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FESTO is an annual week-long Esperanto youth meeting organized by Espéranto-Jeunes, the French branch of the Universal Esperanto Association's youth wing TEJO. It is held in a different city every summer and serves as a venue for cultural exchange, offering an occasion for Esperantists from many lands to improve their facility in the Esperanto language. Except in 2009 and 2013, meetings have been held in France.
With as few as 36 or as many as 145 attendees from 25 countries, the youth meet is renowned both for its rich musical program organized in partnership with the EUROKKA rock music collective and for its deliberately anarchic spirit: FESTO is an acronym for Franca Esperanto-Semajno Terure Organizita, ("French Esperanto Week, Terribly Organized").
Many international artists have found an appreciative audience after their first performance at FESTO. During the 2009 event, every night one or two concerts were held, featuring groups like Gijom (France), Initials DC (Germany), Kapriol (Netherlands), La Pafklik (France), Stefo (Germany), Supernova (Brazil), Tone (Brazil). Some non-Esperantist groups played as well, such as Alles Francizka.
History
FESTO first occurred in Lyon in 1996, then was held every summer except in 2001 — when the International Youth Congress of Esperanto, a worldwide meeting of young Esperantists, took place in France — and in 2008, when the Espéranto-Jeunes group experienced a decline in membership numbers.
FESTO returned in 2009, thanks to greater motivation and a reinvigoration from new members.
That year's festival was held in Zwingenberg, Germany, after the German youth association, German Esperanto Youth (GEJ), provided a subsidy.
In 2010, the association had organized the meeting in Toulouse, but a month before the festival was to begin, Paul Sabatier University, a branch campus of the University of Toulouse where the meeting was to have been held, announced its refusal to allow the use of its premises. The university did not disclose the reason for cancelling the reservation, but with the help of EUROKKA and the independent Vinilkosmo record label, the meeting was hastily relocated to Donneville, 15 km from Toulouse.
The City of Toulouse and the Sicoval regional district to the southeast of Toulouse furnished large tents to provide sheltered dining halls and dormitories. Despite the confusion over the venue, the event was attended by 145 participants, and ten bands from Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Catalonia and France performed. The event also featured a cybercafé, a small theatre projecting five different films and a discotheque with several international disk jockeys. Some participants also availed themselves of the chance to tour Toulouse museums and to take a mini-course in Occitan, the local dialect.
Venues
1996: Lyon.
1997: Saint-Raphaël.
1998: during the World Congress of Esperanto in Montpellier.
2000: Saint-Chamond Festo was replaced by Journées Solidaires, organized by JEFO and other associations.
2002: Senĉesa festo ("Endless festival") in Château de Grésillon.
2003: Paimpol/Plouézec.
2004: La plej stulta renkontiĝo ("The most stupid meeting") in Orléans.
2005: Amo ĉiam ("Love always") in Saint-Amans-Valtoret.
2006: Kastela viv’ ("Castle life") in Château de Grésillon.
2007: Muzikume ("Musically") in Montoire-sur-le-Loir.
2009: Festo, festo, festo! in Zwingenberg, Germany.
2010: Esperanto Muzikfestival in Donneville.
2011: Château de Grésillon.
2012: Métabief.
2013: Reveno al Amikejo ("Return to Friendship Place") in La Calamine/Kelmis, capital city of what was Neutral Moresnet, Belgium.
2014: Pont-de-Barret.
References
External links
Official website (2012)
Esperanto meetings
Esperanto music |
Hazra may refer to:
Hazara people, of Afghanistan
Həzrə (disambiguation), two places in Azerbaijan
Hazra, India, near Kolkata
See also
Hazara (disambiguation) |
Nicola Vizzoni (born 4 November 1973 in Pietrasanta, Province of Lucca) is a male hammer thrower from Italy. He won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and ten years later at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. His personal best throw is 80.50 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Formia.
He has won 19 medals (8 gold, 8 silver, 3 bronze) at the International athletics competitions.
Biography
He made his first appearance at the World Championships in Athletics in 1997 but he did not make the final. In 1999 he finished seventh in the hammer throw final and the next year he took the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He just missed out on the podium at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, finishing fourth, but he gained regional honours with a gold at the 2001 Mediterranean Games and also won gold at the Summer Universiade.
He competed at the following two Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008, but was some distance off winning another medal. He became the Mediterranean champion for a second time with a win at the 2009 Mediterranean Games. Vizzoni made a strong start to the 2010 season, throwing 78.22 m early on and winning the gold at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing event.
He is engaged to former Italian athlete Claudia Coslovich, national record holder of the javelin throw.
Progression
He finished the season 8 times in world top 25.
Achievements
Palmarès
Nicola Vizzoni has been a finalist 10 times in his 17 appearances in the three major International athletics competitions.
National titles
Nicola Vizzoni has won the individual national championship 28 times.
14 wins in the hammer throw (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
14 wins in the hammer throw at the Italian Winter Throwing Championships (1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Honours
Officer: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 27 September 2004
See also
Athletes with most appearances at the World Championships
Italian Athletics Championships – Multi winners
Italy national athletics team – More caps
Italian all-time top lists – Hammer throw
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
People from Pietrasanta
Italian male hammer throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
Italian Athletics Championships winners
Sportspeople from the Province of Lucca |
Avigdor Yitzhaki (, born 13 September 1949) is an Israeli politician. He is a former member of the Knesset for Kadima, having been the party's parliamentary group chairman and head of the coalition. He is the chairman of Friends of Schneider.
On 2 May 2007, Yitzhaki requested that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign as soon as possible following the Winograd Commission's first report. On 7 February 2008 he resigned from the Knesset due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report".
References
External links
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
1949 births
Living people
Kadima politicians |
Pseudicius athleta is a jumping spider species in the genus Pseudicius that lives in Kenya and Uganda. It was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2011.
References
Arthropods of Kenya
Arthropods of Uganda
Salticidae
Spiders described in 2011
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska |
The Mine Subsidence Board of New South Wales is a Government of New South Wales agency responsible for reducing the risk of mine subsidence damage to properties in New South Wales by assessing and controlling the types of buildings and improvements which can be erected in Mine Subsidence Districts. in coal mining areas of New South Wales.
The board is responsible for administering the Mine Subsidence Compensation Act. The Act provides for compensation or repair services where improvements are damaged by mine subsidence resulting from the extraction of coal.
References
External links
Mine Subsidence Board of New South Wales website
Mine Subsidence Board
Mining in New South Wales
Mining organisations in Australia |
Juan Guillermo Castillo Iriart (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Uruguayan footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Castillo began his career with the Defensor Sporting youth team and made his Uruguayan Primera División debut in the 1999 season. He was loaned to Huracán Buceo in 2001. However, he soon moved on to Peñarol and made his debut in 2006. After a good spell with Peñarol, two years later in 2008, he joined to Brazilian Série A side Botafogo. In December 2009, he was released of the club and then he moved to Colombian side Deportivo Cali, in where he remained one season, winning the 2010 Copa Colombia. In the next season, he abandoned the club for high costs and then signed a one–season deal with Colo-Colo for play the national tournament and the 2011 Copa Libertadores. However, he had a very regular season and was sacked of the club in December. On 16 February 2012, he joined to Liverpool de Montevideo in the transfer deadline day of the South American football.
At international level, Castillo played for the Uruguay national football team since 2007. He made senior debut in 2008, and has generally been selected as the second-choice keeper behind Fernando Muslera. He was part of the Uruguay squad for the 2010 World Cup and one year later, he won the 2011 Copa América, earning him his first international honour, despite not making an appearance in the competition.
Club career
Early career
Castillo began his football career at the local amateur club Santa Bernardina of his natal city Durazno, in where he played in the youth ranks of the team during 1989 to 1997. In 1998, he joined as youth player to Defensor Sporting. In 2001, he was loaned to Huracán Buceo, returning to Defensor the next season. At Defensor, Castillo remained until 2006, playing more than of 100 games for the club.
After good performances in his former club, he moved to most successful club of Uruguay, Peñarol in mid-2006. After a very good spell in the club, for example his nomination to the national team squad for the 2007 Copa América celebrated in Venezuela, among his achievements, in December 2007, was confirmed his move to Brazilian side Botafogo. Castillo signed a two-year contract with the club of Rio de Janeiro that will keep at the team until 2010.
Botafogo
Castillo joined Botafogo on 2 January 2008 for an undisclosed sum and presented on 6 January. He played in every game that Botafogo won during their success in the Copa Peregrino, against Stabæk and Viking. He helped the club to win the friendly tournament, not conceding goals in the two matches that the club disputed. Thanks for his performances on 22 January 2008, was nominated to the Uruguay national football team by Oscar Tabárez for a friendly against Colombia on 6 February.
Castillo become of good form the Campeonato Carioca, saving a penalty to Victor Hugo of Friburguense in the 4–1 win of Botafogo, in the first official game of "The wall" for that tournament. Due to his good performances for the Carioca against Flamengo and Fluminense, the biggest rivals of Botafogo, he came to be idolized by the club's fans. In April 2008, he won the Taça Rio, after a 1–0 victory over Fluminense with a goal of Renato Silva in the 84th minute, being this his first title in an international league. However, after the success of Botafogo, his club was eliminated of the Copa do Brasil by Corinthians and the Uruguayan keeper lost his reputation among the fans of the club, due to mistakes that he committed in the second game of the semifinals key. After of this bad moment of the player, was relegated as second choice goalkeeper of Botafogo, being the first keeper Renan, who was contesting the post with Castillo weeks ago.
On 10 May 2008, he made his league debut for Botafogo against Cruzeiro for the second week of the Campeonato Brasileirão, in where the club suffered a 1–0 away defeat at Mineirão Stadium with a goal of Guilherme in the 11th minute. Castillo kept his first clean sheet for Botafogo on his fourth league game against Fluminense in a 0–0 home draw. On 9 October, he suffered a serious knee injury after a match played against Vitória.
Castillo began the 2009 season in winning form with Botafogo, beating Resende in the Taça Guanabara final at Maracanã. The match finished in a 3–0 victory of his team with goals of Reinaldo, Maicosuel and Lucas Silva. He started the Brasileirão's third week away to Grêmio, which ended in a 2–0 loss. Of this form he returned to the titularity in Botafogo's goal after of challenge the post with Renan during weeks ago, receiving also a call-up from his national team for dispute the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers against Brazil and Venezuela.
He started several games consecutive with the coach Ney Franco until his dismissal, but with the arrival of Estevam Soares he preferred to Jéferson in the goal and Castillo again was relegated to the bench. After matchdays in the bench and without add minutes in the field, Botafogo declared that the keeper was put on the transfer list. Months later of this new, the keeper was released of the club and Castillo said that Botafogo lacked respect.
Deportivo Cali
On 18 December 2009, Castillo had reached an agreement with the Colombian Primera División side Deportivo Cali, putting pen to paper on a one-year deal. On 21 December, the player presented as new keeper of the club during a press conference. His competitive debut came against Deportes Tolima in a 3–1 loss where Jorge Perlaza's netted a hat-trick. However the next game Castillo had a better performance against Millonarios which Cali won 4–1 and then began to reach a well level that allowed him be nominated in the 23-man Uruguayan squad to face the 2010 FIFA World Cup at South Africa.
Following Uruguay's successful World Cup at Africa where they finished in the fourth place, Castillo returned to Cali to face the Torneo Finalización where Los Azucareros failed to qualify the playoffs to contest the league title. No doubt, the Uruguayan was a key player in obtaining the Copa Colombia title. In the cup final Cali defeat 2–0 to Itagüí Ditaires to earn for first time in the club's history that trophy after failing to win it in 1962, 1963 and 1981.
In December 2010, was reported that Castillo wouldn't renew his contract and following New year celebrations he left Cali's team despite his desire to continue.
Colo-Colo
Torneo Apertura
After the transfer saga of Argentina's Tigre keeper, Daniel Islas, on 7 January 2011, was officially announced that Castillo signed a two-year contract with Colo-Colo. In his arrival he was assigned with the kit number 1, previously worn by Francisco Prieto, the club's 2010 first choice keeper marginated by coach Diego Cagna to face the season. At Chilean club, Castillo was reunited with his national team teammate Andrés Scotti and on 9 January joined the club's pre-season in La Serena alongside Colo-Colo's another signing Agustín Alayes where he declared: "It's a joy arrive to the most successful team of Chile", finally adding: "I'll defend this team with much sacrifice and pride". Castillo made his friendly debut against Deportes La Serena in a 1–0 loss with a score of Javier Vatter in the 75th minute. After their stay in La Serena, Colo-Colo continued the pre-season at Santiago and in the following match against Unión Española he stopped a penalty to Sebastián Jaime in a game that finally Colo-Colo won 3–1. On 26 January, during the Noche Alba (Colo-Colo's last pre-season game where presents their signings) he produced a man of the match performance in a 3–2 defeat to Nacional, so that won the recognition from the press and the fans despite the loss.
On 30 January 2011, he officially debuted in a 2–2 home draw with Cobresal receiving goals from Víctor Osorio and Héctor Pericás. However, on 3 February, Castillo suffered a two weeks injury which he missed the Torneo Apertura second matchday game against Santiago Wanderers that Colo-Colo lost 2–1 with Raúl Olivares in the goal. Not obstant, in his return to Colo-Colo's goal on 18 February he had a poor performance in a 5–1 home loss to Universidad de Concepción that meant the biggest home defeat in the club's history and the worst start of championship since 1989 selling Cagna's firing.
Following Cagna's departure arrived 1991 Copa Libertadores champion Luis Pérez as caretaker, who remained Castillo in the goal. However, despite Pérez's trust in the keeper, he again completed a poor performance and conceded five goals in the Copa Libertadores debut that Colo-Colo lost 5–2 with Cerro Porteño. On 20 February the crisis deepened with Castillo yet on goal after a 2–0 away loss with Unión San Felipe for the local tournament. Finally Colo-Colo won 3–0 to Palestino during Pérez's last caretaking match where Castillo had casual crash with Arab team striker Nicolás Canales which the Uruguayan publicly apologized him in front of the press and then via Twitter. Shortly after Colo-Colo appointed Américo Gallego as club's new coach.
On 2 March 2011, Castillo played in Gallego's first match in the bench that Colo-Colo won 4–2 to Venezuelan Deportivo Táchira for the Libertadores where receive a twice of the Chilean Julio Gutiérrez. The club continued his rise after winning 2–1 to Unión Española at Santa Laura on 6 March where his performance was marred after receiving a 20-yard goal of Kevin Harbottle who chipped Castillo. Ten days later on 16 March for Colo-Colo's third game Libertadores, Castillo played in Colo-Colo's 3–2 home win over Santos at Estadio Monumental which suffered a 35-yard free kick goal of Elano in the 4th minute and forty-four minutes later in the 48th minute Neymar preciously eluded the Uruguayan to score the second goal for the São Paulo state-based outfit in a game which Esteban Paredes, Ezequiel Miralles and Andrés Scotti scored for the home. After the continental game Castillo played in a 1–1 draw with Cobreloa that contemplated goals of Paredes for the home and an own-goal of Daúd Gazale to the visitors. However Gallego then relegated Castillo to the bench following Prieto's well performance against Huachipato so that Castillo began to challenge the keeper position with Prieto after a rise status of the last. Following the Uruguayan's relegation, he returned in the 2–1 Libertadores win over Táchira for then play in the derby against Universidad Católica on 20 April which was 1–1 draw where receive another free-kick goal, now from Juan Eluchans. However Castillo was chosen by Gallego to play the Superclásico against Universidad de Chile after an acceptable match in the prior 1–0 win to Santiago Morning at Estadio Nacional, same stadium where would play the Chilean most important derby and the prior elimination of Colo-Colo in the Libertadores after loss 3–2 as home against Cerro Porteño where played Prieto and receive a 27-yard free kick winning goal of Jonathan Fabbro in the 88th minute when Colo-Colo drawing qualify to knockout stage. Finally on 30 April during the derby, Colo-Colo freshly opened the score the 64th minute with Miralles' score but The Owls sorted it during the last three minutes with a penalty goal of Gustavo Canales nearly saved by Castillo in the 87th minute and two minutes later after Diego Rivarola's header that sneaked up in the Uruguayan's second post to put the final victory.
However, after playing as home beating 5–1 to O'Higgins, drawing 1–1 with Deportes Iquique to finally defeat Ñublense as visitor 3–2 in Chillán that allowed Macul based-side qualify the playoffs in the 8th place (last position to qualify) where Castillo play all this games only being replaced by Raúl Olivares against O'Higgins in the 73rd minute. Not obstant Colo-Colo was eliminated by Católica in the quarterfinals after loss 4–2 at Monumental and a 1–1 draw at Estadio Nacional of which Castillo played both. On 18 June, once finished the Apertura was reported that Gallego would studying the possibility of Castillo's disappointing of the club to use his foreign bid in a midfielder to face the Torneo Clausura. On 28 June, was announced the 23-man Copa América squad where Castillo and his teammate Scotti were nominated by coach Oscar Washington Tabarez.
Torneo Clausura
Castillo left the club in December.
Liverpool
On 16 February 2012, he signed a six-month deal with the Uruguayan side Liverpool de Montevideo. He played a total of 15 matches and became an outstanding player for the club to achieve the qualification to the 2012 Copa Sudamericana.
Querétaro
On 21 June 2012, he signed a 3-year contract with Mexican Primera División side Queretaro. He made his debut for the club on 21 July 2012 against Club León.
International career
Castillo's first appearance for Uruguay was in a friendly match against South Africa, in a game that finished without goals. His second game for Uruguay was in a 2–2 draw with Colombia, replacing to Fabián Carini in the second half of the match. After his second presentation for his country, Castillo started in eight games of World Cup qualification, making his debut in a 6–0 win over Peru.
In June 2010, Castillo was named in the 23-man squad of Uruguay for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as the second choice goalkeeper behind Fernando Muslera and before Martín Silva. Despite spending the entire tournament on the bench, Uruguay finished fourth in the tournament, their best finish since 1970. He played 90 minutes in a friendly against Indonesia at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on 8 October 2010, in which Uruguay won 7–1 despite being conceded first by Boaz Solossa.
The next year, he was called up to the squad for the Copa América, having the same role during the World Cup. Uruguay won the record 15th Copa title, and shortly after Castillo retired from the national team. His last cap was earned in a 2–0 friendly loss to Estonia at the A. Le Coq Arena on 25 March 2011.
Honours
Club
Botafogo
Copa Peregrino (1): 2008
Taça Rio (1): 2008
Taça Guanabara (1): 2009
Deportivo Cali
Copa Colombia (1): 2010
International
Uruguay
Copa América (1): 2011
References
External links
Official Website
CBF
Futpédia
ogol.com.br
1978 births
Living people
People from Durazno
Uruguayan men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Uruguay men's international footballers
Chilean Primera División players
2007 Copa América players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2011 Copa América players
Defensor Sporting players
Huracán Buceo players
Peñarol players
Colo-Colo footballers
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players
Deportivo Cali footballers
Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players
Querétaro F.C. footballers
Danubio F.C. players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Liga MX players
Categoría Primera A players
Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup players
Copa América-winning players |
Linos Chalwe (born 17 September 1980) is a Zambian football (also called soccer) striker.
He was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, who finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.
Clubs
1999-2000: Lusaka Dynamos
2000-2001: Mochudi Centre Chiefs SC
2001: Nchanga Rangers
2002: Zamsure Lusaka
2002–2004: Green Buffaloes
2003: Perlis (loan)
2004–2005: Manning Rangers
2005–2006: Bush Bucks
2006–2008: Etoile du Sahel
2008–2009: Bay United
2010-2011: Al-Karamah
2012: NAPSA Stars
2013-2015: Green Buffaloes
External links
1980 births
Living people
Zambian men's footballers
Zambia men's international footballers
2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
Étoile Sportive du Sahel players
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia
Zambian expatriate men's footballers
Zambian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
Green Buffaloes F.C. players
Manning Rangers F.C. players
Bush Bucks F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
Bay United F.C. players
Footballers from Lusaka |
Everdream Valley is a 2023 simulation video game developed by Polish studio Mooneaters and published by Untold Tales.
Gameplay
Players control a child who must save their grandparents' farm, which has fallen into disrepair. Their grandparents help players out with tutorials on how to run the farm and give them free equipment. While dreaming, players experience life on the farm as an animal and play minigames, such taking the role of a livestock guardian dog who has to scare off wolves. Quests can be received from players' grandparents, in dreams from the animals, and occasionally from a human merchant.
Development
Untold Tales published it for Windows and PlayStation 4 and 5 on May 30, 2023. The Switch version followed on June 23, 2023.
Reception
Everdream Valley received mixed reviews on Metacritic. GamesRadar called it "the perfect cute tonic for an evening after a long day of work". Digitally Downloaded wrote that Everdream Valley "feels rushed or incomplete" and fails to live up to its potential because of software bugs, counterintuitive controls, and what they felt was a focus on quantity over quality. Nintendo Life said it will likely not appeal to fans of farm life sims, but animal lovers may enjoy it. TouchArcade said too much of its gameplay feels "feel half-baked or not properly thought-out", and they recommended avoiding the Switch version until its bugs are fixed.
References
External links
2023 video games
Windows games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation 5 games
Nintendo Switch games
Single-player video games
Indie games
Simulation video games
Untold Tales games
Video games developed in Poland |
Czech Lion Award for Best TV Series is one of the awards given to the best Czech television series. Category was founded in 2015.
Winners
References
Television awards
Czech Lion Awards
Awards established in 2015
Czech television awards |
Wintek is a maker of electronic components, mainly touch screens for devices such as Apple's iPhone. Its headquarters is in Taichung, Taiwan.
History
Wintek was established in 1990 and produces components in Taiwan, India, China and Vietnam.
Worker illness controversy
In May 2010 it emerged that employees in China producing touchscreens for the iPhone had been poisoned by a cleaning chemical called n-hexane, leading to nerve damage and in some cases paralysis. n-Hexane was introduced into the production process because it evaporates very quickly, thus speeding the manufacturing. A hospital in Suzhou has treated more than 100 workers who breathed in the hexane vapours. Some workers have been hospitalized for more than six months. While some workers have said that Wintek paid their medical bills and promises to keep their jobs for them while on medical leave, under Chinese law these workers will only get compensation if they leave these jobs.
References
Companies based in Taichung
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Display technology companies
Computer companies established in 1990
Electronics companies established in 1990
Taiwanese brands |
William Douglas Lee (1894 – August 14, 1965) was an American architect and designer in the early 20th century whose career focused on designing large Neoclassic, Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Beaux-Arts style manufacturing buildings in Downtown Los Angeles, as well as other historically notable works such as the Chateau Marmont and the El Royale apartments.
Early work
William Douglas Lee's first major industrial and manufacturing facility design was The Catalina Swimwear Building (now The Catalina) located at 443 South San Pedro Street in Los Angeles. The Catalina Swimwear Building was constructed in 1923, less than two years after Lee began his independent practice, and was the headquarters for Catalina Swimwear. The building is of reinforced concrete construction, with a traditional Neoclassic façade sheathed in brick. Its construction is documented by City of Los Angeles Building Permit #38140, issued for a six-story building with a concrete frame on the southwest corner of San Pedro and Winston Streets.
Lee designed the Long Beach Professional Building, constructed in 1929.
Partnership with Florence Casler
Lee gained during the 1920s when his idea to transform the city's aesthetic with real estate developer Florence Casler took hold. Together Lee and Casler erected what she termed a "utopian commercial area" centered on Pico Boulevard and Maple Avenue. Between 1924 and 1929 they erected many major specialized industrial buildings including the Textile Center Building, the Allied Crafts Building, the Bendix Building, the Printing Center, the Graphic Arts Building, the Garment Capitol Building, the Elias-Katz Shoe Factory (now the Downtown Women's Center) the Furniture Exchange Building, and the Merchants Exchange Building.
Lee shared Casler's love of modern design enhanced with revival accenting and molding in terra cotta and stone. Even after their partnership ended, Lee designed some of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles, including the Chateau Marmont and the El Royale apartments.
Later work
William Douglas Lee and his son, Douglas Everett Lee, were responsible for the design and construction of Lee Tower located at 5455 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Miracle Mile neighborhood. "It was among the first skyscrapers built in Los Angeles after the height limit ordinance of was relaxed (by the Los Angeles City Council) in 1957..." Lee and his son far surpassed the limit by constructing up, with a total of 21 stories. Completed in 1961, the Lee Tower's steel-frame, glass-curtain wall design is very different from the period-revival designs of Lee's earlier career, and introduced the appearance of the modern skyscraper in Los Angeles.
References
Architects from Los Angeles
1894 births
1965 deaths |
Khosrowabad (, also Romanized as Khosrowābād; also known as Husruābād and Khusruabad) is a village in Gurab Pas Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 621, in 168 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County |
The Encyclopædia Universalis is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the Encyclopædia Universalis are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of full-time editors and expert contributors.
History
The Encyclopædia Universalis was originally published by the publishing company Encyclopædia Universalis SA. This company was created in 1966 by a specialist in publishing and selling books and collections by mail order, the French Book Club (CFL), owned by the Aubry family, as well as Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. (publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica), the most famous English-language encyclopedia, owned at the time by the Foundation of the University of Chicago. This joint ventureà 50/50 was intended to combine the skills of the two shareholders in each of the two forms of distribution then essential for encyclopedias: mail order on the one hand and door-to-door sales on the other hand, a specialty of American society.
This formula, as well as the quality of the successive versions of the Encyclopædia Universalis, the first volume of which appeared in 1968 under the direction of Claude Grégory with graphic design by Pierre Faucheux, enabled remarkable commercial success until the early 1990s, when sales began to decline.
During the second half of the 1990s, the introduction and rapid improvement of electronic versions of the encyclopedia, using editorial funds from the paper version enriched with numerous specific contributions, under the leadership of its president Pierre Le Manh and the editorial director Louis Lecomte, allowed the Encyclopædia Universalis to experience a second period of success and growth. On the other hand, this transformation had the effect of modifying the economic balance between the distribution networks, thus leading to growing conflicts between the shareholders, the departure in the early 2000s of several directors to other areas and the appointment - on demand of Britannica - from a receiver who managed the company until July 2005, when the French Book Club finally sold its shares to Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. at the end of an auction process, after forty years of partnership.
See also
Encyclopædia Britannica
References
American online encyclopedias
Non-English works based on the Encyclopædia Britannica |
Palafoxia, or palafox, is a genus of North American flowering plants in the Bahia tribe within the Asteraceae (sunflower family).
This genus is named after José de Palafox y Melzi, Duke of Saragossa (1776–1847), a Spanish captain-general in the war against the invading armies of Napoleon.
These are drought-tolerant, annual herbs growing on sandy plains, dunes, deserts (Mojave desert, Sonoran desert) and rangeland, native to the United States and Mexico. P. callosa is naturalised in Hawaii.
The erect, slender stem grows 30–60 cm tall, branching in the lower half and is sparsely leaved. It is glandular and hairy on the upper parts.
The glabrous, glandular leaves are lanceolate, 3–20 mm wide and 4–7.5 cm long, and are arranged alternately.
A few flower heads appear at the end of the upper branches. The reddish to pink ray florets have three narrow lobes. They are subtended by involucral bracts.
The seed-like fruit is narrow with a pappus of several pointed scales (giving rise to the common name 'Spanish Needles' for P. arida). These plants self-sow freely.
They are attractive to bees, butterflies and birds and are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia niveicosta, which feeds exclusively on P. linearis.
Rosy palafox (Palafoxia rosea) has been used in folk medicine for the treatment of fever, nausea and chills.
Species
Palafoxia arida B.L. Turner & Morris : Spanish needles, desert palafox - Baja California Sur, Sonora, CA AZ NV UT
Palafoxia callosa (Nutt.) Torr. & Gray : small palafox - Coahuila, TX LA MS AR MO OK
Palafoxia hookeriana Torr. & Gray : sand palafox - TX
Palafoxia integrifolia (Nutt.) Torr. & Gray : coastalplain palafox - FL GA
Palafoxia lindenii A.Gray - Veracruz
Palafoxia linearis (Cav.) Lag. - Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, California (San Bernardino Co)
Palafoxia reverchonii (Bush) Cory : Reverchon's palafox - TX
Palafoxia riograndensis Cory : Rio Grande palafox - Coahuila, Texas (Big Bend area)
Palafoxia rosea (Bush) Cory : rosy palafox - Nuevo León
Palafoxia sphacelata (Nutt. ex Torr.) Cory : showy palafox, sand palafox, rotting palafox - Chihuahua, Veracruz, TX NM OK KS NE CO
Palafoxia texana DC. :Texas palafox - Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Veracruz, TX LA FL
References
Tucker J.M. and M.I. Morris. 1975. New taxa of Palafoxia (Asteraceae: Helenieae). Madroño 23:79–80.
Turner, B. L. and M. L. Morris. 1976. Systematics of Palafoxia (Asteraceae: Helenieae). Rhodora 78:567–628.
