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Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Otter, for the otter.
was a 4-gun ketch launched in 1700 and captured by the French in 1702.
was a 14-gun sixth rate launched in 1709 and sold in 1713.
was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and wrecked in 1741.
was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1742 and sold in 1763.
was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1767 and wrecked in 1778.
was a 14-gun sloop, the former French merchantman Glanure, that the royal Navy captured in 1778 and sold in 1783. She then became the merchantman and slave ship Cyclops. The French captured her in December 1795 as she was delivering her third cargo of slaves to the West Indies.
was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1782. She was converted to a fireship in 1800 and was sold in 1801.
was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1805. She was used for harbour service from 1814 and was sold in 1828.
was a wooden paddle packet, previously the GPO vessel Wizard. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837, became a gunvessel in 1854, a tug in 1865, a coal hulk in 1878 and was sold in 1893.
was a screw gunboat launched in 1884. She served with the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and Commonwealth Naval Forces and was sold in 1906. She was later rehired by the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Otter.
was an launched in 1896 and sold in 1916.
was an launched in 1962 and sold in 1992.
See also
, a of the United States Navy
Royal Navy ship names |
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Oman. Oman's capital offenses are murder, drug trafficking, arson, piracy, terrorism, kidnapping, recidivism of aggravated offenses punishable by life imprisonment, leading an armed group that engages in spreading disorder (such as by sabotage, pillage or killing), espionage, treason and perjury causing wrongful execution. Oman's last executions occurred in 2021. Oman voted against the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
References
Oman
Law of Oman |
Daniele "Dani" Neuhaus Turnes (born 21 March 1993) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Greek club PAOK and the Brazil women's national team.
Club career
As a talented childhood volleyball player, Neuhaus found that she could use some of the same skills as a football goalkeeper. She began her football career with Scorpions de Florianópolis, where she was noticed by youth national team scouts. This brought her to the attention of bigger clubs and she played for Foz Cataratas and Vitória das Tabocas, before joining Santos in April 2015.
In January 2018, Neuhaus was announced as the first ever signing for S.L. Benfica's newly formed women's football team. She left Benfica at the end of her contract in June 2021, having collected Second Division, First Division and Portuguese Cup winners' medals. Three weeks later she joined Famalicão, who were coached by her compatriot Jorge Barcellos.
International career
Neuhaus represented Brazil's youth team at the inaugural 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand and at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. After graduating to the under-20 team, she played at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
National coach Emily Lima called Neuhaus into the senior Brazil squad for the first time in June 2017. At the following month's 2017 Tournament of Nations, she played in Brazil's third and final game, a 6–1 defeat by Australia. Neuhaus played in two further friendly defeats by Australia in September 2017, 2–1 and 3–2, when first choice goalkeeper Bárbara was injured.
Neuhaus retained her place in the national squad when Vadão returned to the head coach position and named his squad for the 2017 Yongchuan International Tournament in October.
Personal life
Neuhaus studied physiotherapy at Universidade Santa Cecília (UNISANTA).
Honours
Benfica
Campeonato Nacional Feminino: 2020–21
Campeonato Nacional II Divisão Feminino: 2018–19
Taça de Portugal: 2018–19
Taça da Liga: 2019–20
Supertaça de Portugal: 2019
References
External links
Agent profile
1993 births
Living people
Brazilian women's footballers
Brazil women's international footballers
Brazilian expatriate women's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players
Expatriate women's footballers in Portugal
Footballers from Santa Catarina (state)
Women's association football goalkeepers
Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players
S.L. Benfica (women) footballers
Santos FC (women) players
Brazilian people of German descent
F.C. Famalicão (women) players
Associação Acadêmica e Desportiva Vitória das Tabocas players
People from Santo Amaro da Imperatriz |
```javascript
"use strict";
Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
exports.respond = exports.convertRequest = exports.convertHeaders = exports.createRequestHandler = void 0;
const stream_1 = require("@remix-run/node/dist/stream");
const __1 = require("..");
/**
* Returns a request handler for Express that serves the response using Remix.
*/
function createRequestHandler({ build }, setup) {
const handleRequest = (0, __1.createRequestHandler)(build, setup);
return async (req, res, next) => {
if (!req?.url || !req.method) {
return next();
}
try {
const request = convertRequest(req, res);
const response = await handleRequest(request);
await respond(res, response);
}
catch (error) {
// Express doesn't support async functions, so we have to pass along the
// error manually using next().
next(error);
}
};
}
exports.createRequestHandler = createRequestHandler;
function convertHeaders(requestHeaders) {
const headers = new Headers();
for (const [key, values] of Object.entries(requestHeaders)) {
if (values) {
if (Array.isArray(values)) {
for (const value of values) {
headers.append(key, value);
}
}
else {
headers.set(key, values);
}
}
}
return headers;
}
exports.convertHeaders = convertHeaders;
function convertRequest(req, res) {
const url = new URL(`${req.protocol}://${req.get('host')}${req.url}`);
// Abort action/loaders once we can no longer write a response
const controller = new AbortController();
res.on('close', () => controller.abort());
const init = {
method: req.method,
headers: convertHeaders(req.headers),
// Cast until reason/throwIfAborted added
// path_to_url
signal: controller.signal,
};
if (req.method !== 'GET' && req.method !== 'HEAD') {
init.body = (0, stream_1.createReadableStreamFromReadable)(req);
init.duplex = 'half';
}
return new Request(url.href, init);
}
exports.convertRequest = convertRequest;
async function respond(res, expoRes) {
res.statusMessage = expoRes.statusText;
res.status(expoRes.status);
for (const [key, value] of expoRes.headers.entries()) {
res.append(key, value);
}
if (expoRes.body) {
await (0, stream_1.writeReadableStreamToWritable)(expoRes.body, res);
}
else {
res.end();
}
}
exports.respond = respond;
//# sourceMappingURL=express.js.map
``` |
George David (born 1942) is the former head of United Technologies Corporation.
George David may also refer to:
George A. David (born 1937) Greek Cypriot Coca-Cola executive
See also
David George (disambiguation)
George Davis (disambiguation) |
Jane Granby is an American artist (b. October 7, 1975) based in San Diego, California. Granby’s work includes painting, photography, and works of mixed media. Her work is often autobiographical including emotions ranging from pain to joy.
Biography
Jane Granby was born in San Diego, California. She started her art career early in life at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy and San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. She received a B.A. in Art in 1997 from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she studied with artists including Don Suggs, John Baldessari, Henry Hopkins, Roger Herman, and Barbara Drucker.
Granby has been undergoing treatment for a cancerous brain tumor since she was twelve years of age. Out of all the kids she went through cancer with, she is the only one that did not go into remission or pass away. She is still fighting the same brain tumor today. After years of continued health problems, she was diagnosed with parkinsonism in 2016.
When asked about her work, Granby will most often provide her Artist’s Statement: "I Do Not Have Cancer, My Body Does".
My fingers slowly moved along the small bumps. My fingers would have to adjust since my eyes could not. At twelve I was in a blind school learning Braille. I was rapidly losing my sight and my dream to be an artist. I was adjusting to a new world, a world without sight, a world without color. My heart ached. I had a brain tumor eating away at my optic nerve. It was eating away at my sight and my dreams, but I would not let it eat away at my heart, soul, or my love for God. I prayed.
My prayers were answered. I regained my sight, no medical explanation. My doctors were baffled. One doctor admitted that "some people would call this a miracle." I agree with that doctor. I believe in miracles. I believe that God granted me my sight as a reminder of his power and grace but has not removed my cancerous brain tumor in order to teach me.
He has taught me faith. He has taught me that I do not have cancer, my body has cancer. He has taught me to say thank you. I say thank you through prayer and with my art.
Once my sight returned, I remember seeing color so much more vibrantly, so much more beautifully. My art is a celebration of those colors, a celebration of vision and healing. Art does not heal the body, it heals the soul. We will not take our bodies to heaven, but we will take our souls, so I paint and I pray.
Awards and achievements
2007-Awarded Cancer Survivor Hero Medal, The American Cancer Society
1994-Painting Everlasting Life reviewed for album cover of The Cure’s album Wild Mood Swings
1990-Courage Award presented by the American Cancer Society
1990-San Diego Artwalk, Winner
1988-American Society on Aging Photography Contest, First Place
1988-The City of San Diego Special Commendation by the Mayor in acknowledgement for having artwork chosen to be displayed in a museum in Moscow
1988-Artwork selected for "Young Art ’88," a major exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Since 1988, Granby’s works have been included in group exhibitions in Los Angeles at The T. Heritage Gallery, The Wight Art Gallery, Kerkoff Art Gallery, The White Room Gallery at UCLA, Long Beach Arts and Whittier Art Gallery. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in San Diego, California. Jane Granby’s solo exhibitions include:
2007-2008: Jane Granby, Girls From the Park, San Diego, CA
2005: Photography, Shakespeare’s, San Diego, CA
2004: Jane Granby, Café Loma, San Diego, CA
2003: British Tea Party, Shakespeare’s, San Diego, CA
2001: A Journey: People, Place, Cats, Prime Cuts Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000: Happy Day, The San Diego Marriott, San Diego, CA
1997-1998: Jane Granby, Boardwalk Studios, San Diego, CA
1995: Faces, The Lyceum Theatre, San Diego, CA
1995: Beyond, The Cross Cultural Center at the University of California, San Diego, CA
1995: The Dance of Life, The Price Center at the University of California, San Diego, CA
Publications/References
2016, One of her photographs was published in Lol Tolhurst's book Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
November 18, 2005, Press-Telegram, "’National Open’ Mixes the Ho-Hum with the Outstanding"
May 18, 1995, The Guardian, "Student Art Stolen From Price Center’s Ballroom Lounge"
November 17, 1994, The Beacon, "Point Loma Woman Fights Cancer With Her Art"
November 1, 1994, Daily Bruin, "’Looking Beyond’ Exhibit Highlights Art, Not Artist"
October 27, 1993, Daily Bruin, "Exhibit Showcases Talent of Disabled Artists"
Summer 1988, Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, "Photo Contest Winners" (First Place)
Living people
1975 births
Artists from San Diego
University of California, Los Angeles alumni |
Bo Ya () was a Chinese qin player from the state of Chu (), which is roughly equivalent to modern-day Jingzhou, Hubei, who lived during the Spring and Autumn period or Warring States period. His complete name is often incorrectly given as Yu Boya () in Stories to Caution the World (), so he is sometimes referred to with the name of Yu Boya in modern literature. However, Bo Ya is the correct name, which is clarified in Lüshi Chunqiu ().
Life
Learning Guqin
Bo Ya is well known in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period for his Guqin skill. According to Qincao (琴操）written by Cai Yong, He learned his Guqin skill from Chenglian, another famous Guqin player. When he was studying Guqin, his teacher brought him to Mount Penglai and left Bo Ya. Bo Ya was immersed in the natural sound of the waves and the mountain forest, and wrote down a piece of music called Shuixiancao (水仙操). After this experience, he becomes one of the best Guqin players in his times.
Story about Zhiyin
Bo Ya was good at playing the qin. Zhong Ziqi (锺子期) was good at listening to the qin. When Bo Ya's will was towards high mountains in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, "How towering like Mount Tai!" When Bo Ya's will was towards flowing water in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, "How vast are the rivers and oceans!" Whatever Bo Ya thought of Ziqi would never fail to understand. Bo Ya said, "Amazing! Your heart and mine are the same!" After Zhong Ziqi died, Bo Ya broke his guqin because he thought that no one else can understand his music.
Bo Ya's story with Zhong Ziqi generates the term Zhiyin (Chinese: 知音, original meaning: someone who knows music well), which means close friends that can completely understand each other.
Musical work
High Mountain and Flowing Stream
High Mountain (Chinese: Gao Shan, 高山) and Flowing Stream (Chinese: Liu Shui, 流水) were originally sections of the same piece of music, with the first four sections recognized as "High Mountain" and the last eight sections recognized as "Flowing Stream." It is also said to be the music that Bo Ya played to Zhong Ziqi as it contains both elements of "towering like Mount Tai" and "vast rivers and oceans."
Shuixiancao
Shuixiancao (水仙操) was composed by Bo Ya when he was brought to Mount Penglai and stayed alone, inspired by the sound in the nature. It is Bo Ya's first famous Guqin music piece.
Huailingcao
Huailingcao (怀陵操) was composed by Bo Ya, which contains intense and passionate sound.
Legacy
Music
The qin pieces composed by Bo Ya were widely spread and recognized in China and enjoyed a high reputation, especially the most famous piece called High Mountains and Flowing Water (Gao Shan Liu Shui). This qin piece is broadly accepted in China as one of the top ten famous traditional Chinese music pieces, as it describes the majesty, depth, solemnity and nobility of mountains, and the harmony between flowing water and mountains. It has a high aesthetic and musical value which reminds people of a spring of fresh water merrily flowing down a mountain, and the waves playfully rising. In 1977, Guan Pinghu's performance of "Flowing Water" was recommended by composer Chou Wen-chung to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and included in the Voyager Golden Record by NASA as a representative of Chinese music works.
The story of Bo Ya also reflects the meaning and significance of traditional qin music in ancient China. China's qin music is historically associated with the literati, and the general purpose of the literati playing qin pieces is not for the audience, but for themselves. They think music is an expressive art, and the priority is to serve themselves rather than the audience. Therefore, the criteria to judge and assess their music should meet the musician's personal aesthetic standards, and show obvious differences from the generally accepted ones, which thus indicates the unique personal taste of the musician. This is reflected by the story of Bo Ya finding his Zhiyin, who really understands his music and knows his mind. In this story, Bo Ya considers Ziqi his Zhiyin for he is the only one who understands his works of art and meets his criteria. This story of Bo Ya shows the general attitude of qin players toward playing in ancient China: the pursuit of aesthetic and the realization of personal musical standards.
Bo Ya's playing style is also unique and superb, which could provoke a connection with literature. As Francesca points out in his work, "Bo Ya's performance on the qin is not actually heard or imitated in the telling of the story, but is instead simulated synesthetically through the poetry of the narrative." He thinks that It provides a bridge between the natural world and the music.
Morality and philosophy
In Chinese culture, the word Zhiyin has become a special cultural mark. On the one hand, the word Zhiyin could be understood as a person who is proficient in music, on the other hand, it is regarded as the most intelligent critic and appreciator of all arts, including music. Zhiyin has now been extended to a broader meaning of a close friend who understands one's mind. When talking about Zhiyin, it would be generally accepted by people this word could be used to describe a soul mate or an intimate friend. This word is also frequently used by Chinese people to express their sadness for finding it hard to find a friend that knows about them. The story of Bo Ya and Ziqi has been considered as one important part the philosophy of inter-person relationship in Chinese culture, reflecting the Chinese ideal of friendship.
The story of Zhiyin also can show philosophical value through the lens of Confucian thoughts. In the story, Ziqi's understanding was not a matter of knowledge of melody. Obviously, he had a deep understanding of Boya's personality and was himself a man who pursues freedom and ideal, so he could arouse a "resonance" in Bo Ya's music. "Resonance" refers to the discovery of "oneself" in the object of appreciation. Ziqi knew that Boya was committed to high mountains and flowing water through his music, because he himself was committed to the mountains and water in the natural world as well. Ziqi found himself in Bo Ya's music, thus making himself empathize and sympathize with Bo Ya. Sympathy and empathy in the resonance could be heading to the realm of the integration of heart and object, subject and object, which is an important content in Confucianism.
Presence in literary and artistic works
Bo Ya Jue Xian (2021) – A stage play created by Hunan Grand Theatre and Changsha Song and Dance Theater. The play is an artistic re-creation of the well-known story of "High mountains and flowing water, meeting an intimate friend (Gao Shan Liu Shui Yu Zhi Yin)"
Bo Ya Qin (2016) – A song composed by songwriter Wu Xiaoping with lyrics written by lyricist Liu Pengchun, and sung by singer Wang Zhe.
Bo Ya Jue Xian (2010) – A song sung and composed by Wang Leehom with lyrics written by Chen Xinhong and A Pu.
References
Further reading
Guqin players
Zhou dynasty musicians
4th-century BC Chinese musicians |
Golini is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province.
References
Populated places in Coast Province |
The International Challenger Zhangjiagang is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Zhangjiagang, China since 2017.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
ATP Challenger Tour
Hard court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in China |
Oslofjord (formerly Bergensfjord) is a Norwegian registered ro-ro passenger ferry owned and operated by Norwegian ferry operator Fjord Line. The vessel operates between Sandefjord in Norway to Strömstad in Sweden.
Oslofjord is the last of three similar vessels built by Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder in the early 1990s. The other two vessels are Leif Ericson and Patria Seaways.
Oslofjord was ordered to be renovated at STX Finland for about 30 Million Euros. She will operate between Sandefjord and Strömstad starting June 2014.
On 25 March 2021, MS Oslofjord was transferred from the Danish Ship Register (DIS) to the Norwegian Ship Register (NOR). The reason is that about 90% of the guests on MS Oslofjord are Norwegians. The re-flagging means, among other things, that it will be easier to use Norwegian and local labor on board. The new home port for MS Oslofjord is now Sandefjord.
References
Ships built in Rissa, Norway
1993 ships |
WEGM (95.1 FM), branded on-air as Mega 95.1, is a radio station broadcasting a rhythmic contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to San Germán, Puerto Rico, the station serves the western Puerto Rico area. The station is currently owned by Spanish Broadcasting System Holding Company, Inc.
History
The station went on the air as WRPC on February 1, 1969, that stands for "Radio Porta Coeli". It is remembered for its "Radio Heavy", "Radio Color" and "Zeta 95" monikers. On June 4, 1996, the station changed its call sign to WCTA-FM, and on March 31, 2001 to the current WEGM.
References
External links
Spanish Broadcasting System radio stations
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Puerto Rico
San Germán, Puerto Rico
Rhythmic contemporary radio stations
EGM |
The Nam Định Textile Museum is built on the site of the former Nam Định Textile Factory, once the largest factory in Indochina.
The Nam Định Textile Museum was created in 2012 by the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (also known as Natexco) on the site of the former Nam Định Textile Factory. Located at 5 Hoang Hoa Street, Tham, Nam Dinh city, in the traditional housing area of the Factory, the museum has a French-style architecture.
The Nam Định Textile Factory was established by French colonists in 1898. During the French Occupation, the Nam Định Textile Factory employed over 18,000 people, about a tenth of the local population. The Factory played an important role during the Vietnam War as a centre of resistance against the Americans. Ho Chi Minh visited the Factory several times. The museum retains many relics of the war.
In 2016, the Textile Factory was relocated to Hoa Xa Industrial Park in Nghia Hung District, and redevelopment of the factory site began.
See also
Nam Định
Ho Chi Minh
References
Museums in Vietnam
Textile museums |
```yaml
# A config that demonstrates various load balancer options.
namers:
- kind: io.l5d.fs
rootDir: linkerd/examples/io.l5d.fs
routers:
- protocol: http
dtab: |
/svc => /#/io.l5d.fs
servers:
- port: 4140
maxConcurrentRequests: 10000
client:
loadBalancer:
kind: p2c
maxEffort: 10
hostConnectionPool:
minSize: 0
maxSize: 1000
idleTimeMs: 10000
maxWaiters: 5000
failureAccrual:
kind: io.l5d.successRate
successRate: 0.9
requests: 1000
backoff:
kind: jittered
minMs: 5000
maxMs: 300000
``` |
The 1972 Connecticut Huskies baseball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Huskies were led by Larry Panciera in his 11th year as head coach, and played as part of the Yankee Conference. Connecticut posted a 20–7 record, won the Yankee Conference with an undefeated regular season, swept the NCAA District 1 playoff and reached the 1972 College World Series, their fourth appearance in the penultimate college baseball event. The Huskies won their first game against Texas before falling to eventual champion Southern California in extra innings and being eliminated by the next day.
Roster
Schedule
References
Connecticut
UConn Huskies baseball seasons
College World Series seasons
Yankee Conference baseball champion seasons
Connecticut baseball |
Jürgen Thiele (born 8 August 1959) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Altenburg.
In 1980 he won the gold medal as crew member of the East German boat in the coxless fours competition.
External links
1959 births
Living people
Olympic rowers for East Germany
Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in rowing
East German male rowers
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
People from Altenburg
Sportspeople from Thuringia |
John Gavin (born Juan Vincent Apablasa; April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018) was an American actor and diplomat who was the president of the Screen Actors Guild (1971–73), and the United States Ambassador to Mexico (1981–86). Among the films he appeared in were A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), Imitation of Life (1959), Spartacus (1960), Psycho (1960), Midnight Lace (1960) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), playing leading roles for producer Ross Hunter.
Life and career
Early life
Gavin was born in Los Angeles as Juan Vincent Apablasa II. His father, Juan Vincent Apablasa Sr., was of Chilean descent and his mother, Delia Diana Pablos, was a Mexican-born aristocrat. When Juan was two, his parents divorced and his mother married Herald Ray Golenor, who adopted Juan and changed his name to John Anthony Golenor.
After attending Roman Catholic schools, St. John's Military Academy (Los Angeles), and Villanova Preparatory (Ojai, California), he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree and Latin American affairs from Stanford University, where he did senior honors work in Latin American economic history and was a member of Chi Psi fraternity and Navy ROTC.
Military service
During the Korean War, Gavin was commissioned in the U.S. Navy serving aboard the off Korea where he served as an air intelligence officer from 1951 until the end of the war in 1953. Due to Gavin's fluency in both Spanish and Portuguese, he was assigned as Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Milton E. Miles until he completed his four-year tour of duty in 1955. He received an award for his work in the Honduras floods of 1954.
In a 1960 interview, Gavin disputed rumors that he was born into wealth by revealing that he attended a preparatory school and Stanford University on scholarships.
Entry into acting
Following his naval service, Gavin offered himself as a technical adviser to family friend and film producer Bryan Foy, who was making a movie about the Princeton. Instead, Foy arranged a screen test for Gavin with Universal-International. Gavin initially refused the offer, but his father urged him to try it. The test was successful and Gavin signed with the studio. "They offered me so much money I couldn't resist", he said later.
Universal groomed Gavin as a leading man in the mold of Rock Hudson. He trained in Jess Kimmel's talent workshop under the name John Gilmore. His classmates included Grant Williams, Gia Scala and John Saxon. His first film was Raw Edge (1956) where he played the brother of Rory Calhoun and was billed as John Gilmore. His name was changed to John Gavin for the films Behind the High Wall (1956), Four Girls in Town (1957), and Quantez (also 1957). Gavin was meant to star in The Female Animal (1958) but was too busy on other projects and was replaced by George Nader.
Stardom: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Gavin's break was the lead in A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), directed by Douglas Sirk from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. His casting drew comparisons with the casting of the similarly inexperienced Lew Ayres in Universal's film version of All Quiet on the Western Front (1931). Sirk cast Gavin for the young actor's inexperience, fresh looks, and earnest manner. The film was not a success when it was released, although Gavin received praise for his performance.
A series of classic films
Before A Time to Love and a Time to Die had been released, Gavin was cast by Douglas Sirk supporting Lana Turner in Imitation of Life (1959). Unlike A Time to Love and a Time to Die, this was a box-office success and Gavin was voted most promising male newcomer for his performance in the film by the Motion Picture Exhibitor.
Gavin appeared as Julius Caesar in Universal's epic Spartacus (1960) directed by Stanley Kubrick. He was cast as Sam Loomis in the thriller Psycho (1960) for director Alfred Hitchcock. Gavin later claimed he was "terribly disturbed" by the sex and violence in Psycho, saying, "I think Hitch really got frosted with me." Both films were successful, critically and commercially.
Following the success of Imitation of Life, Gavin was often cast as the handsome opposite to leading ladies but as characters who were permitted little action. He co-starred against Doris Day in the thriller Midnight Lace, Sophia Loren in the comedic A Breath of Scandal (both 1960), Susan Hayward in the melodrama Back Street and with Sandra Dee in Romanoff and Juliet and Tammy Tell Me True (all 1961). Most of these films were produced by Ross Hunter. He appeared periodically on television in various anthology series. He was directed by a young William Friedkin in the episode 'Off Season', S3, Ep29 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Gavin later claimed that he lacked training support from Universal during his early days there:When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro but they told me to shut up and act. Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog included cardboard passages such as 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'with egg on my face.'
Gavin disliked comparisons to Rock Hudson and in a 1960 interview said he considered quitting acting to take up law. He left Universal in 1962. He signed to make several movies in Europe including The Assassins, The Challenge and Night Call. However, he pulled out of The Assassins (which became Assassins of Rome (1965)), Night Call and The Challenge were never made. In early 1964, he starred in the TV series Destry. The series was not a ratings success and was cancelled.
Return to Universal
In September 1964, Gavin signed a new contract with Universal which gave him the option to take work outside the studio. He appeared in the television series, Convoy, which was cancelled after a short run. He appeared in Mexican film Pedro Páramo (1967), based on the novel by Juan Rulfo. His next role was that of Mary Tyler Moore's character's stuffy boyfriend in Universal's 1920s-era musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Gavin saw the role as an opportunity to parody his performances in Ross Hunter films.
In June 1966, Gavin signed a five-year non-exclusive contract with Universal. He was cast in the lead in OSS 117 – Double Agent (1968), then titled No Roses for Robert, replacing Frederick Stafford who was filming Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz. He acted in supporting roles in The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) and Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), in which he parodied his own image.
James Bond
Gavin was signed for the role of James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) after George Lazenby left the role. However, David Picker, head of United Artists, wanted the box-office assurance of Sean Connery. Gavin's contract was honored despite losing the role to Connery. According to Roger Moore's James Bond Diary, Gavin was slated to play Bond in Live and Let Die (1973), but Harry Saltzman insisted on a British actor for the role and Moore was given the part.
Screen Actors Guild
Gavin was on the board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1965. He served a term as third vice president and two terms as president from 1971 to 1973. During his presidency Gavin testified before the Federal Trade Commission on phone talent rackets and met with President Richard Nixon to present the problem of excessive television reruns. He presented petitions to the federal government on the issues of prime-time access rules, legislative assistance for American motion pictures, and film production by the government using non-professional actors.
Gavin's presidency in the Screen Actors Guild came to an end when he was defeated by Dennis Weaver in 1973. Gavin was the first incumbent president to be defeated by an independent challenger.
Theatre
Gavin made a foray into live theatre in the 1970s, showcasing his baritone voice. He toured the summer stock circuit as El Gallo in a production of The Fantasticks at the South Shore Music Circus twentieth anniversary summer season June 29-July 4, 1970 in Massachusetts.
In 1973, Gavin replaced Ken Howard in the Broadway musical Seesaw opposite Michele Lee. Gavin said he first turned down the musical because of his unhappiness with the quality of the book but reconsidered when Michael Bennett asked him to join the cast. He played the role for seven months and toured the United States in the role with Lucie Arnaz. Both the Broadway and touring production were directed by Michael Bennett.
Later TV work
In the early 1970s, Gavin played Akhenaten in the television movie Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973) alongside Geraldine Chaplin and Salah Zulfikar. In the late 1970s, Gavin played Cary Grant in the television movie Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980).
Politics
Gavin was cultural adviser to the Organization of American States from 1961 to 1965.
Ambassador to Mexico
A Republican, Gavin was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in June 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and served until June 1986.
Business career
In June 1986 following his work as ambassador to Mexico, Gavin became vice-president of Atlantic Richfield in federal and international relations. In 1987, he resigned to become president of Univisa Satellite Communications, a subsidiary of Univisa, the Spanish language broadcasting empire.
Gavin was president of Gamma Holdings, a global capital and consulting company which he helped found in 1968. He became chairman of Gamma Services International in January 1990. He served on the boards of Causeway Capital, the Hotchkis & Wiley Funds, the TCW Strategic Income Fund, Securitas Security Services USA, Inc., DII Industries, LLC, Claxson Interactive Group Inc., Anvita, Inc., the Latin America Strategy Board at HM Capital Partners LLC, Apex Mortgage Capital Inc., Krause's Furniture, Inc., Atlantic Richfield Co., International Wire Holdings Company and International Wire Group Holdings, Inc. Gavin served as senior counselor to Hicks Trans American Partners (a division of Hicks Holdings) and managing director and partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (Latin America) from 1994 to 2001. He was an independent trustee of Causeway International Value Fund.
Gavin served on various pro bono boards, including UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, Don Bosco Institute, the FEDCO Charitable Fund, the Hoover Institution, Loyola-Marymount University, the National Parks Foundation, Southwest Museum, the University of the Americas and Villanova Preparatory School.
