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Arturo Ricci (Florence, 19 April 1854−1919) was an Italian painter, known for his figurative subjects, genre scenes, and art of family life. Historical genre, most particularly eighteenth century subjects, perceived as a golden age of elegance, sophistication, and taste, prior to the harsh realities of the Industrial Revolution. The wealthy class created by the Industrial Revolution collected his genre of art, specifically the representation of the pre-Industrial era. Ricci specialized in anecdotal scenes of elegant family life, a world of rustling silks and shimmering satins, displaying the virtuosity of his highly finished detail, composition and sense of colour. Working in Florence, Ricci's paintings appealed not only to Italians but to those on ‘The Grand Tour’, particularly collectors in Britain and the United States, Andrew Carnegie, of steel fame and wealth, owned Ricci's “The Village Wedding”. Biography Arturo Ricci was born on 19 April 1854 in Florence, Italy. Aged 15 he entered the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze where he studied under Tito Conti (1842-1924). Painting figurative subjects, genre scenes and scenes from family life, Ricci soon established himself as one of the foremost artists in Europe in the field of historical costume genre, alongside Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1939) and Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933). Among his works: Veduta di Viareggio; Il Ciabattino; Il pranzo di nozze; Il fanatico per la musica; La visita alla figlia; L'ultima lettera amorosa; Risposta all'ultima lettera amorosa; Ritorno dalla guerra; Il pranzo di nozze; and Il Ritorno degli sposi dalla Chiesa. References External links 1854 births 1919 deaths Italian costume genre painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists
Vokkaliga Ramachandra Raghunath (born 1 November 1988) is a former Indian professional field hockey player. He played as a fullback and was known for his abilities as a drag flicker. Early life Raghunath was born on 1 November 1988 to a former Indian field hockey player V. S. Ramachandra and Doddamane Bojamma along with his two sisters, Niveditha Sanketh and Kavana Yatheesh. Career Raghunath made his debut for India in the sub-junior side in the 2003 sub-junior Asia Cup in Dhaka that India won. He made his senior debut in the national side during the bi-lateral series in 2005 against Pakistan, as a replacement to an injured Sandeep Singh. He was a part of the Indian team that won bronze in the 2007 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, silver in 2008, gold in the 2007 Asia Cup and silver in 2013. Having scored six goals in the 2013 Asia Cup, Raghunath was awarded the 'Best Player of the Tournament'. Hockey India League In the auction of the inaugural Hockey India League, Raghunath was bought by the Uttar Pradesh franchise for US$76,000 with his base price being US$13,900. The team was named Uttar Pradesh Wizards. He captained the team to a third-place finish in the inaugural season. He ended the first season having scored 9 goals in 14 games and the second season scoring 8 goals in 12 games. References External links V. R. Raghunath at Hockey India Olympic field hockey players for India Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 1988 births Living people Field hockey players from Karnataka People from Kodagu district Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Asian Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 2006 Asian Games Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games Indian male field hockey players Asian Games gold medalists for India Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Recipients of the Arjuna Award 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
The Dongyin Power Plant () is a diesel-fuel power plant in Dongyin Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. History The power plant was commissioned on 31 October 1971. See also List of power stations in Taiwan Electricity sector in Taiwan References 1971 establishments in Taiwan Buildings and structures in Lienchiang County Dongyin Township Energy infrastructure completed in 1971 Oil-fired power stations in Taiwan
A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous to its liquid state at a pressure below atmospheric pressure. Where cooling water is in short supply, an air-cooled condenser is often used. An air-cooled condenser is however, significantly more expensive and cannot achieve as low a steam turbine exhaust pressure (and temperature) as a water-cooled surface condenser. Surface condensers are also used in applications and industries other than the condensing of steam turbine exhaust in power plants. Purpose In thermal power plants, the purpose of a surface condenser is to condense the exhaust steam from a steam turbine to obtain maximum efficiency, and also to convert the turbine exhaust steam into pure water (referred to as steam condensate) so that it may be reused in the steam generator or boiler as boiler feed water. The steam turbine itself is a device to convert the heat in steam to mechanical power. The difference between the heat of steam per unit mass at the inlet to the turbine and the heat of steam per unit mass at the outlet from the turbine represents the heat which is converted to mechanical power. Therefore, the more the conversion of heat per pound or kilogram of steam to mechanical power in the turbine, the better is its efficiency. By condensing the exhaust steam of a turbine at a pressure below atmospheric pressure, the steam pressure drop between the inlet and exhaust of the turbine is increased, which increases the amount of heat available for conversion to mechanical power. Most of the heat liberated due to condensation of the exhaust steam is carried away by the cooling medium (water or air) used by the surface condenser. Diagram of water-cooled surface condenser The adjacent diagram depicts a typical water-cooled surface condenser as used in power stations to condense the exhaust steam from a steam turbine driving an electrical generator as well in other applications. There are many fabrication design variations depending on the manufacturer, the size of the steam turbine, and other site-specific conditions. Shell The shell is the condenser's outermost body and contains the heat exchanger tubes. The shell is fabricated from carbon steel plates and is stiffened as needed to provide rigidity for the shell. When required by the selected design, intermediate plates are installed to serve as baffle plates that provide the desired flow path of the condensing steam. The plates also provide support that help prevent sagging of long tube lengths. At the bottom of the shell, where the condensate collects, an outlet is installed. In some designs, a sump (often referred to as the hotwell) is provided. Condensate is pumped from the outlet or the hotwell for reuse as boiler feedwater. For most water-cooled surface condensers, the shell is under [partial] vacuum during normal operating conditions. Vacuum system For water-cooled surface condensers, the shell's internal vacuum is most commonly supplied by and maintained by an external steam jet ejector system. Such an ejector system uses steam as the motive fluid to remove any non-condensible gases that may be present in the surface condenser. The Venturi effect, which is a particular case of Bernoulli's principle, applies to the operation of steam jet ejectors. Motor driven mechanical vacuum pumps, such as the liquid ring type, are also popular for this service. Tube sheets At each end of the shell, a sheet of sufficient thickness usually made of stainless steel is provided, with holes for the tubes to be inserted and rolled. The inlet end of each tube is also bellmouthed for streamlined entry of water. This is to avoid eddies at the inlet of each tube giving rise to erosion, and to reduce flow friction. Some makers also recommend plastic inserts at the entry of tubes to avoid eddies eroding the inlet end. In smaller units some manufacturers use ferrules to seal the tube ends instead of rolling. To take care of length wise expansion of tubes some designs have expansion joint between the shell and the tube sheet allowing the latter to move longitudinally. In smaller units some sag is given to the tubes to take care of tube expansion with both end water boxes fixed rigidly to the shell. Tubes Generally the tubes are made of stainless steel, copper alloys such as brass or bronze, cupro nickel, or titanium depending on several selection criteria. The use of copper bearing alloys such as brass or cupro nickel is rare in new plants, due to environmental concerns of toxic copper alloys. Also depending on the steam cycle water treatment for the boiler, it may be desirable to avoid tube materials containing copper. Titanium condenser tubes are usually the best technical choice, however the use of titanium condenser tubes has been virtually eliminated by the sharp increases in the costs for this material. The tube lengths range to about 85 ft (26 m) for modern power plants, depending on the size of the condenser. The size chosen is based on transportability from the manufacturers’ site and ease of erection at the installation site. The outer diameter of condenser tubes typically ranges from 3/4 inch to 1-1/4 inch, based on condenser cooling water friction considerations and overall condenser size. Waterboxes The tube sheet at each end with tube ends rolled, for each end of the condenser is closed by a fabricated box cover known as a waterbox, with flanged connection to the tube sheet or condenser shell. The waterbox is usually provided with man holes on hinged covers to allow inspection and cleaning. These waterboxes on inlet side will also have flanged connections for cooling water inlet butterfly valves, small vent pipe with hand valve for air venting at higher level, and hand-operated drain valve at bottom to drain the waterbox for maintenance. Similarly on the outlet waterbox the cooling water connection will have large flanges, butterfly valves, vent connection also at higher level and drain connections at lower level. Similarly thermometer pockets are located at inlet and outlet pipes for local measurements of cooling water temperature. In smaller units, some manufacturers make the condenser shell as well as waterboxes of cast iron. Corrosion On the cooling water side of the condenser: The tubes, the tube sheets and the water boxes may be made up of materials having different compositions and are always in contact with circulating water. This water, depending on its chemical composition, will act as an electrolyte between the metallic composition of tubes and water boxes. This will give rise to electrolytic corrosion which will start from more anodic materials first. Sea water based condensers, in particular when sea water has added chemical pollutants, have the worst corrosion characteristics. River water with pollutants are also undesirable for condenser cooling water. The corrosive effect of sea or river water has to be tolerated and remedial methods have to be adopted. One method is the use of sodium hypochlorite, or chlorine, to ensure there is no marine growth on the pipes or the tubes. This practice must be strictly regulated to make sure the circulating water returning to the sea or river source is not affected. On the steam (shell) side of the condenser: The concentration of undissolved gases is high over air zone tubes. Therefore, these tubes are exposed to higher corrosion rates. Some times these tubes are affected by stress corrosion cracking, if original stress is not fully relieved during manufacture. To overcome these effects of corrosion some manufacturers provide higher corrosive resistant tubes in this area. Effects of corrosion As the tube ends get corroded there is the possibility of cooling water leakage to the steam side contaminating the condensed steam or condensate, which is harmful to steam generators. The other parts of water boxes may also get affected in the long run requiring repairs or replacements involving long duration shut-downs. Protection from corrosion Cathodic protection is typically employed to overcome this problem. Sacrificial anodes of zinc (being cheapest) plates are mounted at suitable places inside the water boxes. These zinc plates will get corroded first being in the lowest range of anodes. Hence these zinc anodes require periodic inspection and replacement. This involves comparatively less down time. The water boxes made of steel plates are also protected inside by epoxy paint. Effects of tube side fouling As one might expect, with millions of gallons of circulating water flowing through the condenser tubing from seawater or fresh water, anything that is contained within the water flowing through the tubes can ultimately end up on either the condenser tubesheet (discussed previously) or within the tubing itself. Tube-side fouling for surface condensers falls into five main categories; particulate fouling like silt and sediment, biofouling like slime and biofilms, scaling and crystallization such as calcium carbonate, macrofouling which can include anything from zebra mussels that can grow on the tubesheet, to wood or other debris that blocks the tubing, and finally, corrosion products (discussed previously). Depending on the extent of the fouling, the impact can be quite severe on the condenser's ability to condense the exhaust steam coming from the turbine. As fouling builds up within the tubing, an insulating effect is created and the heat-transfer characteristics of the tubes are diminished, often requiring the turbine to be slowed to a point where the condenser can handle the exhaust steam produced. Typically, this can be quite costly to power plants in the form of reduced output, increase fuel consumption and increased CO2 emissions. This "derating" of the turbine to accommodate the condenser's fouled or blocked tubing is an indication that the plant needs to clean the tubing in order to return to the turbine's nameplate capacity. A variety of methods for cleaning are available, including online and offline options, depending on the plant's site-specific conditions. Other applications of surface condensers Vacuum evaporation Vacuum refrigeration Ocean Thermal Energy (OTEC) Replacing barometric condensers in steam-driven ejector systems Geothermal energy recovery Desalination systems Testing National and international test codes are used to standardize the procedures and definitions used in testing large condensers. In the U.S., ASME publishes several performance test codes on condensers and heat exchangers. These include ASME PTC 12.2-2010, Steam Surface Condensers, and PTC 30.1-2007, Air cooled Steam Condensers. See also Tube tool Condensing steam locomotive Deaerator Feedwater heater Fossil fuel power plant Jet condenser Power station Thermal power station References Power station technology Heat exchangers Energy conversion Steam power de:Kondensator (Verfahrenstechnik) hr:Parni kondenzator ja:復水器 pl:Skraplacz ru:Конденсатор (теплотехника) sv:Kondensor uk:Пароконденсатор
Sardar Aftab Akbar Khan is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023. He also served as Chairman Punjab Education Foundation. Political career He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from PP-23 Chakwal-III in the 2018 Punjab provincial election. He is running for a seat in the Provincial Assembly from PP-21 Chakwal-I as a candidate of the PTI in the 2023 Punjab provincial election. References Living people Punjab MPAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPAs (Punjab) Year of birth missing (living people)
The Corps of Mining Engineers was a militarized organization founded in Imperial Russia on 1 January 1834 to manage mining and oil extraction. Yegor Kankrin, the Minister of Finance was the first head of the organization, with Major General Konstantin Chevkin acting as Chief of staff. Russian geologist Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann was involved with the corps. References Engineering organizations Military of the Russian Empire
Duarabazar Model High School is a secondary school located in Dowarabazar Union, Dowarabazar Upazila of Sunamganj District in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. The school includes 11 teachers and more than 500 students. References High schools in Bangladesh
Serbian folklore is the folk traditions among ethnic Serbs. The earliest examples of Serbian folklore are seen in the pre-Christian Slavic customs transformed into Christianity. Roots and characteristics Folklore The Apostles of the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, have been venerated by Serbian Orthodox Christians since their Christianization in 867, they have been considered Serbs by historians. In Krajište and Vlasina there are epic stories of the extermination of Roman males in a battle, and of the settling of Russians (Antes) Unlike eastern Slavic mythology, south slavic mythology distinguishes between two different kinds of dragons: the benevolent zmej and the malevolent ala. Serbian Epic poetry Serbian epic poetry is a form of epic poetry written by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centuries. They are largely concerned with historical events and personages. The corpus of Serbian epic poetry is divided into cycles: Non-historic cycle Pre-Kosovo cycle - poems about events that predate the Battle of Kosovo - songs about royal family-Nemanjići and folk songs Cycle of Kraljević Marko Kosovo cycle - poems about events that happened just before and after the Battle of Kosovo (no poem covers the battle itself) Post-Kosovo cycle - poems about post-Battle events Poems about the liberation of Serbia Poems about the liberation of Montenegro See also Serbian folk music Serbian dances Serbian culture References External links Serbian folk dance group Serbian folk dance in Canada - SCA Opleanc "Christian Serbia maintains its faith in folklore", BBC Radio, February 4, 2010
This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association imports by the highest total number of three-point field goals made in their stint or tenure with the league. Statistics accurate as of January 16, 2023. See also List of Philippine Basketball Association players References Lists of Philippine Basketball Association players
Aughton is a hamlet adjacent to the village of Collingbourne Kingston in Wiltshire, England. Aughton took its name from Aeffe, the owner in the 10th century. After Aeffe's death, the land passed to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, and the estate was merged with Collingbourne Kingston manor. Aughton House is from the 17th century. References External links Hamlets in Wiltshire
Spirit of the Age is a 1975 documentary series of "Eight films on eight centuries of British Architecture". It was broadcast on BBC 2 between 31 October 1975 and 19 December 1975 as the BBC's contribution to the Council of Europe's European Architectural Heritage Year. Each episode examined a different era of British architecture was presented by an expert in his field. It was series produced by the arts specialist John Drummond. Its title music was a specially-composed fanfare by the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Arthur Bliss. A book of the same name was published to accompany the television series by BBC Books in 1975, later reprinted in 1992. The series was repeated in May 1976, when a studio discussion "In Search of the Spirit of the Age" featuring Alec Clifton-Taylor and John Julius Norwich was broadcast to introduce the series. The first episode, presented by Alec Clifton-Taylor, was his first television presenting experience, but led to Six English Towns which ran for three series from 1978. List of episodes References 1975 British television series debuts BBC television documentaries
USS Little (DD-803), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain George Little (1754–1809). Little was laid down by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Wash., 13 September 1943; launched 22 May 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Russell F. O'Hara; and commissioned 19 August 1944. History After training off the West Coast, Little departed Seattle 11 November 1944 to escort a convoy to Pearl Harbor. She arrived 23 November and participated in gunnery training and battle problems. On 22 January 1945 she got underway with a group of LSTs for Eniwetok and rehearsals for the invasion of Iwo Jima. Final preparations were made at Saipan, and 15 February Little sailed for the assault beaches. Shore bombardment at Iwo Jima began 19 February. Little furnished fire support for ground forces until the 24th when she left for Saipan. She returned 4 March for bombardment, screening, and radar picket duties, and was back at Saipan 14 March to prepare or the Okinawa invasion. Little sailed for Okinawa 27 March assigned to the demonstration group charged with feigning landings opposite the actual assault beaches. After accomplishing this diversion 1 and 2 April, Little screened transports and escorted LSTs to the beaches. On 19 April she was ordered to picket duty where she remained until 24 April—unscathed despite relentless enemy suicide attacks. On 3 May Little and Aaron Ward (DM-34) were again on picket duty. At 18:13 hours, 18 to 24 aircraft attacked from under cloud cover. Aaron Ward took the first hit at 18:41. An instant later Little was hit on the portside. Within four minutes three more enemy kamikazes had hit her, breaking her keel, demolishing the amidship section, and opening all three after machinery spaces. At 19:55 Little broke up and sank. Thirty-one of the Littles approximately 320 crew members perished, while another 49 suffered injuries. Little received two battle stars for World War II service. Citations References External links navsource.org: USS Little hazegray.org: USS Little dd803.org: USS Little Little (DD-803) Ships built in Seattle World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean 1944 ships Little (DD-803) Ships sunk by kamikaze attack Maritime incidents in May 1945 Destroyers sunk by aircraft
ROKO Construction Limited, also Roko Construction Limited, is one of the top five construction companies in Uganda, according to Construction Review Online, as of April 2021. Headquartered in Kampala, Uganda's capital city, ROKO, as it is often referred to, is active in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, DR Congo, Tanzania and South Sudan. Overview ROKO was established in 1969 by two engineers; the late Max Rohrer (1935–2005), a native of Germany and the late Rainer Gottlieb Koehler (1931–2013), a native of Switzerland. As of April 2021 the company employs over 850 full-time staff and over 1,180 temporary workers of diverse nationalities, including over 100 key staff, of whom about half are engineers. Ownership The business is privately owned by the families of the two original founders. Subsidiaries and affiliates As of April 2021, the company maintains the following affiliates and/or subsidiaries: 1. ROKO Rwanda Limited 2. ROKO South Sudan Limited 3. ROKO Congo Limited 4. ROKO Technical Services Limited Governance The Roko Construction board of directors has six members: 1. Jean Mann Koehler: Chairperson 2. Mark Koehler: Managing Director 3. Peter Mugarura: Director 4. Brigitte Koehler: Director Projects This is a partial listing of past and current construction projects, where ROKO Construction is or was the lead contractor: 1. Basilica of the Uganda Martyrs, Namugongo: Work began in 1967 and was concluded in 1975. ROKO, the lead contractor, went back and carried out major renovations in 2015. 2. Mapeera House, the headquarters of Centenary Bank, on Kampala Road, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Construction began in 2007 and was completed in 2012. 3. DFCU House, the headquarters of DFCU Bank. Constructed at 46 Kyaddondo Road, on Nakasero Hill, from 2011 until 2013. 4. JLOS House Project, a proposed three-component government office development project in Uganda's capital city of Kampala, to house the offices of the Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS). Recent developments As of November 2020, the government of Uganda owed Roko Construction Limited a sum of USh46,997,280,913.08 (approximately US$13 million) at that time, being payment for completed or ongoing work, according to Matia Kasaija, Uganda's Minister of Finance, as reported by the Red Pepper Newspaper. Roko was going through a temporary cash flow crunch at that time. In July 2022, Ugandan online media reported that the Ugandan government was negotiating with the owners of the company, to acquire 150.000 preferential shares in the business, in exchange for UGX202.13 billion (approx. US$54.12 million). This comes at a time when ROKO has an estimated business pipeline, in excess of UGX1,204 billion (approx. US$325 million) in Uganda's oil sector. See also Economy of Uganda Dott Services References External links Uganda’s construction industry mourns Roko Construction Ltd’s Founder As of 13 November 2013. Construction and civil engineering companies of Uganda Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1969 Companies based in Kampala Kawempe Division 1969 establishments in Uganda
Mamram (), abbreviation for Center of Computing and Information Systems ( Merkaz Mahshevim UMa'arahot Meida), originally Center of Computing and Mechanized Registration ( Merkaz Mahshevim VeRishum Memukhan) is the Israel Defense Forces' central computing system unit, providing data processing services for all arms and the general staff of the IDF. History Formed in 1959, the unit acquired its first computer, a US-made Philco Model 211 installed in 1961. Prior to this, the IDF made occasional use of the Weizmann Institute's WEIZAC, the first electronic computer in the Middle East. Mordechai Kikayon, a civilian, was transferred from RAFAEL (then part of the IDF) to be the Mamram's first commander. Mamram facilities soon started hosting several other independent data processing units, including the Inventory Processing Center (מענ"א) and the Manpower Computing Center (ממכ"א), and additional computers were obtained. In 1994, the Mamram programming school, considered one of the best sources of high-quality software professionals in the world, was separated into a newly formed unit called School for Computer Professions (, abbr. Basmach - בסמ"ח). However, the school's graduates, who were and still are highly sought after in the industry, are still referred to as Mamram graduates. Following graduation, Basmach students go on to serve in various IDF units. Some of the graduates are often offered a position in Mamram itself. The unit has also been delegated with the responsibility of assigning Internet domain names under the idf.il second level domain. On September 20, 2017, the color of the unit's beret was changed to cyber blue to reflect the emerging responsibility for Israel's cyber defense. Former commanders 2020– : Colonel Yael Grossman 2018–2020: Colonel Omer Grossman 2015–2018: Colonel Talia Gazit 2013–2015: Colonel 2010–2013: Colonel Noam Rozenfeld 2006–2010: Colonel Ayala Hakim 2002–2006: Colonel Avi Kochva 1999–2002: Colonel Zvi Gliechman 1994–1999: Colonel Miri Kadmiel 1992–1994: Brig. Gen. Giora Ulman 1987–1992: Colonel 1984–1987: Colonel 1982-1984: Col. Avi Peri 1981-9182: Col. Sarya Ziv 1979-1981:Col Yeosef Shiftan 1978-1979: Col. Moshe Nadir 1973-1978: 1967-1973: Menachem Dishon 1959–1967: Mordechai Kikayon, the first head of Mamram Areas of responsibility Closed intranet Mamram has created the military's closed Intranet network. This network uses common WWW services, only in smaller dimensions for the use of all IDF's soldiers. IDF's system network MAMRAM is responsible for the management and development of the IDF's computer and network systems. Fight against computer abuse Mamram is responsible for enforcing computer use integrity. The ability to monitor network vandalism and abuse is an outcome of Mamram's own technical development. WWW integration Mamram provides IDF's WWW websites. Those websites contain interactive information used by civilians and foreigners. References External links A Case Study of the Israeli Military's Impact on the Software Industry Military units and formations of Israel Military units and formations established in 1959 1959 establishments in Israel
Deadmalls.com is an independent not-for-profit website best known for featuring shopping malls in the United States that have failed or are in the process of failing. The site features nearly 450 listings of dead or dying shopping malls, many with pictures and historical narratives. Background Created in 2000 by friends Peter Blackbird and Brian Florence as a hobby, the website has grown, garnering interest from major media outlets due to its unusual content and its comprehensive (sometimes humorous, sometimes wistful) coverage. The creators describe the website as an attempt to retain pieces of history that might otherwise be lost with the destruction of these malls. The site benefits from hundreds of online contributors who supply the website with accounts and photos that might be otherwise difficult to obtain. Recognition The website has also become increasingly influential in the retail and real estate industries as well. National Public Radio reports that new developers often use the site as a first point of reference, while mall owners often lobby to have their malls removed from the site, following redevelopment. The site creators have reported several incidents with mall security as well as legal threats based on photographs hosted by their site. See also Dead mall Dan Bell, 2010s documentary series Dead Mall List of defunct retailers of the United States Jasper Mall-2020 documentary about an Alabama dead mall References External links Deadmalls.com website Defunct shopping malls History websites of the United States Nostalgia websites Internet properties established in 2000 Urban decay Nostalgia in the United States
Calorguen (; ; Gallo: Calorgen) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Calorguen are called in French Calorguennais. See also Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department References External links Communes of Côtes-d'Armor
Clan Forbes is a Highland Scottish clan from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. History Origins The name Forbes is most probably a location name assumed from the lands of Forbes in Aberdeenshire, in possession of this family reputedly since the time of King William the Lion. While there are many legends surrounding the origins of this clan historians write the Forbes are descended from Kings of the Picts and a reliable tradition tells that the "Braes o’ Forbes" were once uninhabitable because of bears living in the area. Oconachar, founder of the clan, killed the bears and claimed the land as "first occupier". The present chief still holds part of the Lordship of these Forbes lands. The first person on record was Duncan Forbes who in 1271–2 received a grant of lands from Alexander III of Scotland. Cited by William Forbes Skene the charter exists in the Forbes charter chest in tattered but quite legible condition. The next mention is a John Forbes, whose name dates from a 1306 roll containing a list of demands by English and Scottish loyalists to Edward I of England for the forfeited lands of Scotsmen, the lands of John Forbes being demanded or requested by both a William Comyn and a Robert Chival. The next name may be that of his son, Christian, who received a grant of one-third of the lands of Skeith and Ardach by King Robert the Bruce in 1326, but doubt still remains he was a Forbes or of this family, even though in the charter he is named Christian Forbes. The next name found in records is that of John Forbes dominus ejusdem or Lord of Forbes. He witnessed two charters of Thomas, Earl of Mar in 1358 and 1359 and in 1364 King David II of Scotland confirmed a charter for the lands of Edinbanchory and Craiglogy by Thomas, Earl of Mar granting them to John de Forbes. He was Sheriff of Aberdeen in 1374. In 1378 a charter was granted to John and his wife Margaret by the Bishop of Moray for the lands of Fynrossie on the loch of Spynie. At his death before 20 August 1387 he was described as "a gude man, wise, and mychty, and manly in his time." The son of the latter, Sir John de Forbes, Lord of Forbes, called "Sir John of the black lip" was Justiciary and Coroner of Aberdeenshire. He married Elizabeth Kennedy, daughter of Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure and together they had four sons. From the three younger sons sprang several cadet lines. William was the progenitor of the Pitsligo line, John the ancestor of Tolquhonline while the houses of Skellater and Inverernan were founded by Alistair of Brux. Sir John died in 1406. 15th century Sir John Forbes's son, Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes fought at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411, in support of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. Alexander had safe conduct from Henry V of England to visit his king, James I of Scotland at Rouen in 1421 and was allowed as his escort to bring forty Pikeman and other followers, up to one hundred men. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert III of Scotland. Together Alexander and Elizabeth had five children including James, the 2nd Lord Forbes. Alexander Forbes was raised to the Peerage by James I as Baron Forbes between October 1444 and July 1445. Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes died in 1448. James, second Lord Forbes, married Egidia, daughter of William Keith, 1st Earl Marischal, and had three sons: William, the 3rd Lord Forbes, Duncan, ancestor of the Forbeses of Corsindae and Monymusk, and Patrick, ancestor of the Forbeses, Baronets of Craigievar, now Lord Sempill, and also of the Earls of Granard. Alexander, fourth Lord Forbes, was in arms with his clan to revenge the murder of James III, but after the defeat at Tillymoss he submitted to James IV. John, the sixth Lord, succeeded his brother Arthur, the 5th Lord Forbes, in 1493. In 1536 he was charged with treason and was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, but was honourably acquitted after a long period of confinement. John Forbes, Master of Forbes, his eldest surviving son and heir designate was arrested with his father, also on charges of treason, and was condemned to be hanged, but due to his rank he was beheaded. 16th century In 1529, Clan Forbes was involved in a feud with the citizens of Aberdeen, who withheld a sort of blackmail, a yearly tun of wine for the fishings of the Don. In July 1530 Arthur Forbes of Brux and his accomplices attacked Aberdeen. The citizens took arms and drove the invaders to Greyfriars Place. The street fights lasted twenty-four hours. One member of clan Forbes and some of the citizens were killed, a good many on both sides were wounded. Several of the inhabitants of Aberdeen, and commissioners were sent to the king to lodge a complaint. On 19 December the following year, the magistrates served letters of law-burrows against Pitsligo, Tolquhon, Corsindae, Brux, Echt, and other gentlemen of the name of Forbes and Lord Pitsligo was obliged to find caution to the council at Perth for his own and friends good behaviour towards the town of Aberdeen. At that time a deadly feud subsisted between Clan Forbes and Clan Leslie; and it is probable that some of the Aberdeen townsfolk had interfered in that quarrel, which furiously raged throughout Aberdeenshire, and was attended by mutual massacres and murders. Throughout the 16th century the Clan Forbes were involved in a long and bitter struggle against the Clan Gordon. In the 1520s there were murders by both sides, and one of the most prominent killed by the Forbeses was Seton of Meldrum who was a close connection of the Earl of Huntly, chief of Clan Gordon. The Earl of Huntly then became involved in a plot against the Master of Forbes, who was the son of the sixth Lord Forbes. The sixth Lord Forbes had been heavily implicated of the murder of Seton of Meldrum. The Master of Forbes was accused by the Earl of Huntly of conspiring to assassinate James V of Scotland in 1536 by shooting at him with a cannon. The Master of Forbes was tried and sentenced to be executed; just days later, however, his conviction was reversed and the Forbes family was restored to favor. The Protestant Reformation added to the feud between the Clan Forbes and Clan Gordon in that the Gordons remained Catholic and the Forbeses became Protestant. The traditional enemies of the Forbeses, such as the Clan Leslie, Clan Irvine and Clan Seton, sided with the Gordons, while Protestant families, such as the Clan Keith, Clan Fraser and Clan Crichton, sided with the Clan Forbes. Twenty Gordons were killed at a banquet held at the Forbeses' Druminnor Castle in 1571. Later in 1571 the feud climaxed with the Battle of Tillieangus, and the Battle of Craibstone, and Druminnor, then the seat of the chief of Clan Forbes, was plundered. The Gordons followed this with the massacre of twenty-seven Forbeses of Towie at Corgarff Castle. It took two Acts of Parliament for the clans to put down their arms. 17th century Alexander, the 10th Lord Forbes, was a Lieutenant general under Gustavus Adolphus during the Thirty Years' War. On his return to Scotland he was given a commission and charged with suppressing uprisings in Ireland. He later retired to Germany and died on 20 April 1672 in Stockholm, Sweden. 18th century During the Jacobite risings the Jacobites laid siege to Culloden House, seat of Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, a staunch Whig, in both the Jacobite rising of 1715 and the Jacobite rising of 1745. General Wade's report on the Highlands in 1724 gives the number of men under of Forbes of Culloden as two hundred. In September 1745, he was given a commission to raise twenty Independent Highland Companies to oppose the Jacobite rising of 1745. He succeeded in raising a total of eighteen Independent Highland Companies to fight against the Jacobites. Branches The Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from William, second son of Sir John Forbes of that Ilk, in the time of Robert II. Alexander, fourth Lord, was attainted after the battle of Culloden; living long secretly in one of his own gate lodges, he died in 1762. Three families now claim the title. The Forbeses, Baronets of Craigievar, a branch of the old House, Craigievar Castle, sprang from Patrick Forbes of Corse, armour-bearer to James III; and the Stuart-Forbesses of Pitsligo, Baronets, from Duncan of Corsindae, second son of James, second Lord Forbes. The Edinglassie Forbeses are also a branch of the parent stock. The Forbeses of Tolquhon Castle, a very old branch, acquired that estate in 1420, and were progenitors of the Lairds of Culloden. Sir Alexander Forbes of Tolquhon commanded a troop of cavalry in the Scots army at Worcester; and when the King's horse was shot, mounted him on his own, put his buff coat and a bloody scarf about him, and saw him safe out of the field. The fortunes of this house were probably consumed in the fever of the Darien Scheme, in which Alexander Forbes of Tolquhon (like many other good old Scottish families) appears to have embarked beyond his means, the stock he held (500) having been judicially attached. Sir William Forbes, eighth Baronet of Craigievar, in 1884 succeeded his kinswoman as Lord Sempill, Chief of Clan Sempill. Tartans Clan chief Clan Chief: Malcolm Forbes, 23rd Lord Forbes and Chief of the Name and Arms of Forbes. Castles Castles that have been owned by the Clan Forbes have included amongst many others: Castlehill at Druminnor, one and a half miles north-east of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, was the site of the first stronghold on the lands, which the Forbeses held from 1271 to 1440. They then moved to Druminnor Castle. Druminnor Castle, one mile south-east of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, consists of a keep and tower that has been much altered and was first built by the Forbeses in the fifteenth century. It was modified in the sixteenth century when it was made into an L-plan and there have also been later alterations. The Forbeses feuded with the Leslies, Setons, and the powerful Clan Gordon; twenty Gordons were killed at a banquet held at Druminnor Castle in 1571. In 1770 Druminnor Castle was sold, and the Forbes family moved to Castle Forbes. Castle Forbes, a few miles northeast of Alford, Aberdeenshire, was once a tower house, but was replaced with a large castellated mansion of 1815. Craigievar Castle, four and a half miles southwest of Alford, Aberdeenshire, was built by the Forbeses. It is an L-plan tower house of seven storeys. The castle was actually started by the Mortimer family but they ran out of money and it was completed by the Forbeses. The castle was taken over by the National Trust for Scotland in 1963 and is now open to the public. Tolquhon Castle, four miles east of Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, is a ruinous keep and courtyard castle. The original castle was built by the Prestons of Craigmillar, but it passed by marriage to the Forbeses in 1420, and they completed the castle. Sir Alexander Forbes, sixth laird of the castle, was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. The present castle was built by William Forbes, the seventh laird. The tenth Forbes laird of Tolquhon saved Charles II of England's life at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. In 1716 the Forbeses sold the castle to the Farquhars to help cover their losses in the Darien scheme, but the eleventh Forbes laird had to be forcibly removed from the castle by a detachment of soldiers in 1718. Corgarff Castle is in a remote spot ten miles northwest of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, and is a tall tower house. It is four storeys high and dates from the sixteenth century. It is the site of one of the most infamous events of the bitter feud between the Clan Forbes and Clan Gordon: a force under Adam Gordon of Auchindoun ravaged through the Forbeses' lands and besieged the castle, which was held by twenty-six women, children, and servants, the men being away. Margaret Campbell, wife of Forbes of Towie, refused to surrender the castle. Gordon of Auchindoun lost patience when she shot one of his men in the knee; Gordon then torched the building, killing everyone inside. Culloden House at Culloden, Highland near Inverness mostly dates from the eighteenth century, but stands on the site of a strong tower house which was formerly held by the Mackintoshes and Edmonstones, but was sold to the Forbeses in 1626. It was the seat of Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, who supported the British-Hanoverian Government during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and was present at the Battle of Culloden. He later protested against the cruel and dishonorable treatment of Jacobite prisoners after the battle, when many wounded Jacobites were brought to Culloden House and were shot or had their heads crushed with musket butts. See also John Forbes and Company References External links Castle Forbes Clan Forbes Society Clan Forbes Society on Facebook Clan Forbes Society Channel on YouTube Castles & Mansion Houses of the House of Forbes Forbes
The JBS Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, better known as JBS CPI or JBS CPMI, is a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission created on September 5, 2017, with the purpose of investigating alleged irregularities committed by the J&F group, which controls the JBS meatpacking company, in relation to loans from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) between the years 2007 and 2016, as well as the plea bargain agreement made by the group with the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. Rapporteur On September 12, 2017, Deputy Carlos Marun (PMDB-MS) was chosen as the rapporteur of the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPMI) established to investigate irregularities involving the JBS group and the J&F holding in operations with the BNDES, and Ronaldo Caiado (DEM-GO) was elected as the Vice President of the Joint CPI. Reactions The appointment of Marun as rapporteur provoked reactions from other lawmakers. Senator Ricardo Ferraço requested to be removed from the commission, justifying that he did not want to participate in what he considered "revenge and back-and-forth". The rapporteur Marun is also accused of administrative misconduct for embezzling 16.6 million reais. Marun, who informed the CPI about the case, denies the allegations. Summonses On September 21, 2017, the CPI approved the summoning of former Attorney General Rodrigo Janot, former prosecutor Marcelo Miller, and prosecutor Ângelo Goulart Villela. The CPI also approved the summoning of brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, the controllers of the J&F group, owner of JBS, as well as executives Ricardo Saud, Valdir Aparecido Boni, Francisco Assis e Silva, Florisvaldo Caetano de Oliveira, Fábio Chilo, and Demilton Antônio de Castro, former BNDES president Luciano Coutinho, and JBS lawyer Willer Tomaz de Souza. Support One of the supporters of the CPI, rapporteur Carlos Marun, said, "This CPI is not mine, it's not yours, it's not Deputy João Gualberto's or Senator Ronaldo Caiado's. It didn't come out of nowhere. A few months ago, Brazil woke up surprised by the information that Joesley revealed that campaign contributions were bribes." Marun also said that "even as a confessed defendant, perhaps one of the greatest offenders in Brazilian history, he had received eternal forgiveness." The rapporteur said that the CPI "does authorize the investigation of the circumstances of this agreement." Criticisms Approximately one-third of the current members of the Joint CPI receive funding from JBS. In total, about 4 million reais were donated to the campaigns of 15 out of the 49 parliamentarians who are part of the commission. The choice of the rapporteur caused Ricardo Ferraço and Otto Alencar to withdraw from the commission. According to Deputy Ivan Valente from PSOL, the number of lawmakers funded by JBS compromises the work of the commission. Valente stated, "Serious members of the CPI should request the recusal of those who are directly connected to receiving funds from JBS." Senator Randolfe Rodrigues argued that the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Commission created to investigate JBS aims to "corner" the independence of the Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor's Office. Randolfe filed a writ of mandamus with the Supreme Federal Court requesting the suspension of the CPI's work. The action is being reviewed by Minister Dias Toffoli. According to Randolfe, "this Joint CPI has an unusual alliance: Marun, Temer's PMDB, and the PT are all on the same side. What unites them? Retaliating against those who want to investigate them. Marun and the PT are so close, intertwined, that it's no longer just a flirtation, but a marriage," criticized the Amapá lawmaker, for whom the purpose of the Joint CPI was never to investigate JBS wrongdoings but rather to "retaliate against the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office." According to Revista Época, the PMDB and the PT allied themselves in the CPI to attack the Public Prosecutor's Office and the whistleblowers. According to the magazine, this unlikely harmony between the PT and the PMDB, allies in the Dilma administration and enemies due to the impeachment just a year ago, shows the fast-paced dynamics of politics driven by the Lava Jato investigation. It is based on the well-known technique of many CPIs, in which lawmakers—even those from opposing sides—join forces to shield allies and embarrass enemies. All requests to summon former President Lula were shelved. Another criticism of the CPI is that, according to the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, allies of the Michel Temer government are using the commission installed in the Congress to create a political environment that allows for the acquittal of the accused and discourages future plea bargains. According to the website O Antagonista, the Palácio do Planalto has infiltrated the CPI to corner Rodrigo Janot and Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin. According to O Antagonista, this is the first CPI to investigate the investigators. Another critic, Federal Deputy João Gualberto (PSDB), believes that the commission will end up being a "cover-up," just like the Petrobras CPI. "This CPI is only meant to harass the Public Prosecutor's Office. But I won't do what Otto did, I'm here to denounce this. Those who should be called to testify are the executives and the politicians. Those are the people who should be invited. Only after that should the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police be invited, after requesting all the documentation, for us to study everything. It will be worse than the Petrobras CPI. I hope I'm wrong and have to apologize to you." Behind the scenes, the Joint CPI is seen as an opportunity for allies of Michel Temer to discredit the plea agreements reached by the Public Prosecutor's Office. See also Operation Weak Meat References External links Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on JBS JBS S.A.