External links
USDA Plants Profile for Palafoxia
Jepson Manual Treatment: Palafoxia
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Mexico
Flora of the United States
Taxa named by Mariano Lagasca |
Qaiser Ali Khan (born 16 December 1971) is an Indian politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress party. He also serves as general secretary of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee.
Early life and education
Qaiser Ali Khan was born in Varisnagar, Samastipur, Bihar to Wajiha Khanam and Shaukat Ali Khan.
He did his schooling from Victoria Memorial English School, Patna and his graduation from Zakir Hussein College, Delhi University. In 2009, Khan established Y K Homes, a real estate firm.
References
1971 births
Living people |
John Donald "Don" McLeroy (born June 3, 1946) is a dentist in Bryan, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). The SBOE establishes policy for the state public school system. McLeroy, who represented SBOE District 9 (Bryan and College Station), served on the board from 1998 until 2011. He was appointed in 2007 as SBOE chairman by Governor Rick Perry. The term ended in February 2009.
Education and personal life
Before being appointed chairman, McLeroy was vice chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. He has been a board member of the Bryan Independent School District and is a board member of Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach, which is a Christian adoption organization for "families who have a love for Jesus Christ." McLeroy volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America and Gideons International. He is an Elder and Sunday school teacher at Grace Bible Church in College Station, where he espouses creationism in the biblical perspective. He believes Christians who accept evolution show a "lack of consistency."
Public service
McLeroy's term on the board expired in January 2011.
McLeroy was appointed Chair of the SBOE on July 17, 2007, by Governor Perry for a term that expired on February 1, 2009. In February 2009, he was reappointed by Perry to a term ending February 1, 2011. However, during a two-hour hearing before the Senate Nomination Committee, McLeroy's reappointment ran into trouble. On May 28, 2009, his appointment failed to receive the necessary 2/3 majority vote of the Senate with only 19 of 31 Senators voting to approve, 11 voting to reject, and one abstaining.
Texas State Board of Education
McLeroy has been criticized by scientists and lauded by conservatives for his actions on the Texas Board of Education.
Governor Perry reappointed McLeroy, an advocate of creationism, as chairman to a second extend until February 1, 2011, but on May 28, 2009, the Texas Senate rejected the re-appointment; although the vote was 19-11 in favor with one member abstaining (along party lines; all 19 Senate members voting to reappoint were Republicans, while all 11 Senate members voting to reject and the one abstaining member were Democrats) the reappointment required a 2/3 majority for approval. McLeroy lost re-election to a moderate in the Republican primary in March 2010.
McLeroy's tenure on the SBOE is chronicled in the 2012 documentary The Revisionaries.
The SBOE thus selects the textbooks for the entire state's 4.7 million schoolchildren, where in most other states this selection is made in individual school districts. As a result, it "has outsized influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide, since publishers craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers."
Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, said that McLeroy dragged the Texas State Board of Education into a series of "divisive and unnecessary culture-war battles". In 2001, McLeroy voted to reject the only advanced placement textbook for environmental science proposed for Texas high schools even though panels of experts – including one from Texas A&M – found the textbook free of errors. Baylor University in Waco used the same textbook.
In 2003, McLeroy led efforts by proponents the pseudosciences of creationism and intelligent design to de-emphasize discussion of evolution in proposed new biology textbooks. He was one of only four board members who voted against biology textbooks that year that included a full account of evolution.
Over objections by his critics in 2004, McLeroy voted to approve health textbooks that stress "abstinence-only" in regard to instruction about pregnancy and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
In 2005, McLeroy conducted a sermon in his church, in which he said naturalism is "the enemy" and questioned: "Why is Intelligent Design the big tent? Because we’re all lined up against the fact that naturalism, that nature is all there is. Whether you're a progressive creationist, recent creationist, young earth, old earth, it's all in the tent of Intelligent Design."
According to a 2008 article in The New York Times, "Dr. McLeroy believes that Earth's appearance is a recent geologic event — thousands of years old, not 4.5 billion. 'I believe a lot of incredible things,' he said, 'The most incredible thing I believe is the Christmas story. That little baby born in the manger was the God that created the universe.'" McLeroy's statements regarding science have been criticized. McLeroy and other Board members who want to challenge evolution have received criticism from more than fifty scientific organizations over an attempt to weaken the currently-accepted science standards on the theory of evolution. In particular, biologist Kenneth R. Miller called McLeroy's statements on science "breathtakingly" incorrect.
In March 2008, McLeroy was criticized for racially and culturally insensitive remarks saying: "What good does it do to put a Chinese story in an English book? ... So you really don't want Chinese books with a bunch of crazy Chinese words in them." He later apologized.
In 2009, McLeroy spoke at a board meeting using several quotes from scientists to discredit evolution. A biology teacher later found the quotes incomplete, out of context, and/or incorrectly taken from a creationist website. McLeroy said that while "some of the material was taken from the creationist site […] a lot of the quotes I did get on my own." McLeroy appeared on the Comedy Central program the Colbert Report in April 2012 wherein he said "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and when I looked at the evidence for evolution, I found it unconvincing so I don't think he used evolution to do it, that's my big deal."
On May 28, 2009, McLeroy's nomination as board chair failed to gain state Senate approval. Only nineteen of the thirty-one state senators voted for him, two votes short of the 2/3 majority needed for approval. Gail Lowe became the new chair (since then Barbara Cargill), but McLeroy continued to dominate board meetings in what Russell Shorto described as "a single-handed display of arch-conservative political strong-arming."
In an interview in October 2009, McLeroy explained his approach to public school history textbook evaluation: "... we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles. The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel. Then I see how they treat Ronald Reagan — he needs to get credit for saving the world from communism and for the good economy over the last twenty years because he lowered taxes." McLeroy also did an interview about the hearings and the documentary on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.
References
External links
Videos of Don McLeroy's statements from National Center for Science Education
Video of Don McLeroy being interviewed on ABC News from American Broadcasting Company
1946 births
Living people
American Christian creationists
Intelligent design advocates
School board members in Texas
Texas Republicans
American dentists
People from Bryan, Texas
Texas A&M University alumni
United States Army officers
American Christians
Military personnel from Texas |
Isla Mary Bevan (née Foster; 26 October 1908 – 19 July 1976) was a British stage and film actress.
Selected filmography
Nine till Six (1932)
The Sign of Four (1932)
The Face at the Window (1932)
The World, the Flesh, the Devil (1932)
Puppets of Fate (1933)
Fair Exchange (1936)
References
External links
1908 births
1976 deaths
People from Newport, Isle of Wight
English film actresses
English stage actresses
20th-century English actresses
Actresses from London
People from Peckham |
The Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology began in 1966 as the Museum of Man, at the bequest and initiation of Dr. Lowell Holmes, Professor of Anthropology at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Over the next 33 years it grew slowly and became known throughout the campus as a small but interesting museum. The collections and exhibitions include cultural items from around the world and archaeological objects predominantly from the American Midwest and Southwest. In 1999, the anthropology department and the museum moved to a new location in Neff Hall. The museum was expanded and Mr. Jerry Martin was hired as Director. This was the first time that the museum had a professional director whose only job was to work with, and develop the museum.
Martin's concept was to have the museum essentially run and operated by students as part of their museum studies training. He raised funds to hire student staff to run the day-to-day operations of the museum under his supervision. As of the fall semester of 2006, the museum has the funds to hire five student positions. The museum has a wide range of functions. It has exhibitions open to the public, houses a rapidly expanding collection, a support unit for the anthropology department and faculty of Wichita State University, a research facility for students, a repository for United States Government archaeological collections, and the basis for a growing museum studies program. These different functions provide a very wide range of experience for the student staff.
Important collections housed at the Holmes Museum
Asmat art collection
In 2001 the museum led an expedition into Western New Guinea, where they compiled a major collection of over 950 pieces of Asmat tribal art. In the fall of 2001, the museum received the Bakwin collection of nearly 120 pieces of Asmat art. Asmat art is famous for its large size, beauty, artistic quality and rarity. This collection is rapidly becoming well known. The only other comparable collections in the United States are the Michael Rockefeller Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the collection of the Asmat Museum of Art in St. Paul, MN.
Southwest pottery and ethnographic art collections
The museum houses the John Morgan collection of Southwest pottery, and the Emma and John Huff collection of Southwest Jewelry. The Holmes museum also has an extensive collection of pre-historic pottery of the American southwest.
Pre-Columbian pottery collection
The David Jackman collection consists of a large number of prehistoric Casas Grande and Colima ceramics. In addition, there is the Aitchison collection which contains a wide range of ceramics from prehistoric Pueblo cultures as well as Mayan, Veracruz and other Mesoamerican cultures.
Chinese minority clothing and ethnographic art collection
In 1988 and 1989 some museum staff and volunteers traveled to China to collect clothing and ethnographical objects from the minority Chinese groups. These trips produced an extensive collection from ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia, Northwestern and Southern China, and Tibet.
Archaeology collections
The Anthropology Department has four different archaeology laboratories to process and research the extensive archaeology collections housed in the department and the Holmes Museum. The collections are predominantly from Kansas and contiguous state and the Four Corners area of the American Southwest.
The museum is a repository for Federal Government Archaeological collections and an official Long Term Curation Facility for the Bureau of Reclamations. These collections are used by students for educational and research purposes.
Media resources collection
The museum recently began a program of digitizing anthropological audio-visual material for archival purposes. Most of the old audio tapes, 8mm and 16mm films and video tapes were created by anthropologists in the field or by missionaries. The museum's objective is to create a digitized collection of this material and make them available for research and other educational purposes.
Current exhibitions
Recently a new exhibition opened which shows the current theories on human evolution and physical diversity. One segment of the exhibit depicts Charles Darwin’s round the world voyage on where he developed his theory of Natural Selection. Another segment shows the separate development of Apes and Man throughout the last 34 million years.
The second recently completed exhibition is called “Southwestern Art: A Story of Transition and Change.” Located in the museum's Jackman Gallery this exhibit features the Morgan Collection of Southwest Pueblo pottery and the Mullen collection of Southwest Jewelry. It tells the story of the importance of the railroad and tourism in the revival of Southwestern Art and how the art has become a major source of income for many Pueblo families. The exhibit includes over 80 examples of beautiful pottery from 14 different pueblos, and jewelry and textiles from both the Hopi and Navajo.
Virtual exhibitions and websites
Currently the museum has a website titled “Through the Eyes of the Pot: The Morgan collection of Southwest Pottery”. This site shows the pots in the Morgan collection, gives a biography of the potters and has chapters on individual pueblos.
There is also a virtual exhibit which includes home movie footage, artifacts and recollections from missionaries to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. This interactive exhibit is called "The Wagner Collection Field Journal: 1955-1969". It blends oral history and multimedia to describe the observations of missionaries among the Duna, Hewa and Enga of Papua New Guinea.
The museum has also developed a large and important website on the Asmat people of Papua, Indonesia titled "Art and Culture of the Asmat". Using the objects in the collection, photographs, as well as audio and video clips, the site explores the art, ceremonial life and culture of the Asmat people. Original documentary short films available on the website are also available on YouTube.
Research
The Holmes Museum sponsors a wide range of research and academic programs. There are a number of students in the museum studies program and several on-going and potential student research projects. For example: a number of students have requested to base their master's degree Projects on the Asmat collection.
During the summer of 2003, students, led by the museum director Jerry Martin, traveled to the Guatemalan highlands to collect Mayan weavings and fiesta dance masks and study their symbolism and impact on the local indigenous populations. The objects they collect will become part of the museum's expanding contemporary Mayan ethnographic collection.
During the summer of 2007, the museum director and an anthropology graduate student returned to the Asmat region of New Guinea to produce videos to be used in an Asmat website. This website integrates text, video and audio in order to create a multimedia educational resource for the public. They also gathered footage in the Korowai cultural area.
Location and directions
The Holmes Museum is located in Neff Hall on the campus of Wichita State University.
External links
Lowell. D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology
Art and Culture of the Asmat at the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology
Films about the Asmat produced by the Holmes Museum of Anthropology
Through the Eyes of the Pot: Southwestern Pueblo Indian Pottery
The Wagner Collection Field Journal: 1955-1969
Holmes Museum Pottery Collection on SOAR Open Access at Wichita State University
Museum Studies at Wichita State University
Wichita State University Department of Anthropology
Kansas Archaeology
Museums established in 1966
Museums in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita State University
Anthropology museums in the United States
University museums in Kansas
Holmes, Lowell D., Museum of Anthropology
Mesoamerican art museums in the United States |
Susan Skoog (1965- ), American filmmaker, is best known for her low-budget but highly acclaimed debut film Whatever (1998). Asked why she felt the desire to make the film, Skoog explained to IndieWIRE: "I felt like I hadn’t seen in film what I saw when I was a teenager. And especially from a female perspective. I felt like there hadn’t been a film that really nailed what it was like to be a suburban girl growing up in this country." Skoog has expressed repeatedly that the female experience/perspective, particularly that of girls, has historically been underrepresented in the film industry (e.g., "Boys tend to blame their circumstances and the world outside them, whereas girls tend to blame themselves and quit. Girls quit much quicker and easier, and I think that hadn’t been dealt with in film yet."), but she believes that is changing by way of a "natural progression" toward sex equality.
Skoog was raised in the town of Red Bank, New Jersey, and graduated from NYU in 1987 with a degree in theatre and film. She has cited Mike Leigh and Eric Rohmer as influences on her work.
References
1965 births
American filmmakers
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Living people |
Rosin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świebodzin, within Świebodzin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately south of Świebodzin, north of Zielona Góra, and south of Gorzów Wielkopolski. The estimated population of Rosin, Poland is 281.
References
Rosin |
Shardlow Hall is a 17th-century former country house at Shardlow, Derbyshire now in use as commercial offices. It is a Grade II* listed building which is officially listed on the Buildings at Risk Register.
The house was built in 1684 for Leonard Fosbrooke, originally to an H-plan design with two storeys with parapets and a six-bay entrance front. A series of six Leonard Fosbrookes succeeded to the estate, two of whom served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire. A new seven-bayed west garden front was constructed in 1726, and in the late 18th century the entrance front was extended by the creation of single-storey wings, each terminating in a pedimented two-storey pavilion.
The Fosbrookes moved to Ravenstone Hall and in 1826 sold the house to James Sutton of Shardlow, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1842.
The house ceased use as a residence and was occupied by Shardlow Hall School from 1911 to 1933.
More recently it has been used as commercial offices.
See also
Listed buildings in Shardlow and Great Wilne
References
Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire
Structures on the Heritage at Risk register
History of Derbyshire
1684 establishments in England |
Ruslan Hryhorovych Dmytrenko (; born 22 March 1986 in Kyiv Oblast) is a Ukrainian racewalker.
Career
He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he placed 30th.
In February 2019 року he was disqualified until 4 May 2020 for doping rules violation and all his results from 14 August 2009 to 3 August 2012 were annulled.
He was injured in a car crash in March 2020.
Competition record
References
1986 births
Living people
Ukrainian male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Ukraine
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
Doping cases in athletics
Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Recipients of the Order of Danylo Halytsky
Sportspeople from Kyiv Oblast
20th-century Ukrainian people
21st-century Ukrainian people |
Greatful Dead (a.k.a. Gureitofuru Deddo) is a 2013 Japanese released film, directed by Uchida Eiji. The film is a black comedy centered around the main character Nami, who spies on lonely people. The film featured in the London Raindance Film Festival
Plot
Nami, a 20-year-old Japanese woman (played by Takiuchi Kumi), inherits a small fortune. Largely abandoned by her parents as a child, She spends her time idly spending her money, ordering new appliances and buying clothes. However, getting bored of this, she starts to develop a range of abnormal activities. Nami herself, despite being independently wealthy, is lonely and lives an isolated existence. She starts to develop the habit of observing people, and in voyeuristic fashion, she starts to observe other people in a similarly isolated (and sometimes crazed) state. She calls these people "Solitarians". In particular, she focuses on elderly and vulnerable people and in particular, men. From her apartment in the city, with powerful binoculars, she observes these men, and sometimes watches them descend into madness and death, even taking selfies with their dead bodies. She delights in their misery, and soon her peeping Tom like behavior. However, one of her observed targets, an old man (Takashi Sasano) instead of descending into madness and death as she expected, is saved by Christian volunteers and has his life turned around. This sends her into a murderous rage, pitting old against the young.
Cast
Takiuchi Kumi
Itsuji Itao
Aira
Yoichiro Kawakami
Kkobbi Kim
References
External links
The Japan Society Review for Gureitofuru Deddo
2010s Japanese films
2010s Japanese-language films |
Qarlung, Charlung (چارلۇڭ يېزىسى; Qia'erlong, ) is a township of Akto County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the southeast of the county, the township covers an area of 3,242 square kilometers with a population of 5,258 (as of 2015). It has 5 administrative villages under its jurisdiction.
Name
The name of Qarlung is from a Turkic language, meaning "the place where the mountains gather" (). It is named after the confluence of the four narrow valleys.
History
In 1965, Qarlung Commune () was established.
In 1967, Qarlung Commune was renamed Wuxing Commune (literally 'Five Star' Commune, ).
In 1981, Kosrap Commune was created from part of the commune.
In 1984, the commune became Qarlung Township.
On August 27, 2018, Kosrap was merged into Qarlung.
Geography and resources
Qarlung Township is located between 75°09′- 76°02′ east longitude and 37°52′- 38°12′ north latitude, to the south of the county seat Akto Town. It is bordered by Kizilto and Tar townships to the east and south, by Taxkorgan County to the west. Its maximum distance is 58 kilometers from west to east and 45 kilometers from north to south. It has a total area of 3,242 square meters with arable land area of 75.04 hectares and artificial grassland area of 77.89 hectares. The seat of the township is 210 kilometers away from Akto Town.
The annual average temperature is 1.9 °C, the average temperature in January is -12.1 °C, and the average temperature in July is 12.2 °C. The annual precipitation is 150–200 mm, the frost-free period is 120 days.
There are precious animals such as snowcock, yellow sheep and argali in the territory, and mineral resources such as coal, crystal, gold, iron, lead and zinc. There are two water systems of Qarlung River () and the Kesrevati River (), and the Pashrevati Yikbulak Hot Spring () with a water temperature of 40-50 °C is a sulfur spring, which can help treat skin diseases.
Administrative divisions
The township has 5 administration villages and unincorporated villages .
5 administration villages:
Jilande Village (جىلاندى كەنت; Jilangde; )
Kayiz Village (Kayizi; )
Mazaoz Village (Mazhawozi, Mazhawozicun; )
Paldalingoz Village (Baledalingwozi; )
Toylublung Village (Tuoyilubulong; )
Unincorporated villages
Koyjol ()
Janbulak ()
Economy
, as part of the larger poverty alleviation campaign (), herdsman residents were given the materials to plant farms. It was reported that 162 herdsmen in Qarlung had been made responsible for about 12,000 cows and 19,000 sheep belonging to 847 households. According to Hou Zhenqi, Party chief of Akto's Qarlung township, all impoverished people in the township had been moved to a new residential compound, a policy which began implementation in 2017. The compound houses 6,593 impoverished people from 1,656 households.
Demographics
, the population of Qarlung was 99.9% Kyrgyz.
See also
List of township-level divisions of Xinjiang
References
Township-level divisions of Akto County |
Hot air ballooning in Luxor is an aspect of the Egyptian tourist industry. Tour companies offer sunrise rides in hot air balloons to tourists who enjoy views of ancient Thebes, the temple complexes of Karnak and Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.
History
Operations
British company began offering hot air balloon rides to tourists in Luxor in the early 1988. While the first established Egyptian ballooning company was in 1993
The balloon rides are an important part of Egypt's tourism industry.
Following a 2009 crash, balloon flights at Luxor were suspended for six months while pilots were given additional training and safety measures were reviewed and improved. New regulations limited the number of balloons that could be aloft simultaneously. Restricted take-offs to a new airfield for the sole use of hot air balloons.
As of January 2018, eight companies operate a combined total of 32 hot air balloons offering flights over Luxor.
Accidents and incidents
The overall safety record of hot air ballooning in Egypt is poor. Seven tourists were injured in a crash early in 2009. On a single day in February 2009, three separate hot air balloons crashed in different locations carrying a total of 60 tourists, resulting in injuries that included broken bones.
At Luxor, eight tourists were injured in 2007 when the balloon in which they were riding crash-landed in a field. Four Scottish tourists, were seriously injured in April 2008 when the balloon in which they were traveling crash-landed. Sixteen tourists were injured at Luxor in April 2009 when the balloon in which they were traveling is understood to have collided with a cell phone transmission tower.
The most serious accident was the 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash, in which 19 people were killed when a leaking fuel line started a fire.
After 22 Chinese tourists were injured in a 2016 balloon crash, the Egyptian civil aviation authority suspended flights for three days while safety procedures were reviewed.
Twelve tourists were injured and one man from South Africa was killed in Luxor in 2018 when high winds caused a balloon's operator to lose control. Flights were suspended until the unusually high winds subsided.
References
Ballooning
Luxor
Tourism in Egypt |
Project Icarus may refer to:
Project Icarus (interstellar), a study started in 2009 for the design of an interstellar space probe.
Project Icarus (photography), a 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology photography project.
Project Icarus, a 1967 MIT student project to defend against risks from the asteroid 1566 Icarus.
"Project Icarus", the working title of the 2013 Irrational Games video game BioShock Infinite.
Icarus Project, a methodology in the diagnosis of mentally ill patients.
See also
Icarus (disambiguation) |
Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he lives on Sanibel Island, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and owns the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill.
Biography
White was born in Ashland, Ohio, and spent his early life on a small farm outside Pioneer, Ohio. His summers were spent in Rockingham, North Carolina, his mother's hometown. In the 1960s his family moved to Davenport, Iowa, where White attended Davenport Central High School and competed in baseball, football, and springboard diving. After graduating in 1968, he spent time in travel before settling in Southwest Florida in 1972. After "traveling" for five years after high school, White worked for the Fort Myers News-Press for four years during which time he obtained a captain's license. He then bought a used charter boat and operated as a light-tackle fishing guide at the Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island for thirteen years.
Bibliography
Fiction by "Carl Ramm"
Florida Firefight (1984)
L.A. Wars (1984)
Chicago Assault (1984)
Deadly in New York (1984)
Houston Attack (1985)
Vegas Vengeance (1985)
Detroit Combat (1985)
Terror in D.C. (1986)
Atlanta Extreme (1986)
Denver Strike (1986)
Operation Norfolk (1986)
Fiction by "Randy Striker"
Key West Connection (1981)
The Deep Six (1981)
Cuban Death-Lift (1981)
The Deadlier Sex (1981)
Assassin's Shadow (1981)
Everglades Assault (1982)
Grand Cayman Slam (1982)
Doc Ford Novels
Sanibel Flats (1990, St. Martin's Press, )
The Heat Islands (1992, St. Martin's Press, )
The Man Who Invented Florida (1993, St. Martin's Press, )
Captiva (1996, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
North of Havana (1997, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
The Mangrove Coast (1998, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Ten Thousand Islands (2000, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Shark River (2001, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Twelve Mile Limit (2002, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Everglades (2003, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Tampa Burn (2004, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Dead of Night (2005, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Dark Light (2006, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Hunter's Moon (2007, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Black Widow (2008, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Dead Silence (2009, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Deep Shadow (2010, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Night Vision (2011, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Chasing Midnight (2012, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Night Moves (March, 2013, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Bone Deep (March, 2014, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Cuba Straits (March, 2015, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Deep Blue (March, 2016, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Mangrove Lightning (March, 2017, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Caribbean Rim (March, 2018, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Salt River (February, 2020 G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Sharks Incorporated novels
A Doc Ford spinoff for kids.
Fins (March 2020, Roaring Brook Press, )
Stingers (May 2021, Roaring Brook Press, ISBN 9781250244635)
Crocs (March 2022, Roaring Brook Press, ISBN 9781250813497)
Hannah Smith novels
Gone (2012, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Deceived (2013, G.P. Putnam's Sons, )
Haunted (2014, G. P. Putnam's Sons, )
Seduced (2016, Penguin Publishing Group )
Non-fiction
Batfishing in the Rainforest (1991, Lyons & Burford)
The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua: True tales of adventure, travel, and fishing (1999, Lyon's Press, )
Last Flight Out: True tales of adventure, travel, and fishing (2002, Lyons Press, )
"Dr. Pepper" in Outside 25: Classic tales and new voices from the frontiers of adventure, edited by Hal Espen (2002, W.W. Norton, )
An American Traveler (2003, Lyons Press, )
A Fishing Guide's Guide to Tropical Cooking (2006, Algonquin Press)
Randy Wayne White's Gulf Coast Cookbook: With memories and photos of Sanibel Island, photographs by Carlene Fredericka Brennen (2006, The Globe Pequot Press, )
Contributions to periodicals
Contributing editor and columnist for Men's Journal
Contributing editor and columnist for Men's Health
Contributor to National Geographic Adventure
An editor-at-large of Outside
References
MacDonald, Jay. "'Doc Ford' author drifting aimlessly in financial waters". News & Advice. Bankrate.com. April 26, 2005. (Retrieved November 10, 2006)
"The Outside Literary All-Stars: Randy Wayne White". Outside online. (Retrieved November 10, 2006)
External links
Official Randy Wayne White homepage
Interview with Randy Wayne White, Speaking of Mysteries TV Series (2001)
1950 births
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American crime fiction writers
American nature writers
American male novelists
Novelists from Florida
Living people
People from Ashland, Ohio
People from Sanibel, Florida
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers |
Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman, (25 May 1894 – 10 August 1982) was a British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. It was to exploit those methods, at extremely high speed with great reliability, that Colossus, the first digital programmable electronic computer, was designed and built.
Biography
Tiltman's parents were from Scotland, though he was born in London. He joined the British Army in August 1914, initially with the London Scottish Regiment, and saw service at the front during World War I with the 6th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers. He won the Military Cross for bravery at The Third Battle of the Scarpe in May 1917, where he was severely wounded. He was seconded to MI1 shortly before it merged with Room 40.
From 1921 to 1929, he was a cryptanalyst with the Indian Army at Army Headquarters, Simla. The analysts were reading Russian diplomatic cypher traffic from Moscow to Kabul, Afghanistan and Tashkent, Turkestan. Tiltman worked with a modest group of people and was involved in directing interception and traffic analysis as well as working on cyphers; he said he was exceptionally lucky to have this experience in other branches of Signals Intelligence.
After a decade as a War Office civilian at GC&CS, the interwar cryptographic organization, Tiltman was recalled to active service. Although he did not have a university education, his extensive experience of cryptanalysis was expected to be useful. He assisted in many areas of endeavour at GC&CS and was considered one of Bletchley Park's finest cryptanalysts on non-machine systems.
Tiltman was an early and persistent advocate of British cooperation with the United States in cryptology. His advocacy helped achieve smooth relations during World War II.
In 1944, he was promoted to brigadier and appointed deputy director of GC&CS. He continued in 1946, as assistant director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), successor to GC&CS. Tiltman became Senior GCHQ Liaison Officer at the Army Security Agency from 1949 to 1954. He retired as a Brigadier.
In 1951 Tiltman met William Friedman, one of the leading scholars involved in the attempt to decipher the mysterious Voynich manuscript. Tiltman undertook an analysis of the ancient manuscript himself, and then in the 1970s he assigned an NSA cryptanalyst named Mary D'Imperio to take over the Voynich crypto-analysis, when Friedman's health began becoming a challenge. D'Imperio's work resulted in the book The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma, and is now considered one of the standard reference works on the Voynich Manuscript. Tiltman wrote the foreword to this book.
After reaching normal retirement age, Tiltman was retained by GCHQ from 1954 to 1964. From 1964 until 1980 he was a consultant and researcher at the National Security Agency, spending in all 60 years at the cutting edge of SIGINT.
Tiltman made the transition from the manual ciphers of the early 20th century to the sophisticated machine systems of the latter half of the century; he was one of a very few who were able to do so. "The Brig", as he was affectionately known in both countries, compiled a lengthy record of high achievement.
On 1 September 2004, Tiltman was inducted into the "NSA Hall of Honor", the first non-US citizen to be recognised in that way. The NSA commented, "His efforts at training and his attention to all the many facets that make up cryptology inspired the best in all who encountered him."
References
External links
1894 births
1982 deaths
King's Own Scottish Borderers officers
Recipients of the Military Cross
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army brigadiers of World War II
Bletchley Park people
GCHQ cryptographers
Pre-computer cryptographers
Foreign Office personnel of World War II
Military personnel from London |
Words with Gods is a 2014 Mexican-U.S. anthology film. It is the first of a planned series of such films, collectively titled Heartbeat of the World. Words with Gods consists of segments directed by nine directors. It was screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Words with Gods follows the theme of religion, specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods. The order of the film segments was curated by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
References
External links
2014 films
2014 drama films
Mexican anthology films
American anthology films
Films directed by Emir Kusturica
Films directed by Amos Gitai
Films directed by Mira Nair
Films directed by Héctor Babenco
Films directed by Hideo Nakata
Films directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Films scored by Lorne Balfe
Films scored by Peter Gabriel
Films with screenplays by Jorge Guerricaechevarría
2010s Mexican films |
Sir Abdool Raman Osman State College, abbreviated as SARO SC, is a public secondary school for boys in Phoenix, Mauritius. It was found in 1996 as the Royal College of Phoenix and was renamed in late 1996 after Sir Abdool Raman Osman, the first Governor-General of Mauritius. The school became a National College in 2007.
