({
messageId: 'unexpected',
data: {
value: componentName
},
loc: { line: 1, column: 0 }
})
}
}
}
)
}
}
``` |
```python
#
#
# path_to_url
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# ==============================================================================
"""SSDFeatureExtractor for Keras MobilenetV1 features."""
import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tf
from object_detection.meta_architectures import ssd_meta_arch
from object_detection.models import feature_map_generators
from object_detection.models.keras_models import mobilenet_v1
from object_detection.utils import ops
from object_detection.utils import shape_utils
class SSDMobileNetV1KerasFeatureExtractor(
ssd_meta_arch.SSDKerasFeatureExtractor):
"""SSD Feature Extractor using Keras MobilenetV1 features."""
def __init__(self,
is_training,
depth_multiplier,
min_depth,
pad_to_multiple,
conv_hyperparams,
freeze_batchnorm,
inplace_batchnorm_update,
use_explicit_padding=False,
use_depthwise=False,
num_layers=6,
override_base_feature_extractor_hyperparams=False,
name=None):
"""Keras MobileNetV1 Feature Extractor for SSD Models.
Args:
is_training: whether the network is in training mode.
depth_multiplier: float depth multiplier for feature extractor.
min_depth: minimum feature extractor depth.
pad_to_multiple: the nearest multiple to zero pad the input height and
width dimensions to.
conv_hyperparams: A `hyperparams_builder.KerasLayerHyperparams` object
containing convolution hyperparameters for the layers added on top of
the base feature extractor.
freeze_batchnorm: Whether to freeze batch norm parameters during
training or not. When training with a small batch size (e.g. 1), it is
desirable to freeze batch norm update and use pretrained batch norm
params.
inplace_batchnorm_update: Whether to update batch norm moving average
values inplace. When this is false train op must add a control
dependency on tf.graphkeys.UPDATE_OPS collection in order to update
batch norm statistics.
use_explicit_padding: Use 'VALID' padding for convolutions, but prepad
inputs so that the output dimensions are the same as if 'SAME' padding
were used.
use_depthwise: Whether to use depthwise convolutions. Default is False.
num_layers: Number of SSD layers.
override_base_feature_extractor_hyperparams: Whether to override
hyperparameters of the base feature extractor with the one from
`conv_hyperparams`.
name: A string name scope to assign to the model. If 'None', Keras
will auto-generate one from the class name.
"""
super(SSDMobileNetV1KerasFeatureExtractor, self).__init__(
is_training=is_training,
depth_multiplier=depth_multiplier,
min_depth=min_depth,
pad_to_multiple=pad_to_multiple,
conv_hyperparams=conv_hyperparams,
freeze_batchnorm=freeze_batchnorm,
inplace_batchnorm_update=inplace_batchnorm_update,
use_explicit_padding=use_explicit_padding,
use_depthwise=use_depthwise,
num_layers=num_layers,
override_base_feature_extractor_hyperparams=
override_base_feature_extractor_hyperparams,
name=name)
self._feature_map_layout = {
'from_layer': ['Conv2d_11_pointwise', 'Conv2d_13_pointwise', '', '',
'', ''][:self._num_layers],
'layer_depth': [-1, -1, 512, 256, 256, 128][:self._num_layers],
'use_explicit_padding': self._use_explicit_padding,
'use_depthwise': self._use_depthwise,
}
self.classification_backbone = None
self._feature_map_generator = None
def build(self, input_shape):
full_mobilenet_v1 = mobilenet_v1.mobilenet_v1(
batchnorm_training=(self._is_training and not self._freeze_batchnorm),
conv_hyperparams=(self._conv_hyperparams
if self._override_base_feature_extractor_hyperparams
else None),
weights=None,
use_explicit_padding=self._use_explicit_padding,
alpha=self._depth_multiplier,
min_depth=self._min_depth,
include_top=False)
conv2d_11_pointwise = full_mobilenet_v1.get_layer(
name='conv_pw_11_relu').output
conv2d_13_pointwise = full_mobilenet_v1.get_layer(
name='conv_pw_13_relu').output
self.classification_backbone = tf.keras.Model(
inputs=full_mobilenet_v1.inputs,
outputs=[conv2d_11_pointwise, conv2d_13_pointwise])
self._feature_map_generator = (
feature_map_generators.KerasMultiResolutionFeatureMaps(
feature_map_layout=self._feature_map_layout,
depth_multiplier=self._depth_multiplier,
min_depth=self._min_depth,
insert_1x1_conv=True,
is_training=self._is_training,
conv_hyperparams=self._conv_hyperparams,
freeze_batchnorm=self._freeze_batchnorm,
name='FeatureMaps'))
self.built = True
def preprocess(self, resized_inputs):
"""SSD preprocessing.
Maps pixel values to the range [-1, 1].
Args:
resized_inputs: a [batch, height, width, channels] float tensor
representing a batch of images.
Returns:
preprocessed_inputs: a [batch, height, width, channels] float tensor
representing a batch of images.
"""
return (2.0 / 255.0) * resized_inputs - 1.0
def _extract_features(self, preprocessed_inputs):
"""Extract features from preprocessed inputs.
Args:
preprocessed_inputs: a [batch, height, width, channels] float tensor
representing a batch of images.
Returns:
feature_maps: a list of tensors where the ith tensor has shape
[batch, height_i, width_i, depth_i]
"""
preprocessed_inputs = shape_utils.check_min_image_dim(
33, preprocessed_inputs)
image_features = self.classification_backbone(
ops.pad_to_multiple(preprocessed_inputs, self._pad_to_multiple))
feature_maps = self._feature_map_generator({
'Conv2d_11_pointwise': image_features[0],
'Conv2d_13_pointwise': image_features[1]})
return list(feature_maps.values())
``` |
Koedfoltos is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae.
Species
Koedfoltos hackeri Laszlo, G.Ronkay, L.Ronkay & Witt, 2007
Koedfoltos parducka Laszlo, G.Ronkay, L.Ronkay & Witt, 2007
References
, 2007, Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 13: 1–683
Thyatirinae
Drepanidae genera |
James P. Fleissner (Jim) is an American attorney and a Professor of Law at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia. While at Mercer, Fleissner has remained Special Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Special Counsel. As Deputy Special Counsel, Fleissner was lead counsel in litigation regarding motions filed by journalists to quash subpoenas and contempt proceedings in the CIA leak grand jury investigation.
CIA leak grand jury investigation
Also see CIA leak grand jury investigation
Fleissner is deputy to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the Justice Department investigation into allegations that one or more government officials illegally disclosed the identity of a CIA agent. As Deputy Special Counsel, he briefed and argued the case to the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court. Fleissner argued that a First Amendment protection exists for reporters, but only in a limited way, such as for intimidation or bad-faith investigations.
Education
Fleissner attended Marquette University High School where he was a championship debater for the school's Webster Club. After graduating in 1975, he went on to coach the debate team at his alma mater while attending Marquette University. As a debate coach, he became famous for his long-distance driving skills to tournaments, and became known forever as LDD. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in 1979 and earned a J.D. in 1986 from the University of Chicago Law School.
Career
Fleissner has been a member of the Mercer Law Faculty since 1994. The courses he has taught include Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Dimensions, Criminal Procedure: The Litigation Process, Trial Practice, and Evidence. He has been a visiting professor at Georgia State University College of Law, Spring 2002 (Criminal Law) and the DePaul University College of Law, Spring 2004 (Criminal Law), Summer 2004 (Evidence), Fall 2004 (Criminal Procedure), and Spring 2005 (Evidence).
Before joining the Mercer faculty, Fleissner worked as Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago from 1986 to 1994. During a leave of absence from Mercer Law School (January 2003-July 2005), Fleissner was Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of Appeals, Criminal Division, for the Office of the United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois. Now, he is a Deputy Special Counsel in United States Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel. As Deputy Special Counsel, Fleissner managed litigation regarding motions filed by journalists to quash subpoenas and contempt proceedings in the CIA leak grand jury investigation. Fleissner is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Georgia.
Media
After the Oklahoma City bombing, Fleissner appeared on the PBS "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," CNN, and MSNBC to discuss the prosecutions and other federal criminal matters.
Major cases
JUDITH MILLER, PETITIONER v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MATTHEW COOPER AND TIME INC., PETITIONERS v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
GOVERNM ENT’S MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO MATTHEW COOPER’S MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE CONTEMPT SANCTION
Sources
Extent of press rights debated Washington Times December 08, 2004
Reporter Held in Contempt of Court Again in Leaks Probe Washington Post Susan Schmidt October 14, 2004
External links
Jim Fleissner biography at Mercer University School of Law
Office of Special Counsel United States Department of Justice
Statement of James P. Fleissner concerning certain provisions of H.R. 1710, the Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995, June 12, 1995.
People associated with the Plame affair
American legal scholars
Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers
Living people
Marquette University alumni
University of Chicago Law School alumni
DePaul University people
Mercer University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
"Wish You Were Here" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in August 1981 as the second and final single from her live album Barbara Mandrell Live. It peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 11 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.
Chart performance
References
1981 singles
Barbara Mandrell songs
Songs written by Kye Fleming
Songs written by Dennis Morgan (songwriter)
Song recordings produced by Tom Collins (record producer)
MCA Records singles
1981 songs |
Wolfgang Neff (8 September 1875 – disappeared 1945) was an Austrian film director. He directed 50 films between 1920 and 1930. He was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic).
Selected filmography
Nat Pinkerton im Kampf (1920)
Die verschwundene Million (1921)
Raid (1921)
The Queen of Whitechapel (1922)
Fratricide (1922)
The Cigarette Countess (1922)
Yellow Star (1922)
The Woman from the Orient (1923)
The Heart of Lilian Thorland (1924)
The Old Ballroom (1925)
The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store (1925)
People in Need (1925)
Ash Wednesday (1925)
German Women - German Faithfulness (1927)
The Harbour Bride (1927)
The Girl from Frisco (1927)
The Lorelei (1927)
Circus Renz (1927)
Who Invented Divorce? (1928)
Dawn (1929)
References
External links
1875 births
Austrian film directors
Year of death unknown
Film directors from Prague |
Pieczonogi is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pałecznica, within Proszowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Pałecznica, north of Proszowice, and north-east of the regional capital Kraków.
References
Pieczonogi |
Nindooinbah Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Nindooinbah Connection Road, Nindooinbah, Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1907. It is also known as Nindooinbah House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
History
The first stage of this one-storeyed timber house was L-shaped and built about 1860. After extensions by Robin Dods in 1906-7 the house was E-shaped. The homestead included a woolshed, stables, quarters and other out buildings and yards.
In 1842 Paul and Clement Lawless held the depasturing license for the Nindooinbah pastoral run. They sold it to Alfred William Compigne in 1847 when the run was about 16 square miles (41.44 square kilometres) and carried over 4,000 sheep.
In 1858 Compigne purchased, by pre-emptive right, . He used his lease holdings and freehold land to raise large mortgages and with some security of tenure, it is probable that the L-shaped homestead and outbuildings were constructed about this period.
Compigne was a member of the first legislative council and at the time of his death in 1909 was the last remaining original member of the council.
In 1862 Robert Towns held the mortgage for Nindooinbah and in 1867 he foreclosed on Compigne and soon after sold Nindooinbah to William Duckett White whose son Ernest was living on the property. At this stage the house was valued at and there was of improvements.
In 1877, was resumed from the Nooininbah and Kerrylarabah pastoral runs and offered for selection on 17 April 1877.
In 1901 William Collins, son of John Collins of the Mundoolun pastoral station, renewed his Nindooinbah lease. William and his bride honeymooned in Japan and on their return took up residence at Nindooinbah, though the house was in a very dilapidated state. Collins purchased the property, in 1906, and employed the eminent Brisbane architect, Robin Dods, to extend the house. His alteration were sympathetic to the original house, he changed the French doors and added an en-suite to the master bedroom but altered little else. In 1918 the entrance porch was extended.
The detached kitchen was moved about 1906 and became the gate house. Adjacent to the house are bush houses and fernery. A bamboo bush house was demolished in the 1950s though the irrigation system that feeds water from the laundry to it remains. A play house built in the 1950s has been adapted for use as a garage.
About 1984 a Japanese tea house in a man-made lagoon was constructed, the house repainted externally and much of the Edwardian garden designed by Dods replanted. The gardens include a grotto, tennis court, and garden sheds.
Other buildings on site but beyond the homes enclosing fence includes an artists studio and flag pole, the managers house, garages, men's quarters, woolshed, cattle yards and remains of the stables, butchers shop, cold-room and icemaking room.
The woolshed was built as a permanent structure by 1857. It probably included shearers quarters and a dining room. From about 1863, the weather and other factors led most of the local squatters to utilise their runs for depasturing cattle rather than sheep, hence the woolshed has been used as men's quarters and storage for many years.
Of the original local squatter homesteads only Nindooinbah and Mundoolun remain and both have been and remain the homes of the Collins family or their descendants. The woolshed is probably one of the oldest in Queensland and its quality and intactness make it very rare.
Description
Nindooinbah house, located in extensive gardens on a rural property, has distant views to the southeast across a lagoon and valley towards the surrounding hills. Buildings and structures related to the pastoral activities of the property are located to the northwest of the house.
A single-storeyed timber construction set on low timber stumps, the house is clad in wide chamferboards and has painted corrugated iron roofs. It has an E-shaped plan consisting of three rectangular wings around a northwest courtyard and a central entry porch. A timber pergola leads to the semi-enclosed entry porch which adjoins the verandah. Most rooms are accessed from the continuous verandah through wide French doors. The original L-shaped building now forms the eastern corner of the house and contains the main bedroom and attached bathroom, drawing room, smaller bedrooms and the "telephone" room, once the original dining room. The 1906 addition copies many of the details of the original house including balustrading and external wall cladding.
The northeast wing contains bedrooms and bathrooms. The addition is clearly separated from the original house by a corridor that links the courtyard verandah with the northeast verandah. The southeast wing, facing the garden and the view, houses the original drawing room and dining room and the new dining room, guest room and toilets. The Dods' designed dining room, adjacent to the 1858 building, has features not found elsewhere in the house; silky oak panelling, a vaulted ornamental plaster ceiling, bay windows protruding onto the verandah and other decorative details including an inscription over the fireplace. The guest room, next to the dining room, has original carpets, wallpapers, fabrics and furniture made from a bunya pine felled to make way for the extension. The south west wing, narrower than the other two wings with a verandah only on the courtyard side, contains the kitchen, ancillary rooms and servants quarters. A bedroom has been built into the northern corner of the verandah.
The roof of the house, hipped at the eastern and southern corners, is terminated by a double gable on the northern corner and a single gable on the western corner. The gables are decorated with oval shaped ventilation panels. Three brick chimney stacks protrude above the roof.
The large gardens and sweeping lawns that surround the house, based on the original planting schemes, are a mixture of a formal and picturesque layout. Avenues of palms mark paths to the house and specimen trees such as figs and bunya pines frame distant views. Formal flower beds are planted close to the house on the southeast and northwest sides. The garden contains a tennis court, fish pond and various pavilions. These include recent additions of a studio on the knoll in front of the house, once a cottage attached to the managers house, a tea house built over a new pond to the south of the house and a new fernery replacing a demolished bush house near the pond. The kitchen gardens, greenhouse, laundry and water tanks are on the southwest side of the house adjacent to the service wing. The boundaries of the garden are marked by a timber fence and elaborate timber gateways that show the influence of the fashionable taste for chinoiserie.
Buildings related to the pastoral and agricultural activities of the property are located outside the formal gardens. These include a single-storeyed timber manager's house, storage sheds, an old timber wool shed, the remains of a stable and butchers shop and associated machinery and timber cattle and horse yards. A residence located beside the entry to the property is a single-storeyed weatherboard building with enclosed verandahs on three sides.
The wool shed is a single-storeyed building, clad in weatherboards and set on timber stumps. The large hipped roofed central space or nave has attached skillion roofed wings on three sides. Beneath the corrugated iron roof are remains of the earlier shingled roof. In the northwest part of the building are remnants of the original slatted timber floor. Most of the space under the skillions has been converted into bedrooms and a dining room lined with tongue-in-groove boards. The northern end of the building has subsided and parts of the fabric are in poor condition.
The house, especially the fragile interiors and furnishings are remarkably intact. The garden is well maintained. Outbuildings related to the activities of the property continue to be used and maintained.
Heritage listing
Nindooinbah Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Nindooinbah House is an example of a homestead as country residence displaying the changing affluent lifestyle and tastes of the squattocracy.
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.
Nindooinbah House is an example of rare surviving fabric of an 1850s squatter dwelling and woolshed.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The sheds, out buildings and other remains provide evidence of the continuing pastoral and agricultural activities of the property.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Nindooinbah House is significant for the superbly maintained gardens, which are an accomplished design, providing an appropriate setting for the house in the landscape.
The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period.
Adding to the significance of Nindooinbah House is the intactness of the interior, including furniture and fittings, and the high quality of the materials, craftsmanship and detailing of the house.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
The property has associations with squatters AW Compigne, R Towns, WD and E White and the Collins family.
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
It is an important example of the work of the architect RS Dods, which demonstrates his skill in adapting an older building.
References
Attribution
External links
Queensland Heritage Register
Scenic Rim Region
Homesteads in Queensland
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Puerto Aventuras () is a community located in Solidaridad Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It had a 2020 census population of 22,878 inhabitants, and is located at an elevation of above sea level. It is the second-largest community in Solidaridad Municipality, after the municipal seat, Playa del Carmen.
Puerto Aventuras is divided into two parts: west of Highway 307 is the residential subdivision, east of Highway 307 along the Caribbean coast is the tourist zone with hotels and resorts, part of the Riviera Maya.
Recreational activities
Some of the recreational activities available in Puerto Aventuras include: golf, tennis, sportfishing, snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming with dolphins and manatees, and visiting some of the many nearby cenotes.
References
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Populated places in Quintana Roo
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The luopan or geomantic compass is a Chinese magnetic compass, also known as a feng shui compass. It is used by a feng shui practitioner to determine the precise direction of a structure, place or item. Luo Pan contains a lot of information and formulas regarding its functions. The needle points towards the south magnetic pole.
Form and function
Like a conventional compass, a luopan is a direction finder. However, a luopan differs from a compass in several important ways. The most obvious difference is the feng shui formulas embedded in up to 40 concentric rings on the surface. This is a metal or wooden plate known as the heaven dial. The circular metal or wooden plate typically sits on a wooden base known as the earth plate. The heaven dial rotates freely on the earth plate.
A red wire or thread that crosses the earth plate and heaven dial at 90-degree angles is the Heaven Center Cross Line, or Red Cross Grid Line. This line is used to find the direction and note position on the rings.
A conventional compass has markings for four or eight directions, while a luopan typically contains markings for 24 directions. This translates to 15 degrees per direction. The Sun takes approximately 15.2 days to traverse a solar term, a series of 24 points on the ecliptic. Since there are 360 degrees on the luopan and approximately 365.25 days in a mean solar year, each degree on a luopan approximates a terrestrial day.
Unlike a typical compass, a luopan does not point to the north magnetic pole of Earth. The needle of a luopan points to the south magnetic pole (it does not point to the geographic south pole). The Chinese word for compass, (zhinan zhen in Mandarin), translates to “south-pointing needle.”
Types
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, three types of luopan have been popular. They have some formula rings in common, such as the 24 directions and the early and later heaven arrangements.
San He
This luopan was said to have been used in the Tang dynasty. The San He contains three basic 24-direction rings. Each ring relates to a different method and formula. (The techniques grouped under the name "Three Harmonies" are the San He methods.)
San Yuan
This luopan, also known as the jiang pan (after Jiang Da Hong) or the Yi Pan (because of the presence of Yijing hexagrams) incorporates many formulas used in San Yuan (Three Cycles). It contains one 24-direction ring, known as the Earth Plate Correct Needle, the ring for the 64 hexagrams, and others. (The techniques grouped under the name "Flying Stars" are an example of San Yuan methods.)
Zong He
This luopan combines rings from the San He and San Yuan. It contains three 24-direction-rings and the 64 trigrams ring.
Other types
Each feng shui master may design a luopan to suit preference and to offer students. Some designs incorporate the bagua (trigram) numbers, directions from the Eight Mansions () methods, and English equivalents.
History and development
The luopan is an image of the cosmos (a world model) based on tortoise plastrons used in divination. At its most basic level it serves as a means to assign proper positions in time and space, like the Ming Tang (Hall of Light). The markings are similar to those on a liubo board.
The oldest precursors of the luopan are the or , meaning astrolabe or diviner's board—also sometimes called liuren astrolabes—unearthed from tombs that date between 278 BCE and 209 BCE. These astrolabes consist of a lacquered, two-sided board with astronomical sightlines. Along with divination for Da Liu Ren, the boards were commonly used to chart the motion of Taiyi through the nine palaces. The markings are virtually unchanged from the shi to the first magnetic compasses. The schematic of earth plate, heaven plate, and grid lines is part of the "two cords and four hooks" () geometrical diagram in use since at least the Warring States period. The zhinan zhen or south-pointing needle, is the original magnetic compass, and was developed for feng shui. It featured the two cords and four hooks diagram, direction markers, and a magnetized spoon in the center.
See also
Automatic writing
Chu Silk Manuscript
Dowsing
Geomancy
References
Bibliography
Further reading
An account of the various types of luo pan, and details of 75 separate rings.
The Lowdown on the Luo pan - Feng Shui for Modern Living Magazine
Orientation (geometry)
Chinese inventions
Magnetic devices
Geomancy
Feng Shui |
The Global Design Effort (GDE) was an international team tasked with designing the International Linear Collider (ILC), a particle accelerator to succeed machines such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), with the endorsement of the International Committee for Future Accelerators. Between 2005–2013, the GDE led planning, research and development, and produced an ILC Technical Design Report.
The Global Design Effort was headed by Barry Barish of Caltech, former director of the LIGO laboratory.
References
External links
ILC Global Design Effort (GDE)
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Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense (), commonly known as Grêmio, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre, capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The club plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first division of the Brazilian football league system, and the Campeonato Gaúcho, Rio Grande do Sul's top state league. The club was founded in 1903 by businessman Cândido Dias da Silva and other 32 men, mostly from the large community of German immigrants of Porto Alegre.
Grêmio's home stadium is the Arena do Grêmio, which the team moved to in 2013. With a capacity of over 55,000, the stadium is one of the most modern venues in South America and the eight-largest of its kind in Brazil. Prior to that, Grêmio played at Estádio Olímpico Monumental since 1954. Grêmio usually plays in a tricolor (blue, black and white) striped shirt, black shorts and white socks, which originated the team's nickname.
In 1983, Grêmio became champions of the Intercontinental Cup after defeating Hamburger SV 2-1. Additionally, Grêmio is tied with São Paulo, Santos, Palmeiras, and Flamengo for the most Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores de América titles, having won a total of three each.
As of 2017, Grêmio was ranked number one in the CBF club rankings and is listed by Forbes as the third most valuable football club in the Americas with an estimated value of $295.5 million. Grêmio has won 42 Campeonato Gaúcho, 2 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 1 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, 1 Supercopa do Brasil, 1 Copa Sul and 5 Copa do Brasil. Internationally, Grêmio has won 1 Intercontinental Cup, 3 Copa Libertadores de América, 2 Recopa Sudamericana and 1 Sanwa Bank Cup.
Grêmio has a long-standing and intense rivalry with Internacional, which is widely regarded as one of the fiercest in Brazil and around the world. Matches between the two teams are known as Grenal and are highly anticipated events.
History
The beginning and professionalism at the club
On 7 September 1903, Brazil's first football team, Rio Grande, played an exhibition match in Porto Alegre. An entrepreneur from Sorocaba, São Paulo, named Cândido Dias was besotted with the sport and he went to watch the match. During the match, the ball deflated. As the only owner of a football in Porto Alegre, he lent his ball to the players and the match resumed. After the match, he talked to the local players about how to start a football club. On 15 September 1903, 32 people, including Cândido Dias, met at Salão Grau, a local restaurant and founded "Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense". Most of the founding members were part of the city's German community. Carlos Luiz Bohrer was elected as first president.
The club's first match took place on 6 March 1904, against Fuss Ball Porto Alegre, the first of two matches played that day. Grêmio won the first match 1–0. Unfortunately, the name of the player who scored the club's first goal is lost to history. The trophy Grêmio won that day, the Wanderpreis, is still displayed at the club's museum. Within 5 months the club had inaugurated the Baixada, its first home.
On 18 July 1909, Grêmio beat Internacional 10–0 on the latter's debut game. Grêmio's goalkeeper Kallfelz reportedly left the field to chat with fans during the match. Even now this victory is remembered with pride by Gremistas (Grêmio supporters). The match was the starting point for a rivalry that rages on to this day. Grêmio was one of the founding members of the Porto Alegre football league in 1910, and in 1911 won the league for the first time. On 25 August 1912, in a city league match, Grêmio beat Sport Clube Nacional of Porto Alegre 23–0. Sisson scored 14 goals in the match to record Grêmio's biggest ever win. In 1918, Grêmio became a founding member of the Fundação Rio-Grandense de Desportes (later known as Federação Gaúcha de Futebol), a federation that organized the first state championships in Rio Grande do Sul. The first championship was scheduled for 1918, but the Spanish flu epidemic forced the event to be postponed until 1919. In 1921, a year after the arrival of legendary goalkeeper Eurico Lara, Grêmio won its first state championship.
On 7 July 1911, Grêmio beat Uruguay's national team 2–1. In 1931, Grêmio became one of the first teams in Brazil to play matches at night after installing floodlights at Estádio Baixada. On 19 May 1935, Grêmio became the first team from Rio Grande do Sul to beat a team from the state of São Paulo (considered the strongest Brazilian league at the time) by defeating Santos 3–2. Grêmio was also the first club outside Rio de Janeiro state to play at the Maracanã Stadium, defeating Flamengo 3–1 in 1950.
During this period, Grêmio started to earn a reputation abroad. In 1932 it played its first international match in Rivera (Uruguay). In 1949, the match against Uruguay's Nacional ended in a 3–1 win for Grêmio and the players received a hero's welcome on their return to Porto Alegre. In that same year, Grêmio played for the first time in Central America. Between 1953 and 1954, Grêmio travelled to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia, a tour dubbed "the conquest of the Americas". On 25 February 1959, Grêmio defeated Boca Juniors 4–1 in Buenos Aires, becoming the first foreign team to beat Boca at La Bombonera.
In 1961, Grêmio went on its first European tour playing 24 games in 11 countries: France, Romania, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia and Russia. The Gremistas (Grêmio fans) were growing in number. 1946 saw the first appearance of the club's motto "com o Grêmio onde o Grêmio estiver" ("with Grêmio wherever Grêmio may be"), which was later written into Grêmio's official anthem. An anthem penned by Lupicinio Rodrigues, a samba-cancao composer who became one of the most famous and revered Grêmio fans. The anthem celebrates the Gremistas reputation for attending all Grêmio matches, regardless of the difficulties and obstacles they might have to overcome to see their club. In the late 1950s, Grêmio joined the Taça Brasil, as the Brazilian league was known at the time. The team reached the Taça Brasil semi-finals in 1959, 1963 and 1967. In 1968, the team won its first international title in a friendly cup with teams from Brazil and Uruguay. In 1954, Grêmio inaugurated what was at the time the biggest private stadium in Brazil, the Olímpico Stadium. In 1971, the Taça Brasil championship was replaced by the Campeonato Brasileiro with the first goal ever scored in the Campeonato Brasileiro coming from Grêmio's Néstor Scotta, an Argentine, in a match against São Paulo at Estádio do Morumbi. Grêmio maintained a series of respectable results in Campeonato Brasileiro, usually achieving a top half finish.
Valdir Espinosa and the Intercontinental Cup 1983
Grêmio's first dominant period in South American football began in the early 1980s. Propelled by the completion of their new stadium, the Olímpico Monumental.
Grêmio won its first Campeonato Brasileiro on 3 May 1981, after defeating São Paulo at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo. The scores in the two-leg final were 2–1 at Olímpico and 1–0 for Grêmio at Morumbi. The winning goal was scored by striker Baltazar. Earlier, on 26 April 1981 Olímpico had its biggest attendance ever, when 98,421 fans watched Grêmio lose to Ponte Preta 0–1 in the Campeonato Brasileiro semi-final.
