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Karsan ( English: Karsan Automotive Industry and Trade Joint-Stock Company) is a Turkish commercial vehicles manufacturer, based in Akçalar, Nilüfer, Bursa Province. "Karsan" is an acronym for "Karoseri Sanayii" (English: Carrosserie/Bodyworks Industry)
History
Karsan was founded in 1966 in Bursa, Turkey, to produce light commercial vehicles. Koç Group assumed management control of the company between 1979-1998. Later on Kıraça Group took over the company in 1998 by acquiring the majority of the shares under the leadership of İnan Kıraç.
Karsan, owned by 100% Turkish capital, produces and sells Peugeot light commercial vehicles under a licensing agreement with the French manufacturer, as well as the Fiat Ducato and its rebadged version the Peugeot Boxer. In addition to these, Karsan produces and sells specialised vehicles such as ambulances, taxis, patrol vehicles and 4x4s.
Karsan also has cooperations with Hyundai for light trucks manufacture, with Renault Trucks for long-distance trailer-trucks and with BredaMenarinibus for bus manufacture.
Karsan's V-1 was one of three finalists, alongside the Ford Transit Connect and Nissan NV200, for New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow. The Nissan NV200 was announced the winning model on 3 May 2011.
At the end of 2010, the J9 Premier minibus was replaced with the Karsan J10, available in three body versions-with 14, 17 or 20 seats, and powered by a Euro 4 common rail 2,3 liter diesel engine of Iveco origin.
At the end of 2013, the J10 minibus has been replaced by the Karsan Jest.
In December 2018 the company acquired the 70% of Industria Italiana Autobus through a capital increase. The following month, after a meeting with Ministry of Economic Development, the participation in IIA fell to 20%.
Current models
Peugeot Partner (1997–present)
Peugeot Boxer (2001–unknown)
Fiat Ducato (2001–present)
Hyundai Truck (2007–present)
Citroën Berlingo (2008–present)
BredaMenarinibus Vivacity (2010–present)
BredaMenarinibus Avancity (2010–present)
Karsan V-1 (prototype)
Karsan Jest (2013–present)
Karsan Atak (2014–present)
Karsan Star (2014–present)
Hyundai H350 (2015–present)
Renault Megane IV Sedan (2022-present)
Karsan E-ata (20xx-present)
Former models
Peugeot J9 (1981–2006)
Karsan J9 Premier (2006–2010)
Renault Premium (2008–2013)
Renault Kerax (2009–2013)
Karsan J10 (2010–2015)
Karsan worldwide
See also
List of automobile manufacturers
Automotive industry in Turkey
List of companies of Turkey
Taxicabs of New York City
References
External links
Karsan website
Karsan Taxi NYC
Karsan Atak
Karsan J9 Premier based on Peugeot J9
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1966
Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange
Bus manufacturers of Turkey
Companies based in Bursa
Turkish brands
Truck manufacturers of Turkey
Turkish companies established in 1966 |
Falsi Union () is a union parishad of Harinakunda Upazila, in Jhenaidah District, Khulna Division of Bangladesh. The union has an area of and as of 2001 had a population of 13,000. There are 7 villages and 5 mouzas in the union.
References
External links
Unions of Khulna Division
Unions of Harinakunda Upazila
Unions of Jhenaidah District |
Naayi Neralu (meaning: Shadow of the Dog) is a novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa, which was first published on 1968. As of May 2018, it had 17 reprints and has been translated into Hindi and Gujarati languages. Based on the novel, a movie Naayi Neralu, in Kannada language was released in 2006, directed by Girish Kasaravalli.
The novel is about a young boy who claims to be the rebirth/reincarnation of a previous life.
See also
S. L. Bhyrappa's novels
Bheemakaaya
Dharmashree
Doora saridaru
Matadana
Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane
Gruhabhanga
Nirakarana
Grahana
Daatu
Anveshana
Parva
Nele
Sakshi
Anchu
Tantu
Saartha
Mandra
Aavarana
Kavalu
Yaana
Uttarakaanda
S. L. Bhyrappa's autobiography
Bhitti
References
Kannada novels
1968 novels
1968 Indian novels
Indian novels adapted into films
Novels by S. L. Bhyrappa |
The 2000 Sta. Lucia Realtors season was the eighth season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Draft picks
Transactions
Finals stint
Under new head coach Norman Black, who moved from Pop Cola to Sta.Lucia at the beginning of the season, the Realtors played in the PBA championship series for the first time in their eight-year history during the Commissioner's Cup, Sta.Lucia lost to defending champions San Miguel Beermen in five games.
Roster
Eliminations (Won games)
(*) loss was reversed and change to a win
References
Sta. Lucia
Sta. Lucia Realtors seasons |
Eulepidotis electa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914. It is found in the Neotropics, including Costa Rica and Panama. It has recently been recorded from the US state of Arizona.
References
Moths described in 1914
electa |
The men's freestyle 125 kg is a competition featured at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2018, and was held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on the 27th of January.
Medalists
Results
Legend
F — Won by fall
WO — Won by walkover
Final
Top half
qualification: Muradin Kushkhov of Kabardino-Balkaria def. Baldan Tsyzhipov of Buryatia (3-1)
qualification: Alan Khugaev of North Ossetia-Alania def. Alan Khubaev of North Ossetia-Alania (3-0)
Section 1
Bottom half
Section 2
Repechage
References
Men's freestyle 125 kg |
Football Club Nevers 58, also known simply as Nevers, is an association football club based in the town of Nevers, France. The club was founded in 1948 and their home stadium is the Stade des Senets, with a capacity of 1,500. As of the 2010–11 season, Nevers play in the Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne, the sixth tier of French football.
History
Nevers Football knew its heyday in the 1970s. Notably, the club played twice in Ligue 2, during the 1973–74 season and then in the 1975–76 season. Nearly three decades later, under manager Daniel Bréard, Nevers won the Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne in 2009 and were promoted to the Championnat de France amateur 2, the fifth tier of French football, for the 2009–10 season. Despite a reinforced squad, Nevers was relegated back to the DH Bourgogne for the 2010–11 season.
Honours
.
Domestic
Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne: 1
2009
References
External links
Nevers–Football.fr
Association football clubs established in 1948
1948 establishments in France
Nevers
Football clubs in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Sport in Nièvre |
Yulin Xisha Airport is a former airport in Yulin, Shaanxi China. The official Yulin airport codes were changed to the new Yulin Yuyang Airport when the latter was opened in March 2008.
Yulin Xisha Airport was the first airport in Yulin, officially opened in 1988, but the planned expansion of the airport was cancelled when it failed to meet the requirements for new developments. Instead, the construction of a new airport was ordered and Yulin Xisha Airport has been demolished.
The airport has one runway (15/33) that is approximately 1,500 metres long.
See also
List of airports in China
List of the busiest airports in China
References
Airports in Shaanxi
Defunct airports in China
2008 disestablishments in China
Yulin, Shaanxi |
Raww was a United States-based short-lived music group best known for their hit "Don't You Try It", released by Emergency Records in 1986. The single was released worldwide, including Germany by Bellaphon, Spain by Grind and Canada by Power Records, Holland and Brussels and Belgium. It was written by the band's members whereas mixed by Freddy Bastone.
This song reached No. 34 on the American dance chart and also received acknowledgement from Billboard and was selected into "Recommended Section" of the Billboard's noteworthy picks.
Chart performance
Discography
Singles
"Don't You Try It"
References
1986 establishments in New York City
Musical groups from New York City
Musical groups established in 1986
Musical groups disestablished in 1986
American garage house musicians
American post-disco music groups |
Winfried Stradt (born 25 September 1956 in Paderborn) is a former professional German footballer.
Stradt made a total of 28 appearances in the Fußball-Bundesliga and 121 in the 2. Bundesliga during his playing career.
References
1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Paderborn
Footballers from Detmold (region)
German men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
SC Paderborn 07 players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Tennis Borussia Berlin players
Alemannia Aachen players
20th-century German people |
Marta Teresa Pandini (born 21 March 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Inter Milan.
References
Living people
1998 births
Italian women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
Serie A (women's football) players
Inter Milan (women) players
Italy women's youth international footballers
Italy women's international footballers |
Ge-trans-for-meer, the fourth studio album of Johannes Kerkorrel, was released in 1996.
Track listing
Sê-Sê
Europhobia
Oe, die Kaap
Changes
Paradys
Elvis
Dawid Ryk
Wanhoop in die Vrystaat
Snor City
My Ewig Ontwykende Beminde
Boogskutter
Onder in my Whiskeyglas
Foto
Ewig Jonk
Berge Nog So Blou
Awards
1997 SAMA – Best Male Vocalist and Best Adult Contemporary Album: Afrikaans
References
1996 albums
Johannes Kerkorrel albums |
Bongo Cat is an Internet meme that originated when a Twitter user created and tweeted a GIF of a white cat smacking a table with its two paws. The tweet was then replied to by another Twitter user with an edited version of the GIF including bongos hit to the tune of a Super Mario World track. The reply went viral and caused the GIF to be edited to many other songs.
History
The original Bongo Cat GIF originated on May 7, 2018, when an animated cat GIF made by Twitter user @StrayRogue was edited by @DitzyFlama, with the edit including bongos which were hit by the cat to the tune of "Athletic" from the Super Mario World soundtrack. It has later been edited to many other songs and many different instruments in fan-made videos, appearing on social media such as YouTube and Twitter. The meme has covered many songs from video game soundtracks, such as music from Persona 5 and Super Mario, as well as mainstream songs such as Toto’s "Africa" and Darude’s "Sandstorm". After an increase in popularity, Stray Rogue began making and selling Bongo Cat merchandise. Bongo Cat also has been made into an interactive website.
Reception
Polygon and Uproxx both described Bongo Cat as the best meme of 2018. Ellen Scott of Metro also described as bringing "happiness to all, even in the trashfire [sic] year that was 2018". The Daily Dot described it as the most earnest and wholesome meme of 2018. Reid McCarter of The A.V. Club and Megan Farokhmanesh of The Verge both praised the meme. Nicole Clark of Vice described the meme as "the only good thing on the internet."
References
Fictional cats
Internet memes
Internet memes introduced in 2018 |
Ilkley Lido is an open-air swimming pool in the West Yorkshire, England, spa town of Ilkley, part of a complex that also includes an indoor heated swimming pool, tennis courts and cafe. It was designed by Archibald (Archie) Skinner and opened in May 1935 as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V. It is open from May to September and during the summer can attract up to 4,000 visitors a day. Ilkley Lido is designated Grade II listed status.
Description
The large pool is mushroom shaped with a shallow area for children, including slide, and deeper circular area 46 m in diameter. There is also a 'rare example of a still unscreened fountain' which was part of the original filtration system. The pool's Art Deco café built in August 1935 to cater for 100 people remains unchanged externally with glazed concertina doors and raised sun terrace that reflect the 1930s enthusiasm for outdoor leisure.
On each side of the pool are single-storey changing room blocks built in a timber-framed vernacular style, originally designated for ladies to the east and gentlemen to the west.
The site also includes an extensive picnic area, tennis courts, putting green, bowls and a 25mx11m heated indoor pool with spectator area.
History
Designed by Archie Skinner, Ilkley's surveyor and water engineer, building work started in 1934, and the lido was officially opened in May 1935 as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V. Opening events to commemorate the jubilee included `ladies and gents graceful high dive' and `ladies neatest and smartest modern bathing costume'. The Art Deco café to the north of the pool opened in August 1935 seating 100 people with catering provided by Taylors of Harrogate.
In 1957 the artist Frank Sherwin was commissioned by British Railways to create a poster to promote Ilkley as a holiday destination with the tagline 'Ilkley – Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales'. In 1974 an indoor pool was added while the steel diving stage was dismantled following the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974.
The lido has hosted the Ilkley Triathlon since the early 1990s making it one of the longest running sprint events in the country. Previous winners of the event include Olympic champions Alistair and Jonny Brownlee in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
See also
Listed buildings in Ilkley
References
Lidos
Swimming pools
Buildings and structures in West Yorkshire
Swimming venues in England
1930s establishments in England
Yorkshire |
Oswald Hanfling (21 December 1927 – 25 October 2005) was an English philosopher who worked from 1970, until his death, at the Open University in the UK.
Early life
Oswald Hanfling was born in Berlin in 1927. His parents were Jewish and when their business was vandalised on Kristallnacht in 1938, he was sent to England by Kindertransport and lived in Bedford with a foster family. After the Second World War, he traced his family to Israel, with the help of the Red Cross.
Hanfling left school at 14 to become an "office boy". For the next 25 years he worked in business, eventually running his own employment agency for au pairs. He told his students that he had picked up the English language through reading comics as a young boy.
Education
Bored by business, Hanfling studied 'A' levels and then enrolled on a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy by correspondence at Birkbeck College. He gained a first, then embarked on a PhD, which he completed in 1971.
Academic work
Hanfling was appointed as a lecturer at the Open University in 1970, and worked there until retiring as a professor in 1993. His biggest influence was Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Trivia
It was impossible to tell, either from his conversation or from his writings, that Hanfling was not a native English speaker. He once commented to Elizabeth Anscombe that he found it strange that Wittgenstein had continued to write in German throughout his life. Anscombe, who must have assumed that Hanfling was English, replied that only someone who wasn’t able to read Wittgenstein in German could have made that remark.
He was greatly admired by his students. He taught a number of Williams College students, who went to Oxford University as part of the Williams-Exeter program. He was passionate about Wittgenstein's later works and a strong advocate of ordinary language philosophy. He was averse to jargon and insisted on the use of ordinary prose in writing and speech. He was so particular about grammar and the use of words that he would often ask his students to explain their use of a comma in a particular place.
Personal life
Hanfling spent the rest of his life in England with his wife Helga, a fellow German refugee and an acclaimed painter, and their two daughters.
In 2007 a one-day conference on Wittgenstein was held, at the Walton Hall Campus on the OU, Milton Keynes, in honour of Hanfling.
Publications
Oswald Hanfling wrote many books, amongst the most popular and significant are:
Logical Positivism, Blackwell, 1981, (his first book)
The Quest For Meaning, Blackwell,1987,
Life and Meaning: A Philosophical Reader (Editor), Blackwell, 1988,
Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989,
Philosophical Aesthetics (Contributing Editor), Blackwell, 1992
Ayer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997,
Philosophy and Ordinary Language: The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue, Routledge, 2003,
Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life, Routledge, 2002,
References
1927 births
2005 deaths
Kindertransport refugees
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
German philosophers
Jewish philosophers
Philosophers of language
Wittgensteinian philosophers
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Alumni of University of London Worldwide
Academics of the Open University
German male writers
British philosophers |
Reynolds Mark Ellis (11 November 194019 August 2003) was an Australian social and social documentary photographer. He also worked, at various stages of his life, as an advertising copywriter, seaman, lecturer, television presenter and founder of Brummels Gallery of Photography, Australia's first dedicated photography gallery, where he established both a photographic studio and an agency dedicated to his work, published 17 photographic books, and held numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas.
Early life and education
Born in the Melbourne beach-side suburb of Brighton and educated at Brighton Grammar School, Ellis won a scholarship to the University of Melbourne in 1959. He left during his first year to work as an office boy at Orr Skate & Associates, a Melbourne advertising agency. He subsequently studied advertising at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, but before obtaining his diploma he spent two years travelling the world, having bought his first camera to record his travels, and worked as a seaman en route. Gregarious and outspoken, Ellis was never shy of controversy; in 1968 he rode a penny-farthing bicycle along St Kilda Road in a publicity stunt in protest against Melbourne's air pollution. Later, in his photographic career, he was to become known for his confronting imagery of Australian lifestyles.
Photographer
By 1967 Ellis was creative director at Monahan Dayman Advertising in Melbourne. He was offered the position as Melbourne editor for Gareth Powell's and Jack de Lissa's Chance International magazine. He left Monahan Dayman Advertising in 1969 to become a freelance photographer. An early photo essay was on the then remote mining settlement of Kalgoorlie, which was published in 1970 in a Saturday edition of The Age, and in Walkabout magazine.
His first exhibition and a resultant book in collaboration with fellow photographer Wesley Stacey on Kings Cross, Sydney, followed in 1971. The book was launched in the Yellow House Artist Collective. Part of his work during this period was to guide photographers on 'safaris' into the outback. In another assignment, he was the stills photographer for Australian director Tim Burstall's sex romp Alvin Purple.
After founding Brummels Gallery of Photography, in 1974 Ellis went on to form Scoopix Photo Library in Prahran, which later became the exclusive Australian agent for New York's Black Star. In 1975 he opened his studio, Rennie Ellis & Associates, at the same premises, and operated from there for the rest of his life.
Once established as a photographer, Ellis worked, exhibited and published continuously; he showed, for example, in 1976 with Carol Jerrems Heroes and Anti-Heroes at The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop Magazines to which he contributed were diverse; Playboy and The Bulletin. His books and exhibitions were on Australian popular culture, including the beach, beer, graffiti, Australian railway stations and the Rio carnival.
In 1993 he became a co-presenter on the Nine Network's lifestyle program Looking Good, continuing in that role for three years and working with Deborah Hutton and Jo Bailey. In the same year his work was also included in Picture Freedom, an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London and also exhibited Further Observationsat Melbourne's Photographers' Gallery, February 29–March 17, 1996.
Brummels Gallery
On 14 December 1972, Ellis and deputy director Robert Ashton launched the non-profit Brummels Gallery of Photography, partly funded by two Arts Council grants. It was the first privately run art gallery in the country to be devoted specifically to photography showcasing mainly Australian photographers though it also attracted shows from international photographic artists. Innovations included a Polaroid party in 1978, with cameras, flash bulbs and enough film for 320 exposures supplied by the instant photography company, and champagne to loosen inhibitions as participants pinned their pictures on the wall.
The first exhibition, Two Views of Erotica: Henry Talbot/Carol Jerrems (14 December 1972 – 21 January 1973), was opened by photographer and filmmaker, Paul Cox, who was soon to open The Photographers' Gallery around the corner in Punt Road, South Yarra. This period brought a reawakening to the photographic medium as an art form not seen since the Pictorialist era, and saw the National Gallery of Victoria open the first photography department in a government-run institution, under the curatorship of Jennie Boddington. From 1977, the gallery was sponsored by the camera manufacturer Pentax and was renamed Pentax Brummels Gallery of Photography.
The gallery closed in January 1980, having run for eight years, after it had advanced the standing of photography as art and the careers of many Australian photographers.
Reception
Cultural commentator Phillip Adams in discussing Australian Graffiti, dubbed Ellis "Australia's oldest hippy." Art critic Nancy Borlase remarked, in relation to his inclusion, with Warren Breninger and Godwin Bradbeer in a 1978 Australian Centre for Photography show of the Melbourne photographers, that "Ellis, whose assured professionalism, in his The Way of Flesh series, places him in that class of photographers who use the camera as an extension of themselves, effortlessly and with obvious enjoyment," and quoting him as saying "I like photographing behind the scenes, like Brassaï."
Legacy
Ellis died after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 62. Since his death his second wife, Kerry Oldfield Ellis, and his assistant, Manuela Furci, have established the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, and continue to organise exhibitions of his work. These have included Aussies All: Portrait Photography by Rennie Ellis at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (2006), No Standing, Only Dancing at the Ian Potter Centre in Melbourne (2008), and Kings Cross 1970-1971: Rennie Ellis in Sydney (2017). Ellis' work was included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2010) which also featured the work of key Australian photographers Max Dupain, David Moore, Jeff Carter, Robert McFarlane, Mervyn Bishop, Carol Jerrems and Roger Scott.
Collections
National Gallery of Australia
National Portrait Gallery
National Library of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
State Library of Victoria
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide)
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Books with photographs and/or text by Ellis
Kings Cross Sydney: a personal look at the Cross. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1971. Co-authored by Wesley Stacey.
Sydney in colour. Melbourne: Lansdowne, c. 1971. Photographs by Rennie Ellis and John Carnemolla.
Australian graffiti. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1975. Foreword by Ian Turner.
Ketut lives in Bali. London: Methuen Children's Books and Sydney: Methuen of Australia, 1976. Text by Stan Marks. Photographs by Rennie Ellis.
Australian graffiti revisited. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979, c. 1975. Co-authored by Ian Turner.
Railway stations of Australia. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1982. Photography by Rennie Ellis. Text by Andrew Ward.
We live in Australia. Hove: Wayland, 1982.
Life's a beach. South Yarra, Victoria: Currey O'Neil, 1983.
Life's a beer. South Yarra, Victoria: Melbourne : Ross Books, 1984.
Life's a ball. South Yarra, Victoria: Currey O'Neil:, 1985.
The all new Australian graffiti. South Melbourne, Vic., Australia : Sun Books, 1985. Photographs by Rennie Ellis.
Life's a parade. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Lothian, 1986.
Life's a beach II: the adventure continues. Melbourne: Lothian, 1987.
Life's still a beach. South Yarra, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 1998.
Up front: funny, filthy, philosophical advice from the T-shirt. South Yarra, Victoria: Hardie Grant Books, 1998.
No standing, only dancing. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, c. 2008. Photographs by Rennie Ellis and Susan van Wyk. Essay by George Negus.
Decadent: 1980-2000. London, UK: Hardie Grant, 2014; Richmond, Victoria Hardie Grant Books, in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2014.Foreword by Manuela Furci. Essays by William Yang and Robert McFarlane.
Media
Music Around Us: Silent Music with Norbert Loeffler, Athol Shmith, John Cato, Rennie Ellis and Max Dupain, television broadcast ABV2, Thursday August 9, 1979.
References
Further information
"Rennie Ellis: Aussies All" photograph collection, National Library of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria media kit "Rennie Ellis – The Artist"
National Gallery of Victoria media kit "Rennie Ellis – The Exhibition"
Hang Ten with Rennie Ellis by Janet Austin
External links
1940 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Australian photographers
Photographers from Melbourne
People from Brighton, Victoria
People educated at Brighton Grammar School |
Celine Dion is the eleventh studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her second English-language album. It was originally released by Sony Music on 30 March 1992, and features the Grammy and Academy Award-winning song "Beauty and the Beast", and other hits like "If You Asked Me To" and "Love Can Move Mountains". The album was produced by Walter Afanasieff, Ric Wake, Guy Roche and Humberto Gatica. It reached number one in Quebec, number three in Canada and was certified Diamond there, denoting shipments of over one million copies in this country. At the 35th Annual Grammy Awards, Celine Dion was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album has sold over five million copies worldwide. To support it, Dion toured as the opening act for Michael Bolton on his "Time, Love and Tenderness Tour" in the summer of 1992 through the United States. From August 1992 till March 1993, she toured Canada with her Celine Dion in Concert tour.
Background and content
Dion's real international breakthrough came when she paired up with Peabo Bryson to record the title track to Walt Disney Pictures animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). The song captured a musical style that Dion would utilize in the future: sweeping, classical and soft rock influenced ballads with soft instrumentation. Both a critical and commercial smash, the song became her second United States top 10 hit, and also won many awards. As with Dion's earlier releases, the album had an overtone of love.
Dion worked with a new team of writers and producers on her eponymous album. Five songs were written by Diane Warren. "With This Tear" was a gift from Prince who wrote the song especially for Dion. The tracks were produced mainly by Walter Afanasieff, Ric Wake and Guy Roche.
By 1992, the release of her previous English-language album Unison (1990) and Celine Dion, as well as various media appearances, had propelled Dion to superstardom in North America. She had achieved one of her main objectives: wedging her way into the anglophone market and establishing fame. Apart from her rising success, there were also changes in Dion's personal life, as René Angélil would make the transition from manager to lover. However, the relationship was kept a secret as both feared that the public would find the twenty-six-year difference between their ages incongruous.
