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The Escondido Formation is a geologic formation in Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Cretaceous period. See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas Paleontology in Texas References Cretaceous geology of Texas
The Politische Abteilung ("Political Department"), also called the "concentration camp Gestapo," was one of the five departments of a Nazi concentration camp set up by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate (CCI) to operate the camps. An outpost of both the Gestapo and the criminal police (Kripo), the political department evolved into the most important of the five. Background Theodor Eicke was appointed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to establish a system to run the concentration camps. Eicke drew up regulations for guards and for prisoners and set up five departments to oversee the camp. The five departments were: Abteilung I: Command headquarters Abteilung II: Political department Abteilung III: Preventive detention camp Abteilung IV: General administration Abteilung V: Medical unit As of summer 1936, the Politische Abteilung (Political department) was a compulsory part of the concentration camp command structure. Unlike the other departments, it was not under the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, but rather the local Gestapo office or after September 1939, Amt IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). The department head and deputy were usually officers of the Gestapo or Kripo, or were members of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The other employees of the department were members of the Waffen-SS, technically also Gestapo officers, but as SS members, belonged to the Stabskompanie, the company attached to the command headquarters and thus to the disciplinary authority of the commandant and adjutant. Responsibilities The Politische Abteilung was sub-divided into other five or six departments, which handled specific tasks. At Auschwitz, for example, the Politische Abteilung consisted of: Identification documentation Investigations Interrogations Intelligence service Surveillance Camp registrar (sometimes in conjunction with supervision of the crematorium) The camp registrar handled the registration of prisoners when they were admitted and when they left, whether by release, transfer, escape or death. Inmate files were created, portrait photos made, physical description noted, brief details about the prisoner's life and fingerprints were filed. The Politische Abteilung also handled the police work of the camps, again dividing up this work into specific subdivisions. The monitoring service prepared prisoner identification papers, another handled investigations and interrogations and a third handled prisoner surveillance. This included the fight against clandestine camp resistance groups, the prevention of escape. The department was known for its harsh interrogations, torture and executions and SS members of this department were feared by prisoners. The department also handled correspondence with the Gestapo, Kripo and RSHA. For a prisoner, the political department could mean, within the grim world of a concentration camp, a relatively pleasant place to work, or it could mean torture and execution. References Sources Kirsten, Wolfgang. Das Konzentrationslager als Institution totalen Terrors. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1992, Kogon, Eugen. Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager, first published by Alber, Munich (1946); republished by Heyne, Munich (1995) Orth, Karin. Die Konzentrationslager-SS. dtv, München 2004, Nazi concentration camps Nazi SS Gestapo
Mesudiye (Ottoman Turkish: Happiness) was a central-battery ironclad of the Ottoman Navy, one of the largest ships of that type ever built. She was built at the Thames Iron Works in Britain between 1871 and 1875. Mesudiye had one sister ship, though she was purchased by the Royal Navy and commissioned as . Her primary armament consisted of twelve guns in a central armored battery. Mesudiye was poorly maintained for most of her career, including a twenty-year long period between the Russo-Turkish War in 1877–1878 and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. As a result, she was in very poor condition by the late 1890s, which prompted a major reconstruction of her into a pre-dreadnought design type vessel in Genoa. The ship's armament was overhauled, though the gun turrets that were to have mounted guns never received the weapons. A new propulsion system was also installed, which significantly improved performance. The ship saw extensive action during the First Balkan War in 1912–1913, including the battles of Elli and Lemnos in December 1912 and January 1913, respectively. During the latter engagement, she was badly damaged by a Greek shell and forced to withdraw. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Mesudiye was moored at Nara to protect the minefields that blocked the entrance to the Dardanelles. On the morning of 13 December, the British submarine passed through the minefields and torpedoed Mesudiye, which quickly sank. Most of the crew survived, however, and many of her guns were salvaged and used to strengthen the defenses of the Dardanelles. A battery of these guns, named Mesudiye in honor of the ship, helped to sink the French battleship in March 1915. Design In the aftermath of the Crimean War, where an entire Ottoman squadron was destroyed by a Russian fleet at Sinop, the Ottoman Empire began a naval construction program, limited primarily by the chronically weak Ottoman economy. Several ironclad warships were ordered in the 1860s and 1870s, primarily from British and French shipyards. Despite the shortage of funds, by the late 1870s, the Ottomans had acquired a fleet of thirteen large ironclads and nine smaller armored warships. Mesudiye was designed by Edward Reed, who based the design on the recently built British ironclad . General characteristics and machinery Mesudiye was long, and she had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced as originally built. Her hull was constructed with iron, and was fitted with a ram bow. The ship had a minimal superstructure that included a short forecastle deck and a poop deck. She had a crew of 700 officers and enlisted men. The ship was powered by a single horizontal, two-cylinder compound engine, with steam provided by eight coal-fired box boilers. The boilers were trunked into a pair of funnels located amidships. The engines were rated at and produced a top speed of . By 1884 a decade of poor maintenance had reduced her top speed to . She carried of coal. Although intended to operate primarily via her steam engine, Mesudiye was also fitted with three masts and a barque sail rig. Armament and armor Mesudiye was armed with a main battery of twelve RML 10 inch 18 ton guns, all mounted in a central battery firing through gun ports. Four were on each side, with four on the broadside, one angled forward and the other angled rearward to allow end-on fire during ramming attacks. She was also equipped with three RML 7 inch guns, all on the upper deck, with two forward and one aft; these also served as chase guns. In 1891, six quick-firing guns (QF) and six QF guns were installed to provide the ship with a defense against torpedo boats. Armor protection consisted of iron plate; the armored belt had a maximum thickness of in the central portion of the ship, where it protected machinery and ammunition magazines, and was reduced on either end, first to and then to 76 mm. The thickest part of the belt extended below the waterline and above the line, and was composed of three strakes. The middle strake was the thickest, the upper strake was reduced slightly to , and the lower one was and tapered to . The gun battery was protected by another two strakes of armor, the lower being 254 mm thick and the upper reduced to . Service history Mesudiye, meaning "Happiness", was ordered in 1871 and was laid down at the Thames Ironworks shipyard in London the following year. She was launched on 28 October 1874. On 15 September 1875, she ran aground in the River Medway as she was being taken to Chatham, Kent to have her guns fitted. She was refloated and docked. Mesudiye was commissioned in December 1875 for sea trials. She had one sister ship, Mahmûdiye, which was renamed Hamidiye while under construction. She was purchased by the Royal Navy before completion and commissioned as . Mesudiye and Superb were the largest casemate ironclads ever built. Early in the ship's career, the Ottoman ironclad fleet was activated every summer for short cruises from the Golden Horn to the Bosporus to ensure their propulsion systems were in operable condition. In September 1876, Mesudiye became the flagship of the Ottoman Black Sea Squadron, though she did not see action in the Russo-Turkish War that broke out in April 1877. After the Ottoman defeat, the fleet was laid up at the Golden Horn and left largely unattended for the following twenty years. The annual summer cruises to the Bosporus ended. By the mid-1880s, the Ottoman ironclad fleet was in poor condition, and Mesudiye was unable to go to sea. Her engines were unusable, having seized up from rust, and her hull was badly fouled. The British naval attache to the Ottoman Empire at the time estimated that the Imperial Arsenal would take six months to get just five of the ironclads ready to go to sea. Throughout this period, the ship's crew was limited to about one-third the normal figure. During a period of tension with Greece in 1886, the fleet was brought to full crews and the ships were prepared to go to sea, but none actually left the Golden Horn, and they were quickly laid up again. By that time, Mesudiye was probably capable of little more than , but her poorly-trained crew was likely unable to keep that pace for an extended period of time. During this period of inactivity, Mesudiye received a minor modernization at the Tersâne-i Âmire shipyard on the Golden Horn. At the start of the Greco-Turkish War in February 1897, Mesudiye was found to be unfit for combat, as were most of the other major warships of the fleet. On 15 May Mesudiye and several other warships attempted to hold a training exercise, which only highlighted the poor state of training of the ships' crews. Reconstruction Following the end of the war, the government decided to begin a naval reconstruction program. The first stage was to rebuild the older armored warships, including Mesudiye. Requests for proposals were sent to foreign shipyards, and in October 1898 the Gio. Ansaldo & C. shipyard in Genoa requested permission to survey the ship and the ironclad . Both vessels were accordingly sent to Genoa in January 1899, arriving on the 28th, though Ansaldo only received the contract for Mesudiye. Mesudiye was rebuilt into a pre-dreadnought type vessel. The modernization involved radical reconstruction of the hull; the bow and stern were cut down to make room for a pair of gun turrets, each mounting a single 40-caliber gun manufactured by Vickers. The turrets had 230 mm thick armored faces, though they never received their guns; wooden dummy guns were installed in their place. A battery of twelve 45-caliber QF guns was installed in place of the old rifled muzzle-loaders, and sixteen 76 mm QF guns were added in an upper battery. Mesudiye also received ten guns and a pair of guns. A large superstructure was built amidships, with a new conning tower, which was given of armor plating. Displacement rose to normally and at full load. The ship's propulsion system was also completely replaced. Two triple-expansion engines were installed, along with sixteen coal-fired Niclausse boilers. The two screw propellers overlapped, so the port side screw was placed slightly ahead of the starboard one. Performance improved to and . Her crew increased to 800 as a result of the modifications. On 15 March 1904, Mesudiye completed sea trials and thereafter returned to Constantinople. Italo-Turkish and Balkan Wars In 1909, she participated in the first fleet maneuver conducted by the Ottoman Navy in twenty years, part of a reform program initiated by a British naval mission to the Ottoman Empire. Starting in July 1911, Mesudiye joined the two pre-dreadnoughts and , four destroyers, and a torpedo boat for a series of exercises that culminated in the routine summer cruise to Beirut. The fleet was returning to Constantinople when Italy declared war, starting the Italo-Turkish War on 29 September 1911. Mesudiye and the rest of the fleet moored at Nagara Point on 2 October and returned to Constantinople the following day. Mesudiye was thereafter assigned to the Reserve Division, which also included the rebuilt ironclad Asar-i Tevfik and the torpedo cruiser . She did not see action during the conflict, since the Ottoman fleet spent the war in port. This was in part due to the rising tensions in the Balkans that presaged the Balkan Wars; the Ottomans kept their fleet in port so it could be prepared for the inevitable conflict. In October 1912, the Balkan League declared war on the Ottomans, a month before the Italo-Turkish War ended. At the time, Mesudiye was moored off Büyükdere, a neighborhood in Constantinople, with the torpedo boats and , stationed as a guard ship. In December, the Ottoman fleet was reorganized, with Mesudiye joining the newly formed Battleship Division, under the command of Ramiz Naman Bey. The division also included Barbaros Hayreddin, Turgut Reis, and Asar-i Tevfik. The ship was moved to Büyükçekmece on 15 November, where she joined the rest of the fleet. Two days later, Mesudiye and Barbaros Hayreddin conducted shore bombardments in support of the Ottoman troops holding the Çatalca Line; the bombardments did not cause particularly significant material damage to the attacking Bulgarians, but it did boost Ottoman morale. Battle of Elli The ships took part in the Battle of Elli, the first Ottoman surface action involving major warships since the Russo-Turkish War, on 16 December 1912. The Ottoman fleet sortied from the Dardanelles at 9:30; the smaller craft remained at the mouth of the straits while the battleships sailed north, hugging the coast. The Greek flotilla, which included the armored cruiser and three s, sailing from the island of Lemnos, altered course to the northeast to block the advance of the Ottoman battleships. The Ottoman ships opened fire on the Greeks at 9:40, from a range of about . Five minutes later, Georgios Averof crossed over to the other side of the Ottoman fleet, placing the Ottomans in the unfavorable position of being under fire from both sides. At 9:50 and under heavy pressure from the Greek fleet, the Ottoman ships completed a 16-point turn (180°), which reversed their course, and headed for the safety of the straits. The turn was poorly executed, and the ships fell out of formation, blocking each other's fields of fire. Barbaros Hayreddin, Turgut Reis, and Mesudiye took several hits during the battle, though only Barbaros Hayreddin was significantly damaged. By 10:17, both sides had ceased firing and the Ottoman fleet withdrew into the Dardanelles. When they approached the straits, Mesudiye and Asar-i Tevfik took up positions to cover the withdrawal of the damaged pre-dreadnoughts. The ships reached port by 13:00 and transferred their casualties to the hospital ship Resit Paşa. Battle of Lemnos In late December, the Ottomans began a campaign of raids and patrols in the Aegean Sea against the islands that had been recently conquered by the Greeks. The Ottoman Army began planning to make a landing on Tenedos in late December, which had been captured by Greece earlier in the war. Mesudiye and the rest of the Battleship Division sortied from the Dardanelles on the morning of 4 January 1913, but the operation was called off after the Greek fleet appeared. On 10 January, the fleet embarked on another offensive operation, this time to raid the island of Imbros. After a brief, inconclusive clash with Greek destroyers, the fleet again withdrew to the safety of the Dardanelles. Eight days later, another fleet operation began, which produced the Battle of Lemnos, the second major naval engagement of the war. The Ottoman plan was to lure the faster Georgios Averof away from the Dardanelles. The protected cruiser evaded the Greek blockade and broke out into the Aegean Sea in an attempt to draw the Greek cruiser into pursuit. Despite the threat posed by the cruiser, the Greek commander refused to detach Georgios Averof. The Ottoman fleet departed the Dardanelles at 8:20 on the morning of 18 January, and sailed toward the island of Lemnos at a speed of . Barbaros Hayreddin led the line of battleships, with a flotilla of torpedo boats on either side of the formation. A long range artillery duel that lasted for two hours began at around 11:55, when the Ottoman fleet opened fire at a range of . They concentrated their fire on the Greek Georgios Averof, which returned fire at 12:00. At 12:50, the Greeks attempted to cross the T of the Ottoman fleet, but Barbaros Hayreddin turned north to block the Greek maneuver. At around that time, Mesudiye took a serious hit that disabled three of her 150 mm guns; this damage, coupled with boiler trouble, led the Ottoman commander to detach the ship and send her back to port. On 5 February, Mesudiye supported operations off Şarköy in the Sea of Marmara, bombarding Bulgarian troops that had occupied the town. This was the last wartime operation conducted by the ship; she did not participate in the amphibious assault on Şarköy three days later. The Ottoman fleet then spent the remaining months of the war in port, until the armistice ended the conflict in April. World War I In late July 1914, World War I broke out in Europe, though the Ottomans initially remained neutral. On 6 September 1914, Mesudiye was sent to Nara to protect the minefields guarding the entrance to the Dardanelles. She was supported by the minelayer and the tug . Tensions between the Ottomans and a British fleet patrolling the entrance to the Dardanelles increased until 5 November, when Britain and France declared war on the Ottoman Empire. On the morning of 13 December, the British submarine , commanded by Lieutenant Norman Holbrook, entered the Dardanelles. At around 11:30, she spotted Mesudiye at anchor and fired a single torpedo from a distance of . The torpedo hit the ship's stern and caused serious damage; Mesudiyes guns briefly fired at B11s periscope before the ship capsized and sank in shallow water. Casualties were light, with only 10 officers and 27 enlisted men killed in the attack. A salvage effort removed the 150 mm and 76 mm guns, which were used to strengthen the defenses of the Dardanelles. In the meantime, B11 successfully passed back through the Dardanelles and returned to port; Holbrook was awarded the Victoria Cross for sinking Mesudiye. Mesudiyes salvaged 150 mm guns were installed as "Battery Mesudiye" in the Dardanelles. These guns played a role in the sinking of the French battleship on 18 March 1915, having hit the ship eight times—one of which disabled her forward turret—before she struck a mine and sank with very heavy loss of life. Notes References Battleships of the Ottoman Navy Ships built in Leamouth 1874 ships Ironclad warships of the Ottoman Navy Maritime incidents in September 1875 Naval ships of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan Wars World War I naval ships of the Ottoman Empire Ships sunk by British submarines World War I shipwrecks in the Dardanelles Maritime incidents in December 1914
Bussang (; or Büssing) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in Northeastern France. Known as the source of the Moselle River. See also Communes of the Vosges department References External links Official site Communes of Vosges (department)
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Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground. Like topsoil, it is composed of a variable mixture of small particles such as sand, silt and clay, but with a much lower percentage of organic matter and humus, and it has a small amount of rocks which are smaller mixed with it. The subsoil is also called B Horizon. Whereas the topsoil (alternatively called the A horizon) tends to be the site containing the greatest physical, chemical, and biological activity, the subsoil (or the B horizon) is the region of deposition where you can find iron oxide, clay particles, and small amounts of organic material reaching from the A horizon. It is also less weathered than the topsoil. Due to human activity, the topsoil and subsoil in many environments has been mixed together. Below the subsoil is the soil base (or C horizon). Clay-based subsoil has been the primary source of material for adobe, cob, rammed earth, wattle and daub, and other earthen construction methods for millennia. Coarse sand, the other ingredient in most of these materials, is also found in subsoil. Although by no means sterile, subsoil is relatively barren in terms of soil organisms compared to humus-rich topsoil. See also Soil Soil horizon Subgrade Parent rock Sources Types of soil
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Philip Barton Key (April 12, 1757 – July 28, 1815), was an American Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and later was a United States Circuit Judge and Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States circuit court for the Fourth Circuit and a United States representative from Maryland. Education and career Born on April 12, 1757, near Charlestown, Cecil County, Province of Maryland, British America, Key pursued an academic course. He was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, fighting with the British Army from 1777 to 1781. He served in the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as a captain. Key and his entire battalion were captured by the Spanish Army– who were at war with the British– in Pensacola, Florida. Key was a prisoner for a month in Havana, Cuba before being paroled and sent to New York City, New York until the end of the war. After the war, Key went to England and graduated from the Middle Temple in London in 1784 and read law in 1785. He returned to Maryland in 1785. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Leonardtown, Maryland from 1787 to 1790. He continued private practice in Annapolis, Maryland from 1790 to 1794, and from 1799 to 1800. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1794 to 1799. He was Mayor of Annapolis from 1797 to 1798. Federal judicial service Key was nominated by President John Adams on February 18, 1801, to the United States circuit court for the Fourth Circuit, to a new seat authorized by . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 20, 1801, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on March 3, 1801, due to his elevation to serve as Chief Judge of the same court. Key was nominated by President Adams on February 25, 1801, to the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit, to the new Chief Judge seat authorized by 2 Stat. 89. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 26, 1801, and received his commission on March 3, 1801. His service terminated on July 1, 1802, due to abolition of the court. Following his departure from the federal bench, Key resumed private practice in Montgomery County, Maryland from 1802 to 1807, also engaging in agricultural pursuits. He served as counsel for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Samuel Chase during his Senate impeachment trial in 1805. Congressional service Key was elected as a Federalist from Maryland's 3rd congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 10th, 11th and 12th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1813. He was Chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia for the 10th United States Congress. Later career and death Following his departure from Congress, Key resumed private practice in Georgetown, D.C. (then a separate municipality in the District of Columbia, now a neighborhood in Washington, D.C.) from 1813 to 1815. He died on July 28, 1815, in Georgetown, D.C. He was initially interred on his estate “Woodley” in Georgetown, D.C. He was re-interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Family Key's cousin, Philip Key, was a United States representative from Maryland. See also Philip Key (U.S. politician), Key's cousin Francis Scott Key, Key's nephew Philip Barton Key II, Key's great-nephew John Eager Howard, father-in-law of Key's daughter William Howard (engineer), son-in-law George Plater, father-in-law References Sources Purcell, L. Edward. Who Was Who in the American Revolution. New York: Facts on File, 1993. . Leepson, Marc. What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014. . 1757 births 1815 deaths 18th-century American judges American Loyalists from Maryland American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Spain Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland Judges of the United States circuit courts Key family of Maryland Loyalist military personnel of the American Revolutionary War Mayors of Annapolis, Maryland Members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Cecil County, Maryland United States federal judges appointed by John Adams United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law
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Ferdowsiyeh (, also Romanized as Ferdowsīyeh) is a village in Asfyj Rural District, Asfyj District, Behabad County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 4 families. References Populated places in Behabad County
is a traditional (koryū) school of Japanese martial arts founded in 1368 CE by the samurai Sōma Shiro Yoshimoto (c.14th century) in modern-day Nagano Prefecture, where Yoshimoto is said to have taught only fourteen students until his death. References Ko-ryū bujutsu Japanese martial arts 1368 establishments in Asia 1360s establishments in Japan
Feel Something is the second studio album by British band The History of Apple Pie. It was released on 30 September 2014 under Marshall Teller Records. Critical reception Feel Something was met with generally favourable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 68, based on 10 reviews. Track listing References 2014 albums The History of Apple Pie albums
A pioneer () is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper or combat engineer. Pioneers were originally part of the artillery branch of European armies. Subsequently, they formed part of the engineering branch, the logistic branch, part of the infantry, or even comprised a branch in their own right. Historically, the primary role of pioneer units was to assist other arms in tasks such as the construction of field fortifications, military camps, bridges and roads. Prior to and during the First World War, pioneers were often engaged in the construction and repair of military railways. During World War II, pioneer units were used extensively by all major forces, both on the front line and in supporting roles. During the 20th century, British Commonwealth military forces came to distinguish between small units of "assault pioneers" belonging to infantry regiments and separate pioneer units (as in the former Royal Pioneer Corps). The United States Marine Corps has sometimes organized its sappers into "Pioneer Battalions". The arrival of the military engineering vehicle and the deployment of weapons of mass destruction vastly expanded capabilities and complicated mission-profiles of modern pioneer units. Etymology The word pioneer is originally from France. The word () was borrowed into English, from Old French pionnier, which meant a "foot soldier", from the root 'peon' recorded in 1523. It was used in a military sense as early as 1626–1627. In the late 18th century, Captain George Smith defined the term as: Pioneer regiments in the Indian Army Extensive use was made of pioneers in the British Indian Army because of the demands of campaigning in difficult terrain with little or no infrastructure. In 1780, two companies of pioneers were raised in Madras, increasing to 16 in 1803 divided into two battalions. Bombay and Bengal pioneers were formed during the same period. In the late nineteenth century, a number of existing Indian infantry regiments took the title and the construction role of pioneers. The twelve Indian Pioneer regiments in existence in 1914 were trained and equipped for road, rail and engineering work, as well as for conventional infantry service. While this dual function did not qualify them to be regarded as elite units, the frequency with which they saw active service made postings to pioneer regiments popular with British officers. Prior to World War I, each sepoy in a Pioneer regiment carried a pickaxe or a light spade in special leather equipment as well as a rifle and bayonet. NCOs and buglers carried axes, saws and billhooks. Heavier equipment, such as explosives, was carried by mule. The unit was therefore well equipped for simple field engineering tasks, as well as being able to defend itself in hostile territory. During the War, the increased specialisation required of Pioneers made them too valuable to use as regular assault infantry. Accordingly, in 1929, the Pioneer regiments were taken out of the line infantry and grouped into the Corps of Madras Pioneers (four battalions), the Corps of Bombay Pioneers (four battalions), the Corps of Sikhs Pioneers (four battalions), and the Corps of Hazara Pioneers (one battalion). All four Pioneer Corps were disbanded in 1933 and their personnel mostly transferred into the Corps of Sappers and Miners, whose role they had come to parallel. It was concluded that the Pioneer battalions had become less technically effective than the Sappers and Miners, but too well trained in specialist functions to warrant being used as ordinary infantry. In addition, their major role of frontier road building had now been allocated to civilian workers. An Indian Pioneer Corps was re-established in 1943. Pioneers in the British Army Historically, British infantry regiments maintained small units of pioneers for heavy work and engineering, especially for clearing paths through forests and for leading assaults on fortifications. These units evolved into assault pioneers. They also inspired the creation of the Royal Pioneer Corps. During World War I, on paper at least, each division was allocated a pioneer infantry battalion, who in addition to being trained infantry were able to conduct pioneer duties. These pioneer battalions were raised and numbered within the existing infantry regiments; where possible recruits were men who possessed transferable skills from civilian life. The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks. The Royal Pioneer Corps was raised on 17 October 1939 as the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps. It was renamed the Pioneer Corps on 22 November 1940. It was renamed the Royal Pioneer Corps on 28 November 1946. On 5 April 1993, the Royal Pioneer Corps united with other units to form the Royal Logistic Corps. The specialist pioneer units in the Royal Logistic Corps, 23 Pioneer Regiment, based at St David's Barracks at Bicester, and 168 Pioneer Regiment, headquartered in Prince William of Gloucester Barracks at Grantham, were disbanded in 2014, as part of the Army 2020 re-organisation. The ARRC Support Battalion is based at Imjin Barracks, Innsworth (until June 2010, it was at Rheindahlen Military Complex, Germany) All British infantry regiments still maintain assault pioneer units. The Pioneer Sergeant is the only rank allowed to wear a beard on parade. Israeli Army The Israeli army has an infantry brigade called the Fighting Pioneer Youth, in Hebrew Noar Halutzi Lohem or just "Nahal". The title of Israeli military pioneers is a back-derivation from the civilian term. The Israeli army's pioneers were formed in 1948 from Jewish civilian pioneers, i.e. settlers, who were permitted to combine military service and farming. Pioneer units United Kingdom Maltese Pioneers British Garrison at Calais Pioneers Pioneer Corps 4th (Pioneer) Battalion Coldstream Guards with the Guards Division, 1917 alternatively known as Guards Pioneer Battalion 6th East Yorkshire Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with Division, 1917 (three company establishment) 3rd "Salford Pals" Battalion (19th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers) (converted to a pioneer battalion) 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with 9th Division, 1917 1/6th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Pioneer Battalion) with 5th Division, 1917 9th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with 23rd Division, 1917 9th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with 37th Division 1915–18 19th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with 41st Division, 1917 1/5th Royal Sussex Regiment (Pioneer Battalion) with 48th Division, 1917 8th (Pioneer) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment divisional pioneer battalion 12th (Pioneer) Battalion Sherwood Foresters Pioneer Battalion, The Royal Scots 19th Battalion (Pioneers), The Welsh Regiment (Glamorgan Pioneers) 15th (Pioneer) Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) recruited at Oxford, Thame, Dover, Elham and Lyminge, Bude, Woolacombe and Truro areas during the Second World War 5th (Pioneer) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was appointed "in consequence of earning a high reputation as diggers and as constructors of field works" 25th (Pioneer) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps Pioneer Battalion, 5th Royal Irish Lancers, 1902 – 1922 was created to construct a new railway in the I Corps area on the Western Front. 1st Battalions Monmouthshire Regiment Territorial Force 11 November 1915: Pioneer Battalion of 46th Division, south west of Avesnes, France. 2nd Battalions Monmouthshire Regiment Territorial Force 1 May 1916: Joined 29th Division as Pioneer Battalion. 3rd Battalions Monmouthshire Regiment Territorial Force 28 September 1915: Became Pioneer Battalion, 28th Division. 16th (Pioneer) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles 605th Pioneer Battalion, Pioneer Corps – used for light engineering tasks 606th Pioneer Battalion, Pioneer Corps – used for light engineering tasks 23 Pioneer Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps – Disbanded October 2014 168 Pioneer Regiment, Territorial Army- Disbanded April 2014 Australia During World War I, Australia raised six pioneer battalions within the First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) for service on the Western Front, one per division: 1st Pioneer Battalion (New South Wales), 1st Division 2nd Pioneer Battalion (Western Australia), 2nd Division 3rd Pioneer Battalion (Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia), 3rd Division 4th Pioneer Battalion (Queensland), 4th Division 5th Pioneer Battalion (South Australia), 5th Division 6th Pioneer Battalion, 6th Division (disbanded without seeing combat) In World War II, four pioneer battalions were raised as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF): 2/1 Australian Pioneer Battalion 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion 2/3 Australian Pioneer Battalion 2/4 Australian Pioneer Battalion Other World War II pioneer units: 2/1st Special Pioneer Company (Formed in New South Wales in 1942 from the 9th Pioneer Training Battalion. Absorbed by 2/11th Army Troops Company in September 1943.) 2/2nd Special Pioneer Company (Formed in New South Wales in 1942 from the 9th Pioneer Training Battalion. Absorbed by 2/11th Army Troops Company in September 1943.) 3rd Special Pioneer Company (Formed in Victoria in March 1942. Redesignated 30th Employment Company in September 1942.) 2/4th Special Pioneer Company (Formed in Victoria in March 1942. Redesignated 29th Employment Company in September 1942.) 2/5th Pioneer Company (Formed in Victoria in March 1942. Redesignated 34th Infantry Training Battalion in May 1942.) 7th Special Pioneer Company (Formed in Queensland in April 1942 from the 7th Infantry Training Battalion. Disbanded September 1942.) 8th Special Pioneer Company (Formed in Queensland in April 1942 from the 29th Infantry Training Battalion. Disbanded September 1942.) 20th Pioneer Battalion (Formed by redesignation of the 20th Motor Regiment, February 1945. Disbanded September 1945) Torres Strait Pioneer Company (Formed from Torres Strait islanders, 1943. Disbanded January 1945) The Headquarters Companies of Infantry Battalions serving in the South West Pacific included Pioneer Platoons, giving Battalion Commanders the authority over deployment of Pioneer troops as required in combat pioneering, infantry combat or service roles. Canada 2nd Canadian Pioneer Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force with over a thousand men whose training gave them a combination of engineering and infantry skills. 48th Battalion served in the field as the 3rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion (48th Canadians), with the 3rd Canadian Division 67th "Western Scots" (Pioneer Battalion), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916 107th Pioneer Battalion 123rd Infantry Battalion repurposed as a Pioneer Battalion in January 1917, and replaced the 3rd Pioneer Battalion in May 1917 as the Pioneer Battalion of the 3rd Canadian Division 124th Infantry Battalion repurposed as a Pioneer Battalion in January 1917, and became the Pioneer Battalion of the 4th Canadian Division New Zealand The New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, sometimes referred to as the Pioneer Māori Battalion. The battalion included four companies, each with two Māori and two European (Pākehā) platoons, and included remnants of the Otago Mounted Rifle Regiment. South Africa South African Army Pioneer Battalion India For Indian Army Pioneer Corps, see also Indian Army Pioneer Corps British Indian Army Pioneer Battalions enlisted, drilled and trained as any other native infantry battalion of the line, but received additional construction training. 1st Madras Pioneers, Indian Army 2nd Bombay Pioneers, Indian Army 3rd Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army 4th Hazara Pioneers, Indian Army Other commonwealth countries African Pioneer Corps Nepal 1st Jangi Auxiliary Pioneer Battalion (1000 strong), Nepalese Army Jagannath Auxiliary Pioneer Battalion, Nepalese Army France The Foreign Legion Pionniers, members of the Foreign Legion, open all the Legion's parades as a matter of tradition.They grow full beards, wear leather aprons and carry axes during these parades. Germany First World War Imperial German Army pioneers (Pioniere) were regarded as a separate combat arm trained in construction and the demolition of fortifications, but they were often used as specialist infantry, serving the role of combat engineers. One battalion was assigned to each Corps. The Guard Pioneer Battalion 1. (6 companies, each with 20 large and 18 small flame-throwers) The Guard Pioneer Battalion 2. The Guard Pioneer Battalion 3. The Guard Reserve Pioneer Battalion – created from reservists who had been civilian firemen, the battalion was issued with experimental flame-throwers 1st Bavarian Pioneer Battalion, First Bavarian Division (12 destruction squads) 2nd Bavarian Pioneer Battalion Prussian Army pioneer battalions: 1 Prussian Pioneer Battalion of the Guards – 3 Field companies, one Reserve company 12 Prussian Pioneer Battalions of the Line (18 officers, 495 men and 6 other people) 2nd Pioneer Battalion at Stettin 4th Pioneer Battalion at Magdeburg Saxon Pioneer Battalion World War Two German Army Pionier battalions: Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon (armoured pioneer battalion performing engineering tasks during an assault from manoeuvre) Sturmpionierbataillon (assault pioneer battalion performing engineering tasks during an infantry assault) Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 95, a pioneer unit trained for the mountain terrain Pionier-Bataillon 233 (divisional pioneer unit) Heeres-Pionier-Bataillon 73 (Corps pioneer unit) Pioneer Battalion, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Waffen-SS Pioneer Battalions, Estonian Auxiliary Police Russia 1st Pioneer Battalion, Imperial Russian Army 2nd Pioneer Battalion, Imperial Russian Army 3rd Pioneer Battalion (later 5th Pioneer Battalion), Imperial Russian Army 4th Pioneer Battalion, Imperial Russian Army United States First Pioneer Battalion of Engineers, Mounted, United States Army (1st Bn. mtd. Engra.) (3 companies) First Pioneer Battalion of Engineers, United States Army (1st Bn. Engrs.) (3 companies) First Pioneer Infantry, United States Army (Companies A – M) 9th Pioneer Battalion, US Army 18th Reserve Pioneer Battalion, US Army Jefferson County Pioneer Battalion, Pennsylvania (CO Lieutenant-Colonel, Hance Robinson) Red Patch 1st Pioneer Battalion, United States Marine Corps 2nd Pioneer Battalion, United States Marine Corps 3rd Pioneer Battalion, United States Marine Corps 4th Pioneer Battalion, United States Marine Corps 5th Pioneer Battalion, United States Marine Corps (deactivated in November 1969) 31st Naval Construction Battalion TAD as USMC Pioneers 5th Shore Party Regiment, 5th Marine Division (decommissioned) 71st Naval Construction Battalion TAD as USMC Pioneers 3rd Marine Division (decommissioned) 133rd Naval Construction Battalion TAD as USMC Pioneers to 23rd Marines, now called "Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133" See also Combat engineer Citations and notes References Dooley, Thomas P., Irishmen Or English Soldiers?: The Times and World of a Southern Catholic Irish Man (1876–1916) Enlisting in the British Army During the First World War, Liverpool University Press, 1995 Lane, Kerry, Guadalcanal Marine, University Press of Mississippi, 2004 Showalter, Dennis E., Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1914, Brassey's, London, 2004 Combat occupations Military engineering