1983 was the most successful year in Grêmio's history. First, Grêmio won the South-American Copa Libertadores, after a consistent yet eventful campaign. One of the matches of the semi-final, the 3–3 draw against Estudiantes at Jorge Luis Hirschi Stadium, became legendary for its belligerence on and off the pitch and is dubbed the "Batalha de La Plata" ("Battle of La Plata").30 años de una de las hazañas más notables de Estudiantes on TN, 8 July 2013 In the finals, Grêmio beat the 1982 South America and World champions Peñarol from Uruguay, with a 1–1 draw in Montevideo and a 2–1 win in Porto Alegre. The winning goal was scored by César just before the end of the match. A year later, Grêmio was runner-up in the Copa Libertadores final, being defeated by Argentina's Independiente.
Also in 1983, Grêmio won the Intercontinental Cup after defeating Hamburger SV of Germany 2–1. Renato Portaluppi scored both goals. With Uruguayan defender De León and goalkeeper Mazaropi also earning club legend status on the back of their performances in the Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup. Porto Alegre, was deafened by the gremista's chant of: "The Earth is Blue". Soon after winning the Intercontinental Cup, Grêmio beat America of Mexico in Los Angeles, and won the Los Angeles Cup.
In 1989, Grêmio won the first Copa do Brasil, a Brazilian knockout cup featuring football teams from all around the country. After humiliating Flamengo with a 6–1 win in the second leg of the semi-finals, Grêmio defeated Sport Recife in the final, with a 0–0 draw in Recife and a 2–1 win in Porto Alegre.
In 1991, after a poor season, Grêmio was relegated for the first time to the Brazilian Second Division but gained immediate promotion back to the Campeonato Brasileiro's elite the following season (1993). After this return to form, 1994 saw Grêmio win its second Copa do Brasil, defeating Ceará in the two-leg final (0–0 and 1–0), the solitary goal scored by striker Nildo. This win kickstarted the club's Tokyo Project.
On 11 December 1994, due a bloated and extensive schedule, Grêmio had to play three matches in a single day at the Olímpico Monumental during the 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho. These matches began at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. against Aimoré, Santa Cruz, and Brasil de Pelotas respectively. They drew the first match and won the other two, using a total of 34 different players from the first team, reserves and academy. The matches had a small public attendance of 758 fans — 247 paying. The matches were also played in temperatures of in the summer heat of Porto Alegre.
Luiz Felipe Scolari and the Libertadores 1995
In May 1995, under head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, Grêmio were runners-up in the Copa do Brasil, losing the final match to Corinthians 0–1 at Olímpico Monumental. In August, a few days after beating arch-rivals Internacional for the state title with a reserve squad, the club won the Copa Libertadores for the second time. Defeating Atlético Nacional of Colombia 3–1 in Porto Alegre and drawing 1–1 in Medellín. The tournament was marked by fierce matches against Palmeiras in the quarter-finals. Palmeiras had perhaps the best squad on the competition, with players such as Rivaldo, Cafu, Edmundo, César Sampaio, Antônio Carlos, Roberto Carlos and Mancuso. They were soundly beaten by Grêmio in the 1st leg in an epic 5–0 match with a hat-trick from Mário Jardel. Palmeiras beat Grêmio 5–1 in the return leg, with Jardel's lone strike proving enough to see Grêmio through to the Semi-finals.
This qualified the club to the 1995 Intercontinental Cup where Grêmio pushed a talented Ajax (featuring Patrick Kluivert, Overmars, Van Der Sar and Kanu) into extra time and penalties despite being a player down. Early 1996 saw Grêmio win the Recopa Sudamericana, beating Argentina's Independiente 4–1.
On 15 December 1996, Grêmio won its second Campeonato Brasileiro, defeating Portuguesa in the final. Portuguesa won the first match at home 2–0, and therefore Grêmio was forced to win the final match at Porto Alegre by the same score or more. Grêmio got to 2–0, with midfielder Ailton scoring the second goal a few minutes before the final whistle. Grêmio won the title due to their higher finish in the league.
In 1997, Grêmio won their third Copa do Brasil title. In the finals against Romário's Flamengo, Grêmio won on away goals after a 0–0 draw in Porto Alegre and a 2–2 draw in Rio de Janeiro. Four years later, in 2001, Grêmio won their fourth Copa do Brasil, defeating Corinthians. The first leg of the final, in Porto Alegre, finished with the score of 2–2. The second game in São Paulo ended with a 3–1 Grêmio victory, in a match which is regarded as one of the finest in Grêmio's history.
Second relegation, Batalha dos Aflitos and the Libertadores 2007
On 2000, Grêmio closed a multi-million deal with Swiss sports marketing firm International Sport and Leisure (ISL). With the newfound income, Grêmio made large investments and expensive hirings, such as Zinho, Paulo Nunes, Gabriel Amato and Leonardo Astrada. However, soon in 2001 ISL went bust after a large corruption scandal involving FIFA. After declaring bankruptcy, the company transferred part its debt to Grêmio. The club's quickly amassed debt would spiral out of control, soon they would be unable to pay player's salaries and do other investments, which resulted in poor field performance.
In 2004, after performing poorly for two consecutive seasons in the Série A, Grêmio finished bottom of the league and were relegated to Campeonato Brasileiro's Second Division. Série B brought even less revenue, which combined with the club's large debt threatented to snowball into Grêmio's bankruptcy. Grêmio's promotion battle was difficult, with only two clubs able to qualify for promotion to the First Division. On 26 November 2005, at Estádio dos Aflitos, Recife against Náutico, Grêmio had four players sent off and two penalty given kicks against them in a tumultuous match that has become known as "The Battle of the Aflitos" ("A Batalha dos Aflitos", "Aflitos" being the name of Náutico's home field).
Bruno Carvalho bounced the first penalty bounced off the post in the first half when Grêmio still had 11 players on the field; the second was saved by goalkeeper Galatto when had been reduced to 7 men. Within 72 seconds of Galatto saving the penalty 17-year-old Anderson had made a run down the left flank to slot the ball into the back of the net to score Grêmio's winning goal. A goal that sealed the Série B championship and promotion to the Série A.
On 9 April 2006, at Estádio Beira-Rio, Grêmio won the state championship against Internacional, preventing them from winning a fifth title in a row. Playing away, Grêmio managed to obtain a 1–1 draw in the second leg of the final, enough to secure the title on away goals. Grêmio players said after the match that there were more than 50,000 Internacional fans in Beira Rio's Stadium and they could still hear the noise made by 6,000 Gremistas. In 2007, at Estádio Olímpico Monumental, Grêmio won the Campeonato Gaúcho once again this time against Juventude.
Also in 2007, Grêmio reached the final of the 2007 Copa Libertadores. Throughout the campaign the team overcame away losses by putting in heroic home performances and earning the moniker of Imortal Tricolor. This also pumped up the fans who even after a heavy 3–0 away defeat to Boca Juniors formed huge lines to buy tickets for the final game in Porto Alegre. with some of the fans queuing for four days or more. Unfortunately fan fervor wasn't enough with Riquelme's magnificent performance handing Boca Juniors a 2–0 win and the Copa Libertadores title.
Renato Portaluppi and the Libertadores 2017
In 2008, after the sudden firing of their head coach Vagner Mancini, the club hired Celso Roth. Within a month they had prematurely dropped out of both the domestic cup (Copa do Brasil) and their state championship (Campeonato Gaúcho). This led to the team going through a state of crisis and, soon after, major renovation. They were expected to finish in the bottom half of the Campeonato Brasileiro but managed to finish in second place. For many supporters, even that was considered a failure as in the first half of the championship, the team was in fine form and even considered the best in the country. At the halfway point of the season the team had a 10-point lead over second place that they would eventually surrender in the final games of the season.
2012 marked the last year of the club's former stadium, Olímpico Monumental. Fan expectations were high but were not matched by the team's performance. Grêmio did, however, qualify for the Libertadores the following year.
In 2014, the club once again qualified for the Copa Libertadores de América and signed Enderson Moreira as the new manager. However, after a successful campaign in the group stage, Grêmio failed in the competition and were eliminated by San Lorenzo in the Round of 16. A few days before, the club was defeated 6–2 on aggregate by their biggest rival, the Internacional, in the finals of the Campeonato Gaúcho. With nothing more than a regular campaign at the beginning of the Série A, club president Fábio Koff signed Luiz Felipe Scolari as the new coach of the team. The club also invested in Giuliano, the biggest hiring of the year.
In 2015, former Grêmio player Roger Machado was hired as the new manager. A short lived but initially successful run, Machado's time with Grêmio saw them qualify for the 2016 Copa Libertadores with a finish in the Campeonato Brasileiro in 3rd place. Machado oversaw a famous victory over beat bitter rivals Internacional with a 5–0 drubbing in "Grenal" No. 407. Nonetheless, towards the end of the year, the team began to show a lack of organization, especially in its defensive system. As fan support dwindled, Roger announced his resignation after a 3–0 loss against Ponte Preta in September 2016. Renato Portaluppi replaced him and under his guidance a resurgent Grêmio became champions of the Copa do Brasil against Atlético Mineiro in a 4–2 aggregate score, making them the Brazilian club with the most titles in this tournament (5). After this historic feat, fans affectionately nicknamed Grêmio the "Rei de Copas" (King of Cups).
In 2017, Grêmio won their third Libertadores, after defeating Club Atlético Lanús 1–0 at Arena do Grêmio, followed by a 2–1 victory in Estadio Ciudad de Lanús. Luan was named the player of the tournament, while goalkeeper Marcelo Grohe performed spectacularly with a heroic, almost impossible save in the semi-final match against Barcelona Sporting Club. They became the third Brazilian club to win a third Copa Libertadores, after São Paulo and Santos.
The club went on to represent CONMEBOL at the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup, held in the United Arab Emirates. Grêmio beat Pachuca 1–0 in a tight semi-final, the goal coming from Everton in extra-time. They were beaten 0–1 by Real Madrid in the final.
2018 Season and Libertadores
Grêmio once again finished 4th in the 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro securing a place in the Copa Libertadores de América
having been knocked out in the semi-final of the tournament on goal-difference in 2018 by a late River Plate goal to end the match 2–2. The goal was scored from a penalty, given on review of a handball by the VAR from Matheus Bressan in the 95th minute. Bressan was subsequently transferred. In the hours following the match it was revealed that River Plate manager Marcelo Gallardo had broken the rules of his touchline ban at half-time by entering the River dressing room. Grêmio appealed the result within 24 hours of the final whistle based on this information. It took CONMEBOL 2 days to deliberate, deciding that the result should stand, with Gallardo receiving a $50,000 fine and a 4-match suspension (1 from the Bombonera Stadium for the first leg of the Libertadores final against Boca Juniors and 3 subsequent touchline bans). River Plate would go on to win the Copa Libertadores de América after further controversy.
In the 2020 season Grêmio met their rivals Internacional at Copa Libertadores for the first time in history. The first leg at the Arena do Grêmio ended in controversy as a fight broke out between Grêmio's Pepê and Inter's Moisés which quickly escalated into a full-brawl between the two teams and eight players — three of each team in the field and more two from the bench — were sent off. The match ended on a tie.
2021 crises, relegation and return
The 2020 saw a decline on the performance of the team, while they were able to secure the Campeonato Gaúcho, they finished in 6th in the Brasileirão which didn't guarantee their berth to the Libertadores for the first time since 2013, having to play at the qualifying stages. The team later fail to qualify to the 2021 Copa Libertadores after losing to Ecuador's Independiente del Valle. The defeat ended up causing the resignation of Renato Portaluppi, who had worked at the club for almost five years.
In 2021, Grêmio was elected the best club in South America of the decade, between the years 2011–2020, in a survey carried out by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The ranking took into account the points scored by clubs in the organization's Club World Ranking each year.
Portaluppi's replacement was Tiago Nunes, with whom Grêmio qualified for the next phase of the Copa Sudamericana and won the Campeonato Gaúcho in the final played against Internacional. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused various infections among the squad, which combined with other factors resulted in a weak performance at the 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro, getting just two points from seven games and dropping to bottom of the league table. Nunes was fired and replaced with Luiz Felipe Scolari, in turn, also failed to lead the club out of the relegation zone and ended up leaving by mutual agreement after three months of work. Vagner Mancini, then America Mineiro coach, was hired for his place in October. Without achieving results, Grêmio finished the championship relegated for the third time to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.
After a weak start in the 2022 Campeonato Gaúcho, Mancini was fired and replaced with Roger Machado, who led to the team to a fifth Gauchão title in sequence after a victory against rival's Internacional in the semi-finals and the finals against Ypiranga. In September Machado was replaced by a returning Renato Portaluppi. The Série B campaign was enough to guarantee access to return to the Série A in 2023.
In December 2022, Grêmio announced that Luis Suárez would be joining the club for a two-year contract. The signing drew worldwide attention to the club. Suárez made his debut on 17 January 2023 in a match against São Luiz for the 2023 Recopa Gaúcha. Suárez scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win.
Symbols
Stars
According to the club, the gold star represents the victory in the World Club Championship; the silver represents the three South American competition victories; and the bronze one represents the National competitions. There is also a gold star in Grêmio's flag that represents a player, Everaldo, the sole Grêmio player in the 1970 Brazilian World Cup winning team.
Flag
The first club flag was unveiled by the club during the opening ceremony for the Baixada stadium. At that time, it had a horizontal stripe of blue, black and white, with a medallion on the left top corner.
The Brazilian Flag was the inspiration for the Tricolor's standard from 1918 to 1944.
Anthem
Grêmio's anthem is one of the most critically acclaimed in all of Brazilian football, other than the anthems of the clubs from Rio de Janeiro (all composed by Lamartine Babo), it is the only football anthem composed by a renowned composer, Lupicínio Rodrigues. Featuring a vivid melody in the style of a march, the anthem features the famous verses: Até a pé nós iremos / para o que der e vier / mas o certo é que nós estaremos / com o Grêmio onde o Grêmio estiver (Even on foot we will go / against all obstacles / but we sure will be / with Grêmio wherever Grêmio may be). Grêmio supporters boast that Grêmio, as the anthem hints, has never played without supporters anywhere in the world.
Eurico Lara, a goalkeeper who played for the club in the 1920s and in the 1930s, is mentioned in the anthem, where he is called the immortal idol (or craque imortal, in Portuguese).
Team kit
Grêmio tricolour scheme is made up of blue, black and white, an unusual colour combination for football shirts. The first Grêmio kit was inspired by English club Exeter City. At the time, the original kit included a black cap, striped shirt in blue and havana (a variation of brown), white tie, white shorts and black socks. Subsequently, the uniform was changed to blue and black due to the lack of havana fabric. Soon after, vertical white stripes were included in the kit creating a pattern that is used to the present day. Because of this pattern, Grêmio is commonly referred as the "Tricolor". The Grêmio colors are set in the club statute as so;
Home colors – Vertical stripes of light blue and black, with white piping;
Away colors – White with blue and black detail;
Alternative colors – Dark Blue or blue with white details.
Kit evolution
Grêmio kits throughout its history:
Sponsorship
It was in the early 1980s that Grêmio received its first official sponsor, with the Brazilian Olympikus providing sports equipment. The partnership lasted until early 1983, when, on account of the brilliant moment that had been living in their history, the Grêmio has signed a contract with a German Adidas to supply sports material. However, the partnership was short-lived, as in 1985, with the end of the contract with Adidas, a new supplier emerged, returning to the national level with Penalty.
In 1987, for the first time in its history the Grêmio signed a sponsorship agreement for stamping the shirt, with Coca-Cola. This turn in their campaigns unprecedentedly exchanged their traditional red logo for black, because this color belongs to Internacional, its biggest rival, and it was vetoed by Grêmio.
Sponsorship of Penalty and Coca-Cola persisted with Grêmio for nearly a decade until, in 1995, the soft drink brand left the main sponsor of the shirts, which was assumed by Tintas Renner, a paint manufacturer, until 1997. In 1998, General Motors assumed this position, exposing numerous names of vehicles throughout the partnership. At the beginning of the 21st century, Penalty left the club, with the Italian Kappa providing sports equipment.
In 2001, for the payment of debts, Grêmio closed an agreement with the state government of Rio Grande do Sul, exposing Banrisul banking mark on his shirt. However, after payment, it was Banrisul who assumed the payments and became the master sponsor of the club. In 2005 the contract with Kappa came to an end, after this, kits were the responsibility of another German in club history, Puma. Also from this era, Grêmio opened more spaces for smaller sponsors, with the first being Tramontina, Unimed, TIM and the return of Coca-Cola. In 2011, once again changing the supplier of sports equipment occurs, this time taking the Brazilian Topper, under the value of €4.8 million per season, which operates in the South American market, with a contract until the end of 2014. Beginning in 2015 season, the British company Umbro supplied sports equipment of Grêmio, paying the value of €6 million per year.
Stadium
Grêmio's original stadium was the Estádio da Baixada, built in 1904 at the upper-class neighbourhood of Moinhos de Vento in Porto Alegre. It was made to please the city's growing colony of Germans, who were concentrated in the region. The Estádio da Baixada hosted Grêmio until 1954.
The second stadium was the Estádio Olímpico Monumental. It was inaugurated on 19 September 1954 as Estádio Olímpico, located in the neighbourhood of Azenha. At the time it was the largest private stadium in Brazil. Estádio Olímpico's first game was between Grêmio and Nacional from Uruguay; Grêmio won by a score of 2–0, with both goals scored by Vítor.
In 1980 a second tier was added to the Olímpico, and the stadium was renamed the Olímpico Monumental. The first game at the renamed Olímpico Monumental was played on 21 June 1980, when Grêmio beat Vasco da Gama by a score of 1–0.
Estádio Olímpico Monumental has an attendance record of 98,421 people for the game against Ponte Preta on 26 April 1981.
By the 2000s, the board of directors start to study what to do with the aging Olímpico, the stadium did not meet the club's expectations, due to the construction's lifetime, high maintenance costs, low comfort standards, low quality of services, poor security, insufficient parking and a highly populated region. The club instead decided to build a new stadium. The project was approved in 2008 and the construction of a new stadium started in September 2010.
In 2012, Grêmio moved into their new stadium, Arena do Grêmio, a big multi-use stadium in Porto Alegre. Its capacity is 55,225 and is one of the most modern venues in South America. The inaugural match in Arena was a friendly against Hamburger SV on 8 December 2012. The attendance record was of 52,223 people at the 2016 Copa do Brasil Finals against Atlético Minero. The Arena also hosted the first leg of the 2017 Copa Libertadores Finals against Lanús.
The club also rents the Estádio Antônio Vieira Ramos in the city of Gravataí, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, as the home stadium for its women's team.
Training centre
The first location for training used by Grêmio was the additional field built next door of Estádio Olímpico Monumental. However, it can not be exactly characterized as a training centre. In 2000 the construction of the first training centre of the club, the CT Hélio Dourado, in Eldorado do Sul, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre was completed, but, because of it being located quite far away, it ended up being used for club's Academy.
In 2014,the construction of the new training center of Grêmio, the CT Luiz Carvalho, located next to the Arena do Grêmio, in Porto Alegre was finished. It is adjacent to the Guaíba River, and has one of the most beautiful views of the city with the stadium and a cable-stayed bridge in the background.
Supporters
Grêmio fans are called "gremistas" or "tricolores". Originally, Grêmio was a club heavily supported by Brazilians of German descent of Rio Grande do Sul. Over time, that distinction has reduced, and today the fan base is very diverse. The club, together with Internacional, divide the population of Rio Grande do Sul; Grêmio is also the most popular club in western Santa Catarina and south-west Paraná. The club has around 8 million fans in the country, meaning that, in terms of ranking, the club is the 6th most supporters in the Brazil. The largest outside the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo axis. A 2022 research pointed out that Grêmio has the most "loyal" fans in Brazil. The survey that measured the size of the fans in the country identified that 90.6% of Grêmio fans say they support Grêmio exclusively and that only 9.4% of Grêmio fans supported or sympathized with another Brazilian football team. In 2023, Grêmio had more than 100,000 sócios (club-members/associates).
Geral do Grêmio
The largest group of Grêmio supporters is Geral do Grêmio, the first and largest Brazilian barra brava, movement similar to European ultras and Brazil's own torcidas organizadas, but with unique characteristics of Latin America. The group was created during the year 2001 with Grêmio fans watching games from the seats behind the southern goal at Estádio Olímpico Monumental (an area of the stands called "Geral", as in "general", where tickets had lower costs). Over the following years, more people joined the movement, and they decided to collectively call themselves by the name of the area from where they watched the games. A unique and traditional feature of the crowd is running down the stand (a movement called the "avalanche"), pressing against the fence when a goal is scored as a way to also embrace the players in celebration.
Being a barra brava, the Geral do Grêmio has differences with the ultras and the torcidas organizadas. They are a free membership group (which means that they do not charge a monthly fee), do not have their own uniforms, nor control over who participates. On games they bring a band consisting of percussion and brass instruments, dictating the rhythm of the chants throughout the game, never stopping or sitting. Banners and flags are exhibited in the length of the sector in which they are located inside the stadium, bringing a unique identity to their supporters. Also, wherever possible, they use flare, smoke bombs, fire extinguishers, among other materials to encourage the team on the field. In the Arena do Grêmio, which opened in December 2012, the lower northern stand was built with no chairs, with the Geral crowd and its "avalanche" celebration in mind. However, in 2013 on a game against L.D.U. Quito the avalanche resulted on the fence breaking and many fans falling into the trench that separated the stands from the pitch. Safety barriers were installed to make the avalanche impossible.
The Geral enjoys good relationships with some other torcidas organizadas in Brazil, but due the inspiration on the platinean barra bravas, the Geral has a strong bond with Nacional's La Banda Del Parque. Members of both groups frequently do confraternizations together, and members frequently attend each other's games.
Other supporters
Other supporters group includes the Torcida Jovem do Grêmio (Young Grêmio supporters), the oldest in operation, founded in 1977 and was considered the main supporters group until the late 1990s; Rasta do Grêmio, Super Raça Gremista, Garra Tricolor, Máfia Tricolor and the Velha Escola (Old School, a schism from the Geral). There are also exclusively female supporters group, such as the Núcleo de Mulheres Gremistas and the Elis Vive Collective.
Another historically important group is Coligay, recognized to be Brazil's first LGBT supporter group. The group was founded in 1977 and suffered of homophobic attacks from rival team's fans and repression by the Brazilian military dictatorship's government. However, the group was relatively accepted by Grêmio's regular fans and supporters as their founding coincided with the end of a long drought and a streak of titles, which gave Goligay the fame of begin an "amulet". The group closed in 1983 but it's legacy has since been adopted by newer fans.
Rivalries
Grenal
As the years went on, Grêmio and another important football club from Porto Alegre, Internacional, started to form a rivalry. Soon the games between these two clubs got their own name, Grenal, and resulted in record attendance. The rivalry divides the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the city of Porto Alegre in half. It is one of the fiercest football rivalries in Brazil, South America and the world. It is accompanied by high levels of emotion, competition and occasional violence.
The first match was held in 1909, Grêmio won the first Grenal in history by the score of 10 to 0. The team led the statistics of Grenais in the first years of dispute until they were surpassed in 1945 by Internacional, which held the advantage in victories until today.
In 1935, Eurico Lara, who was Grêmio's goalie, conceded a penalty kick. When the Internacional player was about to kick it, Lara's brother stopped the game and reminded him of his doctor's recommendation that he didn't overexert himself. He didn't listen. Soon the Internacional player took the shot. Lara caught it, but as soon as he did he fell sideways and didn't move. He was substituted after the wondrous save, and Grêmio won the game. But unfortunately he died two months later as a result of the fatigue from that game. Lara has been immortalized in the club anthem.
Gre-Ju
Gre-Ju is another rivalry of Rio Grande do Sul, between Grêmio and Juventude from Caxias do Sul. For most of its history, the rivalry was one-sided as Juventude was traditionally a weaker team, but it heated up in the 1990s as Juventude grew to be the third powerhouse of the state.
Players
First team squadFor recent transfers, see 2023 Grêmio F.B.P.A. Transfers.Reserves squad
Other players under contract
Out on loan
Club officials
Board members
President: Alberto Guerra
Vice-president of football: Antonio Brum
Vice-president: Eduardo Magrisso
Vice-president: Fábio Floriani
Vice-president: Geraldo Correa
Vice-president: Gustavo Bolognesi
Vice-president: José Carlos Corrêa Duarte
Vice-president: Luciano Feldens
Director of football: Antonio Brum
Chief executive officer (CEO): Márcio Pinto Ramos
Advisor of presidency: Gustavo Zanchi
General secretary: Kevin Krieger
Coaching staff
Manager: Renato Portaluppi
Assistant coach: Alexandre Mendes
Assistant coach: Marcelo Salles
Fitness coach: Reverson Pimentel
Assistant fitness coach: Gabriel Gindri Alves
Assistant fitness coach: Márcio Pereira
Goalkeeper coach: Mauri Lima
Assistant goalkeeper coach: Enio Oliveira
Football administrative manager: Marcelo Rudolph
Technical observer: Gustavo Fragoso
Performance analyst: Antônio Cruz
Performance analyst: Gustavo Somavilla
Performance analyst: Paulo Timm
Performance analyst: Rafael Tavares
Market analyst: Lucas Sacchet
Medical staff
Medical director: Ciro Simoni
Doctor: Gabriel Severo
Doctor: Márcio Dornelles
Doctor: Paulo Rabaldo
Massagist: Anderson Meurer
Massagist: José Flores
Massagist: Lucas Cruz
Massagist: Marco Aurélio
Nutritionist: Guilherme Oliveira
Nutritionist: Tiago Fontoura
Physiologist: Marco Aurélio Melo
Physiotherapist: Felipe Coimbra
Physiotherapist: Gustavo Pacheco Cardoso
Physiotherapist: Luiz Peres
Physiotherapist: Marcos Ganga
Physiotherapist: Thiago Albuquerque
Nurse: Adriano Welter
Other staff
Press officer: Márcio Neves
Press officer: Vitor Rodriguez
Logistics supervisor: Pedro Aguiar
Equipment manager: Danilo Bueno
Equipment manager: Diego Simões
Assistant equipment manager: Antônio Marcos
Cameraman: Juares Dagort
Butler: Paulo Oliveira
Chief security: Luiz Fernando Cardoso
Security: André Trisch
Security: Cristiano Nunes
Security: José Nolan Pedroso
Security: Pedro Carvalho
Security: Sandro Gonçalves
Caretaker: João Moacir da Luz
Motorist: Antonio Machado
Knave: João Brito
Maintenance technician: Higino Duarte Luciano
Managerial history
Honours
Football
Professional
shared record
Note (1): Although the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup are officially different tournaments, in Brazil they are often treated as the same tournament.