Personal life
Gavin married actress Cicely Evans in 1957. They had two children and lived in Beverly Hills. The marriage ended in divorce in 1965. While making No Roses for Robert in Italy in 1967, Gavin dated co-star Luciana Paluzzi.
In 1974, Gavin married stage and television actress Constance Towers. The two were introduced at a party in 1957 by Gavin's godfather, Jimmy McHugh. Towers had two children from her previous marriage to Eugene McGrath. Gavin and Towers remained married until his death in 2018.
Gavin's daughter, Cristina, is an actress and his daughter, Maria, has a career in television production.
Death
Gavin died of complications from pneumonia after a long battle with leukemia on February 9, 2018, at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre credits
The Fantastiks (1967) – Paper Mill Playhouse and The Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1970
Seesaw (1974) with Lucie Arnaz – Broadway and tour
Mr. Roberts (1968) - Paper Mill Playhouse
References
External links
John Gavin – So Suave
1931 births
2018 deaths
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
American actor-politicians
American people of Chilean descent
American male actors of Mexican descent
American people of Irish descent
American male film actors
American male stage actors
Presidents of the Screen Actors Guild
Hispanic and Latino American diplomats
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
Ambassadors of the United States to Mexico
Latino conservatism in the United States
California Republicans
United States Navy officers
Military personnel from California
American military personnel of the Korean War
Stanford University alumni
Male actors from Los Angeles
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from pneumonia in California
New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners |
Hélène Campbell (born April 18, 1991) is a woman from Ottawa who has raised great awareness for organ donations, largely through documenting her own need for new lungs via social media and by attracting support from celebrities including Justin Bieber and Ellen DeGeneres.
Hélène's story
Campbell had been diagnosed with asthma at the age of 14. In summer 2011, she could not keep up with friends and after almost collapsing during hiking, she went to see her family doctor. In October 2011, she was diagnosed with advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and was told she needed a double lung transplant. In September 2011, Hélène's lungs function was only 26% and in October it went down to 24%. Since lung transplants were not done in Ottawa, she had to move to Toronto in January to be placed on the transplant waiting list.
In late March, Hélène's condition was decaying quickly and her lung function was only 7%. On April 4, she had serious difficulty breathing and was admitted to the Toronto General Hospital. Hélène's lung function was a 6%, and was getting smaller by the minute. Her condition was grave enough that she was almost taken off the list - she was considered a "high risk patient". On April 6, Hélène underwent a successful double lung transplant at the Toronto General Hospital.
Since then, she has been working with organizations all over the world to bring awareness to Organ Donation, Giving blood, and bone marrow donation. She is a motivational speaker and is passionate about sharing her experiences with anyone.
The Hélène Effect
In January 2012, she started the online campaign #BeAnOrganDonor on Twitter to get the attention of Canadian popstar Justin Bieber. After Bieber retweeted her campaign, over 2,000 people in Ontario alone registered to be organ donors.
In March, Campbell was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show through Skype to talk about her cause to encourage people to be organ donors and give people like her a second chance. According to The Ottawa Sun, registrations for organ donations in Ottawa have skyrocketed by more than 8,000 since December, and the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TLGN) attributes it to the "Helene Campbell effect."
Hélène got the attention of local media vehicles and politicians, such as Lisa MacLeod. She also received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, awarded by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in recognition of her work in raising awareness of the importance of organ donation on May 23, 2012.
References
External links
Hélène's blog
A Lung Story Youtube
1991 births
Living people
People from Ottawa
Lung transplant recipients |
Hua-Hua Chang is a Chinese psychometrician.
Biography
After earning a diploma in mathematics at East China Normal University in 1980, Chang moved to the United States to pursue masters and doctoral studies in statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His 1992 doctoral dissertation, Some Theoretical and Applied Results Concerning Item Response Theory Model Estimation, was advised by William Fleming Stout. Chang then worked as research scientist for the Educational Testing Service between 1992 and 1999. Between 1997 and 1998, he was an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1999 to 2001, Chang was affiliated with the National Board of Medical Examiners, then returned to academia, joining the University of Texas at Austin faculty. In 2005, Chang returned to UIUC, as a professor of educational psychology and within the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies until 2018. That year, Chang was appointed Charles R. Hicks Chair Professor at the Purdue University College of Education, as well as a courtesy professor of statistics.
Chang succeeded Mark L. Davison as chief editor of the academic journal Applied Psychological Measurement. The first issue of Chang's editorial tenure was published in November 2012. From 2012 to 2013, Chang was president of the Psychometric Society.
Chang was elected to fellowship of the American Educational Research Association in 2010, and was awarded the AERA's E. F. Lindquist Award in 2017. The American Statistical Association elected Chang to fellowship in 2019. Chang received the 2021 Award for Career Contributions from the National Council on Measurement in Education.
References
Living people
Purdue University faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
East China Normal University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Psychometricians
Expatriate academics in the United States
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Psychology journal editors
University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Raimund Frederick Herincx (23 August 1927 in London – 10 February 2018), was a British operatic bass-baritone. Through a varied international career, Herincx performed in most of the world's great opera houses and with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras, having been in demand in international opera and in the choral and orchestral field. He is also featured in many recordings, some of which are creator's recordings and others, first recordings.
Career
During the first ten years of his career he sang, as principal baritone, with both the Welsh National Opera and Sadler's Wells Opera companies, singing in over 400 performances and 40 major roles with the latter.
A parallel international career developed as he was engaged for guest appearances in the opera houses of Paris, Brussels, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Concert appearances in Rome, Madrid, Athens, Lisbon and Stockholm were also part of his itinerary.
His BBC Promenade Concert debut was in 1961 and, as a result, he took the English language concert repertoire into many European concert halls including the premieres of works by Walton, Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Britten.
His debut at the Royal Opera House was in 1968. He then appeared in many roles in Italian, English, German, Russian and French for that company and starred in three world premieres including Faber in The Knot Garden by Michael Tippett on 2 December 1970 conducted by Sir Colin Davis and produced by Sir Peter Hall.
Meanwhile, appearances for the English National Opera included many major roles, notably as Wotan in Wagner's Ring Cycle. This role also brought him personal success in Europe and North and South America.
From 1976, when he joined the Metropolitan Opera of New York, much of his career was in the US and was focussed on the operas of Wagner. He subsequently appeared in most of the major cities for the leading American opera companies.
Both in Britain and America he was well known as a voice teacher and therapist and devoted some of his time to cancer research, guiding and helping patients with voice and throat problems.
In the UK, he taught at the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, and the Universities of Cardiff and Aberdeen; whilst in the USA he taught at the Universities of Washington and California (UCLA) and lectured for the Yale Club and the Juilliard School. He continued to teach regularly at the North East of Scotland Music School in Aberdeen.
In the sphere of international music competitions he became well known as an adjudicator and examiner, having appeared regularly as a jury member for competitions such as the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Mary Garden award. In this capacity he was frequently invited overseas as the British representative on international juries.
More recently he became much in demand as a lecturer, speaker and translator and was also frequently engaged as a musical journalist and critic.
His numerous recordings include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage and The Knot Garden, Handel's Messiah, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Tavener's The Whale, Delius' Koanga plus Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress and Sir John in Love.
In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen. He lived in Bath and was married to Astra Blair.
Sources
Grove Music Online, Herincx, Raimund [Raymond](Frederick), article by Alan Blyth.
Notes
1927 births
2018 deaths
British bass-baritones
Operatic bass-baritones
Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music
20th-century British male opera singers
Singers from London |
The , also known as the is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race for three-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 2,400 metres (approximately 1 mile 4 furlongs) at the Tokyo Racecourse, Fuchū, Tokyo in May.
History
It was first run in 1938 and is the Japanese equivalent of the English Epsom Oaks.
On May 23, 2010, in the 71st running of the Yushun Himba, Apapane and Saint Emilion hit the finish at the same time in the race, making the first time that a Grade 1 race in Japan has resulted in a dead heat for the win.
On May 20, 2018, Almond Eye won the 2,400-meter Yushun Himba over Lily Noble by two lengths.
Winners since 1990
Earlier winners
1938 - Asteri Mor
1939 - Hoshi Homare
1940 - Rounella
1941 - Tetsu Banzai
1942 - Rock States
1943 - Kurifuji
1944 - no race
1945 - no race
1946 - Mitsumasa
1947 - Tokitsukaze
1948 - Yashima Hime
1949 - King Night
1950 - Koma Minoru
1951 - Kiyo Fuji
1952 - Swee Sue
1953 - Jitsu Homare
1954 - Yamaichi
1955 - Hiroichi
1956 - Fair Manna
1957 - Miss Onward
1958 - Miss Marusa
1959 - Okan
1960 - Star Roch
1961 - Chitose Hope
1962 - O Hayabusa
1963 - I.T.O.
1964 - Kane Keyaki
1965 - Bellona
1966 - Hiro Yoshi
1967 - Yama Pit
1968 - Lupinus
1969 - Shadai Tarquin
1970 - Jupique
1971 - Kane Himuro
1972 - Take Fubuki
1973 - Nasuno Chigusa
1974 - Toko Elsa
1975 - Tesco Gaby
1976 - Titania
1977 - Linear Queen
1978 - Five Hope
1979 - Agnes Lady
1980 - Kei Kiroku
1981 - Temmon
1982 - Shadai Ivor
1983 - Dyna Carle
1984 - Tokai Roman
1985 - Noah no Hakobune
1986 - Mejiro Ramonu
1987 - Max Beauty
1988 - Cosmo Dream
1989 - Light Color
See also
Horse racing in Japan
List of Japanese flat horse races
References
Racing Post:
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Horse races in Japan
Turf races in Japan
Flat horse races for three-year-old fillies |
The 1992–93 Latvian Hockey League season was the second season of the Latvian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Latvia. Fifteen teams participated in the league, and Pārdaugava Riga won the championship.
Regular season
Group A
Group B
Second round
Final round
Placing round
External links
Season on hockeyarchives.info
Latvian Hockey League
Latvian Hockey League seasons
Latvian |
George Frederick Price Darrell (1851–1921) was an Australian playwright best known for The Sunny South (1883), which was made into a film The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate.
Darrell began his professional career with Simonsen's Opera Company in New Zealand; but, on migrating to Melbourne, took to the regular dramatic profession, earning some distinction as a juvenile supporter of the once idolised Walter Montgomery. He married Mrs. Robert Heir (née Fanny Cathcart), the admirable tragédienne, and subsequently visited professionally America and England, where, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, he produced his play The Sunny South.
His last play, The Land of Gold was staged by Charles Holloway at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney in 1907.
In 1878 he formed the "Australian Dramatic Company", which name was subsequently used by Alfred Dampier, but the connection between the two, if any, has not been found.
Darrell's body was washed ashore at Dee Why on 29 January 1921. He had died by drowning, found to be suicide as evidenced by the note he left for his landlady, Mrs Barnet.
As a playwright his name has been confused with that of Charles Darrell, author of When London Sleeps, The Power and the Glory and Defender of the Faith.
Select writings
Man and Wife (1871)
Matrimonial Manoeuvres (1872)
Dark Deeds (1873)
Friends of the Flag ; Or, The Struggle for Freedom (1874)
Her Face, Her Fortune (1874)
The Trump Card (1874)
The Four Fetes (1875)
Transported for Life (1876)
Back from the Grave (1878)
The Forlorn Hope ; or, A Tale of Tomorrow (1879)
Solange (1882)
The Naked Truth (1883)
The Sunny South (1883)
The Squatter (1885)
The Soggarth (1886)
The New Rush (1886)
Hue and Cry (1888)
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab aka Midnight Melbourne (1888) – stage version of the Fergus Hume novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
The Queen of Bohemia (1888)
The Pakeha (1890)
Mr Potter of Texas (1890)
The Lucky Lot (1890)
The Double Event (1893)
The Crimson Thread (1894)
Convict Once (1896)
The Land of Dawning (1896)
The Queen of Coolgardie (1897)
The Sorrows of Satan (1897)
The Light That Failed (1899)
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)
The Punter (1902)
Sappho (1902)
Justice or Murder (1902)
Paris and Pleasure (1904)
The Battle and the Breeze (1905)
The Belle of the Bush (1916) – novel
References
External links
George Darrell at AusLit
George Darrell at State Library of New South Wales
1851 births
1921 deaths
Writers from the Colony of Victoria
Australian male dramatists and playwrights
Australian male stage actors
19th-century Australian male actors
19th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights |
Ralph Earle (3 May 1874 – 13 February 1939) served the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War and World War I. He was the Chief, Bureau of Ordnance (BUORD) and retired as a rear admiral in 1927.
Biography
Earle was born on 3 May 1874 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1896.
He served at sea in several ships, among them , , and .
While on board , he won commendations from the President and Secretary of the Navy for his conduct at the time of a disastrous turret explosion.
He commanded during the Tampico Affair, and at the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, and later commanded .
Ashore, Earle had duty at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Proving Ground. An expert on guns and explosives, he was made Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance shortly before the United States entered World War I.
Under his administration the North Sea mine barrage was conceived and executed using a new type of mine, and the plan of mounting naval 14-inch guns on railway cars for use as long-range artillery on the Western Front, was evolved and carried out.
After his retirement in 1925, Rear Admiral Earle served as president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute until his death. Earle, well loved as WPI's sixth president implemented a five-year plan which brought the students a swimming pool and a new hall named after R. Sanford Riley among other needed campus improvements. He also served as president of the Worcester Economic Club in 1931.
He died of a stroke on 13 February 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Honored in ship naming
The , launched 10 December 1941 by Boston Navy Yard, was named in his honor. The launch was sponsored by Mrs. John F. Hines, Jr., daughter of Rear Admiral Earle.
The Naval Weapons Station Earle (New Jersey) was also named (in 1943) to honor the admiral because of his strong association with ordnance projects.
See also
United States Navy
World War I
References
Further reading
Photo of grave of Ralph Earle in Friends Cemetery Leceister, MA
Earle Bridge at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Photo of A. Atwater Kent receiving honorary degree from WPI President Ralph Earle
Worcester Engineering Society Collection with information on candidates for the Admiral Ralph Earle Award
A Bright Chapter within Two Towers: The Story of Worcester Tech by Mildred McClary Tymeson about Earle's Presidency at WPI
Tech Presidents
Further reading
Diaries of Ruth Earle Southwick 1921-1925, . Ruth Earle Southwick was Ralph Earle's only sister.
1874 births
1939 deaths
United States Navy rear admirals (upper half)
Military personnel from Worcester, Massachusetts
United States Navy personnel of the Spanish–American War
United States Navy personnel of World War I
United States Naval Academy alumni
Presidents of Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
The Siege of Gujranwala was fought between the Sikh forces led by Charat Singh and the Afghan forces led by Jahan Khan.
Background
In 1763, Jahan Khan attempted to regain some of his lost territory. After Charat Singh previously occupied Gujranwala in 1761, the route to Kabul was blocked. Jahan Khan, the Nawab of Lahore decided to besiege Gujranwala. 30,000 troops surrounded the city on all sides. One thousand men were trapped inside it. This all happened in November 1763.
Siege
The Afghan troops of 30,000 encircled the city by all sides and their strength kept increasing. In the city, 200 soldiers were under Charat Singh. At night, the 200 soldiers attacked the enemy and raged hao among the enemy lines. Jahan Khan managed to escape horseback. As he was escaping to Lahore, the Sikhs rushed after him in hot pursuit. Plenty of treasure landed in Charat's hands and more Sikhs joined him.
Aftermath
Following this victory, the Sikhs sacked Malerkotla and Morinda. Gujranwala was made the Sukerchakia Misl capital after this battle.
References
See also
Nihang
Martyrdom and Sikhism
Conflicts in 1763
18th-century sieges
1760s in the Durrani Empire
Battles involving the Sikhs
Gujranwala |
Abdulmumin Zabirov ( born 4 August 2001) is a Tajikistani professional football player who currently plays for FK Khujand.
Career
Club
On 18 February 2020, FK Khujand announced the signing of Zabirov from Regar-TadAZ.
International
Zabirov made his senior team debut on 7 November 2020 against Bahrain.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 24 May 2021
References
2001 births
Living people
Tajikistani men's footballers
Tajikistan men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders |
Trupanea dealbata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trupanea of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
South Africa.
References
Tephritinae
Insects described in 1964
Diptera of Africa |
Dr. Salem Ben Nasser Al-Ismaily is an Omani advisor at the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Ismaily was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of the Sultanate of Oman Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Export Development, or Ithraa. Al Ismaily has been conferred by the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, the second class order of Oman and by Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur, the late Sultan of Oman, the third and the second class orders of Oman.
Education
Al-Ismaily has degrees in telecommunications, liberal arts, industrial engineering, business administration, and management; with doctorates in philosophy and in economy from British and American universities.
Career
Al-Ismaily worked as the managing director at the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) from 1984 to 1996. The first industrial estate in the Sultanate of Oman was established at Al-Rusayl in the year 1983. As new industrial estates were set up, the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) was formed a decade later to give substantial impetus to industrial development in the country.
In 1996 he was appointed as the deputy chairman and executive president of the Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development. In 2010, he was appointed as the chair of Ithraa with a ministerial rank. Established in 1996, Ithraa is Oman's award-winning inward investment and export development agency. It is committed to promoting business environment and promoting easy movement of goods people and serves internationally. Al Ismaily is also a member of Fulbright Association for peace.
Board member
Al-Ismaily also serves as a board member of many private companies in the field of financial services and energy on his personal capacity. He served as the chairman of Oman ORIX Leasing Company SAOG, director of BankMuscat SAOG, Fraser Institute, Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Co. B. S. C. (c) Director of Ahli Bank S.A.O.G. from 2008 to June 2010, director of Renaissance Services SAOG and Oman Oil Marketing Company SAOG among others.
International Research Foundation
Al-Ismaily is the founder and chairman of the International Research Foundation, a non-government, non-profit, economic think tank that has pioneered the research of economic freedom in the Arab World.
The group aims to provide a reliable and objective metric of economic policy throughout the Arab World. It measures the extent to which citizens of the nations of the Arab League are able to make their own economic decisions without limitations imposed by the government or by crony elites. The report provides sound empirical measurement of economic policy that can distinguish between phony reform that leaves economic and political power in the hands of crony elites, and real reform that creates new prosperity, entrepreneurship, and jobs, by opening business and work opportunities for everyone no matter whom they know.
Arab and Islamic societies have a rich trading tradition that celebrates markets open even to the humblest members of society. Economic freedom is consistent with that proud history and provides a path to a more prosperous and freer tomorrow. Economic freedom is simply the ability of individuals and families to take charge of their fate and make their own economic decisions—to sell or buy in the marketplace without discrimination, to open or close a business, to work for whom they wish or hire whom they wish, to receive investment or invest in others.
Al Ismaily was named the "Man of the Year" in 2015 at the Arab Liberty Festival in Marrakesh, Morocco.
He was honoured for his exceptional professional and academic contribution to the understanding of free enterprise in the Arab world, and to public policies that encourage prosperity, innovation and human fulfillment.
Al Ismaily has published several papers on the subject of cross culture, management and economy including five books on corporate culture, history and religion.
The release of American hikers imprisoned in Iran
Americans Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were released in September 2011, after being held in Tehran's Evin Prison for 26 months. Oman's envoy in Iran said in a statement that "the Islamic Republic of Iran has handled Bauer and Fattal to the custody of Dr. Salem Al Ismaily, the envoy of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Sultan of Oman, a country that enjoys excellent relationships with both Iran and the USA. Dr. Al Ismaily with the hikers left on their way to Muscat where they will spend a couple of days before heading home."
The pair, released from an Iranian prison, arrived in Muscat, the capital of Oman, before leaving Muscat airport for an undisclosed location, Fattal and Bauer released brief statements. They took no questions from reporters. Josh Fattal expressed his deepest gratitude toward Sultan Qaboos of Oman for obtaining their release.
President Obama called Sultan Qaboos bin Said to convey the United States’ appreciation for the Sultan's role in securing the release of the hikers.
Omani back channel
Al-Isamily was the colorful fixture of the Omani “back channel” to Iran that opened in 2009. The contact of Ismaily began in May 2009 four months after President Obama took office. He surprised the Americans with “an offer by Iran to negotiate” about the nuclear program, Al-Ismaily assured he could bring the Iranians to the table, and he made his promise. John Kerry and Salem Al-Ismaily knew each other during the hikers negotiations, and Kerry had made several visits to Oman in 2011 and early 2012. “In his zeal to jump-start the negotiations, Kerry passed several messages to the Iranians through Ismaily,” according to Mark Landler.
“Within the first five minutes of meeting Salem,” recalls Kerry, “I realized that his objective extended beyond the hikers. We spoke of the importance of getting Josh and Shane home swiftly but he turned quickly to the potential for progress on other fronts as well. At the top of the list was Iran’s current path to a nuclear weapon.”
“Salem made clear to me during that first meeting that Sultan Qaboos felt he could be helpful in advancing a mutually agreeable solution. It was also clear that the Omanis were not acting only out of goodwill; they knew that a nuclear-armed Iran would fundamentally undermine the stability of the region", stated Kerry.
“And they were concerned, as we were, that Tehran was getting closer and closer to a weapon. Shane and Josh were finally released in September 2011, thanks in large part to Oman’s efforts. In my view, and in the view of many in the Obama administration, including President Obama himself, Sultan Qaboos had proven his seriousness and his sway with the Iranians..."
“Having proven their bona fides, I believed it was appropriate to see if they could help bridge the communications divide with the Iranians. We needed greater insight into their thinking. We needed to better assess the possibilities. Salem and I began to talk regularly, both on the phone and, from time to time, in person..."
"There was general agreement that, given the success of the hikers’ release, it was worth at least exploring the potential for progress on the nuclear front. With President Obama's approval, I began planning for a trip to Muscat to meet with Sultan Qaboos in hopes of gaining better insight as to what was really possible."
Oman and Tanzania
Oman pledged to support Tanzania in its drive towards an industrial economy aimed at making the east African nation a middle-income country by 2025. A high-level delegation from Oman made the pledge during talks with President John Magufuli, said the statement.
The delegation arrived in Dar es Salaam port on Tuesday 17 October 2017, aboard a ship christened Fulk Al Salamah. They aimed at strengthening the Tanzania-Oman relationship, especially on the economic front. For his part, President Magufuli, apart from thanking the Omani royal government for its commitment, pledged continued cooperation.
The president said Tanzania was ready to create conducive environment for investments by giving investors necessary support. He asked the government of Oman to strengthen its relationship with Tanzania on tourism, fishing and aviation sectors as well as construction of meat processing industries, and exchange programs for experts in Kiswahili and Arabic languages. Magufuli also thanked the Omani government for the construction of 100 water wells across the country and asked for more investments in the new capital city of Dodoma in central Tanzania.
Publications
Al-Ismaily is instrumental in promoting trade relations between Oman and the United States.
He has written several books, one of which, Inside the Omani Corporate Culture – A Research in Management Styles, co-authored with Professor Peter McKiernan of the University of St Andrews, is the academic foundation of this story. Richard Tzudiker is a freelance writer with a bachelor's degree in English from Colgate University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Denver.
Religious affairs
In his efforts on promoting cultural dialogue, Al-Ismaily met with Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II in Muscat to discuss issues of cultural and religious exchanges in which they spoke about the history of religions, especially that of Syriac Orthodox Church and its presence in Oman. The discussions took place in the presence of Mor Clemis Daniel Kourieh, Metropolitan of Beirut, Raban Joseph Bali, Patriarchal Secretary and Media Office Director
Honours
Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star, 2017.
References
External links
Living people
Omani businesspeople
Omani writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Rekhmire was an ancient Egyptian noble and official of the 18th Dynasty who served as "Governor of the Town" (Thebes) and Vizier during the reigns of Thutmosis III and Amenhotep II, circa 1400 BCE. He was the nephew of Vizier User, who took office at the time of the fifth year of Queen Hatshepsut’s reign. User's official titles included mayor of the city, vizier, and prince. Rekhmire is noted for constructing a lavishly decorated tomb for himself in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, part of the Theban Necropolis, containing lively, well preserved scenes of daily life during the Egyptian New Kingdom. His tomb is also important as it contains a full copy of a text detailing the duties of the office of the vizier, known as the Installation of the Vizier.
He was also High Priest of Annu or Heliopolis. The cause of his political and personal downfall remains unclear. It is suspected that he fell into disgrace and was deposed. His tomb was Theban Tomb 100.
References
External links
The Tomb of Rekhmire
Regulation laid upon the vizier Rekhmire
Viziers of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Ancient Egyptian priests |
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on trauma, abuse, and violence. The journal's editor-in-chief is Jon R. Conte (University of Washington). It was established in 2000 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 6.325, ranking it 1st out of 44 journals in the category "Social Work", 1st out of 47 journals in the category "Family Studies", and 2nd out of 69 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology".
See also
Psychological trauma
Trauma (medicine)
References
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2000
Sociology journals
Violence journals |
Table tennis women's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Oxenford Studios on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 8.
Group stage
2 points were awarded for won tie, and 1 point for lost tie.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal
Final
References
Women's team
Common |
Fatima Zahra Bennacer (Arabic : فاطمة الزهراء بناصر; born 30 October 1981), is a Moroccan actress. She began her career in 1997 and has featured in many productions. She became famous for her role in the TV series "An hour in hell" as Sophia, and her role as the rebellious girl in the Ramadan TV series Okba Lik.
Acting Credits
Cinema
Television
Discography
(ar) Hamam lkhla (حمام لخلا)
(ar) Goliya (قوليا)
(ar) Kif nessma (كيف نسمة)
(ar) Liyam (ليام)
(ar) baa m3aya (بقا معيا)
(ar) zahwiya (زاهوية)
(ar) Maktouaa mn chajra (مقطوع من شجرة)
References
1981 births
Living people
Moroccan television actresses |
Nortt is a Danish funeral doom metal project maintained by a musician who goes by an eponymous pseudonym. The project was founded in 1995 and the sole member describes his music as "pure depressive black funeral doom metal". In terms of lyrics and imagery (for instance the use of corpse paint) he is akin to other black metal acts, while the sound of his music is closer to doom metal.
On his official website Nortt reveals a fascination with darkness, night, nihilism, solitude, misery, misanthropy and death. In an interview he remarked: "Death ... is viewed as an inevitable and alluring phenomenon. Death is described from the perspective of the dying and from the dead. The uncertainty of death is preached as more thrilling than the well-known pain of life." He is a self-proclaimed nihilist, and thinks that religion is for the weak. He takes pride in being a strong individual and repeatedly degrades "weak" individuals. While he despises religion, he views the occult and old (pre-Christian, pagan) religions with respect. Nortt believes that it takes strength to be a Satanist, because of its existentialism and free thought.
For his third full-length album, Galgenfrist, he signed with Italian underground label Avantgarde Music.
Line-up
Nortt (real name unknown) – vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards
Discography
Full-length albums
Gudsforladt ["Godforsaken"] (2004) (containing previously released tracks, as well as new material)
Ligfærd ["Funeral March/Journey of the Dead"] (2006)
Galgenfrist ["Last Respite"] (2008)
Endeligt (2017)
EP releases
Hedengang ["The Passing"] (2002)
Demos
Nattetale (Rehearsal Version) (1997)
Nattetale ["Night's Tale"] (1997)
Døden... ["The Death…"] (1998)
Graven ["The Grave"] (1999)
Split albums
Nortt / Xasthur (with Xasthur) (2004) (containing tracks from Hedengangen EP)
Compilation albums
Mournful Monuments 1998–2002 (2003)
Interviews
Interview (2004) on Antenna (in English)
Interview (2004) on Black Alchemy (in Russian)
Interview (2005) with Erin Fox on The Gauntlet (in English)
Interview (2004) on Harm Magazine (in English)
Interview (2004) with Paolo Vidmar on Metal Italia (in Italian)
References
Danish black metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1995
One-man bands
Funeral doom musical groups |
WFAB (890 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. It is licensed to Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by Daniel Rosario Diaz.
History
The station went on the air as WJSE on April 1, 1987. On April 6, 1988, it changed its call sign to WRRE, and on January 15, 1989, to WFAB.
References
External links
FAB
Radio stations established in 1987
Ceiba, Puerto Rico
1987 establishments in Puerto Rico |
Thomas "Ted" Ranken (18 May 1875 – 27 April 1950), was a British sport shooter, who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics.
In the 1908 Olympics he won silver medals in the single-shot running deer event, in the double-shot running deer event and in the team single-shot running deer event. He was also fifth in the 1000 yard free rifle event.