"I Do" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb. Released on October 14, 1997, as the lead single from her second album, Firecracker (1997), "I Do" peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Loeb's second-highest charting single after her number-one debut single, "Stay (I Missed You)" (1994). In Canada, "I Do" gave Loeb her second number-one hit, after "Stay". This song was her last top-20 single in both countries. Lyrics and composition On the surface, the song seems to be about "the realization that a person isn't right for you, that the relationship has gone bad". However, the real intention of the song is different according to the liner notes for The Very Best of Lisa Loeb: "We were almost finished recording the album, Firecracker, and the record company told us that we still needed a single. I decided to write a song that sounded like a song about a relationship but was actually about the record company not 'hearing' a single on the record already. You can hear it in the lyrics, 'You can't hear it, but I do.' The song ended up being an expression of strength and power even when someone's not treating you right." Reception The song was warmly greeted by Billboard magazine, which called the melody and chorus "nothing short of pure pop bliss." Music video In the music video, directed by Phil Harder in Minneapolis, it shows scenes of Lisa Loeb in black and white singing on an upside-down microphone and also lying down on the feather floor (like in the album's cover) then singing and playing guitar in a psychedelic room with several dancers around her. It also features paintings of her as well as the lyrics in some scenes (during Pop-up Video, the words would pop up in the same font as the words in the drawings, and the "I will" parts have the percentages). Track listings US CD and cassette single, UK cassette single "I Do" "Jake" (alternative version) European CD single "I Do" (LP version) "Do You Sleep?" (live) UK, Australian, and Japanese CD single "I Do" (LP version) – 3:41 "Do You Sleep?" (live) – 3:35 "Jake" (alternative version) – 3:00 Credits and personnel Credits are lifted from the Firecracker album booklet. Studios Recorded at various studios in New York City and Los Angeles with Pro Tools 4.0 Mixed at Mix This! (Pacific Palisades, California) Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City) Personnel Lisa Loeb – writing, lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, production Juan Patiño – harmony vocals and loops, production, engineering Tony Berg – electric guitars Leland Sklar – bass John "JR" Robinson – drums Bob Clearmountain – mixing David Bianco – basic track engineering Ryan Freeland – additional engineering (Mix This!) Ted Jensen – mastering Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Release history References 1997 singles 1997 songs Geffen Records singles Lisa Loeb songs Music videos directed by Phil Harder RPM Top Singles number-one singles Songs written by Lisa Loeb
The Government College (Autonomous) is located on the banks of River Godavari in Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. It has been recognized as the 'College with Potential for Excellence' by the University Grants Commission in 2016. History The Government Arts College was started as a District school in 1853 and was upgraded as a Provincial school of Madras Presidency in 1868. It was made a college in 1885. It was affiliated to University of Madras in 1891 and later to Andhra University in 1926. Academic Programmes The college offers undergraduates and postgraduate programmes in arts and science affiliated to the Adikavi Nannaya University. It has been accredited by NAAC with an A+ Grade (CGPA 3.38). Notable alumni Adivi Bapiraju, artist V. K. Krishna Menon, former Defence Minister of India Varahagiri Jogayya Panthulu, Illustrious father of V. V. Giri(Former President of India) Tanguturi Prakasam, first Chief Minister of the Indian province Andhra state. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second president of India (served as a philosophy lecturer) Gadicherla Harisarvottama Rao, freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement Damerla Rama Rao, artist Koka Subba Rao, former Chief Justice Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu, lawyer, professor, politician and Justice Party leader who served as the Governor of Madras Presidency in 1936. P S Rau, ICS Chairman, Former Givernor of Kerala, Padma Bhushan Awardee Kavikondala Venkat Rao, Lyricist in Telugu Cinema References External links Official Website Arts colleges in India Colleges in Andhra Pradesh Education in Rajahmundry Educational institutions established in 1853 1853 establishments in India Arts organizations established in 1853 Colleges affiliated to Andhra University Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras
740 Boyz is a Dominican-American dance music group founded in 1991, by Winston Rosa a.k.a. Big Win from New York City. Big Win worked with several singers including Shaggy and DJ Jazzy Jay. While working in a studio called INS Studios in New York City, he met Rafael Vargas a.k.a. Dose Material. Vargas was also in the group 2 in a Room. Their first single, "Shimmy Shake", was successful in France (#2 in late 1995) and Belgium, while it had a little success on the British, German and U.S. charts. A few months later, the second single "Bump Bump (Booty Shake)" was released; it peaked at No. 14 in France and achieved minor success in other European countries, including Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2003, the Porn Kings vs. Flip & Fill featuring 740 Boyz reached No. 28 on the UK Singles Chart with "Shake Ya Shimmy". References American dance music groups
Stagmatopterinae was a subfamily of the Mantidae, a family of insects within the order of mantises (Mantodea). Many of the genera have now been placed in the subfamily Vatinae. Genera The Stagmatopterinae subfamily consisted of 6 genera, and 50 species. Catoxyopsis Catoxyopsis dubiosa Lobocneme Lobocneme colombiae Lobocneme icterica Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 (synonym Paroxyopsis icterica) Lobocneme lobipes Oxyopsis Oxyopsis acutipennis Oxyopsis festae Oxyopsis gracilis (South American green mantis) Oxyopsis lobeter Oxyopsis media Oxyopsis obtusa Oxyopsis oculea Oxyopsis peruviana (Peruvian mantis) Oxyopsis rubicunda Oxyopsis saussurei Oxyopsis stali Parastagmatoptera Parastagmatoptera amazonica Parastagmatoptera concolor Parastagmatoptera confusa Parastagmatoptera flavoguttata (synonym = Parastagmatoptera abnormis) Parastagmatoptera glauca Parastagmatoptera hoorie Parastagmatoptera immaculata Parastagmatoptera pellucida Parastagmatoptera serricornis Parastagmatoptera simulacrum Parastagmatoptera tessellata Parastagmatoptera unipunctata Parastagmatoptera vitreola Parastagmatoptera vitrepennis Parastagmatoptera zernyi Pseudoxyops Pseudoxyops boliviana Pseudoxyops borellii Pseudoxyops diluta Pseudoxyops minuta Pseudoxyops perpulchra Stagmatoptera Stagmatoptera abdominalis Stagmatoptera binotata Stagmatoptera biocellata Stagmatoptera femoralis Stagmatoptera flavipennis Stagmatoptera hyaloptera (Argentine white crested mantis ) Stagmatoptera luna Stagmatoptera nova Stagmatoptera pia Stagmatoptera praecaria Stagmatoptera reimoseri Stagmatoptera septentrionalis Stagmatoptera supplicaria Stagmatoptera vischeri See also List of mantis genera and species References Mantidae Mantodea subfamilies
Granskär (, ) is an island in the Kvarken ("The Throat"), the narrowest part of the Gulf of Bothnia in the northern part of the Baltic sea. It has few inhabitants, almost all Swedish-speaking. Granskär belongs to the municipality of Vaasa. The area has been inhabited since before the time of Swedish dominion over Finland; the first habitations can be traced to at least the 11th century and possibly earlier. Granskär is part of a larger archipelago and most of the smaller islands around Replot have traditionally been used as fishing camps. Today the buildings are generally used as summer cottages since maritime activities play a large part in the culture of the region. Fishing is nowadays mostly a recreational activity, but there are still a number of professional fishermen active in the archipelago. A large part of the Kvarken archipelago has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. References Finnish islands in the Baltic Landforms of Ostrobothnia (region)
Magalí Romitelli (born 1987) was the contestant from Argentina in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant. External links article on Romitelli References 1987 births Argentine beauty pageant winners Miss Universe 2006 contestants Living people People from Villa María Date of birth missing (living people)
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The 2020 Charleston Southern Buccaneers football team represented Charleston Southern University as a member of the Big South Conference during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by second-year head coach Autry Denson, the Buccaneers compiled an overall record of 2–2 with an identical mark in conference play, placing third in the Big South. Charleston Southern played home games at Buccaneer Field in Charleston, South Carolina. Preseason Polls In June 2020, the Buccaneers were predicted to finish third in the Big South by a panel of media and head coaches. Schedule Charleston Southern had games scheduled against Monmouth, Hampton, and Arkansas, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. References Charleston Southern Charleston Southern Buccaneers football seasons Charleston Southern Buccaneers football
2003 European 10 m Events Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Men's events Women's events Medal table See also European Shooting Confederation International Shooting Sport Federation List of medalists at the European Shooting Championships List of medalists at the European Shotgun Championships References External links Official results European Shooting Championships European Shooting Championships 2003 European Shooting Championships European 10 m Events Championships Sport in Gothenburg
Wrangbrook Junction near Upton in West Yorkshire was a location where two lines branched off the Hull and Barnsley Railway main line from to . The first junction led to on the South Yorkshire Junction Railway, and after some four chains (80 m) further the Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway to Wath diverged. The line between Hull and Cudworth had opened on 20 July 1885, the branch to Denaby on 1 September 1894 and the one to Wath on 31 March 1902. Originally three signal boxes controlled the junctions: "Wrangbrook North" on the south side of the main line by the Denaby branch; "Wrangbrook South" on the west side of the Denaby branch and "Wrangbrook West" on the west side of the Wath branch. In 1934 South and West boxes were closed and control passed to North box which was renamed "Wrangbrook Junction". The line between Wrangbrook Junction and Little Weighton was closed on 6 April 1959. The section from Moorhouse to Wrangbrook Junction followed on 30 September 1963), and the lines between Wrangbrook Junction and Monckton and Sprotborough both closed on 7 August 1967. References Railways in South Yorkshire C.T. Goode. Dalesman publishing, 1975. External links Wrangbrook junction on navigable 1955 O. S. map Rail transport in West Yorkshire Hull and Barnsley Railway
Edward Denison Compton (11 April 1872 – 11 October 1940) played first-class cricket for Somerset and Oxford University between 1894 and 1907. He was born at Frome, Somerset and died at Rye, East Sussex. Compton was the 11th child (of 17) of the Rev Thomas Hoyle Compton and his wife, the former Eliza Sarah Winzar, and was educated at Lancing College and Keble College, Oxford. As a cricketer, Compton was a lower-order batsman and a wicketkeeper. He played for Somerset in one match in 1894 and two more in 1895, making little impression. At Oxford University, he won a blue for soccer in 1895-96, but had only two first-class cricket matches for the university team, in one of which he scored an unbeaten 22, his highest first-class score. From 1897 to 1902 he played Minor Counties cricket for Oxfordshire, and from 1903 to 1908 he played minor matches for MCC. He returned, 11 years after his previous first-class game, for a single final match for Somerset in 1907, against Sussex at Hastings. Compton married Annie Maude May in 1900. She died in 1952. References 1872 births 1940 deaths English cricketers Somerset cricketers Oxford University cricketers Oxfordshire cricketers People educated at Lancing College Alumni of Keble College, Oxford People from Frome
Alexander Miller Cobb (born October 7, 1987) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the fourth round of the 2006 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut for them in 2011. He previously played for the Rays from 2011 through 2017, the Baltimore Orioles from 2018 to 2020, and the Los Angeles Angels in 2021. Early life Cobb was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Lindsay Miller-Cobb and Rick Cobb, an accountant. He lived in North Reading, Massachusetts, for the first two years of his life, after which his family relocated to Vero Beach, Florida, due to employment. As a youth, Cobb served as a batboy for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach for three years of spring training. He grew up a Boston Red Sox fan. Cobb graduated from Vero Beach High School in 2006. While there, he was an all-state pitcher as a junior as he had a 8–2 win–loss record with an 0.62 earned run average (ERA) and 139 strikeouts in 90 innings pitched. As a senior, he was named the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers All-Area Baseball Player of the Year after going 5–3 with a 1.06 ERA and 139 strikeouts in 74 innings, and batting .342 with five home runs and 17 runs batted in (RBIs). He also played quarterback for the football team. Cobb committed to play college baseball at Clemson University. Professional career Tampa Bay Rays Draft and minor leagues (2006–2010) The Tampa Bay Rays selected Cobb in the fourth round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft, and he signed for a $400,000 signing bonus. He played in their farm system from 2006 to 2010. In 2006 with Princeton he was 0–0 with a 5.19 ERA in 8.2 innings. In 2007 with Hudson Valley he was 5–6 with a 3.54 ERA in 81.1 innings. In 2008 with Columbus he was 9–7 with a 3.29 ERA in 139.2 innings, and was a mid-season SAL All Star. In 2009 with Charlotte he was 8–5 with a 3.03 ERA in 124.2 innings. In 2010, he pitched the entire season with Double-A Montgomery. He was 7–5 as he pitched in 23 games (22 starts) with a 2.71 ERA (4th in the Southern League and in the Rays organization), had 128 strikeouts (3rd in the League and tied for 4th in the Rays' system) in 119.2 innings, and as a starter his 9.51 strikeouts/9 innings ratio led the league. Major leagues (2011–2017) Cobb was called up to the majors for the first time on May 1, 2011, and made his major league debut that day. He was optioned back to the minors after the game. On May 31, Cobb was recalled back to the majors. On June 7, he earned his first major league victory while starting for the Rays. Cobb pitched for 6 innings and the Rays defeated the Angels 4–1. In late July, Cobb began to experience numbness and swelling in his right arm. After an August 5 start, he required surgery to remove a blood clot and blockage in the area of his first right rib and remove part of one of his ribs. The two surgeries ended his 2011 season. With Tampa Bay in 2011 he was 3–2 with a 3.42 ERA in nine starts covering 52.2 innings. Cobb was invited to spring training in 2012, but sent to minor league camp to begin the season. He was called up to fill in for Jeff Niemann while Niemann was injured. On August 23, 2012, Cobb pitched his first career complete-game shutout against the Oakland Athletics. He ended the season with a 11–9 record and a 4.03 ERA in 23 starts covering 136.1 innings at the major league level. On May 10, 2013, Cobb struck out four batters in a single inning. He also gave up one run in that inning after the batter stole second base, third base, and was then balked home for the first time in recorded baseball. Cobb was struck in the head by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer on June 15, 2013. Cobb was carried off the field on a stretcher, and transported to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was reported that Cobb suffered a mild concussion and had a cut on his right ear, while all other scans and tests came back normal, and he would be discharged the next day. Cobb suffered nausea, headaches, and vertigo, and missed two months, making his return on August 15. Cobb was named the American League Player of the Week for the week ending September 22, 2013. In 22 starts of 2013, Cobb finished the year 11–3 with a 2.76 ERA (19.2 innings short of qualifying for the 4th-best ERA in the AL), and a .228 batting average against. His 72.6 ground ball percentage would have ranked highest in the majors had he qualified. His .786 win–loss percentage was the 4th-best in the league among pitchers with 10 or more wins. During the 2013 MLB postseason, Cobb started two games, earning a win for the Rays in the American League Wild Card game over the Cleveland Indians, and starting in game three of the American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox. Though Cobb pitched well enough that the Rays won game three, he did not earn the win in the decision; the game was decided several innings after he ended his five-inning performance when his teammate, José Lobatón, hit a walk-off home run in the final at bat of the game. In 2014, Cobb endorsed a product designed to help protect young ballplayers from similar injuries: the isoBLOX padded cap insert. The insert, a skull cap which fits underneath adjustable or stretch caps, is based on the same technology Major League Baseball approved for on-field use in 2014. "If boys and girls start wearing protective inserts, it will become second nature for them when they’re older," Cobb said. Cobb went 10–9 with a 2.87 ERA (6th-best in the AL, and 4th-best in team history) in 27 starts. His 7.683 hits per 9 innings were 4th-best in the AL, and his 0.60 home runs per 9 innings were 6th-best. He received the lowest run-support of all AL pitchers, at 3.63 runs per 9 innings. To begin the 2015 season, Cobb was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to right forearm tendinitis, missing what would have been his first Opening Day start. On May 5, 2015, it was revealed that his elbow was diagnosed with a partial tear of the UCL. Three days later, it was announced that he would undergo Tommy John surgery, therefore ending his 2015 season. Cobb began the 2016 season on the 60-day disabled list. He returned to the Rays’ rotation towards the end of the season, but was not effective. In five starts covering 22 innings, Cobb was 1–2 and posted an 8.59 ERA. After Cobb returned from Tommy John surgery, he completely changed the usage of his pitches. Due to the health of his arm and his rehabilitation program, Cobb was not allowed to throw his split-finger fastball, his most dominant and often-used pitch. Cobb went back to using his four-seam fastball and an improved, and more commonly used, curveball. Due to the success of Cobb's first 10 starts of the 2017 season (3.82 ERA) and his impending free-agency, the Rays were reported to be shopping the starter if they were to fall out of the playoff race or if they felt they had the depth to lose Cobb. After an injury to Matt Andriese and poor play by Blake Snell coupled with Cobb's flashes of high potential, the Rays stated that they were not actively shopping Cobb, instead planning on utilizing him as a key piece for the regular season and playoffs. After a poor May and early June, Cobb showed signs of brilliance, constantly pitching late into games, getting weak contact, and consistently keeping his pitch count down. Between June 9 and July 26, Cobb recorded 9 quality starts in 10 games, pitching 7 or more innings in 6 of those games. In that stretch, he went 5–1 and lowered his ERA from 4.52 to 3.46, even flirting with a no-hitter through 7 innings against the Pirates. Cobb ended the 2017 season 12–10 with a 3.66 ERA in 177 innings over 29 starts. His whiff percentage was 16.9%, in the bottom 4% in baseball. His 1.41 range factor on defense was the best among AL pitchers. He was named the winner of the Paul C. Smith Champion Award, which goes to the Rays player who best exemplifies the spirit of true professionalism on and off the field. Baltimore Orioles (2018–2020) On March 20, 2018, Cobb agreed to a four-year deal worth $57 million with the Baltimore Orioles. On September 23, he aggravated a blister, keeping him out for the remainder of the season. He finished the first season of his 4-year contract with a 5–15 record in 28 starts with a 4.90 ERA. He struck out 102 batters in innings. On March 13, 2019, the team announced that Cobb would be the team's Opening Day starter. A week later, however, he was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a right groin strain to start the season. He was placed on the disabled list for a third time on April 28 with a lumbar strain. At the time of the injury, Cobb had allowed 9 home runs in innings. He was transferred to the 60-day disabled list on May 22. On June 11, it was revealed Cobb needed to undergo hip surgery, and he was ruled out for the rest of the season. In 2019, in only 12.1 innings pitched, he was 0–2 with a 10.95 ERA in three starts. In 2020 for the Orioles, Cobb pitched to a 2–5 record with a 4.30 ERA and 38 strikeouts over 52.1 innings pitched in 10 starts. Batters hit hard-hit balls against him 48.2% of the time, putting him in the worst 4% of baseball pitchers in that category. Los Angeles Angels (2021) On February 2, 2021, Cobb was traded to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for second baseman Jahmai Jones. The Orioles also agreed to pay over half of the remaining $15 million on Cobb's salary. During the season he had stints on the injured list due to both blisters and right wrist inflammation. In 2021 he was 8–3 with a 3.76 ERA and 98 strikeouts in 93.1 innings (a career-high 9.5 batters per 9 innings) over 18 starts. He had the third-lowest home runs/9 innings pitched rate among starters with at least 90 innings. He also was in the top 94% among qualified pitchers in "barrel rate," as he gave up a barrel (high exit velocity and ideal launch angle) on only 4.2% of batted balls against him, and in the top 93% on his career-best "chase rate" (the percentage of pitches outside the strike zone that he induces batter to swing at). San Francisco Giants (2022–present) On November 30, 2021, the San Francisco Giants signed Cobb to a two-year, $20 million contract with a $10 million club option for his third season. In 2022 with the Giants, he was 7–8 with a 3.73 ERA in 23 starts, as in 149.2 innings he struck out 151 batters (a career high). He was in the top 4% in "lowest barrel-rate against," among MLB pitchers. His 3.51 strikeouts/walk ratio was the best of his career, and he used his splitter 42.5% of the time which was the highest splitter usage among starters in MLB. On defense he led all NL pitchers in double plays turned, with four. On August 29, 2023, Cobb took a no-hitter bid into the ninth inning in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. Spencer Steer broke up the bid with two outs with an RBI double (scoring a runner who had walked earlier in the inning). Cobb finished off the complete game victory as the Giants still defeated the Reds 6-1. Along with the walk and double in the ninth, the Reds' only other baserunner came on a third inning error; seven of Cobb's nine innings were perfect. Pitching style Cobb throws four pitches: a sinker (his most-used pitch in 2021) and a four-seam fastball, each averaging about 93 mph, a splitter in the high 80s (his second-most used pitch in 2021), and a knuckle curve in the low 80s. Nearly half of his pitches with 2 strikes in 2021 were splitters. Personal life Cobb proposed to his girlfriend, Kelly Reynolds, in February 2014 at the Discovery Cove in Orlando. They have been married since 2016 and have two daughters together, born in March 2019 and July 2020. Cobb's brother, R.J., is a United States Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded a Purple Heart. R.J. is four years older than Alex. Their mother, a nurse practitioner, died in December 2005 at 49 years of age as the result of a stroke, when he was a senior in high school. See also List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders References External links 1987 births Living people Baseball players from Middlesex County, Massachusetts Baseball players from Florida People from North Reading, Massachusetts People from Vero Beach, Florida Major League Baseball pitchers Tampa Bay Rays players Baltimore Orioles players Los Angeles Angels players San Francisco Giants players Princeton Devil Rays players Hudson Valley Renegades players Columbus Catfish players Charlotte Stone Crabs players Montgomery Biscuits players Durham Bulls players Peoria Saguaros players San Jose Giants players Vero Beach High School alumni
The men's BMX race competition at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta was held on 25 August at the Pulomas International BMX Center. Schedule All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00) Results Seeding run Motos Heat 1 Heat 2 Final References External links Results BMX Men
Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. It first released in March 2022 for Windows, four months after Ocarina of Time's source code was decompiled and released. Since then, Ship of Harkinian has received ports to Linux and macOS, and unlicensed ports to Wii U and Nintendo Switch. Updates to Ship of Harkinian have attracted media attention, as they often integrate options and features which aren't present in any official release of Ocarina of Time. The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, and popular internet memes about The Legend of Zelda CD-i games. Development Decompilation of Ocarina of Time In November 2021, after 21 months of development, the Zelda Reverse Engineering Team (ZRET) successfully decompiled the executable to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into human-readable code. While the decompilation project was principally carried out for the sake of documenting the game's creation and backend functionality, it also made possible the potential creation of source ports of Ocarina of Time, which would allow the game to be recompiled and run on platforms it wasn't originally developed for. Speaking to Ars Technica, ZRET member Rozlette stated that source ports were "outside the scope of what we do". Ship of Harkinian's Early Development and Release In June 2020, developers Jack Walker and Kenix discussed the potential of a PC port of Ocarina of Time based on the ZRET decompilation project's work; at the time, Ocarina of Time's decompilation was only 17% complete. Development on what would later become Ship of Harkinian began in November 2021, coinciding with the decompilation project reaching completion. In January 2022, a group of community developers named Harbour Masters released footage and screenshots of Ocarina of Time running natively on Microsoft Windows, in a widescreen aspect ratio not supported by the original Nintendo 64 release. The project was titled "Ship of Harkinian", a reference to Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. Speaking to Video Games Chronicle, Kenix, now part of Harbour Masters, estimated the project was "approximately 90%" complete. Prior to Ship of Harkinian's release, Harbour Masters showcased various experimental game modifications to Ocarina of Time, such as gyroscopic aiming and 4K texture support. Ship of Harkinian launched for Windows in March 2022. Additional Platform Support and Features In May 2022, Harbour Masters announced the release of a Linux port of Ship of Harkinian via "Ship of Harkinian Direct", an online video parody presentation of Nintendo Direct. Additional features noted in this Direct include save states, an integrated cheat menu, accessibility options, and support for running the game at 60 frames per second. Two months later, in July 2022, an additional Ship of Harkinian Direct was released, announcing the release of Ship of Harkinian for macOS and Wii U. Additional features promoted in this Direct include a graphic interface for rebinding controls, a "randomizer" which randomizes various elements of the game to enhance replayability, and the ability to set an arbitrary framerate (up to 250FPS). Ship of Harkinian received Nintendo Switch support in the September 2022 "Zhora Alfa" update. In April 2023, a new Ship of Harkinian Direct was released, announcing custom texture and model support. Multiplayer functionality was added to the port; a second player can take control of Ivan the Fairy, described as a fairy "who likes to play tricks", whose abilities can either help or hinder the main player. Future Harbour Masters have expressed intent to create a source port for The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask shortly after ZRET completes their decompilation of the game. Reception Reception to Ship of Harkinian has been generally positive. Ship of Harkinian has been favorably compared against the Nintendo Switch Online version of Ocarina of Time. Nick Rodriguez of Screen Rant deemed Ship of Harkinian "significantly better than the current Switch version in almost every regard", with The Verge's Derek Hill expressing similar sentiment: "As long as Nintendo is content putting out alarmingly low-quality versions of their classic games for shockingly high prices, Ship of Harkinian is proof that the unofficial option is sometimes the best option." Some outlets expressed apprehension over Ship of Harkinian, fearing that Nintendo's perceived litigiousness could jeopardize the project. In discussing Ship of Harkinian's long-term prospects, Gamespot writer Jenny Zheng remarked that that Ship of Harkinian's "odds aren't great", while characterizing Nintendo as "notoriously copyright-lawsuit-happy". Luke Plunkett of Kotaku referred to Ship of Harkinian's legality as "murky", but noted that other projects built off of reverse engineering efforts were still active as of writing. In a statement to GamesRadar+, Harbour Masters contributor Kenix defended the legality of Ship of Harkinian: "The [Ocarina of Time] assets will be ripped from a user's own ROM that they must provide and then be exported into an archive compatible with the Ship of Harkinian. None of Nintendo's own property is involved in the process." Harbour Masters encouraged users to support official releases of Ocarina of Time, and offered a unique role on their Discord server to those who can provide proof of ownership. References 2022 video games The Legend of Zelda video games Windows games Linux games MacOS games Reverse engineering Video games with time manipulation Open-world video games Single-player video games Fan games Unauthorized video games