SARO SC admits students having achieved excellent results in the CPE examinations, and preparing them for the University of Cambridge O Level and A Level.
History
The school welcomed its first students in 1996. Following that, more blocks were added and by the end of 1997, the school became a complex with a ground area of . It was converted into a Form Six school in 2002. In January 2006, consequent to a policy decision of the government, the school again started admitting pupils in Form 1. End of year 2007, the school became a National College and changed its name from Sir Abdool Raman Osman State Secondary School to Sir Abdool Raman Osman State College.
Infrastructural and sport facilities
Laboratories: Physics (3), Chemistry (3), Biology (3)
Audio-Visual Room (0)
Computer Rooms (3)
Library (1)
DC/DT Workshops (2)
Basketball Grounds (1)
Art Rooms (2)
Volleyball/Badminton Courts (2)
Gymnasium/Multipurpose Hall (1)
Table Tennis Course (0)
Lecture Theatre (1)
Football Ground
See also
Education in Mauritius
List of secondary schools in Mauritius
References
Further reading
External links
Official Facebook page
Official School page on the Republic of Mauritius government portal
Secondary schools in Mauritius
Vacoas-Phoenix
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in Mauritius
Boys' schools in Mauritius |
Shimono (written: 下野 or 下農) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese badminton player
, Japanese voice actor and singer
Sab Shimono (born 1937), American actor
See also
Shimono-shima, the southern end of Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Japanese-language surnames |
The Gough-Calthorpe family is descended from ancient and notable families who both held lands in the area around Birmingham, England.
Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament, (1709–1774) was made a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1728. He married into the Calthorpe family, descendants of the Calthorpes who held the manors of Cockthorpe, Norfolk, and Ampton, Suffolk, and who were also sometime Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston. The fess ermine in Birmingham's coat of arms is a reference to the arms of the Calthorpe family.
The Calthorpe Barony (1796) became extinct in June 1997 when the last Baron died without a male heir.
Gough family
Sir Henry Gough, Knt (1649–1724), of Perry Hall; son of John Gough (died 1665), matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1666; was a student at Middle Temple in 1667; elected as a Tory MP in Tamworth in 1685; became High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1671. Knighted in 1678 for services his grandfather rendered to the King in 1642.
Walter Gough (1677–1730); married Martha Harwood, a niece of Sir Richard Hill.
Walter Gough Jr (died 1773), married Bridget Kempson, daughter of Willis Kempson of Bilston.
Sir Richard Gough (died 1728); third son of Henry Gough; a merchant, who travelled to the Mediterranean, India and China. In 1717 he purchased Edgbaston Hall from Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconberg.
Charles Gough thought to have rediscovered the island of Diego Alvarez, half way between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, which became known as Gough Island, in 1731.
Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, M.P. (1709–1774); another son of Henry Gough; was made a Baronet. His second wife (her first marriage) was Barbara (1716–1782), only daughter and heiress of Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham, Hampshire, by his spouse Barbara (died 1724), daughter of Henry Yelverton, first Viscount Longueville and 15th Baron Grey of Ruthyn. They had a son, Henry, 2nd Bt., and two daughters, Barbara and Charlotte, the former marrying Isaac Spooner (their daughter Barbara married abolitionist William Wilberforce) and the latter marrying Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet, MP for Leicestershire 1765–1780.
Harry Gough, brother of Sir Henry, 1st Bt., chairman of the East India Company and MP for Bramber, who purchased ancient burgages in the Bull Ring, an estate in Ladywood, and a farm, now marked by Gough Street.
Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet (1749–1798), married in 1783, Frances (died 1827), second daughter of General Benjamin Carpenter, with issue, eleven children. Was created Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe in 1796 having assumed the additional surname of Calthorpe upon inheriting, in 1788, the Elvetham and Norfolk estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe, K.B.. He left two sons, George, Lord Calthorpe, and Frederick Gough of Perry Hall.
Gough-Calthorpe family
Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe (1749–1798), formerly Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet (see above)
Charles Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baron Calthorpe (1786–1807), no issue.
George Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baron Calthorpe (1787–1851), succeeded his brother Charles, 2nd Lord, but died without issue.
Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe (1790–1868) succeeded his brothers George, 3rd Lord, and Charles, 2nd Lord. He was a Counsellor of King's College London, and married in 1823, Lady Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Henry Charles Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, with issue: ten children.
Frederick Henry William Gough-Calthorpe, 5th Baron Calthorpe (1826–1893)
Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe (1829–1910)
Rachel Gough-Calthorpe, daughter of Sir Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe married FitzRoy Hamilton Anstruther in 1898, creating the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family.
Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe (1831–1912)
Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, 8th Baron Calthorpe (1862–1940)
Ronald Arthur Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 9th Baron Calthorpe (1924–1945)
Peter Waldo Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 10th Baron Calthorpe (1927–1997)
The Hon Sir. Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe; (1864–1937); Admiral of the Fleet, R.N.
The Hon. Frederick ("Freddie") Somerset Gough Calthorpe; (1892–1935); cricketer.
Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family
Sir Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baronet (1872–1957; son of Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther)
Sir Richard Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet (1908–1985)
Niall Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (1940–1970)
Sir Euan Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baronet (22 June 1966–)
Michael Richard Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 30 October 1943, died September 1990)
John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 14 July 1947), property magnate
Georgiana Moireach Gay Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 14 October 1978), artist.
Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 3 March 1980), an actress who uses the stage name Isabella Calthorpe.
Jacobi Richard Penn Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 10 May 1983), property developer.
Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 1989), a model (and actress as 'Gabriella Wilde'), sister of Octavia, half-sister of Georgiana, Isabella and Jacobi.
Octavia Elsa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 27 October 1991), sister of Gabriella, half-sister of Georgiana, Isabella and Jacobi.
Archives
Historical records of the Gough-Calthorpe family are held in multiple archives. Family papers are held at the Hampshire Record Office. Records of the Calthorpe Edgbaston Estate are held at the Library of Birmingham. Medieval deeds of properties owned by the Gough-Calthorpe family in Wolverhampton are held at the Cadbury Research Library (University of Birmingham).
See also
Calthorpe Park
Perry Hall Mansion - home of Harry Dorsey Gough (died 8 May 1808)
Perry Hall Park
Perry Hall, Maryland
Notes
References
Lodge, Edmund, Norroy King of Arms, &c., The Peerage of the British Empire, 27th edition, London, 1858, p. 94-5.
Ruvigny & Raineval, The Marquis of, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Essex volume, London, 1908, p. 598.
Townend, Peter, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 452.
External links
National Archives
Calthorpe Estates
Calthorpe Estates archives at Birmingham Central Library
some family history
Gough genealogy
History of Birmingham, West Midlands
English gentry families |
Charlie Liam McCann (born 24 April 2002) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Forest Green Rovers. Born in England, he represents Northern Ireland at youth level.
Club career
Born in Coventry, McCann began his career with Coventry City before joining the Manchester United Academy at the age of 16. After four seasons with Manchester United, he joined Rangers on 30 July 2021, signing a three-year deal. The transfer fee paid by Rangers could reportedly rise to £750,000. McCann was initially part of Rangers' B team, competing in the Lowland Football League; however, he soon progressed to the senior squad. On 12 February 2022, he made his professional debut in a Scottish Cup match away to Annan Athletic as a 70th-minute substitute for Amad Diallo. A further substitute appearance in the Scottish Cup followed a month later on 13 March. McCann made his league debut for Rangers by replacing Borna Barišić as a 66th-minute substitute during a 2–0 win over Dundee United on 8 May 2022.
On 24 January 2023, McCann signed for League One bottom side Forest Green Rovers for an undisclosed fee on a long-term contract.
International career
Although he was born in England, McCann is eligible to play for both Irish national football teams. He was previously included in Republic of Ireland U17 and Republic of Ireland U19 squads. In March 2022, McCann switched allegiance to Northern Ireland and was selected for the Under-21 team.
On 27 May 2022, McCann was called up to the senior squad for their Nations League games in June 2022.
References
External links
2002 births
Living people
Footballers from Coventry
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Coventry City F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
Forest Green Rovers F.C. players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Lowland Football League players
Northern Ireland men's under-21 international footballers
Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers
English people of Irish descent
English people of Northern Ireland descent |
William Speechly (1735 – 1 October 1819) was a late 18th- and early 19th-century English horticulturist, best known as the head gardener to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and for his skill in growing pineapples and grapes.
Biography
Early life
William Speechly was born near Peterborough, Northamptonshire, probably the second son (baptised 25 February 1735) of Ralph Speechly, a butcher and grazier of Orton Longueville, Huntingdonshire, and his wife Sarah Blackwell.
He was said to have had a good education and showed an early interest in horticulture, engraving sketches of fruit, flowers, and designs on copper plates.
Speechly served an apprenticeship as a gardener at the estate of William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, at Milton Abbey, Northamptonshire. He was subsequently employed by Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard, North Yorkshire and then as head gardener to Sir William St Quintin, 4th Baronet at Scampston Hall, Yorkshire. In 1767 he became head gardener to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, the 3rd Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
At Welbeck Abbey
In 1771 Bentinck sent Speechly on a tour of gardens in Holland where it is thought he learned about the design of stoves for hothouses, which he later improved on. In 1776 Bentinck asked him to write a description of the method of planting trees on the Nottinghamshire estates for Alexander Hunter's edition of John Evelyn's Silva. This later appeared as an article in Hunter's Georgical Essays (1803), in which Speechly also contributed a note on the possibility of raising pineapples.
Speechly established the first effective system for the cultivation of pineapples in England. He was particularly concerned that they should not be kept at too hot a temperature in the winter and experimented with forcing pineapples in beds of oak leaves instead of the comparatively expensive and unpredictable tanner's bark. In 1779 he published a Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple.
This was followed in 1790 by a Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, which described 50 species of grapes, and discussed hothouse culture, the construction and management of vineyards in open air, pruning, irrigation, grafting, insect and blight control. The work was organised in four books: the first presenting an annotated list of 50 grape varieties, and discussing the management of the vine in the hothouse; the second on the vinery and including observations on pruning and watering; the third covering grafting, insect control, and remarks on the age and size attained by vines; and the fourth on vineyards. Both works were republished in one volume in 1820.
In 1797 Sir John Sinclair, president of the Board of Agriculture, asked Speechly to prepare sections on gardening and domestic rural economy for a comprehensive work on agriculture. But the project was laid aside in 1798, and in 1800 Speechly's manuscript was returned to him at his own request. He then began writing A General Treatise on Gardening.
Later life
In 1801 following the death of his younger son, Speechly left Welbeck Abbey to take over management of his son's farm at Woodborough Hall, Nottinghamshire. He was succeeded by his pupil, Joseph Thompson, then gardener to the late Lord John Cavendish, Northamptonshire.
During this time he neglected his manuscript on rural economy, but on his retirement to King's Newton Hall, near Melbourne, Derbyshire, he completed and enlarged it. This work, devoted to the management of cottage gardens, was published in 1820, with several other essays appended, under the title Practical Hints on Domestic and Rural Economy.
He received the honorary medal of the Board of Agriculture for his essays on agriculture.
Speechly died on 1 October 1819 aged 86 at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, while living with his only surviving child Sarah and her husband John Stevenson, a surgeon.
Family
Speechly married Mary Chell, on 22 May 1771, at St George, Hanover Square, London and they had at least four children including two sons, William Griffin Speechly (a partner in a nursery firm, Withers and Speechly at Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, who died in 1804) and John (who died at Woodborough Hall, Nottinghamshire in 1800) and two daughters Mary and Sarah (baptised at Cuckney, Nottinghamshire respectively on 14 July 1779 and 4 December 1781).
His wife Mary died at Great Milton, Oxfordshire on 28 November 1818.
Publications
A Treatise on the cultivation of the Pine-Apple, and the management of the Hot-house; together with a description of every species of Insect that infects Hot-Houses with effectual methods of destroying them. York. 1779. 2nd Edition. 1796.
A Treatise on the culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. With new hints on the formation of Vineyards in England. York. 1790.
Practical Hints on Domestic and Rural Economy relating partly to the utility, formation and management of Fruit, Kitchen, and Cottage Gardens and Orchards, &c. London, 1820
Notes
References
E. I. Carlyle, 'Speechly, William (1723–1819)', rev. Anne Pimlott Baker, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
George W. Johnson, 'A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical. Tracing the Progress of the Art in this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time'. Baldwin & Cradock, and Longman Co. Paternoster Row; H. & W. Wright, 51, Hay- Market; J. Ridgway, Piccadilly; And H. Wicks, 41, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, 1829.
John Claudius Loudon (ed.) Biography by H.A.S in 'The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement', Volume 3, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster Row, London, 1828, pp 383–4.
John Evelyn, Silva: Or, A Discourse Of Forest-Trees, And The Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions.Together With An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. With Notes by A. Hunter, M.D. F.R.S. 1776.
External links
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1735 births
1819 deaths
English horticulturists
People from Northamptonshire (before 1974)
People from Welbeck
People from King's Newton |
Buckhurst Hill East is an electoral ward in Epping Forest, UK and is one of two wards that represent Buckhurst Hill. The present councillors for this ward are Steven Neville and Simon Heap both representing the Green Party.
This ward has two seats in the District Council:
Seat 01: last vote 2018 / 2022 next vote
Seat 02: last vote 2021 / 2024 next vote
2018 Local Election: Seat 1
2021 Local Election: Seat 2
See also
Buckhurst Hill West
Wards of Epping Forest District |
Gerard P. Conley Sr. (January 3, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American politician from Maine. Conley, a Democrat, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1964 to 1968 and in Maine Senate from 1968 to 1984. He spent his final term in the Senate as President of the Maine Senate (1983–1984). His son, Jerry Conley, served in the House from 1986 to 1990 and Senate from 1990 to 1994.
Gerard Conley Sr. served on the Portland, Maine City Council for 9.5 years, including a term as mayor (1971–72).
Personal
Conley was born and raised in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Cheverus High School as well as Portland Junior College (now Southern Maine Community College). Conley served in the United States Army. Conley worked, as a clerk, at the Portland Terminal Company, at the Rigby Yard. He died at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine.
References
1930 births
2018 deaths
Presidents of the Maine Senate
Democratic Party Maine state senators
Democratic Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Mayors of Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine City Council members
Southern Maine Community College alumni
Military personnel from Maine |
Santo Domingo is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador. It is located about east of San Vicente.
Education
The town has two main schools, which all the underage children attend. The schools are Ana Guerra de Jesus, which is a Catholic founded, religious school. The teachers are nuns and the students must attend mass everyday to follow the guidelines of the school. Also, the seminar in the South part of the school is composed of students who want to follow a career as a teacher in a Catholic school. The second school, Escuela Municipal, called Esteban Castro, is a smaller school where a general education is provided to the students attending. In both schools a uniform is required. The uniform for the school, Ana Guerra de Jesus, has a more conservative look than the Escuela Mucnicipal. The colors depend on the school and the guidelines for wearing them, too. The town is composed of about 97% Catholic, less than 3% is Protestant or Christian. That is the reason why the town has a huge church beside Ana Guerra de Jesus. The 3% of Protestants attend home churches or gather in small dining areas. As the rest of the country the religious customs are the same.
Santo Domingo is known for its peaceful surroundings. The population is about 17,000. Santo Domingo celebrates its annual festivities from July 28 through August 4 in honor of the town's patron saint Santo Domingo De Guzman.
Municipalities of the San Vicente Department
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it:Santo Domingo |
```smalltalk
// See the LICENCE file in the repository root for full licence text.
using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Immutable;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using osu.Framework.Logging;
namespace osu.Framework.Threading
{
/// <summary>
/// Provides a scheduler that uses a managed thread "pool".
/// </summary>
public sealed class ThreadedTaskScheduler : TaskScheduler, IDisposable
{
private readonly BlockingCollection<Task> tasks;
private readonly ImmutableArray<Thread> threads;
private readonly string name;
private bool isDisposed;
private int runningTaskCount;
public string GetStatusString() => $"{name} concurrency:{MaximumConcurrencyLevel} running:{runningTaskCount} pending:{pendingTaskCount}";
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the StaTaskScheduler class with the specified concurrency level.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="numberOfThreads">The number of threads that should be created and used by this scheduler.</param>
/// <param name="name">The thread name to give threads in this pool.</param>
public ThreadedTaskScheduler(int numberOfThreads, string name)
{
ArgumentOutOfRangeException.ThrowIfLessThan(numberOfThreads, 1);
this.name = name;
tasks = new BlockingCollection<Task>();
threads = Enumerable.Range(0, numberOfThreads).Select(_ =>
{
var thread = new Thread(processTasks)
{
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};
thread.Start();
return thread;
}).ToImmutableArray();
}
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/// Continually get the next task and try to execute it.
/// This will continue as a blocking operation until the scheduler is disposed and no more tasks remain.
/// </summary>
private void processTasks()
{
try
{
foreach (var t in tasks.GetConsumingEnumerable())
{
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TryExecuteTask(t);
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}
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
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}
}
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/// Queues a Task to be executed by this scheduler.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="task">The task to be executed.</param>
protected override void QueueTask(Task task)
{
try
{
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}
catch (Exception ex) when (ex is InvalidOperationException or ObjectDisposedException)
{
// tasks may have been disposed. there's no easy way to check on this other than catch for it.
Logger.Log($"Task was queued for execution on a {nameof(ThreadedTaskScheduler)} ({name}) after it was disposed. The task will be executed inline.");
TryExecuteTask(task);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Provides a list of the scheduled tasks for the debugger to consume.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>An enumerable of all tasks currently scheduled.</returns>
protected override IEnumerable<Task> GetScheduledTasks() => tasks.ToArray();
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether a Task may be inlined.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="task">The task to be executed.</param>
/// <param name="taskWasPreviouslyQueued">Whether the task was previously queued.</param>
/// <returns>true if the task was successfully inlined; otherwise, false.</returns>
protected override bool TryExecuteTaskInline(Task task, bool taskWasPreviouslyQueued) => threads.Contains(Thread.CurrentThread) && TryExecuteTask(task);
/// <summary>Gets the maximum concurrency level supported by this scheduler.</summary>
public override int MaximumConcurrencyLevel => threads.Length;
private int pendingTaskCount
{
get
{
try
{
return tasks.Count;
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
// tasks may have been disposed. there's no easy way to check on this other than catch for it.
return 0;
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Cleans up the scheduler by indicating that no more tasks will be queued.
/// This method blocks until all threads successfully shutdown.
/// </summary>
public void Dispose()
{
if (isDisposed)
return;
isDisposed = true;
tasks.CompleteAdding();
foreach (var thread in threads)
thread.Join(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
tasks.Dispose();
}
}
}
``` |
Ralph Harold Millon is an American former Negro league infielder who played in the 1940s.
Millon made his Negro leagues debut in 1946 with the Chicago American Giants. The following season he split time between Chicago and the Indianapolis Clowns.
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The Şile Feneri, a historical lighthouse still in use, is located on the western Black Sea coast in the northeast town Şile of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
History
Commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I (r. 1839–1861), it was constructed in 1859 by French engineers. In 1860, the lighthouse went into service.
The masonry lighthouse is built on a cliffy point at Cape Şile about northeast of the town. The tower with a gallery around the lantern room has the form of an octagonal prism. A masonry one-story keeper's house is attached to it. The lighthouse is painted white with narrow black horizontal bands.
Initially, the lighthouse was lit by kerosene, however the light source was later replaced by Dalén light using carbide (acetylene gas). Since 1968, it runs on electricity. The lighthouse's lantern has eight 925mm catadioptric cylindrical lenses and a 1,000 W light source. At a focal height of , it flashes white for 1.5s every 15 seconds, which is visible at a range of . The flashing is achieved by eight rotating panels that are still set in motion by a weight-driven mechanism inside the tower using anchor escapement. The falling weight on the chain reaches the bottom of the tower in two hours. For the operation's continuity, the lighthouse keeper has to pull it up by rewinding the chain.
The lighthouse is listed in Turkey under the code "TUR-046" and its radio call sign is TC2SLH. It is operated and maintained by the Coastal Safety Authority () of the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
Şile Feneri is open to the public, as a historical site.
150th anniversary
2010 was the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the lighthouse. For this purpose, celebrations were held from May 25 to July 23, organized by the local municipality. The Turkish Post issued on May 1, 2010, a commemorative stamp. On July 24, the tower got dressed up from top to bottom in the renowned Şile cloth, a very light cotton fabric woven there.
See also
List of lighthouses in Turkey
References
External links
Directorate General of Coastal Safety
Lighthouses completed in 1859
Tourist attractions in Istanbul
Lighthouses of the Black Sea
Lighthouses in Istanbul
Şile |
Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones is a 2019 book by political scientist David Moscrop.
The book discusses how people make decisions against their best interests, explains why, and advocates for more careful analysis of political information.
It received positive critique from The Toronto Star.
Publication
Too Dumb for Democracy? was published in 2019 by Goose Lane Editions and was written by political scientist David Moscrop.
Synopsis
The book focuses on why people make political decisions against their own self-interest, documenting the extent to which people are manipulated by bad-faith actors.
In the book, Moscrop argues that democracy is under threat but can be saved, emphasising the need for good process to resolve disagreements.
The book documents the neuroscience of human decision making, and breaks decisions into two types that Moscrop calls "autopilot" and "long-form", stating that people too frequently rely on the former when the later would serve them better. He writes of the importance of wanting to make better decisions and learning how to do so.
Critical reception
Christine Sismondo, writing in The Toronto Star, describes the book as highly-readable as well as noting the strength of the arguments contained.
References
External links
Official website
2019 non-fiction books
Political literature
Canadian political books
Political science books
Goose Lane Editions books |
Geolycosa hubbelli is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in the United States.
References
Lycosidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Spiders described in 1942 |
Samuel Lewis Hays (October 20, 1794 – March 17, 1871) was a nineteenth-century farmer and Democratic politician in the part of Virginia that became West Virginia after he left for Minnesota. Hays served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and one term as in the U.S. House of Representatives in a district that was eliminated as Virginia lost residents.
Early and family life
Hays was born in Harrison County near Clarksburg in what later became the state of West Virginia. He married Roanna Arnold in 1817. Following Roanna's death in 1841, Hays married twice more: first to Nancy Covert (died 1863) and then to Emma Fletcher.
Career
Hays moved to what was then Lewis County (later Gilmer County) to farm in 1833.
Lewis County voters (and at times those in adjoining Braxton County and later Gilmer County) elected Hays many times to represent them (part-time) in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Hays was elected as a Democrat to the 27th United States Congress, serving from 1841 to 1843, and made an unsuccessful bid for reelection in an adjoining district in 1842 when Virginia lost a congressman in as a result of losing population in the 1840 census. However, Hays again won election to the Virginia House of Delegates, this time representing Braxton and Lewis Counties. During his Congressional term, Hays sponsored the admission of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as a cadet to the military academy at West Point, and also urged the building of the Parkersburg-Staunton Turnpike. He laid out the town of Glenville in 1845.
Hays, Joseph Smith, John S. Carlile and Thomas Bland also represented Randolph, Lewis, Barbour, Gilmer, Braxton, Wirt and Jackson counties as their delegates to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, which gave more representation to the western counties.
In 1857, Hays moved to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota Territory. President James Buchanan, a fellow Democrat, had appointed him Receiver of Public Moneys and Hays continued as such until Buchanan's presidency ended in 1860, at which time Hays resumed farming near what was then the administrative center of the new state of Minnesota.
Death and legacy
Hays died in 1871 and was interred at the Old Benton County Cemetery in Sauk Rapids.
External links
Descendants of Samuel Lewis Hays
The Political Graveyard
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1871 deaths
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People from Harrison County, West Virginia
People from Glenville, West Virginia
People from Sauk Rapids, Minnesota
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
19th-century American politicians |
The Three Peaks Challenge is a mountain running trail that involves ascending the three major peaks above Cape Town, namely Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and Lion's Head.
History
The route was first completed by Carl Wilhelm Schneeberger in 1897. Schneeberger completed the course in 9 hours and 5 minutes, not counting his rest stops at the old Johannesburg Hotel in Long Street after each peak. On the centenary of Schneeberger's feat, Don Hartley and a group of 13 runners took on the challenge on 13 September 1997, and the time has been continually bettered since.
Records
Bold = current record; an asterisk indicates solo efforts.
References
Mountain running competitions
Athletics competitions in South Africa
Trail running competitions |
Sony Crime Channel was a British free-to-air television channel, focusing on crime television programmes and documentaries. It was launched on 6 February 2018 and was owned by Sony Pictures Television. It aired crime programming targeted at a female audience.
History
Sony Crime Channel launched in February 2018, replacing the original Sony Channel on all platforms, including Freeview and Freesat. At time of launch, it broadcast a range of crime dramas, including the free-to-air premiere of Orange Is the New Black as well as reruns of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Hustle.
In June 2019, ultimately due to low ratings, Sony announced that the channel would be downgraded, reducing its output to reality crime programming, akin to its now defunct sister channels True Crime and TruTV. Prior to these changes, a month earlier, the channel was withdrawn from Freesat and was moved to the G-MAN multiplex on Freeview, reducing availability to Manchester only and moved to channel 60. Additionally, its broadcast hours were cut down to 4:00 - 6:00 and its +1 service was replaced by Movies4Men +1. These Freeview changes occurred as a result of True Entertainment and True Movies moving to the local multiplex.
In September 2019, as part of a revamp of Sony's entertainment portfolio in the UK, Sony Crime Channel was the only channel without any sign of change. The channel swapped places with True Entertainment on Sky prior to Sony Channel's re-launch in the UK. The channel was replaced by Sony Channel +1 on Freeview, and at the end of the following month, Sony Crime Channel +1 closed on Sky.
The channel abruptly closed on 9 June 2020.
On 13 August 2020, an editor on the site TV Channel Lists noticed Sony Crime began broadcasting again with colour bars. This indicated that Sony Crime may make a return in the near-future. However, as of 10 September 2020, the channel's slot on Sky was occupied by Court TV.
References
Sony Pictures Television
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2018
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Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2018 establishments in the United Kingdom
2020 disestablishments in the United Kingdom |
Federalist No. 22 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-second of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on December 14, 1787, under the pseudonym "Publius", the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. This essay continues with a theme started in Federalist No. 21. It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: Other Defects of the Present Confederation".
The power to regulate commerce is one of the strongest reasons to switch from the Articles of Confederation to a stronger "federal superintendence." The lack of a general authority "to regulate commerce" "has operated as a bar to the formation of beneficial treaties with foreign powers" and has also led to dissatisfaction between the states. Several States have attempted to create concert "prohibitions, restrictions, and exclusions, to influence the conduct of that kingdom in this particular" area. However, "arising from the lack of a general authority, and from clashing and dissimilar views in the States, has hitherto frustrated every experiment of the kind, and will continue to" hinder the true growth that could be realized under a federal system.
Aside from the regulation of commerce, the power to raise and keep an army, under the powers of the Articles of Confederation, is merely a power of making requisitions upon the states for quotas of men. "This practice in the course of the late war, was found replete with obstructions to a vigorous, and to an economical system of defense." Publius went on to state that this led to a competition between the states, which turned into an auction for men. Having states bid on men for defense, "is not merely unfriendly to economy and vigor, than it is to an equal distribution of the burden."
Also, Publius states, that the right of equal suffrage among the states is "another exceptionable part of the Confederation." And that "The sense of the majority should prevail. However this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice and common sense." He then argues that it is entirely possible that there can be a majority - seven - of the States in favor of something, which would then carry the support of Congress, but which would have far less than a majority of the actual population of the Union. And he adds to this argument, "for we can enumerate nine states, which contain less than a majority of the people and it is constitutionally possible, that these nine may give the vote."
The overall gist of Federalist No. 22, is that the current constitutional structure of the Union under the Confederation is weak and unable to support the demands that are required of a modern nation or a continental republic.
References
External links
Text of The Federalist No. 22: congress.gov
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1787 in American law
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Tahmuras or Tahmures (, ; from Avestan Taxma Urupi "Strong Fox" via ) was the third Shah of the mythical Pishdadian dynasty of Iran according to Ferdowsi's epic poem, the Shahnameh. He is considered the builder of Merv.
Tahmuras in the Shahnameh
Tahmures was the son of Hushang. In his time the world was much troubled by the divs (demons) of Ahriman. On the advice of his vizier Shahrasp (), Tahmures used magic to subdue Ahriman and made him his slave, even riding upon his back as on a horse. The demons rebelled against Tahmuras, and he made war against them with both magic and force. By magic he bound two-thirds of the demons; the remaining third he crushed with his mace. The divs now became Tahmuras's slaves and they taught him the art of writing in thirty different scripts.