Scarlet Thread is a 1951 British crime drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and produced by Ernest G. Roy. Plot Two criminals plan a jewellery robbery. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot. Cast Kathleen Byron as Josephine Laurence Harvey as Freddie Sydney Tafler as Marcon Arthur Hill as Shaw Dora Bryan as Maggie Eliot Makeham as Jason Harry Fowler as Sam Cyril Chamberlain as Mason Renee Kelly as Eleanor Hylton Allen as The Dean Production The film was made at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England, and on location. A collection of location stills and corresponding contemporary photographs is hosted at reelstreets.com. References External links 1951 films Films directed by Lewis Gilbert Films set in London Films set in Cambridge British crime drama films 1951 crime drama films Films produced by Ernest G. Roy British black-and-white films Films shot in Cambridgeshire 1950s English-language films 1950s British films
"Lisa on Ice" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was the first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on November 13, 1994. In the episode, Lisa discovers that she possesses a skill for ice hockey. A rivalry between her and Bart ensues. The episode was written by Mike Scully and directed by Bob Anderson. Anderson's passion for hockey is what inspired the plot. It features cultural references to films such as Rollerball and The Pope of Greenwich Village. The episode was well-received by critics and acquired a Nielsen rating of 11.6. Plot Principal Skinner gathers Springfield Elementary School students at an assembly to announce which subjects they are failing. To her horror, straight-A student Lisa discovers she is failing gym class. When she appeals to her gym teacher, they reach a compromise: Lisa will get a passing grade if she joins a sports program outside of school. She attempts to join several, but fails, which devastates her self-esteem. Later, the family watches Bart play hockey for his team, the Mighty Pigs, coached by Chief Wiggum. After the game, Bart ridicules his sister for being poor at sports and uses his hockey stick to pelt her with litter. After watching Lisa deflect the litter and catch hockey pucks, Apu, the coach of the Kwik-E-Mart Gougers, thinks she would be a natural and makes her his team's goalie. Lisa excels as goalie and leads her team to its best season ever. Encouraged by Homer playing favorites, a sibling rivalry develops between Bart and Lisa. It peaks when the town learns that the Gougers will face the Mighty Pigs at their next match. The game is viciously fought, with Bart and Lisa playing their best. With four seconds left, Bart is tripped by Jimbo, giving him a penalty shot against Lisa that will decide the game. As they face off, Bart and Lisa remember the good times they had together when they were younger. After they throw aside their equipment and hug, the match ends in a tie — much to Marge's pride and Homer's distress. Dissatisfied with the outcome, the residents of Springfield riot and trash the arena. Production The idea for the episode came from The Simpsons writer Mike Scully, who wanted to do an episode involving ice hockey because of his passion for the sport. Bob Anderson, who also had a small interest in hockey, directed the episode. To better familiarize himself with the sport, Anderson ordered a batch of VHS highlight tapes, watched the NHL playoffs for the first time, and made several trips to scout youth games, taking notes on how players looked stickhandling and shooting. In his original draft of the episode, Scully had written cameos for Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky but, he explained, "they wound up falling out of the story, because we had such a good story with the family." Gretzky eventually ended up appearing in the Season 28 episode "The Nightmare After Krustmas", becoming the first hockey player to guest on the show. The episode starts out with Lisa tricking Bart into believing it is a snow day by throwing a snowball at him which she made out of the ice in the fridge. The scene was inspired by Scully, who as a child loved to sit and listen by the radio waiting to see if there was going to be a school snow day. Scully thought, because of his experience as a child, that there was nothing more disappointing than to wake up expecting a snow day, only to find out there was no snow. The academic alerts the Springfield Elementary School students receive were based on those Scully received in junior high. The scene where Milhouse was bound by his hands and legs to the net was inspired by stories Scully had heard about Springfield Indians owner Eddie Shore tying his players to the posts "trying to teach his goalies to stay in the crease." Lisa's line, "Hack the bone! Hack the bone!" was inspired by ex–Springfield Kings backstop Billy Smith. Although there was an emphasis on detail for the show, one mistake Scully regrets is having the game clock running (and eventually expiring) on Bart’s penalty shot. The clock would be paused in a normal hockey game until the shot was taken. Cultural references Kent Brockman's line about a Garry Trudeau musical revue about Ronald Reagan is a reference to Rap Master Ronnie, an off-Broadway play about the Reagan administration that ran throughout the 1980s. When Moe visits Bart and Lisa at the Simpson house to see if they have any injuries that may affect the odds of the upcoming game, Marge sends him away as he pleads, "They're gonna take my thumbs". This is a reference to Eric Roberts' line, "Charlie, they took my thumb", from the 1984 film The Pope of Greenwich Village. The episode features several references to the 1975 film Rollerball. At the academic alerts assembly, bully Kearney has Dolph taken a memo on an Apple Newton, a personal digital assistant. When Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" on the screen, the handwriting recognition turns it into "Eat up Martha", and Kearney throws the Newton at Martin instead, referencing the MessagePad's poor handwriting recognition. Coincidentally?, about a year before the episode aired, Garry Trudeau drew a comic strip also making fun of Newton's handwriting recognition. Reception Critical reception Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it "a fabulous episode for Lisa and Bart, although with a special mention for a few seconds of tremendous Edna Krabappel wickedness". DVD Verdict's Ryan Keefer said the episode "is one of the few episodes centered on Lisa that I enjoy watching", and gave it a B+ grade. DVD Talk's Aaron Beierle said, "there are definitely some funny moments in this episode, the sweet-natured way that the episode ends never sat right with me". ESPN.com named the episode the fifth best sports moment in the history of the show. The Orlando Sentinels Gregory Hardy listed it as the seventh-best episode of the show with a sports theme. TV Squad's Adam Finley gave the episode a positive review, commenting that it is "a skewering of parents who become too involved in their children's sports and turn what should be a lesson in teamwork, trying your hardest, and losing gracefully into a kind of Roman Coliseum where grown adults live out violent fantasies and their own failed ambitions through their children". He added, "Homer is an absolute jerk in this episode, taunting his children when they lose and praising them when they win and humiliate their sibling" and "it's not just Homer. Marge, characteristically so, tries to remain diplomatic, but even she starts screaming for blood when Bart is tripped by an opposing player." Ratings In its original broadcast, "Lisa on Ice" finished 34th in the ratings for the week of November 7 to November 13, 1994, with a Nielsen rating of 11.6. It was the second-highest-rated show on the Fox network that week. References External links The Simpsons (season 6) episodes 1994 American television episodes Ice hockey mass media Physical fitness in popular culture fi:Simpsonit (6. tuotantokausi)#Lisan liukkaat (Lisa on Ice)
The Battle of Kock’s Plantation (also spelled Cox’s Plantation and Saint Emma Plantation) was a battle fought July 12–13, 1863, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, during the American Civil War. It was part of a campaign entitled "Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana (1863)." The Confederate States Army victory left them in control of much of the interior of the Acadiana region. Following the surrender of Port Hudson, two Union divisions were shifted to Donaldsonville by transports, to move inland and pacify the interior. They marched up Bayou Lafourche, a division on each bank. Confederate Brig. Gen. Tom Green posted a brigade on the east side of the bayou and placed his second brigade on the other side. As the Union forces advanced, skirmishing occurred on July 11 and 12. On the morning of the 13th, a foraging detachment set out along both banks of the bayou. Upon reaching Kock’s Plantation (Saint Emma Plantation), they met Rebel skirmishers that forced them back. Then, Green's Confederates flung their might against the Union troops, which kept retiring although they tried to make stands at various points. The Union troops eventually fell back to the protection of the guns in Fort Butler at Donaldsonville, about six miles from Kock’s Plantation. A much smaller Rebel force had routed the Yankees. The expedition failed, leaving the Confederates in control of the interior. Estimated casualties: 463 total (US 430; CS 33) The restored plantation house, built in 1847 by a leading sugar planter, is maintained as a private museum filled with period furnishings. It is located on Highway 1 South near Donaldsonville. References External links CWSAC Report Update - Louisiana Saint Emma Plantation National Park Service Kock's Plantation Kock's Plantation Kock's Plantation Kock's Plantation Ascension Parish, Louisiana 1863 in Louisiana July 1863 events
The City of London Corporation owns and maintains open space in and around Greater London. They have mainly been acquired since 1878, when two Acts of Parliament entrusted the management of Epping Forest and several other areas within a 25-mile (40 km) radius to the corporation: these areas laid the foundation for the Green Belt in the 20th century. On dedicating the opening of Epping Forest on 6 May 1882, Queen Victoria said "It gives me the greatest satisfaction to dedicate this beautiful forest to the use and enjoyment of my people for all time." Within the City The city has no sizeable parks within its boundary, but does have a network of a large number of gardens and small open spaces, many of them maintained by the corporation. These range from formal gardens such as the one in Finsbury Circus, containing a bowling green and bandstand, to churchyards such as St Olave Hart Street, to water features and artwork in courtyards and pedestrianised lanes. There are 150 smaller areas within the square mile of the City of London, including: Barber-Surgeon's Hall Garden, London Wall Cleary Garden, Queen Victoria Street Churchyard at St Olave Hart Street Courtyard of St Vedast Foster Lane Finsbury Circus, Blomfield Street/London Wall/Moorgate Jubilee Garden, Houndsditch Portsoken Street Garden, Portsoken Street/Goodman's Yard Postman's Park, Little Britain Seething Lane Garden, Seething Lane St Dunstan-in-the-East, St Dunstan's Hill St Mary Aldermanbury, Aldermanbury St Olave Hart Street churchyard, Seething Lane St Paul's churchyard, St Paul's Cathedral West Smithfield Garden, West Smithfield Whittington Gardens, College Street Outside the City The total managed area is 4,200 hectares (). Included in the open spaces are: Hampstead Heath 274 hectares. Located in the boroughs of Camden and Barnet Epping Forest, 3,188 hectares. Largest public open space in the London area. Burnham Beeches, 218 hectares. An area in Buckinghamshire purchased 1880. Stoke Common, 83 hectares in Buckinghamshire. The City Commons, seven green spaces in South London and Surrey managed by the corporation: Ashtead Common, 200 hectares Farthing Downs, 95 hectares Coulsdon Common, 51 hectares Kenley Common, 56 hectares Riddlesdown Common, 43 hectares Spring Park, 20 hectares West Wickham Common, 10 hectares Highgate Wood 28 hectares Purchased in 1886 Queen's Park in northwest London, 12 hectares. Purchased 1886, having been the site of 1879 Royal Agricultural Exhibition West Ham Park, 31 hectares. Purchased 1874 It also has an interest in the Downlands Countryside Management Project in South-east London. References External links City of London open spaces Gardens of the City of London Parks and open spaces
Makabelo Priscilla Mosothoane (born 1952) is a Lesotho politician who served as the country's Minister for Education and Training from 2012 to 2015, in the government of Tom Thabane. She worked as a nurse and schoolteacher prior to entering politics, and was also president of the local branch of the Red Cross Society. Early life Mosothoane was born in Kanye, Botswana, into a Tswana family. Her native language was Setswana. Mosothoane attended secondary school in Gaborone (Botswana's capital), and subsequently completed a diploma in nursing, interning at Gaborone's Princess Marina Hospital. She moved to Lesotho to study at the National University of Lesotho, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in Education. Remaining in Lesotho after graduation, Mosothoane initially worked as a high school teacher, teaching at schools in Linare and Hlotse. In 1987, she began working at the English-medium school for the Leribe District, where she became principal in 1991. Outside of her work in education, Mosothoane was elected president of the Lesotho Red Cross Society in 2003. Politics At the 2012 Lesotho general election, Mosothoane was elected to the National Assembly as a Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) candidate, winning the Hlotse constituency. She defeated Lineo Molise, a sitting deputy minister. After the election, Mosothoane was made Minister for Education and Training in the coalition government formed by Prime Minister Tom Thabane of the All Basotho Convention (ABC). During her period as education minister, she introduced a new nationwide curriculum for primary schools, and also oversaw the localisation of secondary school examinations, which had previously been administered by Cambridge International Examinations (a British organisation). In October 2014, Mosothoane was also appointed Minister for Communications, Science and Technology in an acting capacity, following the dismissal of Selibe Mochoboroane from the ministry. Mochoboroane claimed his removal was unlawful, and refused to vacate his office or give up his other ministerial resources. Mosothoane was replaced as acting minister by Joang Molapo in February 2015, at which point Mochoboroane was still disputing the legitimacy of his dismissal. Despite being a sitting minister, she was defeated in an LCD primary election prior to the 2015 general election, and consequently did not retain her seat in the National Assembly. See also Politics of Lesotho References 1952 births Living people Botswana emigrants to Lesotho Botswana nurses 21st-century Botswana women politicians 21st-century Botswana politicians Members of the National Assembly (Lesotho) National University of Lesotho alumni People from Kanye, Botswana Communication ministers of Lesotho Education ministers of Lesotho Science ministers of Lesotho Lesotho Congress for Democracy politicians Women government ministers of Lesotho
{{Infobox book \| name = Started Early, Took My Dog \| image = File:StartedEarlyTookMyDog.jpg \| caption = First edition \| alt = \| author = Kate Atkinson \| cover_artist = Photo of Fountains Abbey by Tracey Paterson \| country = United Kingdom \| language = English \| series = Jackson Brodie \| genre = Crime fiction \| publisher = Doubleday \| pub_date = 19 Aug 2010 \| media_type = Print (paperback and hardback) \| pages = 352 \| isbn = 0-385-60802-0 \|isbn_note= (h/b) (p/b) \| oclc = 718098042 \| dewey = \| congress = \| preceded_by = When Will There Be Good News? (2008)' \| followed_by = }}Started Early, Took My Dog is a 2010 novel by English writer Kate Atkinson named after the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. It was adapted into an episode of the second season of the British television series Case Histories in 2013. Plot The main story takes place over a few days in present-day (2010) Leeds, England and vicinity. There are frequent flashbacks to 1975, when the mystery being investigated originated. Main characters Tracy Waterhouse is now security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds but back in 1974 as a WPC just off probation she was one of the first on scene when the body of a murdered prostitute is found in a flat in Lovell Park, also in the flat is her 4-year-old son. Back in the present she sees another young child being dragged through the shopping centre by her abusive prostitute mother and decides to intervene. Jackson Brodie now a private investigator is trying to trace the birth parents of a woman now living in New Zealand who was adopted as a young child. His investigations lead him to Leeds. Matilda "Tilly" Squires is an elderly actress battling the onset of dementia who also witnesses the child being dragged through the shopping centre. Reception Janet Maslin in The New York Times commented: “The tone of the novel might be mild and nattering if Ms Atkinson were not so handy with the chill-worthy frisson. Jackson keeps summoning the phrase “For want of a nail ...” to convey the kinds of fateful repercussions that each bit of the story has...And Ms Atkinson writes passages that simply have to be read twice, once when you first travel through the book and then later, when you want to see just how she tricked you” and she concludes “Ms Atkinson remains a wonderful stylist and Grade A schemer, even with a book that’s overcluttered. But she was never confined to the crime genre, has written in assorted other modes and excels at them all. Whatever she goes on to write, she leaves Jackson Brodie at a suspenseful and pivotal moment. Future installments are well worth waiting for." Justine Jordan in The Guardian also praised the novel: “So much of the narrative is retrospective or interior that there's not much urgency to unfolding events, however highly coloured. And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. But we follow their digressive, meandering voices avidly as they circle around their own particular loves and losses, all knitted together with Atkinson's extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control.” In contrast, David Robson in The Telegraph'' wrote “There is such an elegant symmetry to the narrative that it is disappointing to report that the novel as a whole never catches fire. The flashbacks to 1975 should contextualise what is happening today, but Atkinson, like many a novelist before her, gets bogged down in tedious explanation. There is too much plotting, not enough of the kind of close human observation at which she excels...On the blurb, Atkinson’s publishers, fatuously, describe her as "one of the great writers of our time". If she wants to earn that tag, she needs to raise her game.” References External links Started early took my dog official website I started early - took my dog poem by Emily Dickinson 2010 British novels British detective novels English novels Novels by Kate Atkinson British novels adapted into television shows Doubleday (publisher) books Novels set in Leeds
The Crișul Nou is a right tributary of the river Crișul Negru in Romania. It flows into the Crișul Negru in Lunca. Its length is and its basin size is . References Rivers of Romania Rivers of Bihor County
Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, with Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of Its Attendant Evils is an 1857 book by William Acton about prostitution in big cities like London and Paris. First published in 1857 by John Churchill & Sons, it was republished and updated in 1870. Content In the book Acton professed to desiring to "heal the sick prostitute and to cleanse her moral nature". The book was republished in 1870 and updated by Acton, in which he drew upon the scandal of the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s to "reinforce his dire warnings about the ubiquitous threat of unregulated and avaricious prostitutes". Controversy Controversial, it raised considerable attention for its commentary on society in mid 19th century London and concerns among the wider population that the city was the centre of moral decay in Britain and was infested with diseased prostitutes. One author stated that Acton's book demonstrated a "very swift decline and ultimate total loss of health, modesty and temporal posterity". While Acton meant to expose the profession as a risky one healthwise for both prostitutes and clients alike, and as an immoral practice, many considered that Acton humanized prostitutes by denouncing low wages for women as one of the reasons why they would turn to prostitution. This was in contrast to the dominant perception among members of the middle and upper classes that women decided to become prostitutes because of an innate lustfulness and sinful nature. Acton concluded that "Vanity, giddiness, greediness, love of dress, distress, hunger, marke women prostitutes, but not general sensuality." In popular culture In the 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman, Meryl Streep's character references commentary from the book, and mentioned that according to Acton's report, The Lancet estimated that in 1857 there were 80,000 prostitutes in the County of London and that one house in 60 functioned as a brothel. References Bibliography 1857 books Books about London 1850s in London Prostitution in England Non-fiction books about prostitution
Kevin Brown (born July 9, 1970) is an American poet, author and teacher. He has published three full collections of poems--Liturgical Calendar: Poems; A Lexicon of Lost Words; and Exit Lines, as well as a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again. He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, InsideHigherEd, The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica Magazine. He has published a work of scholarship--They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels—as well as critical articles on Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Tony Earley, and what English majors do after graduation. He regularly writes reviews for NewPages.com, solrad, and Soapberry Review. Early life Kevin Brown was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee, with his parents and two siblings. Both of his parents worked at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). His father, Jim Brown, attended ETSU as a student and was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. As a teenager, Kevin competed in Bible Bowl competitions. Education Kevin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Milligan College in Elizabethton, Tennessee. He went on to pursue a Master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University and graduated in 1994. He finished his Ph.D in English in December 1996, graduating from the University of Mississippi. He returned to school for a Master's in Library and Information Science, graduating in 1999 from the University of Alabama. He received his Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Murray State University in 2012. Work experience His first jobs were in private high schools, as Kevin began teaching English in 1997 at the Culver Academies, where he also worked as an assistant coach for the girls basketball team. After attending the University of Alabama, he was hired at Stratford Academy, where he taught for one year before serving as librarian for one year. In 2001, he was hired at Lee University as an assistant professor of English. He worked for Lee for two years, then moved to Tacoma, Washington to take a position as Upper School Librarian. He worked there one year before returning to Lee, where he taught until 2021. He was a professor of English there, teaching both literature and creative writing courses. He was the first of only two professors to receive all three major faculty awards (teaching, advising, and scholarship). He currently teaches at Ensworth School, where he has taught or is teaching Advanced Placement Literature and Composition; 10th Grade English; Prose Writing; Linguistics; Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion; and The Literature of Immigration. He also advises the literary magazine. Bibliography Full-Length Poetry Collections Exit Lines: Poems (2009, Plain View Press) A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014, Snake Nation Press) Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014, Wipf and Stock Publishers) Chapbooks Abecedarium (2011, Finishing Line Press) Holy Days (2012, Split Oak Press) Memoir Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding Faith Again (2012, Wipf and Stock Publishers) Literary Criticism They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012, Kennesaw State University Press) Awards and honors Lee University Excellence in Teaching award, 2011-12 Lee University Excellence in Scholarship Recipient, 2009-10 Lee University Excellence in Advising award, 2010-11 Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Regional Sponsor Award, Southern Region, 2010-11 First Place in Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press, 2012; A Lexicon of Lost Words Honorable Mention and Finalist in Quercus Review Spring Poetry Book Award Contest, 2014; Jack Imagines a Different Map First Place in Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition, 2011; Holy Days Finalist for Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry (The Broome Review and Split Oak Press), 2011; Holy Days Semi-Finalist in Elixir Antivenom Poetry Award, 2011; A Lexicon of Lost Words Finalist in Elixir Press Eleventh Annual Poetry Awards, 2010; A Lexicon of Lost Words Finalist in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2010; Holy Days Finalist in Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days Finalist in Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days Honorable Mention and Two Finalists for Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, The Heartland Review, 2010 Two Honorable Mentions for Ruth Redel Poetry Contest, The Heartland Review, 2010 Second Runner-Up in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2009; Abecedarium References External links Author website "Diagramming Won't Help This Situation" on The Writer's Almanac Interview at Poets' Quarterly Review of Exit Lines Review of Abecedarium Review of Abecedarium "Why I Don't Write" by Kevin Brown Poets & Writers Directory Listing Linkedin Directory Listing 1970 births English-language poets American male poets American essayists People from Jackson, Tennessee Poets from Tennessee Lee University faculty Milligan University alumni East Tennessee State University alumni University of Mississippi alumni University of Alabama alumni Murray State University alumni Living people American male essayists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers
Matjaž Mulej (born Maribor, 20 January 1941) is a Slovenian academic. Personal life He has a B.A. in economic analysis, a M.A. in Development Economics, as well as Doctorates in Economics/Systems Theory, and in Management/Innovation Management. He has been married for more than 50 years and has two adult children and four grandchildren. Career He retired from University of Maribor as Professor Emeritus in Systems and Innovation Theory. He has more than 1,600 publications in more than 40 countries. He has more than 60 publications and close to 400 citations. He was visiting professor abroad for 15 semesters - including Cornell University and other Universities in Austria, China, Germany, Mexico and USA. He has served as consultant or speaker in/for enterprises - about 500 times in six countries. Bibliography Dialectical Systems Theory Innovative Business Paradigm for countries/enterprises Methods of creative interdisciplinary cooperation Recognition Mulej was nominated to become a member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1996, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg (2004), the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Paris in 2004 and the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences in 2010. He served as the President of the latter until 2012. He was President of the International Federation for Systems Research from 2006 to 2010. He received many rewards for his work on the systems approach to innovation in Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Maribor and University of Maribor. References Living people 1941 births Academic staff of the University of Maribor 20th-century Slovenian economists Yugoslav economists 21st-century Slovenian economists
Operation Thunderstorm was the codename for the Singapore Armed Forces's operation to contain refugees fleeing South Vietnam following the fall of Saigon in 1975. The operation was oversaw by Wong Kan Seng. Background Following the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, large numbers of South Vietnamese begun to flee Vietnam for fear of persecution heralding the arrival of the Vietnamese boat people. On 2 May 1975, the first wave of 300 refugees arrived in Singapore waters on board the vessel Truong Hai. A total of up to 8,355 refugees was believed to have entered Singapore waters during this period until 14 May 1975. During this period, Operation Thunderstorm was activated by MINDEF, making Singapore one of the first countries to stop refugees from entering its coastlines. The operation involved the Republic of Singapore Air Force, Republic of Singapore Navy, Singapore Army and the then-Marine Police (now the Police Coast Guard) as well as various government authorities and agencies. Objectives The primary objective of the operation was to contain, quarantine and prevent refugees from entering and staying in Singapore. Execution The Republic of Singapore Navy and the Police Coast Guard was tasked to intercept and detain all Singapore bound refugee boats. Quarantine areas were set up along the beaches of Marine Parade and a SAF Field Hospital was deployed to Bedok Jetty to provide first aid and other essential medical services. The Navy sent its technicians and engineers to inspect and repair the refugee boats. Food, water, fuel oil and other provisions were given in order to ensure the departure of the vessels. A number of weapons were also confiscated from the refugee boats. See also Vietnamese boat people References Military of Singapore Vietnamese refugees
Brian Lester Davis (born 2 August 1974) is an English professional golfer. Davis was born in London. He turned professional in 1994 and became a member of the European Tour in 1997. He performed steadily for his first six seasons on the Tour, and won the 2000 Peugeot Open de España. In 2003, despite not winning a tournament, he had his best season by far to that time, finishing ninth on the European Tour Order of Merit. The highlights of his season included finishing in a tie for sixth at The Open Championship, and placing third in the European Tour's tour championship, the Volvo Masters, as well as two second places in lower profile events and playing on the winning Great Britain and Ireland team in the Seve Trophy. His second European Tour win came in 2004 at the ANZ Championship and later that year he became the first Englishman to be medalist at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. In 2005 he played on both the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour and in 2006 he concentrated more on the PGA Tour, making only a handful of appearances in Europe. Davis had two solid seasons on the PGA Tour in 2007 and 2008 where he finished inside the top 100 on the money list both times, including a runner-up at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. 2009 was a very consistent season for Davis. The season included 5th-place finishes at The Players Championship and the Valero Texas Open, followed by a third straight top 5 finish at the HP Byron Nelson Championship where he matched his best finish on the PGA Tour when he was runner-up behind Rory Sabbatini. He finished the season 43rd on the money list. In April 2010 Davis called a two-stroke penalty on himself on the first play-off hole on Sunday to hand Jim Furyk a victory at the Verizon Heritage. Davis later received much praise for his decision which cost him a potential first PGA Tour victory. Davis finished second again later in 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, three shots behind Zach Johnson. Davis has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Amateur wins (1) 1992 Peter McEvoy Trophy Professional wins (2) European Tour wins (2) 1Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia European Tour playoff record (0–1) Playoff record PGA Tour playoff record (0–1) Results in major championships CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Summary Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (2003 U.S. Open – 2003 Open Championship) Longest streak of top-10s – 1 Results in The Players Championship CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Results in World Golf Championships QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play "T" = Tied Team appearances Amateur Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1992 (winners) Professional Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing England): 2000 World Cup (representing England): 2000 Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2003 (winners) See also 2004 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates 2015 Web.com Tour Finals graduates References External links English male golfers European Tour golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates Golfers from London Golfers from Orlando, Florida 1974 births Living people
Pokréagui is a village in southwestern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Soubré, Soubré Department, Nawa Region, Bas-Sassandra District. Pokréagui was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. Notes Former communes of Ivory Coast Populated places in Bas-Sassandra District Populated places in Nawa Region
Colonel Maurice Hussey (1644 – 1714) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier. Hussey was the son of Walter Hussey and Katherine Fitzgerald. He was a Member of Parliament for Tralee in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689. He was given a commission in Roger McElligott's Regiment of Foot, becoming lieutenant colonel of the regiment in 1690. Following the Williamite War in Ireland, Hussey was granted a pardon under the Articles of Limerick. However, as a staunch Roman Catholic, he left Ireland in 1703 owing to the Penal Laws. References 1644 births 1714 deaths 17th-century Irish politicians Irish Jacobites Irish MPs 1689 Irish soldiers in the army of James II of England Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies Politicians from County Kerry Military personnel from County Kerry
Heinrich Charl "Sandlana" Smit (1955 – 17 September 2022) was a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Free State Provincial Legislature from May 2019 until his death in September 2022. He was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 2019 general election, ranked 19th on the ANC's provincial party list. Smit was born in 1955 and joined the ANC in 1994, the year that apartheid ended. His local ANC branch was in Mangaung in the Free State. He held a range of full-time positions in the provincial party administration and in the provincial government, including in the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and as liaison officer for minorities in the office of the Premier, Ace Magashule. In 2012 he told News24 that he was a die-hard political supporter of Magashule. Smit died on 17 September 2022, aged 67, at a guesthouse in Bloemfontein. His body was found in his car outside the guesthouse. References External links 1955 births 2022 deaths Afrikaner people Members of the Free State Provincial Legislature African National Congress politicians 21st-century South African politicians
"Perfect" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Sara Evans. It was released in September 2003 as the second single from her 2003 album Restless. The song became Evans' fifth Top 10 hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with a peak at number 2. Evans wrote this song with Tom Shapiro and Tony Martin. Music video The music video for the song, directed by Bobby G., features Evans singing the song with an old-fashioned microphone in a T-shirt and jeans, as well driving a red car through the desert. It was shot at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed in CA's Mojave Desert. The video reached the top of CMT's Top Twenty Countdown for the week of January 8, 2004. Chart performance "Perfect" debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 20, 2003. Year-end charts References 2003 singles Sara Evans songs Songs written by Sara Evans Songs written by Tom Shapiro Songs written by Tony Martin (songwriter) Song recordings produced by Paul Worley RCA Records Nashville singles 2003 songs