"Manifest Destiny" is an American comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics through the X-Men related titles and a number of limited series, including a self-titled one. The arc was a follow-up to the storyline entitled "Divided We Stand" which started in the issues cover dated September 2008. Premise "Manifest Destiny" deals with the change in the X-Men when they shift their headquarters from Westchester to San Francisco. This is the first time the X-Men have changed their headquarters since their brief relocation to Australia during the 1980s. This will be followed by "X-Infernus", the sequel to "Inferno". Publication history The X-Men: Manifest Destiny mini-series itself, is an anthology. The lead story is focused on Iceman and his journey to San Francisco. It is written by Mike Carey, with pencils by Michael Ryan. There are two back-up stories in every issue, focusing on different characters (Karma, Boom-Boom, Nuwa, Juggernaut, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Mercury and many others) and their lives in San Francisco. Plot summary Uncanny X-Men The X-Men open their new base in San Francisco and send a telepathic invitation to every remaining mutant on Earth. Their first fights were against Magneto, Sentinels and the newly formed Hellfire Cult. This is also the introduction to the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants and Madelyne Pryor is seen alive. Astonishing X-Men The Astonishing X-Men shows up with a new line-up (Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Storm, Armor, Wolverine). Their first mission was to investigate the murder of an undiscovered mutant. Cable X-Force captures Bishop and brings him to the X-Men Headquarters in San Francisco, while Cable is seen fighting in the future. X-Men: Legacy Cyclops secretly meets with Xavier as one last favor to his former teacher and friend. Elsewhere, the Hellfire Club is discussing Sunspot leaving their ranks and the void that leaves. As Sebastian Shaw tries to create some order, Castlemere and his newfound cybernetic "upgrades" lay waste to another member of the Hellfire Club. Rogue makes her way to the X-Men's former base in Australia and ends up having a heart to heart talk with Mystique, whose persona is still in her head after the events in "Messiah Complex". Young X-Men Cyclops takes Sunspot and Danielle as mentors of the Young X-Men. After establishing an abandoned cathedral in San Francisco as their new base, the Young X-Men (along with mentors Danielle Moonstar and Sunspot) form their team which includes Ink, Anole, Rockslide, and Dust, but without Blindfold. Manifest Destiny Iceman lands at a hospital after taking a flight with Opal Tanaka, who reveals herself to be Mystique. Disguised as a doctor, Mystique injects Iceman with a neural inhibitor but he manages to escape and flee on a truck. Mystique finds him yet again and destroys the truck, much to the truck driver's dismay. Iceman saves him and asks him to contact the X-Men, while he faces off with Mystique and tells her to shoot him while looking him in the eyes. Other short stories include: Boom-Boom being defeated by Nuwa but taking her revenge by using coffee. Karma failing to possess Emma Frost and realizing she needs to get her focus back. The Juggernaut hesitating between a life of crime or as a hero. Emma Frost coming to terms with the fact that the X-Men have accepted her. Anole and Graymalkin bonding over their sexuality while Beast explores Greymalkin's history. Wolverine and Nightcrawler failing to cheer up Colossus, whose mood lightens when he helps a girl save her kitty. X-23 helping Mercury realize she is more than just quicksilver and no one can tell her she is not a person after she defeats some Hellfire Cult members. Nightcrawler being depressed over his lack of use as an X-Men and confiding it in a Danger Room created Kitty hologram. Eternals/X-Men Manifest Destiny The last three issues of the short Eternals (vol. 4) run sees the relocation of the X-Men to San Francisco collide with Ikaris, his war with Druig, and the sentinel in Golden Gate Park. The final issue sees the X-Men assist with repelling the Horde which has been foreshadowed as coming since the last issue of Eternals (vol. 3) by Neil Gaiman. Wolverine: Manifest Destiny Issues The following issues are related to the storyline: Astonishing X-Men #25-30 Cable #6 Eternals (vol. 4) #7-9 Manifest Destiny: Nightcrawler (previously announced as X-Men: Quitting Time) Secret Invasion: X-Men #1-4 Uncanny X-Men #500-507 Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #1-4 X-Men: Legacy #215-216 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1-5 Young X-Men #6-9 Runaways (Vol. 3) # 10 Reading order This is the reading order based on the release date of the issues: July 2008 Astonishing X-Men #25 Uncanny X-Men #500 August 2008 Cable #6 Secret Invasion: X-Men #1 Astonishing X-Men #26 Uncanny X-Men #501 X-Men: Legacy #215 September 2008 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1 Secret Invasion: X-Men #2 Uncanny X-Men #502 Young X-Men #6 X-Men: Legacy #216 October 2008 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #2 Astonishing X-Men #27 Uncanny X-Men #503 Young X-Men #7 Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #1 Secret Invasion: X-Men #3 November 2008 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #3 Uncanny X-Men #504 Young X-Men #8 Secret Invasion: X-Men #4 December 2008 Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #2 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #4 Uncanny X-Men #505 Young X-Men #9 Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #3 January 2009 X-Men: Manifest Destiny #5 Eternals #7 Astonishing X-Men #28 February 2009 Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #4 Eternals #8 Uncanny X-Men #506 March 2009 Manifest Destiny: Nightcrawler #1 Eternals #9 Uncanny X-Men #507 Astonishing X-Men #29 May 2009 Runaways (Vol. 3) #10 June 2009 Astonishing X-Men #30 Collected editions The storyline will be collected into a number of volumes: Uncanny X-Men: Manifest Destiny (collects Uncanny X-Men #500-503, "X-Men Free Comic Book Day", and Manifest Destiny #1-5, 208 pages, April 2009, , softcover, November 2009, ) X-Men: Manifest Destiny (collects Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #1-4, "X-Men Manifest Destiny: Nightcrawler" and X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1-5, 200 pages, hardcover, June 2009, , softcover, September 2009, ) Eternals Volume 2 (includes Eternals (vol. 4) #7-9, softcover, 104 pages, September 2009, ) Astonishing X-Men Vol. 5: Ghost Box (includes Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 3) #25–30 & Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1–2, softcover, December 2009, ) Secret Invasion: X-Men (includes Secret Invasion: X-Men #1-4, March 2009, ) References External links WW Philly: The X-Men's "Manifest Destiny", Comic Book Resources, May 31, 2008 WW Philly: X-Men: Manifest Destiny, Newsarama, May 31, 2008 HeroesCon 2008: X-Men: Manifest Destiny, Comic Book Resources, June 23, 2008 Review of X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1, Comic Book Resources Comics by Matt Fraction
Three kings () is Czech war series that was aired in 1998. It is loosely based on story of members of resistance organization Obrana národa who were known as Three Kings. This group consisted of Josef Balabán, Václav Morávek and Josef Mašín. Plot The series is loosely based on story of Three Kings - Josef Balabán, Václav Morávek and Josef Mašín. After their country is occupied by Nazi Germany they join resistance organisation Obrana národa. They lead brave but already lost fight against occupants. Cast and characters Vladimír Javorský as Václav Morávek, main protagonist of the series and the youngest of three; known as a religious gunslinger, or Leon. His personal motto is: "I believe in God and in my pistols". Karel Heřmánek as Josef Mašín, member of the group, the only one with a family. He is later captured and tortured. Jan Vlasák as Josef Balabán, oldest member and leader of the group. He is later captured and executed. Josef Carda as Paul Holm, agent who gives information to the "Three Kings" Valérie Zawadská as Evelyna Sekotová, photographer who hides the group; love interest of Morávek Ljuba Krbová as Zdena Mašínová, wife of Josef Mašín Jan Hrušínský as Major, resistance member who is in touch with the "Three Kings". David Matásek as Fešák, resistance member who acts as Morávek's adjutant. Michal Dlouhý as Frajer, resistance member; signalman who helps the "Three Kings" to communicate with London. Production The series was filmed in 1998. Shooting took place at various locations in Prague. Largest problem for filmmakers was to giver Prague atmosphere of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as locations that weren't changed since World War II almost didn't exist in Prague anymore. Creators of the series aimed to remind "forgotten" fate of Three Kings but also aimed to demystify their story. Historian Vilém Čermák acted as a consultant on the series. First episode was broadcast on 4 May 1998. Episodes References External links Official website IMDB site Czech adventure television series 1998 Czech television series debuts Television series about Czech resistance to Nazi occupation Czech Television original programming Czech war television series Czech-language television shows Television shows set in the Czech Republic Television series based on actual events Czech spy television series
Charles Perrat (14 January 1899, Lyon – 4 July 1976) was a 20th-century French paleographer, professor at the École Nationale des Chartes. An archivist, he was also a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. Sources Francois (Michel), « Charles Perrat (1899-1976) », Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 136 (1978), p. 449-455 online François (Martine), « PERRAT Charles Claude Jacques », notice de l'annuaire du CTHS online External links Charles Perrat on data.bnf.fr Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes French archivists French palaeographers Scientists from Lyon 1899 births 1976 deaths
Gavani (, also Romanized as Gāvānī; also known as Yavony) is a village in Garmeh-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 60, in 9 families. References Populated places in Meyaneh County
Ganzi may refer to: Ganzi, Gabon, town in Gabon Ganzi, South Sudan, village/town in South Sudan Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, prefecture in Sichuan, China Ganzi County, county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Town, a town in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Marc Ganzi, an American businessman and polo player. Ganzi, a song by Jae the Kid.
Gruae is a clade of birds that contains the order Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) and Gruimorphae (shorebirds and rails) identified in 2014 by genome analysis. Previous studies have placed the Hoatzin in different parts of the bird family tree; however, despite its unusual and primitive morphology, genetic studies have shown the hoatzin is not as primitive or as ancient as once thought, and that it could be a very derived bird that reverted to or retains some plesiomorphic traits. According to Suh et al. (2016), one of the problems with the conclusions about this novel clade is that independent studies (like Jarvis et al. 2014 and Prum et al. 2015) found very dissimilar phylogenetic relationships (like Inopinaves) using the same probabilistic support, such bootstrap scores and Bayesian posterior probabilities. See also Inopinaves for an alternative hypothesis on the placement of the Hoatzin References Neognathae Extant Campanian first appearances
"Village Green" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from their 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Written and sung by the band's principal songwriter, Ray Davies, the song was first recorded in November1966 during the sessions for Something Else by the Kinks (1967) but was re-recorded in . Both the composition and instrumentation of "Village Green" evoke Baroque music, especially its prominently featured harpsichord played by session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. Unlike most of the band's recordings, it employs real orchestral instruments, including oboe, cello, viola and piccolo, as arranged by English composer David Whitaker. Davies composed "Village Green" in after an experience at a pub in Devon, a rural part of England. The song laments the decline of a fictional English community's traditional village green. Retrospective commentators place the song in the tradition of English pastoral poetry, particularly its themes of rural living and a declining English culture. After the song's recording, Davies withheld it from release while deciding whether to include it on a solo album or as part of a Kinks project. It served as one of the central inspirations for The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and was the album's title track until only a few months before its release. The song was first issued in the United Kingdom on that album in November 1968, but it saw earlier release on a French EP in as well as on a similar Spanish EP. The song was not played live until a Ray Davies solo show in 1995, though the Kinks had performed an instrumental version in 1973. Background and inspiration In July1965, the Kinks were informally blacklisted from performing in the United States by the American Federation of Musicians. The circumstances that led to the ban are unclear but likely stemmed from several incidents during the band's 1965 US tour; bandleader Ray Davies later attributed it to a combination of "bad luck, bad management, [and] bad behaviour". Music critic Ian MacDonald suggests the ban left the group comparatively isolated from American influence, guiding them away from their earlier blues-based riffing towards a distinctly English songwriting style. In early1966, Davies grew obsessed with aspects of English aristocracy and the country's dying traditions. He expressed his pride of Britain in an April1966 interview with Melody Maker magazine, wishing its culture could remain distinct from that of America and Europe, as well as a desire to keep writing "very English songs". Davies likely composed "Village Green" around 16 August 1966, the same day the Kinks played at Torquay Town Hall in Devon, a rural part of England. He later recalled the song spawning from his disappointment after finding out the beer at a Devon pub was stored in a pressurised metal keg rather than in a traditional wooden barrel. Davies explained in a 1974 interview: "I notice the difference. Some wouldn't. But it doesn't get you in the legs anymore..." He also observed an encroachment of Devon's country landscape by more modern buildings. Davies may have been further inspired by the small town of Oakham, where the Kinks played a benefit four days later. He was also inspired by Under Milk Wood, a radio drama about a small Welsh town completed by the poet Dylan Thomas just before his death in 1953. Recording The Kinks first recorded "Village Green" on 24–25 November 1966, at the beginning of the sessions for their next album, Something Else by the Kinks (1967). Recording took place in Pye Studio 2, one of two basement studios at Pye Records's London offices. The tracks for Something Else done in late 1966 went unused, and the band reconvened at Pye in early 1967 to re-record several songs. It is unclear if any parts of the released version of "Village Green" use the November 1966 recordings; author Rob Jovanovic writes that all the November1966 recordings, including "Village Green", were "early versions" and demos. In his 1994 autobiography, Davies writes that the song was re-recorded entirely in February 1967. After acknowledging Davies's account, band biographer Andy Miller raises the possibility that the November 1966 recording served as the basic track onto which the band overdubbed additions in February 1967. The Kinks' long-time producer, Shel Talmy, produced the sessions for "Village Green", which occurred before the breakdown of his relationship with Davies in April 1967. Session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, who had contributed to each of the Kinks' studio albums since The Kink Kontroversy in 1965, played the song's prominently featured harpsichord. "Village Green" is one of two tracks on The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society to feature real strings, a rarity on the Kinks' late1960s recordings since Pye executives generally saw the hiring of an arranger and session players as too expensive to warrant. Davies dictated his ideas for the strings to English composer David Whitaker, who arranged the orchestral accompaniment. It features oboe, cello, viola and piccolo, all played by session musicians. As was typical for Davies at that time, he remained secretive with his bandmates about the song during the rehearsal and recording process. While recording the basic track, he advised drummer Mick Avory that it was a soul song and that he should play like Al Jackson Jr., drummer of R&B singer Otis Redding. He later recalled that it was only after they overdubbed the orchestral arrangement and vocals that Avory realised "he'd been totally conned". Davies reflected that the event marked "how dysfunctional we'd become". Avory later suggested that Davies's reluctance to share lyrics and melodies with his bandmates stemmed from a paranoia that his songs would be stolen. Both Avory and bassist Pete Quaife recalled being annoyed by the method, since it prevented them from easily adding fills and embellishments that fitted the song. Composition Music "Village Green" is in the key of C minor. The song employs a fifth-cyclic sequence and a descending chromatic chorus, elements which musicologist Allan F. Moore writes evoke the music of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. Moore thinks the relationship to Handel is further emphasised by the presence of a harpsichord, an instrument which band biographer Johnny Rogan writes helps develop the song's drama. Musicologist Matthew Prichard writes that the song's composition and instrumentation combine to make it "perhaps the nearest a pop song ever got to becoming a Baroque obbligato aria". Like many of the Kinks' songs, its chorus features wordless backing vocals, an element which cultural researcher Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski writes evokes "carefree childhood". Academic Ken Rayes thinks the orchestral instruments are suggestive of a distant time and place, while band biographer Thomas M. Kitts writes the song's abrupt ending suggests a loss of the past. Lyrics The song's lyrics lament the decline of a fictional English community's traditional village green. The singer remembers the green in his memory as somewhere he misses but expects to have changed since he left it, mourning the town's invasion by American tourists and the community's cheapening atmosphere. He recalls leaving the village green to seek out fame and life in the city. He further remembers it as the place he left his romantic love, Daisy, who has since married Tom, a former grocer's boy who now runs a larger grocery. He declares that he will return to Daisy so they can reminisce over tea about the village green as it was. Rogan sees "Village Green" and the album's title track, "The Village Green Preservation Society", as the most prominent example of a device Davies uses on the album, where pairs of songs explore similar themes but use different moods and contrasting musical arrangements to do so. He writes that while "Village Green" covers similar thematic elements in its "simplistic glorification of daisies, clocks and steeples", it instead satirises the more optimistic sentiments expressed in the title track. He characterises "Village Green" as comparatively solemn, Davies singing in a defeated tone to generate a sense of pathos. Like other songs on the album, "Village Green" relates to both escapism and the supremacy of rural living. Historian Andrew Kellett describes it as one of several rock songs of the period fitting in a tradition of "British rock pastoralism", expressing a desire to escape urban and suburban life. The song suggests that this traditional way of English life has slowly died off, anticipating what Kitts terms the "bleak years of the 1970s". The community's value no longer consists in its original purpose but is instead photographed by American tourists as a symbol of a past England. Costambeys-Kempczynski sees the song as expressing the "nature of Englishness", the culture of which "[marches] backwards into the future" by always seeing change as for the worse. Miller connects the song to the tradition of English pastoral poetry, particularly in its story of a disappearing rural idyll. He describes it as typical of the genre, especially in its evocation of literal imagery like oak trees and church steeples to suggest a loss of innocence. He compares it to other examples of the genre, like William Blake's poem "The Echoing Green" from his Songs of Innocence (1789), William Wordsworth's "Michael" (1800) and Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" (1770). He suggests the closing lyric about Daisy represents a self-delusion that the singer can return to things as they were, while author Joseph G. Marotta instead writes the idea of returning to see Daisy only remains the singer's hope or fantasy. Rayes thinks the song and its album are comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, a relationship he suggests is hinted at in "Village Green" by the presence of the characters Tom and Daisy, who have the same names as the novel's characters Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Rayes writes that Davies's notion of "an encroaching modern English culture" parallels the novel's motifs of "mythic America and the changing American dream". Release After recording "Village Green", Davies withheld it from immediate release. He remained uncertain whether to include it on a solo album or Kinks project, a reluctance which may have stemmed from the song's personal content. On 6 March 1967, a press release announcing a Kinks EP for the following month included "Village Green" among its tracks, but the EP was ultimately not issued. An acetate disc from around April 1967 paired the song with "Waterloo Sunset" for a potential single, but Davies replaced "Village Green" with a different B-side before "Waterloo Sunset" was released as a single the following month. Pye first issued "Village Green" on the French EP Mister Pleasant in May 1967 and also featured it on a similar Spanish EP released before Village Green. Though "Village Green" was recorded during the sessions for Something Else by the Kinks, Davies did not release it on that album in September 1967. Additionally, when the Kinks' American recording contract required them to submit songs in June 1968 for a new album (the later-aborted Four More Respected Gentlemen), Davies did not include it among the fifteen tracks he sent to Reprise Records. Band researcher Doug Hinman writes that around the same time, in , Davies's plans for a solo LP and the Kinks' next album had "[slowly] mutated into one" under the expected title Village Green. The song served as one of the album's central inspirations, and Village Green remained its working title until August1968, at which time Davies composed a new title track, "The Village Green Preservation Society". Davies included "Village Green" on his original twelve-track edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society as the opening track of side two. In the United Kingdom, Pye initially planned for a 27 September 1968 release of the album, though Davies opted to halt its release in mid-September to expand its track listing. Pye released the fifteen-track edition of the album in the UK on 22 November 1968. "Village Green" is the second track on side two, between "Animal Farm" and "Starstruck". Reception and legacy In his September1968 preview of Village Green for New Musical Express magazine, critic Keith Altham wrote that "Village Green" is "full of the sound of country fetes, maypoles and garden parties"; the song's string section is written for music enthusiasts, while its sad story is for those who prefer lyrics. The reviewer for Disc and Music Echo counted "Village Green" as one of the most memorable songs on the album. In a retrospective assessment, J. H. Tompkins of Pitchfork suggests the song displayed the increasing disconnect between the Kinks and the broader rock world, contrasting its understated style against the "bombastic, urban" sound of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil". In his ranking of the album's tracks, Morgan Enos of Billboard magazine placed the song fourth, describing it as the "beating heart of the album" and "a beautiful tension between the future and the past". He writes that the song's joining of romance for rural life works well with its use of classical instruments. Among band biographers, Kitts writes that it is both one the album's highlights and "one of Davies's quiet masterpieces", joining "deceptively simple lyrics and a simple inescapable melody to reveal great emotional depth". By contrast, Miller thinks the song lacks the depth of "The Village Green Preservation Society" while also featuring a cluttered arrangement. The Kinks performed an instrumental rendition of "Village Green" in concert on 14 January 1973 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, augmented by additional singers and a brass section. The show marked the earliest iteration of Davies's attempt at a theatrical presentation of Village Green, a project he titled Preservation. Davies first played the song live on 12 April 1995 during a solo show, and he included it in the set list of his August 1995 UK tour. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg included the song in their 2007 film Hot Fuzz. The song plays over a scene which helps establish a superficially charming village, the residents of which murder anyone who threatens to ruin its beauty. Historian Carey Fleiner comments that the song's use in the film captures the cynicism Davies originally intended to convey. Notes References Citations Sources Books Book chapters Journal and magazine articles Liner notes 1968 songs The Kinks songs Songs written by Ray Davies Song recordings produced by Ray Davies Songs about England Songs about nostalgia
Guam competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics Guam received universality slots from IAAF to send a female track and field athlete to the Olympics. Track & road events Judo Guam entered one male judoka into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking. Swimming Guam qualified two swimmers in two events. Wrestling For the first time since London 2012, Guam qualified one wrestler for the women's freestyle 53 kg into the Olympic competition, by progressing to the top two finals at the 2021 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Hammamet, Tunisia. Freestyle References Nations at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2020 2021 in Guamanian sports
Gente Nueva (English: New People), also known as Los Chapos, in reference to their drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is a large group of well-trained and experienced gunmen that function as one of the elite armed wings of the Sinaloa Cartel, created to counter, battle and destroy the Juárez Cartel's influence in the Mexican north-west, as well as to battle and destroy La Línea which is currently the Juárez Cartel's largest remaining cell. Gente Nueva dates back to 1995 when El Profe begun his criminal career in the Mexican state of Chihuahua under the Sinaloa Federation. Gente Nueva has served as the main branch of the organization in Ciudad Juárez and in the rest of the state, where they have engaged in a four-year war with the Juárez Cartel and its enforcer wing, La Línea, for the control of the smuggling routes to the United States. Amid the internal struggles and infightings in the Juárez cartel, Gente Nueva began to recruit the cartel's members. By 2012, U.S. intelligence indicated that the Sinaloa cartel and Gente Nueva have emerged victorious and successfully relegated the Juárez cartel to the sidelines. The El Paso–Juárez corridor is a lucrative route for drug traffickers because the DEA estimates that about 70% of the cocaine that enters the United States flows through that area. History Battle for Cartel de Sinaloa The war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel for the control of the smuggling routes in Ciudad Juárez broke out on 5 January 2008, when five men were shot dead with AR-15s in a matter of hours; within a few days, several policemen and nearly two dozen civilians lay dead. The Juárez cartel used La Mafia and Los Muertos to fight off the forces of the Sinaloa cartel, which had employed the gangs known as Artistas Asesinos and Los Mexicles, along with its armed wing, Gente Nueva. The turf wars between them have left more than 10,000 dead in four years. When Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, jumped into the territory of the Juárez organization in 2007, he attempted to split his rival organization and recruit the dissidents into his own invasion force – Gente Nueva. Gente Nueva is responsible for a number of crimes, including but not limited to extortions, kidnappings, tortures, and assassinations. Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack Masked gunmen stormed the El Cristal Military education center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua on 3 September 2009, gathered all of the patients together against a wall at a central patio, and then opened fire at them with AK-47 rifles. 18 patients were killed in the attack and two others were left wounded. When the Mexican authorities removed the dead bodies, a thick layer of blood was left at the concrete floor of the clinic, from the entrance to the sleep quarters. Local newspapers stated that the gunmen were plotting to kill members of Los Muertos, a rival gang at the service of the Juárez Cartel. In February 2012 in León, Guanajuato – José Antonio Torres Marrufo – a leader of Gente Nueva, was arrested and found responsible for ordering the attack. Gente Nueva had killed 8 people at the 7&7 Bar in Ciudad Juárez just a few weeks before the rehab center attack. The attack was materialized within sight of the U.S.-Mexico border and is one of the worst single mass shootings in the history of Ciudad Juárez. The Mexican authorities stated that the drug trafficking organizations use rehabilitation clinics to recruit foot soldiers and smugglers, and often kill those who do not cooperate. Others are killed for failing to pay for their drugs or for ripping off a dealer. In addition, the cartels frequently target unlicensed rehabilitation centers, since they are likely to accept active gang members seeking to free themselves from an addiction. Unlike the government-licensed clinics, the private centers are not associated with the penal system and have limited security measures, leaving the victims vulnerable to attacks by gangs seeking revenge or the elimination of a potential police informant. In Ciudad Juárez alone, there are around 100,000 drug addicts and many of the rehab clinics are unlicensed and ran by former addicts, making them easy points for the cartels to infiltrate. Some cartel members even check themselves in the facility and pose as addicts. Once they gain information of why the facility works, they co-opt with workers or threaten to kill them. Some of the addicts sell candy and gum at the city's stop lights to raise money for those struggling in their rehab center, but the cartels have taken this opportunity to force them to sell drugs too. The drug cartels have also created and managed pseudo-clinics, and once their patients are off drugs, they gIve them the choice to work as a drug trafficker or get killed. The cartels usually "dispose" of their young addicts by killing them, since the criminal organizations quickly recruit young men and prefer to minimize their risk by eliminating the others. Decline of the Juárez Cartel The decline of the Juárez Cartel began in 1997 after the death of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, but worsened in mid-2000 when the Sinaloa Cartel sought to take over the assets of the criminal organization and move into the city. In 2010, violence in Ciudad Juárez reached its peak, seeing an average of 10 homicides per day, or about 230 murders per 100,000 people annually. That same year, the average in all of Mexico was of 18 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. La Línea and the Juárez cartel lived their biggest blow with the arrest of José Antonio Acosta Hernández (a.k.a. El Diego), a top drug baron accused by the Mexican authorities of ordering more than 1,500 killings. Joaquín Guzmán Loera's four-year struggle in Ciudad Juárez left more than 10,000 since 2008, but evidence shows that the murder rates in Ciudad Juárez decreased by 59.8% in the first half of 2012 when compared to the same period in 2011, and Mexican officials have attributed this decline to the success of its law enforcement agencies. Nonetheless, experts told El Paso Times that part of the reason why the violence in Ciudad Juárez toned down is because the Sinaloa cartel has consolidated its dominance over the now-weakened Juárez cartel. The Juárez cartel continues to operate in the city, but it no longer holds a monopoly and appears to be unable to expand. Other experts echoe that the cartel is having difficulties paying its members and that the violence will continue to decline as its hegemony erodes. Their relationship with the Barrio Chino gang has also been tampered by the cartel's decline. NPR reports indicated that several people in Ciudad Juárez, including but not limited to local journalists and former policemen, perceived that the Mexican government allegedly favored the Sinaloa cartel in their battle against the Juárez cartel. Nonetheless, counterarguments from security experts were also included. The reported victory of the Sinaloa cartel may possibly not halt the forces of the Juárez cartel; as long as Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is alive and free, the warfare in the area will possibly continue. With limited options, the Juárez cartel has been forced to reorganize its forces and opt for extortions and kidnappings, while Gente Nueva – the Sinaloa cartel's armed wing – receives funding from other states. In addition, the drug corridor in Ciudad Juárez remains a crucial territory for the Mexican drug trafficking organizations, so the city could continue to see battles for the control of the lucrative smuggling routes – even at a diminishing scale. And although the rise of the New Juárez Cartel has yet to materialize, the threat still remains. Cartel infighting in Acapulco In mid-2011, the Mexican authorities said that the hundreds of corpses found in several mass graves in the state of Acapulco were victims of infighting within the Sinaloa Cartel. Through a banner, Gente Nueva and Los Ms, a faction led by Ismael Zambada García, accused other lieutenants in the cartel of "heating up the plaza" in Acapulco by trying to attract law enforcement presence in the area, usually through indiscriminate killings and other violent tactics. The message warned their rivals that they had only 24 hours to leave the area before they were killed. The banner was followed by a pair of videos uploaded on March that showed several armed men in military grabs interrogating two men allegedly working for a rival faction. In the video, the two men said that they had been sent to Acapulco to disrupt cartel operatives. The dispute indicated that two leaders in Gente Nueva, Noel Salgeiro and Felipe Cabrera, had lost the support of the upper-leaders in Gente Nueva and the rest of the Sinaloa organization. Initially, the massacre was overshadowed by the other mass graves in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. But when Bernabé Monje Silva, alias M14 was arrested by the Federal police, he led them to the exact location of the bodies. He later confessed that there was a feud between several factions of the Sinaloa cartel for the control of the drug corridors in Acapulco. The area is a strategic drug trafficking corridor since it can connect with the border cities of Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Ciudad Juárez. It is also an attractive pathway state and producer region, notorious for growing poppy and marijuana in the mountainous region known as the "Golden Triangle." In addition, according to Mexican and U.S. intelligence, Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo) has been reported to have married in a small town in Acapulco and lived in the Sierra Madre mountains in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Veracruz incursion and massacre The tit-for-tat fighting between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel started in the Mexican state of Veracruz, a strategic smuggling region with a giant gulf port. On 20 September 2011 at around 5:00 pm, several vehicles blocked a major avenue in Boca del Río, Veracruz. Once traffic stopped, armed men abandoned two trucks in the middle of the highway. Then they opened the gates of the truck beds and left a written message behind. Other gunmen pointed their weapons at the frightened drivers. The cartel members then fled the scene. The two trucks that were left at an underpass near a shopping mall contained 35 dead bodies. Consequently, the stunned motorists began to grab their cellphones and post messages on Twitter warning other drivers to avoid the area. When first discovered, all of the corpses were alleged to be members of Los Zetas, but it was later proven that only six of them had been involved in minor crime incidents, and none of them were involved with organized crime. Some of the victims had their hands tied and bore signs of torture. The message left behind stated the following: The banner's reference to "G.N." was a clear reference to Gente Nueva, but the Jalisco New Generation Cartel later assumed full responsibility for the massacre and the incursions in the state of Veracruz, traditionally considered turf of Los Zetas. Present-day The group suffered setbacks in 2013. Mario Nuñez Meza, also known as, M-10 or El Mayito, was arrested in Ciudad Juarez. Months later they arrested his brother M-12 also in Juarez. On 11 December 2013, Gente Nueva high-ranking leader Jesús Gregorio Villanueva Rodríguez (alias "El R5") was shot and injured as he left a fast food restaurant in the state of Sonora, his area of operations. His girlfriend and him were taken to the hospital, but Villanueva Rodríguez died after receiving medical attention. Known leaders of Cartel del Gofo See also Manuel Torres Félix Sinaloa Cartel References Bibliography Organizations established in 2007 2007 establishments in Mexico Gangs in Mexico History of Sonora Sinaloa Cartel Mexican drug war