The European version of Celine Dion includes "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" as a bonus track. The album was re-released on 7 September 1992 in Australia with a bonus disc containing four songs which had been previously released as singles from Unison.
"Send Me a Lover" was a "leftover" from the recording sessions of the Celine Dion album and it was released in 1994 on the charity compilation Kumbaya Album 1994.
Critical reception
The album has received varied reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic wrote that "Celine Dion's self-titled follow-up to her successful American debut is even stronger and more accomplished." Arion Berger from Entertainment Weekly commented, "She hits all the notes on Prince's graceful, desperate "With This Tear", but clearly she has more voice than heart". Music critic Robert Christgau called it the "worst album of the year—that I can remember". Jan DeKnock of Chicago Tribune said that the album "is even better, because the young singer-only 24-has developed enough confidence in her second language to really deliver the emotional nuances of a lyric, especially in the ballads that dominate this album. [...] Dion has clearly joined Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as one of the premier voices on the pop scene". Parry Gettelman from the Orlando Sentinel felt that Dion "really excels" on the three dance tracks "in the Lisa Stansfield mold"; "Love Can Move Mountains", "Did You Give Enough Love" and "Little Bit of Love".
Commercial performance
The album has sold over five million copies worldwide. As of May 2016, Celine Dion has sold 2,400,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan, with an additional 624,000 units sold at BMG Music Club. SoundScan does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service, which were significantly popular in the 1990s. It was certified 2× Platinum in the United States and reached number 34 on the Billboard 200 chart. Dion's popularity was also showing in Canada where the album topped the chart in Quebec for six weeks, peaked at number three on the Canadian Albums Chart and was certified Diamond for one million copies sold.
In other regions of the world, Celine Dion peaked at number 15 in Australia, number 31 in New Zealand, number 59 in Japan, and number 70 in the United Kingdom. It was also certified Platinum in Australia and Gold in the UK and Japan. Dion received her first World Music Award for Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year.
The most successful single from the album was "Beauty and the Beast," which peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold in the United States. Other singles, which reached the US top 40 included: "If You Asked Me To" (number four), "Nothing Broken but My Heart" (number 29) and "Love Can Move Mountains" (number 36).
Industry awards
Celine Dion was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and Juno Award for Album of the Year. She also won the Female Vocalist of the Year and was nominated for the Canadian Entertainer of the Year. Dion also won the Billboard International Creative Achievement Award and was nominated for the Billboard Music Award for Hot Adult Contemporary Artist. She won the Félix Award for the Artist of the Year Achieving the Most Success in a Language Other Than French and Artist of the Year Achieving the Most Success Outside Quebec. Dion won the World Music Award for World's Best Selling Canadian Female Artist of the Year and Governor General's Award (Medal of Recognition for the Contribution to Canadian Culture).
"Beauty and the Beast" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Juno Award for Single of the Year, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for Most Performed Song from Motion Picture and ASCAP Pop Award for Most Performed Song.
"If You Asked Me To" won the ASCAP Pop Award for Most Performed Song and was nominated for the Juno Award for Single of the Year and Billboard Music Award for Hot Adult Contemporary Single of the Year. "Nothing Broken but My Heart” won the ASCAP Pop Award for Most Performed Song. "Love Can Move Mountains" won the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year and was nominated for the Single of the Year. The performance of "Love Can Move Mountains" at the Juno Awards of 1993 was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Variety Program or Series.
Track listing
Notes
signifies an additional producer
Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.
Walter Afanasieff – arranger, bass, guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, orchestral arrangements, organ, hammond organ, producer, programming, synclavier, synthesizer, synthesizer bass, vocal arrangement, vocal producer
Ken Allardyce – engineer
René Angélil – management
Israel Baker – violin
Marilyn Baker – viola
Mickey Baker – viola
Greg Bannan – production coordination
David Barratt – production coordination
Kitty Beethoven – background vocals
Fred "Re-Run" Berry – flugelhorn
Frederick Berry – flugelhorn, soloist
Kyle Bess – engineer
David Betancourt – engineer
Rick Bieder – engineer
Teruko Brooks – violin
Peabo Bryson – guest artist, performer, vocals
Robbie Buchanan – arranger, keyboards, piano
Bob Cadway – engineer, mixing, tracking
Bruce Calder – engineer
Russ Cantor – violin
Dana Jon Chappelle – engineer, mixing
Gary Cirimelli – programming, synclavier, background vocals
Ronald Clark – violin
Liz Constantine – background vocals
Van Coppock – assistant engineer
Orion Crawford – copyist
Joey Diggs – background vocals
Céline Dion – primary artist, spoken word, vocals, background vocals
John Doelp – executive producer
Nancy Donald – art direction
Bruce Dukov – violin
Felipe Elgueta – engineer
Paul Ericksen – engineer
Clare Fischer – arranger, conductor, string arrangements
Chris Fogel – assistant engineer
Arne Frager – string engineer
Kenny G – guest artist, soprano sax
Bruce Gaitsch – guitar
Pamela Gates – violin
Humberto Gatica – engineer, mixing, producer
Claude Gaudette – arranger, keyboards, programming
Gary Gertzweig – violin
Michael Gilbert – engineer
Edward Green – violin
Sandy Griffith – background vocals
Noel Hazen – assistant engineer
Mark Hensley – engineer
Dan Hetzel – engineer
Jim Hughart – contrabass
Larry Jacobs – background vocals
Davida Johnson – violin
Jimmy Johnson – bass
Jude Johnson – cello
Melisa Kary – background vocals
Neill King – engineer
Ren Klyce – programming, sampling, synclavier
Dave Koz – guest artist, saxophone
Matthew "Boomer" La Monica – engineer
Manny Lacarrubba – engineer
Michael Landau – guitar
Norma Leonard – violin
Mario Lucy – assistant engineer, engineer
Vito Luprano – executive producer
Patrick MacDougall – mixing
Margot MacLaine – viola
Earl Madison – celli, cello
Larry Mah – engineer
Brian Malouf – mixing
Jean McClain – background vocals
Casey McMackin – assistant engineer
Vladimir Meller – mastering
Betty Moor – violin
Jorge Moraga – viola
Ralph Morrison III – violin
Michael Nowak – viola
Nils Oliver – celli, cello
Rafael Padilla – percussion
Victoria Pearson – photography
Joel Peskin – oboe, synthesizer
Ken Phillips – production coordination
Brian Pollack – assistant engineer, engineer
Simon Pressey – engineer
Vicki Randle – background vocals
Claytoven Richardson – background vocals
John "J.R." Robinson – drums
Guy Roche – arranger, engineer, keyboards, producer, synthesizer
Alejandro Rodríguez – engineer
Harry Scorzo – violin
Frederick Seykora – celli, cello
Dan Shea – keyboards, programming
David Shea – keyboards, synthesizer
Paul Shure – violin
David Stenske – viola
Mick Stern – engineer
Robert Stone – contrabass
Robert Jeffrey Stone – double bass
Barbara Stout – production coordination
Rich Tancredi – arranger
Pamela Thompkins – violin
Michael Thompson – guitar
Jeanie Tracy – background vocals
Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston – keyboards
Alan de Veritch – viola
Ric Wake – arranger, producer
Francine Walsh – violin
Diane Warren – background vocals
Frank Wolf – engineer
Terry Wood – background vocals
Thomas R. Yezzi – engineer
Richard Zuckerman – executive producer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
Release history
Notes
See also
List of diamond-certified albums in Canada
References
External links
1992 albums
550 Music albums
Columbia Records albums
Epic Records albums
Celine Dion albums
Albums produced by Guy Roche
Albums produced by Humberto Gatica
Albums produced by Ric Wake
Albums produced by Walter Afanasieff |
Agonopterix clarkei is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Keifer in 1936. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Washington and Manitoba.
The larvae feed on Artermisia vulgaris.
References
Moths described in 1936
Agonopterix
Moths of North America |
The Apostle (Spanish: El apostolado) is a 2020 Guatemalan drama film written, directed and produced by Juan Manuel Méndez in his directorial debut. The film was shortlisted by the Guatemalan Association of Audiovisual and Cinematography along with La Llorona and Luz to represent Guatemala in the category of Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Award, but was not chosen. But it was chosen to represent Guatemala in the category of Best Ibero-American Film at the 36th Goya Awards, however, it was not nominated.
Synopsis
In a city where corruption, abuse and violence are our daily bread, a priest spends his days listening to people who search for the relief of telling their problems in exchange for a hot meal. Everything will change when he'll meet two women that will make his search to take another turn.
Cast
Sebastián de la Hoz as The priest
Andrea Gálvez as Inés
Devayani Morales as Esmeralda
Luis Barrillas as Eliseo
Humberto Rodríguez as Chente
Rodrigo Maegli as Jefferson
Lucía Montepeque as Julieta
Juan Pensamiento as The Shepherd
Mynor Sacarías as "El Seco"
Idealization
Mendel at the beginning had great ambitions for the project, trying to carry it out in France, however, it was a very difficult challenge due to financing issues, so Méndez thought it would be more viable to make a smaller film, quoting his words: "I needed to record something that was achievable and above all affordable. I had the idea of this character who liked to help people and among everything that made me more logical I had the image of this priest".
Release
El apostolado had planned a commercial release in theaters in Guatemala in 2020, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, it was announced that the film will have a digital release on Vimeo on Demand between September 18, 2020, and 25 of the same month.
Reception
El Periodico stated that the film was about "people who change", in particular in the case of priests in regard to their relation with women. An article in La Hora recalls the difficulties encountered during the production of the film and insists the story could be about any priest in Guatemala or anywhere in Latin America. The Diario de Centro América concurs it is a film about good and evil, and faith and ethics but states the film contains various typically Guatemalan elements.
References
External links
2020 films
2020 drama films
Guatemalan drama films
2020s Spanish-language films
Films set in Guatemala
Films shot in Guatemala
Films about social class
2020 directorial debut films
Films impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Films not released in theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
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Parrobus of Pottole, sometimes Patrobos, Patrobus or Patrobas (), is numbered among the seventy disciples. He was Bishop of Neapolis (Naples) or of Pottole (cf. recounting of Dorotheus below), and is referred to in Scripture when St Paul greets him in his Epistle to the Romans. The Church remembers St. Patrobas on November 5, with his fellow apostles Ss. Hermas, Linus, Gaius and Philologos.
See also
St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue from Ohrid
References
External links
Apostle Patrobus of the Seventy (Orthodox Church in America)
The Choosing of the Seventy Holy Apostles, as recounted by Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre from the site of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas (ROCOR)
Seventy disciples
Saints from Roman Italy
Christian saints from the New Testament
1st-century Christian saints
1st-century Italian bishops
Bishops of Naples |
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser is the largest daily newspaper in Hawaii, formed in 2010 with the merger of The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin after the acquisition of the former by Black Press, which already owned the latter.
History
On February 25, 2010, Canadian publisher Black Press Ltd., which owned the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, purchased The Honolulu Advertiser, then owned by Gannett Corporation for $125 million. As part of the deal to acquire the Advertiser, Black Press agreed to place the Star-Bulletin on the selling block. If no buyer came forward by March 29, 2010, Black Press would start making preparations to operate both papers through a transitional management team and then combine the two dailies into one.
On March 30, 2010, three parties came forward with offers to buy the Star-Bulletin, but a month later on April 27, 2010, the bids were rejected because their bids for the Star-Bulletin were below the minimum liquidation price. Black Press canceled the sale and proceeded with transition plans, which came on the same day that they were approved to take over the Advertiser by the United States Department of Justice. On May 3, 2010, a new company set up by Black Press, HA Management, took over the operations of the paper, while Black Press continued overseeing the Star-Bulletin during a 30- to 60-day transition period, after which both papers merged into one daily, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Both the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin published their final editions as separate publications on June 6, 2010, and Black Press officially launched the Honolulu Star-Advertiser as a broadsheet morning daily on June 7, 2010.
In June 2020, due to the COVID-19 recession in the United States, the paper laid off 15 of its 34 reporters, two photographers, three page designers, seven clerks, three graphic artists and a web designer.
In July 2023, four editorial employees accepted a voluntary buyout offer and left the paper.
Format and operations
Prior to the merger, the Honolulu Advertiser published in broadsheet format while the Honolulu Star-Bulletin published in tabloid format. The Star-Advertiser uses the Advertiser'''s broadsheet format, while using a modified Star-Bulletin masthead (with the name "Advertiser" replacing "Bulletin" in the masthead's blackletter font).
The newsroom for the combined paper is out of the former Star-Bulletin offices in Restaurant Row, with the paper printed and distributed from the Advertiser'''s facilities in Kapolei. About 453 jobs were eliminated in the consolidation, leaving a combined staff of 474.
The paper sells in retail outlets for $1.50 on Oahu daily and $3 Sundays plus Thanksgiving Day. All other islands are $2 & $3.50, respectively.
References
External links
Newspapers published in Hawaii
Mass media in Honolulu
Newspapers established in 2010
2010 establishments in Hawaii
Daily newspapers published in the United States
Black Press newspapers |
Yao He () was a Chinese poet of the middle Tang dynasty. He was a great-grandson of chancellor Yao Chong. He was often called Yao Wugong (), and his poetry style was called "Wugong Style". Yao was very famous at his time. He knew Liu Yuxi, Li Shen, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Yang Juyuan, Ma Dai, Li Qunyu well, and was a close friend of Jia Dao. His style was very similar to Jia Dao, but was more tame and superficial.
References
External links
Books of the Quan Tangshi that include collected poems of Yao He at the Chinese Text Project:
Book 496, Book 497, Book 498, Book 499, Book 500, Book 501, Book 502
Tang dynasty poets
9th-century Chinese poets
Writers from Sanmenxia
Poets from Henan |
Gustave-Hippolyte Worms (26 November 1836 – 19 November 1910) was a French actor and teacher of acting. After a successful student career at the Paris Conservatoire, he joined the Comédie-Française in 1858. Although elected to the company's élite group of sociétaires in 1864, he found his elevation blocked by the French government, and took up a ten-year engagement at the Théâtre-Michel in St. Petersburg, where his star status was recognised.
Returning to Paris in 1874, he rejoined the Comédie-Française and remained a company member until his retirement from the stage in 1901. From 1880 to 1900 he was also a professor at the Conservatoire, where he trained many of the theatrical stars of the next generation. He died in his Paris flat at the age of 73.
Life and career
Early years
Worms was born in Paris on 26 November 1836, the first son of Mayer Worms and his wife Iphégenie, née Salomon. His family had theatrical connections – his father was controller-in-chief of the Opéra-Comique– but he trained as a compositor in a printing works. Feeling drawn to a theatrical career he gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied under Pierre-François Beauvallet. In 1857 he won prizes in comedy and tragedy, and a concert was given to raise the necessary funds to buy his exemption from military service.
In 1858 Worms made his début at the Comédie-Française in the role of Valère in Tartuffe. After six years of constant progress and dedicated service, he was unanimously elected to the élite group of sociétaires of the company in 1864, but the requisite ministerial ratification of his appointment was not immediately forthcoming. Frustrated, Worms accepted an offer from Russia and served a decade with the Theatre-Français Impérial company at the Théâtre-Michel in St Petersburg. During these ten years he honed his skills further, and enjoyed star treatment and celebrity status.
Return to Paris and later years
Worms returned to Paris in 1874, and joined the company of the Théâtre du Gymnase, opening in La Dame aux camélias. He made such an impression that, in the words of Le Figaro, there was unanimous regret that an artist of his stature was not at the Comédie-Française. The management of the latter sought his return, and raised a large sum to buy him out of his contract at the Gymnase. In 1877 he rejoined his old company in George Sand's Le Marquis de Villemer, and became a sociétaire the following year. He remained with the company until his retirement from the stage in 1901.
In 1880, in addition to his work with the Comédie-Française, Worms became a professor at the Conservatoire, holding the post for the next twenty years. His female students over that period included Berthe Cerny, Wanda de Boncza, Suzanne Desprès, Blanche Dufresne, Marguerite Moreno and Jane Thomsen; among his male students were Albert Darmont, Édouard de Max, Charles Esquier, Robert Falconnier, Jules-Louis-Auguste Leitner and Lugné-Poe. Five years after Worms retired from his professorship in 1900, Gabriel Fauré, the director of the Conservatoire, appointed him to its governing board, the conseil supérieur de l'Ecole.
Worms died at his Paris flat on 19 November 1910, aged 73. He was survived by a widow – the actress and sociétiare Blanche Baretta – and a daughter and a son, the actor Jules Worms.
Notes, references and sources
Notes
References
Sources
1836 births
1910 deaths
French male stage actors
19th-century French male actors |
The 1996 United States federal budget is the United States federal budget to fund government operations for the fiscal year 1996, which was October 1995 – September 1996. This budget was the first to be submitted after the Republican Revolution in the 1994 midterm elections. Disagreements between Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republicans led by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich resulted in the United States federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996.
Budget proposals
The requested budget was submitted by President Clinton on February 6, 1995, just five weeks after the beginning of the 104th United States Congress, which was dominated by Republicans who had been victorious in the November 1994 midterm election. Clinton's requested budget provided a middle-class tax cut, including new deductions for children and college expenses, which was offset by a twice-as-large reduction in spending elsewhere in the budget, echoing Speaker Gingrich's goal to eliminate programs that had outlived their usefulness. However, Republicans had demanded a budget that would lead to a balanced budget in 2002, but Clinton's budget projected annual deficits of around $190 billion up to 2005. Clinton's plan also proposed to abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission, and reorganize the Departments of Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development by consolidating programs into fewer, larger ones, as well as the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration by cutting their staff by a third and a half, respectively.
Legislation
By September 21, 1995, none of the 13 appropriations bills had been signed into law and a continuing resolution was adopted to keep the government running for six more weeks. President Clinton had threatened to veto six of the appropriations bills in preparation due to his opposition to the extent of spending cuts, changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and language on social issues such as abortion. By late October, only three of the bills had been passed. Republican draft legislation at the time contained curbs on entitlement spending and a $245 billion tax cut. Democratic proposals included no tax cut and cut entitlement spending less.
Government shutdowns
The failure of Congress and the President to enact the remaining appropriations legislation led to government shutdowns during November 13–19, 1995 and December 15, 1995, through January 6, 1996. The shutdowns were triggered by the expiration of continuing resolutions. The first shutdown caused the furlough of about 800,000 federal employees, while the second affected 284,000 due to additional appropriations bills enacted in the interim.
The first shutdown came after Clinton vetoed a continuing resolution and a debt limit extension bill due to riders that Republicans had included in the bills which would have raised Medicare premiums. Leon Panetta, at that time the White House chief of staff, said that "this is the Republicans against the American people," while Speaker Gingrich insisted that he was open to renegotiation if Clinton accepted the Republican seven-year deficit elimination plan, saying "everything would clearly be on the table at that point, as long as he agreed to seven years of an honest balanced budget that was real." The first shutdown ended after Clinton agreed to the seven-year budget plan due to public surliness about the shutdown, and the prospect that a continuing resolution might be passed over his veto.
By December 1, 1995, disagreements continued on the Republican plan to eliminate the deficit in seven years. The Clinton administration said that "The Republican budget plan fails to protect Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environment and tax fairness, and therefore, President Clinton will veto it." There was also a disagreement on the Defense appropriations bill regarding funding for the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. By December 3, 1995, seven of the thirteen appropriations bills had been passed, including the Defense bill, but further negotiations were seen as having reached an impasse, and lawmakers were considering the implications of a second shutdown. Republicans favored reductions in Medicare, Medicaid and farm programs, which had been historically favored by Democrats, as well as a $245 billion tax cut. Democrats considered the funding of these social programs to be essential, and opposed the size of the tax cut saying it would mainly benefit the wealthy.
The second shutdown began after the most recent continuing resolution had expired. The affected agencies included the Departments of State and the Interior. President Clinton however ordered the National Christmas Tree to remain lit and said he would pay the lighting bill out of his own pocket. The shutdown ended after Clinton complied with Republican demands to submit a seven-year balanced budget plan. Clinton's budget cut less from Medicare and Medicaid than the Republican plan and contained a smaller tax cut. Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott said, "Now, we feel like Charlie Brown, and Lucy has got the football, and every time you think you're going to get a real budget it's jerked away from you," but characterized the President's plan as a positive development despite the differences remaining between the parties. An additional appropriations bill was signed at the same time.
Later developments
Clinton featured the ongoing budget negotiations prominently in his 1996 State of the Union Address on January 23, 1996. Clinton famously stated that "the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the time when our citizens were left to fend for themselves." He expressed his willingness to negotiate and enact provisions that were common to both plans, and called on Republicans to abandon the threat of further government shutdowns or a default on the government's debt. Senator Dole's Republican response however placed the blame for the impasse on Clinton, and he stated "While the President's words speak of change, his deeds are a contradiction. President Clinton claims to embrace the future while clinging to the policies of the past."
By March 6, 1996, eight of the 13 appropriations bills had been passed. The remaining bills covered the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Justice, State, Commerce, and the Environmental Protection Agency. At the time, the Republicans were offering to increase spending on social programs in return for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. The change in tactics was due to polls showing the public holding Republicans rather than the President responsible for the government shutdown, and the fact that further government shutdowns might hurt the potential presidential campaign of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Republicans continually attempted to use a needed increase in the federal debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in the budget negotiations. The battle over the debt limit caused Moody's to threaten to downgrade its credit rating. The debt ceiling was raised on March 29, 1996, in a bill which also enacted a presidential line-item veto.
The last of the budget legislation, an omnibus appropriations bill combining the remaining bills, was passed on April 26, 1996, containing $23 billion in spending cuts.
Total revenue and spending
Receipts
Receipts by source: (in billions of dollars)
Outlays
The February 1995 budget request contained $1.6121 trillion in outlays, of which $549.0 billion were discretionary and $1,063.2 billion were mandatory.
The enacted budget contained $1.5603 trillion in outlays, of which $534.4 billion were discretionary and $1,026.0 billion were mandatory.
Outlays by budget function:
(in millions)
Deficit/Surplus
The proposed budget contained an estimated deficit of $196.7 billion and the estimated deficit for enacted legislation was $107.3 billion.
The actual deficit for the fiscal year was $107.4 billion (1.3% of GDP).
References
External links
Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 1996 from the United States Senate
1996
1996 in American politics
United States federal budget |
El Desembarcadero, or the The Landing is a historical site in San Diego, California in San Diego Bay. The El Desembarcadero site is a California Historical Landmark No. 64 listed on December 6, 1932. It is the site of the landing by Spaniards coming to New Spain, Pueblo de San Diego, now Old Town, San Diego. Small ship's boats brought cargo and passengers to the San Diego Mission, Presidio of San Diego and Pueblo San Diego. It most likely that ships San Antonio and San Carlos landed at the site in 1769, loooking fresh water on the San Diego River, on their San Diego expedition. San Antonio arrived in San Diego Bay on April 11, 1769, and the San Carlos on April 29. They landed on May 1, 1769, Some of the ships grew died in San Diego and Father Serra and Father Vila, remain in San Diego. T
The site is noted for the departing point of Josepha Carrillo and Henry Delano Fitch when they eloped and departed for Chile from the landing site on April 16, 1829. During World War II the old landing site was buried under dirt to build the San Diego Naval Training Station. Thus the landing site, El Desembarcadero, is about a half miles from the bay. A historical marker was placed on Farragut Road, between Rosecrans and Truxtun, at Point Loma in San Diego. The marker was placed there in 1996 by State Department of Parks and Recreation working with the United States Navy and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus.