Friendly
International
Troféu Fronteira da Paz (URU) (1): 2010
Taça Hang Ching (CHN) (1): 1998
Pepsi Cola Cup (CHN) (1): 1998
Troféu Colombino (SPA) (1): 1997
Troféu Agrupación Peñas Valencianas (SPA) (1): 1996
Copa Renner (1): 1996
Philips Cup (SWI) (1): 1987
Philips Cup (NED) (1): 1986
Rotterdam AD-Tournament (NED) (1): 1985
Troféu Ciudad de Palma de Mallorca (SPA) (1): 1985
Troféu 'CEL' (SLV) (1): 1983
Los Angeles Cup (USA) (1): 1983
Troféu Ciudad de Valladolid (SPA) (1): 1981
Troféu Torre del Vigia (URU) (1): 1981
Copa El Salvador del Mundo (SLV) (1): 1981
Troféu Ciudad de Rosário (ARG) (1): 1979
Taça Cidade de Salvador (BRA) (1): 1972
Taça do Atlântico (1): 1971
Copa Internacional de Porto Alegre (BRA) (1): 1971
Taça Río de La Plata (1): 1968
Troféu Internacional de Salônica (GRE) (1): 1962
Troféu Internacional de Atenas (GRE) (1): 1961
Copa José González Artigas (ECU) (1): 1954
Troféu Sadrep (URU) (1): 1949
Copa El President de la Republica de Costa Rica (CRC) (1): 1949
National
Troféu João Saldanha (1): 2010
Troféu Osmar Santos (1): 2008
Taça Ironcryl (1): 1997
Taça Presidente Médici (1): 1971
Troféu Domingos Garcia Filho (1): 1970
Taça Petrobrás (1): 1970
Copa Tancredo Neves (1): 1960
Copa Revista do Esporte (1): 1960
Taça Correio do Povo (1): 1949
Taça Columbia Pictures (1): 1940
Taça General Flores da Cunha (1): 1935
Regional
Troféu Rádio Gaúcha 90 Anos (RS) (1): 2017
Troféu Rádio Bandeirantes 80 Anos (RS) (1): 2014
Taça Rádio Pelotense 85 Anos (RS) (1): 2010
Copa Solidariedade (RS) (1): 1995
Taça RBS TV 25 Anos (RS) (1): 1988
Troféu Sesquicentenário da Revolução Farroupilha (RS) (1): 1985
Torneio 'Festa da Uva' (RS) (1): 1965
Torneio Início Estadual (RS) (3): 1963, 1965, 1967
Troféu Wallig (RS) (1): 1962
Taça Jubileu de Prata da Refinaria Ipiranga (RS) (1): 1962
Copa Farroupilha 120 Anos (1): 1955
Taça Bento Gonçalves (1): 1952
Taça Rádio Gaúcha (1): 1952
Taça Manuel Amorim Albuquerque (1): 1950
Campeonato Extra de Porto Alegre (2): 1948, 1949
Taça Cidade de Porto Alegre (2): 1948, 1996
Taça General Corrêa Lima (1): 1946
Taça Casa Sport (1): 1946
Taça 'Dia do Futebol' (1): 1945
Taça Ernesto Dorneles (1): 1943
Taça Cambial (2): 1942, 1943
Campeonato Gaúcho de Amadores (1): 1942
Campeonato Metropolitano de Amadores (1): 1942
Taça de Portugal (1): 1940
Taça José Loureiro da Silva (1): 1938
Taça 'Dia do Filiado' (1): 1938
Taça Café Nacional (1): 1938
Taça Martel (2): 1936, 1937
Torneio 'Benefício da FRGD'(1): 1935
Taça Flores da Cunha 1): 1934
Taça 'Dia do Cronista' (7): 1933, 1944, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968
Taça 'Dia do Desporto' (1): 1932
Torneio de Encerramento de Porto Alegre (3): 1931, 1933, 1938
Torneio de Preparação de Porto Alegre (1): 1929
Taça Reivindicação (1): 1929
Taça Fernando Caldas (1): 1928
Torneio Washington Luis (1): 1926
Torneio FC Porto Alegre (1): 1926
Taça São Pedro (1): 1924
Taça Associação dos Varejistas (2): 1923, 1924
Torneio Início de Porto Alegre (14): 1922, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1967
Taça Rio Branco (3): 1914, 1915, 1916
Taça Sportiva (1): 1909
Troféu Wanderpreis (8): 1904, 1905*, 1905*, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912
Woman
Copa Sul (1): 2002
Campeonato Gaúcho de Futebol Feminino (4): 2000, 2001, 2018, 2022
Copa de Inverno de Gramado (RS) (1): 1998
Copa 90 Anos do EC Pelotas (1): 1998
Futsal
Copa Atlântico Sul (1): 1987
Taça Governador do Estado (RS) (1): 1976
Campeonato Metropolitano (2): 1973, 1974
Football 7
Liga das Américas (1): 2020
Campeonato Gaúcho (1): 2020
Taça Governador (1): 2020
Basketball
Campeonato Gaúcho (3): 1934, 1954, 1955
Volleyball
Campeonato Gaúcho (2): 1929, 1934
Campeonato Citadino (6): 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935
Tennis
Campeonato Gaúcho (1): 1926
Table Tennis
Campeonato Citadino (1): 1949
Boxing
Campeonato Gaúcho (3): 1949, 1950, 1951
Sport of Athletics
Troféu Brasil de Atletismo (2): 1958, 1959
Campeonato Gaúcho de Atletismo Masculino (16): 1934, 1935, 1936, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
Campeonato Gaúcho de Atletismo Feminino (8): 1951, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1972
Campeonato Brasileiro record
References
Websites
Books
Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro, Volume 1 – Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.
Especial Placar – 500 Times do Brasil'', São Paulo: Editora Abril: 2003.
External links
Geral do Grêmio – official website
Coleção Grêmio Gianfranco . The best online collection of Grêmio memorabilia; organized by Gianfranco Spolaore.
Football clubs in Brazil
Football clubs in Rio Grande do Sul
Football clubs in Porto Alegre
Association football clubs established in 1903
Copa Libertadores winning clubs
Recopa Sudamericana winning clubs
Intercontinental Cup winning clubs
Copa do Brasil winning clubs
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winning clubs |
Paval Sieviaryniec (, born December 30, 1976) is a Belarusian journalist and Christian democratic politician and youth leader and one of the founders of the Young Front.
Since June 7, 2020 he is under arrest. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience. On May 25, 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of organizing mass unrest.
Biography
Paval Sieviaryniec was born in Orsha, Vitebsk Region into a family of a journalist Kastuś Sieviaryniec and a school teacher Tacciana Sieviaryniec. In 1994, he graduated from school with a gold medal. In 2000 he graduated from the Geography faculty of the Belarusian State University.
From 1994 till 1999 he worked as journalist for several state and commercial newspapers. Since 1998 Paval Sieviaryniec became known for his essays and his work as a publicist.
Political activity
In 1995, Paval Sieviaryniec joined the Belarusian Popular Front "Adradžeńnie". In February 1997, he became leader of the Minsk youth fraction of the organization. In September 1997, he was elected the Young Front co-chair at the Constituent Assembly.
In 1997-2004 Sieviaryniec became known as leader of mass youth protests against policy of the president Lukashenka.
Within the framework of his activities in the Young Front Paval Sieviaryniec initiated many educational projects as well as projects promoting Belarusian language, democratic values and the idea of European integration of Belarus.
In 1999-2003, Paval Sieviaryniec was he Deputy Chairman of the BPF Party. From 1994 to 2004 he was also chairman of the Young Front. Sieviaryniec was one of the organizers of the I Belarusian Youth Congress (July 2001), Kurapaty defense (September 2001 – June 2002), national campaign "European Belarus" (spring 2002), pre-election block "Young Belarus" (2004).
First imprisonment
In 2005, Paval Sieviaryniec was accused of organizing protest actions against Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s running for a third presidential term that took place in Minsk after 2004 controversial referendum. He was sentenced to three years of correctional labor and served his sentence involved in logging in Maloje Sitna village in the north of Belarus (Polack District).
The U.S. protested the sentence, calling it a "parody of justice", and the European Union stated that "even by the standards of Belarus, this is an excessive penalty". In 2006, international organization Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. Taking into account amnesty, the term was shortened to 2 years. Sieviaryniec was released in 2007. In captivity he wrote a book "Letters from the forest" ("Лісты зь лесу"). According to Nasha Niva survey, it was considered 2007 best Belarusian book.
Sieviaryniec faced a new series of charges in 2007. In July, a court found him and fellow activist Aleksey Shein guilty of "distributing illegal literature" after they were found leaflets for a political meeting. On 19 August, Sevyarynets was arrested with other youth activists during a Brest book reading at which he discussed his three books. The group were detained for "participating in an unsanctioned meeting" and were also accused of possessing counterfeit money and Ukrainian liquor.
BCD activity
Sieviaryniec later became a co-leader of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. In December 2010, he was arrested again on charges related to protests against Lukashenko's disputed re-election. On 16 May 2011, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. He was released from detention on 19 October 2013.
Second imprisonment
Paval Sieviaryniec was detained during Ploscha night protests on 20 December 2010 and convicted in organizing and preparing activities that seriously disrupt public order, or participating in them. Later he was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment, he was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Released from detention on 19 November 2013. In captivity he wrote an essay book "Belarusian depth" ("Беларуская глыбіня").
Later activity
Currently Paval Sieviaryniec worked on re-foundation of the Belarusian Christian-democratic party, and is co-chairman of its organizational committee.
On June 7, 2020 Sieviaryniec was arrested for his participation in earlier protests and sentenced to 75 days “administrative arrest”. Since then he has been unable to meet with his lawyer and has partly been in solitary confinement. In addition, his bible has been taken away from him. On May 25, 2021, a Mogilev court sentenced him to seven years in prison on charges of organizing mass unrest.
Attitude towards homosexuality
He has been very vocal against adaption of LGBT acceptance in Belarus. On June 4, 2016, Sieviaryniec gave an interview to Radio Free Europe stating that homosexuality as a social norm will destroy the Belarusian nation, the very idea of gender is just as dangerous as racist propaganda or provoking class warfare and that gay Belarusians dishonor the memory of those died fighting against the USSR and Nazi Germany. In this interview he said:
Make Out, a Belarusian group that describes itself as a feminist anti-discriminatory project launched by the Belarusian PEN Center in 2014, denounced that Sieviaryniec was "one of the first people who stated that gays should be 'treated', and that "gender is an ideology". Furthermore, when Sieviaryniec found out about PEN's support of Make Out, he stopped paying dues alleging that centre was "promoting a sexual lifestyle".
On 29 October 2019 he was expelled from the Belarusian PEN Center because of his homophobia, as he had supported in that year a petition from an anti-gender movement to make the government pass a law to criminalise LGBTI 'propaganda'. A summary of his statements was published on the site of the Belarusian PEN Center on October 30, 2019,
After being expelled from the Belarusian PEN Center Sieviaryniec penned an open letter, claiming that a leftist group of "cultural marxists" and "LGBTI propagandists" had gathered in the leadership of the PEN centre and prosecutes Christians.
Writing
Paval Sieviaryniec is a member of the Belarusian Writers' Union, and is working on his three-volume novel Belarusalim (vol. 2 Heart of the Light is to be published in 2020), Belarusian Association of Journalists, Belarusian Language Society, World Association of Belarusians "Baćkaŭščyna".
Sakharov Prize nomination
Upon being jointly nominated by the European People's Party, the Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe for the Sakharov Prize for his democratic opposition in Belarus, news surfaced that Sieviaryniec had promoted homophobic policies in the country. Support from the three European nominating parties was soon dropped off, given that the purpose of prize to recognise people who defend human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Bibliography
"Ды-джэі Адраджэньня" (Deejays of national rebirth, 1998)
"Пакаленьне Маладога Фронту" (Generation of the Malady Front, 2002)
"Нацыянальная ідэя" (National idea, 2005)
"Лісты зь лесу" (Letters from the forest, 2007)
"Брату" (To the brother, 2007).
"Беларуская глыбіня" (Belarusian depth, 2015)
"Беларуская Хрысціянская Дэмакратыя" (Belarusian Christian Democracy 1917 - 2017, 2017)
"Сто асобаў беларускай хрысціянскай дэмакратыі" ( One hundred persons in Belarusian Christian democracy, 2017)
"Беларусалім. Золак" (Belarusalim. The Dawn, 2017)
Awards
Paval Sieviaryniec is a laureate of the Ales Adamovich literature prize of the Belarusian PEN Centre, Francišak Aliachnovič Award, Vasiľ Bykaŭ "For Freedom of Thought" Award.
Personal life
On 11 January 2014 married Volha Šylak. They have a son Francišak (born 2018).
See also
Belarusian Christian Democracy
Young Front
BPF Party
References
External links
Personal site
Belarusian Christian Democracy - the party's organizational committee
1976 births
Living people
People from Orsha
Belarusian journalists
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Belarus
BPF Party politicians
Belarusian Christian Democracy politicians
Political prisoners according to Viasna Human Rights Centre
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Belarus
Belarusian prisoners and detainees
Belarusian democracy activists
Belarusian dissidents
Place of birth missing (living people) |
The 1983 IBF World Championships (World Badminton Championships) were held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1983. Following the results of the mixed doubles.
Main stage
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Final stage
External links
First round
Second round
Third round
Quarterfinals
1983 IBF World Championships
World Championships |
Praecox is a Latin term meaning "very early". It is often used as a qualifying adjective in Latin binomials, and could mean "early flowering", "primitive", "premature" or "early onset" (in the case of medical conditions).
Plants
Agapanthus praecox, a South African bulbous plant
Aira praecox, a European grass
Allium praecox, a Californian onion
Casearia praecox, a West Indian tree
Chimonanthus praecox, wintersweet, a Chinese shrub
Clematis 'Praecox', a flowering shrub cultivar
Cytisus × praecox, a spring-flowering shrub
Hydrangea paniculata 'Praecox', a flowering shrub cultivar
Lindera praecox, an Asian shrub
Medicago praecox, a Mediterranean plant in the pea family
Pittocaulon praecox, a Mexican shrub in the daisy family
Pleione praecox, an Asian orchid
Rhododendron 'Praecox', a flowering shrub cultivar
Roscoea praecox, a Chinese perennial in the ginger family
Stachyurus praecox, a shrub from Japan
Thymus praecox, a European thyme
Weigela praecox, a shrub from Russia
Fungi
Agrocybe praecox, a Northern Hemisphere mushroom
Gymnopilus praecox, a North American mushroom
Animals
Actebia praecox, the Portland moth
Ceratotherium praecox, an extinct rhinoceros
Denticetopsis praecox, a South American fish
Deroceras praecox, an east European slug
Iotabrycon, an Ecuadorean fish
Melanotaenia praecox, a rainbow fish from West Papua
Mordacia praecox, a lamprey (primitive fish) from Australia
Thamnophilus praecox, the Cocha antshrike, a bird from Ecuador
Persia praecox, a trilobite from Iran
Medical conditions
Dementia praecox, a degenerative disease of late puberty and early adulthood
Ejaculatio praecox, premature ejaculation in human males
Lymphedema praecox, a swelling of the lymph nodes
Pubertas praecox, premature puberty in humans |
Waqar Younis, a retired Pakistani cricketer, took 35 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and only 41 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm fast bowler who represented his country between 1989 and 2003, the BBC described Waqar as "one of the most feared fast bowlers in recent cricketing history", while former Pakistan captain Imran Khan said that Waqar was "a thinking cricketer and, at his peak, he was the most destructive bowler the game had seen". The cricket almanack Wisden noted his "pace and swing", and named him one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1992. Waqar was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on 9 December 2013.
Waqar made his Test debut in 1989 against India in Karachi, where he took four wickets in the first innings. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against New Zealand in a match which Pakistan won at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. He took a pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against Zimbabwe at the Defence Stadium, Karachi in December 1993. His career-best figures for an innings were 7 wickets for 76 runs against New Zealand at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, in October 1990. He went on to take ten or more wickets per match on five occasions.
Making his One Day International (ODI) debut in October 1989 against West Indies at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium (Sharjah), Waqar's first ODI five-wicket haul came the following year against Sri Lanka in a match which Pakistan won at the Sharjah. He achieved a hat-trick (three wickets in consecutive deliveries), against New Zealand in 1994. His career-best bowling in ODI cricket was 7 wickets for 36 runs, against England at Headingley in June 2001. He took three consecutive five-wicket hauls in ODI matches in November 1990. Retiring from international cricket in 2003 after nearly 14 years, Waqar took 22 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket and 13 in ODIs. As of November 2020, he is joint sixth (with Rangana Herath) overall among all-time combined five-wicket haul takers, and top of the equivalent ODI list.
Key
Tests
One Day Internationals
References
External links
Younis
Younis, Waqar |
Bujakovići () is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
References
Populated places in Srebrenica |
Blank Peaks is a cluster of ice-free peaks occupying the isolated ridge between Bartrum and Foggydog Glaciers in the Brown Hills of Antarctica.
Mapped by the VUWAE (1960–61) and named for H. Richard Blank, geologist with the expedition.
References
Mountains of Oates Land |
Xairo Rial Soto (born 13 June 2005), sometimes known as just Xairo, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for UD Ibiza.
Club career
Xairo is a youth product of hometown side UD Ibiza, having previously played for PE Sant Jordi. In February 2023, he and Juvenil teammates Álex Sánchez and Sergi Chazarra started training with the main squad.
Xairo made his first team – and professional – debut at the age of 18 on 27 May 2023, coming on as a late substitute for Williams Alarcón in a 1–1 Segunda División away draw against Málaga CF, as both sides were already relegated.
References
External links
2005 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Segunda División players
UD Ibiza players |
The Cromwell Las Vegas is a luxury boutique casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It was originally opened by Michael Gaughan as the Barbary Coast on March 2, 1979. Several nearby resorts were opposed to its construction, partially due to concerns about increased traffic congestion. The property featured Victorian décor and later became part of Gaughan's company, Coast Casinos. The Barbary Coast would go on to add two popular restaurants, and a nightclub by Victor Drai.
Boyd Gaming acquired the Barbary Coast in 2004, when it purchased Coast Casinos. Boyd subsequently traded the Barbary Coast to Harrah's Entertainment, in exchange for other property on the Las Vegas Strip. Harrah's finalized its acquisition in February 2007, and briefly closed the Barbary Coast before reopening it on March 1, 2007, as Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon. The property was named after company founder Bill Harrah.
Harrah's was later renamed as Caesars Entertainment, and the company announced plans in 2012 to extensively renovate Bill's. The property closed on February 4, 2013, and reopened as The Cromwell on April 21, 2014. The renovated property includes a restaurant by chef Giada De Laurentiis. It also features a rooftop pool and nightclub operated by Drai. In 2020, the Cromwell became an adults-only property.
History
Barbary Coast (1979–2007)
The property was once the site of the Desert Villa motel, which opened in 1958, at the northeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road. It was later renamed Empey's Desert Villa, after owner Phillip Empey. It was renamed again as the Times Square Motel in 1974, before closing later that year. In 1975, plans were approved for a shopping center to be built on the land, but the project failed to materialize, as the site had inadequate space for parking.
By December 1975, Michael Gaughan and others were planning to build the $10 million Barbary Coast hotel-casino on the 1.7-acre site occupied by the Times Square. The project was proposed by Gaughan and his father Jackie, along with partners Kenny Epstein and Frank Toti. However, several nearby casino resorts – Caesars Palace, the Dunes, the Flamingo Hilton, and the MGM Grand – were opposed to the project, stating that it would cause further traffic congestion at the intersection. A Hilton executive also said that the Barbary Coast would "change the entire character of the Strip." The Clark County Department of Building and Safety said it would also oppose the project, as the hotel's parking structure would be built under high-voltage power lines located in a right-of-way, posing a safety hazard. Michael Gaughan said that the existing motel structure was already located beneath the power lines, and that he had approval for the construction of the parking garage.
In February 1976, the Clark County Commission approved a variance for the start of construction, despite a recommendation of denial from the county planning commission. Groundbreaking took place on March 3, 1976, with Tito Tiberti and J. A. Tiberti Construction Company as the general contractor. Completion of the Barbary Coast was expected 18 months later. The power lines would be raised to allow for construction of the parking garage.
Within a week of the groundbreaking, the MGM and Flamingo filed a suit against the county commission, stating that it did not give the resorts adequate time to prepare arguments against the variance. The suit also claimed that Jackie Gaughan's application did not include necessary details about the project. In addition, the resorts accused commissioner Tom Wiesner of having a conflict of interest, which he denied. Wiesner owned a financial stake in the Marina hotel down the street, which was expected to benefit from the opening of the Barbary Coast. Later in 1976, Jackie Gaughan won an extension from the Clark County Commission, narrowly granting him another year to begin construction while the project faced legal challenges from opponents.
Operation
The eight-story Barbary Coast was eventually built, at a cost of $13 million. It was opened by Michael Gaughan on March 2, 1979. It was built on land that was owned by Empey Enterprises, which leased the site to the hotel-casino. The Barbary Coast saw significant success, particularly among local residents, and Michael Gaughan later started his own gaming company, Coast Casinos. The property was named after the "Barbary Coast" term which was once used to refer to the North African coastal regions. Gaughan had the building designed to eventually accommodate four additional floors, although such plans never materialized, as he found the property to be successful enough as-is.
When the MGM Grand caught on fire in November 1980, the Barbary Coast was closed to customers by management, allowing the property to be used as an evacuation center for MGM guests. The two properties were located across the street from each other. The closure lasted three hours, during which Gaughan gave away free food to fire survivors. The closure cost him up to $20,000.
In 1990, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction and ordered the Barbary Coast and Michael Gaughan to negotiate a new contract with the Culinary Workers Union, after the expiration of the previous contract a year earlier. A federal judge determined there was reasonable cause to believe that management had threatened employees who supported the union. In 1991, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged that Gaughan and the resort violated the injunction. Two years later, the NLRB alleged that the Barbary Coast had engaged in dozens of violations relating to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Among the allegations was that the property terminated workers' pension and health plans, and withheld salary raises. Barbary Coast workers voted for a new contract later in 1993.
By 1996, the Barbary Coast was worth $60-70 million. Later in the year, Hilton Hotels Corporation began discussions to purchase the Barbary Coast, although this did not go through. Robert L. Johnson, a co-founder of BET and a Hilton board member, considered buying the Barbary Coast a few years later. He wanted to focus less on gaming and more on entertainment, with live music programs to be broadcast from the property. Gaughan was willing to sell the Barbary Coast for $100 million, but Johnson offered only $65 million. Johnson ultimately decided that the Barbary Coast was too small for his plans, which would have included the addition of a theater.
As of 2002, the Barbary Coast had 800 employees. An employee parking lot was located just east of the Barbary Coast, on 2.5 acres. The casino had been leasing the property from Nevada Power Company, which put the site up for sale that year. Coast Casinos purchased the land for $20.7 million in 2003, and continued using it for employee parking.
The Barbary Coast had a modest celebration for its 25th anniversary, serving free cake and champagne. The property had seen few renovations up to that time, such as a recent remodeling of its rooms which added new mirrors, paintings, and wallpaper. The small property had retained its success for more than 20 years, and was particularly popular among a regular clientele of repeat tourists. It did not compete with newer megaresorts that had opened nearby in recent years.
Boyd Gaming acquired Coast Casinos and the Barbary Coast in July 2004. A year later, Boyd purchased the land underneath the hotel-casino from Empey Enterprises, at a cost of $15.7 million. Despite the small size of the 1.8-acre plot, the property was one of the most valuable sites on the Las Vegas Strip, due to its location at an intersection sometimes known as the Four Corners. The purchase gave Boyd a wider range of future possibilities for the site, although there were no immediate plans for redevelopment.
A month after the purchase, Bill Boyd said that the property would be ideal for a high-rise project. He was also open to the idea of selling or trading the Barbary Coast to Harrah's Entertainment, which owned a multitude of nearby resorts. In mid-2006, the two companies began negotiations about a trade. Harrah's had picked up options to purchase the former site of the Westward Ho hotel-casino, which was located on the Strip, adjacent to Boyd's future Echelon Place project. The two companies eventually agreed to a trade, with the Barbary Coast and its 4.3 acres going to Harrah's, giving the company a contiguous ownership of the center Strip.
Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon (2007–2013)
Harrah's acquisition of the Barbary Coast was finalized in February 2007, and the property was placed under the same management team as the Imperial Palace, a nearby property owned by Harrah's. The company temporarily closed the Barbary Coast's casino portion on February 27, 2007, around 2:00 a.m. New management replaced casino chips and rearranged table games during the closure.
A low-key reopening took place at 2:00 p.m. on March 1, 2007, with the entire property renamed as Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon, in honor of company founder Bill Harrah. Management expected Bill's to eventually become part of Harrah's master plan for the area. Industry experts strongly believed that Harrah's would eventually demolish Bill's for redevelopment.
Harrah's was renamed as Caesars Entertainment a few years after the opening of Bill's. In October 2012, Caesars announced plans to renovate Bill's and to add a rooftop pool and nightclub, overlooking the Las Vegas Strip. Victor Drai, who operated a restaurant and nightclub at Bill's, would also operate the new rooftop attraction. Caesars CEO Gary Loveman said, "Due to some remarkable foresight, the top of this building was built structurally so it can hold something very heavy on top without additional structural work."
In November 2012, Caesars secured $187 million to finance its renovation plans, which would require the closing of Bill's. Prior to its closure, the property had been known for its folksy atmosphere and cheap amenities.
The Cromwell (2014–present)
Bill's closed on February 4, 2013, for a year-long renovation. The property would be renamed and converted into a luxury boutique hotel. A month after the closure, Caesars announced that the property would reopen under the name Gansevoort Las Vegas, through a partnership with the New York-based Gansevoort Hotel Group. The project would fulfill Gansevoort's long-time goal of entering the Las Vegas market. Caesars would operate the property, and Gansevoort would provide design and marketing help. W.A. Richardson Builders served as the general contractor.
The entire building was gutted, and three floors were added atop the hotel structure for Drai's new nightclub. Drai had long believed that the rooftop had untapped potential, although power lines had prevented any additional floors from being added. When Caesars later moved the power lines underground, Drai devised the idea for a rooftop club. A support building had to be constructed just north of the original hotel structure, providing additional bracing to the new club. A new employee parking garage was constructed on the property just east of the hotel. A spiral ramp on the hotel's east side, leading into the guest parking garage, was demolished. A new ramp was constructed on the property's northern side.
In October 2013, Caesars ended its partnership with Gansevoort, after an investor with the latter company was reputed to have ties with organized crime in Russia. Caesars would proceed with the project on its own, and without the Gansevoort name. Caesars announced in January 2014 that the renovated property would instead open as The Cromwell. The name "Cromwell" is sometimes associated with upper class, and the property is reportedly named after the Cromwell Current. However, the resort would also share its name with Oliver Cromwell, a controversial English ruler during the 17th century. Gaughan criticized the name: "If you are Irish, that's a slap in the face. Oliver Cromwell was not a very nice guy." Caesars declined to explain how the name was chosen.
The Cromwell had a low-key opening on April 21, 2014; the casino and a bar began operations, and some hotel rooms were available to invited guests. The entire resort, including nightclubs and the Giada restaurant, opened on May 21, 2014.
In March 2020, all Las Vegas casinos were ordered closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada. Even as other casinos were allowed to resume operations, the Cromwell remained closed indefinitely. In August 2020, CBS reality dating show Love Island began filming its second season at the Cromwell, relocated from Fiji due to the pandemic. The Cromwell reopened on October 29, 2020, as an adults-only property with the exception of its Giada restaurant. The Cromwell was already an adult-oriented property, unlike other Las Vegas resorts that include family entertainment. It was the last resort on the Las Vegas Strip to reopen.
Features
When it originally opened, the Barbary Coast had 150 rooms. Due to the small size of the site, the building included four floors of parking, located above the first-floor casino and beneath the hotel floors. An additional 50 hotel rooms were added in 1983, by converting one floor of parking. By 1987, the casino had one of Las Vegas' most popular sportsbooks. By 1999, the casino measured .
The Barbary Coast featured Victorian décor and stained glass murals, including one known as Garden of Earthly Delights, measuring 30 feet long by 5 feet high. It was added on the casino floor in 1984, and required 10 artists who worked more than 10,000 hours to create it. The mural was later moved to the Suncoast Hotel and Casino.
The west side of the Barbary Coast building featured a neon sign designed by Brian "Buzz" Leming, an employee of YESCO. Leming said it was his favorite of all the casino signs he had designed. Neon lettering from the Barbary Coast was eventually relocated to the city's Neon Museum. The Barbary Coast/Bill's façade also featured a large stained-glass structure, which was removed during the Cromwell conversion and auctioned.
The Cromwell has a casino, and 188 hotel rooms. The property features classic and modern French designs. It was meant to resemble Parisian apartments, and its design was inspired by the Hôtel Costes in Paris. In 2015, the Cromwell launched a mobile app which hotel guests could use to unlock their rooms, rather than using keys. Two years later, the Cromwell opened a new 50-seat sportsbook.
Restaurants
The Barbary Coast had a popular restaurant known as Michael's, which won several awards, and was named after Gaughan. In addition, the casino featured the Victorian Room coffee shop.
In 1997, the Barbary Coast added an upscale French restaurant known as Drai's, operated by Victor Drai. It operated in the casino's basement, replacing a McDonald's restaurant. Like Michael's, Drai's would also go on to win awards. As part of the Harrah's ownership change, Michael's was relocated in 2007, to Gaughan's newly purchased South Point resort. The property opened a new restaurant known as the Steakhouse at Bill's, which eventually closed in 2012.
Chef Giada De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant in June 2014, on the second floor of the Cromwell. The restaurant, named Giada, serves Italian food and seats 260 people.
Entertainment
In 1999, two years after its opening, Drai's would convert nightly into a club called Drai's After Hours, starting around 2:00 a.m. It featured live music and alcohol, and became a popular attraction for the property. Because of the restaurant's underground location, Drai had it designed like a club, stating that "the feeling was always more clubby than restaurant." The idea for an afterhours nightclub came when Drai agreed to let DJs perform in the restaurant after closing time, which led to immediate success.
As of 2004, most of the Barbary Coast's entertainment was free, including live music in its lounge. Among the notable performers was an Elvis impersonator named Big Elvis. The property also offered karaoke nights.
The Cromwell's rooftop nightclub, known as Drai's Beach Club & Night Club, opened in May 2014, with a lineup of DJs. The club reportedly cost $100 million. The venue is spread across two floors and includes several pools. It became popular for its live performances and hip-hop music. Aside from the rooftop venue, Drai's After Hours also resumed operations in the Cromwell's basement level. It occupies .