We Have the Right to Remain Violent is the sixth album by American rap group South Central Cartel. Havikk The Rhime Son is not featured in any songs. Track listing Intro The War Is On (featuring 40 Glocc) My Hood Yo Hood (featuring Daz Dillinger) Imagine that Up in Here G'z Run the Blocc Cadillac Dee (Skit) Thug Thang Hood Iz Callin' Doin It (Skit) Bacc Up Fakes Micky D's (Skit) West Coast Riders Cadillac Dee (Skit 2) After Hours Shake 'Em Off Follow Me Cartel Hataz Dippin' Half Azz Geez Non Stop Game M-Rights No Joke That's My Shit (featuring Jaz-Mina) 2002 albums South Central Cartel albums Albums produced by Prodeje
John H. Benson (born July 30, 1943) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 44B, which includes portions of western Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Minnesota House of Representatives Benson was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2008, 2010, and 2012. He announced on December 18, 2013, that he will not run for re-election in 2014. References External links Rep. John Benson official Minnesota House of Representatives website Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: John Benson's voting record Project Vote Smart - Profile of Rep. John H. Benson (MN) Follow the Money - John Benson campaign contributions 2006 2004 1943 births Living people People from Glasgow, Montana People from Minnetonka, Minnesota Democratic Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives American Lutherans University of Minnesota alumni 21st-century American politicians
Rogers Hometown Hockey is a former package of National Hockey League (NHL) telecasts aired by Sportsnet as part of its national broadcast rights to the league. Debuting on October 12, 2014 as part of Sportsnet's inaugural season of coverage, the games featured a pre-game show and studio segments hosted on-location by Ron MacLean and Tara Slone from various Canadian cities, profiling local players and communities (including at the "grassroots" level). Each tour stop featured a weekend festival with community activities, culminating with the live broadcast. Hometown Hockey was spun off from prior NHL initiatives promoting hockey at the local level, and served as one of Sportsnet's three exclusive national windows (alongside the flagship Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey and Hockey Night in Canada), and one of two with a "game of the week" format. The games were first aired on Sunday nights on Citytv, after which they moved to Sportsnet beginning in the 2015–16 season. The tour was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Hometown Hockey was suspended as a whole during the shortened 2020–21 NHL season (with Hometown Hockey segments instead airing during Hockey Night). Hometown Hockey returned with a new Monday-night scheduling for the 2021–22 NHL season, after which it was replaced with Rogers Monday Night Hockey the following season. Format The games were co-hosted on-location by Ron MacLean and Tara Slone from various Canadian cities as part of a nationwide tour. The pre-game show and studio segments for the games featured segments profiling local players and teams from each city. At least one Canadian-based franchise was featured during each game, although it sometimes also aired a game between two American-based teams if necessary. Most Hometown Hockey games were aired in primetime, although it occasionally aired in the afternoon (such as the second half of the Montreal Canadiens' traditional matinee games on the weekend of the Super Bowl; typically no other games were scheduled that evening). History The games and tour contributed to an effort by Rogers to improve its public image, particularly under CEO Guy Laurence, by associating itself with the sport of hockey at a local level. MacLean characterized Hometown Hockey as an extension of Hockey Day in Canada and the Kraft Hockeyville competition—highlighting grassroots hockey throughout the country on a weekly basis. He also felt that the original Sunday night timeslot was "a good hockey night", believing that it could be "[a] family-forward way of doing the show to get the kids involved. Families can have it on while they get ready for school or work Sunday night. For me, after 27 years, honestly, what’s wrong with doing something different?" The games also sought to emulate the success of ESPN's College GameDay, and NBC's Sunday Night Football—which originally aired Sundays against Hometown Hockey during the National Football League season. The games were carried by Citytv during its inaugural season (with London, Ontario as its inaugural city), although infrequently moved to Sportsnet in the event of scheduling conflicts. Beginning in the 2015–16 season, Hometown Hockey moved exclusively to Sportsnet; Moore explained that introducing Hometown Hockey on Citytv was intended to incubate the brand, but that airing it on Sportsnet had made sense from an economic standpoint due to its status as a pay channel, and enabled Citytv to return to entertainment programming on Sundays. On March 8, 2020, in recognition of International Women's Day, the Hometown Hockey game that night featured the first all-female broadcast team in NHL history—with play-by-play commentator Leah Hextall, analyst Cassie Campbell-Pascall, and sideline reporter Christine Simpson. Women also served as the executive producer, game producer and director for the telecast. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hometown Hockey games and tour were suspended for the 2020–21 NHL season. Two Sunday night Ottawa Senators games (one against the Montreal Canadiens and one against the Toronto Maple Leafs) were produced nationally under the NHL on Sportsnet banner in lieu of regional rightsholder TSN. A branded segment and virtual audience was featured during Hockey Night in Canada. Beginning with the 2021–22 season, Hometown Hockey broadcasts were moved to Monday nights. Due to the reinstatement of COVID-19 restrictions nationwide due to Omicron variant, the tour was suspended from December 2021 until March 2022. On June 28, 2022, Rogers cancelled Hometown Hockey after eight seasons; the games were replaced with Rogers Monday Night Hockey the following season. MacLean remains with Sportsnet to host Hockey Night. Indigenous representation On March 24, 2019, the Hometown Hockey was broadcast from First Nations territory for the first time, visiting the Enoch Cree Nation outside of Edmonton. Ahead of the game, Rogers announced a partnership with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) to simulcast that night's game with commentary in Plains Cree. It was the first-ever NHL broadcast in the language: Clarence Iron of Pinehouse, Saskatchewan's CFNK-FM (who is known locally for his radio broadcasts of indigenous teams in the language) served as the play-by-play announcer, while former NHL player John Chabot and Northern Cree member Earl Wood hosted the studio segments. In December 2019, it was announced that Sportsnet and APTN would continue the broadcasts, with six Sunday-night games planned per-season over the next three years. The expanded package began with a Montreal Canadiens/Florida Panthers game in February 2020. On March 1, 2020, the tour broadcast from the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. Awards In 2017 and 2018, Ron MacLean was nominated for Best Sports Host at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards and the 6th Canadian Screen Awards respectively. In 2020, the Hometown Hockey broadcast from Enoch Cree Nation was nominated in the Best Sports Program or Segment category at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards. Season 1 Overview In season 1, the tour kicked off in London, Ontario, home of the London Knights. Live tour musical performances included appearances by: Blue Rodeo (Saskatoon) Sarah Harmer (Kingston) Paul Brandt (Lethbridge) Season 2 Overview In season 2, the tour started in Kitchener, Ontario, home of the Kitchener Rangers. Live tour musical performances included appearances by: Barenaked Ladies (Kitchener) Rankin Family (Sydney) The Tenors (Sarnia) Tim Hicks (Oshawa) Coleman Hell (Thunder Bay) Scott Helman (Penticton) Jess Moskaluke (Prince Albert) Gord Bamford (Calgary) Season 3 Overview In season 3, the tour began in Newmarket, Ontario, home of Connor McDavid. Live tour musical performances included appearances by: Walk Off the Earth (Newmarket) Sam Roberts (Montreal) Suzie McNeil (Milton) Jason Blaine (Petawawa) Paul Brandt (Cochrane) USS (Edmonton) Kathleen Edwards (Ottawa) Tara Slone's Joydrop (Guelph) Tom Cochrane (Hamilton) Season 4 Overview In season 4, the tour started in Niagara Falls, Ontario, home of Derek Sanderson. Live tour musical performances include appearances by: Tim Hicks (Niagara Falls) Matt Mays (Truro) Bleeker (Orillia) Brett Kissel (Airdrie) The Northern Pikes (Spruce Grove) 54-40 (Cowichan Valley) Nice Horse (Lacombe) Paul Brandt (Canmore) Jess Moskaluke (Regina) Steven Page and The Transcanada Highwaymen (Belleville) Ferraro (Markham) Skydiggers (Brampton) Cold Creek County (Cornwall) Jonas & The Massive Attraction (Montreal) Season 5 Overview In season 5, the tour started in Kitchener, Ontario, home of Hockey Hall of Famer Scott Stevens. Live tour musical performances include appearances by: The Pursuit of Happiness (Kitchener) Walk Off the Earth (Burlington) The Trews (Glace Bay) The Men of the Deeps (Glace Bay) Carolina East (Mount Pearl) Beverley Mahood (Aurora) Kelsi Mayne (Chatham-Kent) Jim Cuddy (Mississauga) The Road Hammers (Strathcona County) Gord Bamford (Leduc) The Dudes (Okotoks) Doc Walker (Winkler) Season 6 Overview In season 6, the tour kicked off in Halton Hills, Ontario, home of former NHL Director of Officiating Bryan Lewis. Live broadcast musical performers included: Shawn Hook (Ottawa) William Prince (Peguis First Nation) Season 7 Overview Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour was suspended, as were the Hometown Hockey-themed Sunday national games. During Hockey Night in Canada, a branded segment and virtual audience was featured for the duration of the 2020-21 NHL regular season. Season 8 Overview In season 8, the tour resumed, starting in Ayr, Ontario in North Dumfries, home of NHLers Jay Wells and Kyle Clifford. Series overview : During season 7, Rogers Hometown Hockey became an in-studio segment in Toronto on Saturday nights during Hockey Night in Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While there were no full episodes, the series had a presence during the 2020-21 NHL regular season. Hometown Hockey Tour Stops Notes : On March 11, 2020, the remaining dates on the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour were cancelled due to concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the intention of the remaining episodes originating from the Sportsnet studio in Toronto. On March 12, 2020, the NHL announced the suspension of the 2019–20 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. : On November 10, 2021, Rogers announced the Sudbury stop scheduled for November 15 was postponed due to concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. : On December 13, 2021, the Hometown Hockey broadcast from Sydney took place as scheduled, but the live game between the Calgary Flames and the Chicago Blackhawks was postponed due to COVID-19 protocols involving the Flames. No other games were scheduled on that date. : On December 16, 2021, Rogers announced the pausing of all tour stops through the end of January 2022 due to concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Regularly-scheduled broadcasts will instead originate from the Sportsnet studio in Toronto. The live game between the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Islanders on December 20, 2021, was postponed due to the league-wide decision to postpone all cross-border games through December 23 amid COVID-19 concerns. All NHL games scheduled for December 27, 2021 were postponed due to a league-wide pause amid COVID-19 concerns. The two games originally scheduled for January 3, 2022 (Carolina at Toronto, Minnesota at Ottawa) were postponed due to capacity restrictions for games played in Ontario. The Rogers Hometown Hockey broadcast would be replaced by the MSG feed of the game between the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Rangers. References 2014 Canadian television series debuts 2010s Canadian sports television series 2020s Canadian sports television series Sportsnet Sportsnet shows Rogers Communications
Valentina Vyacheslavovna Sovkina (, b. 10 September 1963) is a Russian-Sami politician and chair of the Kola Sámi Assembly. Biography Sovkina was born in 1963 in the village of Lovozero in Murmansk Oblast, where she still lives. Her parents were Sámi and she grew up in a Kildin Sámi-speaking household, although she was not allowed to use the language in school. Her grandparents followed traditional Sámi professions, including reindeer herding, fishing, hunting, and gathering, but her family become settled in Lovozero under Soviet policies of the time. She trained as a teacher, studying education and psychology, and graduating from Murmansk Pedagogical Institute (now ). She was a teacher at the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels and ran a vocational school. She also previously worked for the Barents Secretariat and since 2013 has run . Sámi leadership Sovkina served as chair of the Association of Sámi in Murmansk Oblast and at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Sámi in 2010 she was elected as chair of the Kola Sámi Assembly. The assembly serves as the parliament for Russian Sámi, parallel to the Sámi parliaments of Finland, Norway, and Sweden; however, Russian federal and Murmansk local authorities have refused to recognize the assembly. Views on Russian Sámi issues According to Sovkina, the Russian Sámi population in Russia is suffering a natural decline due to the small family size of modern Sámi families. This is complicated, however, Sovkina states, by the lower social status of Sámi and their corresponding economic insecurity due in part to a lack of support and social well-being initiatives from the Murmansk regional government. 2014 Assault In September 2014, Sovkina, as the representative for Russian Sámi, was scheduled to participate in the U.N. General Assembly's World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in New York City. On the way from Lovozero to the airport in Kirkenes, Norway, Sovkina's car was stopped three by police. During the final stop, near Zapolyarny, Russia, she was attacked by a man who tried to grab her bag and passport. The police did not interfere with the attacker, but Sovkina managed to retain control of her belongings. Ultimately, she missed her plane and arrived a day late to the conference. Media reports on the incident noted that other Russian delegates to the conference also were harassed and delayed in attending the conference. See also Video interviews with Valentina Sovkina. "Women of the Arctic: Bridging Policy, Research, and Lived Experience," 2018 UArctic Congress, 6–7 September 2018. References 1963 births Living people Russian women in politics Russian Sámi politicians Sámi people People from Lovozersky District
The Dongfeng-17 (; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-22), is a Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile specifically designed to mount the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle. The DF-17 along with the DF-ZF, was officially unveiled at the National Day military parade on 1 October 2019, making this China's first operational hypersonic weapon systems and one of the world's first to be put in full initial operation. Design The DF-17 uses the rocket booster from the already operational DF-16B short-range ballistic missile. As such, the design of the missile itself did not require any major changes. The biggest change however, is the obvious usage of a hypersonic glide vehicle rather than a conventional re-entry warhead(s) found in normal ballistic missiles and MIRVs. Due to the use of a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle instead of a conventional reentry vehicle, It has been presumed that the DF-17, along with the DF-ZF, will be initially used to target American Aircraft Carriers operating in the DF-17's effective range, as China's Anti-ship Ballistic Missiles, such as the DF-21D, use conventional reentry vehicles, which, although are faster than HGVs, are less maneuverable than Hypersonic Glide Vehicles, and as more enter service, it is likely that the DF-17 and DF-ZF will be used in a Land-Attack Role alongside a Anti-Ship Role. The DF-ZF HGV operates in a different manner from normal ballistic missiles or even intercontinental ballistic missiles in the first place. Rather than firing and landing in a normal arc, the DF-17's HGV suppresses its trajectory and accelerates to reach Mach 5. Due to its suppressed, lower altitude trajectory, intercepting the glide vehicle with ABM shielding becomes far harder and more complex than that of a conventional re-entry vehicle. This is further complicated, as the gliding makes the DF-ZF far more maneuverable; extending both its range and avoiding potential ABM shielding. As such, the DF-17 is a MRBM despite using a DF-16 SRBM booster. The DF-17 can also be used to mount a more conventional re-entry vehicle than the DF-ZF. Development Testing of DF-17 prototypes was underway by 2014. At least nine test flights occurred between January 2014 and November 2017. The HGV test flight of 1 November 2017 launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. The missile's payload flew approximately 1,400 kilometers with the HGV flying at a depressed altitude of around 60 kilometers following the completion of the DF-17’s ballistic and reentry phases. The test followed the first plenum of the Communist Party of China’s 19th Party Congress in October. The missile was officially unveiled during the National Day parade on 1 October 2019. Strategic implications In March 2020, the United States Department of Defense proposes to accelerate the development of conventionally armed hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) to keep pace with the Chinese development. Michael Griffin, former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, presented House Armed Services Committee that the United States needs to develop hypersonic weapons "to allow us to match what our adversaries are doing." See also Avangard – Russia's ground-based hypersonic glide vehicle Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon – US planned hypersonic glide vehicle References Ballistic missiles of the People's Republic of China Medium-range ballistic missiles Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Starkey Township was a township in Logan County, North Dakota, United States. The former township was merged into the West Logan Unorganized Territory. As of the 2000 census the township's population was 44; it covered an area containing , all land, and it was located at . The elevation was . The township was located in the western part of the county and it bordered the following other townships within Logan County: Bryant Township (defunct) — north Dixon Unorganized Territory (defunct, formerly Dixon Township) — northeast corner Red Lake Township — east References Defunct townships in North Dakota Populated places in Logan County, North Dakota
In artificial intelligence research, commonsense knowledge consists of facts about the everyday world, such as "Lemons are sour", or "Cows say moo", that all humans are expected to know. It is currently an unsolved problem in Artificial General Intelligence. The first AI program to address common sense knowledge was Advice Taker in 1959 by John McCarthy. Commonsense knowledge can underpin a commonsense reasoning process, to attempt inferences such as "You might bake a cake because you want people to eat the cake." A natural language processing process can be attached to the commonsense knowledge base to allow the knowledge base to attempt to answer questions about the world. Common sense knowledge also helps to solve problems in the face of incomplete information. Using widely held beliefs about everyday objects, or common sense knowledge, AI systems make common sense assumptions or default assumptions about the unknown similar to the way people do. In an AI system or in English, this is expressed as "Normally P holds", "Usually P" or "Typically P so Assume P". For example, if we know the fact "Tweety is a bird", because we know the commonly held belief about birds, "typically birds fly," without knowing anything else about Tweety, we may reasonably assume the fact that "Tweety can fly." As more knowledge of the world is discovered or learned over time, the AI system can revise its assumptions about Tweety using a truth maintenance process. If we later learn that "Tweety is a penguin" then truth maintenance revises this assumption because we also know "penguins do not fly". Commonsense reasoning Commonsense reasoning simulates the human ability to use commonsense knowledge to make presumptions about the type and essence of ordinary situations they encounter every day, and to change their "minds" should new information come to light. This includes time, missing or incomplete information and cause and effect. The ability to explain cause and effect is an important aspect of explainable AI. Truth maintenance algorithms automatically provide an explanation facility because they create elaborate records of presumptions. Compared with humans, all existing computer programs that attempt human-level AI perform extremely poorly on modern "commonsense reasoning" benchmark tests such as the Winograd Schema Challenge. The problem of attaining human-level competency at "commonsense knowledge" tasks is considered to probably be "AI complete" (that is, solving it would require the ability to synthesize a fully human-level intelligence), although some oppose this notion and believe compassionate intelligence is also required for human-level AI. Common sense reasoning has been applied successfully in more limited domains such as natural language processing and automated diagnosis or analysis. Commonsense knowledge base construction Compiling comprehensive knowledge bases of commonsense assertions (CSKBs) is a long-standing challenge in AI research. From early expert-driven efforts like CYC and WordNet, significant advances were achieved via the crowdsourced OpenMind Commonsense project, which lead to the crowdsourced ConceptNet KB. Several approaches have attempted to automate CSKB construction, most notably, via text mining (WebChild, Quasimodo, TransOMCS, Ascent), as well as harvesting these directly from pre-trained language models (AutoTOMIC). These resources are significantly larger than ConceptNet, though the automated construction mostly makes them of moderately lower quality. Challenges also remain on the representation of commonsense knowledge: Most CSKB projects follow a triple data model, which is not necessarily best suited for breaking more complex natural language assertions. A notable exception here is GenericsKB, which applies no further normalization to sentences, but retains them in full. Applications Around 2013, MIT researchers developed BullySpace, an extension of the commonsense knowledgebase ConceptNet, to catch taunting social media comments. BullySpace included over 200 semantic assertions based around stereotypes, to help the system infer that comments like "Put on a wig and lipstick and be who you really are" are more likely to be an insult if directed at a boy than a girl. ConceptNet has also been used by chatbots and by computers that compose original fiction. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, common sense knowledge was used in an intelligent software agent to detect violations of a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. Data As an example, as of 2012 ConceptNet includes these 21 language-independent relations: IsA (An "RV" is a "vehicle") UsedFor HasA (A "rabbit" has a "tail") CapableOf Desires CreatedBy ("cake" can be created by "baking") PartOf Causes LocatedNear AtLocation (Somewhere a "Cook" can be at a "restaurant") DefinedAs SymbolOf (X represents Y) ReceivesAction ("cake" can be "eaten") HasPrerequisite (X can't do Y unless A does B) MotivatedByGoal (You would "bake" because you want to "eat") CausesDesire ("baking" makes you want to "follow recipe") MadeOf HasFirstSubevent (The first thing required when you're doing X is for entity Y to do Z) HasSubevent ("eat" has subevent "swallow") HasLastSubevent Commonsense knowledge bases Cyc Open Mind Common Sense (data source) and ConceptNet (datastore and NLP engine) Quasimodo Webchild TupleKB True Knowledge Graphiq Ascent++ See also Common sense Commonsense reasoning Linked data and the Semantic Web Default Reasoning Truth Maintenance or Reason Maintenance Ontology Artificial General Intelligence References Knowledge bases Artificial intelligence
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some cluster into larger groupings that are based on (genealogical tradition) and known as (literally "canoes", with reference to the original migration voyages). These super-groupings generally serve symbolic rather than practical functions. In pre-European times, most Māori were allied to relatively small groups in the form of ("sub-tribes") and ("family"). Each contains a number of ; among the of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word rohe to describe the territory or boundaries of iwi. In modern-day New Zealand, can exercise significant political power in the management of land and of other assets. For example, the 1997 Treaty of Waitangi settlement between the New Zealand Government and Ngāi Tahu, compensated that for various losses of the rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. the tribe has collective assets under management of $1.85 billion. affairs can have a real impact on New Zealand politics and society. A 2004 attempt by some to test in court their ownership of the seabed and foreshore areas polarised public opinion (see New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy). Naming In Māori and in many other Polynesian languages, literally means "bone" derived from Proto-Oceanic *suRi₁ meaning "thorn, splinter, fish bone". Māori may refer to returning home after travelling or living elsewhere as "going back to the bones" — literally to the burial-areas of the ancestors. Māori author Keri Hulme's novel The Bone People (1985) has a title linked directly to the dual meaning of bone and "tribal people". Many names begin with or with (from and respectively, both meaning roughly "the offspring of"). has become a productive morpheme in New Zealand English to refer to groups of people: examples are Ngāti Pākehā (Pākehā as a group), Ngāti Poneke (Māori who have migrated to the Wellington region), and Ngāti Rānana (Māori living in London). Ngāti Tūmatauenga ("Tribe of Tūmatauenga", the god of war) is the official Māori-language name of the New Zealand Army, and ("Black Tribe") is a Māori-language name for the All Blacks. In the southern dialect of Māori, Ngāti and Ngāi become and , terms found in such iwi as Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu (also known as Ngai Tahu). Structure Each has a generally recognised territory (), but many of these overlap, sometimes completely. This has added a layer of complication to the long-running discussions and court cases about how to resolve historical Treaty claims. The length of coastline emerged as one factor in the final (2004) legislation to allocate fishing-rights in settlement of claims relating to commercial fisheries. Self-determination can become a prospective vehicle for ideas and ideals of self-determination and/or . Thus does the Māori Party mention in the preamble of its constitution "the dreams and aspirations of to achieve self-determination for , and within their own land". Some Tūhoe envisage self-determination in specifically -oriented terms. Iwi identity Increasing urbanisation of Māori has led to a situation where a significant percentage do not identify with any particular . The following extract from a 2000 High Court of New Zealand judgment discussing the process of settling fishing rights illustrates some of the issues: ... 81 per cent of Maori now live in urban areas, at least one-third live outside their tribal influence, more than one-quarter do not know their iwi or for some reason do not choose to affiliate with it, at least 70 per cent live outside the traditional tribal territory and these will have difficulties, which in many cases will be severe, in both relating to their tribal heritage and in accessing benefits from the settlement. It is also said that many Maori reject tribal affiliation because of a working-class unemployed attitude, defiance and frustration. Related but less important factors, are that a hapu may belong to more than one iwi, a particular hapu may have belonged to different iwi at different times, the tension caused by the social and economic power moving from the iwi down rather than from the hapu up, and the fact that many iwi do not recognise spouses and adoptees who do not have kinship links. In the 2006 census, 16 per cent of the 643,977 people who claimed Māori ancestry did not know their . Another 11 per cent did not state their , or stated only a general geographic region, or merely gave a name. Initiatives like the Iwi Helpline are trying to make it easier for people to identify their , and the proportion who "don't know" dropped relative to previous censuses. Pan-tribalism Some established pan-tribal organisations may exert influence across divisions. The Rātana Church, for example, operates across divisions, and the Māori King Movement, though principally congregated around Waikato/Tainui, aims to transcend some functions in a wider grouping. Major iwi Largest iwi by population Ngāpuhi – 165,301 (in 2018) – based in the Northland Region Ngāti Porou – 92,349 (in 2018) – based in Gisborne Region and East Cape Waikato Tainui - 84,030 (in 2018) – based in the Waikato Region Ngāti Kahungungu - 82,239 (in 2018) based on the East Coast of the North Island. Ngāi Tahu/ Kāi Tahu - 74,082(in 2018) based in the South Island. Te Arawa – 60,719 (in 2018) – based in the Bay of Plenty Region Ngāti Tūwharetoa – 47,930 (in 2018) – based in the central North Island. Ngāi Tūhoe – 46,479 (in 2018) – based in Te Urewera and Whakatane Ngāti Maniapoto – 45,719 (in 2018) – based in Waikato and Waitomo Other iwi by population No affiliation – 110,928 (in 2013) – includes New-Zealand-based Māori with no affiliation Te Hiku, or Muriwhenua – 33,711 (in 2013) – group of and in the Northland region Ngāti Raukawa – 29,442 (in 2013) – group of and in the Waikato region, Taupō and Manawatū Te Atiawa – 23,094 (in 2013) – group of and in Taranaki and Wellington Hauraki Māori – 14,313 (in 2013) – group of and at or around the Hauraki Gulf Other notable iwi Ngāti Toa (based in Porirua, having migrated from Waikato in the 1820s under the leadership of Te Rauparaha) Ngāti Tama (based in Taranaki, Chatham Islands, Wellington and Te Tau Ihu) Ngāti Ruanui (based in the Taranaki region) Ngāruahine (based in South Taranaki) Te Ātiawa – Taranaki and Lower Hutt Ngāti Hikairo -rangatiratanga in Kāwhia, Ōpārau and Waipā in the King Country) Whakatōhea (based in the Ōpōtiki district) Ngāti Whātua (based in and north of Auckland – notably Bastion Point in Ōrākei) Iwi radio Many operate or are affiliated with media organisations. Most of these belong to (the National Māori Radio Network), a group of radio stations which receive contestable Government funding from Te Māngai Pāho (the Māori Broadcast Funding Agency) to operate on behalf of and . Under their funding agreement, the stations must produce programmes in the local Māori language and actively promote local Māori culture. A two-year Massey University survey of 30,000 people published in 2003 indicated 50 per cent of Māori in National Māori Radio Network broadcast areas listened to an station. An Auckland University of Technology study in 2009 suggested the audience of radio stations would increase as the growing New Zealand Māori population tried to keep a connection to their culture, family history, spirituality, community, language and . The Victoria University of Wellington Te Reo Māori Society campaigned for Māori radio, helping to set up Te Reo o Poneke, the first Māori-owned radio operation, using airtime on Wellington student-radio station Radio Active in 1983. Twenty-one radio stations were set up between 1989 and 1994, receiving Government funding in accordance with a Treaty of Waitangi claim. This group of radio stations formed various networks, becoming . Notes References External links Te Kāhui Māngai – Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations Urban Māori article in The New Zealand Herald (details on the creation and rationale for the National Urban Māori Authority) Tribal organisation in Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand Māori words and phrases Māori society
Eupselia beatella is a species of the family Depressariidae that occurs in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. References Moths described in 1864 Eupselia Moths of Australia
Fayette Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. The district encompasses 308 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Fayette. It developed between about 1832 and 1956 and includes representative examples of Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Coleman Hall. Other notable buildings include the Hampton L. Boon House / George Carson House (c. 1832), W. W. Blakemore House (c. 1905), John Sears House / John B. Clark House (a. 1835, 1900), McKinney Sisters House (c. 1900), Tully Chenowith House (c. 1925), Methodist Episcopal Parsonage (c. 1890), T. A. F. Mitchell House (c. 1935), Oliver H. P. Corprew House (1880s), Huntington Hall, A. F. Davis House (1880-1884), R. Lee Maupin House (1905), Mrs. John H. Farrington House (c. 1915), the Daly School (1924), the T. A. Grigsby Building (c. 1930), and St. Joseph's Catholic Church (1956). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. References Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Gothic Revival architecture in Missouri Queen Anne architecture in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Buildings and structures in Howard County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Missouri
Mercè Company i González (Barcelona, 19 May 1947) is a Spanish writer in Spanish, Catalan and French languages. She studied journalism and worked for several magazines and publishing companies. She has authored more than 170 books and been awarded many times for her works as a Children's literature writer (Premi Ciutat d'Olot, de Contes Infantils, 1982; Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or, 1983, Barcelona's Golden Medal, 1999) She collaborated with the production of the books and the Cartoon series of The Triplets (Las tres mellizas in Spanish, Les tres bessones in Catalan) by the Catalan television producer enterprise Cromosoma. Main works Works in Catalan Els contes de l'oncle Agust, 1973. (col. of 4 books) Anna i Víctor, 1981. Kiko, el pollet La Bruixa Bufuruda 1983. En Gil i el paraigua màgic, 1982. Les peripècies d'en Quico Pelacanyes, 1983. Charlot, 1984. La casa del catus, 1984. La petita fantasma, Col. de 6 tìtols. La Nana Bunilda menja malsons, 1985. La història de Ernest, 1985. El món de les coses perdudes, 1986. El senyor dels núvols, 1987. A les golfes, 1988. La reina calva, 1988. El jardí de l'Espai, 1989. Bruixes, diables i apareguts, 1989. Tips de riure, escrit amb col·laboració, 1989. La granja dels artistes, Mercè Aránega, Timun Mas, 1989-1990 (col. of 4 books) La Nana Bunilda, 1990. La Presència La Dama del Medalló, 2000. La VeuWorks in Spanish Bamba, el rey gordo, 1982. La niña del drap Mmm... qué rica manzana, 1990. Works in French Nous sommes les trois petits soeurs, 1985. L'Arbre-mémoire, 1990. La Bougie magique, 1990. Le Cadeau du Père Noël, 1991. Les racines perdues, 1991. Les ours dormeurs'', 1992. External links Pàgina respecte a l'escriptora. 1947 births Living people Women writers from Catalonia Spanish writers in French Spanish children's writers Spanish women children's writers
