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Astiptodonta aonides is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae. It was first described by Strecker in 1899 and is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Astiptodonta aonides is 7971.
This species was formerly a member of the genus Litodonta, but was transferred to a new genus, Astiptodonta, as a result of research published in 2021.
References
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is a city located in northeastern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is near Miyakonojō, Miyazaki.
As of April 2017, the city has an estimated population of 37,038 and a population density of 95 persons per km². This is down from the 2006 population data, which was an estimated population of 43,752 and a population density of 112 persons per km². The total area is 390.39 km². Soo is one of the many small cities in Japan that have a steadily decreasing population.
Geography
Much of Soo is mountainous and covered with forest. It rains, but it rarely snows. Soo is located in Kagoshima so it also receives ash from its volcanoes, most notably: Shinmoedake and Sakurajima. Soo is a land-locked city and is in middle of the Ōsumi Peninsula.
History
The modern city of Soo was established on July 1, 2005, from the merger of the towns of Ōsumi (Iwagawa), Sueyoshi and Takarabe (all from Soo District).
Transportation
Air
The closest airport is Kagoshima Airport which is located in Kirishima.
Train
All of Soo had a train system, but due to low use most of it was torn out and paved into a running path. There are three small un-staffed train stations in Takarabe (Northern Soo) that connect to trains going to Miyazaki Prefecture and to Kagoshima City. They are: Takarabe Station, Kitamata Station, and Ōsumi-Ōkawara Station
Buses
There is one bus that travels from Miyakonojo through Soo to Kanoya, and another one that travels to Shibushi.
Roads
Like many other places in Kagoshima Prefecture, Soo is home to many narrow mountain roads and so has a high rate of traffic accidents. There is also a few bus routes through Soo. Due to the sparse public transport most people in Soo drive cars.
Expressways
The Higashi Kyushu Expressway starts at Soo Yagoro in southern Soo. It connects all the way to Expressways in Kumamoto, Miyazaki and Kagoshima City. From Iwagawa (Yogoro entrance) to Sueyoshi it is free. From Sueyoshi on it is a Toll Express Way.
Commerce
Sueyoshi is famous throughout Japan for producing Yuzu (a citronella). Ōsumi is known for its Chinese cabbage and watermelons. Soo City in general also raises black pork and beef which is the local delicacy. Before it closed, the high school in Takarabe was an agriculture school, reflecting the importance of the agriculture industry in the area.
Education
There are 20 Elementary schools, 5 Junior High schools, and 1 High school in Soo City.
Sueyoshi has 9 Elementary schools, 1 Junior High school, and 1 High school.
Ōsumi has 7 Elementary schools and 1 Junior High school.
Takarabe has 4 Elementary schools, 1 Junior High school.
Beginning with the 2012–2013 school year, small Jr High schools will be absorbed into the larger schools, resulting in all areas of Soo City having only one Jr High each (Ōsumi already went through this process 4 years ago).
Takarabe went through this change in 2012.
Currently the Elementary and Jr High schools in the areas of Ōsumi and Takarabe are taught by ALT's (Assistant Language Teacher) hired through the JET Programme. The ALT in Sueyoshi is a direct hire. The high school in Soo City is visited by the same ALT from the JET Programme.
Recreation
There are many points of interest and Festivals that can be visited in Soo City.
Yagorou Statue
In Iwagawa there is the Legend of Yagorou, which is represented by a very tall statue on a hill near the bypass on the way to Kanoya from Miyakonojo. Near the statue is a restaurant, an onsen, and a visitors center. Also near the statue is Ōsumi's Michi no Eki where many locally grown foods and teas can be bought. In spring all of the cherry trees on the hill bloom and it is a popular spot to view them.
Yagorou Festival
Every year on November 3 there are 3 different festivals (Matsuri) dedicated to Yagoroudon. One in Soo (Ōsumi), one in Nichinan, and one in Yamanokuchi (both in Miyazaki Prefecture).
The town has a smaller statue of Yagorou (just over 4 meters tall) that is pulled from the through town. This festival is called the Yagorou Festival or the Yagorodon Festival.
The mobile statue of Yagorou pulled through Ōsumi is the second largest of the three Yagorou festivals. The largest is in Nichinan (just over 7 meters tall), and the smallest is in Yamanokuchi. It is said that there were 3 Yagoroudon brothers, hence the three different locations of festivals (one for each brother).
Ookawara Gorge
has campsites and a little village where cabins can be rented. It is in Takarabe, and it hosts a waterfall called Kirihara Falls (桐原の滝 "Kirihara-no-taki") that is lit up at night. There are also many scenic ponds at the base of the waterfall with many places to picnic.
Iwaya Buddha
One of the eight views of Kannon that can be seen in Soo (according to the sign at the trail head down to the Iwaya Buddha). It was carved hundreds of years ago and is reached by climbing down many stairs to a cliff face above a river.
Mizo no Kuchi
is located in Takarabe and is a tunnel made long ago through erosion. it is 13.8 meters tall and 8.6 meters long.
Festival
Every year on the Sunday closest to the Buddha's birthday (April 8) the is held at the natural tunnel. At the festival school children dance through the tunnel in traditional costumes.
Yabusame Festival
Every year on November 23 at there is a Yabusame festival. Originally, a student from the local junior high school was selected three months prior to the festival. Then he trained to shoot arrows on horseback for the festival. In many cases he had never touched a horse before he was selected, let alone ridden a horse before. How many shots he made was supposed to show how good the harvest will be for the year.
For at least the past 4 years, however, two girls have been the riders/shooters for the festival. Starting when they were in Jr. High school, they practice riding and shooting a few months before the festival. A third girl, currently a 6th grade student, has been shooting at the past two festivals, and a 5th grade boy began riding, but not shooting, at last year's festival.
Onioi Festival
In Sueyoshi in Soo every January 7 at there is an . Onioi is a festival or ceremony in which the demons are driven out in order to let good luck in.
References
External links
Pamphlet about Soo City
Cities in Kagoshima Prefecture |
In mathematics and signal processing, the Z-transform converts a discrete-time signal, which is a sequence of real or complex numbers, into a complex frequency-domain (the z-domain or z-plane) representation.
It can be considered a discrete-time equivalent of the Laplace transform (the s-domain or s-plane). This similarity is explored in the theory of time-scale calculus.
While the continuous-time Fourier transform is evaluated on the s-domain's vertical axis (the imaginary axis), the discrete-time Fourier transform is evaluated along the z-domain's unit circle. The s-domain's left half-plane maps to the area inside the z-domain's unit circle, while the s-domain's right half-plane maps to the area outside of the z-domain's unit circle.
One of the means of designing digital filters is to take analog designs, subject them to a bilinear transform which maps them from the s-domain to the z-domain, and then produce the digital filter by inspection, manipulation, or numerical approximation. Such methods tend not to be accurate except in the vicinity of the complex unity, i.e. at low frequencies.
History
The basic idea now known as the Z-transform was known to Laplace, and it was re-introduced in 1947 by W. Hurewicz and others as a way to treat sampled-data control systems used with radar. It gives a tractable way to solve linear, constant-coefficient difference equations. It was later dubbed "the z-transform" by Ragazzini and Zadeh in the sampled-data control group at Columbia University in 1952.
The modified or advanced Z-transform was later developed and popularized by E. I. Jury.
The idea contained within the Z-transform is also known in mathematical literature as the method of generating functions which can be traced back as early as 1730 when it was introduced by de Moivre in conjunction with probability theory. From a mathematical view the Z-transform can also be viewed as a Laurent series where one views the sequence of numbers under consideration as the (Laurent) expansion of an analytic function.
Definition
The Z-transform can be defined as either a one-sided or two-sided transform. (Just like we have the one-sided Laplace transform and the two-sided Laplace transform.)
Bilateral Z-transform
The bilateral or two-sided Z-transform of a discrete-time signal is the formal power series defined as:
where is an integer and is, in general, a complex number. In polar form, may be written as:
where is the magnitude of , is the imaginary unit, and is the complex argument (also referred to as angle or phase) in radians.
Unilateral Z-transform
Alternatively, in cases where is defined only for , the single-sided or unilateral Z-transform is defined as:
In signal processing, this definition can be used to evaluate the Z-transform of the unit impulse response of a discrete-time causal system.
An important example of the unilateral Z-transform is the probability-generating function, where the component is the probability that a discrete random variable takes the value , and the function is usually written as in terms of . The properties of Z-transforms (listed in ) have useful interpretations in the context of probability theory.
Inverse Z-transform
The inverse Z-transform is:
where is a counterclockwise closed path encircling the origin and entirely in the region of convergence (ROC). In the case where the ROC is causal (see Example 2), this means the path must encircle all of the poles of .
A special case of this contour integral occurs when is the unit circle. This contour can be used when the ROC includes the unit circle, which is always guaranteed when is stable, that is, when all the poles are inside the unit circle. With this contour, the inverse Z-transform simplifies to the inverse discrete-time Fourier transform, or Fourier series, of the periodic values of the Z-transform around the unit circle:
The Z-transform with a finite range of and a finite number of uniformly spaced values can be computed efficiently via Bluestein's FFT algorithm. The discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT)—not to be confused with the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)—is a special case of such a Z-transform obtained by restricting to lie on the unit circle.
Region of convergence
The region of convergence (ROC) is the set of points in the complex plane for which the Z-transform summation converges (i.e. doesn't blow up in magnitude to infinity):
Example 1 (no ROC)
Let Expanding on the interval it becomes
Looking at the sum
Therefore, there are no values of that satisfy this condition.
Example 2 (causal ROC)
Let (where is the Heaviside step function). Expanding on the interval it becomes
Looking at the sum
The last equality arises from the infinite geometric series and the equality only holds if which can be rewritten in terms of as Thus, the ROC is In this case the ROC is the complex plane with a disc of radius 0.5 at the origin "punched out".
Example 3 (anti causal ROC)
Let (where is the Heaviside step function). Expanding on the interval it becomes
Looking at the sum
and using the infinite geometric series again, the equality only holds if which can be rewritten in terms of as Thus, the ROC is In this case the ROC is a disc centered at the origin and of radius 0.5.
What differentiates this example from the previous example is only the ROC. This is intentional to demonstrate that the transform result alone is insufficient.
Examples conclusion
Examples 2 & 3 clearly show that the Z-transform of is unique when and only when specifying the ROC. Creating the pole–zero plot for the causal and anticausal case show that the ROC for either case does not include the pole that is at 0.5. This extends to cases with multiple poles: the ROC will never contain poles.
In example 2, the causal system yields an ROC that includes while the anticausal system in example 3 yields an ROC that includes
In systems with multiple poles it is possible to have a ROC that includes neither nor The ROC creates a circular band. For example,
has poles at 0.5 and 0.75. The ROC will be 0.5 < < 0.75, which includes neither the origin nor infinity. Such a system is called a mixed-causality system as it contains a causal term and an anticausal term
The stability of a system can also be determined by knowing the ROC alone. If the ROC contains the unit circle (i.e., = 1) then the system is stable. In the above systems the causal system (Example 2) is stable because > 0.5 contains the unit circle.
Let us assume we are provided a Z-transform of a system without a ROC (i.e., an ambiguous ). We can determine a unique provided we desire the following:
Stability
Causality
For stability the ROC must contain the unit circle. If we need a causal system then the ROC must contain infinity and the system function will be a right-sided sequence. If we need an anticausal system then the ROC must contain the origin and the system function will be a left-sided sequence. If we need both stability and causality, all the poles of the system function must be inside the unit circle.
The unique can then be found.
Properties
Parseval's theorem
Initial value theorem: If is causal, then
Final value theorem: If the poles of are inside the unit circle, then
Table of common Z-transform pairs
Here:
is the unit (or Heaviside) step function and
is the discrete-time unit impulse function (cf Dirac delta function which is a continuous-time version). The two functions are chosen together so that the unit step function is the accumulation (running total) of the unit impulse function.
Relationship to Fourier series and Fourier transform
For values of in the region , known as the unit circle, we can express the transform as a function of a single real variable by defining And the bi-lateral transform reduces to a Fourier series:
which is also known as the discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT) of the sequence. This -periodic function is the periodic summation of a Fourier transform, which makes it a widely used analysis tool. To understand this, let be the Fourier transform of any function, , whose samples at some interval equal the sequence. Then the DTFT of the sequence can be written as follows.
where has units of seconds, has units of hertz. Comparison of the two series reveals that is a normalized frequency with unit of radian per sample. The value corresponds to . And now, with the substitution can be expressed in terms of (a Fourier transform):
As parameter T changes, the individual terms of move farther apart or closer together along the f-axis. In however, the centers remain 2 apart, while their widths expand or contract. When sequence represents the impulse response of an LTI system, these functions are also known as its frequency response. When the sequence is periodic, its DTFT is divergent at one or more harmonic frequencies, and zero at all other frequencies. This is often represented by the use of amplitude-variant Dirac delta functions at the harmonic frequencies. Due to periodicity, there are only a finite number of unique amplitudes, which are readily computed by the much simpler discrete Fourier transform (DFT). (See .)
Relationship to Laplace transform
Bilinear transform
The bilinear transform can be used to convert continuous-time filters (represented in the Laplace domain) into discrete-time filters (represented in the Z-domain), and vice versa. The following substitution is used:
to convert some function in the Laplace domain to a function in the Z-domain (Tustin transformation), or
from the Z-domain to the Laplace domain. Through the bilinear transformation, the complex s-plane (of the Laplace transform) is mapped to the complex z-plane (of the z-transform). While this mapping is (necessarily) nonlinear, it is useful in that it maps the entire axis of the s-plane onto the unit circle in the z-plane. As such, the Fourier transform (which is the Laplace transform evaluated on the axis) becomes the discrete-time Fourier transform. This assumes that the Fourier transform exists; i.e., that the axis is in the region of convergence of the Laplace transform.
Starred transform
Given a one-sided Z-transform of a time-sampled function, the corresponding starred transform produces a Laplace transform and restores the dependence on (the sampling parameter):
The inverse Laplace transform is a mathematical abstraction known as an impulse-sampled function.
Linear constant-coefficient difference equation
The linear constant-coefficient difference (LCCD) equation is a representation for a linear system based on the autoregressive moving-average equation:
Both sides of the above equation can be divided by if it is not zero. By normalizing with the LCCD equation can be written
This form of the LCCD equation is favorable to make it more explicit that the "current" output is a function of past outputs current input and previous inputs
Transfer function
Taking the Z-transform of the above equation (using linearity and time-shifting laws) yields:
where and are the z-transform of and respectively. (Notation conventions typically use capitalized letters to refer to the z-transform of a signal denoted by a corresponding lower case letter, similar to the convention used for notating Laplace transforms.)
Rearranging results in the system's transfer function:
Zeros and poles
From the fundamental theorem of algebra the numerator has roots (corresponding to zeros of ) and the denominator has roots (corresponding to poles). Rewriting the transfer function in terms of zeros and poles
where is the zero and is the pole. The zeros and poles are commonly complex and when plotted on the complex plane (z-plane) it is called the pole–zero plot.
In addition, there may also exist zeros and poles at and If we take these poles and zeros as well as multiple-order zeros and poles into consideration, the number of zeros and poles are always equal.
By factoring the denominator, partial fraction decomposition can be used, which can then be transformed back to the time domain. Doing so would result in the impulse response and the linear constant coefficient difference equation of the system.
Output response
If such a system is driven by a signal then the output is By performing partial fraction decomposition on and then taking the inverse Z-transform the output can be found. In practice, it is often useful to fractionally decompose before multiplying that quantity by to generate a form of which has terms with easily computable inverse Z-transforms.
See also
Advanced Z-transform
Bilinear transform
Difference equation (recurrence relation)
Discrete convolution
Discrete-time Fourier transform
Finite impulse response
Formal power series
Generating function
Generating function transformation
Laplace transform
Laurent series
Least-squares spectral analysis
Probability-generating function
Star transform
Zak transform
Zeta function regularization
References
Further reading
Refaat El Attar, Lecture notes on Z-Transform, Lulu Press, Morrisville NC, 2005. .
Ogata, Katsuhiko, Discrete Time Control Systems 2nd Ed, Prentice-Hall Inc, 1995, 1987. .
Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer (1999). Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series. .
External links
Numerical inversion of the Z-transform
Z-Transform table of some common Laplace transforms
Mathworld's entry on the Z-transform
Z-Transform threads in Comp.DSP
A graphic of the relationship between Laplace transform s-plane to Z-plane of the Z transform
A video-based explanation of the Z-Transform for engineers
What is the z-Transform?
Transforms
Laplace transforms |
The Wreck is a surf spot located at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately off the shore of Belongil Beach (at the town end), and approximately from the Main Beach Car Park.
Background
The Wreck is named for the remains of the SS Wollongbar lodged just offshore. The ship lost its tie to the old Byron Bay Pier during a cyclone in 1922 and sank. It is approximately long running parallel to the beach. On the eastern end of the Wreck one can see the rudder tiller and at low tide one can see the boilers.
The Wreck is best surfed on mid-high tide with a W - SE wind, on a N/NE swell of 3 to 6 feet. When working well, a fast, hollow and powerful right-hander breaks on the sand bank about in front of the shipwreck.
References
External links
Photos of Perfect Surf at 'The Wreck Byron Bay'
Surfing locations in New South Wales |
Haranbari Dam, is an earthfill dam on the Mosam River near Satana, Nashik District in the state of Maharashtra in India.
Specifications
The height of the dam above its lowest foundation is while the length is . The volume content is and gross storage capacity is .
Purpose
Irrigation
See also
Dams in Maharashtra
List of reservoirs and dams in India
References
Earth-filled dams
Dams in Nashik district
Dams completed in 1980
1980 establishments in Maharashtra
20th-century architecture in India |
Saurauia glabra is a species of plant in the Actinidiaceae family. It is native to Borneo. Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its hairlessness (glaber in Latin).
Description
It is a tree reaching 15 meters in height. Its leathery leaves are 10-18 by 4-8 centimeters and their tips come to a shallow point. The leaves are green on their upper side, brownish below, and smooth on both surfaces. The leaves have 8-15 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. The leaf margins have shallow rounded teeth. Its petioles are 1-3 centimeter long. It has inflorescences of 25-50 flowers on peduncles 2-8 centimeters in length. Its flowers have 5 sepals. The outer pair are elliptical and 6 by 3.3 millimeters. The inner 3 are 8 millimeters long. The flowers have a corolla with 5 lobes; each lobe is 5-9 by 3.5-6 millimeters. Its flowers have around 30-80 stamens that are 0.5-0.85 millimeters in length. Each flower has a 4-5 chambered ovary. Its flowers have 3 styles that are 9 millimeters long, and fused at their base for the last 1-2 millimeters.
Reproductive Biology
The pollen of S. glabra is shed as permanent tetrads.
References
External links
glabra
Plants described in 1918
Flora of Borneo
Taxa named by Elmer Drew Merrill |
Calistrat Hogaș (born Calistrat Dumitriu; April 19, 1848 – August 28, 1917) was a Moldavian, later Romanian prose writer. The son of a Tecuci priest, he studied at the University of Iași before beginning an over four-decade career as a high school teacher, often at Piatra Neamț. Meanwhile, he made several false starts as a writer before finding a suitable genre, namely stories drawn from his mountain rambles that appeared starting in 1907. He did not manage to collect his works during his lifetime, but these appeared to great success in 1921.
Biography
Origins and literary career
Born in Tecuci, his parents were Gheorghe Dumitriu, a Romanian Orthodox archpriest, and his wife Mărioara (née Stanciu), the daughter of a serdar from Pechea, Galați County. He was the first or second of eight children, and various birthdates between 1847 and 1852 have been suggested, but April 19, 1848 appears likeliest. His adopted surname was a nickname of his grandfather's that was assigned to him in primary school as a way to distinguish him from other pupils named Dumitriu. After completing the primary grades in his native town, he attended middle and high school at Academia Mihăileană and at the National College in Iași from 1859 to 1867. Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Vasile Conta, Alexandru Lambrior, Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași, and George Panu were all classmates, and he befriended the last three. From 1867 to 1869, he attended the literature faculty of the University of Iași. Panu and Lambrior remained university classmates, and he was noticed as a good student during high school by Titu Maiorescu, with whom he also came in touch during his university years. Nevertheless, he did not join the Junimea society of which the latter was president, and which at the time was a sure path to advancement of one's literary reputation. From 1869, he worked as a teacher of Romanian language and literature at the new gymnasium in Piatra Neamț, where he was also director and handled all the humanities courses. In January 1870, he married Elena Gheorghiu, the daughter of a Piatra Neamț priest; the couple had eight children. A lover of Greek and Roman culture, he gave them names such as Cleopatra, Cornelia, Sidonia and Aețiu. In 1878, he left Piatra Neamț for a period of three years, teaching first at the gymnasium in Tecuci and then at a normal school in Iași, and then lived in the former town from 1881 to 1885. He subsequently taught in Tecuci, Alexandria, and Roman (at the Roman-Vodă High School); during this period, from the mid-1880s to the late 1890s, he published only sporadically. His reluctance to write was deepened by the accidental death of his 18-year-old daughter in 1894. From 1898, he was a teacher at the Boarding High School in Iași.
His literary debut consisted of verses that appeared in the Piatra Neamț newspaper Corespondența provincială in 1874. In the same town, he founded a newspaper, Situațiunea, that briefly appeared in 1878. While living there, he began climbing the local mountains. Between 1881 and 1882, he was a school inspector in Neamț County, coming to know Ion Luca Caragiale in this capacity. From his return to Piatra Neamț in 1881 until 1885, Hogaș contributed to Asachi magazine; his first contributions to the Amintiri din o călătorie series appeared there from 1882 to 1884, but they had no resonance with critics. Invited to submit poetry to a Bucharest magazine, he refused, probably aware of their antiquated style. He continued the Amintiri series in Xenopol's magazine Arhiva from 1893 to 1902; these contributions also went unnoticed, as the magazine was not taken seriously.