Like his father, Tahmuras was a great inventor of arts for easing the human condition. He invented the spinning and weaving of wool, learned to domesticate chickens, how to store up fodder for livestock instead of merely grazing them, and how to train animals like dogs and falcons to hunt for people.
Tahmures ruled for thirty years and was succeeded by his son, Jamshid.
Death of Taxmoras, as told in a Parsi Rivayāt
Georges Dumézil provides a summary of a bawdy and scatological, but nonetheless instructive account of the death of Taxmoruw (Tahmures) preserved in a Parsi revayat translated by Danish orientalist and historian Arthur Christensen and published by Friedrich von Spiegel. This (admittedly late) text furnishes material that Dumézil considers to preserve archaic proto-Indo-European themes with a bearing on what he termed the problem of le borgne and le manchot i.e. of 'the one-eyed (god)' and 'the one-handed (god)' - relating, in this instance, specifically to the mythic motif of one-handedness.
The scene for this scurrilous episode is set by the account in the Avesta of the reign of Taxma Urupi, which relates that this sovereign of the world subdued not only demons and sorcerers, but also the archfiend Angra Mainyu himself, thanks to the help of the wind god Vayu and his (Taxma Urupi's) possession of the khvarenah or mystic 'kingly glory'. Thus empowered, the valiant king is able to ride Angra Mainyu, like a horse, 'from one end of the earth to the other', every day for thirty years. (At this point the Avesta falls silent and the Parsi rivayât takes up the story). Ahriman (Angra Mainyu), exasperated by his undignified bondage as a beast of burden, manages finally to win (by means of a gift of jewellery) the confidence of Taxmoruw's wife, from whom he learns that there is a certain point on the daily ride - a particularly treacherous part of a mountain track - at which Taxmoruw experiences a moment of vertiginous dread. The following day Ahriman bides his time until 'horse' and rider reach the critical point - at which he seizes his chance, rearing up, throwing Taxmoruw to the ground and swallowing the unfortunate king whole. Time passes, but Taxmoruw's corpse is not found, remaining in Ahriman's belly.
Meanwhile, Jamshid, Taxmoruw's devoted brother (not son, as in the Shahnameh), scours the world in search of his body until eventually he learns from Srosh, the well-nigh omniscient confidant of Ahura Mazda, that it is hidden in Ahriman's bowels. Jamshid begs Srosh to tell him some magical trick to retrieve the body from its unsavoury resting place, whereupon Srosh reveals that Ahriman loves two things above all else: music and anal sex. Acting on Srôsh's advice, Jamshid then travels to the area where Ahriman is living and begins to sing. Attracted by the music, the demon duly appears and begins capering about and masturbating in anticipation of his other favourite activity.
Jamshid agrees to penetrate Ahriman on condition that he first be allowed to remove Taxmoruw's body from the demon's bowels. The excited Ahriman agrees readily to the bargain and bends over, presenting his anus, whereupon Jamshid plunges his hand up the demon's rectum, deep into his belly, quickly pulls out his brother's corpse, places it on the ground and flees. Ahriman gives chase, but Jamshid runs on and on, taking care (as instructed previously by Srosh) not to look back at his pursuer and, more especially not to look him in the face. Ahriman tires and, baulked of both pleasure and prey, descends once more into hell.
Jamshid then returns to the spot where he left Taxmoruw's body, constructs the prototypical Tower of Silence and places the body on it for excarnation by birds of prey, in the manner still considered ritually correct by Zoroastrians to this day. Thankful that he has at last been able to give his brother a fitting funeral, Jamshid can finally take time to glance at the hand which has been up Ahriman's anus and sees, to his horror, that it is pale and stinking, starting to waste away with a foul disease similar to leprosy. The disease grows steadily worse, the hand withering and growing ever more painful, and Jamshid becomes sad at his deformity, shunning human society and haunting, hermit-like, the loneliest of mountains and deserts. All, however, ends happily, for one night, as the wretched man lies asleep, an ox urinates on his blighted hand, healing it. Thus comes about the discovery of gōmēz - cow urine, considered as the purificatory liquid par excellence in Zoroastrianism and used as such in the nine-night ritual of Barashnûm, (as detailed in the ninth chapter of the Vendidad).
Takhmurup and the Three Sacred Fires in the Bundahishn
According to verses 8–9 of the eighteenth chapter of the cosmological treatise known as the Bundahishn, the three preeminent Atar (Great Fires) of ancient Iran—Farnbag, Gushnasp and Burzin Mihr—were brought thither on the back of the ox Srishok from a place named Khwaniratha, during the reign of the primordial ruler Takhmurup—presumably with his knowledge and possibly at his command. The text of the Bundahishn is not easy to interpret at this point, but seems to mean that a group of men were riding beside the (Caspian?) sea on the back of the ox, transporting with them a fire altar, upon which were burning the three atar (holy fires). A storm then sprang up and the wind whipped the fire altar off Srishok's back and carried it out to sea. The three holy fires, however, were not quenched but miraculously remained burning on the waters, lighting the men (or passing seafarers?) to their (unspecified) destination. The unusual concept of fire burning in the midst of water is found also in relation to the ancient Indo-Iranian deity Apam Napat and both occurrences of the mythological motif may owe something to early observation of flames (derived from the welling up of natural hydrocarbons) hovering near the surface of the Caspian Sea—more specifically the Southwestern part, exploited currently by the Absheron gas field near Baku in Azerbaijan.
Erection of Shiraz
According to certain Iranian traditions, the city of Shiraz was originally built by Tahmures. Some native writers have claimed that the name Shiraz is derived from that of Tahmuras's son.
See also
Teimuraz (name)
References
Textiles in folklore
Mythological kings
Pishdadian dynasty
Mythological city founders |
Allium drummondii, also known as Drummond's onion, wild garlic and prairie onion, is a North American species of onion native to the southern Great Plains of North America. It is found in South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico.
Allium drummondii is a bulb-forming perennial. The flowers appear in April and May, in a variety of colors ranging from white to pink. It is common, considered invasive in some regions.
Uses
This species of Allium is gathered by Native Americans for its small edible bulbs. These contain a considerable amount of inulin, a non-reducing sugar that humans cannot digest. Because of this, these onions must be heated for a long period of time in order to convert the inulin into digestible sugars.
References
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Flora of Northeastern Mexico
Garlic
Plants described in 1875
Taxa named by Eduard August von Regel |
The Paulins Kill (also known as Paulinskill River) is a tributary of the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey in the United States. With a long-term median flow rate of 76 cubic feet of water per second (2.15 m³/s), it is New Jersey's third-largest contributor to the Delaware River, behind the Musconetcong River and Maurice River. The river drains an area of across portions of Sussex and Warren counties and 11 municipalities. It flows north from its source near Newton, and then turns southwest. The river sits in the Ridge and Valley geophysical province.
The Paulins Kill was a conduit for the emigration of Palatine Germans who settled in northwestern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania during the colonial period and the American Revolution. Remnants of their chiefly agricultural settlements are still found in local architecture, cemeteries, farms and mills, and the area remains largely rural.
Flowing through rural sections of Sussex and Warren counties, it is regarded as an excellent place for fly fishing. The surrounding area is used for hiking and other forms of recreation such as observing birds and other wildlife.
Course
The main branch of the Paulins Kill begins to form immediately north of Newton, in the marshes that straddle the town. The headwaters start near Route 622 in Fredon Township. It flows southwest for the rest of its journey, through Hampton and Stillwater townships in Sussex County. Trout Brook, which rises on Kittatinny Mountain, flows into the river near Middleville in Stillwater Township. Swartswood Lake feeds Trout Brook through Keen's Mill Brook. The Paulins Kill continues its course southwest, entering Warren County, where it initially forms the border between Frelinghuysen and Hardwick townships. It enters Blairstown immediately after, where it is joined by Blair Creek, named (as is the town) for John Insley Blair (1802–1899), as well as Jacksonburg Creek, Susquehanna Creek, Dilts Creek and Walnut Creek. Yards Creek, which rises at the Yards Creek reservoir in Blairstown, enters the Paulins Kill near the hamlet of Hainesburg in Knowlton Township. Finally, in Warren County its waters enter the Delaware River just south of the Delaware Water Gap at the hamlet of Columbia in Knowlton Township.
After the establishment of Swartswood State Park in 1914, a dam was built in the 1920s across the river in Stillwater Township to create Paulinskill Lake. Summer cottages were built to attract vacationers from nearby New York City. Today, the lake is a private, year-round residential community with over 500 homes.
Watershed
The Paulins Kill drains a portion of the Kittatinny Valley watershed. Kittatinny Valley is bordered to the northwest by the Kittatinny Ridge segment of the Ridge and Valley Appalachian Mountains, and to the southeast by the New Jersey Highlands. High Point, near the northeastern end of the ridge, is the highest peak in New Jersey, reaching an elevation of .
The lower southern and eastern portions of the valley are drained by the Paulins Kill and the Pequest River, which flow generally south to the Delaware River watershed. The upper northwestern area is drained by the Big Flatbrook River to the Delaware River watershed in the south. The Wallkill River drains the northeastern portion of the valley, flowing north to the Hudson River watershed.
History
Origins of the name
The U.S. Geological Survey Board of Geographic Names decided that the official spelling of the name would be Paulins Kill in 1898. Other spellings (Pawlins Kill or Paulinskill) have remained in common use. Kill is a Dutch word for "stream".
Local tradition says that the Paulins Kill was named for a girl named Pauline, the daughter of a Hessian soldier. During the American Revolution, Hessian soldiers captured at the Battle of Trenton and other skirmishes within New Jersey were held as prisoners of war in the Stillwater area. Several of these Hessians are alleged to have deserted the British and taken up residence in Stillwater because of the village's predominantly German emigrant population. The assumption is that the name Paulins Kill was derived from "Pauline's Kill". However, the fact that the name Paulins Kill is present on maps and surveys dating from the 1740s and 1750s—two and three decades before the Revolution—negates the veracity of this tradition.
Two other possibilities for the naming of the Paulins Kill are more likely. First, that the wife of one of the area's first settlers, Johan Peter Bernhardt (died 1748), was named Maria Paulina and that she had died prior to the first settlement at Stillwater in 1742. However, very few records are extant detailing Bernhardt's family. The second and most likely etymological origin is that the Native American name given to the mountain on the valley's western flank, Pahaqualong (also spelled Pahaqualin, Pohoqualin and Pahaquarra) may have been corrupted and anglicized to a spelling such as "Paulins" by early white settlers or surveyors. Pahaqualong is roughly translated as "end of two mountains with stream between", from a combination of the words pe’uck meaning "water hole," qua meaning "boundary," and the suffix -onk meaning "place." This translation is thought to refer either to the valley of the Paulins Kill itself, or to the Delaware Water Gap. Local tradition does place an Indian village named Pahaquarra near the mouth of the Paulins Kill which is immediately south of the Delaware Water Gap. Likewise, the former Pahaquarry Township in Warren County derived its name from this origin.
A village named Paulina located a short distance east of Blairstown on Route 94, is said to have been named "from the stream upon which it is located." William Armstrong, a local settler, built the first grist mill there along the river in 1768, and the village took root.
The Paulins Kill was originally known as the Tockhockonetcong by the local Native Americans, who were likely Munsee, a tribe or phratry of the Lenni Lenape. The name Tockhockonetcong (or Tockhockonetcunk) roughly translates to "stream that comes from Tok-Hok-Nok"—Tok-hok-nok being an Indian village believed to have been within the boundaries of present-day Newton, New Jersey, near which the eastern (main) branch of the Paulins Kill begins, and the Lenape roots hannek meaning "stream" and the suffix -ong denoting "place".
Early settlement
The first human settlement along the Paulins Kill was by early Native Americans circa 8,000–10,000 BC at the close of the last ice age (known as the Wisconsin glaciation). At the time of the first settlement by emigrating Europeans in this region, it was populated by the Munsee tribe of the Lenni Lenape (or Delaware) Indians. Artifacts (often of stone, clay or bone) of the Native American culture are often found in nearby farm fields and at the site of their ancient villages.
Typically, early European settlement along the Paulins Kill was by Palatine Germans who had emigrated to the New World via the port of Philadelphia from 1720 to 1800. Many had trekked north through the valley of the Delaware and settled along the Musconetcong, Pequest and Paulins Kill valleys in New Jersey and along the Lehigh River valley in Pennsylvania. Areas along the Paulins Kill generally were not settled until the 1740s and 1750s. Often villages established and settled by German emigrants remained culturally German well into the Nineteenth Century, with German Lutheran and Reformed churches (often as "Union" churches) established shortly after the first settlements (as was the case in Knowlton and in Stillwater). However, by the early Nineteenth Century, many descendants of these German settlers removed to newly opened lands in the West (i.e. Ohio, the Northwest Territory, the Southern Tier of New York) and those that remained had assimilated into English-speaking culture, and the German Reformed or Lutheran Churches often became Presbyterian. The German cultural impact of this community can still be seen in local architecture—most notably in barns and in stone houses—and in cemeteries containing intricately carved gravestones often bearing archaic German text and funerary symbols. English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers located in the Paulins Kill valley throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, often traveled north from Philadelphia, or west from Long Island, Newark, and Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth).
The area around present-day Stillwater was first settled by the family of Casper Shafer (1712–1784), a Palatine German who had emigrated to Philadelphia a few years earlier. Shafer, with his father-in-law, Johan Peter Bernhardt (?–1748), and his brother-in-law Johann Georg Windemuth (or John George Wintermute) (1711–1782), settled at Stillwater in 1742. Both Shafer and Windemuth were married to Bernhardt's daughters. Shafer, who operated a grist mill at Stillwater starting in 1746, transported flour, fruit, and other products by flatboat down the Paulins Kill and the Delaware River to the market in Philadelphia. Most of the New Jersey shoreline and cities such as Elizabethtown and Newark were practically unknown to the German settlers along the Paulins Kill who learned of the existence of these cities only through trade with the local Lenni Lenape.
The first road connecting Elizabethtown, and Morristown with settlements along the Delaware River, was the Military Road built by Jonathan Hampton (1711–1777) in 1755–1756. This road, which crosses the Paulins Kill at present-day Baleville, in Hampton Township, was built to supply fortifications built in the Delaware valley at this time to protect New Jersey during the French and Indian War. Very few passable, large roads were built in this section of New Jersey, then largely a sparsely populated wilderness, before the creation of turnpike companies in the early decades of the Nineteenth Century. During much of the mid-eighteenth century, trade in the northwestern reaches of New Jersey was conducted through Philadelphia by way of the Delaware River.
About the year 1760, Mark Thomson (1739–1803) settled in Hardwick Township (now Frelinghuysen Township) and erected a gristmill and sawmill on the Paulins Kill. The settlement that arose was later named Marksboro in his honour. Thomson, who removed to Changewater in Hunterdon County, became an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and served two terms in the House of Representatives.
Commercial and industrial impact
Chiefly a pastoral river in a largely undeveloped area of New Jersey, the Paulins Kill has remained generally unaffected by industrial pollution. Dams were erected to power various small-town gristmills, sawmills, oil expellers, and fulling mills, and the electrical power plant at Branchville established in 1903. Columbia, a hamlet near the mouth of the Paulins Kill in Knowlton Township, was known for a large glass manufacturing factory. In recent decades, the dams have been breached or no longer impede the flow of the river.
Still, pollution reaches the Paulins Kill from nearby residential developments and farm run-off containing agricultural pesticides and fertilizers. Several farms along the banks of the Paulins Kill produce alfalfa, wheat, corn, hay (and historically, barley, buckwheat and rye). Fruit trees in orchards produce cherries, apples, plums, peaches and pears, while native wild grape vines, and blackberry bushes are also found in the valley. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection occasionally brings civil actions against local firms that pollute in the Paulins Kill watershed, such as a $121,500 fine for a Sussex County shopping mall sewage treatment facility which discharged pollutants into a tributary of the Paulins Kill between 1996 and 1998.
The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) has ranked the Paulins Kill as the seventh in a collection of rivers and creeks in a Top 30 listing of New Jersey waterways to Save The Paulins Kill is home to a wide variety of amphibians, including the spotted salamander, red-spotted newt, American toad, Fowler's toad, American bullfrog and others. In 2000, a public sewer and water project in Branchville, New Jersey, was suspended out of concern for dwarf wedgemussels (Alasmidonta heterodon), an endangered species, and restarted in 2002.
Near Columbia, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the Paulinskill Viaduct (known also as the Hainesburg Viaduct), a bridge crossing the Paulins Kill, for the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail corridor. Begun in 1908, this bridge was deemed an engineering marvel for its use of reinforced concrete. Spanning 1,100 feet (335 m) across the Paulins Kill Valley, the Viaduct rises 115 feet (35 m) above the valley floor, and opened for rail traffic in 1911. It was the largest concrete viaduct in the world until 1915, when the Lackawanna Railroad opened the Tunkhannock Viaduct in Nicholson, Pennsylvania, spanning over twice the Paulinskill Viaduct's length. Currently abandoned, several plans are underway by New Jersey Transit to open the route as a passenger line to Scranton, Pennsylvania. This site is commonly visited by adventure-seeking individuals.
Today
The Paulins Kill continues to maintain its rural character through both local concern and government policy. It is an excellent area for birdwatching, canoeing, hiking, hunting and fishing, and is considered to be one of the best trout streams in New Jersey.
Fishing
The Paulins Kill is a popular fishing destination for various species of trout, such as rainbow trout, brown trout and brook trout. Trout are stocked each year during the spring fishing season by New Jersey's Division of Fish & Wildlife. Hardly any wild trout are found. This is due to the river getting shallow in summer and warm. The river owes its fly fishing reputation largely to the prolific populations of various species of the mayfly and caddisfly.<ref>Music to a Hare's Ears by Henry Bell in Skylands Magazine, accessed October 29, 2006.</ref> Historically, the Paulins Kill was known to be populated with American shad, but with the construction of mill dams across the river in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the shad were unable to spawn in the river. Shad can still be found in the Delaware River.
Protected areas
The Paulins Kill valley contains many protected areas. Swartswood State Park, established in 1914 as the first and oldest state park in New Jersey, is on just north of Paulins Kill Lake in Sussex County. Along Kittatinny Ridge in the northern part of the watershed are parts of Worthington State Forest (west), Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (central), and Stokes State Forests (east).National Park Service: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, official website, no further authorship information given, accessed December 20, 2006 In addition to these state forests, the Paulins Kill valley is host to a variety of common coniferous and deciduous trees, which have been harvested for lumber in the past, including: white oak and black oak, buttonwood, eastern red cedar, eastern hemlock, American chestnut, black walnut, tamarack larch, spruce, and pine. Trees that add to the beauty of the fall foliage include maple, birch, hickory, elm, and crab apple.
New Jersey's Green Acres program has targeted the Paulins Kill and its surrounding valley as an excellent natural resources for open space and farmland preservation and recreational opportunities. The state, working together with agricultural development boards in Sussex and Warren Counties, and with the Ridge and Valley Conservancy, a local nonprofit land trust, share land acquisition costs to enter tracts of real estate into the program. Since 1983, several farms across New Jersey have sold development rights to the county programs. Sussex County has permanently preserved of woodland and farmland. Likewise, Warren County has preserved 100 farm properties, comprising over .
In addition, four Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are in the Paulins Kill valley area: Bear Swamp WMA, Trout Brook WMA, White Lake WMA, and Columbia Lake WMA. Together they comprise 6,564 acres (2656 ha) of protected lands, mostly acquired through "Green Acres" funds. Hunting and trapping are permitted in season in many of these protected areas. Common game animals include white-tailed deer, eastern coyote, red fox, gray fox, opossum, eastern cottontail rabbit, raccoon, gray and red squirrel, beaver, muskrat, and woodchuck or groundhog. Common game birds include ring-necked pheasant, eastern wild turkey, American crow, and Canada goose.
The Paulins Kill watershed is home to a variety of other animals. Other mammals include eastern chipmunk, porcupine, black bear, striped skunk, river otter, and bobcat. Common northeastern American reptiles found there include snakes such as the American copperhead, northern water snake, common garter snake and milk snake, and turtles, including the eastern box turtle, and common snapping turtle.
Hiking
The Paulinskill Valley Trail—a network of rail trails along abandoned railroad beds of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad—have been transformed and maintained for hiking, horseback riding, and other recreational uses, stretches for from Sparta Junction in Sussex County to Columbia in Warren County, roughly following the entire length of the river. After the New York, Susquehanna and Western decommissioned the route in 1962, the right-of-way along this corridor was purchased by the City of Newark the following year. Newark hoped to use the bed for a water pipeline connecting to the proposed dam and reservoir project on the Delaware River. However, this project—controversial from the start because of environmental concerns and the federal government's abuse of eminent domain—was canceled during the 1970s. Newark sold their claim to the corridor in 1992 to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for $600,000, and the Paulinskill Valley Trail was created. The Appalachian Trail follows the top of Kittatinny Ridge at the northern edge of the valley.
Birdwatching
Birdwatchers have sighted a variety of common and endangered species of birds that inhabit New Jersey. More common species include: American robin, barn swallow, field sparrow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird and the American goldfinch. Also sighted are several species of woodpecker, including red-headed, red-bellied, and downy, and the pileated woodpecker, as well as the yellow-bellied sapsucker. Often sighted are water fowl such as the mute swan, the wood duck, and the mallard, wading birds such as the killdeer, and predators such as the red-tailed hawk. More rare birds sighted in the Paulins Kill valley include: purple martin, scarlet tanager, indigo bunting, Baltimore oriole, purple finch, and a variety of owls, notably the barn, eastern screech, great horned, snowy, barred, and northern saw-whet owl.
In art, literature and popular culture
Essayist, poet and children's author Aline Murray Kilmer (1886–1941), the widow of poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) lived in Stillwater, New Jersey, for the last 13 years of her life. Her 1785 house, "Whitehall," was built along the Paulins Kill by Abraham Shafer (1754–1820), son of Casper Shafer. It is thought that the setting of her children's book, A Buttonwood Summer (1929), was inspired by Stillwater and the Paulins Kill valley.
The 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th was filmed at Camp NoBeBosCo north of Blairstown, New Jersey, in Hardwick Township. The camp's Sand Pond, which stood in for the movie's "Crystal Lake," feeds the Jacksonburg Creek, a tributary of the Paulins Kill.
Artist and Queens College professor Louis Finkelstein (1923–2000) created a painting entitled Trees at Paulinskill (c.1991–97) that was among his later pastel works and critically compared to works by French artist and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)."Louis Finkelstein: The Late Pastels in the Context of His Artistic Thinking" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art , accessed December 21, 2006.
See also
Geography of New Jersey
History of New Jersey
Kittatinny Valley State Park
List of New Jersey rivers
New Jersey
Paulinskill Viaduct
Swartswood State Park
Resources
Notes and citations
Books and printed materials
Armstrong, William C. Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey (Lambertville, New Jersey: Hunterdon House, 1979). NO ISBN (Privately printed). Reprinted version.
Cawley, James S. and Cawley, Margaret. Exploring the Little Rivers of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1942, 1961, 1971, 1993).
Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen. The early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, New Jersey, Dover Printing Company, 1895). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Cummings, Warren D. Sussex County: A History (Newton, New Jersey: Newton Rotary Club, 1964). NO ISBN (Privately printed).
Cunningham, John T. Railroad Wonder: The Lackawanna Cut-Off (Newark, New Jersey: Newark Sunday News, 1961). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey [Title Varies]. Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1st-2nd series. 47 volumes. (Newark, New Jersey: 1880–1949). NO ISBN (pre-1964)
Gleason, June Benore. Historical Paulinskill Valley, New Jersey: Blairstown's neighbors. (Blairstown, New Jersey: Blairstown Press, 1949). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Honeyman, A. Van Doren (ed.). Northwestern New Jersey—A History of Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, and Sussex Counties Volume 1. (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1927). NO ISBN (pre-1964)
Richman, Steven M. The Bridges Of New Jersey: Portraits Of Garden State Crossings. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Schaeffer, Casper M.D. (and Johnson, William M.). Memoirs and Reminiscences: Together with Sketches of the Early History of Sussex County, New Jersey. (Hackensack, New Jersey: Privately Printed, 1907). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Schrabisch, Max. Indian habitations in Sussex County, New Jersey Geological Survey of New Jersey, Bulletin No. 13. (Union Hill, New Jersey: Dispatch Printing Company, 1915). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Schrabisch, Max. Archaeology of Warren and Hunterdon counties Geological Survey of New Jersey, Bulletin No. 18. (Trenton, N.J., MacCrellish and Quigley co., state printers, 1917). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Snell, James P. History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881). NO ISBN (Pre-1964)
Stickney, Charles E. Old Sussex County families of the Minisink Region from articles in the Wantage Recorder (compiled by Virginia Alleman Brown) (Washington, N.J. : Genealogical Researchers, 1988). NO ISBN (Privately printed).
Viet, Richard F. "John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German Gravestone Carving Tradition of 18th century Northwestern New Jersey" in Markers XVII (Richard E. Meyer, ed.), Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, XVII: 124–161 (2000).
Wintermute, Jacob Perry. Wintermute Family History. (Columbus, Ohio: Champlin Press, 1900). NO ISBN. [Reprinted: Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, NO ISBN] (Pre-1964)
Wintermute, Leonard. Windemuth Family Heritage. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1996). NO ISBN (Privately printed).
Maps and atlases
Map of Jonathan Hampton (1758) in the collection of the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey.
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan. Map of Sussex County, New Jersey. (1860) [Reprinted by the Sussex County Historical Society: Netcong, New Jersey: Esposito (Jostens), 2004.]
Beers, Frederick W. County Atlas of Warren, New Jersey: From actual surveys by and under the direction of F. W. Beers (New York: F.W. Beers & Co. 1874). [Reprinted by Warren County Historical Society: Harmony, New Jersey: Harmony Press, 1994].
Hagstrom Morris/Sussex/Warren counties atlas'' (Maspeth, New York: Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2004).
United States Geological Survey topographical map "Newton East" and "Newton West" (New Jersey).
External links
Map of Paulinskill Valley and Sussex Branch Trails
U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream flow-gauging stations
Tributaries of the Delaware River
Rivers of New Jersey
Rivers of Sussex County, New Jersey
Rivers of Warren County, New Jersey
Palatine German settlement in New Jersey
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Several theorems are named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy. Cauchy theorem may mean:
Cauchy's integral theorem in complex analysis, also Cauchy's integral formula
Cauchy's mean value theorem in real analysis, an extended form of the mean value theorem
Cauchy's theorem (group theory)
Cauchy's theorem (geometry) on rigidity of convex polytopes
The Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem concerning partial differential equations
The Cauchy–Peano theorem in the study of ordinary differential equations
Cauchy's limit theorem
Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
Janowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Wieś Lęborska, within Lębork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Nowa Wieś Lęborska, north-west of Lębork, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
References
Janowice |
Football Club de Nantes (; Gallo: Naunnt), commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes (), is a women's football club based in Nantes, France. It has been the women's section of FC Nantes since 2012. Coached by Nicolas Chabot, the club competes in the Division 2 Féminine.
History
In the summer of 2012, the plan to create a women's section of FC Nantes took effect. Firstly, youth teams were put in place, with the objective being to become a competitive feminine football club at a national scale in the long run. The senior team entered the league system in 2014, starting from the lowest tier, the third division of the District de Football de Loire-Atlantique. The club had failed to secure a merger with another club in the Nantes region, notably with .
The team rapidly progressed, successively finishing first in the third, second, and first district divisions, accessing the regional level of women's football in France ahead of the 2017–18 season. The team would shine once again during that season, finishing first in their Régional 2 group and reaching the final of the Coupe des Pays de la Loire. In the 2018–19 season, Nantes finished second in the Régional 1 behind Le Mans. The club therefore qualified for the play-offs for promotion to the Division 2 Féminine, where the team would eventually eliminate CA Paris and Le Mans. Nantes therefore reached the national level of football for the first time in the club's history, five years after the first team's entrance into the league system.
The first season in the Division 2 for Nantes was ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although the team did place fourth before the suspension of the league. The 2020–21 season was ended even earlier than the previous season; Nantes finished in second place in Group A. Despite a hope for promotion via play-offs, the French Football Federation finally decided that only Saint-Étienne would be promoted and that Nantes would stay in the Division 2.
On 30 July 2021, Nantes announced the appointment of Mathieu Ricoul as head coach to replace Tanguy Fétiveau, who had been managing the team since June 2017. At the beginning of the 2021–22 season, the club would have
a budget of €1 million and twelve federal contracts, the maximum amount in the Division 2, with hopes of achieving promotion to the Division 1 Féminine.
Managerial history
2017–2021: Tanguy Fétiveau
2021–2022: Mathieu Ricoul
2022–Present: Oswaldo Vizcarrondo
Players
Current squad
.
