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Nambale is a settlement in Kenya's Busia County. The estimated population is 42,875, and the settlement lies at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,200 m). Currently, it has continued to expand as there have been talks of construction of a sugar cane factory, to be situated between River Sio and M'nambale stream.
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Populated places in Western Province (Kenya)
Busia County |
Temnothorax nylanderi is a species of ant in the genus Temnothorax. The species is found in western Europe. It was first described by Förster (1850) based on a male from Germany.
Subspecies
Temnothorax nylanderi nylanderonigriceps (Stitz, 1939)
Ecology
Temnothorax nylanderi lives in the litter, and nests can be found in small cavities in twigs and acorns for example. Nests usually contain less than 400 individuals, among them a single queen. Study shows that if these ants live socially isolated, their interaction with their colony members decreases and their stress response changes.
Repartition
Temnothorax nylanderi is widely distributed across Western Europe, and a parapatric species (Temnothorax crassispinus) is found in Eastern Europe. Hybridization can occur between the two species.
Morphology
Temnothorax nylanderi workers are known to have important size variations that do not seem to result from adaptations to their environment, but rather from a lack of canalization during larval development, likely to occur as these ants live in an environment where humidity and temperature can vary greatly.
Intercaste individuals that share morphological traits of queens and workers are known to occur frequently.
The morphology of these ants can be changed by a parasite, Anomotaenia brevis, that increases the amount of intercaste individuals and induces a change of colors (individuals infected by the cestod are more pale than other individuals).
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Myrmicinae
Hymenoptera of Europe
Insects described in 1850 |
Yongpyong Dome (용평돔) or Yongpyong Indoor Ice Rink (용평실내빙상경기장) is an indoor stadium in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea. It is part of the complex of Yongpyong Resort. Completed in 1998, it was constructed by Ssangyong, the then owner of Yongpyong Resort. It was originally built as the main stadium for the 1999 Asian Winter Games. At the games, it was the venue for the opening/closing ceremonies, figure skating and short track speed skating events. It was also the main stadium for the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games. It is the only indoor stadium in Pyeongchang.
Next to the dome, Pyeongchang Olympic Village, the main Olympic Village for the 2018 Winter Olympics will be located. The dome was used as the main dining hall during the Winter Olympics.
External links
https://www.yongpyong.co.kr/eng/group/group.do
Indoor arenas in South Korea
Sports venues in Pyeongchang County
Sports venues completed in 1998
1999 Asian Winter Games
Figure skating at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Short track speed skating at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
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1998 establishments in South Korea
20th-century architecture in South Korea |
Hartford Union Station is a railroad station in Hartford, Connecticut, United States on the New Haven–Springfield Line. It is served by Amtrak , , , and intercity rail service, plus CT Rail Hartford Line commuter rail service and CTfastrak bus rapid transit service.
The Richardsonian Romanesque building was designed by George Keller, executed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1889. A 1914 fire required a rebuild; the interior was renovated in 1987. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.
Architecture
The station is located on the western edge of downtown Hartford, on a three-acre () block between Union Place and Spruce Street on the east and west and Church and Asylum streets to the north and south. Opposite the main building on Union Place are a mixture of other old buildings and parking lots. To the west is a triangular parking lot and the viaduct carrying Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 6, which curves around the north of the station as well. Across Asylum on the south is Bushnell Park, also listed on the Register.
The main building is located between the tracks and Union Place. It is a three-story rectangular building in rough-faced Portland brownstone with two smaller, similarly shaped two-story wings on the north and south. The main building has a flat roof; the wings are gabled and tiled, with dormer windows piercing them at regular intervals.
On the east (front) facade, a wide set of steps rises to the main entrance, beneath a flat hood at the springlines of three of the large segmental arches that run across the first story. Above these is a stylized floral molded course. The second story has similar but smaller segmental arches set with a recessed panel and four-pane windows. The central bay has "1914" carved into its panel; all others are blank. The two wings have four-pane rectangular windows.
At the station level were originally four tracks (currently one) divided by a middle platform. Two sets of iron roofs create a train shed. On the wall side those roofs are supported by spiral-shaped iron brackets. In the middle columns and simple curved iron brackets support the trusses that hold up the shed roof.
The interior has been remodeled since the station was rebuilt. It is a mostly open area with stairs along the west wall leading up to the elevated tracks and benches along the east. Flooring is red tile. There are offices on the north and south; some look out over the main space.
History
The station was built in 1889, and served the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, Central New England Railway, Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad (all of which were acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) and the New York and New England Railroad, but the entire structure had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Hartford Union Station" in 1975.
The station is currently served by one track and a side platform. The second track and platform were removed by Amtrak in the 1990s to reduce maintenance costs and because the underlying structure is no longer strong enough to support more than one train at a time. A section of the platform was converted to high level for accessible boarding as part of the Hartford Line project. It features a -wide hinged edge that can be flipped up to allow wide freight trains to pass. The new platform opened on August 4, 2016. Hartford Line commuter rail service started on June 16, 2018.
CTfastrak service began on March 28, 2015, after fifteen years of planning and three years of construction.
The I-84 Hartford Project may require realigning the highway and rail line, in which case new platforms would be constructed on the new alignment, though Union Station would continue to be used for ticketing and waiting area. The state released a slate of 5 options - some just west of the current station, others slightly to the south - in October 2017. A decision on which option will be built was expected in early 2018.
Services
Rail
Hartford is situated midway along the New Haven–Springfield Line, a non-electrified branch of the electrified Northeast Corridor. Amtrak operates four services through Hartford, with a total of about sixteen trains per day in each direction. Four Amtrak services run on the New Haven–Springfield Line with a stop at Hartford: the , the , some service, and the . Hartford Line commuter rail service is split between Amtrak trains and ConnDOT (CTrail) trains.
Bus
Union Station serves as the northeastern terminus for CTfastrak, a bus rapid transit system operating between the station and in central Connecticut. Operated by Connecticut Transit, Five local and four express routes operate along the busway and over on-street loops in downtown Hartford.
CTTransit's Hartford Division provides local and express bus service to the station on a variety of routes. Greyhound, Peter Pan and FlixBus serve Union Station with intercity bus service.
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Hartford – Hartford Line
Hartford Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
Hartford
CTfastrak
Bus stations in Hartford County, Connecticut
Railway stations in Hartford County, Connecticut
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Stations on the New Haven–Springfield Line
Former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad stations
Former Central New England Railway stations
Former New York and New England Railroad stations
Hartford
Buildings and structures in Hartford, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut
Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Connecticut
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1889
George Keller buildings
1889 establishments in Connecticut |
The Green Party of Pennsylvania is the Pennsylvania state party affiliate of the Green Party of the United States. Since 2016, the party is again recognized as a minor political party under Pennsylvania law due to receiving the required voter turnout in the 2016 election.
As of early 2018, the party has at least 19 members elected to office statewide.
Party platform and ideology
The Green Party of Pennsylvania supports the Ten Key Values of the Green Party of the United States.
The party platform includes: creation of a single payer universal healthcare system, establishment of a living wage, decriminalization of cannabis, a ban on fracking and nuclear energy, investment in sustainable energy such as solar and wind, and improvements to the state election system.
Party structure
The Green Party of Pennsylvania's highest body is the State Committee, made up of delegates from county affiliate parties, and is governed by internal bylaws. In keeping with the Green Party's key value of "decentralization", county affiliates may draft their own bylaws and procedures, including how to nominate and elect delegates to the State Committee. The party also elects a chair, secretary, and treasurer.
In addition to the governing State Committee, the party operates a number of teams for critical functions, including: the Core Committee (formerly Operations), Communications, Finance, and Green Wave.
The Green Party of Pennsylvania nominates electoral candidates by caucus instead of primary elections.
As of early 2018, 24 county chapters are recognized by the state party, the largest of which are the Green Party of Philadelphia, and the Green Party of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh region).
Current elected officials
At least 19 persons affiliated with the party have been elected to office in the state of Pennsylvania.
History
Presidential elections
Since 1996, the national Green Party has run a candidate for president of the United States. In 2000, the Green Party of Pennsylvania placed Ralph Nader, the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on the statewide presidential ballot. The highest vote total came in 2000, when Nader received over 103,000 votes. The lowest vote total came in 2008, when Cynthia McKinney was the nominee. Her campaign received only 71 votes. Nader, who was also on the ballot as an independent candidate, received more than 42,000 votes.
2006 United States Senate election
In 2006 the Green Party attempted to run Carl Romanelli for the 2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania. However, Romanelli was removed from the ballot by Judge James R. Kelley due to insufficient valid signatures on his nominating petition.
2014 state and federal elections
In 2014, the party nominated Paul Glover for governor of Pennsylvania.
2016 presidential election and election audit lawsuit
Dr. Jill Stein was again the party's candidate for president in 2016. Following the election, the Stein campaign filed in Pennsylvania court for a recount, citing insecure electronic voting systems and the lack of paper audit trail. The request was later denied by a federal judge.
2017 elections and lawsuit
In 2017, the previous 2012 Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala was nominated for Pennsylvania State Representative in District 197 in Philadelphia for the special election to be held in March 2017.
Shortly after the election, Honkala and the Green Party of Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit alleging voter intimidation and election fraud during the special election and calling for a new election to be held. In April 2018, one official was sentenced to probation for one year due to election misconduct, with the remaining defendants awaiting trial in early May 2018.
In 2017, Jules Mermelstein was the nominee for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. He received 106,969 votes in the general election, and 1.4% of the vote in a nine-way race with four candidates elected. A number of other candidates also ran for local positions including mayor, township council, and school board.
2018 state and federal elections
In 2018, Paul Glover was nominated for governor of Pennsylvania once again.
Jocolyn Bowser-Bostick was the party nominee for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.
Neal Gale was the party nominee for US Senate.
Brianna Johnston was the party nominee for US Congress in PA-07 (Special Election)
Three other candidates were also endorsed for state office.
2020 state and federal elections and ballot access lawsuit due to COVID-19
In 2020, Timothy Runkle was nominated for state treasurer, Olivia Faison was nominated for auditor general, and Richard L. Weiss, Esq., was nominated for attorney general. Several candidates for state legislative offices were also endorsed.
On May 15, 2020, the party filed suit in the US Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, demanding relief from unconstitutional election laws alleged to be impossible to meet under emergency Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) measures declared by Governor Tom Wolf.
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Political parties in Pennsylvania
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Camille Edouard Dreyfus (November 11, 1878 – September 27, 1956) was a Swiss chemist. He and his brother Henri Dreyfus invented Celanese, an acetate yarn.
He founded The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation in honour of his brother.
Early years
Camille Dreyfus was born into a Jewish family from Basel, Switzerland in 1878. His parents were Abraham and Henrietta (née Wahl) Dreyfus. His brother Henri Dreyfus was born four years later, in 1882. The brothers both went to school in Basel and then studied at the Sorbonne, Paris. Their father was involved with a chemical factory.
In 1901 Dreyfus earned a PhD from the University of Basel with the highest honors. The brothers began experimenting in a small laboratory in a corner of the garden of their father's house in Basel. Their first achievement was to develop synthetic indigo dyes.
In 1908 the two brothers turned to developing cellulose acetate, including scientific investigation of the properties of the compound and commercial exploitation. This would consume the rest of their lives. The initial goal was to create a safe and non-flammable alternative to celluloid, then used for motion pictures and photography. By 1910 they had perfected plastic film and acetate lacquers, or aircraft dope.
On 12 December 1912 Henri and Camille Dreyfus, funded by the entrepreneur Alexander Clavel-Respinger, set up a factory in Basel, Cellonit Gesellschaft Dreyfus & Co.,
to produce fireproof celluloid from cellulose acetate. The Cellonit company, founded in 1913, was innovative in developing new film materials. The Paris-based Pathé cinema equipment manufacturer became a customer, and the company's lacquers were used for German Zeppelins and airplanes.
Demand for acetate lacquers grew steadily as the aircraft industry expanded.
Britain
Camille and Henri Dreyfus moved to Britain in 1916 during World War I (July 1914 - November 1918) to supervise construction of a factory to make cellulose acetate dope, used to make the wood-and-fabric airplanes of the day fire-resistant and waterproof.
A company was established to operate the factory with 160,000 shares, of which the Dreyfus brothers and Alexander Clavel received 79,998, the Prudential Trust of Canada 40,470, Vickers Ltd. 19,800 and the remainder to smaller investors.
The plant was built at Spondon, Derbyshire, and the brothers were housed at The Homestead, a large Georgian house.
Many factors conspired to thwart Camille Dreyfus's plan to open the factory by August 1916, including labour issues, late delivery of equipment and shortage of supplies due to competing war-time priorities. In the meantime, cellulose acetate was delivered from the Basel factory under a 1915 contract.
The Megaloughton Lane plant was built by Alfred David McAlpine and was operated by the British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing company.
A contract for forty tons of lacquer was signed in January 1917, and deliveries finally began in April 1917.
By July 1917 there was a serious shortage of cellulose acetate, in part due to shortage of the raw materials.
However, the company expanded fast, and moved into other products needed by the aircraft industry.
The British Government patented Henri Dreyfus's process for producing acetic acid anhydride.
By 1918, Henri Dreyfus was managing a workforce of 14,000.
The company's difficulties, including higher costs than expected, caught the public attention, and in August 1918 the Dreyfus brothers began to be attacked by anti-semites.
G. K. Chesterton smeared them in the press, implying that they had no national loyalty and saying "International Israel is not always positively 'Pro-German' but it is for our purposes always negatively Pro-German.
Camille Dreyfus was not around to defend himself, since he left in February 1918 to set up the American operation and did not return until July 1919.
With the end of World War I all the paint contracts were cancelled and the company had to struggle to survive.
The two brothers moved into new cellulose-based products including varnishes, paints and an artificial silk yarn that they called celanese.
The company changed its name to British Celanese in 1923.
Henri Dreyfus concentrated on technical development and running the British company for the rest of his life.
United States
In 1917 the United States government asked the Dreyfus brothers to set up a cellulose factory in America.
Camille Dreyfus went to New York in 1918, where he founded the American Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing Company (Amcelle).
That year Amcelle started to build a factory in Cumberland, Maryland.
There were delays when demand collapsed with the end of the war, but Amcelle began to produce cellulose acetate at the Cumberland facility in 1924.
Camille Dreyfus was skilled in finance, sales, and management. He took charge of developing the American operation, focused on consumer products.
He came up with the brand name "Celanese" for the fibers and fabrics, which earned a solid reputation for quality.
In 1927 Amcelle bought the Celluloid Company of Newark, New Jersey and changed its name to the Celanese Corporation of America.
The Celanese corporation went public, selling common and preferred shares, but the Dreyfus brothers retained control of the British parent and its American affiliate.
As with other men who built industrial empires, Dreyfus was not particularly interested in building efficient administrative structures.
At British Celanese and its subsidiary the Celanese Corporation of America the Dreyfus brothers minimized administrative and research spending in the 1920s, and lost market share to competitors in Germany and America that moved into products such as rayon and cellophane.
Until the start of World War II (1939-1945) the company was devoted to make cellulose acetate and using it in films, lacquers and fibres.