The 1906 establishment of Viața Românească, the formation of a group surrounding the magazine and his resulting friendship with Garabet Ibrăileanu were crucial to his career; his În munții Neamțului and other travel notes appeared there from 1907 to 1912. He cut an odd and colorful picture at Iași: a large man, dressed unusually, wearing a woolen jacket in all seasons, with a huge overcoat and an equally sizable hat, wearing thick boots in winter and custom made sandals in summer, he hustled between the three high schools where he taught, after a breakfast consisting of a chunk of meat roasted over coals, seasoned with a handful of onions and washed down with a pot of coffee. His Viața Românească colleagues respected Hogaș and treated him as a friend, even though he was older than all of them; they asked his advice and unanimously admired his contributions. Caragiale considered him a great writer and spoke glowingly of his writings.
Publication challenges and legacy
He decided to collect his writings in book form in 1912, the year he retired from teaching. Hogaș insisted on making the manuscript corrections himself, but the copies were destroyed because they contained a devastating number of typographical errors; the new edition, from 1914, was almost entirely destroyed in a fire that burned down the warehouse of Viața Românească. He was rejected for a prize from the Romanian Academy, most likely due to a report drawn up by Ioan D. Caragiani. Nostalgic for his teaching days, Hogaș found his strength diminished and compared his retirement to Ovid's exile in Tomis. He withdrew to Piatra Neamț in his last years and did not live to see his book appear, due to the ongoing World War I; he died at Roman. Initially interred there, he was later exhumed, the coffin transported on an ox-drawn cart covered in pine branches, and reburied at Piatra Neamț, in accordance with his wishes. It was only in 1921 that his collected works appeared: covering two volumes, Amintiri dintr-o călătorie and În munții Neamțului, the second was prefaced by Mihail Sadoveanu, a devoted admirer. The book was a critical success, and he was posthumously granted the Romanian Writers' Society Prize in 1921. A storyteller full of charm, he referred to himself as an "explorer" of Moldavia's "colossal" mountains. Riding his horse Pisicuța, he would take random journeys into the mountains. Never keeping a diary, he would set down his observations in the genre that won him posthumous renown: the travel account. His prose is strongly marked by reminiscences from his reading, which he integrated into a parodic and humorous vision.
While George Călinescu considered him merely "a talented, one-dimensional dilettante", other critics, including Ibrăileanu, Tudor Vianu, Vladimir Streinu (who edited his works between 1944 and 1947), Șerban Cioculescu, (who put out another edition in 1956), , and treated his writings with understanding and objectivity. They commented on his literary discourse, his romanticism, evocation of landscapes and classical allusions. In 1944, Cioculescu classified him as a practitioner of the Baroque, while Alexandru Călinescu observed that his corpus is an amalgam, a mosaic of styles and mannerisms. A critical edition, with preface and commentary by Săndulescu, appeared in 1984. Zigu Ornea noted the "observer's and moralist's talent" with which he imagined "tales of an ineffable quality. He was not just a poet of the forest universe but also had an excellent, memorable ability to sketch characters, an extraordinary gift for recreating dialogue." He went on to deny that Hogaș was another Ion Creangă, as had been claimed, "but a city dweller who knew the habits of the mountain environment and the practices of the mountain people", endowed with "a rare capacity for depicting nature, with all its meanings and its beauties", "a seductive refinement and charm and surprise and delight". Excerpts from Hogaș appeared in textbooks for many years, but interest in him waned after the Romanian Revolution, to the point that Nicolae Manolescu called him "a nearly forgotten writer". In 2007, in an effort to make him relevant for a modern audience, Mircea A. Diaconu published a book-length monographic study of Hogaș.
After his death, his widow and two of his daughters continued to reside in his house in Piatra Neamț; in 1939, his daughter Sidonia opened a private museum in one of the rooms. In 1969, the entire house was opened to the public as a state-owned museum, and since 1994 it has attempted to reconstitute the appearance it had during the writer's last five years. Several sites connected with Hogaș are listed as historic monuments by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. In Tecuci, there are two: his mid-19th century house and a more modern bust. Piatra Neamț has three: the 19th century house that is now a museum, a 1924 bas-relief that features him in the center, and his grave. His 19th century villa in Roman is also listed. Calistrat Hogaș National College in Piatra Neamț, where he taught, has borne his name since 1970, while Tecuci's Calistrat Hogaș National College has done so since 1990.
Notes
References
Calistrat Hogaș, Daciana Vlădoiu, Al. Săndulescu (eds.), Opere, vol. I. Bucharest: Editura Minerva, 1984
Z. Ornea, Actualitatea clasicilor. Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1985
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1917 deaths
People from Tecuci
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
Romanian schoolteachers
Heads of schools in Romania
Romanian male short story writers
Romanian short story writers
Romanian humorists
Romanian travel writers |
Charles Hancock FRCO (4 January 1852 – 6 February 1927) was an organist and composer based in England.
Life
His early musical education was as a chorister in the choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was awarded his FRCO in 1872 and graduated from Oxford University in 1874.
In Leicester he was the conductor of the Leicester New Musical Society.
He died on 6 February 1927, a few weeks before the church was upgraded to cathedral status.
Appointments
Organist of St. Mary's Church, Datchet, Windsor
Organist of St. Andrew's Church, Uxbridge
Assistant organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor
Organist of St. Martin's Church, Leicester 1875 - 1927
Compositions
He composed works for choir and organ.
References
1852 births
1927 deaths
English organists
British male organists
English composers
Fellows of the Royal College of Organists |
Thorwa (Devanagari: थोरवा ) is a village in Kuraoli block of Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh. There is a prominent jhil near the village site. As of 2011, Thorwa has a population of 4,030, in 646 households.
Geography
There is a prominent jhil at Thorwa.
Demographics
As of 2011, Thorwa had a population of 4,030, in 646 households. This population was 52.9% male (2,133) and 47.1% female (1,897). The 0-6 age group numbered 636 (318 male and 318 female), or 15.8% of the total population. 791 residents were members of Scheduled Castes, or 19.6% of the total.
The 1981 census recorded Thorwa as having a population of 4,030, in 646 households.
The 1961 census recorded Thorwa as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 1,654 people (865 male and 789 female), in 263 households and 233 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 2,183 acres and it had a post office at that point.
Infrastructure
As of 2011, Thorwa had 1 primary school; it did not have any healthcare facilities. Drinking water was provided by hand pump and tube well; there were no public toilets. The village had a post office but no public library; there was at least some access to electricity for residential and agricultural purposes. Streets were made of both kachcha and pakka materials.
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Joe Dolan (born 27 May 1980) is an English-born Northern Irish former footballer who last played for Walton Casuals.
As a professional footballer, he played in the Football League for Millwall, Stockport County, Brighton & Hove Albion and Leyton Orient. He featured for 18 teams throughout his career, failing to make an appearance for Chelsea.
Professional career
After playing for the youth team of non-League Elmstead, Dolan started his career as a trainee at Chelsea, but was unable to feature for the first team after signing a professional contract ahead of the 1997-98 season. On 15 April 1998, Dolan completed a move to Millwall. The defender was a regular at The Den until breaking his leg, but was unable to reproduce his ability after recovering from the injury.
In October 2004, Dolan joined Crawley Town on a three-month loan deal. Scoring once in 12 appearances for the Red Devils, he also had temporary stays with Stockport County and Brighton & Hove Albion for the remainder of the campaign. He was released at the end of the season.
Dolan joined Leyton Orient on 5 July 2005, but only managed two appearances before his release in January 2006. During his time with the club, he returned to Stockport County on loan while also featuring for Fisher Athletic.
Semi-professional career
Dolan joined Canvey Island in January 2006, making his first permanent transfer in non-league football. He remained with the club for the 2005–06 season, before joining Basingstoke Town in July 2006. Spending three years at the Camrose, he left the club to join Isthmian Premier Division side Carshalton Athletic in October 2009, reuniting with former Basingstoke manager Francis Vines.
In February 2010, Dolan joined Isthmian Division One South side Croydon Athletic, before signing for Cray Wanderers nine months later. However, after just a month with the Wands he joined Kingstonian. In March 2011, he dual registered with Conference South outfit Lewes, before eventually joining Bromley.
Following a short stay with Staines Town, he signed for Havant & Waterlooville in February 2012. Dolan scored an injury time winner against his former club to save Havant from relegation, but was released at the end of the season.
Joining Metropolitan Police for the 2012–13 season, he made the move to Walton Casuals in the final weeks of the season before retiring from non-league football. He later moved to Australia and gained his UEFA A Licence.
Coaching career
In April 2013, following his retirement from playing, Dolan joined Crystal Palace as an Under-12 coach and Head of Education and Welfare. Having gained his UEFA A Licence, he became Director or Football at The Southport School in January 2015 following a move to Australia.
International career
Dolan played five teams for the Northern Ireland U18 team, and six times for the Northern Ireland U21 team. On 24 August 1998, Dolan made his international debut in a 2–1 win over Wales. He also featured against Moldova, Germany on two occasions and Republic of Ireland.
On 8 October 1999, he made his U21 debut in a 2–1 defeat to Finland. He later played against Malta twice, Scotland, Denmark and Iceland. In his international career, Dolan recorded four wins, three draws and four defeats.
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The 1914–15 Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball team represented Niagara University during the 1914–15 NCAA college men's basketball season. The head coach was A.V. Barrett, coaching his fourth season with the Purple Eagles.
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Tau Epsilon Phi (), commonly known as TEP or Tau Ep, is an American collegiate social fraternity that was founded at Columbia University in 1910. Currently, the fraternity charters 30 active chapters and eleven alumni associations, chiefly located at universities and colleges on the East Coast. Its national headquarters is located in Troy, New York. Although originally a Jewish fraternity, TEP opened to non-Jewish members in the 1960s.
Ideals
The organization's creed asserts its governing ideals as friendship, chivalry, and service. TEP attracts and accepts brothers of all religions and ethnicities who agree to be bound by these ideals. Chapters uphold these ideals through participation in various social, academic, athletic, and charity events.
History
Tau Epsilon Phi was founded on October 10, 1910, at Columbia University as an organization of Jewish professional men. It was started in response to the existence of similar organizations which would not admit Jewish members. The fraternity's founding members were:
The first pledge, Maximillian Nemser, was initiated in 1911. In 1912, Beta chapter was founded at the New York College of Dentistry and Gamma chapter was founded at New York University. In 1913, it changed from a professional fraternity to a social fraternity for general college men. Continued expansion led to the adoption of a national constitution in 1916. In 1920, the opening of a chapter at McGill University in Montreal, made ΤΕΦ an international fraternity. The McGill chapter has since been disbanded.
ΤΕΦ began as exclusively Jewish but began admitting non-Jewish members (predominantly Catholics) in the 1950s. Dwight D. Eisenhower was inducted as an honorary member during his presidential administration. William "Bill" Pickens III, a brother at the Kappa Chapter at the University of Vermont was the first black member to be elected president of his local chapter in 1957. Vincent C. Gray, the future Mayor of Washington, DC, was the second black member of Tau Epsilon Phi and was elected president of his local chapter at the Tau Theta chapter at George Washington University .
In September 2010, a group of fraternity members called TEPs for Justice filed a civil lawsuit against the national Tau Epsilon Phi organization. The plaintiffs alleged that the national executive director and board of directors had been operating the fraternity for personal financial gain and that they drove chapters away by making unreasonable financial demands on them (the fraternity had shrunk from 42 active chapters in 1999 to just thirteen in 2010). They further argued that the executive director failed to hold elections for the position for over ten years, even though the fraternity's constitution required it biennially. The executive director stated that elections could not take place because none of the chapters were in good standing due to failure to pay dues, and thus no one could legitimately vote. While the judge in the case ordered a new election overseen by an independent party, that order automatically stayed after the national organization filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January 2011. In May 2011, all allegations were rescinded and the parties settled all outstanding cases with the fraternity agreed to hold new national elections.
After the new national elections, Tau Epsilon Phi went on to continue its operations, and progress was made in expansions. In 2013, the fraternity established the Alpha Tau colony at Rowan University, its first chapter since 1996. Following the success of the colony, the national organization re-established chapters at University of Maryland, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and the University of Buffalo.
In 2018, Tau Epsilon Phi hired a new executive director and re-established its staff in its chapters and colonies. Since then, the fraternity has continued to hold its biennial elections and hired a Chapter Services Consultant and Expansion Consultant. Tau Epsilon Phi is currently focused on expansion efforts to re-establish its presence at campuses where it has had previous chapters as well as exploring new campus opportunities.
Symbols and publications
The fraternity's colors are lavender and white, although most chapters use purple instead of lavender. Its flowers are the lily of the mountain and the violet, in combination. The Tau Epsilon Phi badge is an enameled black oblong that features the Greek letters vertically, in gold. The border of the badge is outlined with emeralds and pearls, the fraternity's official jewels.
By the 1920s, the fraternity published the monthly Tau Epsilon Phi Bulletin. Beginning in 1923, the fraternity published a nationally distributed magazine, The Plume. In 1986, Sidney Suntag, who served as the fraternities' executive secretary from 1946 to 1979, published the book The History of Tau Epsilon Phi: 75 Years of Friendship 1910–1985.
Organization
As of October 25, 1997, the Constitution of Tau Epsilon Phi requires a Grand Chapter meeting every two years. The Grand Chapter consists of delegates from each collegiate and alumni chapter. The Grand Chapter serves as the supreme legislature responsible for electing the Grand Council. The Grand Chapter, while in session, also serves as TEP’s Board of Directors, authorizing or approving all fraternity business, including any modifications to the Constitution and Statutory Code.
The fraternity has eleven alumni associations, including:
Alumni Association of Xi Chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Epsilon Iota Alumni Association (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Epsilon Phi Chapter Alumni Association (Pennsylvania State University)
Epsilon Theta Alumni Association (Queens College)
Lambda Phi Epsilon Alumni Association (Clarkson University)
Nu Chapter Alumni Association (University of Georgia)
The Phi Chi Chapter Alumni Association of New York (City College of New York)
The Sigma Epsilon Alumni Association (Rutgers University at Camden)
Tau Alpha Chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity Alumni Association, Inc. (University of Florida)
Tau Alpha Kappa Alumni Association of Tau Epsilon Phi (Lehigh University)
The Tau Omega Alumni Association (University of Rhode Island)
Chapters
Tau Epsilon Phi has chartered 144 collegiate and provisional chapters throughout its existence.
Notable alumni
Some notable alumni:
Arts and entertainment:
Jeff Altman – stand-up comedian
Howard Benson – Grammy-winning music producer and multi-instrumentalist
Larry David – actor, writer, comedian, and television producer
David Duchovny – actor, writer, and director
Mat Franco – entertainer, magician, winner of Season 09 of America's Got Talent
Benny Goodman – musician and bandleader
Larry King – TV and radio host
Gary Kott – writer and supervising producer of The Cosby Show, Kott worked on the program during its five consecutive years of number-one Nielsen ratings.
Harold Rome - Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songwriter
Ed Sabol – filmmaker, founder of NFL Films
Robert Sherman – songwriter
Jerry Springer – TV and radio host
George Stephanopoulos – TV journalist
Marc Turtletaub – movie producer
Joseph Wapner – judge, The People's Court
Sports and athletics:
Red Auerbach – general manager, Boston Celtics
Bryan Clark – professional wrestler
Jared Ross – professional hockey player
Eddie Fogler – college basketball coach
Howie Roseman – general manager, Philadelphia Eagles
Jedd Fisch – offensive coordinator, Michigan Wolverines
Bob Vogel - college and professional football player Ohio State University Buckeyes and Baltimore Colts
Neal Walk - college and professional basketball player University of Florida and various NBA teams
Politics and government:
Omar Bradley – General of the Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (accepted honorary membership)
Dwight D. Eisenhower – 34th President of the United States (accepted honorary membership)
Kenneth A. Gottlieb, representative in the House of Representatives of Florida
Vincent C. Gray – mayor, Washington, D.C.
Louis Harris – founder, Harris Poll
Irving R. Kaufman – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Rick Kriseman - Mayor, St. Petersburg, Florida
Elliott H. Levitas – U.S. Representative, Georgia's 4th congressional district
Marvin Mandel – governor, Maryland
David Saperstein - United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the first non-Christian to hold this office.
Melvin Steinberg – fifth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Kirill Reznik – state delegate, Maryland House of Delegates
Michael S. Steele – lieutenant governor, Maryland and Chairman, Republican National Committee
Rick Santorum – U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania
Leo M. Gordon – judge, United States Court of International Trade
Robert C. Wright - Pennsylvania State Representative and judge Delaware County Court of Common Pleas
Business, science, and engineering:
Max Abramovitz – architect
Sir Cary Cooper CBE - Professor and renowned British psychologist, president of the British Academy of Management, president of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Samuel J. LeFrak – chairman, LeFrak Corporation
Jonas Salk – discoverer of polio vaccine
Raymond Kurzweil – author and inventor
Harris Rosen - hotelier, investor, and businessman. Founder of the Rosen Hotels & Resorts
Bernard Siegel – Director, Genetics Policy Institute
Chad Trujillo – astronomer and co-discoverer of 12 trans-Neptunian objects, including Eris
Neil Woodward – American Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut
David S. Salomon, Phd. – Breast Cancer Researcher, Cancer gene discoverer.
Other:
Guy Fulton – Architect
Mike Sager – Bestselling author and award-winning journalist
Popular culture
In the Stephen King short story "Strawberry Spring" published in the collection Night Shift, a fraternity house is the opening setting to the story at the fictional New Sharon College.
Night Moves (1975 film), Diane Warren's character Paula is seen wearing a Tau Epsilon Phi sweatshirt.
See also
List of social fraternities and sororities
List of Jewish fraternities and sororities
References
External links
Official website
Historically Jewish fraternities in the United States
North American Interfraternity Conference
Student organizations established in 1910
Student societies in the United States
1910 establishments in New York City |
Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland, which served in British Columbia.
Design and construction
Camosun was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. The vessel was intended to compete against the ships of two rival concerns, of the Canadian Pacific, and and of the Boscowitz Company.
Construction on the vessel began in the spring of 1904 at the Bow McLachlan & Co. shipyard in Paisley, Scotland. Later it was said that construction on Camosun had begun with the objective of completing a tugboat for service on the Hooghly River in India, but when that contract fell through, the ship was completed to the order of the Union Steamship Company. The official Canadian registry number was 121204.
Camosun had a gross tonnage of 1,369 and net tonnage of 793. The ship was long, with a beam of and depth of hold of . The hull was strongly built of steel, with a double bottom in the bow and the stern. The power plant consisted of twin triple-expansion steam engines, rated at 224 nominal horsepower. Steam was generated by two boilers. These were originally coal-fired, and later converted to oil. The ship had a speed maximum speed of but generally cruised at .
The ship had 54 first class berths and 120 deck bunks. The main first class cabins were located on the upper deck together with lounges fore and aft. There was a smoking room as well as additional cabins on the aft top deck, on which the pilot house and officers' quarters were located on fore part of the top deck. The ship had a dining saloon on the main deck. The ship had a cargo capacity of about 300 tons.
Delivery
Camosun left Troon, Scotland on February 19, 1905 under the command of Captain B.L. Johnson for delivery to British Columbia. The ship initially proceeded to Kingston, Jamaica, where command was changed over to Capt. C.B. Smith. The ship then proceeded around Cape Horn to the west coast of North America, where the vessel halted at San Francisco, California, for one month to caulk the decks. Camosun finally arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 20, 1905. Repairs necessary to Camosun following the delivery voyage brought Union Steamship into litigation with the ship's builders.
Operations
Camosun became the flagship of the Union Steamship fleet, and was placed into service by the Union Steamship Company on July 4, 1905. The vessel had a license to carry 199 passengers on coastal voyages, and had a crew of 38. The initial route on which the vessel was placed ran from Vancouver to Stewart, British Columbia via Alert Bay, Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Port Essington, the Skeena River, Port Simpson and the Nass River. Prince Rupert did not then exist, and the ship anchored at a landing float at Stewart, as no wharf had yet been built there.
When Prince Rupert was founded, in 1906, Camosun was the first passenger ship to call at the new port. The harbor at Prince Rupert had not been fully surveyed, and in July 1906, Camosun struck a rock in the harbor. The vessel would have sunk, but was saved by the double-bottom design. As a result, service was disrupted by the need transfer Camosun to Victoria, British Columbia, where the vessel underwent repairs at Joseph Spratt's shipyard.
Within 18 months of entering service, Camosun was equipped with a Marconi wireless transmitter, becoming the first vessel on the Canadian Pacific coast to be so equipped.
The first master of Camosun in operations was Frank Saunders. Echo location using the ships horn was used to navigate by night or in foggy weather, and for his skill in this, Frank Saunders was known as the "fog wizard". Robert Batchelor, an experienced ocean-going seaman, took over as master when Captain Saunders left to command the ships of Canada National.
The fish packing industry was increasing in importance when Camosun came into service. Every spring Camosun transported several hundred Chinese, Japanese, and Indiana workers to the twenty-five packing plants that were on Smith's Inlet, Rivers Inlet and the Skeena and Nass rivers. The ship also transported out packed and frozen fish during the peak of the canning season, which ran from July to October. Once in October 1907, Camosun returned to Vancouver with 6,000 cases of canned salmon, the largest such shipment ever landed at Vancouver up to that time.
Camosun was considered a fast and reliable vessel of the time, being able to make the run from Prince Rupert to Vancouver in 45 hours under Captain Saunders.
In the fall of 1906, Camosun transported the crew of the wrecked sternwheeler from the Skeena River to Vancouver. Pheasant had been lost when the provincial government chartered the steamboat to clear the channel in the Skeena. On November 21, 1906, the sternwheeler's engines had broken down, and the powerless vessel drifted upon some rocks in mid-stream. Having reached shore, the Pheasants crew was picked up by Camosun.
In 1907, there were gold strikes in the Portland Canal area. Servicing these strikes became a profitable business for the Camosun. In 1909, the Union Steamship company acquired a mail contract. Other cargo carried at this time included fifty head of cattle carried on the foredeck.
In 1912, Camosun was converted from coal-fired to oil-fired boilers, the high cost of which was offset by the ease and cleanliness of refueling compared to the use of coal bunkers.