Gallery
See also
List of casinos in Nevada
References
External links
1979 establishments in Nevada
Hotels in Paradise, Nevada
Caesars Entertainment
Casino hotels
Casinos completed in 1979
Casinos in the Las Vegas Valley
Hotel buildings completed in 1979
Las Vegas Strip |
The Hollow Point is a 2016 American Western film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego and written by Nils Lyew. The film stars Patrick Wilson, Lynn Collins, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Jim Belushi and Michael Flynn. The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Vertical Entertainment.
Cast
Patrick Wilson as Sheriff Wallace Skolin
Lynn Collins as Marla
Ian McShane as Sheriff Leland Kilbaught
John Leguizamo as Atticus
Jim Belushi as Shepard "Shep" Diaz
Michael Flynn as Jesse
Heather Beers as Ellie
Nathan Stevens as Clive Mercy
David Fernandez Jr. as Eugenio
David H. Stevens as Ken Mercy
Karli Hall as Lilly
Derek Boone as Samuel "Sam" Gibbons
Carl Hadra as Clay Kinston
Release
The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Vertical Entertainment.
References
External links
2016 films
2016 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Contemporary Western films
2010s English-language films
Films directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego
2010s American films |
is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa, Japan.
Filmography
Anime
1995
Ping Pong Club (Yuki Tanabe)
Saint Tail (Imamura)
1996
Detective Conan (Clerk, Masayo Tokudaiji, Midori Kuriyama, Receptionist, Yuko Ikezawa)
B'tX (B'T Jutaime)
You're Under Arrest (Judy)
1997
Cutey Honey Flash (SCUD Panther)
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo (Shinshi Kaitou)
Manmaru the Ninja Penguin (Escaping girl, Kado)
Flame of Recca (Reina)
Yume no Crayon Oukoku (???)
1998
St. Luminous Mission High School (Elizabeth Ryouko Bryan)
1999
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (Tsubasa Nagatanigawa)
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (???)
Ojamajo Doremi (Fafa)
2000
Mon Colle Knights (???)
Digimon Adventure 02 (Ken's Mother)
Saiyuki (Sanbutsushin 2)
Hand Maid May (Aoi Saotome)
Inuyasha (Geisha, Kagome's mother/Mrs. Higurashi)
2001
Comic Party (Yuka Tsukishiro)
Najica Blitz Tactics (Shinobu Misato)
Vandread: The Second Stage (Onna)
2002
Tokyo Underground (Leader)
G-On Riders (Commanding officer)
Getbackers (Bather)
2003
Lime-iro Senkitan (Sumi Ichijouji)
Mouse (Mei's Grandfather)
Zatch Bell (Toy Store Salesgirl)
Happy Lesson Advanced (Beauty Honey)
Rumiko Takahashi Anthology (Kobato's son, Ryuuichi)
Planetes (Announcer, Girl, Girlfriend, Housewife)
Mermaid Forest (Sayori)
2004
Mezzo (Announcer)
Ragnarok The Animation (Sohi)
Monster (Receptionist)
School Rumble (Doctor Michiko)
Black Jack (Young Black Jack)
2005
Lime-iro Ryūkitan X (Sumi Ichijoji)
Comic Party: Revolution (Yuka Tsukishiro)
Speed Grapher (Congresswoman)
GUNxSWORD (Head nurse, Staff woman, Waitress, Woman)
Lamune (Hiromi's mother)
2006
Black Jack 21 (Young Black Jack)
Nighthead Genesis (Sachie Haga)
Kemonozume (Amakami, Exam student's mother)
Gift - eternal rainbow (Sensha's Mother)
Kekkaishi (Female headquarter member, Kagami-kun, Shizue Yukimura, Tatsuki, Teacher)
2007
GR -GIANT ROBO- (Celestine Buñuel)
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (Quint Nakajima)
Shigurui: Death Frenzy (House Keeper)
Neuro - Supernatural Detective (Announcer)
2008
RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (Rona Kurōderu)
Nabari no Ou (Juuji's mother)
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (Marianne vi Britannia, Sister)
Uchi no 3 Shimai (???)
Live On Cardliver Kakeru (Tenkū Musutangu)
Chaos;HEAd (Senna's Mother)
2009
Rideback (Woman Newscaster)
Sōten Kōro (Bai Lian)
Princess Lover! (Teppei's Mother)
InuYasha: The Final Act (Kagome's Mother)
Kobato. (Homeroom teacher)
2010
Togainu no Chi - Bloody Curs (Emma)
2022
Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (Midori Kuriyama)
Movies
1999
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo 2 - Satsuriku no Deep Blue (Voice of Aurora Vision)
2000
Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes (Midori Kuriyama)
2001
Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven (Motherhood)
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (Kagome's Mother)
2002
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (Japanese woman announcer)
2004
Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky (Yuki)
2006
Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (Midori Kuriyama)
2008
Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear (???)
Video games
2000
Flamberge no Seirei (Shifōne)
2001
Comic Party (Yuka Tsukishiro, Makiko Sawada)
2004
Castle Shikigami 2 (Fumiko Ozetto van Stein)
Limeiro Senkitan * Jun (Sumi Ichijouji)
2005
Comic Party Portable (Yuka Tsukishiro)
2006
Gift -prism- (???)
Mizu no Senritsu 2 ~Hi no Kioku~ (Ya Shitara)
2009
Touka Gettan ~Koufuu no Ryouou~ (Kasuga, Sachiko Gotanda)
2010
Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future (Baretreenu)
Dubbing
Charmed, Kyra (Charisma Carpenter)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Final Cut, Ronnie Neary (Teri Garr)
In Bruges, Jimmy (Jordan Prentice)
Jason Bourne (2022 BS Tokyo edition), Nicolette Parsons (Julia Stiles)
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Japanese video game actresses
Japanese voice actresses
Voice actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
Ken Production voice actors |
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 15–16 August.
The United States dominated, taking the lead from the start and never looking back, but not with the overwhelming show of force of some past championships. David Verburg passed first to silver medalist Tony McQuay who broke first and stayed out of traffic. Behind them, the race was quite competitive, with Russia's Maksim Dyldin closing the first lap in a rush then Lev Mosin running a strong curve to close off the break. Great Britain's Martyn Rooney had to go wide around the turn to pass the Russians, only to be passed himself by Belgium's Kevin Borlée. After Jonathan had led off, he passed to a third Borlée, Dylan. The team of brothers pulled to within two meters of the leading Americans with 500 meters to go, but then the gap widened to five meters. With gold medalist LaShawn Merritt pulling away, Russia's Vladimir Krasnov quickly passed Belgium's Will Oyowe at the handoff. Down the backstretch Jamaica's Javon Francis passed Great Britain, Belgium and Russia to move into second. Krasnov came back but Francis held him off at the line to take silver.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Heats
Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advanced to the final.
Final
The final was started at 21:30.
References
External links
4x 400 metres relay results at IAAF website
4 x 400 metres relay
Relays at the World Athletics Championships |
```go
package query
import (
"context"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/go-kit/log"
"github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/storage"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/annotations"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/dedup"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/extprom"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/gate"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/store"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/store/storepb"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/tenancy"
"github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pkg/tracing"
)
type seriesStatsReporter func(seriesStats storepb.SeriesStatsCounter)
var NoopSeriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter = func(_ storepb.SeriesStatsCounter) {}
func NewAggregateStatsReporter(stats *[]storepb.SeriesStatsCounter) seriesStatsReporter {
var mutex sync.Mutex
return func(s storepb.SeriesStatsCounter) {
mutex.Lock()
defer mutex.Unlock()
*stats = append(*stats, s)
}
}
// QueryableCreator returns implementation of promql.Queryable that fetches data from the proxy store API endpoints.
// If deduplication is enabled, all data retrieved from it will be deduplicated along all replicaLabels by default.
// When the replicaLabels argument is not empty it overwrites the global replicaLabels flag. This allows specifying
// replicaLabels at query time.
// maxResolutionMillis controls downsampling resolution that is allowed (specified in milliseconds).
// partialResponse controls `partialResponseDisabled` option of StoreAPI and partial response behavior of proxy.
type QueryableCreator func(
deduplicate bool,
replicaLabels []string,
storeDebugMatchers [][]*labels.Matcher,
maxResolutionMillis int64,
partialResponse,
skipChunks bool,
shardInfo *storepb.ShardInfo,
seriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter,
) storage.Queryable
// NewQueryableCreator creates QueryableCreator.
// NOTE(bwplotka): Proxy assumes to be replica_aware, see thanos.store.info.StoreInfo.replica_aware field.
func NewQueryableCreator(
logger log.Logger,
reg prometheus.Registerer,
proxy storepb.StoreServer,
maxConcurrentSelects int,
selectTimeout time.Duration,
) QueryableCreator {
gf := gate.NewGateFactory(extprom.WrapRegistererWithPrefix("concurrent_selects_", reg), maxConcurrentSelects, gate.Selects)
return func(
deduplicate bool,
replicaLabels []string,
storeDebugMatchers [][]*labels.Matcher,
maxResolutionMillis int64,
partialResponse,
skipChunks bool,
shardInfo *storepb.ShardInfo,
seriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter,
) storage.Queryable {
return &queryable{
logger: logger,
replicaLabels: replicaLabels,
storeDebugMatchers: storeDebugMatchers,
proxy: proxy,
deduplicate: deduplicate,
maxResolutionMillis: maxResolutionMillis,
partialResponse: partialResponse,
skipChunks: skipChunks,
gateProviderFn: func() gate.Gate {
return gf.New()
},
maxConcurrentSelects: maxConcurrentSelects,
selectTimeout: selectTimeout,
shardInfo: shardInfo,
seriesStatsReporter: seriesStatsReporter,
}
}
}
type queryable struct {
logger log.Logger
replicaLabels []string
storeDebugMatchers [][]*labels.Matcher
proxy storepb.StoreServer
deduplicate bool
maxResolutionMillis int64
partialResponse bool
skipChunks bool
gateProviderFn func() gate.Gate
maxConcurrentSelects int
selectTimeout time.Duration
shardInfo *storepb.ShardInfo
seriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter
}
// Querier returns a new storage querier against the underlying proxy store API.
func (q *queryable) Querier(mint, maxt int64) (storage.Querier, error) {
return newQuerier(q.logger, mint, maxt, q.replicaLabels, q.storeDebugMatchers, q.proxy, q.deduplicate, q.maxResolutionMillis, q.partialResponse, q.skipChunks, q.gateProviderFn(), q.selectTimeout, q.shardInfo, q.seriesStatsReporter), nil
}
type querier struct {
logger log.Logger
mint, maxt int64
replicaLabels []string
storeDebugMatchers [][]*labels.Matcher
proxy storepb.StoreServer
deduplicate bool
maxResolutionMillis int64
partialResponseStrategy storepb.PartialResponseStrategy
skipChunks bool
selectGate gate.Gate
selectTimeout time.Duration
shardInfo *storepb.ShardInfo
seriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter
}
// newQuerier creates implementation of storage.Querier that fetches data from the proxy
// store API endpoints.
func newQuerier(
logger log.Logger,
mint,
maxt int64,
replicaLabels []string,
storeDebugMatchers [][]*labels.Matcher,
proxy storepb.StoreServer,
deduplicate bool,
maxResolutionMillis int64,
partialResponse,
skipChunks bool,
selectGate gate.Gate,
selectTimeout time.Duration,
shardInfo *storepb.ShardInfo,
seriesStatsReporter seriesStatsReporter,
) *querier {
if logger == nil {
logger = log.NewNopLogger()
}
rl := make(map[string]struct{})
for _, replicaLabel := range replicaLabels {
rl[replicaLabel] = struct{}{}
}
partialResponseStrategy := storepb.PartialResponseStrategy_ABORT
if partialResponse {
partialResponseStrategy = storepb.PartialResponseStrategy_WARN
}
return &querier{
logger: logger,
selectGate: selectGate,
selectTimeout: selectTimeout,
mint: mint,
maxt: maxt,
replicaLabels: replicaLabels,
storeDebugMatchers: storeDebugMatchers,
proxy: proxy,
deduplicate: deduplicate,
maxResolutionMillis: maxResolutionMillis,
partialResponseStrategy: partialResponseStrategy,
skipChunks: skipChunks,
shardInfo: shardInfo,
seriesStatsReporter: seriesStatsReporter,
}
}
func (q *querier) isDedupEnabled() bool {
return q.deduplicate && len(q.replicaLabels) > 0
}
type seriesServer struct {
// This field just exist to pseudo-implement the unused methods of the interface.
storepb.Store_SeriesServer
ctx context.Context
seriesSet []storepb.Series
seriesSetStats storepb.SeriesStatsCounter
warnings annotations.Annotations
}
func (s *seriesServer) Send(r *storepb.SeriesResponse) error {
if r.GetWarning() != "" {
s.warnings.Add(errors.New(r.GetWarning()))
return nil
}
if r.GetSeries() != nil {
s.seriesSet = append(s.seriesSet, *r.GetSeries())
s.seriesSetStats.Count(r.GetSeries())
return nil
}
// Unsupported field, skip.
return nil
}
func (s *seriesServer) Context() context.Context {
return s.ctx
}
// aggrsFromFunc infers aggregates of the underlying data based on the wrapping
// function of a series selection.
func aggrsFromFunc(f string) []storepb.Aggr {
if f == "min" || strings.HasPrefix(f, "min_") {
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_MIN}
}
if f == "max" || strings.HasPrefix(f, "max_") {
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_MAX}
}
if f == "count" || strings.HasPrefix(f, "count_") {
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_COUNT}
}
// f == "sum" falls through here since we want the actual samples.
if strings.HasPrefix(f, "sum_") {
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_SUM}
}
if f == "increase" || f == "rate" || f == "irate" || f == "resets" {
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_COUNTER}
}
// In the default case, we retrieve count and sum to compute an average.
return []storepb.Aggr{storepb.Aggr_COUNT, storepb.Aggr_SUM}
}
func (q *querier) Select(ctx context.Context, _ bool, hints *storage.SelectHints, ms ...*labels.Matcher) storage.SeriesSet {
if hints == nil {
hints = &storage.SelectHints{
Start: q.mint,
End: q.maxt,
}
} else {
// NOTE(GiedriusS): need to make a copy here
// because the PromQL engine sorts these and
// we later on call String() the whole request (including this slice).
grouping := make([]string, 0, len(hints.Grouping))
grouping = append(grouping, hints.Grouping...)
hints.Grouping = grouping
}
matchers := make([]string, len(ms))
for i, m := range ms {
matchers[i] = m.String()
}
tenant := ctx.Value(tenancy.TenantKey)
// The context gets canceled as soon as query evaluation is completed by the engine.
// We want to prevent this from happening for the async store API calls we make while preserving tracing context.
// TODO(bwplotka): Does the above still is true? It feels weird to leave unfinished calls behind query API.
ctx = tracing.CopyTraceContext(context.Background(), ctx)
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, tenancy.TenantKey, tenant)
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, q.selectTimeout)
span, ctx := tracing.StartSpan(ctx, "querier_select", opentracing.Tags{
"minTime": hints.Start,
"maxTime": hints.End,
"matchers": "{" + strings.Join(matchers, ",") + "}",
})
promise := make(chan storage.SeriesSet, 1)
go func() {
defer close(promise)
var err error
tracing.DoInSpan(ctx, "querier_select_gate_ismyturn", func(ctx context.Context) {
err = q.selectGate.Start(ctx)
})
if err != nil {
promise <- storage.ErrSeriesSet(errors.Wrap(err, "failed to wait for turn"))
return
}
defer q.selectGate.Done()
span, ctx := tracing.StartSpan(ctx, "querier_select_select_fn")
defer span.Finish()
set, stats, err := q.selectFn(ctx, hints, ms...)
if err != nil {
promise <- storage.ErrSeriesSet(err)
return
}
q.seriesStatsReporter(stats)
promise <- set
}()
return &lazySeriesSet{create: func() (storage.SeriesSet, bool) {
defer cancel()
defer span.Finish()
// Only gets called once, for the first Next() call of the series set.
set, ok := <-promise
if !ok {
return storage.ErrSeriesSet(errors.New("channel closed before a value received")), false
}
return set, set.Next()
}}
}
func (q *querier) selectFn(ctx context.Context, hints *storage.SelectHints, ms ...*labels.Matcher) (storage.SeriesSet, storepb.SeriesStatsCounter, error) {
sms, err := storepb.PromMatchersToMatchers(ms...)
if err != nil {
return nil, storepb.SeriesStatsCounter{}, errors.Wrap(err, "convert matchers")
}
aggrs := aggrsFromFunc(hints.Func)
// TODO(bwplotka): Pass it using the SeriesRequest instead of relying on context.
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, store.StoreMatcherKey, q.storeDebugMatchers)
// TODO(bwplotka): Use inprocess gRPC when we want to stream responses.
// Currently streaming won't help due to nature of the both PromQL engine which
// pulls all series before computations anyway.
resp := &seriesServer{ctx: ctx}
req := storepb.SeriesRequest{
MinTime: hints.Start,
MaxTime: hints.End,
Matchers: sms,
MaxResolutionWindow: q.maxResolutionMillis,
Aggregates: aggrs,
ShardInfo: q.shardInfo,
PartialResponseStrategy: q.partialResponseStrategy,
SkipChunks: q.skipChunks,
}
if q.isDedupEnabled() {
// Soft ask to sort without replica labels and push them at the end of labelset.
req.WithoutReplicaLabels = q.replicaLabels
}
if err := q.proxy.Series(&req, resp); err != nil {
return nil, storepb.SeriesStatsCounter{}, errors.Wrap(err, "proxy Series()")
}
warns := annotations.New().Merge(resp.warnings)
if !q.isDedupEnabled() {
return NewPromSeriesSet(
newStoreSeriesSet(resp.seriesSet),
q.mint,
q.maxt,
aggrs,
warns,
), resp.seriesSetStats, nil
}
// TODO(bwplotka): Move to deduplication on chunk level inside promSeriesSet, similar to what we have in dedup.NewDedupChunkMerger().
// This however require big refactor, caring about correct AggrChunk to iterator conversion and counter reset apply.
// For now we apply simple logic that splits potential overlapping chunks into separate replica series, so we can split the work.
set := NewPromSeriesSet(
dedup.NewOverlapSplit(newStoreSeriesSet(resp.seriesSet)),
q.mint,
q.maxt,
aggrs,
warns,
)
return dedup.NewSeriesSet(set, hints.Func), resp.seriesSetStats, nil
}
// LabelValues returns all potential values for a label name.
func (q *querier) LabelValues(ctx context.Context, name string, _ *storage.LabelHints, matchers ...*labels.Matcher) ([]string, annotations.Annotations, error) {
span, ctx := tracing.StartSpan(ctx, "querier_label_values")
defer span.Finish()
// TODO(bwplotka): Pass it using the SeriesRequest instead of relying on context.
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, store.StoreMatcherKey, q.storeDebugMatchers)
pbMatchers, err := storepb.PromMatchersToMatchers(matchers...)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, errors.Wrap(err, "converting prom matchers to storepb matchers")
}
req := &storepb.LabelValuesRequest{
Label: name,
PartialResponseStrategy: q.partialResponseStrategy,
Start: q.mint,
End: q.maxt,
Matchers: pbMatchers,
}
if q.isDedupEnabled() {
req.WithoutReplicaLabels = q.replicaLabels
}
resp, err := q.proxy.LabelValues(ctx, req)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, errors.Wrap(err, "proxy LabelValues()")
}
var warns annotations.Annotations
for _, w := range resp.Warnings {
warns.Add(errors.New(w))
}
return resp.Values, warns, nil
}
// LabelNames returns all the unique label names present in the block in sorted order constrained
// by the given matchers.
func (q *querier) LabelNames(ctx context.Context, _ *storage.LabelHints, matchers ...*labels.Matcher) ([]string, annotations.Annotations, error) {
span, ctx := tracing.StartSpan(ctx, "querier_label_names")
defer span.Finish()
// TODO(bwplotka): Pass it using the SeriesRequest instead of relying on context.
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, store.StoreMatcherKey, q.storeDebugMatchers)
pbMatchers, err := storepb.PromMatchersToMatchers(matchers...)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, errors.Wrap(err, "converting prom matchers to storepb matchers")
}
req := &storepb.LabelNamesRequest{
PartialResponseStrategy: q.partialResponseStrategy,
Start: q.mint,
End: q.maxt,
Matchers: pbMatchers,
}
if q.isDedupEnabled() {
req.WithoutReplicaLabels = q.replicaLabels
}
resp, err := q.proxy.LabelNames(ctx, req)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, errors.Wrap(err, "proxy LabelNames()")
}
var warns annotations.Annotations
for _, w := range resp.Warnings {
warns.Add(errors.New(w))
}
return resp.Names, warns, nil
}
func (q *querier) Close() error { return nil }
``` |
John E. Ward was a Major League Baseball player. Robinson played for the Washington Nationals in .
He played in one game, recording one hit in four at bats.
External links
Major League Baseball outfielders
Baseball players from Washington, D.C.
Washington Nationals (UA) players
19th-century baseball players |
Inu no Osanpo (犬のおさんぽ), (lit. "Walk the Dog") is a dog walking simulation game developed by Wow Entertainment and published by Sega for the Sega NAOMI arcade system in 2001. Players "walk" a virtual dog by walking on a treadmill and control the pet with a leash attached to a plastic dog in front of the player. The game was only released in Japan.
Gameplay
Inu no Osanpo simulates the experience of walking a dog. Players first choose one of six breeds of dog to walk: Poodle, Pug, Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Shiba Inu, Labrador Retriever, or Siberian Husky. The difficulty of the game changes depending on the breed of dog chosen. After selecting a dog, the player selects one of three possible walking routes, each with a unique scenario. Route A, intended for beginners, is a walk to the pet store in order to buy dog food. Route B, of intermediate difficulty, is a simulated walk to a field so that the dog can play with a frisbee. Route C, the most difficult path, takes the player through a city on their way home from the dog park.
Once a dog and route have been chosen, the walk begins. The goal of Inu no Osanpo is to maintain the dog's happiness long enough to complete the entire route. This is displayed in-game via a "mood meter" and the presence of musical notes around the dog's head. Players must move the plastic leash-shaped controller to steer their dog away from danger; such as traffic and larger dogs, and towards points of interest such as cats. The player must also avoid garbage and rotten food that is left on the road to prevent the dog from eating it and becoming sick. While the virtual dog is never injured, failure to keep the dog out of danger decreases its mood meter. In addition, players must move at the right pace in order to keep the dog happy. Walking too fast will drag the dog and decrease its mood, but walking too slowly will cause it to become angry and tug at the leash. By doing well, the player can unlock a bonus stage where they must follow their dog as it chases a runaway cat.
The game ends when the chosen route is completed, or when the dog's mood level decreases to zero. After the game ends, the player's score is calculated and the distance walked, amount of movement, and number of calories burned are displayed.
Reception
IGN called the game "odd" and proof that "Sega is absolutely insane".
References
2001 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Simulation video games
Sega arcade games
Single-player video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Video games about dogs
Video games developed in Japan
Virtual pet video games |
Common Clay may refer to:
Common Clay (play), a 1915 American play by Cleves Kinkead
Common Clay (1919 film), a silent film adaptation
Common Clay (1930 film), a sound film adaptation starring Constance Bennett
See also
Private Number, a 1936 adaptation of the play |
Naim Ishfaq Shahid Halt Railway Station (, ) is located near Shorkot Cantonment in Pakistan.
See also
List of railway stations in Pakistan
Pakistan Railways
References
External links
Railway stations in Punjab, Pakistan
Railway stations on Shorkot–Sheikhupura line |
```xml
export { ConfigureForm } from './ConfigureForm';
``` |
Tzveleviochloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Its native range is the Himalayas, India and Myanmar to south central China.
The genus name of Tzveleviochloa is in honour of Nikolai Tzvelev (1925–2015), a Russian botanist and specialist in grasses and ferns.
It was first described and published by Martin Röser and Alexandra Wölkin in Taxon vol.66 on page 38 in 2017.
Known species
According to Kew:
Tzveleviochloa burmanica (Bor) Röser & A.Wölk
Tzveleviochloa parviflora (Hook.f.) Röser & A.Wölk
Tzveleviochloa potaninii (Tzvelev) Röser & A.Wölk
Tzveleviochloa schmidii
References
Poaceae genera
Flora of South-Central China
Flora of India (region)
Flora of East Himalaya
Flora of West Himalaya
Flora of Myanmar
Poaceae |
Nelson Faria (born March 23, 1963) is a Brazilian guitarist.
Career
At the Guitar Institute of Technology in California, his teachers included Joe Diorio, Frank Gambale, Ted Greene, Scott Henderson, and Joe Pass. On television he performed with Paulo Moura on Rhapsody in Bossa, with Baby do Brasil on Acústico, and with Leila Pinheiro on Na Ponta da Língua. His debut album, Ioiô, was released in 1993. He recorded a Brazilian tribute to the Beatles with Bororó, Marcos Suzano, and José Namen. Faria has also worked with Nana Caymmi, Zélia Duncan, Cássia Eller, Edu Lobo, and Milton Nascimento.
Discography
Ioiô (Perfil, 1993)
Janelas Abertas (Lumiar Discos, 1999)
Beatles, um tributo Brasileiro (Solo Music, 1999)
Nelson Faria (G&F, 2003)
Vento Bravo (2005)
Buxixo with Gilson Peranzzetta (Delira, 2009)
Leila Pinheiro, Banda Pequi e Nelson Faria (UFG, 2010)
Live in Frankfurt (2011)
Ceu e Mar with Leila Pinheiro (Far Out, 2012)
Na esquina de Mestre Mignone with Gustavo Tavares (2012)
DVDs
Toques de Mestre (Giannini SA, 1990)
Nosso Trio Live (Delira, 2006)
Books
A Arte da Improvisação (Lumiar Editora, 1991)
The Brazilian Guitar Book (Sher Music, 1996)
Escalas, Arpejos e Acordes para violao e guitarra (Lumiar Editora, 1999)
Inside the Brazilian Rhythm Section (Sher Music, 2002)
Toque Junto Bossa Nova (Lumiar Editora, 2008)
Harmonia Aplicada ao Violão e à Guitarra (Vitale, 2010)
References
1963 births
Living people
Brazilian jazz guitarists
Musicians from Belo Horizonte |
Eladio Manligues Jala (born February 18, 1949) is a Philippine lawyer and politician.
Biography
It is a long way from rural Loboc in Bohol to the congressional halls in Batasan Hills in Quezon City. Starting out a teacher, Jala as a lawyer- lawmaker, representing the 3rd district of Bohol in the Lower House for three consecutive terms.
Jala was born in Loboc to Olegario Jala and Gregoria Manligues and begun his studies at the town's Central Elementary school. He was later sent to the Divine Word College (DWC), now Holy Name University, in Tagbilaran City for his secondary and tertiary education, finishing a Political Science course and predictably, going on to law school. Among the many Bar examinees coming from the DWC School of Law, Eladio came out to be the only one who passed the rigid exams in 1982, an achievement of note attesting to a triumph no one can refute.
Between finishing a law degree and passing the bar, however, Jala was a high school teacher in Quinoguitan in Loboc, and in Bohol School of Arts and Trade, now Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT), in Tagbilaran City. This stint as an educator was a potent input that consciously influence many of his decisions as a legislator. His concern for the youth is reflected on the bills he had authored or co- authored in Congress.
For a decade starting in 1982, he became a law practitioner and an active member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Bohol Chapter . Eventually, he was chosen by his peers as a member of the board of Directors of the lawyers' group, and later, as its vice president. He continues to be a member of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), IBP, Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals, Bohol island Lions International Club, aside from being a human rights lawyer.
He became a provincial lawmaker, winning a seat in the provincial board in 1992. For six years as a Provincial Kagawad, Jala sponsored some 180 resolutions and has authored some 50 ordinances, reflecting innate and selfless dedication to the job.
In 1998, he became representative in the third district of Bohol. Jala was chosen to chair the Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation, Senior Vice Chairman of the Higher and Technical Education committee, and a member of some 13 other House Committees.
Jala approved the filing of a measure that touches on the granting of civil service eligibility to government employees who have rendered continuous service for more than 10 years . He also filed a bill seeking to outlaw political turncoatism which has long made a mockery of our political system. Another bill be authored seeks to adopt community service as a human alternative penalty for certain offenses in lieu of imprisonment and fines.
Jala has been married to Remedios Limbago Jala for the past 24 years. They have two children, Adam Relson, a neophyte lawyer and succeeded him as representative in the Third District in 2007 elections and Majesty Eve.