It was only in 1940 that the Celanese Corporation started research into oxidation of butane and propane to prepare the acetic acid used in cellulose acetate.
By 1945 its plant in Bishop, Texas was producing more than twenty petrochemical derivatives through vapor-phase oxidation of local liquefied gas.
When his brother Henri died in 1944, Camille Dreyfus also became Managing Director of British Celanese.
In 1946 he set up the Henry Dreyfus Foundation in memory of his brother, "to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world."
Camille was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour by the French Government,
and earned the Modern Pioneer Award from the National Association of Manufacturers in America.
Camille Dreyfus was married once, to the opera singer Jean Tennyson (nee Jean Tennyson Solberg). They were married on September 18, 1931, at the home of the leading reform Rabbi Jonah B. Wise (founder of the United Jewish Appeal).
Camille Dreyfus died in 1956.
On his death the Dreyfus foundation was renamed The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
The foundation awards the biennial Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences to a person who has achieved a major advance in chemistry through exceptional and original research.
His widow (who remarried in 1958 and became Jean Dreyfus Boissevain) created the Camille Dreyfus Laboratory grant in his memory.
This funded construction of a research laboratory at the non-profit Research Triangle Institute (RTI) with equipment and $1.8 million for a ten-year basic research program into polymer physics and chemistry.
The building opened in 1961 and was demolished in 2011. RTI renamed another room to the Camille Dreyfus Auditorium to continue his memory.
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Citations
Sources
Swiss chemists
1878 births
1956 deaths |
Saint-Lin () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.
See also
Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department
References
Communes of Deux-Sèvres |
Loveland, Washington is a community located northeast of the current city of Roy, Washington.
References
External links
Loveland -Washington Hometown Locator
Populated places in Pierce County, Washington |
Annette Allcock Rookledge, (28 November 1923 – 2 May 2001) was a British artist and illustrator.
Biography
Allcock was born in Bromley, Kent in November 1923. After a private education, she attended the West of England College of Art between 1941 and 1943. She subsequently attended other art schools on a part-time basis. After World War II ended, Allcock worked as a film animator producing cinema adverts and short pieces for the Ministry of Information. Influenced by Stanley Spencer, who was a distant relative and who she frequently visited at his home in Cookham, Allcock became a full-time artist and concentrated on painting portraits of children. After raising her own children, she returned to work by designing charity greeting cards from home. She also illustrated a number of children's books for the Methuen publishing house. Between 1978 and 1986, Allcock was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in London. Allcock also exhibited with the Royal West of England Academy and at the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath and elsewhere in Britain. She died in Somerset in May 2001 at the age of 77.
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1923 births
2001 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol
English children's book illustrators
English women painters
People from Bromley |
Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a home-made tractor made in the United States during World War II when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the vehicle body. The preservation of examples of the doodlebug tractor has become popular in New England and upstate New York where there are several clubs holding monthly meet-ups in the summer months to put their contraptions to the test by pulling large stone boats in a tractor pull.
History
Doodlebugs had many names — Friday Tractors, Scrambolas, Jitterbugs, Field Crawlers, Ruxells and many others, as well as the most common, The DoodleBug, which was a nickname for the aftermarket tractor kit made by David Bradley, "The old DB". Initially, the idea of the homemade tractor came from several catalog and implement companies in the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, such as New Deal, Minnesota-based tractor company offering low priced tractors during the New Deal era, Peru Plow Co., Thrifty Farmer (offering Ford or Chevrolet auto to tractor conversions), Sears Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, Pull Ford, and Johnson Mfg. Co.
The conversion kits were expensive, some as much as $300, and farmers, hit hard by the Great Depression were a resourceful lot. Magazines like Popular Mechanics and Mechanix Illustrated provided instructions for building a "Handy Henry" from that "old Ford sitting in your back yard, using simple tools anyone would have". The cost to build a "Handy Henry" made from an old Model T car or truck was about $20, according to the 1936 edition of the Handy Man's Home Manual, and this provided a serviceable vehicle with rubber tires, a big truck rear end and two transmissions to make up for the gear reduction with which the kits came.
These doodlebugs were used to plow, make hay, haul logs, and pull out stumps. To do all this, the doodlebug needed good ground clearance for use in any conditions and climbing almost any terrain. For protection they had a hood, cowl radiator, a small seat, some had a small truck bed, and most had a hitching point with which to tow.
Sweden
In Sweden, tractors made from automobiles became popular among small farmers in the 1930s and remained so until small tractors became available in the 1950s. A government ordinance in 1940 (Kungörelse 1940: 440 om hänförande av vissa automobiler till fordonstypen motorredskap) was the first to set down rules for what modifications were necessary to change the class of vehicle from automobile to motorized farm implement, including a speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour (20 mph). Even though doodlebugs are no longer used for farming in Sweden, the age limit of 16 years (recently changed to 15 years) make them a popular hobby for teenagers in rural areas.
See also
Automobile-conversion tractors and other homemade versions
References
External links
Pictures of home-made tractors from USA
Pictures of home-made tractors from Sweden
Pictures of home-made tractors from the rest of the world
Tractors
Tractor pulling |
Spring Creek Correctional Center is an Alaska Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in Seward, Alaska, United States. The prison is located approximately south of Anchorage. The prison is located on about of land surrounded by national parks. The prison capacity consists of over 500 inmates and 97 correctional officers. Built as a decentralized campus, the prison construction was completed in 1988 at a cost of $44,678,000. A large portion of the prisoner population consists of "hard core" felons who committed violent crimes, such as murder. The Alaska DOC says that these prisoners "will probably spend the rest of their life in prison." Spring Creek also houses prisoners who committed less serious crimes like assault and burglary and usually have sentences from three years to ten years.
Operational history
In the prison's history, there have been two murders inside the prison, one escape and at least one failed escape plot.
Murders
In 2004, Spring Creek inmate Carl Abuhl, already incarcerated for another murder, killed his cellmate Gregory Beaudoin. Abuhl was convicted of Beaudoin's murder and sentenced to an additional 30 years in prison.
In 2008, convicted murderer John Carlin III was beaten to death in Spring Creek. Carlin was the alleged co-conspirator in the case of Mechele Linehan, a former stripper convicted in the death of her former fiancé Kent Leppink.
Escapes and escape attempts
An escape involving two inmates from Spring Creek occurred in 1994; both were subsequently recaptured. A second, unrelated escape plot in 2001 was unsuccessful.
2015 incident
In July 2015 a distraught woman from North Pole approached the prison gates with a gun and demanded that "murderers" be freed. She proceeded to shoot herself in the head when the prison did not immediately comply. Although prison staff responded and applied CPR, the woman died from the head wound within a few hours. Her exact motivations or possible relationship to inmates at Spring Creek are unknown.
Notable inmates
Robert Hansen, a serial killer convicted of killing numerous women in or near Anchorage, Alaska.
Evan Ramsey, perpetrator of the Bethel Regional High School shooting in Bethel, Alaska that occurred on February 19, 1997. His story was profiled on A&E's Kids Who Kill.
MSNBC documentary
Spring Creek was profiled in an MSNBC documentary entitled Lockup: Spring Creek, Alaska. Numerous Spring Creek inmates were profiled, including Carl Abuhl, John Bright and Cordell Boyd.
See also
List of Alaska state prisons
Alaska Department of Corrections
Seward, Alaska
References
External links
Official site
Prisons in Alaska
Buildings and structures in Seward, Alaska
Government buildings completed in 1988
1988 establishments in Alaska |
Dirk Alvermann (24 December 1965 – 17 October 2023) was a German historian and archivist.
Early life and education
Born in Berlin, Alvermann was the son of the photographer Dirk Alvermann. From 1988 he studied archive science and history at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1993 he took his master's degree in Berlin. Alvermann was a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute in Rome in 1994. In 1995, he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation suggested by and supervised by Michael Borgolte on the integration of the Reich and the practice of rule under Kaiser, Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Career
Posts
After his doctorate, Alvermann worked for the and the . Since 1998 he has been director of the . Alvermann is member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania and was from 2001 to 2011 as editor of the board member of the . Since 2011 he has been a member of the board of directors of the society.
Research
Alvermann's research focuses on medieval diplomatics, archival studies, history of Pomerania and university history.
In his dissertation, Alvermann used the methods of itinerary analysis of Müller-Mertens' "Reichtsstruktur und Herrschaftspraxis Otto II". He not only concentrated on the northern alpine region, but also included Italy in his analysis. Alvermann concluded that "the structural characteristics of the early medieval East Franconian German Empire, which Müller-Mertens described on the basis of Otto I's itinerarium, are also confirmed for Otto II's reign". However, there are "partial discontinuities with regard to the structure of the empire and the practice of rule". Thus, under Otto II, all of Thuringia became a close zone of royal rule. The two southern German duchies Bavaria and Swabia remained also under Otto II's far zones of the royal rule. Otto II visited the "political central areas" in the north, especially during the high church festivals. Italy was a "development and construction phase" both for Otto I's reign and for his son. The presence in Salerno is "perhaps the most striking sign of an intensification of rule in the Lombard south" under Otto II. Together with the historian Nils Jörn, Alvermann was editor of the Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern.
Death
Dirk Alvermann died on 17 October 2023, at the age of 57.
Publications
Monographs
Königsherrschaft und Reichsintegration. Eine Untersuchung zur politischen Struktur von regna und imperium zur Zeit Kaiser Ottos II. (967) 973–983 (Berliner historische Studien. Vol. 28). Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 1998, (At the same time: Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, dissertation, 1995).
Editorial boards
... die letzten Schranken fallen lassen. Studien zur Universität Greifswald im Nationalsozialismus. Böhlau, Cologne among others. 2015, }.
with : Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Greifswald. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Greifswald. vol. 10, 1–3). 3 volumes. Steiner, Stuttgart 2011–2014;
Volume 1: Benjamin Müsegades, Sabine-Maria Weitzel: Von der Universitätsgründung bis zum Westfälischen Frieden. 1456–1648. 2011, ;
Volume 2: Marco Pohlmann-Linke, Sabine-Maria Weitzel: Die schwedische Großmachtzeit bis zum Ende des Großen Nordischen Krieges 1649–1720. 2012, ;
Volume 3: Sabine-Maria Weitzel, Marco Pohlmann-Linke: Von der Freiheitszeit bis zum Übergang an Preußen 1721–1815. 2014, .
with Irmfried Garbe: Ernst Moritz Arndt. Anstöße und Wirkungen (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. 5th series: Forschungen zur Pommerschen Geschichte. Vol. 46). Böhlau, Cologne among others 2011, .
with Karl-Heinz Spieß: Bausteine zur Greifswalder Universitätsgeschichte. Vorträge anlässlich des Jubiläums „550 Jahre Universität Greifswald“ (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Greifswald. Vol. 8). Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, .
with Nils Jörn and Jens E. Olesen: Die Universität Greifswald in der Bildungslandschaft des Ostseeraums (Nordische Geschichte. Vol. 5). Lit, Berlin among others 2007, .
with Irmfried Garbe and Manfred Herling: Gerhardt Katsch: Greifswalder Tagebuch 1946–47. Ludwig, Kiel 2007, (several editions).
with Birgit Dahlenburg: Greifswalder Köpfe. Gelehrtenporträts und Lebensbilder des 16.–18. Jahrhunderts aus der pommerschen Landesuniversität. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, (Review).
External links
Veröffentlichungen von Dirk Alvermann im Opac der
Autoreninformation beim Lukas Verlag
Seite von Alvermann am Universitätsarchiv Greifswald
References
1965 births
2023 deaths
German archivists
20th-century German historians
21st-century German historians
Writers from Berlin |
Benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS) is characterized by fasciculation (twitching) of voluntary muscles in the body. The twitching can occur in any voluntary muscle group but is most common in the eyelids, arms, hands, fingers, legs, and feet. The tongue can also be affected. The twitching may be occasional to continuous. BFS must be distinguished from other conditions that include muscle twitches.
Signs and symptoms
The main symptom of benign fasciculation syndrome is focal or widespread involuntary muscle activity (fasciculation). The benign twitches usually have a constant location.
Other common symptoms are generalized fatigue or weakness, paraesthesia or numbness, and muscle cramping or spasms. Anxiety and somatic symptom disorders and symptoms are commonly reported. Muscle stiffness may also be present; if muscle weakness is not also present, and cramps are more severe, the stiffness may be categorized instead as cramp fasciculation syndrome. Cramp fasciculation is a variant of BFS which presents with muscle pain and exercise intolerance.
BFS symptoms are typically not accompanied by severe muscle weakness, and are typically present when the muscle is at rest. Individuals with BFS may have perceived weakness which is the sensation of a fatigued limb, but is not true clinical weakness. Fasciculations can move from one part of the body to another.
Causes
The precise cause of BFS is unknown. It is not known if it is a disease of the motor nerves, the muscles, or the neuromuscular junction.
Health anxiety disorder may be a cause among individuals who become concerned they have a motor neuron disease; this persistent concern is a psychiatric condition mostly noted among healthcare professionals and doctors. An association with anxiety level is established; BFS is reportedly found among "anxious medical students" and clinicians under the age of 40, and this phenomenon known as "fasciculation anxiety syndrome" is reinforced by access to information on the internet.
Fasciculations can be caused or worsened by intense and long periods of daily exercise.
BFS can also be caused by long-term use of anticholinergics, and fasciculations may be caused by other drug use or exposure to steroids, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, insecticides and pesticides. Thyroid disease may also cause similar symptoms.
Fasciculations can also be caused by deficiencies of magnesium and/or calcium.
Diagnosis
Benign fasciculation syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion; that is, other potential causes for the twitching must be ruled out before BFS can be diagnosed. Diagnosis includes blood tests, a neurological exam, and electromyography (EMG).
Another step in diagnosing BFS is checking for clinical weakness or wasting, which are found in more serious conditions. Lack of clinical weakness along with normal EMG results (in those with only fasciculations) largely eliminates more serious disorders from potential diagnosis. In younger people with only lower motor neuron (LMN) fasciculations, no muscle weakness, and no thyroid abnormalities, Turner and Talbot (2013) state that "individuals under 40 years can be reassured without resorting to electromyography (EMG) to avoid the small but highly damaging possibility of false-positives".
According to Kincaid (1997), the diagnosis is made when there is no clinical finding of neurogenic disease; he first reassures patients that no "ominous disease seems to be present", and says, "I suggest that patients like this be followed for a year or longer with clinical and electromyographic exams at about 6-month intervals before one becomes secure in the diagnosis that the fasciculations are truly benign." Other publications recommend followups for four or five years before ruling the condition benign, although the percentage of individuals who progress to a more serious condition is very low.
Classification
Benign fasciculation syndrome and the variant cramp fasciculation syndrome "can be regarded as part of a larger spectrum of disease that also incorporates acquired auto-immune neuromyotonia.
Differential
Other serious diseases that must be distinguished include motor neuron diseases (MND) such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neuropathy, and spinal cord diseases.