Champagne Mailly is a wine produced by “La Société de Producteurs de Mailly Champagne” in Mailly-Champagne, Marne, France. History After the first world war and at the time of the great depression a group of winegrowers from the village of Mailly Champagne joined to create the “Société de Producteurs de Mailly Champagne”. They decided to produce champagne with grapes exclusively grown in Mailly Champagne. To be able to store their production they carved out their own cellars and cave. It took them 30 years to create 1 km long cellar corridors where the bottles are aged. In 1950 Construction of a new building to host the offices and the production area. In 1970 Building expansion. In 2000 Launch of the “artistic” range. In 2001–2002, and in 2007 Collaboration with Giovanni Pace (architect) to create a new building for the offices, the reception of the public and the enlargement and modernisation of the cellars. In 2020 Champagne Mailly Grand Cru means: 80 members (winegrowers), 72 ha of vineyards ( only on the terroir of Mailly Champagne), 500 000 bottles sold per year ( 60% export, 40% on the French market) Terroir Mailly Champagne is located in the Montagne de Reims, 13 km south east of Reims. Mailly Champagne was official ranked Grand Cru in 1920. Only 17 of the Champagne's 319 villages currently enjoy the Grand Cru status. The vineyards of Mailly Champagne are spread on 288 ha composed of 35 named plots and divided in 600 small plots. The vines benefit from a chalk subsoil and the plots are mostly north, west facing. Champagne Mailly Grand cru (through its members) manages 72 ha out of the 288 ha of the appellation. The vineyards are made of 75% Pinot Noir and 25% Chardonnay. Vineyards management Since 2014 Champagne Mailly Grand Cru alongside its growers has put in place sustainable methods of cultivation. Two environmental certification are followed: HEV ( High Environmental Value – launched by the French government ) and VDC (Sustainable winegrowing in Champagne designed by the CIVC) In 2018 Champagne Mailly Grand Cru became the 1st coop of Champagne to obtain a collective certification HEV/VDC and the 3rd coop in France to obtain a collective HEV certification Today 87% of the 72ha are certified. Winemaking The grapes are harvested and vinified by parcel to respect their respective flavour profile. It then allows the winemaker to have a large choice of wines for its blending. This resulted into the launch of the range “ Composition parcellaire” in 2017 The reserve wines are the estate's particular forte. Champagne Mailly has a large selection of reserve wines from ten years of harvest. Artistic collaborations In 2001-2002 and in 2007 the company collaborated with the architect Giovanni Pace to renovate its building. The new building is a blend of modern and traditional design. Giovanni Pace focused on light and used materials such as blonde wood, stone and decorative wrought iron. The artistic range Since 2000 Champagne Mailly has worked with contemporary artists to create unique metal presentation case. 2000: The Earth – with Bernard Pages 2005: Fire – with Florence Valay 2010: The Air – with Claude Viallat 2015 : Water – with Xavier Coulmier 2020: Nature – with Charles Neubach References External links French wine
{{Infobox Paralympic event \|event = Powerlifting – Women's 73 kg \|games = 2016 Summer \|image = \|caption = \|venue = Riocentro Pavilion 2 \|date = \|competitors = 7 \|nations = 7 \|win_label = Winning lift \|win_value = 140.0 kg WR \|gold = Ndidi Nwosu \|goldNPC = NGR \|silver = Souhad Ghazouani \|silverNPC = FRA \|bronze = Amany Ali \|bronzeNPC = EGY \|prev = 2012 (60 kg · 67.5 kg) \|next = }} The women's 73 kg powerlifting event''' at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was contested on 12 September at Riocentro Pavilion 2. The best outcome out of three attempts counted as the final results. The athlete who placed first in each event was allowed a fourth attempt to break the Paralympic or world record. Records There are twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women. The weight categories were significantly adjusted after the 2012 Games so most of the weights are new for 2016. As a result, no Paralympic record was available for this weight class prior to the competition. The existing world records were as follows. Results References Women's 073 kg Para
Chris or Christopher Mahoney or Mahony may refer to: Chris Mahony (born 1981), rugby union player Chris Mahoney (baseball) (1885–1954), Major League Baseball player Chris Mahoney (rower) (born 1959), British rower Christopher J. Mahoney (fl. 2000s–2020s), U.S. Marine Corps general
Jonathan F. Miller (born 1957) was CEO of Digital Media at News Corp until 2012 and was the chairman and CEO of America Online from 2002 to 2006. Early life and education Miller is the son of Jean Baker Miller and S. M. Miller. His father was an emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University; his mother was a psychiatrist and author. He has one brother, Dr. Edward D. Miller. Career From 1987 to 1993, Miller was vice president of programming and NBA Entertainment for the National Basketball Association. From 1993 to 1997, he was managing director of Nickelodeon International, (a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks). In 1997 he joined USA Networks as manager of its local television stations. From 2000 to 2002, Miller ran the Internet operations of Barry Diller's USA Networks, (now IACI and Expedia). In August 2002, when he was brought into AOL by Richard D. Parsons, he was relatively unknown. Miller pursued a strategy of cutting costs and focusing on improving ad revenues over AOL's then-dominant subscription business. In 2004, Miller oversaw the $435 million acquisition of Advertising.com In 2006, he presided over layoffs of 5,000 people at AOL. He bought Weblogs, Inc., and brought Jason Calacanis to AOL, and later invested in Mahalo.com. He considered buying Facebook and YouTube. In November 2006, he was replaced by Randy Falco. Miller led the company's change from a subscription-based model to an advertising-supported model. After his departure from AOL, Time Warner invoked a non-compete clause to prevent him serving on the Yahoo board of directors. In 2008, he was looking for funding for a takeover of Yahoo, but was unsuccessful. In March 2009 Miller joined News Corp as Chief Digital Officer to "oversee the broad strategic digital initiatives." Miller was CEO of Digital Media at News Corp, including Fox Interactive Media and Hulu, until his departure in August 2012. In February 2018, he partnered with Private equity firm TPG Capital, to acquire Fandom. Miller was named Co-chairman of Wikia, Inc., alongside Jimmy Wales, and TPG Capital director Andrew Doyle assumed the role of interim CEO. They acquired TV Guide, and Metacritic. He was named CEO of Integrated Media Co., a subsidiary of TPG Capital. Directorships As of 2009, Miller was on the board of directors of Clickable, Idearc Media, Mahalo, Kosmix, YP Holdings, LLC and Hanley Wood, LLC. He was an advisor to General Atlantic LLC. In 2010, he was on the board of Ticketmaster, and Live Nation. In 2012, he served on the boards of TripAdvisor and Shutterstock. Awards Miller received the first Pioneer Prize in 2006, for his contributions to the field of interactive television at the International Interactive Emmy Awards at Mip TV in Cannes. Personal life Miller is married to Myriam Barenbaum. They have a son, Jake. References External links A Conversation with AOL CEO Jonathan Miller Web 2.0 Conference 2005 1957 births AOL people Living people Harvard University alumni Directors of Yahoo! American financial company founders American people of Jewish descent American corporate directors Chief digital officers
Wireless Weekly was Australia's first news-stand wireless magazine (not counting the AWA monthly), published in 1922 in Sydney by William John Foster St Clair Maclardy ("W. J. Maclardy") and his father William McIntyre St Clair Maclardy ("W. M. Maclardy"). W. J. Maclardy was one of the founders of the "A" Class radio station 2SB (soon changed to 2BL). It arose from conversations between Florence Violet (Vera) McKenzie OBE (née Wallace), aka 'Violet Wallace, 'Vera Wallace' and later 'Mrs Mac' (1890-1982), who owned a wireless shop in the Royal Arcade, Sydney, Ron Marsden her engineer, and Maclardy. The front cover featured a photo of amateur radio activity. First issue The first issue of Wireless Weekly was planned in weekly meetings in Mr. MacLardy's reportedly 'dark and dusty basement' in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Mrs Mackenzie wrote industry news, components notes, a short story or maybe a wireless 'poem'. Mr. Marsden wrote technical article. Mr A. Mitchell, as Editor, arranged the material, adding relevant material from Sydney's Evening News daily where he worked. The first 12- page issue had a print run of a few hundred copies, and went on sale from Mrs. Mackenzie's shop at 8am on 4 August 1922. It carried the imprint: Published by WJ.MacLardy, 249 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Initially Wireless Weekly was exclusively for amateurs, but gradually became a broadcast listeners' journal. With the start of commercial broadcasting in 1923, it featured information about commercial stations and programs and flourished, often exceeding 64 pages. Sale and continued publication In 1923 the publication was sold to Wireless Newspapers Ltd. As time passed, Wireless Weekly became a listeners' weekly program magazine sometimes including small booklets as supplements, listing amateur and commercial radio stations. The Wireless Weekly became the monthly magazine "Radio & Hobbies", then "Radio, Television & Hobbies", and finally Electronics Australia, and remained in circulation until 2001. Special Publications Throughout the life of Wireless Weekly, the publishers produced a range of adjuncts to the magazine. Sometimes these were simply supplements of a few pages, included in the sold magazine, but which could be readily separated from the magazine proper. But less frequently, larger special publications were produced and sold separately to the main magazine, including: "A Booklet of Call Signs" 27 November 1931 "What Station was That" 24 August 1934 "What Station is That" 6 December 1935. References External links The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, -1943 on Trove Amateur radio magazines Monthly magazines published in Australia Weekly magazines published in Australia Defunct magazines published in Australia Magazines established in 1922 Magazines disestablished in 1943 Magazines published in Sydney
Walter Speedy Sr. (1878–1943) was an American golfer noted for his contributions to African-American golf play. He was coined as the "Father of African-American Golf". Early golfing It was believed that his passion for golf began as a caddie in his home state, where he was born in 1878 in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. In 1900, at the age of twenty-two, he relocated to Chicago, Illinois and became one of the city's best African-American male golfers. He was a pioneering crusader in the pursuit of competitive playing opportunities for black golfers and stayed interested in national and local issues pertaining to African-Americans in golf until the 1940s. Personal life He was married to the Chicago Defender journalist and the reportedly, first African-American woman to play golf, Nettie George Speedy. Early involvement in combating discrimination in the Chicago golf scene Walter and Nettie both took the lead in the fight for African-Americans to be able to play golf on Chicago's public courses. As early as 1910, Walter Speedy and three other black golfers hired a lawyer to defend them from the people who would not let them play in the Chicago city golf tournament at Jackson Park. On October 7, 1915, Walter Speedy won the first Golf Tournament ever hosted in the US by expert "Race" golfers (African-American) and was held at Marquette Golf Links. On the 23rd day of October 1915, an article in The Chicago Defender stated that the golf champion Walter Speedy had been challenged to play a match. "The Lincoln A.C. wants to put the McDougal brothers against Speedy and Wright or put Horace McDougal against Walter Speedy for the Championship." Alpha Golf Club Speedy was one of a group of African-American men who, in 1915, founded another organization that they called the Alpha Golf Club in response to their frustration at not being able to compete against a wider range of golfers in formal competitions."If their playing is sufficient enough for them to qualify with the field of players, the Alpha Club will be pleased to accept the challenge. If they wish a private match with either Mr. Speedy or Wright, they will be pleased to play with you. Further, writing to Mr. Burton, secretary of the Alpha Club, 3732 Forest Avenue.", was the response to the challenge according to Young (journalist) in his report in the Chicago Defender on November 16, 1915. Windy City Golf According to Dawkins and Kinloch's book, African American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era, most African Americans founded golf clubs on the East Coast and in the Midwest, with a handful in the South. Despite the fact that Alpha Golf Club was founded before to World War I, a dozen additional clubs emerged in the 1920s. The Chicago Defender announced on July 31, 1920, that the Windy City Golf Association was awarded a charter for the first time in history an all-black golf club. The club's stated mission is "to generate excitement and interest in the game of golf." Horace McDougal served as vice president, Robert Ball as financial secretary, Nettie George Speedy as recording secretary, and Henry B. Johnson as the club's treasurer, all under the leadership of club president Walter Speedy. Typical of golf clubs, meetings to organize outings and festivities were conducted in club members' homes or local pharmacies, and players played on public courses. According to a Chicago Defender article, in 1921, Walter Speedy represented the Windy Golf Association with South Park Commissioners Foster regarding the participation of the Windy Golf Association's members in the City Golf competition to be held at Jackson Park. Members of Windy City Golf claim that discrimination prevented them from participating in the competition. When they applied for reservations, they were given permission to take part in the competition, but when they were about to "tee off," the golfers realized that their names had been changed and replaced in the registration books. For many years, the Chicago Amateur Championship was held at Jackson Park, and up until 1920, there were no rules about who could play. When V. K. Brown became superintendent in 1920, a new rule went into effect: only members of the Western Golf Association (WGA), a club for white people, could play in the city tournament. Yet, George Hartman, a white player, won the tournament in 1920, even though he was not a member of the WGA. Again in 1922, the same rule was enforced: only WGA members could participate. The Windy City Golf Association said it would fight the policy in court because Jackson Park was a public course. In 1923, through its president, Walter Speedy, the Windy City Golf Club challenged the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club to play for the United States championship. Members of any other organized golf club in the country were given the challenge. Pioneer Golf Club The Pioneer Golf Club (previously Windy City) of Chicago discussed the UGA national tournament in late August and early September in mid-February 1930. Chicago was ready to show off its golf skills with the first two tournaments in Maple Dale in Massachusetts and the third and fourth at Shady Rest in New Jersey. President Walter Speedy of the Pioneer Club and Dr. E. J. Ricks, Vice President of the National Golf Association, planned the fifth national competition and recognized the strength of golfers from Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, and other locations. "Organized golf is still among the newer sports for our people, and this will be the largest gathering for golf yet," the Chicago Defender remarked. Chicago Trophy Golfer's Club In 1937 Chicago Trophy Golfer's Club, which replaced the Pioneer Golf Club, elected Matthew Bivens as President, Ralph Chilton as Vice President, and Al Monroe, the Chicago Defender's sports editor, and publicity director, but no women to the executive committee. The Chicago Defender said nearly 2,000 Chicago golfers sought "greater outlets for their golfing talents." Three weeks later, Pat Ball told a Defender writer that Chicago would do well in golf this season. "We plan to give Walter Speedy, the father of golf in this city, and Joe Louis lifetime honorary memberships," said President Bivens. Bivens urged a clubhouse for members, wives, and visitors, suggesting the new club would welcome women and start a women's division immediately. Death and legacy Walter Speedy suffered pneumonia and died in November 1943. Numerous friends, many of them golfers, attended his funeral in Chicago. In Springfield, Ohio, where she resided until her death a few years later, his wife Nettie interred his remains next to her parents. The Chicago Women's Club changed the name of its annual tournament to the "Walter Speedy Memorial Tournament" in honor of the man who was influential in the club's formation. Nettie and Walter had a son named Walter Speedy Jr., who was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 14, 1915 and passed away in January 1993. References American male golfers 1878 births 1943 deaths
Balls Deep is a documentary series airing on Viceland that follows host Thomas Morton, a journalist and contributing editor for Vice magazine. The series explored its beginnings by airing only three webisodes in 2007 on VBS.tv, an online television network owned by Vice Media, which was later absorbed into Vice.com. Vice Media subsequently aired three more webisodes over the course of the next four years. Even though only seven webisodes were aired over five years via VBS.tv, Vice Media and Thomas Morton continued to be involved in immersive journalism with documentaries such as Garbage Island (the Great Pacific garbage patch), the MTV series The Vice Guide to Everything, Toxic Amazon, and the Emmy Award Winning HBO series Vice airing Friday nights at 11pm ET / 10pm CT. According to Morton, "There are 7 billion lives happening right now. Including my own. Once I personally experience how the rest of the planet lives on a daily basis, I should finally understand humanity and myself." Episodes Webisodes (2007–2012) The webisodes were originally aired on VBS.tv, an online television network later absorbed into VICE.com. Season 1 (2016) The season started airing on Viceland on February 29, 2016. Season 2 (2016) The season started airing on Viceland on October 27, 2016. References External links Viceland Programming 2000s American documentary television series 2010s American documentary television series Viceland original programming
The 1868 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maryland voted for the Democratic nominee, Horatio Seymour over the Republican nominee, Ulysses S. Grant. Seymour won the state by a margin of 34.4%. In this election, Maryland voted 39.72% more Democratic than the nation at-large. With 67.2% of the popular vote, Maryland would be Seymour's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Kentucky and Louisiana. To date this is the best performance by a Democrat in Maryland history. This was the first Presidential election that Wicomico County was able to vote in. Results Results by county See also United States presidential elections in Maryland 1868 United States presidential election 1868 United States elections References Maryland 1868 Presidential
Pseudococytius is a genus of hawkmoths. The single species, Pseudococytius beelzebuth was placed in Cocytius for a long time. Distribution It is found from Nicaragua and Costa Rica south through Venezuela to Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. Description The wingspan is 115–148 mm. Biology There are at least two generations per year in Costa Rica with adults on wing from January to February and again from July to August. The larvae feed on Guatteria diospyroides. References Sphingini Monotypic moth genera Moths described in 1875 Moths of Central America Moths of South America
Polychrosis meliscia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in New Zealand at the Kermadec Islands. Taxonomy This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1910 using specimens collected on Raoul Island and named Polychrosis meliscia. In 1972 J. S. Dugdale referred to this species as Lobesia meliscia. But in 1988 Dugdale discussed this species under its original name Polychrosis meliscia. This placement was confirmed in 2010 by Robert Hoare in the New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity where the species was again discussed under the name Polychrosis meliscia. The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. Description Meyrick described this species as follows: Distribution This species is found on the Kermadec Islands. References Olethreutini Moths described in 1910 Moths of New Zealand Endemic fauna of New Zealand Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Fauna of the Kermadec Islands Endemic moths of New Zealand
AFL London is one of the largest organised Australian rules football leagues outside Australia. The league organises multiple grades of full 18-a-side games across London, United Kingdom. The competition provides a competitive and fun game of football to the many Australians that live and work in London, as well as spreading the game to residents of non-AFL playing nations resident in the capital city including British, Irish, South African, American, Canadian, Italian and other Europeans. The league is currently made up of eight clubs, across three levels of competition (Premiership, Conference and Social) that participate in a competition running from April to August. History First formed in 1989, AFL London was formerly known as the British Australian Rules Football League (BARFL). The inaugural season was held in 1990 and featured eight teams; the London Hawks, West London Wildcats, North London Lions, Earls Court Kangaroos, Lea Valley Saints, Thames Valley Magpies, Wandsworth Demons and the Leicester-based East Midland Eagles. Of these eight foundation teams, West London, North London, Wimbledon (formerly the London Hawks) and Wandsworth continue to compete in the league. In 2001 AFL London was expanded to incorporate two levels of competition, known as the Premiership and Conference competitions. In addition, due to growing interest and numbers, a Social grade competition was added in 2007. 2008 saw an organisational restructure of Australian Rules Football in the UK, with the BARFL redeveloped to become AFL Britain. This change came about as a way of focusing the efforts of the organisation on supporting the growth of the game both in and outside the capital. It was at this time that the London competition was rebranded as AFL London. In 2015 a women's competition was introduced, including three of the foundation teams; Wandsworth Demons, North London Lions and Wimbledon Hawks, and the Peckham-based South East London Giants. This was expanded in 2017 into two divisions of four women's teams, with the addition of teams from the West London Wildcats, London Swans, Putney Magpies, and a second side from Wandsworth. Teams Sussex Swans began in 1991 , London Swans emerged from a split Premiership Winners The following teams have won the competition: Pre-divisional structure 1990 Wandsworth 10.10 (70) d. Earls Court 9.14 (68) 1991 Earls Court 18.15 (123) d. Wandsworth 12.15 (87) 1992 Wandsworth 12.5 (77) d. West London 11.9 (75) 1993 London Hawks 12.13 (85) d. Lea Valley 6.5 (41) 1994 London Hawks 15.8 (98) d. West London 8.11 (59) 1995 Wandsworth d. West London 1996 Wimbledon d. West London 1997 Wandsworth 7.11 (53) d. Wimbledon 7.10 (52) 1998 Wimbledon 11.8 (74) d. Wandsworth 7.2 (44) 1999 Wandsworth 14.10 (94) d. West London 14.5 (89) 2000 West London 11.12 (78) d. Wandsworth 5.2 (32) Divisional structure Best and Fairest The Best & Fairest awards in each division celebrate outstanding players each season, as voted on by umpires at the conclusion of each game. See also AFL Europe AFL England Australian Rules Football in England References Australian rules football in London
George M. Reischmann (August 16, 1860 – February 7, 1922) was an American furniture manufacturer and politician from New York. Life Reischmann was born on August 16, 1860, in New York City, the son of Michael and Madeline Reischmann. Michael was a German immigrant from Steinalben who immigrated to America in 1850, fought in the American Civil War, and established a furniture manufacturing company. Reischmann lived in the eastern district of Brooklyn since 1872. He began working for his father in 1880 and learned about cabinet making. He spent the next several years working in his father's company in various capacities. In 1893, he and his brothers joined their father's furniture manufacturing firm as Reischmann & Sons. When his father died, he became head of the company. In January 1920, Reischmann retired from the company. Later that year, he was elected to the New York State Senate as a Republican, representing New York's 9th State Senate district. He served in the Stat Senate in 1921 and 1922. Reischmann's wife's name was Catherine. Their children were George and Lillian. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Owls, the Bushwick and Unity Republican clubs, and the Ridgewood Board of Trade. Reischmann died of diabetes on February 7, 1922, in Jeffersonville, New York. He was buried in St. John's Cemetery. References External links The Political Graveyard 1860 births 1922 deaths Businesspeople from Brooklyn Politicians from Brooklyn American people of German descent 19th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople American manufacturing businesspeople American business executives 20th-century American politicians Republican Party New York (state) state senators Burials at St. John's Cemetery (Queens) Deaths from diabetes
Icelandic national costume, collectively known in Icelandic as Þjóðbúningurinn has enjoyed various levels of popularity since the term was coined in Iceland in the 19th century, during the struggle for independence. Since 2001 the national costume is regulated by Þjóðbúningaráð (The National Costume Authority), which preserves the correct techniques of making them and instructs people. Women's costume The five following types of costume are all recognized as Icelandic National costumes. However both the kyrtill and skautbúningur were designed in the 19th century from scratch as ceremonial costumes, while the faldbúningur, peysuföt and the upphlutur are traditional daily wear of Icelandic women in olden times. Faldbúningur The Faldbúningur is an older type of costume worn by women since at least the 17th century and well into the 19th. In its most recognized form it incorporated a hat decorated with a curved sheet-like ornament protruding into the air and exists in two variants. One of which is the krókfaldur and the other is the spaðafaldur. Previously a large hat decorated with gold-wire bands was worn with it, as well as ruff which is the reason for the faldbúningur'''s wide collar, which was designed to support it. Later, around the start of the 18th century women started to wear the much simpler tail-cap with it. Peysuföt The Peysuföt are black woollen clothes commonly worn by women in the 18-19th century. They usually consisted of a twill skirt and a jacket of fine knitted woollen yarn with a black tail cap. It is believed that this costume was invented when women, desiring simpler working clothes than the faldbúningur, started to use male articles of clothing. This includes both the tail-cap and the peysa which originally was a jacket with a single row of buttons, but evolved into this costume and eventually discarded with the buttons. Upphlutur The Upphlutur is a woman's costume, consisting of bodice that can be coloured in bright colours such as red or blue, but often black. Its headpiece is a tail cap. The costume is basically the undergarment of the faldbúningur which evolved into a costume of its own right. Kyrtill The Kyrtill is a costume for women, designed by the artist Sigurður Guðmundsson in the 19th century. It was designed to look like Viking Age costumes. It however incorporates a hat similar to the one on the skautbúningur. While Sigurður's vision of the Viking Age costume remains popular, costumes designed to more closely resemble archaeological finds have gained some popularity as well. Skautbúningur The Skautbúningur was also designed by Sigurður Guðmundsson. It was conceived as a modernized variation of the faldbúningur, which had fallen out of use by the middle of the 19th century. It incorporates a complicated hat inspired by the ones traditionally used with the faldbúningur. Men's costumeBúningur karla or the Men's costume exists in three or four radically different versions. The þjóðbúningur karla is the only direct descendant of traditional daily wear of Icelandic men, while the other were designed from the start as ceremonial costume. Þjóðbúningur The one considered most traditional consists of woolen breeches or trousers, a usually double buttoned vest and a double buttoned jacket called treyja. Sometimes a peysa with a single row of buttons is used in lieu of the vest and treyja. On the head is a tail cap, though historically different hats were also used. This costume was usually black, navy blue or dark green, although the vest, which was usually brighter was sometimes red, some regions stood out, using white wool instead of the darker colors. It is identical to the clothing Icelandic men commonly wore from the 17th until the 19th century. Fornmannaklæði In the middle of the 19th century, when many Icelandic men had taken to using continental clothing, Sigurður Guðmundsson, an Icelandic artist, designed a costume for men which closely resembles 10th century Nordic clothing. While it attained some popularity at the time, it eventually disappeared until at the end of the 20th century when Viking culture and traditions have enjoyed increased popularity. Hátíðarbúningur Although not a traditional costume, the hátíðarbúningur was conceived as a modernized version of the men's traditional national costume and is frequently worn instead of a tuxedo to formal events. It is the result of a competition for an updated (i.e., more pragmatic) version of the men's national costume held in 1994 in correlation with the 50th anniversary of Iceland's independence from Denmark and the establishment of the republic. Some have critiqued the design of the hátíðarbúningur, claiming that it bears greater resemblance to the Faroese national costume in its styling. Regardless, the hátíðarbúningur continues to enjoy widespread popularity among Icelanders. The fourth costume Sigurður Guðmundsson also designed another costume in the middle of the 19th century, which was commonly worn by students. It consisted of a black jacket, white shirt and black knee-breeches with horizontally striped or solid colored white socks. Children's costumes The búningur barna or the children's costumes did not differ from the adult's version (except in size) until the 20th century, when girls were given shorter skirts. Shoes Although today, modern shoes are often used with the National Costumes, traditionally shoes made of either fish or sheep-skin, with woollen inlets, were worn with the costumes. These shoes are known as roðskór and sauðskinsskór respectively. Some people also use 18th or 19th century type leather shoes with buckles similar to the footwear commonly used with the Faroese and Norwegian National Costumes. Usage In olden times these clothes, except the skautbúningur, kyrtill and hátíðarbúningur'', were worn daily by people of all ages and classes. Today they are worn by many on ceremonial occasions such as the National day, Birthdays and Weddings. See also Lopapeysa Bunad Notes External links Buningurinn.is - Official Website of Þjóðbúningaráð, The National Costume Authority Upphlutur.is - Website of the Þjóðbúningastofan, National Costume house BB.is - 3 Pictures of Icelandic National Costumes National Museum of Iceland National Costume Folk costumes