In early January 1913, Camosun proceeded to Van Anda, on Texada Island to transport 71 survivors from the capsize of , another Union steamship.
Grounding
On March 7, 1916, at 2:00 am, while en route to Masset, Camosun under the command of Capt. A.E. Dickson, was moving at one-quarter speed through a heavy snow storm. The ship went aground near Prince Rupert harbor, at Digby Island. At low tide the vessel was completely clear of the water. The seventeen passengers on board were removed by rescue vessels which had come from Prince Rupert. To lighten the ship to allow it to float free at high tide, cargo bound for the Queen Charlotte Islands, including 100 tons of coal, was off-loaded into smaller transshipment vessels. Camosuns strongly built hull allowed the ship to remain on the rock without damage until March 17, when the ship was finally got off under its own power. The damage from the grounding turned out to be minor.
Later service and fate
Camosun continued in service. On January 23, 1923, Camosun sustained minor damage in a collision with the Canadian Pacific's coastal liner . The collision occurred off Kingcome Point in the Grenville Channel as Camosun was proceeding southbound from Prince Rupert. Damage to Camosun was minor, and both ships continued their voyages afterwards.
In another incident in the same winter, Camosun went aground briefly in a fog near Brockton Point in Vancouver's Stanley Park. The Vancouver Fire Department responded to the scene, and removed passengers by use of their fire ladders. Camosun was a heavy vessel with a lot of momentum, and had to be slowed down well before landings. Shortly after World War I, when Camosun was under the command of a captain who was unfamiliar with the vessel, the captain failed to give the order to reduce speed in time, and so Camosun crashed through a dock at the Rivers Inlet cannery, going right up into the cannery building itself.
In 1935 Camosun was sold for scrap.
Notes
References
Henry, Tom, The Good Company – An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships, Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia (1994)
Newell, Gordon R., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle, Washington (1966).
Rushton, Gerald A., Whistle up the Inlet – The Union Steamship Story, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver, British Columbia (1974).
Rushton, Gerald A., Echoes of the Whistle – An Illustrated History of the Union Steamship Company, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, British Columbia (1980)
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Steamboats of British Columbia
Union Steamship Company of British Columbia
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Alison Jane Hastings (born 14 August 1965) is the member for England on the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and a Vice President of the British Board of Film Classification.
She was educated at the Folkestone School for Girls and became editor of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle for six and half years (1996–2002) and a member of the Press Complaints Commission (1999–2002). She also worked at Thomson Regional Newspapers as Head of Editorial Staff Development.
On 1 November 2006 Hastings was appointed as one of the founding members of the BBC Trust. Her term expired on 31 October 2014. As National Trustee for England, Hastings chairs the Audience Council England, an advisory body to the BBC Trust.
External links
BBC Trust biography
Audience Council England
British Board of Film Classification
References
1965 births
Living people
People educated at Folkestone School for Girls
Trustees of the British Broadcasting Corporation |
(or Kitasenchi Station) is a railway station on the Tokyu Oimachi Line in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation.
Station layout
The station consists of a ground-level island platform serving two tracks.
History
November 10, 1928: Opened as .
May 21, 1930: Renamed .
January 1, 1936: Changed its name into the present name.
Bus services
Kita-senzoku 2-chome bus stop (Tokyu Bus)
References
Railway stations in Tokyo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Tokyu Oimachi Line
Stations of Tokyu Corporation |
Libertad me das (Spanish for "Freedom you give me") is a 1998 full-length Spanish language album by Christian singer Sandi Patty. The title song is also the Spanish version of her Artist of My Soul track "You Set Me Free." The album consists of some choice songs sung in Spanish from her Word catalog and is co-produced by Patty's long-time producer Greg Nelson with Spanish translation arrangements by Isaac Hernandez. Libertad me das won at the 30th GMA Dove Awards for Spanish Language Album of the Year in a tie along with Crystal Lewis' Oro (her Spanish language album version of Gold).
One of the albums most influential songs is “If Looks Could Kill” by Destroy Lonely (a popular rapper).
Track listing
Accolades
GMA Dove Awards
References
1998 albums
Sandi Patty albums
Word Records albums |
The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 31st edition of the men's singles championship.
Stellan Bengtsson defeated Shigeo Itoh in the final, winning three sets to one to secure the title.
Results
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
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Kalpana Hasmukhrai Rawal (born 15 January 1946 in Bhuj, India) is a Kenyan-Asian lawyer and the former Deputy Chief Justice and Vice President of the Supreme Court of Kenya. She was sworn in on June 3, 2013 as the Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya in a ceremony presided over by the President of Kenya and the Chief Justice. After a protracted case on the question of the retirement age of Judges who were appointed under the old Constitution of Kenya, the Supreme Court delivered a Ruling which effectively set the retirement age at 70 years, sending the Deputy Chief Justice and one other Supreme Court Judge who had reached 70 on retirement.
Education and early career
Rawal holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, and Bachelors and Master of Laws in constitutional and administrative law. She received her LLB and LLM degrees in India, where she practised for three years under the tutelage of P. N. Bhagwati who later became the 17th Chief Justice of India.
In 1973, at the age of 27, Kalpana Hasmukhrai Rawal moved to Kenya from India to join her husband, businessman Hasmukhrai Rawal. Two years later, she set up her own law firm, becoming the first woman to run a law firm in Kenya - a move that put her in the long path to being appointed the first female judge of Asian origin by then President Daniel Moi. The remarkable woman from India would serve in the highest court in the land as the deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Her father U.J. Bhatt served as a judge in the Gujarat High Court and her grandfather Jaduram Bhatt who was a law minister.
Kalpana was born in 1946 in Bhuj (Kutch), India to Umangilal (U.J) and Anuben Bhatt of Gujrat. When she was born, India was a conservative society and giving birth to daughters was no cause for celebration. Her parents, however, gave her and her four sisters the best education
and she showed her worth by superseding their expectations and becoming the first female lawyer in Kenya. She was enrolled as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya in July, 1975. She had taught administration and regular police officers at Lower Kabete for a year. When she started her private practice, K H Rawal Advocates, the offices were located at Imenti House and she worked from there until 1999 when she was appointed Commissioner of Assize. In 1975 she worked as a teacher of both administration and regular police officers at Lower Kabete. In the same year, she set up a private practice becoming the first woman lawyer to do so in Kenya. She run a general practice until 1999 when she was appointed a commissioner of assize, and judge of the High Court thereafter.
Judicial career
Rawal has over 40 years experience in the legal profession and as at May 2011 had served as a judge for 11 years most of which was in Nairobi. A year later, the mother of two sons was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Kenya, and she consequently stopped working at her law firm which is still operational. During her tenure, she reformed each of the divisions in which she was appointed – Civil, Criminal, Family, Environmental and Land Law – by reducing severe backlog and improving the expeditious disposal of cases.
In April, 2010, Rawal was appointed the Liaison Judge for Kenya making her a member of the International Hague Network of Judges and the Chief Justice also appointed her to assist the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take evidence of security officers in respect of the investigation into 2007/2008 Post Election Violence.
In 2011, while still at the High Court, she delivered a judgment against the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, barring it from confiscating assets of Stanley Amuti, former National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation finance boss, to recover Sh140 million.
In the same year, she was among nine applicants interviewed for the position of Chief Justice of Kenya by the Judicial Service Commission but she lost to former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
Opportunity came knocking on February 22, 2013 when the Judicial Service Commission nominated her for the position of Deputy Chief Justice.
During her 40 years as a legal professional, Rawal played a big role and paved the way for many women in the justice system
. Rawal’s pivotal role has not gone unnoticed
and she was awarded the Elder of the Order of Burning Spear (EBS) by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Chief Justice interviews
In May 2011, she was among nine applicants interviewed for the position Chief Justice of Kenya by the Judicial Service Commission (Kenya). She however lost to the then eventual appointee Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
2012 Kenya Police helicopter crash inquiry
Justice Rawal led the judicial inquiry into the June 2012 Kenya Police helicopter crash that killed all six people on board including Minister George Saitoti and Assistant Minister Orwa Ojode.
Vetting Board decision
In September 2012, the Kenya Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board in its fourth Determination declared Rawal fit for office. It had earlier delayed its decision as she was among judges hearing a national interest case to determine on the date of the next Kenyan general elections.
Deputy chief justice nomination
Following the resignation of Nancy Barasa, Rawal applied for the vacant position of Deputy Chief Justice advertised by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) on 9 November 2012. The JSC however re-advertised because it was dissatisfied by the number of applicants. The position subsequently attracted applications from 17 women and one man. She was among five shortlisted for the position.
On 22 February 2013, the JSC announced that after completing the interviews it had nominated Court of Appeal Judge Kalpana Rawal. She was successfully vetted by Parliament, and then appointed by the President as the Deputy Chief Justice and Vice President of the Supreme Court.
Panama Papers
After the a huge leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonsec. According to the documents date to September 7, 2007, her husband set up investment companies to invest in the U.K. These were perfectly legitimate and legal
but she was not to have any control over the same.
U.K. laws as well as international law allowed and indeed encouraged offshore holdings and provided tax incentives for such investments
. All her family's involvements were deemed perfectly legitimate
.
Retirement
Having been born in January 1946, Lady Justice Kalpana Rawal was required to retire from the Supreme Court upon reaching 70 in January 2016 in line with Article 167(1) of the Constitution of Kenya. However, when the Judicial Service Commission served her with a retirement notice, she launched a protracted case insisting that she should leave office at 74 years since she was first appointed as a Judge under the old Constitution of Kenya which set the retirement age of Judges at 74. Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal confirmed the retirement age as 70, but she filed a further appeal before her colleagues in the Supreme Court who delivered a ruling which effectively confirmed the retirement age as 70. She was therefore honourably retired on 14 June 2016. During her 40 years as a legal professional, Rawal played a big role
and paved the way for many women in the justice system. Rawal’s pivotal role has not gone unnoticed
and she was awarded the Elder of the Order of Burning Spear (EBS) by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Personal life
Her father was a judge of the High Court of India, while her grandfather served as a law minister in India.
See also
First women lawyers around the world
Supreme Court of Kenya
References
1946 births
Living people
20th-century Kenyan lawyers
21st-century Kenyan judges
Kenyan people of Indian descent
Kenyan women judges
People named in the Panama Papers
21st-century women judges |
The Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, United States is a theater at the southwest corner of Monroe Park on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the largest venue of Richmond CenterStage's performing arts complex. Formerly known as The Mosque and the Landmark Theater, the Altria Theater was originally built for Shriners of the Acca Temple Shrine.
In 1940, the building was purchased by the City of Richmond, which converted much of its interior for municipal use. The Richmond Police Department occupied the theater's basement, where they opened up office space, classrooms, a gymnasium, and a shooting range for the police academy. An underground swimming pool was also maintained, initially for training purposes, until it was filled in with concrete during the 2014 renovation. Many are familiar with the basement of the Mosque as the location for VCU class registration, which occurred several times each year.
The name of the theater was changed in 1995 from "The Mosque" to "Landmark Theater" following a year of restoration. After a $10 million renovation gift from the company, the theater was officially dubbed the Altria Theater in February 2014. It annually plays host to big-name musical and theatrical performers.
The theater was designed in Moorish Revival style by Marcellus E. Wright Sr. in association with Charles M. Robinson and Charles Custer Robinson circa 1925. J. R. Ray, of the Richmond Tile and Mosaic Works, was responsible for the widely used ornamental tile, and J. Frank Jones, of the Rambusch Decorating Company, oversaw the interior decoration. The building officially opened in 1927, and was dedicated by the Shriners in 1928.
Performers such as Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Burr, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Roy Buchanan, B B King, Widespread Panic and The Supremes held shows at this venue. Notable Broadway performances such as Wicked, The Lion King, Les Miserables, and Cats have also been past visitors of The Altria Theater.
Statistics
Theater capacity: 3,565 seats
Ballroom capacity: 1,100 persons
Ballroom dimensions:
2023 shooting
On June 6, 2023, a shooting occurred during the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School. Richmond Public Schools canceled the graduation ceremony for Thomas Jefferson High School that evening following the shooting, and RPS will be fully closed on Wednesday. Two suspects were taken into custody. One suspect remains in custody while the second was cleared and released.
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External links
Private page with many pictures and detailed information about historic performances
Landmark Theater information page
Photographs of the theater's interior, 1950s
Masonic buildings completed in 1926
Theatres completed in 1926
Concert halls in the United States
Former Masonic buildings in Virginia
Moorish Revival architecture in Virginia
Theatres in Richmond, Virginia
Shriners
Historic district contributing properties in Virginia
1926 establishments in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia |
Mickel Pierre (born March 13, 1988, in Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago), is a field hockey player who plays in the midfielder position.
He has represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally at the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games and Pan American Cup.
Pierre has played club hockey for Canterbury.
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1988 births
Trinidad and Tobago male field hockey players
Male field hockey midfielders
Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Living people
Field hockey players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Trinidad and Tobago
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Trinidad and Tobago
Commonwealth Games competitors for Trinidad and Tobago
Pan American Games competitors for Trinidad and Tobago
2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players |
Xavier Brewer (born January 25, 1990) is an American football coach and former cornerback who is currently a defensive analyst at the University of Oklahoma. He was previously a graduate assistant at Clemson University, and cornerbacks coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He also played college football at Clemson before going on to sign with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) as a undrafted free agent in 2013. He also spent time with the Jacksonville Sharks of the Arena Football League (AFL).
College career
Initially interested in schools like Florida, Miami (FL), and Georgia, Brewer committed to play college football at Clemson after being convinced to visit the campus by then-recruiting coordinator Dabo Swinney and liking it.
After redshirting his true freshman season, Brewer spent his redshirt freshman season as a reserve cornerback and special teams player. In his sophomore year, he was named the starting nickelback when the defense was in nickel defense. By the conclusion of his playing career, he was a team co-captain and compiled 193 tackles throughout his career.
Professional career
After going undrafted in the 2013 NFL Draft, Brewer signed with the Dallas Cowboys and played throughout the preseason before being released as the final part of roster cuts.
Brewer signed with the Jacksonville Sharks of the Arena Football League in 2014. He was placed on recallable assignment in 2015.
Coaching career
At the conclusion of his playing career, Brewer went on to work as a personal trainer before going into coaching. He also spent time as the head coach at Landrum Middle School in the St. Johns County School District.
Brewer joined the coaching staff at his alma mater Clemson in 2019 as a graduate assistant. He was named the cornerbacks coach at Louisiana–Monroe in 2021.
Personal life
Brewer's father Chris was a member of the Denver Broncos and was part of the Denver Dynamite ArenaBowl I championship team. His brother C. J. was also a member of the San Francisco 49ers practice squad.
References
External links
Xavier Brewer on Twitter
1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Jacksonville, Florida
Players of American football from Jacksonville, Florida
Coaches of American football from Florida
American football cornerbacks
Clemson Tigers football players
Dallas Cowboys players
Jacksonville Sharks players
Clemson Tigers football coaches
Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football coaches
Oklahoma Sooners football coaches |
The Callao drum (Sciaena callaensis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. This species is found in the eastern Pacific cean where it is endemic to the coast of Peru.
References
callao drum
Fish described in 1946
Taxa named by Samuel Frederick Hildebrand |
Major General Peter Gilchrist (born 28 February 1952) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 2000 to 2004.
Military career
Educated at Marlborough College, Gilchrist was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1973. He became Commanding Officer of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in 1993, Deputy Director of Ordnance in 1996 and Programme Director for Armoured Systems in 1998. He went on to be an executive director at the Defence Procurement Agency and Master-General of the Ordnance in 2000. He was deployed Afghanistan as Deputy Commander at Combined Forces Command in 2004, and then became Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 2006. He retired in 2009.
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1952 births
British Army major generals
British military attachés
British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Living people
Royal Tank Regiment officers |
William Brittelle (born 1977) is a North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based composer of genre-fluid electro-acoustic music. Also active as a producer and curator, Brittelle is co-founder/co-artistic director of New Amsterdam Records with composers Sarah Kirkland Snider and Judd Greenstein and the curatorial collective Infinite Palette with producer Kate Nordstrum and composer Daniel Wohl.
Early life and education
Brittelle was raised in rural North Carolina, and often cites his upbringing in a small southern town with a conservative Christian environment as in opposition to his Brooklyn-based, agnostic Buddhist adulthood, a dissonance reflected in his musical output. Though a trained composer and orchestrator, he has often expressed frustration and dissolution with the world of academia and the classical industry in general. In undergrad, while enrolled at Vanderbilt University as a composition major, Brittelle experienced what he has referred to as a psychotic break, in part as a result of academic artistic constrictions, resulting in him briefly dropping out of school. He has claimed this breakdown, and his subsequent recovery, to be a formative experience in the development of his collage-based, non-developmental, genre-fluid style of composition. After being enrolled in a D.M.A. program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for a period of two years, Brittelle dropped out and re-enrolled privately with his primary teacher, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici, for two subsequent years as a non-matriculating student. In addition to Del Tredici, Brittelle's musical mentors have included Mike Longo (longtime pianist/arranger for Dizzy Gillespie), and punk guitarist Richard Lloyd of Television.
After dropping out of graduate school, Brittelle found himself attracted to pop, hip-hop, and punk music as a way of connecting more viscerally with an audience. This led to fronting a New York post-punk band and working at Sin-e, a heralded New York City music venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. However following a severe vocal injury he returned to composition, armed with the desire to incorporate disparate and oppositional influences into one vision. Brittelle has stated that his first album "Mohair Time Warp" written in the wake of his vocal injury, is the first example of work that represented the full breadth of his musical vision.
Career
His work has been praised on NPR's All Things Considered and in many other major outlets, including the New York Times (Sunday Arts & Leisure), The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, MUSO, the Oxford Culture Review, and Wisconsin Public Radio. The New Yorker labeled Brittelle as “a mercurial artist whose oeuvre embraces post-punk flamboyance, chamber music elegance, and much more.” Classical TV has stated: “William Brittelle is creating a body of work that has no precedent, and marks him as one of the most promising heirs of the vital American maverick tradition.” Furthermore, Amid the Minotaurs, a piece commissioned and premiered by vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, was featured on the group's Grammy-winning debut album.
Brittelle's discography includes Loving the Chambered Nautilus, a series of electro-acoustic chamber music pieces melding classic synthesizer sounds and drum programming with virtuosic and textured classical composition written for ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble). The album was featured by NPR's All Things Considered, and Nautilus hit #1 on Amazon's Chamber Music Chart. The New York Times labeled the work “bright and joyous,” and MUSO dubbed it “a fast, fun, freedom-fueled flurry of a record.”
Previous to Nautilus, Brittelle released Television Landscape, his fully composed, post-apocalyptic art rock concept album scored for orchestra, rock band, synths, and children's choir. Dubbed “irresistible” by the New York Times and “a glorious reclamation of lush sounds crusty critics have vilified for years” by Time Out New York, Television Landscape drew substantial praise from both rock and classical critics, leading the Los Angeles Times to say, “You might wonder if Jane’s Addiction had discovered the soul of Debussy.” eMusic called the album “expansive, anthemic, all-encompassing, shot through with raw emotion” and named it to its "Albums of the Year" list. The album's centerpiece, the nostalgia-soaked soft rock ballad "Sheena Easton," was singled out by PopMatters for its “complex orchestrations” and “mind-bending arrangements.” The Believer magazine chose the album's closing track "The Color of Rain" for inclusion in its prestigious annual music issue.
Brittelle's compositions have been presented at venues across the world, including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Da Camera in Houston, Seattle's Town Hall, the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York, the Kahserne in Switzerland, the Gothenburg Symphony Chamber Series in Sweden, the Freemantle Arts Center in Perth, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His music has been commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Walker Art Center, the Liquid Music Series, the Alabama Symphony, Mass MoCA, and the Basel Sinfonietta among others. Notable commissions include Love Letter for Arca, piece for synthesizer and orchestra, and Obituary Birthday, a requiem for Kurt Cobain, with the Seattle Symphony, Oh Albert: An LSD Oratorio for the Basel Sinfonietta, Psychedelics for Roomful of Teeth and full concert choir, and Dido's Lament Revisited for Wild Up and Zola Jesus for the Ecstatic Music Festival. Past collaborative works include orchestral arrangements for the bands Lower Dens and Wye Oak (band) and electronic artists Oneohtrix Point Never and Son Lux.
A further recent project includes Si Otsedoha (We're Still Here), a collaboration with the Easter Band of the Cherokee Indian and the North Carolina Symphony which serves as platform for a severely marginalized community to re-contextualize its suffering as strength, to connect with its oppressor in a proud and public way from a position of power. The work, commissioned by the Eastern Band in effort to create new art featuring the Cherokee language, premiered in October 2018 with a multi-date tour of North Carolina.
Brittelle has also been the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, and ASCAP. He formerly served on the faculty of The New School in New York City, developing and teaching courses in Post-Genre Music and the Ethos of Punk.
References
External links
William Brittelle
New Amsterdam Records
New York Times Profile
Interview with Jayson Greene
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
21st-century American male musicians
1977 births |
Pichhore is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gwalior district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
By-prabendra rajput
King of dhapora
Demographics
India census, Pichhore had a population of 11,725. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Pichhore has an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 63%, and female literacy is 40%. In Pichhore, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.
References
Cities and towns in Gwalior district |
Yvette Cason is an American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C.
Career
Cason was an understudy for the character of Effie White in the original 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, 1985 international tour, and 1987 Broadway revival. In 2006, she played May, the mother of Deena Jones, portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the feature film version of Dreamgirls. She also appeared in an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens as Mrs. Blanchard in the episode "Road Rayge". Her early musical training (while growing up in Washington, DC) was at The Sewell Music Conservatory.
Cason played Dahlia, the wicked stepmother, in the original 1996 run of Sisterella. It was said that the character was played "with exquisite relish" by Cason.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
African-American actresses
Actresses from Washington, D.C.