Notable former players
Sherly Jeudy
Yvonne Leuko
References
External links
Club website
FC Nantes (women)
FC Nantes (women)
2012 establishments in France
Association football clubs established in 2012
Nantes
Nantes (women) |
Beginning in the latter half of the 19th century, the Nizamiye Courts (also written Nizami) were a secular court system introduced within the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat era. This court system was administered under the Ottoman Ministry of Justice. Although secular, the Mecelle (the Ottoman version of codified Sharia) was eventually applied to the courts. This court system drew much influence from French models at the time. These courts enabled the further growth of legal pluralism within Ottoman jurisprudence.
History
From 1839 onwards various legal changes were implemented in the Ottoman Empire with heavy French influence. For example, the penal code (in Turkish ceza kannunamesi) from 1840 was revised in 1851 and later replaced by a French legal code. The French legal code also determined the Ottoman legal codes of commerce (1950) and maritime commerce (1863). By the 1860s, secular Nizamiye Courts were introduced in order to enact this new form of legal practice. The Nizamiye Courts were first established in 1864 as a part of the extensive Tanzimat efforts meant to Westernize and modernize the Ottoman Empire. During this time period the Khedivial Law School was founded for the sake of training lawyers for the Nizamiye Courts.
Middle East historian William L. Cleveland writes,
“The new penal laws were a continuation of the work of the jurist, religious scholar, and civil functionary, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha. In a series of reforms, Cevdet Pasha arranged for the establishment of secular, or Nizami courts with their own judiciary and courts of appeal.”
Out of this court system rose a duality within Ottoman legal practice. The Sharia Courts and Nizamiye Courts coexisted creating legal pluralism within the Empire. In some ways, this led to the slippery slope of increasing a lawyer's ability to choose within the legal sphere leading to corruption.
With regards to this pluralism, law professor Lee Epstein states that,
"In an attempt to clarify the division of judicial competences, an administrative council laid down that religious matters were to be handled by religious courts, and statute matters were to be handled by the Nizamiye courts."
Structure of Nizamiye Courts
The court was based from French models and were European in style. Therefore, they contained a three-tier hierarchal arrangement. This system was extended to the local magistrate level with the final promulgation of the Mecelle, a civil code that regulated marriage, divorce, alimony, will, and other matters of personal status.
The three levels:
1st: Instance courts
2nd: Courts of appeals
3rd: A cassation court located in Istanbul, dealing with commercial, criminal and civil cases.
See also
Ottoman Empire
Tanzimat
Mecelle
Sharia
Secularism
Legal pluralism
References
Courts in Turkey
Law of the Ottoman Empire |
Jean Lahiniriko (born April 1, 1956) is a Malagasy politician. He served in the government of Madagascar as Minister of Public Works from 2002 to 2003 and was president of the National Assembly of Madagascar from 2003 to 2006. Subsequently he was the second place candidate in the 2006 presidential election. He is now the president of the Socialist and Democratic Party for the Unity of Madagascar (PSDUM) and a member of the High Transitional Authority under President Andry Rajoelina.
Lahiniriko was born in Tongobory, Atsimo-Andrefana in the south of Madagascar and studied at the Lycée de génie civil d'Ampefoloha à Antananarivo. In the late 1970s, he moved to undertake further studies in civil engineering in Cuba. After working on various civil engineering projects, in 1985, he became the director of Zanatany, then from 1989 until 2003 he held various prominent civil service posts.
Under President Marc Ravalomanana, Lahiniriko was appointed as the Minister of Public Works in Prime Minister Jacques Sylla's first government, named on March 1, 2002, remaining in that position until January 2003. He was elected to the National Assembly in the December 2002 parliamentary election from the Betioky Sud district in Toliara Province under the banner of the Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM) party, receiving 56% of the vote in his district. On January 21, 2003, he was elected as president of the National Assembly, receiving 113 out of 146 votes.
In April 2006, Lahiniriko visited Iran and while there commented positively on Iran's nuclear programme. At home, his comments led to accusations of treason from members of parliament; Lahiniriko said the comments had only represented his personal views and were not intended as a statement of official policy. On May 8, the National Assembly voted Lahiniriko out of his position as its president, with 119 out of 160 legislators in favor of his removal. He was also expelled from TIM a week before he was voted out of his position. Two days after being removed from office, he announced that he would run for president in the December 2006 presidential election. According to official results, he placed second, with 11.65% of the vote, behind Ravalomanana, who received a majority in the first round. Lahiniriko received his strongest support in his home province of Toliara, where he won 45.95% of the vote, ten points more than Ravalomanana.
Lahiniriko's campaign director called the results false and said that Ravalomanana had only won about 49%. Lahiniriko claimed that there were problems with the electoral list and said that he did not accept the official results. He and third place candidate Roland Ratsiraka said that they were challenging the results in court and that they wanted the election to be held over again.
Lahiniriko opposed the constitutional changes proposed in the 2007 constitutional referendum and participated in a national committee that campaigned for a "no" vote as a coordinator of action.
Lahiniriko launched a new party, the Socialist and Democratic Party for the Unity of Madagascar (PSDUM), in early February 2007, with himself as its president. He stood for re-election to his National Assembly seat from Betioky Sud district as a PSDUM candidate in the September 2007 parliamentary election; running against him was the TIM candidate, André Avison Tsitohery, who was elected as Lahiniriko's substitute in the 2002 election. Tsitohery defeated Lahiniriko by a large margin according to provisional results, winning 52.06% of the vote against Lahiniriko's 22.39%, a difference of 11,600 votes; however, Lahiniriko's supporters disputed this, claiming he was actually ahead of Tsitohery by 2,873 votes.
Ravalomanana was forced to resign amidst a political crisis in March 2009, and opposition leader Andry Rajoelina took power. Rajoelina set up the High Authority of the Transition (HAT) as the ruling body, and Lahiniriko was appointed as one of the HAT's 44 members on March 31, 2009.
Lahiniriko is a member of the Lutheran Church of Madagascar.
References
1956 births
Living people
People from Atsimo-Andrefana
Malagasy Lutherans
Mahafaly people
Presidents of the National Assembly (Madagascar) |
Kristos Samra (, 15th century) was an Ethiopian female saint who founded an eponym monastery in Lake Tana.
She is one of Ethiopians over two-hundred indigenous saints and the earliest of about fourteen Ethiopian female saints. After Virgin Mary, she is considered one of female saints by Ethiopians who conceived as virgin and totally sinless.
She is venerated by both the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, with her feast day on 30 August.
Life
Kristos Samra lived in the 15th century (no exact dates of her birth or death appear in her hagiography).
The main source on her life is the Gadle Kristos Samra (The Life of Kristos Samra), a hagiography written in Ethiopic by a scribe named Filippos about her around 1508. Before she died, she told Filippos her biography and thirty of her visions. He wrote her hagiography at the monastery of Debre Libanos sometime between 1450 and 1508. A translation of two portions of the hagiography are available in English; a print version translated into Amharic is also available.
According to her hagiography, the only contemporaneous source on her life, she was born into a wealthy and pious family from a frontier province in the Christian Ethiopian empire and married to the son of the emperor's own priest (priests can be married in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church). She gave birth to eight sons and two daughters.
When she was around forty years old, one day she became enraged with a badly behaved maidservant and thrust a firebrand down her throat and the maidservant died. Then Kristos Samra felt terrible and guilty and prayed for God to restore the life of the maidservant fortunately her prayer was answered and the maid was alive again. So Kristos Samra was amazed and she felt "if God hears my prayer while I'm in this worldly life how much will he answer my prayer in monastery?"
She decided to be a nun and started her journey to a spiritual life. But when she arrived at the monastery with her infant son, they told her that no males were allowed into the nunnery. She was traveling with that maidservant, who was carrying her baby son and insisted on being with Kristos Samra when she headed to the monastery. Then she left the child outside and by God's will another nun came and saved the boy and raised him. Another version has that Saint Michael the Archangel took the child to heaven.
Kristos Samra spent two years as a novice before becoming a nun. She then left for Lake Tana, a place known for its many monasteries and ascetic monks and nuns, to live the life of a hermit. As her first remarkable act, she spent twelve years praying while standing several hours a day in the shallow waters of the lake near the shore, an act common among devout Ethiopians. Living in solitude, she moved around the lake, staying at monasteries, including Narga Sellase and Tana Qirqos. During this period, she had visions, speaking with angels and saints as well as Christ and his mother the Virgin Mary.
In her most well-known vision, she traveled to heaven and hell to plead with Christ and Satan to reconcile themselves to each other so that human beings would no longer suffer due to their enmity.
Then the biblical Patriarchs came to her in a dream and told her to settle at Gʷangut, located on the southwestern end of Lake Tana. They told her that the entire world would come there to prostrate themselves at her feet. In response, she gave up the life of a hermit and founded a monastery.
A monk named Yishaq helped her by building a church, training female novices, and celebrating the liturgy. Eventually, she withdrew once again into solitude, standing in a pit for three years and in the lake for another three years.
She was buried at Gʷangʷət, after which her monastery is named at this place.
Popularity
Some scholars, such as Ephraim Isaac, consider her to be the first female philosophers in Ethiopia, and many other countries. Her contemporary, Zara Yacob of 17th century Ethiopia is also seen as the first philosopher of Ethiopia, and Africa.
One scholar has stated that her hagiography is one of only "ten known biographies of African women written by Africans before the nineteenth century." Additionally, due to it is an "as-told-to" biography, "it is more of an intellectual autobiography, the narrative of one woman’s philosophy and her belief in the possibilities for healing a broken world".
Kristos Samra is such visionary medieval women saints as Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, Rabia of Basri and Lalla Aziza, and Mirabai.
In modern times, Kristos Samra is the most venerated saint in Ethiopia. With feast day of 30 August, her pilgrimage attracts thousand travellers in Lake Tana. She is envisaged by Ethiopians as an innocent sinless woman as Virgin Mary.
References
15th-century Christian saints
Christian female saints of the Middle Ages
Ethiopian women
Marian visionaries
Angelic visionaries
Ethiopian saints
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
15th-century Ethiopian people |
The Northern Ireland Music Prize awards are the Northern Irish awards for musicians who are friends with the organisers. It is produced by the Oh Yeah Music Centre, and is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Phonographic Performance Limited. Started in 2013, it was "aimed at recognising the great wealth of recorded music from Northern Ireland." In 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony was broadcast online.
A shortlist of 14 albums is created each year by an academy of professionals from the Northern Irish music industry. The prize winner would be selected by a "panel of experts" and announced at a ceremony in Belfast’s Mandela Hall.
Four other awards are presented at the ceremony, as well as the NI Music Prize: Best Live Act, Best Single, The Oh Yeah Contender Award (Emerging Act) and the Legend Award. These awards were introduced at the 2018 ceremony.
Winners
2013 — Foy Vance (Joy of Nothing)
2014 — Robyn G Shiels (The Blood of Innocents)
2015 — SOAK (Before We Forgot How to Dream)
2016 — Ciaran Lavery (Let Bad In)
2017 — Joshua Burnside (Ephrata)
2018 — The Wood Burning Savages (Stability)
2019 — Ryan Vail & Elma Orchestra (Borders)
2020 — Kitt Philippa (Human)
2021 — Saint Sister (Where I Should End)
References
British music awards
Awards established in 2013 |
CODA (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film) is the soundtrack album to the 2021 film CODA. The album featuring 18-tracks was released by Republic Records on August 13, 2021, the same day coinciding with the theatrical and streaming release on Apple TV+. It features original songs composed by Marius de Vries, co-produced the tracks with Nicholas Baxter, and incorporated tracks were compiled into the album. The film's lead cast members, Emilia Jones and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, had sung for most of the tracks in the film, along with CODA choir members (students from the Berklee College of Music) recording for few tracks.
Background
Vries attached to the project in mid-2019, when Patrick Wachsberger had the acquisition for the remake rights of La Famille Bélier (2014) and co-produced the film with the original film's producer Philippe Rousselet. During the scripting discussions, he felt that composing original songs for a film, that featured predominantly deaf characters, is considered to be the "biggest challenge" as there need a strong musical cue to connect the emotions, for each sign language. In an interview with Edward Douglas, Vries recalled that "We pretty quickly realized that the dramatic side of the movie would start, in musical terms, in almost complete silence, and then the score would sort of surreptitiously bleed into it as her [Emilia Jones] journey into music develops. The more fully-fledged cues that you hear at the end of the film correspond with the slow process of her mastering her craft as a singer and confidence as a musical intelligence." The soundtrack album was curated and produced by Vries and Nicholai Baxter. Baxter stated that "I’ve always been drawn to soundtrack albums that take the listeners on the journey of reliving the movie, even if it’s from a completely different perspective [...] Especially for a film like this, it’s rewarding to be able to experience that again, in audio form."
Sian Heder believed that there is a strong connection between deaf culture and music. He further elaborated this in an interview with Roy Takin of Variety magazine, saying "ASL, as a language, is closer to music than spoken word — it is expressive, melodic, rhythmic, visual and three-dimensional in the same way music is. You use your whole body, and experience what you say as you’re saying it. You live in those emotions being described as you communicate [...] The ASL scenes, even though not accompanied by music, are far from silent. They are full of incredible, intimate sounds of breath, vocalization, the way fingers hit against clothes or hands slap together in anger. It would have been very easy for the music to overwhelm what was happening on screen." The team wanted the audience to intentionally experience of the silence and being comfortable, and once the audience were invested and emotionally drawn with the characters, they felt that it is acceptable to score music.
Recording and production
Vries approached for minimal instrumentation, to connect with the deaf characters' emotions. Some of the musical sequences, including Emilia's high-school choir performance and rehearsals where shot and recorded live on sets, instead of re-recording and lip-syncing. Some of the students trained at Berklee College of Music and Gloucester High School, were brought in for the choir sequences, under the suggestions of Vries and Baxter, the latter also worked with the students in Berklee. All the songs in the album were recorded live. When the songs recording were done, the team originally had to mix the album in Canada, but post-production works were interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The team later relocated to Los Angeles, to continue the mixing and mastering works, and the team managed to complete post-production, as most of the restrictions were lifted due to the reduction in COVID-19 cases, though the team had to abide safety guidelines. Emilia's vocals were recorded at a studio in England.
While most of the album featured incorporated musical songs, an original track sung by Emilia Jones and written by Heder and Matt Dahan, titled "Beyond the Shore" was composed for the film. The song, which was the final track from the album, was recorded when most of the filming and production works were completed. Heder said that "When we started thinking about the song, the movie felt complete, in a way. Yet it ended with a beginning — [Ruby] driving off into the unknown of whatever her journey was going to be [...] Even though we go forth from our families and out into the world and pursue our own dreams, they’re always going to be a part of us." Baxter also recalled in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying "All of us realized that it would be really powerful if we could extend Ruby’s narrative a little bit further. You end the film feeling somewhat unresolved and wondering what happens to her and wanting more from her story."
Reception
Reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, at the screening in 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jon Frosch said "Marius De Vries’ score is discreet and sparingly deployed, never overshadowing the singing by Ruby, Miles and the choir. And if a movie is going to feature multiple rehearsal scenes, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Need to Get By” and Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” are pretty unbeatable song choices." Divya Bhavani of The Hindu stated "Though music is a strong component in this film, it rightfully remains as such and does not overshadow the core storytelling. The emotive score of strings by Marius de Vries has a subtle restraint that is slowly lessened as Ruby comes into her own; the compositions make for an ideal companion to the visual narrative."
Track listing
Charts
Accolades
Although the film was nominated and won, three Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, and Best Adapted Screenplay), the track "Beyond the Shore" was shortlisted for Best Original Song, but did not make it to the final list of nominations.
References
External links
2021 soundtrack albums
Republic Records soundtracks
Musical film soundtracks
Comedy-drama film soundtracks
2020s film soundtrack albums |
WinRoll is an open source, free software utility for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 which allows the user to "roll up" windows into their title bars, in addition to other window management related features. It is compiled in assembly code.
History
WinRoll 1.0 was first released on April 10, 2003. It is unclear if it still maintained by Wil Palma. The most recent version, 2.0, was released on April 7, 2004. Being an open source program, its source code was freely available from the website. The website is now down.
Source code is available as a fork on Github.
Features
The purpose of WinRoll is to allow users to have many windows on the screen, while keeping them organized and manageable. The main feature of the program is enabling the user to "roll" windows up into their title bars. It also allows users to minimize programs to the tray, and to adjust the opacity of windows.
See also
Free software
Open source software
Assembly language
Free software primarily written in assembly language
Free system software
Windows-only free software |
The 28th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2017 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2016, were held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on January 28, 2017. The nominations for documentary film were announced on November 22, 2016, the nominations for television were announced on January 5, 2017, and the nominations for film were announced on January 10, 2017.
Winners and nominees
Film
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
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La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt Arrival – Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde
Deadpool – Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, and Lauren Shuler Donner
Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, and Todd Black
Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic and David Permut
Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn
Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi
Lion – Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Angie Fielder
Manchester by the Sea – Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
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Zootopia – Clark Spencer Finding Dory – Lindsey Collins
Kubo and the Two Strings – Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight
Moana – Osnat Shurer
The Secret Life of Pets – Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
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O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow Dancer – Gabrielle Tana
The Eagle Huntress – Stacey Reiss and Otto Bell
Life, Animated – Julie Goldman and Roger Ross Williams
Tower – Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, and Megan Gilbride
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Television
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama
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Stranger Things (Netflix) – Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Iain Paterson Better Call Saul (AMC) – Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Melissa Bernstein, Mark Johnson, Thomas Schnauz, Gennifer Hutchison, Nina Jack, Robin Sweet, Diane Mercer, Bob Odenkirk
Game of Thrones (HBO) – David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, Carolyn Strauss, Bryan Cogman, Lisa McAtackney, Chris Newman, Greg Spence
House of Cards (Netflix) – Beau Willimon, Dana Brunetti, Michael Dobbs, Josh Donen, David Fincher, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, John Mankiewicz, Robert Zotnowski, Jay Carson, Frank Pugliese, Boris Malden, Hameed Shaukat
Westworld (HBO) – J. J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Bryan Burk, Athena Wickham, Kathy Lingg, Richard J. Lewis, Roberto Patino, Katherine Lingenfelter, Cherylanne Martin
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy
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Atlanta (FX) – Donald Glover, Dianne McGunigle, Paul Simms, Hiro Murai, Alex Orr Black-ish (ABC) – Kenya Barris, Jonathan Groff, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Vijal Patel, Gail Lerner, Corey Nickerson, Courtney Lilly, Lindsey Shockley, Peter Saji, Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Hale Rothstein, Michael Petok, Yvette Lee Bowser
Silicon Valley (HBO) – Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Jim Kleverweis, Clay Tarver, Dan O'Keefe, Michael Rotenberg, Tom Lassally, John Levenstein, Ron Weiner, Carrie Kemper, Adam Countee
Veep (HBO) – David Mandel, Frank Rich, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lew Morton, Morgan Sackett, Sean Gray, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Jim Margolis, Georgia Pritchett, Will Smith, Chris Addison, Rachel Axler, David Hyman, Erik Kenward, Billy Kimball, Steve Koren
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
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The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX) – Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, D.V. DeVincentis, Anthony Hemingway, Alexis Martin Woodall, John Travolta, Chip Vucelich Black Mirror (Netflix) – Annabel Jones, Charlie Brooker
The Night Manager (AMC) – Simon Cornwell, Stephen Garrett, Stephen Cornwell, Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Susanne Bier, David Farr, John le Carré, William D. Johnson, Alexei Boltho, Rob Bullock
The Night Of (HBO) – Steven Zaillian, Richard Price, Jane Tranter, Garrett Basch, Scott Ferguson
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (PBS) – Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue, Beryl Vertue
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
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Making a Murderer (Netflix) – Laura Ricciardi, Moira Demos 30 for 30 (ESPN) – Connor Schell, John Dahl, Libby Geist, Bill Simmons, Erin Leyden, Andrew Billman, Marquis Daisy, Deirdre Fenton
60 Minutes (CBS) – Jeff Fager
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) – Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
Hamilton's America (PBS) – Alex Horwitz, Nicole Pusateri, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller, Dave Sirulnick, Jon Kamen, Justin Wilkes
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Producer of Competition Television
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The Voice (NBC) – Audrey Morrissey, Jay Bienstock, Mark Burnett, John de Mol, Jr., Chad Hines, Lee Metzger, Kyra Thompson, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker, Carson Daly The Amazing Race (CBS) – Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri, Mark Vertullo
American Ninja Warrior (NBC) – Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Anthony Storm, Brian Richardson, Kristen Stabile, David Markus, J.D. Pruess, D. Max Poris, Zayna Abi-Hashim, Royce Toni, John Gunn, Matt Silverberg, Briana Vowels, Mason Funk, Jonathan Provost
Lip Sync Battle (Spike) – Casey Patterson, Jay Peterson, John Krasinski, Stephen Merchant, Leah Gonzalez, Genna Gintzig, LL Cool J
Top Chef (Bravo) – Daniel Cutforth, Tom Colicchio, Casey Kriley, Padma Lakshmi, Jane Lipsitz, Doneen Arquines, Erica Ross, Patrick Schmedeman, Ellie Carbaial, Tara Seiner, Wade Sheeler
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – Tim Carvell, John Oliver, Liz Stanton Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS) – Samantha Bee, Jo Miller, Jason Jones, Tony Hernandez, Miles Kahn, Pat King, Alison Camillo, Kristen Everman
The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS) – Ben Winston, Rob Crabbe, Mike Gibbons, Amy Ozols, Sheila Rogers, Michael Kaplan, Jeff Kopp, James Longman, Josie Cliff, James Corden
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) – Bill Maher, Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Billy Martin, Dean E. Johnsen, Chris Kelly, Matt Wood
Saturday Night Live (NBC) – Lorne Michaels, Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward, Lindsay Shookus, Erin Doyle, Ken Aymong
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Sports Program
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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO) (TIE) VICE World of Sports (VICELAND) (TIE) E:60 (ESPN)
The Fight Game with Jim Lampley: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali (HBO)
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Los Angeles Rams (HBO)
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! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Outstanding Children's Program
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Sesame Street (PBS/HBO) Girl Meets World (Disney Channel)
Octonauts (Disney Channel)
School of Rock (Nickelodeon)
SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
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Digital
Milestone Award
Tom RothmanStanley Kramer Award
Loving
Visionary Award
Megan Ellison
David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
Irwin Winkler
Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television
James L. Brooks
References
External links
2016
2016 film awards
2016 television awards |
Qarah Aghaj (, also Romanized as Qarah Āghāj and Qareh Āghāj; also known as Ghareh Aghaj, Karaagach, Qara Agāch, and Qareh Āqāch) is a village in Chelleh Khaneh Rural District, Sufian District, Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 470, in 118 families.
References
Populated places in Shabestar County |
Çatalözü () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Koçekan tribe and had a population of 2,289 in 2021.
Geography
The village is 48.88 kilometers away from the city center of Mardin, and it is 3.05 kilometers away from the district center of Nusaybin.
References
Neighbourhoods in Nusaybin District
Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province |
Varanus timorensis, the Timor monitor or spotted tree monitor, is a species of small monitor lizards native to the island of Timor and some adjacent islands.
Taxonomy
Kimberley rock monitors (Varanus glauerti), banded tree monitors (Varanus scalaris), and spotted tree monitors (Varanus similis) were once considered subspecies of the Timor monitor, but have since been elevated to full species status.
Currently, the peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi) is sometimes considered a subspecies, but is usually considered its own species.
Description
The Timor monitor is a dwarf species of monitor lizard belonging to the subgenus Odatria. Generally, it is dark greenish-gray to almost black in background color, with bright gold-yellow or sometimes bluish spotting along its dorsal surface and a lighter straw-yellow color on its ventral side. It has a pointed snout, excellent eyesight and hearing, sharp teeth, and a prehensile tail that measures two-thirds of its total length. V. timorensis also has long, sharp claws well-suited for climbing and defense. The species grows to a maximum of 61 cm, and weighs between 100 and 350 g.
Habitat
Varanus timorensis live in hollowed trees and branches, the spotted coloration helps them camouflage into the surrounding habitats.
Behavior
Timor monitors are arboreal, diurnal lizards. Their diet consist of a variety of invertebrates, such as scorpions, orthopterans, spiders, mantids, bees and cockroaches, and other lizards, such as geckos, as well as small snakes. Breeding takes place from December to March, and clutches of up to 11 eggs are laid; the eggs incubate three to four months, depending on the average temperature. Hatchlings are about 5 in long, but grow quickly.
Geographic distribution
The Timor monitor is found in Indonesia, specifically the islands of Timor, Savu, and Rote, and in East Timor.
In captivity
Frequently bred in captivity, this monitor is also still imported in small numbers for the exotic pet trade. Wild-caught specimens can be nervous and difficult to handle, but captive-raised animals are much less shy.
References
King, Dennis & Green, Brian. 1999. Goannas: The Biology of Varanid Lizards. University of New South Wales Press.
Varanus
Reptiles of Indonesia
Reptiles of Timor
Reptiles described in 1831
Taxa named by John Edward Gray |
Below is a list of the more common initial opening move sequences found in professional shogi games.
First move
Out of the 64,046 recorded (mostly) professional games on Kyokumenpedia (局面ペヂィア) as of 2019 Jan 23 spanning the timeframe from the 1600s to 2018, 77.2% started with a bishop pawn opening (P-76) and 20.8% started with a rook pawn opening (P-26). The rook pawn push naturally leads to Static Rook openings; however, it is possible to play a Feint Ranging Rook as well. The bishop pawn push is more flexible and thus more ambiguous about the planned opening information given to White.
A less common first move (1.6% of Kyokumenpedia games) is the king's pawn (P-56). This move often suggests a Ranging Rook opening (Central Rook or Opposing Rook) for Black.
Other first moves are relatively rare and occur less than 0.5% of the time. For instance, the fourth most frequent move is the left edge pawn (P-96), but this only occurs less than 0.1% of the time.
Second move
Just as the most common first moves are 1.P-76 and 1.P-26, the most common first move responses by White are also the rook pawn and bishop pawn pushes.
1. P-76
Out of professional games with the bishop pawn push as the first move (1.P-76), 56.4% had White respond by advancing their bishop pawn (...P-34) and 42.5% responded by advancing their rook pawn (...P-84).
All other second moves (e.g. ...G-32) occur less than 1.1% of the time.
The ...G-32 choice prevents White from making a Boat castle, which is a standard castle used for a Static Rook position against a Ranging Rook opponent, since the Boat castle requires the king to the 32 square while the left gold remains on its starting 41 square. Thus, this move seems to invite Black to play a Ranging Rook position in order to exploit White's more limited piece development. Nonetheless, if Black chooses a Ranging Rook opening, White's gold on 32 can still be used to develop a Silver Crown castle or if Black plays a Bishop-Exchange Ranging Rook opening White can develop a Fortress castle in response with the gold in this position.
1.P-26
Out of the rook pawn (1.P-26) first move games, 50.8% had a rook pawn advance as White's response and 48.7% had a bishop pawn response.
All other second moves (e.g. ...G-32) occur less than 0.5% of the time.
1.P-56
Out of the central pawn (1.P-56) first move games, 65.5% had a bishop pawn advance as White's response, 30.2% had a rook pawn response, 2.5% have silver to 62, and 1.2% advance the central pawn.
All other second moves occur less than 0.6% of the time.
1.P-96
Advancing the left edge pawn is an uncommon first move that like other more common first moves is usually followed by a bishop pawn (64.2%) or rook pawn (17.0%) push.
Less common responses include advancing either edge pawn.
First 2-move probabilities
To state it in a different way, the probabilities of these first two-move sequences are shown below along with their log probability. In the adjacent diagrams are the six most common two-move positions.
These probabilities highlight how the most common first move from either side are the bishop and rook pawn pushes accounting for over 97% of all games.
Third move
1.P-76 P-34
Out of the 1.P-76 P-34 professional games, for the third move, Black:
advances their rook pawn (P-26) 64.2% of the time,
advances their sixth file pawn (P-66) 20.1% of the time,
continues pushing their seventh file pawn (P-75) 5.1% of the time,
advances their left edge pawn (P-96) 3.2% of the time,
advances their right edge pawn (P-16) 2.5% of the time,
advances their right silver to the fourth file (S-48) 1.2% of the time,
moves their rook to the fourth file (R-68) 1.0% of the time, and
advances their central pawn (P-56) 0.9% of the time.
All other third moves occur 1.7% of the time.
Playing 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 results in the same board position as a 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 sequence. (See: Transposition (chess).) This is the most commonly encountered 3-move sequence in shogi.
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66 sequence suggests that Black may play a Ranging Rook opening (Opposing, Third File, or Fourth File).
However, Fortress or Snowroof are also possible.
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-75 sequence strongly suggests that Black will play an Ishida opening (Third File Ranging Rook).
Both the 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-96 and 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-1f sequences with the edge pawn push are relatively noncommittal initial moves by Black. Here, it is as if Black is asking White to determine which opening to play. (These moves also recall the shogi aphorism (将棋の格言 shōgi no kakugen): 手のない時には端歩を突け te no nai toki wa hashifu o tsuke "When there's no (good) move, push an edge pawn".)