References
http://www.boholchronicle.com/jun06/index6-11-06.htm
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/may/04/yehey/metro/20070504met3.html
http://www.boholchronicle.com/jun06/11/front1.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20070716132250/http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/june/12/yehey/top_stories/20070612top6.html
Living people
1949 births
Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Bohol
Members of the Bohol Provincial Board
People from Bohol
Filipino schoolteachers
20th-century Filipino educators |
Blood in the Gears is the fourth album from American Christian metal band The Showdown. It's their second album with Solid State Records. Released on August 24, 2010, the album was recorded at Anthem Productions in Nashville, Tennessee, and produced by the band's bassist, Jeremiah Scott.
The title track was released as a single.
Reception
PopMatters reviewer Chris Colgan called the album "a pinnacle in The Showdown's career because they have both cemented their sound and managed to experiment with new ideas and influences at the same time". Jesusfreakhideout.com gave it three and a half stars, with Timothy Estabrooks calling it "an album with the occasional high point, but not enough consistency to be memorable".
Charts
The album peaked at number 21 on Billboards 'Top Christian Albums' chart.
Track listing
Personnel
The Showdown
David Bunton – vocals
Josh Childers – guitar, backing vocals, gang vocals
Patrick Judge – guitar, backing vocals
Jeremiah Scott – bass, backing vocals, gang vocals
Timothy "Yogi" Watts – drums
Additional musicians
Riley Anglen – guest backing vocals on "The Man Named Hell" & "Diggin' My Own Grave", gang vocals
Chris Bazor – guest lead vocals on "Graveyard of Empires", gang vocals
Cody Richardson – additional guest lead vocals, gang vocals
Brian Shorter – gang vocals
Production
Jon Dunn – A&R
Invisible Creature – art direction
Ryan Clark – design
Steve Blackmon – mixed by
Jerad Knudson – photography
Ethan Luck – photography
Jeremiah Scott – producer, engineer, editing
Troy Gelssner - mastering
References
The Showdown (band) albums
2010 albums
Solid State Records albums |
SharedX is a set of extensions to the X Window System that was developed at HP in the mid to late 1980s. It enables X servers to "share" individual X windows or an entire desktop, thus allowing users at multiple workstations to use standard applications to collaborate in real-time in an X Window System network environment, similar to desktop sharing, but for only a single window.
System
A decade later, this capability would be termed "desktop sharing", with VNC being a major player. One difference between VNC and SharedX is that SharedX allows fine-grained sharing of any X window or group of X windows among any number of users, while VNC only allows sharing of the entire desktop.
SharedX was conceived by Philip Gust at HP Labs, where he developed several implementations between 1986 and 1987. It was first presented and demonstrated at the 2nd Annual X Technical Conference. A proxy server version based on X11 protocol extensions was subsequently developed by Philip Gust and his team at HP Labs, including Dan Garfinkel, Steve Lowder, and Mike Lemon. This version was presented and demonstrated at the 3rd Annual X Technical Conference.
In addition to window sharing, this version of SharedX also provided extensible "floor control" policies to mediate multi-user interaction, and meeting tools such as virtual meeting rooms, avatars, "telepointers" and voting. Functions such as calendaring, note taking, and "whiteboarding" were provided by sharing standard desktop applications. An experimental video sharing and teleconferencing system was also developed by Darren Leigh, an MIT intern working with the team.
The SharedX technology subsequently transferred to a product division, where it was incorporated into HP's X Window server that is supplied in versions of HP-UX. An article on SharedX later appeared in the Hewlett-Packard Journal
A number of subsequent research projects and publications have built on or cited SharedX.
Notes
X Window programs |
Furry Pirates is an anthropomorphic, historical fantasy, pen-and-paper role-playing game published by Atlas Games. It is set in a parallel universe, reminiscent of 17th-century Earth. The game was written by Lise Breakey, designed by Bruce Thomas, and illustrated by Terrie Smith and Eric Hotz.
The game, as the name implies, focuses on furry pirates and their adventures. While it includes fantastic elements, including the existence of magic, it earned some notice from reviewers for its realistic rules regarding ships and ship-based combat, as well as its detailed campaign background.
Players are given a wide range of races and classes to choose, including the usual furry types avian, lupine, ursine, and so on, and the usual classes fighter, thief, etc.
Reviews
Casus Belli #120
See also
Ars Magica
Jadeclaw
References
External links
Atlas Games' Furry Pirates product page
Atlas Games games
Fantasy role-playing games
Furry role-playing games
Historical role-playing games
Multigenre Swashbuckler role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1999 |
Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (8 December 1920 – 4 December 2013) was a British and Trinidadian athlete, who was born in Williamsville, Trinidad and Tobago. Bailey won a bronze medal in the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games. He competed for Great Britain in the men's 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, where he finished sixth and last in the final, and the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki where he won the bronze medal.
He jointly held the 100 m world record at 10.2 seconds between 1951 and 1956 and won the sprint double seven times at the AAA Championships.
In the 1948/9 season he worked on fitness and speed with Queen's Park Rangers F.C. Who won their first ever promotion that season. From Football League 3rd Division South to Football League 2nd Division.
In 1953 he joined rugby League club Leigh, but he only played in one friendly match for them.
in 1977 Bailey was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's Chaconia Medal (Gold).
Competition record
References
1920 births
2013 deaths
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
British male sprinters
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Trinidad and Tobago
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
Competitors at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games
English rugby league players
Leigh Leopards players
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Recipients of the Chaconia Medal
Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United Kingdom
Trinidad and Tobago male sprinters |
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual decision to raze the entire complex in 1976.
The documentary argues that the violent social collapse within the Pruitt-Igoe complex was not due to the demographic composition of its residents, but was a result of wider, external social forces, namely the declining economic fortunes of St. Louis, the resulting impact upon employment opportunities, and the project's failure to meet occupancy projections from the start and therefore to meet monthly income projected to cover maintenance costs. Furnaces made to incinerate garbage failed, pipes/plumbing failed, and more issues kept on to the point residents stopped paying rent.
Synopsis
The film begins with a former resident of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex returning to the site of the buildings in the north side of St. Louis, and noting that in spite of the decades since the planned demolition of the buildings, the site remains largely vacant. It continues by detailing the decision by the city to replace 19th century tenement housing with high-rise public housing, ultimately designed by Minoru Yamasaki (later the famed designer of the World Trade Center) in the modernist style as thirty-three 11-floor buildings.
Interviews with former residents, archival images, and film are used to tell first impressions about moving into Pruitt-Igoe and the steady deterioration of living conditions during the 1960s and early 1970s before the destruction by planned implosion between 1972 and 1976.
The film takes issue with the various explanations for the failure of the Pruitt-Igoe complex that have developed since its demolition, including that it was the fault of the modernist theory of architecture itself (an explanation developed by architectural historian Charles Jencks)
or of the general concept of public housing.
Instead, the explanation offered is that the fate of the Pruitt-Igoe project was determined by the declining population and industrial base in St. Louis after World War II.
The documentary argues that this process left few jobs for the remaining residents, thus reducing funds available for maintenance and security of the buildings, which were planned to be paid for by tenant rents even as residents grew poorer and the living conditions in the project deteriorated.
Reception
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth has a rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews, and a rating of 70 (out of 100) on Metacritic based on 8 reviews. It was nominated for a Satellite Award in 2012 in the category of Best Documentary Film. It also won the International Documentary Association's ABC News VideoSource Award for best use of archival footage.
See also
Pruitt–Igoe
Urban decay
History of St. Louis (1905–80)
References
External links
2011 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about urban studies
Documentary films about African Americans
History of St. Louis
Documentary films about cities in the United States
Films shot in St. Louis
Films set in St. Louis
Documentary films about Missouri
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
"It's Wonderful" is a popular song by The Young Rascals, and their last single under that name. Written by group members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and with a dual lead vocal from them, it was included on the group's 1968 album Once Upon a Dream). It climbed as high as #20 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The single's B-side, "Of Course", did not appear on Once Upon a Dream, but would be held over for the group's next album, Freedom Suite.
1967 singles
1968 singles
The Rascals songs
Songs written by Felix Cavaliere
Songs written by Eddie Brigati
Atlantic Records singles
1967 songs |
The Minority Treaties are treaties, League of Nations mandates, and unilateral declarations made by countries applying for membership in the League of Nations that conferred basic rights on all the inhabitants of the country without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion. The country concerned had to acknowledge the clauses of the treaty as fundamental laws of state and as obligations of international concern placed under the guarantee of the League of Nations. Most of the treaties entered into force after the Paris Peace Conference.
Background
The protection of religious and minority rights had been a matter of international concern and the subject of protections ever since the days of the Peace of Westphalia. The 1878 Treaty of Berlin had a new type of provision that protected minorities in the Balkans and newly independent states' Great Power recognition was nominally conditional on the promise of guarantees of religious and civic freedoms for local religious minorities. Historian Carol Fink argues:
the imposed clauses on minority rights became requirements not only for recognition but were also, as in the cases of Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania, conditions for receiving specific grants of territory.
Fink reports that these provisions were generally not enforced—no suitable mechanism existed and the Great Powers had little interest in doing so. Protections were part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became increasingly important after World War II.
At the Paris Peace Conference the Supreme Council established 'The Committee on New States and for The Protection of Minorities'. All the new successor states were compelled to sign minority rights treaties as a precondition of diplomatic recognition. It was agreed that although the new States had been recognized, they had not been 'created' before the signatures of the final Peace Treaties. Clemenceau noted in an aide-memoire attached to the Polish treaty that the minority protections were consistent with diplomatic precedent:
The new treaties gave minorities the right to appeal directly to the League or UN General Assembly. In the case of the Mandates and the UN Partition Plan for Palestine compromissory clauses provide for the International Court's jurisdiction. The victorious powers attempted to ensure the stable development of the region between defeated Germany and Soviet Russia, a region characterized by the existence of many ethnic groups and the emergence of new nations. The idea behind the Minority Treaties was that by subjecting those countries to the scrutiny of others and to the threat of sanction and intervention from the newly created international body, the League of Nations, the rights of minorities would be safeguarded.
As with most of the principles adopted by the League, the Minorities Treaties were a part of the Wilsonian idealist approach to international relations, and as with the League itself, the Minority Treaties were increasingly ignored by the respective governments, with the entire system mostly collapsing in the late 1930s. Despite the political failure they remained the basis of international law. After World War II the legal principles were incorporated in the UN Charter and a host of international human rights treaties.
Many international law norms and customary practices developed in the inter-war years by the League of Nations are still in use today. The procedures for managing intrastate and inter-ethnic issues include international supervision, regional economic unions, minority protection, plebiscites, and territorial partition. The Palestine and Bosnian Partition Plans and European Union practice are modern examples of conditioning recognition of statehood on human rights, democracy, and minority protection guarantees.
Bilateral treaties
There were several bilateral Minority Treaties, each signed between one of the countries in question and the League. The treaties were signed between the League and some of the newly established nations: Poland, Yugoslavia (also known then as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), Czechoslovakia. Similar treaties were also imposed on Greece and Entente-allied Romania in exchange for their territorial enlargement, and on some of the nations defeated in the First World War (Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey). At the same time, Albania, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and, outside of Europe, Iraq were persuaded to accept minority obligations as part of the terms of their admission to the League of Nations.
The Polish treaty (signed in June 1919, as the first of the Minority Treaties, and serving as the template for the subsequent ones) is often referred to as either the Little Treaty of Versailles or the Polish Minority Treaty; the Austrian, Czechoslovak and Yugoslavian treaties are referred to as Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye (1919); the Romanian treaty as the Treaty of Paris (1919), the Greek as the Treaty of Sèvres (1920); the Hungarian as the Treaty of Trianon (1920), the Bulgarian as the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919), and the Turkish as the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). In most of the above cases the minority treaties were only one of many articles of the aforementioned treaties.
List of unilateral declarations
Declaration by the government of Albania, issued 2 October 1921.
Declaration by the government of Latvia, issued 19 July 1923, heard by the Council of the League on 11 September 1923.
Declaration by the government of Lithuania, issued 12 May 1922.
Declaration by the government of Bulgaria, issued 29 September 1924.
Declaration by the government of Greece, issued 29 September 1924.
List of bilateral treaties
Austrian–Czechoslovak treaty, concluded 7 June 1920. Ratifications exchanged in Vienna, March 10, 1921. Registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 29 March 1921. Supplemented by additional protocol relating to Carlsbad on 23 August 1920.
German-Polish Accord on East Silesia (also called Geneva Convention), concluded 15 May 1922. The treaty dealt with the constitutional and legal future of Upper Silesia which partly became Polish territory after the Upper Silesia plebiscite of 20 March 1921.
List of multilateral treaties
Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Poland (June 28, 1919), the so-called Little Treaty of Versailles;
Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Czechoslovakia (September 10, 1919)
Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (September 10, 1919)
Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Greece (August 10, 1920)
Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Romania, signed at Paris on 9 December 1919 and went into effect on 16 July 1920. Ratified by the British government on 12 January 1921, by the Japanese government on 25 January 1921 and by the Italian government on 3 March 1921. Registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 21 July 1921.
System
The Minority Treaties were the basis of the League's system of minorities. Their aim was to protect the minorities without alienating the majority of the countries' population. The procedure was centered on the Council of the League (rather than the more encompassing Assembly) which had the right and obligation to raise complaints of treaty violations. Individual Council members had the unique privilege of placing complaints on the agenda, even through the petitions for that could be sent from any source. The majority of cases, however, were never handled by the council. Before reaching the Council, the petition passed through: the minority section of the Secretariat which selected the petitions according to some criteria (prohibition of violent language, integrity of the state, complaints about specific violations...), tried a first mediation and asked for supplementary information; the special committee of three that was appointed by the council and had the faculty of:
dismissing the petition;
trying a second stage of mediation
submitting the question to the Council, which had the opportunity to seek a final agreement between the parties. If the accused government and the League could not reach a satisfactory compromise, the final decision was referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice (most cases were solved by negotiations between affected governments before the International Court intervention).
Importance
The Minority Treaties, recognized as history's first minority treaties, were an important step in protection of minorities and recognition of human rights, bringing the subject to an international forum. In them, for the first time, states and international communities recognized that there are people living outside normal legal protection and who required an additional guarantee of their elementary rights from an external body, as protection within individual states itself may not be sufficient. Among issues successfully resolved by the Minority Treaties was the Åland crisis.
Nonetheless, the treaties were also subject to past and present criticism. The countries subject to the treaties saw it as limiting their sovereignty and infringing their right for self-determination, as the League was allowed to influence national, religious and educational policy in those countries, and suggesting that they were not competent enough to deal with their internal matters. Further criticism centered on the treaties not being obligatory for the established countries (like France, Germany, United Kingdom or Russia). The Western countries, who dictated the treaties in the aftermath of the First World War, saw minority safeguards as unnecessary for themselves, and trusted that they could fulfill the "standard of civilization". It was the new Central and Eastern European countries that were not trusted to respect those rights, and, of course, Bolshevik Russia, still in the throes of the Russian Revolution, was a separate case.
This inequality further offended the smaller countries. Finally, this inequality also meant that the minority rights were not seen as a universal right; it was exclusively a foreign policy issue, and thus populations that had no state to back up their claims were relatively disadvantaged when compared to ones backed up by a powerful state or group of interests.
With the decline of League of Nations in the 1930s, the treaties were increasingly considered unenforceable and useless. The League Council, charged with enforcing the various minority treaties, often failed to act upon complaints from minorities. There was an unwritten rule that state policies aimed at the cultural assimilation of minorities should be ignored as the "minor evil" with regard to the rights enshrined in the Minority Treaties when those policies were seen as guaranteeing the internal stability of the state concerned.
When the Council did review cases, the reviews were commonly dominated by the countries whose ethnic groups were affected and that tried not only to resolve the problem of mistreatment of their minorities but also score other political goals on the international scene, sometimes even sacrificing the very minority in question (German and Hungarian governments are recognized as having abused the system the most). Also, of course, the League, lacking its own army, could not coerce any state to adhere to its recommendations.
Even before Adolf Hitler seized control of Germany in 1933, the problems with the Minority Treaties were evident. Various European governments continued to abuse minorities, the latter loudly protested, their complaints were exploited by interested parties with ulterior motives, and the League interfered as little as possible. The system suffered an apparent death blow with Poland's rejection of its treaty in 1934.
Renewed interest
Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht explained the legal effectiveness of the operation of this system of minority protection treaties. He pointed out the Court's determination to discourage the evasion of these international obligations, and its repeated affirmation of
The United Nations established a formal minority rights protection system as an integral part of the Plan for the Future Government of Palestine.
The status of the treaties was questioned by the United Nations Secretariat in 1950, but a modern-day Chairman-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Minorities subsequently advised that no competent UN organ had made any decision which that extinguish the obligations under those instruments. He added that it was doubtful whether that could even be done by the United Nations. The provision that 'No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex.' is enshrined in a multitude of international human rights conventions and the UN Charter itself.
Li-ann Thio, a professor of international and human rights law at the National University of Singapore noted that many international law norms and customary practices developed in the inter-war years by the League of Nations are still in use today. She specifically addressed the procedures for managing intrastate and inter-ethnic issues through (1) international supervision, (2)supranational integration, (3)minority protection, (4)plebiscites, and (5)partitions. She cited the Palestine and Bosnian Partition Plans and 1990s European practice as examples of conditioning recognition of statehood on human rights, democracy, and minority protection guarantees.
The International Court of Justice performed a legal analysis of the status of the territory of Palestine in order to determine the applicable law, before seeking to establish whether that law had been breached. The Court said that in addition to the general guarantees of freedom of movement
under Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, account had to be taken of specific guarantees of access to the Christian, Jewish and Islamic Holy Places. It noted that minority and religious rights had been placed under international guarantee by Article 62 of the Treaty of Berlin, 13 July 1878, and observed that those "existing rights" had been preserved in accordance with the safeguarding provisions of Article 13 of the League of Nations Mandate and a chapter of General Assembly resolution 181 (II) on the future government of Palestine.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States. It also noted that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character. In many instances the minority rights treaties provided for arbitration and granted the International Court of Justice jurisdiction to resolve disputes.
See also
Diplomatic history of World War I
International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)
International relations (1919–1939)
Treaty of Berlin (1878) – granting special rights and protection to some minorities under the Ottoman Empire
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – declaration of United Nations, successor of the League of Nations
Notes
a Sometimes also known as the Treaties on the Protection of National Minorities or Minorities Protection Treaties; the term Minority Treaties is the most concise of many names, and is used after Dugdale and Bewes (1926). The names of specific treaties affecting various countries vary from case to case.
References
Further reading
Azcarate, P. de. League of Nations and National Minorities (1945) online
Fink, Carole. Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection (2004) online review.
Fink, Carole. Minority Rights as an International Question, Contemporary European History, Vol. 2 (November 2000), pp. 385–400
Minorities Protection Treaties
Motta, Giuseppe. Less than Nations. Central-Eastern European Minorities after WW1, 2 vols. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 excerpt
External links
Little Treaty of Versailles signed by Poland on the 28th of June 1919
Ethnic minorities
League of Nations treaties
Minority rights
Interwar-period treaties
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) |
The Armed Forces of Turkmenistan currently funds 2 high ranking educational institutions: The Military Academy of Turkmenistan and the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Turkmenistan. Aside from those two schools, there are several military schools around the country, specializing in the training of personnel of a branches of service. In the early 1990s when the armed forces were rapidly being developed, many officers were trained in the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense, while at least 300 officers were sent to schools in Turkey. On 3 October 1992, the Turkmen State University created the first Turkmen educational department. This article lists institutions of the Turkmen Armed Forces based on its respective agency and service branch.
Ministry of Defense
Military Academy
The Military Academy of Turkmenistan named after Oguz Han was established on February 16, 2007, in Ashgabat. It is designed as a joint service institution, with enrollment coming from all branches of the armed forces. Construction began under President Saparmurat Niyazov, with the main facility being built by French company Bouygues. The academy occupies a total of 14,000 square meters, with the Olympic Stadium being located to the right of the academy and an Olympic water complex standing to the academy's front. The building accommodates 1,100 cadets with fitness rooms, libraries, sports centers and modern classroom. The first graduation took place on 3 May 2013, at the Oguzhan Palace Complex.
Military Institute
The military institute specializes in job training for different military professions such as infantry, aviation and signals. The institute is housed inside the Ministry of Defense, which contains various activity sites that are open to cadets. The institute is divided into 3 secondary schools: the Berdimuhamed Annayev Specialized Military School in Ashgabat, the Alp Arslan Specialized Military School in Dashoguz and the Soltan Sanjar Specialized Military School in Mary. Up until early 2007, the title of rector of the institute belonged to the minister of defense.
Turkmen Naval Institute
In June 2010, it was announced that the State Security Council of Turkmenistan led by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow had ordered the creation of a naval institute. It was officially opened by Berdimuhamedow on Navy Day in 2015. The institute is based in Turkmenbashy. In September 2014, over 100 cadets of the naval institute attended a training course organized by the OSCE on maritime border security and port management.
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Police Academy
The Police Academy of Turkmenistan named after Army General Niyazov was established on February 12, 1993, as the basis of the Ashgabat Special Secondary Police School, the Higher Police School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On February 19, 1998, it was renamed to its current name to honor then-President Saparmurat Niyazov. The academy conducts training in firefighting and law enforcement procedures. The academy has 5 faculties:
Law
Special institutions
Fire-technical
Internal Troops
Advanced training
Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
On May 29, 2009, the Special Secondary School of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan was established. On July 1, 2011, it was renamed to the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan. It is currently the seniormost educational institution of the Turkmen interior ministry.
Other agencies
State Border Service Institute
The State Border Service Institute is the most recently established educational institution in Turkmenistan, being founded in 2014. The institute specializes in the training of personnel of the State Border Service of Turkmenistan and the Turkmen Border Troops.
Turkmen National Security Institute
The MNB Institute specializes in the training of personnel of the Ministry for National Security of Turkmenistan.
Military education at civil institutions
The following is a list of universities in Turkmenistan that provide military education in specific facilities:
Turkmen State Medical University
Turkmen State University (limited at first)
Turkmen State Institute of Transport and Communications
Turkmen Polytechnic Institute
These military departments were established in April 2007 for the training reserve officers and nurses of civil defence. Specifically officers are trained in mobile and armored troops; engineer and chemical warfare troops; and signal specialization. he military departments are designed as structural training subunits of civil higher education establishments, graduates of which receive the rank of reserve Lieutenant.
References
Military of Turkmenistan
Universities in Turkmenistan
Military academies of the Soviet Union |
```javascript
/* eslint-env jest */
import { nextBuild, nextServer, startApp, stopApp } from 'next-test-utils'
import webdriver from 'next-webdriver'
import { join } from 'path'
jest.setTimeout(1000 * 60 * 2)
let appPort
let app
let server
describe('Top Level Error', () => {
;(process.env.TURBOPACK_DEV ? describe.skip : describe)(
'production mode',
() => {
beforeAll(async () => {
const appDir = join(__dirname, '../')
await nextBuild(appDir)
app = nextServer({
dir: appDir,
dev: false,
quiet: true,
})
server = await startApp(app)
appPort = server.address().port
})
afterAll(() => stopApp(server))
it('should render error page', async () => {
const browser = await webdriver(appPort, '/')
try {
const text = await browser.waitForElementByCss('#error-p').text()
expect(text).toBe('Error Rendered')
} finally {
await browser.close()
}
})
}
)
})
``` |
A campfire is a fire at a campsite.
Campfire or Camp Fire may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Campfire (James Blundell album) (2017)
Campfire (Kasey Chambers album) (2018)
Campfire (Rend Collective album) (2012)
"Campfire", a song by Red Velvet from the 2015 album The Red
"Campfire", a song by DRAM and Neil Young from the soundtrack of 2017 film Bright
Campfire (film) or Medurat Hashevet, a 2004 Israeli film
Other uses
Camp Fire (2018), a wildfire in Butte County, California, U.S.
Camp Fire (organization), an American co-ed youth development organization
Campfire (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
Campfire (software), an online chat service by Basecamp
Campfire (app), a companion app to connect with players of Niantic games
Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), in Zimbabwe
Campfire, a platform around which internet tribes gather
See also
Bonfire (disambiguation)
Campfire songs (disambiguation)
Campfire Girls (band)
Camp Fire Girls (novel series) |
or literally "Red Music" is the common name of the revolutionary music () genre in Vietnam. This genre of music began soon after the beginning of the 20th century during the French colonial period, advocating for independence, socialism and anti-colonialism. Red Music was later strongly promoted across North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, to urge Northerners to achieve reunification under the Workers' Party of North Vietnam and fight against the "American imperialist puppet" in South Vietnam. Other forms of non-traditional, non-revolutionary music and culture in the North, like Vietnamese popular music and Western music and culture, were banned, being labelled as "counter-revolutionary", "bourgeois", or "capitalist".
One of the earliest composers of revolutionary songs was Đinh Nhu (1910–1945). Trọng Tấn (born 1976) is considered the young "" (Prince of Red Music).
References
Vietnamese music |
The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge is an unreleased video game for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2 by Mythos Games. Developed by the team which produced X-COM: UFO Defense, including lead designer Julian Gollop, the game was planned to be "a remake of the first X-COM with 3D graphics," as the first of four games planned in the new series. Cancelled in 2001, the unfinished game was later bought and partially turned into UFO: Aftermath by Altar Interactive, which was in turn itself followed by two sequels. Some elements of the game are also present in Gollop's own Phoenix Point.
Gameplay
According to the GameSpot preview, the Freedom Ridge interface followed the three-tiered format of a rotatable and zoomable global strategy view, showing various cities areas of interest spread and an outline of the human (allied) and alien (enemy) zones of control (similar to the Geoscape in the X-COM: UFO Defense and also in accelerated real-time), a 3D isometric view tactical screen when the player controls a squad in turn-based combat, and a first-person view to control the squad's individual units while aiming their weapons. The game's environment was presented with a detailed 3D graphics and fully destructible ("floors, beams, and roofs can collapse, and entire buildings can be leveled if enough damage is sustained"). During the action sequences, the camera would switch from the isometric or first-person view for special effects such as to trail behind a fired missile.
The project leader Julian Gollop later said it was "quite an ambitious project" of turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring such innovative elements as a destructible terrain system. He said that had it been released, The Dreamland Chronicles would be very similar in gameplay terms to the much later tactical role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles, released for the PlayStation 3 in 2008: "We had a third-person camera view behind your character with a bar representing your Action Points, which went down as you moved. When you went into shooting mode it went into a first-person view and you could select snap shots or aimed shots, which altered the size of an aiming circle on screen."
Plot
In the game, the humankind had lost Earth to the invading aliens following a devastating 70-day war against the dinosaurlike Saurans in the year 2003. In the aftermath of the war, the player takes command of a small resistance group named the Terran Liberation Army in a desperate struggle to regain the planet. They must scramble to protect the areas left in their control and find more supplies and troops, and capture aliens and their equipment to research the alien technology and use it against them. Along the way, human resistance uncovers the truth behind alien abductions, UFO conspiracies, and Area 51 ("Dreamland" is a name often used for Area 51, located near the location called Freedom Ridge), and soon discover other powerful forces at work, including another alien race other than the invaders (Reticulans) and the reclusive and mysterious Men in Black.
Development
Freedom Ridge was announced in 2000, using "a lot of new technology" such as the sophisticated environment physics engine Havok. The development was first put on hold in February 2001, as Gollop's team failed to find the publisher for their game. It was restarted by Bethesda Softworks, which in turn ceased funding the project in April 2001. Eventually, it was ultimately cancelled later in 2001 by Titus Interactive and Mythos Games ceased to exist. According to Gollop in 2011: "Titus had no interest in what we were doing – they were only after Interplay's assets, and they cancelled the project...we had no choice but to wind up the company at that point."
UFO: Aftermath
In mid-2001, Virgin Interactive, who possessed Dreamland rights, prompted the Czech developer Altar Interactive to restart production on the PC version. However, the game was renamed, first to UFO: Freedom Ridge, and then to UFO: Aftermath. More and more other changes were also made as the reboot progressed. Even the game engine was completely different in the final product, as the new developer did not acquire rights to the game's Havok physics engine and other middleware graphics and sound elements and instead made their own. Eventually, very few elements of the original Freedom Ridge project remained in the finished UFO: Aftermath when it was released in 2003. Altar themselves described it as "a completely new game with a different combat system, new graphics, and a vastly different background story." Their game nevertheless still begins following the alien conquest of Earth (here instant and completely apocalyptic) and also features a struggle to stop the alien terraforming of the planet, and even a mission "Dreamland Files" in Area 51, but the Reticulans became the enemy (controlling mutated dead humans and animals) and the Saurans do not appear at all. UFO: Aftermath was later followed by two sequels, UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Afterlight.