Miss Black America delegates
African-American beauty pageant winners
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women |
The 2012 United States Senate election in Delaware took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tom Carper won re-election to a third term in a landslide.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
Tom Carper, incumbent U.S. Senator
Eliminated in primary
Keith Spanarelli, businessman (no endorsement)
Results
General election
Candidates
Tom Carper (D), incumbent U.S. Senator
Andrew Groff (Green), businessman; also endorsed by the Libertarian Party
Alex Pires (IPoD), businessman and attorney
Kevin Wade (R), businessman
Debates
Only one debate was held between Carper, Wade, and Independent Party candidate Pires.
Complete video of debate, October 16, 2012 - C-SPAN
Predictions
Fundraising
Top contributors
Top industries
Results
See also
2012 United States Senate elections
2012 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware
2012 Delaware gubernatorial election
References
External links
Delaware Office of the Elections Commission
Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
Outside spending at the Sunlight Foundation
Candidate issue positions at On the Issues
Official campaign websites (Archived)
Tom Carper for U.S. Senate
Andrew Groff for U.S. Senate
Alex Pires for U.S. Senate
Kevin Wade for U.S. Senate
2012
Delaware
Senate |
The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC; formerly the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission) was a regional zoning, planning and regulatory agency in northern New Jersey. Its founding mandates were to protect the delicate balance of nature, provide for orderly development, and manage solid waste activities in the New Jersey Meadowlands District. The Commission operated as an independent state agency between 1969 and 2015, loosely affiliated with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. NJMC was merged with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority through legislative action.
Establishment
The Meadowlands Commission was established by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature in 1969, sponsored in the New Jersey Senate by Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. The merger with the Sports and Exposition Authority was made effective in February 2015.
Geographic jurisdiction
The Meadowlands District is composed of , approximately 31 mi2, of 14 municipalities in Bergen and Hudson counties. They are: Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, South Hackensack, and Teterboro in Bergen County; and Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen, and Secaucus in Hudson County.
The Meadowlands District stretches mainly along the delta of the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers as they flow into Newark Bay; tributaries of the Hackensack include Berrys Creek and Overpeck Creek. The District is bordered by U.S. Route 46 on the north, Routes U.S. Route 1/9 (Tonnelle Avenue) and the freight rail line owned by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation Corp. (the former Conrail main line) on the east, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) commuter rail lines and Pulaski Skyway on the south, and Route 17, the Pascack Valley Line, and the Kingsland rail line on the west.
Program history
Prior to the establishment of the NJMC, the Meadowlands region was viewed as a dumping ground, and the Hackensack River and its marshes were often seen as places to fill for commercial and industrial development.
Through cooperation with environmentalists, businesses, mayors, state and federal agencies, the NJMC authored a new Master Plan for the Meadowlands District in 2004 to target development to brownfield and greyfield sites, revitalizing formerly blighted areas into places of economic and community growth and preserving of wetlands and open space. The new Master Plan anticipates a market value of $5.6 billion and the creation of 56,250 new permanent jobs in the Meadowlands District through the Secaucus Transit Village, Belleville Turnpike Redevelopment Area, and other redevelopment projects.
Following the Master Plan's adoption, the NJMC focused its goals into four policy areas: improving environmental stewardship, fostering economic success with an eye on business growth, aiding municipalities, and expanding special services, educational and cultural programs. These policies are backed by MAGNET (Meadowlands Area Grants for Natural and Economic Transformation), a five-year, $32 million funding plan.
In 2006, milestones for the NJMC included plans to bring 20 megawatts of renewable energy (solar, tidal, geothermal, etc.) to the Meadowlands District by the year 2020, the establishment of green building guidelines to encourage environmentally friendly development, endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and the release of "Birding and Wildlife Trails: Meadowlands and More," a free, 72-page color guide encouraging visitors to enjoy eco-tourism activities in the region including birding, catch-and-release fishing, hiking, canoeing, and pontoon boat cruises offered in the summer.
The NJMC also advanced the sharing of services between the 14 Meadowlands municipalities to lighten the municipalities’ individual tax burdens. The agency has established a municipal equipment pool, offered financial and technical assistance with New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) planning, and allocated $1 million to investigate additional shared services programs. The agency is also leading regional efforts to improve stormwater management and create a comprehensive transportation plan for the Meadowlands District.
Environmental research
In order to support its land use management and other policies with scientific data, the NJMC established the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI). MERI has placed comprehensive air and water quality monitoring systems throughout the Meadowlands District, and has developed Geographic Information System digital mapping technology for the Meadowlands municipalities. MERI functions as a center for scientific investigations of the urban wetlands, their functioning, restoration, and sustainable management. In the Kearny Marsh, MERI is currently conducting a study utilizing Aquablok to trap contaminated sediments in the marsh floor while allowing plants and aquatic life to thrive above. The study will attempt to determine if Aquablok improves water quality, biodiversity, and the ability of flora and fauna to colonize the marsh, once called the "best freshwater marsh in the state" by the New Jersey Audubon Society.
Land protections in the district
The NJMC has acquired more than of the remaining wetlands in the Meadowlands District for preservation and enhancement. The Skeetkill Creek Marsh in Ridgefield, Harrier Meadow in North Arlington, and Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus have been restored or enhanced through the agency's efforts. Goals of restorations include increased tidal flow, the reduction of phragmites, and greater use of the site by estuarine species of fish, waterfowl, and shorebirds.
According to a report by the New Jersey Audubon Society, the Meadowlands is a major part of the Atlantic Flyway migration route. Two hundred and sixty five species of birds including great and snowy egrets, tree swallow, peregrine falcon, osprey, black-crowned night heron, ruddy duck, red-tailed hawk, double-crested cormorant, and American bald eagle have been spotted in the Meadowlands.
Many of these species can be seen from the of park lands and eight miles (13 km) of trails that have been constructed by the NJMC for public access, environmental education, conservation and enhancement. These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center. The center is currently being expanded to include an observatory, additional science labs and classrooms to accommodate the thousands of students who engage in hands-on wetlands studies of the Meadowlands each year. The NJMC's Flyway Gallery, located within the MEC, fosters a cultural identity unique to the Meadowlands District by hosting public contests and exhibits by local and environmental artists.
Other NJMC Parks include Laurel Hill County Park in Secaucus, Kearny Marsh in Kearny, and the future River Barge Park and Marina in Carlstadt. Currently in development, River Barge Park and Marina will feature picnic areas, signage detailing the history and the future of the Hackensack River, and trails entering the Richard P. Kane Natural Area. It will be the first public marina on the lower Hackensack River.
References
External links
New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority
Meadowlands Environment Center
Water Management Area 5
Meadowlands Regional Chamber of Commerce
Meadowlands Commission
Bergen County, New Jersey
Hudson County, New Jersey
New Jersey Meadowlands District
Environment of New Jersey
Government agencies established in 1969
Government in the New York metropolitan area |
"Exodus" is the season 4 finale episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and part one of a three-part story arc. This episode was nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series".
Summary
A Goa'uld Ha'tak appears in orbit of the planet Vorash, the current main base of the Tok'ra. SG-1 (having obtained the mothership in Double Jeopardy) transports down, much to Tanith's surprise. Col. O'Neill and Teal'c meet with the council to discuss the imminent relocation of the Tok'ra. When Tanith asks why he was not informed of this, they reveal to Tanith that they knew all along about him being a traitor, and have used him to funnel misinformation to Apophis. He is then imprisoned and Teal'c visits him. He informs him about what will happen to him and they also talk about Shan'auc.
On the ship the Tok'ra prepare to evacuate while Jacob talks with Jack about the ship and the Goa'uld. In his cell Tanith talks with a guard and then breaks down. When the guards enter the cell he kills them and flees. He returns to the surface and uses a Goa'uld long range communication device to contact Apophis. Teal'c then searches for him together with the Tok'ra. Meanwhile, Jack and Daniel are informed by Major Carter and Jacob that Apophis is coming and that they plan to destroy his fleet by blowing up the sun of the solar system. This will be done by launching the Stargate into the sun while it is connected to P3W-451 – a planet where they previously found a black hole (See "A Matter of Time"). The gate will suck in enough mass from the star to cause it to supernova. Jack agrees to the plan. Later Daniel talks with Teal'c about his revenge on Tanith.
After the Tok'ra are all evacuated, SG-1 and Jacob fly to the sun where they are able to dial P3W-451. They then launch the stargate into the sun and plan to flee. Suddenly an Al'kesh, a Goa'uld mid-range bomber, de-cloaks and attacks. Although Teal'c fires back he can only make one hit. Finally the Al'kesh is able to damage the ship, so that they can't enter hyperspace. Jack and Teal'c then board a Death glider to fly to the Al'kesh but before they can shoot it returns to the planet. Teal'c follows it, despite Jack's worries. On the Ha'tak, Jacob and Sam start to repair their systems. At the planet Teal'c and Jack are able to destroy the Al'kesh (much to Tanith's shock, who was waiting for it on the planet) but they are caught in the explosion. Jack can only send an emergency call to the Ha'tak, where Jacob and Sam are partly successful with their repairs.
Back on the planet Jack and Teal'c are unharmed when the glider crash lands, and go to the Tok'ra base. However, Apophis' fleet appears, and Apophis sends two Jaffa to Tanith. Back on the ship the repairs are complete and they hide from Apophis. On the planet, Teal'c is shot with a staff weapon and captured by Tanith, who brings him to Apophis. Jack is stunned by Tanith's Zat, but is able to wound him in return. Teal'c mocks Apophis, telling him that the Tok'ra escaped.
Jacob launches all the Hatak's gliders, which are programmed to flee the system. Apophis follows them but soon realizes that it was a trick. In the meantime Jack is rescued from the planet by his team mates. Finally, the sun explodes and SG-1 escapes, while Apophis' fleet is destroyed. SG-1's flight through hyperspace is interrupted and when they arrive, they realize that they have crossed four million light years. Apophis' mothership appears, trapped with them far from home.
Reception
This episode was nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series".
References
External links
Exodus at mgm.com
Exodus at scifi.com
Stargate SG-1 episodes
2001 American television episodes |
720 most commonly refers to:
720 (number)
AD 720, a year in the Gregorian calendar
720 BC, a year in the Gregorian calendar
720 AUC, a year in the Julian calendar
720 may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
720°, a 1986 skateboarding video game
Minuscule 720, a Greek minuscule manuscript
Places
Area code 720, an area code in Colorado, United States
720 Park Avenue, a historic residential building in New York City, New York, United States
Science and technology
720 AM, a radio frequency
720 Bohlinia, a minor planet
720p, a progressive HDTV signal format
Code page 720, a code page used under DOS to write Arabic
Lenovo IdeaPad 720, a discontinued brand of notebook computers
Transportation
Aircraft
Boeing 720, an American narrow-body airliner
Automobiles
Lifan 720, a Chinese mid-size sedan
McLaren 720S, a British sports car
Rail transportation
British Rail Class 720, a class of electric multiple unit trains
New South Wales 620/720 class railcar, a class of diesel multiple unit trains
South Australian Railways 720 class, a class of 2-8-4 steam locomotives
Roads and routes
List of highways numbered 720
Other uses
720 Naval Air Squadron, a former Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm |
Stormbringer is a magic sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. It is described as a huge, black sword covered with strange runes, created by the forces of Chaos with its own will. It is wielded by the doomed albino emperor Elric of Melniboné. Stormbringer makes its first appearance in the 1961 novella The Dreaming City. In the four novellas collected in the 1965 book Stormbringer, the sword's true nature is revealed.
Description
This powerful enchanted black blade is a member of a demon race that takes on the form of a sword, and as such is an agent of Chaos. Stormbringer's edge is capable of cutting through virtually any material not protected by potent sorcery, and it can drink the soul from (and thereby kill) any unprotected living creature upon delivering any wound, even a scratch. Its most distinctive features are that it has a mind and will of its own, and that it feeds upon the souls of those it kills. Elric loathes the sword but is almost helpless without the strength and vitality it confers on him.
Stormbringer's hunger for souls is such that it frequently betrays Elric by creating a bloodlust in his mind, turning in his hands and killing friends and lovers. The cursed nature of the sword adds to Elric's guilt and self-loathing, even as he feels pleasure when the stolen lifeforce enters his body.
Stormbringer has a "brother" sword named Mournblade, which was at one time wielded by Elric's cousin and enemy Yyrkoon. It is identical to Stormbringer in most regards. Later stories reveal that there are thousands of identical demons, all taking the form of swords. Three such sibling blades appear in The Revenge of the Rose and many more "brother blades" are seen in the novel Stormbringer, but only Mournblade and Stormbringer are named.
In Elric of Melniboné, Elric and cousin Yyrkoon find the runeblades in a realm of Limbo and commence battle. Elric and Stormbringer disarm Yyrkoon, and Mournblade disappears. Yyrkoon is defeated, and Elric and his cousin return to Imrryr.
In The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric returns to Imrryr after a long journey and confronts Yyrkoon, who usurped the throne in his absence. Yyrkoon has regained Mournblade through unknown means and uses it to attack. Elric and Stormbringer kill Yyrkoon, and no further mention is made of Mournblade until it is later disclosed that it was recovered by the Seers of Nihrain, to be wielded by Elric's cousin, Dyvim Slorm. Imrryr is sacked, though the pillagers' fate is not much better, being pursued by the golden battle barges and the few dragons who were awakened, led by Dyvim Tvar. Only Elric's ship escapes, propelled by the aid of his sorcery.
In Stormbringer, Elric learns that the representatives of Fate, which serve neither Chaos nor Law, recovered Mournblade from the netherworld. They present it to Elric and explain that the runeblades were designed to be wielded by those with Melnibonéan royal blood as a check against the might of powerful beings including the Dead Gods of Chaos. Elric gives Mournblade to his kinsman, Dyvim Slorm, and the two men become embroiled in a confrontation between the gods. Elric summons others of Stormbringer's demonic race (also in the form of swords) to fight against a number of Dukes of Hell, brought to the Young Kingdoms by Jagreen Lern, theocrat of Pan Tang.
Ultimately, Elric's reliance on Stormbringer proves his undoing: after the utter destruction of the Young Kingdoms in the battle of Law and Chaos, just as it seems that the cosmic Balance has been restored, Stormbringer kills Elric, transforms into a humanoid demon, and leaps laughing into the sky, to corrupt the newly-remade world once more. The sword-spirit says to the dead Elric: "Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!"
In the book The Quest for Tanelorn, a character claims that the demon in the sword is named Shaitan – a variant of 'Satan', and in Arabic a word meaning a devil, if not the Devil. In the same book it is revealed that the demon can inhabit either the black sword or the black jewel, the jewel which was once embedded in the skull of Dorian Hawkmoon. Hawkmoon was an avatar, like Elric, of the Eternal Champion.
Analysis
The theme of a cursed magical sword which causes evil deeds when drawn goes back to the sword Tyrfing in Norse Mythology, with which Moorcock was likely familiar. Stormbringer was influential in popularizing this trope in the fantasy genre. Moorcock intended the sword character to serve as a key element of his discussion of "how mankind's wish-fantasies can bring about the destruction of... part of mankind". Claiming influence from Freud and Jung he says: "The whole point of Elric's soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, was addiction: to sex, to violence, to big, black, phallic swords, to drugs, to escape. That's why it went down so well in the rock’n’roll world".
Literature scholar Dennis Wilson Wise wrote that "a weapon like Stormbringer reinforces liberal selfhood in a particularly concrete way. It carries a continuous external threat to personal autonomy, and it subverts a fully rational self-determination. Modern fantasy heroes, especially in epic fantasy, often rail against "destiny" or a prophecy, but such destinies and prophecies lack Stormbringer's sentient specificity."
Ontologist Levi Bryant stated that Stormbringer belongs to a special class of magical items which also appear in Dungeons & Dragons, which are not "merely passive tools", but have will, goals, alignment and a personality of their own. Stormbringer talks to, influences and struggles with its wielder Elric. Bryant saw the sword as an active entity, not unlike "some of the artificial life we are developing today", and also compared it to "technologies unleashed on the world that are agents in their own right".
Books featuring Stormbringer
Books by Moorcock featuring Stormbringer, sometimes known as the Stormbringer series:
The Dreaming City (1961)
The Stealer of Souls (1963)
Stormbringer (1965)
The Singing Citadel (1970)
The Vanishing Tower (1970)
Elric of Melniboné (1972)
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
The Weird of the White Wolf (1977)
The Bane of the Black Sword (1977)
Elric at the End of Time (1984)
The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
The Dreamthief's Daughter (2001)
In popular culture
Tom Strong No. 31 and No. 32, "The Black Blade of the Barbary Coast" parts 1 & 2 by Alan Moore, feature albino pirate Captain Zodiac seeking the "Black Blade", a black cutlass marked with red runes. This appears to be a recurrence (a favoured Moorcock trope) of Elric and Stormbringer's tale. Almost all of Moorcock's stories about the Eternal Champion include a parallel or analog to Stormbringer, invariably wielded by the Champion.
Lawrence Watt-Evans explicitly mentioned Moorcock's Stormbringer as an inspiration for the enchanted Black Dagger, which is at the center of his own novel The Spell of the Black Dagger and which is in many ways similar - though not identical - to Stormbringer.
"Black Blade", the opening track of American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult's seventh studio effort, Cultösaurus Erectus, concerns itself with Stormbringer. Moorcock himself made significant contributions to the track, having previously established a working relationship with the musical group.
The 1979 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure module White Plume Mountain, written by Lawrence Schick and published by TSR, featured a magical sword called Blackrazor, a black-bladed vampiric blade created from an extra-dimensional being. Schick later said that he was "a little embarrassed to this day by Blackrazor, inasmuch as it's such a blatant rip-off of Elric's Stormbringer; I would not have put it into the scenario if I ever thought it might be published".
The Melnibonéan character profiles are included in the first edition of Deities & Demigods, a TSR AD&D resource.
In the opening animation short for the 1983 Daicon IV Nihon SF Taikai convention, the 'Bunny Girl' is shown riding a sword with the same visual design as Stormbringer as one of numerous classic fantasy and sci-fi references in the film.
In the fighting game series The King of Fighters, the character Heidern possesses a special move named "Stormbringer", where he stabs and drains life from the enemy.
In the Game of Thrones episode, "The Lion and the Rose", one name that the crowd shouts out as a name for Joffrey Baratheon's Valyrian steel sword is "Stormbringer".
In Ready Player Two, written by Ernest Cline, Nolan Sorrento yields Stormbringer after his escape from A Maximum-Security Prison.
In Stardew Valley the level 4 Shadow Dagger has the description “when you hold the blade to your ear you can hear 1,000 souls shrieking.” A reference to Stormbringer.
In 1974, Deep Purple released an album titled Stormbringer, which included a song of the same name.
References
External links
Stormbringer.net — an overview of the Elric saga
Fantasy weapons
Fictional elements introduced in 1961
Fictional swords
Magic items
Michael Moorcock's Multiverse |
Mohamed Ayman Ouhatti (born 15 January 2000) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Luxembourger club UT Pétange.
Professional career
Ouhatti joined the youth academy of Amiens in 2019 from the Mohammed VI Football Academy. He made his professional debut with Amiens in a 3–1 Ligue 2 win over Valenciennes FC on 20 April 2021.
On 13 July 2021, he joined Orléans on loan.
International career
Ouhati was on the final list to participate in the 2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament qualifying for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations and participated in all matches. Ouhatti represented the Morocco U20s at the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.
Honours
Morocco U18
UNAF U-18 Tournament: 2019
Morocco U20
UNAF U-20 Tournament: 2020
References
External links
2000 births
Footballers from Rabat
Living people
Moroccan men's footballers
Morocco men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Amiens SC players
US Orléans players
Union Titus Pétange players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
Luxembourg National Division players
Moroccan expatriate men's footballers
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Luxembourg
Expatriate men's footballers in Luxembourg |
Debtor finance is a process to fund a business using its accounts receivable ledger as collateral. Generally, companies that have low working capital reserves can get into cash flow problems because invoices are paid on net 30 terms. Debtor finance solutions fund slow-paying invoices, which improves the cash flow of the company and puts it in a better position to pay operating expenses.
Types of debtor financing solutions include invoice discounting, factoring, cashflow finance, asset finance, invoice finance and working capital finance.
Need
Most businesses have to offer credit terms, usually of 30 days, in order to secure orders from customers. Current statistics show that these invoices can take up to 60 days to be paid. This delay reduces essential cash flow and restricts the growth of the business.
Security requirements
Security requirements vary, but traditionally focus on the value of the debtors ledger, supported by a pledge of specific assets as collateral and a charge or mortgage over the business, along with the personal guarantees of directors. Apart from some specialised lenders, real estate security is not taken. By focusing on the value and collectability of the accounts receivable ledger, most debtor finance credit lines will automatically increase in response to increases in sales, and provide ongoing working capital to fund the growth of the business. Typically the advance rate ranges from 70% of accounts receivable ledger value up to 90%. The remaining 30% to 10%, known as the 'retention' is released following receipt of payment of each invoice by the customer/debtor/buyer.
Types
Debtor finance products, by whatever name, essentially fall into two categories:
Confidential: the customer or end-user is unaware of the funding being provided, usually called 'invoice discounting',
Disclosed: traditionally referred to as 'factoring', where invoices have a notice that warns the customer to pay the funds to the financier in settlement of the debt.
Export factoring is a highly specialised and selective form of factoring, and can provide non-recourse funding to exporters, paid at the time of shipment, and with solvency of the overseas importer underwritten by an overseas bank or institution.
Under each category there are a number of financiers, all with varying policies and guidelines regarding their procedures, security, pricing and target markets. There are providers of import and export factoring, and their conditions vary widely.
Transaction structure
Most debtor financing transactions are structured to operationally resemble an asset-based loan. The client submits its accounts receivable ledger to the finance company. The finance company processes the ledger and remits the funds to the client's bank account. Lenders often finance a percentage of the ledger, commonly 80%–85%, and hold the rest as a reserve. The percentage of the ledger that is financed varies and is based on the industry and risk profile of the client.
The reserve is remitted to the client once the advances settle, when customers pay their invoices.
Terms of providers
Some providers have minimum terms, exit fees, notice periods, audit requirements, etc. that need to be fully assessed prior to entering into any agreement.