The 1997–98 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1997 to August 1998. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1996–97 season. Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Legend New series are highlighted in bold. Schedule All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times. Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference. Monday–Friday Notes: ABC, NBC and CBS offered their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop. NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling. Some NBC affiliates did not air Sunset Beach in the noon timeslot, opting to air local news and/or syndicated programming instead, and often placing the soap opera in a late morning or afternoon time slot. Fox Kids temporarily aired Eerie, Indiana Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. ET from November 10, 1997 to January 2, 1998. Saturday Notes: Kids' WB temporarily aired Animaniacs aired at 8:00 a.m. ET until October 25, The New Batman/Superman Adventures aired at 9:00 a.m. ET until October 11, and The Legend of Calamity Jane aired at 10:00 a.m. ET from September 13 to 27, 1997. Sunday By network ABC Returning series: ABC World News This Morning ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings All My Children The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show Brand Spanking New! Doug General Hospital Good Morning America Good Morning America Sunday Jungle Cubs The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh One Life to Live Port Charles Schoolhouse Rock! This Week The View New series: 101 Dalmatians: The Series Disney's One Saturday Morning Recess Pepper Ann Science Court Not returning from 1996–97: ABC Weekend Special Bone Chillers Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends The City DuckTales Flash Forward Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles The Mighty Ducks Nightmare Ned Street Sharks CBS Returning series: As the World Turns Beakman's World The Bold and the Beautiful CBS Evening News CBS Morning News CBS News Sunday Morning CBS Storybreak CBS This Morning Face the Nation Guiding Light The Price Is Right The Young and the Restless New series: CBS News Saturday Morning Fudge The New Ghostwriter Mysteries The Sports Illustrated for Kids Show The Weird Al Show Wheel 2000 Not returning from 1996–97: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Bailey Kipper's P.O.V. The Mask: The Animated Series Project Geeker Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat NBC Returning series: Another World Days of Our Lives Hang Time Leeza Meet the Press NBA Inside Stuff NBC News at Sunrise NBC Nightly News Saved by the Bell: The New Class Sunset Beach Today New series: City Guys Not returning from 1996–97: California Dreams Real Life with Jane Pauley Fox Returning series: Bobby's World C Bear and Jamal Eerie, Indiana Fox News Sunday Goosebumps Life with Louie Power Rangers Power Playback Power Rangers Turbo Spider-Man The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper Stickin' Around X-Men New series: The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police Beetleborgs Metallix Cartoon Cabana Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book Ned's Newt Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Power Rangers in Space Silver Surfer Space Goofs Toonsylvania Not returning from 1996–97: The Adventures of Batman & Robin Big Bad Beetleborgs Eek! Stravaganza Fox After Breakfast Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates Power Rangers Zeo The Tick Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? UPN Returning series: The Incredible Hulk Jumanji New series: Algo's FACTory Breaker High Sweet Valley High Not returning from 1996–97: Bureau of Alien Detectors The Mouse and the Monster The WB Returning series: Animaniacs Bugs 'n' Daffy Pinky and the Brain Superman: The Animated Series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries New series: Batman: The Animated Series Captain Planet and the Planeteers Channel Umptee-3 The Legend of Calamity Jane Men in Black: The Series The New Batman Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures Not returning from 1996–97: The Daffy Duck Show Earthworm Jim Freakazoid! Road Rovers Waynehead See also 1997-98 United States network television schedule (prime-time) 1997-98 United States network television schedule (late night) References Sources https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html https://kidsblockblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/fox-kids-weekday-lineups-1997-1998/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/wb/kidswb-schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/upn/upnkids-schedule.html United States weekday network television schedules 1997 in American television 1998 in American television
Jean-Baptiste Robie or Jean Robie (1821–1910) was a Belgian painter who specialised in still lifes with flowers and fruit. He later painted seascapes, landscapes and Oriental scenes based on his travels in the Middle East, India and Ceylon. He was also a writer who wrote about his travels in the East, an autobiographical essay and art theoretical works. Life He was born in Brussels, the son of a smith, and was initially self-taught. With the encouragement of his friend the artist Théodore Fourmois he later began studying at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels with Balthazar-François Tasson (later Tasson-Snel) and exhibited at the Brussels Salon from 1843 to 1875, as well as at the Paris Salon and elsewhere. He also wrote many travel books based on his extensive travels as far as India. Notes and references Further reading De Taeye, Edmond Louis, 1894-97: Les artistes belges contemporains. Brussels Flippo, W.G., 1981: Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters. Antwerp Op De Beeck, E.: Un musée indien à Saint-Gillis. Oeuvre du peintre Jean Robie, in: Le Folklore Brabançon, nr. 162 (1964), pp 232–251* Thieme, U., & Becker, F., 1980-86: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Reprint of 1907 edition. 37 vols. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag Vandevivere, I.. in: Biographie Nationale, 33, Brussel, (1965–66) External links 1821 births 1910 deaths Artists from Brussels 19th-century Belgian painters Belgian male painters 19th-century Belgian male artists Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni Flower artists Belgian orientalists Belgian landscape painters Place of death unknown
The Château d'Étrabonne () is a castle of the 13th century inscribed with historical monuments, in the commune of Étrabonne, in the French department of Doubs. History The castle, founded around 1084 by Narduin d'Estrabonne, rebuilt in stone at the beginning of the 13th century, will be extensively altered around 1450 by William III. On the death of the last of the Estrabonne in 1471, it passed into the Aumont family, before being dismantled by the troops of Louis XI in 1477. It suffered further damage during the various wars that affected the county. But its transformation into a farm from 1570 saved it from destruction during the Revolution. The castle still retains its feudal aspect with in particular the great hall, the chapel and the remains of three towers, including a powerful keep. The castle in its current form is built after the ruin of the feudal castle after the Thirty Years' War. The entire castle has been listed as a historical monument since the December 27, 2019 and is also a registered site by decree of November 13, 1942. Architecture and decorations The castle still has the remains of a circular keep as well as a main building dating from the 15th century in the shape of a "U". References Castles in France
Gamlingay Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north of Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. This is ancient ash/maple woodland on sandy loam soil, an unusual habitat in lowland England. Ground flora include dog's mercury, yellow archangel, wood anemone and the nationally restricted oxlip. The flora is diverse due to the varied soils, and there are hundreds of species of mushrooms and toadstools. Birds include barn owls, garden warblers and blue tits. The Wildlife Trust site includes Sugley Wood, which is not part of the SSSI. There is access from Gamlingay Road and by a footpath from Gamlingay village. References Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire reserves
Edward Stirling (April 1809 – c. September 1894) was an English stage manager, actor and dramatist. He published around 200 works for the stage, many being adaptations of works by popular authors, notably Charles Dickens, Walter Scott and Harrison Ainsworth, often within days of the novel's publication. He married Mary Anne Stirling (1815–1895), an actress who went on to a long and illustrious career as Mrs Stirling. History Stirling was born Edward Stirling Lambert in Thame, Oxfordshire, and started working life as a banker's clerk. Around age 20 he began his stage career first as an actor in the provinces, then as actor/stage manager at the Adelphi, London for Frederick Henry Yates, later took on production at other theatres, finally at Drury Lane. Writing His first successful work for the stage was Sadak and Kalasrade, a spectacular drama. Apart from his original plays he "adapted" the latest novels of Dickens and other authors for the stage. His adaptation of The Cricket on the Hearth played at the Adelphi for over 90 performances. Among his numerous titles were: The Thirst for Gold, or the Sea of Ice T. W. Robertson produced another version. The Ragpicker of Paris and the Dressmaker of St Antoine Aline, the Rose of Killarney (1843) adaptation of Gaetano Rossi's Linda di Chamounix. C. Z. Barnett adapted the same libretto for his Linda, the Pearl of Savoy. The Bohemians; or, After Dark in Paris Margaret Catchpole became the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Other titles include Above and Below The Anchor of Hope; or the Seaman's Star Bachelors Buttons Barnaby Rudge (Dickens) The Battle of Life (Dickens) The Bluejackets; or, Her Majesty's Service The Bohemians; or, The Rogues of Paris The Bould Soger Boy The Cabin Boy Captain Charlotte The Children in the Wood; or, Harlequin Nobody A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future (Dickens) Clarisse; or, The Merchant's Daughter The Cricket on the Hearth; or, A Fairy Tale of Home (Dickens) T. W. Robertson produced another version. The Fortunes of Smike; or, A Sequel to Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) The Giant of Palestine Grace Darling; or, The Wreck at Sea The Hand of Cards Harlequin Blue Beard; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent Industry and Indolence; or, The Orphan's Legacy Jane Lomax; or, A Mother's Curse The Jockey Club Knight of the Dragon and the Queen of Beauty Lestelle The Little Back Parlour The Love Gift; or, The Trials of Poverty A Lucky Hit The Miser's Daughter (Harrison Ainsworth) Nicholas Nickleby; or, Doings at Do-the-Boys Hall (Dickens) Norah Creina The Old Curiosity Shop; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock (Dickens) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (Dickens) On the Tiles Popping In and Out Rifle Volunteers; or, Riflemen! Riflemen! Riflemen! Form! The Rose of Corbeil; or the Forest of Senart The Serpent of the Nile; or, The Battle of Actium The Tower of London; or, Og, Gog, and Magog (Harrison Ainsworth) Ulrica; or, The Prisoner of State Wanted a Wife; or, London, Liverpool and Bristol The Wreck at Sea; or, The Fern Light Yankee Notes for English Circulation (Dickens) In 1881 he published a memoir: Old Drury Lane – Fifty Years' Recollections in 2 volumes, which at least one critic enjoyed but another found worthless as a history. Marriage Stirling married the actress Miss Fanny Clifton (1815-1895) in 1832 Born Mary Ann Hehl, she was a daughter of Captain Hehl, a military secretary at the War Office. Her career blossomed when she took Helen Faucit's part in the role of Clara in Lytton’s play Money. Their daughter, Miss Fanny Stirling, made her appearance on the stage about 1860, and gained some reputation as an actress. (Elsewhere her name is given as Pamela Stirling.) Mrs. Stirling retired from the stage in 1886, her last appearance being at The Lyceum as Martha in Faust in 1890. In 1894, six weeks after Stirling's death, she married Lieut-Colonel Sir Charles Hutton Gregory, a well-known civil and military engineer. She was 79 years of age and he was 78. The wedding was covered sympathetically by all the newspapers, whereas Stirling's death received no mention at the time, and later only in reference to this marriage, and in the most unflattering terms. Notes and references 1809 births 1894 deaths 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights Plays based on works by Charles Dickens
CircuitPython is an open-source derivative of the MicroPython programming language targeted toward students and beginners. Development of CircuitPython is supported by Adafruit Industries. It is a software implementation of the programming language, written in C. It has been ported to run on several modern microcontrollers. CircuitPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter of that bytecode that runs on the microcontroller hardware. The user is presented with an interactive prompt (the REPL) to execute supported commands immediately. Included are a selection of core Python libraries. CircuitPython includes modules which give the programmer access to the low-level hardware of supported products as well as higher-level libraries for beginners. CircuitPython is a fork of MicroPython, originally created by Damien George. The MicroPython community continues to discuss forks of MicroPython into variants such as CircuitPython. CircuitPython is targeted to be compliant with CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Programs written for CircuitPython-compatible boards may not run unmodified on other platforms such as the Raspberry Pi. Usage CircuitPython is being used as an emerging alternative solution for microcontroller programming, which is usually done in C, C++, or assembly. The language has also seen uptake in making small, handheld video game devices. Developer Chris Young has ported his infrared transmit-and-receive software to CircuitPython to provide interactivity and to aid those with accessibility issues. Community The user community support includes a Discord chat room and product support forums. A Twitter account dedicated to CircuitPython news was established in 2018. A newsletter, Python on Hardware, is published weekly since 15 November, 2016 by Adafruit to provide news and information on CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python on single board computers. A Reddit subreddit, r/CircuitPython, provides news on CircuitPython and related news and projects and has about 3,000 members. Hardware support The version 6.2.0 supports Atmel SAMD21 and SAMD51 microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, nRF52833 and nRF52840 from Nordic Semiconductor, CXD5602 (Spresense) from Sony, and STM32 F4-series from STMicroelectronics. Previous versions supported the ESP8266 microcontroller, but its support was dropped in version 4. It also supports single-board computers like Raspberry Pi. References External links • Tutorials by Tony DiCola / Adafruit Microcontroller software Python (programming language)
Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi (1 June 1919 – 12 July 2011), was a mass literacy expert. He was one of the first non-officials to be associated with the development of Adult Education program in India from the early 1950s, and was an early leader of the mass literacy movement. As an officer of UNESCO, he was posted in Africa and seconded to lead mass literacy programs in Nigeria and Zambia. He was offered a position in the UNESCO by the British diplomat and head of fundamental education at UNESCO John Bowers. During his sixty-year career, he conducted a number of studies and wrote books and technical documents, which are used by experts and activists in the field of adult education. He developed control, monitoring and evaluation systems for national literacy programs such as Total Literacy Campaigns (TLC) and Post Literacy Programs (PLP), and was an advocate of lifelong learning. Early life and education Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi was born in the village of Rajapur Sikror, Saraimeer Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Thus, the suffix Azmi. He later dropped the suffix citing his leaving the place at the tender age of seven. His early education was in Burma under his paternal uncle. After the separation of Burma from India in 1935, he returned to India and enrolled at Jubilee College in Lucknow, UP. He graduated first class with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Aligarh Muslim University in 1942 at the age of 23. By the time he was 33 in 1952, he had received an Individual UNESCO Individual Training Fellowship. Ahmed embarked on the UNESCO Fellowship study program traveling to Jamaica (three and a half months), Haiti (two weeks), Puerto Rico (two weeks), and Nairobi (one and a half months). Throughout the program, he received further training in production programmes, techniques of writing text-books and follow-up reading materials, research and educational control necessary to produce well-graded materials according to the interest and level of comprehension of adult readers, techniques of distribution, illustration, printing, the relationship between production programmes, literacy campaigns and community development. He also trained in organizing, financing, staffing and equipping a vernacular literature bureau as well as learning of its production activities' connection to the education system and the mass education programme. In 1954, Ahmed graduated with a Master of Communication Arts degree from Michigan State University in East Lancing, Michigan, United States. Career In his 20s, Ahmed was comfortably employed with the Railways and Bridges Department in the United Provinces of British India where he translated letters between English and Urdu. However, right around the time of India's independence in 1947, Dr. Zakir Husain - an educationist who became India's third President - exhorted the educated youth to leave colonial service and join nationalist institutions. Ahmed complied at once and joined Jamia Millia Islamia in 1948, where he wrote, compiled and edited follow-up reading materials for new literates. This marked the beginning of an ensuing prolific career spanning six decades in which Mushtaq Ahmed founded, revived, mobilized and headed many institutions related to adult, primary and continuing education as detailed below. By February 1951, Ahmed became the officiating director of the four Community Education Centers run by the Institute of Social Education in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). Within a year, he was holding the office of the Chief Editor in the institute. In the three years immediately following India's independence (1948–51), he had written, edited and complied over 300 booklets for new literates, 100 of which were being published on behalf of the Government of India. Upon his return from the UNESCO Fellowship program, Mushtaq was appointed as the Secretary of the Adult Education Department, where he stayed till 1955. As a UNESCO fellow, he was called on to serve as the assistant director of UNESCO Group Training Scheme for international literacy experts in Mysore which he responded to in affirmative and held the position till 1957. He moved back to New Delhi in 1958 to serve as the Director of Research, Training and Production Center within Jamia Millia Islamia until 1960. Meanwhile, Mrs. Welthy Honsinger Fisher had founded Literacy House in Lucknow, UP, in 1956 at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi. It secured funding from World Education, NY , in 1958 Mushtaq Ahmed was one of its earliest directors serving from 1960 to 1964 in Lucknow Over the next one decade, from 1965 till 1978, Ahmed served as a UNESCO Adviser on adult literacy to the governments of Nigeria, Zambia, among others. Upon his return to India in 1978, he held the office of Director, Center for Development of Women and Youth in Aligarh, UP. He shifted base to New Delhi in 1982, where he worked as the Director of the State Resource Center within Jamia Millia Islamia. In 1990, he resumed his position as the Director of Literacy House in Lucknow, UP and stayed there till 1993. He was appointed as the Chairman of the National Institute of Adult Education (NIAE) in 1995, Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India, in New Delhi Simultanesouly, he also served as the Chairman of National Core Group, External Evaluation of Total Literacy Campaign (TLC)/Post-Literacy Programmes (PLP), an initiative of the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, New Delhi He stayed in the former position till 1999 and the latter, till 2001. He also served as the Chairman of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Sitapur, UP, and Jan Shiksha Sansthan (JSS), Handi, although the dates on these positions are to be confirmed. Publications Mushtaq Ahmed was a prolific writer. Some of his published work related to adult education which serves as reference material for researchers and scholars is listed below: An Evaluation of Reading Materials for Neoliterates and a Study of their Reading Needs and Interests, Research, Training and Production Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 1958 A Survey of Reading Materials for Neoliterates, Research, Training and Production Center, JMI and Indian Adult Education Association, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1957 A Study of Post-Literacy Programmes (PLP), 1957 A Study of Post-Literacy Programmes (PLP), 1958 Teaching Adults to Read and Write, State Resource Centre (SRC), Jamia, New Delhi, 1959 What Literacy Does to People, Ministry of Education, New Delhi, Govt. of India, 1965 A Survey of Reading Materials for Neoliterates, Research, Training and Production Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 1985 How Long?, Indian Journal of Adult Education, New Delhi, Govt. of India, 1978 How to Write Primers for Adults, Directorate of Adult Education, New Delhi, Govt. of India,1979 How to Write Primers for Adults, Directorate of Adult education, New Delhi, Govt. of India, 1982 A Study of the Relationship between the Period of Learning and the Extent of Retention of Literacy, Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA), New Delhi, Govt. of India, 1985 A Study of Post-Literacy Programmes (PLP),1985 Impact of Population Education on the Learners of Adult Education Programme, SRC, Jamia, New Delhi, 1990 How to Evaluate Learning Outcomes of Total Literacy Campaigns (TLC), 1992 A study on Total Literacy Campaigns, 1994 How to Evaluate Learning Outcomes of TLC Districts, National Literacy Mission, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, 1996 Equivalency of New Literates vis-a-vis Primary School Students, 1997 Guidelines for Final Evaluation of Total Literacy Campaign Districts, Department of Education, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, 1997 Survey of Knowledge, Opinion, and Attitude of Literate/Non-literate Adult Regarding ICPD Paradigm Shift, Directorate of Adult education, Govt. of India, 1998 Mirror of Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) - An Evaluation of 71 External Evaluation Reports up to 1999, 2000 Story of Adult Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, SRC Jamia, 2001 Participation of Muslims, particularly Muslim women in Total Literacy Campaign, SRC, Jamia 2001 Awards Mushtaq Ahmed received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984 for his yeoman services to the field of adult education by the Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA). In 1997, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, conferred upon him a National Award for Literacy, in recognition of his outstanding lifetime services to the cause of promoting mass literacy in India. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20160813110657/http://iaea-india.org/images/pdf/iaea_newsletter/jan12.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20111004015436/http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/bitstream/2009/5567/8/KER-1988-101-Bibliography.pdf http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject%3A%22New+literates%27+writings.%22&type=all&limit%5B%5D=&submit=Find&filter[]=author-cluster:%22Ahmed%2C%20Mushtaq%22 https://books.google.com/books?id=qotm3f_-iZgC&dq=Mushtaq+Ahmed+adult+education+india&pg=PA153 http://ncw.nic.in/pdfreports/SHG%20final%20report%20in%20Himachal%20pradesh.pdf http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/stdy_landall.pdf http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0003/000300/030008eo.pdf 20th-century Indian educational theorists 1919 births 2011 deaths Adult education in India People from Azamgarh Aligarh Muslim University alumni Michigan State University alumni Adult education leaders UNESCO officials Jamia Millia Islamia Literacy and society theorists Indian officials of the United Nations
Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert is an animated primetime television special which originally aired on November 12, 1969, on NBC in the United States. Plot Bill and Russell are eating breakfast, but complain about the "lumps" in the cereal. They are told to finish eating it by their mother before leaving to meet up with their friends Nolan, Dumb Donald, Old Weird Harold, and Weasel. Dumb Donald dropped his football down a sewer hole after being told by his mother "not to throw it, not to kick it, not to throw it." Using a wad of gum and Harold's long lanky body, they manage to retrieve it. The boys are preparing for an upcoming football game against the Terrors with Bill reiterating that their friend Fat Albert will be there to help them win the game. Fat Albert appears at the mere mention of his name and with a loud booming "Hey, hey, hey!" They are soon greeted by their friend Rudy who invites them all to come see the The Wolf Man movie which is playing at the local cinema. Everyone agrees to go, except Fat Albert who does not like scary movies and heads home. The rest of the boys go to see the film (using real footage from the actual movie) and despite putting on a tough front, are clearly scared of the picture. They walk home together where everything proceeds to scare them. They then try to laugh it off by making fat jokes about Fat Albert. They unknowingly pass by his apartment building where he hears them and becomes sad. On the day of the game, Bill goes to visit Fat Albert who makes it known that he does not want to be friends with him anymore and plans to move away after telling his parents. Bill goes to the game where the Terrors clobber Bill's team. Desperate, Bill goes back to Fat Albert and apologizes by offering to pay him for the next couple of weeks. Fat Albert appears at the game and helps defeat the Terrors. Fat Albert is hailed a hero and tells his friends that he is not moving away after all. Release While NBC did re-air the special twice following its initial airing, it has rarely been seen since. The film is in the collection of the Paley Center for Media, which has only held a very small number of screenings of the feature. It was created by Bill Cosby and animator Ken Mundie. It was based on Cosby's stand-up routines, which were based on his childhood. It would later inspire the long-running 1972 animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. A second special, Weird Harold, aired on May 4, 1973. The special has a very different style from the later series. As a stylistic choice, the animators drew directly onto cels with grease pencils and actual footage of Philadelphia were used for backgrounds. Cosby disliked the character designs used in the special, with Mundie explaining that "[Cosby] wanted [the protagonists] to be more a fun bunch of kids." For the football match sequence, stock footage of NFL games play in the background, and when Fat Albert tackles the Green Street Terrors, stock shots of building demolitions are used. The music was provided by Herbie Hancock, who later used some of the music he composed on his album Fat Albert Rotunda. Unlike the later Cosby Kids series and specials, it has not been released on DVD. References External links Article featuring concept art and a short clip 1969 in American television 1969 television specials 1960s American television specials American animated television films American television series premieres Filmation animated films 1960s animated television specials Works by Bill Cosby
Breakers Ahead is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison and starring Barry Livesey, Roddy Hughes and Cicely Oates. It was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie and is also known by the alternative title The Lady of Pendower. It included scenes of Cornish wrestling featuring Francis Gregory. Synopsis In Cornwall two fishermen are bitter rivals. One unsuccessfully tries to drown another. However he later redeems himself by saving the other during a storm at the cost of his own life. Cast Barry Livesey as George Kenyon April Vivian as Stella Trevarthon Billy Holland as Bob Pentreath Roddy Hughes as Will Cicely Oates as Aunt Martha Richard Worth as Skipper Francis Gregory as Champion Cornish wrestler References Bibliography Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007. Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986. External links 1935 films 1935 drama films 1930s English-language films British drama films British black-and-white films 1930s British films Films shot at Shepperton Studios Quota quickies Films set in Cornwall
Nuevo (Spanish for "New") is a rural community located east of Lake Perris and the city of Perris in Riverside County, California. The population of the census-designated place (CDP) is 7,033 according to the 2020 census, up from 6,447 at the 2010 census. Geography Nuevo is located at (33.807027, -117.128585). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.8 square miles (17.5 km), all of it land. The geography of the area consists of a wide variety of geographical features, including rocky and rolling hills and low-lying valleys. The usually dry San Jacinto River runs along the northern portion of the area. The natural vegetation consists primarily of Coastal Sage Scrub, though much of this natural vegetation is visibly absent or exists in remnant form within the lowlands of the area where residential and agricultural uses are most prevalent. Demographics 2010 The 2010 United States Census reported that Nuevo had a population of 6,447. The population density was . The racial makeup of Nuevo was 4,011 (62.2%) White, 113 (1.8%) African American, 91 (1.4%) Native American, 82 (1.3%) Asian, 16 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 1,810 (28.1%) from other races, and 324 (5.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3,514 persons (54.5%). The Census reported that 6,445 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 2 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 1,795 households, out of which 872 (48.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1,178 (65.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 204 (11.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 122 (6.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 101 (5.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 12 (0.7%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 219 households (12.2%) were made up of individuals, and 80 (4.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.59. There were 1,504 families (83.8% of all households); the average family size was 3.87. The population was spread out, with 1,935 people (30.0%) under the age of 18, 690 people (10.7%) aged 18 to 24, 1,593 people (24.7%) aged 25 to 44, 1,615 people (25.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 614 people (9.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.1 males. There were 1,963 housing units at an average density of , of which 1,400 (78.0%) were owner-occupied, and 395 (22.0%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.6%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.1%. 4,823 people (74.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 1,622 people (25.2%) lived in rental housing units. 2000 As of the census of 2000, there were 4,135 people, 1,302 households, and 1,076 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,379 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 75.6% White, 2.1% African American, 1.0% Native American, 1.3% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 16.9% from other races, and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29.4% of the population. There were 1,302 households, out of which 42.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.4% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.3% were non-families. 13.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.2 and the average family size was 3.5. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 32.4% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.0 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $49,129, and the median income for a family was $51,059. Males had a median income of $40,321 versus $26,337 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $17,897. About 7.3% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.5% of those under age 18 and 6.2% of those age 65 or over. Government Nuevo is in an unincorporated area and falls under the jurisdiction of Riverside County. Being unincorporated, Nuevo has no formal local government such as a mayor, city council, or treasurer. In the California State Legislature, Nuevo is in , and . In the United States House of Representatives, Nuevo is in . References External links olivegrovechurch.org calvarynuevo.org Census-designated places in Riverside County, California Perris, California Census-designated places in California
The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell. It was published from 24 February to 23 July 1987. History The London Daily News was intended to be a "24-hour" paper challenging the local dominance of the Evening Standard. "For the city that never sleeps, the paper that never stops", ran the promotional slogan. The Standard’s owners, Associated Newspapers, responded by reviving the Evening News at a lower price to squeeze the London Daily News out of the market. A price war ensued finishing with the London Daily News selling at 10p and the Evening News at 5p. Maxwell was dismissive when he heard about the cut-price Evening News. He told the BBC: "The Evening Standard and Lord Rothermere are so worried about their monopoly – which the London Daily News is finally breaking – and so scared about the huge demand for our paper, that they've brought out a cheapo Evening News, which is really a joke." After the London Daily News collapsed, The Evening Standards publishers, Associated Newspapers, continued the Evening News for some months as a separate brand, aiming for a more downmarket readership than the Evening Standard before re-absorbing it into its sister publication and former rival. The London Daily News was the first home of the Alex cartoon, later published by The Independent and the Daily Telegraph. Maxwell admitted defeat on 25 July 1987 an hour after paying undisclosed damages to Associated Newspapers for accusing it of lying about the Evening Standards circulation figures. Starting the London Daily News, which published four editions a day, had cost him $40 million (then about £24.96 million), Reuters estimated. His paper was “selling less than 100,000 copies, when minimum sales targets were 200,000 by this time", Reuters reported Maxwell as commenting. Exclusives The paper exposed a scandal relating to war crimes in Sri Lanka when it revealed and confirmed the presence of British mercenaries of the secret KMS unit working with Sri Lankan troops, and the subsequent termination of this following the discovery of atrocities committed against the Tamil population. The KMS mercenaries walked out after complaining that the Sri Lankan Special Task Force "was running out of control and was indiscriminately killing and torturing Tamil civilians". Human Rights Lawyer Karen Parker cited the news article in one of her NGO interventions criticising the Government of Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. References 1987 in London Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom London newspapers Newspapers established in 1987 Publications disestablished in 1987
Wayne Chernecki (August 12, 1949—February 11, 2013) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played professionally from 1971 to 1975. Career Chernecki played junior hockey with the Winnipeg Jets of the Western Canada Hockey League. In his final season with the Jets, he was one of the league's most prolific scorers, amassing 123 points in only 65 games. The Detroit Red Wings selected Chernecki in the 4th round (#45) of the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft; however he choose to remain with the Jets and pursue a business degree. After graduating from university in 1971, Chernecki turned pro and went on to play 263 regular season games in the American Hockey League with the Springfield Kings and Providence Reds. A serious knee injury forced him to retire in 1975. Post career After retiring as a player, Chernecki coached in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, leading the St. James Canadians to consecutive league titles. At the same time, he built a successful career as a businessman, becoming an executive in David Thomson's business empire and serving on the board of directors for True North Sports & Entertainment. Personal Chernecki died of lung cancer on February 11, 2013, at the age of 63. Chernecki was posthumously inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. Career statistics References External links Profile at HockeyDraftCentral.com 1949 births 2013 deaths Canadian ice hockey centres Detroit Red Wings draft picks Providence Reds players Ice hockey people from Winnipeg Springfield Kings players University of Manitoba alumni Winnipeg Jets (WHL) players
Ayqer Chaman-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Āyqer Chaman-e Soflá; also known as Āyqer Chaman-e Do) is a village in Mehranrud-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Bostanabad County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 60, in 9 families. References Populated places in Bostanabad County