References
External links
profile
1875 births
1950 deaths
British male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
20th-century British people |
Elias Malandris (born 1966) is a distinguished theatrologist, director, reconstructor and TV presenter. He was born in Athens and originates from Kasos island.
Studies
He studied theatre at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire. He completed Theatre, Film and Television Studies at New York University (1995) and he continued his studies on humanities and Greek and European culture at the Department of Greek Studies of the Open University of Patras. He was the artistic director of the festival of Kasos island, for 17 years.
Career
Radio and Television
He has been working in radio and television broadcasting, since 1987. He has collaborated with numerous Greek television channels, such as ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) ANT1, ALPHA, SKAI and with Bloomberg TV in New York. He has directed more than 1000 various programs and from 1992 to 2001 he was presenting the TV show Estin oun (Έστιν ουν) whose aim was the revival of ancient Greek drama on channel Seven-X and from 2008 until today in Vouli Tileorasi, (the channel of the House of the Parliament).
The series of Test: A Fourth Dimension was a dramatization of the works of the poet Yannis Ritsos, which was honored by the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, and was included in its curricula.
He presented several TV projects that were tributes to the history of the National Theatre of Greece, Theatre of Art, of Amphitheatro and of the Theatrical Organization of Cyprus.
He presented the series called “The Streets of the Archangel” about the life and art of the composer Mikis Theodorakis, in TV channels Seven-X and the Channel of the House of Greek Parliament.
In 2004 he presented the musical TV program “The sea tells me a lot when it echoes…”.
In 2005 he presented the TV series “Ihni” (Traces) at ERT1 (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation).
During the winter of 2006 he presented two projects at the Second and the Third Public radio stations: the first called The Siege of Leningrad by A. Cinistera and the second one called Colchis which was the first reading of the reconstructed lost drama of Sophocles.
Cimema
He has created three short films: "The Water", "The Songs of Agony" and "The Twelve Words of the Gypsy".
In 2000 he completed and presented a documentary about the ancient customs in Thrace under the title of Tsaousli.
In 2001 he completed his first long film entitled The Yusuri, with the participation of Turkish actors with the music of Stavros Xarchakos and the traditional band Palaiina Schefferia, which is a metaphor of the novel Words of the prow by Andreas Karkavitsas.
Theater
In 1997, in collaboration with the Euro Info Media and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, he presented and directed two dramatic works of the poet Angelos Sikelianos "The Last Orphic Dithyramvos" and "Daedalus in Crete" in a first world performance at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi. The music was by Yannis Markopoulos and the scenography by Denny Vachlioti.
From 1998 he traveled around the world with the musical "The Liturgy of Orpheus" (Orpheus‘ Ritual) with the music of Yannis Markopoulos. He has directed performances in most of the Ancient Greek and Roman theatres in Greece.
In 2000 he directed two performances Rebirth at Herodium (Odeon of Herodes Atticus under Acropolis) and The Song of Achilles in the theatre Brachon.(Theatre of the Rocks)
The summer of 2001 he presented at the Herodium the 24 Pyrrhic dances with the National Symphony Orchestra of ERT.
In 2002 he presented "The Liturgy of Orpheus" and "The Paper Dreams" at the Athens Concert Hall Megaron with Mario Frangoulis and Deborah Mayers, and The "Lightwell" with the actress Anna Synodinou at the Theatre Brettania in Athens.
In 2003 he presented "The Muddy Waters" of the poet Nikos Kavvadias in Athens Concert Hall, Megaron with numerous famous Greek artists which was a production of The Company of Friends of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, starting then a collaboration of almost a decade when presidents of the company were the ladies A. Ntaifa and E. Meleti. In the same summer he presented "Songs of Piraeus" in Veakio Open Theatre of Piraeus, "The Liturgy of Orpheus" at the archaeological site of the Marathon Tomb and in the Ancient Theatres of Ephesus and of Delphi.
In 2004 he published the study Achilleis which is a reconstruction of the lost Aeschylus trilogy, Myrmidones, Nereides, Phrygians and was presented by the Greek festival and the Cyprus Theatre Organisation at Epidaurus ancient theatre in the summer of 2004, rising protests by Greek philologists but he was vastly praised by the international press and divided the critics.
In 2005 he directed the play "Old Neighbourhood" at the Veakio Open Theatre of Piraeus.
In 2006 he presented at the Herodium, the musical project dedicated to the Nobelist poet Odysseas Elytis When I speak about the sun reciting the Nobel prized poem "Axion Esti", music by Mikis Theodorakis.
In 2006-2007 he presented a tribute to Federico García Lorca on tour around Greece with "The Dark Love". He also directed the concerts of Marios Frangoulis worldwide.
In the summer of 2008, he represented Greece in the international festivals of Ephesus (Izmir) with the reconstruction of Euripides' "Phaethon" directed by Nikos Haralambous and the music of Michalis Christodoulides. He also directed a musical tribute to the god Apollo under the title "Dorion Phos" (Doreian Light). This was also a political event as Cypriot artists were presented in Turkey for the first time under the special permission of the Prime Minister of Turkey. The show was performed in the ancient Library of Celsus.
In 2009, in collaboration with Mario Frangoulis and the Academy of Athens they presented a program for world peace that was performed the same summer at Herodium and in the winter of 2010 in many cities of USA, starting with Boston, under the title "The Light of Greece".
In the summer of 2010, within the same project, the ancient theatre at Pergamon in Turkey opens for the first time, after many years, with the tragedy Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound", directed by Malandris with the participation of great artists, with the original music of Constantine Psachos, choreography by Vassia Angelidou and the collaboration with the Lyceum of Greek Women; the latter under the direction of Kostas Karamanos and the "Spiritual march" with the music of Mikis Theodorakis.
In 2014 he directed and participated on the theatrical play "John Gabriel Borkman", by Henrik Ibsen.
In 2016 he directed the theatrical play "Delikanis", by Manolis Skouloudis at Herodium with 39 actors, more than 80 dancers, and 12 musicians.
In 2017 he directed the musical play "Axion Esti" by Mikis Theodorakis and Odysseas Elytis.
In 2018 he directed the medieval play "Abraham’s sacrifice" at Herodion.
In 2019 he directed "Francis God’s Jester" by Nikos Kazantzakis with the music of Dimitris Papadimitriou.
In 2020 he directed "A season in Hell" by Stratis Paschalis based on letters by Ar. Rimbaud and Paul Verlain with music by Nena Venetsanou.
Also in 2020 he directed Seneca's "Thyestes" for the first time in Greece for the Greek radio ERT.
Books and articles
In 2004 he published the book Mikis Theodorakis with a CD and DVD collection, a project produced by FM records.
In 2005, his fourth book was published, titled "GREECE IN WORLD WAR II (3CD + 1DVD)" (Εμπρός της Ελλάδος παιδιά) and in 2014 his fifth one titled "Fragments".
He has often collaborated with newspapers as Kathimerini, Imeresia and Acropolis and his articles have been published in "the Political Issues" in the magazine Passworld of Axon Airlines, in which he was the chief-editor, as well.
Awards
In 2004 he was awarded the Doriza Prize for his contribution to the reconstruction of fragments from ancient drama lost plays.
In 2020, the book of Achilles was voted in the top ten books for 2020 worldwide in its theme.
References
People from Athens
1966 births
Living people
Greek film directors
Greek theatre directors
Greek theatre people
Film people from Athens |
```python
import os
import hou
import unittest
local_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
class TestStringMethods(unittest.TestCase):
@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
pass
def test_1_test_demoscenes(self):
demo_files = os.listdir(os.path.dirname(local_dir) + "/hip")
for demo_file in demo_files:
if demo_file.endswith(".hip"):
print "opening", demo_file
try:
hou.hipFile.load(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(local_dir), "hip", demo_file).replace("\\", "/"))
GameDevNodeInstances = [x for x in hou.node("/").allSubChildren() if x.type().nameComponents()[1] == "gamedev"]
for node in GameDevNodeInstances:
if node.type().definition().nodeType().name() != hou.nodeType(node.type().definition().nodeTypeCategory(), node.type().definition().nodeTypeName()).namespaceOrder()[0]:
print "Warning... Node instance is using older definition:", node.path()
except Exception, e:
print str(e)
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
``` |
Babel is an open source middleware system serving the scientific computing community. As a language interoperability tool, Babel enables the arbitrary mixing of software libraries written in C/C++, Fortran, Python, and Java. As a distributed computing platform, Babel provides a language-neutral Remote Method Invocation (RMI) scheme similar to Java's RMI which allows third-party plug-ins to specify custom data encodings and network protocols.
How it works
Babel requires developers to use an interface description language to specify the platform and language neutral interface to code. Babel uses a custom dialect called SIDL (Scientific Interface Definition Language), which has adaptations specific to computational science and engineering applications. The Babel tool parses the SIDL specification to generate source code which provides the glue between programming languages.
Babel works on all known POSIX and Unix variants, including Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64, Cray's XT4, IBM's Blue Gene, and many commodity clusters. Babel does not require special compiler or linker technology and works with GNU, Intel, IBM, PathScale, PGI, and many other compilers. Babel is distributed under an LGPL license.
Impact
Babel won an R&D 100 Award in 2006.
It has been used in diverse computational applications such as accelerator beam dynamics, cell biology, chemistry, climate, electron effects, fusion, geomagnetics, materials, nuclear power plants, radio astronomy, and subsurface transport as well as infrastructure such as frameworks, meshing, solvers, sparse linear algebra, and sourcecode refactoring.
Babel is also redistributed with some customer applications, the CCA framework, and Debian Linux.
History
Babel was started as an internal research project on software components at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1999. The first public (alpha) release of Babel was in 2001. Also in 2001 it secured funding from SciDAC (Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing) along with its collaborators in the CCA Forum (Common Component Architecture Forum).
Community
Babel development and maintenance is currently funded by United States Department of Energy, but relies heavily on an open source community. Contributors hail from Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tech-X Corp, MIT, University of Utah, and more. The Babel development team maintain open software repositories, mailing lists, and issue trackers.
See also
CORBA
COM
SWIG
Enduro/X
References
External links
Babel home page
CCA Forum home page
SciDAC home page
Programming tools
Free computer programming tools
Scripting languages |
```turing
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# directory of this source tree.
$ . "${TEST_FIXTURES}/library.sh"
$ hook_test_setup \
> block_commit_message_pattern <(
> cat <<CONF
> log_only=true
> config_json='''{
> "pattern": "([@]nocommit)",
> "message": "Message contains nocommit marker"
> }'''
> CONF
> )
$ hg up -q tip
Push a commit that fails the hook, it is still allowed as the hook is log-only.
$ echo "foo" >> foo
$ hg ci -Aqm $"Contains @""nocommit"
$ hgmn push -r . --to master_bookmark
pushing rev d379d7937ea5 to destination mononoke://$LOCALIP:$LOCAL_PORT/repo bookmark master_bookmark
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
updating bookmark master_bookmark
$ jq < $TESTTMP/hooks-scuba.json -c '[.normal.hook, .int.failed_hooks, .normal.log_only_rejection]'
["block_commit_message_pattern",0,"Message contains nocommit marker"]
``` |
Shelton Leigh "Shelly" Palmer is an advertising, marketing and technology consultant, and business adviser. He is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and CEO of The Palmer Group, a tech strategy and solutions consulting practice. He is the former president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), New York chapter (NATAS/NY), and he served as the chairman of both the Advanced Media Committee and the Technology Committee for the organization. He is also known for his work as a composer and producer.
Education and career
Palmer completed his graduation from the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.A. in direction and production of film and television in 1979. He started his career at age 12 as a musician. He wrote Meow Mix jingles and composed music for Live with Regis and Kelly, Spin City and MSNBC. The "Palmer News Package" is Palmer's arrangement of the Channel 2 News theme originating from WBBM-TV in Chicago and has been used by stations across the country including WBBM's sister station WCBS-TV in New York City, who commissioned the arrangement.
Palmer produced HotPop, which aired on Starz/Encore's Wam! Network. He also produced NBC Universal's Digital Life with Shelly Palmer, and Live Digital with Shelly Palmer.
Radio work
Palmer's first "full service" radio production client was The ABC Television Network. SLP&Co. scripted, cast, produced, composed and trafficked over 150 radio spots per year to ABC's 213 affiliated television stations. During the early 1990s, SLP&Co. expanded its staff and production facilities to include more work with music as well as programming and production for CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, Interactive Television and other digital media.
Interactive television
Palmer's first solo technology patent was for an interactive television system that allowed users to click a button on their remote to perform near-real-time transactions over broadcast television. Palmer also invented and patented the methodology that enabled viewers to watch television and interact with server-based information in relative sync, known as two-screen interactive television. Major network broadcasts soon adopted this technology, including ABC's Monday Night Football, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and The Academy Awards.
As The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries licensed Palmer's Enhanced Television technology, the company soon hired Palmer as a consultant to their Enhanced Television division. In 2004, ABC's Celebrity Mole Yucatán received an Emmy Award in the category of Enhancement of Original Television Content, a project team of advanced media professionals spearheaded by Palmer.
Books
Patents
References
External links
Official Palmer website
Living people
American television composers
American television personalities
American women television personalities
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Syracuse University faculty |
The women's 70 kg competition of the judo events at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held on July 13 at the Mississauga Sports Centre.
Schedule
All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
Results
Legend
1st number = Ippon
2nd number = Waza-ari
3rd number = Yuko
H = Hansoku Make (automatic disqualification)
Bracket
Repechage round
Two bronze medals were awarded.
References
External links
W70
2015
Pan American Games W70 |
Robert Hervey (August 10, 1820 – December 16, 1903) was the third mayor of Bytown in 1849. He was a Canadian and later American lawyer.
He was born in Glasgow in 1820. He came to Canada where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He partnered in a law practice in Bytown with John Bower Lewis. Hervey was mayor at the time of the Stony Monday Riot where supporters of Hervey, a Tory, clashed with Reformists in what is now the Byward Market area. In 1852, he moved to Chicago, where he continued to practice law. He was one of the founding members of the Chicago Bar Association.
References
1820 births
1903 deaths
Mayors of Bytown
Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Canadian lawyers
Immigrants to Upper Canada |
Didi Taihuttu (born in Venlo on 26 May 1978) is a Dutch entrepreneur, traveler, author, writer en speaker, mainly known because of living the Bitcoin standard cryptocurrency.
Taihuttu got known because he and his family sold all belongings in 2017 and went all in Bitcoin to live fully bankless solely with BTC bitcoinmunt. The Family was named 'the bitcoin family'. He appeared in the TV shows Gert Late Night, De Wereld Draait Door , Jinek and Pauw. Documentaries about him were published by Arte, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, videoland, streamz and CNA. The family went living in Portugal because of the very positive tax rules on cryptocurrency.
Biography
Didi Taihuttu is the son of the professional football player of VVV-Venlo John Taihuttu. He studied Higher Economic Education at the Fontys Hogeschool in Venlo, after which he started his career in the Swiss Zug. After a number of short-term jobs, he chose to start his own computer training company at the age of 24 and has been working as an entrepreneur ever since.
Bibliography
2018: Didi & The Bitcoin Family
2019: Die Bitcoin Familie: Wie Mut uns zum Glück führte (to ₿ or not to ₿)
Documentaries
2017: CNBC
2017: Y-Kollektiv – Bitcoin: Blase oder digitales gold? Der Hype um die Kryptowährung
2018: Arte.tv
2018: The Wall Street Journal
2018: CNA
2021: VIDEOLAND – Cryptokoorts
2022: STREAMZ – Is Crypto het nieuwe goud
References
External links
Website The Bitcoin Family
Dutch businesspeople
Living people
1978 births |
Quarrydale Academy (formerly Quarrydale School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the ex-mining and textile community of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. In March 2017, Ofsted judged this to be a ‘good’ school on their 4-point scale
History
Stoneyford Road Secondary Modern School opened in 1958, as a four stream coeducational school., costing £105,000. Stanton Hill School opened in September 1955, a coeducational school with 200 in 6 classrooms.
Buildings
The school has recently undergone redecoration in several areas. The science block has had its classrooms refurnished, and modernised. And other classrooms have been converted into new computer rooms. Several of the subject blocks have been moved around, with only English, P.E, Science, Technology and the sixth form building being exempted from this re-arrangement. The school is now undergoing further improvements on blocks which didn't receive redecoration.
The school has 6.9% authorised absences which is marginally above the national average. It also experiences 3% unauthorised absences which is over three times the national level. The proportion achieving five A* to C passes, including in English and mathematics, is well above average and continues to rise. Sutton Community Academy, a nearby ‘competitor’, is often shown worse than Quarrydale in the league tables and general image.
Notable former pupils
Kris Commons, retired-footballer who formerly played for Celtic F.C. and Scotland international.
Daniel Tompkins, vocalist of progressive metal band Tesseract
Steve Ogrizovic, retired goalkeeper for Coventry City F.C.
Peter Sansom, poet
Justin Walker (footballer)
References
Academies in Nottinghamshire
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Secondary schools in Nottinghamshire |
The Henge of Keltria (HoK) was an international druid order, founded in 1988 as a religious and educational organization. It was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. It is commonly regarded as being one of the first explicitly Celtic-focused American Druid Orders. The order drew upon the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology and some other early Celtic/British texts for inspiration.
History
The Henge of Keltria began organizing in 1988 as a "breakaway" organization from Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF) with initial groves in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Texas.
The bylaws of the organization divide the Order into two major divisions. First is a secular organization consisting of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and three ad hoc trustees. This Board of Trustees is responsible for all operational activities of the organization. The second division is a religious order consisting of an Elected Archdruid and elected Elders who comprise the Council of Elders which provides the theological direction for the church and maintains religious standards throughout the Order.
The Henge registered with the state of Minnesota as a non-profit corporation in 1995 and received its 501(c)(3) determination letter from the IRS in 2005.
By 1989, it began publication of a quarterly newsletter, "Henge Happenings," for its membership. Also in 1989, the HoK began publishing Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick as a publicly available journal. Keltria Journal is more article driven and less newsy than the newsletter. Keltria Journal ceased publication in 1998 after 39 issues and took a 13 year hiatus. Publication of the Keltria Journal began again in 2012. As of 31 Oct 2017 The Henge corporation was officially dissolved and new membership is no longer being accepted.
Principal Beliefs
The Keltrian Druid practice recognizes three levels of experience: Ring of the Birch, Ring of the Yew, and Ring of the Oak. It also promotes three areas of service: Bardic service, Seer's service, and the Druid's service.
The three foundations of Keltrian Druidism:
Belief is secondary in Keltrian Druidism. Actions and practice determine the path that an individual is on. The goal of Keltrian Druidism is to develop a spiritual relationship with the Ancestors, Nature Spirits, and Gods and Goddesses in a Celtic context.
References
Publications
The following is a list of publications that the Henge of Keltria has produced. "Henge Happenings" is published quarterly and Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick is still published on an occasional basis.
• "Henge Happenings:" The Official Newsletter of the Henge of Keltria
• Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick
• Serpent's Stone: A Journal of Druidic Wisdom
• The Henge of Keltria Book of Ritual
• The Henge of Keltria Grove Leaders Handbook
External links
• The Henge of Keltria website
Charities based in Minnesota
Neo-druidism
Religious charities based in the United States
Modern pagan organizations based in the United States
Modern pagan organizations established in 1988 |
Marcos "Barrão" DaSilva (born 1961) is a Brazilian capoeira mestre (master) and founder of Grupo Axé Capoeira, which has schools worldwide. He began Grupo Axé officially in 1982 in Vancouver and since has had schools established around the world.
First Mestre: Mestre Pirajá
Marcos "Barrão" DaSilva was born in Recife in 1961 into a state of poverty. He displayed an early talent for the drums, with which he earned his keep as a lad. At the age of 13, Mestre Pirajá (who was taught by his brother, a student of Mestre Bimba) took young Marcos under his wing and started to teach him Capoeira. An academy capoeirista by trade, Mestre Pirajá taught Barrão the discipline and techniques of Capoeira.
Legacy
Mestre Barrão began to enter tournaments and became the Brazilian Champion in the National Capoeira Championships in Rio de Janeiro. He opened his school, Grupo Axé Capoeira, in 1982. In 1987, he was given the rank of 1st Degree Mestre by Pirajá. He then moved to Vancouver and opened an academy there. In 2007, he launched an academy in his hometown of Recife and he currently resides there.
Mestre Barrão has been invited to teach and conduct workshops and batizados all over the world. He is the recipient of many awards. He was instrumental in re-introducing a dance known as Coco de Roda.
He continues to contribute to the development of Capoeira and passes on his philosophy to all 20,000 members of his school.
References
Axé Capoeira Vancouver
https://web.archive.org/web/20120309143426/http://www.axecapoeira-az.com/about-grupo-axe-capoeira/
External links
Mestre Barrão, Axé Capoeira Vancouver
axecapoeira.com
1961 births
Living people
Capoeira mestres
Brazilian capoeira practitioners |
Tooeys Lake () is a lake in Greater Madawaska, Renfrew County in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin and is the source of Tooeys Creek.
The lake has three unnamed inflows: one at the northwest, a second at the northeast, and a third at the east. The primary outflow is Tooeys Creek at the southeast, the site of a rest area adjacent to Ontario Highway 41. Tooeys Creek flows via Black Donald Creek, Black Donald Lake, the Madawaska River, and the Ottawa River to the Saint Lawrence River.
See also
List of lakes in Ontario
References
Lakes of Renfrew County |
The Rhode Island National Guard consists of the:
Rhode Island Army National Guard
Rhode Island Air National Guard
102nd Information Warfare Squadron
143d Airlift Wing
281st Combat Communications Group
282nd Combat Communications Squadron
See also
Rhode Island Naval Militia
Rhode Island State Guard
Rhode Island Independent Military Organizations
External links
Bibliography of Rhode Island Army National Guard History compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
Guide to the Office of the Adjutant General Rhode Island National Guard Unit History records and photographs from the Rhode Island State Archives
Guide to the Rhode Island National Guard (RING) 110th Public Affairs Detachment photographs and negatives from the Rhode Island State Archives
National Guard Mobilization for the Mexican Border, 1916 from the Rhode Island State Archives
National Guard Pay Rolls finding aid from the Rhode Island State Archives
Report of National Guard Duty Performed Finding Aid from the Rhode Island State Archives
National Guard (United States)
Military in Rhode Island |
Kalleh Howzha (, also Romanized as Kalleh Ḩowẕhā) is a village in Kuh Yakhab Rural District, Dastgerdan District, Tabas County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 49, in 11 families.
References
Populated places in Tabas County |
Liên Sơn may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:
Liên Sơn, Đắk Lắk, a township and capital of Lắk District
Liên Sơn, Bắc Giang, a commune of Tân Yên District
, a commune of Kim Bảng District
, a commune of Lương Sơn District
, a commune of Chi Lăng District
, a commune of Gia Viễn District |
The following events occurred in December 1931:
December 1, 1931 (Tuesday)
A revision in the Soviet calendar went into effect, replacing the five-day work week with a new six-day system.
The second Round Table Conference on India broke off in London without success.
Born: Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophonist, in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1986); Jim Nesbitt, country music singer, in Bishopville, South Carolina (d. 2007)
December 2, 1931 (Wednesday)
A general election was held in New Zealand; the United/Reform Coalition lost some seats but remained in power.
Born:
Nigel Calder, Scottish science writer and documentary producer; in Edinburgh (d. 2014)
Edwin Meese, United States Attorney General from 1985 to 1988; in Oakland, California
Gareth Wigan, British-born American producer, talent agent and filmmaker; in London (d. 2010)
Died: Vincent d'Indy, 80, French composer and teacher
December 3, 1931 (Thursday)
Alka-Seltzer was first brought on the market by the Dr. Miles Medical Company.
The film Blonde Crazy starring James Cagney was released.
Born: Jaye P. Morgan (stage name for Mary Margaret Morgan), American singer and actress; in Mancos, Colorado
December 4, 1931 (Friday)
Adolf Hitler gave an interview to British and American press at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. "It will not be necessary for me to seize power through a coup d'état", Hitler said. "It will be mine within a short time, anyway, since every election brings my party closer to an absolute majority."
December 5, 1931 (Saturday)
The Mahatma Gandhi left England to head back to India. "I return with a clear conscience", Gandhi said. "I have explored and exhausted every approach to peace." That evening in Paris, Gandhi gave a speech at the Magic-City dance hall and took questions from the audience of 2,000 people.
The Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers defeated the Regina Roughriders 22–0 to win the Grey Cup of Canadian football.
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was demolished. The Palace of the Soviets was intended to be built in its place but never completed. At the end of the 20th century, after the fall of Communism, the cathedral would be rebuilt in the same spot and with the same architectural plans, and opened in 2000.
Died: Vachel Lindsay, 52, well-known American poet, killed himself by drinking a bottle of potassium hydroxide or lye.
December 6, 1931 (Sunday)
Marģers Skujenieks became Prime Minister of Latvia for the second time.
Five coal miners were killed in an explosion, and 14 injured in Transylvania in Romania.
December 7, 1931 (Monday)
The resignation of Giovanni Giuriati as Secretary of the National Fascist Party was announced in Italy; Achille Starace was appointed to replace him.
The John Ford-directed drama film Arrowsmith premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.
December 8, 1931 (Tuesday)
German President Paul von Hindenburg signed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning's enormous 46-page emergency decree into law, slashing prices, wages and rents across the board in an effort to reverse inflation.
Hattie Caraway of Arkansas was sworn in as a United States senator, filling the vacancy left by her late husband Thaddeus. This made Caraway the second woman in history to serve in the U.S. Senate, after Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1922, although Felton's service had consisted of only a single day and was largely symbolic. In 1932, while serving out the remainder of her late husband's term, she became the first woman to be elected as a U.S. Senator.
Herbert Hoover delivered the annual State of the Union message to Congress. The message reviewed the worldwide depression and laid out the measures the government was taking to alleviate the crisis, but made no mention of Prohibition.
December 9, 1931 (Wednesday)
The Spanish Constituent Assembly approved the new Spanish Constitution.
Born: Ladislav Smoljak, film and theatre director, actor and screenwriter, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2010)
December 10, 1931 (Thursday)
The 1931 Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm. The recipients were Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius of Germany for Chemistry, Otto Heinrich Warburg of Germany (Medicine) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt of Sweden (Literature). The Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo to Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler of the United States. The Physics Prize was not awarded that year.
In Clarksburg, West Virginia, Harry Powers was convicted of first degree murder, which automatically carried a sentence of the death penalty. He would be hanged on March 18.
The Alfred Hitchcock-directed film Rich and Strange was released in the United Kingdom.
The final D. W. Griffith-directed film, The Struggle, was released.
December 11, 1931 (Friday)
The Statute of Westminster was passed, establishing increased independence of the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire.
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora was sworn in as the first President of the Second Republic of Spain.
The Chicago Cubs traded Hack Wilson and Bud Teachout to the St. Louis Cardinals for Burleigh Grimes.
Born: Rita Moreno (stage name for Rosa Alverio), Puerto Rican film, stage and TV actress and singer, winner of the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards; in Humacao, Puerto Rico
December 12, 1931 (Saturday)
Mahatma Gandhi met with Benito Mussolini in Rome. The two talked for half an hour through an interpreter.
Army defeated Navy 17–7 in the Army–Navy Game at Yankee Stadium.
December 13, 1931 (Sunday)
Inukai Tsuyoshi became Prime Minister of Japan.
Winston Churchill was hit by a car driven by Edward F. Cantasano while crossing Fifth Avenue in New York City. Churchill went to the hospital with some bruises and cuts but was discharged the following week. Cantasano was not charged because Churchill took full responsibility for the accident, having crossed against the light and forgotten which side of the road automobiles drive on in the United States.
December 14, 1931 (Monday)
Walter Pfrimer and seven other Heimwehr leaders went on trial for high treason in Graz, Austria over the September 13 Styrian revolt.
Born: Arsenio Laurel, Philippine race car driver, in Tanauan, Batangas (killed in racing accident, 1967)
December 15, 1931 (Tuesday)
Chiang Kai-shek resigned as President of the Republic of China and was succeeded by Lin Sen.
Born: Evald Schorm, Czechoslovakian film and stage director, screenwriter and actor, in Prague (d. 1988)
December 16, 1931 (Wednesday)
The Iron Front, an anti-fascist paramilitary organization, formed in Germany.
December 17, 1931 (Thursday)
Japan suspended the gold standard.