Due to the involvement by the financier with a factored customer, the advance rate on such invoices is higher than with a confidential facility. In addition, some facilities marketed as 'confidential' still require completion of anonymous 'audits' before invoices are funded.
Most financiers will fund invoices for up to 90 days from the month the invoice was issued, and will 'recourse' any invoice not paid by the end of the 90 days. 120-day recourse periods are provided in exceptional circumstances.
Providers in some countries will offer a non-recourse, or limited recourse facility, where the provider assumes part or all of the credit risk on a debtor. Other providers may insist on the client taking out credit insurance on their customers, with the policy and benefits assigned to the provider.
Credit limits may also be set on individual customers to minimise risk by some financiers, and 'concentration' limits might also limit funding available to major customers, or to specific classes of customers.
An in-depth knowledge of all these issues is essential to ensure that a debtor finance partnership is with a compatible financier.
Eligibility
A firm's eligibility to sell off its invoices by means of factoring is dependent on the terms of acceptance of the factor. These terms do vary from factor to factor. Most factors would consider the rate at which the firm realizes bad debts by checking the firms bad debts account while another could only consider the reputation of the firm. Most business that provide goods or services to other businesses on credit can qualify for debtor finance. Debtor finance is more difficult to place for contractors involved in the building industry, but there are some specialised providers that are comfortable with contract issues.
Growth
The use of debtor financing has grown strongly, as it has become more widely recognised as a valuable financing tool, supplementing or replacing traditional overdrafts or fixed-limit business loans. Internationally, debtor finance business has grown from €40 billion in 1978 to over €580 billion in 2003, provided by more than 1,000 companies, most of whom are associated with international banks. This volume is greater than the business written each year in leasing.
References
Debt
Working capital management
Accounts receivable |
Anna, Lady Bishop (9 January 181018 March 1884) was an English operatic soprano. She sang in many countries and was believed to be the most widely travelled singer of the 19th century. She was married to the composer Henry Bishop but abandoned him for the French harpist, composer and entrepreneur Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. She and Bochsa were said to have been the inspiration for Trilby and Svengali in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.
Biography
Ann Rivière was born in London, daughter of a singing master. Her father was descended from a Huguenot family that had fled to England in the 17th century. She studied piano under Ignaz Moscheles, then continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music under Henry Bishop. She made her London debut on 20 April 1831. Bishop's wife Sarah (née Lyon) died in June 1831, and Ann Rivière married him a month later, on 9 July; she was 21 and he 44. She was thereafter known professionally as Anna Bishop. They had three children: Rose (born 4 February 1833) and twins Augustus and Johanna (born 9 November 1837).
Anna Bishop sang at the Royal Philharmonic Society and many other venues. Her voice was soprano, said to be of brilliant quality. On 28 March 1834 she was the principal soprano in the first English performance of Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C. In 1838 she participated in the chorus at the Coronation of Queen Victoria. In 1839 she appeared at the Italian Opera House in London alongside the singers Giulia Grisi, Manuel Garcia, Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Antonio Tamburini, Pauline Viardot and Luigi Lablache; and the pianists Sigismond Thalberg and Theodor Döhler.
That year she toured the provinces, Scotland and Ireland with the French harpist Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who had played for Napoleon I; shortly after their return to London, she abandoned her husband and in August took up with Bochsa, who was also 20 years her senior. This was a great scandal for its time and much was written about it in the press. Bochsa became her manager and they toured in Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and other places in Europe. They always avoided France, where Bochsa was wanted on a charge of forgery. She sang in private before the Queen of Denmark. They continued their travels together, venturing overseas to Ireland, Australia, and North and South America. In 1853, theirs was among the first important visits by foreign artists to Ottawa, Canada.
Anna Bishop built a reputation as one of the finest operatic sopranos of her day. Her voice was sometimes compared to a flute. She had her greatest successes in operas by Rossini and Donizetti at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, where she became prima donna assoluta in 1843. She appeared there 327 times in 24 operas. She created Rosalie in Mercadante's Il Vascello di Gama, at Naples on 6 March 1845. In New York, she competed with the likes of Jenny Lind and Adelina Patti. On 1 November 1852 in New York she sang in the United States premiere of Friedrich von Flotow's Martha.
On 6 January 1856, three weeks after Bishop and Bochsa arrived in Sydney, Australia, and having given only one concert together there, Bochsa died. She buried him at Camperdown Cemetery there, employing a choir and orchestra for the procession and burial, and creating in his honour the most ornate monument in the cemetery, with a statue of herself weeping disconsolately. The mourning figure was later vandalised.
She completed her Australian tour, then returned to South America (Chile, Argentina, Brazil). Her husband was knighted as Sir Henry Bishop, making Anna formally Lady Bishop, despite their estrangement. He died in 1855, having never agreed to a divorce. In 1858, in New York she married Martin Schulz, a diamond merchant. She appeared in England again, the previous scandal having been forgotten; she gave a farewell concert on 17 August 1859. She also gave a royal command performance for Queen Victoria. She then resumed travelling throughout the Americas.
On 4 March 1866 en route from San Francisco to China, on the first leg of a world tour, her ship the Libelle was wrecked on Wake Island, at that time an uncharted coral atoll, and she and Schulz and the rest of her party were stranded there for three weeks. All her costumes, jewellery and music were lost. They finally set out in two rowboats for Guam, a 14-day journey; the boat containing Anna Bishop and her husband made it to safety, but the other boat containing the ship's captain and some crew was lost at sea. After a period of recovery she resumed her world tour, singing in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and Australia and London once again, before returning to New York.
On 14 July 1873, at the personal invitation of Brigham Young, she gave the first concert at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. In 1875 she sang in Australia once more, then in Cape Town and other places in South Africa, on to Madeira and England, and back to New York.
By all accounts she was excellent in her prime but continued to sing well past her prime. Her final concert, at age 73, was a testimonial concert at Steinway Hall in June 1883, where she sang Home! Sweet Home!, the song that had brought fame to her first husband (whose name she still bore).
Anna Bishop Schulz died in New York in March 1884, aged 74, and was buried beside her son Augustus in St Paul's Lutheran Cemetery.
Svengali and Trilby
It was popularly believed that George du Maurier later used the hypnotic control Nicolas-Charles Bochsa is said to have had over Anna Bishop as the basis for the characters Svengali and Trilby in his 1894 novel Trilby.
References
Further reading
Richard Davis, Anna Bishop: The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna, Currency Press
Graeme Skinner, Dictionary of Sydney: Anna Bishop
Graeme Skinner, Dictionary of Sydney: Nicholas Bochsa
Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico, 1849, pub. 1852
External links
1810 births
1884 deaths
English operatic sopranos
19th-century British women opera singers
Wives of knights |
Tetracha is a genus of metallic tiger beetles in the family Cicindelidae, formerly treated as a subgenus within the genus Megacephala. Tetracha species are exclusively New World in distribution, while Megacephala are exclusively Old World in distribution. There are ~100 described species in Tetracha.
Species
Tetracha acutipennis (Dejean, 1825) c g
Tetracha affinis (Dejean, 1825) i c g
Tetracha angustata (Chevrolat, 1841) i c g
Tetracha angusticollis W.Horn, 1896 c g
Tetracha annuligera Lucas, 1857 c g
Tetracha aptera Chaudoir, 1862 c g
Tetracha biimpressicollis (Mandl, 1960) c g
Tetracha bilunata (Klug, 1834) c g
Tetracha bolivari Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha brasiliensis (Kirby, 1819) c g
Tetracha brevis Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha brevisulcata (W.Horn, 1907) c g
Tetracha brzoskai Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha buchardi Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha camposi W.Horn, 1900 c g
Tetracha carolina (Linnaeus, 1763) i c g b (Carolina metallic tiger beetle)
Tetracha cassolai Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha chacoensis (Sawada & Wiesner, 1997) c g
Tetracha chilensis (Laporte, 1834) c g
Tetracha coerulea Lucas, 1857 c g
Tetracha confusa Chaudoir, 1865 c g
Tetracha cribrata Steinheil, 1875 c g
Tetracha cyanea (W.Horn, 1905) c g
Tetracha cyanides Bates, 1881 c g
Tetracha davidsoni Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha deuvei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha dheurlei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha distinguenda (Dejean, 1831) c g
Tetracha ensenada R.Huber, 1994 c g (Ensenada metallic tiger beetle)
Tetracha erichsoni W.Horn, 1892 c g
Tetracha erwini Naviaux, 2010 c g
Tetracha femoralis (Perty, 1830) c g
Tetracha flammula (W.Horn, 1905) c g
Tetracha floridana Leng & Mutchler, 1916 i c g b (Florida metallic tiger beetle)
Tetracha foucarti Naviaux & Richoux, 2006 c g
Tetracha frederici Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha fulgida (Klug, 1834) c g
Tetracha genieri Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha germaini Chaudoir, 1865 c g
Tetracha globosicollis (W.Horn, 1913) c g
Tetracha gracilis (Reiche, 1842) c g
Tetracha horni Ruge, 1892 c g
Tetracha huberi (Johnson, 1991) c g
Tetracha huedepohli (Mandl, 1974) c g
Tetracha immaculipennis Lucas, 1857 c g
Tetracha impressa (Chevrolat, 1841) i c g b (upland metallic tiger beetle)
Tetracha inca Naviaux & Ugarte-Peña, 2006 c g
Tetracha insignis Chaudoir, 1850 c g
Tetracha klagesi W.Horn, 1903 c g
Tetracha lacordairei (Gory, 1833) c g
Tetracha lafertei J.Thomson, 1857 c g
Tetracha lanei (Mandl, 1961) c g
Tetracha lateralis W.Horn, 1905 c g
Tetracha latreillei (Laporte, 1834) c g
Tetracha longipennis Chaudoir, 1865 c g
Tetracha lucifera (Erichson, 1847) c g
Tetracha magdalenae Dheurle, 2017
Tetracha martii (Perty, 1830) c g
Tetracha mellyi Chaudoir, 1850 c g
Tetracha misella Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha mniszechi J.Thomson, 1857 c g
Tetracha naviauxi Ward; Davidson & Brzoska, 2011 c g
Tetracha nicaraguensis (Johnson, 1993) c g
Tetracha onorei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha orbignyi Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha ovata Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha oxychiliformis (W.Horn, 1905) c g
Tetracha panamensis (Johnson, 1991) c g
Tetracha parallela Naviaux, 2010 c g
Tetracha pearsoni Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha pierrei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha pilosipennis (Mandl, 1958) c g
Tetracha polita Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha prolongata (W.Horn, 1932) c g
Tetracha pseudodistinguenda (W.Horn, 1905) c g
Tetracha pseudofulgida (Mandl, 1963) c g
Tetracha pseudosobrina (W.Horn, 1905) c g
Tetracha quadrata Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha rawlinsi Davidson & Naviaux, 2006 c g
Tetracha rosalinae Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha ruth (W.Horn, 1907) c g
Tetracha rutilans J.Thomson, 1857 c g
Tetracha sericea Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha sinaloa Huber & Shetterly, 2019
Tetracha smaragdina J.Thomson, 1857 c g
Tetracha sobrina (Dejean, 1831) i c g
Tetracha sommeri Chaudoir, 1850 c g
Tetracha speciosa Chaudoir, 1860 c g
Tetracha spinosa (Brullé, 1837) c g
Tetracha spixii (Brullé, 1837) c g
Tetracha sumptuosa Dheurle, 2018
Tetracha suturalis W.Horn, 1900 c g
Tetracha thomsoniana W.Horn, 1915 c g
Tetracha uhligi Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha vandenberghei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha venezolana Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha virginica (Linnaeus, 1767) i c g b (Virginia metallic tiger beetle)
Tetracha wardi Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha wiesneri Naviaux, 2007 c g
Tetracha zerchei Naviaux, 2007 c g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
Biolib
Further reading
Cicindelidae |
Asfaltomylos is an extinct genus of the primitive mammal subclass Australosphenida from the Jurassic of Argentina. The type and only species is Asfaltomylos patagonicus, recovered from and named after the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Cañadón Asfalto Basin of Chubut Province, Patagonia.
See also
Argentoconodon
Condorodon
Henosferus
References
Further reading
G. W. Rougier, A. G. Martinelli, A. M. Forasiepi and M. J. Novacek. 2007. "New Jurassic Mammals from Patagonia, Argentina: A Reappraisal of Australosphenidan Morphology and Interrelationships". American Museum Novitates (3566) 1-54
Martin, T. & Rauhut, O. W. M. 2005. "Mandible and dentition of Asfaltomylos patagonicus (Australosphenida, Mammalia) and the evolution of tribosphenic teeth". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 414–425.
Rauhut, O. W. M., Martin, T., Ortiz-Jaureguizar, E. & Puerta, P. 2002. "A Jurassic mammal from South America". Nature 416: 165–168.
Australosphenida
Jurassic mammals of South America
Jurassic Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 2002
Prehistoric mammal genera |
Tides of Tomorrow is an EP by alternative rock band Cave In, released through Hydra Head Records on October 15, 2002.
Track listing
Chart positions
Personnel
Cave In
Stephen Brodsky – vocals, guitar
Adam McGrath – guitar, bongos
Caleb Scofield – bass, vocals
John-Robert Conners – drums
References
Cave In albums
2002 EPs
Hydra Head Records EPs |
Lewis Hook (born 18 August 1996) is an English ice hockey player for Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) side Guildford Flames and the British national team.
He represented Great Britain at the 2021 IIHF World Championship and 2022 IIHF World Championship.
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Belfast Giants players
Coventry Blaze players
English ice hockey left wingers
Guildford Flames players
Nottingham Panthers players
Milton Keynes Lightning players
Peterborough Phantoms players
Sportspeople from Peterborough
British expatriate ice hockey people
English expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate ice hockey players in Austria |
Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions. It was released in 1976 and was the band's first album to attract attention outside Europe. The title is described as being a reference to time as the killer of innocence. The original cover featured a nude prepubescent girl, which stirred controversy in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. As a result, the album was re-issued with a different cover in some countries.
The image again gave rise to controversy in December 2008, when the British Internet Watch Foundation placed certain pages from Wikipedia on its internet blacklist, since it considered the image to be "potentially illegal" under the Protection of Children Act 1978, effectively classifying the website as child pornography. This resulted in much of the UK being prevented from editing Wikipedia and significant public debate on the decision. The decision was reversed by the IWF after four days of blocking.
Reception
Virgin Killer "failed to attain any serious attention in the United States" but was "quite popular in Japan" where it peaked at number 32 in the charts. The album was another step in the band's shift from psychedelic music to hard rock. Critic Vincent Jeffries of AllMusic contend that the album was "the first of four studio releases that really defined the Scorpions and their urgent metallic sound that was to become highly influential." He also counts the title track and "Pictured Life" among the "all-time Scorpions standouts." Uli Jon Roth considers Virgin Killer and the previous release In Trance, his favourite Scorpions albums.
Artwork
The original cover art for the album depicted a nude ten-year-old girl, with a shattered glass effect obscuring her genitalia. The image was designed by Steffan Böhle who was then the product manager for the West German branch of RCA Records. In an interview conducted in early 2007 Francis Buchholz (the bassist for the band) recollects that the girl depicted on the cover was either the daughter or the niece of the cover designer. The photograph was taken by Michael von Gimbut. The band's rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker offers the following description of the circumstances behind the album cover:
We didn't actually have the idea. It was the record company. The record company guys were like, "Even if we have to go to jail, there's no question that we'll release that." On the song "Virgin Killer" time is the virgin killer. But then, when we had to do the interviews about it, we said "Look, listen to the lyrics and then you'll know what we're talking about. We're using this only to get attention. That's what we do." Even the girl, when we met her fifteen years later, had no problem with the cover. Growing up in Europe, sexuality, of course not with children, was very normal. The lyrics really say it all. Time is the virgin killer. A kid comes into the world very naive, they lose that naiveness and then go into this life losing all of this getting into trouble. That was the basic idea about all of it.
In a separate interview Schenker also notes that he thought the cover art was a "great thing" and that he had "pushed the band to really stay behind it" as he felt that people would "think differently" when they looked at the lyrics and realized that the cover art was only being used as "a symbol of the lyrics." Schenker added: "We would never again do something like this". The band's former lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth notes that the cover art of the "old Scorpion albums" were "usually done by other people". He has since expressed regret over the original album cover:
Looking at that picture today makes me cringe. It was done in the worst possible taste. Back then I was too immature to see that. Shame on me—I should have done everything in my power to stop it. The record company came up with the idea, I think. The lyrics incidentally were a take-off on Kiss, whom we had just supported on a tour. I was fooling around and played the riff of the song in the rehearsal room and spontaneously improvised 'cause he's a virgin killer!' trying to do a more or less way-off-the-mark Paul Stanley impersonation. Klaus immediately said 'that's great! You should do something with it.' Then I had the unenviable task of constructing a meaningful set of lyrics around the title, which I actually managed to do to some degree. But the song has a totally different meaning from what people would assume at first. Virgin Killer is none other than the demon of our time, the less compassionate side of the societies we live in today—brutally trampling upon the heart and soul of innocence.
In 2008, photographer Michael von Gimbut emphasized that he, his wife, the girl's mother, sister, and three female assistants had been present during the shooting and stated: "Back then, we loved and protected children and did not sleep with them."
The cover generated controversy: the album could only be sold sealed in black plastic in several countries and the cover was replaced in some countries with an alternative cover art depicting the band members. The original is named in various "worst album cover" lists: Cracked magazine online named it the No. 1 "Worst Album Cover of All-Time", while Gigwise.com lists it as No. 1 on its March 2008 "The 50 Most Controversial Album Covers of All Time!" list. It was named by UGO Networks as one of the "Weirdest Album Covers" and placed No. 6 on the "All-Time Worst Album Covers" list made by two.one.five magazine.
This would not be the last time that the band attracted controversy with its album covers. Taken by Force originally featured cover art that depicted "children playing with guns at a military cemetery in France and some people found that offensive". Lovedrive featured a "bizarre artwork" that depicts "a woman on the back seat of a car with bubblegum over her breast." Both covers were replaced by an alternative design. Vocalist Klaus Meine explains that the band's penchant for controversial cover art stems from a desire "to go over the edge" and not "to offend some people or make the headlines [as] that would be stupid", contrasting guitarist Rudolf Schenker's earlier statement: "We're using this only to get attention." In a 2010 interview Meine commented on the cover art again stating:
Back in those days [the 1970s] it was RCA, our record label then, went over the edge with Virgin Killer. Today when you think of child pornography on the net, you would never do something like that. We never did this in the sense of pornography, we did it in the sense of art. It is about the song and the label was pushing the idea because they wanted to get the controversy to help the album sale and you cannot get better promotion than that. Looking back from the band point of view it was never an album cover that we took home to our parents and said, "Look what we just released." There was always mixed feelings about it and even 30 years later it caused a scandal at Wikipedia because the site for that album was blocked and even the FBI was getting involved. All of that after so many years, can you believe that?
In August 2015, a court in Sweden said that it considered the album cover to be child pornography.
Wikipedia controversy
In May 2008, the US-based social conservative site WorldNetDaily reported the cover image on Wikipedia to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A subsequent investigation by the FBI concluded that the artwork did not violate any US laws. EContent magazine subsequently reported the Wikipedia community's internal debate: "Prior discussion has determined by broad consensus that the Virgin Killer cover will not be removed" and asserted that Wikipedia contributors "favour inclusion in all but the most extreme cases".
In December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based non-government organization added the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer to its internet blacklist due to concerns over legality of the image, which had been assessed as the lowest level of legal concern: "erotic posing with no sexual activity". As a result, people using many major UK ISPs were blocked from viewing the entire article by the Cleanfeed system. A large part of the UK was blocked from editing Wikipedia. Following representations by the Wikimedia Foundation (which hosts the Wikipedia website) and public complaints, the IWF reversed their decision three days later and confirmed that in future they would not block copies of the image that were hosted overseas. The IWF stated that one of the reasons for reversing their decision was that it had increased public interest in the image—an example of the Streisand effect.
Track listing
Personnel
Scorpions
Klaus Meine – vocals
Ulrich Roth – lead guitars, vocals on "Hell-Cat" and "Polar Nights"
Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitars
Francis Buchholz – bass
Rudy Lenners – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Achim Kirschning – synthesizer, keyboards
Production
Dieter Dierks – arrangement, production
Covered songs
"Pictured Life" was covered by the Greek power metal band Firewind on their début album Between Heaven and Hell in 2002.
"Crying Days" was covered by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion for the various artist compilation A Tribute to the Scorpions, but was incorrectly labelled as "Polar Nights" in track list, thus making a rumor that Therion made a cover of "Polar Nights". This incorrect title spread to many catalogue sites, such as AllMusic. Therion added this cover of "Crying Days" as a bonus track to their 2001 album Secret of the Runes, labelling it correctly.
"Yellow Raven" was covered by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation on their Linoleum EP in 2009.
Charts
Certifications
See also
List of controversial album art
References
External links
Virgin Killer at the-scorpions.com
Scorpions (band) albums
1976 albums
Obscenity controversies in music
Internet censorship
RCA Records albums
Albums produced by Dieter Dierks |
Wickhaven is a populated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Wickhaven is located along Pennsylvania Route 51. It is 965 feet above sea level.
Geography
Wickhaven is located at (40.123, -79.773).
References
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania |
"Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" () was an unofficial Russian national anthem in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The lyrics were written by the premier Russian poet of the time, Gavrila Derzhavin, and the music by composer Józef Kozłowski, in 1791. The song was written to commemorate the capture of major Ottoman fortress Izmail by the great Russian general Aleksandr Suvorov. This event effectively ended the Seventh Russo-Turkish War.
The tune is a polonaise.
This anthem was eventually replaced by a formal imperial anthem, "God Save the Tsar!", which was adopted in 1833.
Text of the song (excerpt)
Notes
References
External links
Anthem as it sounded in original Polonaise form
Russian anthems site (you can find recordings of "Grom pobedy" towards the end of the page or listen it here)
Historical national anthems
Russian anthems
1791 compositions
Ottoman Empire–Russian Empire relations
Anti-Islam works |
Angel Yusev (; born 23 July 1988) is a Bulgarian footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper.