The IS-3 (also known as Object 703) is a Soviet heavy tank developed in late 1944. Its semi-hemispherical cast turret (resembling that of an upturned soup bowl) became the hallmark of post-war Soviet tanks. Its pike nose design would also be mirrored by other tanks of the IS tank family such as the IS-7 and T-10. Too late to see combat in World War II, the IS-3 participated in the Berlin Victory Parade of 1945, in the border conflict during the Sino-Soviet split, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Prague Spring, on both sides during the Six-Day War, and in very limited capacity during the Russo-Ukraine War. Design and production Object 703 was developed in late 1944 by Factory No.100 Kirovskiy Works or ChTZ (in Chelyabinsk) and left the factory shop in May 1945. This tank had an improved armour layout, and a semi-hemispherical cast turret (resembling that of an upturned soup bowl), which became the hallmark of post-war Soviet tanks. While this low, hemispherical turret improved protection, it also significantly diminished crew headroom, especially for the loader. The low turret also limited the maximum depression of the main gun, since the gun breech had little room inside the turret to elevate, and this limited the extent to which the IS-3 could take advantage of hull-down positions. The IS-3's pointed prow earned it the nickname Shchuka (Pike) by its crews. It weighed slightly less and stood lower than previous versions. Wartime production resulted in many mechanical problems and a hull weldline that had a tendency to crack open. The IS-3M solved some of these problems. The IS-3 came too late to see action in World War II. The first public demonstration of the IS-3 came on 7 September 1945 during the Allied victory parade on Charlottenburger Straße in Berlin, with the heavily reinforced 71st Guards Heavy Tank Regiment of the 2nd Guards Tank Army. Starting in 1960, the IS-3 was slightly modernized as the IS-3M, in a manner similar to the IS-2M. The IS-3 was a significant improvement to the IS-1 and IS-2 due to its pike nose frontal armor. Having frontal hull armor that was already pre-angled meant that less armor was needed to maintain the same effective armor thickness on the upper glacis. Combat history Three pre-series vehicles were assigned to an independent Guards Battalion, but they arrived after the surrender documents were signed. They took part in the September 7th, 1945 victory parade in Berlin under the 71st Guards Heavy Tank Regiment of the 2nd Guards Tank Army. In response to border disputes between the Soviet Union and China, some Soviet IS-3s were dug in as fixed pillboxes along the Soviet-Chinese border. The IS-3 was used in the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, as well as the Prague Spring in 1968. During the early 1950s, all IS-3s were modernized as IS-3M models. The Egyptian Army acquired about 100 IS-3M tanks from the Soviet Union. During the Six-Day War, a single regiment of IS-3M tanks was stationed with the Egyptian 7th Infantry Division at Rafah and the 125th Tank Brigade of the 6th Mechanized Division at Kuntilla was also equipped with about 60 IS-3M tanks. Israeli infantry and paratrooper units had considerable difficulty with the IS-3M when it was encountered due to its thick armor, which shrugged off hits from normal infantry anti-tank weapons such as the bazooka. Even the 90 mm AP shell fired by the main gun of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) M48 Patton tanks could not penetrate the frontal armor of the IS-3s at normal battle ranges. There were a number of engagements between the M48A2 Pattons of the IDF 7th Armored Brigade and IS-3s supporting Egyptian positions at Rafah in which several M48A2s were knocked out in the fighting. However, in one engagement between a battalion of IS-3s and 90 mm gun-armed M48A3s, seven IS-3s were destroyed. The slow rate of fire, poor engine performance (the engine was not well suited to hot-climate operations as it was originally meant to fight the Germans in Europe), and quite rudimentary fire control (fire-control was still relatively WWII-era) of the IS-3s proved to be a significant handicap, but the main factor was not due to mobility and age of armour, but came down to poor morale and training. About 73 IS-3s were lost in the 1967 war. Most Egyptian IS-3 tanks were withdrawn from service, though at least one regiment was retained in service as late as the 1973 October war. The IDF itself experimented with a few captured IS-3M tanks, but found them ill-suited to fast-moving desert tank warfare; those that were not scrapped were turned into stationary defensive pillbox emplacements in the Jordan River area. M48A2s were superior at shorter range, but the IS-3 proved to be superior at longer ranges. After the Korean War, China attempted to reverse-engineer their IS-2 with data obtained from T-10M as the Type WZ-111 heavy tank. The project was cancelled in favor of the Type 59, a copy of the Soviet T-54A. In the 1950s, these were slowly replaced by the T-54, T-55, and T-10. In 2014, an IS-3 was captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Donetsk from pro-Russian rebels. Footage of the tank being reactivated by the rebels circulated online, showing the tank being successfully started and driven off its plinth at a memorial in the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. Sources from the People's Republic of Donetsk claim it was able to fire at a military outpost, killing and wounding several soldiers, before retreating and being abandoned. Models IS-31944 armor redesign, with new rounded turret, angular front hull casting, integrated stowage bins over the tracks. Internally similar to IS-2 model 1944 and produced concurrently. About 350 built during the war. IS-3M (1952) Modernized version of IS-3. Fitted with additional jettisonable external fuel tanks, improved hull welding and a new anti-air machine gun. Operators Czechoslovak Army: Two IS-3s were delivered in 1949 but were used only for trials and military parades. Russian Armed Forces: Often used in military parades, some others displayed in some parts of Russia. Egyptian Army: 100 IS-3M were operated from 1956 to 1967, some in use during the Six-Day War in 1967. IDF: Three IS-3M captured from Egypt in 1967. Reused as indirect fire artillery on the Sinai's Bar Lev line and as fixed turret bunkers fortifications along the Jordan Valley frontier. Polish Land Forces: Two IS-3s were bought in 1946 for trials only. Belgian Armed Forces: One IS-3 is currently being displayed at a museum in Bastogne. Hungarian People's Army: Few IS-3M were delivered, but only used for trials. In the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, there were IS-3 tanks with Hungarian flags on the top. They were captured, or delivered earlier from the Soviet Union. Modifications were made by the Hungarian engineers, but the army had to give them back after the end of the conflict. Defense Forces of Georgia: Used a handful of IS-3 units a few years after the Soviet Union dissolved, in the autonomous region of South Ossetia. South Ossetian Army: Operated IS-3s until 1995. Red Army: Accepted into service 29 March 1945. Soviet Army One IS-3, previously displayed on a pedestal in the village of Aleksandro-Kalynove near Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, as a World War II memorial, was used in combat by pro-Russian militia in the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. Kostiantynivka was retaken by Ukrainian forces on 7 July 2014, along with the IS-3. Several IS-3s were donated to the DPRK, where the Korean People's Army formed two regiments. Some sources claim that North Korea is the only remaining nation to have IS-3s in active service. Surviving vehicles IDF Armoured Corps Museum, Israel. Museum of Armoured Arms, Training Center of Land Forces, Poznań, Poland (still operational) Army Technical Museum, Lešany, Czech Republic (operational). Polish Army Museum, Warsaw, Poland. (Fort Czerniaków branch of the Museum). National Armor and Cavalry Museum, Fort Moore, Georgia, United States. Victory Park in the northern part of Ulyanovsk, Russia. Ulyanovskoe SVU, Ulyanovsk, Russia Military Glory Museum, Gomel, Belarus. Diorama Battle of Kursk, in Belgorod, Russia. At least one IS-3 was used by the separatist government in Donbas before being captured by Ukrainian forces. Another IS-3 was filmed being successfully started and driven off its plinth at a memorial to the Great Patriotic War in Kostiantynivka, where it was then reportedly used by Pro-Russian rebels on June 30, 2014. IS-3 re-engined with unknown replacement power plant restored and available for tourist rides Strategic Missile Forces Museum near Pobuzke, Ukraine. IS-3M Egyptian National Military Museum, Cairo Citadel, Egypt. Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, California, United States. Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, Brussels, Belgium. (Still operational) Bastogne barracks Museum, Bastogne, Belgium See also KV-1 IS tank family T-10 ISU-122 ISU-152 List of Soviet tanks Tanks of comparable role Tiger II, German heavy tank Conqueror (tank), British heavy tank AMX 50, postwar French prototype heavy tank T30 Heavy Tank, American prototype T34 Heavy Tank, American prototype M103 (heavy tank), American References Cold War tanks of the Soviet Union Heavy tanks of the Soviet Union Military vehicles introduced from 1945 to 1949
Holme Pierrepont Country Park, home of The National Water Sports Centre is located in the hamlet of Holme Pierrepont near Nottingham, England and on the River Trent. It is used for many different types of sports and has recently received significant investment which has enabled a major refurbishment of existing facilities as well as introduction of new facilities. Run by Serco on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council, it was previously one of five National Sports Centres, and is a unique sporting venue set in the centre of the country. History The centre was constructed during 1970 and 1971 on a former gravel works and required the excavation of one and a half million cubic yards of material. The centre opened in 1971 and won second prize in the 1972 Times/RICS Conservation Awards and was consequently chosen to host the first National Rowing Championships in 1972. Until 2009 the centre was operated on behalf of Sport England however control was returned to Nottinghamshire County Council due to priority changes around the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2013 a new management team from Serco Leisure was put in place, on a 21 year contract with an obligation to maintain and upgrade the site's facilities. Facilities Set in of parkland, Holme Pierrepont Country Park not only offers a host of water activities, but also a range of land based activities. The centre is made up of three distinct pieces of water: Regatta lake, a 2,000 metre regatta rowing facility which features either a six lane rowing course or a 9 lane Sprint Kayak course A 700 m purpose-built white water canoe slalom course An open water swimming and Canoe polo lagoon. This used to be the site of a wakeboard cabletow, however this suffered neglect and eventually collapsed into the lake and was removed. Further, the River Trent is also accessible from the site. Outdoor Adventure Park Holme Pierrepont Country Park also has an Outdoor Adventure Park, formerly known as the Family Fun Park, located in the Country Park area of the site. Opened in 2014, which includes: Sky Trail High Ropes Course Mini Golf Children's Play Area Country Park Café Skytrail and Sky Tykes The Skytrail is a high ropes course that allows participants to challenge themselves to cross a multitude of obstacles on two levels without needing to be detached at any point. Sky Tykes is a miniature version for smaller children. Mini golf Beneath the Skytrail sits a 9- hole mini golf course that increases in difficulty with each hole. Gym There are two new gyms which were opened in 2014 - these include a 60 station Life Fitness gym which overlooks the Regatta Lake and a specific Strength and Conditioning gym. Equipment includes: The New Life Fitness Discovery Range Resistance Equipment from Life Fitness’ Premium Signature Range Power Plate Life Fitness – Synrgy360 Functional Training Trixter Virtual Training Bikes SpeedStroke Kayak Simulator Squat Rack 2 x Olympic Lifting Platforms Free Weights Benches Assisted Chin Dip Accommodation The site has 54 refurbished en-suite bedrooms in the main Lakeside building, as well as a self-contained cottage called The Elms, which sleeps up to 11 people. The site also has an 18-acre campsite containing a mixture of grass and hard standing pitches, some available with electric hook up, 5 Tipi's (introduced in 2016) and 10 Camping Arches (insulated wooden huts for camping in). Conferencing facilities The centre offers conference and meeting facilities and has four refurbished conference rooms, with the largest room catering for up to 150 people. Holme Pierrepont Country Park also offers team building activities alongside their conferencing packages. Courses The facilities provide a full range of award courses in: canoeing, kayaking, and raft guide training. A sports science and medicine centre, ran by the English Institute of Sport, is purpose built and is available for use by governing bodies for physiology, sports injury/rehabilitation and physiological testing. Whitewater course The course is a focal point for English whitewater rafting and kayaking, often holding international events for slalom, freestyle and wild water racing. One hosted event is the National Student Rodeo, the largest freestyle kayaking event in the world. During this event the Centre received coverage in local news, and publications such as Canoe & Kayak UK magazine. Location The whitewater course is located between the weir on the canalised River Trent and the regatta lake. Construction Built in 1986, the course is made primarily from concrete. It is approximately 700 metres long, drops just over 4 metres in height to produce Grade 3 whitewater rapids. The course is gravity fed, does not use electricity to power it, and therefore is relatively cheap to run. Due to the nature of the design, swimming through the course is safer than many other locations around the UK due to deep channels and few significant underwater obstructions. The amount of water flowing through the course depends on rainfall, and canal usage, but due to the large catchment of the Trent, flows between 16 and 25 cubic metres per second are common. As the course is directly connected to the Trent high river levels cause the course to progressively flood from the bottom upwards. The whitewater course is open to the public up to a river level of 2.2m as measured at the Environment Agency Colwick gauging station. The course was renovated in 2009. Along with essential maintenance work, some of the original concrete obstacles were removed and Omniflots (large plastic movable blocks) were installed. Sports Holme Pierrepont Country Park, home of The National Water Sports Centre, is home of British Canoeing, the national governing body for canoeing and kayaking in the UK, whose headquarters are at the site. The Holme Pierrepont Canoe Club gives lessons on the flat water lake and the course, which is also used for water safety and water rescue training. It also hosts rafting, playboating, slalom; kayaking plus squirt boaters, open boat canoeists and wild water racing. One of the main sports held at the centre is rowing, using the 2000 metre multi-lane rowing lake. The Centre was the venue for the World Rowing Junior Championships in 1973, and for the World Rowing Championships in 1975 and 1986, and many major competitions for UK rowing. Typically the safety is outsourced to local lifeguard unit Colwick Park Lifeguards who have been part of the team at Holme Pierrepont since 1979. The centre is also the venue for many Triathlon events, including the Outlaw Half and Full Triathlons. The full triathlon sees over 1100 athletes from all over the world taking on a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run. The centre is the base for the Holme Pierrepont Running Club. The centre was chosen to host the Sea Scout 100 national Sea Scout Centenary Jamboree in August 2009. Over 3000 Sea Scouts attended including the USA and New Zealand. See also Other UK artificial whitewater courses Lee Valley White Water Centre Cardiff International White Water Cardington Artificial Slalom Course Nene Whitewater Centre Teesside White Water Course. References External links UK Rivers Guide Nottingham HPP whitewater course users group. Colwick Park Lifeguards. Holme Pierrepont Running Club website. Holme Pierrepont Country Park Trail Rowing venues in the United Kingdom Sports venues in Nottingham Lakes of Nottinghamshire Artificial whitewater courses in the United Kingdom River Trent Sports academies Country parks in Nottinghamshire Water sports in England
Anti-Nowhere League are an English punk rock band, formed in 1979 by lead singer Animal (Nick Culmer), guitarist Magoo (Chris Exall), Bones (Tony Shaw) on drums and Chris Elvy on bass. Career Early days The band first played at the 1980 Chaos Show at St Mark's Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells on 31 March 1980. They signed to John Curd's record label WXYZ Records in the same year. November 1981 saw the release of their first single, a cover version of Ralph McTell's "Streets of London". The single peaked at No. 48 in the UK Singles Chart and spent five weeks in the listings. The profanity-laden B-side of the single, "So What" later became the group's anthem. Copies of this single were seized from indie distributor Pinnacle by the Metropolitan Police's Obscene Publication Squad shortly after release. In 1982 the band released their debut album, We Are...The League. It reached No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart, and spent eleven weeks in the chart. In the same year the band went to Yugoslavia to record a live album, called Live In Yugoslavia. This album spent one week at No. 88 in the UK Albums Chart. 1984 to 1989 In 1984, PJ left the band, and they became musically inactive. 1985 saw Michael Bettell join on drums, followed in 1986 by JB (Jonathan Birch). During this time they signed for GWR Records, and recorded The Perfect Crime album. In 1987, Anti-Nowhere League disbanded. However, there was a belated 'farewell' show at the Victoria Hall in Tunbridge Wells, in 1989, which was recorded and can be heard on their live album, Live Animals. Comeback In 1992, Animal was told by JB that Metallica wanted him to guest at Wembley Arena, when they did their cover version of "So What". Animal put it thus on ANL's website. "As I waited on the edge of the stage waiting to go on it suddenly dawned on me I was just about to stand in front of 10,000 punters who didn't know me from Adam and sing a song that I couldn't fucking remember; all that kept running through my head was RUN you silly old fucker!". However, after the 25 October show, Mark joined that year on lead guitar, and 1993–1995 was spent playing gigs in the small venues the band had started out in. Michael Bettell died in September 2003, aged 41, from a brain tumour. In 1996, they signed up with Impact Records and recorded their next EP Pig Iron. Beef also joined the band. Further personnel changes occurred in 1997 when Winston left the band to be replaced by Jon Jon, and the recording of the album Scum. Winston Blake returned to his former occupation of a roofer and leadworker and lives in East Sussex. Danny joined on drums in 1998, and the album Out of Control was released a year later in 1999. In 2001, Magoo quit the band. 2002–present Jon Jon, Beef and Danny left the band, to be replaced by PJ (original drummer), Jez on guitar and Shady on bass. This line-up released the band's fifth studio album, Kings and Queens in 2005, which was released on the Captain Oi! record label. However, there were arguments over the omission of two songs from that album, "The Day The World Turned Gay" and "The Adventures Of Peter Vile". Lawyers for Captain Oi! refused to sanction the release of these two songs because of fear of litigation, so Nick (Animal) eventually relented and let the album be released with the two disputed songs omitted. In 2006, the band set up their own independent record label, Nowhere Records; with Pig Iron - The Album being the first release in August 2006. The album included the two songs omitted from the Kings and Queens album, as well as "Landlord", taken from the Out Of Control album. The same year, the Anti-Nowhere League undertook a twenty nine date UK tour, and PJ left the band after the Glasgow gig in October 2006. His replacement was Dave Hazlewood (Nato), from the small Kent town of Cranbrook, who had filled in before on tours. On 8 November 2006, the ANL began a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. On 26 October, the band joined Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69 and The Damned for the academy in the UK 2006: 30th Anniversary of Punk gig at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. The Anti-Nowhere League supported Rancid at their Leeds gig on 8 November 2008. In December 2008, Jez was replaced on lead guitar by Johhny Skullknuckles. The League continued to tour and record, and now promote their new songs with videos. After a mini European tour in late spring 2009, they embarked on an American tour in June and July 2009, before appearing at the Punk Rebellion festival in Blackpool. After touring Germany and the Netherlands in early May 2010, the band and Johhny Skullknuckles parted company and Tommy H (Tom Hunt) was drafted in on guitar. In 2011, the band recorded the "This Is War" single, and accompanying video, which was followed by a tour with the UK Subs supporting Motörhead on a number of UK dates. At the 2012 Download Festival, the band appeared on the Pepsi Max stage hours before Metallica filled the main stage as headliners. During the later months of 2015 writing began for the album The Cage, the first fresh studio album since Rampton. During this time, drummer Dave 'Nato' Hazlewood left the band. 'The Cage album saw another slight change in direction, with a heavier, and more direct sound. It was released by Cleopatra Records in 2016. 2017 saw the band record and release a collection of classic reggae covers under the title League Style, Loosen Up Vol I. Members Nick "Animal" Culmer - vocals (1980–present) Tom "Tommy-H" Hunt - guitars (2012–present) Barnsy - bass (2017–present) Sammy "Carnage" Carne - drums (2015–present) Former members Chris "Magoo" Exall - guitars (1980-2001) Tony "Bones" Shaw - drums (1980-1981) Chris "Baggy" Elvey - bass (1980-1981) Clive "Winston" Blake - bass (1981-1997) Hooper Djahanshah "P.J." Aghssa - drums (1981-1983), (2002-2006) Mark "Gilly" Gilham - guitars (1983-1989) Jonathan "JB" Birch - drums (1983-1989) one-off show in 2022 "Revvin Kev" - drums (1991-1998) Beef - guitars (1996-2002) Jon Jon - bass (1997-2002) Danny - drums (1998-2002) Jez - guitars (2002-2008) Johhny Skullknuckles - guitars (2008-2010) Dave 'Nato' Hazlewood - drums (2006-2015) shady - bass (2002-2017) Discography We Are…The League (1982) The Perfect Crime (1987) Scum (1997) Kings and Queens (2005) The Road to Rampton (2007) We Are...The League...Un-cut (2014) The Cage (2016) League Style (2017) Further reading Robert Pattison, The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism, 1987, Oxford University Press, References External links The official Anti-Nowhere League website Anti-Nowhere League official Facebook page Anti-Nowhere League profile on PunkRockers.com The official Anti-Nowhere League Myspace page Animal - Uber Rock interview English rock music groups Musical groups from London English punk rock groups British hardcore punk groups Musical groups established in 1980 Obscenity controversies in music
Larry Lehman (1945 – December 10, 2004) was a chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court. Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Lehman received a JD from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1976. He practiced with the firm of Vehar, Lehman, Beppler & Jacobson, P.C., in Evanston, Wyoming. He served as a judge in Uinta County, Wyoming, from 1985 to 1988, and as a state district judge for Albany and Carbon counties. On July 8, 1994, Governor Mike Sullivan appointed Lehman was to a seat on the Wyoming Supreme Court. Lehman became chief justice in 2000, and was the first chief justice to serve a four-year term. He died from brain cancer, a month before he was scheduled to step down. Sources Justice Lehman dies at 59, Wyoming Star-Tribune (December 10, 2004). 1945 births 2004 deaths Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court 20th-century American judges People from Uinta County, Wyoming Chief Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court
The Romanian Records in Swimming are the fastest times ever swum by an individual from Romania. These records are recognized and kept by Romania's national swimming federation: Federația Română de Natație şi Pentatlon Modern (FRNPM). (Note the federation also oversees Modern pentathlon.) FRNPM keeps records for both for events in long course (50m) and short course (25m) pools, for males and females. Records are kept in the following events (by stroke): freestyle (liber): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500; backstroke (spate): 50, 100 and 200; breaststroke (bras): 50, 100 and 200; butterfly (fluture): 50, 100 and 200; individual medley (mixt): 100 (25m only), 200 and 400; relays: 4 × 50 free, 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free, 4 × 50 medley, and 4 × 100 medley (club and national for all 5 relays). Long course (50m) Men \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- Women \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- Mixed relay Short course (25m) Men \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- Women \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- \|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD \|colspan=9\| \|- Notes References General Romanian Long Course Records 4 June 2023 updated Romanian Short Course Records 13 November 2022 updated Specific External links Federatiei Romane de Natatie si Pentatlon Modern Romania Records Swimming Swimming
South Lawndale is a community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. Over 80% of the residents are of Mexican descent and the community is home to the largest foreign-born Mexican population in Chicago. Neighborhoods Little Village Little Village, often referred to as the "Mexico of the Midwest," is a dense community in the western and central areas of South Lawndale, with a major commercial district along 26th Street. The area was originally settled by Eastern European and Czech immigrants mainly from Bohemia in the late 19th century, after the Great Chicago Fire sent the population of Chicago rippling out from the city's center to the outlying countryside. Jobs created by industrial development in the early 20th century also attracted residents to the area. Little Village saw a marked increase in Polish immigrants in the mid-20th century. The Mexican population of the Near West Side moved southward into Pilsen and westward into South Lawndale after the expansion of the University of Illinois Chicago campus in the mid-1960s which razed numerous blocks of housing. Scholar Juan C. Guerra notes that "the contiguous communities of Pilsen and Little Village merged and emerged as the newest and largest Mexican neighborhood in Chicago." Little Village celebrates Mexican Independence Day every September with a parade down 26th Street. It is the largest Hispanic parade in Chicago. The Parade attracts thousands of spectators each year who flock to the neighborhood to show support and pride for their heritage. Little Village also boasts its economic power in Chicago. Little Village's 26th Street is the second highest grossing shopping district in the city. In 2015, the 2 mile street created $900 million in sales. Its contender, Michigan Avenue, made approximately $1.8 billion that same year. For green spaces and recreation in Little Village, residents can make a visit to the community parks. Washtenaw Park has a baseball diamond and offers a variety of arts and crafts classes for adults as well as day camps for kids. Shedd Park is a little park in Little Village named for John G. Shedd (known to most Chicagoans as the founder of the Shedd Aquarium). Piotrowski Park is the neighborhood's largest public park and is the most popular outdoor retreat for Little Village residents. Famous past residents of Little Village include former Mayor Anton Cermak, who lived in the 2300 block of S. Millard Avenue, across the street from Lazaro Cardenas Elementary. Pat Sajak was also a Little Village resident. He attended Gary Elementary School and Farragut High School. The bulk of Little Village falls within the aldermanic boundaries of the 22nd Ward, represented by Ricardo Muñoz. In 2011, a music festival called Villapalooza was founded to promote non-violent spaces for arts, culture, and community engagement. This festival has been held yearly and has grown into one of Chicago's most popular and diverse grassroots music festivals drawing both local and international musicians. The festival is free and open to the public. On August 26, 2018, a fire began early that morning in Little Village. The fire killed ten children, including six children under the age of 12. Investigators stated that the fire started in the back of the building in a ground-floor apartment, which was vacant. The fire was the deadliest residential fire to have occurred in Chicago since 1958. In the aftermath of the fire, multiple violations were found in the apartment where the fire occurred with apartment owner, Merced Gutierrez, appearing in court for the 40 violations found at the site of the fire. On April 11, 2020, the city of Chicago permitted the implosion of an old smokestack at the Crawford Coal plant in Little Village by Hilco Redevelopment Partners to proceed. This action sent a large cloud of dust particles into the neighborhood sparking outrage and plans for a class action lawsuit. As reported by Mauricio Peña, community activists in Little Village had called upon mayor Lori Lightfoot to stop the implosion before it was carried out, concerned with exposing residents to asbestos and lead, especially during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. Crime and public safety Cook County Jail is in South Lawndale. Politics The South Lawndale community area has supported the Democratic Party in the past two presidential elections. In the 2016 presidential election, South Lawndale cast 11,878 votes for Hillary Clinton and cast 585 votes for Donald Trump (92.01% to 4.53%). In the 2012 presidential election, South Lawndale cast 9,391 votes for Barack Obama and cast 688 votes for Mitt Romney (91.88% to 6.73%). Education Chicago Public Schools operates district public schools, including Farragut Career Academy (the zoned school), Little Village Lawndale High School Campus and Spry Community Links High School and Joseph E. Gary Elementary. Harrison Technical High School was previously in South Lawndale. Enlace Chicago operates within eight Chicago Public Schools in Little Village: Farragut, World Language, Infinity, Social Justice and Multicultural Arts High Schools and at Rosario Castellanos and Madero Middle Schools and Eli Whitney grammar school. "Enlace Chicago Community Schools." Our Lady of Tepeyac High School is in Little Village. The United Neighborhood Organization operates the Octavio Paz School in Little Village. Notable residents Stuart Dybek (born 1942), writer and poet. Dybek was a childhood resident of Little Village and nearby Pilsen. Jesús "Chuy" García (born 1956), member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois's 4th congressional district since 2019. He is a longtime resident of South Lawndale and represents it in Congress. Pat Sajak (born 1946), television personality and host of Wheel of Fortune. He was a childhood resident of South Lawndale. See also Mexicans in Chicago References Further reading Sanchez, Casey. "Turf War: Little Village Fights for Park." Extra. (date unknown) 2005 Spanish version: Sanchez, Casey. Translator: Víctor Flores. "GUERRA EN EL CÉSPED: LA Mexico LUCHA POR PARQUE." Extra. (date unknown) 2005. External links Official City of Chicago South Lawndale Community Map Enlace Chicago on Facebook Little Village Chamber of Commerce La Villita Community on Facebook La Villita Community on Twitter Marshall Square Online Maria Saucedo bio Marshall Square Theater Albaugh-Dover St. Agnes of Bohemia in Little Village St. Agnes of Bohemia School in Little Village Restaurant Dennis B&k in Little Village Community areas of Chicago Mexican-American culture in Chicago Hispanic and Latino American culture in Chicago
Gulzhan Zhanpeiskyzy Karagusova (, Güljan Janpeiısqyzy Qarağūsova) member of Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan from Nur Otan party. Has served as the Minister of Labor and Social Protection in the Government of Kazakhstan since 2001. She is a speaker for Kazakhstan's Economic Forum. Pensions and salaries Minister Karagusova announced on 2 March 2005 that the Labor Ministry planned to raise pensions by 1 July, as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev had promised in his address to the people in February. She said pensions would increase by 3000 tenge to 12000 tenge monthly. On 1 July state employee salaries were increased by 32%. She met with Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov on 12 July 2006 and discussed how the aging of citizenry would affect the pension system. Labor legislation She gave a speech entitled "Reforming of the Kazakhstani Labor Legislation" on 27 April 2005 in the Belvedere Restaurant of the Regent Almaty hotel in an event hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan. Economic rights Karagusova and Bolat Baikadamov, Kazakhstan's Human Rights Ombudsman signed an agreement on 13 May 2004 placing a greater emphasis on protecting citizens' economic and social rights and setting the stage for changing Kazakh legislation so it conforms to international standards. International Labour Organization On 25 June 2004 she oversaw the signing of a protocol of cooperation between the Kazakh OSH Center and the International Labour Organization's OSH center network. The Kazakh Government sent a delegation headed by Karagusova to the General Conference of the ILO in Geneva from 31 May–16 June 2005. Delegations discussed child labor, human trafficking, and worker safety and security among other topics. Karagusova met with F. Bottler, Executive Secretary of the ILO, Turin J. Tremo, Executive Manager of the International Labor Bureau and Director of the Education Center, delegates from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Montenegro, Singapore, Serbia, Czech Republic, Estonia, and Ambassador D. Stephenson, Permanent Representative of Canada in international organizations in Geneva. Ambassador Stephenson and Karagusova discussed possible membership for Kazakhstan in the World Trade Organization. She Work permits Karagusova decided to issue more work permits to foreign workers in January 2006 after the European Business Association of Kazakhstan (EUROBAK) sent her letters, trying to convince her of the need. Asian Development Bank Marita Magpili-Jimenez, Executive Director for the Asian Development Bank in Kazakhstan, visited Kazakhstan from 21–22 April. Director Magpili-Jimenez said, "Cooperation with Kazakhstan pursues long-term development." She met with Karagusova, Arman Dunayev, Kazakh Minister of Finance and ADB Governor for Kazakhstan, Sauat Mynbayev, Deputy Prime Minister and concurrent Minister of Industry and Trade, and Aitkul Samakova, Minister of Environmental Protection. References Living people Government ministers of Kazakhstan Nur Otan politicians Members of the Mazhilis Al-Farabi Kazakh National University alumni Women government ministers of Kazakhstan 21st-century Kazakhstani women politicians 21st-century Kazakhstani politicians Year of birth missing (living people)
Saint Demetrius-Balș Church () is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 14 Decembrie 1989 Street, nr. 15, in Iași, Romania. It is dedicated to Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki. The church was built in 1690 by medelnicer Ionașcu Balș (1663-1738). Belonging to the Moldavian style, it was devastated by fire in 1723; the blaze began in a nearby brick workshop or, according to other sources, in the church itself. Balș and his son Lupu rebuilt the church, adding stone walls and a new roof. Initially, the building was entered through an open terrace on the south side; its remnants can still be seen in the stonemasonry. There was a niche with an icon of Saint Demetrius, now partly hidden by a window. In 1781, a foyer was added on the western side, with a bell tower above. At that point, the entrance was moved to the west, through the closed foyer under the tower, while the other door was shut up behind a wall. For a long time, members of the Balș family financed the church, which had a separate administration, even though it was a filial of the Saint George-Lozonschi Church. Various princes of Moldavia, particularly members of the Mavrocordatos family, offered gifts to the parish. In 1857, a grave was built for the Balș family in the vestibule, gathering remains from the cemetery in the churchyard. In 1900, eight headstones of the family were brought in from the cemetery and placed in the foyer walls. Five are in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, two in Greek and one is almost completely effaced. The plate for the crypt, made of Carrara marble, was vandalized by an individual who removed the Greek letters of gilt metal. A professor attempted to decipher the inscription in 1902, but could only make out a few words. At that point, another plaque was set up; the refurbishment was carried out by Gheorghe Balș. Damaged by fire and earthquakes over time, the church was restored in 1897 by administrator Mihail Balș, following the plans of architect Iancu Catargiu. This is mentioned in a dedication above the entrance, and at the same time, a white marble plate with the names of several deceased was also installed. Serious repairs were undertaken in 1948-1952 in order to fix damage caused during World War II. New renovations took place in 1994-1998; the iconostasis was repaired and the interior was repainted in neo-Byzantine fresco. The church has two bells from 1690 and 1692, while the iconostasis was carved in classic Baroque around 1800. The church is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. Notes Historic monuments in Iași County Romanian Orthodox churches in Iași Churches completed in 1690 1690 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Mohammed Alzeer is a Saudi Arabian businessman who is the majority shareholder in MAZ Aviation, a subsidiary of which is one of the shareholders for GDC Technics. MAZ Aviation Alzeer's MAZ Aviation acquired Gore Design Completions in 2013. The firm specialises in customising passenger and executive jets for the use of heads of state and similar clients. Alzeer is Gore's general partner. In 2015, GDC Technics leased 840,000 sq. ft. of space at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2016 it was revealed that GDC Technics was a Boeing subcontractor that serviced parts of Air Force One, the first time that the U.S. government had admitted foreign involvement in the maintenance of the plane. References External links Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Saudi Arabian businesspeople Businesspeople in aviation