See also
California Historical Landmarks in San Diego County
Adobe Chapel of The Immaculate Conception
Casa de Carrillo House
Casa de Estudillo
Casa de Cota
Mission San Diego de Alcalá
Presidio of San Diego
References
California Historical Landmarks
History of San Diego County, California |
Russula olivacea is an edible and non-poisonous Russula mushroom found mostly in groups from June in deciduous and coniferous forests, mainly under spruce and beech; not rare.
Description
The cap is convex when young, soon flat, yellowish-olive when young which develops into rusty brown; it ranges from in diameter.
The gills are cream, deep ochre when old and rather crowded and brittle. The spores are yellow. The stem is strong and evenly thick, often pale pink; it ranges from long and wide.
The flesh is firm, white, with a pleasant or innocuous scent, and has a mild or nutty taste. Some say it is edible and other say it is toxic, perhaps causing gastrointestinal upset.
Similar species
Russula viscida is in size and habitat very similar; the surface of its cap is bright purple to blood red and shiny. The base turns leather yellow when old. Its flesh is quite pungent.
See also
List of Russula species
References
E. Garnweidner. Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe. Collins. 1994.
External links
olivacea
Edible fungi
Fungi of Europe
Taxa named by Jacob Christian Schäffer |
The Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track is a venue in Germany for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton, located in Schönau am Königssee, Bavaria, near Königssee (German for "King's Lake") and the border with Austria. Completed in 1968, it is the first permanent, artificially refrigerated bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in the world. In July 2021, the track was severely damaged by the floods that affected the European continent.
History
In 1967, Königssee hosted the European luge championships on a naturally refrigerated track. Later that year, it was decided to construct a permanent, reinforced concrete structure that was artificially refrigerated. The track, initially for luge, was completed in 1968. The first international competition took place the following year with the FIL World Luge Championships.
On 3–4 December 1977, the track hosted the first Luge World Cup event won by Paul Hildgartner (Italy - men's singles), Andrea Fendt (West Germany - women's singles), and Italy's Peter Gschnitzer and Karl Brunner (men's doubles).
Bobsleigh was added to the track in the 1970s in time for the track to host their sports' championship event in 1979, the first time any track would host both bobsleigh and luge in the same year in a non-Winter Olympic year (the track in Igls, Austria, was the first to do this at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck).
Skeleton competitions began in the late 1970s, hosting the world championships in 1990. The track was part of Salzburg, Austria's unsuccessful bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics in 2007. In October 2008, it was announced that the track would undergo a renovation project from 2010 to 2016. Costing € 21.7 million to do, the track is being done in part of Munich's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Renovation includes extending the finish line and a new building near turn 16 and is scheduled to be complete by 2012. The starting area of the track will be started on 2014 and will finish on 2016. On 28 February 2009, it was announced the track would host the 2011 FIBT World Championships after the original winner, Cortina d'Ampezzo, withdrew to issues with the city and the track. The 29th and last Luge World Cup at the track prior to renovation took place on 2–3 January 2010. Bobsleigh and Skeleton had their last World Cup prior to renovation the following weekend.
Track renovation was done during the rest of 2010. At the end of March 2010, the Turbodrom Kreisel turn caught fire following some welding work and was badly damaged. Renovation of the refrigeration plant was carried out in December 2010 with ammonia being pumped in on the 18th. Olympic champion Felix Loch made the first run on the luge part of the track on the 23rd in time for the World Cup event on 5–6 January 2011. The renovation was also done for the 2011 FIBT World Championships that took place in late February.
In 2021, the track was severely damaged by the flooding across Europe. According to BSD (German Bobsleigh and Luge Association) President Thomas Schwab, it was take until October 2022 before the track will return to competition status. There was no ammonia refrigeration leak though to the piping being shut off to the end of the season.
Statistics
The track has a vertical drop of from the bobsleigh start; the elevation at the base is above sea level.
Turns 1, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 have no names listed in the track diagram.
Championships hosted
FIBT World Championships: 1979, 1986, 1990 (men's skeleton), 2004 (all bobsleigh and skeleton events), 2011, 2017
FIL European Luge Championships: 1967 (As a natural track.), 1972, 1973, 1977, 1988, 1994, 2017
FIL World Luge Championships: 1969, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1999, 2016, 2021
References
External links
BSD profile
FIBT track profile - Click on video link for track. To left is where bobsleigh intersects with men's single luge part of track, then followed right after with luge - women's singles, luge - women's doubles, and skeleton parts of the track.
FIL-Luge.org track profile
Official website
Youtube.com profile of American luger Brian Martin from the men's singles luge start house.
Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks in Germany
Sports venues in Bavaria
Buildings and structures in Berchtesgadener Land |
The George Tambling and Ninette Stocker Miller House, located in Hillsboro, New Mexico, is a Late Victorian vernacular house built in 1894. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
It was built of black slag blocks. It was built of recycled gold ore.
It was built for George Tambling Miller (b.1866) and his wife Ninette Stocker Miller by contractors Peter Galles and J.M. Lewis.
It is located on the south side of Elenora St., west of Union Church.
The listing included a second contributing building: an open-front, frame garage with a metal roof.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Sierra County, New Mexico
Victorian architecture in New Mexico
Houses completed in 1894 |
Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter (12 July/23 July 1782 in Valmiera – 15 April/27 April 1846 in Pärnu) was a Baltic German linguist and Estophile. He edited one of the first scientific journals on the Estonian language, Beiträge zur genauern Kenntniß der ehstnischen Sprache (commonly referred to as Beiträge...).
References
1782 births
1846 deaths
People from Valmiera
Estophiles
Baltic-German people |
Electoral history of Harry S. Truman, who served as the 33rd president of the United States (1945–1953), the 34th vice president (1945), and as a United States senator from Missouri (1935–1945)
Electoral history prior to 1934
Before 1934, Truman ran four times for various administrative judgeships in Jackson County, Missouri.
In 1922, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election and general election for Eastern Judge of Jackson County.
In 1924, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election but lost the general election for Eastern Judge of Jackson County.
In 1926, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election and general election for Presiding Judge of Jackson County.
In 1930, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election and general election for Presiding Judge of Jackson County.
United States Senate races, 1934-1940
Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Missouri, 1934:
Harry S. Truman - 276,850 (41.42%)
John J. Cochran - 236,257 (35.35%)
Jacob L. Milligan - 147,631 (22.09%)
James Longstreet Cleveland - 7,691 (1.15%)
Missouri United States Senate election, 1934:
Harry S. Truman (D) - 787,110 (59.55%)
Roscoe C. Patterson (R) (inc.) - 524,954 (39.71%)
W.C. Meyer (Socialist) - 9,010 (0.68%)
Frank Brown (Communist) - 418 (0.03%)
William Wesley Cox (Socialist Labor) - 384 (0.03%)
Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Missouri, 1940:
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 268,354 (40.91%)
Lloyd Stark - 260,221 (39.67%)
Maurice M. Milligan - 127,378 (19.42%)
Missouri United States Senate election, 1940:
Harry S. Truman (D) (inc.) - 930,775 (51.17%)
Manvel H. Davis (R) - 886,376 (48.73%)
W. F. Rinck (Socialist) - 1,669 (0.09%)
Theodore Baeff (Socialist Labor) - 196 (0.01%)
Vice presidential races, 1944
1944 Democratic National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):
1st ballot:
Henry A. Wallace (inc.) - 429.5
Harry S. Truman - 319.5
John H. Bankhead II - 98
Scott W. Lucas - 61
Alben W. Barkley - 49.5
J. Melville Broughton - 43
Paul V. McNutt - 31
Joseph C. O'Mahoney - 27
Prentice Cooper - 26
Robert S. Kerr - 23
Scattering - 68.5
2nd ballot before shifts:
Harry S. Truman - 477.5
Henry A. Wallace (inc.) - 473
Scott W. Lucas - 58
Alben W. Barkley - 40
J. Melville Broughton - 30
Paul V. McNutt - 28
Prentice Cooper - 26
John H. Bankhead II - 23.5
Joseph C. O'Mahoney - 8
Robert S. Kerr - 1
Scattering - 11
2nd ballot after shifts:
Harry S. Truman - 1,031
Henry A. Wallace - 105
Prentice Cooper - 26
Alben W. Barkley - 6
Paul V. McNutt - 1
Scatering - 7
1944 United States presidential election:
Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman (D) - 25,612,916 (53.4%) and 432 electoral votes (81.36%, 36 states carried)
Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (R) - 22,017,929 (45.9%) and 99 electoral votes (18.64%, 12 states carried)
Texas Regulars - 135,439 (0.3%)
Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes (Socialist) - 79,017 (0.2%)
Claude Watson/Andrew Johnson (Prohibition) - 74,758 (0.2%)
Others - 57,004 (0.1%)
Presidential races, 1948-1952
1948 Democratic presidential primaries:
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 1,419,875 (64.65%)
William Alexander Julian - 271,146 (12.35%)
Unpledged delegates - 161,629 (7.36%)
Harley M. Kilgore - 157,102 (7.15%)
W. B. Bixler - 136,401 (6.21%)
Lynn Fellows - 11,193 (0.51%)
Fred H. Hildebrandt - 8,016 (0.37%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 6,211 (0.28%)
Henry A. Wallace - 4,416 (0.20%)
1948 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 926 (76.47%)
Richard B. Russell - 266 (21.97%)
James A. Roe - 15 (1.24%)
Paul V. McNutt - 3 (0.25%)
Alben W. Barkley - 1 (0.08%)
1948 United States presidential election:
Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley (D) - 24,179,347 (49.6%) and 303 electoral votes (57.06%, 28 states carried)
Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren (R) - 21,991,292 (45.1%) and 189 electoral votes (35.59%, 16 states carried)
Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (Dixiecrat) - 1,175,930 (2.4%) and 39 electoral votes (7.35%, 4 states carried)
Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor (Progressive) - 1,157,328 (2.4%)
Norman Thomas/Tucker P. Smith (Socialist) - 139,569 (0.3%)
Claude Watson/Dale Learn (Prohibition) - 103,708 (0.2%)
Others - 46,361 (0.1%)
1952 Democratic New Hampshire primary:
Estes Kefauver - 19,800 (55.01%)
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 15,927 (44.25%)
Douglas MacArthur - 151 (0.42%)
Jim Farley - 77 (0.21%)
Adlai Stevenson II - 40 (0.11%)
1952 Democratic presidential primaries:
Estes Kefauver - 3,169,448 (65.04%)
Pat Brown - 485,578 (9.97%)
Richard B. Russell - 371,179 (7.62%)
Matthew M. Neely - 191,471 (3.93%)
Robert J. Bulkley - 184,880 (3.79%)
Hubert Humphrey - 102,527 (2.10%)
Adlai Stevenson II - 81,096 (1.66%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 64,911 (1.33%)
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 62,345 (1.28%)
Unpledged delegates - 46,361 (0.95%)
Robert S. Kerr - 45,285 (0.93%)
William O. Douglas - 29,532 (0.61%)
W. Averell Harriman - 19,806 (0.41%)
Jerome F. Fox - 18,322 (0.38%)
1952 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):
Most votes received by candidates for party presidential nomination, up to the point where a nominee was determined. Vote totals are rounded up to the next whole number.
Adlai Stevenson II - 618 (37.36%)
Estes Kefauver - 363 (21.95%)
Richard B. Russell - 294 (17.78%)
W. Averell Harriman - 124 (7.50%)
Alben W. Barkley - 79 (4.78%)
Robert S. Kerr - 65 (3.93%)
Paul A. Dever - 38 (2.30%)
Hubert Humphrey - 26 (1.57%)
J. William Fulbright - 22 (1.33%)
James E. Murray - 12 (0.73%)
Harry S. Truman (inc.) - 6 (0.36%)
Oscar R. Ewing - 4 (0.24%)
Paul H. Douglas - 2 (0.12%)
William O. Douglas - 1 (0.06%)
References
Harry S. Truman
Truman, Harry S.
Truman, Harry S. |
Eldoret East Constituency was a former electoral constituency in Kenya. It was one of three constituencies in the former Uasin Gishu District, now Uasin Gishu County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections.
Members of Parliament
Wards
References
External links
Eldoret East Constituency
Constituencies in Rift Valley Province
Uasin Gishu County
Eldoret
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Constituencies established in 1988
Former constituencies of Kenya |
The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group.
There are 69 small galaxies confirmed to be within of the Milky Way, but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some may themselves be in orbit of other satellite galaxies. The only ones visible to the naked eye are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which have been observed since prehistory. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 suggest the Magellanic Clouds may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. Of the galaxies confirmed to be in orbit, the largest is the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, which has a diameter of or roughly a twentieth that of the Milky Way.
Characteristics
Satellite galaxies that orbit from of the edge of the disc of the Milky Way Galaxy to the edge of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way at from the center of the galaxy, are generally depleted in hydrogen gas compared to those that orbit more distantly. This is because of their interactions with the dense hot gas halo of the Milky Way that strip cold gas from the satellites. Satellites beyond that region still retain copious quantities of gas.
List
The Milky Way's satellite galaxies include the following:
Map with clickable regions
Streams
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is currently in the process of being consumed by the Milky Way and is expected to pass through it within the next 100 million years. The Sagittarius Stream is a stream of stars in polar orbit around the Milky Way leeched from the Sagittarius Dwarf. The Virgo Stellar Stream is a stream of stars that is believed to have once been an orbiting dwarf galaxy that has been completely distended by the Milky Way's gravity.
See also
List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies
List of nearest galaxies
Local Group
Notes
References
Further reading
Local Group |
Meredith J. Eberhart, widely known by his nickname Nimblewill Nomad, is an American perpetual hiker and has been the focus of various news stories.<ref
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Eberhart published a book about one of his long-distance hikes, and, as of 2021, was settled at Flagg Mountain, Alabama.
Biography
Eberhart was born in a village in the Ozarks with population of less than 400. He grew up in Russellville, near Jefferson City, Missouri.
As a young man, Eberhart attended optometry school, got married, fathered and helped raise two boys, and made a six-figure salary working with cataract patients while living in Titusville, Florida.
After leaving his earlier life in 1998, at age 61, Eberhart became a perpetual walker. In the next 15 years he walked .
He published a book about one of his first hikes, from the Florida Keys to Quebec.
As of January 2018, under an agreement reached between the Alabama Forestry Commission and the Alabama Hiking Trail Society, Eberhart became the official caretaker at a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp atop Flagg Mountain in Weogufka, in rural Coosa County, Alabama, the southern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail.
Press coverage in early 2019 reported that he had settled on Flagg Mountain, although it was noted that Eberhart had "announced his retirement several times in recent years before surging off on yet another odyssey."
Eberhart aspires to have the Appalachian Trail extended to Flagg Mountain, and has stated that his "purpose in life now … is to promote this remarkable geographic and historic landmark—that it might ultimately become the hub of all to do with hiking and backpacking in the South... [that] those who dream of one day hiking the Appalachians, those folks, all, will think first of Flagg Mountain."
Eberhart has made great contributions in restoring the once dilapidated CCC site.
Eberhart was profiled in several pages of the 2016 book On Trails by environmental journalist Robert Moor, whom he advised to call him "Eb".
Views
During his years of perpetual walking and hiking, Eberhart was quoted in The Guardian as stating:
Regarding why he has done his long-distance walking, Eberhart said he has "managed to get the answer boiled down to just 32 words":
Nimblewill is distressed at the homogenization of trails as they are re-routed away from human habitation, saying:
Book
References
External links
Nimblewill Nomad (personal website)
Alabama Trailhikers Society (Flagg Mountain page)
Hikers
American sportsmen
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Bosstown is an unincorporated community located on U.S. Route 14 in the south-central part of the town of Sylvan in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The community was apparently named for shopkeeper and livestock dealer William H. Dosch who was popularly known as "Boss" Dosch.
References
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Richland County, Wisconsin |
The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing is an annual award given by the Austin Film Critics Association, honoring the best in film editor. This category was first awarded in 2018.
Winners
Legend:
2010s
2020s
See also
Academy Award for Best Editing
References
Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Film editing awards |
The 2003 ricin letters were two ricin-laden letters found on two occasions between October and November 2003. One letter was mailed to the White House and intercepted at a processing facility; another was discovered with no address in South Carolina. A February 2004 ricin incident at the Dirksen Senate Office Building was initially connected to the 2003 letters as well.
The letters were sent by an individual who referred to themselves as "Fallen Angel". The sender, who claimed to own a trucking company, expressed anger over changes in federal trucking regulations. As of 2008, no connection between the Fallen Angel letters and the Dirksen building incident has been established. A $100,000 reward was offered in 2004 by the federal law enforcement agencies investigating the case, but to date the reward remains unclaimed.
Background
Ricin
Ricin is a white powder that can be produced as a liquid or a crystal. Ricin is an extremely toxic plant protein that can cause severe allergic reactions, and exposure to small quantities can be fatal. The toxin inhibits the formation of proteins within cells of exposed individuals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 500 micrograms is the minimum lethal dose of ricin in humans provided that exposure is from injection or inhalation. Ricin is easily purified from castor-oil manufacturing waste. It has been utilized by various states and organizations as a weapon, being most effective as an assassination weapon, notably in the case of the 1978 assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.
Trucking regulations
On January 4, 2004 new federal transportation rules took effect which directly affected the over-the-road trucking industry in the United States. The rules took effect with a 60-day grace period and were aimed at reducing fatigue related accidents and fatalities. Called the most far-reaching rule changes in 65 years, the regulations reduced daily allowed driving time from 11 hours to 10. The most controversial measures involved the way that workdays were calculated. The calculations were not allowed to factor in such delays as food and fuel stops and other time spent waiting at, for instance, a factory for a load. The new provisions allowed drivers to stay on duty for only 14 hours, thus the time spent waiting could eat into the time a driver spent on duty. These rule changes were what the self-proclaimed "Fallen Angel" took aim at in the ricin-laden letters.
Letters
October 2003 letter
On October 15, 2003 a package was discovered at a mail-sorting center in Greenville, South Carolina, near the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. The package contained a letter and a small metal vial containing ricin powder. A label on the outside of the envelope containing the vial displayed the typed message: "Caution ricin poison enclosed in sealed container. Do not open without proper protection". The presence of ricin was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on October 21. The letter inside the envelope was typewritten to the U.S. Department of Transportation, and stated: To the department of transportation: I'm a fleet owner of a tanker company. I have easy access to castor pulp. If my demand is dismissed I'm capable of making Ricin. My demand is simple, January 4, 2004 starts the new hours of service for trucks which include a ridiculous ten hours in the sleeper berth. Keep at eight or I will start dumping.You have been warned this is the only letter that will be sent by me. [sic] Fallen Angel
Despite the potentially deadly nature of the poison, no one was exposed to, injured by, or killed by the ricin. The Greenville facility where the letter was found was also declared ricin-free in the ensuing weeks. In addition, the letter had no delivery address and no postmark.
November 2003 letter
On November 6, 2003, another letter, described as "nearly identical" to the October letter, was discovered. This time, the letter was addressed to The White House and it was discovered at a White House mail-processing facility in Washington D.C. The letter contained a small vial of a white powdery substance that was initially tested negative for ricin. After subsequent testing at the mail facility resulted in positives for ricin contamination on mail equipment, the U.S. Secret Service ordered a retest that showed by November 10 the letter was "probable for ricin".
The letter was postmarked on October 17 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Though addressed to the White House, the threatening language contained in the letter was again directed at the U.S. Department of Transportation and written by an individual calling themself "Fallen Angel", as with previous letter. The text of the letter stated: Department of transportationIf you change the hours of service onJanuary 4, 2004 I will turn D.C into a ghost townThe powder on the letter is RICINhave a nice dayFallen Angel The Secret Service did not alert the White House, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other key agencies, including the CDC, of the discovery and positive tests until November 12. In the November 21, 2003 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report the CDC recommended that until Fallen Angel was captured, "healthcare providers and public health officials must consider ricin to be a potential public health threat and be vigilant about recognizing illness consistent with ricin exposure". The CDC's November warning mentioned only the first Fallen Angel letter. The discovery of the ricin letter at the White House facility was not disclosed to the public until early February 2004. The public disclosure of the second ricin letter from Fallen Angel coincided with the discovery of ricin in the mail room of a senate office building.
February 2004 mail room contamination
On February 2, 2004 in a mail room serving Senator Bill Frist in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a white powdery substance was found on a sorting machine. Tests on February 3 confirmed that the substance was ricin. The positive test results were indicated by six of eight preliminary tests on the substance. The discovery resulted in more than a dozen staffers undergoing decontamination as well as the closure of the Dirksen, Hart, and Russell Senate Office Buildings. The incident was treated as a criminal probe with investigators looking carefully for any connection between the ricin found at Dirksen and the "Fallen Angel" cases.
Investigations
Fallen Angel
The focus of the probe by the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General fell instantly upon the individual calling themself Fallen Angel in the two letters. The FBI was the lead agency in the Fallen Angel investigation. Agents questioned various individuals during their probe, such as one vocal former trucker in Florida. Federal officials, most notably at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), remarked that the letters did not have the hallmarks of international terrorism and were more likely produced by a homegrown criminal.
On January 4, 2004 the FBI, along with the USPIS and the DOT, offered a $100,000 reward in connection with the October 2003 case from Greenville, South Carolina. In late 2004 the amount of the reward was increased to $120,000. The criminal has not been captured to date.
Dirksen Building contamination
Immediately following the incident in Frist's office, both the FBI and the United States Capitol Police were tasked to the investigation; like in the Fallen Angel investigation, the FBI was the lead agency. Detectives and agents focused on the possibility that the individual responsible for the 2003 letters was also responsible for the contamination at the Dirksen building. Within two weeks of the incident, investigators were questioning the validity of the positive ricin tests at the Senate building. The results raised suspicion because no source (e.g. a letter) was ever found for the ricin. It was possible that the "contamination" was from paper by-products and not ricin.
However, later tests confirmed that the initial tests did not indicate a false positive and the substance was indeed ricin. By the end of March 2005, there were no suspects and no confirmed source for the ricin found in Senator Frist's office. Investigators also found no connection to the Fallen Angel case as of the same date. Despite those developments, investigators were not yet ready to declare a dead end to the investigation. As of 2008, no direct connection has yet been found between the Frist case and the Fallen Angel case and no explanation found for the origin of the ricin in Frist's office.
See also
1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
2001 anthrax attacks
April 2013 ricin letters
Wood Green ricin plot
Shannon Richardson, former actress who sent ricin letters to politicians in May 2013
References
Further reading
Anderson, Curt. "Ricin investigation expands to Tennessee, trucker radio", the Associated Press, via the Oakland Tribune via findarticles.com, February 7, 2004, accessed May 6, 2009.
Crowley, Michael. "Paul Kevin Curtis and the Weird History of Domestic Ricin Terrorism", Time, April 17, 2013, accessed May 26, 2014.
Eggen, Dan. "Letter With Ricin Vial Sent to White House", The Washington Post, February 4, 2004, accessed May 5, 2009.
"Investigation of a Ricin-Containing Envelope at a Postal Facility — South Carolina, 2003", Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 21, 2003, Vol. 52, No. 56, pp. 1129–31.
Kucinich, Jackie. "Ricin case 'still being looked at'", The Hill, September 15, 2005, accessed May 5, 2009.
Schier, Joshua G. et al. "Public Health Investigation After the Discovery of Ricin in a South Carolina Postal Facility", American Journal of Public Health, Supplement 1, 2007, Vol. 97, No. S1, pp. 152–57, (ISSN 1541-0048) accessed May 6, 2009.