1.P-76 P-34 2.P-96 can transpose to 1.P-96 P-34 2.P-76. However, 1.P-96 is an uncommon first move, and 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-96 is 38 times more likely than the transposition.
1.P-76 P-84
Out of 1.P-76 P-84 games, common third moves for Black include:
(S-68) advancing their left silver to the sixth file (52.3%),
(P-26) advancing their rook pawn (16.4%),
(P-56) advancing their central pawn (11.7%),
(S-78) advancing their left silver to the seventh file (7.4%),
(R-78) moving their rook to the seventh file (4.1%),
(G-78) moving their left gold up the seventh file (2.6%),
(P-16) advancing their right edge pawn (1.8%),
(R-68) moving their rook to the sixth file (1.8%), and
(P-66) advancing their sixth file pawn (1.4%).
All other third moves occur 0.5% of the time.
Playing 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 results in the same board position as the uncommon 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76 sequence.
The 1.P-76 P-84 2.S-68 sequence suggests that Black might play a Fortress opening (Static Rook). Although Fortress is very common, the moves could also transition to other Static Rook openings like Bishop Exchange or Snowroof as well as to several Ranging Rook openings. This 3-move sequence is the second most common found in shogi.
1.P-76 G-32
White's G-32 is an uncommon second move. Out of 1.P-76 G-32 games, common third moves for Black include:
(P-26) pushing their rook pawn push (29.1%),
(P-56) advancing their central pawn (20.6%),
(G-78) advancing their left gold up the seventh file (16.6%), and
(R-78) swinging their rook to the seventh file (13.1%).
All other third moves occur 20.6% of the time.
1.P-26 P-84
Out of 1.P-26 P-84 games, common third moves for Black include:
(P-25) further advancing their rook pawn (93%) and
(P-76) advancing their bishop pawn (6%).
Other third moves occur less 0.5% of the time.
Playing the uncommon 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76 sequence results in the same board position as the more common 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 sequence.
1.P-26 P-34
Out of 1.P-26 P-34 games, common third moves for Black include:
(P-76) advancing their bishop pawn (85.4%),
(P-25) further advancing their rook pawn (13.1%), and
(S-48) moving their right silver to the fourth file (1.2%).
Other third moves occur 0.3% of the time.
Playing 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 transposes to the 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 sequence.
1.P-56 P-34
Out of 1.P-56 P-34 games, the most common third moves for Black include:
(R-58) moving their rook to the central file (97.6%) and
(P-76) opening their bishop diagonal (0.9%)
All other third moves occur 1.4% of the time.
1.P-96 P-34
Out of 1.P-96 P-34 games, the most common third moves for Black include:
(P-76) opening their bishop diagonal (76.5%) and
(S-48) moving their right silver to the fourth file (11.8%).
First 3-move probabilities
Below are the joint probabilities of these common 3 move sequences along with their log probability. The following table collapses different sequences that result in the same board position. The adjacent diagrams show the eight most common positions found in the game records.
Fourth move
1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 / 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76
Out of the 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 / 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 professional games, for the fourth move, White
advances their fourth file pawn (P-44) 54% of the time,
advances their rook pawn (P-84) 19% of the time,
advances their central pawn (P-54) 12% of the time, and
moves their left gold toward the bishop (G-32) 9% of the time.
Other fourth moves occur 6% of the time.
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 P-44 and 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 P-44 sequences suggest that White will play a Ranging Rook opening.
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 P-84 and 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 P-84 sequences suggest a Side Pawn Capture opening (Double Static Rook).
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 P-54 and 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 P-54 sequences suggest White will play a Central Rook opening (Ranging Rook).
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 G-32 and 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 G-32 sequences suggest White wants to play a Bishop Exchange opening (Double Static Rook).
1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66
Out of 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66 games, common fourth moves for White include:
(P-84) advancing their rook pawn (40%),
(S-62) moving their right silver toward the center (23%),
(R-32) ranging their rook to the third file (9%), and
(P-35) further advancing their bishop pawn (8%).
Other fourth moves occur 19% of the time.
The first three moves already suggest that Black will play a Ranging Rook opening.
The 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66 S-62 sequence suggests that White will play a Static Rook opening.
Both the 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66 R-32 and 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-66 P-35 sequences suggest that White will also play a Ranging Rook opening (Double Ranging Rook), in particular Third File Rook.
1.P-76 P-34 2.P-75
Out of 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-75 games, common fourth moves for White include:
(K-42) castling their king toward the bishop (21%),
(P-84) advancing their rook pawn (17%),
(P-54) advancing their central pawn (14%), and
(S-62) advancing their silver up (14%).
Other fourth moves occur 35% of the time.
1.P-76 P-84 2.S-68
Out of 1.P-76 P-84 2.S-68 games, White usually (99%) advances their bishop pawn (P-34).
Other fourth moves occur less than 0.5% of the time.
This 4-move 1.P-76 P-84 2.S-68 P-34 sequence will usually lead to a Fortress opening (just like the first 3 moves) with White threatening Black's bishop. However, it's still possible that Black could transition to a Bishop Exchange or Snowroof opening or a Ranging Rook openings like Central Rook or Opposing Rook. (Third File Rook or Fourth File Rook are less likely here as the silver is blocking the rook from moving to these files.)
1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 / 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76
Out of 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 / 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76 games, common fourth moves for White include:
(P-85) further advancing their rook pawn (62%),
(G-32) moving their left gold toward the bishop (32%), and
(P-34) advancing their bishop pawn (5%).
The 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 P-34 sequence results in the same board position as the 1.P-76 P-34 2.P-26 P-84, 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-76 P-84, and 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76 P-34 sequences – all of which suggest a Side Pawn Capture opening (Static Rook).
The 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-26 G-32 and 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-76 G-32 sequences suggest the possibility of a Bishop Exchange opening (Double Static Rook).
1.P-76 P-84 2.P-56
Out of 1.P-76 P-84 2.P-56 games, common fourth moves for White include:
(P-85) further advancing their rook pawn (59%),
(P-54) advancing their central pawn (22%), and
(P-34) advancing their bishop pawn (18%).
Other fourth moves occur 2% of the time.
1.P-76 P-84 2.S-78
Out of 1.P-76 P-84 2.S-78 games, White usually (98% of the time) advances their bishop pawn (P-34).
Other fourth moves occur 2% of the time.
1.P-26 P-84 2.P-25
Out of 1.P-26 P-84 2.P-25 games, White usually (96% of the time) further advances their rook pawn (P-85).
Other fourth moves occur 4% of the time.
This sequence suggests a Double Wing Attack opening (Static Rook). (It's possible that this could also transition to other Static Rook openings.)
1.P-26 P-34 2.P-25
Out of 1.P-26 P-34 2.P-25 games, White usually (97% of the time) moves their bishop to the third file (B-33).
Other fourth moves occur 3% of the time.
First 4-move probabilities
Below are the joint probabilities for these 4-move sequences.
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Sex is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by J. Parker Read, and starring Louise Glaum. On its surface, the film was a morality story on the evils of marital infidelity. However, the film's producer, J. Parker Read, had made a series of pictures on sex themes. The release of Sex, with its provocative title and explicit scenes of seduction and debauchery, made it the subject of controversy among censors and commentators.
Plot
The film is a morality story on the evils of marital infidelity and the wild lifestyle of New York actors. At the same time, the film included scenes of seduction and debauchery that made it the subject of controversy over its prurient content.
The film's plot centers on Adrienne Renault (played by Louise Glaum), the beautiful queen of the Midnight Follies at the Frivolity Theater.
The film opens with Renault's current conquest, a married millionaire, Philip Overman (played by William Conklin). Overman is in his private box watching Renault perform her seductive "Spider Dance". Renault comes on stage dressed as a spider, "clad in a translucent cloak of webs wrapped cloak-like around a body-hugging black sheath".
In another scene of debauchery, the film depicts a party at which "stage-door johnnies drink out of women's slippers and scantily clad chorines slide down banisters, their undergarments visible to all and sundry".
The film then shifts to Mrs. Overman (played by Myrtle Stedman), home alone in her empty mansion. Her suspicions persuade her to hire a private detective to follow her husband. Eventually, Mrs. Overman uncovers her husband's infidelity. She begs Renault to release her husband, but Renault refuses, and Mrs. Overman obtains a divorce.
By this time, Renault has fallen in love with a new millionaire, Dick Wallace (played by Irving Cummings). Renault marries Wallace, but Wallace then betrays Renault, falling in love with Renault's young protege, Daisy (played by Viola Barry). It was Renault who had coached Daisy in the ways of seducing wealthy married men. Renault begs Daisy to release Wallace, harkening back to the scene where Mrs. Overmire had pleaded with Renault. As Renault had done with Mrs. Overman, Daisy refuses to release Wallace.
Renault then sails for Europe. She ends up on the same ship with the reunited Overmans, who are on a second honeymoon. The chastened Renault does nothing to disrupt the relationship, resigned to a life of solitude. The film's final intertitle reads, "The standards of morality eternally demand that the naked soul of Sex be stripped of its falsehoods – which can only be atoned for through bitter tears."
Cast
Louise Glaum as Adrienne Renault
Irving Cummings as Dave Wallace
Peggy Pearce as Daisy Henderson
Myrtle Stedman as Mrs. Overman
William Conklin as Philip Overman
Jean Murat Minor Role (uncredited)
Production
One of the unusual elements in the filming of Sex was the use of three cameras. One camera was used to produce the negative from which prints were to be made for use in the United States, and a second was used to be used for foreign prints. The third camera was "placed at an angle different from either of the others" and "was used in the expectation that a unique angle might provide a more interesting view of the dramatic action".
Reception
The film was a box office hit and received extensive coverage in the newspapers in 1920. A Massachusetts newspaper gave the film the following review:
Sex, the wonderplay of the season ... is startling, even bold in spots, but very, very nice. The picture has undeniable virtues and just as undeniable vices but they belong to the characters in the piece for 'Sex' has a 'soul.' ... A problem, beautifully presented and cleverly analyzed that leaves us with a sense of the infinite at the end -- which is distinctly unusual -- and which is entirely free from the sticky-sweet sentimentality of too many photoplays is the theme of sex. ... The art of the producer, applied with lavish, yet discriminating hand and the talents of the star make 'Sex' superlative entertainment and food for thought.
A Pennsylvania newspaper wrote: "We have heard a great deal in the past year about 'pictures with a soul' but we never quite got the significance of the 'soul-picture' until we saw 'Sex' with Louise Glaum as the star." A Chicago newspaper called it "a lesson to thousands of frivolous creatures who fool themselves into believing that youth lasts forever, that pleasure is life's chief object and that one can violate the laws that regulate our domestic lives and get away with it".
Glaum's performance as the "vampish" Renault drew extensive coverage. One reviewer called it "one of the most perfect vampire characterizations" ever given in a motion picture. Another review called Renault "a dazzling, alluring home wrecker ... who never had a qualm of conscience about taking another's husband".
When the film was screened in 2004, Los Angeles Times film critic, Kevin Thomas, wrote: "Six years before Mae West dared to call her play 'Sex', Thomas Ince produced and Fred Niblo directed a 1920 film called 'Sex', starring pioneering screen vamp Louise Glaum as a New York cabaret star, the mistress of a married man. What gives the film its edge is that in truth she is simply a blunt, honest woman who doesn't realize her own vulnerability."
Controversy
The film's title and subject matter were the subject of controversy in some locations. Playing off of the film's provocative title, newspaper advertising urged readers to "SEE SEX SEE SEX SEE SEX".
The Pennsylvania State Board of Motion Picture Censors refused to allow the film to be shown in Pennsylvania under its provocative title. To appease the censors, the film was distributed in Pennsylvania under the title Sex Crushed to Earth.
In Hagerstown, Maryland, the theater owner defended his showing of the film by pointing to its "social import":
Of all the social problems that beset the world that of Sex is indubitably the greatest. The 'mystery' of the sex equation has given rise to innumerable pruderies and pruriencies but Manager Thropp of the Colonial Theatre has come out flatly with the pronouncement that he has booked Sex ... because of its vast social import.
The film was a box office success, and the Los Angeles Times reported that it had led to a war being declared in some quarters against "sex pictures". Echoing the response of Sex producer, J. Parker Read, the Times in February 1921 wrote:
Sex has an important part in life either for evil or good, and it is the producers' privilege to show the error of the former and the virtue of the latter. Anybody who would wish to ban sex pictures from the screen, would be simply eliminating a highly important, if not the most important phase of life from the pictures. Thus did J. Parker Read, impresario of sensational sex films, outline his attitude toward the present agitation against pictures on sex themes.
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The music of Dominica includes a variety of genres including all the popular genres of the world. Popular music is widespread, with a number of native Dominican performers gaining national fame in imported genres such as calypso, reggae, soca, kompa, zouk and rock and roll. Dominica's own popular music industry has created a form called bouyon, which combines elements from several styles and has achieved a wide fanbase in Dominica. Groups include WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture), Native musicians in various forms, such as reggae (Nasio Fontaine, Lazo, Brother Matthew Luke), kadans (Ophelia Marie, (Exile One, Grammacks) and calypso (The Wizzard), have also become stars at home and abroad.
There is also "Cadence-lypso", the Dominica kadans, which has set the stage for some of the region's most significant musical developments such as zouk and bouyon (another Dominican creation).
Like the other Francophone musics of the Lesser Antilles, Dominican folk music is a hybrid of African and European elements. The quadrille is an important symbol of French Antillean culture, and is, on Dominica, typically accompanied by a kind of ensemble called a jing ping band. In addition, Dominica's folk tradition includes folk songs called bélé, traditional storytelling called kont, masquerade, children's and work songs, and Carnival music.
Until the late 1950s, the Afro-Dominican culture of most of the island was repressed by the colonial government and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, both of which taught that African-derived music was evil, demonic and uncultured. This perception changed in the mid- to late 20th century, when Afro-Dominican culture came to be celebrated through the work of promoters like Cissie Caudeiron.
Characteristics
Dominica's terrain is rugged, which has fostered distinct regional traditions. The northern, eastern, southern, western and central parts of the island are music areas. The villages of Wesley and Marigot are also unique in their preservation of English language and music rather than the more French-based styles of the rest of the island.
Dominican folk music is an oral tradition, learned informally through watching others perform. As of 1987, most performers of traditional music were either over 50 years old or under 35, which indicates an ongoing revival of previously declining traditions. Music is evaluated based on both characteristics of the music, such as complex syncopated rhythms, as well as social factors, such as the ability of the performers to improvise and respond to their surroundings and to keep the audience excited and participating in the music.
Characteristics of Dominican music include the West African use of call and response singing, clapping as a major part of rhythm and lyrical, dance and rhythmic improvisation. Lyrics are almost all in Dominican Creole French, and are traditionally sung by women (chantwèl), while the instrumental traditions are predominantly practiced by men. Drums, generically known as lapo kabwit, are the most prominent part of Dominica's instrumental tradition.
Folk music
Dominican folk music includes, most influentially, the French Antillean quadrille tradition, the jing ping style of dance music, as well as bélé and heel-and-toe polka. Traditional Carnival music includes chanté mas and lapo kabwit. Folk music on Dominica has historically been a part of everyday life, including work songs, religious music and secular, recreational music.
The quadrille is one of the most important dance of the Dominican folk tradition, which also includes the lancer and distinctive forms of several dances, many of them derived from European styles. The bidjin (biguine), mereng (méringue), sotis (schottische), polka pil (pure polka), vals o vyenn (Viennese waltz) and mazouk (mazurka) are particularly widespread.
Bélé
Bélé are folk songs of West African origin, traditionally performed recreationally in the evening during the full moon, and more rarely, lavèyé (wakes). The bélé tradition has declined in the 20th and 21st century, but is still performed for holidays like Easter, Independence Day, Christmas, Creole Day (Jounen Kwéyòl) and patron saint festivals held annually in the Parishes of Dominica, especially in the Fèt St.-Pierre and the Fèt St.-Isidore for fishermen and workers respectively.
All bélé are accompanied by an eponymous drum, the tanbou bélé, along with the tingting (triangle) and chakchak (maracas). Bélés start with a lead vocalist (chantwèl), who is followed by the responsorial chorus (lavwa), then a drummer and dancers.
Traditional dances revolve around stylized courtship between a male and female dancer, known as the kavalyé and danm respectively. The bélé song-dances include the bélé soté, bélé priòrité, bélé djouba, bélé contredanse, bélé rickety and bélé pitjé.
Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance form that is an important symbol of French Antillean culture, not just in Dominica, but also Martinique, Guadeloupe and other Francophone islands. Dominican quadrilles are traditionally performed by four sets of couples in subscription picnics or dances, and in private parties. However, the quadrille tradition now only survives at holidays and festivals.
The Dominican quadrille generally has four figures, the pastouwèl, lapoul, lété and latrinitez. Some regions of Dominica, such as Petite Savanne, are home to local variants such as the caristo. Many quadrilles are found across Dominica under a wide variety of names. In addition to the standard quadrille, the lancer is also an important Dominican dance.
Accompaniment for the quadrille is provided by a four-instrument ensemble called a jing ping band.
Jing ping
Jing Ping is a kind of folk music originated on the slave plantations of Dominica, also known colloquially as an accordion band. In Dominican folk music, jing ping bands accompany a circle dance called the flirtation, as well as the Dominican quadrille.
Jing ping bands are made up of a boumboum (boom pipe), syak or gwaj (scraper-rattle), tambal or tanbou (tambourine) and accordion. The double bass and banjo are also sometimes used. Bamboo flutes led the jing ping ensembles before the 1940s, when accordions were introduced. The Dominican flute tradition declined as a result, despite their additional use in serenades, until being revived after the National Independence Competitions.
Chanté mas
The chanté mas (masquerade song) tradition is based around pre-calypso Carnival music performed in a responsorial style by partygoers. The Dominican Carnival masquerade lasted for two days of parading through the streets, with a singer dancing backwards in front of the drummer on a tanbou lélé. Chanté mas lyrics are traditionally based on gossip and scandal, and addressed the personal shortcomings of others.
Other folk music
Dominica's folk musical heritage includes work songs, storytelling, children's music and masquerade songs. Dominican work songs are accompanied by the tambou twavay drum, and are performed by workers while gathering fruit, building roads, fishing, moving a house or sawing wood. Many are responsorial, and are generally short and simple, with the lyrical text and rhythm tying into the work to be accompanied. On modern Dominica, work songs are rarely performed.
The kont, or storytelling, folk tradition of Dominica was focused around entertainment for night-time festivals, funeral wakes and feasts and festivals. Modern kont is mostly performed during major festival competitions. Most kont storytellers work with local traditions, such as legends and history, and provide an ethical or moral message. A one line theme song, often based around a duet between two characters, recurs throughout most kont performances.
Unlike most Dominican folk songs, children's songs and musical games are mostly in English. They were originally in the same Creole as the rest of the island, but have come to be primarily of English, Scottish, and Irish derivation. Children's musical traditions include ring games and circle dances, and music accompanied by thigh-slapping and circle dancing.
Early popular music
Dominican popular music history can be traced back to the 1940s and '50s, when dance bands like the Casimir Brothers and, later, The Swinging Stars, became famous across the island. Their music was a dance-oriented version of many kinds of Caribbean and Latin popular music, such as Cuban bolero, Brazilian samba, the merengue from the Dominican Republic, Trinidadian calypso, and American funk.
By the beginning of the 1960s, calypso and Trinidadian steelpan became the most popular styles of music on Dominica, replacing traditional Carnival music like chanté mas and lapo kabwit. Early recording stars from this era included Swinging Busters, The Gaylords, De Boys an Dem and Los Caballeros, while chorale groups also gained fans, especially Lajenne Etwal, Siflé Montan'y and the Dominica Folk singers. These early popular musicians were aided by the spread of radio broadcasting, beginning with WIDBS and later Radio Dominica.
Of these early popular musicians, a few pioneering the use of native influences. The Gaylords’ hits, such as "Ti Mako", "Pray for the Blackman", "Lovely Dominica" and "Douvan Jo", were either English or the native Creole, (kwéyòl). By the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, American rock and roll, soul and funk had reached Dominica and left lasting influences. Funky rock-based bands like Voltage Four, Woodenstool and Every Mother's Child became popular.
The first internationally known bands from Dominica were 1970s groups such as Exile One and Grammacks. These bands were the stars of the cadence-lypso scene, which was the first style of Dominican music to become popular across the Caribbean. By the 1980s, however, Martinican zouk and other styles were more popular. In 1988, WCK formed, playing an experimental fusion of cadence-lypso with the island’s jing ping sound. The result became known as bouyon, and has re-established Dominica in the field of popular music.
Calypso
In the 1960s, calypso and steelband music became very popular and indeed replaced lapo kabwit and chanté mas as the music of carnival, particularly in the capital Roseau. Many of the traditional songs were performed in the new calypso beat. Calypsonians and Calypso Monarch competitions emerged and became extremely popular. Steelbands emerged all around the country. The older musicians and bands had moved on and were replaced by the younger musicians. Bands such as Swinging Stars, The Gaylords, De Boys an Dem, Los Caballeros and Swinging Busters surfaced and began to cut records. The emergence of radio, first WIDBS and later Radio Dominica helped to spread the music.
Calypso has been popular in Dominica since the 1950s; the first Calypso King was crowned in 1959. Popular calypso in Dominica has always been closely associated with steelpan music. The first wave of Dominican steelpan includes such bands as Esso, Shell and Regent, Vauxhall and Old Oak.
Cadence (kadans)/compas
In the 1970s, a wave of Haitian, mostly musicians, to Dominica and the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique) brought with them the kadans, a sophisticated form of music that quickly swept the island and helped unite all the former French colonies of the Caribbean by combining their cultural influences. This was followed by mini-jazz like Les Gentlemen, Les Leopards, Les Vikings de Guadeloupe and others.
Later in the decade and into the 1980s, the French Antilles became home to a style of cadence music called cadence-lypso. Gordon Henderson's Exile One innovated this style, as well as turned the mini-jazz combos into guitar-dominated big bands with a full-horn section and the newly arrived synthesizers, paving the way for the success of large groups like Grammacks, Experience 7, among others. Drawing on these influences, the supergroup Kassav' invented zouk and popularized it with hit songs including "Zouk-La-Se Sel Medikaman Nou Ni". Kassav' formed in Paris in 1978.
Cadence-lypso
The most influential figure in the promotion of Cadence-lypso was the Dominican group Exile One (based on the island of Guadeloupe) that featured mostly the cadence rampa of Haiti and calypso music from the English-speaking Caribbean. It was pushed in the 1970s by groups from Dominica, and was the first style of Dominican music to find international acclaim.
Dominica cadence music has evolved under the influence of Dominican and Caribbean/Latin rhythms, as well as rock and roll, soul, and funk music from the United States. By the end of the 1970s, Gordon Henderson defined Cadence-lypso as "a synthesis of Caribbean and African musical patterns fusing the traditional with the contemporary".
Aside from Exile One, other bands included the Grammacks, Black Roots, Black Machine, Naked Feet, Belles Combo, Mantra, Black Affairs, Liquid Ice, Wafrikai, Midnighte Groovers and Milestone, while the most famous singers included Bill Thomas, Chubby Marc, Gordon Henderson, Linford John, Janet Azouz, Sinky Rabess, Tony Valmond, Jeff Joseph, Mike Moreau and Anthony Gussie. Ophelia Marie is a popular singer of cadence-lypso in the 1980s.
Cadence-lypso was influenced by nationalist movement that espoused Rastafari and Black Power. Many groups performed songs with intensely ideological positions, and much of the repertoire was in the vernacular Creole language.
Gordon Henderson, Exile One's leader and founder, coined the name "Cadence-lypso" in his full band that used a full-horn section and was the first to use the synthesizers in kadans. Many mini-jazz from Haiti and the French Antilles followed this format. The band is considered by some to be one of the pioneers of soca. During the early 1970s, they initiated a fusion of cadence and calypso "Cadence-lypso" that would later become soca music.
Exile One was the most promoted Creole band of the Caribbean. The first to sign a production contract with major label Barclay Records. The first to export kadans music to the four corners of the globe: Japan, the Indian Ocean, Africa, North America, Europe, The Cape Verde islands.
Recent popular music
During the 1980s, cadence-lypso’s popularity declined greatly. Some Dominican performers remained famous, such as Ophelia, a very renowned singer of the period. Popular music during this time was mostly zouk, a style pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav, who used styles of folk music of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Soca, a kind of Trinidadian music, was also popular at the time, producing bands like Windward Caribbean Kulture. The '80s also saw a rise in popular for jazz and the formation of several jazz bands, while groups like Exile One began exploring tradition rhythms from jing ping and lapo kabwit.
Zouk
The inspiration for Zouk's style of rhythmic music comes from the Haitian compas, as well as music called cadence-lypso – Dominica cadence popularized by Grammacks and Exile One. Elements of gwo ka, tambour, ti bwa and biguine vidé are prominent in zouk. Though there are many diverse styles of zouk, some commonalities exist. The French Creole tongue of Martinique and Guadeloupe is an important element, and are a distinctive part of the music. Generally, zouk is based around star singers, with little attention given to instrumentalists, and is based almost entirely around studio recordings.
Music authors Charles De Ledesma and Gene Scaramuzzo trace zouk's development to the Guadeloupean gwo ka and Martinican bèlè (tambour and ti bwa)
folk traditions. Ethnomusicologist Jocelyn Guilbault, however, describes zouk as a synthesis of Caribbean popular styles, especially Dominica cadence-lypso, Haitian cadence, Guadeloupean biguine. Zouk arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s, using elements of previous styles of Antillean music, as well as imported genres.
Zouk-love
Zouk Love is the French Antilles cadence or compas, characterized by a slow, soft and sexual rhythm. The lyrics of the songs often speak of love and sentimental problems.
The music kizomba from Angola and cabo-love from Cape Verde are also derivatives of this French Antillean compas style, which sounds basically the same, although there are notable differences once you become more familiar with these genres. A main exponent of this subgenre is Ophelia Marie of Dominica. Other Zouk Love artists come from the French West Indies, the Netherlands, and Africa.
Grammacks, Exile One, Ophelia Marie, and many Dominican bands played cadence-lypso (Dominica Kadans) that later influenced zouk love in the French Antilles. Nowadays, zouk-love is called the French Antilles cadence or compas. Popular artists include French West Indian artists Edith Lefel and Nichols, or like Netherlands-based Suzanna Lubrano and Gil Semedo, the African artist Kaysha.
Soca
The calypsonian Lord Shorty of Trinidad was the first to define his music as "soca" during 1975 when his hit song “Endless Vibrations” was causing major musical waves on radio stations and at parties and clubs not just throughout his native T&T but also in far off metropolitan cities like New York, Toronto and London. Soca was originally spelled Sokah which stands for the “Soul of Calypso” with the “kah” part being taken from the first letter in the Sanskrit alphabet and representing the Power of movement as well as the East Indian rhythmic influence that helped to inspire the new soca beat. Shorty stated in a number of interviews that the idea for the new soca beat started with the rhythmic fusion of Calypso rhythms with East Indian rhythms that he used in his hit "Indrani" recorded in 1972. The soca beat was solidified as the popular new beat that most of the T&T Calypso musicians would start adopting by the time Shorty had recorded his big crossover hit “Endless Vibrations” in 1974.
Shorty also recorded a mid-year album in 1975 called “Love In The Caribbean” that contains a number of crossover soca tracks before setting off on an album distribution and promotion tour. During his 1975 “Love In The Caribbean” album promotion and distribution tour Shorty pass thru the isle of Dominica on his way back to Trinidad and saw Dominica's top band Exile One perform at the Fort Young Hotel. Shorty was inspired to compose and record a Soca and Cadence-lypso fusion track called “E Pete” or “Ou Petit” which can be viewed as the first of its kind in that particular Soca style. Shorty sought and got help with the Creole lyrics he used in the chorus of his “E Pete” song by consulting with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, Lord Tokyo, and two creole lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron while he was in Dominica. The song “E Pete” thus contains genuine Creole lyrics in the chorus like "Ou dee moin ou petit Shorty" (meaning "you told me you are small Shorty"), and is a combination of Soca, Calypso, Cadence-lypso and Creole.
Shorty's 1974 Endless Vibrations and Soul of Calypso brought Soca to regional and international attention and fame and helped to solidify the rapidly growing Soca Movement led by Shorty.
Soca developed in the early 1970s and grew in popularity in the late 1970s. Soca's development as a musical genre included its early fusion of calypso with Indian musical instruments, particularly the dholak, tabla and dhantal, as demonstrated in Lord Shorty's classic compositions "Ïndrani", "Kalo Gee Bull Bull" and "Shanti Om".
Bouyon
Bouyon is a fusion of Jing ping, Cadence-lypso and traditional dances namely bèlè, Quadrille, chanté mas and lapo kabwit, Mazurka, Zouk and other styles of Caribbean music, developed by a band called Windward Caribbean Kulture (later WCK).