According to Martin Klíma, leader of Altar team, they have received the five CD-ROMs with source code from original developers through Virgin. According to Klima, playable version of the game never existed in technically stable form: "There was some basic source code, which could not be compiled, although we tried to put it together for quite long time. Especially because to it (source code) were linked perhaps all middleware libraries. Mythos did not do any own work. Physics engine, 3D engine, that all was licensed and the question is, what they really did for that year and £800,000. We had to begin from start, we could not use single line of code either from original Dreamland or [Altar's own] Original War, which was written in Delphi language." Gollop retorted: "Unfortunately they [Altar] stripped out our fantastic turn based stuff and they put what I thought was a rather weak real-time thing in there."
See also
Laser Squad Nemesis
X-COM: Alliance
X-COM: Genesis
References
External links
(archived)
Alien invasions in video games
Cancelled PlayStation 2 games
Cancelled Windows games
First-person shooters
Post-apocalyptic video games
Real-time strategy video games
Science fiction video games
Turn-based tactics video games
Video games set in 2003
Mythos Games games |
The Space Training and Readiness Delta (Provisional) (STAR Delta (P)) was a United States Space Force unit responsible for the training and education of space professionals, as well as the development of space warfighting doctrine. It was a component of Space Operations Command and was headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
STAR Delta (P) was activated on 24 July 2020 to serve as the precursor organization to the planned Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM). Announced on 30 June 2020 as one of three field commands of the U.S. Space Force, STARCOM was set to be activated in 2021. In the interim, the delta was activated to provide oversight of Space Force education, training, and operational test and evaluation units. It was then inactivated on 23 August 2021 prior to the activation of STARCOM.
Structure in 2021
List of commanders
See also
United States Air Force Academy
Air Education and Training Command
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
United States Marine Corps Training and Education Command
Naval Education and Training Command
Space Flag
References
Deltas of the United States Space Force
Military education and training in the United States |
Phalaenophana extremalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1912. It is found in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
External links
Description of the larva of Phalaenophana extremalis with notes on P. pyramusalis (Noctuidae)
Herminiinae
Moths described in 1912 |
Alex Krizhevsky is a Ukrainian-born Canadian computer scientist most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Shortly after having won the ImageNet challenge in 2012 with AlexNet, he and his colleagues sold their startup, DNN Research Inc., to Google. Krizhevsky left Google in September 2017 after losing interest in the work, to work at the company Dessa in support of new deep-learning techniques. Many of his numerous papers on machine learning and computer vision are frequently cited by other researchers. He is the creator of the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.
Alex was a PhD student at University of Toronto under Geoffrey Hinton.
References
External links
Alex Krizhevsky's home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer vision researchers
Ukrainian computer scientists |
Carpathonesticus birsteini is a species of araneomorph spider of the family Nesticidae. It occurs Russia and Georgia and is found in caves.
Original publication
References
Nesticidae
Spiders of Russia
Spiders of Georgia (country)
Spiders described in 1947 |
Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is a British actor, writer and musician. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has also appeared in Hairspray. He won a BRIT award in 1984 and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage and BAFTA awards.
Early life
Planer's father's Hungarian-Romanian family left Germany in 1933 and settled in Mortlake, London. He established a company, which pioneered technology in controlled-rate freezers, IVF and stem cell research. Nigel has two brothers, and attended King's House School in Richmond and Westminster School in central London, where he wrote a satirical play about the school with fellow pupil Stephen Poliakoff. He began a degree course in African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex, but dropped out to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career
Planer was a founding member of the London Comedy Store and The Comic Strip – pioneers of the alternative comedy movement in the United Kingdom. Planer appeared with Peter Richardson as part of the double act "The Outer Limits". Planer and Richardson also wrote the That's Life! parody on Not the Nine O'Clock News. With Christopher Douglas, he created the spoof actor character "Nicholas Craig", who appears in book, radio, TV and articles as well as live; including, in 2011, in Stewart Lee's At Last! The 1981 Show at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and in 2022 in Nicholas Craig's Podcom. Planer is also the author of several books, plays, radio plays, and TV scripts as well as a small volume of poetry. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Edinburgh Napier University in June 2011.
Television
Planer is best known for his role as Neil, the hippie housemate in the BBC comedy The Young Ones, which ran for two series broadcast in 1982 and 1984. He has starred in The Comic Strip Presents..., a series of short films broadcast from 1982 onwards, on Channel 4.
In 2003, Planer played Professor Dumbledore in a Harry Potter parody, Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan. He appeared on a BBC4 programme in the guise of Nicholas Craig in 2007, in which he was interviewed by Mark Lawson.
Planer guest-starred in "The Pale Horse", a 2010 episode of Agatha Christie's Marple. In 2011's The Hunt for Tony Blair, he played Peter Mandelson.
Leading roles on television include Shine on Harvey Moon, The Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Catflap, The Grimleys, King and Castle, Bonjour La Classe and Roll Over, Beethoven. He also starred in Michael Palin's Number 27, Simon Gray's Two Lumps of Ice, Emma Tennant's Frankenstein's Baby, Blackeyes by Dennis Potter, Marcella, Cockroaches, Ratburger, and Loaded.
Planer's guest appearances include programmes such as Inside No. 9, The Bill, French and Saunders, Jonathan Creek, Blackadder III, The Last Detective, The Paul Merton Show, The Lenny Henry Show, Death in Paradise, Songs from the Shows, This is Jinsy, Boomers, Father Brown, M.I. High, Grantchester, and There She Goes. He played Matt LeBlanc's lawyer in the TV series, Episodes.
Theatre
His first break in the theatre was understudying David Essex as Che Guevara in the original West End run of Evita.
In 1990, he replaced Michael Gambon in Alan Ayckbourn's Man of the Moment in the West End. Leading roles followed in other productions at the Bush Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, the Traverse, the Young Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Plymouth Drum and the Hampstead Theatre.
Planer was in the original cast for the 1997 London revival of Chicago as Amos Hart. He was a member of the original West End cast of his co-star Ben Elton's Queen musical, We Will Rock You as Pop.
In 2006, he played the part of the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show. He then starred as The Wizard in the original West End production of Wicked alongside Idina Menzel. The show opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on 27 September 2006.
He took over the role of Wilbur, opposite Michael Ball, in the West End production of Hairspray on 2 February 2009.
He also featured in Doctor Who: Live touring the UK, as Vorgenson The Inter-Galactic Showman, before appearing in Pantomime as Captain Hook at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield.
Planer went on to star as Grandpa Joe in the original production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened in London's West End in 2013 for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for best supporting actor in a musical.
From September 2018 to November 2018, Planer toured with Ade Edmondson in a play that they wrote together called Vulcan 7.
In 2020 he took on the role of Grandpa in the arena tour of David Walliams' Grandpa's Great Escape.
Film
Planer has appeared in films, including Flood, Virgin Territory, Bright Young Things, Hogfather, The Colour of Magic, The Wind in the Willows, The Land Girls, Clockwork Mice, Carry On Columbus, Brazil, The Supergrass, I Give It a Year, Burn, Burn, Burn, The List and Yellowbeard.
Music
Planer played Den Dennis, one of the four members of the 1980s spoof rock band Bad News, which made two albums produced by Brian May. The band performed at the Hammersmith Apollo as well as the Donington and Reading Rock Festivals.
As Neil from The Young Ones, Planer gained a number two hit single in 1984 with "Hole in My Shoe" (originally a hit for 1960s band Traffic) winning him a Brit Award. After that, an album was produced by Dave Stewart, entitled Neil's Heavy Concept Album. Planer also took Neil's stage act on the road in that year as Neil in the "Bad Karma in The UK" tour. This culminated in a month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a night at The Hammersmith Apollo, London. The Young Ones also appeared on Cliff Richard's 1986 charity rerecording of "Living Doll", which spent three weeks at number one in the UK. He has a silver and a gold disc and a Brit award from his musical career. In 2015 he started a new music project called Rainsmoke with Chris Wade and Roger Planer.
In 2021, Planer released several of his own musical projects. "Five Songs Left" and "Four Songs More", collaborations with Chris Wade, are Nick Drake-inspired folk songs that he wrote in 1971, when he was eighteen. He also released two singles written more recently, "City in the Summer", a jazz song about the hot summer of COVID-19, and "Love Strikes". He has written lyrics for "Commit No Nuisance", a music collaboration with Neil Avery ("Talk it Out", one of the songs from the album, aims to encourage male mental health awareness,) and for Swedish rocker Matts Lindblom.
Voice acting
Planer was the reader of the first unabridged audiobook editions of many of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. He also appeared in the television adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather and The Colour of Magic, and performed as a voice artist in the games Discworld 2 and Discworld Noir. Discworld Audiobooks narrated by Planer include (with number in parentheses indicating order of the book in the Discworld series):
The Colour of Magic (1)
The Light Fantastic (2)
Mort (4)
Sourcery (5)
Wyrd Sisters (6)
Pyramids (7)
Guards! Guards! (8)
Moving Pictures (10)
Reaper Man (11)
Witches Abroad (12)
Small Gods (13)
Lords and Ladies (14)
Men at Arms (15)
Soul Music (16)
Interesting Times (17)
Maskerade (18)
Feet of Clay (19)
Hogfather (20)
Jingo (21)
The Last Continent (22)
Carpe Jugulum (23)
Other voice roles include the narrator of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (and the audiobook narrator for Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids), for which he received a BAFTA nomination, the title character in 2 series of Romuald the Reindeer, and Dr. Marmalade in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (alongside Young Ones co-stars Christopher Ryan and Rik Mayall). Planer has also been the narrator of many of BBC Four's Britannia series of documentaries, including Prog Rock Britannia, Blues Britannia and Heavy Metal Britannia. In addition he voiced Frodo in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil from the 1992 radio series Tales from the Perilous Realm. He was a narrator in a direct-to-video version of Val Biro's Gumdrop book series in 1994. He narrated as a thirty-something Adrian Mole in the radio adaptation of Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years.
In 2018, he voiced the character of Henry Davenant Hythe in the Big Finish Productions original production, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, which he also wrote.
Writing
Planer has written books, stage plays, TV shows, radio plays and newspaper articles as well as 105 episodes of The New Magic Roundabout.
Books
Neil’s Book of the Dead 1984 (with Terence Blacker)
I an actor: Nicholas Craig 1988 (with Christopher Douglas)
A Good Enough Dad 1992
Let’s Get Divorced 1994 (with Terence Blacker)
Therapy and How to Avoid it 1996 (with Robert Llewellyn)
Unlike The Buddha 1997
The Right Man 2000
Faking It 2003
Jeremiah Bourne in Time 2023
Plays
On the Ceiling 2008
Death of Long Pig 2009
The Magnificent Andrea 2011
Game of Love and Chai 2018
Vulcan 7 2018 (with Adrian Edmondson)
She Devil! (Workshop production) 2019
All Above Board 2021
Credits
His television comedy and satire work includes:
Boom Boom...Out Go The Lights (1981, TV Special) as Self
Shine on Harvey Moon (1982–1995, TV Series) as Lou Lewis
The Young Ones (1982–1984, TV Series) as Neil / E.T. Fairfax / Famine / Dino / Fly #2
Yellowbeard (1983) as Mansell
The Comic Strip Presents… (1983–2012, TV Series)
Roll Over Beethoven (1985, TV Series) as Nigel Cochrane
Brazil (1985) as Charlie – Dept. of Works
King and Castle (1986–1988, TV Series) as David Castle
Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987, TV Series) as Ralph Filthy
Eat the Rich (1987) as DHSS Manager
Blackadder the Third (1987) as Lord Smedley, fop
Blackeyes (1989, TV Mini-Series, by Dennis Potter) as Jeff
French & Saunders (1990, TV Series) as Andy
Frankenstein's Baby (1990, TV Series) as Paul Hocking
Nicholas Craig – The Naked Actor (1990–1992, TV Series) as Nicholas Craig
Nicholas Craig's Interview Masterclass (1990, TV Series) as Nicholas Craig
Oh, No! Not THEM! (1990, TV Movie) as Neil
Nicholas Craig's Masterpiece Theatre (1992) as Nicholas Craig
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass (1992) as Nicholas Craig
Carry On Columbus (1992) as The Wazir
The Magic Roundabout (1992, English adaptation and narrator on previously unseen episodes)
Bonjour la Classe (1993, TV Series) as Laurence Didcott
Sherlock Holmes (1993, TV Mini-Series) as Inspector Hopkins
Let's Get Divorced (1994)
Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan (1994, TV Special short) as Jonathan Hughes
Clockwork Mice (1995) as Parkey
Diana & Me (1997) as Taxi Driver
The Grimleys (1997–2001, TV Series) as Baz Grimley
Jonathan Creek (1997–2013, TV Series) as Franklin Tartikoff / Shelford
The Land Girls (1998) as Gerald
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000–2007, TV Series) as Narrator (voice)
Bright Young Things (2003) as Taxi Driver
Wicked (2006–2008, West End Musical)
SpongeBob SquarePants (2006) – Dr. Marmalade (voice)
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006, TV Movie) as Mr. Sideney
Flood (2007) as Keith Hopkins
Virgin Territory (2007) as Uncle Bruno
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (2008, TV Mini-Series) as Arch Astronomer
Hairspray (2009)
M.I.High (2009, TV Series) as Prime Minister
Episodes (2012–2015, TV Series) as Sanford Shamiro
I Give It a Year (2013) as Brian
The List (2013) as Ted Rove
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) (2013)
Boomers (2014–2016, TV Series) as Mick
Cockroaches (2015, TV Series) as Stevie
Burn Burn Burn (2015) as Henry
Grantchester (2016, TV Series) as Giles Montgomery
Seven Days in Never (2017) (voice)
Ratburger (2017, TV Movie) as Headmaster
Loaded (2017, TV Series) as Mr. Young
Death in Paradise (2018, TV Series) as Eugene Sutton
Inside No. 9 (2018, TV Series) as Frank
Marcella (2018, TV Series) as Reg Reynolds
Vulcan 7 (2018)
There She Goes (2018–2020, TV Series) as Gandalf
Father Brown (2019, TV Series) as Ronnie Grunion
Grandpa’s Great Escape Arena Tour (2019)
Lockwood & Co. (2023, TV Series) as Sir John Fairfax
Discography
Evita (Original London Cast Recording) 1978
"Hole in My Shoe" (1984)
Neil's Heavy Concept Album (1984)
Rollover Beethoven. (Songs from the original TV series) 1985
"Living Doll" (1986)
Rough with the Smooth( 1986)
Bad News (1987)
Bad News Bootleg (1988)
Bad News The Cash in Compilation (1992)
The Last Night (1993)
Chicago cast recording (1995)
The Dreaded Lurgie (1998)
Three Men in a Boat (1999)
Adrian Mole the Cappuccino Years (2000)
There was also a soundtrack to The Grimleys (2000), Planer's character appearing on the album.
We Will Rock You (The Original London Cast Recording) (2002)
Cabaret (2005)
The Robe of Skulls (2008)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (The Original London Cast Recording) (2013)
Five Songs Left (2020)
City in the Summer (2020) – single
Four Songs More (2021)
Love Strikes (2021) – single
Phoning Home From Away (2021) – single
The Last Ten Yards (2021) – single
References
External links
September 2006 article about Planer
as Neil
1953 births
Living people
20th-century English comedians
20th-century English male actors
20th-century English male writers
20th-century English novelists
21st-century English comedians
21st-century English male actors
21st-century English male writers
21st-century English novelists
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Audiobook narrators
English dramatists and playwrights
English male comedians
English male dramatists and playwrights
English male film actors
English male novelists
English male singers
English male stage actors
English male television actors
English male voice actors
Fathers' rights activists
People educated at Westminster School, London
Actors from Westminster
The Comic Strip
English people of Hungarian descent
Comedians from London
Singers from London
Writers from London
Male actors from London |
Parmotrema appendiculatum is a species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in South America, it was originally described by French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in 1837 as a species of Parmelia. Mason Hale transferred it to the genus Parmotrema in 1974.
See also
List of Parmotrema species
References
appendiculatum
Lichen species
Lichens described in 1837
Lichens of South America
Taxa named by Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée |
Benjamin Joseph "BJ" Franquez Cruz (born March 3, 1951) is a Chamorro lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as the Speaker of the 34th Guam Legislature from 2017 to 2018 and as Vice Speaker from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Guam Legislature from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2018. He was Chief Justice of the Guam Supreme Court from 1999 to 2001. In September 2018, Cruz was elected to serve as Public Auditor of Guam.
Early life and education
He was born Benjamin Joseph Franquez Cruz on , in Guam, the second child and only son of Juan Quenga Cruz ("Tanaguan") and Antonia Cruz Franquez. His father, who had just been elected Commissioner (Mayor) of Piti, was killed by Marcelo "Mar" C. Biscoe in 1956 when Cruz was five years old.
In 1960, while in Guam, Cruz's mother married Vicente Cruz Guerrero ("Tico"). They resettled the whole family in California in 1962.They returned to Guam intermittently, where Cruz attended grade school at St. Francis School in Yona.
He went to St. John Bosco High School in California until 1968. His bachelor's degree political science and economics was obtained in 1972 from the Claremont Men's College, and his Juris Doctor in 1975 from the Santa Clara University School of Law.
Career
Upon graduation in 1975, Cruz returned to Guam to work as Consumer Counsel in the Attorney General's Office.
Four months later, Governor of Guam Ricardo J. Bordallo, who had just begun his first term in office with Lieutenant Governor of Guam Rudy Sablan, asked Cruz to serve as the Governor's Legal Counsel, which he did for Bordallo's first term through January 1979.
Between Bordallo's two gubernatorial terms, Cruz established a private practice and served as Minority Legal Counsel to the 15th and 16th Guam Legislatures. In 1983, Governor Bordallo was elected to his second term as Governor of Guam with Lt. Governor Edward Diego Reyes. Bordallo appointed Cruz to head the Washington, D.C., Liaison Office. There, he served as Liaison to the White House, the United States Congress, and the National Governors Association.
In 1984, Bordallo appointed Cruz to be a Judge of the Superior Court of Guam. At 33, Cruz would be one of the youngest attorneys ever appointed to be a judge. His appointment was controversial, and several leaders of local Protestant churches testified against the confirmation, citing sexual preference as disqualifying Cruz from being a good judge. Despite these interventions, Cruz was confirmed by the legislature and began a 17-year career in the island judiciary.
Cruz spent the first nine of his seventeen years as a Superior Court Judge with the Family court, where he was an advocate for establishing and improving services for juvenile offenders and troubled youth. As a trial court judge, Cruz presided over the controversial lawsuit filed regarding the implementation of the Chamorro Land Trust Act. He issued the landmark decision ordering the Act's implementation.
In 1997, Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez appointed Cruz to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam. He served as Associate Justice until 1999, when his colleagues elected him Chief Justice. Cruz served as Chief Justice from April 21, 1999, until August 31, 2001, when he retired from the judiciary.
Prior to his appointment as Superior Court judge, Cruz held key positions in the Democratic Party of Guam. He served as executive director under Franklin J.A. Quitugua and was Guam National Committeeman in the Democratic National Committee. Cruz returned to politics after his retirement from the judiciary in 2002, to chair the successful campaign of Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo. Between 2003 and 2005, Cruz once again served as Democratic National Committeeman.
In 2003, Cruz was appointed by U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton to be one of five members of the Guam War Claims Review Commission, established by the Congress to report and make findings relative to compensation for the victims and survivors of the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II. The Federal Commission has issued a report to Congress recommending compensation. A bill is now pending in the Congress that, when passed, will finally compensate victims and survivors.
Gutierrez-Cruz campaign (2006)
In 2004, Cruz was elected to the 28th Guam Legislature and was the highest democratic vote getter. In 2006, Cruz ran for Lt. Governor with Former Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez in the 2006 Democratic primary against former Delegate Robert A. Underwood and Senator Frank Aguon. The Underwood-Aguon ticket won the primary but lost in the general election to Republican Governor Felix Perez Camacho and Lt. Governor Michael Cruz.
Vice-Speaker of the Guam Legislature
On January 7, 2008, Cruz was the victor in a special election to fill a vacancy in the 29th Guam Legislature left by the unexpected passing of former republican Speaker Antonio (Tony) R. Unpingco. The election of Cruz shifted the majority of the 15-seat At-large Legislature from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
In July 2008, Cruz worked to convince Navy Rear Admiral William French, Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Marianas and other U.S. Navy officials to ease restrictions on the access of local veterans to the island's only VA Clinic located in a gated Naval hospital facility.
In 2009, Cruz introduced Same-sex Civil Union Legislation on behalf of the Guam Youth Congress. The legislation has been publicly opposed by Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron, Archdiocese of Hagatna, Guam. In July 2009, Cruz revised the legislation to provide for Domestic Partnerships between any two people. This legislation has also been opposed by the Catholic Church on Guam. Apuron has called for fasting and prayer for the Guam Legislature to reject the legislation.
Personal life
Cruz's nomination to be a Judge in the Superior Court of Guam in 1984 was marked with protests from evangelical and Baptist church groups because he was gay. Cruz was later confirmed as a judge and was assigned to lead the Family Court for nearly ten years. Cruz revealed a longstanding homosexual relationship in a local article published in Latte Magazine in 1995. Cruz eventually became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam and was featured in an article in The Advocate about his homosexuality.
See also
List of LGBT jurists in the United States
References
External links
Senator BJ Cruz' Official Website
Profile on Supreme Court of Guam website
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20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
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Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Guam
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Guamanian lawyers
Guamanian people of Spanish descent
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The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/584) were passed as a statutory instrument under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to specify various detailed points about how to calculate whether someone is being paid the minimum wage, who gets it, and how to enforce it.
Contents
Regulations 3 to 6 define four different types of work that people do.
r 3, time work
r 4, salaried work
r 5, output work
r 6, unmeasured work
r 7, travelling definition
r 8 (and Part IV) wage includes incentive pay, bonuses and tips paid through the payroll
r 9 (and Part IV) wage excludes benefits in kind (with exception of accommodation), overtime and shift premia
r 10, definition of ‘pay reference period’ as one month, or a shorter period if that is how a worker is paid.
r 12, excluded are au pairs and family members in family business
r 15(1) ‘time work includes time when a worker is available at or near a place of work, other than his home, for the purpose of doing time work, and is required to be available for such work except that, in relations to a worker who by arrangement sleeps at or near a place of work, time during the hours he is permitted to sleep shall only be treated as being time work when the worker is awake for the purpose of working.’
r 15(1A) a worker who is given suitable sleeping facilities is not doing work when not ‘awake for the purpose of working’.
r 25, ‘output work’ does not easily translate to an hourly rate (e.g. work paid by results or work paid by commission). The employer must either pay minimum rate for each hour actually worked or ‘fair piece rate’
r 26, adults in the first 26 weeks of accredited training can be paid at a lower rate
r 27 if the worker is doing ‘unmeasured work’ then one will be paid according to how long one is spent carrying out the contractual duties required
r 28, the employer can make a ‘daily average agreement’ with the worker to specify the period of time paid
r 30, payments made in respect of the reference period are to be taken into account when calculating the wage paid.
r 31, reductions to the wage paid can be disregarded as falling below the minimum wage if they include (b) deductions for industrial action absences (d) allowances other than for work (e) [tips, removed] (f) those under *r 34(1)(b), namely worker’s expenditure in connection with his employment (f) those under r 32, namely things for the worker’s ‘own use and benefit’ (g) (h) (i) amounts for living accommodation under rr 36 and 37.
r 32, for r 31(1)(g) legitimate deductions can include ‘in respect of the worker’s expenditure in connection with his employment’ and (b) deductions ‘made by the employer for his [the worker’s] own use and benefit’
r 33, deductions not to be subtracted under r 32(1)(g) or (b)? are (a) contractual liabilities, (b) loans (c) accidental overpayment of wages (d) share purchase.
r 36, the amount deductible for accommodation is [£4.73 in October 2011] per day (2) living accommodation must be available all the time.
r 38, records should be kept ‘sufficient to establish that he is remunerating the worker at a rate at least equal to the national minimum wage’
See also
Tax Credits and Child tax credit, Working tax credit
Wage regulation
Notes
References
External links
United Kingdom labour law
Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
1999 in British law
1999 in labor relations |
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The Casablanca Twin Center' () is a complex of two skyscrapers located at Casablanca, Morocco. The two structures, the West Tower and the East Tower, have 28 floors each. The center houses a complex of shops, offices, and a five-star hotel, and lies at the heart of Casablanca in the Maarif district, at the crossroads between Zerktouni Boulevard and the Boulevard Al Massira Al Khadra. The main architect was Ricardo Bofill and the associate architect was the Moroccan Elie Mouyal.
Location and appearance
The complex forms the main gateway to the residential districts in the west of the city, and is located on a triangular site which emphasizes the project's asymmetry. The two connecting towers are identical, but distinct, and are joined at the lower levels by a large complex containing the bulk of the popular shopping center. The whole structure presents a modern high-tech image, with a pared-down design and minimal relief, while local tradition is maintained in the building materials: marble, plaster, and ceramic tiles.
The central square is a landscaped shopping center on three terraces, offering a perspective on the urban scale, when seen from the exterior. The two towers are one of the tallest buildings in Casablanca. They rise through to a total of 28 floors each. The total floor area is , with a atrium. There are 15 elevators (lifts) in the Twin Center. The towers were inaugurated in 1998 and became a landmark in Casablanca.
Use of towers
Above the shopping center, which includes 5 levels, has a supermarket in addition to boutique and designer shops, are the two towers:
The West Tower, or Tower A, forming part of the shopping center, with multiple floors of office accommodation above;
The East Tower, or Tower B'', which contains the five-star Kenzi Tower Hotel.
Offices in Tower A are much sought after by international businesses. The hotel in Tower B has 210 bedrooms, plus 27 suites, including the 'Casablanca Royal Suite'. Facilities such as spa, bars, and restaurants are open to non-residents and are popular amongst Casablanca's richer residents, particularly the panoramic restaurant on the 27 floor, and "Bar 28", located on the 28 and top floor of Tower B.
Gallery
See also
Hassan II Mosque
List of tallest buildings in Morocco
List of tallest buildings in Africa
List of skyscrapers
List of the world's tallest structures
List of works by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
References
External links
Casablanca Twin Center (ricardobofill.com)
Casablanca Twin Center (e-architect.co.uk)
1999 establishments in Morocco
Office buildings completed in 1999
World Trade Centers
Twin Center
Twin towers
Architecture in Morocco
Postmodern architecture
Ricardo Bofill buildings
Skyscrapers in Morocco
Tourist attractions in Casablanca
Skyscraper office buildings
Skyscraper hotels
20th-century architecture in Morocco |
The 2026 EHF European Women's Handball Championship, commonly referred to as the EHF EURO 2026, will be the 17th edition of the EHF European Women's Handball Championship.
The championship was originally scheduled to be arranged in Russia, but in view of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Russia being suspended from competition by the International Handball Federation, the championship will be arranged somewhere else.
Bid process
On 20 November 2021 at the 14th EHF Extraordinary Congress it was announced that the 2026 EHF European Women's Handball Championship will take place in Russia.
Russia's bid was the only one, as the EHF Executive Committee was previously notified that Norway, Denmark and Sweden had withdrawn their joint bid.
Bidding timeline
The bidding timeline was as follows:
4 June 2020: Invitation to National Federations to provide a letter of intent to the EHF for hosting the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028
1 October 2020: Deadline for submitting the letter of intent and request for the bidding documents by the interested federations
1 November 2020: Dispatch of the manual for staging the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028 together with the relevant specifications and forms by the EHF
1 May 2021: Applications available at the EHF Office
May/June 2021: Evaluation of bids by the EHF
June 2021: Approval of applications by EHF EXEC
June–September 2021: Site inspections
September 2021: Further evaluation after inspections
September 2021: Confirmation of bids for the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028
17/18 November 2021: Allocation at the EO EHF Congress 2021
Bids
On 11 May 2021 it was announced that the following nations sent in an official expression of interest:
, & Withdrew in October 2021. The Scandinavians bid for 2028.
Host selection
As only the Russian bid remained it was unanimously selected at the 14th EHF Extraordinary Congress on 20 November 2021.