Born: Dave Madden, Canadian-born American TV actor known for The Partridge Family; in Sarnia, Ontario (d. 2014)
December 18, 1931 (Friday)
A jury acquitted Walter Pfrimer and his associates of treason charges.
Died: Legs Diamond, 34, American gangster, was shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment by a rival gang.
December 19, 1931 (Saturday)
Elections were held in Australia for all 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives and half (18 of 26) of the seats of the Australian Senate. The Australian Labor Party, which had had a majority (46 of the 75 seats) and was led by Prime Minister James Scullin, lost all but 14 of the races, while the newly formed United Australia Party, led by Joseph Lyons, won 39 seats and control of the House.
Joseph Goebbels married Magda Quandt on the estate of Magda's first husband, Günther Quandt, in Severin. Adolf Hitler served as best man.
December 20, 1931 (Sunday)
The Kragujevac Football Subassociation was formed.
Born: Mala Powers, American film actress, in San Francisco (d. 2007)
Died:
Gustav Kossinna, 73, German linguist and archaeology professor
Rosa C. Petherick, 60, British book illustrator
December 21, 1931 (Monday)
Joseph Lyons became the new Prime Minister of Australia as James Scullin resigned in the wake of the election results.
Japanese forces in Manchuria launched a new offensive, the Jinzhou Operation.
December 22, 1931 (Tuesday)
The roof of the Vatican Library partially collapsed, killing five and destroying 800 books.
December 23, 1931 (Wednesday)
In Basel, the Young Plan advisory committee issued a report stating that Germany would be unable to meet its reparations payments when the Hoover Moratorium expired in July, and that the only solution was another revision to the plan.
Born: Ronnie Schell, American actor and comedian, in Richmond, California
Died:
Knowlton Ames, 63, American football player and college football coach, later a financier, shot himself after financial reverses during the Great Depression.
Tyrone Power, Sr., 62, English stage and film actor, died of a heart attack.
December 24, 1931 (Thursday)
Twenty people were injured in Paris when several hundred unemployed rioters invaded a Montmartre café and smashed tables and chairs, shouting for "work and bread".
Born: Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer; in Buenos Aires (d. 2008)
Died: Carlo Fornasini, Italian micropalaeontologist; in Bologna (b. 1854)
December 25, 1931 (Friday)
The first Metropolitan Opera network radio broadcast took place when the Engelbert Humperdinck opera Hansel and Gretel aired on NBC.
The film Hell Divers, starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
December 26, 1931 (Saturday)
The George and Ira Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing premiered at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.
The film Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo in the title role, was released.
Died: Melvil Dewey, 80, American librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal System for classifying library books by number
December 27, 1931 (Sunday)
Indian independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested.
Born: Scotty Moore, American guitarist and recording engineer; in Gadsden, Tennessee (d. 2016)
Died: José Figueroa Alcorta, 71, President of Argentina from 1906 to 1910, later the Chief Justice of Argentina's Supreme Court of Justice from 1929 until his death
December 28, 1931 (Monday)
The Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, docking at Bombay. A huge crowd was there to greet him despite the very early morning hour.
Sections of Los Angeles flooded after five days of rain.
Born: Martin Milner, American film and TV actor known as the star of two series, Route 66 and later for Adam-12; in Detroit (d. 2015)
December 29, 1931 (Tuesday)
The Deseret News Publishing Company was founded.
December 30, 1931 (Wednesday)
A two-day referendum on prohibition concluded in Finland. 70.5% voted to abolish prohibition completely.
The Sippenbuch, the genealogical clan book carried by every member of the SS, was created.
Born: Skeeter Davis (stage name for Mary Frances Penick), American country music singer; in Dry Ridge, Kentucky (d. 2004)
December 31, 1931 (Thursday)
German President Paul von Hindenburg gave a New Year's address over the radio. "Germans deserve thanks and praise for the sacrifices they have made and the patience with which they have borne their sufferings and burdens", Hindenburg said. "The greatness of their sacrifice justifies Germany's demand that foreign countries should not seek to oppose Germany's restoration through imposition of impossible conditions." At one point during Hindenburg's address the broadcast was hijacked and an unknown voice called out, "Attention Germany! The Red fighters are here."
In the Northwest Territories of Canada near Aklavik, four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police trekked to the cabin of a mysterious man by the name of Albert Johnson with a search warrant after Aboriginal trappers suspected him of interfering with their traps. When they knocked on Johnson's cabin door he responded with gunfire, seriously wounding one of the Mounties in the ensuing shootout. Johnson now faced the more serious charge of attempted murder of an RCMP officer.
The film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Fredric March was released.
Born: Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer; in Belfast (d. 1996)
References
1931
1931-12
1931-12 |
Nick Rutley (born 1984) is an Australian rules football coach who currently serves as the lead assistant coach of the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Coaching career
Rutley's coaching career began in earnest in 2014 with a development coaching role at the Casey Scorpions. He later moved on to the same role at the Box Hill Hawks in 2015. In 2016 Rutley served as the midfield assistant at the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup.
In October 2016 Rutley was appointed as the head coach of the Wandin Football Coach in the Yarra Ranges Football & Netball League.
He also holds a level two AFL coaching accreditation.
AFL Women's
Rutley was appointed to the assistant coaching panel of 's AFL Women's side in October 2017. He served in the role in round 1 of the 2018 season before illness forced head coach Damien Keeping to temporarily stand aside and Rutley to be appointed caretaker for the club's round 2 match against . He coached to the team to a 21-point win in that match at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney. Rutley coached the team in round 3 as well before Keeping returned in round 4. Rutley recorded one win and one loss during his time as interim coach.
Coaching statistics
Statistics are correct to the end of 2018
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^Rutley was Carlton's caretaker coach for two weeks during 2018.
References
External links
Nick Rutley's profile from AustralianFootball.com
Living people
AFL Women's coaches
1984 births |
The Battle of Port La Tour occurred on July 18, 1677, at Port La Tour, Acadia, as part of the Northeast Coast Campaign during the First Abenaki War (the Maine-Acadia theater of King Phillips War) in which the Mi'kmaq attacked New England fishermen. The New Englanders eventually overwhelmed them and many Mi'kmaq were enslaved.
Historical context
Prior to King Philip's War, there is no record of New England and the Mi'kmaq being in conflict. During the First Abenaki War, Major Richard Waldron captured natives for the slave trade. The most significant seizure of natives happened in Dover on September 7, 1676. Later, Waldron gave a mandate to the merchant, Henry Lawton (or Laughton), of the Piscataqua area, to seize all the Indians "of the East" who had been raiding the New England villages along the border with Acadia.
On November 9, 1676 (o.s.), they hired a vessel, the Endeavor, commanded by Captain John Horton. They stopped at Machias and nine natives were taken captive. Then they sailed to Cape Sable Island where 17 Mi'kmaq were taken captive, including the local chief and his wife. They were taken to the Azores and sold as slaves to the Portuguese.
A New England vessel in the Azores notified the authorities in Boston of this possible illegal activity and Endeavor was seized and taken to Boston. Mellanson was released when his mother, Prescilla Mellanson, bailed him. After this, he skipped bail, and went into hiding. He changed his surname to Laverdure to avoid detection and lived in Port Royal thereafter. Henry Lawton and William Waldron were kept in jail but were eventually acquitted.
The battle
The Mi'kmaw response came in July 1677, when about 80 natives attacked 26 New England fishermen who were in six fishing vessels at Port La Tour. The natives boarded one of the vessels, stripped the men of their clothing, tied them up and left them on deck until nightfall, when they commanded them to set sail towards the Penobscot River in Maine, close to Castine. A few hours later, while in the harbor, the New England captain was able to overthrow the natives. Although some natives escaped, the New Englanders imprisoned the rest. They took the prisoners to Marblehead, Massachusetts, where they were tortured and stoned to death by a group of women.
Afterward
As an immediate response, some merchants from Salem, to whom most of the vessels belonged, armed a large ketch, transforming it into a warship. It was manned by forty men who sailed for southern Nova Scotia. They scanned the coast, scrutinized every port, but to no avail. The Indians had gone into hiding.
See also
Treaty of Casco (1678)
Military history of Nova Scotia
Notes
References
Dickason, Guerre navale, 237
Rawlyk, Nova Scotia's Massachusetts, p. 43
Military history of Nova Scotia
1677 in North America
1677 in military history |
Chaitra is a short film by Kranti Kanade based on author G.A. Kulkarni's story of the same name. Kranti selected this story for his thesis short film towards completion of his degree in Direction from Film and Television Institute of India. The film went on to win three National Film Awards in 2002.
Plot
The story of a proud woman, her poetic vindication of unfair social insult, and her inevitable sad destiny. A very culture-specific film dipped in a local festival of rural women.
Cast
Sonali Kulkarni as Mother
Abhishek Bhave as Madhu
Lalan Sarang as Naik Kaku
Vandana Vakhnis as Naik baai
Dhiresh Joshi as Father
Bhakti Pathare as Rakhma
Uttara Kulkarni as Shanta
Shripad Amte as Mama
Production
The film was shot in Alandi village near Pune and the post-production done at FTII. Being a student film, director did not have enough budget but Sonali Kulkarni and Lalan Sarang agreed to do the film without remuneration. Music director Bhaskar Chandavarkar not only composed music for the film without taking any remuneration but he also paid for the musicians himself. Cinematographer Mahesh Muthuswami contributed an amount towards the production and so did the sound designer Subir Das.
Awards and recognition
Chaitra won three National Film Awards in 2002.
National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film
National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction (Bhaskar Chandavarkar)
National Film Award – Special Mention (non-feature film) (Sonali Kulkarni)
At the Mumbai International Film Festival 2002 it won National Critics’ Award and Best Short - Silver. That year, it was India's official entry to the Student Academy Awards.
The film was also included in a DVD titled "Master Strokes", a compilation of works of twenty renowned FTII students.
References
Indian short films
2000s Marathi-language films
2002 films
2002 short films |
The Woodstock Historic District encompasses most of the historic center of Woodstock, Virginia. Founded in 1761, it is the oldest community in Shenandoah County, which is reflected in its architecture. The historic district is organized around three major north–south axes: Main Street (Virginia State Route 11), Water Street, and the right-of-way of the Norfolk and Southern Railway. It includes some of the best examples of residential architecture in the town from its founding into the early 20th century, as well as many civic, religious, commercial and industrial buildings from that period, and has been relatively little altered since the 1940s.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Shenandoah County, Virginia
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Greek Revival architecture in Virginia
Italianate architecture in Virginia
Buildings and structures completed in 1761
Historic districts in Virginia |
Joseph R. D'Cruz is a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. D'Cruz has worked with the University of Toronto since 1979. Amongst other various positions, D'Cruz has held the title of Academic Co-Director of the Advanced Health Leadership Program since 2007, and Academic Director of the Health Care Executive Programs since 2001. D'Cruz was also the Murray B. Koffler Chair between 2003 and 2006.
Degrees
D'Cruz has earned the following academic degrees, listed in order of certification:
1963 - Bachelor of Arts, University of the Punjab
1965 - Master of Business Administration, University of Karachi
1979 - Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University
References
External links
D'Cruz's Curriculum Vitae
Living people
Pakistani emigrants to Canada
Canadian academics of Pakistani descent
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Harvard Business School alumni
University of the Punjab alumni
University of Karachi alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Hawklords were an English music group active between 1978 and 1979. Members were from Hawkwind, who were inactive during that period, (Robert Calvert – vocals, Dave Brock – guitar and Simon King – drums) and a local Devon group named Ark (Harvey Bainbridge – bass and Martin Griffin – drums) with the addition of former Pilot keyboardist Steve Swindells.
In 1978, the band released their first full studio album 25 Years On.
In 2008, a new Hawklords formed around bass player Harvey Bainbridge and ex-Hawkwind vocalist Ron Tree.
Live
The release of the album 25 Years On was promoted with a 41 date UK tour during October and November 1978. The stage show was designed by Barney Bubbles and was based on a Metropolis/Mao Tse-tung dystopia theme, featuring a projected film based light show, dancers in drab clothing performing mundane tasks, and spotlight towers creating an oppressive internment camp atmosphere. During the course of the tour the show was cut-back due to financial constraints, sufficiently upsetting Bubbles enough for him to refuse to work with Brock again. Some of the musicians felt that this action lightened the atmosphere resulting in the shows becoming more powerful. For the Hammersmith Odeon gig on 13 October, Lemmy guested on "Silver Machine".
The Brunel University, Uxbridge concert (24 November) was professionally filmed by Charisma Records, but to date only snippets have been aired on UK television. The Plymouth Polytechnic concert (23 November) was professionally recorded, and subsequent archive albums have included portions from it.
A tour programme was sold at this gig detailing the weird science behind the '25 Years' project. It outlined the aims and achievements of Pan Transcendental Industries and its programme for the industrialisation of religion. It described the construction of the first 'Metaphactory' staffed in part by car crash victims whose function was to generate new forms of social behaviour through the transformation of private into public fantasies. The nine million workers who populated this giant factory complex are described in the song 'The Age Of The Micro Man' wherein it is shown that they have no idea what they are working for. In fact the new rulers of this dark industrial age received contact from aliens that they believed were actually angels. These 'angels' said they would provide enlightenment, but at a price. The payment was nonsensical but nevertheless the human race was enslaved.
Set-list
The following set-list is that from the Hammersmith Odeon, 13 October 1978 performance. The set-list would slightly change during the course of the tour, significantly "Flying Doctor" being dropped halfway through.
Releases
Weird Tape 4
Recorded at Plymouth Polytechnic, 23 November 1978
June 1981, Weird Tapes, WEIRD104, UK cassette
September 2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP9CD, UK CD
Hawklords Live
Recorded at Brunel University, Uxbridge, 24 November 1978. Also includes the additional track "Over The Top" from the Sonic Assassins concert
1981, Flicknife Records, FLEP101
1992, Dojo Records, DOJOCD7, UK CD
May 1992, Griffin Records, GN03921-2, USA CD
Live '78
Recorded at Brunel University, Uxbridge, 24 November 1978
29 June 2009, Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD1014, UK CD
Tour dates
The band undertook a 42 date UK tour in October and November 1978, with support from Patrik Fitzgerald and The Softies.
6 October – Oxford, New Theatre
7 October – Manchester, Apollo
8 October – Liverpool, Empire
9 October – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
10 October – Newcastle, City Hall
11 October – Middlesbrough, Town Hall
13 October – London, Hammersmith Odeon – guest appearance from Lemmy
14 October – Milton Keynes, Leisure Centre
15 October – Croydon, Fairfield Halls
16 October – Portsmouth, Guild Hall
17 October – Birmingham, Odeon
18 October – Dunstable, Queensway Hall
19 October – Blackburn, King George Hall
20 October – Bristol, Colston Hall
21 October – St. Albans, City Hall
22 October – Ipswich, Gaumont
23 October – Leicester, De Montfort Hall
24 October – Sheffield, City Hall
25 October – Bradford, St. Georges Hall
26 October – Leeds, Queens Hall
27 October – Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Hall
28 October – Paignton, Festival Theatre
29 October – Poole, Wessex Hall
2 November – Malvern, Winter Gardens
3 November – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
4 November – Ilford, Gants Hill Odeon
5 November – Reading, Hexagon
6 November – Cardiff, University
8 November – Gloucester, Leisure Centre
9 November – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall
10 November – Derby, Assembly Rooms
11 November – Nottingham, Heart of the Midlands (Rock City)
13 November – Hemel, Pavilion
15 November – Glasgow, Apollo
16 November – Carlisle, Market Hall
17 November – Lancaster, University
18 November – Oldham, Queen Elizabeth Hall
19 November – Blackburn, King George Hall
22 November – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
23 November – Plymouth, Polytechnic – professionally recorded
24 November – Uxbridge, Brunel University – professionally filmed
25 November – Hastings, Pier Pavilion
Rockfield Studios, 1979
After the tour, the band were to tour North America, but Calvert, wishing for the return of King, dismissed Griffin who then concentrated on his studio business and playing for Richard Strange before returning to Hawkwind for the 1981 Sonic Attack album. Swindells recalls the five members spending time at Rockfield "where we rehearsed and jammed and wrote... Calvert was suffering definite mental problems when we were there. I think he was going through a divorce from his novelist wife, Pamela, and he was very unstable." Calvert left the band going on to write the novel Hype and recording an accompanying album, and he never appeared on any of the recordings released from these sessions.
Return to Hawkwind
Swindells wrote "Shot Down in the Night" at these sessions, and the band considered it ideal for single release, but with the band having no record contract Swindells departed when offered a solo deal, resulting in the album Fresh Blood. The remaining three members were joined by Huw Lloyd-Langton (lead guitar) and Tim Blake (synthesizers), choosing to revert to the name of Hawkwind and embarking upon a UK Winter 1979 tour resulting in the album Live Seventy Nine. Swindells' studio version and Hawkwind's live version of "Shot Down in the Night" were released as singles simultaneously in 1980, both featuring Lloyd-Langton and King.
The new Hawklords
In 2008 a new Hawklords formed around Harvey Bainbridge, with drummer Dave Pearce (ex-Bevis Frond), guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Richards, vocalist Ron Tree (ex-Hawkwind singer) and bassist Tom Ashurst. The band's critically acclaimed 2015 album release, R:Evolution reached number 15 on the Official UK Top 30 Progressive Rock Chart and was in the top 75 for over two months. A “Full-blown sonic slab of classic British space-rock”, it has been nominated for best rock album of 2015 by One World Music Awards.
In 2016, the same line up, augmented by guest vocalist Kim McAuliffe, released the album Fusion (LORDS1016)
References
External links
Atomhenge Records
Hawkwind
English rock music groups
English space rock musical groups |
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church of Benicia is historical church Building built in 1859 in Benicia, California in Solano County, California. The Saint Paul's Episcopal Church is a California Historical Landmark No. 862 listed on July 20, 1973. Saint Paul's Episcopal Church was designed Lt. Julian McAllister and built by shipwrights of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Saint Paul's Episcopal Church is built in the early California Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. The church as dedicated 0n February 12, 1860, years ago, by the church's first pastor Rev. William Ingraham and is still open. The church was founded on September 24, 1854 years ago, by Major F. D. Townsend, with the US Army in the Benicia Sate Capital Building.
A historical marker is at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church of Benicia. The marker was placed there by The Historic Landmarks Committee, Grand Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. Benicia Parlor No.89, Native Sons of the Golden West and Benicia Parlor No.287, Native Daughters of the Golden West on October 17, 1954.
See also
California Historical Landmarks in Solano County
References
California Historical Landmarks
History of Solano County, California
1859 in California
1859 establishments in California |
The Plant Auto Company Building was a building at 38 South 200 West (State Route 91) in Richmond, Utah which was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, but was later demolished, and it has been delisted from the National Register.
This one-part Victorian Eclectic commercial block was built in 1916 and housed the first automobile repair shop in Richmond.
It is no longer standing.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Cache County, Utah
Victorian architecture in Utah
Buildings and structures completed in 1916
Former National Register of Historic Places in Utah |
"Footsteps" is the only single taken from Melbourne Indie rock band Dardanelles' debut album Mirror Mirror released in 2007.
Background
The band claims the song was written in about 10 minutes and is the simplest track off the album. Originally planning to scrap the song, their producer convinced them to record it. The song received heavy rotation on Australian airwaves championed by radio stations Triple J and Sydney based FBi Radio making it the second most added track to alternative radio in Australia behind Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Video clip
Melbourne based agency "Krozm" produced a video clip for the song featuring face-painted band members projected across various objects and highly surreal imagery reminiscent of Pink Floyd's video work.
Personnel
Josh Quinn-Watson (vocals, keyboard, samples)
Alex Cameron (guitar)
James Nicolson (bass)
Mitch McGregor (drums)
External links
review by Taryn Davis
Official Website
Official MySpace
Notes
Dardanelles (band) songs
2007 singles
2007 songs |
```python
#
# This file made available under CC0 1.0 Universal (path_to_url
#
# Created with the Rule Development Kit: path_to_url
# Can be used stand-alone or with the Rule Compliance Engine: path_to_url
#
'''
####################################
# Gherkin ##
####################################
Rule Name:
root-no-access-key
Description:
Ensure no root user access key exists
Trigger:
Periodic
Reports on:
AWS::::Account
Rule Parameters:
None
Feature:
In order to: restrict privileged user
As: a Security Officer
I want: to ensure that no access key for the root user exists
Scenarios:
Scenario 1:
Given: Access key for root user present
And: Access key is active
Then: return NON_COMPLIANT
Scenario 2:
Given: Access key for root user present
And: Access key is inactive
Then: return NON_COMPLIANT
Scenario 3:
Given: Access Key for root user is not present
Then: COMPLIANT
'''
import json
import datetime
import boto3
import botocore
##############
# Parameters #
##############
# Define the default resource to report to Config Rules
DEFAULT_RESOURCE_TYPE = 'AWS::::Account'
# Set to True to get the lambda to assume the Role attached on the Config Service (useful for cross-account).
ASSUME_ROLE_MODE = False
#############
# Main Code #
#############
def evaluate_compliance(event, configuration_item, valid_rule_parameters):
"""Form the evaluation(s) to be return to Config Rules
Return either:
None -- when no result needs to be displayed
a string -- either COMPLIANT, NON_COMPLIANT or NOT_APPLICABLE
a dictionary -- the evaluation dictionary, usually built by build_evaluation_from_config_item()
a list of dictionary -- a list of evaluation dictionary , usually built by build_evaluation()
Keyword arguments:
event -- the event variable given in the lambda handler
configuration_item -- the configurationItem dictionary in the invokingEvent
valid_rule_parameters -- the output of the evaluate_parameters() representing validated parameters of the Config Rule
Advanced Notes:
1 -- if a resource is deleted and generate a configuration change with ResourceDeleted status, the Boilerplate code will put a NOT_APPLICABLE on this resource automatically.
2 -- if a None or a list of dictionary is returned, the old evaluation(s) which are not returned in the new evaluation list are returned as NOT_APPLICABLE by the Boilerplate code
3 -- if None or an empty string, list or dict is returned, the Boilerplate code will put a "shadow" evaluation to feedback that the evaluation took place properly
"""
iam_client = get_client('iam', event)
acc_summary = iam_client.get_account_summary()
if acc_summary['SummaryMap']['AccountAccessKeysPresent'] == 0:
return build_evaluation(event['accountId'], 'COMPLIANT', event)
return build_evaluation(event['accountId'], 'NON_COMPLIANT', event, annotation='The root user has access key(s).')
def evaluate_parameters(rule_parameters):
"""Evaluate the rule parameters dictionary validity. Raise a ValueError for invalid parameters.
Return:
anything suitable for the evaluate_compliance()
Keyword arguments:
rule_parameters -- the Key/Value dictionary of the Config Rules parameters
"""
valid_rule_parameters = rule_parameters
return valid_rule_parameters
####################
# Helper Functions #
####################
# Build an error to be displayed in the logs when the parameter is invalid.
def build_parameters_value_error_response(ex):
"""Return an error dictionary when the evaluate_parameters() raises a ValueError.
Keyword arguments:
ex -- Exception text
"""
return build_error_response(internalErrorMessage="Parameter value is invalid",
internalErrorDetails="An ValueError was raised during the validation of the Parameter value",
customerErrorCode="InvalidParameterValueException",
customerErrorMessage=str(ex))
# This gets the client after assuming the Config service role
# either in the same AWS account or cross-account.
def get_client(service, event):
"""Return the service boto client. It should be used instead of directly calling the client.
Keyword arguments:
service -- the service name used for calling the boto.client()
event -- the event variable given in the lambda handler
"""
if not ASSUME_ROLE_MODE:
return boto3.client(service)
credentials = get_assume_role_credentials(event["executionRoleArn"])
return boto3.client(service, aws_access_key_id=credentials['AccessKeyId'],
aws_secret_access_key=credentials['SecretAccessKey'],
aws_session_token=credentials['SessionToken']
)
# This generate an evaluation for config
def build_evaluation(resource_id, compliance_type, event, resource_type=DEFAULT_RESOURCE_TYPE, annotation=None):
"""Form an evaluation as a dictionary. Usually suited to report on scheduled rules.
Keyword arguments:
resource_id -- the unique id of the resource to report
compliance_type -- either COMPLIANT, NON_COMPLIANT or NOT_APPLICABLE
event -- the event variable given in the lambda handler
resource_type -- the CloudFormation resource type (or AWS::::Account) to report on the rule (default DEFAULT_RESOURCE_TYPE)
annotation -- an annotation to be added to the evaluation (default None)
"""
eval_cc = {}
if annotation:
eval_cc['Annotation'] = annotation
eval_cc['ComplianceResourceType'] = resource_type
eval_cc['ComplianceResourceId'] = resource_id
eval_cc['ComplianceType'] = compliance_type
eval_cc['OrderingTimestamp'] = str(json.loads(event['invokingEvent'])['notificationCreationTime'])
return eval_cc
def build_evaluation_from_config_item(configuration_item, compliance_type, annotation=None):
"""Form an evaluation as a dictionary. Usually suited to report on configuration change rules.