"Owaranai Christmas" is a song written by Shinji Harada. Track listing External links Owaranai Christmas Official site Official Discography JBook data Akinori Nakagawa songs 2007 singles 2007 songs
The flag of Dutch Limburg is a flag with the ratio of 2:3. It consists of 3 rows of colors in a size ratio of 2:1:2. The colors used are (from top to bottom) white, blue and gold (yellow). In the flag there is a symbol of the red Limburgian lion with a double tail, facing the flagpole. The smaller blue middle row is symbolizing the river Meuse. This flag is not used in Belgian Limburg, which has its own, different, flag. Flags of the Netherlands Flag Flags displaying animals Flags introduced in 1953
José Eulalio Loyola Fernández (born 1941 in Cienfuegos, Cuba) is a Cuban composer, professor and flutist. Academic background José Loyola began to study flute with his father, Efrain Loyola, and continued at a later time, in 1963, at the National Art Schools with professors Juan Pablo Ondina and Emigdio Mayo. In 1967, Loyola concluded his médium level music studies and received instruction from renowned North American professor Federico Smith. In 1967, Loyola received a scholarship to study musical composition at the Warsaw Superior School of Music, with professors Grażyna Bacewicz, Andrzej Dobrowolski and Witold Rudzinski. In 1973, he concluded his studies. From 1981 to 1985, he continued at the Frédéric Chopin Academy at Warsaw, where he received a Doctorate in Music. Professional activity José Loyola began his artistic career as a flutist in the orchestra of his father, Efraín Loyola, and at that time he made arrangements for other famous musical groups such as the Elio Revé, Pancho el Bravo and "Modelo" orchestras. Loyola worked as professor of composition and orchestration, as well as a member of the "Commission of Scientific Degrees" at the Instituto Superior de Arte (La Habana). He also collaborated with the Music Sections of the Brigada Hermanos Saiz and the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), and participated as a juror in the UNEAC composition contests of 1975 and 1976. In Poland, José Loyola worked as a flutist and arranger for the Quartet of Polish pianist Frederyk Babinski, with which he participated in the festivals "Jazz Jamboree", from Warsaw, and "Jazz from Oder", in the city of Wrocław as well as in the Komeda Festival. With the Babinsky Quartet, Loyola participated in recording the sound track of several Polish films. Loyola actively participated in numerous international cultural events, such as the Simposium about Opera, Ballet and Musical Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1976; the Colloquium about Black Civilization and Education in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977; the Gathering of Music directors and composers from the Socialist Countries in Moscow, Russia, in 1977; the International Collocquium about Music in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1988; the International Collocquium about the Bambuco in México, in 1990; the International Collocquium about the Bolero in Venezuela, 1994 and 1995. In 1987, he founded the "Golden Boleros" Festival organized by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Most recently, José Loyola has created the "Charanga de Oro", a musical ensemble which structure is based in the classical format of the "Charanga francesa", which emerged during the first years of the 20th century derived from the "Orquesta típica", or wind ensemble. Awards and recognitions Annual Award for the totality of his work. (1992) "Juan Marinello" Order, (1996) "Alejo Carpentier" Medal, (2002) Works Piano Tres piezas cubanas. For percussion. Música viva núm. 1. Chamber music Construcción, Ensamblaje, for brass ensemble Música, for flute and strings, 1970 Música viva núm. 4, for chamber orchestra Música de cámara, 1975; Pas de deux, for flute and oboe Sinfonietta, for string orchestra, wind quintet and piano Trío, for oboe, clarinet and bassoon Instrumental ensemble Canción del soy todo II, text: Eloy Machado, for oboe, narrator and Afro-Cuban percussion Canto negro, text: Nicolás Guillén, for baritone, mixed choir, piano and percussion Homenaje a Brindis de Salas, for violin solo Música viva núm. 3, for flute and Afro-Cuban percussion Poética del Guerrillero, text: Carlos Pellicer, for trumpet, choir and string orchestra Tres imágenes poéticas, for baritone, piano and percussion instruments Symphony Orchestra Música viva núm. 2 Música viva núm. 3 Textura sonora, 1979 Tropicalia Choir Antipoemas, text: Nicanor Parra Cinco poemas, for mixed choir Variaciones folklóricas, for baritone, choir, piano and percussion Opera Monzón y el rey de Koré, 1973, based on an African story See also Music of Cuba References External links YouTube: José Loyola y la Charanga de Oro, Otra Vez La Habana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aIK-KZIcBo YouTube: Preludio Y Tumbao (José Loyola Fernández) Cascadia Composers 170519-0 wolftraks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pG6IIJtg0 Living people 1941 births 20th-century classical composers 20th-century male musicians Cuban classical composers Cuban composers Male composers Latin music composers Male classical composers Musicians from Havana Cuban male musicians
Duet is a 2014 animated short film created by former Disney animator Glen Keane. The project was done in conjunction with Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group (ATAP) as part of Google's Spotlight Stories. Synopsis A celebration of life through the hand-drawn line, this film is about Mia and Tosh, two people and how growing up together to create an inspired duet. Critical reception The film garnered an Annie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Subject and was shortlisted for an Oscar in the same category. References External links 2014 films 2010s English-language films 2010s American animated films 2010s buddy films 2014 drama films 2014 fantasy films 2014 animated films American animated fantasy films American children's fantasy films American coming-of-age films Animated buddy films Animated coming-of-age films American animated drama films American animated short films Films directed by Glen Keane Ballet films
Henry A. Biesiot (born 1945) is a former American football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Dickinson State University, a position he had held since the 1976 season before retiring following the 2013 season. Biesiot was one of the few college football coaches with over 200 career wins and 30 seasons of experience at the collegiate level. In 2006, he was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame as a coach. Playing career Biesiot was considered a "standout" player of both football and baseball while a student at Mayville State University. Coaching career Biesiot is the former head football coach for the Dickinson State Blue Hawks located in Dickinson, North Dakota. In 2013, he finished his 38th seasons in that capacity, a streak that began in 1976. As of September 27, 2013, his coaching record at Dickinson State is 257 wins, 115 losses, and 1 tie. This ranks him #1 at Dickinson State in total wins and #2 at the school in winning percentage (). As a coach, he has led his team to the NAIA playoffs a total of 14 times, advancing as far as the semifinals in 1991. His career playoff record was 6-14. His team concluded the 2010 regular season with an overall record of 8–1, 6–1 in conference play. Biesiot earned his 250th career victory on October 30, 2010 with a 45–13 conference victory over rival Minot State. Biesiot also was the head coach for the Blue Hawk baseball program from 1976 to 2001 Academics Biesiot is a retired Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education at Dickinson State. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Mayville State University and a Master of Science from the University of North Dakota. NAIA career wins leader Biesiot was involved in a chase to the top of the record books for all time wins by an NAIA coach. Biesiot won all of his victories with one school, Dickinson State University, which played NAIA football during his entire tenure. Kevin Donley has more overall wins, but his record has been attained while coaching four different football programs, one of which was not in the NAIA. Head coaching record College football See also List of college football coaches with 200 wins List of college football coaches with 100 losses References 1945 births Living people Mayville State Comets baseball players Mayville State Comets football players Dickinson State Blue Hawks baseball coaches Dickinson State Blue Hawks football coaches High school football coaches in North Dakota University of North Dakota alumni People from Dickinson, North Dakota Sportspeople from Duluth, Minnesota Players of American football from Duluth, Minnesota
The 1969 AFC Youth Championship was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Teams The following teams entered the tournament: (host) Group stage Group A Group B Group C Group D Quarterfinals Semifinals Third place match Final External links Results by RSSSF AFC U-19 Championship AFC 1969 in Asian football 1969 in Thai sport International association football competitions hosted by Thailand 1969 in youth association football
The 2019–20 season was Stal Stalowa Wola's tenth consecutive season in II liga since relegation from I liga in 2010. In addition to the domestic league, Stal participated in this season's edition of the Polish Cup. The season was slated to cover a period from 27 July 2019 to 30 May 2020. It was extended extraordinarily beyond 30 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. In the end, Stal got relegated to III liga in spite of seven wins in the league at the last season's eleven games. The bad start and last matchday's defeat at Pogoń Siedlce confirmed the relegation. Players Transfers In Out Pre-season and friendlies Competitions Overview II liga Standings Results summary Matches Polish Cup Statistics Top scorers II liga 10 goals – Michał Fidziukiewicz 8 goals – Kacper Śpiewak 7 goals – Robert Dadok 3 goals – Bartłomiej Ciepiela 2 goals – Szymon Jarosz, Piotr Mroziński, Michał Płonka, Bartosz Sobotka 1 goal – Dominik Chromiński, Krzysztof Kiercz, Michał Mistrzyk, Przemysław Stelmach, Adam Waszkiewicz, Filip Wójcik, Łukasz Zjawiński Polish Cup 2 goals – Michał Fidziukiewicz 1 goal – Bartłomiej Ciepiela, Krzysztof Kiercz, Rafał Michalik Notes References Stal Stalowa Wola seasons Stal Stalowa Wola
Argyresthia libocedrella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found in California and Oregon in the United States. The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are dark golden yellow with two conspicuous dark brown dorsal spots, one on the middle of the dorsal edge and one at the basal fourth. There are faint traces of slightly darker lines crossing the wing from these dorsal spots. The hindwings are light fuscous. The larvae feed on Calocedrus decurrens. References Moths described in 1916 Argyresthia Moths of North America
Malden Mills Industries is the original manufacturer of Polartec polar fleece and manufactures other modern textiles. The company is located in Andover, Massachusetts and has operations in Hudson, New Hampshire. History Malden Mills was founded in 1906 by Henry Feuerstein and operated for three generations under the Feuerstein Family. Malden Mills started off with specialization in lightweight fabrics and wool clothing. Fire and rebuilding On December 11, 1995, a dust explosion in one of the hoppers used to produce Polartec destroyed three of the factory's buildings and causing 40% damage to the whole plant. The fire happened during the company’s off season leading to minimized losses, though at the time it was the largest property damage fire loss in the history of Massachusetts. Initially thought to have started in a boiler, subsequent investigation found it was likely started in a hopper on the "flock" line, where nylon fibers are oriented in a 50,000 volt electric field while applied to adhesive on a backing fabric. Fibers occasionally ignited passing through this field, and despite automatic fire suppression methods, a previous explosion occurred in 1993 seriously burning several workers. Lawrence, Massachusetts was already experiencing a downward economy due to many other companies leaving to find cheaper labor elsewhere and many residents were worried about the loss of another factory. The fire injured 36 people and placed 2700 jobs at risk. The fire was later ruled an “industrial accident.” CEO Aaron Feuerstein made the decision overnight to quickly rebuild. He extended the pay and benefits of his employees while the factory was being rebuilt. Rebuilding was completed on September 14, 1997, leaving 70 employees still displaced. Though ultimately Feuerstein's choices may have led to the insolvency of the company and the loss of nearly all of the jobs that Feuerstein was trying to preserve, he received praise for his choice to de-prioritize the profitability of his company. Bankruptcy In November 2001, Malden Mills declared bankruptcy after the recession at the beginning of the new year left the company unable to pay creditors—related to its rebuilding and payroll commitments. The company achieved solvency because of the generosity of its creditors, as well as government subsidies. Feuerstein was relieved of actual control of the company by its creditors. In January 2007, current CEO Michael Spillane announced that Malden Mills would file for bankruptcy again and would be sold to the Gordon Brothers Group of Boston. However, in February 2007, the assets of Malden Mills were purchased by a newly formed company called Polartec, LLC which is owned by Chrysalis Capital Partners of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A notice on the old www.MaldenMillsStore.com said the week of July 23, 2007 would be the final shipping period for rolls of fabric from the company. The notice also said an employee group is starting a new fabric-making enterprise to be announced. On June 28, 2007, the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation said it would take over the underfunded (by 49%) Malden Mills pension plan, which covers about 1500 employees. PBGC said the sale of Malden Mills assets meant that the pension plan would be abandoned because the company missed a $1.7 million pension payment. Polartec, LLC In 2007 Malden Mills filed its final bankruptcy and Versa Capital purchased the assets to create a new company, Polartec, LLC. Polartec offers over 400 different fabrics including: Polartec Power Dry Polartec Power Stretch Polartec Classic Micro, 100, 200, 300 Polartec Thermal Pro Polartec Alpha Polartec Wind Pro Polartec Windbloc Polartec Power Shield Polartec Power Shield 02 Polartec Power Shield Pro Polartec Power Shield Stretch Wovens Polartec Power Wool Polartec NeoShell Flame Resistant Fabrics and Layering Systems Polartec's customers include all branches of the United States Military, Patagonia, The North Face, Marmot, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Mountain Hardwear, Cabela's, Lands' End, L.L.Bean, Jack Wolfskin, Lafuma, Eider, Millet, Rab, Outdoor Research , Quiksilver and many other technical apparel brands around the globe. In 2011, Polartec launched a waterproof breathable fabric called Polartec NeoShell. This is a new category for Polartec – competing directly against Gore-Tex and other waterproof breathable fabrics. Polartec NeoShell's differentiating feature is a high level of air permeability. In December 2015, the company announced that it would close manufacturing operations in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and move production to plants in Hudson, New Hampshire and Tennessee. References External links http://www.polartec.com Clothing companies of the United States Buildings and structures in Lawrence, Massachusetts Fires in Massachusetts Companies based in Lawrence, Massachusetts Burned buildings and structures in the United States Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2007
Nembrotha purpureolineata is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae. Nembrotha rutilans, classified as a separate species until 2008, has now been reclassified as Nembrotha purpureolineata. Taxonomy Nembrotha purpureolineata was first described from a preserved specimen collected from Abrolhos Islands off Western Australia by O'Donoghue in 1924. The short colour description given is probably enough to identify it to be the same as Nembrotha rutilans (Pruvot-Fol, 1931). The description of this species was done purely from a painting of marine life on the Great Barrier Reef in a book by William Saville-Kent, (1893) and so the earlier name has been given precedence. Distribution This nudibranch occurs in the west of the tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Description Nembrotha purpureolineata is a large pale-bodied dorid. Although the ground colour is a creamy white, this is mostly hidden by a large brown patch which covers most of the notum. Brown stripes usually run down the sides of the body and a brown band is found around the head and anterior part of the mantle. The rhinophores are red to orange-red. The foot is usually edged with purple, though this may only be rather faint. It may reach a total length of 120 mm. This species is easily confused with Nembrotha aurea and Nembrotha chamberlaini. All three species have a similar range of colour variation although N. aurea often has orange patches not present in Nembrotha purpureolineata. Ecology This species feeds on ascidians and tunicates. It has been seen feeding on the yellow-lined ascidian, Clavelina meridionalis. References Further reading External links Polyceridae Gastropods described in 1924
Bransford Vawter was a poet from Lynchburg, Virginia. He has been described as Lynchburg's first poet. He is remembered for his poem "I'd Offer Thee This Hand Of Mine", which ended up becoming a popular song. He is also the subject of an award-winning screenplay The Poem. Background Vawter, the son of a tailor was born in 1815. His parents were Benjamin Vawter and Milly Gutrey. Earlier on he had an interest in literature, especially poetry. His poem, "I'd Offer Thee This Hand Of Mine", which turned out to be his most famous, was published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1834. It was actually published anonymously and caused something of a stir nationally. Once it became known that Vawter was its author, he was able to enjoy local celebrity status for a short period of time. The story behind "I'd Offer Thee This Hand Of Mine" is that he was in love with Ann Norvell, who was from a different class from him. She ended up marrying another man, possibly one that her parents chose for her. According to the Vawter Family website, there are claims by some people that it was written to a Miss Labby. In books such as High-school Journalism by Harold Spears, Charles Hubert Lawshe, and Lynchburg: 1757-2007 by Dorothy Potter, Clifton W. Potter, he is referred to as Lynchburg's first poet. In the book First Baptist Church, Lynchburg, he has been described as Lynchburg's first major poet. Personal and family Other family members He had an older brother Silas, who was married to Sarah Fear in 1830. Illness and death Vawter died in 1838 at the age of 23 most likely from a lung condition. He was in an unmarked grave until October 14, 1936. Then Carter Glass Chapter of the Quill and Scroll Society presented a memorial stone for him. His tombstone, which is at The Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia, has the words "Here lies the body of Bransford Vawter Lynchburgs first poet 1815–1838 Hearts so warm so fine as thine should never know distress" inscribed on it. Vawter as subject Vawter is the subject of the poem "The Grave of Bransford Vawter" by Cornelia J. Matthews Jordan who was a poet from a later period in the 1800s. In 2014 The Poem, a screenplay by Dawn Fields aka Dawn Fields Wise about him was one of three winners at the Virginia Film Office’s 2014 screenwriting competition. It was also a finalist in the Nashville Film Festival’s inaugural Screenwriting Competition. References 1815 births 1838 deaths Poets from Virginia American male poets 19th-century American poets 19th-century American male writers
EA Bright Light (formerly known as EA UK) was a British video game developer founded in 1995 by Electronic Arts. The studio was primarily known for its work on licensed franchises such as the video game adaptation of the Harry Potter series. As of 2019, a subsidiary known as EA UK exists, albeit being a publishing operation. History EA UK was founded in Chertsey, England, United Kingdom in 1995 by Electronic Arts. In 2001, Bullfrog Productions was merged into EA UK, making it to inherit franchises such as Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate, and Theme Park. Originally focusing on developing original IPs, the studio released several well-received titles such as Zubo, the first EA title exclusive to Nintendo DS, in 2008. However, the title was a commercial failure, forcing the company to amend its policy and shift to develop casual games and games that were aiming for younger audience. In later years, they also worked on licensed franchises, such as the video game adaptation of the Harry Potter series, which generally received mixed reviews from critics. The company also worked on few Hasbro-related board game adaptations, such as Hasbro Family Game Night, which was released in 2008. EA UK was renamed to EA Bright Light in 2008, with its headquarter moved to Guildford, England, United Kingdom. In 2011, after both the movie and the video game franchise of Harry Potter were ended, Electronic Arts began a consultation process to shut down EA Bright Light so as to "help centralise development on future projects, reduce development costs and will allow for better knowledge and talent sharing within the organization". After their last title, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 was released, Electronic Arts silently shut down EA Bright Light by the end of 2011. Most employees from Bright Light joined Criterion Games and Playfish, the remaining 2 subsidiaries of Electronic Arts in UK, while others joined Jagex and Supermassive Games. Despite EA declaring that Bright Light would revive several IPs from Bullfrog, none of the titles were developed before the company's closure. Before the company's closure, it is known that they were developing a Maxis-related title. Games developed References External links Electronic Arts subsidiaries Defunct companies based in Surrey Video game companies established in 1995 Video game companies disestablished in 2011 British subsidiaries of foreign companies Video game development companies Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Guildford 1995 establishments in England 2011 disestablishments in England
Howard Mark Wiseman (born 19 June 1968) is an Australian theoretical and quantum physicist, who notable for his work on quantum feedback control, quantum measurements, quantum information (especially quantum steering), open quantum systems, the many interacting worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and other topics in quantum foundations. Early life Wiseman was born in Brisbane, Australia and received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics from the University of Queensland in 1991. He completed his PhD in physics under Gerard J. Milburn at the University of Queensland in 1994, with a thesis entitled Quantum Trajectories and Feedback. Career After his PhD, Wiseman undertook a postdoc under Dan Walls at the University of Auckland. From 1996 to 2009 he held Australian Research Council (ARC) research fellowships. He is currently a Physics Professor at Griffith University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Quantum Dynamics. He is also an Executive Node Manager in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, an ARC Centre of Excellence. Honors His early-career awards include the Bragg Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP), the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science and the Malcolm Macintosh Medal, one of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of The Optical Society of America. In 2022 Wiseman was awarded the AIP’s Walter Boas Medal for Excellence in Research, for elucidating fundamental limits arising from quantum theory, in particular in its applications to metrology and laser science, and via its implications for the foundations of reality. See also Quantum Aspects of Life (book) Selected bibliography References External links Wiseman's homepage Wiseman's scientific genealogy Wiseman's MacIntosh medal Wiseman's Qwiki profile 1968 births Living people Scientists from Brisbane University of Queensland alumni Australian physicists Academic staff of Griffith University Quantum physicists Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society
Hewsang was a cargo ship which was built by William Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool in 1944 as Empire Bermuda for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Postwar she was sold into merchant service and renamed Hewsang and later sold to new owners and renamed Sunshine, serving until scrapped in 1970. Description Empire Bermuda was built by William Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool. She was yard number 1173 and was launched on 30 September 1944 with completion in November. She was long, with a beam of and a depth of . Her GRT was 3,359, with a NRT of 2,257. Career Empire Bermuda was placed under the management of the Joseph Constantine Steamship Line by the MoWT. In 1949, she was sold to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London and renamed Hewsang. In 1963, Hewsang was sold to the Sunshine Navigation Co Ltd, Panama and renamed Sunshine. She was placed under the management of Patt Manfield & Co Ltd, Hong Kong. The ship was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March 1970. Official Numbers and Code Letters Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers. Empire Bermuda had the UK Official Number 180078 and the Code Letters GDMP. Propulsion The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine which had cylinders of , and bore by stroke. It was built by the Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool. References 1944 ships Ships built on the River Tees Ministry of War Transport ships Empire ships Steamships of the United Kingdom Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Steamships of Panama Merchant ships of Panama
Oriental Film was a film production company in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Established by ethnic Chinese businessman Tjo Seng Han in 1940, it completed four black-and-white films before it was closed in 1941. All the company's films were screened into the 1950s but may now be lost. They were directed by two men, Njoo Cheong Seng and Sutan Usman Karim, and launched the careers of actors such as Dhalia and Soerip. Established during the revival of the Indies film industry, Oriental released its first film, Kris Mataram, in July 1940. It starred Njoo's wife Fifi Young, and relied on her fame as a stage actress to draw audiences. This was followed by a further three films, which were targeted at low-income audiences and extensively used kroncong music. Their final production was Panggilan Darah in 1941, which was completed after Njoo and Young had migrated to Majestic Film. Oriental was unable to recoup its expenses of renting a Dutch-owned studio, and the company was shut down. Establishment Following the commercial successes of Terang Boelan (Full Moon; 1937), Fatima (1938), and Alang-Alang (Grass; 1939), the Dutch East Indies film industry – which had been severely weakened by the Great Depression – was revived. Film production increased and, in 1940, four new production houses were opened, including Oriental Film. Funded entirely by the ethnic Chinese businessman Tjo Seng Han, the company's first headquarters were at 42 Matraman Street, in eastern Batavia (now Jakarta); according to the weekly Sin Po, this studio had simple facilities. Another ethnic Chinese businessman, Tjan Hock Siong, was brought on to manage the day-to-day activities of the studio. Tjo and Tjan hired Njoo Cheong Seng, a dramatist who had previously worked with the Orion Opera before establishing his own troupe, and his wife Fifi Young. The two had gained wide recognition through their stage work, and it was hoped that name recognition would bring in audiences. The hiring of Njoo and Young was part of a trend of bringing theatrically trained actors and crew into the film industry. Terang Boelan had used stage starlet Roekiah and her husband Kartolo to great effect, and the actors had brought similar financial success to Tan's Film after they were hired. Productions Oriental's first production, Kris Mataram (Kris of Mataram), was directed by Njoo and starred Young and Omar Rodriga. It followed a young noblewoman (played by Young) who marries a nobleman despite her parents' disapproval. For this film, Njoo drew Joshua Wong from Tan's as cinematographer, then used the Wong name as part of his advertising: "[Kris Mataram has] the J. Wong guarantee". Released in July 1940, the film was targeted at low-income audiences – particularly theatre-goers who would recognise Young. A review in the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad praised it, calling Kris Mataram "captivating to the last metre". Before its studio's second production, Oriental began renting the studios of Algemeen Nederlandsch Indisch Filmsyndicaat (ANIF) in Molenvliet, Batavia, for 1,500 gulden a month. This rent also included access to the studio's equipment and cameraman J.J.W. Steffans, as well as facilities such as air conditioning and telephones in each office, and lighting equipment for night-time shots. A large adjacent plot of land was also included. By renting the ANIF complex, Oriental became the largest and most modern studio in the Indies. Njoo soon showed a proclivity for sensation, which was manifested in the December 1940 release Zoebaida. For the film, a love story set in Timor starring Young as the title character, Oriental used bright, extravagant costumes; Njoo gave the characters whimsical names which would not be found in the setting. Rather than shoot on location – which would have been prohibitively expensive – Oriental constructed sets behind the ANIF Studio. Reviewers of the film noted with disdain that Zoebaida was exaggerated and clearly reflected its stage influences. Oriental released its third production, Pantjawarna (Five Colours), in March 1941. Again starring Young, the film – in which a young woman must raise two daughters despite her husband's imprisonment – featured two new hires, Dhalia and Soerip. Both women, teenagers at the time, had established stage careers and were known for their singing voices, which were put to use in several of Pantjawarna twelve kroncong songs. This film was well received by critics, and Young's acting was praised in both the Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad and Soerabaijasch Handelsblad; the latter characterised Pantjawarna as "a success for O.F.C. [Oriental Film Company] and proof of the progress made in the cinema of the Indies". After Pantjawarna, Fred Young drew Njoo and his wife to the newly established Majestic Film. Deprived of their director and main star, Oriental hired the journalist Sutan Usman Karim to direct their fourth production, Panggilan Darah (Call of Blood). This film, written by Karim and starring Dhalia and Soerip, told of two young orphans as they tried to eke a living in Batavia. This film, which debuted in June 1941, prominently featured the cigarette factory Nitisemito, leading the Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran to suggest that it may have paid for the advertisement. He records it as a modest success, although he notes that reviews were mixed. Closure and legacy Following Panggilan Darah, Oriental – which had been losing money steadily – released its contract for the ANIF studio, which was taken over by the Dutch-run Multi Film. Despite hopes that they would continue producing narrative films, perhaps with less modern equipment, the company was dissolved. Oriental's actors and crew members migrated to different studios. Suska was signed to Java Industrial Film and directed a single film for them, Ratna Moetoe Manikam. Dhalia went to Populair's Film and acted in one production, Moestika dari Djemar (The Jewel of Djemar; 1942), before the Japanese occupation in March 1942 closed that studio. Soerip, meanwhile, joined Njoo and Young at Majestic Film, acting in two productions before that studio was closed. Although Oriental was short-lived, several of the actors and crew it hired went on to lengthy careers. Njoo, after handling two films for Majestic in 1941, spent much of the decade in theatre before returning to directing in the mid-1950s. Fifi Young, who continued acting for Njoo until their divorce in 1945, appeared in more than eighty films before her death in 1975. Dhalia and Soerip likewise had lengthy careers: both acted until the 1990s, Dhalia in 52 productions and Soerip in 25. Filmography In a period of two years, Oriental released four films; all were feature length, made in black-and-white, and received wide releases in the Dutch East Indies. Some, such as Panggilan Darah, enjoyed international release; the film was screened in Singapore (then part of the Straits Settlements) by September 1941. The company's productions were targeted at low-income audiences and extensively used kroncong music, for the recording of which the company established the Oriental Novelty Five. Though its films were screened at least into the 1950s, Oriental's output may be lost. 1940: Kris Mataram 1940: Zoebaida 1941: Pantjawarna 1941: Panggilan Darah Explanatory notes References Works cited 1940 establishments in the Dutch East Indies 1940s disestablishments in the Dutch East Indies 1941 disestablishments Mass media companies established in 1940 Mass media companies disestablished in 1941 Defunct companies of the Dutch East Indies Film production companies of the Dutch East Indies Mass media in Batavia