Second bidding process
After it was decided that Russia would not host the event due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EHF reopened the bidding process. On 25 August 2023, the EHF announced the new bids.
and
On 25 October, the EHF announced the official bids. Spain withdrew their application, while Slovakia joined Romania's bid.
and (Brno, Katowice and Lubin)
and (Bistrita, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Pitesti, Bratislava and Kosice)
(Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya)
The new timeline is:
25 October 2023: Deadline for submitting the full bids by the interested federations
November–December 2023: Evaluation of bids by the EHF and site inspections
27 January 2024: Allocation at the EHF EXEC meeting
Venues
The championship was planned to be arranged in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but after Russia lost the right to arrange the championship, some other venues will be selected.
Qualification
Qualified teams
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
References
Weblinks
Bid website of the European Handball Federation
European Women's Handball Championship
2026 in European sport
European Women's
Sports events affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine |
Divisional court may refer to:
Divisional Court (England and Wales) |
Carl Heitzmann (2 October 1836 – 6 December 1896) was a pathologist and dermatologist in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Biography
Heitzmann was born on 2 October 1836 in Vinkovci, Austrian Empire to a Jewish family. His father, Martin Heitzmann, was a surgeon in the Austrian army. Heitzmann studied medicine in Budapest and Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1859. After graduation, he furthered his studies in Vienna with Franz Schuh (1804–1864), Ferdinand Hebra (1816–1880), Salomon Stricker (1834–1898), and Carl Rokitansky (1804–1878). In Vienna, he performed lectures on morbid anatomy at the university.
When he was unable to succeed Rokitansky as the chair of pathology at Vienna, he emigrated to New York (1874). Here, he established a laboratory for microscopical research, and became one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association (ADA).
Heitzmann is credited for being the first physician to describe the precursor corpuscles of red cells, structures that he referred to as hematoblasts. In 1872 he documented his findings in a treatise titled Studien am Knochen und Knorpel, in which he mentions that his discovery of the hematoblast was in the bone marrow of an injured dog's leg.
Works
Heitzmann was a skilled illustrator and lithographer, being renowned for his work with water colors. Among his artistic works are water color illustrations he created with Anton Elfinger (1821–1864) in Hebra's 1876 Atlas der Hautkrankheiten (Atlas of Skin Diseases). Written works:
Compendium der chirurgischen Pathologie und Therapie, (Compendium of surgical pathology and therapy; 2 vols., 1864 & 1868)
Descriptive and Topographical Anatomy of Man in 600 Illustrations, (2 volumes, third edition- 1886)
Kenntniss der Dünndarmzotten” and “Untersuchungen über das Protoplasma in "Transactions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences", (Vienna, 1867–73)
Microscopic Morphology of the Animal Body, (1873)
Microscopic Studies of Inflammations of the Skin, in "Archives of Dermatology" (Philadelphia, 1879)
Notes
References
Google translation of German original
Bibliography
Attribution
1836 births
1896 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
People from Vinkovci
Croatian Jews
Austro-Hungarian Jews
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
Pathologists from Austria-Hungary
Dermatologists from Austria-Hungary
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19th-century Croatian people
Austrian people of Croatian-Jewish descent |
Robert Else (17 November 1876 – 16 September 1955) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1901 and 1903.
Else was born at Lea, Holloway, Derbyshire, the son of John Else and his wife Henrietta Lowe. His father was a bobbin maker and in 1881 they were all living with his grandparents at the Old Hat Factory in Wirksworth. Else made his debut for Derbyshire in May 1901 against Surrey, when his scores were 1 and 2. He played again that season against the South Africans when he opened the batting scoring a duck in the first innings and surviving the whole of the second innings for 6 not out. He did not play again until July 1903 when against London County he took a wicket and made his top score of 28. He played his last two matches in 1903 and made little impression in them.
Else was a left-hand batsman and played ten innings in five first-class matches with an average of 7.3 and a top score of 28. He bowled fifteen overs and took 1 first-class wicket for 61 runs in total.
Else died at Broomhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire at the age of 78.
References
1876 births
1955 deaths
Derbyshire cricketers
English cricketers
People from Dethick, Lea and Holloway
Cricketers from Derbyshire |
Canal 4 Navarra was a Spanish television channel, launched in 1997. It was founded and started to broadcast in 1997. Canal 4 Navarra mainly broadcast in Spanish but some programming was in Basque.
Canal 4 was closed on 29 February 2012, being substituted by the new Navarra Televisión.
External links
www.canal4.es (no longer active)
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 1997 |
Maces Spring is a small unincorporated community in Scott County, Virginia, along State Route 614, in an area known as Poor Valley. The settlement consists of a small number of houses. There are no longer any stores in Maces Spring; its main claim to fame is its association with the country music group the Carter Family.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, also known as Doc or A.P., was born in Maces Spring and in 1914 he brought his 16-year-old bride, Sara Dougherty, to live there. They are both buried in the graveyard behind Mount Vernon Methodist Church. A.P., Sara and A.P.'s sister-in-law, Maybelle Carter formed the Carter Family in 1927. Route 614 is now called the A.P. Carter Highway and two of A.P. and Sara's children, Joe (died 2005) and Jeanette (died 2006), opened a music hall called The Carter Fold on the Clinch Mountain side of the road.
The community is part of the Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the Tri-Cities region.
The A. P. and Sara Carter House, A. P. Carter Homeplace, A. P. Carter Store, Maybelle and Ezra Carter House, and Mt. Vernon Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as components of the Carter Family Thematic Resource.
References
Further reading
In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998.
Unincorporated communities in Scott County, Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area |
is a 2013 action video game in the Pokémon series available on the Wii U eShop developed by Ambrella and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo. It is the successor to the 2011 3DS game Pokémon Rumble Blast. It features all Pokémon from the first five generations. Up to 100 Pokémon and 4 players are able to play at the same time. It is the first Wii U game to utilize the Wii U GamePad's near-field communication (NFC) function. It was released in Japan on April 24, 2013, in Europe on August 15, 2013, and in North America on August 29, 2013.
Gameplay
While Pokémon Rumble U shares similar gameplay elements with its predecessor, in Rumble U, the player controls Pokémon and battles alongside them against other Pokémon in battle arenas. A boss Pokémon must be fought at the end of every battle arena. As the player advances, new battle arenas are unlocked. Further battle arenas can be selected from a menu. Progressively, battle arena difficulties continue to rise. Once a battle arena is completed, the player is rewarded with coins and new Pokémon. The game also uses figurines, similar to Skylanders and Disney Infinity, to add content to the game.
Plot
After a mishap in the Toy Pokémon Shop, some Pokémon capsules are swept down a river and washed up on a strange riverbank. Pikachu, Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott emerge from the Pokémon capsules and set out to find their way back to the Toy Pokémon Shop. On the course of their journey, they discover Pokémon reluctant of returning to the Toy Shop. It's even found the four Pokémon were intentionally thrown into the river in the first place.
Development
Prior to Pokémon Rumble Us release, Nintendo announced it would be the first game to use the near-field communication (NFC) component of the Wii U. Around the same time, Nintendo announced figurines would be distributed. Once the game went on sale in Europe, a special edition including two NFC figurines, a poster, and a code to download the game was distributed in game stores. Pokémon figurines are utilized by placing them on the NFC section of the Wii U GamePad, which allows the player to use that Pokémon in the game. NFC figurines have been sold in Japan, Europe, and the United States with limited availability. In response to the figurines not being sold in Canada, a Nintendo spokesperson commented that claiming availability in the United States was limited.
Reception
Pokémon Rumble U has received mostly mixed to negative reviews. On Metacritic, the game received an aggregated score of 49 out of 100, and a user score of 4.9. Its aggregate score at GameRankings was also 49%.
Writing for Nintendo Insider, Joe Merrick gave the game 70%, summarising that "Pokémon Rumble U is a simple and fun game, but may bore a few players".
Mike Manson of Nintendo Life gave a more mixed review, giving Rumble U 6 out of 10; summarising that "Pokémon Rumble U is straightforward fun that's a far cry from the main Pokémon titles, but it does pair some key strategic elements of the series with the button bashing – though there are definitely moments where there's too much going on to keep real track of, which does lead to more reliance on the latter than the former".
Chris Carter of Destructoid rated the game a 6/10. He critiqued it, finding Pokémon Rumble U too linear, lacking strategy, and repetitive and basic. Despite its flaws, he claims it may be a fun experience with friends and in short periods of gameplay.
Will Greenwald of PCMag gave the game a 2/5. He criticized it for not living up to the mechanics of Pokémon Rumble Blast and lacking a Pokémon upgrade system, due to what he deemed an unnecessary incorporation of external merchandise into gameplay. If one wants to grow attached to their Pokémon, they must buy its corresponding NFC figurine – only then will they be able to "upgrade" it to their liking. Nonetheless, he said the game is too linear and short to enjoy the upgrades.
References
2013 video games
Action role-playing video games
Ambrella games
Role-playing video games
Sentient toys in fiction
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games that use figurines
Wii U eShop games
Wii U games
Wii U-only games
Pokémon Rumble
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
Jim Courier defeated Carlos Costa in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–0, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1992 Italian Open.
Emilio Sánchez was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Michael Chang.
Seeds
Jim Courier (champion)
Pete Sampras (quarterfinals)
Boris Becker (withdrew)
Michael Stich (first round)
Michael Chang (quarterfinals)
Guy Forget (first round)
Goran Ivanišević (first round)
Petr Korda (semifinals)
Ivan Lendl (second round)
Alberto Mancini (third round)
Emilio Sánchez (third round)
Karel Nováček (first round)
Aaron Krickstein (first round)
Richard Krajicek (first round)
Sergi Bruguera (third round)
Alexander Volkov (first round)
Draw
''NB: The Final was the best of 5 sets.
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
External links
ATP Singles draw
Men's Singles |
The Moor of Peter the Great (, The Blackamoor of Peter the Great or The Negro of Peter the Great) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin. Written in 1827–1828 and first published in 1837, the novel is the first prose work of the great Russian poet.
Background
Pushkin started to work on the novel towards the end of July, 1827 in Mikhailovskoye and in spring 1828 read some drafts to his friends, including poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. During Pushkin's lifetime, two fragments were published: in the literary almanac Severnye Tsvety (1829) and in the newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta (March 1830). All the extant parts were first published after Pushkin's death by the editors of the journal Sovremennik in 1837, who also gave the novel its current title.
The main character of the novel, Ibrahim, is loosely based on Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African who was brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great. Pushkin's interests in history and genealogy combined to depict the transformation of Russia at the beginning of 18th century; the period of Russian history to which Pushkin returns in the narrative poem Poltava in 1829. The influential Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky maintained that "had this novel been completed... we should have a supreme Russian historical novel, depicting the manners and customs of the greatest epoch of Russian history."
Plot summary
The novel opens with a picture of morals and manners of the French society of the first quarter of 18th century; with the Moor's life in Paris, his success in French society, and his love affair with a French countess. But "summoned both by Peter and by his own vague sense of duty" Ibrahim returns to Russia. The following chapters, full of historical color and antiquarianism, sketch the different strata of the Russian society: ball at the Winter Palace and boyars' dinner at the boyar Gavrila Rzhevsky's place. The latter is interrupted by the arrival of the Tsar, who wants to marry Ibrahim to the Gavrila's daughter, Natalia.
Adaptations
1961 – The Blackamoor of Peter the Great, opera, by Arthur Lourie
1976 – How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, film, USSR, directed by Alexander Mitta, starring Vladimir Vysotsky.
Translation history
1875 – The Moor of Peter the Great (translated by Mrs. J. Buchan Telfer) in Russian Romance, London: H. S. King.
1892 – Peter the Great’s Negro (transl. by Mrs. Sutherland Edwards) in The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, London: Chapman & Hall.
1896 – Peter the Great’s Negro (translated by T. Keane) in The Prose Tales of A. Pushkin, London: G. Bell and Sons.
1933 – Peter the Great’s Negro (transl. by Natalie Duddington) in The Captain’s Daughter and Other Tales, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (Everyman's Library).
1960 – The Negro of Peter the Great (transl. by Rosemary Edmonds) in The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, London: Penguin, (Penguin Classics).
1962 – The Negro of Peter the Great (transl. by Gillon Aitken) in The Captain's daughter and other stories, London: The New English Library Limited.
1966 – Peter the Great's Blackamoor (transl. by Gillon R. Aitken) in The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin, London: Barrie & Rockliff.
1983 – The Blackamoor of Peter the Great (translated by Paul Debreczeny) in Complete Prose Fiction, Stanford: Stanford U.P.
1999 – Peter the Great's Blackamoor (transl. by Alan Myers) in The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, Oxford: Oxford U.P., (Oxford World Classics).
2016 – The Moor of Peter the Great (transl. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) in Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2021 – Peter the Great's African : experiments in prose (transl. by Robert Chandler & Elizabeth Chandler and Boris Dralyuk) in Peter the Great's African : experiments in prose, New York, New York Review Books
Sources
Debreczeny, Paul. “The Blackamoor of Peter the Great: Pushkin’s Experiment with a Detached Mode of Narration.” Slavic and East European Journal. 18.2 (1974): 119–31.
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought. Oxford, Oxford UP, 1992.
External links
«Арап Петра Великого» available at Russian Virtual Library
link to interview with Robert Chandler about translating "Peter the Great's African": https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KAE9MtyRbxztLRTkjZjuQ
1837 novels
Novels by Aleksandr Pushkin
Historical novels
Unfinished novels
Works originally published in Sovremennik
Novels set in Russia
Novels set in Paris
Novels set in the 18th century
Novels adapted into operas
Russian novels adapted into films
Cultural depictions of Peter the Great
Black people in literature
Fictional African people
Fictional slaves
Literary characters introduced in 1837
Male characters in literature |
Mammillaria supertexta is a species of cacti in the tribe Cacteae. It is native to Oaxaca, Mexico.
References
External links
Mammillaria supertexta at Tropicos
Plants described in 1837
supertexta |
Frances Xinia Dionisio Molina (born September 23, 1994) is a Filipino volleyball player. She currently plays as an outside hitter for the Cignal HD Spikers in the Premier Volleyball League. She played with the Philippine Super Liga All-Stars in the 2016 FIVB Club World Championship. She is part of the Philippines women's national volleyball team.
Early life
A native of Nueva Ecija, she was born (second to three siblings) to Araceli Harding (née Dionisio) and Pedro Molina with the former who later became estranged from the latter and married to an India-based to British engineering consultant. Harding was an open hitter playing for the Central Luzon State University volleyball team in the State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association (SCUAA). She was supposed to join the Philippine women's national volleyball team that will participate in the 1991 Southeast Asian Games, but it was discontinued due to earlier marriage, and her work in a company based in Macau.
Molina grew up in the town of Aliaga and moved to Cabanatuan to attend the Araullo University (later transferred to College of Immaculate Conception) for her secondary studies. She was more involved in athletics due to her father's connection with the sport initially uninterested in volleyball.
Career
Molina started playing volleyball on her fourth year in high school. In 2008, she was recruited to be the part of the Cabanatuan's secondary girls' volleyball team for the Central Luzon Regional Athletics Association. She was scouted by George Sucaldito and Nemecio Gavino from the San Beda College.
She then became part of the college's women's volleyball team, the San Beda Lady Red Spikers. Molina along with Janine Marciano was part of the team that ended in the Final Four at NCAA Season 87 but her team struggled in the next season. Molina's team ended in the Final Four again in NCAA Season 89 but Molina's participation was disrupted by an injury which meant that she didn't finish the season.
She played for the PNP Lady Patrollers of the Shakey's V-League after she recovered from her injury. Molina was then recruited by the Petron Blaze Spikers of the Philippine Super Liga and was named 2nd Best Outside Hitter at the 2015 PSL All-Filipino Conference which was won by Petron.
Molina has also participated in internationally competing at the 2016 Thai-Denmark Super League 2016 as part of the Petron-Philippine Super Liga All-Stars. She was also named as part of the PSL Manila squad that will participate at the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship. With Petron Blaze Spikers, Molina won the 2017 PSL Grand Prix Conference silver medal. In 2017, she became part of the Philippines women's national volleyball team that competed in various tournaments like ASEAN Grand Prix and 2019 SEA Games.
In 2021, Molina signed to Petro Gazz Angels to play in the first season of Premier Volleyball League on its professional status.
Awards
Individual
2012 NCAA Season 92 "Best blocker"
2015 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix "2nd Best Opposite Spiker"
2017 Philippine Superliga Invitational "1st Best Outside Spiker"
2021 PNVF Champions League for Women "1st Best Outside Spiker"
2022 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference "1st Best Outside Spiker"
2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference "2nd Best Outside Spiker"
2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference "Most Valuable Player (Conference)"
Clubs
2014 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Champions, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2015 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2016 Philippine SuperLiga Invitational – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2016 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2017 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino – Champion, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2017 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2018 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Champions, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2018 Philippine SuperLiga Invitational – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2018 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino – Champion, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2019 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Champions, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2019 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino – Bronze medal, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2019 Philippine SuperLiga Invitational – Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers
2021 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference – Bronze medal, with Petro Gazz Angels
2021 PNVF Champions League for Women - Bronze medal, with Petro Gazz Angels
2022 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference - Bronze medal, with Cignal HD Spikers
2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference - Bronze medal, with Cignal HD Spikers
2022 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference - Runner-Up, with Cignal HD Spikers
2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference - Bronze medal, with Cignal HD Spikers
References
Living people
1994 births
Sportspeople from Nueva Ecija
San Beda University alumni
Philippines women's international volleyball players
Filipino women's volleyball players
Outside hitters
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) players
Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
Opposite hitters
Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
SEA Games competitors for the Philippines |
Mederma is a topical product used to improve scar appearance. It is a gel based on an onion extract. Mederma is product of HRA Pharma, a division of Perrigo. A Mederma marketing claim is that the product can can make scars "softer, smoother, and less noticeable".
Ownership
The Mederma brand was owned by Merz Pharma for over 20 years until its 2019 sale to HRA Pharma. Perrigo then acquired HRA Pharma as a subsidiary in 2021.
Effectiveness
A 1999 pilot trial found an onion extract gel less effective than the petrolatum.
A 2002 study published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery examined the effectiveness of Mederma on hypertrophic scars on rabbit ears. It found no significant reduction in the size, height, or inflammation of scars. The only improvement was dermal collagen organization when compared to scars that were not treated with Mederma, thus suggesting that it may have a positive effect on the formation of raised scars.
A 2006 clinical trial found no statistically significant change in hypertrophic scar appearance from products of this type compared to the standard petrolatum emollient.
According to a 2011 Los Angeles Times article, "there were just two randomized comparison trials of Mederma, with a combined total of 38 participants. Neither trial found that Mederma improved the appearance of scars more than petroleum jelly".
Ingredients
Active
Allantoin
Inactive
Water (purified), PEG 200, alcohol, xanthan gum, allium cepa (onion) bulb extract, lecithin, methylparaben, sorbic acid, panthenol, sodium hyaluronate, fragrance
References
Dermatologic drugs
Ointments |
Chin Gee Hee (June 22, 1844 – 1929), courtesy name Chàngtíng (暢庭), Cheun Gee Yee, was a Chinese merchant, labor contractor, and railway entrepreneur, who made his fortune in Seattle, Washington before returning to his native village in Guangdong province, where he continued his successes.
Life
Born the son of a maker of soy sauce crocks in a village in what is now the city of Taishan, Chin came to the attention of an old man because of his calm after some other boys smashed crocks that he was carrying to market. The man brought him along on his passage to America, where Chin worked in a placer mine before making his way to Port Gamble, Washington, where he worked in a lumber mill.
While still in North Kitsap, he learned a reasonable amount of English, and made friends with several Suquamish, including the family of Chief Seattle. He also met and befriended Henry Yesler, owner of a mill in the young city of Seattle, who convinced him to move there.
In 1873, he arrived in Seattle, a settlement that was about 20 years old at the time. After meeting Chin Chun Hock (), who was from the same village in Taishan, he became a junior partner in the Wa Chong company (, "Chinese Prosperity"), the city's leading Chinese enterprise of the time. The Wa Chong company imported or manufactured goods including sugar, tea, rice, cigars, opium (legal at the time), and fireworks.
At the time, there were few Chinese women in America. While still in North Kitsap, Chin imported a wife from China. Their son Chin Lem (), later known as Tew Dong (), born 1875 in Seattle, was the first known Chinese child born in Washington Territory (now Washington State).
At the Wa Chong company, he acquired labor contracts from coal mines, railroads, farming, and the Puget Sound mosquito fleet. As one of the major labor suppliers for Northern Pacific Railway in the Puget Sound district, Chin also helped with payroll and discipline of the Chinese labor. He also placed Chinese house-boys and cooks. His partnership with Chin Ching-hock was somewhat uneasy: Chin Ching-hock was more interested in imports and exports than in the labor contracting that became Chin Gee Hee's specialty.
Chin Gee Hee was a central figure in the efforts at political and diplomatic defense against the anti-Chinese riots of November 1885. During the crisis, he represented the community and exchanged telegrams with Chinese consul general Ow-yang Ming () in San Francisco, California. He kept careful records of damages to Chinese businesses, and, partly as a result, Seattle's Chinese community fared far better than that of neighboring Tacoma, ultimately remaining in the city and collecting $700,000 in damages through a favorable ruling by judge Thomas Burke.
In 1888, he set up independently as a labor contractor, with his Quong Tuck Company (also known as Quong Tuck Lung Company) or Quon Tuck Company supplying construction workers to railways (the Great Northern Railway, the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company) and to Seattle's regrading projects. He provided work crews (and was involved entrepreneurially) in rail lines along what are now Alaskan Way (along the Seattle waterfront) and a cable car perpendicular to the waterfront along Yesler Way as far as 14th Avenue.
He also provided Chinese masons to help build the Burke Building, a full city block at Second Avenue and Marion Street.
His own building at Second and Washington, the Canton Building (also known as the Chin Gee Hee Building, now the Kon Yick Building), 208-210 S. Washington Street, was among the first brick buildings raised after the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. It was shared with the Bow Tai Wo Company. (As of 2007, the building is still standing, though much altered; in particular, a 1928 re-routing of Second Avenue S. removed a corner of the building.)
He passed his Seattle business on to his son, Chin Lem, and son-in-law Woo Quon-bing () and returned in 1904 or 1905 to China, where he was the entrepreneur behind South China's first railway and founded a seaport, while continuing also to have business associations with Seattle. He returned frequently to the U.S. and, in particular, to Seattle, where he retained close ties, and which he last visited in 1922.
His railway was known as the Sun Ning Railway Company. He raised $2.75 million, mainly from overseas Chinese; Chin's partner Yu Zhuo (; also variously rendered as Yu Shek) or Yu Chuek raised further funds in China and from overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. The Sun Ning was the Pearl River Delta's first major railway. Its benefits to Guangdong's economy were cut short when it was seized by local warlords in 1926; it was finally destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938.
While in China, Chin also served as a connection for the Seattle China Club. Members of the China Club, which advocated for increased trade between China and Seattle, were invited to attend the opening of Chin's port in Guangdong.
Notes
References
Chin Gee Hee, "Letter Asking for Support to Build the Sunning Railroad" (1911), p. 125–128 in Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai (compilers and editors), Chinese American Voices, University of California Press (2006). .
Willard G. Jue, "Chin Gee-hee, Chinese Pioneer Entrepreneur in Seattle and Toishan", The Annals of the Chinese Historical Society of the Pacific Northwest, 1983, 31:38.
Also, Guide to the Willard G. Jue Papers, 1880-1983 on the site of the University of Washington Libraries, accessed July 19, 2007.
Douglas C. Sackman, "Pacific World Passages: The Traffic in Trees and the Transformation of Space in Puget Sound, 1850-1900", a paper presented at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, April 3, 2004, especially the section "III. Workers of the Pacific World: Logging and Labor in & around the Mills". Draft available online, accessed July 30, 2007; there is no formally published form as of that date.
Eric Scigliano, "Seattle's Chinese Founding Father", Seattle Metropolitan, May 2007, p. 48.
Xiao-huang Yin & Zhiyong Lan, Why Do They Give? Change and Continuity in Chinese American Transnational Philanthropy since the 1970s, commissioned by the Global Equity Initiative for a workshop on Diaspora Philanthropy to China and India, held in May 2003. p. 9. Accessed online 22 September 2007.
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 150.
The History of Xinning Railway, Bureau of Archives of Taishan City. Undated; the Internet Archive shows the page December 10, 2004. Accessed online 22 September 2007.
Page on Seattle’s Chinatown - International District on cwok.com, content attributed to the Wing Luke Museum. Accessed online July 19, 2007.
Chinese Emigration, the Sunning Railway and the Development of Toisan by Lucie Cheng and Liu Yuzun with Zheng Dehua, Amerasia 9(1): 59–74, 1982.
Kornel Chang, "American Crossroads: Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands" Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. .
External links
David Takami, Chinese Americans HistoryLink.org Essay 2060, February 17, 1999, includes two photos of Chin.
People from Taishan, Guangdong
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Businesspeople from Guangdong
Businesspeople from Seattle
1844 births
American people of Chinese descent
1930 deaths |
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The 2003 Wealden District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Wealden District Council in East Sussex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 reducing the number of seats by 3. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.
Background
At the last election in 1999 the Conservatives won 34 seats, compared to 22 for the Liberal Democrats and 2 independents. In November 2003 the Conservatives gained 2 seats from the Liberal Democrats in a by-election in Uckfield, but the Liberal Democrats took one seat back in the same ward in a June 2002 by-election.
The Liberal Democrats also lost seats after 2 Hailsham councillors, Nick and Madeline Ellwood, were expelled from the party, and a further 2, John Glover and Ian Haffenden, resigned from the party in protest. The 4 councillors who resigned formed a Wealden Independents party, while the leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, Allan Thurley, stepped down over the expulsions and was succeeded by Eddie Rice.
A total of 133 candidates stood for the 55 seats in 35 wards being contested, after boundary changes reduced the number of seats from 58. The changes increased the number of seats in Crowborough and Uckfield, while combining some of the rural seats.
Campaign
A major issue at the election was council tax after it increased by 18%, 5.1% of which was due to Wealden Council. The Conservatives blamed the increase on the government providing a poor grant to the council, while the Liberal Democrats called for the council tax to be replaced by a local income tax. Another issue was housing with the Conservatives called for more land to be released for low cost housing, but the Liberal Democrats attacked the number of houses to be built, saying the infrastructure needed to be improved first. Both the Labour party and local independents also campaigned against the 1,300 houses to be built in Hailsham, with The Independents saying more houses should be built in the north of the council area.
The Conservatives said they would tackle littering and continue the household recycling scheme, while the Liberal Democrats called for policing to be improved and for the council to be modernised. Meanwhile, Labour aimed to win their first seat on the council in Uckfield and called for the council to abolish the reduction in council tax for second homes.
Election result
The Conservatives stayed in control of the council with 34 seats, while the Liberal Democrats took 15 seats and independents won 6. Few seats changed parties, with the Conservatives keeping a 13-seat majority. The changes that did happen included the Liberal Democrat group leader Eddie Rice losing his seat in Rotherfield and the Liberal Democrats were also defeated in Polegate South, where Ivy Scarborough, a Residents Association candidate was successful. Independents were also successful in Crowborough and Hailsham, while Labour failed to take any seats. Overall turnout at the election was 35%, up from 33.5% in 1999.
3 Conservative candidates were unopposed at the election.
Ward results
By-elections between 2003 and 2007
Uckfield Ridgewood
A by-election was held in Uckfield Ridgewood on 16 September 2004 and was held for the Liberal Democrats by Robert Sweetland with a 185-vote majority.
Pevensey and Westham
A by-election was held in Pevensey and Westham on 29 September 2005 after the death of the previous councillor John Vincent. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Kevin Balsdon with a 760-vote majority.
Crowborough North
A by-election was held in Crowoborough North on 6 April 2006 and was held for the Conservatives by Timothy Tyler with a 279-vote majority.
Uckfield New Town
A by-election was held in Uckfield New Town on 29 June 2006 after the death of the Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Nottage. The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Julia Hey with a 170-vote majority.
References
2003 English local elections
2003
2000s in East Sussex |
Thomas Konow (10 October 1796 – 10 October 1881) was a Norwegian naval officer and politician. He was a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.
Background
He was born in Bergen, Norway as a son of merchant Friedrich Ludwig Konow (1746–1798) and his wife Anna Hedvig Rieck (1756–1810). His father and uncle had migrated from Germany to Norway; the surname stemming from the village, Konau. Thomas Konow was a brother of the merchant-politicians Wollert Konow and August Konow. In March 1827 he married Catharina Magdalene Reichborn (1807–1844).