According to Turner and Talbot (2013), "the fasciculations of MND are often abrupt and widespread at onset in an individual previously unaffected by fasciculations in youth. The site of the fasciculations, for example, those in the calves versus abdomen, has not been shown to be discriminatory for a benign disorder. There is conflicting evidence as to whether the character of fasciculations differs neurophysiologically in MND." It is "exceptionally rare for patients later diagnosed with ALS to present with fasciculations alone", and ALS is ruled out with a normal EMG and no evidence of muscle wasting.
Treatment
There is support for treating any accompanying anxiety using cognitive behavioral therapy or antidepressants. Quinine is effective, but not recommended because of the potential for serious side effects. Calcium channel blockers may be effective, although the evidence for their use is weak. There is little evidence supporting other therapies.
In cases caused by magnesium or calcium deficiencies, curing the deficiency through diet or supplementation is effective.
Prognosis
The prognosis for those with BFS is good to excellent.
The syndrome causes no known long-term physical damage. Some individuals remain anxious even after being diagnosed with the benign condition and are often directed towards professionals who can assist with understanding stress and anxiety, or those who can prescribe medication to help manage anxiety.
Spontaneous remission has been known to occur, and in cases where anxiety is thought to be a major contributor, symptoms are typically lessened after the underlying anxiety is treated.
Research
There may be an association between widespread fasciculations or paresthesias with small fiber neuropathy.
References
Neurological disorders
Syndromes of unknown causes
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Jesús Sanoja Hernández (Tumeremo, Bolívar state 27 June 1930 - Caracas, 9 June 2007), was a Venezuelan journalist, historian and writer, who authored Entre golpes y revoluciones (2007).
Works
Entre golpes y revoluciones (2007).
External links
Review about Sanoja Hernández at Correodelcaroni.com
1930 births
2007 deaths
Venezuelan journalists
Venezuelan literary critics
Venezuelan male writers
20th-century Venezuelan historians
Central University of Venezuela alumni
Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
20th-century male writers
20th-century journalists
Deaths in Caracas |
The N56 road is a Belgian national road linking Mons to Lessines passing through a junction with the Belgian A8 motorway.
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Jennifer Coopersmith (born 1955) is an independent scholar known for her books on physics and the history of physics.
Life
Coopersmith is originally from Cape Town, South Africa, where she was born in 1955. After emigrating to England with her family in 1958, she read physics at King's College London, taking a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in physics. After postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and several part-time teaching positions in England and Australia, she moved to France in 2015.
Books
Coopersmith is the author of:
Energy, the Subtle Concept: The Discovery of Feynman’s Blocks, from Leibniz to Einstein (Oxford University Press, 2010)
The Lazy Universe: an introduction to the Principle of Least Action (Oxford University Press, 2017)
She is one of the translators and editors of Lazare Carnot's Essay on Machines in General (1786): Texts, Translations and Commentaries (with Raffaele Pisano and Murray Peake, Springer, Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol. 47, 2021).
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Home page
1955 births
Living people
Scientists from Cape Town
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
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Since their 1992 debut, the English rock band Radiohead have recorded more than 160 songs, most credited to the band as a whole. They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich since 1994. Several of their albums are consistently ranked among the greatest of all time.
Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey (1993), preceded by their breakthrough single "Creep", features a sound reminiscent of alternative rock bands such as the Pixies and Nirvana. The Bends (1995) marked a move toward "anthemic rock", with more cryptic lyrics about social and global topics, and elements of Britpop. OK Computer (1997), the first Radiohead album produced by Godrich, features more abstract lyrics that reflected themes of modern alienation, and subtle, complex and textured songs.
Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions, marked a drastic change in style, incorporating influences from electronic music, 20th-century classical music, krautrock and jazz. Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), combines electronic and rock music with lyrics written in response to the War on Terror. Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), as a pay-what-you-want download. It incorporates alternative rock and art pop with more personal, "universal" lyrics. Outtakes from the album were released on In Rainbows Disk 2 (2007). In 2009, Radiohead released two non-album singles: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute to the last surviving World War I soldier Harry Patch, and "These Are My Twisted Words", a free download.
Radiohead's eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), emphasises the rhythm section with extensive samples and loops. The band released four non-album singles in 2011: "Supercollider" and "The Butcher", followed by "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase". After a hiatus, Radiohead recorded a title song for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, but it was rejected. Their next album, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), incorporates art rock and ambient music, with string and choral arrangements performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. In 2017, Radiohead released a deluxe remaster of OK Computer, OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including B-sides and the previously unreleased songs "I Promise", "Man of War", and "Lift". Kid A Mnesia, an anniversary reissue compiling Kid A, Amnesiac and previously unreleased material, was released on 5 November 2021.
Songs
All songs written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, except where noted.
Unreleased songs
Radiohead have written numerous songs that have not been officially released. Live performances of many of the songs circulate as bootlegs. Asked in 2013 about the status of the unreleased songs, Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich said he believed it would all "surface one day". He cited "Nude", written in the 1990s but released in 2007, as an example of a song that took years to complete.
See also
Radiohead discography
MiniDiscs [Hacked]
Notes
References
Bibliography
Radiohead
British music-related lists |
Zwierzyniec Wielki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Białostocka, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Dąbrowa Białostocka, north-west of Sokółka, and north of the regional capital Białystok.
References
Zwierzyniec Wielki |
Ahmed Apimah Barusso (born 26 December 1984) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Italian club A.S.D. Terme Monticelli.
Club career
Barusso started off his European footballing career at Manfredonia, where he moved after recommendations by Ghanaian football legend Abedi Pele, from Nania F.C. of Accra. He helped Manfredonia to three successive promotions from the Italian amateur leagues (Serie D) to Serie C1.
At the start of the 2006–07 season Barusso was signed by Serie B club Rimini in a co-ownership deal that was later turned permanent after his immediate impact at his new club, including man of the match performances against Juventus F.C. and Bologna F.C. 1909. Barusso's success was nearly halted, however, after a fractured tibia after a tackle by Alfredo Cardinale in the week 9 game at Crotone, forcing him to miss several games due to surgery.
Roma
On 15 June 2007, it was reported in the Italian media that A.S. Roma had secured the co-ownership signing of Barusso from Serie B side Rimini. The move was made official on 9 July 2007. It cost €1.7 million to sign him in co-ownership deal. He was awarded no.29 shirt., which was taken by Nicolás Burdisso in 2009–10 season.
Barusso made his Serie A debut for A.S. Roma in a 3–0 away win over Parma on 7 October 2007, at the Stadio Ennio Tardini.
Barusso was loaned to Turkish Galatasaray in January 2008, following the African Cup of Nations
He was subsequently loaned out to Serie A team Siena in June 2008, along with Gianluca Curci as part of the deal that Roma signed Simone Loria and Artur. At Siena, He struggled to find a place in the first team (3 appearances). He was call-up to Roma's pre-season retreat on 2 July 2009.
On 24 July 2009, as revealed by his agent Mauro Cavoli, Barusso signed Brescia of Serie B on loan from AS Roma for a season, which made official on 27 July.
On 31 January 2010, he was loaned to Torino where he met with Roma teammate Loria. Barusso almost won promotion back to Serie A with the club, which lost to Brescia in the final.
On 25 June 2010, Roma bought him outright for another €100,000. He spent the other half of the 2010–11 season on loan at Livorno.
On 21 July 2011, it was reported that Barusso may sign with Israeli champions Maccabi Haifa, but the deal never materialized. In August 2011, Barusso had his car attacked, along with teammate Stefano Okaka, by angry Roma fans due to his unwillingness to be traded, which would free up a spot for a non-EU player to be brought in.
Late career
On 23 August 2012, Barusso joined Genoa on a free transfer and next day, was moved out to Serie B side Novara Calcio in a temporary deal. The signing was solely for granting Genoa a quota of non-EU signing when releasing him on 30 June 2013 as a free agent.
On 30 January 2014, he returned to Torino. He was released on 30 June 2014 without any appearances. The club also received a quota to sign non-EU player Josef Martínez. In February 2015 Barusso was signed by Lega Pro club Arezzo.
International career
Barusso was part of the Ghanaian Olympic Team, known as the Black Meteors that qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Honours
Ghana
African Cup of Nations third Place: 2008
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Accra
Ghanaian men's footballers
Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers
Ghana men's international footballers
2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
Men's association football midfielders
Serie A players
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Süper Lig players
F.C. Nania players
Manfredonia Calcio players
Rimini FC 1912 players
AS Roma players
Galatasaray S.K. footballers
ACR Siena 1904 players
Brescia Calcio players
Torino FC players
US Livorno 1915 players
ASG Nocerina players
Novara FC players
SS Arezzo players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey |
Odell (formerly Stop) is an unincorporated community in Boston Township in southwestern Washington County, Arkansas, United States. The community is one mile north of the county line and the north boundary of the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest. Evansville is four miles west-northwest on Arkansas Highway 59 adjacent to the Arkansas - Oklahoma state line.
Stop first had a postmaster in 1884, one of its co-founders. The community moved from Crawford County north of the county line into Washington County in 1930.
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Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Arkansas
Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
Populated places established in 1884
1884 establishments in Arkansas |
Sugartooth is the first album by alternative rock band Sugartooth. It was released on 12 April 1994. The song Sold My Fortune became a minor hit having aired on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. This album features drummer Joey Castillo, later of Danzig and Queens Of The Stone Age.
Track listing
Sold My Fortune
Barrel
Cracks in the Pavement
Tuesday Morning
In Need
Leave My Soul to Rest
Third-Day-to-Forever
Black Queen
Between the Illness
Shine Boy
Sheffield Milestone
Gather Me/Ode
Sound of Her Laughter
Personnel
Marc Hutner - vocals, guitar
Timothy Michael Gruse - guitar
Joey Castillo - drums
Josh Blum - bass
References
External links
Sugartooth at Allmusic
Sugartooth (Official Website)
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugartooth/dp/B000003TAV/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221848377&sr=8-5
1994 debut albums
Sugartooth albums
Geffen Records albums |
Brickellia greenei is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Greene's brickellbush. It is native to the mountain ranges of southwestern Oregon and northern California, including the Cascades, the northern Coast Ranges, and Sierra Nevada (mostly as north of Alpine County but with a few isolated populations in Inyo and Mariposa Counties).
Brickellia greenei is a perennial herb growing tall with several glandular, sticky stems covered in leaves. The oval, toothed leaves are up to long and sticky with resin glands.
The inflorescences hold widely spaced flower heads, each about long and lined with narrow, pointed phyllaries. Each flower head holds a nearly spherical array of about 60 thready disc florets. The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene about long with a pappus of bristles.
The species is named for American botanist Edward Lee Greene, 1843–1915.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment: Brickellia greenei
United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
Brickellia greenei - Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California
greenei
Flora of California
Flora of Oregon
Plants described in 1877
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
The Pilgrim of Hate is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in spring 1141. It is the tenth in the Cadfael Chronicles, and was first published in 1984.
This story takes place very soon after the preceding novel Dead Man's Ransom. Political events of The Anarchy are changing rapidly, with the crowned King Stephen held in prison, while the claimant Empress Maud tries to gain political and popular approval to replace him. Even in such troubled times, the Abbey holds the feast in honour of its own Saint Winifred, whose remains were taken (translated) from Wales four years earlier in the first of these tales, A Morbid Taste for Bones.
It was adapted for television in 1998 by Carlton Media for ITV.
Plot summary
In 1141, the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul prepares to celebrate the anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred's casket to Shrewsbury Abbey on 22 June.
Brother Cadfael shares a secret with Hugh Beringar, as he recalls what happened in Wales four years ago. Cadfael removed Winifred's remains from the casket, returned them to her Welsh soil and replaced them with the body of a monk who died on their mission to seek the holy bones. The saint has continued to work miracles in Wales, but not in Shrewsbury. Cadfael wants a sign that the saint is not displeased with him.
In early June, Abbot Radulfus returns from the legatine council called by Henry, Bishop of Winchester. The council ends with murder in Winchester when King Stephen's wife Queen Matilda asks the turncoat Henry to seek the King's release. Supporters of Empress Maud ambush the Queen's messenger, who is saved by the intervention of Rainald Bossard, a knight of the Empress, who is killed.
Among the pilgrims streaming into the Abbey is the widow Dame Alice Weaver with her crippled nephew Rhun and his sister, Melangell. Alice wants help for Rhun; Rhun wants a happier life for his sister. Two young men arrive with them. Ciaran is under vow to walk barefoot to Aberdaron in Wales to die in peace, hampered by a great iron cross around his neck and protected by a bishop's ring. His inseparable friend Matthew has vowed to be at Ciaran's side for the penitential journey. En route, Matthew gave aid to Rhun, and he likes Melangell. Cadfael sees a third party of pilgrims, four suspicious-looking merchants. With a tip from Brother Adam, Cadfael warns Beringar that they are thieves.
Setting a net to catch the thieves, Beringar meets Olivier de Bretagne, messenger from the Bishop's conference, whom Hugh first met when they worked together to save the Hugonin children. Olivier requests that Hugh accept Empress Maud as queen; Hugh politely refuses. Olivier's second mission is to search for Bossard's adopted son, Luc Meverel, who has been missing since the murder in April.
Beringar breaks up a crooked dice game, and recovers a ring stolen from Ciaran, which is found on the hand of local man Daniel Aurifaber, who bought it from Simeon Poer. Near dawn on the day of the procession, Ciaran tells Melangell that he is leaving Shrewsbury for Wales now that his "safe-passage" ring is returned to him. She promises to keep his secrets.
After St. Winifred's reliquary is set on her altar, pilgrims line up to make their requests of the saint. Prior Robert presides. As Rhun approaches, he drops his crutches; as he puts his foot to the ground and climbs to the altar, the congregation sees his leg become stronger and his foot untwist. He prays in complete silence; when he steps back, his foot whole and fully functional, and the church is filled with praise for the saint who has performed this miracle.
When Matthew cannot find Ciaran, Melangell tries to detain him. Matthew reacts with unusual violence, and leaves the Abbey, hot on Ciaran's trail.
Olivier and Hugh seek out Cadfael for help in finding Luc. The description of Luc applies to both Ciaran and Matthew. The Abbot learns they are both gone. Olivier leaves to search for them, on the road to Wales. Abbot Radulfus asks Cadfael if Rhun's recovery was feigned. Cadfael believes it was not. Radulfus, reassured of this miracle, speaks with Rhun, who states his wish to stay at the Abbey.
Melangell tells Cadfael that the two young men left separately, heading over the fields, not along the road. The Abbot opens a scrip left behind, finding a book with Luc Meverel's name in it. Sending word to Hugh, Cadfael goes on horseback to follow the two young men on the overland route. At the edge of twilight, he hears Ciaran and Matthew in a clearing around a great beech tree. Matthew is fighting off the three felons, who now await darkness. Cadfael, unarmed, approaches on foot, bellowing as if he is part of a large party in pursuit, and attacks Simeon Poer. His cries lead Hugh and his men to the scene, and they catch the three attackers.