Charles VII (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) was Prince-Elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death. He was also King of Bohemia (as Charles III) from 1741 to 1743. Charles was a member of the House of Wittelsbach, and his reign as Holy Roman Emperor thus marked the end of three centuries of uninterrupted Habsburg imperial rule, although he was related to the Habsburgs by both blood and marriage. Charles was the eldest son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and the Polish princess Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska. He became elector following the death of his father in 1722. In 1726, Charles married Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I and niece of Emperor Charles VI. The couple had seven children together. After Charles VI died in 1740, Elector Charles claimed the Archduchy of Austria and briefly gained hold of the Bohemian throne. In 1742, he was elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He ruled until his death three years later. Early life and career Charles (Albert) () was born in Brussels and the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, daughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland. His family was politically divided during the War of the Spanish Succession, and he spent many years under house arrest in Austria. The royal family had left Brussels and returned to Munich in 1701. His father, Maximilian Emanuel, fled to the Spanish Netherlands after he had been defeated at the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704, and Charles and his siblings stayed with their mother, the acting Regent, in Munich. In May 1705, after a stay in Venice, the Austrian authorities refused to allow the electress to return to Bavaria and forced her into exile, which lasted ten years. Maximilian Emanuel went also into exile to Compiègne after on April 29, 1706, an Imperial ban was imposed on him, as he again had been defeated at the Battle of Ramillies a few days earlier. Only in 1715 was the family reconciled. After attaining the majority age in August 1715, Charles undertook an educational tour to Italy from 3 December 1715 to 24 August 1716. In 1717, he served among Bavarian auxiliaries in the Austro-Turkish War. On 5 October 1722, Charles married Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, whom he had met at the imperial court in Vienna. She was the youngest daughter of the late Emperor Joseph I and his wife, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Bavaria had renounced all claims to the throne via the marriage, but it provided the legal basis to the inheritance of certain Austrian possessions. In 1725, Charles visited Versailles during the wedding celebrations of Louis XV of France and established a personal contact with the French court. In 1726, after his father had died, Charles became Duke of Bavaria and thus one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire, and he also inherited a debt of 26 million guilders. He maintained good relations with both his Habsburg relatives and France, continuing his father's policies. In 1729, he instituted the knightly Order of St George and ordered the beginning of the construction of the Rothenberg Fortress. Holy Roman Emperor In continuance of the policy of his father, Charles aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of Emperor Joseph I, Charles rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty against Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, in 1740. By the Treaty of Nymphenburg, which was concluded in July 1741, Charles became allied with France and Spain against Austria. During the War of the Austrian Succession, Charles invaded Upper Austria in 1741 and planned to conquer Vienna, but his allied French troops under the Duc de Belle-Isle were instead redirected to Bohemia, and Prague was conquered in November 1741. That meant that Charles was crowned king of Bohemia in Prague on 19 December 1741, when the Habsburgs had not yet been defeated. He was unanimously elected king of Germany on 24 January 1742 and became Holy Roman emperor upon his coronation on 12 February 1742. His brother Clement August, the archbishop-elector of Cologne, generally sided with the Habsburg-Lorraine faction in the disputes over the Habsburg succession but cast his vote for him and personally crowned him emperor at Frankfurt. King George II of Great Britain, as the elector of Hanover, also voted to install Charles as emperor even though both Britain and Hanover were allied with Austria in the ongoing war. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach emperor after Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach king of Germany since the reign of Rupert. Shortly after his coronation, most of Charles's territories were overrun by the Austrians, and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of Maria Theresa. The emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in the Palais Barckhaus in Frankfurt. Most of Bohemia was lost in December 1742, when the Austrians allowed the French under the Duc de Belle-Isle and the Duc de Broglie an honourable capitulation. Charles was mocked as an emperor who neither controlled his own realm nor was in effective control of the empire itself, but the institution of the Holy Roman emperor had largely become symbolic in nature and powerless by then. A popular Latin saying about him was et caesar et nihil, meaning "both emperor and nothing", a word play on aut caesar aut nihil, meaning "either emperor or nothing". General Ignaz Felix, Count of Törring-Jettenbach was compared to a drum, as people "heard about him only when he was beaten". Charles VII tried to emphasise his government in Frankfurt with numerous acts of law, such as the grant of imperial privilege to the University of Erlangen in 1743 and the creation of several new imperial nobles. Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, was declared early to be of full age in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis served as Principal Commissioner for Charles VII at the Perpetual Imperial Diet in Frankfurt am Main and in 1744 the Thurn und Taxis dynasty were appointed the hereditary Postmasters General of the Imperial Reichspost. The new commander of the Bavarian army, Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, fought Austria in a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. In 1743, his troops and their allies took Bavaria, and Charles was able to return to Munich in April for some time. After the allied French had to retreat after defeats to the Rhine, he lost Bavaria again. The new campaign of Frederick II of Prussia during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave Bavaria and to retreat into Bohemia. In October 1744, Charles regained Munich and returned. Under the mediation of former Vice-Chancellor Friedrich Karl von Schönborn, the emperor then sought a balance with Vienna but also negotiated unsuccessfully with France for new military support. Suffering severely from gout, Charles died at Nymphenburg Palace in January 1745. His brother Klemens August then again leaned towards Austria, and his son and successor Maximilian III Joseph made peace with Austria. With the Treaty of Füssen, Austria recognized the legitimacy of Charles's election as Holy Roman Emperor. He is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich. His heart was separately buried in the Shrine of Our Lady of Altötting. Georg Philipp Telemann composed his requiem "I was Hoping for Light". King Frederick the Great of Prussia wrote in 1746, "This death robbed me of the emperor, who was my friend". Cultural legacy Charles VII's reign represented the height of the Bavarian Rococo era. The Nymphenburg Palace was completed during his reign. The Grand Circle (Schlossrondell), which is flanked by a string of elaborate Baroque mansions was initially planned as a basic blueprint for a new city (Carlstadt), but that was not achieved. Charles VII resided in Nymphenburg, and the palace became the favorite summer residence of the future lords of Bavaria. Charles effected the building of the Ancestral Gallery and the Ornate Rooms at the Munich Residenz. He purchased the Palais Porcia in 1731 and had the mansion restored in Rococo style in 1736 for one of his mistresses, Countess Topor-Morawitzka. The mansion was named after her husband, Prince Porcia. He also ordered François de Cuvilliés, chief architect of the court, to build the Palais Holnstein for another one of his mistresses, Sophie Caroline von Ingenheim, Countess Holnstein, between 1733 and 1737. Cuvilliés constructed the Amalienburg as well for Charles and his wife, Maria Amalia, an elaborate hunting lodge designed in the Rococo style between 1734 and 1739 in the Nymphenburg Palace Park. Before and during Charles's reign, numerous accomplished, Italian, French and Bavarian and other German architects, sculptors, painters and artisans were employed in royal service, often for many years. Among them were Agostino Barelli, Dominique Girard, François de Cuvilliés, Leo von Klenze, Roman Anton Boos, Friedrich Ludwig Sckell, Joseph Effner, Konrad Eberhard, Joseph Baader, Ignaz Günther, Johann Michael Fischer, Cosmas Damian Asam and Egid Quirin Asam, Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, Matthäus Günther, Johann Baptist Straub and Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Children Charles and his wife, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, were parents of seven children: Illegitimate children Charles Albert and his mistress Sophie Caroline von Ingenheim had a son: Franz Ludwig, Count of Holnstein (1723–1780) ∞ Anna Marie zu Löwenfeld (1735–1783), daughter of Clemens August of Bavaria. He had issue: Maximilian Joseph, Count of Holnstein, married to Princess Maria Josepha of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1774–1824), daughter of Prince Charles Albert II. Titles Charles VII, by the grace of God elected Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King in Germany and of Bohemia, Duke in the Upper and Lower Bavaria as well as the Upper Palatinate, Count-Palatine of the Rhine, Archduke of Austria, Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg, etc. etc. Ancestry See also War of the Austrian Succession War of the Bavarian Succession References External links Regnal titles 1697 births 1745 deaths Nobility from Brussels People from the Spanish Netherlands House of Wittelsbach 18th-century Holy Roman Emperors 18th-century prince-electors of Bavaria German Roman Catholics Imperial vicars Pretenders to the Bohemian throne German military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain Burials at the Theatine Church, Munich
Bloodlands is a police procedural television series set in Northern Ireland that premiered on BBC One on 21 February 2021. It was created by Chris Brandon and developed by HTM Television, a joint venture between Hat Trick Productions and the producer Jed Mercurio. The show was renewed for a second series on 14 March 2021, with filming commencing in February 2022. Bloodlands was filmed mainly in the rural area around Strangford Lough in the east of Northern Ireland. Cast James Nesbitt as DCI Tom Brannick Lorcan Cranitch as DCS Jackie Twomey Charlene McKenna as DS Niamh McGovern Chris Walley as DC Billy “Birdy” Bird Lola Petticrew as Izzy Brannick Series 1 Michael Smiley as Justin “Dinger” Bell Susan Lynch as DCI Heather Pentland Ian McElhinney as Adam Corry Lisa Dwan as Tori Matthews Peter Ballance as Patrick Keenan Kathy Kiera Clarke as Claire Keenan Cara Kelly as Siobhan Harkin Caolan Byrne as Ben McFarland Valerie Lilley as Linda Corry Series 2 Victoria Smurfit as Olivia Foyle Diarmaid Murtagh as Robert Dardis Jonjo O'Neill as Ryan Savage Reception Reviews The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the series an 83% approval rating, with an average rating of 6.9/10, based on 24 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "Bloodlands at times threatens to buckle under the weight of its heavy load, but thrilling twists and incredible performances hold steady to create an engaging, challenging viewing experience.” On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews”. Abby Robinson, reviewing for Digital Spy, described the opening episode of the drama as "heavily plot-driven, which comes at the expense of character developments" and gave it three out of five. Lucy Mangan of The Guardian, described the drama as "enjoyably dense with enough black humour to let it breathe" and gave it four out of five. Ed Power said the first episode of the series was "So grim – and a seriously bad advertisement for a weekend break in Belfast" when reviewing on behalf of The Irish Times, and Lauren Morris, reviewing on behalf of the Radio Times called it "An unpredictable thriller with all the hallmarks of a Jed Mercurio drama". Awards and nominations Episodes Series overview Series 1 (2021) Series 2 (2022) Broadcast Series 1 was streamed on Acorn TV in the United States and Canada in 2021. Series 2 was streamed on Acorn TV in February 2023. References External links Bloodlands trailer from the BBC 2021 British television series debuts 2020s British crime drama television series BBC television dramas English-language television shows Television series by Hat Trick Productions Television shows filmed in Northern Ireland Television shows set in Northern Ireland
Fausto Tardelli (born 5 January 1951) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Pistoia since 2014 and bishop of Pescia as well since 2023. He was bishop of San Miniato from 2004 to 2014. Biography Fausto Tardelli was born in Lucca on 5 January 1951 in Lucca. He entered the diocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Lucca in 1964, and after completing all his studies there was ordained a priest of that archdiocese on 29 June 1974. He then studied in Rome, first for four years at the Almo Collegio Capranica and then at the Pontifical Alphonsian Academy, earning a licentiate in 1977 and a doctorate in moral theology in 1986, with a thesis on "Alterità e etica. La relazione con l'altro e l'impegno etico nelle opere di Emmanuel Levinas". He also studied at the Pontifical Lateran University in 1981-1982. Starting in 1978 he was Professor of Moral Theology at the seminary in Lucca and at the Interdiocesan Studio of Camaiore (part of the Theological Faculty of Central Italy). He was Scout ecclesiastical assistant in Lucca beginning in 1979; assistant of the Catholic Action Student Movement from 1978 to 1992; vice chancellor and then chancellor of the curia from 1983 to 1993; diocesan assistant of Catholic Action from 1984 to 1987; assistant to the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students until 1992; parish priest at the parish of San Concordio in Moriano, then in Massarosa, and finally in San Pietro Somaldi and San Leonardo in Lucca from 1986 to 2001. He organized and prepared the diocesan synod and became its secretary in 1996. pro-vicar general and moderator of the curia beginning in 2001. That same year he was named a canon of the cathedral chapter of Lucca. He was later appointed vicar general. Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of San Miniato on 6 March 2004. He received his episcopal consecration in Lucca on 2 May from Bruno Tommasi, Archbishop of Lucca. He was installed in San Miniato on 30 May. On 8 October 2014, Pope Francis named him bishop of Pistoia, and he was installed in his new diocese on 8 December. On 14 October 2023, Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Pescia as well, joining the two dioceses in the person of a single bishop. His installation in Pescia is scheduled for 7 January 2024. In the Italian Episcopal Conference he is Secretary of the Commission for the Laity. He is also secretary of the Tuscan Episcopal Conference. References External links Catholic Hierarchy bio Living people 1951 births People from Lucca Alphonsian Academy alumni 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II
al-Zulfikar was a far-left terrorist faction formed in 1979 by Pakistani politician Murtaza Bhutto. Named after his father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the group opposed the military government Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the president of Pakistan, who had deposed Zulfikar in 1977. Al-Zulfiqar was formed to avenge Bhutto's killing by means of armed struggle against Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Zia had deposed the Bhutto regime after mass protests across Pakistan that were related to the dissatisfaction of the masses with the rule of Bhutto (mismanagement of East Pakistan, alleged links of Bhutto to political murders, corruption, economic stagnation as a result of nationalization, deteriorating education system, etc.) in a Military coup in July 1977. Bhutto was hanged by the Zia regime. Bhutto's two sons, Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto went into exile in Afghanistan which was then being ruled by a Soviet-backed communist government. There the two sons formed the Al-Zulfiqar along with hundreds of Pakistan Peoples Party militants who had escaped Zia's persecution. History The hijacking went on for thirteen days in which Lieutenant Tariq Rahim was shot, the hijackers mistakenly believing he was the son of General Rahimuddin Khan, the martial law administrator of Balochistan. This forced the Zia regime to accept the demands of the hijackers of releasing dozens of Pakistan Peoples Party and other leftist political prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails. The hijacking was condemned by Bhutto's daughter, Benazir Bhutto, who was under house arrest in Pakistan and leading a political movement against the Zia dictatorship. The Al-Zulfiqar also attempted to assassinate Zia on a number of occasions and it tried to bomb a vigil Karachi held in honour of Pope John Paul II who was visiting Pakistan in 1980. Cracks started to appear in Al-Zulfiqar after Murtaza Bhutto and one of his most trusted aides, Raja Anwar, developed differences. Raja wanted to return to Pakistan and help Benazir Bhutto in her political struggle against the Zia dictatorship. Murtaza asked his main hit man, Salamullah Tipu, to assassinate Raja and his supporters. Tipu was a former leftist student leader who had joined Al-Zulfiqar in 1980. Raja was thrown into a Kabul jail on Murtaza's request and eventually so was Tipu when in 1984 his wild antics became a security threat to Kabul and Murtaza. Murtaza folded the organization's operations in Kabul when his younger brother, Shahnawaz Bhutto, died suddenly in Nice, in the French Riviera, in 1985, allegedly from poisoning. Both Benazir and Murtaza insisted that he was poisoned by his young Afghan wife who had become an agent of the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI. Murtaza eventually moved to Syria and continued low-key Al-Zulfiqar operations from there. See also Left-wing terrorism External links http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/98/0529/feat2.html Security Threats Federation of American Scientists, 24 May 1998. References Rebel groups in Pakistan Terrorism in Pakistan Pakistan People's Party Military wings of political parties
Women have competed in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games since 1928. While many women artistic gymnasts have competed in multiple Olympic Games, only four have competed in at least four separate Games: Oksana Chusovitina (8), Daniele Hypólito (5), Olga Tass (4), and Vanessa Ferrari (4). See also List of Olympic medal leaders in women's gymnastics List of top female medalists at major artistic gymnastics events References appearances Lists of Olympic female gymnasts
The Tangir District (Urdu: ) is a district in Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. It is located at a distance of 67 km from Chilas. Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Tangir River, a right tributary of the Indus River. History Prior to 2019, the Tangir District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Darel and Chilas. The government of Pakistan announced the district carved out of Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Geography The Tangir District is bounded on the north by the Gupis-Yasin District, on the north-east by the Ghizer District, on the east by the Darel District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Notes References Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan
Raymond III is the designation assigned to distinct or possibly-distinct counts of Toulouse in the mid-to-late 10th century. Recent scholarship has overturned the traditional account of the counts during this period without consensus arising for a new reconstruction. Traditional reconstruction Until recently, Raymond III was the numerical designation assigned Raymond Pons, who seems to have succeeded his father as the count of Toulouse before 926, and who is last seen in 944, apparently being dead by 969. In that year his widow, Garsenda, appears, acting alone. It was thought that she then acted as guardian for Raymond's successor and (supposed) son, William III, who appears along with his wife Emma in the early 11th century. This reconstruction was not without problems. Not only was the chronology of this single generation long, but it is at odds with a surviving apparently-contemporary pedigree found in the Códice de Roda. The surviving manuscript of this collection of genealogies is of a later date, but is thought to derive from a 10th-century original. In its account of the counts of Toulouse, it shows Garsenda, daughter of Duke García II Sánchez of Gascony, to have married (Raymond) Pons, having by him one son, Raymond, who in turn is given children Hugh and Raymond. William (III) is not mentioned. Likewise, the will of Garsenda fails to name William. Reevaluation This consensus reconstruction was shown to be flawed by the discovery of a 992 charter of William III and his wife Emma which explicitly named William's mother as the still-living 'Adelaix'. While this document shows that William was not son of Raymond Pons and Garsenda, it does little to illuminate the true relationships, and several scholars have proposed alternative solutions. These are in agreement with regard to the identity of William's mother. She is identified with Adelaide of Anjou, who as the widow of the deceased Raymond of Gothia, married first King Louis V of France and then Count William III of Provence. Her husband, the 'Prince of Gothia', had previously gone unrecognized or had been dismissed as inaccurate, but given the historical association of this title with the County of Toulouse, the identification of William's mother with Adelaide of Anjou is now accepted. This means that William's father was a previously unrecognized Count Raymond of Toulouse, but his relationship to the previous documented count, Raymond Pons, remains a matter of debate, with several competing theories being proposed. Reconstruction 1 Thierry Stasser identified Adelaide's husband with the last-named family member appearing in the Roda pedigree, the brother of Hugh, both sons of an earlier Raymond and grandsons of Raymond Pons and Garsenda. This Stasser harmonized with the will of Garsenda, in which she names her nepotes (grandsons or nephews) Hugh and Raymond, children of Guidinilda. He would thus introduce two generations, both named Raymond, between Raymond Pons and William III. The first would be the husband of Guidinilda and the father of Hugh and Raymond, with the latter in turn being the husband of Adelaide and father of William III. Given that Garsenda referred to Hugh and Raymond only by the names of their mother, it may be that the elder of the new Raymonds had likewise died by 969. The addition of as many as three additional counts (Raymond, Hugh and Raymond) would displace the numbering of all subsequent counts named Raymond. Reconstruction 2 Martin de Framond suggested two alternatives, the first of which introduced just one intervening generation. He suggests that Raymond Pons and Garsenda were succeeded by a son Raymond, who as in the Codice de Roda had sons Hugh and Raymond, but that as widower of Guidinilda he subsequently married Adelaide, having younger son but eventual heir William. The addition of just a single additional count Raymond in this reconstruction has allowed the traditional numbering to be massaged—some subsequent compilers have used the byname to distinguish Raymond Pons, and then referred to the subsequent novel count as Raymond III, without changing the traditional numbering of subsequent counts of that name. Reconstruction 3 In his second reconstruction, Martin de Framond placed more weight on the will of Garsenda, which could be read as implying that she left no children. He suggests that the nepotes Hugh and Raymond were children of Raymond II, Count of Rouergue, the nephew of Raymond Pons and his heir-male were he to die without sons. He suggests that Raymond of Rouergue may have succeeded his uncle as Count of Toulouse, and that the husband of Adelaide was son of this count, a like-named half-brother to Raymond III of Rouergue. Given the lack of consensus over these possible reconstructions, the name Raymond III, originally referring to Raymond Pons, is now ambiguous. It can still refer to Raymond Pons, to a hypothesized son who married successively Guidinilda and Adelaide of Anjou, to a hypothesized son who was husband of Guidinilda and father-in-law of Adelaide, or to Raymond II, Count of Rouergue. No consensus has arisen regarding these alternative reconstructions, nor on how previous hypotheses identifying possible siblings of William III fit into these new rearranged pedigrees. Sources Martin de Framond, "La succession des comtes de Toulouse autour de l'an mil (940-1030): reconsiderations", Annales du Midi 105 (1993): 461-488. Christian Settipani, La Noblesse du Midi Carolingien (Prosopographia et Genealogica 5, 2004) Thierry Stasser, "Adélaïde d'Anjou, sa famille, ses unions, sa descendance - Etat de las question", Le Moyen Age 103 (1997): 9-52 Counts of Toulouse
Centaurea akamantis, the Akamas centaurea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Cyprus. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was first published and described in Willdenowia Vol.23 on page 157 in 1993. References akamantis Endemic flora of Cyprus Critically endangered plants Critically endangered flora of Asia Critically endangered biota of Europe Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Plants described in 1993
Henry Chaddesden was a 14th-century English priest: he was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1347 until his death in 1354. Notes See also Diocese of Lincoln Diocese of Peterborough Diocese of Leicester Archdeacon of Leicester Archdeacons of Leicester 14th-century English people People from Derbyshire 1354 deaths
Grant Gershon (born November 10, 1960) is a Grammy Award winning American conductor and pianist. He is Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, formerly Resident Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera, member of the Board of Councillors for the USC Thornton School of Music and a former member of the Chorus America Board of Directors. Biography Personal history Gershon was born in Norwalk, California, and grew up in Alhambra, California. His mother was a piano teacher, and he began music lessons at 5 years old. After graduating from Alhambra High School, he entered Chapman College in Orange, California as a double major in piano and voice; he later transferred to the University of Southern California where he majored in piano. He eventually graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985. Gershon is married to soprano Elissa Johnston. Professional career Gershon has appeared as guest conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Juilliard Opera Theatre, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Finnish Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, among others. He has led performances at many of the world's most prestigious festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, Ravinia, Edinburgh, Vienna, Aspen, Ojai and Helsinki festivals as well as the Roma-Europa Festival and the Festival Otonno in Madrid. He served as Assistant Conductor / Principal Pianist with Los Angeles Opera from 1988 to 1994, where he participated in over 40 productions and garnered a reputation as one of the country's exceptional vocal coaches. He was named Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen in 1994, a position he held until 1997. Early in his career he served as Assistant Conductor at the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin State Opera and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, working with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Barenboim and Claudio Abbado. He has served as pianist for many artists on recording and in recital, including Kiri Te Kanawa, Peter Schreier, Rod Gilfry and Audra McDonald. In May 2000, Gershon was named Music Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale effective Fall 2001, taking over for Paul Salamunovich who was retiring. He is only the fourth conductor to hold that title. During this time, he has conducted over 250 performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has led the chorus in a number of world premieres, including: Iri da Iri by Esa-Pekka Salonen "the national anthems" by David Lang "Malhaar" by Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail Inscapes by Swan Family Composer-in-Residence Shawn Kirchner You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich Requiem by Christopher Rouse The City of Dis by Louis Andriessen "Los cantores de las montañas" (The Singing Mountaineers) by Gabriela Lena Frank Plath Songs by Shawn Kirchner A Map of Los Angeles by David O SANG by Eve Beglarian Messages and Brief Eternity by Bobby McFerrin and Roger Treece, lyrics by Don Rosler Broken Charms by Donald Crockett Rezos (Prayers) by Tania León Mother's Lament by Sharon Farber The Salvage Men by Jeff Beal Mangá Pakalagián (Ceremonies) by Nilo Alcala Ave Maria/Scarborough Fair by Paul Chihara In the Desert With You by Moira Smiley He led the U.S. premiere of Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund by Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Master Chorale, along with other U.S. premieres of works by composers James MacMillan, Tarik O'Regan, Sofia Gubaidulina and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Beyond his work with the Master Chorale, he has also championed new music. He conducted the world premiere of John Adams opera Girls of the Golden West and Adams' opera/theatre piece, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, directed by Peter Sellars. He and pianist Gloria Cheng premiered Hallelujah Junction, a piano-duo piece written for them by John Adams. In February 2007, he conducted the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera, The Grapes of Wrath with Minnesota Opera, along with following performances with Utah Opera. In 2010, Gershon led the world premiere performances of Il Postino by Daniel Catán, featuring Plácido Domingo as the poet Pablo Neruda. On May 21, 2007, the Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles Master Chorale issued a joint press release. In it, they announced that Gershon would be extending his contract with the Master Chorale through the 2010/2011 season, and that he was being named Associate Conductor/Chorus Master of Los Angeles Opera. In the press release, Plácido Domingo called Gershon, "an exceptional musician whose broad musical interests, technical mastery and impressive experience will be a huge asset to LA Opera". In this position at LA Opera Gershon has conducted over 50 performances including La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Philip Glass's Satyagraha, Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato in Mark Morris's production, and the previously cited Il Postino. On May 18, 2014, the Los Angeles Master Chorale issued a press release, in which they announced that Gershon would be extending his contract with the Master Chorale through the 2019/2020 season. With this renewal, Gershon's title will change to Artistic Director, which reflects his desire to "redefine the choral experience". With this expanded role, Gershon will create an "immersive" concert experience by incorporating lighting, staging, video, movement, and attire into the production. The Chorale will seek to engage new audiences by presenting more concerts at venues outside of Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Recordings Gershon has made seven recordings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale: Itaipú by Philip Glass and Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund by Esa-Pekka Salonen (RCM 12004) You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich (Nonesuch) Daniel Variations by Steve Reich (Nonesuch) A Good Understanding by Nico Muhly (Decca) Miserere by Henryk Górecki (Decca) the national anthems by David Lang (Cantaloupe) A Festival of CarolsGershon has conducted two DVD releases with LA Opera featuring Plácido Domingo Il Postino by Daniel Catán Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini He has also served as chorus master on the Grammy Award winning recording of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles with LA Opera. Awards and recognition In 2022, Gershon received the Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Also in 2022, he received the Michael Korn Award—Chorus America’s highest honor In 2017, the Los Angeles Master Chorale was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame In 2015, Gershon received the Louis Botto Award for Entrepreneurial Zeal and Innovative Action from Chorus America In 2012, under Gershon's direction the Los Angeles Master Chorale received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from Chorus America. Gershon was honored with the WQXR Gramophone America Award for 2006 for his recording of Reich's You Are (Variations). In addition, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsday'', among others, selected it as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2005. He was named USC Thornton School of Music Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in May 2002 References External links Bio (short version) – Los Angeles Master Chorale website Bio (long version) – Los Angeles Master Chorale website Bio on USC Thornton School of Music Board of Advisors website Bio on Los Angeles Philharmonic website American choral conductors American male conductors (music) Chapman University alumni USC Thornton School of Music alumni Living people 1960 births People from Norwalk, California People from Alhambra, California Musicians from Los Angeles USC Thornton School of Music faculty 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century American pianists 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century American pianists Classical musicians from California 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians Alhambra High School (Alhambra, California) alumni
"Message to the Grass Roots" is a public speech delivered by black civil rights activist Malcolm X. The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Malcolm X described the difference between the "Black revolution" and the "Negro revolution", he contrasted the "house Negro" and the "field Negro" during slavery and in the modern age, and he criticized the 1963 March on Washington. "Message to the Grass Roots" was ranked 91st in the top 100 American speeches of the 20th century by 137 leading scholars of American public address. The speech A common enemy Malcolm X began his speech by emphasizing the common experience of all African Americans, regardless of their religious or political beliefs: What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell because you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell because you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist or Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk, and you sure don't catch hell because you're an American; because if you were an American, you wouldn't catch hell. You catch hell because you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason. Not only did Black Americans share a common experience, Malcolm X continued, they also shared a common enemy: white people. He said that African Americans should come together on the basis that they shared a common enemy. Malcolm X described the Bandung Conference of 1955, at which representatives of Asian and African nations met to discuss their common enemy: Europeans. He said that just as the members of the Bandung Conference put aside their differences, so Black Americans must put aside their differences and unite. The Black revolution and the Negro revolution Next, Malcolm X spoke about what he called the "Black revolution" and the "Negro revolution". He said that Black people were using the word "revolution" loosely without realizing its full implications. He pointed out that the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions were all carried out by people concerned about the issue of land, and that all four revolutions involved bloodshed. He said that the Black revolutions taking place in Africa also involved land and bloodshed. By contrast, Malcolm X said, advocates of the Negro revolution in the United States think they can have a nonviolent revolution: You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. The only kind of revolution that's nonviolent is the Negro revolution. The only revolution based on loving your enemy is the Negro revolution. ... Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, "I'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me." No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, singing "We Shall Overcome"? You don't do that in a revolution. You don't do any singing, you're too busy swinging. It's based on land. A revolutionary wants land so he can set up his own nation, an independent nation. These Negroes aren't asking for any nation—they're trying to crawl back on the plantation. The house Negro and the field Negro Malcolm X spoke about two types of enslaved Africans: the "house Negro" and the "field Negro". The house Negro lived in his owner's house, dressed well, and ate well. He loved his owner as much as the owner loved himself, and he identified with his owner. If the owner got sick, the house Negro would ask, "Are we sick?" If somebody suggested to the house Negro that he escape slavery, he would refuse to go, asking where he could possibly have a better life than the one he had. Malcolm X described the field Negros, who he said were the majority of slaves on a plantation. The field Negro lived in a shack, wore raggedy clothes, and ate chittlins. He hated his owner. If the owner's house caught fire, the field Negro prayed for wind. If the owner got sick, the field Negro prayed for him to die. If somebody suggested to the field Negro that he escape, he would leave in an instant. Malcolm X said that there are still house Negroes and field Negroes. The modern house Negro, he said, was always interested in living or working among white people and bragging about being the only African American in his neighborhood or on his job. Malcolm X said the Black masses were modern field Negroes and described himself as a field Negro. The March on Washington Finally, Malcolm X spoke about the March on Washington, which had taken place on August 28, 1963. He said the impetus behind the march was the masses of African Americans, who were angry and threatening to march on the White House and the Capitol. Malcolm X said there were threats to disrupt traffic on the streets of Washington and at its airport. He described it as the Black revolution. Malcolm X said that President Kennedy called the Big Six civil rights leaders and told them to stop the march, but they told him they couldn't. "Boss, I can't stop it, because I didn't start it." "I'm not even in it, much less the head of it." Malcolm X described how white philanthropist Stephen Currier called a meeting in New York to set up the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, which provided money and public relations for the Big Six leaders, who took control over the March. As a result, he said, the March on Washington lost its militancy and became "a circus". They controlled it so tight, they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Analysis "Message to the Grass Roots" was one of Malcolm X's last speeches as a member of the Nation of Islam. A few weeks after delivering the speech, Elijah Muhammad, the Nation's leader, silenced Malcolm X for comments he made with respect to the assassination of President Kennedy. On March 8, 1964, Malcolm X announced his departure from the Nation of Islam. In some ways, "Message to the Grass Roots" can be viewed as a sign of Malcolm X's impending separation from the Nation of Islam. In it, he spoke not as a Muslim minister but as a leader of the Black masses. Gloria Richardson, who was present, later remembered: "That was when I really wondered how long it would be before he broke with [the Nation of Islam]." "Message to the Grass Roots" was the most "political" speech Malcolm X had delivered to that time. The political message of the speech was beyond the teachings of the Nation of Islam. Some of the themes touched on by Malcolm X in "Message to the Grass Roots" were familiar ones. The distinction between the Black revolution and the Negro revolution, and that between the house Negro and the field Negro, had become common features of his speeches. Regarding the March on Washington, theologian James H. Cone writes that "Malcolm's language was harsh, but it was the truth". According to Cone, the march was controlled by the Black bourgeoisie and the white liberals who financed it. The organizers forced John Lewis to rewrite his speech because it was considered offensive to the Kennedy administration, and James Baldwin was not allowed to speak out of fear for what he might say. Legacy Public Enemy edited two samples from "Message to the Grass Roots" for the introduction to their 1987 song "Bring the Noise", making it sound like Malcolm X said "Too black, too strong." In 1988, an edited quote from the speech was used at the beginning of the song "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour: And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. In 1990, DJ Hype and Phivos Sebastiane with the alias "The Scientist" used a cut from the speech for their breakbeat hardcore song "The Exorcist": Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Gang Starr used part of "Message to the Grass Roots" for the beginning of their song "Tonz 'O' Gunz" from their 1994 album "Hard to Earn". Composer Hideki Naganuma sampled the "too black, too strong" excerpt for the final boss theme of the 2005 video game Sonic Rush, "Wrapped in Black". Key excerpts "We want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me, us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand." "It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep." References Notes Sources cited External links Message to the Grassroots, King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, November 10, 1963 1963 in politics Speeches by Malcolm X 1963 speeches 1963 in Michigan African-American history in Detroit November 1963 events in the United States