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The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler and granted to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system, marketed by the American Mutoscope Company (later the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company), quickly dominated the coin-in-the-slot peep-show business. Operation The Mutoscope works on the same principle as the flip book. The individual image frames are conventional black-and-white, silver-based photographic prints on tough, flexible opaque cards. The image on each card is made by contact printing each frame of the original 70 mm film. Rather than being bound into a booklet, the cards are attached to a circular core, similar to a huge Rolodex. A reel typically holds about 850 cards, giving a viewing time of about one minute. The reel with cards attached has a total diameter of about ; the individual cards have dimensions of about . Mutoscopes are coin-operated. The patron views the cards through a single lens enclosed by a hood, similar to the viewing hood of a stereoscope. The cards are generally lit electrically, but the reel is driven by means of a geared-down hand crank. Each machine holds only a single reel and is dedicated to the presentation of a single short subject, described by a poster affixed to the machine. The patron can control the presentation speed only to a limited degree. The crank can be turned in both directions, but this does not reverse the playing of the reel. The patron cannot extend viewing time by stopping the crank, because the flexible images are bent into the proper viewing position by tension applied from forward cranking. Stopping the crank reduces the forward tension on the reels causing the reel to go backward and the picture to move away from the viewing position. A spring in the mechanism turns off the light, and in some models closes a shutter which blocks the picture. Manufacture Mutoscopes were originally manufactured from 1895 to 1909 for the American Mutoscope Company, later American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (1899) by the Marvin & Casler Co., Canastota, New York formed by two of the founding Managers of American Mutoscope Company. In the 1920s the Mutoscope was licensed to William Rabkin who started his own company, the International Mutoscope Reel Company, which manufactured new reels and also machines from 1926 until 1949. The term "Mutoscope" is no longer a registered trademark in the United States. Usage Mutoscopes were a popular feature of amusement arcades and pleasure piers in the UK until the introduction of decimal coinage in 1971. The coin mechanisms were difficult to convert, and many machines were subsequently destroyed. Some were exported to Denmark where pornography had recently been legalised. The typical arcade installation included multiple machines offering a mixture of fare. Both in the early days and during the revival, that mixture usually included "girlie" reels which ran the gamut from risqué to outright soft-core pornography. It was common for these reels to have suggestive titles that implied more than the reel actually delivered. The title of one such reel, What the Butler Saw, became a by-word, and Mutoscopes are commonly known in the UK as "What-the-Butler-Saw machines." (What the butler saw, presumably through a keyhole, was a woman partially disrobing.) Public response The San Francisco Call printed a short piece about the Mutoscope in 1898, which claimed that the device was extremely popular: "Twenty machines, all different and amusing views...are crowded day and night with sightseers." However, just a few months later, the same newspaper published an editorial railing against the Mutoscope and similar machines: "...a new instrument has been placed in the hands of the vicious for the corruption of youth...These vicious exhibitions are displayed in San Francisco with an effrontery that is as audacious as it is shameless." In 1899, The Times also printed a letter inveighing against "vicious demoralising picture shows in the penny-in-the-slot machines. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the corruption of the young that comes from exhibiting under a strong light, nude female figures represented as living and moving, going into and out of baths, sitting as artists' models etc. Similar exhibitions took place at Rhyl in the men's lavatory, but, owing to public denunciation, they have been stopped." Notes External links Illustration and demonstration of the Kinora Penny Arcade, poem by Jared Carter describes tightrope-walk images viewed through a Mutoscope. Audiovisual introductions in 1894 Film and video technology History of film Commercial machines Articles containing video clips
Iceland sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. With their silver medal in men's handball. they obtained their fourth olympic medal and their first team medal. Medalists Athletics Men Women Badminton Handball Men's tournament Roster Group play Quarterfinal Semifinal Gold medal game Final rank Judo Swimming Men Women References External links ISI.is:Þátttakendur Nations at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2008 Summer Olympics Summer Olympics
Miloš Savanović (; born 18 August 1996) is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for Bečej. References External links 1996 births Living people Footballers from Zrenjanin Men's association football midfielders Serbian men's footballers FK Proleter Novi Sad players FK Sloga Temerin players FK Železničar Pančevo players OFK Bečej 1918 players Serbian First League players
The 2017 Singapore League Cup (known as The New Paper League Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 11th edition of the Singapore League Cup, Singapore's premier club football tournament organised by the Football Association of Singapore. Albirex Niigata (S) are the defending champions, having won their third trophy the previous year. The tournament was held from 7 to 21 July 2017. Teams A total of 8 teams participate in the 2017 Singapore League Cup with all clubs coming from the S.League. Young Lions will not be participating in this edition of the Singapore League Cup. Albirex Niigata (S) Balestier Khalsa DPMM FC Geylang International Home United Hougang United Tampines Rovers Warriors FC Group stage Group A Group B Knockout phase Bracket Semi-finals Final Statistics Scorers Own goals Winners See also S.League Singapore FA Cup Singapore Cup Singapore Community Shield Football Association of Singapore List of football clubs in Singapore References 2017 League Cup 2017 Asian domestic association football cups July 2017 sports events in Asia
Winter Jones, previously Tony Yalda, sometimes credited as Anthony Yalda (born March 25, 1981) is a non-binary Assyrian actor. Biography Jones was born to Assyrian parents in Beirut, Lebanon. Their family fled Lebanon after facing persecution during the Lebanese Civil War. Like most Assyrian refugees, their family arrived in Athens, Greece, seeking asylum. Four years later, the family finally arrived in Chicago, Illinois. Jones studied theatre at DePaul University and Roosevelt University's Theatre Conservatory. In 2004, they dropped out of school and arrived in Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Pretending to be a messenger service, dropping off pictures and resumes, they made the rounds of casting offices until in 2005 they landed a role in The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow. They booked their next role in American Dreamz a month later, which landed him with former talent agency, GVA Talent. Their former band The Hollabacks won a national competition for 7 Eleven in 2010, making the band the face of Slurpee for a 6-month campaign. The Hollabacks music was featured in Cyrus. The band was also archived in Wolfgang’s Vault. Jones moved to Minneapolis in 2011 to pursue their solo career with producer/songwriter Michael Bland who is the former drummer for the late Prince. Jones wrote two albums with Bland, O My God and Sex Appeal under the alias Ladyboi. The two albums are now featured as Winter Jones, Volume I on Spotify. Jones dropped the name Ladyboi in 2014 adopting the name Winter Jones, and legally changing their name in 2015. Jones currently resides in Chicago, IL and is writing/recording and performing in the Windy City. Career Film Fairies (2003) as MAX My Porn Star (2004) as Anthony A Moment of Grace (2004) as Nidhal Mush (2005) as Mush American Dreamz (2006) as Iqbal Riza Americanizing Shelley (2007) as Happy Singh Meet the Spartans (2008) as Sanjaya Malakar House Broken (2009) as Gilroy The Last Stop (2009) as Wedding Planner The Taqwacores (2010) as Muzzamil Cyrus (2010/11) as Tom TV The Comeback as Raoul (2005) in the episode "Valerie Relaxes in Palm Springs" Girlfriends (2006) as Lem in two episodes: "Party Over Here" and "The It Girl" Help Me Help You (2006) as Nadeem in the episode "The Sheriff" The Middleman (2008) as Underworld Desk Clerk in the episode "The Accidental Occidental Conception" Roommates (2009) as Winston in the episode "The Uninvited Thorn", "The Break-In", "The Lie" and "The Roommate" Video Para matar a un asesino aka To Kill a Killer (2004) as Security Guard Soundtracks American Dreamz (2006) - performer: "Super Freak" Meet the Spartans (2008) - performer: "I Will Survive" See also List of Assyrians References External links 1981 births Assyrian actors Lebanese emigrants to the United States Living people DePaul University alumni Roosevelt University alumni American non-binary actors American non-binary musicians
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, born in Philadelphia in 1931, is a writer and food historian. Since 1990, she has been the honorary curator of the culinary collection at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, one of the largest collections in the United States of books and manuscripts relating to cooking and the social history of food. Biography In 1976, Wheaton produced a modern edition of Agnes B. Marshall's Victorian classic The Book of Ices, originally published in London in 1885. She is the author of the well-reviewed Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789, and of the biography of Marie-Antoine Carême, French exponent of grande cuisine, in Alan Davidson's Oxford Companion to Food (1999). At her request (she did not want to wash dishes and wanted a durable but disposable dish) the MIT Media Lab's Counter Intelligence Group created its Dishmaker, a machine that made dishes on demand out of food-safe materials and recycled them afterwards. She developed "The Cook's Oracle", a searchable database that establishes relationships among recipes in cookbooks from different historical periods. Wheaton hopes to find someone who will continue her database, now on Microsoft Access, and make it available. Wheaton received a bachelor's degree in art history at Mount Holyoke College in 1953 and a master's from Radcliffe College in 1954. In 1964-65 she attended the École des Trois Gourmandes founded in Paris by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle. She was a founding Trustee, 2003–2007, of the Charitable Trust for the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and has been vice-president since 2008 of the American Friends of the Oxford Symposium. She is also an Overseer at Plimoth Plantation and a Corporator of the Worcester Art Museum. On October 28, 2007, the Schlesinger Library held a day-long symposium to mark her seventy-fifth birthday. Publications Books (introduction and annotations) Ices, Plain and Fancy: The Book of Ices by Agnes B. Marshall. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Reissued under the title Victorian Ices & Ice Cream, 1984 (with Patricia Kelly) Bibliography of Culinary History: Food Resources in Eastern Massachusetts. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987 Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983; London: Chatto & Windus, 1983. French translation: L'office et la bouche: étude des moeurs de la table en France, 1300-1789. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1984 Articles "How to Cook a Peacock" in Harvard Magazine (1979) "The Cooks of Concord" in Journal of Gastronomy (1984) "The Serendipitous Year" in Journal of Gastronomy (1987) "Petits Riens and Pommes Barigoule: Food in France after the Revolution" in Journal of Gastronomy (1989/1990) "The Pleasures of Parisian Tables from Daumier to Picasso" in Barbara S. Shapiro, ed., The Pleasures of Paris from Daumier to Picasso (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1991) "Carême" in Alan Davidson, ed., The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford, 1999) "Culinary History" (with Ellen Messer, Barbara Haber and Joyce Toomre) in The Cambridge World History of Food (Cambridge, 2000) "Le menu dans le Paris du XIXe siècle" in À table au XIXe siècle (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux; Flammarion, 2001. Catalog of an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, 2001–2002) References Bibliography "Food-Historikerin Barbara Ketcham Wheaton " in Valentinas-Kochbuch.de (January 2010) Francesca T. Gilberti, "Stacks of Delicious" in The Harvard Crimson (1 November 2006) Ursula Heinzelmann, "Die beharrliche Entschlüsselung der Kochbücher" in Effilee (29 Oct. 2009) Verlyn Klinkenborg, "Of Cabbages and Kings: Why don’t cookbooks reflect what's really going on in the kitchen?" in Gourmet (June 2000) Elizabeth Gawthrop Riely, "Library Honors Food Historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton" in The Radcliffe Quarterly (Cambridge, Mass., 2007) 1931 births Living people American food writers Food historians Writers from Philadelphia Mount Holyoke College alumni Radcliffe College alumni Women food writers
Adam Byrnes (born 29 July 1981, Sydney, NSW) is an Australian immigration lawyer and principal at Visa & Citizenship Lawyers, an immigration law firm. He was previously an Australian-born Russian international rugby union player. Rugby career Byrnes played rugby at Newington College (1987–99). He played club rugby for Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union in Sydney. Byrnes played for Leinster Rugby in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup for two seasons from 2005. Byrnes played for Sydney Fleet in the inaugural season of the Australian Rugby Championship in 2007. Byrnes played for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby Competition for two seasons from 2009. Byrnes then played for the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby Competition for two seasons from 2011. Byrnes played in the 2011 Rugby World Cup for Russia against USA, Italy, Ireland and his country of birth, Australia. In mid-2012 Byrnes played his last game of rugby against Uruguay with his Russian comrades in the IRB Nations Cup. Byrnes's position was lock, his play was described as abrasive, and he was relied upon to be the team enforcer. Business career Byrnes completed his University studies after his rugby career and he is now an Australian immigration lawyer, and principal at Visa & Citizenship Lawyers. Personal life Byrnes is an avid fisherman. In 2011, Byrnes attended the wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock. References External links 1981 births 21st-century Australian lawyers Australian rugby union players Australian people of Russian descent Russian rugby union players Russia international rugby union players Rugby union locks Queensland Reds players Melbourne Rebels players Leinster Rugby players Living people Rugby union players from Sydney People educated at Newington College Expatriate rugby union players in Ireland 2011 Rugby World Cup players
This is a list of rail accidents and incidents that involved British Railways, known from 1968 as British Rail, occurring in the period 1948–94. It does not cover accidents involving Northern Ireland Railways, or heritage railways. 1948 On 17 April 1948, a postal train was in a rear-end collision with a passenger train at , Cheshire due to a signalman's error. In the first major accident of the newly formed British Railways, 24 people died. On 17 May 1948, a freight train ran away and was in collision with an empty stock train at Battyeford, West Riding of Yorkshire. On 17 July 1948, a passenger train was derailed at New Southgate, London due to a combination of defective track and excessive speed. One person died. On 16 October 1948, former Mayor of Peterborough Arthur Holditch Mellows died when his car was struck by a train at Conington level crossing. On 18 November 1948, an electric multiple unit departed from station, London against signals. It subsequently collided with another electric multiple unit at Woolwich Arsenal station. Two people died. 1949 On 19 February 1949, a parcels train became divided at New Southgate. The rear portion ran back, obstructing the main line, from which the train had just been crossed onto the slow line. Due to a signalman's error, an express passenger train ran into the vans and was derailed. On 23 June 1949, a carriage of an express passenger train caught fire. The train was brought to a stand near Penmanshiel Tunnel, Berwickshire. Seven people were injured, but there were no fatalities. On 14 November 1949, a rake of carriages were left foul of an adjacent line at Bournemouth Central station, Hampshire. A locomotive struck them and was derailed. One person was injured. 1950 On 7 March 1950, An ex-LNER Thompson Class B1 was hauling an express passenger train at night near Witham Junction, when it collided with the rear of a mineral train in fog. The passenger fireman and goods guard died. On 5 June 1950, An express passenger train was derailed at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire due to heat buckled track. On 8 June 1950, a carriage of an express passenger train caught fire. The train was brought to a stand at Beattock, Dumfriesshire. Five people died and one was injured. On 27 August 1950, an express passenger train, the Irish Mail, was in a rear-end collision with a light engine at , Denbighshire due to a signalman's error. One person died. Prompt action by the fireman of the light engine prevented a freight train from running into the wreckage. On 23 October 1950, a passenger train was derailed at Drumburgh, Cumberland due to defective track. Two people died and three were injured. 1951 On 14 July 1951, two carriages of an express passenger train caught fire. The train was brought to a stand at , Huntingdonshire. 22 people were injured, but there were no fatalities. On 5 August 1951, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at , West Sussex. Nine people died and 47 were seriously injured. On 9 August 1951, an express passenger train was derailed at , Yorkshire due to defective track. Fourteen people died and twelve were injured. On 17 August 1951, two electric multiple units were in a head-on collision at Newcastle Central station, Northumberland after one of them departed against a danger signal. Two people died. On 21 September 1951, an express passenger train was derailed at Weedon, Northamptonshire due to a defective bogie on the locomotive hauling it. Fifteen people died and 35 were injured. On 19 November 1951, a bridge was washed away between and , West Sussex. A freight train was derailed when it attempted to cross the bridge. Recovery of the locomotive took more than three months. 1952 On 21 April 1952, an express passenger train was derailed at Blea Moor Loops, Cumberland due to a defect on one of the locomotives hauling it, causing points to move under the train. On 20 July 1952, a passenger train overran signals and was derailed by trap points at , Hampshire. On 8 October 1952, an express passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with a local passenger train at , Middlesex. An express passenger train travelling in the opposite direction then ran into the wreckage. In the deadliest accident for British Railways, 112 people died and 240 were injured. In 1952, a rake of wagons ran away and were derailed at , Yorkshire. 1953 On 15 August 1953, an electric multiple unit overran signals and collided with a freight train at Irk Valley Junction, Collyhurst, Lancashire. The collision occurred on a viaduct; one carriage falling into the River Irk. Ten people died and 58 were injured. On 16 August 1953, a passenger train became divided and derailed at Kingsbury, Warwickshire due to a combination of defects on the locomotive and the condition of the track. On 4 September 1953, a passenger train was derailed at , London when a set of points moved under it. 1954 On 3 February 1954, an express passenger train was derailed at Watford Junction station, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail. Nine people were injured. On 8 May 1954, an express freight train became divided and was derailed at Plumpton, Cumberland. On 23 September 1954, a freight train overran signals and was derailed by trap points at Whitchurch Town station, Hampshire. 1955 On 23 January 1955, an express passenger train was derailed at , Warwickshire due to excessive speed on a curve. Seventeen people died and 25 were injured. On 28 May 1955, a train carrying 539 passengers including 301 children derailed due to excessive speed and driver error at Wormit station in Fife, near the Tay Bridge, three people died and 41 were injured. On 7 August 1955, an express passenger train was derailed at Barby, Northamptonshire due to excessive speed through a set of points. One person died and eighteen were injured. Errors by a pilotman during single line working and confusion over where the train was due to be divertes were major contributory factors. On 20 November 1955, an excursion train was derailed at Milton, Oxfordshire due to excessive speed through a crossover. Eleven people died and 157 were injured. On 2 December 1955, an electric multiple unit train ran into the rear of a freight train at Barnes station, London due to a signalman's error. A fire destroyed the first carriage of the leading electric multiple unit. Thirteen people died and 41 were injured. On 22 December 1955, an express passenger train overruns signals and was in a rear-end collision with another express passenger train at station, Yorkshire. Irregular operation of signals was a major contributory factor. The signalman at Hellifield South Junction Signal Box was blamed for the accident. On 23 December 1955, a passenger train was in a rear-end collision with another at Woking, Surrey. 1956 On 17 August 1956, a rake of carriages ran away and collided with another rake of carriages at , Hampshire. On 25 August 1956, an empty stock train ran away and crashed through the buffers at Filey Holiday Camp station, Yorkshire due to the failure to connect the brake pipe between the train and the locomotive hauling it. On 6 September 1956, a parcels train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with an express passenger train at , Shropshire. 1957 On 7 January 1957, an express passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with a passenger train at , Hertfordshire. One person died and 25 were injured. On 9 February 1957, a freight train ran away due to a broken steam brake pipe in the cab of the locomotive hauling it. It collided with another freight train at station, Derbyshire. Station staff had enough warning to be able to evacuate a diesel multiple unit which was standing in the station before the collision. Driver John Axon, who had remained with the train, died. He was awarded a posthumous George Cross. On 9 August 1957, a train formed of two electric multiple units was in a head-on collision with a light engine at , Middlesex after it departed against a danger signal. Nine people were injured. On 6 December 1957, an express passenger train overran signals and ran into the rear of an electric multiple unit at , London. A bridge collapsed onto the wreckage, crushing three carriages of the express. Ninety people died, 173 were injured. In December 1957, a freight train overran signals and was derailed at , Hampshire. 1958 On 30 January 1958, a passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at Dagenham station, Essex. Ten people died and 89 were injured. On 16 February 1958, a passenger train is in a rear-end collision with a light engine at Ince Moss Junction, Lancashire due to errors by a signalman and the driver of the light engine. Two people died . On 4 April 1958, a parcels train overran signals and was in collision with an electric multiple unit at Gloucester Road Junction, Croydon, Surrey. Six people were injured. On 20 May 1958, a passenger train was in collision with a locomotive and brake van at Arkleston Junction, Paisley, Renfrewshire due to errors by the driver of the locomotive. One person died and 26 were hospitalised. On 28 June 1958, a rake of carriages ran away and were derailed at , Yorkshire. On 4 July 1958, an empty stock train was in a head-on collision with an electric multiple unit at , London after the latter overran signals. Forty-five people were injured. On 5 August 1958, a passenger train crashed through the buffers at . On 12 August 1958, an electric multiple unit train was derailed at Borough Market Junction, London due to defective track. Six people were injured. On 25 August 1958, a sleeping car train overran a signal and was in a head-on collision with a train formed of two electric multiple units at , East Sussex. Five people died and 40 were injured. On 2 September 1958, the rear van of passenger train was derailed at Lunan Bay, Angus, causing the train to come to a halt due to a loss of vacuum. The train crew failed to realise that their train was incomplete; the restored the vacuum and continued their journey, leaving a van obstructing the line. The signalman at station failed to notice that the train was not displaying a tail lamp and gave "train out of section" to the signalman at Inverkeilor Signal Box. A passenger train consequently collided with the wreckage of the derailed van. On 19 November 1958, a freight train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at Hitchin, Hertfordshire. A third freight train ran into the wreckage. On 22 November 1958, a passenger train was derailed at Balnaguard, Perthshire when a bridge was washed away in a storm. Two people were slightly injured. In 1958, a passenger train was derailed at Millbrook, Southampton when a faulty point motor moved a set of points under the train. 1959 On 17 February 1959, an electric multiple unit was in a rear-end collision with another at Crayford, Kent due to a signalman's error. Seventy people were injured. On 29 October 1959, a passenger train overran signals and was derailed by trap points at , Hampshire. On 4 November 1959, a freight train skidded and came to rest foul of the line at West Sleekburn, Northumberland where another freight train was in a head-on collision with it. Two people died. On 9 November 1959, a freight train ran away and collided with an empty stock train at , London. On 12 November 1959, a passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at . London. Thirteen people were injured. On 15 December 1959, a passenger train was in collision with a rake of vans at London Victoria station. Eleven people were injured. 1960 On 9 January 1960, a freight train was derailed at Kentish Town, London. On 19 February 1960, a freight train was derailed at Consett, County Durham. On 12 December 1960, a passenger train overran signals and was derailed at , Hampshire. Two people were injured. 1961 On 11 February 1961, an express freight train became divided between station, Warwickshire and , Leicestershire. The rear portion was derailed. An express passenger train ran into the wreckage from the rear. One person died and four were injured. On 13 February 1961, an express passenger train was in collision with a freight train that was being shunted at , Shropshire due to a signalman's error. Three people died and two were injured. In February 1961, a diesel multiple unit ran away and crashed through the buffers at , Lancashire. The leading carriage crashed into a terraced house and caught fire, seriously injuring the driver. On 20 March 1961, a diesel-electric multiple unit and an electric multiple unit were in a side-long collision at , London after the latter overran signals. On 11 April 1961, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in collision with a light engine at Waterloo station, London. One person died and fourteen were injured. On 18 April 1961, a passenger train was derailed at Pitsea, Essex due to a pointsman's error during single line working. On 6 June 1961, a light engine was in collision with a freight train at , Cumberland. On 16 July 1961, a train formed of two diesel multiple units was in collision with a rake of wagons near Weeton, Lancashire due to a signalman's error and was derailed. Seven people died and 116 were injured. On 16 October 1961, a freight train ran away approaching station, Yorkshire. As there was a train approaching from the opposite direction, the signalman diverted it into a siding, where it crashed through the buffers. On 7 December 1961, a light engine collided with a freight train at station, Cornwall due to a signal not giving a clear danger signal. On 15 December 1961, an empty stock train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train at Conington, Huntingdonshire during permissive block working. A freight train then ran into the wreckage, followed a few minutes later by a third freight train. 1962 On 7 January 1962, a freight train was derailed at , Yorkshire. On 2 February 1962, a passenger train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train at Polmont, Stirlingshire due to a signalman's error. Five people were injured. On 4 June 1962, an express passenger train was derailed at Lincoln Central station, Lincolnshire due to excessive speed on a curve. Three people died and 49 were injured. On 10 June 1962, a southbound freight train was derailed at speed by the loop points at , [North Yorkshire]. The guard was injured. On 1 August 1962, an electric multiple unit was derailed at , West Sussex when points moved under the train due to an electrical fault. Thirty-eight people were injured. On 25 August 1962, a passenger train came to a halt at Torquay, Devon due to a defect on the locomotive hauling it. Another passenger train overran a signal and ran into its rear. Twenty-three people were injured. 1963 On 1 April 1963, a freight train was derailed near Weedon, Northamptonshire due to a defective wagon, fouling an adjacent line. An express passenger train collided with the derailed wagons. On 23 March 1963, a freight train was derailed between and stations, Hampshire. On 1 August 1963, an express passenger train overran signals and collided with a passenger train at Norton Bridge, Staffordshire. On 1 August 1963, a passenger train formed of electric multiple units was derailed at Barnham station, West Sussex when an electrical fault caused a set of points to operate as the train approached them. On 15 August 1963, an express passenger train was in collision with a freight train at Knowle & Dorridge station, Warwickshire due to a signalman's error. Three people died. 1964 On 5 March 1964, a freight train overran signals and collided with another freight train at Itchingfield Junction, Sussex. Two people died. On 7 April 1964, a freight train was derailed near Howe & Co's Signalbox, Cumberland due to a combination of a defective wagon, excessive speed and minor track defects. On 28 May 1964, a passenger train carrying more than 230 schoolchildren derailed and crashed at Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. The primary causes were driver error and excessive speed. Three people died and 27 were injured. On 23 October 1964, an electric multiple unit was derailed near Brighton, East Sussex and was severely damaged. It was placed in the Lover's Walk Sidings for cutting up. On 25 October, steam crane DS1196 overturned whilst moving one of the motor bogies of the electric multiple unit. It was scrapped in situ. 1965 On 7 May 1965, a freight train was derailed at Preston-le-Skerne, County Durham. A newspaper train collided with the derailed wagons and was itself derailed. 1966 On 15 July 1966, an express passenger train was derailed at , Oxfordshire due to an unsecured switch blade on a set of points. Eighteen people were injured. On 14 August 1966, an express passenger train ran into a landslip and was derailed at Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire and was derailed. On 30 September 1966, a freight train overran signals and was derailed by trap points at Wallers Ash, Hampshire. 1967 On 31 July 1967, a freight train was derailed at Thirsk, Yorkshire with some of the wagons coming to rest foul of an adjacent line. An express passenger train collided with them. Seven people died and 45 were injured. On 28 November 1967, a newspaper train was derailed at , London, severely damaging a footbridge when one of the vans collided with its supporting pillars. 1968 On 6 January 1968, an express passenger train was in collision with an abnormal load on a level crossing at Hixon, Staffordshire. Eleven people died and 45 were injured. On 1 September 1968, a freight train was derailed at Aldwyth, Dumfriesshire. 1969 On 7 May 1969, an express passenger train was derailed at , Northumberland due to excessive speed on a curve. Six people died and 46 were injured. On 10 June 1969, a freight train was derailed at Lichfield, Staffordshire due to heat-buckled track. On 13 June 1969, an express passenger train was derailed at Somerton, Somerset due to heat-buckled track. On 15 June 1969, a freight train was derailed at Lamington, Scotland due to heat-buckled track. On 23 July 1969, An express passenger train was derailed at Sandy, Bedfordshire due to heat-buckled track. 1971 On 26 July 1971, an electric multiple unit departed from Macclesfield station against signals and was derailed by trap points. On 28 July 1971, a parcels train was derailed at Guildford station, Surrey. 1973 In June 1973, a freight train was derailed at Ashwood Dale, Derbyshire due to a combination of excessive speed and defective track. The line was closed for several weeks. On 19 December 1973, an express passenger train was derailed at Ealing Broadway station, London when a loose door struck point rodding, causing a set of points to move under the train. Ten people died and 94 were injured. In 1973, a freight train was derailed inside Disley Tunnel, Cheshire due to a broken rail. Recovery of the wagons took about a week. In 1973, an electric multiple unit overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with a diesel multiple unit at Shields Junction, Lanarkshire. 1975 On 6 June 1975, an express passenger train was derailed at , Warwickshire due to excessive speed during permanent way works. Six people died and 38 were injured. On 6 August 1975, two freight trains collided at Weaver Junction. Some tanks and vehicles derailed but not the locomotives. Inadequate vacuum brakes on some wagons was cited as the main cause. In September 1975, Class 33 locomotive 33 041 was involved in an accident in London and was consequently written off. On 6 August 1975, a freight train was unable to stop due to a lack of brake power. It collided with another freight train at Weaver Junction, Cheshire. On 26 October 1975, an express passenger train failed at Lunan, Angus. A locomotive was sent to its assistance, but crashed into the rear of the train. One person died and 42 were injured. 1976 On 2 January 1976, a light engine was in a rear-end collision with a parcels train at Worcester Tunnel Junction during time interval working. Both crew members died. On 25 June 1976, a diesel multiple unit passenger train overran signals and collided with another diesel multiple unit at , Bedfordshire. An express passenger train then collided with the wreckage, striking it with a glancing blow. 1977 On 5 September 1977, a mail train was in a head-on collision with a diesel multiple unit at Farnley Junction, Leeds, West Yorkshire due to a signalling fault. Two people died and fifteen were injured. On 11 October 1977, a freight train was derailed at Mottingham, London. 1978 On 6 July 1978, a fire developed on a sleeping car train, which came to a halt at Silk Mill Crossing, Taunton, Somerset. Twelve people died and fifteen were injured. In September 1978, a freight train ran away and was derailed by trap points at Chinley, Derbyshire. 1979 On 1 March 1979, a rake of wagons ran away and was derailed by trap points at Peak Forest, Derbyshire. On 29 November 1979, a High Speed Train was derailed at , North Yorkshire. In 1979, a freight train was derailed inside New Mills Tunnel, Derbyshire when the track spread under the train due to defective track maintenance procedures. 1980 On 16 February 1980, an express passenger train was derailed at Bushey, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail. Nineteen people were seriously injured. On 22 May 1980, a sleeper train was derailed at Prestonpans, Lothian due to vandalism. 1981 On 8 April 1981, a freight train was derailed at , Derbyshire. On 11 December 1981, a diesel multiple unit passenger train was in a rear end collision with a stationary empty stock train near Seer Green, Buckinghamshire. Four people died and five were seriously injured. A combination of severe blizzards and human error was attributed to the crash. 1982 On 16 January 1982, a freight train was derailed at Chinley, Derbyshire. 1984 On 23 June 1984, a passenger train was derailed at , Northumberland due to excessive speed on a curve. Fifteen people were injured. On 13 November 1984, a freight train was derailed at Stockport, Cheshire due to a defective wagon. On 30 November 1984, a passenger train was derailed at Stoulton, Worcestershire due to defective track. Two people were injured. 1986 On 9 March 1986, a passenger train was in collision with two light engines at Chinley, Derbyshire due to a signalman's error. One person died. Lack of training and a power cut were contributory factors. On 19 September 1986, an express passenger train overran signals and came to rest foul of a junction at Colwich, Staffordshire. Another express passenger train collided with it. One person died and 75 were injured. 32 people were hospitalised. 1987 On 20 February 1987, a freight train ran away and was derailed by trap points at Chinley, Derbyshire. Another train was in collision with the wreckage. On 24 March 1987, a freight train overran a signal and was in a head-on collision with a passenger train at Frome North Junction, Somerset. Several people were seriously injured. On 6 August 1987, a freight train ran away and was derailed by trap points at Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire. On 19 October 1987, a bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire collapsed as a passenger train was crossing. Four people died. 1988 In January 1988, a freight train was sent into a siding and derailed at Tavistock Junction, Devon due to a pointsman's error. On 14 June 1988, a freight train was overran signals and was derailed by trap points at Copyhold Junction, West Sussex. The locomotive was dismantled in stages in August and October before being taken to Doncaster Works and rebuilt. On 12 December 1988, an electric multiple unit passenger train was in a rear-end collision with another at , London due to a signalling fault caused by a maintenance error. An empty stock train collided with the wreckage. Thirty-nine people died, 484 were injured. 1989 On 4 March 1989, an electric multiple unit overran signals and collided with another at , Surrey. Five people died and 88 were injured. On 6 March 1989, an electric multiple unit departed from Bellgrove station, Glasgow and was in a head-on collision with another passenger train. Two people died. On 5 August 1989, an express passenger train derailed at , London due to a piece of rail being left on the line. On 4 October 1989, two diesel multiple units were in collision at Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Eighteen people were injured. 1990 On 22 August 1990, a diesel multiple unit overran signals and was in a head-on collision with another diesel multiple unit at Hyde Junction, Cheshire Twenty-eight people were injured. 1991 On 8 January 1991, a train formed of two electric multiple units collided with the buffers at Cannon Street station, London. Two people died and 534 were injured. On 16 May 1991, a tank wagon train was derailed and caught fire at Bradford-on-Tone, Somerset. On 21 July 1991, an electric multiple unit was in a head-on collision with another at station, Strathclyde. Four people died and 22 were injured. On 2 November 1991, a sandite train caught fire inside Standedge Tunnel, Lancashire. On 7 December 1991, a diesel multiple unit was in a rear-end collision with a High Speed Train inside the Severn Tunnel. One hundred and eighty-five people were injured. 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Elizabeth Boulevard Historic District is located in the southern part of Fort Worth, Texas. It was added to the National Register in November 16, 1979. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas References External links National Register of Historic Places in Fort Worth, Texas Historic districts in Fort Worth, Texas Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