WCK was among the most prominent of '80s Dominican soca bands. They began using native drum rhythms such as lapo kabwit and elements of the music of jing ping bands, as well as ragga-style vocals. Bouyon is popular across the Caribbean, and is known as jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The best-known band in the genre was Windward Caribbean Kulture "WCK" in 1988 by experimenting a fusion of Jing Ping and Cadence-lypso. While the Cadence-lypso sound is based on the creative usage of acoustic drums, an aggressive up-tempo guitar beat, and strong social commentary in the local Creole language, this new music created by the "WCK" band focused more on the use of modern technology with strong emphasis on keyboard rhythmic patterns.
Bouyon has diversified into multiple subgenres. These include bouyon soca, bouyon-muffin, reketeng, and bouyon gwada.
Bouyon soca
Bouyon soca, sometimes referred to as Jump up soca, is a fusion genre that typically blends old bouyon rhythms from the '90s and soca music. Bouyon soca is a term coined by non-Dominican producers and musicians, mainly from St Lucia, who embrace both Soca from Trinidad and Bouyon music from Dominica and so find it natural to produce blends of both music genres. Bouyon is a music genre that originated in Dominica that is distinguishable from its older "colleague" Soca.
In Dominica while there may have been the occasional fusions, bouyon has always maintained a very clear, recognizable and different style from soca. Outside of Dominica the Bouyon Soca fusion style is popular in islands like Antigua, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe and Martinique and is a natural evolution from Zouk and Soca fusions that were popular there during the 1980s.
Alternative music
Religious music, influenced by American gospel, has become an important part of Dominican popular music in the 1990s. Calypso has also retained much popularity in Dominica, as has Jazz. The band Impact has fused jazz with Caribbean music. Other styles include steelpan, which has declined popularity despite the efforts of groups like Dancehall.
Music institutions and festivals
The Caribbean Carnival is an important part of Dominican culture. Originally featuring masquerade songs (chanté mas) and other local traditions, traditional Carnival, Mas Domnik, came to be dominated by imported calypso music and steel bands in the early 1960s; calypso appealed to Carnival-goers because the lyrical focus on local news and gossip was similar to that of chanté mas, despite a rhythmic pattern and instrumentation which contrast sharply with traditional Dominican Mas Domnik music. After a fire in 1963, the traditional Carnival was banned, though calypso and steelpan continued to grow in popularity. Modern Carnival on Dominica takes place on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and is a festive occasion during which laws against libel and slander are suspended. The modern Dominican Carnival is heavily based on the Trinidadian celebration, but is not as commercialized due to a lack of corporate sponsorship.
The World Creole Music Festival takes place on the island of Dominica, in Festival City, Roseau, which is run by the governmental Dominica Festivals Commission. The National Independence Competitions are an important part of Dominican musical culture. They were founded by Chief Minister of Dominica Edward Olivier Leblanc in 1965, and promote the traditional music and dance of Dominica. The government of Dominica also promotes Dominican music through the Dominican Broadcasting Station, which broadcasts between 20% and 25% local music as a matter of policy.
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Anna E. Cooper (July 22, 1897 – 1988) was a Liberian educator, she was the first female dean of the University of Liberia.
Early life and education
Cooper was born in Monrovia, Liberia, into a large and influential Americo-Liberian family. Her father was Jesse Randolph Cooper; her mother was Sarah Braxton Cooper Barclay; one sister was Magdalene L. Cooper Dennis, Liberia's first university trained nurse; another sister was Cecelia Adeline Cooper who married ambassador Charles D. B. King, who was Liberia's president from 1920 to 1930. Her brothers Henry R. Cooper and Charles E. Cooper were also in government.
Cooper studied at the College of West Africa in Monrovia. She went to the United States in 1914, and attended Central Alabama Institute, Morgan State College, and finally Howard University, where she played basketball, was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha and earned a bachelor's degree in 1921. She returned to the United States in 1931, earning a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. She also studied in London.
Career
Cooper taught at the College of West Africa from 1922 to 1928, and then as a science professor at Liberia College from 1929 to 1931, teaching chemistry and physics. In 1933, she organized the college's science department. Cooper became Dean of Administration at Liberia College, the first woman to be a dean at the school. She led the school's transformation into the University of Liberia in 1951. She retired in 1956.
She was a founder of the first overseas chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, when she and others petitioned for a chapter in Monrovia in 1954. She was also active with the YWCA in Liberia. In 1978, she was honored by President William Tolbert, installed as a Knight Official in the Humane Order of African Redemption.
Personal life
Cooper's son, James T. Phillips Jr., was a soil scientist and cabinet minister, executed during a military coup in 1980. Cooper died in 1988, aged 91 years.
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20th-century Liberian people
20th-century Liberian women |
Gyrineum pusillum, common name the purple gyron triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 25 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and Aldabra
References
Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
Beu A. (2010). Catalogue of Tonnoidea
External links
Cymatiidae
Gastropods described in 1833 |
Healingbow is an EP by Eden. It was released in 1993 through Projekt Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Eden
Pieter Bourke – percussion, keyboards, hammered dulcimer, programming
Sean Bowley – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Production and additional personnel
Don Bartley – mastering, engineering
Tim Blake – cello
Julia Bourke – photography, design
Adam Calaitzis – engineering
Julia Bourke – art direction, design
Eden – production
Vanessa Meckes – photography
Chris von Menge – photography
David Thrussell – additional drums on "Healingbow" and "Melancholia"
Brian Westbrook – cello
References
1993 EPs
Eden (Australian band) albums
Projekt Records EPs |
James E. Pfander is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Pfander writes and teaches in the area of federal jurisdiction, particularly as it relates to Article III of the United States Constitution.
Pfander is the author of numerous books and law textbooks, including Principles of Federal Jurisdiction and Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror.
References
American lawyers
American legal scholars
American scholars of constitutional law
Living people
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law faculty
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
One Evening may refer to:
"One Evening" (short story), a story by Samuel Beckett included in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989
"One Evening", a song by The Jesus Lizard from Head
"One Evening (Feist song)", a song by Feist from Let It Die |
This is a list of aircraft in alphabetical order beginning with 'S'.
Si
SIA
(Società Incremento Aviazione, Cameri)
Gabardini 1911 Le Monaco monoplane
Gabardini 1912 flying boat
Gabardini 1913 monoplane
Gabardini 1914 biplane
SIA
(Societá Industriale l'Aviazone)
Bastianelli P.R.B.
SIA-Delaunay-Belleville
(Société Industrielle d'Aviation - Etablissements Delaunay-Belleville)
S.I.A.-Coanda BN2
S.I.A.-Coanda Lorraine bomber
SIA
(Società Italiana Aviazione / Società Italiana degli Aeroplani)
SIA FB
SIA 7
SIA R2
SIA 9B
SIA
(Società Italiana degli Aeroplani / Enrico Luzzatto)
SIA 1913 racing monoplane Roma
SIA 1913 Circuito dei Laghi floatplane (Roma on floats)
SIAI
(Società Italiana Aeroplani Idrovolanti / Societa Idrovolanti Alta Italia - S.I.A.I)
SIAI S.8
SIAI S.9
SIAI S.12
SIAI S.13
SIAI S.16
SIAI S.17
SIAI S.19
SIAI S.21
SIAI S.22
SIAI S.23
SIAI S.50 (MVT)
SIAI S.50 Hydro
SIAI S.51
SIAI S.52
SIAI S.58
SIAI S.67
SIAI Marchetti
(Italy)
SIAI-Marchetti SM.91
SIAI-Marchetti SM.92
SIAI-Marchetti SM.95
SIAI-Marchetti SM.101
SIAI-Marchetti SM.102
SIAI Marchetti S.205
SIAI Marchetti S.208
SIAI Marchetti S.210
SIAI Marchetti S.211
SIAI Marchetti SF.250
SIAI-Marchetti SF.260
SIAI Marchetti Canguro
SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera
SIAI-Marchetti SH-4
SIAI-Marchetti SV-20
SIAT
(Siebel Flugzeugwerke ATG)
SIAT 222 Super Hummel
SIAT 223 Flamingo
SibNIA
SibNIA TVS-2MS
Siddeley-Deasy
(Siddeley-Deasy Motor Company, United Kingdom)
Siddeley-Deasy R.T.1
Siddeley-Deasy SR.2 Siskin
Siddeley-Deasy Sinaia
Sido
(Józef Sido)
Sido S.1
Siebel
Siebel Fh 104 Hallore
Siebel Si 201
Siebel Si 202 Hummel
Siebel Si 204
Siegrist
(Rudolf Siegrist, Parma, Ohio, United States)
Siegrist RS1 Ilse
Siemens and FlyEco
Siemens-FlyEco Magnus eFusion
Siemens-Schuckert
(Siemens-Schuckertwerke)
Siemens-Schuckert 1911 monoplane
Siemens-Schuckert B.I
Siemens-Forssmann Bulldog
Siemens-Schuckert D.I
Siemens-Schuckert D.II
Siemens-Schuckert D.III
Siemens-Schuckert D.IV
Siemens-Schuckert D.V
Siemens-Schuckert D.VI
Siemens-Schuckert Dr.I
Siemens-Schuckert DDr.I
Siemens-Schuckert DD 5
Siemens-Schuckert E.I
Siemens-Schuckert E.II
Siemens-Schuckert E.III
Siemens-Schuckert L.I
Siemens-Schuckert Forssman
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.I
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.II
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.III
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.IV
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.V
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.VI
Siemens-Schuckert Steffen R.VII
Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII
Siemens-Schuckert R.IX (project only)
Siemens-Schuckert Torpedogleiter
Siemetzki
Siemetzki ASRO 3-T
Siemetzki ASRO 4
Sierra
(Aircraft Industries Ltd (founders: John L Berney, J F Long, Art Wild), 931 E 14 St, San Leandro, California, United States)
Sierra BLW-1
Sierra BLW-2
Sierra
(Sierra Aircraft Co (pres: Leon T Eliel), Sierra Airdrome, Foothill Blvd, Sierra Madre, California, United States)
Sierra Standard
Siersma
(Herman Siersma, Detroit, Michigan, United States)
Siersma SRC-1
Sievers-Miller
((?) Sievers and Phillip Miller, Valley City, North Carolina, United States)
Sievers-Miller Special
Sikorsky
(Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Russia)
Sikorsky S-1
Sikorsky S-2
Sikorsky S-3
Sikorsky S-4
Sikorsky S-5
Sikorsky S-6
Sikorsky S-7
Sikorsky S-8 Malyutka
Sikorsky S-9 Kruglyi
Sikorsky S-10
Sikorsky S-11
Sikorsky S-12
Sikorsky S-13
Sikorsky S-14
Sikorsky S-15
Sikorsky S-XVI
Sikorsky S-XVII
Sikorsky S-XVIII
Sikorsky S-XIX
Sikorsky S-XX
Sikorsky S-XXII
Sikorsky S-XXIII
Sikorsky S-XXIV
Sikorsky S-XXV
Sikorsky S-XXVI
Sikorsky S-XXVII
Sikorsky S-28
Sikorsky Alexander Nevsky (1916 replacement for the IM)
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (a.k.a. Grand or Bolshoi Baltiiski)
Sikorsky Russky Vityaz
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
(United States)
Sikorsky BLR-3
Sikorsky C-6
Sikorsky C-28
Sikorsky H-3
Sikorsky H-5
Sikorsky H-7
Sikorsky H-18
Sikorsky H-19
Sikorsky H-34
Sikorsky H-37
Sikorsky H-38-SI
Sikorsky H-39
Sikorsky H-52
Sikorsky H-53 all variants of the H-53
Sikorsky H-54
Sikorsky H-59
Sikorsky H-60 all variants of the military S-70
Sikorsky HJS
Sikorsky HNS
Sikorsky HO2S
Sikorsky HO3S
Sikorsky HO4S
Sikorsky HO5S
Sikorsky HRS
Sikorsky HR2S
Sikorsky HR2S-1W
Sikorsky HR3S
Sikorsky HR3S
Sikorsky HSS
Sikorsky HUS
Sikorsky HU2S
Sikorsky JRS
Sikorsky JR2S
Sikorsky OA-8
Sikorsky OA-10
Sikorsky OA-11
Sikorsky PS-1
Sikorsky PS-2
Sikorsky P2S
Sikorsky PBS
Sikorsky RS
Sikorsky R-4
Sikorsky R-5
Sikorsky R-6 Hoverfly II
Sikorsky V-2
Sikorsky Cypher
Sikorsky Cypher II
Sikorsky S-28
Sikorsky S-29-A
Sikorsky S-30
Sikorsky S-31
Sikorsky S-32
Sikorsky S-33
Sikorsky S-34
Sikorsky S-35
Sikorsky S-36
Sikorsky S-37
Sikorsky S-38
Sikorsky S-39
Sikorsky S-40
Sikorsky S-41
Sikorsky S-42
Sikorsky S-43
Sikorsky S-44
Sikorsky S-45
Sikorsky S-50
Sikorsky S-51
Sikorsky S-52
Sikorsky S-53
Sikorsky S-54
Sikorsky S-55
Sikorsky S-57
Sikorsky S-58
Sikorsky S-59
Sikorsky S-60
Sikorsky S-61
Sikorsky S-62
Sikorsky S-63
Sikorsky S-64
Sikorsky S-65
Sikorsky S-67
Sikorsky S-68
Sikorsky S-69
Sikorsky S-70
Sikorsky S-71
Sikorsky S-72
Sikorsky S-75
Sikorsky S-76
Sikorsky S-80
Sikorsky S-92 Helibus
Sikorsky S-333
Sikorsky S-434
Sikorsky SH-3H AEW
Sikorsky H-92 Superhawk
Sikorsky RVR Reverse Velocity Rotor
Sikorsky SS
Sikorsky Standard
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Sikorsky UN-4
Sikorsky Cypher
Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone Canadian Armed Forces
Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant
Sikorsky VH-92
Silbervogel
Silbervogel Project Plane
Silence aircraft
Silence Twister
Silent Family
(Silent Family Helmet Grossklaus, Westerrade, Germany)
Silent Family Silent Glider e-M
Silent Family Silent Glider M
Silent Family Silent Glider ME
Silent Family Silent Racer
Silesia (First Silesian aircraft factory)
Silesia S-3
Silesia S-4
Silesia S-10
Silhouette
(Task Research Inc. / Silhouette Aircraft Inc., Santa Paula, California, United States)
Silhouette Aircraft SA-60 Silhouette
Silvanskii
(A. V. Silvanskii)
Silvanskii IS
Silvanskii I-220
Silver Wing
(Silver Wing Aircraft Co (founders: Edward Euler, A H Hogue), 28th & Spruce Sts, Boulder, Colorado, United States)
Silver Wing 1928 Monoplane
Silvercraft
(Silvercraft SpA, Italy)
Silvercraft SH-4
Silvercraft SH-200
Silverston
()
Silverston Milwaukee#2
Simmering-Graz-Pauker
(Simmering-Graz-Pauker A.G.)
SGP M-222 Flamingo
Simmonds Aircraft
(United Kingdom)
Simmonds Spartan
Simmons
(Herbert H Simmons, 2111 Franklin St, San Diego, California, United States)
Simmons Sp-1 Sport Monoplane
Simonet
Simonet SHBF Aviette
Simplex
(Société des Avions Simplex)
see:Arnoux
Simplex
(Simplex Aircraft Co (founders: E J & F W Allen), Defiance, Ohio, United States)
Simplex K-2-C Red Arrow
Simplex K-3-C Red Arrow
Simplex K-2-S Red Arrow
Simplex W-2-S Red Arrow
Simplex R-2-D Red Arrow Dual Plane a.k.a. Simplex Racer
Simplex S-2 Kite
Simplex Special
Simplex W-5-C
Simpson
(F Simpson, Wheeling, West Virginia, United States)
Simpson Maverick
Simpson Special
Simůnek / Kamarýt
(Jan Simůnek MSc / Jaroslav Kamarýt)
Simůnek / Kamarýt SK-1 Trempík (Trempík – Little Tramp)
Simůnek VBS-1
Sindlinger
(Fred G Sindlinger, Puyallup, Washington, United States)
Sindlinger HH-1
Sindlinger Special#1
Sink
(Everett Sink, Zanesville, Ohio, United States)
Sink S-1
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation
Sino Swearingen SJ-30
Sioux
(Sioux Aircraft Co, Sioux City, Iowa, United States)
Sioux Coupe 60
Sioux Coupe 90
Sioux Coupe 90-A
Sioux Coupe 90-B Junior
Sioux Coupe 90-C Senior
SIPA
(Société Industrielle Pour l'Aéronautique, France)
SIPA S.10
SIPA S.11
SIPA S.111
SIPA S.12
SIPA S.121
SIPA S.20
SIPA S.30
SIPA S.50
SIPA S.70
SIPA S.90
SIPA S.901
SIPA S.902
SIPA S.903
SIPA S.904
SIPA S.91
SIPA S.92
SIPA S.93
SIPA S.94
SIPA S.200 Minijet
SIPA S.251 Antilope
SIPA S.261 Anjou
SIPA S.262
SIPA S.300
SIPA S.1000 Coccinelle
SIPA S.1100
Sipowicz
Sipowicz I
Sisler
((A M Bert) Sisler Aircraft Co, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States)
Sisler SF-1 Pipit
Sisler SF-2 Whistler
Sisler SF-2A Cygnet
SITAR
(Sociètè Industrielle de Tolerie pour l'Aéronautique et Matériel Roulant)
SITAR GY-90 Mowgli
SITAR GY-100 Bagheera
SITAR GY-110 Sher Khan
Sivel Aeronautica
Sivel SD27 Corriedale
Sivel SD28
Six Chuter
(Yakima, Washington, United States)
Six Chuter SR1
Six Chuter SR2
Six Chuter SR5
Six Chuter SR7
Six Chuter Power Hawk
Six Chuter Discovery
Six Chuter Legend P103UL
Six Chuter Legend SE
Six Chuter Legend XL
Six Chuter Legend XL Paragon 912
Six Chuter Skye Ryder Aerochute
Sizer
Sizer Rosette
Sizer Sapphire
References
Further reading
External links
List Of Aircraft (S)
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nl:Lijst van vliegtuigtypes (N-S)
pt:Anexo:Lista de aviões (N-S)
ru:Список самолётов (N-S)
sv:Lista över flygplan/N-S
vi:Danh sách máy bay (N-S) |
Edmundo Iván Vázquez Mellado Pérez (born 14 December 1982) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Career
Vázquez Mellado joined Necaxa in 2004, after having played for Correcaminos UAT in the Primera División A. He debuted for the club on August 14, 2004, in a match against Toluca, which his team lost 1–0.
Vázquez Mellado became the first player to score a goal in the Copa Mexico, scoring from a free kick against Querétaro F.C.
Honours
Necaxa
Ascenso MX: Apertura 2009, Bicentenario 2010
Juárez
Ascenso MX: Apertura 2015
León
Leagues Cup: 2021
References
External links
Edmundo Ivan Vazquez (FOX Sport)
Iván Vázquez
1982 births
Living people
Correcaminos UAT footballers
Club Necaxa footballers
FC Juárez footballers
Liga MX players
Footballers from Mexico City
Men's association football goalkeepers
Mexican men's footballers |
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything () is a 1973 French comedy film directed by Pierre Richard.
Plot
Pierre Gastié-Leroy (Pierre Richard) is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing (Bernard Blier). Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate in him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys," at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory. They will have fun making mischief and being overzealous to convince the supervisors on increasing the working rhythms, denouncing the trade union leaders, battling a strike and finally, stealing 500 tanks to sell them to the black market. A demonstration of new remote-controlled missiles attended by the Minister for Defence turns into a fiasco. Injured in his pride, the father Gastié-Leroy wants to show the reliability of his product by pointing the fire at his own factory.
Cast
Pierre Richard as Pierre Gastié-Leroy
Bernard Blier as Monsieur Gastié-Leroy
Didier Kaminka as Didier
Luis Rego as Luis
Georges Beller as Georges
Pierre Tornade as the police commissioner
Daniel Prévost as Morel
Danièle Minazzoli as Danou, the nurse
Nicole Jamet as Nicole
Hélène Duc as Madame Gastié-Leroy
Francis Lax as Antoine
Pierre Repp as Vernier, the factory director
Jean Obé as Oncle Léon, godfather of Philippe
André Thorent as Oncle Jean
Michel Delahaye as Oncle Paul
Xavier Depraz as Général Deglane
Jean Saudray as Morin
François Cadet as Félix
Victor Lanoux as a laborer
Teddy Vrignault as Staflikevitch, the Bulgarian
André Gaillard as the Social Security employee
France Rumilly as Laurence Deglane
Les Charlots (Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Jean-Guy Fechner) as Soldiers
References
External links
1973 films
French comedy films
1973 comedy films
1970s French films |
```objective-c
//
// URIStreamFactory.h
//
// Library: Foundation
// Package: URI
// Module: URIStreamFactory
//
// Definition of the URIStreamFactory class.
//
// and Contributors.
//
//
#ifndef Foundation_URIStreamFactory_INCLUDED
#define Foundation_URIStreamFactory_INCLUDED
#include <istream>
#include "Poco/Foundation.h"
namespace Poco
{
class URI;
class Foundation_API URIStreamFactory
/// This class defines the interface that all
/// URI stream factories must implement.
///
/// Subclasses must implement the open() method.
{
public:
URIStreamFactory();
/// Creates the URIStreamFactory.
virtual std::istream * open(const URI & uri) = 0;
/// Tries to create and open an input stream for the
/// resource specified by the given URI.
///
/// If the stream cannot be opened for whatever reason,
/// an appropriate IOException must be thrown.
///
/// If opening the stream results in a redirect, a
/// URIRedirection exception should be thrown.
protected:
virtual ~URIStreamFactory();
/// Destroys the URIStreamFactory.
private:
URIStreamFactory(const URIStreamFactory &);
URIStreamFactory & operator=(const URIStreamFactory &);
friend class URIStreamOpener;
};
class Foundation_API URIRedirection
/// An instance of URIRedirection is thrown by a URIStreamFactory::open()
/// if opening the original URI resulted in a redirection response
/// (such as a MOVED PERMANENTLY in HTTP).
{
public:
URIRedirection(const std::string & uri);
URIRedirection(const URIRedirection & redir);
URIRedirection & operator=(const URIRedirection & redir);
void swap(URIRedirection & redir);
const std::string & uri() const;
/// Returns the new URI.
private:
URIRedirection();
std::string _uri;
};
//
// inlines
//
inline const std::string & URIRedirection::uri() const
{
return _uri;
}
} // namespace Poco
#endif // Foundation_URIStreamFactory_INCLUDED
``` |
The Nigeria national U-17 football team known as the Golden Eaglets, is the youngest team that represents Nigeria in football The team is the most successful in international football for their age group winning a record, five FIFA U-17 World Cup titles and are runners up on three occasions. They are also two-time Africa U-17 Cup of Nations champions with their most recent title at the 2007 edition.
History
The team won the maiden edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1985 hosted by China, 1993, 2007, 2013, and 2015 (becoming only the second team since Brazil to win it back to back); making them the first team ever to win the junior world cup five times. They also won the African Under-17 Championship in 2001 and 2007, and were runners-up in 1995 and 2013.
After the 2007 victory there was some discussion as to whether the success should be rewarded in the form of cash, or if longer-term investments were more suitable for teenage players. It was pointed out that some previous players had found themselves reduced to poverty due to injury or mismanagement of their funds.
Heading into the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, head coach Henry Nwosu was replaced by John Obuh, coach of Kwara United.
Although Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup, they participated again in the 2013 edition of the tournament. Planning was thrown into disarray however in August when key members of the team was determined by MRI scanning to be overage and excluded from the team. In their first match, the team defeated the defending champions Mexico with a 6–1 score. They only failed to defeat Sweden in the group stage, but they did so in the semi-finals. In the final match they faced and defeated Mexico for a second time, obtaining their fourth U-17 World Cup and becoming the national team to win the most U-17 tournaments so far.
The team were again the subject of age cheating accusations when, a total of 26 players from the 60-strong squad were sent home from their training camp in 2016 after failing compulsory MRI scans used to test age ahead of an African Cup of Nations qualifier. It is important to note that amidst all the age cheating accusations, the team has never been found guilty of fielding overage players in any competition. All the players accused of being overage were all caught at the Abuja training camp and sent home before they played any game for the team.
Competitive record
FIFA U-17 World Cup record
Africa U-17 Cup of Nations record
A gold background colour indicates that Nigeria won the tournament.
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Team honours and achievements
Intercontinental
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Winners: 1985, 1993, 2007, 2013, 2015
Runners-up: 1987, 2001, 2009
Continental
Africa U-17 Cup of Nations
Winners: 2001, 2007
Runners-up: 1995, 2013
Third-place: 2003
Others
UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup
Winners: 1997
Staff
Management
Team Coordinator: Suleiman Abubakar
Secretary: Egbaiyelo Tayo
Media Coordinator: Morakinyo Abodunrin
Sports
Head coach: Nduka Ugbade
Assistant coach:
Assistant coach:
Scout:
Goalkeeper coach:
Medical
Doctor: Olarinoye Ayodeji
Physiotherapist: Oyegunna Gabriel
Equipment Manager: Mohammed Kafa Usman
Current squad
The following players were named in the squad for the 2023 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations between 29 April – 19 May.
''Caps and goals are correct as of 1 May 2023, after the match against Mali.
Notable former players
See also
Super Eagles (Nigeria national football team)
Flying Eagles (Nigeria national under-20 football team)
African U-17 Championship
References
External links
Official website of the Nigerian Football Federation
Under-17
African national under-17 association football teams |
Guerra Revolucionaria (2011) (Spanish for "Revolutionary War") was a major professional wrestling event produced by Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), which took place on April 17, 2011 in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico. The main event of the show was a 20-man Battle Royal where the eliminated wrestlers would all remain at ringside and act as "Lumberjacks" to ensure none of the participants left the ring. Each lumberjack would be given a leather straps they were allowed to use on the still-active competitors. There was no official prize for winning the match other than the increased public profile of the winning wrestler.
Production
Background
Beginning in 2009 the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) held an annual show called Guerra Revolucionaria ("The Revolutionary War"), a reference to the Mexican revolutionary war (1810-1821). The main event match, the eponymous Guerra Revolucionaria, a 20-man Battle Royal where all 20 wrestlers start out in the ring. Once a wrestler is thrown over the top rope to the floor that wrestler is eliminated from the actual match and instead will act as a "Lumberjack" outside the ring, ensuring that none of remaining competitors try to escape the ring. Each "lumberjack" is given a leather strap that they are allowed to use on anyone that leaves the ring. The multi-man match often allows IWRG to intersect various ongoing storylines as another step in the escalating tension. At other times the match itself was used as a way to start new feuds due to interactions inside or outside the ring. The Guerra Revolucionaria shows, as well as the majority of the IWRG shows in general, are held in "Arena Naucalpan", owned by the promoters of IWRG and their main arena. The 2011 Guerra Revolucionaria show was the third year in a row that IWRG held a show under that name.
Storylines
The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers, where some were involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines and others simply put together by the matchmakers without a backstory. Being a professional wrestling event matches are not won legitimately through athletic competition; they are instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public. Wrestlers portray either heels (the bad guys, referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or faces (fan favorites or Técnicos in Mexico).
Results
Guerra revolucionaria order of elimination
References
External links
2011 in professional wrestling
2011 in Mexico
2011
April 2011 events in Mexico |
Iowa Highway 81 is a state highway that runs from south to north in southeastern Iowa. It begins at the Missouri state line southwest of Farmington, where it continues as Missouri Route 81 and ends at Iowa 2 in Farmington. The route Iowa 81 takes has been in the primary highway system since the 1920s. The current Iowa 81 was created on January 1, 1969, when it traded route numbers with Iowa 114 in the southeast-central part of the state.
Route description
Iowa 81 begins at the Missouri border, where it is a continuation of Missouri Route 81. The highway heads in a northeasterly direction from that point, passing by Indian Lake Park along the way. It ends at Iowa 2 on the west side of Farmington.
History
Prior to its current designation, Iowa 81 was known as Iowa 114. On January 1, 1969, Iowa 114 and Iowa 81 traded route numbers in order to harmonize route numbers with neighboring states, Route 81 in Missouri, in this case. At the time of its designation, the highway was a fully paved road.
Major intersections
References
External links
End of Iowa 81 at Iowa Highway Ends
081 |
The women's double sculls rowing event at the 2011 Pan American Games will be held from October 15–17 at the Canoe & Rowing Course in Ciudad Guzman. The defending Pan American Games champion is Sarah Trowbridge & Margaret Matia of the United States.
Schedule
All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
Results
Heat 1
Heat 2
Repechage
Final A
References
Women's rowing at the 2011 Pan American Games |
Carlos Víctor Aramayo (7 October 1889, Paris – 14 April 1981, Paris) was a Bolivian industrialist and politician.