Career
Yusev started the 2012–13 A PFG season in Pirin Gotse Delchev as an understudy to Abdi Abdikov. He made his A PFG debut on 2 March 2013, starting in goal in a 2–0 defeat to Minyor Pernik.
In the summer of 2015, Ysev began training with Lokomotiv Sofia, but eventually returned to Botev Vratsa after not being able to secure a contract with the "railwaymen".
In January 2017, Yusev joined Bansko.
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Bulgarian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
FC Pirin Gotse Delchev players
FC Oborishte Panagyurishte players
POFC Botev Vratsa players
PFC Bansko players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players |
World Christian Encyclopedia is a reference work, with its third edition published by Edinburgh University Press in November 2019. The WCE is known for providing membership statistics for major world religions and Christian denominations including historical data and projections of future populations.
The data incorporated into the World Christian Encyclopedia have been made available online at the World Christian Database (WCD).
Editions
1st - 1982
The first edition, World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World A.D. 1900–2000 (WCE), by David B. Barrett, was published in 1982 by Oxford University Press. Barrett was a trained aeronautical engineer who became a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (Anglican). He arrived in Nyanza Province in Western Kenya in 1957. Over the course of 14 years he traveled to 212 of 223 countries and corresponded with Christians all over the world in search of the most up-to-date statistics on Christianity and world religions. His research resulted in the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia in 1982.
2nd - 2001
Barrett moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1985 to work with the Southern Baptists on missionary strategy. He continued his research as an independent researcher, joined by Todd M. Johnson in 1988. With George Kurian, Barrett and Johnson produced the second edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia, in 2 volumes, in 2001 (Oxford University Press).
3rd - 2019
The third edition, written and edited by Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo (Barrett died in 2011), was released in November 2019. Johnson and Zurlo are co-directors of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (South Hamilton, MA, USA).
Reception
One study found that the WCD's data was "highly correlated with other sources that offer cross-national religious composition estimates" but the database "consistently gives a higher estimate for percent Christian in comparison to other cross-national data sets". Concern has also been raised about possible bias because the World Christian Encyclopedia was originally developed as a Christian missionary tool.
Margit Warburg, a Danish researcher, has argued that the database contains numerical inaccuracies in its statistics on the Baháʼí Faith. She noted that figures given in WCE for some Western countries are highly exaggerated. For instance, the World Christian Encyclopedia reports an estimated 1,600 Baháʼís in Denmark in 1995 and 682,000 Baháʼís in the US in 1995. According to her, the Baháʼís themselves do not acknowledge such numbers; the number of registered Baháʼís in Denmark, in 1995, was about 240 and in the number in the USA was about 130,000.
References
External links
Edinburgh University Press: World Christian Encyclopedia
World Christian Database
Center for the Study of Global Christianity
1982 non-fiction books
2001 non-fiction books
Encyclopedias of religion
Religious studies books
Books on Christian missions
Kenyan books
American encyclopedias
Oxford University Press reference books
21st-century encyclopedias
World Christianity |
Mad Mex Fresh Mexican Grill, referred to simply as Mad Mex, is an Australian-based multinational chain of fast-food restaurants based in Sydney, New South Wales, that purveys Mexican cuisine, while the Mad Group own the master franchise for the restaurant in New Zealand.
Mad Mex Fresh Mexican is Lucha libre-themed and was voted the best Mexican restaurant nationwide in the Lifestyle Food Awards.
, 71 locations are in operation.
History
Mad Mex opened its first restaurant in Darlinghurst on 21 March 2007.
On 19 September 2019, 4Fingers Crispy Chicken announced its acquisition of 50% stake in Mad Mex. As part of the partnership, 4Fingers will initially establish Mad Mex's presence in Southeast Asia and expects to open a number of outlets in Singapore and Malaysia by the end of 2019.
In 2019, Mad Mex opened stores internationally in Singapore and Malaysia.
In 2021, Mad Mex announced that they were once again 100 per cent Australian-owned after the company bought out its 50 per cent Singaporean joint venture partner.
Founder
Clovis Young, the co-founder of Mad Mex, grew up in California and Massachusetts before becoming a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
See also
List of restaurant chains in Australia
List of Mexican restaurants
References
External links
Fast-food chains of Australia
Fast-food Mexican restaurants
Restaurants established in 2007
2007 establishments in Australia
Theme restaurants
Food and drink companies based in Sydney
Mexican restaurants in Australia |
Jake Burton Carpenter (April 29, 1954 – November 20, 2019), occasionally also known as Jake Burton or Jakie, was an American snowboarder, founder of Burton Snowboards, and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard. A native of New York, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.
Biography
Carpenter's high school education began in Brooks School North Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating from The Marvelwood School, at that time in Cornwall, Connecticut, he enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An avid skier, Carpenter hoped to join the university's ski team who were the reigning NCAA champions at the time, however his competitive skiing career ended after a serious automobile crash. After several years away from college, he resumed his studies at New York University, graduating with a degree in economics.
After college, Carpenter briefly worked for a small investment banking firm in Manhattan before growing tired of the 12-hour work days. He felt the call to return to the slopes. Working from a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, he improved on the Snurfer, a snowboard precursor which featured a rope to allow the rider some basic control over the board. In his interview with NPR's "How I Built This" when initially selling his snowboards, he said, "I remember once going out with 38 snowboards, visiting dealers in New York State and came back with 40 because one guy gave me two back he had bought." By the late-1970s, he was among a small cadre of manufacturers who had begun selling snowboards with design features such as a bentwood laminate core and a rigid binding which held the board firmly to the wearer's boot. In 1979, Carpenter won the Open Division and a $300 prize at the National Snurfing Contest in Muskegon, Michigan. Burton is credited with developing the economic ecosystem around snowboarding as a lifestyle, sport and culture, in addition to founding a premier board manufacturer. Burton has been one of the world's largest snowboard and snowboarding-equipment manufacturers since the late 1980s.
"Burton Snowboards" have several trademarked and copyrighted features that were filed under his name.
Carpenter's wife, Donna, served as CEO until 2020. He saw value in having women in positions of authority and leadership within the privately held company.
Personal life
Carpenter resided in Stowe, Vermont, with his wife, Donna.
On February 17, 1967, Carpenter's brother, Corporal George Carpenter died serving in Vietnam. Four years later, in 1971, Carpenter's mother Katherine died of leukemia leaving behind Carpenter, his father, and two sisters.
Carpenter met his future wife Donna Lynn Gaston, then a student at Barnard College, at a 1981 New Year's Eve party at the Mill Tavern in Londonderry, Vermont. She is the owner, chairwoman and, upon Burton's death, former CEO of the snowboard company Burton. Gaston was originally from New York City but traveled from New York to the house in Manchester, Vermont where Jake was making the prototypes of snowboards. The dining room was his store and the basement was where the boards got packed for shipping. On May 21, 1983, they married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
By 1985, Carpenter and his wife moved to Austria to create a European base, where his wife focused on the distribution arm.
About four years later, they had their first child in Rutland, Vermont. Their second son was born in Burlington and their third son was born in 1996.
Jake Burton Carpenter was a member of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame. Carpenter survived several health scares in his later years: knee injuries, testicular cancer, pulmonary embolism and notably, the Miller Fisher variant of Guillain–Barré syndrome, a rare and serious neurological disorder. Carpenter died November 20, 2019, in Burlington, Vermont, after announcing recurrence of his cancer to Burton staff earlier in the month.
References
External links
Vermont Sports Hall of Fame Bio
1954 births
2019 deaths
New York University College of Arts & Science alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
People from Cedarhurst, New York
American male snowboarders
Sportspeople from Manhattan
People from Stowe, Vermont
People from North Andover, Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Essex County, Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Vermont
Brooks School alumni
Deaths from cancer in Vermont
Deaths from testicular cancer
20th-century American people
21st-century American people |
Jean-Noël Guérini (born 1 January 1951 in Calenzana, Corsica) is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 1998, representing the Bouches-du-Rhône department. He was the president of the General council (conseil général) of Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to 2015 and member of the municipal council of Marseille since 1977. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Guérini endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
References
Page on the Senate website
External links
1951 births
Living people
French senators of the Fifth Republic
People named in the Panama Papers
Senators of Bouches-du-Rhône
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Politicians from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Corsican politicians
French people of Corsican descent
People from Haute-Corse
French politicians convicted of crimes |
```cython
from lxml.includes.tree cimport xmlDoc, xmlNode
cdef extern from "libxml/xinclude.h":
ctypedef struct xmlXIncludeCtxt
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcess(xmlDoc* doc) nogil
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessFlags(xmlDoc* doc, int parser_opts) nogil
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessTree(xmlNode* doc) nogil
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlags(xmlNode* doc, int parser_opts) nogil
# libxml2 >= 2.7.4
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData(
xmlNode* doc, int parser_opts, void* data) nogil
cdef xmlXIncludeCtxt* xmlXIncludeNewContext(xmlDoc* doc) nogil
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessNode(xmlXIncludeCtxt* ctxt, xmlNode* node) nogil
cdef int xmlXIncludeSetFlags(xmlXIncludeCtxt* ctxt, int flags) nogil
# libxml2 >= 2.6.27
cdef int xmlXIncludeProcessFlagsData(
xmlDoc* doc, int flags, void* data) nogil
``` |
Peter Babnič (born 30 April 1977 in Brezno) is a Slovak former football player.
Babnič played for several clubs in Slovakia before moving to the Czech Republic to play for Sparta Prague in 2001. He also played for Tescoma Zlín and Sigma Olomouc before returning to Slovakia in 2006. He won the Slovak championship with Inter Bratislava in 2000 and 2001 seasons.
International career
International goal
Score and result list Slovakia's goal tally first.
External links
1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Brezno
Footballers from the Banská Bystrica Region
Slovak men's footballers
Slovakia men's international footballers
Slovakia men's under-21 international footballers
FK Inter Bratislava players
SK Sigma Olomouc players
AC Sparta Prague players
FC Zlín players
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski players
Slovak First Football League players
Czech First League players
Ekstraklasa players
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Men's association football forwards
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica players
MFK Ružomberok players
FC Senec players |
```java
package wangdaye.com.geometricweather.common.utils.helpers;
import com.xhinliang.lunarcalendar.LunarCalendar;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
/**
* Lunar helper.
* */
public class LunarHelper {
public static String getLunarDate(Date date) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
return getLunarDate(calendar);
}
private static String getLunarDate(Calendar calendar) {
return getLunarDate(
calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR),
calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1,
calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)
);
}
private static String getLunarDate(int year, int month, int day) {
try {
LunarCalendar lunarCalendar = LunarCalendar.obtainCalendar(year, month, day);
return lunarCalendar.getFullLunarStr().split("")[1]
.replace("", "")
.replace("", "");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
BuglyHelper.report(e);
return "";
}
}
}
``` |
Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also wrote the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight.
Slovo lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer.
Slovo's family is Jewish.
References
External links
1950 births
Living people
Slovo family
South African activists
Anti-apartheid activists
South African Jews
South African screenwriters
White South African people
Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners
Writers Guild of America Award winners |
The Modern Home Physician, A New Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge is a medical encyclopedia first published in 1934 by the Wm. H. Wise & Company in New York City. It was edited by Victor Robinson, Ph. C., M.D., who was a physician and professor of the History of Medicine at Temple University's School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and also the editor-in-chief of the reading materials Historia Medicinae, Medical Life, and Medical Review of Reviews. It is a rare medical reference and collector's edition with entries that are in encyclopedic format, alphabetically arranged, and designed for use in the home. It has 728 pages that also contain, apart from the text, 232 photographs and almost 700 drawings.
References
External links
The Modern Home Physician (Fifth Edition, 1946), Amazon.com
Medical manuals |
Louieville is a town in Ehlanzeni District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It was the capital of KaNgwane, a non-independent bantustan.
References
Populated places in the Nkomazi Local Municipality |
FC Avangard-Kortek () was a Russian football team from Kolomna. It played professionally in 1948–1949, 1960, 1963–1969 and 1992–1996. Their best result was 9th place in Zone 1 of the second-highest Soviet First League in 1948 (it played on that level in 1948–1949 and 1960). In 1997, it merged with FC Oka to form FC Kolomna.
Team name history
1906–? FC KGO Kolomna
?-1937 FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna
1938–1947 FC Zenit Kolomna
1948–1959 FC Dzerzhinets Kolomna
1960–1992 FC Avangard Kolomna
1993 FC Viktor-Avangard Kolomna
1994–1996 FC Avangard-Kortek Kolomna
External links
Team history at KLISF
Association football clubs established in 1906
Association football clubs disestablished in 1997
Defunct football clubs in Russia
Football in Moscow Oblast
1906 establishments in the Russian Empire
1997 disestablishments in Russia |
Refulgence may refer to:
Refulgence, 2011 album by Epignosis
Divine refulgence |
Fox Movies, is an international movie channel owned by Fox Networks Group, a part of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. The channel was launched on February 8, 2007.
History
fXM: Movies from Fox channel in the US was renamed to Fox Movie Channel on March 1, 2000 until September 2013 when the channel changed its name back to FXM.
In 2008, Fox Movies was launched by Fox International Channels and Rotana Media Services along with Fox Series channels in the Middle East market. Fox then purchased a stake in Rotana, while the joint venture agreed with Disney to carry Disney and American Broadcasting Company content on the two channels for four years. In early March 2010, Fox International Channels agreed to move its Middle East and North Africa market channels' operations from Hong Kong and other locations to an Abu Dhabi facility. On 1 July 2011, Fox Movies was made available in Portugal on pay services and Angola and Mozambique on free-to-air.
On July 1, 2011, Fox Movies was launched by Fox International Channels Portugal with airing many genres including drama, comedy, science fiction, action and horror with programming during the summer slate included hits such as X-Men and The Queen.
On January 1, 2012, Star Movies was rebranded to Fox Movies Premium and FOX Movies Premium HD, available in Hong Kong and selected Southeast Asian countries. In India, China, Middle East and North Africa, Taiwan and the Philippines (SD only), the Star Movies brand remained until July 2017 when was rebranded to Fox Movies.
On October 2, 2012, Fox International Channels would launch another Fox Movies with being available to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Kosovo regions.
Market channels
References
External links
Official Site
Fox Networks Group
Disney television networks
Movie channels
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
Horst Heinz Köhler (born 15 February 1963), known under his stage name Guildo Horn (), is a German Schlager singer. He is best known for his eccentric stage persona, which includes outrageous clothes and extroverted antics.
At the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, he came seventh with the song "Guildo hat euch lieb!" ("Guildo loves you!").
Discography
Albums
Rückkehr nach Mendocino (1992)
Sternstunden der Zärtlichkeiten (1995)
Danke! (1997)
Schön! (1999)
Der König der Möwen (2002)
Guildo Horn featuring Pomp & Brass (2003)
Essential (2005)
Die Rocky Horny Weihnachtsshow (2005)
Erhebet die Herzen (2008)
20 Jahre Zärtlichkeit (2010)
Weihnachtsfestival der Liebe (MCD) (2012)
References
External links
Official website
1963 births
Living people
People from Trier
20th-century German male singers
German pop singers
German male singer-songwriters
German singer-songwriters
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Germany
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1998
Schlager musicians |
Veøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. It initially consisted of all of the present-day Vestnes Municipality, as well as the southern part of Molde Municipality and the northern part of Rauma Municipality. Vestnes Municipality was only part of Veøy for a few months in 1838 before it was made into a separate municipality. In 1964, the municipality was split between Molde and Rauma municipalities. Veøy Municipality was named after the island of Veøya, the administrative centre, where the main church for the municipality (Old Veøy Church) was located. There are no inhabitants on the island of Veøya (as of 2020).
History
Landslide
Just before 8:00 p.m. on 22 February 1756, a landslide with a volume of — the largest known landslide in Norway in historic time — traveled at high speed from a height of on the side of the mountain Tjellafjellet into the Langfjorden from Veøy. The slide generated three mega-tsunamis in the immediate area in the Langfjorden and the Eresfjorden with heights of . Damaging waves reached Veøy, where, although reduced in size, they washed inland above normal flood levels.
Municipality
The parish of Veøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). The western district of Veøy was separated in the fall of 1838 to become Vestnes Municipality. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the islands of Sekken and Veøya as well as the Nesjestranda district on the mainland north of the Langfjorden (with a total population of 756) were incorporated into the newly enlarged Molde Municipality. The remainder of Veøy on the south side of the Langfjorden and the Vågstranda area (population: 1,400) were merged with the small municipalities of Eid, Grytten, Hen, and Voll to form the new Rauma Municipality.
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the island of Veøya () since the first Veøy Church was built there and it was the religious center of the whole Romsdal region. The first element part is which means "sanctuary" (Vé is a word that comes from German paganism). The last element is which means "island". Thus, the name refers to it being a holy island. The name was historically spelled Veø.
Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.
Municipal council
The municipal council of Veøy was made up of 21 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
See also
List of former municipalities of Norway
References
Romsdal
Molde
Rauma, Norway
Former municipalities of Norway
1838 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway |
```java
/*
*
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*/
package com.haulmont.cuba.web.gui.components;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Specifies a string value that is a file path to an xml descriptor
* that can be used for a {@link CompositeComponent} initialization.
*/
@Target({ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Inherited
public @interface CompositeDescriptor {
/**
* @return a path to the XML descriptor. If the value contains a file name only (i.e. don't start with '/'),
* it is assumed that the file is located in the package of the composite component class.
*/
String value();
}
``` |
Allman may refer to:
Music
The Allman Brothers Band, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame southern rock band, formed by Duane and Gregg Allman
The Allman Joys, an early band formed by Duane and Gregg Allman
The Gregg Allman Band
People
Allman (surname)
Places
Allman, Indiana, a town in the US
William Allman Memorial Arena, an ice hockey arena in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Science and technology
The Allman style, an indentation style
See also
Aleman (surname)
Alman (surname) |
HyperStealth Biotechnology Corporation is a Canadian manufacturer of military camouflage uniforms. It was founded in 1999. It is based in Maple Ridge, British Columbia near Vancouver. Its chief executive officer and president is Guy Cramer.
As of 2017, it has made camouflages for the armies of Jordan, Chile and the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan. According to The New York Times, the United States federal government (USFG) spent $28 million more on their uniforms for the Afghan National Army between 2007 and 2017 than they could have with another camouflage pattern. They also have a patent pending to use the Quantum Stealth (Invisibility Cloak) to amplify output of solar panels and it has been successful so far.
HyperStealth has also been featured around the world in the news, science articles, magazines, TV news and interviews, and YouTube.
References
Canadian companies established in 1999
Companies based in British Columbia |
Medal summary
Men
Women
References
2003 Games of the Small States of Europe
2003 in swimming
2003 |
TSL ( formerly Tobacco Sales Ltd)() is a company based in Harare, Zimbabwe. TSL was founded in 1957 as an auction house for tobacco, and in the late 1960s began to diversify into logistics and agronomy. The company's stock is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and its stock index, the Zimbabwe Industrial Index.
External links
TSL Limited
TSL Limited's information, at AfricanSelect
Retail companies of Zimbabwe
Companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
1957 establishments in Southern Rhodesia
Logistics companies of Zimbabwe
Companies based in Harare |
The Last Tattoo is a 1994 feature film set in World War II, Wellington, New Zealand.
Plot
During World War II Wellington, New Zealand has U.S. servicemen mingling with the local female population. In such circumstances Kelly Towne, a public health nurse, has got the task of tracking down venereal diseases. She meets U.S. Marine Captain Michael Starwood who is investigating the murder of a U.S. marine.
Cast
Reviews
1995 featured in New Zealand's contribution to the British Film Institute's Century of Cinema series - Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill.
1994 Cinema Papers New Zealand Supplement.
1994 Variety review.
References
External links
1994 films
1990s New Zealand films
1990s English-language films |
Telikiai (or Meang) is an islet of Nui atoll in the Pacific Ocean state of Tuvalu. Meang means "west". The islet features in the legends of the Tekaunibiti family, whose members went to catch birds on the islet and found three teanti-ma-aomata (half-spirit and half-human creatures) and captured two.
References
External links
Map of Nui showing Meang
Islands of Tuvalu
Nui (atoll)
gl:Illote Meang
pt:Meang |
Bangarda is a village and a Panchayat in Dewas district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Bangarda Village is a major agricultural production area in Madhya Pradesh. Earlier, Harngaon was called Harigarh. India census,
References
Villages in Dewas district |
The Gundungurra people, also spelt Gundungara, Gandangarra, Gandangara and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands include present day Goulburn, Wollondilly Shire, The Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands.
Name
The ethnonym Gundangara combines lexical elements signifying both "east" and west'.
Language
The first attempt at a brief description of the Gundangara language was undertaken by R. H. Mathews in 1901. The language is classified as a subset of the Yuin-Kuric branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family, and is very close to Ngunnawal.
Country
The Gandangara lived throughout an area covering an estimated in the south-east region of New South Wales. According to Norman Tindale, their lands encompassed Goulburn and Berrima, running down the Nepean River (Wollondilly) until the vicinity of Camden. This includes the catchments of the Wollondilly and Coxs rivers, and some territory west of the Great Dividing Range. The AIATSIS map shows their country as extending to the south, well beyond Goulburn, to the northern and eastern shorelines of Lake George, and bordering country of the Ngunawal and Yuin
Their neighbours are the Dharug and the Eora to their north, Darkinung, Wiradjuri, Ngunawal and Thurrawal, (eastwards) peoples.
Social organisation
The Gandangara were formed into a variety of hordes, among which were the
Therabulat (middle Coxs River area)
Burragorang
History
In 1802, the explorer Francis Barrallier met the Gundungara people as his party moved through "The Cowpastures" southwest of Sydney, crossing the Nattai to the Wollondilly River and up to the heights above where Yerranderie now stands. Barrallier noted in his journal that the Gundungara "themselves build huts for the strangers they wish to receive as friends." Most of their land was initially not appetizing for early settlers, given the poor quality of the Nepean sandstone soils, and in a bid to stop encroachments they are said to have petitioned Governor King successfully in order to secure protected access to their riverine yam beds. This promise was maintained until King's departure in 1807.