In the brawl, Poer has pulled the cross off Ciaran's neck. Looking to Matthew, Ciaran says 'I am forfeit, now take me.' Cadfael agrees, understanding these men now. Matthew throws down his dagger and walks away with Olivier close behind. Ciaran, once in Bishop Henry's service, tells how he stabbed Bossard, wrongly believing that his master would condone the impulsive crime. Henry banished Ciaran, telling him to make his journey to Dublin on two conditions, with his life forfeit if he failed in either. Luc Meverel overheard these words, as he followed the attacker to the Bishop's house after Bossard died. Luc, motivated by grief turned to hate and vengeance, appoints himself enforcer of the vow.
Faced with the broken Ciaran, Luc turns away from vengeance. Hugh lets Ciaran walk away, to take up his issues with God on his own. Olivier returns with Luc/Matthew to Shrewsbury, where Luc again pays court to Melangell. He begins life anew with confession to the Abbot, and marriage to Melangell. Rhun stays at the Abbey as a prospective novice.
Olivier tells Cadfael that he and Ermina Hugonin were married this past Christmas, delighting Cadfael. Hugh arrives with the latest news from London: the Empress Maud has lost London, retreating to the southwest. The weight of the failure rests on her shoulders. The Queen's army remains in Kent. Olivier must leave Shrewsbury before he wanted.
Hugh says that Olivier resembles Cadfael in a way; the monk says, Oh, no, he is altogether the image of his mother. "I always meant to tell you, some day," he said tranquilly, "what he does not know, and never will from me. He is my son."
Characters
Brother Cadfael: He is the herbalist of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Shrewsbury, and its impromptu detective, about 61 years old.
Rainald Bossard: A knight of Sir Laurence d'Angers company, about 50 years old. He supports the cause of Empress Maud, like his liege lord. Bossard's murder by persons unknown while defending Queen Matilda's messenger is the subject of the mystery.
Bishop Henry: He is the Bishop of Winchester and the papal legate in England. The legate can confer the approval of the Church on the monarch. He is the brother of King Stephen and has been his staunch supporter. As the Empress's fortunes rise, Henry shifts his support away from his brother, sensing the political winds and hoping to increase his own power in the Church. He is a real historical person; his actions in this time of change set the scene for the story's action.
Hugh Beringar: Newly made Sheriff of Shropshire. He is Cadfael's close friend. He took up the duty of Sheriff on the death of Sheriff Prestcote earlier in the spring in Dead Man's Ransom. Firmly in King Stephen's camp in this Anarchy; about 26 years old. He was introduced in One Corpse Too Many as the Deputy appointed by King Stephen. When Cadfael needs a confidant, Hugh is the one chosen and so chosen twice in this novel.
Aline Beringar: Hugh's wife. She was the beautiful and gracious Aline Siward, wooed and won by Hugh in One Corpse Too Many. Their son Giles, just walking, is godson to Cadfael.
Matthew: He is a pilgrim to the feast in honour of the translation of St. Winifred, determined to stay with Ciaran. En route, he befriended a family group of pilgrims, and falls in love with one of them. He is 24 or 25 years old, and educated to be a squire or clerk, though he never mentions this or his link to Ciaran: relation, friend, friend met en route?
Ciaran: Pilgrim travelling with Matthew. He is bound by vow to go barefoot and encumbered by a heavy cross until he reaches his destination of Aberdaron in Wales, far beyond the Abbey. He is a very troubled soul. Like Matthew, he is educated to be a squire or clerk, and is of an age with him.
Rhun: Pilgrim to this religious feast. He was crippled from childhood, and now 16 years old. He had a Welsh father and an English mother. He was raised in Wales until they died 7 years earlier, when his English aunt took him in.
Melangell: His 18-year-old sister. She is dark-haired, attractive, of the age to marry and much in love with Matthew.
Mistress Alice Weaver: She is the widowed sister of Melangell and Rhun's mother, who raised the pair since they were orphaned 7 years before. She took up her late husband's weaving trade to keep the family together. She is from Campden in the weaving district (Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds). She has hopes of help for Rhun, the reason to make the pilgrimage.
Brother Adam of Reading: A fellow herbalist come on pilgrimage. He is unusual among the Benedictine monks for his knowledge of the world from his travels for his Abbot. He recognised one of the sharpers attracted to the crowds, telling Cadfael of the man's reputation. He met Matthew and Ciaran at the Abbey in Abingdon when he began his journey on horseback from Reading.
Abbot Radulfus: Head of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul. He is based on the real abbot of this time (Ranulf in some records). He is portrayed as a wise man, with authority in his bearing; he is taller than average, in excellent health, and a few years younger than Cadfael.
Prior Robert Pennant: Of aristocratic background. He is fictional but based on a real man, who was Abbot after Radulfus. His ties to Saint Winifred's relics were strong. He wrote a history of her life. He is portrayed as aristocratic, not equally charitable to all comers.
Brother Denis: The hospitaler of the Abbey.
Brother Anselm: Precentor for the Abbey.
Brother Oswin: Young monk in training under Brother Cadfael. He is over his initial clumsiness, but not yet so careful in maintaining the herbarium as Cadfael himself. He is about 21 years old, and was introduced in The Leper of Saint Giles.
Simeon Poer, John Sure, Walter Baggot, and William Hales: They are a group of pilgrims; merchant, tailor, glover, and farrier, respectively, of the class who can go on pilgrimage almost as a vacation, or so they appear initially.
Daniel Aurifaber: Townsman, local goldsmith. He likes to play dice with the visiting pilgrims, showing no improvement in his character or judgment. He was introduced in The Sanctuary Sparrow.
Olivier de Bretagne: In service of Laurence d'Angers (who is for Empress Maud). He is sent as messenger from Bishop Henry and the Council at Winchester to encourage shires to join her side, and on his own errand seeking a missing young man. He was born in Antioch, son of a Syrian mother and Crusader father, where he was named Daoud. When he was baptised into the faith of his unknown father, he took the name of his godfather, a man in the same Crusader service. He was introduced in The Virgin in the Ice.
Historical background and continuity
This novel, like the rest of the series, is set during The Anarchy, a civil war which raged through England from 1135 to 1154. During the course of the story, King Stephen, having been captured by Robert of Gloucester at the Battle of Lincoln (February 1141), is now imprisoned in Bristol by the Empress Maud. The plot, which takes place in June 1141, also details the unsuccessful attempt by Maud and her brother Robert to have her crowned in London, where she took the title Lady of the English, one step before coronation. She was chased out by the Londoners before she could be crowned Queen. As this novel explains, Maud made herself extremely unpopular by the strictures of her government, her arrogant disposition, and her demands for money. Queen Matilda, wife of King Stephen, takes over the leadership of his armies while her husband is imprisoned, and does well in keeping up the pressure against the forces of the Empress.
The story describes a miracle, manifest before the brothers and the faithful pilgrims. This era of English religious belief included widespread belief in miracles, attributed to the power of a saint's intercession and the belief of the person benefitting from the miracle. Amidst the chaos of the royalty and the landed aristocracy, the miracle was believed, even sought, for the lives of everyday people.
The events take place in real places in England. Shrewsbury Abbey is real, and is from 180 to 200 miles on modern roads from Winchester. It is over 160 miles on modern roads from Reading. Abingdon is about 35 miles along the way to Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Rhun, Melangell and their aunt are from Campden in the Cotswolds wool district, over 80 miles from Shrewsbury. Ciaran has the ambitious plan to walk to Aberdaron in Wales, which is over 100 miles on modern roads from Shrewsbury. Bishop Henry of Winchester gathered his bishops and abbots in Winchester for the legatine council, while the Empress Maud was in London and Oxford in the time of this story.
As he promised in the previous novel, Dead Man's Ransom, Hugh Beringar took Caus Castle from the Welsh of Powys, so it could no longer be used as a base for raids into Shropshire. Done in April, it was not soon enough for the nearby farms and asarts to be resettled.
The next novel in the series, An Excellent Mystery, details Maud's retreat to Winchester, where she was besieged and routed, and her legendary escape from snowbound Oxford in 1142 is mentioned at the start of a later novel, The Confession of Brother Haluin.
Besides its setting at a crucial moment of the progress of the civil war, this novel ties to events and characters in earlier novels, and sets the scene for those in later novels. The religious festival is keyed on the events of the first novel, A Morbid Taste for Bones, carrying (translating) the holy relics from Wales to the Abbey. The son Cadfael never knew he had until their encounter in The Virgin in the Ice returns to him by the chances of the political events. The neutrality of this monk in the political scene is strengthened by the contrast between the two young men now most important in Cadfael's life—his son Olivier and Sheriff Hugh Beringar. Each is aligned for different reasons with opposite sides in this conflict. Not all clerics or monastics in that era were neutral, of course, highlighted by the actions of King Stephen's brother, Henry, Bishop of Winchester.
Reviews
Amazon.com quotes the Library Journal review of an audio recording of this book. The reviewer finds that rich secondary characters add to the plot:
The celebration of St. Winifred, in The Pilgrim of Hate, is usually a time of great rejoicing at the Benedictine abbey in Shrewsbury. Even in 1141, with the political factions of Empress Matilda and King Stephen engaged in bloody civil war, the faithful come to Shrewsbury to honour the Saint and pray for miracles. Unfortunately, the shadow of a distant murder hangs over the festival. Several weeks earlier in Winchester, a good and loyal knight was foully slain. The motive for the killing could have been either political or personal, and the murderer may be lurking among the pilgrims. It falls to Brother Cadfael to ferret out the killer. He is curious about two young men who are travelling together to fulfill a bizarre vow. Cadfael cannot rest until he uncovers their story. A colourful cast of well-drawn secondary characters adds richness and depth to a plot that examines joys of faith, as well as the evils of guilt and vengeance. ... Librarians with long-established audiobook collections should note that both of these titles were originally issued in 1993. ... Thorne voices the large number of characters and accents in each book with precision, making each unique. Recommended nevertheless, for public library collections where Peters and/or historical mysteries are popular. Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Library System, Garland
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. (reviewing two audio books read by Stephen Thorne)
Publication history
This book was first published in the UK in September 1984 by Macmillan. The US hardback edition followed in November 1985. Two large print editions were released, one in 1986 and the second in 2000. Eight paperback editions were issued in the US and the UK, beginning in September 1985 by Sphere in the UK. The latest was issued in the US by Thorndike in September 1999, followed by a large print soft cover edition in the UK by Chivers in 2000.
Twelve audiobooks on cassette or CD have been released, by various readers, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Stephen Thorne, Roe Kendall, Vanessa Benjamin. The first was a cassette edition in 1989. Most recently, Blackstone Audio Books issued it on CD in May 2013.
It has been published in other languages besides English.
French: Le pèlerin de la haine, Published 1991 by Editions 10/18, 279 pages
Italian: Il pellegrino dell'odio (Hardcover), Published 1994 by Longanesi, 221 pages, Elsa Pelitti (Translator)
German: Pilger des Hasses (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10), Published 1992 by Heyne Verlag, Paperback, 267 pages
Dutch: Een wisse dood [Certain death] (Paperback) Published 1990 by De Boekerij Paperback, 192 pages Pieter Janssens (Translator)
Television adaptation
The Pilgrim of Hate was adapted by Carlton Media and WGBH Boston for ITV as the last episode of the fourth season of Brother Cadfael. This episode departs from the novel in significant ways.
In this version, a well-aged corpse is found in the baggage of the pilgrims on St. Winifred's day, and its identity, not the murder of a faraway knight, becomes the subject of the mystery. Matthew (here named Luc) and Ciaran are brothers, pointing fingers as to who is responsible for their father's death. In this adaptation Matthew turns out to be the villain. Crippled Rhun (here named Walter), far from being one of Cadfael's most promising future novices, confirms Father Abbot's suspicions that he is only faking his condition to earn the charity of those around him; his sister Melangell has been forced by guilt to wait on him hand and foot, even stealing to support their needs. "Only Cadfael," says one cynical reviewer, "is still interested in the truth, even if it disarranges the plans of any of these unsympathetic characters."
Filmed on location in Hungary, this episode starred Sir Derek Jacobi as Cadfael. It aired on 28 December 1998, and was the last of Ellis Peters' novels to be adapted for the screen.
References
British mystery novels
Novels by Edith Pargeter
1984 British novels
Fiction set in the 1140s
Novels set in Shropshire
British novels adapted into television shows
Macmillan Publishers books |
Kabylophytoecia is a monotypic beetle genus in the family Cerambycidae described by Sama in 2005. Its only species, Kabylophytoecia cirteensis, was described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1842.
References
Saperdini
Beetles described in 1842
Monotypic beetle genera |
Andy Murray defeated Fernando Verdasco in the final, 6–3, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2017 Dubai Tennis Championships. Murray saved seven match points en route to the title, against Philipp Kohlschreiber in the quarterfinals. He won the second set tiebreak of that match with a score of 20–18, equaling the record of the longest tiebreak in history, until the record was broken in 2022.
Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Damir Džumhur.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
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Denis Istomin (qualified)
Andreas Seppi (Qualifying competition, lucky loser)
Sergiy Stakhovsky (first round)
Andrey Rublev (first round)
Evgeny Donskoy (qualified)
Marius Copil (qualified)
Thomas Fabbiano (first round)
Lukáš Rosol (qualified)
}}
Qualifiers
Lucky loser
Andreas Seppi'''
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
External links
Main draw
Qualifying draw
Singles |
Dental alveoli (singular alveolus) are sockets in the jaws in which the roots of teeth are held in the alveolar process with the periodontal ligament. The lay term for dental alveoli is tooth sockets. A joint that connects the roots of the teeth and the alveolus is called gomphosis (plural gomphoses). Alveolar bone is the bone that surrounds the roots of the teeth forming bone sockets.
In mammals, tooth sockets are found in the maxilla, the premaxilla, and the mandible.
Etymology
1706, "a hollow," especially "the socket of a tooth," from Latin alveolus "a tray, trough, basin; bed of a small river; small hollow or cavity," diminutive of alvus "belly, stomach, paunch, bowels; hold of a ship," from PIE root *aulo- "hole, cavity" (source also of Greek aulos "flute, tube, pipe;" Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Russian ulica "street," originally "narrow opening;" Old Church Slavonic uliji, Lithuanian aulys "beehive" (hollow trunk), Armenian yli "pregnant"). The word was extended in 19c. anatomy to other small pits, sockets, or cells.
Socket preservation
Socket preservation or alveolar ridge preservation (ARP) is a procedure to reduce bone loss after tooth extraction to preserve the dental alveolus (tooth socket) in the alveolar bone. A platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) membrane containing bone growth enhancing elements can be stitched over the wound or a graft material or scaffold is placed in the socket of an extracted tooth. The socket is then directly closed with stitches or covered with a non-resorbable or resorbable membrane and sutured.
Pathology
The swelling of the dental alveoli can result in alveolitis, causing pain and discomfort to the mouth.
See also
Alveolar ridge
Polyphyodont
References
External links
National Institute of Health, CRISP Database
Parts of tooth |
The Western Carpathians () are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland with Slovakia toward the Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the Austrian Weinviertel. In the south the North Hungarian Mountains cover northern Hungary. The area of the Western Carpathians comprises about 70,000 km². The highest elevation is the Gerlachovský štít (2,655m).