External links
Fallen Angel reward poster (FBI) (updated), Federal Bureau of Investigation, accessed May 5, 2009.
Fallen Angel reward poster (USPIS), (original version), U.S. Postal Inspection Service, accessed May 5, 2009.
Fallen Angel reward poster (USPIS) , (updated) U.S. Postal Inspection Service, accessed May 5, 2009.
"Poisonous Powder ", Newshour with Jim Lehrer transcript and video, PBS'', February 4, 2004, accessed May 6, 2009.
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Riese may refer to:
Project Riese, a German Nazi World War II economic project
Riese Pio X, a municipality in Italy
Adam Ries (1492–1559), German mathematician
Riese: Kingdom Falling (originally named Riese), an American science fiction-fantasy TV series filmed in Canada, which followed a web series
Riešė, a village in Lithuania
Didžioji Riešė, a village in Lithuania |
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Gloucester Green is a square in central Oxford, England, and the site of the city's bus station. It lies between George Street to the south and Beaumont Street to the north. To the west is Worcester Street and to the east is Gloucester Street.
The green was once an open space outside Gloucester College (now Worcester College), after which it was named. From 1783 to 1915 a fair was held on the green, and from 1835 to 1932 it was the site of the city's cattle market. In 1935, after the cattle market had been moved, the western half of Gloucester Green became the site of the city's bus station, and the eastern half became a car park.
In 1987, a major redevelopment of the area began. The eastern half became a square, surrounded by shops, restaurants and residential accommodation. A new, smaller, bus station was built on the site of the old bus station, and an office block was built between the bus station and Worcester Street. An underground car park was also provided.
Today, the Gloucester Green bus station is the Oxford terminus for long-distance coach services, including services to London, coaches to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted airports, and route X5 to Cambridge. The bus station is too small to accommodate more than a few local bus services.
A food market is held in the square every Wednesday to Saturday and an antiques market every Thursday.
Gloucester Green is surrounded by Oxford theatres: close by are the Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio theatres on Beaumont Street and Gloucester Street, respectively, and the Old Fire Station Theatre and the New Theatre, both on George Street.
Gallery
References
Bus stations in England
Squares in Oxford
Transport in Oxford
Transport infrastructure completed in 1989 |
Quião Beach (Praia do Quião in Portuguese) is an extensive maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, located just South of Cape Santo André in the area of A Ver-o-Mar. It has fine to medium sand and several rocky outcrops. The beach is a coastal dune habitat and a rich and diverse marine ecosystem, including large honeycomb reefs. It has a popular beach restaurant, Praia do Mestre.
In northern section of Quião beach, where the waterfront street ends, the traditional Sargassum seaweed gathering is still practiced; it is spread and laid in the beach for sun drying, leaving a pleasant sargassum breeze in the beach, before being pilled to make "medas". This area is protected by dunes, the gneiss. Given its quietude, can be occasionally used naturists, and as a flirting area. It is increasingly popular by other groups of people. In 2016, a boardwalk was built crossing all Cape Santo André, allowing an easy cross of Northern Quião, it is used by the Portuguese Coastal Way of Saint James.
References
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
Nuclear Proliferation is a satirical card game with a theme of nuclear war published by Flying Buffalo in 1992.
Description
Nuclear Proliferation is a card game for 2–6 players in which players draw cards and use them to try to eliminate other players.
Components
The game box contains:
40 Population cards
108 Nuclear War cards
13 display boards
1 six-sided die, with the "1" replaced by a mushroom cloud
rulebook
spin arrow card
Set-up
Each player is given a storage board. The two decks of cards are shuffled. A number of Population cards are dealt to each player, the exact number depending on the number of players. Nine Nuclear War cards are dealt to each player. Each player in turn immediately lays down all "Secret" and "Top Secret" cards, follows the instructions of each, and then replaces them with new cards from the Nuclear War deck. If any of the new cards are also "Secret" or "Top Secret" cards, then these are also played and replaced. This continues until all players have a starting hand that does not contain any "Secret" or "Top Secret" cards. Each player chooses two cards from their hand and places them face down on the display board in the slots for Card 1 and Card 2.
First turn
The first player draws a new card from the Nuclear War deck. If it is a "Secret" or "Top Secret", it is resolved immediately, and then the player draws a replacement card. The active player then plays a card facedown in the slot for Card 3 on their storage board, and turns Card 1 face up. If the revealed card is a Propaganda card, it is resolved immediately, discarded, and the cards in Slots 2 and 3 are moved up to 1 and 2. If the revealed card is a missile or bomber, it is left faceup. The other players, in clockwise order, then have their first turn the same way.
Subsequent turns
On the first player's next turn, the player flips over Card 2. If it is a nuclear weapon and Card 1 was a missile or bomber, then the player has both a weapon and the means to deliver it — a nuclear war is initiated. If the player does not reveal a carrier for the nuclear missile, then play continues clockwise.
Nuclear war
Once a player initiates a nuclear war, all players are involved in the war. The active player chooses another player as a target, and twirls the spin arrow to determine the total damage, which is a combination of the damage shown on the bomb's card and additional damage indicated by the spin arrow. The defending player must discard population cards equal to the damage. If the player still has population left, then play continues clockwise.
Proaganda cards have no effect during nuclear war. If, during a nuclear war, a Propaganda card is revealed, it is immediately discarded.
The nuclear war continues until one player has their population reduced to zero and is eliminated from the game. When a player is eliminated, that player gets a "Final Strike": the player reveals all bombs and carriers in their hand and uses them immediately. If this results in another elimination, then the second eliminated player also gets a "Final Strike".
When at least one player has been eliminated, the nuclear war ends and peace is declared until the next time a player reveals both a carrier and a missile.
Defense cards
A player who is the target of an attack can immediately play a defense card from their hand which will negate the attack. The defending player then immediately draws a replacement card, and play shifts to the defending player.
Victory condition
If the last player survives the "Final Strike" of the second-last player, then the surviving player is the winner. If the last player does not survive, then there is no winner.
Combining games
Nuclear Proliferation was preceded by two similar Flying Buffalo games: Nuclear War, and Nuclear Escalation. Players can expand the game by shuffling all the cards from two or three of the games together.
Publication history
The card game Nuclear War was designed by Douglas Malewicki in 1965 and published by the Nuclear War Game Company. In 1980 Flying Buffalo bought the rights to the game and published a boxed set. In 1983, Flying Buffalo released Nuclear Escalation, which could be used as a game expansion or as a standalone game. In 1992, they published Nuclear Proliferation, which again could be used as an expansion with either or both of the first two games, or used as a standalone game. Cover art was by Scott Jackson.
Reception
In the November 1995 edition of Dragon (#223), Rick Swan noted that the recent popularity of collectible card games had revived interest in Flying Buffalo's Nuclear War series. He thought the series overall had "lost none of its charm", and called Nuclear Proliferation a terrific sequel.
On the German game review site Spielphase, the reviewer thought too much depended on the random draw of cards rather than strategy, and called this "an average card game, which only stands out from the crowd because of its topic."
Awards
At the 1993 Origins Award, Nuclear Proliferation won Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame of 1992.
Other reviews
White Wolf #45 (July, 1994)
Casus Belli #73
References
Card games introduced in 1992
Flying Buffalo games
Origins Award winners |
A pet tree is a kind of keyring or mobile phone accessory that contains a very small cactus or succulent plant in a bell jar. The plant can be watered and, once it grows too large for the accessory, can be removed so that it may continue growing. Pet trees are popular in Japan, but are also available in the West.
References
External links
Photograph of Pet Trees, by Meighan
Succulent plants
Pets |
Sarah Jean Colvin (born 13 July 1967) is a British scholar of German, literary theory, and gender studies. Since 2014, she has been Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. She previously held the Eudo C. Mason Chair of German at the University of Edinburgh (2004–2010), and was Professor in Study of Contemporary Germany at the University of Birmingham (2010–2012), then Professor of German at the University of Warwick (2013–2014).
Selected works
References
1967 births
Literary critics of German
British literary theorists
Gender studies academics
Schröder Professors of German
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Warwick
Living people |
Dos más Dos (literally: "two plus two") is the informal term applied to a demagogic formula, fashioned by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) political party in Dominican Republic. It is credited to the late party leader José Francisco Peña Gómez.
Definition
It is designed to allow two (or more) same-party members share a particular congressional seat during a single political term, which lasts four years (2+2=4). This is permitted by means of well manipulated Constitutional loopholes orchestrated by the political party who usually holds the executive branch seat (Head of State) and/or has congressional majority (both in upper and lower chambers).
It has been used mostly by the PRD party which coined the term themselves, but it may apply to the other two main Dominican parties.
Mechanism
The Dos más Dos formula works as follows:
During primary elections the party does not come to a conclusion as to who is going to be selected to represent the party in the next elections ballot for a particular Senate (or lower representative) chair. This is the result of internal payoffs and/or electoral "sabotage". It can also happen when there's a clear distinction between one candidate with the wealthiest sponsorship and the other who ranks better in the electoral polls.
The "salomonic" solution to this mess is to propose that only one should be registered in the official electoral ballot, and the other should wait for the second mid-term.
If the party should win the elections for that particular seat, the elected person can run office for only half the time of the elected term.
When the time comes, he should willingly retire in lieu of some phony excuse. The most alleged excuse is "health reasons", although some more cynical step down claiming "patriotic" reasons.
He should immediately propose to Congress his substitute, which in no surprise, is the party member that "tied" with him in the internal primaries for that spot.
The second candidate takes office.
Flaws
The main flaw to this "private agreement" strategy is that violates a primary Constitutional precept that states that no congressional seat should be held by a person that no voter elected for in the first place.
Even since its first use, the vast majority of elected members that used the "2+2" formula refuses to give up their chair when due, claiming that it is a Constitutional violation and a flagrant interference.
It obviously does not allow a public servant to develop and deploy long (or even short) term legislative plans. The only thing that matters to such candidate is to recoup the campaign "investment" made and to exert maximum political "leverage" for personal profit.
Recently, due to the personal financial success showed by the "2+2", some PRD members are proposing a "1+1+1+1" alternative, which could allow more "compañeros" to savor the good life a public office can bring.
Politics of the Dominican Republic |
Dunstable ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,358 at the 2020 census.
Etymology
Dunstable was named after its sister town Dunstable, England. There are several theories concerning its modern name. In one version, legend tells that the lawlessness of the time was personified in a thief called Dun. Wishing to capture Dun, the King stapled his ring to a post daring the robber to steal it. It was, and was subsequently traced to the house of the widow Dun. Her son, the robber, was taken and hanged to the final satisfaction that the new community bore his name. Another theory is that it comes from the Anglo-Saxon for "the boundary post of Duna". A third version is that the name is derived from Dunum, or Dun, a hill, and Staple, a marketplace.
History
Dunstable was first settled by Europeans in 1656 and was officially incorporated in 1673. It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler. The original township of Dunstable, granted in 1661, consisted of two hundred square miles, including the Massachusetts towns of Dunstable, Pepperell, Townsend and Tyngsborough, the New Hampshire towns of Hudson, Nashua and Hollis, and parts of other towns as well. Increases in population leading to subsections becoming independent towns and the delineation of the northern boundary of Massachusetts in 1740 placed the northern part of Dunstable (present day Nashua) in New Hampshire, so the southern part remains the Dunstable of today.
Today, Dunstable, in the face of urban sprawl, has held onto a largely rural character.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (1.13%) is water. Dunstable is bordered by Pepperell to the west, Groton to the south, Tyngsborough to the east, and Nashua and Hollis, New Hampshire, to the north.
The main road and only numbered route through Dunstable is Route 113; the nearest limited-access highway is US 3, two miles to the east. Dunstable does not have any public transportation in the form of trains or buses.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,826 people, 923 households, and 798 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 944 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.49% White, 0.11% African American, 0.04% Native American, 1.52% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.78% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.53% of the population.
There were 923 households, out of which 47.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.7% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 13.5% were non-families. 10.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.07 and the average family size was 3.31.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 31.1% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 6.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $86,633, and the median income for a family was $92,270. Males had a median income of $61,425 versus $39,946 for females. The per capita income for the town was $30,608. About 2.1% of families and 1.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.4% of those under age 18 and 2.1% of those age 65 or over.
Climate
In a typical year, Dunstable, Massachusetts temperatures fall below for 195 days per year. Annual precipitation is typically 44.2 inches per year (high in the US) and snow covers the ground 68 days per year or 18.6% of the year (high in the US). It may be helpful to understand the yearly precipitation by imagining 9 straight days of moderate rain per year. The humidity is below 60% for approximately 25.4 days or 7% of the year.
Education
District schools
Boutwell School
Swallow Union Elementary School
Florence Roche Elementary School
Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School
Groton-Dunstable Regional High School
Prescott Elementary School (Closed after the 2007–2008 school year due to budget cuts)
Other public schools
Greater Lowell Technical High School – Public Regional Technical High School in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts
Points of interest
"The Little Red Schoolhouse" is a historical building located on route 113 near the Tyngsborough border. This school house originally came from Tyngsborough. Local students take field trips there to historically re-enact a school day. An annual Strawberry Festival is also held there. Boy Scout Troop 28 of Dunstable holds a Mother's Day pancake breakfast there every year.
The "Sarah R. S. Roby" Town Hall in located at 511 Main Street (Rt. 113) was built in 1909 and renovated in 2003. Most town offices are located here as well as meeting rooms for various meetings and events.
The Town Commons across from the Dunstable Town Hall on Rt. 113 is the site of many town events including the summer "Concerts on the Common" live performance series and the Grange Fair in August. This is also the site for the annual auto in Dunstable.
The Dunstable Evangelical Congregational Church (DECC) is located at 518 Main Street, adjacent to the Town Commons and directly across from Town Hall. While the congregation was established in that location in 1831, the current building dates from the early 1900s. Because it is the only church in town, it is often called simply "the Dunstable Church".
The Dunstable Free Library is located at 588 Main Street. In addition to the collection of books, periodicals, movies, children's activities and historic items (which include a collection of typewriters and miscellaneous Girl Scouting materials), it is the site of many community activities as well as the site for town elections.
Blanchard Hill is a conservation area and the site of a former ski resort.
Notable people
Isaac Fletcher (1784–1842), United States Representative from Vermont
Colleen Green (born 1984), independent musician
Amos Kendall (1789–1869), United States Postmaster General during the administration of Andrew Jackson
Amos Lawrence (1786–1852), merchant and philanthropist
John Lovewell (1691–1725), Colonial militia captain who fought in Father Rale's War
Samuel Parris (1653–1720), Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), chemist, first woman admitted to MIT
References
Further reading
Nason, Elias and George Bailey Loring. A History of the Town of Dunstable, Massachusetts. A. Mudge: 1877.
1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. by Wall & Gray. Map of Massachusetts. Map of Middlesex County.
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879–1880. 572 and 505 pages. Dunstable article by Rev. Elias Nason in volume 1 pages 416–427.
External links
Town of Dunstable official website
Towns in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Populated places established in 1656
1656 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Towns in Massachusetts |
9142 Rhesus is a larger Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered during the third Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey in 1977, and later named after King Rhesus from Greek mythology. The dark D-type asteroid has a rotation period of 7.3 hours.
Discovery
Rhesus was discovered on 16 October 1977, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in California. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation, a precovery taken at Palomar in December 1954.
Palomar–Leiden survey
The survey designation "T-3" stands for the third Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey, named after the fruitful collaboration of the Palomar and Leiden Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory where astrometry was carried out. The trio are credited with the discovery of several thousand asteroids.
Orbit and classification
Rhesus is a dark Jovian asteroid in a 1:1 orbital resonance with Jupiter. It is located in the trailering Trojan camp at the Gas Giant's Lagrangian point, 60° behind its orbit . It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.5–5.8 AU once every 11 years and 9 months (4,295 days; semi-major axis of 5.17 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 13° with respect to the ecliptic.
Naming
This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after King Rhesus of Thrace an ally of the Trojans against the Greeks in the Trojan War. He was killed in his sleep by Odysseus and Diomedes who attacked the Thracian camp in the dead of night. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 December 1998 ().
Physical characteristics
In the SDSS-based taxonomy, Rhesus is a dark D-type asteroid, the most common type among the Jupiter trojans. It has also been classified as a D-type by Pan-STARRS' survey.
Rotation period
In August 2012, and September 2013, two rotational lightcurves of Rhesus were obtained from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of and hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.27 and 0.24 magnitude, respectively ().
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Rhesus measures 42.31 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.062, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057 and calculates a shorter diameter of 34.85 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.02.
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (5001)-(10000) – Minor Planet Center
009142
Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten
Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Discoveries by Tom Gehrels
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Named minor planets
19771016 |
Myladumparai block is a revenue block in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu, India. It has a total of 18 panchayat villages.
References
Revenue blocks of Theni district |
Ericodesma pallida is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia.
The wingspan is about 12.5 mm.
References
Moths described in 1945
Archipini |
The 2020 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first caucus or primary in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Iowa caucuses are a closed caucus, with Iowa awarding 40 pledged delegates to the Republican National Convention, allocated on the basis of the results of the caucuses. Incumbent president Donald Trump received about 97 percent of the vote to clinch 39 delegates, while Bill Weld received enough votes to clinch 1 delegate.
Procedure
Precinct caucuses were held on the evening of Monday, February 3, 2020, in order to directly allocate delegates to the Iowa Republican county conventions. Only registered Iowan Republicans were allowed to participate. These delegates were proportionally allocated to each candidate based on the statewide vote.
The county conventions were subsequently held on Saturday, March 14, 2020, to choose delegates for both the Republican Congressional District conventions and the Iowa Republican state convention. The congressional district conventions were then scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2020, to elect Iowa's 12 district delegates to the Republican National Convention. The Iowa Republican state convention on Saturday, June 13, 2020, elected the rest of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Campaign
A number of Republican candidates had campaign events in the state during 2019 and January 2020, including Weld and Walsh attending Democratic forums. Trump's campaign was active as well, having several surrogates attend events culminating in a rally in Des Moines attended by the president himself, on January 30. Among the cities that Bill Weld campaigned in was Sioux City, where he presented himself as an alternative to Trump on a variety of issues, ranging from economic conservatism to climate change.
The Trump campaign used the caucus as a "scrimmage" in order to test out get out the vote techniques and other improved methods and political marketing.
Polling
Results
See also
2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses
References
Iowa Republican
Republican caucus
2020
Iowa Republican caucuses |
Nashik Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) is the Planning and Development Authority for the Nashik Metropolitan Region. It was notified in the year 2018 , making an urban unit in Maharashtra.
NMRDA covers, Nashik city,entire Talukas of Nashik, Niphad, Sinnar, Dindori, Igatpuri, and Trimbakeshwar. NMRDA has been set up as a legally empowered and a self-financing corporate body by the Urban Development Department of the Government of Maharashtra.
See also
Nashik Metropolitan Region
Pune Metropolitan Region
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority
References
State urban development authorities of India
State agencies of Maharashtra
2018 establishments in Maharashtra |
Kristján Loftsson (born 17 March 1943) is an Icelandic businessman and a whaler. He has been the CEO of the commercial whaling and investment company Hvalur hf. since 1974 and is, along with his sister, its largest shareholder.
He began his whaling career in 1956 at the age of 13 as a scout on his father's ship. In 1974, he took over as CEO of Hvalur hf., following the death of his father.
Personal life
Kristján was born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, to Loftur Bjarnason and Sólveig Sveinbjarnardóttir. He is named after his uncle Kristján Bjarnason who was killed in the sinking of SS Hekla by German submarine U-564 in 1941.
References
1943 births
Living people
Kristjan Loftsson
People in whaling |
Richard Pickersgill (18 April 1749 in West Tanfield, North Riding of Yorkshire, England – July 1779 in London) was an English naval officer who accompanied the sailor and explorer James Cook on two of his Pacific voyages.
Richard Pickersgill was born in 1749 in West Tanfield, near Ripon, to Richard and Ann Pickersgill (née Lee). Pickersgill was the nephew of John Lee, the servant of George Jackson, a senior officer in the Admiralty. It is believed that his uncle managed to position him through his relationships on his first ships.
In 1766, at the age of 17, he participated in the circumnavigation of the world under Captain Samuel Wallis on HMS Dolphin. Two years later, on August 26, 1768, Pickersgill belonged as a Master's mate on HMS Endeavour, which set off with James Cook to its first South Sea voyage. On this trip he also impressed Cook, who had a high opinion of his skills as a surveyor, his dealings with the indigenous peoples they encountered, and his judgment. When Robert Molineux, the Master of the Endeavour, died on the return journey to England, Pickersgill was promoted to Master on April 16, 1771. After his return to London Pickersgill was promoted on Cook's recommendation to Lieutenant. On July 13, 1772 Cook began his second expedition with HMS Resolution, and Richard Pickersgill joined as the Third Lieutenant.
He did not accompany Cook on his third voyage, but in April 1776 took command of the ship Lyon and was sent to Baffin Bay on the east coast of Canada.
Richard Pickersgill died in 1779 at the age of 30, when he accidentally fell into the Thames when boarding a ship and drowned.
According to Richard Pickersgill, the Pickersgill Islands off South Georgia in the South Atlantic and Pickersgill Harbour, a natural harbour in New Zealand, were named after him.
References
External links
Journal of Richard Pickersgill, Third Lieutenant of the Resolution
1749 births
1779 deaths
18th-century English people
18th-century explorers
English explorers of the Pacific
Circumnavigators of the globe
English cartographers
English explorers
English sailors
Explorers of New Zealand
People from Hambleton District
Royal Navy officers
Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom
Military personnel from Yorkshire
James Cook |
Muda Hashim Secondary School (, abbreviated as SMMHT) is a government boys' secondary school in Tutong, the town of Tutong District in Brunei. The school provides five years of general secondary education leading up to O Level qualification. It has 636 students. The current principal is Mohamad Saiful Bahrin bin Sabri.
Name
Muda Hashim Secondary School is named after Pengiran Muda Hashim bin Pengiran Anak Abdul Rahman, a member of the Brunei royal family. It is not to be confused with Raja Muda Hashim, a son of a Brunei Sultan who lived in the nineteenth century and played a significant role in the involvement of James Brooke in the history of Sarawak.
Location
The official location address of the school is Bukit Bendera which is a village subdivision under Pekan Tutong, a mukim in Tutong District. Muda Hashim Secondary School is located in the area of Bukit Bendera which is not incorporated as part of the municipal area of Tutong.
History
The secondary education that would become the basis of Muda Hashim Secondary School began in 1961 with the introduction of grades beyond Primary VI at Muda Hashim Primary School, then known as Muda Hashim Malay School. In 1966, (First Malay Secondary School) was established in the capital which provided secondary education in what was then the Malay stream. Subsequently, the secondary section at Muda Hashim Malay School became another with the separation of administration from the primary section as well as the introduction of the principal as its head.
On 1 May 1971, the secondary school moved to its present ground and in the following year adopted the name (Muda Hashim Malay Secondary School). The school eventually dropped the word 'Melayu' or 'Malay' from its name some time after it introduced the English stream and when English eventually becomes the predominant language of instruction, as it is today.
Muda Hashim Secondary School became a single-sex secondary school, admitting only boys, beginning in 1998. At present, there are three boys' secondary school in the country, the other two being Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien College and Ma'had Islam Brunei. It is also one of seven single-sex secondary schools nationwide, the remaining four admitting only female students.
Academics
The school provides secondary education which begins at Year 7. Generally, students will study for five years, that is until Year 11. However, a few students may opt to finish in only four years, that is by Year 10, through the 'Express' scheme of the SPN-21. Either way, the studies culminate in the sitting of GCE O Level and/or IGCSE examination.