Keyword arguments:
configuration_item -- the configurationItem dictionary in the invokingEvent
compliance_type -- either COMPLIANT, NON_COMPLIANT or NOT_APPLICABLE
annotation -- an annotation to be added to the evaluation (default None)
"""
eval_ci = {}
if annotation:
eval_ci['Annotation'] = annotation
eval_ci['ComplianceResourceType'] = configuration_item['resourceType']
eval_ci['ComplianceResourceId'] = configuration_item['resourceId']
eval_ci['ComplianceType'] = compliance_type
eval_ci['OrderingTimestamp'] = configuration_item['configurationItemCaptureTime']
return eval_ci
####################
# Boilerplate Code #
####################
# Helper function used to validate input
def check_defined(reference, reference_name):
if not reference:
raise Exception('Error: ', reference_name, 'is not defined')
return reference
# Check whether the message is OversizedConfigurationItemChangeNotification or not
def is_oversized_changed_notification(message_type):
check_defined(message_type, 'messageType')
return message_type == 'OversizedConfigurationItemChangeNotification'
# Check whether the message is a ScheduledNotification or not.
def is_scheduled_notification(message_type):
check_defined(message_type, 'messageType')
return message_type == 'ScheduledNotification'
# Get configurationItem using getResourceConfigHistory API
# in case of OversizedConfigurationItemChangeNotification
def get_configuration(resource_type, resource_id, configuration_capture_time):
result = AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT.get_resource_config_history(
resourceType=resource_type,
resourceId=resource_id,
laterTime=configuration_capture_time,
limit=1)
configurationItem = result['configurationItems'][0]
return convert_api_configuration(configurationItem)
# Convert from the API model to the original invocation model
def convert_api_configuration(configurationItem):
for k, v in configurationItem.items():
if isinstance(v, datetime.datetime):
configurationItem[k] = str(v)
configurationItem['awsAccountId'] = configurationItem['accountId']
configurationItem['ARN'] = configurationItem['arn']
configurationItem['configurationStateMd5Hash'] = configurationItem['configurationItemMD5Hash']
configurationItem['configurationItemVersion'] = configurationItem['version']
configurationItem['configuration'] = json.loads(configurationItem['configuration'])
if 'relationships' in configurationItem:
for i in range(len(configurationItem['relationships'])):
configurationItem['relationships'][i]['name'] = configurationItem['relationships'][i]['relationshipName']
return configurationItem
# Based on the type of message get the configuration item
# either from configurationItem in the invoking event
# or using the getResourceConfigHistiry API in getConfiguration function.
def get_configuration_item(invokingEvent):
check_defined(invokingEvent, 'invokingEvent')
if is_oversized_changed_notification(invokingEvent['messageType']):
configurationItemSummary = check_defined(invokingEvent['configurationItemSummary'], 'configurationItemSummary')
return get_configuration(configurationItemSummary['resourceType'], configurationItemSummary['resourceId'], configurationItemSummary['configurationItemCaptureTime'])
elif is_scheduled_notification(invokingEvent['messageType']):
return None
return check_defined(invokingEvent['configurationItem'], 'configurationItem')
# Check whether the resource has been deleted. If it has, then the evaluation is unnecessary.
def is_applicable(configurationItem, event):
try:
check_defined(configurationItem, 'configurationItem')
check_defined(event, 'event')
except:
return True
status = configurationItem['configurationItemStatus']
eventLeftScope = event['eventLeftScope']
if status == 'ResourceDeleted':
print("Resource Deleted, setting Compliance Status to NOT_APPLICABLE.")
return (status == 'OK' or status == 'ResourceDiscovered') and not eventLeftScope
def get_assume_role_credentials(role_arn):
sts_client = boto3.client('sts')
try:
assume_role_response = sts_client.assume_role(RoleArn=role_arn, RoleSessionName="configLambdaExecution")
return assume_role_response['Credentials']
except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as ex:
# Scrub error message for any internal account info leaks
print(str(ex))
if 'AccessDenied' in ex.response['Error']['Code']:
ex.response['Error']['Message'] = "AWS Config does not have permission to assume the IAM role."
else:
ex.response['Error']['Message'] = "InternalError"
ex.response['Error']['Code'] = "InternalError"
raise ex
# This removes older evaluation (usually useful for periodic rule not reporting on AWS::::Account).
def clean_up_old_evaluations(latest_evaluations, event):
cleaned_evaluations = []
old_eval = AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT.get_compliance_details_by_config_rule(
ConfigRuleName=event['configRuleName'],
ComplianceTypes=['COMPLIANT', 'NON_COMPLIANT'],
Limit=100)
old_eval_list = []
while True:
for old_result in old_eval['EvaluationResults']:
old_eval_list.append(old_result)
if 'NextToken' in old_eval:
next_token = old_eval['NextToken']
old_eval = AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT.get_compliance_details_by_config_rule(
ConfigRuleName=event['configRuleName'],
ComplianceTypes=['COMPLIANT', 'NON_COMPLIANT'],
Limit=100,
NextToken=next_token)
else:
break
for old_eval in old_eval_list:
old_resource_id = old_eval['EvaluationResultIdentifier']['EvaluationResultQualifier']['ResourceId']
newer_founded = False
for latest_eval in latest_evaluations:
if old_resource_id == latest_eval['ComplianceResourceId']:
newer_founded = True
if not newer_founded:
cleaned_evaluations.append(build_evaluation(old_resource_id, "NOT_APPLICABLE", event))
return cleaned_evaluations + latest_evaluations
# This decorates the lambda_handler in rule_code with the actual PutEvaluation call
def lambda_handler(event, context):
global AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT
#print(event)
check_defined(event, 'event')
invoking_event = json.loads(event['invokingEvent'])
rule_parameters = {}
if 'ruleParameters' in event:
rule_parameters = json.loads(event['ruleParameters'])
try:
valid_rule_parameters = evaluate_parameters(rule_parameters)
except ValueError as ex:
return build_parameters_value_error_response(ex)
try:
AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT = get_client('config', event)
if invoking_event['messageType'] in ['ConfigurationItemChangeNotification', 'ScheduledNotification', 'OversizedConfigurationItemChangeNotification']:
configuration_item = get_configuration_item(invoking_event)
if is_applicable(configuration_item, event):
compliance_result = evaluate_compliance(event, configuration_item, valid_rule_parameters)
else:
compliance_result = "NOT_APPLICABLE"
else:
return build_internal_error_response('Unexpected message type', str(invoking_event))
except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as ex:
if is_internal_error(ex):
return build_internal_error_response("Unexpected error while completing API request", str(ex))
return build_error_response("Customer error while making API request", str(ex), ex.response['Error']['Code'], ex.response['Error']['Message'])
except ValueError as ex:
return build_internal_error_response(str(ex), str(ex))
evaluations = []
latest_evaluations = []
if not compliance_result:
latest_evaluations.append(build_evaluation(event['accountId'], "NOT_APPLICABLE", event, resource_type='AWS::::Account'))
evaluations = clean_up_old_evaluations(latest_evaluations, event)
elif isinstance(compliance_result, str):
evaluations.append(build_evaluation_from_config_item(configuration_item, compliance_result))
elif isinstance(compliance_result, list):
for evaluation in compliance_result:
missing_fields = False
for field in ('ComplianceResourceType', 'ComplianceResourceId', 'ComplianceType', 'OrderingTimestamp'):
if field not in evaluation:
print("Missing " + field + " from custom evaluation.")
missing_fields = True
if not missing_fields:
latest_evaluations.append(evaluation)
evaluations = clean_up_old_evaluations(latest_evaluations, event)
elif isinstance(compliance_result, dict):
missing_fields = False
for field in ('ComplianceResourceType', 'ComplianceResourceId', 'ComplianceType', 'OrderingTimestamp'):
if field not in compliance_result:
print("Missing " + field + " from custom evaluation.")
missing_fields = True
if not missing_fields:
evaluations.append(compliance_result)
else:
evaluations.append(build_evaluation_from_config_item(configuration_item, 'NOT_APPLICABLE'))
# Put together the request that reports the evaluation status
resultToken = event['resultToken']
testMode = False
if resultToken == 'TESTMODE':
# Used solely for RDK test to skip actual put_evaluation API call
testMode = True
# Invoke the Config API to report the result of the evaluation
AWS_CONFIG_CLIENT.put_evaluations(Evaluations=evaluations, ResultToken=resultToken, TestMode=testMode)
# Used solely for RDK test to be able to test Lambda function
return evaluations
def is_internal_error(exception):
return ((not isinstance(exception, botocore.exceptions.ClientError)) or exception.response['Error']['Code'].startswith('5')
or 'InternalError' in exception.response['Error']['Code'] or 'ServiceError' in exception.response['Error']['Code'])
def build_internal_error_response(internalErrorMessage, internalErrorDetails=None):
return build_error_response(internalErrorMessage, internalErrorDetails, 'InternalError', 'InternalError')
def build_error_response(internalErrorMessage, internalErrorDetails=None, customerErrorCode=None, customerErrorMessage=None):
error_response = {
'internalErrorMessage': internalErrorMessage,
'internalErrorDetails': internalErrorDetails,
'customerErrorMessage': customerErrorMessage,
'customerErrorCode': customerErrorCode
}
print(error_response)
return error_response
``` |
Loribelle Spirovski (born 1990) is a visual artist who was born in Manila, Philippines and lives in Sydney, Australia. She is known for her portrait paintings, which often incorporate elements of surrealism and photorealism. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2012 with a Bachelor of Art Education, and has exhibited in Australia, Europe, the UK and the United States. She is married to the Australian classical pianist Simon Tedeschi.
Awards
Spirovski has been a finalist in the following art prizes:
Archibald Prize – Art Gallery of NSW (2017, 2018, 2019)
Portia Geach Memorial Award – S.H. Ervin Gallery (2018, 2019, 2020)
The Lester Prize for Portraiture (2020)
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Australian women artists
University of New South Wales alumni |
The Espoo Cultural Centre (; ) is a culture centre in Tapiola, Espoo, Finland. It is most famous for hosting the central library of Tapiola. Near the culture centre is the Tapiola swimming pool and the Tapiola Garden hotel.
The Espoo Cultural Centre hosts arts events, hosts activities to further culture in Espoo, offers cultural and public services, and hosts parties, meetings, fairs, and private events. The cultural centre houses the Espoo musical academy, the Espoo city orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Tapiola library, the Espoo city cultural office, the Tapiola general service point, and the Espoo folk high school. Among others, the Espoo city theatre, April Jazz, the Espoo Ciné film festival, the Espoo international piano week and KuoroEspoo have hosted events in the Espoo cultural centre. According to the web page of the city of Espoo, the cultural centre is "the main stage for performing arts and cultural life in Espoo".
The Espoo cultural centre is located next to the Tapiola Central Tower, between the cultural square and the central pool. The building was designed by the architect Arto Sipinen and was completed in 1989. The building has two halls: Louhisali, with 300 seats, suitable for theatre, and Tapiolasali, with 800 seats, suitable for concerts.
Sources
Kulttuurikeskus, City of Espoo.
References
External links
, City of Espoo.
Location of the Espoo cultural centre, Google Maps.
Buildings and structures in Espoo
Tapiola |
Arismendy Alcántara (; born October 29, 1991) is a Dominican professional baseball center fielder and second baseman for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Alcántara signed as an international free agent with the Chicago Cubs in 2008 as a shortstop. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cubs, Oakland Athletics, and Cincinnati Reds.
Career
Chicago Cubs
Alcántara signed as an international free agent with the Chicago Cubs in 2008 as a shortstop. He made his professional debut in the Dominican Summer League that summer. He played for the Peoria Chiefs of the Class A Midwest League in 2011, and the Daytona Cubs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2012, batting .302/.339/.447 in 331 at bats. He was limited in the 2012 season by a broken foot.
In 2013, Alcántara played for the Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League. When the Cubs promoted fellow shortstop Javier Baez to Tennessee at midseason, they moved Alcántara to second base. Alcántara was selected to represent the Cubs at the 2013 All-Star Futures Game where he hit a home run. He also appeared in the Southern League All-Star Game. He batted .271/.352/.451 in 494 at bats, and was 2nd in the league in doubles (36), tied for 2nd in stolen bases (31), 3rd in intentional walks (6), 5th in RBIs (69), tied for 5th in sacrifices (9), 8th in runs (69) and walks (62), and tied for 9th in home runs (15). After the season, the Cubs added Alcántara to their 40-man roster.
Alcántara began the 2014 season with the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League (PCL). With Iowa, he batted .307/.353/.537 in 335 at bats. The Cubs promoted him to the majors on July 9 to replace Darwin Barney, who was placed on the paternity list. Following a four-hit game on July 10, the Cubs informed him they would extend his time with the major league team through at least the All-Star break. Alcántara appeared in 70 games and finished 2014 with a .205 batting average, 10 home runs, and 29 RBIs.
Alcántara spent the majority of the 2015 campaign back with Iowa, slashing .231/.285/.399 in 499 AAA plate appearances. In 11 games with the big league club, he batted .077 (2-for-26).
Oakland Athletics
Alcántara began the 2016 season with Iowa, but was traded to the Oakland Athletics for Chris Coghlan on June 9. He was assigned to the Nashville Sounds of the PCL, and recalled by Oakland ten games later.
Cincinnati Reds
On October 6, 2016, Alcántara was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds.
Alcántara played in 70 games for Cincinnati in 2017, but struggled to a .171/.187/.248 batting line with 1 home run and 7 RBI. On August 12, 2017, Alcántara was designated for assignment by the Reds after Scott Feldman was activated from the injured list. He cleared waivers and was sent outright to the Double–A Pensacola Blue Wahoos on August 14. In 17 games for Pensacola, Alcántara hit just .164/.250/.312 with no home runs and 8 RBI. He elected free agency following the season on November 6.
Mexican League (2018)
On April 8, 2018, Alcántara signed with the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican Baseball League. On May 4, 2018, Alcántara was traded to the Guerreros de Oaxaca of the Mexican Baseball League. He was released on August 14, 2018. On August 14, 2018, Alcántara signed with the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican Baseball League.
New York Mets
On January 3, 2019, Alcántara signed a minor league deal with the New York Mets. He became a free agent following the 2019 season. With the AAA Syracuse Mets, he batted .294/.358/.508 in 303 at bats.
Los Angeles Angels
On December 10, 2019, Alcántara signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Angels that included an invitation to spring training. Alcántara did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He became a free agent on November 2, 2020.
San Francisco Giants
On January 12, 2021, Alcántara signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants organization. He played in 71 games for the Triple–A Sacramento River Cats, hitting .280/.337/.586 with 17 home runs and 52 RBI. Alcántara elected free agency following the season on November 7.
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
On December 10, 2021, Alcántara signed with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball.
On April 24, 2022, Alcántara became the 20th player in NPB history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same game.
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Binghamton Rumble Ponies players
Boise Hawks players
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
Daytona Cubs players
Diablos Rojos del México players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
Dominican Summer League Cubs players
Guerreros de Oaxaca players
Iowa Cubs players
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Major League Baseball second basemen
Mexican League baseball outfielders
Mexican League baseball second basemen
Mexican League baseball shortstops
Nashville Sounds players
Navegantes del Magallanes players
Oakland Athletics players
Pensacola Blue Wahoos players
Peoria Chiefs players
Sacramento River Cats players
Stockton Ports players
Syracuse Mets players
Tennessee Smokies players
Tigres del Licey players
Toros de Tijuana players
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball players from Santo Domingo |
Nabakalebara also spelled as Navakalevara () is the ritualistic recreation of the wooden icons of four Hindu deities (Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra, and Sudarshana) at Jagannath Temple, Puri. The ritual is performed during the 8th, 12th, or 19th year after the previous Nabakalebara.
Nabakalebara is an important festival in the Hindu Odia calendar, observed in the Jagannath Temple, Puri. It was first organised in 1575 A.D by Yaduvanshi Bhoi King Ramachandra Deva. It marks the symbolic demise and rebirth of Jagannath at Puri. The event involves installation of new images in the Jagannath temple and burial of the old ones in the temple premises at Koili Baikuntha.
Etymology
Nabakalebara is a combination of two Odia words: naba (new) and kalebara (body), translated as "the change of one's physical form."
Timing
The year of Nabakalebara is when the full moon occurs twice during the month of Ashadha. Every three years in the Hindu calendar, a lunar month is excluded from the calculation to maintain a balance between lunar and solar years. This period is called Adhikmasa or Malamasa. A year with an extra month (अधिकमास or मलमास or पुरुषोत्तममास )is considered auspicious for the ceremony, which typically occurs every twelve to nineteen years. The three deities undergo the process of Nabakalebara in the year in which the adhikmasa falls. The deities are carved from a special type of neem wood, known as daru bramha. Preparations for the ceremony begin in the month of Chaitra. The most recent ceremony was in 2015, 19 years after the 1996 ceremony.
Over three million devotees were expected to visit the temple during the Nabakalebara 2015.
Jirna bera parityaga
Jirna bera parityaga () means "the leaving of the old deity and the consecration of the new". As a person puts on new garments and gives up the old, the soul accepts new material bodies and gives up old, useless ones. According to temple rituals, the deities are changed. Made from the neem tree, musk, sandalwood and other combinations, they undergo a change before the adhika ashadha ends. Agama shastras followed in other parts of India for Vishnu worship, such as the Vaikhanasas, also prescribe the change of wooden deities under a specific astrological combination. Deities made of stone or metal do not need to be changed (unless they are damaged), but wooden deities must be changed within a specific number of years and their power must be ritually transferred. Nabakalebar is about the transformation of the Puri temple and Odisha lords into a new body. The new wooden idols of Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are welcomed to the temple in celebration. The old idols are ritually buried in Koili Baikuntha in accordance with century-old Odia scriptures.
Nabakalebara 2015
The Nabakalebara 2015 began with the Bana Jaga Jatra in March. The Holy Darus were identified and brought to Puri. For details, see the separate Wikipedia article.
Finding the sacred trees
Ordinary neem trees cannot be used to make the deities. For the identification of the tree, conditions and signs are taken into account.
The daru (log) of Sudarshan should have three branches. The skin (bark) of the neem tree should be reddish. The tree should have a chakra (wheel) with a small depression in the middle. The daru of Balabhadra should have seven branches. The bark of the tree should be light-brown or white. It should have the sign of a plow and pestle on it. Near the tree should be a heritage site and a graveyard. The daru of Subhadra should have five branches, and its bark should be yellowish. There should be a lotus flower on the tree. The daru of Jagannath should have four main branches, and its bark should be dark. The tree should have a Shankha and a chakra on it. There should be a cremation ground and an anthill near the tree, and a snake hole at its roots. The tree should be near a river, pond, a three-way crossing or three mountains. There should not be birds' nests on the tree, and no bird should have perched on the tree. The tree should be surrounded by other trees, and there should be a temple to Shiva in the vicinity. The tree should be free of parasitic plants and creepers.
Rituals
The search group announces where the logs are located in order; the last is Jagannath's tree. Security is arranged by the government of Odisha. The trees are ritually cut down, and the logs transported in small carts to the temple in Puri, where they are carved into deities. At midnight on Chaturdashi, the tattva Padārtha is transferred from the old deities to the new. The new deities are worshipped, and the old are buried in sand.
Rituals and mythology are attached to Nabakalebara. The procedure for the transformation of images was mentioned in Sanskrit manuscripts, written on palm leaves and kept in the temple. The temple's three head priests are charged with reading and interpreting them.
The images of Jagannath must be made of wood. Since the deity is dark, the neem tree from which his image is carved should be dark also. The trees used for the images of his brother and sister are lighter in color, since his siblings are fair in complexion.
Jagannath's tree must have four principal branches, symbolizing the four arms of Narayana. No branches are broken or cut. The tree must be located near a three-way intersection or surrounded by three mountains. A hermitage and a temple to Shiva must be nearby, and natural impressions of a conch-shell and chakra (wheel) must be on the trunk.
After the tree is felled, sections are selected for carving and the remainder is buried; the location is then considered sacred. The logs are placed in a wooden six-wheeled oxcart and transported to the temple, where they are kept in the koili vaikuntha (koili means "burial ground", and vaikuntha means "heaven"); the old deities are buried, and the new ones made. After the transfer of essence, the old images are considered lifeless.
Carving of the images begins with the three oldest of the nine main wood carvers working on Jagannath. The images of Lord Balabhadra and Devi are simultaneously carved by two three-person teams. More than 50 carpenters assist the carvers. The work is done in secret, and not even the temple's head priest is allowed to visit the workplace. The carving enclosure is open on the top, but closed with strong doors. The carvers are not supposed to eat, drink or smoke in the enclosure. The carvings are completed in 21 days, during which the carvers are not supposed to leave the temple; they sleep in the temple courtyard, and eat mahaprasad. Devotional songs are sung by devadasis, accompanied by temple musicians, outside the koili vaikuntha during the carving period; shlokas from the Vedas are chanted by Brahmin priests.
After the new deities are made they are brought into the temple's inner sanctum, they are placed in front of (and facing) the old ones. No puja is performed at this time, and no food is offered. The images are life-sized, and very heavy. The transformation ceremony takes place three days before the chariot festival.
At midnight, the old deities are carried out and buried in the koili vaikuntha before dawn. Although the other deities have separate graves, the previous Jagannath deities are buried on top of each other.
On the morning of the second day, the new deities are seated on the altar. The temple's daily routine resumes after nearly 58 days (the search and carving periods). Sweet-smelling flower garlands and new garments are given to the new deities, food is offered, and a puja is performed; devotees can again enter the temple. On the third day, the new deities emerge from the temple for the chariot festival. Nabakalebara attracts millions of people from around the world to Puri, and is one of India's largest festivals.
References
External links
Portal on Nabakalebara 2015
Puri Nabakalebara 2015
More about Nabakalebara 2015
Festivals in Jagannath
Hindu festivals
Religious festivals in India |
Payuha is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Nancowry tehsil.
Demographics
The village was severely affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. According to the 2011 census of India, Payuha has 5 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 75%.
References
Villages in Nancowry tehsil |
Demographic features of the population of Albania include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects. The demography of the Albania is monitored by the Institute of Statistics of Albania. The institute has performed demographic censuses since the 1920s. The latest census in Albania was performed in April 2011, and has been deemed as unreliable both within and outside Albania.
Albania is a fairly linguistically homogeneous country with ethnic Albanians forming the majority in the country. Albania had 2,793,592 inhabitants on 1 January 2022, according to the most recent INSTAT estimate.
The first official population statistics for Albania was the 1923 census, when the country had a total of 823,000 inhabitants. Previous censuses carried out by the Ottoman Empire, which are not yet available. A shift in administrative borders in 1913 made comparison of various periods more complicated. Maddison from 2001, estimates that in Albania, about 200,000 people lived up to the year 1600, and that the population grew to 300,000 by 1700, implying an annual average growth rate of 0.4% in that period. However, population growth accelerated from the declaration of independence in 1912 to 1944 to 0.7% per year. This was due in part because Albania had the largest birth rate and the smallest death rate in Europe at the time. After the second World War, population increase policies pursued by the communist government and a large life expectancy fueled a 2.5 percent annual increase for the following 45 years. The growth strained economic resources during communism in a Malthusian fashion that led to the collapse of the regime and the emigration of about 20 to 25 percent of the population in the following two decades. Albania experienced a demographic transition starting from 1960s, when crude birth rates began a slow decline, despite a government policy that called for a population increase. After the 1990s, the population showed an average decline of about 0.3 percent per year, caused by emigration. In the 2001 Census, the population declined to 3,023,000 from almost 3.3 million in 1990.
The latest census in Albania was scheduled for April 2011, and the results will be published in the following months. The permanent population of Albania at the 2011 census had reached 2.83 million. The population density was 98.5 inhabitants per square kilometre, and the overall life expectancy in Albania at birth was 78 years in 2011. For the first time in the history of population censuses in Albania, the population in urban areas (53.7%) was larger than the population of rural areas (46.3%). The Albanian language is the official language, but minority languages are officially used in some local government units. Albanian is declared as the native language by 98.76% of the population. The Albanian people are considered one of the most polyglot nation and people in Europe. They generally speak more than two languages, which are French, Greek, Italian, and English, which are increasing due to migration return, and new Greek and Italian communities in the country. The main religions of Albania are Islam (59%), Roman Catholicism (10%) and Eastern Orthodoxy (7%) according to the 2011 census, which has been deemed unreliable by the Council of Europe as well as other internal and external organisations and groups.
Albania has a high Human Development Index of 0.764, ranking 75th in the world in 2016. In 2016, Albania had a total population of 2,786,026, 1,361,326 being males and 1,424,700 females. Otherwise 42,922 inhabitants have left Albania and at the same year the number of immigrants in the country was by 25,846 inhabitants.
Albanian demographics are difficult to ascertain and verify due to political corruption at the local and central level as noted by the Council of Europe.
Population
With a population of 2.79 million in 2022, Albania ranks 136th in the world by population. The population density is 101 inhabitants per square kilometre. The overall life expectancy in Albania at birth is 78 years. The total fertility rate of 1.70 children per mother is one of the lowest in the world. In 2016, the population of Albania was about 2.89 million, comprising 1,447 million male and 1,443 female persons. There were 38,003 live births and 20,737 deaths in Albania. The natural increase of the population was positive, as the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 17,266. Due to external migration and low birth rate, the population declined by 18,307. The total dependency ratio of population in Albania is 46.8%.
In 2001, the number of households amounted to 726,895. The age structure was under 6 years by 10.8% and 65 years and older by 7.5%. However, the sex ratio amounted to 49.9% males and 50.1% females of the total population. Furthermore, 2,737,614 of the population was older than 6 years. In 2011, the total population was 2,831,741. The comparison of the figures shows that the population has decreased by 7.7% in about ten years. Large scale emigration and fertility decline are supposed to be the main causes of the observed population decrease. A preliminary estimate of the number of persons that refused to participate in the census is 29,355 (1.04%). This figure is based on the number of dwellings for which a refusal was recorded and is included in the total population. The total population is composed of 1,421,810 males (50.2%) and 1,409,931 females (49.8%). For the first time in the history of population censuses in the nation, the population in urban areas is larger than the population of rural areas. According to 2011 census preliminary results, 53.7 percent of the population lives in urban areas and 46.3 percent in rural areas.
The 2011 census is regarded as unreliable and inaccurate by the Council of Europe, showing incompatibility with the protection of national minorities. Also, the World Council of Churches sent letters to the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the matter, having conducted their own questionnaire which showed major irregularities. It was the first census to include ethnicity, was struck by controversy since according to article 20 of the Census law, there is a $1,000 fine for anyone who declares anything other than what was written down on the individual's birth certificate. Some of the minorities, mainly the Greeks, boycotted the census. The religious affiliation of the population was 56.7% Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% Atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians.
According to the Institute of Statistics INSTAT, the population in 2016 was 2,886,026. Tirana County is the area with the highest population of 811,649 in the country. Fier County remains the population with the second highest population with a total of 312,488. The Counties with the lowest result are Gjirokastër, Kukës and Dibër respectively with 70,331, 84,035 and 134,153 inhabitants. About 53.4% of Albania's population live in cities. The three largest counties account for half of the population.
Almost 53.4% of the population of Albania living in cities. According to the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), the three largest counties account for half of the population. Over 1 million people live in Tirana and Durrës, making it the largest urban area in Albania. The area of the capital Tirana, is one of largest cities in the Balkan Peninsula and ranks 7th with a population about 800,000.
The second largest is the port city of Durrës, with a population of 201.110, followed by Vlorë, the largest city in southern Albania, with 141.513 inhabitants. The Institute of Statistics forecast that the population may even increase by less than a fifth from 763.560 by 2011 to 909.252
by 2031, depending on the actual birth rate and the level of net migration.
Population censuses in 1923–2011
Population by Qark/County
Total fertility rate by counties
Vital statistics
Before WWII
After WWII
Source: Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Current vital statistics
Structure of the population
Marriages and divorces
Ethnic groups
Albania is inhabited mostly by Albanians. In the 2011 official census, 97.8% of those who disclosed their identity were Albanians (82.58% overall), while 2.3% stated other ethnicities (1.9% overall). Albania recognizes nine national minorities. These include Aromanians, Balkan Egyptians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Roma. As conducting a satisfactory census of ethnic minorities is one of the country's commitments to the European Union, the Government of Albania conducted an official census to clarify the ethnic composition of the population in 2011. However this census was deemed unreliable by internal and external organisations, including the Council of Europe and many of Albania's ethnic minority groups. The last census to include data on ethnic minorities was conducted in 1989. The census conducted in 2001 did not collect information about ethnic groups and nationalities in the population.
Since the 21st century, Albania has also witness a significant settlement of foreign expats into the country, such as Italians, Chinese, Turks, Bengalis, Americans, Portuguese and other foreign workers. In 2021 there were as many as 15,000 foreigners living in Albania (0.5% of the population).
Albania also houses 3,200 Afghan refugees and over 3,800 Ukrainian refugees.
Religion
The main religions of Albania at the 2011 census were Islam 58.79%, Roman Catholicism 10.02%, Eastern Orthodoxy 6.75%, Bektashi 2.09%, Evangelical 0.14%, Atheism 2.50%, 5.50% Nondenominational and 16.30% Others. This census has been recognised as unreliable by numerous internal and external organisations, including the Council of Europe. Religious observance and practice is generally lax and polls have shown that, compared to the populations of other countries, few Albanians consider religion to be a dominant factor in their lives. Today, religion plays an important role in the lives of only 39% of Albanians. In addition, Albania is ranked among the least religious countries in the world.
The Constitution of Albania extends freedom of religion to all citizens and the government generally respects this right in practice. It declares no official religion and provides for equality of all religions. However, the predominant religious communities enjoy a greater degree of official recognition and social status based on their historical presence in the country. All registered religious groups have the right to hold bank accounts and to own property and buildings. Religious freedoms have in large part been secured by the generally amicable relationship among religions. The Ministry of Education has the right to approve the curricula of religious schools to ensure their compliance with national education standards while the State Committee on Cults oversees implementation. There are also 68 vocational training centers administered by religious communities.
Government policy and practice contributed to the generally free exercise of religion. The government is secular and the Ministry of Education asserts that public schools in the country are secular and that the law prohibits ideological and religious indoctrination. Religion is not taught in public schools.
Language
The Albanian language is the official language of Albania. It has two distinct dialects, Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg, spoken in the north. The Shkumbin river is the rough dividing line between the two dialects. The language is spoken primarily in Greece, Italy, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro. Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian-based dialects can be found scattered in Greece (Arvanites), Southern Italy, Sicily and Calabria (Arbëreshë) and in Ukraine. However, due to the large Albanian diaspora, the total number of speakers is much higher than the native speakers in Southern Europe. The four dialects include Tosk Albanian, Gheg Albanian, Arbëresh and Arvanitika.
Albanians are considered of the most polyglot nation and people in Europe. Albanians generally speak more than two languages. The languages spoken generally include one - or more - amongst the following: English, French, Greek, Italian. Language knowledge is increasing due to returning migrants, as well as new Greek and Italian communities in the country. In particular, Italian is widely spoken throughout Albania. La Francophonie states that 320,000 French speakers can be found in Albania. Greek, the language of the Greek minority of the south, is also very widespread in that region. Nowadays, knowledge of English is growing very rapidly, especially among the youth.
The ethnic minorities languages include Aromanian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Gorani, and Roma. Greek is the largest minority language of the country as well as the first largest foreign language. Approximately 5,000 Macedonian language-speakers can be found in Albania. Most of these living in the southeastern part of the country.
Education
Literacy in the country is 98.7 percent. The School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) of Albania is 16 years. The nation ranks 25th out of 167 countries in the World. In 2015, the overall literacy rate in Albania was 98.7%; the male literacy rate was 99.2% and female literacy rate was 98.3%.