The 2009 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football team represented Stephen F. Austin State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by third-year head coach J. C. Harper and played its home games at Homer Bryce Stadium. It finished the regular season with a 10–3 record overall and a 6–1 record in the Southland Conference, making the team conference champions. The team qualified for the playoffs, in which it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Montana. Schedule References Stephen F. Austin Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football seasons Southland Conference football champion seasons Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football
Mycena clarkeana is a species of bonnet fungus in the genus Mycena. Originally endemic to Australia, it can now be found in New Zealand also. Taxonomy The species was first described by C. A Grgurinovic in 1997 in a book titled The large fungi of Southern Australia. Description Mycena clarkeana is a saprotrophic fungi and is most commonly found growing on dead logs. The pileus is ovate in shape and ranges from 5 millimeters to 3 centimeters in diameter depending on the maturity of the organism. The pileus is dark to light pink with purple hues and is hygrophanous. The stipe is long and thin and often translucent. It is typically 1-4 centimeters long and 2-5 millimeters in diameter and attaches to the pileus centrally. The gills found under the pileus are small, slimy and tightly packed together. Mycena clarkeana has a white spore print. Habitat Mycena clarkeana occurs in the forests of Australia as well as the North and South Island of New Zealand. It is saprotrophic and therefore is most commonly found on dead organic matter such as dead trees. Etymology Mycena has two derivations. The first is from Greek mythology and the Greek city of Mycenae. This name was chosen due to the mushrooms having delicate slender exteriors, much like the architecture of the ancient city. The second derivation is from the Greek word “Mykes” which means mushroom or fungus. References clarkeana Fungi described in 1997
Francesco Lambardi (1587–1642) was a Neapolitan Baroque composer who participated in the staging of feste a ballo with Giovanni Maria Trabaci. He was born in Naples. Recordings Canto d'Amore on Festa teatrale, Thomas Hengelbrock, DHM. References 1587 births 1642 deaths Composers from Naples Italian male classical composers Italian Baroque composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians
See also SI Speed of light List of electromagnetism equations References External links History of the electrical units. Electromagnetism Lists of units of measurement
Nathan Jung (November 29, 1946 – April 24, 2021) was an American actor and stuntman. Due to his height, he was usually cast in "heavy" or "enforcer" roles. Career Television Jung played the character of Genghis Khan on Star Trek: The Original Series in the episode, "The Savage Curtain" (1969), an axe-wielding villain named "The Dark Rider" who fought David Carradine in the TV series Kung Fu on the episode "Arrogant Dragon" (1974), and appeared opposite Bruce Lee as a Tong Enforcer in Lee's only pure acting (and non-martial arts) role on the TV show Here Come the Brides, in the episode "Marriage, Chinese Style" (1969). Jung also played Saburyo, Helen Funai's cousin on an episode of Sanford and Son entitled "Home Sweet Home" (1974). Jung has been on a number of other TV shows including General Hospital (as Won Chu), Starsky and Hutch (as "Itchy" in the episode "Nightlight" (1976)), MAS*H (as the Korean Man), The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (as Kahuna), Manimal (as Tang), Magnum P.I. (as Yaikra), The A-Team (as Chi), Falcon Crest (as Chao-Li's cousin), The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (as Cho-Lin), Hunter (as the henchman "Mongol" that goes toe-to-toe against Fred Dryer), Riptide (as Kona, Al Leong's colleague), Joe Forrester, and The New Mike Hammer. Jung has also appeared in the TV shows Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (in two episodes - "Chi of Steel" (1995) and "Illusions of Grandeur" (1994) - as "Jzuk-Mao"), Martial Law (as the villain Wen in the Martial Law pilot episode, "Shanghai Express" (1998)), as well as Highway to Heaven (as Yoji), Burke's Law, Dear John and Tour of Duty. Film Jung has acted in the films Surf Ninjas (as Leslie Nielsen's henchman, Manchu), as the henchman Bulkus in John Landis's first film, Kentucky Fried Movie (as Bulkus in the Enter the Dragon spoof segment entitled A Fistful of Yen), as The Wing Kong Hatchet Man in Big Trouble in Little China, as the Bonsai Club Manager in Showdown in Little Tokyo (speaking a line of dialogue in Japanese to stars Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee, making him one of the few actors to appear in movies or TV shows alongside both Bruce Lee and his son Brandon Lee), and also appeared in films such as Sam Raimi's Darkman (as the Chinese Warrior), The Shadow (as the Tibetan Kidnapper), American Yakuza (as The Big Yakuza), Beverly Hills Ninja (as the Fisherman), Corvette Summer (as the bouncer that roughs up Mark Hamill's character), Longshot (as Odd Job) and more. Jung has also acted in Asian American independent films such as Justin Lin's Finishing The Game (as Bob, the Nazi villain that faces off against Roger Fan's Breeze Loo) in the "Fists of Fuhrer" segment that was directed by Evan Jackson Leong (Director of the film Linsanity: The Movie) and Juwan Chung's Baby (as the Restaurant Guy in a scene opposite David Huynh, who played the title character). Jung also appears as himself, the narrator, in Timothy Tau's short documentary, Nathan Jung v. Bruce Lee, where he recounts the first time he met Bruce Lee (played by Jason Yee) on the set of the TV show Here Come the Brides in 1969 and with Allen Rowe portraying a younger version of him in narrative flashbacks; the film also won a Best Original Script and Best Comedy award at the 2018 Asians on Film Festival and has screened at the 2019 Seattle Asian American Film Festival, the 2018 Taiwanese American Film Festival and the 2018 Vancouver Asian Film Festival. Upon Jung's death on April 24, 2021, Nathan Jung v. Bruce Lee was shared and his death was covered by outlets including Variety, Deadline Hollywood, SyFy Wire, The Independent (UK), The Daily Express (UK), News.com.au, The New Zealand Herald, NY Daily News, Heavy.com, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Daily Star Trek News, Comicbook.com, Outsider, AsAm News, iHorror, Giant Freakin Robot and more. Personal life Jung died in Los Angeles on April 24, 2021, at the age of 74. Selected filmography Film Assorted TV Roles References External links Nathan Jung Filmography on Fandango 1946 births 2021 deaths American male actors of Chinese descent Male actors from Bakersfield, California
Roberto Toro is a neuroscientist of Chilean origin, and is now Director of Research at the Neuroscience Department of the Institut Pasteur in Paris. His research focuses on the development and evolution of the brain, specifically using mathematical modelling, magnetic resonance imaging and genetics to better understand the origin of neocortical organisation. He develops computational neuroanatomy methods to analyse the normal diversity of human brain anatomy, and to look for differences associated with neurodevelopmental pathologies, in particular autism spectrum disorders. Roberto is an open science advocate and aims at a more collaborative and open science, allowing anyone to take part in the research process. Education After a degree in engineering at the Universidad Santa María in Chile, he obtained a PhD in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at the University of Paris in 2003. Career and research After postdoctoral fellowships at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Bron, and the Brain & Body Centre, University of Nottingham, he started his career at the Neuroscience Department at Institut Pasteur, working as a researcher at the Unit of Human Genetics and Brain Function. In 2015, he became Group leader at the Unit of Human Genetics and Brain Function. Since 2021, he heads the Research Unit for Applied and Theoretical Neuroanatomy at Institut Pasteur. In his research, Roberto Toro studies various aspects of the relationship between brain geometry and brain organisation. His team develops biomechanical models of brain development showing how growth can trigger mechanical instabilities which constrain and guide developmental and evolutionary processes. They study in particular the development of the ferret brain as an example of a complex, folded, mammalian brain. They also look across many different species, collecting and analysing data from hundreds of different mammals. Overall, they argue that intrinsic constraints related to mechanical morphogenesis may play an important role in the development and evolution of the primate brain. His research combining neuroimaging and genetics has contributed to our understanding of the polygenic architecture of human neuroanatomical variability. He develops computational neuroanatomy methods to analyse the normal diversity of human brain anatomy, and to look for differences associated with neurodevelopmental pathologies. He is particularly interested in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and his team became the first French group to participate in project ABIDE – the largest open dataset of autism brain imaging in the world. Their attempts to replicate several major candidate neuroimaging endophenotypes of ASD using this large dataset together with systematic meta-analysis revealed no statistically significant differences. The team showed, on the contrary, a strong and statistically significant heterogeneity in the literature, dramatic lack of statistical power, and evidence of publication bias. His team organised the first international data science challenge to predict autism diagnosis from MRI data. The project revealed the strong potential of MRI for detecting biomarkers of autism, as well as the danger of overfitting that comes with the methods in uncontrolled settings, and the data generated and shared for this project has enabled several independent analyses projects. Aiming at allowing anyone to take part in the research process, his team develops open Web applications for scientific collaboration, such as MicroDraw – a Web tool for the visualisation and collaborative annotation of high-resolution histological data – and BrainBox – a Web tool for the indexation, visualisation, and real time collaborative segmentation of open brain imaging data. Awards 2019 Pro Aid Autisme Prize 2016 Chaire Charles Nicolle, Institut Pasteur 2016 Open Science Prize of the Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute References External links "Recent Publications", Neuroanatomie Appliquée et Théorique "Google Scholar" "ORCID" Neuroscientists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Paris alumni
```objective-c // // corecrt_wstdlib.h // // // This file declares the wide character (wchar_t) C Standard Library functions // that are declared by both <stdlib.h> and <wchar.h>. // #pragma once #include <corecrt.h> #pragma warning(push) #pragma warning(disable: _UCRT_DISABLED_WARNINGS) _UCRT_DISABLE_CLANG_WARNINGS _CRT_BEGIN_C_HEADER // Maximum number of elements, including null terminator (and negative sign // where appropriate), needed for integer-to-string conversions for several // bases and integer types. #define _MAX_ITOSTR_BASE16_COUNT (8 + 1) #define _MAX_ITOSTR_BASE10_COUNT (1 + 10 + 1) #define _MAX_ITOSTR_BASE8_COUNT (11 + 1) #define _MAX_ITOSTR_BASE2_COUNT (32 + 1) #define _MAX_LTOSTR_BASE16_COUNT (8 + 1) #define _MAX_LTOSTR_BASE10_COUNT (1 + 10 + 1) #define _MAX_LTOSTR_BASE8_COUNT (11 + 1) #define _MAX_LTOSTR_BASE2_COUNT (32 + 1) #define _MAX_ULTOSTR_BASE16_COUNT (8 + 1) #define _MAX_ULTOSTR_BASE10_COUNT (10 + 1) #define _MAX_ULTOSTR_BASE8_COUNT (11 + 1) #define _MAX_ULTOSTR_BASE2_COUNT (32 + 1) #define _MAX_I64TOSTR_BASE16_COUNT (16 + 1) #define _MAX_I64TOSTR_BASE10_COUNT (1 + 19 + 1) #define _MAX_I64TOSTR_BASE8_COUNT (22 + 1) #define _MAX_I64TOSTR_BASE2_COUNT (64 + 1) #define _MAX_U64TOSTR_BASE16_COUNT (16 + 1) #define _MAX_U64TOSTR_BASE10_COUNT (20 + 1) #define _MAX_U64TOSTR_BASE8_COUNT (22 + 1) #define _MAX_U64TOSTR_BASE2_COUNT (64 + 1) #if _CRT_FUNCTIONS_REQUIRED _Success_(return == 0) _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _itow_s( _In_ int _Value, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_ int _Radix ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_1_1( errno_t, _itow_s, _In_ int, _Value, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_FUNC_1_1( wchar_t, __RETURN_POLICY_DST, _ACRTIMP, _itow, _In_ int, _Value, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) _Success_(return == 0) _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _ltow_s( _In_ long _Value, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_ int _Radix ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_1_1( errno_t, _ltow_s, _In_ long, _Value, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_FUNC_1_1( wchar_t, __RETURN_POLICY_DST, _ACRTIMP, _ltow, _In_ long, _Value, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _ultow_s( _In_ unsigned long _Value, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_ int _Radix ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_1_1( errno_t, _ultow_s, _In_ unsigned long, _Value, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_FUNC_1_1( wchar_t, __RETURN_POLICY_DST, _ACRTIMP, _ultow, _In_ unsigned long, _Value, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_ int, _Radix ) _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP double __cdecl wcstod( _In_z_ wchar_t const _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP double __cdecl _wcstod_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long __cdecl wcstol( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long __cdecl _wcstol_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long long __cdecl wcstoll( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long long __cdecl _wcstoll_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned long __cdecl wcstoul( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned long __cdecl _wcstoul_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned long long __cdecl wcstoull( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned long long __cdecl _wcstoull_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long double __cdecl wcstold( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long double __cdecl _wcstold_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP float __cdecl wcstof( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP float __cdecl _wcstof_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP double __cdecl _wtof( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP double __cdecl _wtof_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP int __cdecl _wtoi( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP int __cdecl _wtoi_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long __cdecl _wtol( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long __cdecl _wtol_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long long __cdecl _wtoll( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP long long __cdecl _wtoll_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _i64tow_s( _In_ __int64 _Value, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_ int _Radix ); _CRT_INSECURE_DEPRECATE(_i64tow_s) _ACRTIMP wchar_t* __cdecl _i64tow( _In_ __int64 _Value, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _ui64tow_s( _In_ unsigned __int64 _Value, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_ int _Radix ); _CRT_INSECURE_DEPRECATE(_ui64tow_s) _ACRTIMP wchar_t* __cdecl _ui64tow( _In_ unsigned __int64 _Value, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP __int64 __cdecl _wtoi64( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP __int64 __cdecl _wtoi64_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP __int64 __cdecl _wcstoi64( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP __int64 __cdecl _wcstoi64_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned __int64 __cdecl _wcstoui64( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix ); _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP unsigned __int64 __cdecl _wcstoui64_l( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _String, _Out_opt_ _Deref_post_z_ wchar_t** _EndPtr, _In_ int _Radix, _In_opt_ _locale_t _Locale ); #pragma push_macro("_wfullpath") #undef _wfullpath _Success_(return != 0) _Check_return_ _ACRTIMP _CRTALLOCATOR wchar_t* __cdecl _wfullpath( _Out_writes_opt_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_z_ wchar_t const* _Path, _In_ size_t _BufferCount ); #pragma pop_macro("_wfullpath") _Check_return_wat_ _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wmakepath_s( _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _Drive, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _Dir, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _Filename, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _Ext ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_0_4( errno_t, _wmakepath_s, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Drive, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Dir, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Filename, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Ext ) __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_FUNC_0_4( void, __RETURN_POLICY_VOID, _ACRTIMP, _wmakepath, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Drive, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Dir, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Filename, _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const, _Ext ) _ACRTIMP void __cdecl _wperror( _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _ErrorMessage ); _CRT_INSECURE_DEPRECATE(_wsplitpath_s) _ACRTIMP void __cdecl _wsplitpath( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _FullPath, _Pre_maybenull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Drive, _Pre_maybenull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Dir, _Pre_maybenull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Filename, _Pre_maybenull_ _Post_z_ wchar_t* _Ext ); _ACRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wsplitpath_s( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _FullPath, _Out_writes_opt_z_(_DriveCount) wchar_t* _Drive, _In_ size_t _DriveCount, _Out_writes_opt_z_(_DirCount) wchar_t* _Dir, _In_ size_t _DirCount, _Out_writes_opt_z_(_FilenameCount) wchar_t* _Filename, _In_ size_t _FilenameCount, _Out_writes_opt_z_(_ExtCount) wchar_t* _Ext, _In_ size_t _ExtCount ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_SPLITPATH( errno_t, _wsplitpath_s, wchar_t, _Path ) #pragma push_macro("_wdupenv_s") #undef _wdupenv_s _Check_return_wat_ _DCRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wdupenv_s( _Outptr_result_buffer_maybenull_(_BufferCount) _Outptr_result_maybenull_z_ wchar_t* _Buffer, _Out_opt_ size_t* _BufferCount, _In_z_ wchar_t const* _VarName ); #pragma pop_macro("_wdupenv_s") _Check_return_ _CRT_INSECURE_DEPRECATE(_wdupenv_s) _DCRTIMP wchar_t* __cdecl _wgetenv( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _VarName ); _Success_(return == 0) _Check_return_wat_ _DCRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wgetenv_s( _Out_ size_t* _RequiredCount, _Out_writes_opt_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount, _In_z_ wchar_t const* _VarName ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_1_1( _Success_(return == 0) errno_t, _wgetenv_s, _Out_ size_t, _RequiredCount, wchar_t, _Buffer, _In_z_ wchar_t const, _VarName ) _Check_return_ _DCRTIMP int __cdecl _wputenv( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _EnvString ); _Check_return_wat_ _DCRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wputenv_s( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _Name, _In_z_ wchar_t const* _Value ); _DCRTIMP errno_t __cdecl _wsearchenv_s( _In_z_ wchar_t const* _Filename, _In_z_ wchar_t const* _VarName, _Out_writes_z_(_BufferCount) wchar_t* _Buffer, _In_ size_t _BufferCount ); __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_SECURE_FUNC_2_0( errno_t, _wsearchenv_s, _In_z_ wchar_t const, _Filename, _In_z_ wchar_t const, _VarName, wchar_t, _ResultPath ) __DEFINE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_FUNC_2_0( void, __RETURN_POLICY_VOID, _DCRTIMP, _wsearchenv, _In_z_ wchar_t const, _Filename, _In_z_ wchar_t const, _VarName, _Pre_notnull_ _Post_z_, wchar_t, _ResultPath ) _DCRTIMP int __cdecl _wsystem( _In_opt_z_ wchar_t const* _Command ); #endif // _CRT_FUNCTIONS_REQUIRED _CRT_END_C_HEADER _UCRT_RESTORE_CLANG_WARNINGS #pragma warning(pop) // _UCRT_DISABLED_WARNINGS ```
Evgeny Morozov (Russian: Eвге́ний Моро́зов; ; born in 1984) is an American writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018. Life and career Morozov was born in 1984 in Soligorsk, Belarus. He attended the American University in Bulgaria and later lived in Berlin before moving to the United States. Morozov has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing editor of and blogger for Foreign Policy magazine, for which he wrote the blog Net Effect. He has previously been a Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, director of new media at the NGO Transitions Online, and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia. In 2009, he was chosen as a TED Fellow where he spoke about how the Web influences civic engagement and regime stability in authoritarian, closed societies or in countries "in transition". Morozov's writings have appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The New Yorker, New Scientist, The New Republic, Corriere della Sera, Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek International, International Herald Tribune, Boston Review, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Folha de S.Paulo, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. As of 2013, Morozov pursued a PhD in the history of science from Harvard, which he obtained in May 2018. He regularly holds lectures in the framework of university programs, cultural centres, and has developed teaching and mentorship activities. Thought Morozov expresses skepticism about the popular view that the Internet is helping to democratize authoritarian regimes, arguing that it could also be a powerful tool for engaging in mass surveillance, political repression, and spreading nationalist and extremist propaganda. He has also criticized what he calls "The Internet Freedom Agenda" of the US government and finds it naïve and even counterproductive to the very goal of promoting democracy through the Web. Later in his career, Morozov began to express doubts about the project of technology criticism itself, calling it politically vague and impotent to effectuate change. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom In January 2011, Morozov published his first book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (). In addition to exploring the impact of the Internet on authoritarian states, the book investigates the intellectual sources of the growing excitement about the liberating potential of the Internet and links it to the triumphalism that followed the end of the Cold War. Morozov also argues against the ideas of cyber-utopianism (the inability to see the Internet's "darker" side, that is, the capabilities for information control and manipulation of new media space) and Internet-centrism, the growing propensity to view all political and social change through the prism of the Internet. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism In March 2013, Morozov published a second book, To Save Everything, Click Here (). Morozov criticizes what he calls "technology solutionism," the idea that, as Tim Wu put it, "a little magic dust can fix any problem". However, Wu, whose own work is severely criticized by Morozov, dismisses Morozov's book as "rife with such bullying and unfair attacks that seem mainly designed to build Morozov's particular brand of trollism", and "a missed opportunity" to discuss the issues. Morozov believes that technology should be debated alongside debates about politics, economics, history, and culture. About Internet libertarians, Morozov told The New Yorker:They want to be "open", they want to be "disruptive", they want to "innovate". The open agenda is, in many ways, the opposite of equality and justice. They think anything that helps you to bypass institutions is, by default, empowering or liberating. You might not be able to pay for health care or your insurance, but if you have an app on your phone that alerts you to the fact that you need to exercise more, or you aren't eating healthily enough, they think they are solving the problem. Morozov has also been criticized by those who are sympathetic to his broader project for failing to provide evidence for his claims beyond stating anecdotes. The Syllabus In September 2019, Morozov founded The Syllabus. Working on the idea that “The good content is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed”, The Syllabus monitors thousands of video channels, podcasts, magazines, newspapers, academic journals, and other digital repositories. Then, machine learning aggregates content based on a score, which an algorithm automatically assigns to each piece. In this way, it collects, analyzes, and classifies relevant information. The Syllabus publishes a weekly newsletter and personalized recommendations for its subscribers. It then makes the previously indexed pieces available to subscribers in a searchable archive. The Santiago Boys In 2023 he published The Santiago Boys, a series of podcasts about the 1970s Chile's social internet project by Salvador Allende. Selected bibliography Books Hardback edition. Hardback edition. Hardback edition. Essays and reporting See also Epochalism Technological utopianism References External links 1984 births Date of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Belarusian writers American bloggers American male journalists Belarusian bloggers Belarusian journalists Belarusian male writers Georgetown University people Internet theorists People from Salihorsk The New Yorker people 21st-century American non-fiction writers Harvard University alumni American male bloggers Belarusian emigrants to the United States
Sathyan is a common Indian name and can refer to: Sathyan (actor) (1912–1971), Manuel Sathyaneshan , Malayalam film actor Sathyan (Tamil actor) (born 1975), Tamil film comedian and actor Sathyan (singer) (born 1980), Sathyan Mahalingam, an Indian playback singer and composer
The 2021 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the twenty-first season of D1 Grand Prix started on April 24 at Okuibuki Motopark and ended on November 21 at Ebisu Circuit. Masanori Kohashi is the defending champions. Teams and Drivers Source : 2021 D1GP Drivers Schedule Note : Round 5 and 6 supposed to be held on August 21 and 22, but were postponed due to the rising COVID-19 cases in Japan. The event was moved to November 20 and 21 but the event was not renamed. Ranking Drivers' Ranking Note : Bold : Tsuiso (Dual-run) Winner Italic : Tanso (Single-run) WInner † - Round 3 at Tsubaka was abandoned before the final because of curfew. Both finalists were co-champions for championship purposes, and the points for both first and second place were combined and split, with each driver awarded 21 points each as co-champions. Akinori Utsumi was symbolically the winner based on higher seed. Tanso series Ranking Note : Bold : Tanso (Single-run) Winner Teams' Ranking Source : 2021 D1GP Series ranking External links Official Website (In Japanese) References D1 Grand Prix
Andrew Elborn Clements (May 29, 1949 – November 28, 2019) was an American author of children's literature. His debut novel Frindle won an award determined by the vote of U.S. schoolchildren in about 20 different U.S. states. In June 2015, Frindle was named the Phoenix Award winner for 2016, as it was the best book that did not win a major award when it was published. Life Clements was born in Camden, New Jersey, and lived in nearby Oaklyn and Cherry Hill before moving to Springfield, Illinois as a pre-teen. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming, hiking, water skiing, and his evenings reading books. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Northwestern University and a Masters of Arts in Elementary Education from National Louis University, he worked as a teacher, sharing his love of reading with elementary, middle, and high school students. He worked for several publishing companies where he published, acquired, edited, marketed, and developed quality children's books. In 1985, Clements added his own work to the market with a picture book entitled Bird Delbert. His first novel was the award-winning Frindle, which has won 16 state book awards, as well as the Christopher Award. Clements was married to the former Rebecca Pierpont, and they had three sons. He died at his home in Baldwin, Maine, on November 28, 2019, at age 70 from an undisclosed illness. Awards The Children's Literature Association named Frindle the best English-language children's book published in 1996 that did not win a major contemporary book award, thus making it the winner of the Phoenix Award for 2016. Contemporary Awards 2001: Utah Children's Choice Award 1999–2000: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award 1999: Texas Children's Crown Award 1999: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice, (WA, OR, MT, AK, ID, AB, BC) 1999: South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award 1999: Sasquatch Children's Book Award, (WA) 1999: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award, (IL) 1998–1999: Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, 4–6 1998–1999: Young Hoosier Book Award, (IN) 1998–1999: North Carolina Children's Choice Award 1998–1999: Nevada Young Readers' Award 1998–1999: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, (AR) 1998–1999: Maud Hart Lovelace Award, MN Youth Reading Award 1998–1999: Georgia Children's Book Award 1998–1999: William Allen White Children's Book Award, (KS) 1998–1999: Massachusetts Children's Book Award 1998: Prize Cento, Cento, Italy 1998: Rhode Island Children's Book Award 1997–1998: Great Stone Face Book Award, (NH) 1997: Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book (L.A.)Award 1997: Christopher Award 1998–1999 Georgia children's book award Listings and recommendations 1999: Capitol Choices list, best books for ages 7–10 1998: Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best 1997–1998: Indiana Read-Alouds Too Good to Miss 1997: Horn Book Magazine Fanfare Book 1997: Parents' Choice Honor Book 1996: New York Public Library One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing Other 2004: California Young Readers Medal, The School Story 2004: American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award, Things Not Seen 2007: Edgar Allan Poe Award for best juvenile book, Room One: A Mystery or Two Bibliography For all (As Andrew Elborn) Noah and the Ark and the Animals, illustrated by Ivan Gantschev, Picture Book Studio (Saxonville, MA), 1987. Santa's Secret Helper, illustrated by Deborah Santini, Picture Book Studio (Saxonville, MA), 1990. Temple Cat, illustrated by Alan Marks, Picture Book Studio, 1991, illustrated by Kate Kiesler, Clarion (New York, NY), 1996. Mother Earth's Counting Book, illustrated by Lonni Sue Johnson, Picture Book Studio, 1992. Billy and the Bad Teacher, illustrated by Elivia Savadier, Picture Book Studio, 1992. Who Owns the Cow?, illustrated by Joan Landis, Clarion (New York, NY), 1995. Bright Christmas: An Angel Remembers, illustrated by Kate Kiesler, Clarion (New York, NY), 1996. Frindle (middle-grade novel), illustrated by Brian Selznick, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996. (Adapter) Philipp's Birthday Book, illustrated by Hanne Turk, North-South Books, 1996. Riff's BeBop Book, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996. Real Monsters Go for the Mold!, illustrated by Matthew Stoddart, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997. Things That Go EEK on Halloween, illustrated by George Ulrich, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997. Real Monsters Stage Fright, illustrated by Matthew Stoddart, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997. Music Time, Any Time!, illustrated by Tom Leigh, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997. Double Trouble in Walla Walla, illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca, Millbrook Press (Brookfield, CT), 1997. Workshop, illustrated by David Wisniewski, Clarion (New York, NY), 1998. Gromble's Haunted Halloween, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1998. Hey Dad, Could I Borrow Your Hammer?, illustrated by Jackie Snider, Millbrook Press (Brookfield, CT), 1999. The Landry News, (middle-grade novel), illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1999. Look Who's in the Thanksgiving Play!, illustrated by Mavis Smith, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1999. The Mouse Family, illustrated by Simon Galkin, Little Simon (New York, NY), 2000. The Janitor's Boy, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2000. Circus Family Dog, illustrated by Sue Truesdell, Clarion (New York, NY), 2000. The Christmas Kitten, illustrated by Simon Galkin, Little Simon (New York, NY), 2000. The School Story, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Things Not Seen (middle-grade novel), Philomel (New York, NY), 2002. The Jacket (originally serialized in Boston Globe), illustrated by McDavid Henderson, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. A Week in the Woods, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. Slippers at Home, illustrated by Janie Bynum, Dutton (New York, NY), 2004. Naptime for Slippers, illustrated by Janie Bynum, Dutton (New York, NY), 2004. The Report Card, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2004. The Last Holiday Concert, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2004. Slippers at School, illustrated by Janie Bynum, Dutton (New York, NY), 2005. Slippers Loves to Run, illustrated by Janie Bynum, Dutton (New York, NY), 2005. A Million Is a Lot of Dots, illustrated by Rob Roth, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2005. Lunch Money, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2005. Things Hoped For, Philomel Books (New York, NY), 2006 Room One: A Mystery or Two, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2006 No Talking, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2007 Things That Are, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2008 Lost and Found, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2008 Extra Credit, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2009 Troublemaker, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2011 About Average, Atheneum Books {New York}, 2012 The Map Trap, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2014 The Friendship War, Random House Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2019 Pets to the Rescue series Ringo Saves the Day!: A True Story, illustrated by Ellen Beier, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Brave Norman: A True Story, illustrated by Ellen Beier, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends: A True Story, illustrated by Ellen Beier, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. Delores and the Big Fire: A True Story, illustrated by Ellen Beier, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. Jake Drake series Jake Drake Know-It-All, illustrated by Dolores Avenaño, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Jake Drake, Bully Buster, illustrated by Amanda Harvey, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001. Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet, illustrated by Dolores Avenaño, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. Jake Drake, Class Clown, illustrated by Dolores Avenaño, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2002. Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School series We the Children, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2010 Fear Itself, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2011 The Whites of Their Eyes, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2012 In Harm's Way, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2013 (with Adam Stower) We Hold These Truths, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 2013 Reading program books Karen's Island, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995. Three Wishes for Buster, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995. Bill Picket: An American Original, Texas Style, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1996. Hurricane Andrew, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1998. Ham and Eggs for Jack, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1998. Life in the Desert, Steck-Vaughn, 1998. Desert Treasure, illustrated by Wayne Anthony Still, Steck-Vaughn, 1998. Inventors: Making Things Better, Steck-Vaughn, 1998. Milo's Great Invention, illustrated by Johnansen Newman, Steck-Vaughn, 1998. References External links Andrew Clements at Fantastic Fiction 1949 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American children's writers National Louis University alumni Northwestern University alumni People from Baldwin, Maine People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey People from Oaklyn, New Jersey Writers from Camden, New Jersey Writers from Maine Writers from Springfield, Illinois