Geographical definition
Most of the perimeter of the Western Carpathians is quite sharply defined by valleys. To the northwest and north they are separated from the Bohemian Massif by the Forecarpathian Lowland and the Lesser Poland Upland; to the west the Moravian Gate leads over to the Sudetes. To the south the mountain chain falls away towards the Pannonian Plain, a large plain situated between the Alps, the Dinaric Alps, and the main mass of the Eastern Carpathians.
The boundary between the Western Carpathians and the Eastern Alps is formed by the Vienna Basin, the Hainburg Hills of the Little Carpathians at Devín Gate, and a gap carved by the Danube. To the east and northeast the mountains are bounded by the East Slovak and Sandomierz Basins, but it is less striking and passes through highland terrain that continues to the Eastern Carpathians.
Geology
The Western Carpathians are part of the northern branch of alpine orogeny, which was formed by the closure of the Tethys Ocean millions of years ago.
The Western Carpathians are part of the Alpide belt. To the west they longitudinally join the Alps, but the exact boundary is hidden under the Neogene sedimentary fill of the Vienna Basin. To the east, their boundary with the Eastern Carpathians is the valley of the Hornád or Uzh River. The northern boundary with the East European craton and Bohemian Massif is well marked by the thrust of nappes of the Carpathian flysch belt. The southern boundary is less clear, because later postorogenetic evolution caused formation of basins, penetrating the mountain chain non-uniformly.
The Western Carpathians have a complicated geological structure, that has been formed since the Paleozoic era. The oldest Paleozoic rocks experienced the first stage of deformation during the Hercynian orogeny, but younger Alpine overprint is common. Alpine orogeny affected the area in several stages from Jurassic to Neogene. During this period, parts of Tethys Ocean were subducted under the Adriatic Plate and Western Carpathian blocks were thrust over the margin of the Eurasian plate.
Tectonic units of the Western Carpathians are arranged in belt-like order, with the external units in the north and internal units in the south. Alpine evolution of the Western Carpathians is dominated by extension and closure of two or three oceanic domains: Triassic-Jurassic Meliata-Halstatt Ocean, Jurassic-Cretaceous Piemont-Vahic Ocean/Zone and Cretaceous-Tertiary Valais-Magura Ocean. After a subduction of the Meliata Ocean, the Internal Western Carpathians were formed. Suturing of Vahic domain finalized thrusting in the Central Western Carpathians, and consuming the crust of Carpathian Flysch Basins caused the formation of the External West Carpathian accretionary wedge (Flysch Belt).
References
Mountain ranges of the Carpathians
Mountain ranges of Austria
Mountain ranges of the Czech Republic
Mountain ranges of Hungary
Mountain ranges of Poland
Mountain ranges of Slovakia |
Miguel Couto was a Brazilian educationist, politician and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was born Miguel de Oliveira Couto in the city of Rio de Janeiro, on May 1, 1864. He was the son of Francisco de Oliveira Couto and Maria Rosa do Espírito Santo. He was trained in medicine, and went on to teach the subject, gaining a reputation as one of the most noted clinicians in contemporary Brazil.
Couto was multilingual and profoundly knowledgeable in the Portuguese language. For many years, he was a vocal opponent of Japanese immigration to Brazil. He was a loud proponent of national education. Even before the October 1930 Revolution, he had given a speech at the Brazilian Education Association on July 2, 1927, in which he presented a project on education, which was widely distributed in all normal schools and professional institutes of the then Federal Capital. He recommended the creation of a Ministry of Education in this document, with "two departments: that of education and that of hygiene". Subsequently, in November 1930, a decree by the Head of the Provisional Government of the Republic created a Ministry of Education and Public Health.
He was elected federal deputy in the Constituent Assembly that would draft the Constitution of July 16, 1933. He chaired the National Academy of Medicine for 21 consecutive years. He was the third occupant of Chair 40 of the Brazilian Academy, to which he was elected on December 9, 1916. He succeeded Afonso Arinos in this chair and received into the Academy by Mário de Alencar on June 2, 1919.
He died in Rio on June 6, 1934.
References
Brazilian politicians
1864 births
1934 deaths |
In 1973 the Penny Lane Mall was built in downtown Calgary, Alberta, preserving the facade of a block of older buildings on 8th Avenue SW.
According to The Calgary Herald the mall preserved the facade of one of Calgary's first hospitals, the first Colonel Belcher Hospital, a military hospital opened in 1918.
The Calgary Herald reported shoppers would be surrounded by "an atmosphere of quality and elegance".
In 1983 The Calgary Herald's Tom Keyser profiled Bob Hutchison, the mall's long-time shoe-shine-boy -- one of only three individuals who still operated a shoe-shine stand in Calgary.
Hutchison said the mall's management considered him a "drawing card", so he was charged no rent.
In 1985 Eaton's opened a large department store across the street from the mall.
The Calgary Herald reported vendors in the mall welcomed the shoppers the Eaton's store would attract.
According to the 2002 edition of The Canadian Rockies: A Colourguide the Penny Lane Mall was part of an extensive blocks of properties connected by covered walkways at second floor level.
The walkways, called +15 because the walkways were approximately 15 feet above street level, allowed shoppers to "cruise the malls in comfort even if the weather is frightful." The guide said, in 2002, that the walkways gave shirtsleeve access to 400 stores.
In 2006 developers planned to demolish the structure and replace it with two modern glass-clad high-rise towers.
According to The Calgary Herald "The demolition marks the end of a chapter in Calgary's history."
Sections of the original sandstone, and original timber beams, will be incorporated into a "historical interpretive display".
According to the Calgary Heritage Initiative, heritage enthusiasts tried, and failed, to interest the city or the developers in retaining some portion of the original facade.
The developers agreed to incorporate an interpretive display if the "Friends of Penny Lane" would stop lobbying for more ambitious preservation.
See also
Eighth Avenue Place
References
Defunct shopping malls in Alberta
Shopping malls established in 1973 |
The Queen's Knight Defense (also known as the Nimzowitsch Queen Pawn Defence, Bogoljubov–Mikenas Defense, or Lundin Defense) is a chess opening defined by the moves:
1. d4 Nc6
Unless the game transposes to another opening, the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings code for the Queen's Knight Defense is A40.
Discussion
This opening was tried by some hypermodern players such as Aron Nimzowitsch and Efim Bogoljubov, but it has never become very popular. The move 1...Nc6 is a fairly committal move which blocks Black's c-pawn; usually Black delays playing it until White's setup is clear.
Most games featuring 1.d4 Nc6 transpose to other openings. After 2.e4 the Nimzowitsch Defense arises. After 2.Nf3 d5 a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game is possible. After 2.c4 d5 the opening is a Chigorin Defense.
There are some lines that are unique to 1.d4 Nc6, most importantly 2.d5 which chases the knight away, usually to e5. The opening resembles an Alekhine's Defence but on the opposite side of the board. In an opening book by Sid Pickard, this variation was called the Bozo-Indian Defense ("Bozo" being a combination of the prefixes "Nimzo" and "Bogo").
The Queen's Knight Defense was featured (although not mentioned by name) in the season four episode of Chuck entitled "Chuck Versus the Family Volkoff".
Transpositions
After 1.d4 Nc6 Black should be ready for various continuations. However, White cannot just ignore the fact that his opponent is ready to play e5 in the next move. Therefore, practically speaking, White is more likely to limit himself to the move 2.Nf3, trying to reach a position where he has a theoretical advantage. Black could respond to Nf3 with two main moves:
2...d6 can transpose to the Pirc Defense (if Black successfully plays the moves d6 and g6, White must play e4 and go into open games theory) or the King's Indian Defence if White plays the early c4 and goes into closed games theory.
2...e6 can transpose to the Nimzo-Indian Defence, Bogo-Indian Defence and the Chigorin Defense if White plays c4 immediately. If White tries going for an open game, the game can transpose to a Guimard French or some other French line with 4...e5 or the Nimzowitsch Defence.
Unusual Sequences:
Dutch Defence – 1.d4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.0-0 f5 6.d5
Ruy Lopez – 1.d4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d6 3.e4 e5 4.Bb5 exd4 5.Qxd4
Illustrative games
Erich Weinitschke vs. Efim Bogoljubov, Bad Elster (Germany) 1938:
Analysis by Sid Pickard:
An splendid example of dynamism concealed in Black's opening: 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. f4 Ng6 4. e4 e5 (this position more commonly occurs from the Nimzowitsch Defense by 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.f4 Ng6) 5. f5 (more cautious would be 5.dxe6, though after fxe6 Black has the open f-file as a base for counter-attack) Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qxe4 7. fxg6 Qxd5+ 8. Ke1 Qxd1+ 9. Kxd1 hxg6 10. Nc3 c6 11. Nf3 f6 12. Bd3 (storing up trouble. White's minor pieces become potentially exposed to Black's advancing pawns. In order to make a game of it White had to play 12.Be2) Ne7 13. Re1 d5 (Black's opening sacrifice has been a complete success. He controls the center and his three pawns outweighs White's extra piece, but this is a somewhat forlorn gesture.) 14. h3 e4 15. Bxe4 dxe4 16. Nxe4 Kf7 17. Bd2 Nf5 18. b3 g5 19. Ke2 Nd6 20. Nf2 Bf5 21. Nd4 Bg6 22. Kf1 Nf5 23. Ne2 Bc5 24. Ne4 Bb6 (Black's task is easy. He has an extra pawn, two bishops and better development) 25. c4 Rad8 26. Red1 Rxd2 27. Nxd2 Ne3+ (White resigned in the favor of 28.Ke1 Nxg2+ 29.Kf1 Ne3+ 30.Ke1 Rxh3)'''
Notes
References
Chess openings |
The 2019–20 season is Kitchee's 41st season in the top-tier division of Hong Kong football. Kitchee has competed in the Premier League, Senior Challenge Shield, FA Cup, Sapling Cup and AFC Cup this season.
Squad
First Team
As of 24 September 2020
FP
FP
FP
FP
FP
FP
LP
FP
LP
LP
FP
Remarks:
LP These players are considered as local players in Hong Kong domestic football competitions.
FP These players are registered as foreign players.
Transfers
Transfers in
Transfers out
Loans Out
Club officials
Club Senior staff
Club Coach staff
Competitions
Hong Kong Premier League
Table
Results by round
Results summary
League Matches
On 14 August 2019, the fixtures for the forthcoming season were announced.
Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield
Hong Kong Sapling Cup
Group stage
Final
Hong Kong FA Cup
Remarks
References
Kitchee SC seasons
Hong Kong football clubs 2019–20 season |
```c++
//
//
// 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.
#include "paddle/phi/kernels/nonzero_kernel.h"
#include "glog/logging.h"
#include "paddle/phi/backends/xpu/enforce_xpu.h"
#include "paddle/phi/common/memory_utils.h"
#include "paddle/phi/core/kernel_registry.h"
namespace phi {
template <typename T, typename Context>
void NonZeroKernel(const Context& dev_ctx,
const DenseTensor& condition,
DenseTensor* out) {
const T* cond_data = condition.data<T>();
auto numel = condition.numel();
auto dims = condition.dims();
const int rank = dims.size();
xpu::ctx_guard RAII_GUARD(dev_ctx.x_context());
int* true_num = RAII_GUARD.alloc_l3_or_gm<int32_t>(1);
int true_num_cpu;
int ret = xpu::nonzero_count(dev_ctx.x_context(), cond_data, true_num, numel);
PADDLE_ENFORCE_XDNN_SUCCESS(ret, "nonzero_count");
memory_utils::Copy(phi::CPUPlace(),
static_cast<void*>(&true_num_cpu),
dev_ctx.GetPlace(),
static_cast<void*>(true_num),
sizeof(int32_t));
if (std::getenv("XPUSIM_SKIP_RUN") &&
std::strcmp(std::getenv("XPUSIM_SKIP_RUN"), "1") == 0) {
VLOG(3) << "WARNING: In the simulator mode, the variable true_num_cpu "
"stores an uninitialized value. To avoid allocating a memory of "
"random size, we assign numel to true_num_cpu";
true_num_cpu = numel;
}
out->Resize(common::make_ddim({static_cast<int64_t>(true_num_cpu), rank}));
auto* out_data = dev_ctx.template Alloc<int64_t>(out);
if (true_num_cpu == 0) {
return;
}
auto condition_shape = common::vectorize<int>(dims);
ret = xpu::where(
dev_ctx.x_context(), cond_data, out_data, condition_shape, true_num_cpu);
PADDLE_ENFORCE_XDNN_SUCCESS(ret, "where");
}
} // namespace phi
PD_REGISTER_KERNEL(
nonzero, XPU, ALL_LAYOUT, phi::NonZeroKernel, int, bool, float, int64_t) {
kernel->OutputAt(0).SetDataType(phi::DataType::INT64);
}
``` |
Moondance is a 1995 Irish drama film based on the 1936 novel The White Hare by Francis Stuart. It was directed by and stars Rúaidhrí Conroy, in his second feature film following Into the West. It also features Ian Shaw, Julia Brendler and Marianne Faithfull, who also provided the vocals for the song "Madam George" written by Van Morrison, who wrote the lyrics for the songs included in the soundtrack.
Plot
Moondance is the coming-of-age tale of two brothers, Patrick and Dominic who have a close relationship and live a care-free life in the countryside of Western Ireland. While their mother (Marianne Faithfull) is often away, travelling around the world, the brothers receive frequent visits from their interfering aunt, Dorothy who believes that Dominic should be receiving an education and that he should be sent to boarding school, for which Patrick doesn't agree. On one of Dorothy's visits, she brings along a young German woman named Anya, who volunteers to help Dominic with his education at home, and that it would also help her practise her English. As Anya continues to spend time with the brothers, Mother later returns home and announces that she is back to stay. She accepts Anya into her home.
Patrick is disappointed that it will soon be time for Anya to leave as she about to begin university. Desperate for her to stay, he asks her to marry him, for which she agrees. As a wedding present to Anya, Dominic surprises her and leads her to a shack in the woods which he has decorated the inside for her. There it becomes evident that Dominic has a crush on Anya and he tells her that she will be his bride too. On the morning of the wedding, Anya becomes anxious and feels that she and Patrick are rushing into things too fast and tells him she needs more time to think things over. Patrick blames his mother for Anya's change of heart. Patrick and Anya then go to the shack where they make love. As Partick and Anya decide to leave for Dublin, Dominic decides to go with them as he cannot be without his brother.
On arriving in Dublin, Anya meets with a friend, Rose whose boyfriend, Murphy agrees to let them live in a flat rent-free above his bar. Dominic then decides to have his greyhound, Ishka trained as a racing dog. The brothers' relationship soon comes under threat when Dominic becomes increasingly jealous over Patrick and Anya's relationship. Not only does he want Anya all for himself, he doesn't want to lose his brother. Anya begins to show her affection for Dominic and an almost intimate encounter is interrupted by Patrick which causes friction between Anya and Patrick. While Patrick is later out drinking, Anya tries to make love to Dominic, for which he becomes uncomfortable. As the tension continues between the brothers, Dominic decides to take a job on a boat. Before leaving, he returns home to the country where he sets fire to the shack. As he watches it burn, his mother finds him and comforts him. Meanwhile, Anya announces to Patrick that she will be going back to Germany after revealing that she and Dominic love each other. On returning to Dublin, Dominic and Patrick decide to put their differences behind them and make peace and Dominic says goodbye to Patrick and leaves.