In 1811 Governor Macquarie started handing out numerous "land grants" to settlers in the Darawal area around Appin, one as large as given to William Broughton.
In March 1814, some Aborigines were violently driven away after they complained of not being paid their wages for working for white settlers. In May an Aboriginal woman and three children were killed during skirmishes near the Milehouse and Butcher farms, and in retaliation, 3 Europeans were killed. Though this was on traditional Darawal lands, these fatal incidents, like a further one at Bringelly in June, were attributed to the Gandangara coming over from the west. The Gandangara joined forces with the Thurrawal/Darawal, who had linked up with remnants of the Dharug, in order to participate in the frontier war, also raiding cornfields. The decline in Dharug population had opened up parts of their territory to use by neighbouring tribal groups, which also fought among themselves. Aside from considerations of defending their territories against the European colonial expansion, a period of severe drought may have influenced this turn in strategy. Gandangara raiding bands, harvesting crops on settlers' properties, also attacked the Thurrawal and Dharug, so that the latter two began to collaborate against them, by helping the British authorities, and seeking refuge in squatters' settlements. Like other tribes, the Gandangara had developed strategies to cope with the superior firepower of musketry, teasing troops to fire at them, in the knowledge that, once fired, some time was required to reload them, during which the aborigines could launch spearing attacks.
In 1816, seven settlers were killed, four on the Nepean and three at Macquarie's wife's property at Camden, when the Gandangara came out of the hills in search of food. Macquarie ordered the 46th Regiment, under Captain James Wallis, to round up all Aborigines from the Hawkesbury down to these southern areas. Those punitive expeditions aimed to strike terror into anyone surviving them. Wallis often found settlers unwilling to hand over the Darawal people who lived on their stations but, eventually, executing what he later recalled was a "melancholy but necessary duty", he tracked down a group camping under the Cataract River near Appin. According to the local historian Anne-Maree Whitaker, what followed on 17 April 1816 was a massacre.
Hearing a child's cry and a barking dog in the bush, Wallis lined up his soldiers to search for the fugitives. In the moonlight they could see figures jumping across the rocky landscape. Some of the Aborigines were shot and others were driven off the cliffs into a steep gorge. At least fourteen were killed and the only survivors were two women and three children. Among those killed was a mountain chief Conibigal, an old man called Balyin, a Dharawal man called Dunell, along with several women and children.
Aboriginal descendants claim the figure of 14 is an underestimate, and that many more were slaughtered. The bodies of Conibigal and Dunell, after being decapitated, were hung from trees near Broughton's property, as a warning to foraging natives. Their skulls, together with that of another beheaded woman, were exchanged for 30 shillings and a gallon of rum each in Sydney, according to the recollections of William Byrne in 1903, and were sent to England where they were lodged for study at Edinburgh University, and were only returned in 1991 and 2000. Negotiations have been underway for over a decade to have the remains, in Canberra, buried. The area believed to be the site where the Appin Massacre took place was returned to the local Aboriginal community by an act of Parliament.
In 1828, there was some interaction between the Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, and the Gandangara, near Mittagong. Mitchell was supervising road construction. The Gandarangara are said to have composed a cheeky song about the building of the road (perhaps with appropriate mimicry): Road goes creaking long shoes, Road goes uncle and brother white man see. It must have seemed that building a road just to visit kin was unnecessary effort. Men from the Gandarangara also acted as guides for Mitchell at the time.
Notwithstanding the attempts to disperse, round them up, or kill them under Macquarie's direction, the Gandangara population, able to take refuge in the tough hinterlands like the Burragorong, have sustained itself as an organized social group somewhat better than other neighbouring peoples like the Dharug, for in the 1860s they returned to demand restitution of their lands.
Remnants of the Gandangara lived at Burragorang on the Wollondilly River, where they were interviewed in the early 1900s by the ethnographer R. H. Mathews, who took down some of their legendary lore.
Beliefs
According to Gandangara belief, in the primordial dreamtime (gun-yung-ga-lung, "times far past"), two creator figures, Gurangatch, a rainbow serpent, and Mirragañ, a quoll, went on a journey from a point on the upper reaches of the Wollondilly River, with Mirragan pursuing the former, until the trek ended at a waterhole named Joolundoo on the Upper Fish River. The distance covered by this serpentine movement and the pursuit extended some away. Much of this landscape with its minute Gandangara toponymic descriptions considered to be "one of the best documented Aboriginal cultural landscapes", was submerged with the construction of the Warragamba Dam after WW2. At that time animals were human, and collectively the animal people of that pristine world were known as Burringilling.
Gurangatch, not wholly a serpent, but part fish, and part reptile, camped in the shallows of an area known as Murraural, specifically at the junction of the Wollondilly and Wingeecaribbee rivers. It was here, while he basked in the sun, that the redoubtable fish-hunter, Mirragañ the quoll, glimpsed the light reflected from Gurangatch's eyes and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to spear him. The quoll tried to force his prey back from the depths of the waterhole, where Gurangatch had sought refuge, by planting ever more bundles of nauseating slabs of millewa hickory bark here and there in the various soaks and pools. Gurangatch, wise to the plan, burrowed his way out, tunneling through the landscape, drawing the lagoon waters in his train, till he emerged on a high rocky ridge called thereafter Birrimbunnungalai, since it is rich in birrimbunnung (sprats)
The features of the landscape were etched as Gurangatch wriggled and slipped across and under the terrain, in flight from his predator, or sometimes while directly fighting with him. When Mirragañ caught up with his prey, he would flail away at him with a club (boodee), while Gurangatch would strike by thrashing his tormentor with a whipping from his tail. The site now called Slippery Rock, native name Wonggaree, marks a point where they engaged in struggle for a long time, wearing the rock down so smoothly that people slip on it ever since. In a 2021 FlyLife article, Karl Brandt proposed the Australian lungfish as the inspiration for Gurangatch.
Alternative spellings
Gandangarra
Gandangara
Gundungura
Gundungurra
Some words
boobal. (a boy)
boombi (spring (of water))
bul'lan. (a woman)
goodha (a child of either sex)
gwan (poo).
mullunga (a girl)
murriñ (a man)
warrambal (young).
werriberri (tree ferns).
Notes
Citations
Sources
Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales
Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures
Macarthur (New South Wales)
Southern Highlands (New South Wales) |
Acheilognathus kyphus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the genus Acheilognathus. It is endemic to eastern Asia; inhabiting Thailand and northern Vietnam. However, due to a general lack of knowledge, IUCN has classified the fish as being data deficient. In Czech, Acheilognathus kyphus is known as "Hořavka thajská", meaning Thai bitterling.
References
Acheilognathus
Fish described in 1978 |
Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip is the debut studio album of the band Jucifer, originally released in 1998 through the independent label Crack Rock records and then in 2000 after have signed to Capricorn Records label. The album contains a mixture of metal, punk, hardcore, doom, sludge, alternative elements and scratch disk sound effects between track to track. This style wasn't explored by many bands in the late 1990s, was part of their sound during the 2000s, until the release of Throned in Blood in 2010.
Critical reception
Steve Huey for AllMusic said that the album overall "draws on the grungy noise of early alternative metal...and the loud, trashy sometimes industrial-tinged scuzz rock that preceded it." Craig Regala for Lollipop Magazine called the album an "interesting combination of sludgy and grungy riffs smut backed by real straight-up, small-kit drumming and a focus on rough-cut songs."
Track listing
Personnel
Amber Valentine – guitar, Vocals, organ, vibraphone
Edgar Livengood – drums, horns, violin, vocals
References
1998 debut albums
Jucifer albums |
Irene Mabel Marsh (3 December 1875 – 3 April 1938) was a British promoter of women's physical education. She started the Liverpool Physical Training College to train women to teach physical education. This became the I.M. Marsh College of Physical Education and part of Liverpool John Moores University. Their IM Marsh Campus was named after her.
Life
Marsh was born in Walton in 1875. She was one of ten children. Her home had its own parallel bars and a trapeze and she went to a local gymnasium and to Bootle Public Baths.
She excelled at sport and in teaching others to swim. She attended Southport Physical Training College and Gymnasium.
In 1900 she opened Liverpool Physical Training College which was the fourth British physical training college for women. She financed it using £100 she had saved by working from home and walking to work. The college was to train women to teach physical education and would in time became part of Liverpool John Mooores University. It began with her sister being the first student. She enjoyed the support of Bishop F. J. Chavasse, Archdeacon T. J. Madden and the leading orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones and by 1908 there was eight full time staff.
She bought land and Barkhill House outside the city centre in 1919 and she opened a junior section in 1920. She remained ambitious for her college and in 1936 the first three of her students were awarded a diploma in the theory and practice of physical education by London University.
Death and legacy
Marsh died in Aigburth in 1938. In 1939 the college was renamed the I.M. Marsh College of Physical Education. In 2022 the Bark Hill house was listed which saved it from demolition.
References
1875 births
1938 deaths
People from Walton, Liverpool
Physical education in the United Kingdom |
Miho Kajioka (born 21 February 1973) is a Japanese photographer, living in Kyoto. In 2019, she received the Prix Nadar for the book So it goes.
Early life and education
Kajioka was born in Okayama, Japan. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, and at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Work
"Kajioka creates minimalist work that draws on the Japanese tradition of 'wabi-sabi' – the appreciation of beauty in imperfection and transience – and the Zen/Taoist belief that the essence of an object exists in the space inside and around it".
Publications
And, where did the peacocks go?. Paris: Them, 2018.
So it goes. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2019. Edition of 540 copies.
Second edition. So It Goes, So It Goes. Paris: Them / Ibasho, 2020. . Smaller, with a different cover, and new images.
Third edition. So it goes, so it goes, so it goes. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2023. With a different cover and additional images.
Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come. France: Iikki, 2021. Edition of 750 copies.
And, do you still hear the peacocks?. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2022.
Awards
2019: Prix Nadar for So it goes
References
External links
Kajioka at Ibasho Gallery
21st-century Japanese photographers
21st-century Japanese women photographers
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
People from Kyoto
Concordia University alumni
Living people
1973 births |
The Little Caesars Championship Tennis Tournament is a defunct men's tennis tournament that was played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit for one year in 1988. The event was held in Detroit, Michigan and was played on indoor carpet courts. John McEnroe won the singles event while Rick Leach and Jim Pugh teamed-up to win the doubles event.
Finals
Singles
Doubles
References
Singles Draw
Doubles Draw
Carpet court tennis tournaments
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
Grand Prix tennis circuit
Indoor tennis tournaments
Little Caesars
ATP Tour
Tennis in Detroit
Sports competitions in Detroit
Tennis tournaments in Michigan |
Jason Herbison (born 1972) is an Australian television producer, screenwriter and novelist, most recently serving as the executive producer of the soap opera Neighbours. He has written scripts for numerous television serials, and has published several novels.
Career
After leaving high school, Herbison was hired to work in the series Neighbours for the writing room. He has also been part of the writing team of fellow soap opera Home and Away. For 15 years, Herbison worked for British soap opera magazine Inside Soap as its Australian correspondent. He also continued working on various serial dramas, recalling "It was a lot of juggling. At one stage, I had the back half of my house in Sydney set up as a photo studio, and had soap stars coming and going all the time. I was in my late 20s, so it was a very social environment, and I got all the gossip – which I loved. Most actors were terrific fun and some very naughty!" He took over the role of producer on Neighbours from Alan Hardy in 2013. On 4 December 2013, it was confirmed that Herbison had been promoted to series producer, succeeding Richard Jasek.
Herbison created the 2021 miniseries Lie With Me starring Brett Tucker and Charlie Brooks. The series was commissioned by Network 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. It was filmed in Melbourne. Following the success of Lie With Me, Herbison created and co-wrote two further dramas Riptide and Heat for Network 10 and Channel 5.
Select TV credits
Neighbours (1990–92, 1998–2002, 2010–present) – writer, storyliner, script producer, producer, series producer, executive producer
Shortland Street (1991, 2010) – writer
Paradise Beach (1993–1994) – writer
Home and Away (1995, 2004–2008, 2012) – writer, script editor
Flipper (1995)
Echo Point (1995)
Pacific Drive (1996) – writer
Breakers (1998–1999) – writer
Above the Law (2000) – writer
Always Greener (2001–2003) – writer
Out of the Blue (2008) – script producer, writer
Rescue Special Ops (2009) – writer, story producer
Lie With Me (2021) – writer, executive producer
Riptide (2022) – writer
Heat (2023) – writer
Novels
And the Winner Is (1996)
The Big Break (1996)
Bondi Parade (1998)
Chart Sensation (1998)
The Cruellest Cut (1996)
Money Talks (1998)
The Price of Fame (1998)
References
External links
Jason Herbison at AustLit
Australian screenwriters
Australian male novelists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
1972 births |
Louis Picquot (1804 – 1870) was a 19th-century French musicographer, author of the first biography of Luigi Boccherini and a catalogue of Boccherini's works.
Notice
Although Picquot had a job far from music - he was a tax collector in Bar-le-Duc - his work reached a general recognition among musicologists, musicians, music historians, publishers etc. In his patient compilation effort, Picquot contacted all those who may have information and documents about the composer, particularly François de Fossa (who played the Quintets with guitar), or the son, Josef Mariano and grandson Fernando, as well as his widow.
The 135-page book, published in 1851, was printed "at Philips, a publisher of music," with a long title, as was customary at the time, but at the same time modest, for he opted for the word "Notice" to describe it. For decades, Picquot's work was the core of Boccherinian studies, since it was far superior to the content of the Biographie universelle by Fétis. The book was reprinted only in 1930, by Georges de Saint-Foix (and a translation, in Spanish, with three context studies, in 2005). Georges de Saint-Foix, a musicologist, added a 45-page introduction, where he corrected many errors and added new data collected by other researchers or by himself.
Today, Picquot is still an important Boccherinian source, on condition of being aware of the inevitable gaps and errors and also of some blurred opinions. While studies of the musician have increased considerably, Picquot has "always a symbolic meaning". Yves Gérard thus comments on the book of Picquot in his catalog of works of Boccherini in 1969:
Works
1851:
Bibliography
Rudolf Rasch, A Note on Louis Picquot (1804-1870), Boccherini's First Biographer, in
References
External links
1804 births
1870 deaths
French biographers
19th-century French musicologists
Writers about music
19th-century musicologists |
Bank Leu AG (pronounced "Loy," as in toy) was a Swiss private bank that existed from 1755 to 2007. Headquartered in Zurich, it was a subsidiary of Credit Suisse from 1990. In 2007, it was merged with that company's other private banking units as Clariden Leu. At the time, it was Switzerland's oldest bank.
The bank was founded in 1758 as Leu et Compagnie, named after its founder, Johann Jacob Leu, who later became mayor of Zurich. Originally a state-owned bank, it was privatized in 1798 after Napoleon conquered Switzerland; the bank's officials did not want its assets to be taken over by Napoleon's new client state, the Helvetic Republic. In 1854, it incorporated as Leu & Co. after more than a century as a limited partnership. It became a public limited company () in 1969.
Despite having many distinguished customers over the years (at one point, it was Maria Theresa's banker), two major scandals in the 1980s eventually cost the bank its independence.
U.S. insider trading scandal
Bank Leu's Bahamian subsidiary, Bank Leu International, was used by Dennis Levine to handle most of his insider trades. From 1981 to 1986, Levine built up his account to over $10 million USD, trading on information he acquired based on his work as an investment banker.
Levine took advantage of the Bahamas' strict bank secrecy laws (which forbid the disclosure of any information about a customer's banking relationship) to cloak his activities. Bank Leu itself had a long tradition of secrecy, and its Bahamian branch had a reputation for accepting deposits from anyone, no questions asked.
However, unknown to Levine, his account manager in Nassau and several bank employees (including the bank's manager) copied several of his trades in order to make their own profits off Levine's information. This practice, called "piggybacking," was not illegal in and of itself unless the piggybacker knows or has reason to know that the trader he is copying is acting on illegally obtained information. However, Bank Leu officials knew soon after Levine opened his account that he was trading almost entirely on inside information. Even without this to consider, the practice was contrary to Bank Leu policy. As a result of their piggybacking, Bank Leu employees made a tidy profit of their own off Levine's trades.
More seriously, Bank Leu steered a large number of trades through a broker at Merrill Lynch's office in Caracas. He himself piggybacked the trades for his own benefit, and the volume led one of his colleagues to get suspicious. The colleague wrote a letter to Merrill Lynch's compliance unit, whose internal investigation led to Bank Leu. Unfortunately, the broker had by this time moved onto another company, and there was no way for Merrill Lynch to pierce the offshore veil. The matter was thus passed on to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bank officials suggested that Levine come up with reasons to justify the trades. However, they also forged or destroyed many documents related to Levine's activity—thus opening them to charges of obstruction of justice. Their story fell apart when noted attorney Harvey Pitt, whom the bank had retained, noticed a huge gap between the actual statements of the bank's managed accounts and the omnibus records. At that point, the bank decided to cooperate with the SEC.
Bahamian Attorney General Paul Adderly issued an opinion that stock trading was separate from normal banking transactions, and thus was not subject to the bank secrecy laws. The bank was thus free to reveal Levine's name, and he was arrested soon afterward.
Despite the bank's cooperation, Bahamian regulators forced corporate headquarters in Zurich to fire the entire board of the Bahamian branch as a condition of being allowed to stay in business in the Bahamas.
Involvement in Distillers Company deal
In 1986, Guinness PLC was in the midst of a bidding war for the much larger Distillers Company. In the closing stages, Guinness' stock rose 25 percent—which was unusual, since the stock of the acquiring company usually falls in a takeover situation. Guinness paid several people and institutions, most notably American arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, about $38 million USD to buy $300 USD million worth of Guinness stock. The effect was to increase the value of its offer for Distillers, whose management favored merging with Guinness.
In the course of the investigation, it emerged that Bank Leu was involved in half of the purchases. Two of Guinness' directors signed under-the-table agreements in which Bank Leu subsidiaries in Zug and Lucerne bought 41 million Guinness shares. Guinness secretly promised to redeem the shares at cost, including commissions. To fulfill its end of the bargain, Guinness deposited $76 million with Bank Leu's Luxembourg subsidiary.
Merger with Credit Suisse
Bank Leu's involvement in two major financial scandals seriously hurt its reputation, and in September 1990, it agreed to merge with Credit Suisse. Shortly after the merger closed, it came out that the credit officer of its Duebendorf office made fake loans in the name of legitimate clients, and then shared the proceeds with what was called "the Zurich financial underworld." The scheme cost Bank Leu an estimated 63 million CHFs (roughly $50 million USD).
Bank Leu was reorganized in 1997 as an "independent private bank," integrating its branch network in Zurich as well as its corporate banking business with Credit Suisse. In 2007, it merged with Credit Suisse Fides and Credit Suisse's other three private banks—Clariden, Bank Hofmann, and Banca di Gestione Patrimoniale—to form Clariden Leu. Bank Leu AG went into private investments.
References/external links
Archives of former Bank Leu corporate site
Bank Leu in the swiss corporate registry
Leu
Banks established in 1755
Banks disestablished in 2007
Credit Suisse
Swiss companies disestablished in 2007 |
The Chris Mannix Show was a weekly sports radio program that is hosted by Chris Mannix. The program is broadcast on NBC Sports Radio on Sundays from 6p to 9p ET. It premiered on Sunday, January 6, 2013. It ended on February 2, 2018. The Afternoon Drive slot on NBC Sports Radio was replaced by Calling The Shots with Keith Irizarry.
References
NBC Sports Radio programming
American sports radio programs |
Sukhmalpur Nizamabad is a census town in Firozabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Demographics
India census, Sukhmalpur Nizamabad had a population of 35,327. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Sukhmalpur Nizamabad has an average literacy rate of 57%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 65%, and female literacy is 46%. In Sukhmalpur Nizamabad, 20% of the population is under 6 years of age.
References
Cities and towns in Firozabad district |
Kentucky Route 717 (KY 717) is a state highway in northeastern Boone County and northwestern Kenton County, Kentucky, that runs from KY 842 and the southbound lanes of Interstate 71 (I-71) and I-75 in northwestern Florence to KY 3076 and Turfway Road in northwestern Erlanger.
Major intersections
References
0717
0717
0717 |
Wonderland of the Americas, formerly known as Crossroads Mall, is a 565,718-square-foot regional shopping mall located in Balcones Heights, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio. The mall is currently anchored by Super Target, Burlington Coat Factory, Hobby Lobby, and Ross. Excluding the four anchors, there are 45 tenants in the mall, including shops, restaurants, and offices.
History
The mall, originally known as Wonderland Shopping City, was constructed on a 61-acre plot in Balcones Heights, Texas, an enclave city surrounded by San Antonio. At the time of its opening in 1961, the mall boasted 650,000 square feet of air-conditioned shopping area, 62 stores, and two anchors, a 2-level Montgomery Ward in a 149,000 square foot store and a 66,000 square foot Handy Andy supermarket. The Handy Andy was constructed prior to the rest of the mall, opening in May 1959, with John Wayne participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new store. Besides the two anchors, the mall also included a Woolworth's five-and-dime store, a Kinney Shoes outlet, a Zales Jewelers store, a Sinclair service station, and 5,000 parking spots. At the time of its opening, the mall employed segregated facilities, with "Whites Only" and "Coloreds Only" restrooms and water fountains.
Soon after the opening, the mall began to expand. In 1963, construction began on a 155,800 square foot Rhodes Brothers department store, which opened the next year. This was soon followed by the construction of the Wonder Theater, which showed its first film in November 1966. Several years after purchasing Rhodes, in August 1977, Liberty House took over the Rhodes department store location. Liberty House didn't succeed in the location, however, and closed in 1980. Their anchor location was, in turn, rebranded as a Frost Brothers in the same year. Small scale renovations also commenced in 1980, providing the mall with a facelift on the exterior and interior.