Academic Programmes include a 2 year common curriculum in year 7 and 8, then proceed to either the express programme, general programme, applied programme & special applied programme. In the special Applied Programmes, students are able to take Pearson BTEC courses at up to level 2.
The school also believes in inclusive education where students with special needs are either going through the same programme as other students or a specialized pre Vocational programme within the school itself.
Some students may proceed to sixth form, in which students that reside in this district shall enrol in the Tutong Sixth Form Centre. Others may proceed to the technical and vocational schools, particularly schools under the Institute of Brunei Technical Education, which are outside of the district.
See also
List of secondary schools in Brunei
References
Secondary schools in Brunei
Cambridge schools in Brunei |
Bozhanovo is a village in Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria.
References
Villages in Dobrich Province |
Fernandocrambus brunneus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1922 and is found in Chile.
References
Crambini
Moths described in 1922
Moths of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile |
Luke 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records one miracle performed by Jesus Christ on a Sabbath day, followed by his teachings and parables, where he "inculcates humility ... and points out whom we should invite to our feasts, if we expect spiritual remuneration". The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
Text
The original text was written in Koine Greek. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Papyrus 75 (AD 175-225; verse 27 contains a staurogram)
Papyrus 45 (~250)
Codex Vaticanus (325-350)
Codex Sinaiticus (330-360)
Codex Bezae (~400)
Codex Washingtonianus (~400)
Codex Alexandrinus (400-440)
Papyrus 97 (~600; extant verses 7-14).
This chapter is divided into 35 verses.
Jesus being carefully watched
The chapter opens on a Sabbath day, when Jesus has been invited into the home of one of the rulers of the Pharisees, presumably directly after the synagogue service. He is 'watched carefully' or 'craftily'. F. W. Farrar in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes a resonance with the words of :
The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
A man with dropsy (swellings caused by bodily fluids, also called edema) is there. While he may have come as one "well known to the family", Irish Archbishop John McEvilly suggests that he may have been "introduced by the Pharisees on purpose to see if our Lord would cure him on the Sabbath".
Verses 3-6
And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
Nothing had been said; Jesus responds to the thoughts of his adversaries. He heals the man, and lets him go (or sends him away). A further dialogue follows:
"Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?"
And they could not reply to this.
Some manuscripts, in place of "a son", refer to a donkey.
Go and sit in the lowest place
This pericope (verses 7 to 14), also known as the Parable of the Wedding Feast, is one of the parables of Jesus which is only found in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament and directly precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in . In Matthew's Gospel, the parallel passage to Luke's Parable of the Great Banquet is also set as a wedding feast (Matthew 22:1-14).
Jesus always made his parables relatable to the layman. A wedding, in the days of the Jews, was a very sacred and joyous thing. Some even lasted up to or more than a week. When Jesus told this parable, many people were able to understand the picture he was trying to create because he used a Jewish wedding as the setting of the story.
Luke's saying that "Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted" is also found in and . It is similar to Matthew 18:4.
David Brown notes that this parable includes "a reproduction" of Proverbs 25:6–7.
Parable of the Great Supper
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son (verses 16-24) is also found in Matthew . A variant of the parable also appears in Saying 64 of the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. Many guests are invited to the banquet, but they "all alike" offered excuses, of which three examples are given.
The eschatological image of a wedding also occurs in the parable of the Faithful Servant and the parable of the Ten Virgins. Here, it includes the extension of the original invitation (to Jews) to also include Gentiles. In Luke, the invitation is extended particularly to "the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame" (), evidencing explicit concern for the "poor and the outcasts".
Leaving All to Follow Christ
Counting the Cost, or in the NIV: The Cost of Being a Disciple or in the NRSV: The Cost of Discipleship or in the NKJV: Leaving All to Follow Christ, are titles given to verses 25-33 in this chapter, which include a pair of illustrations of the importance of deliberating in advance "whether they were able and prepared to bear all their losses and persecutions to which the profession of the gospel would expose them". The first title comes from the phrase "count the cost", which occurs in the King James Version of the passage, as well as some other versions.
Eric Franklin argues that the requirement to "hate" in verse 26 is "Semitic exaggeration",; the Jerusalem Bible calls is a "Hebraism" whose call is "not for hate, but for total detachment, and Joseph Benson envisages that hatred "signifies only an inferior degree of love".
American New Testament scholar Joel B. Green suggests that it is unclear what kind of tower is being referred to in the first illustration, but notes that the message is that a "thoroughgoing fidelity to God's salvific aim" is required, "manifest in one's identity as a disciple of Jesus". This involves putting family and possessions second, as in Matthew 8:18–22 and . This command is interpreted and practised in different ways by different Christians. Some groups, such as the Bruderhof or Hutterites see it as a call to forsake all possessions to follow Jesus. Others read it simply as a matter of having Christ be the center of one's heart.
Salt
34 Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Salt is 'good' in biblical thought for giving taste where there is none. Job asks Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Salt preserves what would otherwise perish, and Numbers 18:19 refers to a covenant of salt between the and Aaron and his descendants, but "whether salt can lose its flavour has been much debated".
See also
Sermon on the Mount
Sermon on the Plain
Ministry of Jesus
Parables of Jesus
Other related Bible parts: Matthew 5, 22, 23
References
External links
King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate
Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)
Gospel of Luke chapters |
Margarosticha repetitalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was first described by Warren in 1896.
Distribution
It is found in Australia, where its distribution has been recorded as spanning from Queensland and Western Australia.
Appearance
The wingspan is about 30 mm. The wings are orange with brown and buff markings. There is a series of black spots on the hind wing margin.
The larvae feed on Hydrilla verticillata. They feed on the leaves of their host plant, defoliating the stems to an extent.
References
Acentropinae
Moths described in 1896 |
Esperanza Catalina Pérez de Labrador (1922 – November 13, 2011) was a Cuban-born Argentine human rights activist and leading member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Labrador began her advocacy on behalf of victims of the Dirty War after her husband, Victor Labrador, and her son, 28-year-old Palmiro, were killed in the Dirty War during the 1970s. Another son, Miguel, disappeared and was never seen again.
Esperanza Pérez Labrador was born in Camagüey, Cuba, to Spanish parents. her mother died during while giving birth and her father, unable to take care of her, gave her up to a Cuban family, the Mestrils. Despite objections from the Mestrils and Esperanza Pérez, her father regained custody of her seven years later. She moved with her father to Spain and then immigrated to Argentina in 1950. She married a Spanish husband, Víctor Labrador.
Miguel Ángel Labrador, her 25-year-old youngest son, left home on September 13, 1976, towards the beginning of the Dirty War, and was never seen again. Just two months later, Labrador's husband, Víctor, their 28-year-old son, Palmiro Labrador, and his friend, Edith Graciela Koatz, were killed on November 10, 1976.
Devastated, but determined to find out what happened to her family, Esperanza Perez Labrador held a vigil outside the headquarters of General Leopoldo Galtieri, who commanded government sponsored death squads. At one point, Labrador grabbed Galtieri's uniform and publicly shouted "¡Asesino, criminal!" to him. The actions of Labrador reportedly prompted Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón to open a criminal case against perpetrated of the Dirty War and the Argentinian dictatorship in 1996.
Esperanza Pérez Labrador moved to Madrid, Spain, where she lived with her daughter, Manoli. She died in Madrid on November 13, 2011, at the age 89.
References
1922 births
2011 deaths
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Cuban emigrants to Argentina
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Ren Xuecheng (born 21 May 1985) is a Chinese freestyle wrestler. She won one gold and two silver medals at the World Wrestling Championships in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. She also won the gold medal in the women's 48 kg event at the 2005 Asian Wrestling Championships and the silver medal in that event at the 2008 Asian Wrestling Championships.
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The Decretals of Gregory IX (), also collectively called the , are a source of medieval Catholic canon law. In 1230, Pope Gregory IX ordered his chaplain and confessor, Raymond of Penyafort, a Dominican, to form a new canonical collection destined to replace the , which was the chief collection of legal writings for the church for over 90 years. It has been said that the pope used these letters to emphasize his power over the Universal Church.
Political circumstances
During Gregory's papacy, the church had established a prominent role in the temporal and spiritual affairs of Europe. Following his predecessor, Pope Honorius III, Gregory maintained papal supremacy. Nevertheless, the utility of a new collection was so evident that there may be no other motives than those the pope gives in the Bull "Rex pacificus" of 5 September 1234, viz., the inconvenience of referring to several collections containing decisions most diverse and sometimes contradictory, exhibiting in some cases gaps and in others tedious length; moreover, on several matters the law was uncertain.
Work of St. Raymond
The was a series of five of these collections of pontifical legislation from the of Gratian (c. 1150) to the pontificate of Honorius III (1150–1227). Raymond followed the method of the in compiling the new collection of canons, which he completed in about four years. He borrowed from the Quinque compilationes the order of the subject-matter, the division of the work into five books, of the books into titles, and of the titles into chapters. Of the 1971 chapters the Decretals of Gregory IX contain, 1771 are from the , 191 are from Gregory IX himself, seven from decretals of Innocent III not inserted in the former collections, and two of unknown origin. They are arranged, generally, according to the order of the ancient collections, i.e., each title opens with the chapters of the first collection, followed by those of the second, and so on in regular order. Next come those of Innocent III, and finally those of Gregory IX. Almost all the rubrics, or headings of the titles, have also been borrowed from these collections, but several have been modified as regards detail. This method considerably lightened St. Raymond's task.
Editorial work
Pope Gregory IX's work involved the compilation of documents from former collections, modifying some decisions whilst discarding others. Additionally, Gregory omitted parts when he considered it prudent to do so, filled in the gaps, and cleared up doubtful points of the ancient ecclesiastical law by adding some new decretals to ensure his work was clear and concordant. He indicated by the words et infra the passages excised by him in the former collections. They are called partes decisae. The new compilation bore no special title, but was called "Decretales Gregorii IX" or sometimes "Compilatio sexta", i. e. the sixth collection with reference to the "Quinque compilationes antiquæ". It was also called "Collectio seu liber extra", i. e. the collection of the laws not contained (vagantes extra) in the "Decretum" of Gratian; hence the custom of denoting this collection by the letter X (i.e. extra, here not the Roman numeral for ten).
Force of law
All its decisions had the force of canon law whether they were authentic or not, whatever the juridical value of the texts considered in themselves, and whatsoever the original text. It is a unique collection; all its decisions were simultaneously promulgated, and are equally obligatory, even if they appear to contain, or if in fact they do contain, antinomies, i. e. contradictions. In this peculiar case it is not possible to overcome the difficulty by recourse to the principle that a law of later date abrogates that of an earlier period. Finally, it is an exclusive collection, i.e. it abrogates all the collections, even the official ones, of a later date than the "Decretum" of Gratian. Some authors (Schulte, Launin) maintain that Gregory IX abrogated even those laws prior to Gratian's time that the latter had not included in his "Decretum", but others contest this opinion.
Glosses
Like the former canonical collections, the Decretals of Gregory IX were soon glossed. It was customary to add to the manuscript copies textual explanations written between the lines (glossa interlinearis) and on the margin of the page (glossa marginalis). Explanations of the subject-matter were also added. The most ancient glossarist of the Decretals of Gregory IX is Vincent of Spain; then follow Godefridus de Trano (died 1245), Bonaguida Aretinus (thirteenth century) and Bernard of Botone or Parmensis (died 1263), the author of the "Glossa ordinaria", i.e., of that gloss to which authoritative credence was generally given. At a later date some extracts were added to the "Glossa ordinaria" from the "Novella sive commentarius in decretales epistolas Gregorii IX" by Giovanni d'Andrea (Johannes Andreæ).
Printed publication
After the invention of printing, the Decretals of Gregory IX were first published at Strasburg from the press of Heinrich Eggestein. Among the numerous editions that followed, special mention must be made of that published in 1582 (in dibus populi romani) by order of Gregory XIII. The text of this edition, revised by the Correctores Romani, a pontifical commission established for the revision of the text of the "Corpus Juris", had the force of canon law, even when it differed from that of St. Raymond. It was forbidden to introduce any change into that text (Papal Brief "Cum pro munere", 1 July 1580). Among the other editions, mention may be made of that by Le Conte (Antwerp, 1570), of prior date to the Roman edition and containing the partes decis; that of the brothers Pithou (Paris, 1687); that of Böhmer (Halle, 1747), which did not reproduce the text of the Roman edition and was in its textual criticism more audacious than happy; the edition of Richter; and that of Friedberg (Leipzig, 1879-1881). All these authors added critical notes and the partes decis.
Commentators
To indicate the principal commentators on the Decretals would mean writing a history of canon law in the Middle Ages. Important canonists include Innocent IV (died 1254), Enrico de Segusio or Hostiensis (died 1271), the "Abbas antiquus" (thirteenth century), Johannes Andreæ, Baldus de Ubaldis (died 1400), Petrus de Ancharano (died 1416), Franciscus de Zabarellis (died 1417), Dominicus a Sancto Geminiano (fifteenth century), Joannes de Imola (died 1436) and Nicolò Tudesco also called the "Abbas Siculus", or "Modernus", or "Panormitanus" (died 1453). Among the modern commentators, Manuel Gonzalez Tellez and Fagnanus may be consulted advantageously for the interpretation of the text of the Decretals. The Decretals of Gregory IX remain the basis of canon law so far as it has not been modified by subsequent collections and by the general laws of the Church (see Corpus Juris Canonici).
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Complete Latin text of the Decretals of Gregory IX (Books I-V)
From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress:
Decretales Gregorii, Volume One
Decretales Gregorii, Volume Two
Decretales Gregorii, Volume Three
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In group theory, a metacyclic group is an extension of a cyclic group by a cyclic group. That is, it is a group G for which there is a short exact sequence
where H and K are cyclic. Equivalently, a metacyclic group is a group G having a cyclic normal subgroup N, such that the quotient G/N is also cyclic.
Properties
Metacyclic groups are both supersolvable and metabelian.
Examples
Any cyclic group is metacyclic.
The direct product or semidirect product of two cyclic groups is metacyclic. These include the dihedral groups and the quasidihedral groups.
The dicyclic groups are metacyclic. (Note that a dicyclic group is not necessarily a semidirect product of two cyclic groups.)
Every finite group of squarefree order is metacyclic.
More generally every Z-group is metacyclic. A Z-group is a group whose Sylow subgroups are cyclic.
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Robert Arthur Cummings (19 May 1899 – 26 May 1969) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He was a three-time national champion who represented Australia in the 1924 Summer Olympics in the stern of the men's eight.
Club and state rowing
Cummings was employed as a Postal Assistant and his senior rowing was from the Murray Bridge Rowing Club. The Murray Bridge Rowing Club men's eight was the dominant Australian club eight of the 1920s. They won the South Australian state championship from 1920 to 1923 and in 1921 by a margin of ten lengths. For the four years from 1920 to 1923 they were selected in-toto as the South Australian men's eight to contest the King's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta. Cummings was coxswain in each of those crews and steered the 1920, 1922 and 1923, South Australian eights to victory. In 1921, 1922 and 1923 he was in those crews with his older brother Frank Cummings.
International representative rowing
The South Australian media pushed for the victorious 1920 King's Cup eight to be sent to the 1920 Antwerp Olympics but with the Victorian and New South Wales Rowing Association in control of selections and funding, there wasn't sufficient support for their campaign. By 1924 with South Australia continuing to dominate Australian eights rowing, their claim could not be denied and after winning a test event raced on Port Adelaide in March 1924, Cummings and the South Australian crew including his brother Frank, were selected in-toto to represent Australia as an eight at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Funding was raised from the Murray Bridge Rowing Club, the South Australian Rowing Association and the general public of South Australia. The crew were nicknamed "the Murray Cods". Unlike the 1912 Olympic eight, the Murray Cods were not invited to race in lead-up at the Henley Royal Regatta and in 2000 Ted Thomas jnr a crew member's son, asserted that this was because the eight was crewed by working class men other than the stroke Bill Sladden It's undisputed that tour funds were scarce and on arrival in France, the crew had to row their shell 60 km to their training base; that on tour a number of the crew (including Cummings) busked as musicians to raise pocket money; and that on race day they first rowed their shell 26 miles from their boatshed to the Olympic course. Their equipment was also sub-par as they rowed with their oars turning in out-rigged poppets rather than in swivelling gates as had become the norm.
In the Olympic regatta, with Cummings in the stern the Australian eight finished second behind Italy in their heat, then finished third in the repechage and didn't advance to the final.
Bob Cummings continued on as a first-class coxswain after the Olympics. He coxed South Australian representative eights in the King's Cup campaigns of 1925 (fourth) and 1926 (second).
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Club Deportivo Illescas is a Spanish football team based in Illescas, Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1946, it plays in , holding home matches at Estadio Municipal de Illescas, with a capacity of 1,000 spectators.
Season to season
1 season in Segunda Federación
14 seasons in Tercera División
2 seasons in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF
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The NATO N band is the designation given to the radio frequencies from 100 to 200 GHz (equivalent to wavelengths between 3 mm and 1.5 mm) used by US armed forces and SACLANT in ITU Region 2.
The NATO N band is also a subset of the EHF band as defined by the ITU.
Particularities
The NATO N band is not subject to the NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA). However, military requirement, which may apply to the NATO operations in ITU Region 1, are subject to coordination with the appropriate frequency administration concerned.
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Policy coherence for development (PCD) is an approach and policy tool for integrating the economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of sustainable development at all stages of domestic and international policy making. It is the aim of Policy Coherence for Development to make foreign relations to be as ecologically, economically and socially coherent as possible and thereby to make international co-operation for international development more effective.
Commitments on achieving greater policy coherence to promote development have also been promoted by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (which has a specific department, Policy Coherence for Development Unit) as well as in the 2011 Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, the UN Millennium Declaration and the 2010 UN Millennium Development Goals Summit. In an era when development assistance is likely to come under more pressure, Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) should become more rather than less important, including in the post 2015 framework as is increasingly becoming recognised. An example of such recognition is the target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 17 which aims to enhance policy coherence for sustainable development as part of the 2030 Agenda.
The origins of the concept go back to successful European NGO campaigns of the 1990s that put a spotlight on 'dumping' of European products in developing countries, and which in 1992 led to an article in the Treaty on European Community that required EU policy makers to take account of developing country interests when drawing up new policies. Depending on the translation, this Treaty article was referred to as promoting coherence (e.g. German version) or consistency (e.g. English version). Later that same decade the OECD added 'for development' so as to clarify that 'PCD' was about ensuring that policies do not harm and where possible contribute to international development objectives. Examples of PCD definitions clarifying this impact focus can be found in the 2005 European Consensus on Development and the 2008 outcome document of the UN MDG summit, both of which link to the MDGs.
Under the principles of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) potential conflicts of objectives and interests between international co-operation and other sectoral policies of the various federal departments should be identified and resolved as far as possible. These may be in the following policy areas: Migration policy, agricultural policy, environmental policy, health policy, financial sector policy, security policy, education, research and cultural policy.
The concept of policy coherence for development (PCD) first emerged in discussions among international aid donors in the early 1990s. The term Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) originally emerged from the realisation that non-aid policies of donors affect developing countries and should not distract but rather be supportive of international development goals. The PCD concept initially emphasised the responsibility of developed countries to take into account the effect on developing countries when formulating domestic policies across different sectors (trade, finance, migration, security, technology, science). It thus originates from a north-south paradigm with responsibilities for better PCD placed on developed countries to the benefit of developing countries. As the concept evolved, PCD has been understood to go beyond a 'do no harm' approach, also with a requirement to seek synergies between development co-operation and other policies as well as to correct existing incoherencies. The debates taking place in the EU and the OECD on promoting PCD have also fostered the understanding that PCD should be enhanced at different levels. These were commonly referred to as internal, intra-governmental, inter-governmental, multilateral, multi stakeholder and developing country coherence.
PCD operates in a multi-polar global economy in which all countries are playing a role in driving global growth and enabling sustainable development. A rapidly changing global economic landscape means every country is facing more complex and interlinked economic, social and environmental challenges. A better understanding of the linkages of the emerging global trends and their implications is critical for countries as they craft strategies for sustainable development.
The European Union and policy coherence for development
The European Union has translated this idea into a legal commitment as most recently stated in the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 and has highlighted the concept in political declarations and communications, including the position on the post-2015 agenda ‘A decent life for all’. The OECD expressed political will to ensure PCD as noted its 2008 Ministerial Declaration and in the following 2010 Council Recommendations on PCD. The OECD Strategy for Development also assigns key importance to PCD. Both OECD and EU have put in place systems and tools define overall ambition and targets, facilitate decision-making and monitor progress, which include institutional mechanisms, monitoring tools, e.g. peer reviews, indicators and reporting, as well as policy tool-kits presented as practical measures to achieve progress. Some OECD Member states, for example Finland, the Netherlands, have currently developed and piloted self-assessment PCD toolkits. Finland and Switzerland are also testing developing country-level impact assessments in the area of food security.
The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) a think tank focused on development co-operation that is based in Maastricht, The Netherlands, argue that Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is fundamentally a matter of politics. A key dilemma for the countries is how to develop and sustain a level of political interest in and support for PCD, how to put PCD on the political agenda, and to retain momentum and make commitments towards promoting PCD meaningful at both the national and EU level. Although the potential benefits of effective PCD remain unquestioned, ECDPM argues that political leadership, sponsorship and focus have waned in recent years in the several countries, even if many of these are considered global leaders in PCD.
A recent report from the European Commission states that the European Union has made good progress on Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) at both European and Member State level, a fact recognised by the OECD in the most recent (2012) OECD DAC peer review. It argues that the EU has cemented its position as a global leader in implementing PCD commitments in policy-making. It does however acknowledge that there is still room for progress in terms of using mechanisms such as impact assessments, evaluation and/or measuring, monitoring progress and reporting on implementation. The Commission argues that the EU remains the lead actor for PCD internationally, ahead of its main partners, with the highest levels of political and legal commitment. More recently, PCD issues have benefited from sustained high-level political attention in the EU and featured more prominently on the agenda of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.
The United States and policy coherence for development
Policy coherence for development is among the many criteria for the OECD Development Assistance Committee Peer Review Process. The 2011 DAC Peer Review of the United States stated that "The OECD/DAC describes progress towards policy coherence for development (PCD) as involving three building blocks: (i) a political commitment that clearly specifies policy objectives; (ii) policy co-ordination mechanisms that can resolve conflicts or inconsistencies between policies and maximise synergies; and (iii) monitoring, analysis and reporting systems to provide the evidence base for accountability and for well- informed policy making and politics (OECD, 2008a). The 2006 peer review encouraged the US government to develop a more explicit policy on the role of policy coherence for development and to put in place the resources needed to carry out analysis and effectively manage the policy coherence agenda. Five years on, the US has achieved mixed progress in implementing these recommendations and the three PCD pillars"
The OECD argue that national security strategy cannot substitute for a policy coherence for development agenda. After the passing of the FY14 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill in 2013, Kate Almquist Knopf, a former assistant administrator for USAID, blogged that "There is a fundamental mismatch between the United States’ foreign aid architecture, resources, and objectives" and that the bill was a "stinging reminder of the low esteem in which many members of Congress hold global development and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the primary federal agency charged with delivering US foreign assistance worldwide." She called for the USAID administrator to be a standing member of the National Security Council, and the US Secretary of State could return actual budget and planning authority to USAID by restoring the USAID administrator as the dual-hatted director of US foreign assistance.