Cast
Rúaidhrí Conroy ... Dominic
Ian Shaw ... Patrick
Julia Brendler ... Anya
Marianne Faithfull ... Mother
Brendan Grace ... Murphy
Jasmine Russell ... Rose
Darren Monks ... Chalky
David Kelly ... Mr. Dunwoody
Tom Hickey ... Mr. Dunbar
Kate Flynn ... Aunt Dorothy
Alan Devlin ... John Joe
Gerard McSorley ... Fr. McGrath
P.J Brady ... Murty
Joan O'Hara ... Nun
Soundtrack
The score for the film was provided entirely by Fiachra Trench, which he composed, orchestrated and conducted. Trench additionally produced the score opposite Maggie Rodford. The music was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. The songs in the film were written by Van Morrison.
"Moondance" -Traditional version performed by Artie McGlyn and Nollaig Casey
"Moondance" – Vocal version performed by Brian Kennedy, written by Van Morrison (from Warner Chappell Music LTD.)
"Have I Told You Lately" – Performed by Brian Kennedy and Shanna Morrison, written by Van Morrison, produced by Van Morrison and Phil Coulter (from Exile/Polygram Music LTD.)
"Queen of the Slipstream" -Performed by Brian Kennedy, written by Van Morrison, produced by James McMillan (from Essential/Polygram Music LTD.)
"Madam George" – Performed by Marianne Faithfull, written by Van Morrison (from Web IV/Polygram Music)
References
External links
Moondance at AllMovie
1995 films
1995 drama films
German drama films
English-language German films
English-language Irish films
Films shot in Ireland
Films set in Dublin (city)
Irish drama films
1990s English-language films
1990s German films
English-language drama films |
Brett "Ace" Young (born November 15, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained national recognition while appearing on the fifth season of American Idol. Young is married to American Idol season-three runner-up Diana DeGarmo.
Biography
Early years
Young was raised in Boulder, Colorado and is the youngest of five sons. He began writing songs, singing, and taking voice lessons at age 9. In his youth he performed at shopping malls and recreation centers. He performed at various venues in Colorado and other western states, including performing the National Anthem at The Pepsi Center in Denver. Young graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado in 1999. While in high school he participated in athletics, choir, and International Baccalaureate classes. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout during his senior year.
After Young graduated from high school he wrote a song called "Reason I Live" that was featured on the soundtrack of the 2000 film The Little Vampire.
In 2001, Young moved to Los Angeles, California to continue pursuing his music career. He ultimately met Brian McKnight and was given the chance to open for McKnight and New Edition. Just prior to auditioning for American Idol he landed a guest-starring role in an episode of Half & Half, playing a character named Ace Blackwell.
American Idol
After over four years in Los Angeles without a record deal, Young auditioned for American Idol in Denver, Colorado. His televised audition featured him singing Westlife's "Swear it Again." Young was introduced as Brett Young, with the name "Ace" marked in quotations. Later, he told producers he preferred to be called Ace and he was not referred to as Brett on the show again.
Young made it through Hollywood week and sang George Michael's song, "Father Figure" for his live Top 24 performance. He also performed Michael Jackson's song, "Butterflies."
The week that featured the music of Queen and the surviving members of the band as mentors, there was a brief controversy. American Idol's editing of Young's pre-performance package made it appear as if he had offended Brian May and the rest of the band by suggesting a change in the arrangement of "We Will Rock You." May came to Young's defense a few days later when he wrote a blog clarifying he and the band felt their mentoring session was a productive exchange of ideas for the arrangement of the song.
The week Young was eliminated the theme was "Songs from the Great American Songbook," with Rod Stewart as mentor. Young sang "That's All." He changed his look for this performance, slicking his hair back and dressing up in a suit and tie. He received mixed reviews from the judges and was joined by Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett in the bottom 3.
Post-Idol
After his elimination Young was a guest and performed on MTV's Total Request Live. He was the first Idol contestant to be on MTV directly after elimination. Young also returned home to perform at the Pepsi Center in Denver. He was named one of People Magazine's "Hottest Bachelors" on June 16, 2006. He spent the summer of 2006 on the annual American Idol Top 10 tour, and afterwards released his first single, "Scattered," (co-written with Elvio Fernandes) as a digital download on iTunes. The song reached the Top 50 on the Hot Adult Contemporary sales chart. He also put together a band and started playing gigs around the country.
Young performed at the 2006 Walt Disney Christmas Day Parade along with fellow idol finalists Paris Bennett, Kevin Covais, and Mandisa. He also formed a charity called "Highrollers With Heart" that raised $300,000 to help Children's Hospital in Denver build the Family Hospitality Suite.
Young wrote the chorus for Daughtry's debut single, "It's Not Over." The song was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards nominations on December 6, 2007. Along with co-writers, Gregg Wattenberg, Mark Wilkerson, and Chris Daughtry, Young received a songwriting nomination.
In January 2008, Young was named a Celebrity Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). He appeared on the show every year from 2007 until 2012. In 2011 he hosted the New York MDA telethon. In 2012 he participated in Labor Day weekend's pre-taped MDA "Show of Strength" telethon. He continues to work with MDA through the Nashville chapter.
In April 2008 he released another single, "Addicted," and promoted the song and subsequent video on TNA wrestling. He worked with Bon Jovi producer Desmond Child on his self-titled and self-funded debut album, releasing it independently in July 2008. He wrote seven of the eleven songs on the cd and released it independently to stores and digital retailers.
On May 12, 2008 he appeared on the Fox series Bones alongside season-six American Idol contestant Brandon Rogers. In the episode "Wannabe in the Weeds," Young played an arrogant karaoke singer who was gruesomely murdered. His character sang a Nickelback song, "Far Away." On November 23, 2008, he made an appearance as a bachelor on the VH1 show Rock of Love: Charm School.
Young made his Broadway debut as Kenickie in the revival of Grease on September 9, 2008. He played the role until the show closed January 4, 2009. Young later joined the national tour of Grease in December 2009, this time playing Danny Zuko. He left the tour on February 14, 2010. After "Grease," Young took over the role of Berger in the Broadway revival of Hair, succeeding Will Swenson. Young took over the role in March 2010 and remained with the production until the show closed June 27, 2010.
In November 2011, he appeared on the twelfth episode of the second season of the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
After Hair, Young started a now defunct music company, called "Young Brothers Entertainment." The company was partnered with Mailboat Records for digital releases but none of the associated acts ever released music through the company outside of Diana DeGarmo and Young himself. Young's single "I Wanna Fall in Love Again" was released on iTunes in May 2012.
Young starred as Joseph in the U.S. national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat alongside DeGarmo as the Narrator from January 2014 to April 2015. He and Degarmo are set to lead the first national tour of First Date, which is set to launch in the fall of 2020.
Personal life
Young lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Diana DeGarmo. The couple met in 2010 while appearing in Hair on Broadway. They got engaged on the May 23, 2012, American Idol season finale when Young surprised DeGarmo with an on-air marriage proposal. Young and DeGarmo were married on June 1, 2013 in Los Angeles at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard hotel. Young was previously engaged in 2009 to actress Allison Fischer.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Official site
Ace Young Performs "Dream On" on Billboard.com
1980 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American singers
American Idol participants
American male film actors
American male television actors
American rhythm and blues singers
American tenors
Male actors from Boulder, Colorado
Musicians from Boulder, Colorado |
Ronald David Carlivati (born November 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for his tenures as head writer on the ABC Daytime soap operas One Life to Live and General Hospital. He is currently serving a position as head writer for the Peacock soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Career
It was announced in the February 27, 2007, edition of Soap Opera Digest that Carlivati was promoted to Co-Head Writer of One Life to Live alongside Dena Higley. On June 4, 2007, Frank Valentini announced that Carlivati would be promoted to head writer effective immediately. The first episode with Carlivati as Head Writer aired September 11, 2007.
Due to One Life to Live'''s cancellation on ABC, and later the show's abandoned transition to online distribution via production company Prospect Park, it was announced on December 1, 2011, that Carlivati would be taking over as head-writer on ABC's one remaining soap, General Hospital effective January 9, 2012. The first episode with Carlivati as head writer aired February 21, 2012.
One Life to Live
In the months that followed Carlivati's promotion to head writer, the show experienced a creative resurgence, receiving great critical acclaim for revitalizing characters, routinely incorporating and honoring the show's long history, and improving dialogue. However, the show's ratings continued to slide, a problem that all daytime soap operas have been experiencing in recent years.
Carlivati's work aired until February 14, 2008, when the WGA strike forced a new headwriter (Gary Tomlin) to take over. Once the WGA strike was settled, Carlivati returned as headwriter, with his post-strike episodes hitting the air waves on May 2, 2008.
On June 20, 2008, Carlivati and his writing team won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for his work on OLTL.
With the end of One Live to Live's television run in January 2012, Carlivati joined the writing team at General Hospital.
General Hospital
Following the end of One Life to Live in January 2012, Carlivati was appointed head writer of General Hospital, and his material began airing towards the end of February.
In an effort to bring over fans of One Life to Live, who were now without a soap to call their own, Carlivati brought over Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning), Kassie DePaiva (Blair Cramer), Michael Easton (John McBain), Roger Howarth (Todd Manning) and Florencia Lozano (Tea Delgado) to bring their signature roles to General Hospital. While DePaiva and Lozano only appeared in a guest capacity, the other three became contract cast members. When copyright issues intervened, dictating that the show could not use the characters of Starr Manning, Todd Manning, and John McBain; the three actors under contract at the time were recast as Kiki Jerome, Robert "Franco" Frank, and Silas Clay.
In addition to casting the former One Life to Live actors shortly after his arrival, Carlivati also made a point of re-introducing a wide variety of fan favorite veterans to the canvas, including Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) Genie Francis (Laura Spencer), Lynn Herring (Lucy Coe), Finola Hughes (Anna Devane), Sean Kanan (A.J. Quartermaine) and Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin) for extended runs. Many of them helped make the 50th anniversary a success during the aforementioned transitional absence of the contracted actors brought over from One Life to Live. On July 24, 2015, ABC announced their decision to replace Carlivati as head-writer of General Hospital with Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante.
Days of Our Lives
On January 23, 2017, Carlivati was announced as the newly appointed head writer for Days of Our Lives, replacing former co-head writers Dena Higley and Ryan Quan. Per reports, this change is said to be "effective immediately". Carlivati's first credit as head writer began on July 19, 2017.
Personal life
Carlivati was born in Rochester, New York, and attended McQuaid Jesuit High School. After graduating high school in 1986, Carlivati attended College of the Holy Cross for undergraduate studies and later went to George Washington University for graduate school, earned a Juris Doctor degree, and currently lives in Manhattan. He is openly gay.
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Award
WINS: (2008 ~ Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, One Life to Live)
WINS: (2018 - Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, Days of Our Lives)
NOMINATIONS: (2002 and 2006 ~ Best Writing, One Life to Live)
Writers Guild of America Award
Wins: (2016; Daytime Drama Writing)
Wins: (2014 and 2015; Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, General Hospital)
NOMINATIONS: (2003 and 2006 ~ One Life to Live'')
Positions held
Head writing tenures
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References
American soap opera writers
American male television writers
American television writers
Living people
1968 births
American gay writers
Writers from Rochester, New York
Screenwriters from New York (state) |
The World of Hank Crawford is an album by saxophonist Hank Crawford recorded in 2000 and released on the Milestone label.
Reception
Allmusic's Richard S. Ginell said: "Rather than stick completely with the down-home soul-jazz rituals that have served him well in his previous several releases, Crawford mixes up his pitches in this more-inclusively titled outing -- or he seems to. ... Nice change of pace, though not that big of a change for this soulful veteran". In JazzTimes, Owen Cordle noted "Crawford always puts deep feeling into his alto saxophone playing and he always gives you the melody, the blues and a groove. He’s consistent and economical. This album is his 15th for Milestone, and it goes back to some of the jazz tunes he heard in his early days".
Track listing
"Grab the World" (Mansoor Sabree) – 7:03
"Way Back Home" (Wilton Felder) – 7:30
"Trust in Me" (Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Wever) – 5:03
"Back in the Day" (Hank Crawford) – 5:12
"Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 6:38
"Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 5:14
"Sonnymoon for Two" (Sonny Rollins) – 7:32
"Good Bait" (Tadd Dameron, Count Basie) – 7:01
"Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 5:12
Personnel
Hank Crawford – alto saxophone
Marcus Belgrave – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1-2 & 8)
Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone (tracks 1-2 & 8)
Danny Mixon – piano, organ
Melvin Sparks – guitar (tracks 1–8)
Stanley Banks - bass (tracks 1–2, 4-6 & 8–9)
Kenny Washington − drums
References
Milestone Records albums
Hank Crawford albums
2000 albums
Albums produced by Bob Porter (record producer)
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio |
France–Saudi Arabia relations are the foreign relations between France and Saudi Arabia. Diplomatic relations began in 1926. Today Saudi Arabia is an ally of France, with strong economic, military and political coordination on many topics such as Iran's nuclear program and the departure of Bashar Al Assad. The relationship has been called a global strategic partnership. France has an embassy in Riyadh, and a consulate-general in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia has an embassy in Paris. Both countries are members of G20.
History
In the 16th century, Ottoman Arabia together with the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent had a military, cultural and trade alliance with the Kingdom of France.
France opened its first consulate in Jeddah in 1839, decades before Saudi Arabia was officially formed.
Both Saudi Arabia and France were opposed to the Axis in World War II, in which Saudi Arabia supplied oil to the Allies. Afterwards, Saudi Arabia was aligned with NATO countries against communism.
Since King Faisal and General de Gaulle met in 1967, bilateral relations have evolved through personal contacts at the highest levels.
In the 1970s, after a large group of islamic extremists invaded the Grand mosque in Mecca, France sent special police to help the Saudi police and military.
France joined the United States and other coalition forces in Desert Shield, an operation by American president George H.W Bush to defend the Kingdom from Iraqi aggression after the invasion of Kuwait.
In 2016, France condemned the Houthi ballistic missile attack against Mecca.
State visits
An official visit in May 2015 by French president François Hollande was particularly historic as he met Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and he was the guest of honor at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, and in March 2015 Crown Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, deputy premier and interior minister visited France, where he received the Legion of Honor, the highest honor in France whose recipients are designated by the French president.
In 2015, French President Francois Hollande was invited by Saudi Arabia to address a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Saudi Arabia, a role not often given to a foreign head of state.
On 6 March 2016, A joint communiqué was signed between Saudi Arabia and France at the end of the official visit to Paris of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif.
In May 2016, a delegation of the Saudi French Parliamentary Friendship Committee of the Shura Council had a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris.
On 4 December 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron ended a short tour of Gulf states by meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah.
Economic relations
According to Al Arabiya New sources these contracts, which highlight Paris growing ties with Riyadh, are “the first signs of a much stronger Saudi-French alliance, and the next few months are going to demonstrate exactly just how close these two allies have now become.”