Career
Starting in 1805 as a cadet in the Danish-Norwegian navy, he was promoted to Junior Lieutenant in 1813 and served on the brig Lolland in Norwegian waters. On 6 May 1814 his name was removed from the list of Danish Naval Officers as he had transferred his allegiance to Norway after these two countries separated after the Treaty of Kiel. Lolland became a Norwegian vessel at the same time. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvold in 1814 as a representative of Vestfold. He supported the position of the Independence Party (Selvstendighetspartiet). The youngest member of the Assembly, at his death he was the last surviving member.
In the Norwegian navy, he was promoted to Senior Lieutenant (6 October 1821), and through the various ranks of Captain to Rear Admiral and Chief of the Navy (11 July 1860). He served as a temporary councillor of state in interim in 1861. He retired 10 October 1869.
References
Other sources
T. A. Topsøe-Jensen, Emil Marquard (1935) Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932
1796 births
1881 deaths
Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy personnel
Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Royal Norwegian Navy admirals
Politicians from Bergen
Government ministers of Norway
Fathers of the Constitution of Norway
Thomas
Order of the Dannebrog
Knights of the Order of the Sword
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour |
Balsas is a town in the south of the El Oro Province in Ecuador. It is the seat of the Balsas Canton. At the time of census 2001 it had 3,110 inhabitants.
References
External links
Map of El Oro Province
Populated places in El Oro Province |
Three Meals a Day () is a South Korean reality cooking show broadcast on tvN. The cast live in a small rural or fishing village for three days a week and are tasked to use whatever food they find there to cook three meals a day. They also experience village life while interacting with the locals and entertain various celebrity guests for dinner.
Nine seasons aired from October 2014 to July 2020 on Friday nights at various time slots. Each season featured different locations and casts, according to various themes. There are four themes in total: Jeongseon Village and Fishing Village, which recur across multiple seasons; Gochang Village; and an all-female cast edition Mountain Village.
Two web spin-offs featuring various cast members of New Journey to the West were also produced and released on producer Na Young-seok's YouTube channel. Three Meals in Iceland was released from September 20 to November 29, 2019, while Three Meals a Day for Four, featuring Sechs Kies, was released from May 15 to July 24, 2020.
In October 2021, a third spin-off was released for television broadcast, featuring the cast of hit drama series Hospital Playlist.
Production
The idea for Three Meals a Day came about from a joke on Grandpas Over Flowers, which producer-director Na Young-seok and actor Lee Seo-jin had worked together on previously. Due to his poor cooking skills while filming Grandpas Over Flowers, the production crew jokingly nicknamed Lee the "Cooking King." This became a running gag about Lee starring in a fake cooking show titled Cooking King Seo-jinnie, a parody of the popular drama series King of Baking, Kim Takgu, which eventually materialised into Three Meals a Day.
Lee was cast for the first season of the series, also the first of the Jeongseon Village editions, alongside former Wonderful Days co-star Ok Taecyeon. In the second Jeongseon Village edition, former guest Kim Kwang-kyu joined the two as a regular cast member. On top of the regular cooking premise, the trio were given the additional task of growing and harvesting crops from spring to early fall, with grocery shopping strictly prohibited.
The first four seasons of Three Meals a Day in 2014 and 2015 alternated between the Jeongseon Village and Fishing Village editions, showcasing different seasons in different locations. Cha Seung-won, Yoo Hae-jin and Son Ho-jun formed a separate cast for the first two Fishing Village editions. In 2016, this cast filmed in a new location for the standalone Gochang Village edition, alongside new member Nam Joo-hyuk.
Later in October 2016, it was announced that Lee Seo-jin would return for a new season, a year after his last appearance in Jeongseon Village 2. New cast members Eric Mun and Yoon Kyun-sang joined him for Fishing Village 3, filmed on a new island location. The same cast returned in 2017 to the same location, but were tasked with island farming instead of fishing, hence the Seaside Ranch subtitle for the fourth Fishing Village edition.
On July 1, 2019, it was confirmed that actresses Yum Jung-ah, Yoon Se-ah and Park So-dam had joined the first all-female cast for the Mountain Village edition, which began airing in August.
In 2020, the original Fishing Village cast returned for the theme's fifth edition. Unlike previous editions, this season was filmed on an uninhabited island due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing.
Overview
Cast
Three Meals a Day: Mountain Village
Yum Jung-ah
Yoon Se-ah
Park So-dam
List of episodes, guests and ratings
In the tables below, represent the lowest ratings of the season and represent the highest ratings of the season.
Jeongseon Village
Jeongseon Village 1
In the first episode, the production crew introduces the below rules for the cast's village experience:
All ingredients used, except rice, must come from their farm
Every meal has to follow a pre-determined menu
Preparation for winter should be undertaken during their free time
Cell phones will be taken away to aid integration into farming life
Jeongseon Village 2
Fishing Village
Fishing Village 1
Fishing Village 2
Fishing Village 3
Seaside Ranch (Fishing Village 4)
Fishing Village 5
Gochang Village
After two Fishing Village editions, Cha Seung-won, Yoo Hae-jin and Son Ho-jun are reunited in their first inland location in Gochang-gun, joined by Nam Joo-hyuk. In order to buy groceries, they have to provide farm labour for which they are paid hourly wages. Through the series, they experience various farming activities: planting rice, rearing ducks, and picking black raspberries, watermelons, sweet potatoes, grapes, muskmelons and pears.
Mountain Village
Reception
Three Meals a Day drew a great response from Korean viewers and became a trending topic numerous times on Naver, a Korean search portal. It received viewership ratings of 6%, which is high for Korean cable television for which a 1% rating is considered a success.
Originally 8 episodes were planned for the first season, but the show was extended by two episodes. A "director's cut" epilogue also aired, for a total of 11 episodes.
The table below charts viewership numbers according to Nielsen Korea; data for 2017 and earlier is not provided. Individual episode ratings can be viewed by season in the episode lists above.
Spin-offs
The first two spin-offs of Three Meals a Day were "hybrid" programs produced for both online release and television broadcast. Short highlight videos between 5 and 15 minutes were broadcast on tvN, with the full episodes released on "Channel 15ya" (), a YouTube channel run by producer Na Young-seok and his team. Both spin-offs were born from New Journey to the West, another series produced by producer Na, and feature some of its cast.
In October 2021, a third spin-off was released for television broadcast featuring the main cast of drama series Hospital Playlist: Jo Jung-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok, Jung Kyung-ho, Kim Dae-myung and Jeon Mi-do. The series is titled Wise Mountain Village Life (), borrowing on the drama's title, but is commonly known in English as Three Meals a Day: Doctors. It was filmed in Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do and aired on tvN from October 8 to December 3, 2021, at 20:50 – 22:25 (KST) every Friday, with a total of 9 episodes.
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village 1 & 2
Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village 2
Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village 3
Three Meals a Day: Seaside Ranch (Fishing Village 4)
Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village 5
Three Meals a Day: Gochang Village
Three Meals a Day: Mountain Village
Three Meals a Day: Doctors
2014 South Korean television series debuts
2021 South Korean television series endings
TVN (South Korean TV channel) original programming
South Korean variety television shows
South Korean reality television series
Korean-language television shows
South Korean cooking television series |
is a Japanese original video animation film and a manga series created by Satoshi Urushihara. It was released in North America on VHS by ADV Films in July 1994. It was released on DVD in February 2002. Along with Burn-Up Excess and Amazing Nurse Nanako, it is one of three ADV titles to include the trademarked "Jiggle Counter".
Plot summary
The main character of Plastic Little is Tita Mu Koshigaya, a young woman who captains a ship, the Cha-Cha Maru, whose business is capturing exotic creatures in the 'sea of clouds' of the planet Ietta, apparently a gas giant of some kind, and selling them to collectors and zoos. By chance, she saves Elysse Aldo Mordish, a young woman of her own age, from a rogue faction of Ietta's own military forces, led by the armored commander Guizel, who already killed Elysse's scientist father. As the military conducts a vicious chase for Elysse, it becomes apparent that she holds the key to a secret that could determine the fate of the entire planet's independence.
Although the anime's overriding goal is of course that of saving the world, an almost equal amount of time is spent on character interaction. Much of Tita's crew once served under her father, and Tita has inherited much of the respect and devotion that he earned from them. Tita and Elysse's relationship is the focus of much screen time; Tita risks life and limb for Elysse seemingly on a whim, later explaining that she felt it was impossible to stand by and watch her capture. In a small heartfelt speech delivered during a sunrise breakfast, Elysse speaks of feelings for Tita that could be interpreted as being "like love at first sight". Tita has also shown some fondness for Nichol Hawking, a somewhat bumbling young man on her crew who has a long-term crush on her. Tita's feelings for Nichol are shown in much less detail, restrained to a small, chaste kiss on his forehead after Nichol has fallen asleep beside her sickbed. Tita never makes romantic feelings clear for either of the possible love interests.
In a short miniseries of comics that followed the OVA, this tendency to use action and adventure mostly as a vehicle for character interaction continues. Elysse and Tita are not together physically, but apparently keep in very regular communication via videophone. (For which communications, Tita does not seem particularly inclined to wear clothes.) Other issues see Tita searching the Cloud Sea in the vain hope her father might somehow still be alive, and helping Nichol to win a race he has been attempting for years. Much is made of a family dynamic among the crew, with Balboa an obvious father figure for Tita, Mei as mother, and Mikhail as gruff grandfather.
Characters
Titaniva Mu Koshigaya
The chief heroine of Plastic Little, Titaniva Mu Koshigaya (or Tita to her friends) is the captain of the Cha-Cha Maru, a pet shop hunter ship she inherited from her father, Gentaro Koshigaya. A tomboy at heart, whenever she gets time away from the gas ocean, Tita often enjoys riding on her jetcycle. However, Tita would prefer to cruise the gas ocean. Although it is apparent her father is dead, Tita still believes that a part of Gentaro still lives or that he may be still alive.
In the manga version of Plastic Little, it is further known that Tita also has the ability to sense weather patterns at least a day ahead of time. She can even know if a storm is due just because of the air currents.
Elysse Aldo Mordish
The target of Lord Guizel's search, Elysse Aldo Mordish had escaped the gravity belt complex with the aid (and ultimate sacrifice) of her father, Nalderof Aldo Mordish. Her last twelve digits of her D.N.A. sequence, decoded using the BRG method, is the code to unleashing the Gravity Destruction Ray, a potent weapon created from one of the gravity belts which could destroy the island colony.
When she was first rescued by Tita, she was more than a little bashful, even when Tita invited her to the Cha-Cha Maru'''s bathhouse (and VERY embarrassed when Tita accidentally fondled her when she helped her undress for that bath). However, as time went on, she began to trust her. However, in the end, Ellyse decided to go back to the colony to continue her father's work.
Joshua L. Balboa
Joshua L. Balboa (called "Balboa" for short) serves on the Cha-Cha Maru as a sailor. In the manga, he is revealed to be a former high-ranking army commander by the name of Andy Furlong, who disappeared following a failed assassination attempt against "Cloud Killer Whale", the boss of the North Colony Mafia, and the supposed death of his partner, Jeff Griess, and was subsequently taken in by Tita's father. 12 years later, however, Griess resurfaced as a cyborg, forced into service by the Mafia until he learned that Andy/Balboa was still alive, and enlisted his help in taking down "Cloud Killer Whale" once and for all. In the end, Balboa shot Griess to grant him a merciful demise after the latter's cyborg life systems were critically damaged. Due to his military training, Balboa is a skilled pilot and combatant.
Mei Lin Jones
Medical officer on board the Cha-Cha Maru, Mei Lin Jones is charged with the health of the crew. The medical talents of this stunning beauty is tested to the limit, especially when Tita is gravely injured at the hands of Guizel.
In the manga, Mei is depicted as a sister figure to Tita; Tita was raised as part of Mei's family after her father died. It is also revealed that Mei once saved Tita's life when Tita was suffering from a deadly disease called 'Ietta Fever'. She is also a skilled martial artist.
Mikhail Diagilev
The chief engineer of the Cha-Cha Maru, Mikhail Diagilev might be the most loyal supporter of Tita on board. His service goes back to Tita's father the previous owner of the Cha-Cha Maru. He still bears guilt of allowing Tita's father to die when he jettisoned the engineering section eleven years prior and would die rather than seeing Tita die as well.
Nichol Hawking
Nichol Hawking, the Cha-Cha Maru's chief pilot, has a big crush on Tita. Once he, with a little help from Roger Rogers, spied on Tita as she and Ellyse bathed (and suffered a nosebleed as a result). Tita, however, got even with the both of them. When Tita was injured by Guizel, Nichol stayed at her bedside while she healed.
Nichol is an expert pilot. Although he tends to panic, he knows enough to keep a level head in a crisis situation, especially when Tita leads the Cha-Cha Maru against the rogue fleet of Guizel. In the manga, he is shown to be a natural favorite at a dangerous racing event, which he eventually wins with Tita acting as his navigator.
Roger Rogers
Roger is an Afro-American serving as assistant engineer aboard the Cha-Cha Maru''. While highly dependable in a crisis situation, in everyday life Roger demonstrates few redeeming qualities: He is a peeping tom who likes to spy on Tita and Mei Lin while they are in the bath; a glutton who regularly depletes the ship's food supplies; and he keeps tempting Nichol with dirty stories about Tita. In the manga, his background story and age are listed as "Unknown".
References
External links
1994 anime OVAs
ADV Films
Pierrot (company)
Science fiction anime and manga
Seinen manga |
The Bulha River is a river of Paraná state in southern Brazil.
See also
List of rivers of Paraná
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Paraná (state) |
Carsten Diercks (1921 - 2 November 2009) was a German documentary filmmaker.
Diercks started his career after World War II at the radio station of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. 1952 he became cinematographer with NWDR TV station. In 1953, he participated in the first tests of pilot tone. During his long occupation for the network, he made some 500 documentaries as cinematographer, director or executive producer. He was the driving representative of the so-called Hamburgian school, which aimed to comply the documentary genre with new requirements of television broadcasting.
In 1959, he worked as a consultant for Minister of Information and Broadcasting Indira Gandhi to build up a national TV network in India
He was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Filmography
1955: Netz über Bord - Heringsfang auf der Nordsee
References
External links
Short biography of Carsten Diercks at Filmmuseum Hamburg (some examples of his work in for RealPlayer)
Die Welt kommt in die Stube, DJV-Info, Issue 1/2001, S. 8
1921 births
2009 deaths
German documentary filmmakers
Mass media people from Kiel
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Film people from Schleswig-Holstein |
Conus furvus, common name the dark cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 71 mm. The ground color of the shell is pale brown, with fine close lines of chestnut-brown, and one
or two paler bands. The shoulder ( = the angulation of the shell whorls) is somewhat obtuse. The spire is concavely elevated, with an acute apex. The spire is uniform pale brown. Tryon describes the variety furvus with this special characteristics. The revolving lines are broken up into minute dots The form is somewhat narrower. Some of the spire whorls are finely beaded.
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Distribution
This is an Indo-Pacific species. The type locality is Port Sacloban, Leyte Island in the Philippines. The species occurs along the Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and from the Philippines to Japan. It is also found in the South China Sea.
References
Conus lignarius - Some information on this species
Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4, 2009 Edition
Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23
External links
The Conus biodiversity website
Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
Gallery
furvus
Molluscs of the Indian Ocean
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Gastropods described in 1843
Taxa named by Lovell Augustus Reeve |
MakeBelieve Arts is a theatre in education company, based in Corsham, Wiltshire and constituted as a social enterprise. The company works with children aged 2–11 and their teachers, families and community. It uses theatre techniques within education to deliver creative, interactive workshops that seek to reflect, support and enhance the curriculum and to encourage lifelong learning. MakeBelieve Arts' approach is underpinned by current educational philosophy.
MakeBelieve Arts pioneered the Helicopter Stories approach in the UK. This approach is based on the work of Vivian Gussin Paley who is patron to MakeBelieve Arts. In its simplest form Helicopter Stories involves practitioners in scribing stories dictated by children in the Early Years. These stories are then acted out around a taped out stage. In 2016 Trisha Lee published a guide on the approach. Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories
Helicopter Stories is a registered trademark of MakeBelieve Arts.
History
MakeBelieve Arts was founded by Trisha Lee in 2002. The programmes in schools and the community are delivered by Trisha Lee as Artistic Director and Isla Hill as Education Director, alongside a pool of creative associates and consultants, including the author David Baird.
Educational philosophy
MakeBelieve Arts is guided by thinking such as that of the British educationalist Sir Ken Robinson, who has written that '...creativity is as important to education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.' The company has embedded this philosophy into all its work.
The group considers that a creative approach to education allows children and young people to develop into enterprising adults with more job prospects in the future. Trisha Lee stated in The Times that:
We aim to give the children life-long skills. The capacity to analyse, discuss and communicate. It is recognised that creativity is really important for employers in the 21st century. Once they have acquired the skills to ask questions and think outside of the box then they can do anything.
Social enterprise
MakeBelieve Arts is a social enterprise; it is not core funded and derives funds from a variety of sources. Any profits are reinvested into the company.
Trisha Lee (founder and Artistic Director) was a Cabinet-appointed Social Enterprise Ambassador from mid-2007 to mid-2010. With 28 other leading social entrepreneurs in the country, Trisha Lee sought to raise awareness about social enterprise and encourage other arts organisations to think creatively and become social enterprises.
References
External links
MakeBelieve Arts
Theatre in education |
Pavel Nikolayevich Korpachev (; born 12 January 1986 in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian freestyle skier. He was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
References
External links
sports-reference
1986 births
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic freestyle skiers for Russia
Russian male freestyle skiers |
The Gilbert Chandler College was a higher education institution in Werribee, Victoria, Australia. It was a standalone institution from 1939 to 1981, a college of the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture from 1983 to 1997, and a campus of the University of Melbourne from 1997 to 2005. The site was later used as a campus of the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE until 2020.
It was established in 1939 as the Department of Agriculture-run School of Dairy Technology. Student accommodation was built at the campus in 1964-65.
It was renamed the Gilbert Chandler Institute of Dairy Technology (after state Minister for Agriculture Gilbert Chandler) in 1967 as part of a significant expansion of facilities in 1965-68, which included a modern dairy factory with facilities for "milk and cream receival, milk pasteurising and bottling, cheesemaking, buttermaking, milk concentrating and drying, with casein and laboratory sections".
In 1981, the teaching section became the Gilbert Chandler College of Dairy Technology under the broader Gilbert Chandler Institute, and later the same year was proclaimed an agricultural college. It became part of the new Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture in 1983, along with the state's other agricultural colleges, becoming VCAH's Gilbert Chandler Campus. Course offerings expanded throughout the 1980s, with degree courses offered, additional facilities constructed, including a new library, and course offerings dramatically overhauled again in the early 1990s.
In 1997, VCAH amalgamated with the University of Melbourne, and it became the Gilbert Chandler Campus of the university as part of the Institute of Land and Food Resources. It It assumed a broader food manufacturing focus during its time as part of the University of Melbourne. At its closure, the campus offered undergraduate degrees, postgraduate certificates and diplomas and PhD and masters programs in food science.
The University of Melbourne ceased operating agricultural courses at the campus at the end of 2005. It terminated its lease and transferred the campus back to the state Government in 2007.
The campus was subsequently leased by the state government to the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE (GOTAFE), becoming its Werribee campus and dropping the Gilbert Chandler name. GOTAFE again adopted a focus on dairy processing qualifications, providing certificate to advanced diploma courses in partnership with the National Centre for Dairy Education. The GOTAFE campus closed at the end of 2020.
References
University of Melbourne
Agricultural universities and colleges in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Wyndham
Werribee, Victoria
Universities and colleges established in 1939
1939 establishments in Australia
2020 disestablishments in Australia
Educational institutions disestablished in 2020 |
Curiñancu or Curignancu, Mapuche Toqui from 1766–1774 who led the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Captain General, Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga, undertook a fantastic scheme to gather the Araucanians into cities, despite their well-known loathing of city life. The outcome of this scheme was a renewal of the war with the Mapuche. They elected Curiñancu toqui and prepared for hostilities in case the Spaniards should persist in this course. Two or three cities were begun, but the Mapuche demanded tools with which to work, offered all manner of excuses for the purpose of delaying the enterprise, and finally, these efforts failing to dissuade the Spaniards from the undertaking, they slew their superintendents and besieged the quartermaster in his camp. Governor Guill y Gonzaga retaliated by forming an alliance with the Pehuenches. Curiñancu, ended this treasonous alliance with a sudden assault on the Pehuenches, routing them in battle. He captured their leader, Coliguna, Curiñancu executed him.
Gonzaga soon died, following the failure to accomplish his scheme, and Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán governed for a short time until Francisco Javier de Morales y Castejón de Arrollo succeeded to the governorship. The war with the Araucanians continued. Curiñancu and his vice toqui, Leviantu, constantly raided in Spanish territory, defeating the Spaniards occasionally.
By 1773, the war with the Mapuche had cost Spain over a million and a half dollars. Agustín de Jáuregui y Aldecoa finally agreed to a treaty in the Parliament of Tapihue (1774) which reaffirmed the old treaties of Quillin and Negrete, and Curiñancu exacted a further concession, that the Araucanians would be permitted to keep an embassy in Santiago, like any other independent nation.
References
18th-century Mapuche people
Indigenous leaders of the Americas
Toquis |
is a 2012 Japanese television comedy series.
Cast
Aya Hirano as Mari Gonda
Uki Satake
Sayaka Nishiwaki
Kanae Yoshii
Umika Kawashima
Hirona Murata
References
External links
2012 Japanese television series debuts
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Bryotropha sabulosella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and northern Iran.
The wingspan is 11–13 mm. The forewings are dark, almost blackish brown, in the central part mixed with ochreous, orange-brown and grey. The hindwings are pale ochreous to greyish brown. Adults have been recorded on wing from June to July and from September to October, probably in two generations per year.
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Moths described in 1905
sabulosella
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia |
James Wodrow (1637–1707) was a minister of the Church of Scotland.
Life
He was born at Hill of Eaglesham on 2 January 1637 the fourth son of Robert Wodrow (1600-1672) and his wife Agnes Dunlop. His father was Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton.
James was educated at Eaglesham Parish School by John Tran who was later Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow University. James was then sent to Glasgow Grammar School and from there went to Glasgow University graduating MA in 1659.
He was licensed "privately" by nine Presbyterian ministers in Glasgow in February 1673 i.e. the process excluded church elders who were standardly involved in the choice of a minister. In November 1675, still lacking a patron, he became tutor to the family of the Duke of Hamilton.
In 1676 he was denounced by the Presbytery of Glasgow for failing to follow the citations of the Privy Council. He then disappears from records again until August 1688 when he was appointed preacher at the Markdaylay Meeting House in south Glasgow. Only in 1689 was he ordained as a minister, but this was to one of the city's most prestigious churches: the Outer High Kirk housed in Glasgow Cathedral. Four years later, in February 1692, he was Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University in place of Rev Prof James Wemyss DD. He remained in this post until death, but from 1705 was obliged to pay for an assistant.
He died on 25 September 1707.
Family
In 1673 he married Margaret Hair (d. 1688), widow of Hugh Dunlop. Their children included:
Rev Alexander Wodrow (1674-1706), minister of the Tron Kirk in Glasgow
Rev Robert Wodrow (1679-1734) historian
In 1692 James Wodrow married Janet Luke eldest daughter of John Luke and had two further children of which only one, James, lived until adulthood and became a physician.
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1637 births
1707 deaths
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Glasgow |
Stephen Powell (born 7 September 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A journeyperson in the AFL, Powell made his debut with the Western Bulldogs as a 20-year-old in 1997.
He quickly became known as a player whose hardness and aggression at the ball was invaluable, continuing this role as the Bulldogs reached preliminary finals in 1997 and 1998.
Surprisingly, at the end of 1999 he was traded went to the Melbourne Football Club much to the dismay of Bulldogs fans, where he immediately became a major contributor in helping them reach a Grand Final in 2000. Despite a bad loss, he was a shining light on the day and the Demons.
Powell polled strongly in their Best and Fairest at the end of the year. He missed all of 2001 with a nearly career ending groin injury.
2002 saw him return to play, and he returned to fine form. At the end of the season, protracted contract negotiations saw him nominate to leave the club through the pre-season draft, this time to the St Kilda Football Club.
His experience at the Saints was invaluable to their young and developing list, and he was an often underrated player in a midfield that included stars such as Lenny Hayes, Robert Harvey and Nick Dal Santo
Such was his contribution that season, he finished third in the Trevor Barker Award .
Powell to play in St Kilda's 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup winning side.
In 2005, however, Powell's career hit a hurdle. Returning from injury in Round 9 he never quite reached the level of consistency of 2003, and lack of pace then became an issue, although he was a regular first team member. At the end of the year there were doubts about the future of the just-turned-29 Powell, but he later signed a one-year contract, meaning a sharp downward turn in speed and form limited Powell's chances.
2006 was Powell's last season of football, playing only 10 matches and announcing his retirement, in September, a week after St Kilda's exit from the 2006 AFL Finals Series.
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1976 births
Living people
St Kilda Football Club players
Western Bulldogs players
Melbourne Football Club players
People educated at St Kevin's College, Melbourne
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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In August 1856 the Committee of Elections and Qualifications conducted a re-count of the 1856 election for the district of Northumberland Boroughs, in which Bourn Russell had been declared elected by a margin of 8 votes over Elias Weekes.
The returning officer was Isaac Gorrick who was a friend of Bourn Russell. The nomination of Russell was moved by Edward Close and seconded by John Kingsmill. Once a poll was called for, Gorrick appointed Close and Kingsmill as deputy returning officers. In January Close had also chaired a meeting at Morpeth where Weekes had addressed the voters.
William Christie lodged a petition with a £100 deposit, against the election alleging that more than 20 people who were unqualified to vote had voted for Russell. This was not a secret ballot and voters were required to write their name and address on the ballot paper. Christie subsequently published a list of the 21 people whose votes had been struck off. Because the committee was able to identify the ballot papers for people who were unable to vote, they recounted the eligible votes and declared that Elias Weekes had been elected.
Dates
Result
The Committee of Elections and Qualifications conducted a re-count of the 1856 Northumberland Boroughs election and declared that Bourn Russell had not been elected the member for Northumberland Boroughs. No by-election was conducted, instead the committee declared that Elias Weekes had been elected.
See also
Electoral results for the district of Northumberland Boroughs
List of New South Wales state by-elections
References
1894 elections in Australia
New South Wales state by-elections
1890s in New South Wales |
The RAM, also known as the 6.5-Inch Anti-Tank Aircraft Rocket or ATAR, was an air-to-ground rocket used by the United States Navy during the Korean War. Developed rapidly, the rocket proved successful but was phased out shortly after the end of the conflict.
Design and development
In 1950, the outbreak of the Korean War resulted in the United States Navy urgently requiring an aircraft-launched rocket that would be effective against enemy tanks, as the existing High Velocity Aircraft Rocket (HVAR) high-velocity aircraft rocket was expected to be ineffective against the armor of IS-3 heavy tanks.
The development of an improved rocket was undertaken with remarkable speed; a directive to start work on the project was issued on July 6, 1950, and the first rockets were delivered to the war zone on July 29. Over the course of those 23 days, the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, located in China Lake, California, developed an improved version of the HVAR, with a new, shaped-charge warhead replacing the earlier weapon's charge. The fuse for the shaped charge, developed with the same haste as the rocket itself, was considered dangerous, but proved to be safe enough in service; it was described as being "[not] as dangerous as the Russian tanks" it was designed to destroy. Claimed as being superior in armor penetration to the conventional 3.5 inch bazooka's warhead, which could penetrate of armor, the RAM's warhead was capable of penetrating of armor plate.
Operational history
Officially designated the 6.5-Inch Anti-Tank Aircraft Rocket (ATAR), and commonly known in service as "RAM", the new rocket was rushed to the Korean front, being used in combat for the first time on August 16, 1950. Despite the haste with which the weapon had been developed, the very first shipment included a full set of documentation and firing tables for the use of the rocket. The first 600 rockets were constructed by hand, but a production line was rapidly set up.
In operational service, the RAM was fitted to the F-51 Mustang, F-80 Shooting Star and F4U Corsair aircraft, and it proved to be moderately effective, with the first 150 rockets fired scoring "at least" eight confirmed kills of North Korean tanks. However, the rocket proved to be unpopular with pilots, due to the close approach to the target required for accurate firing execution; the HVAR offered a longer range, while napalm was considered more effective if the range had to be closed. With the end of the war in 1953, the ATAR was withdrawn from service, improved versions of the HVAR having become available as an alternative.
See also
FFAR
Tiny Tim (rocket)
BOAR (rocket)
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Notes
Bibliography
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Cold War rockets of the United States |
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