Education for primary (arsimi fillor), secondary (arsimi i mesëm), and tertiary (arsimi universitar) levels are mostly supported by the state. Classes start in September or October and ends in June or July. Albanian is the primary language of instruction in all public schools. Education takes place in three stages, the primary, secondary, and pre-university education. The primary education is obligatory from grade 1 to 9. Students must pass the graduation exams at the end of the 9th grade in order to continue their education. After the primary school, the general education is provided at the secondary schools. Students get prepared for the Matura examination, allowing them to obtain their matura diploma, which grants admission to higher education. The country follows the Bologna model in accordance with the 2007 Law on 'Higher Education'. These institutions can be public or private, and may offer one, two or three levels of higher education depending on the institution.
Health
Albania has a universal health care system. In 2000, Albania had the world's 55th best healthcare performance.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Albania ranks around the 40th in the world in terms of life expectancy. Compared to other Western countries, Albania has a low rate of obesity.
Source: UN World Population Prospects
Diaspora
Albanians have established communities in many regions throughout southern Europe. The modern Albanian diaspora was formed largely in the 15th century, when many Albanians emigrated to southern Italy, especially in Sicily and Calabria also to Greece, to escape either various socio-political difficulties and the Ottoman conquest. Other destinations include the US, Canada, Argentina, and Turkey.
Over the last twenty years, Albania has experienced major demographic changes, having the highest population growth in Europe following the collapse of communism in the country. Albania has also shifted to population decline since the changes. However, during the final days of the transition from communism to capitalism in 1990, over a million Albanians moved to foreign countries. These include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Nordic countries, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. About 440,000 of them settled in Greece, where Albanians make up 60% of immigrants. 350,000 Albanians have migrated to Italy over the 1990s to 2000s, however the number has increased substantially. The situation in Kosovo is similar. More than a million Albanians have left Kosovo permanently since the late 1980s, not counting those fleeing the Kosovo War who have subsequently returned. Important destinations for Albanians emigrating from Kosovo have been Switzerland and Germany.
See also
Albanian diaspora
Demographics of Greece
Demographics of Kosovo
Demographics of Montenegro
Demographics of North Macedonia
Demographics of Serbia
References
External links
Institute of Statistics of Albania (INSTAT)
Population Cartogram of Albania |
Saint-Georges-sur-Layon (, literally Saint Georges on Layon) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 30 December 2016, it was merged into the new commune Doué-en-Anjou. Its population was 759 in 2019.
Geography
The commune is traversed by the river Layon.
See also
Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department
References
Saintgeorgessurlayon |
Sulcospira tonkiniana is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in Vietnam.
Human use
It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.
References
Pachychilidae
Gastropods described in 1887 |
The black-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum monticolum), also known as the Bornean flowerpecker, is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is endemic to the island of Borneo, where it is found in the mountains, primarily above in elevation. The species is sexually dimorphic. The male has glossy blue-black upperparts, with a scarlet throat and breast, a dark grey upper belly, olive flanks, a white lower belly, and a buffy and . The female is olive-green above and greyish below, with buffy flanks and a whitish throat. It inhabits a range of forest habitats, including primary and secondary montane forest, kerangas forest, and scrub, and is also occasionally found in gardens. It feeds primarily on small fruits—particularly mistletoe berries—as well as seeds, nectar, and various invertebrates. It builds a nest of moss, camouflaged on the outside with lichens and lined with the pith of tree ferns. The International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it as a species of least concern. Though its numbers have not been quantified, the black-sided flowerpecker is said to be common throughout much of its range, and any declines are not thought to be precipitous. However, destruction of forest for palm plantations may impact it.
Taxonomy and systematics
When Richard Bowdler Sharpe first described the black-sided flowerpecker in 1887, using a specimen collected on Borneo's Mount Kinabalu, he named it Dicaeum monticolum. It is closely allied to, and forms a superspecies with, four other species: blood-breasted flowerpecker, mistletoebird, grey-sided flowerpecker, and fire-breasted flowerpecker. At points in the past, it has been considered conspecific with one or more of those other species in a variety of combinations by a variety of authors. The grey-sided flowerpecker, which is endemic to Sulawesi, is its closest relative. There are no subspecies.
The genus name Dicaeum is an Ancient Greek word, perhaps for an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus. The species name monticolum is Latin for "mountain dweller" or "mountaineer". It is also known as the Bornean flowerpecker.
Description
The black-sided flowerpecker is a very small passerine, measuring a mere in length. Its weight has not been recorded. Like many flowerpeckers, it is sexually dimorphic; the male is considerably more colourful than the female. The male has glossy blue-black upperparts. His face and the sides of his neck are black, his chin is white, and he has a scarlet throat and breast surrounded by a greyish-black border. His upper flanks and upper belly are dark grey, while his lower flanks are olive, and his lower belly white. His and are buffy-yellow. His are white, as are his . The female has olive-green upperparts and greyish underparts, with buffy , a yellowish rump, a whitish throat and white pectoral tufts. Immature birds are like the female, but more olive-grey below. They are finely streaked with dark from their chin to the breast, and males may show some crimson on the breast. Both sexes have dark brown irises, black bills, and feet variously described as brown or dark grey.
Voice
The black-sided flowerpecker has a number of vocalisations, including a high-pitched zit, a high, weak tseeep, a quick tsit-tsit, a slurred tsweet tsweet, and a loud, steady clicking.
Similar species
The female can be confused with the plain flowerpecker, but is larger and has a whiter throat. Her back is also more olive-toned, as compared to the browner-backed plain flowerpecker. All other similar species are allopatric—not found on Borneo—so not likely to be confused.
Habitat and range
The black-sided flowerpecker is endemic to the montane forests of Borneo. It is typically seen above and as high as in some locations, though it also descends as low as on two of the island's bigger mountains (Kinabalu and Mount Trus Madi). There are far more records from Malaysia's states of Sabah and Sarawak than from Indonesia's Kalimantan provinces. It is found in primary and secondary forest, kerangas forest (heathland), scrub, and gardens.
Ecology
The black-sided flowerpecker is not known to make any seasonal or altitudinal movements.
Feeding
Like all flowerpeckers, the black-sided flowerpecker is a frugivore. It specializes on mistletoe berries (particularly those of the family Loranthaceae), but also eats other small fruits, including Medinilla speciosa berries. Its diet includes seeds, nectar, and various invertebrates. Most of its foraging takes place close to the ground, but it sometimes feeds in the canopy.
Breeding
Little is known about the breeding ecology of the black-sided flowerpecker. Young have been recorded between November and February, and adults in breeding condition have been found during that period. The nest is made of moss and lined with the pith of tree ferns. Lichens are used to camouflage its surface. The eggs are undescribed.
Conservation
The International Union for Conservation of Nature rates the black-sided flowerpecker as a species of least concern, though its population has not been quantified. While its numbers are thought to be decreasing, the rate of decline is not thought to be precipitous, and the population is not fragmented. The species is said to be common throughout much of its range. Destruction of forest for oil palm plantations could have a detrimental impact on their numbers. Studies have shown that black-sided flowerpeckers are only found in palm groves in small numbers and within of the edge of forest; they were not found further into extensive groves.
References
Notes
General references
External links
Dicaeum
Endemic birds of Borneo
Birds described in 1887
Taxa named by Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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A Murshid is one of the 12 ranks of Imam in Alevism.
Culture of Turkey
Alevism
Islam in Turkey
Shia Islam in Turkey |
Soest station is a passenger station in the city of Soest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Hamm–Warburg and the Dortmund–Soest lines. It was also served by passenger trains on the Möhne Valley Railway (Möhnetalbahn) from 1899 to 1960.
Train services
It is served by one InterCity line 51 daily. In regional traffic, it is served by the Rhein-Hellweg-Express on the Düsseldorf–Soest route every two hours. The Rhein-Hellweg-Express is operated by DB Regio NRW. It is served by the Ems-Börde-Bahn stopping service every 30 minutes, operating on the Hamm–Paderborn route and the Hellweg-Bahn stopping service every 30 minutes, operating on the Dortmund–Soest route. The Hellweg-Bahn and the Ems-Börde-Bahn are operated by Eurobahn (Keolis).
The following services currently call at Soest:
Regional services as of 2023:
Station
The Soest station was extensively renovated and refurbished up to 2010 to meet its role as both a regional station as well as a (touristic) gateway to the city. In addition to the renovation of the building and its environment, about five hectares of industrial land has been created. The building of a new underpass gives direct access to the north side of the town. In addition, the level of platform 1 was raised. In addition, the station has new retail, sanitary facilities and automatic teller machines on the ground floor with office space on the upper floors.
References
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1850
1850 establishments in Prussia
Buildings and structures in Soest (district) |
National Geographic Farsi was a free-to-air documentary channel that was originally launched on 15 October 2011, and relaunched on 1 September 2017. It is the official Persian language edition of the National Geographic Channel. The channel broadcast via Eutelsat W3A. The channel features broadcasts of non-fictional, documentary series, all original National Geographic shows subtitled in Farsi including Whilst the channel was aimed to be broadcast for a Persian-speaking audience in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the channel's broadcast was based in Dubai, U.A.E.
It was co-owned by the National Geographic Society/Fox Networks Group. During the channel's shutdown, the Persian edition of the National Geographic magazine, which launched later in 2012, remained in circulation.
Channel shutdown
The channel was first shut down on 1 May 2013, then after relaunch 28 August 2017, channel shut downed again on 1 January 2020 with a short notice in Persian that was published on the channel's Facebook page. The Persian text reads as follows:
As we express our gratitude to our dear audience, please be advised that for unpredictable reasons the National Geographic Farsi broadcast will be stopped as of 1 May 2013. We hope that in the future we will be able to join you again.
Although the channel is shut down, its official and social media sites remain online, albeit inactive.
Relaunch
On 28 August 2017, the channel's official Facebook page announced its relaunch to be on 1 September along a promotional video. Also the new availability information of the channel on Eutelsat 7 and Hotbird 13 were announced on the same day.
References
External links
Official website
Official English website
National Geographic Farsi on Facebook
National Geographic Farsi on Instagram
Defunct television channels
Farsi
Persian-language television stations
Television stations in Dubai
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013 |
Maksim Vladimirovich Igoshin (; born 10 April 1978) is a Russian professional football manager and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Zenit Penza.
Club career
He played 3 seasons in the Russian Football National League for FC Chita and FC Zvezda Irkutsk.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
FC Zvezda Irkutsk players
Russian football managers
FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players
FC Chita players
FC Volga Ulyanovsk players |
Toivo Tuomas Savolainen, later Karanko (20 September 1891 Nurmes - 15 May 1969 Helsinki) was a Finnish Jäger captain and a journalist.
Studies
Savolainen enrolled as a student at Nurmes Co-educational School in 1913 and joined the Karelian Association. He attended the Finnish Artillery School in 1918 and the Field Artillery Shooting School in 1923, as well as the refresher course for officers of the Defense Forces Officers' School in 1924. He continued his studies at the University of Helsinki in 1930.
In Germany
Savolainen volunteered to join the 27th Jäger Battalion for training and military experience on November 23. He took part in the fighting in the First World War on the eastern front of Germany in the battles of Misse River, the Gulf of Riga and the Christmas Battles at river Aa. He also completed a special sabotage course in Polangen in 1917.
Finnish Civil War
Savolainen arrived in Finland with the main group of Jägers, promoted to non-commissioned officer on 25 February 1918. He was assigned to the 2nd Jäger Battery and took part in battles in Länkipohja, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi, Kangasala and Lempäälä and Tampere. In the reorganization of the artillery after the conquest of Tampere, he was placed as the division director in the 4th battery of the 2nd Jäger Battery of the newly formed Jäger Artillery Brigade and took part in the battles in Kämärvi and Vyborg.
Between the wars
Karanko left the army in 1921 and became the chief of the Jyväskylä White Guard 8th district, until he returned to the service in 1922. He moved from Pielisjärvi to Jämsä in 1927, where he worked as a teacher of gymnastics and health education at Jämsä Co-educational School and Real High School until 1928. He later worked in the newspaper industry and was a journalist for the domestic news department at Helsingin Sanomat from 1929 to 1930. He next became a journalist for Ajan Sana ltd and joined the main committee of the Finno-Ugric Cultural Congress the following year. In 1932 he joined Publishing Company Vasara, a publishing company that published Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitic literature, and in 1934 he became editor-in-chief of Siniristi, a nazi magazine.
Karanko translated Erich Ludendorff's book "Threat of a World War on German Land" and Martin Luther's book On the Jews and Their Lies. In the preface to Luther's book, he supported Luther's proposed actions against the Jews and considered the book's message particularly topical.
Winter and Continuation War
Karanko took part in the Winter War as the commander of the supply center of 4th Division. During the Continuation War he was inspector of the Prisoner of War Camps number 2 and 4.
Family
His parents were primary school teacher, farmer Pekka Savolainen and Aina Maria Piironen. He was married in 1924 to Gerda Fredrika Magdalena Saxberg. Karanko was the stepfather of Ole Torvalds, who was the father of politician Nils Torvalds and the grandfather of software engineer Linus Torvalds famous for the Linux kernel.
Awards
Cross of Freedom 4th class with swords
Medal of Freedom 2nd class
Commemorative medal of the War of Freedom with clasp
Commemorative medal of the Winter War
Jäger medal
German Honor Cross of the Participants of the Great War
Sources
Puolustusministeriön Sotahistoriallisen toimiston julkaisuja IV, Suomen jääkärien elämäkerrasto, WSOY Porvoo 1938.
Sotatieteen Laitoksen Julkaisuja XIV, Suomen jääkärien elämäkerrasto 1975, Vaasa 1975 .
References
People of the Finnish Civil War (White side)
Jägers of the Jäger Movement
1891 births
1969 deaths
Nazi propagandists
Finnish Nazis
Finnish journalists |
Roy Carter is an English oboist, and musician.
Early career
Carter began playing the oboe at the age of 10. He won scholarships to study with Margaret Eliot at the Royal Academy of Music (at 12) and later under Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music (at 16), where he won the Joy Boughton Memorial Prize in only his second year of study.
Musical career
His orchestral career began with the Philharmonia Orchestra as Co-Principal Oboe and then the English National Opera Orchestra as Principal Oboe. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra as Co-Principal Oboe in 1986 and was appointed to Principal Oboe in 1988, staying for almost twenty years before deciding to move to the Northern Sinfonia as Principal Oboe in late 2005. He moved to Trinidad and Tobago in 2009 as principal oboist, professor of oboe, and overseer of performance excellence at the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the related orchestra.
Roy featured in the performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony featuring musicians from around the world, which took place under Leonard Bernstein on 25 December 1989, to commemorate the Berlin Wall. He and Bernstein maintained an amicable relationship until Bernstein's death in 1990. Roy was also a member of the Deutz Trio, alongside Paul Edmund-Davies (flute) and John Alley (piano), with whom he recorded four CDs. He performed both the Strauss (twice) and Mozart oboe concertos with the LSO, along with the Takemitsu concerto for Oboe d'amore and guitar with Julien Bream and the LSO. Carter performed chamber music with the Northern Sinfonia during his four-year stay with them. He also went on a concerto tour with the Queensland Philharmonic, and world premièred and recorded the Dominic Muldowney oboe concerto, which was commissioned for him, in 1994. It was released on CD the same year by NMC and was re-released with other classical recordings in 1997 in "NMC Selection 1" The recording of this concerto has recently been re-released.
Education career
Carter taught at the Guildhall School of Music between 1990 and 1995, and has also taught and coached at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, where he was recorded for the televised 'Great Musicians of the World' series. He has also given master-classes in Italy and coached the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and was on the panel for the LSO Shell Scholarship for eighteen years. He is currently Professor of Oboe in the Talent Music Master Courses programme in Brescia, Italy.
In popular music and film
Carter has also played the music to numerous popular recordings and films, Including Star Wars Episodes I, II, III, and V, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, Braveheart, Nanny McPhee, and Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance.
He plays a Howarth XL Oboe.
References
Living people
English classical oboists
Male oboists
British music educators
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
London Symphony Orchestra players
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Wormwood (stylized as 'WORMWO0D') is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who worked for a secret government biological warfare program (the USBWL) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. It focuses on the events leading up to and following his controversial death, which the US government originally claimed was a tragic accident, but later admitted was likely a suicide, caused by a mental breakdown brought on after being unknowingly dosed with LSD, while at a meeting with colleagues from the CIA who were involved in Project MKUltra. It also follows Frank Olson's son in the present day, and discusses his belief that his father may have been murdered due to being perceived as a potential security risk. Interspersed between interviews and archival footage, are live action reenactments of the final days of Frank Olson's life and the various theories involving his death.
Synopsis
Wormwood is told through Eric Olson, the son of Frank Olson, an American biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953.
Nine days after Olson was covertly dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor as part of Project MKUltra, he plunged to his death from the window of a hotel room in New York City. His death was initially regarded as a suicide, but subsequent investigations have raised questions of a coverup of an alleged murder.
The title Wormwood is a double literary allusion: first to the Bible verse about a star that infects one-third of Earth's waters and makes them bitter and poisonous, a reference to biological weapons (in particular, allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War), and the 'bitter' effect on Eric Olson of his 60-year search for a resolution regarding the death of his father; secondly, to a line in Hamlet (whose story arc the documentary suggests parallels Eric's own life), when Hamlet whispers, "Wormwood, Wormwood," at the moment its play-within-a-play implies evidentially that his father was, in fact, assassinated. The documentary ends with Eric Olson describing the quest for the truth about his father's death as "Wormwood", having consumed his whole life and with no possibility that any definitive answer, positive or negative, would have released him from the bitterness of the loss anyway. Errol Morris said that "What Wormwood tries to do is tell a story about how we know what we know and how reliable is that knowledge."
A key piece of evidence the film relies on is a CIA assassination manual from 1953, which instructs agents, "The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface."
Cast
Interviews
Eric Olson
David Rudovsky, family attorney
Seymour Hersh
Stephen Saracco
Reenactments
Peter Sarsgaard as Frank Olson – Biochemist
Molly Parker as Alice Olson – Wife
Christian Camargo as Dr. Robert Lashbrook – CIA
Scott Shepherd as Lt. Col. Vincent Ruwet
Tim Blake Nelson as Sidney Gottlieb
Jimmi Simpson as CIA agent
Bob Balaban as Dr. Harold A. Abramson – Allergist
Michael Chernus as Dr. James Starrs
Stephen DeRosa as Armond Pastore - Hotel Night Manager
Chance Kelly as Wet Works #2
Michael Chernus as Mal (minder)
Production
In order to be eligible for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards, the series was recut into a continuous feature after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) ruled that multi-part documentary series (such as 2017 winner O.J.: Made in America) were ineligible. However, the series was rejected from consideration by AMPAS for the documentary feature category, although it remains eligible in all other categories.
Episodes
Release
The series was first screened at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival in September 2017.
Reception
The New York Times awarded it a NYT Critic's Pick with reviewer A. O. Scott saying "Mr. Morris presents a powerful historical argument in the guise of a beguiling work of cinematic art — and vice versa." Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for Vulture.com, "The filmmaking gathers all the bits and pieces of the story together and arranges them in ways that are clever, surprising, and so aggressively (and deliberately) self-conscious that there are times when the whole thing gets close to turning into an intellectualized formal exercise...there’s never a moment where Olson or Morris fail to fascinate." Vanity Fair called it "one of the most original things you’ll see all year."
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 90% based on 39 reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10.
References
External links
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
2010s American drama television series
2010s American documentary television series
Netflix original documentary television series
English-language Netflix original programming
Films directed by Errol Morris
Films produced by Errol Morris
Science docudramas
Television series set in 1953
Television shows set in New York City |
René Rillon (9 May 1892 – 13 October 1956) was a French cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1892 births
1956 deaths
French male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for France
Cyclists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Paris |
```swift
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
@available(iOS 14.0, *)
struct PageContentConfiguration<Content: View>: UIContentConfiguration {
let content: Content
var margins: NSDirectionalEdgeInsets
init(@ViewBuilder content: () -> Content) {
self.content = content()
self.margins = .zero
}
func makeContentView() -> UIView & UIContentView {
return PageContentView(configuration: self)
}
func updated(for state: UIConfigurationState) -> PageContentConfiguration<Content> {
return self
}
func margins(_ edges: SwiftUI.Edge.Set = .all, _ length: CGFloat) -> PageContentConfiguration<Content> {
var configuration = self
configuration.margins = NSDirectionalEdgeInsets(
top: edges.contains(.top) ? length : margins.top,
leading: edges.contains(.leading) ? length : margins.leading,
bottom: edges.contains(.bottom) ? length : margins.bottom,
trailing: edges.contains(.trailing) ? length : margins.trailing
)
return configuration
}
}
@available(iOS 14.0, *)
final class PageContentView<Content: View>: UIView, UIContentView {
var configuration: UIContentConfiguration {
didSet {
if let configuration = configuration as? PageContentConfiguration<Content> {
margins = configuration.margins
hostingController.rootView = configuration.content
directionalLayoutMargins = configuration.margins
}
}
}
override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize {
return sizeThatFits(UIView.layoutFittingCompressedSize)
}
override func sizeThatFits(_ size: CGSize) -> CGSize {
let size = hostingController.sizeThatFits(in: size)
return CGSize(
width: size.width + margins.leading + margins.trailing,
height: size.height + margins.top + margins.bottom
)
}
private var margins: NSDirectionalEdgeInsets
private let hostingController: UIHostingController<Content>
init(configuration: PageContentConfiguration<Content>) {
self.configuration = configuration
self.hostingController = UIHostingController(rootView: configuration.content)
self.margins = configuration.margins
super.init(frame: .zero)
configure()
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override func didMoveToWindow() {
super.didMoveToWindow()
if window == nil {
hostingController.willMove(toParent: nil)
hostingController.removeFromParent()
hostingController.didMove(toParent: nil)
} else if let parent = parentViewController() {
hostingController.willMove(toParent: parent)
parent.addChild(hostingController)
hostingController.didMove(toParent: parent)
}
}
private func configure() {
hostingController.view.backgroundColor = .clear
addSubview(hostingController.view)
hostingController.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
hostingController.view.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutMarginsGuide.topAnchor),
hostingController.view.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutMarginsGuide.leadingAnchor),
hostingController.view.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutMarginsGuide.trailingAnchor),
hostingController.view.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutMarginsGuide.bottomAnchor)
])
}
private func parentViewController() -> UIViewController? {
var responder: UIResponder? = self
while let nextResponder = responder?.next {
if let viewController = nextResponder as? UIViewController {
return viewController
}
responder = nextResponder
}
return nil
}
}
``` |
Thomas Paul Mooney (24 August 1930 – 24 June 2006) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Mooney, a hooker, was born in Brisbane, Queensland and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.
References
1930 births
2006 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
People educated at Brisbane State High School
Rugby union players from Brisbane
Rugby union hookers |
Wumart Stores, Inc. doing business as Wumart, (; Chinese for "good product") is a Chinese retail company with its headquarters in Haidian District, Beijing.
Wumart was founded in 1994 by Zhang Wenzhong, Wumart Group is one of the earliest and biggest retailers in China and the largest supermarket chain in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. With more than 1,000 Wumart stores in North, East and Northwest China, Wumart has scored revenue of more than 50 billion yuan ($7.8 billion), opened 103 stores in 2017, and continued to march into northeastern and southern regions. Wumart's business formats consist of retail, Internet and IOT technology, logistics and supply chain. Being technology-driven, the Group has developed location-based ecommerce in Beijing, Hangzhou, Yinchuan, Wuhan and other major cities, empowering supermarkets into Omni-channel retailer with online-offline integration and serving over 30 million members, constantly contributing to national economic growth, employment and better livelihood of the people.
Corporate affairs
The company has its headquarters in the Wumart Commercial Building (S: 物美商业大厦, T: 物美商業大廈, P: Wù Měi Shāngyè Dàshà) in Haidian District, Beijing and its registered office in the Badachu HighTech Park District in Shijingshan District, Beijing. Previously its headquarters were on the 10th floor of the Yuquan Building (S:玉泉大厦, T:玉泉大廈, P: Yùquán Dàshà) in Shijingshan District, Beijing.
Wumart bought 80% stake of Metro China--the subsidiary of Metro AG in China in 2020.
See also
Metro China
Jingkelong
Yonghui Supermarket
DMALL
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Beijing
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Retail companies established in 1994
Chinese companies established in 1994
Retail companies of China
Supermarkets of China |
```xml
import * as tool from '../lib/tool';
import type { IVConsoleLog, IVConsoleLogData } from './log.model';
const getPreviewText = (val: any) => {
const json = tool.safeJSONStringify(val, { maxDepth: 0 });
let preview = json.substring(0, 36);
let ret = tool.getObjName(val);
if (json.length > 36) {
preview += '...';
}
// ret = tool.getVisibleText(tool.htmlEncode(ret + ' ' + preview));
ret = tool.getVisibleText(ret + ' ' + preview);
return ret;
};
/**
* Get a value's text content and its type.
*/
export const getValueTextAndType = (val: any, wrapString = true) => {
let valueType = 'undefined';
let text = val;
if (val instanceof VConsoleUninvocatableObject) {
valueType = 'uninvocatable';
text = '(...)';
} else if (tool.isArray(val)) {
valueType = 'array';
text = getPreviewText(val);
} else if (tool.isObject(val)) {
valueType = 'object';
text = getPreviewText(val);
} else if (tool.isString(val)) {
valueType = 'string';
text = tool.getVisibleText(val);
if (wrapString) {
text = '"' + text + '"';
}
} else if (tool.isNumber(val)) {
valueType = 'number';
text = String(val);
} else if (tool.isBigInt(val)) {
valueType = 'bigint';
text = String(val) + 'n';
} else if (tool.isBoolean(val)) {
valueType = 'boolean';
text = String(val);
} else if (tool.isNull(val)) {
valueType = 'null';
text = 'null';
} else if (tool.isUndefined(val)) {
valueType = 'undefined';
text = 'undefined';
} else if (tool.isFunction(val)) {
valueType = 'function';
text = (val.name || 'function') + '()';
} else if (tool.isSymbol(val)) {
valueType = 'symbol';
text = String(val);
}
return { text, valueType };
}
const frontIdentifierList = ['.', '[', '(', '{', '}'];
const backIdentifierList = [']', ')', '}'];
const _getIdentifier = (text: string, identifierList: string[], startPos = 0) => {
// for case 'aa.bb.cc'
const ret = {
text: '', // '.'
pos: -1, // 5
before: '', // 'aa.bb'
after: '', // 'cc'
};
for (let i = text.length - 1; i >= startPos; i--) {
const idx = identifierList.indexOf(text[i]);
if (idx > -1) {
ret.text = identifierList[idx];
ret.pos = i;
ret.before = text.substring(startPos, i);
ret.after = text.substring(i + 1, text.length);
break;
}
}
return ret;
};
/**
* A simple parser to get `[` or `]` information.
*/
export const getLastIdentifier = (text: string) => {
const front = _getIdentifier(text, frontIdentifierList, 0);
const back = _getIdentifier(text, backIdentifierList, front.pos + 1);
return {
front,
back,
};
};
export const isMatchedFilterText = (log: IVConsoleLog, filterText: string) => {
if (filterText === '') { return true; }
for (let i = 0; i < log.data.length; i++) {
const type = typeof log.data[i].origData;
if (type === 'string') {
if (log.data[i].origData.indexOf(filterText) > -1) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
};
// keywords: `%c | %s | %d | %o`, must starts or ends with a blank
const logFormattingPattern = /(\%[csdo] )|( \%[csdo])/g;
/**
* Styling log output (`%c`), or string substitutions (`%s`, `%d`, `%o`).
* Apply to the first log only.
*/
export const getLogDatasWithFormatting = (origDatas: any[]) => {
// reset RegExp.lastIndex to ensure search starts from beginning
logFormattingPattern.lastIndex = 0;
if (tool.isString(origDatas[0]) && logFormattingPattern.test(origDatas[0])) {
const rawDatas = [...origDatas];
const firstData: string = rawDatas.shift();
// use firstData as display logs
const mainLogs = firstData.split(logFormattingPattern).filter((val) => {
return val !== undefined && val !== '';
});
// use remain logs as replace item
const subLogs = rawDatas;
const logDataList: IVConsoleLogData[] = [];
let isSetOrigData = false;
let origData: any;
let style = '';
while (mainLogs.length > 0) {
const mainText = mainLogs.shift();
if (/ ?\%c ?/.test(mainText)) {
// Use subLogs[0] as CSS style.
// If subLogs[0] is not set, use original mainText as origData.