Biography
Aramayo was one of Bolivia's three principal tin magnates alongside Simón Iturri Patiño and Mauricio Hochschild in the early 20th century. Responsible for over half of global tin production, they were known as the three tin barons.
In 1926, Carlos Víctor Aramayo was appointed President of Compagnie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivie SA (CAMB) with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The holding company represented the assets of the Aramayo family in mining (mainly bismuth, tin, tungsten, and other metals) and land properties across Bolivia.
As CAMB President, one of Aramayo's first major decision was to form a subsidiary for CAMB in charge of the purchase of machinery and supplies and for hiring specialist personnel around Europe. In 1929, Mining and Chemical Products Ltd (MCP) was formed in London. Around the same time, Aramayo was appointed as Bolivia's Ambassador to London and then to Paris.
In 1935, Aramayo was appointed as Bolivia Finance minister by president José Luis Tejada Sorzano.
Throughout the Second World War, MCP contributed to the Allied war effort by producing and selling vital anti-aircraft gun components exclusively to the US and to the UK.
In 1952 CAMB's mines and all other properties in Bolivia were nationalised by the Bolivian revolution of 1952.
During his lifetime, Aramayo had different important positions in his country and abroad as newspaper owner (La Razon), Member of Congress, Ambassador of Bolivia to London and Paris, Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs during president Sorzano's term.
After his death, he was succeeded as President of CAMB and MCP by his nephew John German-Ribon.
References
References
20th-century Bolivian businesspeople
1889 births
1981 deaths
Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners
Finance ministers of Bolivia
Ambassadors of Bolivia to the United Kingdom
Ambassadors of Bolivia to France
Businesspeople in metals
Bolivian diplomats
Foreign ministers of Bolivia |
Mendo de Sousa (1120s-1192) was a Portuguese Count, Patron of the Monastery of Pombeiro and Mordomo-mór of Sancho I of Portugal.
Biography
Born in Portugal, Mendo was the son of Gonçalo de Sousa and Urraca Sanches de Celanova, a noble woman, granddaughter of Henry, Count of Portugal and Theresa. Mendo de Sousa was the husband of Maria Rodrigues Veloso, daughter of Count Rodrigo Velloso.
Mendo de Sousa was a direct descendant of Sueiro Belfaguer, 1st Lord House of Sousa.
References
External links
Apontamentos genealogicos sobre a familia Portugal da Silveira" - archive.org
1120s births
1192 deaths
12th-century Portuguese people
Portuguese nobility
Portuguese Roman Catholics |
His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of India, Aden, and Burma. The post was created in 1858 when the East India Company's rule in Bengal ended and India, except for the Princely States, was brought under the direct administration of the government in Whitehall in London, beginning the official colonial period under the British Empire.
In 1937, the India Office was reorganised which separated Burma and Aden under a new Burma Office, but the same Secretary of State headed both departments and a new title was established as His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India and Burma. The India Office and its Secretary of State were abolished in August 1947, when the United Kingdom granted independence in the Indian Independence Act, which created two new independent dominions, India and Pakistan. Burma soon achieved independence separately in early 1948.
Secretaries of state for India, 1858–1937
Before the establishment of the British Empire on 2 August 1858, Lord Stanley had served as President of the Board of Control.
Secretaries of state for India and Burma, 1937–1947
Secretaries of state for Burma, 1947–1948
See also
India Office
British Raj
British rule in Burma
Governor-General of India
Imperial Civil Service
Government of India Act
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India
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India Office |
"It Started with a Love Affair" is a 1989 song first performed by Swedish singer Jerry Williams. The song was written by Norell Oson Bard.
Chart performance
The song charted for three weeks (from June 10–24, 1989) on the Swedish Trackslistan and peaked at number seven in its final week before the summer hiatus.
Covers
A Swedish version, with lyrics by Keith Almgren, called "En kärleksaffär" (eng. "A Love Affair") has been recorded by Mats Rådberg & Rankarna and later by Matz Bladhs (1991 on the album Leende dansmusik 91).
References
1989 songs
Swedish pop songs
Songs written by Alexander Bard
Songs written by Tim Norell
Songs written by Ola Håkansson
English-language Swedish songs
Jerry Williams (singer) songs
Matz Bladhs songs |
Sir Stephen Augustus Lovegrove (born 30 November 1966) is a British civil servant who was appointed as UK National Security Adviser with effect from the end of March 2021, having previously served as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
Early life
Lovegrove was born in 1966, the second child of John and Zenia Stewart Lovegrove. His father was a Warwickshire industrialist and entrepreneur. Lovegrove was educated at Warwick School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class degree in English in 1989.
Career
Between 1990 and 1994 Lovegrove worked for Hydra Associates, a strategic media consultancy. In 1995, he joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (subsequently Deutsche Bank), where he remained until 2004 and became head of the European media team.
In April 2004, he joined the Shareholder Executive, becoming acting Chief Executive on 27 June 2007 and Chief Executive on 18 April 2008. In that capacity, he was also appointed to the Board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and acted as chairman of (the no longer trading) British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
He was appointed as Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change with effect from 4 February 2013. In March 2016, after three years in that post, the Government announced his appointment as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
Since February 2016 he has also served as a non-executive director of Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, one of the principal operating companies of the Grosvenor Group.
Lovegrove was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2013 New Year Honours and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2019 Birthday Honours. He is an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
In January 2021 it was announced that Lovegrove would become National Security Adviser at the end of March 2021. The announcement came as David Frost was pulled out from assuming the role seven months after being appointed.
Lovegrove has been criticised by Conservatives including Jacob Rees-Mogg for endorsing Black Lives Matter, which Lovegrove claims is not a political organisation.
Personal life
In 1997, Lovegrove married the screenwriter Kate Brooke. They have two daughters and live in London.
Sources
Who's Who (2009 edition)
Shareholder Executive web-site (accessed on 22 April 2010)
L.O.C.O.G. web-site (accessed on 22 April 2010)
References
People educated at Warwick School
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
English civil servants
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
1966 births
Living people
Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Energy and Climate Change
Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Defence |
Pieter Jansz. Quast (bap. 17 April 1605 – buried 29 May 1647) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman of portraits and sculptor.
Life
According to the Ecartico website, Pieter Jansz Quast (brush), was the son of Jan Sijmensz, a barge master and Sybrich Gerritsdr both from Emden who married in 1603. He grew up near Zeedijk. On 29 June 1632 he promised to marry in the village of Sloten near Amsterdam Annetje Splinters, a flower painter from The Hague. She sued him for breaking his marriage vows and forced him to marry her half a year later. They moved to The Hague where he was admitted to the local Guild of Saint Luke in 1634.
His time in The Hague and Amsterdam is marked by constantly moving to poorer quarters, bankruptcy and participation in illegal dice-games. In 1639 he collaborated with Jan Stampioen the math teacher of William II of Orange, who was also painted by Quast. He competed with Pieter Codde and Willem Duyster who had a similar style and was influenced Adriaen Brouwer. His style is characterized by humor, satire and caricature.
However the young couple faced a financially bumpy life, with several disturbing happenings due to Annetje's unruly character. The most imagining scene Annetje's face being mutilated by Gaspar Roebergen with the base of a smashed ("Roemer") glass in their home at the Kalverstraat after she insulted him having visited numerous prostitutes. The quarrel had to do with the rent, which he collected.
At times he collaborated with Herman Doomer, a furniture maker, and Salomon Savery, an engraver. His pupils were Jan Jansz Buesem and Dirck Cornelis de Hooch. He was not only baptized but also buried in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam.
It is questionable he died in poverty. After her husband's death, Anna Splinters returned to The Hague, with two daughters. There she had a new house built on Paviljoensgracht, which she rented out. In 1650 she married the Leiden painter Jacob van Spreeuwen. In 1659 she died at Lindengracht in the Jordaan.
Works
Mostly producing small social genre paintings with humorous, cartoon-like features, ranging from elegant merry companies to guardroom scenes with officers and (most numerous) groups of peasants or beggars, in a variety of styles which can be related to those of leading artists in these genres, but with personal aspects in the colouring and style. They "are heavily and powerfully rendered in warm shades of brown, set off by strong local colouring in the principal figures. His successful peasant scenes are characterized by the use of strong chiaroscuro and a gentle, harmonious palette. The caricatural quality of Quast’s peasants recalls the work of his fellow-resident of The Hague, Adriaen van de Venne, but Quast’s looser style and many of his individual types are closer to the paintings of Adriaen Brouwer, as well as of Adriaen van Ostade, to whom Quast’s best work has sometimes been ascribed".
Quast was influenced by the French engrapher Jacques Callot and even called the Dutch Callot. With his caricatured images on often small panels, Quast provided commentary on the Golden Age. He produced finished drawings for sale, often on parchment, and these included landscapes, cityscapes and biblical scenes. Some of his works were engraved, likely by Salomon Savery.
References
Sources
Catalogue raisonné du cabinet d'estampes de feu Monsieur Winckler (1805)
Leeuwenberg, J. “Beeldhouwwerk van de Schilder Pieter Quast.” Bulletin van Het Rijksmuseum, vol. 14, no. 2, 1966, pp. 60–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40381441. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023.
Barbara Ann Stanton-Hirst (1978) The influence of the theatre on the works of Pieter Jansz. Quast
Jessica Roeders (2004) "Voorts den teekeningen, dien gij speuren zult, zijn gemaekt van den geestigen Pieter Quast". Een oeuvrebeschijving. Doctoraalscriptie UvA.
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Gallery of works
Biography
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Collection Rijksmuseum
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1647 deaths
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Painters from Amsterdam
Dutch Golden Age printmakers
17th-century engravers |
is a Japanese voice actress from Yasu, Shiga Prefecture. She is affiliated with 81 Produce. She has been known for her voice role as Hamtaro.
Voice roles
6 Angels (movie) (Rynk)
A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (Lancelot the Turtle)
Aesop World (Picco)
Assassination Classroom (Kunudon)
Battle B-Daman (Bull Borgnine)
Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san (Tsuyoshi)
Dokkiri Doctor (Kaori Tajima)
Escaflowne (Hitomi Kanzaki (child))
éX-Driver (OVA)(Make)
Gakko no Kaidan (Keiichiro Miyanoshita)
Glass Mask (TV)(Kazu (ep.16))
Gravion (Anna)
Gravion Zwei (Anya)
Hayate × Blade (Drama CD) (Hayate Kurogane)
Hare Tokidoki Buta (Tama-chan)
Inai Inai Baa! (U-tan)
ICE (Satsuki)
Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori (Nene Chiwaki (ep.17))
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Elfilin)
Kyoro-chan (Mikken)
Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette (Azelma)
Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku (Fav)
Mirmo de Pon! (Pappi)
Momoko, Kaeru no Uta ga Kikoeru yo. (Momoko Kuramoto)
Nekojiru Gekijo (TV) as Ponkichi
One Piece as Leo
Otogizōshi (Brother (ep.16))
Ouran High School Host Club (Kirimi Nekozawa, Tonji's sister (ep.11))
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness (Pochama)
Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions - Zorua
Powerpuff Girls (Bubbles (Japanese UG dub))
Puyo Puyo~n (Carbuncle)
Prétear (C-ko (ep.1))
Recess (Cornchip Girl and Guru Kid)
Sgt. Frog (Nuii of Shurara Corps (ep.188))
Shugo Chara! (Hinamori Ami)
Shugo Chara!! Doki- (Hinamori Ami)
Takoyaki Mant-Man (Tenten)
Tamagotchi: The Movie (movie) (Ms. Perfect)
Taro the Space Alien (Yuji)
Tokyo Mew Mew (Momoka (ep.35))
Tottoko Hamtaro (Hamtaro)
Tottoko Hamtaro: Hamutaro no Otanjoubi ~Mama wo Tazunete Sanzen Techitechi~ (OAV) (Hamtaro)
Tottoko Hamtaro: Hamu Hamu Land Daibouken (movie) (Hamtaro)
Tottoko Hamtaro: Ham Ham Ham~Jya! Maboroshi no Princess (movie) (Hamtaro)
Tottoko Hamtaro: Ham Ham Grand Prix Aurora Tani no Kiseki (movie) (Hamtaro)
Tottoko Hamtaro: Hamutaro to Fushigi no Oni no Ehonto (movie) (Hamtaro)
Hamster (Yuri's World)
Yakitate!! Japan (Little Girl (ep.63))
Zoids: Genesis (Ra Muu (ep.16-17))
External links
at 81 Produce
Living people
Voice actors from Shiga Prefecture
81 Produce voice actors
Japanese voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Voice actresses from Shiga Prefecture |
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated the two-time defending champion Steffi Graf in the final, 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1989 French Open. This ended Graf's winning streak of major singles titles at five. Graf served for the championship at 5–3 in the third set, but lost the game to love and won only three more points in the match from that point. Sánchez Vicario was just 17 years old at the time, and it was the first of her three French Open titles (followed by 1994 and 1998).
This tournament marked the major debut for future world No. 1 Monica Seles, who reached the semifinals before losing to Graf. It was also the first French Open since 1978 not to feature Martina Navratilova or Chris Evert.
Seeds
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
1989 French Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
French Open by year – Women's singles
French Open - Women's Singles
1989 in women's tennis
1989 in French women's sport |
In proof theory, an area of mathematical logic, resolution proof reduction via local context rewriting is a technique for resolution proof reduction via local context rewriting. This proof compression method was presented as an algorithm named ReduceAndReconstruct, that operates as a post-processing of resolution proofs.
ReduceAndReconstruct is based on a set of local proof rewriting rules that transform a subproof into an equivalent or stronger one. Each rule is defined to match a specific context.
A context involves two pivots ( and ) and five clauses (, , , and ). The structure of a context is shown in (). Note that this implies that is contained in and (with opposite polarity) and is contained in and (also with opposite polarity).
The table below shows the rewriting rules proposed by Simone et al.. The idea of the algorithm is to reduce proof size by opportunistically applying these rules.
The first five rules were introduced in an earlier paper. In addition:
Rule A2 does not perform any reduction on its own. However, it is still useful, because of its "shuffling" effect that can create new opportunities for applying the other rules;
Rule A1 is not used in practice, because it may increase proof size;
Rules B1, B2, B2' and B3 are directly responsible for the reduction, as they produce a transformed root clause stronger than the original one;
The application of a B rule may lead to an illegal proof (see the example below), as some literals missing in the transformed root clause may be involved in another resolution step along the path to the proof root. Therefore, the algorithm also has to "reconstruct" a legal proof when this happen.
The following example shows a situation where the proof becomes illegal after the application of B2' rule:
Applying rule B2' to the highlighted context:
The proof is now illegal because the literal is missing from the transformed root clause. To reconstruct the proof, one can remove together with the last resolution step (that is now redundant). The final result is the following legal (and stronger) proof:
A further reduction of this proof by applying rule A2 to create a new opportunity to apply rule B2'.
There are usually a huge number of contexts where rule A2 may be applied, so an exhaustive approach is not feasible in general. One proposal is to execute ReduceAndReconstruct as a loop with two termination criteria: number of iterations and a timeout (what is reached first). The pseudocode below shows this.
1 function ReduceAndReconstruct( /* a proof */, timelimit, maxIterations):
2 for i = 1 to maxIterations do
3 ReduceAndReconstructLoop();
4 if time > timelimit then // timeout
5 break;
6 end for
7 end function
ReduceAndReconstruct uses the function ReduceAndReconstructLoop, which is specified below. The first part of the algorithm does a topological ordering of the resolution graph (considering that edges goes from antecedentes to resolvents). This is done to ensure that each node is visited after its antecedents (this way, broken resolution steps are always found and fixed).
1 function ReduceAndReconstructLoop( /* a proof */):
2 TS = TopologicalSorting();
3 for each node in TS
4 if is not a leaf
5 if and then
6 = Resolution(, );
7 Determine left context of , if any;
8 Determine right context of , if any;
9 Heuristically choose one context (if any) and apply the corresponding rule;
10 else if and then
11 Substitute with ;
12 else if and then
13 Substitute with ;
14 else if and then
15 Heuristically choose an antecedent or ;
16 Substitute with or ;
17 end for
18 end function
If the input proof is not a tree (in general, resolution graphs are directed acyclic graphs), then the clause of a context may be involved in more than one resolution step. In this case, to ensure that an application of a rewriting rule is not going to interfere with other resolution steps, a safe solution is to create a copy of the node represented by clause . This solution increases proof size and some caution is needed when doing this.
The heuristic for rule selection is important to achieve a good compression performance. Simone et al. use the following order of preference for the rules (if applicable to the given context): B2 > B3 > { B2', B1 } > A1' > A2 (X > Y means that X is preferred over Y).
Experiments have shown that ReduceAndReconstruct alone has a worse compression/time ratio than the algorithm RecyclePivots. However, while RecyclePivots can be applied only once to a proof, ReduceAndReconstruct may be applied multiple times to produce a better compression. An attempt to combine ReduceAndReconstruct and RecyclePivots algorithms has led to good results.
Notes
Articles with example pseudocode
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Mischarytera macrobotrys is a species of rainforest trees, of the flowering plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
References
External links
Sapindaceae
Sapindales of Australia
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Least concern flora of Australia
Flora of Queensland
Least concern biota of Queensland
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Kjeragfossen is a waterfall in the municipality of Sandnes in Rogaland county, Norway. The waterfall cascades down from the Kjerag plateau on the south shore of the Lysefjorden. It is one of the highest waterfalls in Norway and one of the highest in the world. It is a plunge-style waterfall that is usually only active about 5 months of the year. The waterfall is located in a very scenic area that has many tourists each year. The famous Kjeragbolten boulder is located nearby.
See also
List of waterfalls by height
List of waterfalls of Norway
References
External links
Waterfalls of Rogaland
Tourist attractions in Rogaland
Sandnes |
The Battle of Meritsa () or Battle of Oxyneia (Μάχη της Οξύνειας) was fought on 11–12 February 1943 between some 800 men of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), under Nestoras Vokas (nom de guerre "Tzavellas"), Nikos Zaralis ("Chasiotis"), and Ilias Kafantaris ("Adamantios") against a Royal Italian Army battalion. It was fought at the village of Meritsa (modern Oxyneia) near Kalambaka. In the battle, 137 Italians were killed, and 160 were taken prisoner, along with their entire equipment, including 4 mortars, 20 automatic weapons, and over 2,000 grenades. The partisans released their prisoners, but kept the equipment.
References
Sources
Meritsa
Meritsa
Meritsa
Meritsa
February 1943 events
1943 in Greece
Italian occupation of Greece during World War II |
Heo Il-young (born August 5, 1985) is a South Korean professional basketball player. He plays for Seoul SK Knights in the Korean Basketball League and the South Korean national team.
Early life
A native of Busan, Heo grew up playing baseball in elementary school. He was persuaded to switch sports and attended Dong-a High School, one of Busan's most notable high school basketball programs, and was schoolmates with national teammate Kim Tae-sul. As he was taller than most of his peers in high school, he played as a center, before converting into a forward in college.
Career
College
Heo went on to Konkuk University. During his senior year, he led the unfancied team to the final of the National Basketball Festival, a winter tournament contested by college teams and KBL D-League reserve teams, and was the tournament's top scorer.
Professional
Heo was the second overall pick of the 2009 KBL rookie draft and was chosen by Daegu Orions, which later moved to Goyang and became Goyang Orion Orions. Although he came from a lesser-known college basketball program, he emerged as the Orions' brightest prospects and dubbed the team's "solver" due to him scoring decisive points in the fourth quarter of crucial games. He finished his rookie season with an average of 10.5 points in 51 games.
In May 2012, Heo enlisted for mandatory military service and was assigned to the Sangmu team after completing basic training. He was discharged in January 2014.
During the 2019-20, Heo was plagued by a recurring hamstring injury which sidelined him for more than half the season's games. After the 2020-21 season ended, he became a free agent but chose not to renew with the Orions. He signed a three-year contract with Seoul SK Knights ahead of the 2021-22 season.
National team
In 2014, Heo participated in both the World Cup and the Asian Games. He was recalled for the 2018 Asian Games but missed out on the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Personal life
Heo married his girlfriend of three years in April 2016. They have two children, a son and a daughter.
Heo is a fan of his hometown KBO League team Lotte Giants and has been spotted attending their home matches.
References
External links
Profile at KBL.or.kr
1985 births
Living people
South Korean men's basketball players
Korean Basketball League players
Goyang Sono Skygunners players
Seoul SK Knights players
Small forwards
Basketball players at the 2014 Asian Games
Basketball players at the 2018 Asian Games
Konkuk University alumni
Asian Games medalists in basketball
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Sportspeople from Busan
20th-century South Korean people
21st-century South Korean people |
Upson-Lee High School is a secondary school in Thomaston, Georgia, United States. It is the only high school in Upson County. It is a combination of the former R. E. Lee Institute and Upson High School, both previously located in Upson County. Upson-Lee High School serves 1284 students with a diverse and challenging selection of academic and elective courses, Advanced Placement and honors programs, sixteen CTAE (Career, Technical and Agriculture Education) pathways, Navy JROTC, and dual enrollment with Gordon State College and Southern Crescent Technical College. The school offers eighteen varsity sports along with academic teams and clubs.
Facilities
The Thomaston-Upson Board of Education has a Fine Arts Center located on the south side of the school and just east of the parking lots.
Notable alumni
Coy Bowles - guitarist of Zac Brown Band
Wayne Cochran - soul singer
Frank Gordy - founder of The Varsity restaurant chain
John Holliman - broadcast journalist
Marion Montgomery - poet
Martha B. Hudson Pennyman - Olympic athlete
Travon Walker - Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end
References
External links
Official site
Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schools in Upson County, Georgia
1992 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Educational institutions established in 1992 |
Novo Selo Žumberačko is a settlement (naselje) in the Samobor administrative territory of Zagreb County, Croatia. As of 2011 it had a population of 24 people.
References
Populated places in Zagreb County |
The women's javelin throw at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25 August 1954.
Medalists
Results
Final
25 August
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(3)
(1)
References
Javelin throw
Javelin throw at the European Athletics Championships
Euro |
Charles Adams (May 29, 1770 – November 30, 1800) was the second son of the second United States president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams (née Smith). He was also the younger brother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams.
Early life
As a child, smallpox had broken out killing many. Charles and his family were inoculated for the disease. He and his younger brother Thomas were not showing symptoms, so they both had the procedure done a few more times. His mother, Abigail Adams, and brothers Thomas and John Quincy had mild symptoms, but he and his sister Nabby were both very sick, though both recovered within weeks.
At the age of nine, he traveled with his father and older brother, John Quincy, to Europe, studying in Passy, Amsterdam, and Leiden. He matriculated in Leiden on January 29, 1781. In December 1781, 11-year-old Charles returned to America unaccompanied by family members. He had been feeling homesick and returned. In 1784, Abigail and Nabby moved to England to live with John Adams, who was working there at the time. John Quincy would join them later.
College
In June of 1789, while attending Harvard College, where he began at age 15 in 1785, Charles and his friends got into a scrape for drinking heavily and running naked through Harvard Yard. One of his friends was expelled. This night was the first recorded case of Primal Scream. John Quincy and Thomas would later attend Harvard after Charles.
Legal career
After graduating from Harvard College in 1789, he moved to New York City, where plans had been made for him to work in the legal office of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was named Secretary of the Treasury and Adams moved to the law office of John Laurance to continue his studies. Adams passed the bar examination in 1792.
Personal life
On August 29, 1795, Adams married Sarah "Sally" Smith (1769–1828), the sister of his brother-in-law, William Stephens Smith. They had two daughters, Susanna Boylston (1796–1884) and Abigail Louisa Smith (1798–1836). Abigail married the banker and philosopher Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786–1867) and their son, Alexander Smith Johnson (1817–1878), became a judge. At the age of 37, Abigail Louisa died of uterine cancer.
Adams was an alcoholic who engaged in extramarital relationships and made questionable financial decisions. He was disowned by his father and sometimes lived apart from his family.
Death
It is a common myth that Adams, who died on November 30, 1800, died of cirrhosis, a disease often caused by alcoholism. In a letter from Abigail to John Quincy after his death, she stated Adams died in New York City of "dropsy of the chest" or pleurisy. Pleurisy can be caused by a multitude of respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and cancer. He was the first child of a president to die while the president was in office. He was 30 years old.
In popular culture
In 2008, HBO presented the miniseries entitled John Adams based on the book by David McCullough. The biographical presentation depicts John Adams as a neglectful father to Charles and suggests that the elder Adams's failures as a father negatively influenced Charles's development. Historians have pointed out the inaccuracies of the series' representation of their relationship.
References
External links
The Adams Family
Charles Adams
1770 births
1800 deaths
Adams political family
Harvard College alumni
People from Quincy, Massachusetts
18th-century American lawyers
Deaths from pleurisy
Leiden University alumni
Children of John Adams |
Glaucopsyche piasus, the arrowhead blue, is a western North American butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a locally common butterfly that favors prairie, open woodland, and woodland edges and trails.
Larvae feed on lupine (Lupinus) and milkvetch (Astragalus) species.
References
External links
Arrowhead Blue, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
piasus
Butterflies described in 1852
Butterflies of North America |
The Suttor Developmental Road is a highway in the east of the Australian state of Queensland. It runs in SE-NW direction and has a length of 167 km. It connects the Peak Downs Highway with the Bowen Developmental Road. It is signed as State Route 11.
Route
The Suttor Developmental Road branches north of Nebo from the Peak Downs Highway (State Route 70) to the west and south of the Homevale National Park to the locality of Elphinstone.
The paved road ends at Elpinstone after which it hugs the western shore of Lake Elphinstone. Later it crosses the Isaac River. In the locality of Eaglefield it crosses the Suttor River, after which it is named. Finally, it reaches the locality of Mount Coolon at the Bowen Developmental Road (State Route 77).
Sources
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. . p. 10
References
Highways in Queensland
Roads in Queensland |
The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion, also known as the Levi P. Morton House is a historic Beaux-Arts home, located at 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Logan Circle neighborhood.
History
It was built in 1879, to the designs of architect John Fraser, and comprehensively remodeled in 1912 by architect John Russell Pope.
The Beaux-Arts style building originally served as the private residence of John. T. Brodhead, and Jessie Willis Brodhead.
Between 1939 and 2016, the building served as offices for the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association (now known as the American Coatings Association).
Former occupants include Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton, the Embassy of Russia, and U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.
In February 2016 the Mansion was purchased from American Coatings Association by Hungary to move the Embassy of Hungary there later in the year.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.
References
External links
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=4072
https://web.archive.org/web/20090108182656/http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Brodhead--Bell--Morton_Mansion
Houses completed in 1884
Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Logan Circle (Washington, D.C.) |
Lamsang Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Manipur state in India.
It is part of Imphal West district.
Extent
Lamsang is the 17th of 60 constituencies of Manipur. It consists of 49 parts namely: 1 - Awang Leikinthabi Awang Leikai, 2 - Awang Leikinthabi Makha Leikai, 3 - Awang Wabgai, 4 - Tingri, 5 - Maharabi, 6 - Potsangbam Khullen Khoiru, 7 - Potsangbam Khullen Thouriphi, 8 - Khonghampat Khullen (A), 9 - Khonghampat Khullen (B), 10 - Khonghampat Khunou, 11 - Mantri Leikai, 12 - Khamaral, 13 - Kameng, 14 - Mana-Ingkhol, 15 - Tendongyan, 16 - Pheidinga, 17 - Loitang Khullen, 18 - Mayang Langjing Taning Awang Leikai, 19 - Mayang Langjing Taning Makha Leikai, 20 - Mayang Langjing Tamang, 21 - Akham, 22 - Lamdeng (A), 23 - Lamdeng (B), 24 - Lamdeng Khunoun (A), 25 - Lamdeng Khunou (B), 26 - Awang khunou, 27 - Awang Khunou Sorok Maning, 28 - Awang Khunou Sorok Mamang, 29 - Salam Keikhu, 30 - Salam Keikhu, 31 - Tharoijam, 32 - Heibongpokpi, 33 - Haorang Sabal, 34 - Lamsang, 35 - Lambal, 36 - Taothong Ayungba, 37 - Taothong Apheiba, 38 - Taothong, 39 - Khullem Leikai (A), 40 - Khullem Leikai (B), 41 - Khullem Leikai (C), 42 - Khullem Leikai (D), 43 - Luker (A), 44 - Kiyam, 45 - Luker (B), 46 - Maklang, 47 - Leitong, 48 - Thangjing Khullen, and 49 - Sangaithel.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Election Results
Assembly Election 2022
Assembly Election 2017
Assembly Election 2012
Assembly Election 2007
Assembly Election 2002
Assembly Election 2000
Assembly Election 1995
Assembly Election 1990
Assembly Election 1984
Assembly Election 1980
Assembly Election 1974
Assembly Election 1972
See also
List of constituencies of the Manipur Legislative Assembly
Imphal West district
References
External links
Imphal West district
Assembly constituencies of Manipur |
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