Policy coherence for food security
Food security is a major development challenge and to address this, the EU amongst others has effectively put global food security high among its development priorities for the years to come. However, while the European Union is the world's major development actor on food security, as ECDPM argues some of its other policies are still contested as harmful to global food security and agricultural development.
An analysis of EU policy-making processes related to agriculture, fisheries, energy and trade shows that some tangible efforts have been made to strengthen policy coherence 'for food security'. However, these are tentative steps. Other concerns and interests dominate the debates and shape the outcomes, while global food security considerations play a very marginal to no role, or the food security rationale used is at odds with the logic of the EU's own food security policy framework.
Policy coherence for development in the post-2015 development goals debate
Amid international reflection on the form and content of a post-2015 framework, among many other issues, PCD was highlighted as being a key component of the 'beyond-aid' debate. The post-2015 agenda discussions emphasise the need for a universal development agenda that is relevant to the needs of all countries and which is based on shared responsibilities. This is against the background of a changing global development landscape and shared development and 'global public goods' challenges, such as climate change, widening income inequalities, resource scarcity and environmental degradation. The original PCD concept focusing on 'beyond-aid' policies of OECD DAC donor countries does not easily fit such a new 'universal' logic. For this reason, the OECD has reconceptualised PCD and now promotes a wider universal approach and definition of PCD in the context of the post-2015 agenda.
The Eighth Millennium Development Goal (MDG8) was designed "to create an environment – at the national and global levels alike – conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty." The OECD argue that progress in achieving the MDG8 has been limited and in fact the MDG8 downplayed the importance of domestic policies and domestic resource mobilisation in financing the MDGs and fostering development. They also argue that discussions on PCD have mainly taken place among donors, having focused on coherence between aid and non-aid policies and on a sector-by-sector basis. This has meant focusing on issues with important cross-border dimensions, such as trade, agriculture, investment, health and migration, amongst others, but without giving attention to the multi-dimensionality of development challenges. At the same time, an approach to "naming and shaming" has succeeded only in highlighting the failures and negative effects of non-aid policies. This has been counterproductive for engaging other policy communities and key actors beyond those in development.
A paper by ECDPM argues that the various of the ideas and principles of PCD can be mainstreamed in the post-2015 framework without using strong PCD jargon. These include i) targets for Means of Implementation in thematic areas that effectively require strengthened PCD efforts, ii) targets in relation to capacity building for more integrated and evidence-based policy-making and iii) efforts to build a strong accountability framework. The paper further concludes that independent from whether a universal PCD concept will explicitly be part of the language of a new framework, real progress on PCD will have to remain a major, if not the most, important component of OECD and EU MS action in achievement of post-2015 commitments.
Policy coherence for development index
The Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Index (PCSDI) is an index elaborated by the Non Governmental Organisation Coordinator in cooperation with the Spanish Network for Development Studies REEDES. PCSDI analyses both the policies that make a positive contribution to sustainable development in a country and those that impact negatively, not only on that country, but also on third countries or on the whole planet.
In 2019 PCSDI 148 countries are ranked from 26.76 (the worst, India) to 79.02 (the best, Denmark). The PCSDI has 5 components: economic, social, environmental, global and productive.
A critique of policy coherence for development
In 2013, the high-profile development blogger Owen Barder wrote a critique of the concept of 'Policy Coherence for Development' entitled 'Policy Coherence Is a Hobgoblin'. He argued that "The term PCD has given us an industry of reports and conferences focussing on whether countries have policies which are consistent with each other, and institutions thought likely to make them so, instead of focusing on whether and how those policies are individually supportive of, or inimical to, development." He argued that the PCD concept has "perhaps subconsciously, altered the country’s policy objectives away from impact to consistency."
See also
Development Policy Review
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Brooksley Elizabeth Born (born August 27, 1940) is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency which oversees the U.S. futures and commodity options markets. During her tenure on the CFTC, Born lobbied Congress and the President to give the CFTC oversight of off-exchange markets for derivatives, in addition to its role with respect to exchange-traded derivatives, but her warnings were ignored or dismissed, and her calls for reform resisted by other regulators.<ref name="nytimes">Goodman, Peter S. The Reckoning - Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy, The New York Times, October 9, 2008.</ref> Born resigned as chairperson on June 1, 1999, shortly after Congress passed legislation prohibiting her agency from regulating derivatives.
In 2009, Born received the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award, along with Sheila Bair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in recognition of the "political courage she demonstrated in sounding early warnings about conditions that contributed" to the 2007-08 financial crisis.
Early life and education
Born graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco, California) at the age of 16. She then attended Stanford University, where she majored in English and was graduated with the class of 1961. She initially wanted to become a doctor, but a guidance counsellor at Stanford advised her against medicine, so she majored in English literature instead.
She then attended Stanford Law School, one of only seven women in her class. She was the first female student ever to be named president of the Stanford Law Review. She received the "Outstanding Senior" award and graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1964.
Legal career
Immediately after law school Born was selected as a law clerk to judge Henry Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It was during this time that she met her first husband, Jacob C. Landau, who was a journalist covering the Federal courts at the time. Following her clerkship, she became an associate at the Washington, D.C.-based international law firm of Arnold & Porter. Born was attracted to Arnold & Porter because it was one of the few major law firms to have a woman partner at that time, Carolyn Agger, who was the head of the tax practice. Born took a two-year leave of absence from Arnold & Porter to accompany her first husband to Boston, where he had received a fellowship. During that time she worked as a research assistant to law professor Alan Dershowitz.
Born's early career at Arnold & Porter focused on international trade law, in which she represented a number of Swiss industries and the government of Switzerland. She developed a practice representing clients in numerous complex litigation and arbitration cases involving financial market transactions. Among her high-profile cases was the matter of the Hunt Brothers attempt to corner the market in silver in the 1970s. She made partner at Arnold & Porter, after moving to a three-day schedule to help raise her second child, and eventually rose to be the head of the firm's derivatives practice.
Born was among the first female attorneys to systematically address inequities regarding how the laws treated women. Born and another female lawyer, Marna Tucker, taught what is considered to have been the first "Women and the Law" course at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. The class exclusively concerned prejudicial treatment of women under the laws of the United States, past and present. Born and Tucker were surprised to discover that there was no textbook on the issue at the time. Born is also one of the co-founders of the National Women's Law Center. Born also helped rewrite the American Bar Association rules to make it possible for more women and minorities to sit on federal bench.
During her long legal career, and into her retirement, Born did much pro bono and other types of volunteer work. She was active in the American Bar Association, the largest professional organization of lawyers in the United States. Initially Born was named a member of the governing council of the ABA's Individual Rights Section, eventually becoming chairperson. Born and Tucker founded the ABA Women's Caucus, the first organization of female lawyers in the ABA. She held several other senior positions in the ABA, including being named the first woman member of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, Born provided testimony and opinion on persons nominated for federal judgeships. In 1980 she was named chair of the committee. As chair of the committee, Born was invited to address the U.S. Congress regarding the nomination of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1993, Born's name was floated as a possible candidate for Attorney General of the United States, but Janet Reno was nominated.
In July 2009, Nancy Pelosi appointed Brooksley Born as a commissioner to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC).
Born and the OTC derivatives market
Born was appointed to the CFTC on April 15, 1994, by President Bill Clinton. Due to litigation against Bankers Trust Company by Procter and Gamble and other corporate clients, Born and her team at the CFTC sought comments on the regulation of over-the-counter derivatives, a first step in the process of writing CFTC regulations to supplement the existing regulations of the Federal Reserve System, the Options Clearing Corporation, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Born was particularly concerned about swaps, financial instruments that are traded over the counter between banks, insurance companies or other funds or companies, and thus have no transparency except to the two counterparties and the counterparties' regulators, if any. CFTC regulation was strenuously opposed by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, and by Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. On May 7, 1998, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt joined Rubin and Greenspan in objecting to the issuance of the CFTC's concept release. Their response dismissed Born's analysis and focused on the hypothetical possibility that CFTC regulation of swaps and other OTC derivative instruments could create a "legal uncertainty" regarding such financial instruments, hypothetically reducing the value of the instruments. They argued that the imposition of regulatory costs would "stifle financial innovation" and encourage financial capital to transfer its transactions offshore. The disagreement between Born and the Executive Office's top economic policy advisors has been described not only as a classic Washington turf war, but also a war of ideologies, insofar as it is possible to argue that Born's actions were consistent with Keynesian and neoclassical economics while Greenspan, Rubin, Levitt, and Summers consistently espoused neoliberal, and neoconservative policies.
In 1998, a trillion-dollar hedge fund called Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was near collapse. Using mathematical models to calculate debt risk, LTCM used derivatives to leverage $5 billion into more than $1 trillion, doing business with fifteen of Wall Street's largest financial institutions. The derivative transactions were not regulated, nor were investors able to evaluate LTCM's exposures. Born stated, "I thought that LTCM was exactly what I had been worried about". In the last weekend of September 1998, the President's working group was told that the entire American economy hung in the balance. After intervention by the Federal Reserve, the crisis was averted. In congressional hearings into the crisis, Greenspan acknowledged that language had been introduced into an agriculture bill that would prevent CFTC from regulating the derivatives which were at the center of the crisis that threatened the US economy. U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) asked "How many more failures do you think we'd have to have before some regulation in this area might be appropriate?" In response, Greenspan brushed aside the substance of Born's warnings with the simple assertion that "the degree of supervision of regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives market is quite adequate to maintain a degree of stability in the system". Born's warning was that there wasn't any regulation of them. Born's chief of staff, Michael Greenberger summed up Greenspan's position this way: "Greenspan didn't believe that fraud was something that needed to be enforced, and he assumed she probably did. And of course, she did." Under heavy pressure from the financial lobby, legislation prohibiting regulation of derivatives by Born's agency was passed by the Congress. Born resigned on June 1, 1999.
The derivatives market continued to grow yearly throughout both terms of George W. Bush's administration. On September 15, 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers forced a broad recognition of a financial crisis in both the US and world capital markets. As Lehman Brothers' failure temporarily reduced financial capital's confidence, a number of newspaper articles and television programs suggested that the failure's possible causes included the conflict between the CFTC and the other regulators.Faiola, Anthony, Nakashima, Ellen and Drew, Jill. The Crash: Risk and Regulation - What Went Wrong, The Washington Post, October 15, 2008.
Born declined to publicly comment on the unfolding 2008 crisis until March 2009, when she said: "The market grew so enormously, with so little oversight and regulation, that it made the financial crisis much deeper and more pervasive than it otherwise would have been." She also lamented the influence of Wall Street lobbyists on the process and the refusal of regulators to discuss even modest reforms.
An October 2009 Frontline documentary titled "The Warning" described Born's thwarted efforts to regulate and bring transparency to the derivatives market, and the continuing opposition thereto. The program concluded with an excerpted interview with Born sounding another warning: "I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis -- may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience."
In 2009 Born, along with Sheila Bair of the FDIC, was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award in recognition of the "political courage she demonstrated in sounding early warnings about conditions that contributed" to the 2007-08 financial crisis. According to Caroline Kennedy, "Brooksley Born recognized that the financial security of all Americans was being put at risk by the greed, negligence and opposition of powerful and well connected interests.... The catastrophic financial events of recent months have proved them [Born and Sheila Bair] right." One member of the President's working group had a change of heart about Brooksley Born. SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt stated "I've come to know her as one of the most capable, dedicated, intelligent and committed public servants that I have ever come to know", adding that "I could have done much better. I could have made a difference" in response to her warnings.
In 2010, a documentary film Inside Job further alleged that derivatives regulation was ineffective from the Clinton administration on. Along with fellow whistleblower, former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan, who was also scorned by the economic establishment, Brooksley Born was cited as one of the authorities arguing that financial derivatives increase economic risk.
Personal life
Born is married to Alexander E. Bennett (also retired from Arnold & Porter). She has five adult children - two from a previous marriage to Jacob Landau and three stepchildren. Notably, Born was named a partner at Arnold & Porter while working part-time so she could raise her two young children. When both of her children were school-age, Born returned to practice full-time.
References
External links
Attorney profile at Arnold & Porter
Brooksley Born (2009 Winner) of the Profiles in Courage Award, with acceptance speech transcript and NECN video
Profile at MarketsWiki
Speeches and statements
"Testimony Of Brooksley Born Chairperson of the CFTC Concerning The Over-The-Counter Derivatives Market", before the House Committee On Banking And Financial Services, July 24, 1998.
"The Lessons of Long Term Capital Management L.P.", Remarks of Brooksley Born, Chairperson of the CFTC, Chicago-Kent-IIT Commodities Law Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October 15, 1998.
Interview: Brooksley Born for "PBS Frontline: The Warning", PBS, (streaming VIDEO 1 hour), October 20, 2009.
Articles
Manuel Roig-Franzia. "Credit Crisis Cassandra:Brooksley Born's Unheeded Warning Is a Rueful Echo 10 Years On", The Washington Post, May 26, 2009
Taibbi, Matt. "The Great American Bubble Machine", Rolling Stone'', July 9–23, 2009
1940 births
20th-century American women lawyers
Arnold & Porter people
Clinton administration personnel
Columbus School of Law faculty
Commodity Futures Trading Commission personnel
Heads of United States federal agencies
Lawyers from San Francisco
Living people
Stanford Law School alumni
Stanford University alumni
21st-century American women lawyers
21st-century American lawyers |
Supratisthitavarman ruled Kamarupa from the Varman dynasty for the period 595–600. He was son of King Susthitavarman and Queen Shyamadevi.
Reign
It is stated in Bhaskaravarman's inscription that "surrounded by learned men and accompanied by a well equipped army consisting of war-elephants his (Supratisthitavarman's) birth (rise) was for the good of others".
Supratisthitavarman introduced many reforms during his rule. He not able to reign for long and died during the life-time of his father. He was succeeded by his younger brother Bhaskaravarman, who actually enjoyed the fruit of his hard work, i.e. a well-organised army.
See also
Mahendravarman
Narayanavarman
References
Further reading
Varman dynasty
6th-century Indian monarchs |
Tuvalu competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from September 17 to 27. Tuvalu sent a delegation consisting of 8 competitors for the event competing in 4 different sports. Tuvaluan team couldn't receive any medal in the competition.
Tuvalu along with other Oceania nations competed in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games for the first time in history.
Participants
References
Nations at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
2017 in Tuvaluan sport |
Tecmo World Cup '93 is a soccer video game released in 1993 by Sega for the Master System. The game is a continuation of previous Tecmo football games such as Tecmo World Cup '90 and Tecmo World Cup '92.
Gameplay
The game replicates matches of football with the option of 45, 30 or 15 minutes per half. In multiplayer two human players can play each other. Single Player has a world cup tournament consisting of a group stage, second round, quarter finals, semi finals and final.
The player can select one from twenty-four available national teams.
References
External links
SMS Power - Tecmo World Cup '93
Tecmo World Cup '93 (video game) at GiantBomb.com
1993 video games
Association football video games
Europe-exclusive video games
Master System games
Master System-only games
Tecmo games
SIMS Co., Ltd. games
Sega video games
Video games developed in Japan |
William Henry Stark (March 19, 1851 – October 8, 1936) was an industrial leader whose contributions helped the city of Orange, Texas develop financially. Stark was the president of the Lutcher Moore Cypress Lumber Company of Lutcher, Louisiana.
Stark was born March 19, 1851, to John Thomas and Martha Ann (Skidmore) Stark. Originally from San Augustine County, Stark lived in Burkeville, Texas and Newton, Texas before moving to Orange in 1870 to seek employment in the sawmills. He worked in the early area sawmills and would soon become a leader of the local lumber industry. In 1881, Stark married Miriam Melissa Lutcher (1859–1936), the daughter of Henry J. Lutcher, a partner in the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company. In the early 1880s, Stark's expertise in the lumber business would soon land him the position of managing two mills belonging to his father-in-law's firm in Louisiana. Stark's success in the lumber industry led him to invest in other businesses such as iron and coal production, real estate, and ranching. His innovative ideas, including development of the deep water ports on the Sabine River and an irrigation system that provided needed resources for the region's rice industry, led to increased population growth for the city of Orange.
Stark also served as a regent for the University of Texas System, 1911–15, an office later held by his son H.J.Lutcher Stark, who became chairman of the University Board.
Stark died on October 8, 1936, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Orange, Texas.
The Texas Historical Commission has constructed a marker to commemorate his contributions to the city.
References
1851 births
1936 deaths
People from San Augustine County, Texas
People from Orange, Texas
American businesspeople in timber
People from Newton, Texas |
The International Performers Competition Brno () is a competition for musicians held at the Brno International Music Festival in Brno in the Czech Republic.
The Brno International Music Festival has been held at the end of September and the beginning of October each year since 1966. The festival is a member of the European Festivals Association (since 1993). The first International Performers' Competition was held in 1996 and has since become a regular event at the festival. There are six prizes totalling CZK 200,000.
Disciplines, Laureates and Jurors
Organ: Petr Čech, Pavel Svoboda (Czech republic), Anna Pikulska (Poland)
French Horn: Zoltán Szöke (Hungary), Pablo Lago Soto (Spain)
Tuba: Sergio Finca Quiros (Spain), Carolyn Jantsch (USA)
Double Bass: Stanislau Anishchanka (Belarus), Artem Chirkov (Russia)
Percussion: Sabrina Suk Wai Ma (Hongkong)
Jurors
James Gourlay, Francis Orval, Susan Landale, Gillian Weir, Helmut Deutsch, David Heyes, Stefan Schäfer, James Gourlay
Cycle of competition categories
1996 French horn
1997 Pipe organ
1998 Double bass
1999 Percussion
2000 Tuba
2001 French horn
2002 Pipe organ
2003 Double bass
2004 Percussion duo
2005 Tuba
2006 French horn
2007 Pipe organ
2008 Double bass
2009 Percussion - Marimba
2010 Tuba
2011 French horn
2012 Pipe organ
2013 Double bass
2014 Percussion
Concert performances for laureates
performing at the:
Brno International Music Festival
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra České Budějovice
Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Králové
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
External links
Websites of competition
European Festivals Association
Brno
Music competitions in the Czech Republic
Music festivals in the Czech Republic
Recurring events established in 1996 |
John Mark McMillan (born November 27, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
Career
In 2002, McMillan released his debut album Hope Anthology, Volume 1. This independent album was followed by The Song Inside: The Sounds of Breaking Down in 2005, which included the track "How He Loves". The song was successful despite the album's independent release, and has been covered by several well-known artists within the Christian music industry including the David Crowder Band. McMillan released his third album, The Medicine, independently in 2008, and re-released the same album under the Integrity Music label in 2010. Economy followed in 2011 with Integrity Music. In 2014, McMillan and Josh Lujan Loveless formed Lionhawk Records, and Borderland became the first album released under this new label. Borderland was released after a successful Kickstarter campaign, where he raised close to double the goal. The album debuted at No. 41 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on Billboards Top Christian Album chart. McMillan's subsequent studio albums were all released via Lionhawk Records. His next studio album, Mercury & Lightning, was released in 2017, and was followed by Peopled with Dreams in 2020. McMillan's most recent studio album, Deep Magic, was released on October 6, 2023.
Personal life
Born in Charlotte, McMillan's parents are Robert "Robin" Agnew McMillan and Donna Boggs Wilson McMillan, and he is the eldest of four siblings. He has two younger brothers, Christopher Robin and Andrew Wilson, followed by his only sister, Mary Kathryn. He grew up going to church and is a long-time Christian.
He is married to Sarah Kathryn McMillan (née Williams), who is from Vidalia, Georgia. They have three children.
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Live albums
Singles
"Wilderlove" (2016)
"No Country" (2016)
"Enemy, love." (2017)
"The Road, The Rocks, and The Weeds" (2019)
"Bright Abyss" (2019)
"Juggernaut" (2019)
"Pilgrim" (2020)
"Deliver Me" (2021)
"Re-enchanted World" (2021)
"Roaring Thunder" (2021)
"Has It Been You" (2021)
"Prove My Love" (2022)
"Atlanta" (2022)
Notes
References
External links
1979 births
American performers of Christian music
Living people
Musicians from North Carolina |
Douglas Alexander Wright (15 March 1894 — 1 October 1953) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Edward Fortescue Wright, he was born in March 1894 at Georgetown in British Guiana. He was educated in England at Christ's Hospital. Wright served in the First World War, being commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders as a second lieutenant in October 1914. He was made a temporary lieutenant in December 1916, before later being made an acting captain in June 1918, a rank he was again granted in December 1918, following the conclusion of the war. He later left the British Army and became a tea estate manager in British Ceylon, managing the estate at Wanarajah from 1927 to 1930.
While in Ceylon he played first-class cricket, making his debut for the Europeans cricket team against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side in January 1927 at Colombo. He followed this up with a further first-class appearance against the MCC in February for the Up-Country XI at Darrawella. Wright spent time in England in 1928, where he was selected to play for the MCC against Ireland at Dublin. He scored 82 runs in the MCC's first innings, the second highest score of the innings behind Denis Hill-Wood's 85. Returning to Ceylon, he made a further two first-class appearances. The first came for Dr J Rockwood's Ceylon XI against Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI at Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo, with the second coming for All-Ceylon against Sir Julien Cahn's XI. A wicket-keeper, Wright scored 149 runs in five first-class matches, at an average of 29.80. Benhind the stumps he took 7 catches and made 5 stumpings. Wright died in England at Marylebone in October 1953. His brother, Oswin, and half–brother, Arthur, both played first-class cricket.
References
External links
1894 births
1953 deaths
People from Georgetown, Guyana
People educated at Christ's Hospital
Gordon Highlanders officers
British Army personnel of World War I
Sri Lankan tea
English cricketers
Europeans (Ceylon) cricketers
Up-Country XI cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
All-Ceylon cricketers
Sri Lankan people of British descent
People from British Ceylon |
The 2011 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the first race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season. The race took place on March 27, on the temporary street circuit in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was telecast by ABC in the United States.
Report
Background
Dario Franchitti began the season as defending champion of the IndyCar Series, after a season-long battle with Will Power in 2010. It was Franchitti's second championship in the past three seasons. (The year he did not win, 2008, he was racing in NASCAR.) Other contenders for the 2011 championship include Franchitti's Chip Ganassi Racing teammates, Scott Dixon, Charlie Kimball, and Graham Rahal, the Penske Racing drivers, Ryan Briscoe, Hélio Castroneves, and Will Power, among others. Tony Kanaan left Andretti Autosport after the 2010 season and was now piloting the #82 entry for KV Racing Technology – Lotus. Briscoe, Castroneves, Power, and Rahal were all previous winners of the St. Petersburg race.
The race marked the IndyCar debut or return for several drivers, including:
Sébastien Bourdais (Champ Car champion, 2004–07) He would ultimately not start because of his car catching fire after a crash in the final practice.
Oriol Servià (Champ Car driver 2000–2007, IRL in 2008, also ran in the 2009 Indy 500)
Charlie Kimball
J. R. Hildebrand
James Jakes
Race
The first Indycar race to use double-file starts and restarts began anything but smoothly. On turn 1 of lap 1, five cars were involved in contact as the drivers fought for position. Helio Castroneves made contact with Marco Andretti's car, who ran up the back of Scott Dixon's machine and flipped upside down. Mike Conway, racing for the first time since last year's Indianapolis 500, was also caught in the pile-up, along with Briscoe. Castroneves, Briscoe, and Dixon would finish the day running, but had no chance for victory. Andretti Autosport took the brunt of the blow, with two of their drivers, Andretti and Conway, being knocked out of the race as a result. On the ensuing restart (lap 5) Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan passed Power to take first and second position respectively.