// If subLogs[0] is not a string, then leave style empty.
if (subLogs.length > 0) {
style = subLogs.shift();
if (typeof style !== 'string') {
style = '';
}
} else {
origData = mainText;
style = '';
isSetOrigData = true;
}
} else if (/ ?\%[sd] ?/.test(mainText)) {
// Use subLogs[0] as origData (as String).
// If subLogs[0] is not set, use original mainText as origData.
// If subLogs[0] is not a string, convert it to a string.
if (subLogs.length > 0) {
origData = tool.isObject(subLogs[0]) ? tool.getObjName(subLogs.shift()) : String(subLogs.shift());
} else {
origData = mainText;
}
isSetOrigData = true;
} else if (/ ?\%o ?/.test(mainText)) {
// Use subLogs[0] as origData (as original Object value).
// If subLogs[0] is not set, use original mainText as origData.
origData = subLogs.length > 0 ? subLogs.shift() : mainText;
isSetOrigData = true;
} else {
origData = mainText;
isSetOrigData = true;
}
if (isSetOrigData) {
const log: IVConsoleLogData = { origData };
if (style) {
log.style = style;
}
logDataList.push(log);
// reset
isSetOrigData = false;
origData = undefined;
style = '';
}
}
// If there are remaining subLogs, add them to logs.
for (let i = 0; i < subLogs.length; i++) {
logDataList.push({
origData: subLogs[i],
});
}
// (window as any)._vcOrigConsole.log('getLogDataWithSubstitutions format', logDataList);
return logDataList;
} else {
const logDataList: IVConsoleLogData[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < origDatas.length; i++) {
logDataList.push({
origData: origDatas[i],
});
}
// (window as any)._vcOrigConsole.log('getLogDataWithSubstitutions normal', logDataList);
return logDataList;
}
};
/**
* An empty class for rendering views.
*/
export class VConsoleUninvocatableObject {
}
``` |
"Episode 7", also known as "The Last Evening", is the eighth and final episode of the first season of the American mystery television series Twin Peaks. Series co-creator Mark Frost wrote and directed the episode. It features series regulars Kyle MacLachlan, Piper Laurie and Eric Da Re, with guest appearances by Chris Mulkey and Walter Olkewicz.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan) pays the price for his investigation of a murder in the small mountain town of Twin Peaks, while the local sawmill is burnt in an arson scheme.
Like much of the series, "Episode 7" features unusual set and costume design, including the hallmark use of a strong red palette. Production designer Richard Hoover has explained that the sound stages were constructed with ceilings and functional hallways—an unusual practice for television production—allowing actors to be filmed entering a scene without cuts. First airing on May 23, 1990, "Episode 7" was viewed by about 22 percent of the available audience; it received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Background
The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine). FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has come to the town to investigate; the violent, drug-dealing truck driver Leo Johnson (Eric Da Re) is the chief suspect. Meanwhile, local businessman Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer) has been scheming with his lover, Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie), to burn down the town's sawmill to buy its land cheaply. However, Horne also conspires with the mill's owner, Josie Packard (Joan Chen), to burn the mill and kill Martell to collect their insurance policies.
Events
James Hurley (James Marshall) and Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle) sneak into the office of psychiatrist Laurence Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn), hoping to find out more about Laura, whom he had been treating. They find a cassette tape she sent him. Meanwhile, Jacoby is distracted by an offer to meet Laura's cousin, Madeline Ferguson (Lee), who has disguised herself as the dead girl; before they can meet, however, he is attacked by a masked man and left unconscious.
Cooper and Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) are undercover in One Eyed Jacks, a Canadian brothel and casino. Cooper speaks to drug smuggler Jacques Renault (Walter Olkewicz), whom he believes is connected to Laura's death. Posing as a drug financier, Cooper persuades Renault to meet him in the US; Cooper learns that Renault and Johnson were with Pulaski and Laura on the night she died. Later that night, when Renault arrives to meet Cooper, he is arrested for Laura's murder. Renault resists and is shot; he is taken to a hospital where he accuses Johnson of attacking him the night of the murder, claiming to have been unconscious while the killing occurred. Laura's father, Leland (Ray Wise), learns of the arrest; he travels to the hospital and fatally smothers Renault.
Johnson's wife, Shelley (Mädchen Amick), is at home when he returns and assaults her. He drives her to the sawmill, ties her up, and rigs a timed device that will set the building on fire. Meanwhile, Packard meets with recently paroled Hank Jennings (Chris Mulkey) to give him US$90,000; it is revealed Packard paid Jennings to serve eighteen months in prison. This ensured that neither of them would be implicated in the death of Packard's husband, from whom she inherited the mill. Jennings later calls Martell to lure her to the mill. As Martell arrives, the device explodes, engulfing the building in flames. At the same time, Johnson attempts to kill Shelley's lover, Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), but is shot by Jennings.
Cooper returns to his hotel room and orders room service. Before he can read a note that was left earlier by Audrey, Deputy Brennan calls him to inform him that Johnson has been shot. However, a knock on the door draws him away from the phone. When he opens the door, an unseen figure shoots him three times.
Production
"Episode 7" was written and directed by Mark Frost, who created Twin Peaks along with David Lynch. Frost had previously penned "Pilot", "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" with Lynch; "Episode 5" was his first solo writing credit. Frost would pen a further six episodes during the second season. This was Frost's first and only time directing an episode of the series.
Production designer Richard Hoover notes that he saw "Pilot" at the Telluride Film Festival before becoming involved with the series; during that screening, he noticed Mark Frost's name in the credits and remembered working with his father Warren Frost. After learning that the production designer for "Pilot" was no longer available to work, Hoover contacted the younger Frost and enquired about working on the series; Hoover was hired almost immediately. Hoover has pointed out the unusual nature of the series' set designs; most of the sets feature ceilings and hallways that lead into them—this allows characters to be filmed entering a sound stage set without the use of cuts.
Hoover felt that the series' use of a consistent palette of reds and earth tones allowed the introduction of strong black elements into set and costume design; he cited elements of Blackie O'Reilly's office in One Eyed Jacks as an example: its vibrant red curtains and ruddy wood tones were offset by her stark black outfit and dark hair. The hues in the footage filmed for the series were "sweetened" in post-production, increasing the saturation of the red tones; this also caused black elements to seem deeper and more striking. This effect was offset by the clothing of several of the law enforcement characters, which had cooler tones and contrasted against the warm palette.
The power plant used for exterior shots in Jacques Renault's arrest scene was in Burbank, California. The location was chosen because of its large and unusually-shaped buildings; these were lit from behind to enhance their shapes in silhouette. The Hayward house was designed to seem uncharacteristically "normal"; it featured an increased amount of yellows and greys to offset the red tones, and it made use of several household rooms to enhance its appearance of verisimilitude. The location used for the scenes of the Packard sawmill was in Valencia, Santa Clarita; this was chosen because it was far from the tree line and thus there was no risk of a forest fire occurring after the arson scenes. In addition, any wood used was treated to burn in a controlled manner, and firefighters were on-hand in case of an emergency.
Broadcast and reception
"Episode 7" was first broadcast on the ABC Network on May 23, 1990. In its initial airing, it was viewed by of US households, representing of the available audience; it was the most-viewed broadcast in its time-slot. These ratings marked an increase from the previous episode, which had attracted of the population and of the available audience.
Writing for The A.V. Club, Keith Phipps rated the episode an "A", finding that the multiple cliffhanger plot threads worked well and did not seem over the top or self-parodying. Phipps felt that the first season was "a near-perfect run of television", further describing it as "a stretch of greatness that, for one reason or another, couldn't be sustained. But it was terrific while it lasted". AllRovi Andrea LeVasseur awarded the episode four stars out of five, adding that "with several characters meeting their fate in this episode, including the two main suspects (Jacques and Leo), the mystery of Laura Palmer's murder is even more puzzling". Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker rated the episode an A+, finding that its lack of plot resolution offered "a good kind of annoyance", showing the level of interest and commitment the series had inspired in its viewers.
Notes
Footnotes
References
External links
1990 American television episodes
Twin Peaks (season 1) episodes
Television episodes written by Mark Frost |
Balabanu is a village in Taraclia District, Moldova.
References
Villages of Taraclia District |
The Izborsky Club is a Russian Conservative think tank which specializes in studying Russia's foreign and domestic policy.
It was founded by publicist Alexander Prokhanov in September 2012 and includes several well-known nationalist and traditionalist intellectuals in Russia.
History
The Izborsky club was created by a group of Russian intellectuals in September 2012 amidst celebration of the 1,150th anniversary of the city of Izborsk with support from Pskov regional governor Andrey Turchak. The writer Alexander Prokhanov was elected chairman of the club, and and were elected executive secretaries. According to German political scientist Umland Andreas, the club includes an ultra-conservative flank of supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The organization took its name from the Pskov village of Izborsk near the border with Estonia, where its first meeting took place on the eve of its 1,150th anniversary celebration. The club's meetings, according to official information on its website, were held in Yekaterinburg, Ulyanovsk, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Bryansk, Belgorod, Tula, Kaluga, Omsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Donetsk and other cities, as well as in Yakutia, Dagestan and in Crimea. Field meetings of the club were held in Transnistria (Moldova), Syria, Serbia, China, Iran and other countries.
Since 2013, the Izborsky Club has published an eponymous magazine with 1,200-copy circulation.
In 2015, the organization received a 10 million ruble presidential grant for non-profit organizations. The project's description stated that the organization would attempt to explain "what is the Russian world".
Goals and objectives
The Izborsky club's main tasks include:
Creating and presenting analytical reports to Russian authorities and society aimed at forming an updated patriotically oriented state policy in all spheres of national life;
Conducting trips to Russian regions, maintaining constant interaction with the country's intellectual elite without being locked in capital experts;
Creating club divisions in all federal districts of the Russian Federation;
Formation of a new agenda in the Russian media, the conquest of information niches that objectively arise in connection with the ideological and moral decline of the liberal community, which until recently sought to control the main electronic, as well as a large share of paper and online media at the federal level;
Contributing to form a powerful political and ideological coalition of patriotic statesmen, an imperial front that opposes manipulation in Russian politics carried out by foreign centers of influence and the “fifth column” from within the country.
Among the club's activities is reconciling historical eras and synthesis of the best that was in them.
Shortly after its founding, on January 9, 2013, the Izborsky Club issued the "Ulyanovsk Declaration" with an appeal to all patriots:As a means of averting an impending catastrophe, we call on all statesmen who value the future of Russia to act as a united patriotic, imperial front that opposes the liberal globalization ideology and its adherents, who act in the interests of our geopolitical enemies. The most important aspect of our unity is a correct understanding of the current difficult situation. Russia needs a fusion of two powerful energies that grow out of the "red" and "white" ideologies of Russian patriotism. This merger implies introducing into the structure and system of the state of a powerful element of social justice, which is inherited from the USSR, and a return to the Orthodox-Christian spirituality and universality of traditional Russia. Such a synthesis will make our country and state invincible, and will make it possible to offer humanity a universal path of social development based on the experience of Russian civilization.
Influence
The organization has significant financial resources and connections in the Kremlin. Its meetings were attended by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, governors of many regions and presidents of national republics (Yakutia, Dagestan, Chechnya). It is believed that the Izborsky Club reflects the views of the conservative members of the Russian elite.
The club has an official publisher of literature: the publishing house "Knizhny Mir".
Criticism and scandals
The activities and ideals of the Izborsky Club were subjected to severe criticism from the leading researcher of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies :The ideology of the "Izbortsy" can be called by the name of their chairman Alexander Prokhanov - "Prokhanovism", as the Bolsheviks liked to give such definitions. This phenomenon is extremely dangerous precisely because of its conciliation, an attempt to connect the incompatible, white with black, God with the devil. "Prokhanovshchina" is much more dangerous than the overt communist and radical leftist ideology ... Prokhanov wants to unite executioners and victims, destroyers and creators, revolutionaries and guardians. An attempt to unite good and evil is the most dangerous basis of "Prokhanovism".Publicist Elena Chudinova criticizes the Izborsky Club, believing that its members adhere to isolationist views.
In May 2015, by order of the Izborsky Club, the “Reigning Icon of the Mother of God” was made, on which, together with Joseph Stalin, Soviet marshals were depicted. The presentation took place during the awarding of the Prokhorovskoye Pole literary prize in the Belgorod Region. Alexander Prokhanov compared the Soviet historical figure to Moses and Mao Zedong, calling him a victorious leader, a leader with a flag of victory. Authors of the article on bbc.com, Mikhail Poplavsky and Olga Alisova, reported that the Belgorod Metropolis denied involvement in the divine service on the Prokhorovsky field and spoke out against defining the image as an icon, since the people appearing on it were not canonized as saints. At the same time, the icon does not violate the canons of the Church, insofar as these characters are not depicted as saints - without halos, and are located under the omophorion (protection) of the Virgin. In June, Alexander Prokhanov presented the icon in the Saratov region, which again led to a negative reaction from the local Orthodox diocese.
Club Members
According to the club, its members include :
Zhores Alferov
Vladimir Bortko
Sergey Glazyev
Mikhail Delyagin
Aleksandr Dugin
Maxim Kalashnikov
Mikhail Leontyev
Ivan Okhlobystin
Archimandrite Tikhon
Maksim Shevchenko
Opening of a branch of the club in the DPR
On June 14, 2014, in Donetsk, on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, a branch of the Izborsky Club, the was opened and its first meeting was held, attended by , Andrey Purgin, Pavel Gubarev, Dmitry Muza, Sergey Baryshnikov, Father Iona (Kovalev) and Kirill Cherkashin. The public figure of the Donetsk People's Republic, Pavel Gubarev, said that "The club will include well-known experts, doctors of science, candidates of science who will help solve the state problems of Novorossia". Donetsk historian Artyom Olkhin was elected as the executive secretary of the club. According to Gubarev, initiative to create belonged to the head of the Izborsky club, Alexander Prokhanov.
References
External links
— Официальное ЖЖ-сообщество Изборского клуба
Интервью А. Дугина об Изборском клубе Архивная копия от 21 октября 2014 на Wayback Machine
Красноярское время. Изборский клуб: Возвращение к Союзу
Think tanks based in Russia
Articles with unsourced statements from April 2021 |
Dioro, Burkina Faso is a village in the Thion Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 575.
References
Populated places in the Est Region (Burkina Faso)
Gnagna Province |
Flora Shaw Stewart (1886–1979), better known as 'Ma' Stewart, was a popular pioneering hotel owner in the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea) from 1920 until 1979.
Early life
Flora Shaw Stewart was born on 28 August 1886 at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the eldest of seven children. Her father, John Young, was a blacksmith. In 1888 her family migrated to Australia, living in Cooktown, Queensland. In 1906 her father took his family to the Territory of Papua as he was considering buying a hotel. Flora worked for five months as manageress of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Samarai island in Papua in order to gain experience of the business. At that time, Samarai was a booming port that served as a stopover for Australian vessels heading to Asia. She returned with her family to Queensland in 1909. On 24 June 1909 she married Harry Gofton, a horse-dealer. Stewart had already developed a love of thoroughbred horses.
Life in Papua
Stewart and her husband moved to Papua and lived on a rubber plantation for three years. In 1911, she had a son in Papua's capital, Port Moresby, and named him Moresby. In 1913, the couple went to the Vailala River area, in what is now the Gulf Province, to prospect for gold. She operated a store, kept chickens and pigs, and shot deer and crocodiles for meat and skins. When World War I broke out the couple returned to Australia and her husband enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force. Flora returned to Port Moresby with her son and daughter. She worked in the drapery department of the Burns Philp store and later opened a guest house. Her husband died while fighting in France in 1918. Stewart moved to Samarai in 1920 to help her sister to run the Cosmopolitan Hotel. She bought the hotel in 1927. In 1929, in Samarai, she married James Stewart, a building foreman. They were to have a daughter.
Life in Morobe
Stewart and her husband then moved to Salamaua on the north coast of New Guinea, a staging post for the goldfields area of Wau and Bulolo in the mountains of what is now Morobe Province. They quickly moved on to the goldfields and established the Hotel Bulolo, the first real hotel in the area, with room for 32 guests. She became known to all as 'Ma', and became the confidante and banker of numerous prospectors. Many were only able to carry on because of the loans she gave them, many of which were not repaid. She acted as a hairdresser and a nurse and, in the absence of a bank, often hid their gold under her bed. Not forgetting her love of horses, she raced them with considerable success and she and her husband organized races by shipping horses from Australia to Lae and then flying them up to the goldfields in Junkers airplanes, which were being used at the time to ferry large gold dredgers piece by piece. Racing ended in 1934 when evidence of doping and other malpractices emerged. Moving to Lae, now the second city of Papua New Guinea, she opened the Hotel Cecil in 1936. Among the many important visitors to pass through the hotel was the American pilot, Amelia Earhart, who stayed at the Cecil on the night before her departure on 2 July 1937, on her final flight. She was never seen again.
Stewart's husband was killed in a road accident in 1937 and her son, a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force, was killed in action in 1940. In December 1941 she was evacuated urgently to Australia with her two daughters, just prior to the Japanese invasion. The Hotel Cecil, the Hotel Bulolo, and the racehorses were destroyed during the war. At the end of World War II, she returned to Lae as soon as possible, reputedly being the first civilian white woman allowed back into the territory. She took over some barracks and turned them into a temporary hotel, with rooms created by building flimsy partitions that did not reach to the floor or ceiling. She was finally allowed to rebuild the Hotel Cecil on its pre-war site in 1951 and she operated it until 1957. The hotel had 40 rooms. Stewart was clearly well-off. Reports from the Lae correspondent of Pacific Islands Monthly indicated that she took a six-week "world tour" by plane in 1951 and also visited London for the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, a trip that also included Spain. Stewart and her daughters also constructed a theatre/cinema, which opened in 1963. She was a founding member of the Morobe Agricultural Society and led the grand parade at its annual show until the end of her life.
Death
Stewart died on 13 May 1979 in Lae and was buried in the local cemetery.
References
1886 births
1979 deaths
Australian expatriates in Papua New Guinea
Australian women in business
British emigrants to Australia |
The 5th Infantry Division (, 5-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya) was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army that existed in various formations from 1806 until the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution. When the war broke out in 1914 it was based in Zhytomyr and was part of the 9th Army Corps.
History
It was formed in 1806 as the 6th Infantry Division and was later reorganized into the 5th Infantry Division. The division took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and fought near Plovdiv. It later served during World War I was demobilized around the time of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent unrest.
Organization
Russian infantry divisions consisted of a staff, two infantry brigades, and one artillery brigade. The 5th Infantry Division was part of the 9th Army Corps as of 1914.
1st Brigade
17th His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich's Archangel Infantry Regiment
18th His Majesty the King of Romania's Vologda Infantry Regiment
2nd Brigade
19th Kostroma Infantry Regiment
20th Galich Infantry Regiment
5th Artillery Brigade
Known commanders
Known chiefs of staff
References
Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire
Military units and formations established in 1806
Military units and formations disestablished in 1918
Volhynian Governorate |
```c++
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
#include "libplatform/libplatform.h"
#include "v8.h"
using namespace v8;
int age = 41;
void doit(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
String::Utf8Value str(args.GetIsolate(), args[0]);
printf("doit argument = %s...\n", *str);
args.GetReturnValue().Set(String::NewFromUtf8(args.GetIsolate(), "doit...done", NewStringType::kNormal).ToLocalChecked());
}
void age_getter(Local<String> property, const PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& info) {
printf("age_getter...\n");
info.GetReturnValue().Set(age);
}
void age_setter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const PropertyCallbackInfo<void>& info) {
printf("age_setter...\n");
age = value->Int32Value(info.GetIsolate()->GetCurrentContext()).FromJust();
}
void property_listener(Local<String> name, const PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& info) {
String::Utf8Value utf8_value(info.GetIsolate(), name);
std::string key = std::string(*utf8_value);
printf("ageListener called for nam %s.\n", key.c_str());
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
std::unique_ptr<Platform> platform = platform::NewDefaultPlatform();
// Just sets the platform created above.
V8::InitializePlatform(platform.get());
V8::Initialize();
Isolate::CreateParams create_params;
create_params.array_buffer_allocator = v8::ArrayBuffer::Allocator::NewDefaultAllocator();
// An Isolate is an independant copy of the V8 runtime which includes its own heap.
// Two different Isolates can run in parallel and can be seen as entierly different
// sandboxed instances of a V8 runtime.
Isolate* isolate = Isolate::New(create_params);
{
// Will set the scope using Isolate::Scope whose constructor will call
// isolate->Enter() and its destructor isolate->Exit()
// I think this pattern is called "Resource Acquisition Is Initialisation" (RAII),
// The resouce allocation is done by the constructor,
// and the release by the descructor when this instance goes out of scope.
Isolate::Scope isolate_scope(isolate);
// Create a stack-allocated handle scope.
// A container for handles. Instead of having to manage individual handles (like deleting) them
// you can simply delete the handle scope.
HandleScope handle_scope(isolate);
// Create a JavaScript template object allowing the object (in this case a function which is
// also an object in JavaScript remember).
Local<ObjectTemplate> global = ObjectTemplate::New(isolate);
// associate 'doit' with the doit function, allowing JavaScript to call it.
global->Set(String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, "doit", NewStringType::kNormal).ToLocalChecked(),
FunctionTemplate::New(isolate, doit));
// make 'age' available to JavaScript
global->SetAccessor(String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, "age", NewStringType::kNormal).ToLocalChecked(),
age_getter,
age_setter);
// set a named property interceptor
//global->SetNamedPropertyHandler(property_listener);
// Inside an instance of V8 (an Isolate) you can have multiple unrelated JavaScript applications
// running. JavaScript has global level stuff, and one application should not mess things up for
// another running application. Context allow for each application not step on each others toes.
Local<Context> context = Context::New(isolate, nullptr, global);
// a Local<SomeType> is held on the stack, and accociated with a handle scope. When the handle
// scope is deleted the GC can deallocate the objects.
// Enter the context for compiling and running the script.
Context::Scope context_scope(context);
// Create a string containing the JavaScript source code.
const char* js = "age = 40; doit(age);";
printf("js: %s\n", js);
Local<String> source = String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, js, NewStringType::kNormal).ToLocalChecked();
// Compile the source code.
Local<Script> script = Script::Compile(context, source).ToLocalChecked();
// Run the script to get the result.
Local<Value> result = script->Run(context).ToLocalChecked();
// Convert the result to an UTF8 string and print it.
String::Utf8Value utf8(isolate, result);
printf("%s\n", *utf8);
}
// Dispose the isolate and tear down V8.
isolate->Dispose();
V8::Dispose();
V8::ShutdownPlatform();
return 0;
}
``` |
The Queen was an English automobile produced from 1904 to 1905. "The car for the million or the millionaire", it was sold by Horner & Sons of Mitre Square, London. Models of 12 and 16 hp were offered; prices ranged from 235 guineas to 275 guineas.
See also
List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References
David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
1904 establishments in England
Cars of England
1905 disestablishments in England
Cars introduced in 1904
1900s in London
British companies disestablished in 1905
British companies established in 1904 |
Behnsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Flechtingen.
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Börde (district) |
Dialineura anilis is a species of ' stiletto flies' belonging to the family Therevidae.
It is a Palearctic species with a limited distribution in Europe
Description
"Face bare ; frons hairy.Antennae with the basal
joint conspicuously incrassated. Wings with the fourth
posterior cell wide open. Abdomen of the male entirely clothed with
silvery pubescence, but the thorax light brown. Female without any
shining black frontal callus, and with the femora all orange.".
Biology
Habitat:Sand hills and dunes.
References
Therevidae
Insects described in 1761
Brachyceran flies of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Analyze history
#
# Usage:
# soil/history.sh <function name>
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
set -o errexit
REPO_ROOT=$(cd $(dirname $0)/.. && pwd)
#source $REPO_ROOT/soil/common.sh
readonly BASE_DIR=_tmp/soil-history
readonly HOST=travis-ci.oilshell.org
list() {
### Used the sync'd testdata
local dir=${1:-_tmp/github-jobs}
# 4 digits
ssh travis-ci.oilshell.org 'ls travis-ci.oilshell.org/github-jobs/'
}
find-wwz() {
### Used the sync'd testdata
local dir=${1:-_tmp/github-jobs}
mkdir -p $BASE_DIR
# 4 digits
ssh $HOST \
'cd travis-ci.oilshell.org && find github-jobs/48?? -name benchmarks2.wwz' \
| tee $BASE_DIR/listing.txt
}
sync() {
local dir=$HOST
rsync \
--archive --verbose \
--files-from $BASE_DIR/listing.txt \
$HOST:$dir/ $BASE_DIR/
}
list-zip() {
unzip -l $BASE_DIR/github-jobs/5000/*.wwz
}
extract-one() {
local id=$1
local dir=$BASE_DIR/github-jobs/$id
pushd $dir
# commit-hash.txt
unzip benchmarks2.wwz '_tmp/gc-cachegrind/stage2/*' '_tmp/soil/*' || true
popd
}
extract-all() {
for dir in $BASE_DIR/github-jobs/48??; do
local id=$(basename $dir)
extract-one $id
done
}
show-all() {
#local pat='mut+alloc+free+gc'
local pat='bumpleak'
grep "$pat" \
$BASE_DIR/github-jobs/????/_tmp/gc-cachegrind/stage2/ex.compute-fib.tsv
}
"$@"
``` |
Samuel Smith may refer to:
In politics
Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691
Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British Member of Parliament for Leicester, Malmesbury, Midhurst, St Germans and Wendover
Samuel Smith (1755–1793), British Member of Parliament for Worcester, Ludgershall and Ilchester
Samuel Smith (North Carolina), 18th-century North Carolina politician
Samuel Smith (Liberal politician) (1836–1906), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool, 1882–1885 and Flintshire, 1886–1906
Samuel Smith Jr., American politician; Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, 1998–2008
Samuel Hardman Smith (1868–1956), Canadian politician; municipal politician in Edmonton
Samuel Smith (Australian politician) (1857–1916), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Samuel Smith (New York politician), mayor of the City of Brooklyn, New York, 1850
Samuel Smith (Maryland politician) (1752–1839), U.S. Senator and Representative from Maryland
Samuel Smith (New Hampshire politician) (1765–1842), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Smith (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1805–1811
Samuel Smith (Upper Canada politician) (1756–1826), American-born Canadian politician; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817–1818
Samuel A. Smith (1795–1861), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Samuel Axley Smith (1822–1863), U.S. Representative from Tennessee
Samuel E. Smith (1788–1860), American politician; Governor of Maine, 1831–1834
Samuel George Smith (1822–1900), MP for Aylesbury, 1859–1880
Samuel H. Smith (politician) (born 1955), American politician; Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Samuel James Smith (1897–1964), Australian politician, New South Wales MLC
Samuel William Smith (1852–1931), American politician; Congressman from Michigan
In education and academia
Samuel Smith, father and son, both English priests and educators:
Samuel Smith (schoolmaster) (died 1808), Headmaster of Westminster School
Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church) (1765–1841), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751–1819), American educator; seventh president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University)
Samuel Roger Smith (1853–1916), co-founder and first president of Messiah College in Pennsylvania
Sam Smith (psychologist) (1929–2012), second president of Athabasca University
Samuel H. Smith (educator) (born 1940), American educator; president of Washington State University, 1985–2000
Samuel L. Smith, school administrator and architect of Rosenwald schools in the U.S.
In other fields
Samuel Smith (prison chaplain) (1620–1698), Ordinary of Newgate prison
Samuel Smith (photographer) (1802-1892), English photographer aka 'Philosopher' Smith.
Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895), American Baptist minister, journalist and author; wrote the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
Samuel Harrison Smith (printer) (1772–1845), American journalist and newspaper publisher, founded the National Intelligencer, 1800
Samuel Smith (chemist) (1927–2005), American scientist; co-inventor of Scotchgard
Samuel Walter Johnson Smith (1871–1948), English physicist
Samuel Smith (watchmaker) (died 1875), founder of Smiths Group
Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints) (1808–1844), American Latter-day Saint; Book of Mormon witness, missionary, and brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Samuel J. Smith, Baptist missionary, printer and publisher in Siam
Samuel Pountney Smith (1812–1883), English architect
Samuel Smith (winemaker) (1812–1889), South Australian pioneer who founded Yalumba
African-American victim of the Lynching of Samuel Smith (1924)
Samuel Timothy Smith, birth name of Tim McGraw (born 1967), American country singer
See also
Sam Smith (disambiguation)
Samantha Smith (disambiguation)
Samuel Smith Brewery, British brewery founded by a local brewer of the same name
Samuel L. Smith House, home of Michigan entrepreneur |
Units were an American synthpunk band that was founded in San Francisco in 1978. It was active until 1984. They were one of America's earliest electronic new wave bands, and have been cited (along with The Screamers and Suicide) as pioneers of synthpunk, also retrospectively known as "electropunk". The Units were notable for their use of synthesizers in place of guitars, and multimedia performances featuring multiple projections of satirical, instructional films critical of conformity and consumerism.