Following a large-scale renovation between Spring 1986 and November 1987, the mall was renamed Crossroads Mall of San Antonio. With the renovations came the addition of a new retail wing and anchor, Stein Mart. The renovations also added new tile flooring, lighting, graphics and skylights to the mall, along with the construction of a parking garage. The renovations, however, would not boost the fortunes of the mall. Frost Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 1988, closing its anchor store the next year. By 1990, the mall was almost half vacant.
With its decline in fortunes, the mall rebranded itself from a luxury shopping center to one serving value-oriented consumers. The former Frost Brothers anchor location was replaced by a Burlington Coat Factory in 1991. Hobby Lobby took over the former Handy Andy location in 1994. In 2002, much of the former Montgomery Ward's location was demolished. The site was replaced by the Norris Convention Center, opening in November 2004 and a Super Target, opening in March 2003. The 6-screen theater at the mall also underwent renovations in 2003, becoming a dine-in theater operated by Santikos Theatres.
The mall underwent a change of ownership in 2009, with a consortium of San Antonio investors purchasing the property. This group initiated a 10 million dollar renovation project in 2010, commencing with the renaming of the shopping center to Wonderland of the Americas.
Paranormal activity
When the mall was being built in the early 1960s, an elevator contractor working for Hunter-Hayes Elevator Company was installing a freight elevator behind the Rhodes Brothers department store. While he was about to test the elevator, he got stuck in between the elevator doors and the elevator took off decapitating the contractor's body. Employees of the mall have said to see his ghost around the mall presumably the service corridors. Another freight elevator in the newer part of the mall sometimes moves up and down randomly as well as opening and closing the doors when no one was around. The freight elevator that killed the contractor still exists in its original form although it has had new safety devices added since the incident.
References
External links
Shopping malls in San Antonio
Shopping malls established in 1961
1961 establishments in Texas |
Babacar Dione my refer to:
Babacar Dione (footballer) (born 1997), Belgian footballer
Babacar Dione (judoka) (born 1961), Senegalese judoka |
The Refugees may refer to:
The Refugees (novel), an 1893 novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Refugees (TV series), a 2015 drama about time travellers
The Refugees (band), an American folk trio
The Refugees (short story collection), a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen
See also
Refugee (disambiguation) |
Innis Palmer Swift (February 7, 1882 – November 3, 1953) was a Major General in the United States Army. He was the grandson and namesake of Civil War Major General Innis Newton Palmer, as well as the grandson of Brigadier General Ebenezer Swift. His four decades of military service culminated in his commanding a unit during the liberation of the Philippines in World War II.
Early life and career
Swift was born at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Major General Eben Swift and Susan Palmer. He graduated from West Point in 1904 and was commissioned in the cavalry. He served as aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing in the Philippines and then served in Mexico. While a First Lieutenant commanding C Troop, 13th Cavalry, he accompanied First Lieutenant George S. Patton on the hunt for Julio Cardenas, commander of Pancho Villa's personal bodyguard. During World War I he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for the 86th Division.
Swift attended the Army Command and General Staff School, graduating in 1923, and remained at the school as faculty until 1929. He subsequently attended the Army War College and the Army Industrial College
In 1940 he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in 1941 to Major General and placed in command of the 1st Cavalry Division and Fort Bliss. He participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers, where he coined the nickname used by army light observation aircraft when he told a pilot after a bumpy landing, "You looked just like a damn grasshopper!" [Editor's note: There are numerous versions of the story and it is uncertain as to exactly what Swift's words were. The author quoted (Graff) was paraphrasing]
World War II
He transitioned the division from horse cavalry to essentially an infantry division, though it retained "Cavalry" in the name. He took his division to Australia in July 1942 and remained in command through the Admiralty Islands campaign after which he was reassigned to command I Corps. He was the oldest U.S. Corps commander to serve in World War II. After the war he remained a close personal friend of Douglas MacArthur.
Private life and death
Swift married the former Lucille G. Paddock and the couple had four daughters. After retiring in 1946 he lived in San Antonio. He retained interest in his old command, staying active in the 1st Cavalry Division Association and avidly following the division's activity in Korea. He died at Brooke Army Hospital after a heart attack and was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
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Villalgordo del Marquesado is a municipality located in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 114 inhabitants.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca |
Joan Lovely is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate, representing the Second Essex district in the Massachusetts Senate since 2013. She previously served on the Salem, Massachusetts City Council from 1998 to 2012 and was Council President in 2001 and 2012.
See also
2019–2020 Massachusetts legislature
2021–2022 Massachusetts legislature
References
Joan Lovely Massachusetts General Court
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Politicians from Salem, Massachusetts
Salem State University alumni
Massachusetts School of Law alumni
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21st-century American politicians |
The men's 1000 metres competition at the 2022 European Speed Skating Championships was held on 7 January 2022.
Results
The race was started at 20:42.
References
Men's 1000 metres |
Chmiel is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lutowiska, within Bieszczady County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately south-west of Lutowiska, south of Ustrzyki Dolne, and south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
References
Villages in Bieszczady County |
Chepes is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.
Climate
References
Populated places in La Rioja Province, Argentina
Cities in Argentina |
James Walter Gilchrist Jr. is an American political activist and the co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project, an activist group whose aim is to prevent illegal immigration across the southern border of the United States.
Early life
Gilchrist served in the U.S. Marine Corps and received a Purple Heart medal while in the infantry during the Vietnam War, 1968 - 1969.
Minuteman Project
Co-founder of the Minuteman Movement
Gilchrist and Chris Simcox are widely recognized as the founders of the Minuteman Project. They founded the organization on October 1, 2004. The two staged a month-long border watch project in April 2005 and that event catapulted the Minuteman movement into the national spotlight. Gilchrist chose to locate in Arizona for the Project, because there was a disproportionately large number of undocumented immigrants crossing in that state.
Political views
Gilchrist holds conservative views on education, health care, and taxes. Gilchrist was registered with the American Independent Party, the California affiliate of the Constitution Party, but has since re-registered as a Republican, and is an adamant supporter of immigration enforcement, law enforcement and the military. He announced his endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President in December 2007. The endorsement of Huckabee by Gilchrist met with strong criticism from other minutemen and anti-illegal immigration activists. This was a personal, individual endorsement by Gilchrist, not an endorsement by any minuteman organization.
During the 2016 presidential election with regard to the building of a wall and mass deportation directly aligned with the Minuteman Project's missions. Gilchrist stated that he felt that his goals were reaffirmed and accomplished upon his observation of such widespread awareness with regard to immigration issues. He initially supported Ted Cruz for president, who openly criticized Barack Obama's policy of amnesty and was a consistent opponents against Obama's push for immigration reform.
2005 congressional candidacy
Gilchrist unsuccessfully ran as an American Independent Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives representing California's 48th congressional district to replace Republican Christopher Cox, who resigned to become Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the low-turnout open primary for Cox's seat held on October 4, 2005, Gilchrist finished behind two Republicans but ahead of all other candidates, including Democrats. He received 14.8% of the vote (a total of 13,423 votes). He was the only one running under his party, and therefore automatically advanced into the run-off.
Gilchrist lost to Republican state Senator John Campbell in the December 6 general election, receiving 25.5% (26,507) of the vote. Campbell received 44.4% (46,184), Steve Young (Democrat) 27.8% (28,853), Bea Tiritilli (Green) 1.4% (1,430), Bruce Cohen (Libertarian) 0.9% (974).
Controversy
In October 2006, Gilchrist appeared on Democracy Now and abruptly ended the interview after Karina Garcia started accusing him of being a murderer and said that he has ties to the white supremacist group National Alliance.
In a March 2006, interview with the Orange County Register, Gilchrist stopped just short of calling for his followers to pick up their guns: "I'm not going to promote insurrection, but if it happens, it will be on the conscience of the members of Congress who are doing this," he said. "I will not promote violence in resolving this, but I will not stop others who might pursue that."
In May 2010, Politico reported that Howie Morgan, the Minuteman Project's political director, may have solicited donations from political campaigns in exchange for Gilchrist's endorsement. Rick Perry, Parker Griffith and Tim Bridgewater were all recipients of Gilchrist's endorsements in 2010. Mo Brooks, an Alabama politician running against Griffith, said that Morgan indicated Gilchrist would endorse Brooks if Morgan was hired.
In September 2014, the Daily Show made a segment about the Honduran children immigration featuring an interview with Jim Gilchrist, who compared the recent events at the border with a Trojan Horse situation, the vanguard of a Latino invasion of the United States. The correspondent Michael Che poked fun at Gilchrist's initiative against immigrants, called "Operation Normandy": "If this is Operation Normandy and the children are invading us, wouldn't that make us the Nazis?" . Gilchrist warned against the dangers of the "latinization of America" that the young refugees posed and added, to a baffled interviewer, "We're all going to die some day. (...) I'm not giving a death wish on these children coming here (...) I'm saying that there's some things realistically you cannot stop."
Books
Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders, by Jim Gilchrist, Jerome R. Corsi, and Tom Tancredo. Los Angeles: World Ahead Publishing (2006). .
See also
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
References
External links
Official Website of Jim Gilchrist
1949 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
American Independent Party politicians
American political candidates
American vigilantes
Military personnel from California
California Republicans
People from Aliso Viejo, California
People from North Providence, Rhode Island
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Redfern & Sons (later Redfern Ltd) was a British tailoring firm founded by John Redfern (1820-1895) in Cowes on the Isle of Wight that developed into a leading European couture house (active: 1855–1932; 1936–1940). By the early 1890s the business had branches in London, Edinburgh, Paris and New York. The Paris extension was operated as a couture establishment while its other branches functioned primarily as tailors and importers.
History
John Redfern (11 November 1820 – 22 November 1895) started out as a tailor in Cowes in 1855, following in the sartorial footsteps of his father, also John Redfern, who first opened a Cowes specialty clothing shop in 1811. With the support of sons Ernest Redfern and Charles Poynter Redfern (1853-1929), John Redfern opened tailoring houses in London and Paris in 1881, followed by two shops in New York in 1884–85, one for tailoring, the other for furs.
The Redferns are credited with making tailored clothing chic for women. Previously resigned to utilitarian wear, finely tailored dresses and suits, as introduced by Redfern, quickly became a craze among sporting aristocrats on holiday at Cowes, spreading soon to Paris. In the 1870s the Redfern yachting suit or dress was swiftly becoming the most recognizably English mode of fashionable apparel. In this way, the Redfern label was essentially the first high-end sportswear brand. By the early 1890s, due largely to the patronage of British and European royalty, Redfern's Paris house had developed into a full scale couture business. Ernest directed the London and New York branches, while Charles, and later, John Poynter Redfern, ran the Paris salon. From 1892, when Redfern's sons took control of the business, the house became known as Redfern Ltd.
The firm's American outlet, however, did not prove a success and was eventually partly sustained by a commercial sideline for ready-made corsets. The house in New York also did not function as a couture establishment but as an importer of other Parisian fashion brands which were sold alongside its own products. Like the Paris salon, the New York branch was originally advertised as a ladies' tailoring concern. The first English-based couturier to open full-scale American branches in the U.S. and to enjoy a lengthy success there was Lucile in the 1910s and '20s.
It was in 1871 that the house of Redfern first expanded its tailoring business to include the design and sale of silk dresses and mourning clothes. But it was tailored garments for women who rode, played tennis and went yachting that remained the Redfern specialty. Although intended for specific sporting pursuits, these tailored dresses and suits were increasingly adopted as everyday wear by influential Redfern clients. For example, in 1879 the house created a simple jersey traveling dress for Lillie Langtry, the noted beauty and actress popularly known as the "Jersey Lily," a name deriving from her birthplace in Jersey. The dress was widely copied and remained a favorite in the Redfern line for many years. In 1888, Redfern was formally named Dressmaker By Royal Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. The Princess of Wales.
Redfern Ltd. was credited with helping popularize the high-waisted, so-called Grecian style of 1908. In the early 1910s, the house's designs were often illustrated in Gazette du Bon Ton along with six other leading Paris couturiers – Cheruit, Doeuillet, Doucet, Paquin, Poiret, and Worth. In 1916 Redfern created the first officially designated women's uniform for the Red Cross.
The Paris headquarters of Redfern closed in 1932, briefly reopened in 1936, and closed again in 1940.
Gallery
Redfern designs as illustrated in La Gazette du Bon Ton, 1912–14.
Further reading
North, Susan (2008) "John Redfern and Sons, 1847 to 1892" Costume 42: pp. 145–68
North, Susan (2009) "Redfern Limited, 1892 to 1940" Costume 43: pp. 85–108
References
External links
Redfern evening dress in Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database
British fashion designers
Haute couture |
Visa requirements for Moldovan citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of Moldova by the authorities of other states. As of 22 December 2022, Moldovan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 121 countries and territories, ranking the Moldovan passport 48th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
On 28 April 2014 Moldovan citizens were granted visa-free entry to 27 Schengen Area countries as well as Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, countries that are applying the Schengen policy and also Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Vatican City, countries that have no immigration control. Visa waiver applies only to holders of biometric passports.
Visa requirements map
Visa requirements
Territories and disputed areas
Visa requirements for Moldovan citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:
Visas for Cambodia, Myanmar, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sri Lanka and Turkey are obtainable online.
Non-visa restrictions
Moldovan passports are recognized by all countries of the world. However, in some rare cases, Moldovan citizens may be refused entry.
Fingerprinting
Several countries including Argentina, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United States demand all passengers to be fingerprinted on arrival.
See also
Visa policy of Moldova
Moldovan passport
References
Notes
Moldova
Foreign relations of Moldova |
The Off Hours is an American film written and directed by Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths. The full-length feature film is akin to real life events that happened at a truck stop. It was distinguished due to its adoption of environmental and socially acceptable settings, which has won recognition by the Sustainable Style Foundation with a SSF Tag award. The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 22, 2011.
Plot
The official website describes the film: "In The Off Hours, Amy Seimetz alluringly commands the screen as Francine, a waitress whose liberation from her mundane existence is long overdue. In the restless world of the night shift at a highway diner, Francine's life consists of casual encounters and transient friendships. What she wants is out of reach—or is it that she's lost track of wanting anything at all? When a banker turned big-rig driver becomes a regular, he sparks hope in Francine. As change begins to invade the quiet diner, Francine is reminded that it is never too late to become the person she was meant to be."
Production
Griffiths, the film's writer and director, was inspired to begin writing this story after spending several months working the night shift at a film lab in 2003. Griffiths has worked on set in many capacities, from producer to cinematographer to assistant director. She noticed that those employees who worked the night shift seemed to have similar personality traits. The script thus evolved from her interest in the night shift culture. Fund raising for the film began in 2007.
The film was shot in Seattle in Burien, South Park and Georgetown with many local enthusiasts supporting Griffiths.
The Off Hours was the first film to receive the "SSF Tag" from the Sustainable Style Foundation, an organization that promotes environmentally friendly practices. The film was able to meet the demands for the SSF Tag by using second-hand furniture for set design and second-hand clothes for costume design. The film was also shot digitally, which avoids the toxic materials found in traditional film.
Release
The film premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2011, in NEXT, a non-competition category focusing on low-budget, independent filmmaking.
References
External links
Films shot in Washington (state)
2010s English-language films
Films shot in Seattle
American drama films
2010s American films |
Yannik Keitel (born 15 February 2000) is a German professional footballer who plays as a central or defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. He has represented Germany internationally at several youth levels.
Club career
Keitel joined SC Freiburg in 2010 from SV Breisach. On 29 February 2020, he made his professional debut in the Bundesliga in a 1–0 league defeat away to Borussia Dortmund. He came on as a substitute at halftime for the injured Janik Haberer. In April 2020, he signed his first professional contract.
References
External links
Living people
2000 births
People from Breisach
Footballers from Freiburg (region)
German men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Germany men's youth international footballers
Bundesliga players
Regionalliga players
SC Freiburg players
SC Freiburg II players |
The Men's 4x100 Medley Relay event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on July 31, 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 21 national teams swam in the Preliminary heats of the event in the morning; with the top-8 fastest teams advancing to swim again in the Final that evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
WR: 3:30.68, USA, swum August 21, 2004 in Athens, Greece
CR: 3:31.54, USA, swum July 27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain
Results
Final
Preliminaries
References
Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships |
Andik Rendika Rama (born 16 March 1993, in Gresik) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Liga 1 club Madura United. Rendika judged to meet the criteria as a modern young defender.
Club career
Early career
When 16 years old, Andik already far apart the family, he joined to the Persebaya Surabaya U-21 in 2009–10 Indonesia Super League U-21. Shown impressive in Persebaya U-21, Andik moved to Deltras Sidoarjo U-21 in 2012 until 2014. and in 2015, Andik moved to Persela Lamongan and eventually joined to Persija Jakarta.
Persija Jakarta
He was signed for Persija Jakarta to play in Indonesia Soccer Championship A in 2016. Andik made his First debut with Persija Jakarta against Persipura Jayapura in the first week of the 2016 Indonesia Soccer Championship A.
Madura United
In 2017, Andik joined to Madura United family factors made it had to take this decision, because his grandma was sick. He made his league debut on 16 April 2017 in a match against Bali United at the Gelora Ratu Pamelingan Stadium, Pamekasan.
Arema
On 5 April 2022, Andik signed contract for Arema. He made his league debut on 11 September 2022 in a match against Persib Bandung at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang.
Return to Madura United
Rendika was signed for Madura United to play in Liga 1 in the 2023–24 season. He made his debut on 2 July 2023 in a match against Persib Bandung at the Gelora Bandung Lautan Api Stadium, Bandung.
Career statistics
Club
Honours
Club
Arema
Indonesia President's Cup: 2022
References
External links
Andik Rendika Rama at Liga Indonesia
1993 births
Living people
Indonesian men's footballers
People from Gresik Regency
Footballers from East Java
Deltras F.C. players
Persela Lamongan players
Persija Jakarta players
Madura United F.C. players
Arema F.C. players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Men's association football defenders |
Wydrna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dydnia, within Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Dydnia, north-east of Brzozów, and south of the regional capital Rzeszów.
References
Villages in Brzozów County |
Jorge de Almeida was the 10th & 12th Governor of Portuguese Ceylon. de Almeida was first appointed in 1631 under Philip III of Portugal, he was Governor until 1633 and then in 1635 until 1636. He was succeeded by Diogo de Melo de Castro both times.
References
Governors of Portuguese Ceylon
16th-century Portuguese people
17th-century Portuguese people |
Stone sculptor Gedion Nyanhongo was born into an artistic family on 22 December 1967 in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. He was influenced from a young age by his father, Claud Nyanhongo, a prominent artist among the "first generation" sculptors (the pioneers of the Shona Sculpture movement that began in the late 1950s). "I used to watch my father sculpt when I grew up, and although I was young, I remember loving it and knowing that it was what I wanted to do." After an apprenticeship with the internationally acclaimed sculptor Joseph Ndandarika (a friend of his father), Gedion embarked on a solo career in 1988. His debut exhibition was in 1989 at the Mabwe Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe. Gedion has since exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions at numerous venues around the world, including: England, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, South Africa, U.S.A, and Zimbabwe. Two of his works are featured in a collection on permanent display at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and a Zebra in the Phoenix Zoo.
Nyanhongo's sister Agnes is also a sculptor.
References
Mudzimu Sculpture Group
1967 births
Living people
Zimbabwean sculptors
People from Manicaland Province
20th-century sculptors
21st-century sculptors |
Nizhal Yudham is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Baby and produced by Thiruppathi Chettiyar. The film stars Sukumaran, Ravikumar, Sumalatha and Jagathy Sreekumar. The film has musical score by K. J. Joy.
Cast
Sukumaran as Ramesh
Ravikumar as Gopi
Sumalatha as Radha
Jagathy Sreekumar as Preman
Jose Prakash as Unnithan
C. I. Paul as Sekhar
Manavalan Joseph as Keshava Pilla
PK Abraham as Gopalan
Kalaranjini as Sobha
Janardhanan as D'Zuza
Prathapachandran as Adv Menon
Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Devaki
Pala Thankam as Keshava pilla's wife
Silk Smitha as Dancer
Alleppey Ashraf
Sathyachithra as Santha
Soundtrack
The music was composed by K. J. Joy and the lyrics were written by Devadas and Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan.
References
External links
1981 films
1980s Malayalam-language films
Films directed by Baby (director) |
Greben' Island is a small island lying close north of the east end of Haswell Island in the Haswell Islands of Antarctica. It was photographed and plotted by the Soviet expedition of 1956, and named Greben' (comb) because of its ridgelike shape.
See also
List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
References
Islands of Queen Mary Land |
The Snake River is a tributary of the Red River of the North in northwestern Minnesota in the United States. It is one of three streams in Minnesota with this name (see Snake River (Minnesota)).
Snake River is the English translation of the native Ojibwe-language name.
Course
The Snake River is long and with its tributaries drains a area. It flows for its entire length on the old lake bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, mostly in western Marshall County but also through a small portion of northwestern Polk County. After initially flowing southwestwardly from its headwaters, the Snake turns westward and collects a short tributary, the South Branch Snake River, and passes the towns of Warren and Alvarado. Downstream of Alvarado, the Snake turns north-northwestward, paralleling the Red River in the Red River Valley. Much of the river's course through the valley has been straightened and channelized. It collects the Middle River upstream of its confluence with the Red in Fork Township.
See also
List of Minnesota rivers
References
Waters, Thomas F. (1977). The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. .
External links
Snake River on the USGS National Map
Rivers of Minnesota
Rivers of Marshall County, Minnesota
Rivers of Polk County, Minnesota
Tributaries of Hudson Bay |
The 2014 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team represents Texas A&M University in the 2014 NCAA Division I women's college soccer season. The team belongs to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and plays its home games at . The Aggies are led by G. Guerrieri, who has coached the team since the program's inception in 1993 (22 years). The 2014 team was the first squad in school history to reach the College Cup, eventually losing to the Virginia Cavaliers 3-1 in the national semifinals.
The 2014 team has 22 roster players, with 14 scholarships to utilize between them.
2014 schedule
Season review
Non-conference
Conference
NCAA tournament
Lineup/formation
4–3–3 shown
Mouseover names for stats
Roster/statistics
Starters highlighted in green
Accolades/notes
References
External links
Official website
Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer seasons
Texas AandM |
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