The yellow flag came out again on lap 7 when E. J. Viso spun off the track, but without making contact, and green flag racing resumed by lap 10. Only two laps later however, the caution came out again for debris on the racetrack, and Sebastián Saavedra spun and stalled on the ensuing restart, bringing out yet another caution. In total, nine of the first 15 laps were run under yellow, leading many drivers and fans to question the new restart system. Will Power briefly regained the lead on lap 71 when Franchitti pitted, but he had to pit himself two laps later, and Franchitti won comfortably by 6.7 seconds. The main point of interest over the final 10 laps was the battle for 3rd place between the veteran Kanaan and second-year driver Simona de Silvestro. Kanaan was able to hold on and gain a podium place for his new team, KV-Lotus, but it was an impressive run by de Silvestro nonetheless.
Classification
Qualifying
All cars were split into two groups of twelve, with the fastest six from each group going through to the "top 12" session. In this session, the fastest six cars progressed to the "Firestone Fast Six." The fastest driver in the final session claimed pole, with the rest of the cars lining up in session order, regardless of qualifying times. (fast six from 1–6, top 12 from 7–12 and round 1 from 13–24, with group 1 drivers occupying the odd–numbered grid positions, and group 2 drivers occupying the even–numbered grid positions.
Race
Championship standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings
Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
External links
IndyCar Results Page
Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
March 2011 sports events in the United States
Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
21st century in St. Petersburg, Florida |
Malomykolaivka () may refer to the following places in Ukraine:
Malomykolaivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, village in Synelnykove Raion
Malomykolaivka, Luhansk Oblast, urban-type settlement in Antratsyt Raion |
Philippe Monfils (born 1939) is a Belgian politician and a member of the MR. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.
Honours
1999 : Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.
2007 : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II.
Notes
1939 births
Living people
Belgian Ministers of State
Politicians from Liège
Members of the Senate (Belgium)
MEPs for Belgium 1994–1999
Mouvement Réformateur MEPs
21st-century Belgian politicians
Walloon movement activists
Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
Ministers-President of the French Community of Belgium |
Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation is a phenomenon of magnetic levitation whereby a spinning magnet or array of magnets (typically as a top) is levitated via magnetic forces above another magnet or array of magnets, and stabilised by gyroscopic effect due to a spin that is neither too fast, nor too slow to allow for a necessary precession.
The phenomenon was originally discovered through invention by Vermont inventor Roy M. Harrigan in the 1970s. On May 3, 1983 Harrigan received a United States patent for his original levitation device based upon this phenomenon he discovered. Independent of Harrigan, a Pennsylvanian inventor named Joseph Chieffo made the same discovery in 1984 employing a flat base magnet, a geometry that proved a significant change over his predecessor's patented design which relied upon a dish shaped mounting of magnets for the base. Chieffo's design, publicized in a 1991 edition of the periodical "Magnets In Your Future", further differed from Harrigan's in its incorporation of an un-weighted top. Harrigan's technology, either entirely or in conjunction with Chieffo's flat-base variation, provided the basis for the development of a mass marketed levitating toy top sold under the brand name, 'Levitron'.
In 2012 and 2014 Max Michaelis reported operating Levitron brand magnetic tops at inclination angles of 45° and 90° (i.e. with the spin axis, horizontal) after employing novel configurations for the supporting magnetic fields.
Physics
Earnshaw's theorem does not allow for a static configuration of permanent magnets to stably levitate another permanent magnet or materials that are paramagnetic or ferromagnetic against gravity. This theorem does not apply to devices consisting of a properly configured magnetic base and corresponding magnetic top, however, because the non-static nature of the spinning magnetic top acts as a gyroscope to prevent its magnetic field from fully aligning itself in the same direction as that of the primary supporting toroidal field of the magnetic base (i.e.: via the top flipping). In a vertical orientated configuration this gyroscopic property combined with the top's precession allows it to respond dynamically to the direction of the local toroidally shaped field of its base magnet(s) and remain levitating about a central point in space above the base where the forces acting on the top (gravitational, magnetic, and gyroscopic) are in equilibrium thereby allowing the top to rest in an energy minimum well. (see: magnetic levitation)
In the laboratory, experimental setups are able to levitate tops for indefinite periods by measuring the spin rate and maintaining it using a drive coil. However, variations in temperature can affect the stability, and without ambient temperature control the top will eventually fall after hours or days due to the temperature coefficient of the magnets.
The physics of the magnetic stability is similar to magnetic gradient traps.
Inclined or horizontal axis levitation is accomplished by superposing a “macro-trap” on the precessional “micro-trap” first described by Sir Michael Berry and Simon, Heflinger and Ridgway. The macro-trap is generated by a combination of two magnetic “V”s as well as a puller magnet, situated directly above the Levitron. The puller acts like the string of a pendulum.
See also
Electromagnetic suspension
Electrodynamic wheel
Magnetic bearing
Electrodynamic bearing
Levitron
References
Magnetic levitation
Articles containing video clips
Tops |
God Bless is an Indonesian rock band founded in Jakarta in 1973 by Ahmad Albar, Jockie Soerjoprajogo, Fuad Hassan, Donny Fattah, and Ludwig Lemans. It continues to be active and has received several awards from the Indonesian music industry.
History
God Bless was founded by Ahmad Albar (vocals), Jockie Soerjoprajogo (keyboard), Fuad Hassan (drums), Donny Fattah (bass), and Ludwig Lemans (guitar) in 1973. They had their first concert on 5 May 1973 at Taman Ismail Marzuki, which was followed on 16 August with the Summer 28 concert, the first (and, as of 2004, largest) open-air concert in Indonesia. During that period they also played at the Jakarta Fair, held near the National Monument. That same year the band acted in Ambisi (Ambition); Lemans left the band not long after to return to the Netherlands.
In 1975 the band opened for British rock band Deep Purple when the latter played in Jakarta. They released their first album, Huma di Atas Bukit (Rice Field on a Hill), the following year. The titular song for the progressive rock album, an adaptation of "Firth Of Fifth", from Genesis' 1973 album Selling England by the Pound, went on to be used as the theme song to Sjumadjaja's film Laila Majenun (Laila is Possessed).
Four years later, God Bless released Cermin (Mirror), which included more ballads and showed influences from Deep Purple and Van Halen; Abadi Soesman contributed a bit. The band, in an off-again on-again state for the next several years, released their third album, Semut Hitam (Black Ants) in 1988; the album went on to be their most successful. This was followed by Raksasa (Monster; 1989), and Apa Kabar? (What's Up?; 1997).
God Bless performed a "duel" with Padi on 9 November 2011, a band twenty years their younger; held in the Hard Rock Cafe Jakarta, the duel was witnessed by over 200 people, greater than the capacity of the venue. In 2003 Jockie left the group; initially reported as being over creative differences, in October 2011 Jockie revealed that it was after a fight over Albar's drug habits. Jockie, once a drug user himself, was asked to tell Albar to stop using drugs; in response, Albar reportedly pulled a gun on him. Jockie was soon replaced by Abadi Soesman. Guitarist Ian Antono confirmed that a pistol was involved, but he thought it could be a toy; he stated that the argument flared up when Jockie insulted Albar's family.
In 2007, Yaya Moekito joined the band as a drummer. After Albar was imprisoned for drug possession in November 2007 and paroled in July 2008, in mid-2009, God Bless played at the Jakarta Fair and released another album, 36th. In late 2009 the band was pictured on the cover of Rolling Stone Indonesia. The following year, the band went on a cross-country tour, playing in nine cities and accompanied by Nidji, Gigi, Andra and The BackBone, and Naif. The band also played in the 2010 Djakarta Artmosphere festival.
On 14 June 2011, God Bless performed at the Hard Rock Cafe with Jibriel to celebrate founder's day; the latter group consists of two of Albar's sons, one of Jockie's, one of Antono's, and Albar's nephew Bagoes. In July, the band played at the Hard Rock Cafe Jakarta to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The following month, from 22 to 24 July 2011, the band performed at the InterMusic Java Rockin' Land alongside The Cranberries and Neon Trees. On 20 October 2011 Jockie posted on his Facebook wall that he was upset that the band continued to play songs written by him without paying royalties.
Themes
Tertiani Z.B. Simanjuntak, writing for The Jakarta Post, notes that God Bless often advocated the rights of the poor and working classes.
Accolades
In a 2009 issue, Rolling Stone Indonesia ranked two of God Bless' songs as being among the 150 best Indonesian songs of all time: "Kehidupan" ("Life"), was ranked 8th, while "Rumah Kita" ("Our Home") was ranked 22nd.
In August 2011 Kompas reported that Mira Lesmana and Riri Riza have spent two years producing a documentary about the band, to be titled Rockumentary.
Discography
Albums
God Bless (1975)
Cermin (1980)
Semut Hitam (1988)
Raksasa (1989)
Apa Kabar (1997)
36th (2009)
Cermin 7 (2016)
God Bless Live at Aquarius Studio (2019)
Anthology 50th Year Anniversary (with Tohpati & Czech Symphony Orchestra) (2023)
Compilations
The Story of God Bless (1990)
18 Greatest Hits of God Bless (1992)
The Greatest Slow Hits (1999)
Singles
Vonis (1991)
Untuk Indonesiaku (2020)
Mulai Hari Ini (2021)
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
Indonesian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1973
Anugerah Musik Indonesia winners |
InterContinental Dubai Festival City is a luxury five-star hotel in Dubai Festival City, United Arab Emirates, operated by IHG Hotels & Resorts. It is located on the Dubai Creek, adjoining the Dubai Festival City Mall, opposite the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, with the Burj Khalifa behind in the distance. It is also close to Dubai International Airport.
Construction of the hotel started in 2005 and it was completed by 2007. The architect of the hotel was 3D/International.
The structure of the hotel is based on that of sailboats, with a curved facade facing the Dubai Creek, providing a panoramic view of Dubai. The hotel is used for both business and leisure.
The hotel has 34 storeys. It features dining by the three-Michelin-starred chef Pierre Gagnaire. A glass-bottomed swimming pool protrudes from the building. The hotel is one of several IHG hotels in Dubai Festival City. It adjoins a Crowne Plaza hotel. Close to the hotel is the InterContinental Residence Suites Dubai Festival City.
The front hotel facade is lit with coloured animated LED lighting at night.
An evening laser light show with computer-controlled fountains in the former marina next to the hotel and mall includes projections onto the side facade of the hotel.
An abra ferry service runs across the Dubai Creek during the day from outside the hotel to Al Jaddaf Marine Transport Station, linked to Creek metro station on the Green Line of the Dubai Metro.
References
External links
IHG information
2007 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Hotels established in 2007
Hotel buildings completed in 2007
Hotels in Dubai
InterContinental hotels |
Terry Downes, BEM (9 May 1936 – 6 October 2017) was a British middleweight boxer, occasional film actor, and businessman. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style.
At the time of his death, Downes was Britain's oldest surviving former world champion. He held the world middleweight title (the version recognised by Europe, New York, and Massachusetts) for ten months from 1961-62.
Early life
Terry Downes was born in Paddington, London. His father Richard worked as a mechanic, and his mother Hilda in a department store. Downes boxed as a junior for the Fisher ABC. He moved with his parents to the United States in 1952, while still a teenager, to live with his trapeze artist sister Sylvia, who had lost an arm in a traffic accident, going on to serve in the US Marine Corps from 1954–56, being recruited after boxing against them for the YMCA. In the Marines he won several amateur trophies, including the all-services championship and the Amateur Golden Gloves. He missed out on selection for the US Olympic team, being ruled ineligible on residence grounds, and after his term of service, he returned to London and turned professional.
Professional boxing career
Managed by Sam Burns, Downes won his first two pro fights before a defeat to future world champion Dick Tiger. After building up a record of 16 wins and 3 defeats, Downes won the British middleweight title, vacated by Pat McAteer's retirement, by beating Phil Edwards on 30 September 1958 at the Harringay Arena, London. In 1959, Downes lost and won back the title from John "Cowboy" McCormack. On 5 July 1960, Downes successfully defended the title against Edwards again.
Downes lost his first World Title shot to Paul Pender in Boston in January 1961. The following July, however, Downes fought Pender again, this time in London, and defeated the American in front of a raucous Wembley crowd, with Pender retiring at the end of the ninth round with cuts over both eyes. Downes was recognised as world champion by The Ring magazine in August 1961, and was named Sports Writers' Association Sportsman of the Year later that year. Pender won the title back the following year, defeating Downes in Boston once more, this time on points.
Downes responded to the loss of his title by winning his next seven bouts, including a win over Sugar Ray Robinson in September 1962. Robinson was, however, 41 at the time, and when asked after the fight how it felt to beat a boxer of such esteem, Downes famously replied, "I didn't beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost." Downes moved up to light heavyweight in 1963, winning his first three fights at the weight before facing Willie Pastrano for the world title in Manchester on 30 November 1964. Downes was knocked down twice in the 11th round, while reportedly well ahead on points, and Pastrano retained his title when referee Andrew Smyth controversially waved it off – it was to be Downes' last fight.
Downes was famous for a number of quips. After a particularly brutal fight early in his career against Dick Tiger, Downes was asked who he wanted to fight next. He replied, "The bastard who made this match", in reference to Mickey Duff.
Downes fought six world champions and beat three: Robinson, Pender and Joey Giardello. His record was: 44 fights, 35 wins (28 KOs), 9 losses.
Acting career
Post-boxing, Downes acted occasionally between 1965 and 1990, usually appearing a thug, villain or bodyguard. One of his more prominent roles was in Roman Polanski's 1967 film The Fearless Vampire Killers, in which he played "Koukol", a hunchbacked servant. His other film credits included appearances in A Study in Terror (1965), Five Ashore in Singapore (1967), The Golden Lady (1979), If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981), and the Derek Jarman film Caravaggio (1986).
Films
A Study in Terror (1965) - Chunky
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) - Koukol, the Servant
Five Ashore in Singapore (1967) - Sgt. Gruber
The Golden Lady (1979) - Trainer
If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981) - Woodsman
Caravaggio (1986) - Bodyguard
Other business interests
After his retirement, Downes owned a nightclub. and worked as a boxing manager, working with British title challenger Colin Lake in the late 1960s.
Personal life
Downes and his wife Barbara (nee Clarke) were married from 1958 until his death in 2017. They had four children and eight grandchildren, one of whom includes prominent football writer and comedian James McNicholas. They lived for many years in a large detached house in Milespit Hill, Mill Hill, London NW7.
Downes was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2012 Birthday Honours, in recognition of his sporting achievements and charity work. He died on 6 October 2017, aged 81.
Professional boxing record
See also
List of middleweight boxing champions
List of British middleweight boxing champions
References
External links
"The Fighter at Home with Yogi Bear", Sports Illustrated profile from 1962
1936 births
2017 deaths
Middleweight boxers
World boxing champions
United States Marines
English expatriates in the United States
English male boxers
Sportspeople from Paddington
Recipients of the British Empire Medal |
Matías Bortolín Vara (born April 11, 1993) is an Argentine professional basketball player. He plays at the center position.
Professional career
In his pro career, Bortolín has played in both the 2nd-tier South American League, and the 1st-tier FIBA Americas League.
National team career
Bortolín has been a member of the senior Argentine national basketball team. With Argentina, he has played at the 2013 FIBA AmeriCup, where he won a bronze medal, and at the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
External links
FIBA Profile
Latinbasket.com Profile
1993 births
Living people
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Argentine expatriate basketball people in Austria
Argentine expatriate basketball people in Italy
Argentine men's basketball players
Argentino de Junín basketball players
Atenas basketball players
Basket Rimini Crabs players
Basketball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Centers (basketball)
Club Comunicaciones (Mercedes) basketball players
Club San Martín de Corrientes basketball players
Obras Sanitarias basketball players
Pan American Games competitors for Argentina
Regatas Corrientes basketball players
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina
Traiskirchen Lions players |
```objective-c
/*
* (C) 2004-2005 Allan Sandfeld Jensen (kde@carewolf.com)
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
*
* along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
* the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
* Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
#ifndef SelectorFilter_h
#define SelectorFilter_h
#include "core/dom/Element.h"
#include "wtf/BloomFilter.h"
#include "wtf/Vector.h"
namespace blink {
class CSSSelector;
class SelectorFilter {
DISALLOW_ALLOCATION();
public:
class ParentStackFrame {
ALLOW_ONLY_INLINE_ALLOCATION();
public:
ParentStackFrame() : element(nullptr) { }
explicit ParentStackFrame(Element& element) : element(&element) { }
DECLARE_TRACE();
RawPtrWillBeMember<Element> element;
Vector<unsigned, 4> identifierHashes;
};
void pushParent(Element& parent);
void popParent(Element& parent);
bool parentStackIsConsistent(const ContainerNode* parentNode) const { return !m_parentStack.isEmpty() && m_parentStack.last().element == parentNode; }
template <unsigned maximumIdentifierCount>
inline bool fastRejectSelector(const unsigned* identifierHashes) const;
static void collectIdentifierHashes(const CSSSelector&, unsigned* identifierHashes, unsigned maximumIdentifierCount);
DECLARE_TRACE();
private:
void pushParentStackFrame(Element& parent);
void popParentStackFrame();
void setupParentStack(Element& parent);
WillBeHeapVector<ParentStackFrame> m_parentStack;
// With 100 unique strings in the filter, 2^12 slot table has false positive rate of ~0.2%.
static const unsigned bloomFilterKeyBits = 12;
OwnPtr<BloomFilter<bloomFilterKeyBits>> m_ancestorIdentifierFilter;
};
template <unsigned maximumIdentifierCount>
inline bool SelectorFilter::fastRejectSelector(const unsigned* identifierHashes) const
{
ASSERT(m_ancestorIdentifierFilter);
for (unsigned n = 0; n < maximumIdentifierCount && identifierHashes[n]; ++n) {
if (!m_ancestorIdentifierFilter->mayContain(identifierHashes[n]))
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
WTF_ALLOW_INIT_WITH_MEM_FUNCTIONS(blink::SelectorFilter::ParentStackFrame);
#endif
``` |
Anthony Kukwa (born October 30, 1992) is an American football long snapper who is a free agent. He initially attended Ball State University and later transferred to Lake Erie College, where he played long snapper and tight end. Kukwa is Lake Erie's first ever student-athlete to sign an NFL contract.
Professional career
Oakland Raiders
Kukwa signed with the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent on May 5, 2017. He was waived by the Raiders on July 7, 2017.
Los Angeles Chargers
On January 4, 2018, Kukwa signed a reserve/future contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. On May 30, 2018, he was waived by the Chargers.
Houston Texans
Kukwa had a mini-camp tryout with the Houston Texans in 2019, but was not signed to a contract. He signed with the team on April 25, 2020. He was waived on July 27, 2020. Kukwa had a tryout with the Texans on August 20, 2020, and re-signed with the team three days later. He was waived on September 5, 2020. On December 15, 2020, Kukwa made his first official NFL regular season roster, by being signed to the 2020 Houston Texans Practice Squad.
He signed a reserve/future contract on January 4, 2021. He was waived on March 23, 2021.
References
External links
Lake Erie profile
1992 births
Living people
American football long snappers
Ball State Cardinals football players
Lake Erie Storm football players
Oakland Raiders players
Los Angeles Chargers players
People from Perry, Ohio
Players of American football from Ohio
Houston Texans players
American football tight ends |
João Pedro Santos Lameira (born 19 April 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Russian club Baltika Kaliningrad as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Santa Maria da Feira, Lameira had two spells at hometown club C.D. Feirense as a youth, either side of one season at Sporting CP. In 2013, he joined FC Porto's ranks, and on 22 September 2018, he made his professional debut with the reserve team in a LigaPro match against U.D. Oliveirense; he came on as an added-time substitute for Madi Queta in a 1–1 away draw. He played seven games over the season, scoring once on the final day on 18 May 2019 in a 2–2 draw away to Vitória de Guimarães B.
Lameira signed for U.D. Leiria in the third-tier Campeonato de Portugal ahead of the 2019–20 season; he was described by José Roque of the Diário de Leiria as their best signing that transfer window. On 31 January 2020 he moved back up to the second tier on an 18-month deal with Académica de Coimbra; unused, he moved back to the third level and Real S.C. in June.
On 7 July 2021, Lameira signed a one-year deal at S.C.U. Torreense of the new Liga 3. He played 25 times as they won promotion as champions in his first season, scoring once as the winner in a 2–1 comeback victory at home to F.C. Felgueiras 1932 on 2 April 2022. He then signed for another season. He played 30 times as the Torres Vedras-based club came 9th in the second tier, scoring once in a 3–0 home win over former club Porto B on 11 March 2023.
On 8 June 2023, Lameira signed a three-year contract with the Russian Premier League club Baltika Kaliningrad.
Honours
Torreense
Liga 3: 2021–22
Portugal
UEFA European Under-17 Championship: 2016
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Footballers from Santa Maria da Feira
Portuguese men's footballers
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Russian Premier League players
C.D. Feirense players
Sporting CP footballers
Padroense F.C. players
FC Porto players
FC Porto B players
U.D. Leiria players
Académica de Coimbra (football) players
Real S.C. players
S.C.U. Torreense players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Russia |
Zeenath A. P. (born 29 December 1964) is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. She was a prominent supporting actress during the 1990s in the Malayalam film industry.
Background
She married Malayalam drama director and producer K. T. Muhammed when she was 18. Together they have a son Jithin who is married to Saleena Salim. Then she married Anil Kumar and have a son Nithin Anil. She currently resides in Kochi.