History
The Units was one of the most popular bands of the San Francisco punk and performance art scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s, headlining at the Mabuhay Gardens (aka The Fab Mab), The Savoy Tivoli, The Berkeley Square, The Deaf Club, Valencia Tool & Die, Geary Theater and other punk clubs. The Units also opened for such bands as Soft Cell, Gary Numan, Ultravox, XTC, Bow Wow Wow, the Psychedelic Furs, the Police, Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys, Sparks and toured the United States with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Notable performance art appearances included "Punk Under Glass", where the Units performed in the windows of the JC Penney building in downtown San Francisco, as part of a two-day art installation, and the Labat / Chapman Fight at Kezar Pavilion, a performance art boxing match between two artists where the Units played the national anthem.
The Units' DIY, self stamped, 7” EP entitled “Units” was released in 1979. It was followed by another record in early 1980, "Warm Moving Bodies"/"iNight". The Units' first album, Digital Stimulation, was released in 1980, and was the first album released by 415 Records.
In 1982, the Units released a single on UpRoar Records entitled "The Right Man". The song was recorded at the Different Fur recording studio, founded by the electronic music composer Patrick Gleeson. The recording was produced by Michael Cotten, the synthesizer player of The Tubes. The song went to number 18 on Billboard'''s Dance Chart and stayed on the chart for 13 weeks.
After the success of "The Right Man", the Units signed with Epic/CBS Records and produced a music video for "A Girl Like You" that went into medium rotation on early MTV. They released an EP titled New Way to Move on Epic Records, but typical of a hard-luck recording career, the Units' second album — produced by Bill Nelson for Epic/CBS - remained unissued, until a posthumous release in 2016.
In 1984, after recording the sound and music for the artist Tony Oursler’s film EVOL, Ryser and Webber moved to New York, putting an effective end to the Units.
Visual and multimedia components
The film Unit Training Film#1, produced by Scott Ryser and Rachel Webber, compiled from films the band projected during performances, was shown sans band in movie theaters around the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Roxie Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, The Intersection, and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Critical response
Alternative press publisher V. Vale called the Units "the first San Francisco band to perform using no guitars", The Units were referred to as "Punks playing keyboards" in an article in "The San Francisco Examiner" in 1979, and the Los Angeles music critic Kickboy Face of the fanzine Slash wrote of a Units performance, "That night, watching the Units pound their machines into submission, I knew that another clichéd concept of mine was biting the dust once and for all. I also knew that there probably was a future to rock n roll after all, and that future did not necessarily include anything resembling guitars."
Later releases
In 2005, Ryser signed a licensing contract with EMI. Once again, the recordings were not released. In 2007, the record label Golden Goose released a 12" remix of "High Pressure Days" by DJ Garth. In the same year, the Italian record label, Mediane, released Daniele Baldelli – Cosmic - The Original, a double album that included the original and remixed versions of The Units "The Right Man".
In 2009, the Community Library label released a 21-song compilation album by the Units entitled The History of The Units that included a booklet "The Unit Training Manual". In June that year, a 12" single of "High Pressure Days" was released on the German label Relish with remixes alongside the original version.
In February 2010, a 12" EP was released on the UK label Hungry Beat Recordings including Rory Phillips remix of "High Pressure Days". The same month, "High Pressure Days" was included on a compilation, Mylo – The Return Of Mylo on the Mixmag label. The CD was also on the cover of Mixmag magazine. Similarly, Rough Trade Records included "High Pressure Days" on their Counter Culture 09 double album.
In April 2011, The Dark Entries music label from San Francisco released Bart - Bay Area Retrograde (Vol. 1), a 12" compilation that included "Mission". An EP was released on the French label Robsoul Recordings, which included two remixes of "High Pressure Days" by Phil Weeks.
In 2011 The Opilec Music label from Italy released The Units - Connections, a triple boxed set of 25 songs written by The Units, that were remixed by over 40 international DJs, producers and bands from 13 different countries, including Electro Italo Disco pioneers Daniele Baldelli, Klein + M.B.O., N.O.I.A. and Alexander Robotnick. It included a download card of extra tracks for a total of 52 remixed songs of The Units.
In 2012, The Opilec Music label from Italy released an EP. with three songs written by The Units and remixed by Todd Terje from Norway and I-Robots from Italy. The same year, The Opilec Music label from Italy released two songs by The Units on the We Are Opilec compilation. Also the Tsugi Sampler label from France released the Ivan Smagghe – A Walk In The Woods With Ivan Smagghe that included a remix of "High Pressure Days" by Todd Terje.
In 2013, The Units are included (two songs performed live) in a film The Seven Deadly Synths, along with six other synthesizer bands including Suicide, Sun Ra, and Our Daughter's Wedding.
In 2015, Futurismo Records from London, re-released the UNITS original album from 1980, "Digital Stimulation" on vinyl and CD, including a live set at Mabuhay Gardens.
In 2016, Futurismo released Animals They Dream About, the band's previously unreleased second album originally recorded in 1982, including a live set from the Kabuki theater in San Francisco in which The Units opened for Bow Wow Wow.
In 2016, FDH records from Philadelphia, PA re-released The Units original debut EP from 1979, the hand stamped 7" four song e.p. entitled "UNITS", including a download of a 1979 live set at the Deaf Club.
In 2019, founding band member Scott Ryser self-released a 12-track album of new and re-worked original material entitled Flying Away, which included a new version of "Cannibals", a song from the band's 1980 debut LP, as well as new recordings of songs the band performed live in the 1980s, but had never made studio recordings of.
In 2020, on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the release of the Digital Stimulation album, Scott Ryser worked with California-based recording artist Kit Watson to remix all of the album tracks from the original multi-track recordings. It included previously unreleased instrumental mixes of those songs which originally had vocals, live recordings of two songs performed at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco in 1980, and a new extended remix of the title track by Kit Watson.
In 2022, Futurismo once again re-released Digital Stimulation in a newly-designed package which included all of the remastered original album tracks along with a 12-page art booklet containing rare imagery and new liner notes, and a CD of the 2020 remix. It was made available in two vinyl colors as well as a limited edition audio cassette.
Influence and cultural significance
Outsider musician Jandek's first album, Ready for the House, though a solo work, was originally credited to a 'The Units'. Jandek was forced to change the name by The Units, who possessed a trademark on the name, after Scott Ryser from The Units wrote Smith a letter with documentation. All reissues of the album and all subsequent releases have been credited to 'Jandek'.
In September 2013, Los Angeles noise rock band HEALTH covered "High Pressure Days", titled "High Pressure Dave", which was included in the game Grand Theft Auto V and The Music of Grand Theft Auto V album, volume 1 on CD and vinyl.
Songs written by The Units have been covered or remixed by over 50 international DJs, producers and bands from 13 different countries.
Scott Ryser and Rachel Webber's son, Sam, plays or has played in several contemporary punk bands, including Dawn of Humans. Their daughter Nina also plays in several bands, including Palberta.
Members
Primary members were Scott Ryser and Rachel Webber. Other various members that played live shows and toured with The Units included Brad Saunders, Tim Ennis, Ron Lantz, Richard Driskell, Lx Rudis, Seth Miller, Jon Parker, David Allen Jr., Jabari Allen, Marc Henry, James Reynolds, Raymond Froehlich, D.C. Carter and their projectionist, Rick Prelinger.
Discography
"High Pressure Days" (7") [1979]
"Units" (7") [1979]
"Warm Moving Bodies" (7") [1980]
Digital Stimulation (LP) [1980, 2015]
"The Right Man" (12") [1982]
"A Girl Like You" (12") [1983]
New Way to Move (12" EP) [1983]
Animals They Dream About (LP) [2016 (recorded 1981)]
Videography
Unit Training Film 1: Warm Moving Bodies Unit Training Film 2: Cannibals Unit Training Film 3: Cowboy High Pressure Days 1979 - with intro by Dirk Dirksen
The Units & Larry Cuba - Warm Moving Bodies with Calculated MovementsFilmography
Unit Training Film 1, Warm Moving Bodies (1980), by Scott Ryser
In 2011, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive purchased and restored the original Unit Training Film'' and included it in a program called "Punk, Attitudinal: Film and Video, 1977 to 1987" as part of their series "Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area". The program continues to be shown in major cities throughout the United States.
References
External links
Official website
Musical groups from San Francisco
Punk rock groups from California
Electropunk musical groups
Minimal wave groups |
The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States, founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas, in 1929. By 1955, there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern U.S., most controlled by a loosely knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating using common branding or architecture.
Marketed as "Alamo Plaza Tourist Apartments" using distinctive Mission Revival Style architecture, each formed a U-shaped court with multiple buildings fronted by a distinctive façade which mimics the face of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. These properties attempted to distinguish themselves from other motels or cabins of the tourist courts of their era by introducing amenities such as telephones in each room (1936), Beautyrest mattresses on every bed and later swimming pools and televisions in rooms.
The roadside tactic of using distinctive, non-standard architecture to catch the attention of passing motorists would later be used by other chains, such as the Wigwam Motels which served U.S. Route 66 travellers or the easily recognised orange rooftops of the original Howard Johnson chain.
While the chain's expansion continued through both the Great Depression and World War II (wartime construction was typically near U.S. bases, where the properties were needed to temporarily house military personnel) into the heyday of the 1950s, the use of the Pop Spanish Revival tourist court façade by the chain would end by 1960 and the last new location would open in 1965.
History
Initial expansion
In 1929, Edgar Lee Torrance built the first Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts in East Waco, Texas; by 1936 the then-seven motels in the Alamo chain would be among the first to install telephones in each individual room.
By 1941, there were ten Alamo Plaza locations and at the chain's peak in 1955 there were more than twenty.
These motels were "motor courts" as they were laid out in a "C" shape with a courtyard in the centre. With Simmons furniture and Beautyrest mattresses on every bed, the Alamo Plaza rooms were marketed as "tourist apartments" under a slogan of “Catering to those who care.” They were typically located on the U.S. Highway system in major cities in the southeastern United States.
Where they did not themselves contain restaurants, they were typically located with a restaurant adjacent or in close proximity.
Commercially, these operated as a loosely knit form of an ownership chain, in which one small group of investors controlled both the chain and the individual motels within it. As the first location in the Alamo Plaza chain opened in 1929, these pre-date both the referral chains (United Motor Courts: 1933, Quality Courts United: 1939, The Best Western Motels: 1947, Superior Courts United:1950 and Friendship Inns: 1961) and the long list of franchise chains which were to follow in the path of Travelodge (1935) and Holiday Inn (1952).
While the 1950s brought greatly increased automobile traffic, they also brought many new competitors. With 86% of all Americans travelling by car, the number of U.S. motels accelerated from 20000 in 1946 to nearly 60000 one decade later, setting off a race among motel owners to add amenities to remain competitive.
Franchising and redesign
A short-lived attempt was made briefly by Bill Farner to franchise the brand at the end of the 1950s. As a response to the Great Sign of the Holiday Inn franchises, a large neon sign design was deployed. The signage, used at both owned and franchised locations, had a star atop an 'A' and an arrow pointing to "Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts". The franchise locations were conversions — existing properties to which either a "member – seek the stars – Alamo Plaza Motor Courts" sign had been added beneath the existing branding or the properties renamed outright to "Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts" with the corresponding neon signage. The franchise attempt was abandoned in 1960, after about a year of use with 50 locations listed in a "Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts — Spend the night where the price is right — free pocket travel guide". One franchised "Alamo Motel" at 19803 N US Highway 441, High Springs, Florida, is still extant with signage (minus the top star) largely intact.
The last of the Alamo properties were built or renovated in the 1960s. These (a facelift to existing Alamo sites in Chattanooga and Charlotte, plus one last new property in Shreveport) use a modern box-like architectural design with a plastic-and-metal face, abandoning the faux-Spanish Mission adobe façade which had traditionally appeared on most Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts.
Decline
As the original owners retired or left the chain, the individual motel properties were sold off by the respective families. Some retained the Alamo branding for decades after the chain itself had vanished, slowly deteriorating under new ownership as the motels had been built around a US Highway system by then long bypassed by new interstate highways. Most had been sold by the 1970s, fallen into decline in the 1980s and 1990s and in many cases would be ultimately demolished.
In a few instances, these properties were converted to other uses.
The last Alamo was built in 1965 along I-20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, as a fully modern motel with a version of the updated metal-plastic façade; it is now a Travelodge.
Ownership and investors
A loosely connected chain in which several owners operated multiple locations each, the group was largely built around founder Edgar Lee Torrance, his former employee William Farner (and Farner's business partner Charles Mooney) and various others brought into the fold by Torrance or Farner. The resulting chain was a collection of nominally independently owned motels that depended on the personalities of various owners.
E. Lee Torrance (founder), a former used car dealer, owned eleven of the twenty-two Alamo Plaza locations. A local Waco judge, Drummond W. Bartlett, was initially co-owner of the one original Waco Alamo property but had no further involvement in the expansion of the Alamo Plaza chain.
William (Bill) Farner worked for Torrance at the Waco location initially; he later would go on to build new locations in the chain (mostly in Texas) in partnership with Charles Mooney. Farner was also involved with efforts to bring new owners into the chain, including a brief entry into franchising at the end of the 1950s.
W.G. "Mac" McGrady, a nephew of E. Lee Torrance, operated a group of "St. Francis Hotel Courts" in Alabama cities which used the original architecture and were Alamo in all but name. The motels' picture postcards promoted these as "The three largest and finest courts in Alabama's three largest cities, Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham. Total of 255 rooms, tile baths, carpeted floors, room telephones, air-conditioned, hotel service and fine restaurants – Approved by AAA and Duncan Hines."
Conversely, E. L. McLallen used the name and features but not the Alamo architecture. A lumber merchant by trade, he entered the chain by purchasing the Memphis Alamo Plaza not long after Torrance had started it. McLallen soon began his own branch (Nashville, Louisville, Knoxville, and Indianapolis) using primarily Colonial-style architecture.
William P. and Mary W. Robinson, as newcomers to the hospitality industry, were introduced to the chain by Farner and Mooney. They opened one 29-unit "Plaza Hotel Court" in Columbus, Georgia, in 1941 using Alamo architecture. Initially serving Fort Benning during World War II, the location was renamed Alamo Plaza Hotel Court with Torrance's blessing.
Milton Stroud of Waco established the Park Plaza Courts (see below), using a similar façade but different branding, mostly on or near U.S. Route 66. These were not part of the main Alamo chain but used the same architect and design.
Locations
Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts
Other properties with independent ownership but modeled on the Alamo façade architecturally:
El Sueño, U.S. Route 66, Claremore, Oklahoma, built by Jack Sibley in 1938, became Adobe Village Apartments.
Lakeview Courts, west of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Park Plaza Courts (six locations) by Milton and Lemuel Stroud of Waco. E. Lee Torrance provided the Strouds with access to Alamo's architect and design but these are an independent chain with an Alamo-like façade.
Park Plaza Courts
A chain of six motel courts, these were architecturally similar to the Alamo model but share neither name nor ownership with the main Alamo Plaza chain. These were originally built by Milton Stroud (Sr.) and his brother Lemuel Stroud, with the first location opened in West Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1942. Milton Stroud (Jr.) and his wife Mickey were also involved with the chain after 1950.
Locations were chosen to be at one-day travel intervals by motorcar. Four of the six locations were in U.S. Route 66 cities: St Louis, West Tulsa, Amarillo and Flagstaff.
The remaining two Park Plaza Courts were in Raton, New Mexico and Texarkana, Arkansas.
The St. Louis location, opened 1948 as the fifth in the Park Plaza series, had an adjacent Golden Drumstick restaurant operated by the same owners.
The sixth and final location (East 7th at Hickory, Texarkana) was on U.S. Route 71. Its postcards touted "On U.S. Hwys 67-71-82, 2 minutes from downtown. Phone 222767. 85 lovely rooms and suites. Year-round guest control air-conditioned. Swimming pool and playground. Room phones, T.V. radios, room service. Town House Restaurant on premises. Also affiliated Park Plaza Motels in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Raton, Flagstaff, St. Louis, Town Park in Memphis, Belmont in Dallas, Catalina in Wichita Falls."
Most of these are now gone; the original West Tulsa location was sold by the Stroud family to Dorothy Harrison, but by the 1980s was serving as refuge for the homeless.
The New Grande Courts in Sullivan, Missouri, were owned by Abe Schwartz but modelled architecturally on the design of the Park Plaza Courts in St. Louis, which in turn were based on the Alamo Plaza design.
See also
List of motels
References
Defunct companies based in Texas
Defunct hotel chains
Motels in the United States
1929 establishments in Texas
Companies based in Waco, Texas
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Amazonentulus is a genus of proturans in the family Acerentomidae.
Species
Amazonentulus amazonicus (Nosek, 1972)
Amazonentulus brasilianus (Nosek, 1973)
Amazonentulus hangmannarum (Tuxen, 1976)
Amazonentulus ovei (Tuxen, 1976)
References
Protura
Fauna of South America |
Sylvie Honigman (born 1965) is an academic and author. Her research interests include the Hellenistic period, Greek historiography in the Hellenistic period, Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and Jewish literature in Greek. Since 2003, she has been a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University. She has authored two books along with many articles.
Education
Honigman obtained all her degrees from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne: a bachelor's degree in history in 1986, a master's degree in ancient history in 1990, and a doctorate in ancient history in 1995. Her doctoral dissertation, "Les Orientaux dans l'Égypte grecque et romaine: onomastique, identité culturelle et statut personnel" ("Orientals in Ptolemic and Roman Egypt: Onomastics, cultural identity and personal status"), was supervised by Professor Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski. She also received a French national degree for teacher training in history and geography in 1989.
Career
While studying for her doctorate, Honigman worked part-time in the department of history at Paris-Est Créteil University from 1991 to 1994. In the 1994-1995 academic year she was a full-time doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Caen Normandy.
After obtaining her PhD, Honigman became a tenured lecturer in ancient history at the University of Caen from 1995 to 1998. She then moved to Israel to accept a similar position at Tel Aviv University from 1998 to 2003. In 2003, she became a senior lecturer at the latter institution.
Honigman's research interests include the Hellenistic period, Greek historiography in the Hellenistic period, Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and Jewish literature in Greek. She is a member of the Maccabees Project at Boston University.
Notably, she has idiosyncratic views downplaying the reliability of the books of Maccabees as a source on the Maccabean Revolt compared to other historians. She has argued that the persecution of traditionalist Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes was greatly overstated in the surviving sources, and the conflict was more due to economic factors than religious ones. While other historians have been skeptical about her strongest claims, her work is generally considered a useful addition to the field.
Works
References
External links
" Tales of High Priests and Taxes with Dr. Sylvie Honigman" (videos) Ancient Jew Review, March 25, 2016
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"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", a song by Radiohead from their album In Rainbows
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Elza Kungayeva (also known as Kheda Kungayeva, alternatively spelled Kungaeva; 1982 – 27 March 2000) was a Chechen 18-year-old woman abducted, beaten, allegedly raped, and murdered by Russian Army Colonel Yuri Budanov during the Second Chechen War.
On March 27, 2000, Elza Kungayeva was forcibly taken from her home in Chechnya, abused and murdered. On February 28, 2001, the Rostov District Military Court began the trial of Col. Yuri Budanov for Kungayeva's murder. It was one of the first cases in which Russian authorities promptly and publicly acknowledged a war crime perpetrated by Russian federal forces against civilians in Chechnya.
Overview
On the night of March 26–27 at about 1 a.m., the commander of division 13206 Colonel Y.D. Budanov arrived in the village of Tangi-Chu in the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic on armored personnel carrier (APC) no. 391 together with servicemen Sergeant Grigoriev, Sergeant Li-En-Shou, and Private Yegorov. On the orders of Col. Budanov, his subordinates forcibly took citizen Elza Kungayeva from house no.7 on Zarechni Lane and drove her to the division's encampment on the APC. Around 3 a.m. Budanov strangled Kungayeva in trailer 131 that was allegedly Budanov's quarters. On the orders of Col. Budanov, Pvt. Yegorov, Sgt. Li-En-Shou and Sgt. Grigoriev took the body of Kungayeva and buried her in a forested area near the encampment. Around 10 a.m. on March 28, 2000, Kungayeva's body was exhumed.
A forensic medical report, a copy of which was obtained by Human Rights Watch (HRW), cited a military procurator's report that on March 27 at 1 a.m., Budanov took Elza Kungayeva, a civilian, from her home in Tangi-Chu and brought her to a military encampment. The forensic examiner concluded that Kungayeva was beaten with a hard object, and strangled at about 3 a.m. The report cited marks on her neck, the condition of her blood vessels, the tone of her skin, and the condition of her lungs. It found that other injuries such as bruising found on her face, her neck, her right eye, and her left breast were inflicted by a blow with a "blunt, hard object of limited surface," which occurred approximately one hour before her death.
Russian military authorities first publicly accused Budanov of murdering Kungayeva, torturing and subsequently indicted him only on charges of murder, kidnapping, and abuse of office, in which he was accused of using torture.
The events of March 27
Visa Kungayev, Elza Kungayeva's father, said that between midnight and 1 a.m. on March 27, 2000, a loud noise woke the Kungayeva family. An armored personnel carrier (APC) drove up to their house on the outskirts of the village of Tangi-Chu, carrying three Russian soldiers, and their commander, Colonel Budanov. Kungayev warned his five children and went to his brother's nearby home to seek help.
According to the Kungayev family, armed soldiers entered the Kungayev house. Budanov stood in the corridor while two soldiers entered the bedroom and others guarded the house. First they brought Kungayev's younger daughter, Khava, out of the room, but when she screamed, Budanov reportedly said, "Let her go, take that one." The soldiers then brought out the eldest daughter, Elza, took her outside, and drove her away in the APC. Visa Kungayev then returned to his house, only to be told by his children that Elza Kungayeva had been taken by the soldiers. Kungayev's brother, a neighbor, said the APC bore the number 391. Many have reported that Budanov was drunk at the time.
Later on March 27, a group of villagers obtained permission from local Russian forces to travel to Urus-Martan, seven kilometers away, to search for Kungayeva. They believed she might have been taken to one of two detention facilities run by federal forces in that town. Two witnesses told Human Rights Watch that a federal commander in Urus-Martan told the villagers that Kungayeva had been raped by drunken men and was dead.
Aftermath
The military responded immediately to Kungayeva's murder, promptly taking Budanov into custody, and assisting the Kungayeva family; they also condemned Budanov at the highest levels, without awaiting the outcome of a court proceeding. Federal soldiers returned Kungayeva's body to her family on the evening of March 28, 2000, Major-General Alexander Verbitskii told villagers that Budanov had raped and then strangled Kungayeva, and promised that justice would be severe and swift. Budanov told the court he believed that Kungayeva was a Chechen sniper and that a fit of rage had come over him as he interrogated her.
Top Russian military officials in the Chechnya war attended Kungayeva's funeral on March 29, 2000, including Colonel-General Valery Baranov, acting commander of the United Group of Forces in Chechnya at the time, Maj.-Gen. Valery Gerasimov, acting commander of the Western Group of Forces, and his deputy, Maj.-Gen. Verbitskii. Kungayev said that the generals were very helpful, paid for the funeral, asked for his forgiveness, and expressed sympathy.
Official investigation
Visa Kungayev told Human Rights Watch that initially the investigation seemed satisfactory. He reported meeting with investigators in Tangi-Chu and in Urus-Martan and reported that investigators also questioned family members and villagers. Kungayev's lawyer said that the investigation established that no members of the Kungayeva family were fighters. However, after six months had passed, Kungayev worried that the investigation had stalled, and sent petitions to the federal military procuracy, the general procuracy, and the Duma, expressing concern about the apparent halt to the investigation and urging that it continue. In October 2000, Kungayev learned that the charges against Budanov did not include rape, and became especially concerned about the investigation at that point.
When he spoke with HRW in early February 2001, after authorities had closed the investigation, Kungayev expressed shock and regret that Budanov had not been charged with rape. "They took away the most important charge," he said. Kungayeva's reaction to the failure to prosecute the rape of his daughter may reflect the view common in Chechnya that rape ruins the honor not only of the victim but of her extended family. For this reason, rape is considered by some a crime worse than murder.
Budanov was convicted of kidnapping, murder, and abuse of power and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of Elza Kungayeva. He was also stripped of his military rank and his Order of Courage. In January 2009, Budanov was released early from jail—a move that angered human rights activists.
Murder of Kungayeva family's attorney
On January 19, 2009, the attorney for the Kungayev family, Stanislav Markelov, was shot and killed when leaving a press conference he held in Moscow. Yuri Budanov was released in mid-January, 15 months earlier than his original release date, and Markelov announced at the press conference that he planned to file an appeal to keep Budanov in prison. A freelance journalist with Novaya Gazeta, Anastasia Baburova, was also killed with Markelov. A criminal investigation found that the murders were associated with Markelov's prosecutions of neo-Nazis.
Colonel Budanov responded immediately to Kungayeva's murder. Budanov expressed shock and regret that the murder of Elza Kungayeva stripped him of his military rank and his Order of Courage. The ruling is a judicial landmark and may pave the way for increased scrutiny of Russian soldiers and their conduct in war. Mr. Budanov told the court he believed that Kungayeva was a Chechen sniper and that a fit of rage had come over him as he interrogated her. On the orders of Col. Budanov, Pvt. Yegorov, Sgt. Li-En-Shou and Sgt. Grigoriev took the body of Kungayeva and had buried her in a forested area near the encampment. The killing of Elza Kungayeva was one of the first cases in which Russian authorities acknowledged a war crime perpetrated by Russian Army Colonel, Yuri Budanov against civilians.
Murder of Yuri Budanov
On June 10, 2011, Yuri Budanov, the man convicted of Elza Kungayeva's murder, was shot dead in central Moscow by an unidentified assailant as he left a notary office on Komsomolsky Prospekt, a busy avenue in the capital. Budanov had been released from prison 17 months earlier, in a move that angered human rights activists. Police said his killer and an accomplice fled in a Mitsubishi Lancer, which was later found less than a kilometer away from the crime scene. A pistol and silencer had been left inside the vehicle. A police source said the killing was “obviously a contract hit.”
On 7 May 2013, Yusup Temerkhanov was convicted by a jury of Budanov's murder and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. According to investigation, Temerkhanov's motive was revenge for his father, who was killed in 2000 during the Second Chechen War. Temerkhanov denied any involvement and pleaded not guilty. He died while serving his sentence in a penal colony in Siberia in August 2018.
See also
Nura Luluyeva
Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev
References
External links
Kungayeva’s Family Finds a Home in Norway
Mirror of a War, World Press Review
1982 births
2000 deaths
Chechen murder victims
Chechen victims of human rights abuses
Deaths by person in Russia
Female murder victims
People murdered in Russia
Rape in Russia
Russian people of Chechen descent
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War crimes of the Second Chechen War
Women in the Chechen wars
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Danijela Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: проф. др Данијела Стефановић) is a member of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Belgrade, and a researcher in the Department of Egyptology of the University of Vienna, specializing in the history of ancient Egypt and Greece.
Selected works
The Title mr t3-mḥw in the Middle Kingdom Documents (Serbian Archaeological Society, 2003, ).
The holders of regular military titles in the period of the Middle Kingdom (Golden House, 2006, ).
The non-royal regular feminine titles of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: dossiers (Golden House, 2009, ).
Dossiers of Ancient Egyptians - the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: addition to Franke's 'Personendaten'. With Wolfram Grajetzki (GHP Egyptology 19. London: Golden House Publications. 2012. , 9781906137298
I beše poput ptice u kavezu. Studija o istoriji i kulturi Starog istoka (Glasnik, 2012, )
(Austro-)German Words in Serbian. With Helmut Satzinger (Narodna Biblioteka Srbije Beograd, 1914, )
Dossiers of Ancient Egyptian Women. The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period. (Middle Kingdom Studies 5). London 2016. .
Pouka za Merikarea: staroegipatski traktat o vlasti [A Lesson for Mericarae: Ancient Egyptian Treatise on Power] Belgrade: Evoluta, 2018. .
Stelae of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2019, with Helmut Satzinger, London
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
Serbian Egyptologists
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