The Zobel Junior Archers (officially the De La Salle Zobel Junior Archers) is the varsity team of De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and is the Juniors' team of De La Salle University's De La Salle Green Archers in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. Its girls' team, the Lady Junior Archers, is De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde's Junior's team to the Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association. History De La Salle Santiago Zobel's varsity team was first officially known as the "Golden Bengals," with its mascot being the Fighting Bengal. This identity was designed and proposed by Brother Raymond Bronowicz FSC, who was the first Brother-Director of the school at that time. He decided that the school should adopt its own unique identity per the practice of the different De La Salle schools at that time: La Salle Green Hills were the Rangers and De La Salle Lipa were the Dragons then the Stallions. The adoption of a new mascot was not welcomed by the studentry since a majority came from the grade school in the main campus in Manila and they were used to having an Archer moniker as the former, now defunct, De La Salle College High Schools De La Salle Greenies was. In 1997, the Board of Trustees of the school, led by its then President-Mr. Lamberto de Ocampo, elected to officially call De La Salle Zobel's varsity team as the Junior Archers. History with the UAAP The Junior Archers, together with the De La Salle Green Archers, joined the University Athletic Association of the Philippines in 1986, when De La Salle University picked De La Salle Santiago Zobel School to be its representative in the Junior (High School) division. De La Salle Zobel was chosen, in spite of La Salle Green Hills being DLSU's junior representative in the NCAA from 1968 to 1981, because the school was at that time was considered a satellite campus of DLSU while LSGH was a completely independent corporate entity. From the time that the Junior Archers joined the UAAP in 1986 until it won its very first basketball championship in Season 68 (2005–06), the Junior Archers' achievements were considered to be moderate at best. The team never finished last. During UAAP Season 68 (2005–06), the Junior Archers won its first UAAP Juniors basketball title when it swept the UPIS Junior Maroons, 2–0. It was also De La Salle's first Juniors title in either the NCAA or the UAAP since 1955, when the De La Salle Greenies of the then existing De La Salle College High School in Taft Avenue, Manila led by De La Salle basketball great—Kurt Bachmann, won 1955 NCAA Junior Basketball championship. After its year-long suspension in UAAP Season 69 (2006–07) due to the ineligibility scandal that rocked the whole Lasallian community, the Junior Archers, together with their seniors counterparts the De La Salle Green Archers, won the "double championship" in men's basketball the next season. The Junior Archers swept the defending champions Ateneo de Manila Blue Eaglets to claim their second juniors basketball title in three years. In the Season 71 of the UAAP, the Junior Archers were the favorites to win their third straight UAAP Juniors Basketball Championship. DLSZ finished second in the standings behind the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eaglets and gained a twice-to-beat advantage and to face the FEU-FERN Baby Tamaraws. Unfortunately, the Baby Tamaraws surprised and swept the two-time defending champions eliminating them as they failed to defend their crown. The Junior Archers would return to the finals in Season 72, finishing atop the team standings with a 12–2 record and then avenged last year's final four loss to the Baby Tamaraws. However, in the finals, they fell in a hard-fought three-game series to the defending champions Ateneo Blue Eaglets. Despite having a young roster for Season 73, the Junior Archers still overachieved with a 7–7 record, finishing in a tie for fourth. They would defeat the FEU-FERN Baby Tamaraws in the fourth-place playoff to qualify for the step-ladder phase (the Blue Eaglets finished the season undefeated after 14 games). They then upset the NU Bullpups in a low-scoring affair before bowing to the UST Tiger Cubs in the second step-ladder phase. In the spirit of De La Salle Philippines's "One La Salle"(all 18-La Salle campuses in the Philippines are under De La Salle Philippines. Inc. headed by Brother Armin Luistro FSC who is also concurrently the President of De La Salle University-Manila), the La Salle Greenies are currently CSB's juniors reps in the NCAA while the Zobel Junior Archers are DLSU's juniors reps in the UAAP. Basketball (2018) With 4 veterans and 12 rookies, the Junior Archer are young but opt to prove that they have the caliber to be in the Final Four after 2017's team fell short.De La Salle Zobel Junior Archers' Coaching Staff Head coach: Boris Aldeguer Assistant coaches: Warren Capitan Gian Nazario Jerry Andaleon Mac Bautista Arfenee Laureaga Anton Arevalo DLSZ Juniors Football Team Roster (A.Y. 2013-2014) History with the WNCAA The De La Salle Lady Junior Archers have been the WNCAA Junior Division Champions for eight straight years, from 1993 to 2000 and again in 2004. In contrast to their men's junior counterparts, DLSZ represents College of St. Benilde in the WNCAA since the NCAA didn't have women's basketball in their scheme. Varsity teams Teams of the following sports carry the moniker of Junior Archers or Lady Junior Archers: Badminton Baseball Basketball Chess Football Fencing Futsal Lawn Tennis Softball Table Tennis Taekwondo Track and Field Volleyball Mixed Martial Arts Triathlon References University Athletic Association of the Philippines teams
Levan Gureshidze (; born September 21, 1988) is a Georgian luger who has competed since 2008. He finished 55th in the 2008-09 Luge World Cup. Gureshidze qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics but withdrew from the competition after teammate Nodar Kumaritashvili died during a training run accident at the Olympics. He instead flew back to Georgia to mourn the loss of his teammate at Kumaritashvili's funeral. References External links 1988 births Living people Male lugers from Georgia (country) Olympic lugers for Georgia (country) Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Place of birth missing (living people)
The Imperial Limited was the Canadian Pacific Railway's premier passenger train across Canada between Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver, British Columbia. It began operation June 18, 1899, seven days a week as a seasonal service supplementing the six days per week eastward Atlantic Express and its westward counterpart, the Pacific Express. It catered to travellers wanting to see the scenic Rocky Mountains and to vacation there. It was these well-to-do people that Sir William Cornelius Van Horne sought to attract in ever-increasing numbers, to travel to Canada, many on Canadian Pacific's ocean ships, then on Canadian Pacific's trains and to stay in Canadian Pacific's chalets at Banff Springs Hotel and Chateau Lake Louise. His famous quote was: "Since we can't export the scenery, we will have to import the tourists". And import them he did, in ever greater numbers. Equipped with luxurious sleeping and dining cars it continued the emphasis on comfort that the CPR had offered travellers from the beginning in 1886. It went to year-round service in June 1911 at which time it replaced the original trains, Atlantic Express and Pacific Express. In 1929 it was renamed simply Imperial due to the introduction of the seasonal Trans-Canada Limited which featured new steel equipment. The Trans-Canada Limited was doomed by the Great Depression which struck after only one season. It operated one more season in 1930 and was discontinued, its equipment redistributed or stored. In the 1931 and 1932 summer season two trains were operated — The Imperial for Montreal–Vancouver service and The Dominion for Toronto–Vancouver. The name Imperial was eliminated effective June 25, 1933, at which time The Dominion became the premier train. A numbered train continued in the Imperial absence, lasting until April 28, 1956, at which time the loss of the Royal Mail contract ended the service. The depression was ended by the coming of World War II, a time at which luxury train travel was not vital and many first-class cars were stored or modified for wartime needs. After the war, new equipment was essential to replace an over-worked fleet. A new material was now available instead of the heavy steel that had in use for decades: stainless steel, fashioned in a streamlined manner to appeal to the public and outfitted in the best tradition of CPR care for its customers. This new equipment would be hauled by diesel locomotives, not the tried-and-true steam locomotives that had been at the head of the CPR's passenger trains since the beginning. Diesels had already begun handling The Dominion between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia, in 1952. April 24, 1955, saw the introduction of The Canadian as the flagship train between Montreal and Vancouver along with a Toronto–Sudbury section with through sleeping cars. At this time The Dominion became a secondary service between those points. The Canadian continued until the takeover of CPR passenger train operations by Via Rail in October 1978, when the train was renamed simply Canadian. In 1990 it was re-routed, mostly over the Canadian National Railway, and service continues to this day. References Named passenger trains of Canada Named passenger trains of Ontario Railway services introduced in 1899 Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains Railway services discontinued in 1933
The Bondarikha culture or Bondarikhinskaya culture was a Late Bronze Age (11th-9th centuries BCE) archaeological culture of modern-day Ukraine. It replaced the Srubnaya culture. It was found from the left shore of the Dnepr to the upper and mid Seversky Donets, and it the east it reached the Don bassin and mid-Oka. The culture was identified in the 50s by . It is represented by both fortified and non-fortified settlement, grave fields, treasures and scattered finds. They lived in pit houses, semi-pit houses and houses on flat ground. The cemeteries are tumuli, and flat ground graves with cremated remains in urns or small pits. It was followed by the and the Gorodets culture. Archaeological cultures of Europe Bronze Age cultures of Europe Archaeological cultures in Russia Archaeological cultures in Ukraine Iranian archaeological cultures Scythians
First-seeded Thelma Long defeated Jenny Staley 6–3, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1954 Australian Championships. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Thelma Long is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. Thelma Long (champion) Mary Hawton (semifinals) Jenny Staley (finalist) Beryl Penrose (second round) Helen Angwin (second round) Norma Ellis (first round) Fay Muller (second round) Dorn Fogarty (first round) Hazel Redick-Smith (quarterfinals) Julia Wipplinger (first round) Draw Key Q = Qualifier WC = Wild card LL = Lucky loser r = Retired Finals Earlier rounds Section 1 Section 2 External links 1954 in women's tennis 1954 1954 in Australian tennis 1954 in Australian women's sport
Biscayne Point is a neighborhood of North Beach in the city of Miami Beach, Florida. It is located just west of the main island that the city occupies, in the area of the city referred to as North Beach. It is actually on three islands, just north of Normandy Shores. Bridges connect the three islands which are accessible from 77th Street and from 85th Street by vehicles and a from a pedestrian bridge at 80th Street. Two public parks are available. The northern one is Stillwater Park and the southern is Crespi Park. Education Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the local school district. Biscayne Beach Elementary School is the local elementary school. Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School and Miami Beach Senior High School serve North Bay Village. References Neighborhoods in Miami Beach, Florida Islands of Miami Beach, Florida Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida
KNHT (102.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Rio Dell, California. The station is owned by Southern Oregon University, and is an affiliate of Jefferson Public Radio, airing JPR's "Classics & News" service, consisting of news and classical music programming. External links ijpr.org NHT Classical music radio stations in the United States NPR member stations Radio stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in California Southern Oregon University
Nvidia GRID is a family of graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia, introduced in 2008, that is targeted specifically towards cloud gaming. The Nvidia GRID includes both graphics processing and video encoding into a single device which is able to decrease the input to display latency of cloud based video game streaming. Nvidia offer their own game streaming service that makes use of the Nvidia Grid that supports full 1080p at 60 frames per second over the Internet. While many of Nvidia’s cards are known for gaming, there has been a recent growth of business applications that are GPU-accelerated. The Nvidia GRID K1 and K2 are being integrated with Supermicro server clusters for use with 3D-intensive applications such as graphics and computer aided design (CAD). In 2015, Microsoft began including Nvidia GRID as part of its Azure Enterprise cloud platform targeted towards professionals such as engineers, designers and researchers. References Nvidia graphics processors
Kongo University () is a university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its name is abbreviated to UK, after its French name. The main offices of the university are located in Mbanza-Ngungu. UK currently operates two linked campuses, at Mbanza-Ngungu and at Kisantu. A permanent third campus at Mbanza-Luvaka has been under construction since 1992. Faculties and programs Mbanza-Ngungu Campus Faculty of Business and Economics Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Law Kisantu Campus Faculty of Agriculture Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Literature and Mass Communication External links Kongo University official site - available in French Kongo University - available in English, French, Kikongo and Portuguese Universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kisantu 1990 establishments in Zaire Universities and colleges established in 1990
Jashar Mezenxhiu was an Albanian politician and mayor of Tirana from 1984 to 1985. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Mayors of Tirana
Kadist is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection. In addition to being a collecting body, Kadist hosts artists residencies and produces exhibitions, publications, and public events. The first location was opened in Paris in 2006 by Vincent Worms and Sandra Terdjman, and a San Francisco, California location was added in 2011 in the Mission District. Programs Exhibitions: With a gallery space both in Paris and San Francisco, Kadist hosts exhibitions by international artists and curators, often in coordination with their residency program. Artists they have worked with include Ryan Gander, Danh Vo, Francis Alÿs, and Roman Ondàk. Additionally they have co-produced large scale artist projects, including "Klau Mich" by Dora García and "Muster" by Clemens von Wedemeyer at DOCUMENTA (13). Residencies: Kadist provides residencies for a wide range of creative activities including and not limited to new artistic productions, publications, writers and curators. Recent residents include artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, bookstore Ooga Booga and publications White Fungus, Nero, and Fillip. Events: Kadist San Francisco hosts an ongoing series of events, frequently on Wednesdays, which have involved screenings, performances, conversations, and game shows. Mission From their mission statement: "We believe contemporary artists make an important contribution to a progressive society, their work often addressing key issues of our time. KADIST is a non-profit organization that encourages this engagement and is dedicated to extending the reach of artists represented in its collection to a global audience, thus facilitating new connections across cultures. Its programs develop collaborations with artists, curators and many art organizations around the world. Local programs in KADIST’s hubs of Paris and San Francisco include exhibitions, public events, residencies and educational initiatives. Complemented by an active online network, they aim at creating vibrant conversations about contemporary art and ideas." Collection The Kadist collection was established in 2001 and includes film and video, performance, painting, photography, drawings and prints, sculpture, and installations. Ultimately the collection not bound by geography, but it focuses on four greater regions: the Middle East, Asia, The Americas and Europe. Kadist has also supported the production of artworks, and commissioned artworks through its residency program, and in collaboration with international biennials—some of which are part of the collection. References External links Kadist Art Foundation in Paper Magazine "Trio of Art Entities Opens in San Francisco's Mission District" in Art In America Episode 304 Kadist Art Foundation Review of exhibition Living as Form the Nomadic Version, 2011 Review of exhibition with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2013 Review of exhibition Enacting Populism, 2012 in Frieze Review of exhibition L'exigence de la saudade, 2013 in Artforum Review of exhibition with Goldin+Senneby, 2010 in art agenda Review of Lives Between exhibition KADIST and e-flux present Ways of Reading Symposium, February 1, 2020 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area Arts centers in California Arts centres in France Art galleries established in 2006 Art galleries established in 2011 2011 establishments in California Arts foundations based in the United States Contemporary art galleries in the United States
Party of Croatian Right ( or SHP) is a conservative right-wing political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Complaining about disunity and "abandonment of the original rights idea by many other existing rights parties", members of Party of Croatian Right, "who want to be loyal to the original rights teachings and goal", founded on 19 December 2004 a new political party in Livno. Ante Matić became the first president of the party. Party states that they are national Croatian party that serves the interests of Croatian people and their actual spiritual and economic prosperity. Their goal is also to promote teachings of Ante Starčević and Eugen Kvaternik, founders of the original Party of Rights, social teachings of brothers Antun and Stjepan Radić, and also teaching of other historical national leaders of Croatian people whose actions were founded on teachings of Ante Starčević and also accepting of the newest technological achievements that will truly serve to whole humanity and especially to Croats on all of their historical territory. Sources Conservative parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croat political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian nationalist parties Croatian irredentism
Andrew White Tuer (1838–1900) was a British publisher, writer and printer. Life He was born in Sunderland in 1838. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his great-uncle, Andrew White, after whom he was named. After his education, he went to London with the plan of becoming a doctor, but that did not suit him, and after working in a merchant's office, he set himself up as a wholesale stationer. In 1862, he joined with Abraham Field, an established producer of ledgers, in the partnership of Field & Tuer. Tuer, the entrepreneur of the pair, invented the highly successful Stickphast Paste, a clean, vegetable-based alternative to the gums and glues then in use. He later introduced the popular Author's Paper Pad, perhaps the first writing block with detachable sheets. In 1867, Tuer married Thomasine Louisa Louttit, who became well known as an amateur opera singer. The following year, Field & Tuer moved to 50 Leadenhall Street, and the expansion allowed Tuer to pursue his publishing ambitions. In 1872, Tuer introduced the quarterly Paper & Printing Trades Journal, intended as a "Medium of Intercommunication Between Stationers, Printers, Publishers and Booksellers." Tuer later served on the committee of the Caxton Celebration of 1877 commemorating the 400th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England, in charge of Class E: Specimens of Printing. After that event, Tuer and fellow printer Thomas Hailing began a scheme aimed at improving the quality of the printing trade at all levels. In 1880, after two years of planning, Field & Tuer introduced the Printers' International Specimen Exchange, whereby printers and their employees and apprentices could submit multiple samples of their work and receive back a volume containing a copy of every specimen accepted. Tuer published and edited the Exchange for the first eight years. In 1879, the first official book of its new imprint, the Leadenhall Press, appeared: Tuer’s own Luxurious Bathing, a treatise on the joys of hygiene, with etchings by Sutton Sharpe. From this point on, Scribner was the firm's U.S. import partner. The second edition was issued the following year in a smaller format with etchings by Tristram Ellis. Tuer's passion for collecting soon led to the two-volume Bartolozzi and his Works, with a biographical account, information on how to date impressions and identify deceptions, and a list of over 2,000 engravings. In 1884, Tuer published a collection of printers' jokes from the pages of the Paper & Printing Trades Journal, titled Quads within Quads, consisting of a midget folio housed in a block of extra pages at the back of a duodecimo "enlarged edition." The prospectus described it as "A book and a box, or rather two books and a box, and yet after all not a box at all, but a book and only one book." The catalogue as a whole reflected Tuer's energetic and whimsical nature and his interest in antiquarian subjects, including London history and early children's books. However, Tuer was also an experimenter, and some books were ahead of their time in content, design, and printing. Under his stewardship, the Leadenhall Press went on to issue more than 450 publications of all kinds on a wide variety of subjects by many prominent authors and illustrators of the time, ranging in price from sixpence to several guineas for special limited editions. In 1891, Abraham Field died, and the following year the firm was incorporated as Leadenhall Press Ltd. Publishing continued throughout the nineties, and one of Tuer's most important works was published in the 1896: History of the Horn-Book (still the best study of the subject). Tuer died of pleurisy on 24 February 1900 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. In its obituary of 5 March, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote: “London publishing is the poorer in high spirits and humour by the death of Mr. Andrew Tuer. In all his doings he was mirthful, and he gave readers several very excellent books.” The Dictionary of National Biography describes him as an "omnivorous collector", who filled his house in Campden Hill Road Notting Hill with "books, engravings, clocks, china, silver and bric-a-brac of the most varied description". Family Tuer's wife was Thomasine Louisa. They had no children. Mrs. Tuer's godson was the Cambridge historian J. P. T (John Patrick Tuer) Bury, who wrote articles about Tuer for the Book Collector and the Bookplate Journal. Bibliography Luxurious Bathing: A Sketch''' (1879, 2nd edition 1880). Digitized by Google from Harvard University Library. Bartolozzi and His Works (1882, 2nd edition 1885 in two volumes). Digitized by Google (unattributed). The Kaukneigh Awlminek, 1883 (1882) London Cries: with Six Charming Children (1883). Digitized by Google from the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Quads for Authors, Editors, & Devils (1884, issued as a "midget folio," an "Enlarged Edition," and as Quads within Quads, bound in vellum, with the midget folio housed in hollowed-out pages at the back of the larger version) John Bull's Womankind. (Suggestions for an Alteration in the Law of Copyright in the Titles of Books) (1884, pamphlet) Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day (1885). Digitized by Google from Harvard University Library. The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807) (1886–1887). Digitized by Google from the Library of Harvard University Library. 1,000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days (1886) The First Year of a Silken Reign (1837–8) (1887, written with Charles Edward Fagan). Digitized by University of California Libraries. "Thenks Awf’lly!" Sketched in Cockney and Hung on Twelve Pegs (1890)Digitized by Google from Harvard University Library. "The Art of Silhouetting" in the English Illustrated Magazine, No. 82, Vol. 7, July 1890, p. 747–752. Digitized by Google from the Indiana University Library. The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs, Being One Hundred Facsimile Illustrations of the Art of the Japanese Stencil Cutter (1892) History of the Horn-Book (1896 in two volumes with seven facsimile hornbooks and battledores in compartments at the front of each volume, 2nd edition 1897 in one volume) Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children’s Books (1898–99). Digitized by the Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Stories from Old-Fashioned Children’s Books (1899–1900), digitized by Google from the New York Public Library. References Sources "Andrew W. Tuer." British Printer, Vol. IV, No. 34, July–August 1893: 225–226. "Andrew White Tuer," Printing Review–Magazine of the Printing Industry, Number 54, Summer 1950: 39–40. Bullen, George, Esq., F.S.A. Caxton Celebration 1877. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities and Appliances connected with the Art of Printing. London: N. Trübner & Co., 1877. Bury, J. P. T. [John Patrick Tuer]. "A. W. Tuer and the Leadenhall Press." Book Collector, Volume 36, No. 2, Summer 1987: 225–243. Bury, J. P. T. "Andrew White Tuer and His Bookplates." Bookplate Journal, Vol. 6, Number 1, March 1988: 5–14. "The Late Andrew W. Tuer and His Book-Plates." Ex Libris Journal (Journal of the Ex Libris Society), Vol. X, Part 9, September 1900: 132. Jennett, Sean. "Printers' International Specimen Exchange." Print IX: 4, March–April 1955: 17–18. Johnson, A. F. "Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age," Monotype Recorder, Sept.-Dec. 1931: 5–14. Johnson, Dr. John. "The Development of Printing, other than Book Printing." The Library, Fourth Series, XVII-1, 1936. pp. 22–35. Meynell, Francis. English Printed Books. (London: Collins, 1946). Peltz, Lucy. “Tuer, Andrew White (1838–1900).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Shepard, Leslie. The History of the Horn Book: a Bibliographical Essay. ([Cambridge]: Rampant Lions Press for the Broadsheet King, 1977). White, Gleeson. "Children's Books and Their Illustrators." International Studio, Special Winter Number, 1897-8: 3–68. Young, Matthew McLennan. Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press. A Checklist with an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer''. Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2010. External links Works by Andrew W Tuer at Project Gutenberg 1838 births 1900 deaths English printers English book publishers (people) 19th-century English historians Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery People from Sunderland Writers from Tyne and Wear Victorian era 19th-century antiquarians English antiquarians English typographers and type designers 19th-century English businesspeople
UNC Health Blue Ridge is a not-for-profit hospital located in Morganton, North Carolina, and serving Burke County, North Carolina. The hospital anchors UNC Health Blue Ridge system of healthcare providers that includes other facilities such as Valdese, Grace Ridge Retirement Community, Phifer Wellness Center and other physician practices. History Grace Hospital began as a mission of the Episcopal Church. In 1901, the Rev. Walter Hughson and his wife, Mary Herbert Hughson, moved to Morganton where Rev. Hughson served as rector of Grace Episcopal Church. The church hired Miss Maria Purdon Allen from Philadelphia in 1903 as visiting nurse to the missions. After Miss Allen wrote an article in a national church publication, “The Spirit of the Missions,” about the need for a hospital in the area which she believed could be built for $3,000, friends and strangers began sending money for the project. Mrs. George Zabriskie Gray of New York sent $3,000 in memory of her daughter Grace then another $2,000 of which $1,000 was designated to build a ward for African-Americans. Rev. Hughson took charge of the project, and the first Grace Hospital was built on King Street in Morganton across from the Episcopal rectory. The hospital opened on Aug. 1, 1906, with two white wards, one male and one female, with four beds each and a crib and an annex for black patients with two wards of four beds each. The hospital had an operating room and a dispensary. Mrs. Hughson became the first superintendent of the hospital and devoted considerable time and energy to improving the institution's finances and facilities. Kathy C. Bailey is the president and chief executive officer of UNC Health Blue Ridge. References Hospitals in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Burke County, North Carolina
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Minicoy or JNV Lakshadweep is a boarding, co-educational school in Lakshadweep U.T. in India. JNV Minicoy is funded by M.H.R.D. and administered by Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti, an autonomous body under the ministry. Navodaya Vidyalayas offer free education to talented children from Class VI to XII. History The school was established in 1988, and is a part of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools. This school is administered and monitored by Hyderabad regional office of Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti. Navodaya Vidyalaya Minicoy in 90s had an exchange program with JNV Sitapur, whereby first 2 batches of JNV Sitapur exchanged 30% of their students with each other at class 9th level. The first batch of 11 students from JNV sitapur came to Mincoy in 1991 of which 6 eventually passed their class Xth from JNV minicoy. (included Anurag Verma ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragxl ), Anoop Kamle, Rakesh Rastogi, Sachin Sonkar, Awadhesh Singh, Arun Kumar, Anuj Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Payoj Singh, Imamuddin, Ayub Ali) Mr. Joseph Mundiyankal was the principal of the school from 1990 to 1992, After him Mr. Epen Luke took over this role in 1992. The initial Teaching Staff included 1. Ms Usha Rani (History) 2. Mr Ganeshan (Mathematics) 3. Mr. Sivadasan (Hindi) 4. Mr. Trivedi (Hindi) Admission Admission to JNV Minicoy at class VI level is made through nationwide selection test conducted by Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti. The information about test is disseminated and advertised in district by the office of Lakshadweep district magistrate (Collector), who is also the chairperson of Vidyalya Management Committee of JNV Minicoy. Affiliations JNV Lakshadweep is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education with affiliation number 3240001. See also List of JNV schools References External links Official Website of JNV Lakshadweep Lakshadweep Educational institutions established in 1988 1988 establishments in Lakshadweep Minicoy Education in Lakshadweep
Andrew Henry Sommerville (born as Henry Travers Summersgill, February 6, 1876 – June 16, 1931) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball pitcher, physician and college football and baseball coach. As a pitcher he appeared in one game for the 1894 Brooklyn Grooms, giving up six runs in one-third of an inning while walking five batters. He served as the head football coach of Tulane University from 1900 to 1901 and the head baseball coach in 1902. College and coaching career A native of Vermont, Summersgill originally attended Brown University, where he played on the football team in 1896, but transferred to the University of Virginia in 1898. He played football at Virginia as an end from 1898 to 1899, and was elected the team captain for the 1899 season. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Summersgill then attended medical school at Tulane University. He took over as the part-time head football coach from H. T. "Pop" Collier for the 1900 season. In his first season, Tulane finished undefeated and unscored upon with a perfect 5–0 record, which was an impressive turnaround from a scoreless 0–6–1 campaign the year prior. The team outscored the Southern Athletic Club, Alabama, , LSU, and Mississippi by a combined 105–;0 margin. The next year, Tulane finished 1901 with a 4–2 mark. Against the Mobile Y.M.C.A., Tulane lost, 2–0, despite Summersgill's protests to the officials that there was still time remaining in the game. The Olive and Blue later beat LSU, 22–0, on the field, but was forced to forfeit 11–0 by the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association over the use of a professional player. Today, Tulane records still count this as a win, which LSU records dispute. Summersgill received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Tulane in 1900. In May 1901, he was licensed after passing the medical examination at Tulane. In 1902, Summersgill coached the Tulane baseball team and amassed an 8–5 record. Medical career In 1905, he was the medical officer in charge at the Bohio Hospital in the Canal Zone at Bohio, Panama. He served as superintendent of the City Hospital in Cincinnati, and later, as the head of the University of California Hospital in San Francisco. After a ten-week illness, he died on June 16, 1931, of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York. Head coaching record Football References External links 1876 births 1931 deaths 19th-century players of American football 19th-century baseball players American football ends Brooklyn Grooms players Brown Bears football players Major League Baseball pitchers Tulane Green Wave football coaches Tulane Green Wave baseball coaches Virginia Cavaliers football players All-Southern college football players Tulane University School of Medicine alumni Baseball players from Brooklyn Baseball players from Vermont Coaches of American football from Vermont Players of American football from Vermont Physicians from California Physicians from Ohio