Awards
2007 - Kerala State Film Award for Best Dubbing Artist- Paradesi for Shwetha Menon
2016 - CPC Cine Awards for Best Character Actress - Alif
Kerala State Television Award
1991 - Best Actress- Poovanpazham ( telefilm) by Vaikkom Muhammed Basheer
2005 - Best Supporting Actress - Sulthanveedu (Serial)
Kerala Film Critics Association Awards
2020 - Special Jury Award for direction - Randam Naal
Filmography
As actress
1978 Mayoora Varnangal
1978 Chuvanna Vithukal
1979 Anyarude Bhoomi
1979 Ival Oru Naadodi
1986 Hello My Dear Wrong Number
1987 Oridathu as Christian lady
1988 Ore Thooval Pakshikal
1991 Dhanam as Lekshmi
1991 Ulladakkam as Reena
1991 Kilukkam as Schoolteacher
1991 Godfather as Karthyani
1992 Ayalathe Adheham
1992 Neelakurukkan
1992 Kavacham
1992 Kaazhchakkppuram as Harikumar's Wife
1992 Grihaprevesam as Shobha
1992 Makkalmaahaathmyam as Saraswathi Amma
1992 Thiruthalvaadi as Parvathy
1992 Ulsavamelam as Kanakaprabha's mother
1992 Aayushkalam as Geetha
1992 Mahanagaram as Kalyani
1992 Kudumbasametham as Shyamala
1993 Theeram Thedunna Thirakal
1993 Ghazal as Amina Umma
1993 Sarovaram as Damu's wife
1993 Kabooliwala as Laila's mother
1993 Samooham as Rajalekshmi's sister
1993 Porutham as Vijayalakshmi
1993 Koushalam as Rosy
1993 Bandhukkal Sathrukkal as Kamalakshi amma
1993 Kulapathi as Thanku
1993 Mithunam as Subhadra
1993 Magrib as Safia
1994 Njan Kodeeswaran
1994 Puthran
1994 Ponthan Mada as
1994 Varaphalam as Anjali's mother
1994 Vishnu as Rajamma
1994 Sagaram Sakshi as Nirmala's sister
1995 Aadhyathe Kanmani
1995 Maanam Thelinjappol as
1995 Bali as
1995 Achan Raajaavu Appan Jethaavu as Sarasu
1995 Thovalapookkal as Lakshmi
1995 Shashinaas as Beevi
1995 Ratholsavam as Seethamm's mother
1995 Parvathy Parinayam as Subhadra
1995 Tom & Jerry as Devaki
1995 Three Men Army as Subhashini
1995 Simhavalan Menon as Gomathi
1995 Sindoora Rekha as Rajalakshmi
1995 Kidilol Kidilam as Savithri
1995 Sipayi Lahala as Rajendran's mother
1995 Kakkakum Poochakkum Kalyanam as Mahalakshmi
1996 April 19
1996 Devaragam as Arathi
1996 Sathyabhaamaykkoru Pranayalekhanam as Subhadra
1996 Aakeshathekkoru Kilivathil as Lalitha
1996 Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran as Sadasivan's wife
1996 Hitler as Devarajan's wife
1996 Mr. Clean as Savithri
1997 Junior Mandrake as Vishalakshi
1997 The Good Boys as Gomathi Teacher
1997 Superman as Bhavani
1997 Mannadiar Penninu Chenkotta Checkan as Leelamani
1997 Kadhanayakan as Ammalu
1997 Killikurushiyile Kudumba Mela as Ananthan's wife
1997 Ikkareyanente Manasam as Padmini
1997 Ishtadanam as Selina
1998 Aanappara Achamma
1998 Vismayam as Vathsalakumari
1998 Manthri Kochamma
1998 Meenathil Thalikettu as Sarada
1998 Grama Panchayath as Shantha
1998 Gloria Fernandes From U.S.A. as Alice
1998 Dravidan as Rarichan's mother
1999 Garshom as Jameela
1999 Ezhupunna Tharakan
1999 Gaandhiyan
1999 Pattabhishekam as Aadi Thampuran's wife
1999 Friends as Lalitha
1999 Crime File as Mother Superior
2000 Ingane Oru Nilapakshi as Vijayan's mother
2000 Mr.Buttlers as Sumathi
2000 Joker as Jameela
2001 Raajapattam
2001 Korappan The Great
2001 Soothradharan
2001 Uthaman as Saramma
2000 Arayannegalude Veedu as Laila
2002 Nandanam as Unniyamma's kin
2002 Neelaakaasham Niraye as Unni's sister
2002 Pranyamanithooval as Balu's mother
2003 Chronic Bachelor as Bhama's mother
2003 Pattalam as Malini
2003 Mizhi Randilum as Vathsala Koshy
2004 Mampazhakkalam
2004 Udayam as Bharathi
2004 Mayilattam as Mythili's mother
2005 Daivanamathil as Anwar's mother
2005 The Campus as Najeeb's mother
2005 Chandrolsavam as Santha
2005 Pandippada as Bhuvanachandran's Mother
2006 Pakal as Shantha
2006 Kisan as Savithri
2007 Nagaram as Dr Cicily
2007 Anchil Oral Arjunan as Sathi
2007 Sooryan as Sooryan's sister
2007 Paradesi as Sulekha
2007 Ali Bhai aa Amminiyamma
2007 Nasrani as Prisoner
2008 Raman as Krishnan;s wife
2008 Gulmohar as Paulachan's Wife
2008 Kabadi Kabadi as Saraswathi
2008 Malabar Wedding as Ilayamma
2008 Vilapangalkkappuram as Usman's sister
2009 Samayam
2009 Kancheepurathe Kalyanam as Devanayagi
2009 Decent Parties as Sudheendran's mother
2010 Khilafath
2010 Senior Mandrake as Archive footage
2010 Bodyguard as Mani Chechi
2010 Ringtone as Krishna's mother
2010 Valiyangadi as Pareekutty's mother
2011 Krishna Rajapuram
2011 Lucky Jokers as Parvathy Thampuratti
2011 The Train as Suhana's mother
2011 Vellaripravinte Changathi as Actress
2011 Koratty Pattanam Railway Gate as Annie's mother
2011 August 15 as College Principal
2011 Sevenes ... Arun's mother
2011 Indian Rupee as Jayaprkash's mother, Yashodha
2012 Veendum Kannur
2012 Naughty Professor as Neighbour
2012 Josettante Hero as Annie
2012 Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam as Karthyayini
2013 Isaac Newton S/O Philipose as Gracy
2014 Parayan Baaki Vechathu as Emmanuel's mother
2014 Bad Boys
2014 Gunda as Jhansi Rani
2015 Ente Cinema- The Movie Festival
2015 Haram as Ameena's mother
2015 Aashamsakalode Anna as Sherly
2015 Elanjikkavu P.O as Lakshmi's mother
2015 Alif as Aatta/Fathima's mother
2015 Kanthari as Palarivattam Padmavathi
2016 Shajahanum Pareekuttiyum as Prince's mother
2017 Oru Visheshapetta Biriyani Kissa as Fathima
2019 Virus as Dr.Akila's mother
2019 Arayakkadavil
2020 Halal Love Story as Rahim's wife
2022 The Epitaph (Short film) as Rukhiyya
2022 Kochaal as Mariyamma
2022 Rorschach as Satheeshan 's mother
Ammayi (Short film)
Mysore 150 k
Randaam Naal - {director/story/script too}
As dubbing artist
Paradesi-voice for Swetha Menon
Penpattanam-voice for Swetha Menon
Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha-voice for Swetha Menon
Rani Padmini - voice for Sajitha Madathil
TBA - voice for Parvathi T.
Alone as Sheela Varky
Television serials
Poovanpazham (Doordarshan)
Bandhanam (Doordarshan)
Punnakka Vikasana Corporation (Doordarshan)
Ladies Hostel (Doordarshan)
Kamandalam (Doordarshan)
Bandhangal (Doordarshan)
Paying Guest (Doordarshan)
Sultanveedu (Kairali TV)
Ragardram (Doordarshan)
Aatma (Kairali TV) - Producer also
Shanghupushpam (Asianet)
Kadamattathu Kathanar (Asianet)
Sooryaputhri (Asianet)
Sindoorakuruvi (Surya TV)
Nizhalukal (Asianet)
Kanal Kireedam (Asianet)
Swantham Malootty (Surya TV)
Pavithra Bhandham (Surya TV)
Parinayam (Mazhavil Manorama)
Bhagyadevatha (Mazhavil Manorama)
Bandhuvaru Sathruvaru (Mazhavil Manorama)
Jagritha (Amrita TV)
CBI Diary(Mazhavil Manorama)
Thenum Vayambum (Surya TV)
Dany's (Goodness TV) - Telefilm as Mary
Santhwanam (Asianet)
Dramas
Snehabandham
Khafar
Srishti
Swantham Lekhakan
Vriddha
TV shows
Pularkkalam
Sarigama
Smart Show
Annie's Kitchen
Annorikkal
Ruchibhedam
Yo Yo Krishnanum Yasodamaarum
Red Carpet
References
External links
Zeenath at MSI
Living people
1964 births
Kerala State Film Award winners
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses from Kerala
Indian film actresses
People from Malappuram district
Actresses in Malayalam theatre
Indian stage actresses
Indian television actresses
Actresses in Hindi television
Actresses in Malayalam television
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Kerala State Television Award winners
Indian voice actresses |
Adiel Kugotsi (born 3 October 1984) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he played six first-class matches for Manicaland between 2002 and 2004.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Cricketers from Mutare
Manicaland cricketers
Zimbabwean cricketers |
Heinrich von Ranke (8 May 1830, Rückersdorf – 13 May 1909, Munich) was a German physiologist and pediatrician. He was the son of theologian Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798-1876) and the brother of anthropologist Johannes Ranke (1836-1916). Famed historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) was his uncle.
Biography
Ranke studied at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Erlangen, and Tübingen. At Erlangen, he was a student of the chemist Eugen von Gorup-Besánez, and at Berlin, he was an assistant to physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1849–50). In 1851 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation involving physiological-chemical studies on the behaviour of some organic substances in humans.
From 1853 to 1858, he was associated with the German Hospital in London, during which time, he also served as a civilian physician in the service of the British government in Smyrna and in the Crimea (1855–56). In 1859 he received his habilitation at the University of Munich, becoming an honorary professor in 1863. In 1866 he was appointed director of the children's polyclinic at the Reisingerianum in Munich. Here he worked together with Max Sandreczky who became his assistant, and probably influenced Sandreczky's decision to dedicate his career to the care of children. In 1874 Ranke became an associate professor, and in 1886, was named as director of Hauner's Kinderspital at the university.
Published works
Physiologisch-chemische Untersuchungen über das Verhalten einiger organischer Stoffe im menschlichen Organismus nebst Versuchen über die diuretische Wirkung mehrerer Arzneimittel, 1851 – Physiological-chemical studies on the behavior of some organic substances in the human organism, along with experiments on the diuretic effect of several drugs.
Acht Tage bei unseren Verwundeten in den entlegeneren Spitälern, 1866.
Studien zur Wirkung des Chloroforms, Aethers, Amylens, 1867 – Studies on the effects of chloroform, ether and amylene.
Cholera-Infections-Versuche an weissen Mäusen, 1874 – Cholera infection experiments on white mice.
Experimenteller Beweis der Möglichkeit der Selbstentzündung des Heues (Liebig's Annalen CLXVII), – Experimental evidence of the possibility of spontaneous combustion of hay.
Zur Aetiologie der Spina bifida, 1878 – The aetiology of spina bifida.
Zur Münchener Canalisationsfrage, 1879.
See also
Max Sandreczky
References
1830 births
1909 deaths
People from Nürnberger Land
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
German pediatricians
German physiologists |
Kim Na-young (; born December 31, 1991) is a South Korean singer and actress who gained immense popularity through social media exposure on New Year's Eve 2015, when her single "What If It Was Going" topped Melon's (South Korea's biggest music streaming site) music charts, holding the top place for five days, and high spots on other streaming sites. She has recorded several soundtracks, including "Once Again" for Descendants of the Sun.
As a solo artist, she released three studio albums, 26 singles and 22 soundtrack appearances.
Music career
She debuted as a singer in 2012, after which she took the unusual route of busking in the Hongdae area, where a video clip of her singing on a cold winter night went viral and attracted over 1 million views.
She has had a few TV appearances and was a contestant on Mnet's Superstar K in 2013, but did not reach the finals. From her appearance on Superstar K, her singing skills were noticed in the K-pop industry and she did a 2014 original soundtrack for a Korean drama.
New Year's Eve 2015 viral success
Her sudden rise in popularity, without being known much by mainstream media, occurred with the release of the viral video clip "What If It Was Going" and was called remarkable. Social media experts said the video's reception, which "spread like wildfire among young trendsetters," was because "mobile oriented social networks are changing the traditional routes to success for singers." She called the success, which coincided on her birthday, December 31, an unforgettable birthday gift.
Descendants of the Sun OST
She has recorded a number of soundtracks, including those for The Girl Who Sees Smells, Orange Marmalade and Bubble Gum. In March 2016, she and Mad Clown collaborated for a well received OST "Once Again" for Descendants of the Sun, and used as background music when the drama's leading roles flashed back to old memories.
2019: First music show win
On June 23, 2019, she received her first music show win on SBS' Inkigayo with her single "To Be Honest".
2020: Do You Like Brahms?
On September 21, 2020, the original soundtrack Kim sang titled "Dream" was released for the South Korean television series Do You Like Brahms? as the sixth part.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Soundtrack appearances
Filmography
Television shows
Theater
Awards and nominations
References
External links
(in Korean)
1991 births
Living people
South Korean contemporary R&B singers
Seoul Institute of the Arts alumni
21st-century South Korean singers
21st-century South Korean women singers |
Cowichan-Ladysmith was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1991, and was eliminated when the legislature dissolved in advance of the 2009 election. Its predecessor riding was Cowichan-Malahat and was succeeded by Nanaimo-North Cowichan and Cowichan Valley.
Demographics
Election results
|-
|-
|NDP
|Rob Hutchins
|align="right"|7,783
|align="right"|31.98%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$26,172
|}
|-
|NDP
|Jan Pullinger
|align="right"|12,249
|align="right"|49.85%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$32,625
|-
|}
|-
|NDP
|Jan Pullinger
|align="right"|11,038
|align="right"|48.53%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$42,602
|-
|}
External links
BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
Results of 2001 election (pdf)
2001 Expenditures (pdf)
Results of 1996 election
1996 Expenditures (pdf)
Results of 1991 election
1991 Expenditures
Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Imagine the Cowichan, part of Simon Fraser University's Imagine BC series
Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia on Vancouver Island |
Wharton Regional Airport is a public airport located five miles (8 km) southwest of the central business district of Wharton, a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. It is owned by the City of Wharton.
Note that ARM was assigned to Armidale Airport in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The airport's former FAA identifier was 5R5.
Facilities and aircraft
Wharton Regional Airport covers an area of which contains one asphalt paved runway (14/32) measuring 5,004 x 75 ft (1,525 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending April 14, 2023, the airport had 4,480 aircraft operations, an average of 86 per week: 98% general aviation and 2% military.
The airport is used by the South Texas Balloon Launch Team, an amateur radio balloon group based out of Houston, for free float balloon launches. The team launch BLT-27 on Saturday, August 20, 2019 at 10am.
References
External links
Airports in Texas
Transportation in Wharton County, Texas
Buildings and structures in Wharton County, Texas |
Bernd Hebecker (born 5 October 1955) is a German former professional darts player who has played in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is the first player from Germany who qualified for the World Darts Championship and took medal at the WDF Europe Cup.
Career
Hebecker is the first full-time professional darts player, who start playing darts in the Bremen Broadway Pub in 1977 at the age of 22. The start of the first league in Bremen and other German cities soon followed, as well as the organization of the first German Championship in the early 1980s. In the 1980s he drew attention to himself with his first national titles. He belonged to the first national Germany team during the 1983 WDF World Cup. He lost in the first round match to Hiroshi Watanobe by 3–4 in legs. In the pairs and team competitions the Germans did not manage to achieve satisfactory results. In total, Hebecker represented Germany three times during the WDF World Cup and five times during the WDF Europe Cup.
After winning the German Championship in 1984, Hebecker won the German Open, Dortmund Open and being a two-time Champion of the German Gold Cup. In 1984 and 1985 he also served as President of the Deutschen Dart-Verbandes, making him one of the pioneers of darts in Germany. In 1992, he won a bronze medal in singles competition at the 1992 WDF Europe Cup in Kerava. On the way to his first and only medal, he defeated Leo Laurens, Jocky Wilson, Øyvind Aasland and Bruno Ladovaz. He finally lost in semi-finals to John Lowe by 3–4 in legs.
After good performance at the British Open, he was the first player from Germany to qualify for the 1993 BDO World Darts Championship. There he lost to Jann Hoffmann in the first round by 0–3 in sets. Between 1996 and 1999 Hebecker turned his hobby into a career and played the entire British Darts Organisation tour as a professional player. He refused to compete in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments and retired in 2000.
World Championship results
BDO
1993: First round (lost to Jann Hoffmann 0–3) (sets)
Performance timeline
References
1955 births
Living people
German darts players |
The Defence Headquarters Complex () is a complex of buildings currently under construction at Akuregoda, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte to house the Sri Lanka Armed Forces headquarters and offices of the Ministry of Defence.
History
Under the Colombo Master Plan of 1979 all government offices in Colombo are to be moved to the administrative capital of Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte, enabling the release of high-value land in Colombo for commercial development. The headquarters of various defence institutions were separate and scattered across Colombo, resulting in great inefficiency and high-security zones amidst commercial areas, causing disturbance to the general public.
Thus Defence Headquarters Complex allows resources to be better utilised and provides defence personnel with a state of the art office complex. This increases operational, administrative and logistic efficiency and minimises the disturbances caused to civilians and economic activities. Construction commenced in 2011 with the parliamentary approval of Rs. 20 billion allocation. In 2015, with the change of government, construction halted and allocated funds were taken over by the Treasury which caused construction delays.
In November 2019, the Sri Lanka Army began moving its headquarters to the completed blocks 6 and 7.
In May 2021, Ministry of Defence shifted to the newly constructed Block 1 of Defence Headquarters Complex.
Complex
The Administrative Building Complex consist of eight nine-storey buildings. In addition there is another block of similar size separate from the administrative complex as a communications center alongside other buildings.
The Administrative Building Complex consist of,
Block No. 1 - Ministry of Defence
Block No. 2 - Ministry of Defence
Block No. 3 - Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters
Block No. 4 - Sri Lanka Air Force Headquarters
Block No. 5 - Combined conference Space
Block No. 6 - Army Headquarters
Block No. 7 - Army Headquarters
Block No. 8 - Office of Chief Defence Staff
Block No. 9 - Joint Operations Command (JOC) Headquarters
in addition the complex contains several independent buildings which include
Communication Building and Signal Tower
Security Building
Water Sump and Pump House
Sewerage treatment plant
Generator building
References
Buildings and structures in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Military headquarters in Sri Lanka
Joint military headquarters |
Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space telescope mission proposal by the European Space Agency that would study gamma-ray bursts and X-rays for investigating the early universe. If developed, the mission would investigate star formation rates and metallicity evolution, as well as studying the sources and physics of reionization.
Overview
THESEUS is a mission concept that would monitor transient events in the high-energy Universe across the whole sky and over the entirety of cosmic history. In particular, it expects to make a complete census of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the Universe's first billion years, to help understand the life cycle of the first stars. THESEUS would provide real-time triggers and accurate locations of the sources, which could also be followed up by other space- or ground-based telescopes operating at complementary wavelengths.
The concept was selected in May 2018 as a finalist to become the fifth Medium-class mission (M5) of the Cosmic Vision programme by the European Space Agency (ESA). The other finalist was EnVision, a Venus orbiter. The winner, EnVision, was selected in June 2021 for launch in 2031.
The space observatory would study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and X-rays and their association with the explosive death of massive stars, supernova shock break-outs, black hole tidal disruption events, and magnetar flares. This can provide fundamental information on the cosmic star formation rate, the number density and properties of low-mass galaxies, the neutral hydrogen fraction, and the escape fraction of ultraviolet photons from galaxies.
Scientific payload
The conceptual payload of THESEUS includes:
Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), sensitive to 0.3-6 keV is a set of 4 lobster-eye telescopes units, covering a total field of view (FOV) of 1 sr with source location accuracy <1-2 arcmin.
InfraRed Telescope (IRT), sensitive to 0.7-1.8 μm is a 0.7 m NIR telescope with 15x15 arcmin FOV, for fast response, with both imaging and moderate spectroscopic capabilities (R~400). Mass: 112.6 kg.
X-Gamma ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS), sensitive to 2 keV-20 MeV, is a set of coded-mask cameras using monolithic X-gamma ray detectors based on bars of silicon diodes coupled with CsI crystal scintillator, granting a 1.5 sr FOV, a source location accuracy of 5 arcmin in 2-30 keV and an unprecedentedly broad energy band. Mass: 37.3 kg.
See also
Gamma-ray astronomy
List of proposed space observatories
X-ray astronomy
References
Cosmic Vision
Gamma-ray telescopes
X-ray telescopes
Space telescopes
European Space Agency satellites |
Arunachalam Mahadeva, KCMG (; 5 October 1885 – 15 April 1966) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Home Affairs (1942-1946) and High Commissioner to India (1948-1949).
Early life and family
Mahadeva was born on 5 October 1885 in Matara in southern Ceylon. He was the son of P. Arunachalam, a leading civil servant, and Sornambal. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo where he won many prizes including the Turnour Prize. After school he joined Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with honours degree in mathematics.
Mahadeva married Sivakami, daughter of M. Mootatamby, in 1918. They had a son (Balakumar) and a daughter (Swarnam).
Career
Mahadeva was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and on returning to Ceylon qualified as a barrister-at-law. He joined the Attorney General's Department as a crown counsel. He also practised law as an advocate at the unofficial bar. He later served as principal of Parameshwara College, Jaffna, a boys school founded by his paternal uncle P. Ramanathan.
Mahadeva was associated with the Ceylon National Congress (CNC), a political party founded by his father. He served as one of the CNC's secretaries from 1917 to 1924 and remained a member of the CNC even after his father left in 1921. Mahadeva contested the 1924 legislative council election as a candidate for the Western Province Tamil seat and was elected to the Legislative Council. He did not contest the 1931 state council election due to the boycott organised by the Jaffna Youth Congress.
After leaving the Legislative Council Mahadeva worked as a manager in the State Mortgage Bank. The boycott ended in 1934 and Mahadeva contested the ensuing by-elections in Jaffna. He won the election and entered the State Council. He was re-elected at the 1936 state council election and in 1942 he became Minister of Home Affairs.
Mahadeva was one of the founding members of the United National Party (UNP) and served as one of its vice-presidents and secretary. He stood as the UNP candidate for Jaffna at the 1947 parliamentary election but was defeated by the All Ceylon Tamil Congress leader G. G. Ponnambalam. Mahadeva was Ceylonese High Commissioner to India from 1948 to 1949.
Mahadeva was knighted in the 1949 New Year Honours. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1955 New Year Honours. He was a member of the Public Service Commission from 1950 to 1957. Mahadeva devoted his retirement to cultural and religious affairs. He was a senior trustee of the Sri Ponnambala Vaneswara Temple at Sea Street in Kochchikade, built by his paternal grandfather A. Ponnambalam and rebuilt by his uncle P. Ramanathan. He was chief trustee of the Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple at Mutwal, built by his parents. He was patron of the Colombo Vivekananda Society, the Jaffna Saiva Paripalana Sabai and the Colombo North Hindu Paripalana Sabai. Mahadeva died on 8 June 1969.
Electoral history
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The Tārīkh-i-Dāwūdī () is a 16th-century Persian language document recording the administration of various Pashtun dynasties in South Asia. It was written by a historian named Abdullah. It starts with the Sultan Bahlul Khan Lodi of the Lodi dynasty of Delhi and ends with Sultan Daud Khan Karrani of the Karrani dynasty of Bengal. Information relating to the Afghan Sur dynasty can also be found in the book. Other than these Afghan dynasties, the book also contains poetry as well as a history of the Jaunpur Sultanate. The book is named after, dedicated to and was written at the court of Daud Khan Karrani. It has been translated into English and Urdu in 1969 by Shaikh Abdur Rashid and Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi of the Department of History of the Aligarh Muslim University.
See also
Tarikh
External links
Read Tareekh-e-Daudi online in the Hindi language
References
16th-century Indian books
Indian manuscripts
Indian chronicles |
The 1935–36 Allsvenskan was the second season of the top division of Swedish handball. Six teams competed in the league. Redbergslids IK won the league, but the title of Swedish Champions was awarded to the winner of Svenska mästerskapet. IFK Örebro and Karlskrona BK were relegated.
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Attendance
References
Handbollsligan seasons |
Dan McIntyre is a jazz guitarist and composer from Chicago, Illinois.
McIntyre was born in Chicago's Northwest side. His early musical influences included guitarists Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass and Barney Kessell.
He has performed with Della Reese, Diahann Carroll and Vic Damone and toured North America and Europe with Frank Sinatra, Jr. in the 1970s and 1980s.
McIntyre has released a CD titled Hourglass on the Southport label.
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American jazz guitarists
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Scheuring is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.
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Landsberg (district) |
Victor Martin (September 30, 1903 - December 26, 1950) was a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Nipissing in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1948. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. He was born in 1903 to Ovide Martin and Marie Beaulieu. He married Beatrice Turcotte.
He died in 1950 and was buried at Bonfield.
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People from Nipissing District |
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