The 2009 Danish Cup final was the final and deciding match of the 2008–09 Danish Cup. It took place on Thursday 21 May 2009 at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. The then-leader in the Superliga F.C. Copenhagen met AaB, who was in 7th. F.C. Copenhagen won the match 1–0 on a 31st-minute goal by midfielder William Kvist, securing the club their fourth cup title after they won in 1995, 1997 and 2004. The two clubs also met in the 2004 final, that also ended in a 1–0-win for Byens Hold. The Pokal-fighter-award was handed to AaB's captain Thomas Augustinussen. Peter Rasmussen refereed the match in front of a crowd of 29,249 in a Parken being rebuilt. Road to Copenhagen Both teams started in third round. Square brackets [ ] represent the opposition's division. Match details See also 2008–09 Danish Cup for details of the current competition. Danish Cup finals Danish Cup Final 2009 Danish Cup Final 2009 Cup Sports competitions in Copenhagen May 2009 sports events in Europe 2009 in Copenhagen
Adama Traoré (; born 3 February 1990) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for A-League Men club Melbourne Victory as a left back. Club career First steps Traoré began his career in his native Ivory Coast. He played for Ecole de Football Yéo Martial. He later signed a three-year contract with former A-League club Gold Coast United, after impressing in trial matches. Gold Coast United invited him for a trial after having watched highlights of his performances at the 2007 Toulon Tournament. In 2010, Traore stated the move to the former A-League club Gold Coast United was a stepping stone in his ambitions of playing club football internationally. Due to Gold Coast United having its A-League license revoked, he had to leave the club. Melbourne Victory On 15 March 2012 it was announced that Traore had signed a two-year contract with A-League club Melbourne Victory. Traore made his debut for the Victory in their Round 1 clash with cross-town rivals Melbourne Heart, an encounter which the Victory lost 2–1. On 9 March 2013, Traore suffered a high grade, high ankle ligament rupture which sidelined him for the rest of the 2012–13 season. After Clive Palmer's club collapsed Adama Traore signed with Melbourne Victory – and stated his desire to play for Australia's national team. In May 2014, Traoré's contract with Melbourne expired after declining renewals in hopes of pursuit a career in Europe. The most prestigious award given to a Melbourne Victory player, the Victory Medal, was awarded to Adama Traore at the end of season awards ceremony on 10 May 2014. Vitória de Guimarães On 14 June 2014, it was announced that Portuguese club Vitória de Guimarães had signed Traoré on a multi-year deal. Basel But after spending just six months in Portugal, Traoré joined FC Basel on 10 January 2015 signing a three and a half year contract. Traore joined Basel's first team for their 2014–15 season under head coach Paulo Sousa. After playing in two test games Traore played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the Stadion Wankdorf, in Bern, on 22 February 2015 as Basel were defeated 2–4 by Young Boys. The season 2014–15 was a very successful one for Basel. The championship was won for the sixth time in a row that season and in the 2014–15 Swiss Cup they reached the final, but finished as runners-up, losing 0–3 to FC Sion in the final. Basel entered the Champions League in the group stage and reached the knockout phase. But Basel then lost to Porto in the Round of 16. In the second half of the season Basel played 31 matches (18 Swiss League fixtures, 3 Swiss Cup, 2 Champions League and 8 test matches). Traoré totaled 17 appearances, 12 League, 2 Cup and 3 in test games. In the club's 2015–16 season Urs Fischer was appointed as new head coach. Traore scored his first goal for his club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 1 August 2015. It was the second goal of the game as Basel won 3–0 against Sion. Under trainer Fischer Traoré won the league championship at the end of the 2015–16 Super League season and at the end of the 2016–17 Super League season for the third time. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total. They also won the Swiss Cup for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the club's history. Traoré left the club in August 2017. Between the years 2014 and 2017 he played a total of 95 games for Basel scoring a total of three goals. 59 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, seven in the Swiss Cup, ten in the UEFA competitions (Champions League and Europa League) and 19 were friendly games. He scored one goal in the domestic league, one in the cup and the other was scored during the test games. Göztepe He joined Göztepe S.K. on 14 August 14, 2017. In October 2018 he damaged knee ligaments and was ruled out for the rest of the season. Melbourne Victory On 12 September 2019, Traoré rejoined Melbourne Victory on a one-year contract. He was released on 11 June 2021. International career Traoré has had spells with the Ivory Coast U-17, Ivory Coast U-19, and Ivory Coast U-20, playing a total of seven games for his country, scoring only one goal. He has played two games in the CAF-organised 2007 African Youth Championship (versus Congo and The Gambia) which doubled as a qualifier for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. During the same year, Traoré also participated in the Toulon Tournament and the UEMOA Tournament. After arriving in Australia, Traoré stated that he would like to play for the Socceroos. However it later became clear that this was impossible as he had represented Ivory Coast at youth level. Under the regulations of FIFA, a player's national allegiance cannot change after they have represented their country of origin at national youth level unless the player held dual nationality upon their original call-up. Traoré has also previously been selected for the senior national team to play against Senegal. However, having not yet played a game he has not received a full international cap, he turned down the opportunity to play this game as he had the ambition to play for the Socceroos. Traore was called up by Ivory Coast for the first time on 7 November 2014 for their matches against Sierra Leone and Cameroon but did not play. He was again called up for the match on 6 September 2015 against Sierra Leone in the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt (Nigeria) for an Africa Cup of Nations qualification game. Traoré made his national team debut in the starting eleven but was substituted out after he injured himself. The match ended in a goalless draw. A possibly unique situation occurred in a match in February 2022 in which Traoré played for an Australian invitational XI against a touring FC Barcelona side. Traoré scored for the Australian side, and his namesake Adama Traoré scored for Barcelona. Career statistics Club International Honours Basel Swiss Super League: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 Swiss Cup: 2016–17; runner up: 2014–15 Ivory Coast UEMOA Tournament: 2007 Individual Melbourne Victory Player of the Season: 2013–14 A-Leagues All Star: 2022 References External links Profile on the Swiss Football League homepage Melbourne Victory profile Living people 1990 births People from Bondoukou Men's association football fullbacks Ivorian men's footballers Ivory Coast men's international footballers Australian men's soccer players Australian people of Ivorian descent Sportspeople of Ivorian descent ASEC Mimosas players Gold Coast United FC players Melbourne Victory FC players Vitória S.C. players FC Basel players Göztepe S.K. footballers Western Sydney Wanderers FC players A-League Men players Primeira Liga players Swiss Super League players Süper Lig players Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia Ivorian expatriate men's footballers 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Australia Ivorian emigrants to Australia Naturalised soccer players of Australia
The Pearson Invicta is a sailboat designed for ocean racing. It has a fiberglass sloop with wood trim. Sailboats were once made solely of wood however, the Invicta was the first sailboat produced with a fiberglass hull to win a major ocean race (the 1964 Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda), being placed second overall in the 1962 Newport to Bermuda Race. It was its first in its class and first overall. Thus permanently influencing the course of sailboat design. The Pearson Invicta was designed by noted naval architect William H. Tripp Jr and was produced by Pearson Yachts located in Bristol, Rhode Island. The Invictas design philosophy followed a line established earlier by the beamy keel centerboard yawl Finisterre which was designed by Sparkman and Stephens for noted yachtsman Carlton Mitchell. Mitchell won the Newport to Bermuda Race three times (1956, 1958, and 1960) in Finisterre. These yachts were designed under the Cruising Club of America (CCA) rule. This rule was a handicapping system that resulted in dual purpose boats that could be used for safe family cruising as well as competitive handicap racing. These designs featured long overhangs at the bow and stern and curved "springy" sheer lines giving these yachts intrinsic beauty. As the yacht heeled over in the wind, more waterline length became available thus increasing theoretical hull speed. The Invictas designer, William Tripp, following the concept of Finisterre, developed a series of keel centerboard fiberglass production boats including: the Block Island 40 (built first in the Netherlands and later in East Greenwich Rhode Island), the Mercer 44 (built first in New Jersey by Mercer Reinforced Plastics and currently by Cape Cod Shipbuilding in Wareham MA), the Bermuda 40 and'Hinckley 48 (built in Southwest Harbor Maine by the Hinckley Company). Mr. Tripp's unfortunate death in 1971 ended his career far too soon at the height of his design prominence. This is distinct from the Van de Stadt designed Folkboat derivative Invicta 26. References External links Invicta Specifications and photos at pearsoninfo.net Sailing yachts 1960s sailboat type designs Sailboat type designs by William H. Tripp Jr.
In 1994, the ruling Conservative Government of the United Kingdom brought forward plans to overhaul a number of aspects of local government in Scotland as part of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Part II of the Act reorganised Scotland's water supply and sewerage services, previously the responsibility of regional councils. Three water authorities were established: East of Scotland Water; West of Scotland Water; and North of Scotland Water. The main reason for this reorganisation was to prepare for the privatisation of water services, to bring Scotland into line with the rest of the UK. The water authorities in England and Wales had been privatised in 1989. However, public opinion was strongly against such a move, with successive polls showing 86% - 91% of people definitely opposed. Referendum In March 1994 Strathclyde Regional Council held a postal referendum of Strathclyde residents on whether control of water and sewerage services should be privatised. Seven out of ten voters returned papers, a total of 1.2 million people, of whom 97% voted against privatisation. Aftermath With mounting disagreement with plans the policy was dropped, and the three Scottish Water Authorities were kept in public hands. In 2002 all three were merged to create Scottish Water, a publicly owned water authority of the Scottish Government in the post-devolution era. References Referendums in Scotland Political history of Scotland 1994 in Scotland 1994 Scottish local elections Water privatization 1994 referendums Privatisation referendums Privatisation in the United Kingdom
Of One Blood is a 1944 American race film directed, written by and starring Spencer Williams. The film focuses on two orphaned African American brothers who grow up to become a lawyer and a police officer, and who work together to break up a crime ring run by a miscreant who turns out to be their long-lost oldest brother. Release, reception, and legacy Like many race films, all of Williams' works were thought to have been lost. At the time, films were printed on nitrate film, which is highly flammable and is liable to decompose, and only a few prints of Williams' films were made due to their low budget. However, most of his 1940s films have been rediscovered; many were found in a Tyler, Texas warehouse by film historian G. William Jones in 1983, alongside a number of independent exploitation films and prints of popular Hollywood films from the 1930s and 40s. Williams' works recovered in the collection were restored and now held at Southern Methodist University (SMU) as the Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection. Of One Blood was one of few films of Williams' not found in the Collection. However, a copy has been preserved in a different SMU collection, and another at the Library of Congress. See also List of films in the public domain in the United States Footnotes References Bibliography External links 1944 films American black-and-white films Films directed by Spencer Williams Race films Films about Christianity American drama films 1944 drama films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films
The 2019 Lingshui China Masters was a badminton tournament which took place at Agile Stadium in China from 12 to 17 March 2019 and had a total purse of $75,000. Tournament The 2019 Lingshui China Masters was the first Super 100 tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour and also part of the Lingshui China Masters championships, which had been held since 2001. This tournament was organized by the Chinese Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF. Venue This international tournament was held at Agile Stadium which located inside the Lingshui Culture and Sports Square in Lingshui, Hainan, China. Point distribution Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event. Prize money The total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations. Men's singles Seeds Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (third round) Zhao Junpeng (second round) Chong Wei Feng (second round) Zhou Zeqi (quarter-finals) Shesar Hiren Rhustavito (second round) Firman Abdul Kholik (second round) Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo (second round) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (withdrew) Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Women's singles Seeds Zhang Yiman (final) Kim Ga-eun (champion) Chiang Ying-li (first round) Kim Hyo-min (semi-finals) Chananchida Jucharoen (first round) Jeon Ju-i (quarter-finals) Chen Su-yu (first round) Lin Ying-chun (first round) Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Men's doubles Seeds Ou Xuanyi / Ren Xiangyu (final) Akbar Bintang Cahyono / Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani (withdrew) Frengky Wijaya Putra / Sabar Karyaman Gutama (quarter-finals) Chooi Kah Ming / Low Juan Shen (quarter-finals) Di Zijian / Wang Chang (semi-finals) Huang Kaixiang / Wang Zekang (semi-finals) Lin Shang-kai / Tseng Min-hao (second round) Choi Hyuk-gyun / Kim Jae-hwan (first round) Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Women's doubles Seeds Dong Wenjing / Feng Xueying (second round) Citra Putri Sari Dewi / Jin Yujia (first round) Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma / Ribka Sugiarto (second round) Baek Ha-na / Kim Hye-rin (champions) Cao Tongwei / Yu Xiaohan (quarter-finals) Chung Kan-yu / Lin Xiao-min (first round) Liu Xuanxuan / Xia Yuting (final) Virni Putri / Vania Arianti Sukoco (second round) Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Mixed doubles Seeds Hoo Pang Ron / Cheah Yee See (second round) Ou Xuanyi / Feng Xueying (quarter-finals) Ren Xiangyu / Zhou Chaomin (quarter-finals) Zachariah Josiahno Sumanti / Angelica Wiratama (first round) Choi Hyuk-gyun / Baek Ha-na (first round) Danny Bawa Chrisnanta / Tan Wei Han (semi-finals) Chen Sihang / Zhou Shunqi (first round) Guo Xinwa / Liu Xuanxuan (final) Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links Tournament Link Lingshui China Masters Lingshui China Masters Lingshui China Masters Lingshui China Masters
Laura Hall is an American musician from Chicago. She is best known for her role as the band leader and pianist on the American version of the improvisational comedy television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Career Hall began her musical career in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois, working as a pianist for various theater and improvisational companies including The Second City and the Improv Institute. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Many of the sketches on Whose Line Is It Anyway? include music, and there have been a number of musicians during the show's run. Colin Sell provided the music for the original BBC Radio series, and Richard Vranch took over the job when the show was brought to television in the United Kingdom. Hall made her first appearance on the show when it moved to the United States for its final series, and she appeared on six of the UK series' episodes. Hall continued as the sole musician in the first season of the American version of the show, and additional musicians were added beginning with the second season. Hall was often joined by multi-instrumentalist Linda Taylor, and on occasion other musicians were added. Additional performers included Anna Wanselius, Cece Worrall-Ruben, Anne King, and Candy Girard. Hall has performed throughout the thirteen seasons of the American series. Hall has also participated in similar projects with Drew Carey, such as Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey and the Improv Allstars. She also appeared in two episodes of Carey's sitcom, The Drew Carey Show. Other pursuits Hall has recorded a number of children's records as well as Christian rock worship music. Her band is called The Sweet Potatoes. Hall performs at churches and conferences in the United States. She has led the music at Craig Springs Christian Camp's "Gap Camp". Designed for 18- to 24-year-olds, the camp is sponsored by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and is held each spring in Virginia. In 2018, Hall appeared on an episode of Storytellers Telling Stories, playing the accordion and singing alongside her husband, Rick Hall. Personal life Laura Hall is married to Rick Hall, who is a former Second City mainstage actor. Laura and Rick Hall continued performing together. Laura and Rick have two children, Eva and Ruthie Hall. Albums The Sweet Potatoes as The Sweet Potatoes (2010) [Sister Trudy's Music 884501359955] All in God’s Good Time (2008) [Sister Trudy's Music 884501012195] - features guitar work by Linda Taylor A Woman of Faith (2006) [Sister Trudy's Music 837101273275] I See A Tiger / Come Join the Parade (1999, 2001) [Sister Trudy's Music 659057068121] Other contributions Composer, "Slice of Pie" (comedy short) Composer, Swimming in Auschwitz (2007) Co-composer, Look At Me (with Luke Hannington) Co-composer, Anatomy of a Breakup (with Linda Taylor) Composer, Tell Me A Story series of CDs [Friedman & Danziger] Composer, The Wheels on the Bus children’s videos series starring Roger Daltrey Christmas Caroler appearing in the movie, "Christmas With the Kranks". Notes External links Official website The Sweet Potatoes, Hall's band Living people American performers of Christian music Musicians from Chicago 21st-century American pianists 21st-century American women pianists Year of birth missing (living people)
Anolis tropidolepis, the swift anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Costa Rica. References Anoles Endemic fauna of Costa Rica Reptiles of Costa Rica Reptiles described in 1885 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Marcus Hamilton may refer to: Marcus Hamilton (Angel), a character from the TV series Angel Marcus Hamilton (American football) (born 1984), American football cornerback
La Habra Heights is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 5,325 at the 2010 census, down from 5,712 at the 2000 census. La Habra Heights is a suburban canyon community located on the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties. The zoning is lots with a variety of home and ranch style properties. La Habra Heights features open space and there are no sidewalks in the community. La Habra Heights has no commercial activity with few exception. Hacienda Park is the main park in the city and runs along Hacienda Road. Geography La Habra Heights is located at (33.964012, -117.952837). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , over 99% of it land. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, La Habra Heights has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps. Demographics 2010 At the 2010 census La Habra Heights had a population of 5,325. The population density was . The racial makeup of La Habra Heights was 3,855 (72.4%) White (57.2% Non-Hispanic White), 47 (0.9%) African American, 26 (0.5%) Native American, 841 (15.8%) Asian, 6 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 333 (6.3%) from other races, and 217 (4.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,254 persons (23.5%). The census reported that 5,305 people (99.6% of the population) lived in households, 14 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 6 (0.1%) were institutionalized. There were 1,805 households, of which 542 (30.0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1,289 (71.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 123 (6.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 79 (4.4%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 33 (1.8%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 14 (0.8%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 253 households (14.0%) were one person and 139 (7.7%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.94. There were 1,491 families (82.6% of households); the average family size was 3.21. The age distribution was 1,019 people (19.1%) under the age of 18, 470 people (8.8%) aged 18 to 24, 938 people (17.6%) aged 25 to 44, 1,862 people (35.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,036 people (19.5%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 47.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.6 males. There were 1,880 housing units at an average density of 305.1 per square mile, of the occupied units 1,682 (93.2%) were owner-occupied and 123 (6.8%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.3%. 4,955 people (93.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 350 people (6.6%) lived in rental housing units. During 2009–2013, La Habra Heights had a median household income of $118,871, with 2.8% of the population living below the federal poverty line. 2000 At the 2000 census there were 5,713 people in 1,887 households, including 1,590 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 1,951 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 72.41% White, 1.21% Black or African American, 0.33% Native American, 18.40% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 3.87% from other races, and 3.68% from two or more races. 13.64% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the 1,887 households, 34.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.0% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.7% were non-families. 11.8% of households were one person and 4.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the average family size was 3.29. The age distribution was 24.5% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 23.4% from 25 to 44, 30.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% 65 or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.2 males. The median household income was $101,080 and the median family income was $103,647. Males had a median income of $79,004 versus $41,981 for females. The per capita income for the city was $47,258. About 2.0% of families and 3.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.7% of those under age 18 and 1.9% of those age 65 or over. History La Habra Heights is located on the 1839 Rancho La Habra Mexican land grant made to Mariano Reyes Roldan. Roldan sold to rancho to Andres Pico who sold it to Abel Stearns. In 1900, Willits J. Hole acquired , which he sold in 1919 to Edwin G. Hart, who developed La Habra Heights. Public safety La Habra Heights has a Combination Fire Department that provides 24/7 365 staffing with full-time (Fire Chief, Deputy Chief, administrative assistant, Fire Captains), part-time (Training Chief, EMS Chief, Fire Captains, & Firefighter Paramedics), and volunteer (Firefighters, Driver Operators) employees housed in fire Station behind City Hall on Hacienda Road. The Fire Department staffs a minimum of two Engines daily with Engine 71 Advanced life support (ALS – with paramedics) and a basic life support (BLS) Engine 72 that provide all hazard all risk response for its citizens. The department does charge several hundred dollars per EMS call, or free for those who pay for and are enrolled in the Paramedic subscription program. A contract with Care Ambulance has one dedicated BLS unit stationed at the Fire Station at all times for patient transport. Additionally the Mutual Aid agreement with Los Angeles County Fire lets LHHFD assist the surrounding communities on an as needed basis. There is an Automatic Aid agreement with a portion of the west end of La Habra Heights. Additional firefighting resources can be requested under the Mutual Aid provision of the State of California. La Habra Heights contracts for law enforcement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's regional station in the City of Industry. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department operates the Industry Station in the City of Industry, serving La Habra Heights. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Whittier Health Center in Whittier, serving La Habra Heights. Government La Habra Heights elects a City Council every four years. One of those City Council members is voted in as Mayor by the Council each year. As of December 10, 2018, the council consists of Mayor Brian Bergman, Mayor Pro Tempore Carey Klingfus, council members Roy Francis, Jane L. Williams, and Norm Zezula. In the California State Legislature, La Habra Heights is in , and in . In the United States House of Representatives, La Habra Heights is in . Education There are no schools within the La Habra Heights city limits. Students are served by Lowell Joint School District, La Habra City School District and the Fullerton Joint Union High School District, a small portion of the city next to the city of Whittier off west road is zoned to Whittier Union High School District and East Whittier City School District. Students who live west of Hacienda Boulevard are directed to El Portal and Macy Elementary Schools (both in La Habra) and Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate School (in unincorporated East Whittier). Students who live east of Hacienda Boulevard and the small unincorporated section of Los Angeles County north of Arbolita Drive are directed to Walnut, Ladera Vista, El Cerrito and Arbolita Elementary Schools (all in La Habra) and Washington Middle School (in La Habra). Most students who live in La Habra Heights are directed to La Habra High School and Sonora High School (both in La Habra), though a small portion of homes off West Road are zoned to schools in the city of Whittier, which includes La Serna High School, Granada Middle School (in unincorporated East Whittier), and Murphy Ranch Elementary school. Students who live near the border of Hacienda Heights attend schools in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. Parks and recreation The community has one park "The Park" located on Hacienda Road, which is the center of community events. The city of La Habra Heights host the annual Avocado Festival. Community organizations such as The La Habra Heights Improvement Association host Music in the Park, Halloween Haunt, Breakfast with Santa, and the Easter Egg Hunt for the community. Highland Riders promote wholesome family equestrian recreation, education, fellowship and sportsmanship. We work to achieve this by providing equestrian sport and educational activities, and conducting horse shows, trail rides and other riding contests. There is a gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, and a stage. Also, horse riding arena and practice corral. The Park offers a playground for kids, a Gazebo, and picnic tables. Newspapers and news organizations Whittier Daily News Heights Life LA Times References External links Cities in Los Angeles County, California Gateway Cities Incorporated cities and towns in California Populated places established in 1978
Truth About Motorways Pty Ltd v Macquarie Infrastructure Investment Management Ltd, is a landmark Australian judgment of the High Court. The matter related to standing of third parties with no direct involvement. Facts The third party, a community group called Truth About Motorways, sought a writ of prohibition against Macquarie Infrastructure Investment Management Ltd to stop the publishing of a prospectus calling for investors in a new toll road proposal in Sydney. The prospectus, claimed Truth About Motorways, was misleading with regard to the number of cars that would use the road and sought an order compelling the publication of corrective advertising. Such action they claimed was misleading contrary to the Trade Practices Act 1974. Findings The High Court was asked to determine whether the community group had standing, that is the legal right to bring the legal action. The High Court of Australia found that a third party could have standing. Although it has been suggested that a stranger could only obtain the remedy of prohibition at the discretion of a court (ex debito justitiae) it has never been doubted that, in a proper case, the remedy is available to a stranger, ie a person without standing in the sense of a special or personal interest. (per Kirby J at 162) It is not accurate to say that for all classes of proceedings the law required that the moving party have a real, or actual, or special interest in the outcome....an absence of a special interest, or of a particular grievance does not preclude a grant of prohibition or certiorari respectively. A stranger may seek habeas corpus and quo warranto may be granted at the suit of either the Attorney-General ex officio, or any other person. (per Callinan J at 211) The litigation was ultimately dismissed because the community group was unable to provide security for Macquarie’s legal costs, but the decision is important as it established a very wide standing in matters of the public interest. References High Court of Australia cases 2000 in case law 2000 in Australian law
Dennison is an English surname. Though the surname originates in England it can also sometimes be found in Scotland. Geographical distribution At the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1901 (the data for Ireland) and the United Kingdom Census of 1881 (the data for the rest of the United Kingdom), the frequency of the surname Dennison was highest in the following counties: 1. Westmorland (1: 973) 2. Orkney (1: 1,286) 3. Rutland (1: 2,145) 4. County Leitrim (1: 2,672) 5. Yorkshire (1: 3,147) 6. Cumberland (1: 3,267) 7. County Sligo (1: 3,836) 8. County Down (1: 3,920) 9. Essex (1: 4,400) 10. County Antrim (1: 6,026) As of 2014, the frequency of the surname was highest in the following countries: 1. Northern Ireland (1: 6,870) 2. New Zealand (1: 8,694) 3. England (1: 14,222) 4. Republic of Ireland (1: 14,768) 5. Wales (1: 15,271) 6. Jamaica (1: 19,007) 7. Scotland (1: 19,703) 8. United States (1: 19,795) 9. Canada (1: 25,342) 10. Australia (1: 25,755) As of 2014, 60.4% of all known bearers of the surname Dennison were residents of the United States. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following U.S. states: 1. West Virginia (1: 3,361) 2. Maine (1: 3,563) 3. Kentucky (1: 4,556) 4. Ohio (1: 8,743) 5. Montana (1: 8,863) 6. Indiana (1: 11,625) 7. New Mexico (1: 11,703) 8. Tennessee (1: 13,078) 9. Maryland (1: 13,251) 10. Vermont (1: 14,303) 11. Illinois (1: 14,343) 12. Arizona (1: 15,871) 13. Utah (1: 17,086) 14. Wyoming (1: 17,257) 15. Florida (1: 17,589) 16. New Hampshire (1: 18,009) 17. Colorado (1: 18,113) 18. Missouri (1: 18,180) 19. Pennsylvania (1: 18,374) 20. Delaware (1: 18,426) 21. South Carolina (1: 18,886) The frequency of the surname was highest (over 20 times the national average) in the following U.S. counties: 1. Braxton County, W.Va. (1: 109) 2. Grayson County, Ky. (1: 295) 3. Gilmer County, W.Va. (1: 361) 4. Hart County, Ky. (1: 364) 5. Harding County, S.D. (1: 421) 6. Stark County, Ill. (1: 492) 7. Washington County, Maine (1: 546) 8. Montezuma County, Colo. (1: 557) 9. Edmonson County, Ky. (1: 574) 10. Knox County, Maine (1: 618) 11. De Baca County, N.M. (1: 636) 12. Harrison County, W.Va. (1: 683) 13. Scotland County, Mo. (1: 703) 14. Clearwater County, Idaho (1: 715) 15. Scott County, Ill. (1: 746) 16. Gallatin County, Ill. (1: 774) 17. Anderson County, Kan. (1: 790) 18. Barren County, Ky. (1: 812) 19. McKinley County, N.M. (1: 852) 20. Lee County, Va. (1: 868) 21. Cotton County, Okla. (1: 879) 22. Lewis County, W.Va. (1: 914) 23. Washington County, N.Y. (1: 928) 24. Oliver County, N.D. (1: 937) 25. Iron County, Mo. (1: 940) 26. Mercer County, Ill. (1: 952) 27. Lawrence County, Ohio (1: 953) 28. Harrison County, Ind. (1: 976) 29. Union County, S.D. (1: 989) People Notable people with the surname include: Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman and watchmaker Bonnie Dennison, actress Christabel Dennison (1884–1924), British artist David Dennison (disambiguation) Doug Dennison (born 1951), American football player Jim Dennison (born 1938), American college sports coach John Grahame Dennison (born 1950), Australian musician and Film Sound Mixer. Jo-Carroll Dennison (1923–2021), Miss America 1942 Julian Dennison (born 2002), New Zealand actor Kate Dennison, British athlete Margaret Dennison (1920–2010), American politician from Ohio Richard Dennison, documentary producer Rick Dennison (born 1958), American football player Robert Dennison (disambiguation), including Robbie Dennison and Bob Dennison Tom Dennison (disambiguation) Walter Traill Dennison (1825–1894), Scottish writer and folklorist William Dennison (disambiguation) George H. Dennison (1925-1987) Author, USA See also Denison (name) References

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