A forum was established for Saudi-French expanding trade known as the Saudi French Business Opportunities Forum. The First Forum was successfully held in Paris in April 2013 under the auspices of BSF, and was organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Industry, the Council of Saudi Chambers, and the Saudi-French Business Council. A second meeting was held in October 12–13, 2015 in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, featuring France's largest corporations such as Airbus and Legrand.
Military relations
France is a primary seller of arms to Saudi Arabia (after the United States and United Kingdom) and has potential to outgrow both in many fields.
In Wednesday, 24 June 2015 Saudi Arabia and France agreed to sign $12 billion of deals, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that the ten contracts include 23 Airbus H145 helicopters worth $500 million. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that the Saudi defense ministry was also discussing the price for a contract for French naval patrol boats, built by DCNS.
In 2015 France signed a 10B$ arms deal with Saudi Arabia to supply 30 patrol boats.
Amid the on-going war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia signed a preliminary agreement with the Naval Group of France in February 2019, to build warships, frigates, corvettes and related items in the kingdom.
In 2020, the entire delegation of French MEPs from the liberal Renew Europe group stood against the export of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. France has reportedly supplied billions of euros worth weapons to both the Gulf nations while they were involved in the civil wars of Yemen and Libya, respectively. According to several reports published by investigative journalism and human rights groups, UAE and Saudi have caused thousands of civilian deaths in the named conflicts. The French government has sold weapons to the nations and trained their mercenaries despite the violation of arms embargo and international humanitarian law committed by the Gulf nations.
Resident diplomatic missions
France has an embassy in Riyadh and a consulate-general in Jeddah.
Saudi Arabia has an embassy in Paris.
See also
Foreign relations of France
Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia
Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Paris
References
Bilateral relations of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia |
Robyn van Nus (born 10 December 1982) is an Australian sport shooter. She competed in two events at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics; the Women's Air Rifle, 10 metres event where she finished 44th overall in 2008 and 45th in 2012, and the Women's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres event where she finished 40th overall in 2008 and 41st in 2012.
Personal
van Nus was born on 10 December 1982 in Attadale, Western Australia. She attended St Josephs Primary School and St. Norbert College in Western Australia. In 2010, she enrolled at Central Queensland University where she is working on Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science.
, she lives in Sydney.
, van Nus was tall and weighed , unchanged from 2008. She has chronic fatigue syndrome. Her mother also represented Australia in shooting.
Shooting
van Nus is a sport shooter, specialising in the rifle. She took up the sport around 1998 as a way to deal with chronic fatigue syndrome with her mother serving as her first coach. Petr Kůrka became her coach in 2009. She was a member of the Melbourne International Shooting Club. In 2012, she was a member of the Kalamunda Smallbore Rifle Club. She has a shooting scholarship with the Western Australian Institute of Sport.
van Nus competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Women's Air Rifle, 10 metres event where she finished 44 overall and in the Women's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres event where she finished 40th overall. Going into the 2008 Games, her inclusion was challenged by Susannah Smith because van Nus was selected over Smith by having a one-point lead. She competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Shooting Championship, earning a bronze in the 10m air rifle event with a score of 494.2 (394). In the women's 10-metre air rifle pairs, she and partner Aletha Sedgman finished sixth. She had some difficulties with the competition because "her gun and the rest of her equipment was lost in transit to Delhi."
In 2011, van Nus was the number one ranked Australian woman in her discipline. In Brisbane in a July 2011 at national tournament, she broke her own women's air rifle Australian record when she shot 397 out of 400. In October 2011, she participated in the Australia Cup Final in Sydney, but withdrew mid-competition because of a back injury after only shooting nine of her forty shots. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in shooting. London were her second Games.
References
1982 births
Living people
Australian female sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Australia
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
20th-century Australian women
21st-century Australian women
Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
Sportswomen from Western Australia |
Andrea Cagnetti (born 16 March 1967 in Corchiano, Viterbo), known in the artistic world as Akelo, is an Italian goldsmith, designer, and sculptor. He is known for his research of the ancient techniques used in metalworking.
Biography
After having obtained a diploma at the Ronciglione state secondary school, with a concentration in scientific studies, Akelo transferred to Rome, where he worked as a graphic artist for several years. At the same time, he studied about ancient goldsmithing, metallurgy, and alchemy.
Combining this theoretical understanding with extensive experimentation on materials and techniques, he creates gold objects and makes sculptural objects out of gold, bronze, and iron, using the artistic name of Akelo (from Achelous, Greek god of the waters).
In 2010 the artist created the bronze sculpture "Hope" for the Robert Bresson Prize, given every year at the Venice Film Festival.
Andrea Cagnetti lives in Corchiano, where he also writes scientific articles on the techniques used in goldsmithing.
Works in public collections
HOEDUS II (1996) Pendant – Newark Museum
YILDUN (2001) Pendant – Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
CHORT (2002) Pendant – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
DENHEB (2004) Necklace – Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
SEGIN (2009) Pyx – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
STRANGE MECHANISM No. 3 (2010) Sculpture – Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
Bibliography
"Akelo: Golden Works 1994–2000" – G. Spinola/P. d’Ambrosio – Saatchi & Saatchi/Lupetti Editore (2004)
"Etruschi, scoperto il segreto dei loro gioielli" – Corriere della sera (2000) –
"I segreti degli ori Etruschi" Youtube.com "I segreti degli ori Etruschi" (italian) – (2000) "Ulisse, Il piacere della scoperta – Sulle tracce degli Etruschi" di Piero ed Alberto Angela (RAI 3)
"Der Schmuck der Etrusker" Youtube.com "Der Schmuck der Etrusker" (german) – (2003) Abenteuer Erde" (HR – Hessischer Rundfunk)
"Experimental survey on fluid brazing in ancient goldsmith's art" – International Journal of Material Research (2009)
"The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures of Akelo” – Mary Pixley – Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri (2010)
"Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo" – Skyra – Rizzoli International (2007)
"Akelo's Treasures – An Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years of a Roman Master Goldsmith" – Bentley & Skinner, London (2011)
"Materia Nova" – Galerie Ludwig Trossaert, Contemporary art (2012) – D/2012/12.184/07
"Metodo sperimentale per la realizzazione di un paio di orecchini finemente decorati con granulazione al pulviscolo e filigrana" – Il Covile (Italy, 2013)
Main Exhibitions
"Materia Nova" – Galerie Ludwig Trossaert, Contemporary art – Antwerp, Belgium (18 May – 6 June 2012)
"Collecting for a New Century: Recent Acquisition" – Museum of Art And Archaeology, University of Missouri – Columbia, MO – U.S.A (28 January – 13 May 2012)
"Akelo's Treasures. An Exhibition Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of a Roman Master Goldsmith" – Bentley & Skinner (Bond Street Jewellers) Ltd – London – U.K. (November 2011)
”Golden Treasures by Akelo” – Museum of the Gemological Institute of America – Carlsbad, California, U.S.A. (October 2010 – March 2011)
"The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo" – Museum of Art And Archaeology, University of Missouri – Columbia, MO – U.S.A (5 June – 26 September 2010)
"Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo" – Castello Sforzesco, Milano / Palazzo Valmarana Braga, Vicenza / Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin / Museo di arti decorative Pietro Accorsi, Torino (January 2008 – January 2009)
"In Its Time: Materials and Techniques Throughout Jewelry History" – Aaron Faber Gallery – New York CityA. (2009)
"Akelo: risplende l'oro degli Etruschi" – Vicenzaoro2, Fiera di Vicenza – Vicenza, Italy (June 2005)
"The Hanover World Exposition 2000" – Italian Pavillon – Hanover, Germany (June – October 2000)
References
"Una scultura di Akelo nel museo dell'Università del Missouri" ADNKronos (Italy) – April 2012
"A Sculpture by the Italian Artist Akelo in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri" Artwallzine – (U.K.) April 2012
"Museum exhibit highlights the splendor of collecting" – The Columbia Daily Tribune (U.S.A) – March 2012
"Timeless Gold" – Vogue (Italy) – October 2011
"Great Designers" – World Gold Council – 2011
"The Midas Touch" – The Mayfair Magazine (U.K.) – November 2011
"Granulation Rediscovered" – Antiques Trade Gazette (U.K.) – November 2011
"Una Mostra per i 25 anni di Akelo" – 18 Karati (Italy) – November 2011
"Bentley and Skinner hosts Akelo show" – The Jeweller Magazine (U.K.) – October 2011
"Bentley & Skinner to host Akelo retrospective" – Professional Jeweller (U.K.) – October 2011
"Akelo festeggia i 25 anni di attività da Bentley & Skinner" – Preziosa Magazine (Italy) – October 2011
"Un etrusco a London" – Vioromagazine (Italy) – October 2011
"Bentley & Skinner to host celebration of Akelo's 25 years" – Jewellery World Review (Thailand) – September 2011
"Творческий юбилей Akelo – в Лондоне" – Jewellernet (Russia) – September 2011
"Bentley & Skinner to exhibit works of Andrea Cagnetti" – Diamond World (China) – September 2011
"Breathing new life into an age old technique" – The Malta Independent (Malta) – September 2011
"A Pendant by the Italian Artist Akelo in the Permanent Collection of the Newark Museum" – The Benchpeg (U.K.) – April 2011
"Les bijoux étrusques d'Akelo" – Guide Bijoux (France) – April 2011
"Italian Artist's Pendant acquired by Newark Museum" – JewelleryNetAsia (China) – March 2011
"Modern Artist Brings Ancient Techniques to Life" – GIA Insider (U.S.A.) – December 2010
"Masterpieces by Akelo" – Solitaire International (India) – October 2010
"Echi etruschi di Akelo" – 18 Karati (Italy) – August 2010
"Museums acquire two Akelo Pieces" – International Jewellery Couture. Europa Star – September 2010
"Golden Treasures by Akelo"
"Golden Treasures Exhibit" – Rock&Gem (U.S.A.) – June 2010
"An artist's golden touch" – The Columbia Daily Tribune (U.S.A) – May 2010
"Exhibition to feature gold jewellery inspired by ancient Etruscans" – Gold Bulletin (U.S.A.) – April 2010
"Etruscan-inspired gold exhibit sets sail for U.S." – National Jeweler (U.S.A.) – April 2010
"Golden Treasures by Akelo" – Museum Magazine – MAA University of Missouri (U.S.A.) – January 2010
"L’alchimista-orafo che fa rivivere i gioielli etruschi" – Di Tutto (Italy) – December 2009
"Museu de Belas Artes de Boston (EAU) recebe peça do Joalheiro Andrea Cagnetti" – Infojoia (Brazil) – January 2009
"Museum of Fine Arts Receives Gift of Cagnetti Pendant" – Art Knowledge News – April 2008
"A touch of gold: Andrea Cagnetti explores the Etruscan enigma – Golden secret of Etruscan" – Dollhouse Miniatures (U.S.A./U.K.) – March/April 2008
"Andrea Cagnetti. Moderno alchimista" – Allure (Italy) – March 2008
"Akelo: Contemporary Master in Ancient Goldsmithing Techniques" – Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry and Relates Arts (U.S.A.) – Winter, 2007
"Gild trip" – Solitaire (Singapore) – August/September 2006
"Joias primordiais" – Joia & Cia (Brasil) – July 2006
"Andrea Cagnetti fait reviver l’or des Etrusques" – Heure (Switzerland) – June/July 2006
"Akelo: Master of granulation" – Jewellery World Review Magazine (Thailand) – June 2006
"Granulieren – Altes Verfahren wiederentdeckt, Etruskische Kunstfertigkeit erlebt Renaissance durch Akelo" – GZ Goldschmiede Zeitung (Germany) – January 2006
"A Journey in the Historical Discoveries" – Al-Jawhara Magazine (Kuwait) – August 2005
"The fruit of ancient goldsmith art" – World of Gold, Jewelry and Watches (Thailand) – Summer, 2005
"L’etrusco ritrovato" – Vioro, Vicenzaoro International Magazine (Italy) – June 2005
"Etruskiska guldsmeders hemlighet avslöjad" – Illustrerad Vetenskap (Denmark) – June 2001
"Granulation: the perfection of the Etruscans" – Gold Magazine Europe (Italy) – January 2001
"Secret of Etruscan Jewels Uncovered" – Discovery (U.S.A) – December 2000
"Megfejtették az etruszk aranymuvesség titkàt" – Elet et Tudomany (Hungary) – December 2000
"Ho rubato agli Etruschi la formula segreta dell’oro" – Oggi (Italy) – November 2000
"Svelato il segreto dei gioielli etruschi" – Corriere di Viterbo (Italy) – October 2000
"Culture: The Etruscans – After 25 centuries their gold mystery technique is discovered" – AdnKronos (Italy) – October 2000
"Etruschi, scoperto il segreto dei loro gioielli" – Corriere della sera (2000)
Television appearances
"Sulle tracce degli Etruschi" – Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta – RAI 3 (Italy)
"I tesori del Vaticano" – Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta – RAI 3 (Italy)
"Le meraviglie del British Museum" – Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta – RAI 3 (Italy)
"Der Schmuck der Etrusker" – Abenteuer Erde – HR Hessischer Rundfunk (Germany)
"Unomattina" – RAI 1 (Italy)
"Taccuino Italiano" – RAI International (Italy)
"Destinos" – CNN en espanol
"Mediterraneo" – RAI 2 (Italy) – FRANCE 3 (France) – CANAL ALGERIE (Algeria) – ERT/ET 1 (Greece)
"Style" – MBC (Middle East)
External links
Official website
1967 births
Italian jewellers
Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
Living people
Italian designers |
Hifajat is a Nepali film released on 10 April 2010. The film is a combination of drama and comedy.
Characters
Rekha Thapa as Kriti
Aryan Sigdel as Aryan
Aayush regmi as Arjun
Story
The film characterizes Rekha Thapa as Kriti who is a spoiled brat estranged from a rich business father. Kriti seems to be courageous enough to start problems in her college. She is also famous in her college as a caring and loving friend for all students. Once her father hires an ex-army tough guy Arjun (Aayush Regmi) as her bodyguard for which she rebels with her father. She also makes a thief Aryan (Aryan Sigdel) as her friend so that she can protest with her rich business tycoon father. But Aryan also has his own secret of living due to which he betrays Kriti and leaves her in danger. After which Arjun promises to take care of Kriti till she does not unite with Aryan who is Kriti's first love.
The story then surrounds around the difficulties and problems Kriti has to tackle for the uniting with Aryan. The search for Aryan becomes the adventure of Kriti in the track full of dangers and risks. During the search, Kriti has to face with twists and turns which ultimately challenges Kriti's View of living life and also changes her way of thinking about love and life.
References
Nepalese comedy-drama films |
The Moteng pass is a steep tarred pass in the Maloti mountains of Lesotho, reaching a height of . It is one of two passes that links the town of Butha-Buthe with the diamond mining town of Mokhotlong, the other pass being the Mahlasela pass. Heavy snowfall frequently closes the pass in winter. The pass is 7.9 km long, with the last stage being extremely dangerous in winter due to patches of ice.