The following is a list of episodes of House of Mouse, an American animated television series that ran on ABC from January 13, 2001 to May 18, 2002 and on Toon Disney from September 2, 2002 to October 24, 2003. Series overview Episodes All episodes, excluding cartoons, were directed by Tony Craig & Roberts Gannaway Season 1 (2001) Season 2 (2001–2002) Season 3 (2002–2003) Films External links House of Mouse House of Mouse episodes House of Mouse
The court case of the Babiniotis Dictionary () was fought in Greece over the legality of the publication of a Modern Greek dictionary that included a definition of the word "Bulgarian" (referring to a person or persons). George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at Athens University, managed the publication of a dictionary in 1998, named Dictionary of Modern Greek, more commonly known as Babiniotis Dictionary. The dictionary was published by the Lexicology Centre. For the word "Bulgarian" the dictionary provided a dual definition, first its normal use referring to persons descended from Bulgaria, and second a definition marked as vulgar and derogatory to denote a fan of PAOK football team. On 23 May 1998 a person took legal action asking for the second definition to be deleted. The courts accepted the case with number 18134/1998 and agreed that the obscene definition had no place in a dictionary, so the publisher had to delete the second definition from every unsold copy of the dictionary or otherwise it couldn't be legally sold anymore. This was criticized by some people, including some law professors, and later the court case was reviewed by a higher court. On 22 April 1999 the higher court, with case number 13/1999, decided to overturn the decision of the lower court. 1998 in Greece 1998 in case law
Edward Outram Houseman (19 March 1869 – 10 April 1942) was an English cricketer. who played for Derbyshire in one game during the 1897 season. Houseman was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire. His only game for Derbyshire was against Lancashire in the 1897 season. He was out for a duck in the first innings and scored four runs in the second in a match which Derbyshire lost by a one-wicket margin. Houseman was a right-handed batsman. In 1893 Houseman married Ada Ingham in the Prsecot district and by 1904 they had moved to Westhoughton, Lancashire. In 1910 their son Edward was killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster and is commemorated on a plaque erected by the Bolton and District Cricket Association on the face of Westhoughton Town Hall. Houseman died at Westhoughton at the age of 73. References 1869 births 1942 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers People from Dronfield Cricketers from Derbyshire People from Westhoughton Cricketers from Greater Manchester Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Rivaldi Bawuo (born 13 August 1993) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 2 club Sriwijaya. Club career Kalteng Putra In the 2017 season, Rivaldi Played for Kalteng Putra in 2017 Liga 2. On July 27, in a match against PS Mojokerto Putra, he scored a hattrick as his team eased to a 4-1 triumph. He finished the league as a top scorer with 17 goals, but he failed to gain a promotion to Liga 1 with his club as they failed to secure a semi final spot in Group X 2017 Liga 2. Arema F.C. On December 2017, Rivaldi Bawuo move from Kalteng Putra to Arema to play in Indonesian top flight Liga 1. He made his debut for Arema on 9 April 2018 against Borneo Samarinda in 2018 Liga 1, playing as a substitute for Bagas Adi. Madura United On 4 January 2020, Rivaldi Bawuo move from Arema to Madura United. This season was suspended on 27 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and was declared void on 20 January 2021. Persis Solo In 2021, Rivaldi Bawuo signed a contract with Indonesian Liga 2 club Persis Solo. He made his league debut on 5 October against Persijap Jepara at the Manahan Stadium, Surakarta. PSS Sleman (loan) In January 2022, Rivaldi signed a contract with Liga 1 club PSS Sleman on loan from Persis Solo. He made his league debut in a 2–0 loss against Arema on 13 January 2022 as a substitute for Wander Luiz in the 84th minute at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium, Gianyar. Return to Madura United In May 2022, Bawuo returned to Madura United on a year contract. He made his league debut on 23 July 2022 in a match against Barito Putera at the Gelora Ratu Pamelingan Stadium, Pamekasan. Career statistics Club Honours Club Arema Indonesia President's Cup: 2019 Persis Solo Liga 2: 2021 Individual Liga 2 Top Goalscorer: 2017 References External links 1993 births Living people People from Gorontalo (city) People from Gorontalo (province) Indonesian men's footballers Persigo Gorontalo players Kalteng Putra F.C. players Arema F.C. players Madura United F.C. players Persebaya Surabaya players Persis Solo players PSS Sleman players Sriwijaya F.C. players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Liga 2 (Indonesia) players Men's association football forwards
The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India and is for encouraging Indian bio-scientists of less than 45 years of age. The award is given annually for unique contributions made towards the development of state of art in basic and applied areas of biological sciences through demonstrated activity in the form of publication in reputed journals and or patents. The award recognizes research and development work carried out in India during the last 5 years of the career. The award carries a citation, a plaque, a cash prize of and a research support grant of , distributed annually in equal installments for three years. The award is one of the highest Indian biology awards, next to the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India. N-BIOS Award recipients List of awardees Recipients (1999–2009) Recipients (2009–2019) See also List of biology awards References External links 2016 Indian awards Career awards Civil awards and decorations of India Indian science and technology awards Awards established in 1999 1999 establishments in India
Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state. For example, the city's influence on 20th-century music has had worldwide impact. Memphians have had an important role in founding or establishing several important American music genres, including blues, gospel, rock and roll, and "sharecropper" country music. As of the American Community Survey of 2011, there were 652,050 people, 245,836 households, and 141,199 families residing in the city. In 2012, the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was the 41st largest in the United States, with a population of 1,341,690. Memphis in May is an annual, month-long festival that promotes many aspects of Memphis' cultural heritage. Each year a different nation is partnered as a theme of the festival. Once the featured nation is announced, there is an open call for poster design, and the selected official festival poster becomes a treasured collectible, prestigious for the collector and the artist/creator. In 2011, 250,000 people attended the festival. Memphis has long been home to persons of many different faiths. An 1870 map of Memphis shows religious buildings of the Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Christian denominations and a Jewish congregation. Memphis is frequently noted as an affordable place to live. Forbes magazine ranked Memphis as having the 4th "Highest Income when Adjusted for Cost of Living." In February 2013, Business Insider ranked Memphis 5th on their list of "The 10 Cheapest Cities in the US." Demographics Source: As of the census of 2011, there were 652,078 people and 245,836 households in the city. The population density was 1,881.3 people per sq mi (726.4/km) spread over 294,145 housing units. The average household size was 2.59 and the home ownership rate was 49.3%. Of Memphians, 78.91% have lived at the same house for at least one year. The racial makeup of the city was 62.4% African American, 29.6% White, 2.0% Asian, 0.2% Native American, 4.0% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.3% of the population. Foreign born persons composed 6.6% of the population. Ethnically, Memphis' population consists of a variety of immigrant groups. In addition to a sizable Hispanic (mainly Mexican-American) population, major ethnic backgrounds include Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, and Persian. Historically, many residents identify themselves with African, English, Irish, Italian and German ancestry. Memphis is also home to a large Jewish community of 9,000, most of whom are Ashkenazi Jews with Central and Eastern European ancestry. Twenty-five percent of Memphis' population is under the age of 18, 10.4% are 65 years of age or older. Children under the age of 5 are 7.6% of the city's population. Women made up 52.4% of the population. The median income for a household in 2011 was $34,960 and the mean household income was $51,105 in the City of Memphis. Of the population 27.2% and 22.6% of families were below the poverty line in 2011. Metropolitan area The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the 41st largest in the United States, has a 2012 population of 1,341,690, and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and the Arkansas county of Crittenden. In 2013, Benton County, Mississippi was added to the MSA Definition. Crime Launched in late 2006, Operation: Safe Community is an historic and ambitious crime reduction initiative. Since the launch, Memphis and Shelby County has seen a 25.4% reduction in major violent crime and a 32.6% reduction in major property crime. In 2005, the Memphis Police Department initiated Operation Blue C.R.U.S.H. (Crime Reduction Using Statistical History), which targets crime hotspots and repeat offenders. Operation Blue C.R.U.S.H. has resulted in 30% reduction in serious crime overall; a 15% decrease in violent crime and a 400% increase in the percentage of cases solved by the Felony Assault Unit. In 2011, Memphis was ranked as the 4th Most Dangerous City by Forbes Magazine based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The FBI strongly cautions against such rankings. Sports and recreation In 2011, Memphis ranked 44th overall out of the largest 50 cities for overall fitness and health by the American Fitness Index. Memphis was ranked 40th out of 50 for personal health indicators and 39th for community health indicators. In 2011, Sporting News named Memphis the 35th "Best Sports City" out of 271 cities. Memphis is home to the University of Memphis Tigers, the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, and the Memphis Redbirds, a Triple-A minor league baseball team. The Memphis Grizzlies were ranked 5th among 122 sports teams in ESPN's 2012 Ultimate Standings, a ranking of all sports teams. The Grizzlies ranked 1st in the category "Bang for the Buck". The City of Memphis hosts several national sporting events annually. Events include the PGA Tour St. Jude Classic, US National Indoor Tennis Championships, the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend, the Memphis in May Triathlon, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl and the Southern Heritage Classic. Sporting facilities include the FedEx Forum, Autozone Park, Memphis Racquet Club, Mike Rose Soccer Complex, and over 30 golf courses including TPC Southwind, home to the St. Jude Classic. Memphis is home to Shelby Farms Park, a 4,500 acre park that receives about 500,000 annual visitors. The park is the 2nd largest urban county park in the United States according to the Trust for Public Land. In October 2010, the Shelby Farms Greenline opened, providing bike access from midtown to Shelby Farms. Greater Memphis Greenline, Inc. has proposed further expansion of the Greenline, providing access to Overton Park, Uptown Memphis and the development of a multi-use Harahan Bridge Boardwalk, connecting downtown Memphis to West Memphis, Arkansas. In 2012, Bicycling magazine named Memphis "America's Most Improved Bike City", citing 35 miles of new bike lanes. 65 miles of bike lanes were expected to be completed by summer 2012. Zoos and museums The Memphis Zoo is one of only four U.S. zoos to house giant pandas. The zoo has over 3,500 animals representing 500 species. In 2008, the Memphis Zoo was ranked "#1 Zoo in the U.S." by TripAdvisor.com based on visitor opinions. Memphis is home to several nationally recognized museums. The National Civil Rights Museum - Housed at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, provides a full overview of the Civil Rights Movement and details the events that transpired on and prior to April 4, 1968. Stax Museum - The world's only Soul museum The Dixon Garden and Gallery The Brooks Museum of Art - Tennessee's oldest and largest museum of fine and decorative art The National Ornamental Metal Museum - the only museum in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to fine metalwork The Chucalissa Archaeological Museum The Art Museum of the University of Memphis The Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum - The first and only exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution in partnership with another museum Cultural events and fairs Carnival Memphis Carnival Memphis is an annual series of parties and festivities held in early summer to salute various aspects of Memphis and its industries. Begun in 1931 as the Memphis Cotton Carnival, it is organized by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes, private societies similar to those of the New Orleans Mardi Gras. A secretly selected King and Queen of Carnival reign over the festivities. Memphis in May Memphis in May promotes Memphis' musical and culinary heritage. The month-long celebration is the largest annual series of public events put on in Memphis. Each year it features a different country, highlighting aspects of the honored nation's history and culture. Each spring since its founding in 1977, Memphis in May has had a significant economic and educational impact to the city. The celebration includes a diverse mix of events, beginning during the first weekend of the month at Tom Lee Park on the Mississippi River, the site of the Beale Street Music Festival. During International Week, the city focuses on its honored country, part of a larger program in coordination with area schools to broaden cultural awareness among students, as well as a good deal of business linkage. Other signature events of Memphis in May include the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest (the largest pork barbecue cooking contest in the world) and the closing event of the month—a performance of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra on the river called the Sunset Symphony, also featuring a performance by musicians from the honored country. Memphis in May sprang from the Cotton Carnival festivities, which began holding big musical events at the Fairgrounds. In the early 1980s the idea of Memphis in May got started. Germany and Japan were the first two nations to be honored. Events were scattered around the city. A barbecue contest was held in tents in downtown parking lots. The contest proved very popular and has grown substantially, with a dedicated volunteer corps, corporate sponsorship, school involvement, and general citizen attendance. Contestants travel from afar to compete in the barbecue contest and to enjoy the Beale Street Music Fest—originally held in vacant lots on that storied street. Cooper-Young Festival An arts festival, the Cooper-Young Festival, is held annually in September in the Cooper-Young district of Midtown Memphis. Cooper-Young was named one of America’s “10 Great Neighborhoods” by the American Planning Association in 2012. The event draws artists from all over North America, and includes art sales, contests, and displays. Since the late 1980s the Cooper-Young Festival has grown into one of Memphis' most anticipated events, with over 50,000 guests in recent years enjoying a mix of art, music and crafts presented by over 300 artisans from around the country. The festival celebrates the arts, people, culture and Memphis heritage. In addition to art, the festival includes sales of clothing, jewelry, live music, and gay novelty items. Music and the arts Music After the Yellow Fever epidemics of the 1870s, Memphis' population was very low, and it slowly started being replenished by country people from the Mid-South. Farmers and freed slaves alike brought their musical roots here, and the commercial hurly-burly created a polishing of this talent and heritage, best exemplified by bandleader and composer W. C. Handy. Memphis is the home of founders and establishers of various American music genres, including Blues, Gospel, Hip-Hop, Rock n' Roll, and "rockabilly" country music (in contrast to the "rhinestone" country sound of Nashville). Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and B. B. King all got their starts in Memphis in the 1950s. They are respectively dubbed the "King" of Country, Rock n' Roll, and Blues. Other famous musicians who either grew up or got their starts in the Memphis area include the Box Tops with Alex Chilton, the Gentrys, the Grifters, Nights Like These, Carl Perkins, John Lee Hooker, Justin Timberlake, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Charlie Rich, Lucero (band), Al Green, Muddy Waters, Big Star, Tina Turner, Roy Orbison, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sam Cooke, Booker T. and the MGs, Otis Redding, Arthur Lee, The Blackwood Brothers, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, The Staple Singers, Sam and Dave, Three 6 Mafia, 8 Ball & MJG, Tommy Wright III, Yo Gotti, NLE Choppa, Young Dolph, Key Glock, Moneybagg Yo, Elise Neal, Shawn Lane, Terry Manning, The Sylvers, Aquanet, Steve Cropper, Oblivions, Jay Reatard, Anita Ward, and Andrew Vanwyngarden. Memphis is also a haven for classical music, and has produced such opera singers as Ruth Welting and Kallen Esperian. The city has its own opera company, Opera Memphis, which performs in the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Memphis. The New York Metropolitan Opera first visited around 1910 and played to packed houses until recently when they quit doing 3-day stands. The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis plays a critical role in music and performance in the city. The Memphis City School district was named one of the "Best Communities for Music Education" in 2013 for the sixth time. The Highland Strip is an area located near the University of Memphis and is known as a haven for the college crowd. Venues such as Newby's showcase local musicians as well as national touring acts on a weekly basis. But Beale Street in Downtown is the mecca for live performance. Well known musical groups vie for work in this popular venue, crowded by tourists and locals alike. In 2009, Memphis was named as the Society of American Travel Writers 6th Best North American City “For Live Music.” Dance Ballet flourishes in Memphis as well. Ballet Memphis, now in its 27th season, strives to interpret the South's cultural legacy through dance, featuring both classical and modern dance choreography. New Ballet Ensemble and School (NBE) combines a professional company composed of the school's instructors with talented students, presenting classical movement fused with other styles (flamenco, jookin', modern, African, etc.) in new interpretations of old stories (e.g. Nut ReMix, a modern and re-imagined Nutcracker). NBE received the 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award (President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities) for "a program that brings together students from diverse racial, socio-economic and religious backgrounds to build self-confidence, leadership and academic success—and heal a community divided by race—through dance." Literature and theater Well-known writers from Memphis include Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote, made famous by his contributions to The Civil War series on Public Television, and playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote his first play on Snowden Street and saw it performed on Glenview Street. Dr. Zandria F. Robinson's book This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (University of North Carolina Press, April 2014), uses literature, pop culture, and interviews to examine how black southerners in Memphis think about race, class, gender, and regional identity. Novelist John Grisham grew up in nearby DeSoto County, Mississippi and many of his books, such as The Firm, The Client and The Rainmaker, are set in Memphis. Many works of fiction and literature use Memphis as their setting, giving a diverse portrait of the city, its history, and its citizens. These include The Reivers by William Faulkner (1962), September, September by Shelby Foote (1977), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1985), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1986), The Firm by John Grisham (1991), Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway (1993), Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins (1999), The Guardian by Beecher Smith (1999), and The Architect by James Williamson (2007). Theater flourishes at Playhouse on the Square and Theatre Memphis. The Midtown-based Voices of the South is a non-profit, ensemble based theater company whose mission is to create, produce, and perform theatre from diverse Southern perspectives. Working out of Theatreworks (a black-box, alternative theatre owned by Playhouse on the Square), among other companies, is Our Own Voice Theatre Troupe, a non-profit group working to empower people marginalized by mental illness, and striving to engage the community in dialogue about mental health. Overton Square is currently being redeveloped into a theatre and entertainment district. The area will be anchored by three live-performance theaters, including the existing Playhouse on the Square, the Circuit Playhouse, and the soon to be built Hatiloo Theatre. Also in Overton Square, Studio on the Square shows both independent films and major studio films. Fine arts Memphis has also had a significant impact in the world of photography. William Eggleston, the pioneer of color photography as a serious artistic medium and considered one of the greatest photographers of all time, still lives and works in Memphis. A number of younger photographers, including Jeanne Umbreit and Huger Foote, are Memphians. Some other notable Memphis photographers were fashion/celebrity photographer Jack Robinson and civil rights–era documenter Ernest C. Withers. In the last two decades, the art scene in Memphis has exploded. Art galleries were first established at Overton Square but have moved farther east. The independent art scene has had some success on South Main, on the trolley line in downtown Memphis. Several art galleries have moved into the neighborhood, stimulating a real estate boom that expanded into new residential construction. One interesting conversion was the Power House, a former power plant near Central Station that was transformed into contemporary art space by Delta Axis, a Memphis contemporary arts organization. The Power House closed in August 2009, citing economic concerns. The Cooper-Young neighborhood in Midtown Memphis has also been home to several art galleries. The Edge is an art studio neighborhood, located at the edge of downtown near Madison Avenue, Marshall, and Union Avenue. The Edge is home to Memphis' Black Repertory Theater, world-famous Sun Studios, and Delta Axis, among others. The old commercial strip on Broad Avenue in the Binghampton area is home to a cluster of artists and craftsmen. Quality commercial art galleries in the east Memphis area include the David Lusk Gallery, Perry Nicole Gallery, L Ross Gallery and Lisa Kurts Gallery. All are on or near Poplar Ave., the main east–west thoroughfare. The Memphis College of Art and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are neighbors inside Overton Park, along with The Shell, a 1930s outdoor performing arts venue recently renovated and reopened in September 2008. More informally, art intersects with entrepreneurship in many traditionally African American neighborhoods through hand-painted signs. Artists like James "Brick" Brigance, an Orange Mound native, paints lettering, logos and images on the brick facades of many neighborhood buildings. Film Memphis has an active and growing film industry. Movies filmed at least partially in Memphis include The Firm, The Client, Walk the Line, Hustle & Flow, In the Valley of Elah, and Undefeated. Indie Memphis provides year-round programming, with screenings of local and independent films. Indie Memphis also hosts an annual film festival, which has been ranked by MovieMake Magazine as one of the world’s “25 Coolest Film Festivals” for 2009. In 2013, the festival was listed as one of the "Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" by MovieMaker magazine. In 2011 more than 8,000 people attended the film festival. MovieMaker Magazine ranked Memphis among the “Top 10 U.S. Cities for Moviemakers to Live” from 2006 - 2009 owing its ranking to strong state and local incentives, low production cost, a “crack film office,” and the rich culture Memphis offers. Cuisine Memphis-style barbecue is one of the four predominant regional styles of barbecue in the United States, and has become well-known due to the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest held each May, which has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest pork barbecue contest in the world. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report named Memphis the No. 1 Barbecue City in America. In addition to barbecue, Memphis has become a top city for pizza, burgers and fine dining. Memphis was ranked the 17th Top City for Pizza by Travel + Leisure magazine. Dyer's burgers was listed as one of the "Best Burgers in the U.S." by Food and Wine magazine, and Memphis was ranked 14th best city for burgers by Travel + Leisure magazine. Memphis is also home to the famous Soul Burger at Ernestine and Hazels Several renowned chefs operate restaurants in Memphis. Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman, the chefs and owners of Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen and Hog & Hominy, were included in Food and Wine magazines 2013 Best New Chefs list. Kelly English, chef and owner of Restaurant Iris, was a semifinalist for "Best Chef: Southeast" in the James Beard Award competition, and listed as one of the 'Best New Chefs" by Food and Wine magazine. Religion Since its founding, Memphis has been home to persons of many different faiths. An 1870 map of Memphis shows religious buildings of the Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Christian denominations and a Jewish congregation. Today, places of worship exist for Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus. Baron Hirsch Synagogue, which was founded in Memphis in the late 19th century, has the largest congregation of Orthodox Jews in the United States. Bellevue Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist megachurch in Memphis that was founded in the early 20th century. Its current membership is approximately 27,000. For many years, it was led by Adrian Rogers, a former three term president of the Southern Baptist Convention. The international headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, one of the fastest growing sects of Christianity and the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States, is also in Memphis. The headquarters, Mason Temple (named after the denomination's founder, Charles Harrison Mason), is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I've Been to the Mountaintop speech the day before he was killed. The denominational headquarters of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church are located in Memphis. Memphis is also home to the main Cumberland Presbyterian seminary, the Memphis Theological Seminary. The Cumberland Presbyterian church maintains a library and archival facility at the headquarters. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis has its seat at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Memphis, founded as a parish in 1921. The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee has its cathedral, St. Mary's in Memphis. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked the Memphis metro area 2nd for charitable giving based on the percentage of discretionary income given to charity. Media The Memphis regional market is the forty-ninth largest designated market area (DMA) in the nation, with 662,830 homes (0.581% of the total U.S.). Several media outlets in print, broadcast and internet cover varying segments of the market. Newspapers The Commercial Appeal — daily (Sunday-Saturday); general news. The Commercial Appeal is Memphis' largest and most widely circulated newspaper. The Daily News — daily (Monday-Friday); legal records and general news. Memphis Business Journal — weekly; business and economic news. The Memphis Flyer — weekly; politics, arts and entertainment, lifestyles. The Shelby Sun-Times — weekly; East Memphis and eastern Shelby County community news with Cordova and Germantown editions. The Tri-State Defender — weekly; African-American community news. La Prensa Latina — weekly; Hispanic community news, Spanish-English bilingual. Magazines Memphis Downtowner - monthly; community interests; focus on the downtown area. Main Street Journal - monthly; news, entertainment and politics. Memphis Magazine - monthly; general community interest, arts and entertainment, lifestyles. Memphis Parent - monthly; family issues and interests. RSVP Magazine — monthly; society and philanthropy events. Memphis Sport - bimonthly; local sports and recreation. Number - a visual arts quarterly Television A wide variety of local television stations also serves the market area. The major network television affiliates are WMC 5 (NBC), WREG 3 (CBS), WATN 24 (ABC), WHBQ 13 (FOX), WLMT 30 (CW), and WPXX 50 (Ion). The area is also served by two PBS stations: WKNO 10 and WLJT 11. Radio Diverse formats can be found on the radio dial throughout the Memphis area. Two of the several stations of note include WMC-FM (99.7 FM, popularly known as FM 100), a leading Hot AC station; and the historic WDIA-AM (1070 AM), the first African-American-operated radio station in the US. WHER the first "All-Girl" radio station was founded in Memphis by record producer Sam Phillips in 1955. WHBQ-AM and WMPS-AM broadcasting personalities Rick Dees, Wink Martindale, and Scott Shannon are now nationally known. WEVL (89.9 FM) is a volunteer-run-and-supported station where the many DJs are expert collectors in their musical provinces. References
James Joseph Walsh (20 February 1880 – 3 February 1948), generally referred to as J. J. Walsh, was Postmaster General, (later Minister for Posts and Telegraphs) of the Irish Free State from 1923 to 1927. He was also a senior Gaelic Athletic Association organiser and Cumann na nGaedheal politician. Later, Walsh had heavy connections with fascism, including his association with Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. Early years J. J. Walsh was born in the townland of Rathroon, near Bandon, County Cork. His family came from a farming background, "working a substantial holding of medium but well-cultivated land". Until the age of fifteen, Walsh attended a local school in Bandon, but by his own account "as far as learning went, I may as well have been at home". Together with his school-friend P. S. O'Hegarty, he passed the Civil Service exams for the Postal service. He later worked locally as a clerk in the Post Office. Like O'Hegarty, he spent three years in London at King's College, studying for the Secretary's Office "a syllabus (which) differed little from the Indian Civil Service". While O'Hegarty succeeded in his studies, Walsh did not, and returned to Cork where a friend, Sir Edward Fitzgerald, arranged work for him on the Entertainments Committee of the Cork International Exhibition. Sport Walsh was active in the Gaelic Athletic Association, promoting Gaelic games in many areas, but particularly in Cork city and county. His interest in organised sports had a strong political dimension. I happened to be one of those who realised the potentialities of the G.A.A. as a training ground for Physical Force. Contamination with the alien and all his works was taboo. I gathered around me a force of youthful enthusiasts from the University, Civil Service and Business. With this intensely organised instrument, war was declared on foreign games which were made to feel the shock so heavily that one by one, Soccer and Rugby Clubs began to disappear.He was also instrumental in establishing the 'revived' Tailteann Games. He was Chairman of the Cork County Council GAA. Politics He was involved of the founding of the Cork City Irish Volunteers. He participated in the Easter Rising in 1916 in the GPO. He claims he was responsible for mobilising 20 members of the Hibernian Rifles and took them to the GPO. However Rifles commandant John J. Scollan contradicts this account. He was promoted from Rifleman to Vice-Commandant of the Hibernian Rifles in 1915. He was arrested following the general surrender and sentenced to death after a court-martial at Richmond Barracks. This was almost immediately commuted to life imprisonment, but he was released the following year under a general amnesty. In later 1917 he was arrested and imprisoned after making a speech declaring "the only way to address John Bull is through the barrel of a rifle". In autumn 1919 he was involved in a failed assassination attempt on Lord French. Walsh was elected as a Sinn Féin Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1918 general election for the Cork City constituency. As a member of the 1st Dáil he was arrested for partaking in an illegal government. He was released in 1921 and supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and went on to become a founding member of the new political party, Cumann na nGaedheal. Walsh served as Postmaster General from 1922 until 1924 and joined the cabinet of W. T. Cosgrave between 1924 and 1927, after the office was reconstituted as the Department of Posts and Telegraphs. He was elected at every election for the Cork Borough constituency until 1927 when he retired from government. In August 1922 he was part of a government committee which was intended to consider what the Irish Free State's policy towards North-east Ulster would be. During World War II, known at the time in Ireland as "the Emergency", Walsh's connections with fascism, including his association with Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, brought him to the attention of the Directorate of Intelligence (G2), the Intelligence branch of the Irish Army. Their request to the Minister for Justice, Gerald Boland, to place a tap on Walsh's phone was, however, refused. He was closely associated with Irish-based pro-Nazi initiatives through his association with Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, during World War II, frequently expressing his views with anti-semitic rhetoric. In 1944 he published a short memoir, 'Recollections of a Rebel'. On Sunday 24 April 2016 a plaque commemorating J.J. Walsh was unveiled in Kilbrittain. Bibliography Walsh, J.J. : Recollections of a Rebel : The Kerryman Ltd., Tralee : 1944 O'Mahony, S : Frongoch – University of Revolution: FDR Teoranta, Dublin : 1987 O'Halpin, Eunan Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922 : 2000 : References External links The Cork International Exhibition 1902 The Aonac Tailteann and the Tailteann Games (pub.1922?) Internet Archive by T.H. Nally 1880 births 1948 deaths Antisemitism in Ireland Cumann na nGaedheal TDs Early Sinn Féin TDs Irish anti-communists Irish fascists Members of the 1st Dáil Members of the 2nd Dáil Members of the 3rd Dáil Members of the 4th Dáil Members of the 5th Dáil Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cork City People of the Irish Civil War (Pro-Treaty side) Politicians from County Cork Prisoners sentenced to death by the British military UK MPs 1918–1922 People from Bandon, County Cork

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