References
Gallery
Mountain passes of Lesotho |
Marcel Bernard Tremblay (July 4, 1915 – March 20, 1980) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He played 10 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1938–39 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1936 to 1942, was spent in the minor leagues.
Biography
Tremblay had played for several years with the senior Flin Flon Bombers, when he signed with the Montreal Canadiens organization in 1938. He was assigned to the New Haven Eagles, but played ten games for the Canadiens that season. He returned to New Haven and played with the team until 1942 when a fractured skull ended his season. Tremblay enlisted in the military and did not play professionally again.
He died on March 20, 1980 in Mobile, Alabama and is buried there.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1915 births
1980 deaths
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Ice hockey people from Winnipeg
Montreal Canadiens players
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In Greek mythology, Delphyne () is the name given, by some accounts, to the monstrous serpent killed by Apollo at Delphi. Although, in Hellenistic and later accounts, the Delphic monster slain by Apollo is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the earliest known account of this story, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (6th century BC), the god kills a nameless she-serpent (drakaina), subsequently called Delphyne. According to the Suda, Delphi was named after Delphyne.
Mythology
The Homeric Hymn describes the serpentess as "the bloated, great she-dragon, a fierce monster wont to do great mischief to men upon earth, to men themselves and to their thin-shanked sheep; for she was a very bloody plague", and says that "whosoever met the dragoness, the day of doom would sweep him away". According to the Hymn, she was the foster mother of the serpentine monster Typhon, who was given to the dragoness, "an evil to an evil" (κακῷ κακόν), by his mother Hera. Typhon was to eventually battle Zeus for supremacy of the cosmos. The Hymn goes on to describe how, while building his oracular temple at Delphi, Apollo encountered the she-serpent near a "sweet flowing spring".
Apollo shot the dragoness with an arrow from his bow, and the monster:
rent with bitter pangs, lay drawing great gasps for breath and rolling about that place. An awful noise swelled up unspeakable as she writhed continually this way and that amid the wood: and so she left her life, breathing it forth in blood.
Apollonius of Rhodes (early 3rd century BC), says that Apollo "slew with his bow the monster Delphyne", "beneath the rocky ridge of Parnassus", and that the victory was cheered by the "Corycian nymphs", who were associated with the Corycian cave on the slopes of Parnassus above Delphi. Plutarch (c. 46 AD – 120 AD), refers to the monster who "fought with Apollo for the oracle at Delphi" as female, and says that although it was recorded that at one time the oracle at Delphi was made "desolate and unapproachable" by a dragoness, in fact, "it was the desolation that attracted the creature rather than that the creature caused the desolation". Delphyne also appears in Apollodorus' account (1st or 2nd century AD) of Typhon's battle with Zeus, where she is called both a "she-dragon" (drakaina) and a "half-bestial maiden". According to Apollodorus, Typhon managed to cut away Zeus' sinews from his body. Typhon then hid the severed tendons in the Corycian cave in Cilicia (a different cave than the one above Delphi), and set the dragoness Delphyne, to guard over them. The (2nd-century AD?) geographical poet Dionysius Periegetes mentions a coil of the serpent Delphyne leaning against Apollo's sacrificial tripod. Nonnus in his Dionysiaca says that Apollo first killed Delphyne and then he went to live at Olympus.
Delphyne shares several similarities with Typhon's mate, the monstrous Echidna. Like Apollodorus' Delphyne, Echidna was half-maid and half-snake, and both were a "plague" (πῆμα) to men. Both were also intimately connected to Typhon, and associated with the Corycian cave.
Name
The name Delphyne means "womb" (δελφύς), and probably arose by back-formation from Delphi. Other related forms of the name: Delphyna (female) and Delphynes (male), were, apparently, also used for the Delphian dragon. For example, according to the 7th-century chronicler John of Antioch, some said the Pythian Games were held in honor of the male serpent Delphynes, while others said the heroine (hêrôis) Delphyne.
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Aeschylus, The Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. Vol 2. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Anonymous, Homeric Hymn to Apollo, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive.
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, University of California Press, 1959. .
Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, . Google Books.
Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
Lane Fox, Robin, Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer, Vintage Books, 2010. .
Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, I Books I–XV. Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive
Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Ogden, Daniel (2013a), Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Oxford University Press, 2013. .
Ogden, Daniel (2013b), Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and early Christian Worlds: A sourcebook, Oxford University Press. .
Plutarch, Moralia, Volume V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles. Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Loeb Classical Library No. 306. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
Plutarch, Moralia, Volume XII: Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon. On the Principle of Cold. Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful. Whether Land or Sea Animals Are Cleverer. Beasts Are Rational. On the Eating of Flesh. Translated by Harold Cherniss, W. C. Helmbold. Loeb Classical Library No. 406. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. Online version at Harvard University Press.
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Klára Zakopalová was the defending champion but chose not to participate.
Pauline Parmentier defeated Irina-Camelia Begu in the final 6–3, 6–2.
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"(It's No) Sin" is a popular song with music by George Hoven and lyrics by Chester R. Shull. It was a No. 1 song on Billboard charts released by Eddy Howard in 1951. This song should not be confused with "It's a Sin", another popular song of the same era.
Lyrics
The song is about someone whose love interest is leaving, but who insists that it's no sin to keep on loving the person forever.
First recordings
The most popular recordings of the song were made by The Four Aces and Eddy Howard, both top 10 hits in 1951.
The recording by Eddy Howard was released by Mercury Records (catalog number 5711). It first reached the Billboard chart on September 14, 1951, and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 1, staying there for eight weeks. It also reached No. 1 on Cashbox for a week. It was ranked No. 4 on Billboards 1951 year-end chart.
The recording by The Four Aces was released by Victoria Records (catalog number 101). It first reached the Billboard chart on September 7, 1951, and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 4. This was The Four Aces' first charting record, and led to their receiving a contract with a major company, Decca. It was ranked No. 31 for 1951.
The song was the No. 1 song on Your Hit Parade for seven weeks.
Other contemporary recordings
A number of artists also recorded and released the song in 1951. The Four Knights and Savannah Churchill both peaked in the chart the same week as Eddy Howard in November 1951; The Four Knights reaching No. 14 while Savannah Churchill reached No. 5. Churchill's recordings was also ranked No. 39 on Billboards 1951 year chart.
Coleman Hawkins recorded it in October 1951 and Sidney Bechet recorded it with his All-Stars in January 1952 (entitled It's No Sin (Est-Ce Un Peche?)). Knud Pfeiffer wrote the Danish lyrics. The Danish title is "Er det synd". Raquel Rastenni with Radiodansekorkesteret recorded it in Copenhagen in 1952. The song was released on the 78 rpm record His Master's Voice X 8043.
Later recordings
The song was revived in 1964 by The Duprees, a group that made a number of recordings of 1950s hits. This version peaked at No. 74 on the US Hot 100.
Ronnie Dove released a country version of the song for Decca Records in 1972.
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Yaakov Baruch (born November 14, 1982) is a leading Rabbi of the Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue, located in Tondano, Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi.
Biography
Yaakov Baruch was born and raised in a different religious family. Since childhood, his parents have instilled religious values in him. His father was a Minahasan Protestant and his late mother was a Mongondow Muslim. Since childhood, he has been accustomed to living in a family of different faiths, upholding the values of tolerance.
Yaakov Baruch decided to convert to Judaism after his mother's next-door grandmother told him that he had Jewish ancestry. When Yaakov Baruch decided to embrace Judaism, the religion of his ancestors, there was no opposition at all from his parents. "There is no problem, we can accept each other," he told tribunmanado.co.id, in 2018.
At that time he was in junior high school. Yaakov Baruch then traced his family tree and found out that he had Jewish ancestry.
His great-grandfather from his mother's line was Elias van Beugen who was a Dutch Jewish immigrant.
Apart from being a rabbi, he is also a faculty at Sam Ratulangi University.
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The 1960 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, with 58.21% of the popular vote, against Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy (D), running with Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 41.79% of the popular vote.
, this is the last election in which majority Native American Todd County voted for a Republican presidential candidate. With 58.21% of the popular vote, South Dakota would prove to be Nixon's fifth strongest state in the 1960 election after Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Vermont.
Primaries
Both the Republican and Democratic parties held primaries on June 7.
Democratic primary
Hubert Humphrey was unopposed on the Democratic primary ballot. Kennedy had decided against competing in the state because he recognized that Humphrey, who had grown up in the state, had a distinct advantage there.
Republican primary
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.
Results
Results by county
See also
United States presidential elections in South Dakota
References
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The Snohomish County Courthouse is a building located in Everett, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is built in Spanish Mission style on the site of a building destroyed in a fire in 1909. The previous court building was completed in 1897 and the same architect (August F Heide) was available to design the rebuilding.
Proposals for extensions and remodeling from the 1940s onwards were generally not implemented, although two wings were added in 1953. A five-story wing was added in 1967, built on the site of the 1908 two-story annex to the north; a similar building was built on the block east of the court complex in 1973. In the early 2000s, grant funding was used to restore the fabric of the original 1911 building to its original appearance, including restoring damaged features. From 2018 to 2021, the 1967 wing underwent a $74.8 million renovation that included the construction of a five-story expansion wing and an additional courtroom.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Snohomish County, Washington
References
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Thomas Jung (1 November 1957 – September 2022) was a German politician. A member of Alternative for Germany, he served in the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2014 to 2019.
He supported the Election Alternative in 2013 and joined the AfD. He was an assessor on the state executive committee of the AfD Brandenburg and became a member of the state expert committees Interior and Justice, BER and Budget and Finance, as well as the program commission. He was spokesman for the state specialist committees Freedom and Justice in Security and Germany, Euro and Europe and chairman of the AfD district association Potsdam.
Jung died in September 2022, at the age of 64.
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Danielle Lynn Borgman (born April 25, 1980) is an American former professional soccer defender. She played professionally for the San Jose CyberRays. She also played for the United States women's national soccer team in the summer of 2000 as a member of the under-21 team and received a gold medal. She was ranked as one of the nation's fasted players.
Career
She previously played at the college level for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. She started 52 games for them and was a first team All-American choice as a sophomore.
In her club soccer years, she played for the Hammer Football Club in Cincinnati, Ohio and played as a forward and midfielder. She became captain in 1996. In the same year she was named to the United States under-16 national team during her first year playing in the Olympic Development Program. In 1997, she was named to the All-Star Team at the U.S. Soccer Festival in Minnesota and was also a member for the u-17 National Team.
References
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Borgman Profile
Tar Heels bio of Borgman
http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/roster/women/borgman.htm
1980 births
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Ruth Durlacher (née Dyas; 22 July 1876 – 21 September 1946) was an Irish tennis player. She played in the Wimbledon championships between 1897 and 1907.
Early life
Durlacher was born Ruth Dyas in Malahide on 22 July 1876. Durlacher was daughter to Jacob Dyas and Sophia Dyas. Durlacher was baptised Protestant (Church of Ireland) on the 16 November 1900 in St. James Paddington. Durlacher had one brother and one older sister. The Durlachers were a wealthy family. Their original family home was Heathstown House. Durlacher grew up in England. She entered her first competition at 18. She married fellow tennis player Neville John Durlacher in Rathdown on 17 December 1898 at the age of 23. They had two children: Patrick Durlacher who was a successful cricket player and Nora Durlacher who was a successful tennis player.
Role in tennis
The Irish Championships were first established in 1879 and took place in Pembroke Place, and it moved on to Wilton Place from 1880 till 1902. Following Wilton Place, the tournament took place in Fitzwilliam Square, where it remained until its final location in 1972 at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Appian Way, Dublin. It was in this year that the tournament changed its name to the Irish Open due to sponsorship reasons.
As her success grew, she further took part at the Wimbledon championships between 1897 and 1919. Come 1899, Durlacher triumphantly reached the ‘all-comers’ final’ but lost to her opponent Blanche Bingley, who managed to beat her two years prior in the Irish Championships and who later won six Wimbledon championships.
Durlacher was a finalist four times in the women singles in the Irish Championships , taking place is Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club. In 1897, Blanche Bingley successfully beat Durlacher, 7–5, 2–6, 6–3. Following two years’ time, Louisa Martin won the singles tournament, 6-1, 6-2, against her opponent Durlacher. in 1899, Muriel Robb beat Durlacher in the final, 9-7, 6-1. Louisa Martin beeat Ruth Durlacher in the final in 1902, 6-8, 6-4, 7-5.
Durlacher played in the doubles category of the Irish Championships, and her partners were Alice Pickering in 1896; Mollie Martin in 1898, 1899 and 1901; and Ms.Hazlett in 1902.
Durlacher took part in the mixed doubles under the Irish Open. Kn 1898, Durlacher won the mixed doubles with partner Harold Nisbet. In 1901 and 1902, she won the same title with partner Laurence Doherty.
Tennis career
Durlacher played at the Wimbledon Championships from 1897 to 1907. In 1899, she won the doubles tournament. In singles, Durlacher reached the finals of the all-comers competition, losing to Blanche Bingley. She won the Irish Championships mixed doubles title along with Harold Nisbet in 1898, and with Laurence Doherty 1901 and 1902.
Later life and legacy
She died in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire in 1946. She also played for the Irish golf team in the Women's Home Internationals, being part of the winning team in 1907.
Durlacher played in the Irish Championships in 1895 for the first time when she was 18 years old. Durlacher also played golf for the Irish ladies golf team and played in the Irish Ladies Championships.
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Ira Skutch (September 12, 1921 – March 16, 2010) was an American television director, producer, and, in his later years, an author. In the early days of television he produced and directed episodes of Kraft Television Theatre and The Philco Television Playhouse. Skutch also worked as an executive for Goodson-Todman Productions and produced or directed the game shows Play Your Hunch, I've Got a Secret, Match Game, Concentration and many others.
Early life and education
Ira Skutch Jr. was born on September 12, 1921, in New York City. Skutch was the oldest of three children born to parents Ira (1888–1945) and Ethel Skutch. He attended Dartmouth College where he graduated in 1941. Skutch had a younger brother, Robert Skutch, who also graduated from Dartmouth in 1946, and a younger sister Nancy.
Career
Start in television
Skutch started as a page in New York for the National Broadcasting Company. After a few years at NBC, Skutch became the stage manager on some of NBC's and network television's first regularly scheduled programs beginning with Hour Glass in 1946. Hour Glass was the first regularly scheduled variety series shown on network television.
After the end of Hour Glass in 1947, Skutch went on to become the stage manager of The Philco Television Playhouse. Skutch also worked as stage manager for the NBC shows NBC Television Theater, You Are an Artist and Kraft Television Theatre. Skutch also directed, produced and wrote several episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse.
Goodson-Todman Productions
In 1957, producer Mark Goodson hired Skutch to be on staff for Goodson-Todman Productions. One of Skutch's earliest work for Mark Goodson and Bill Todman was as a producer on the game show I've Got a Secret. Skutch also was one of several directors on the original NBC version of Match Game from 1962–1969 and became most notably the producer and judge of the more memorable CBS version of Match Game from 1973–1979, as well as Match Game PM (1975–1981), and the daily syndicated version from 1979–1982.
While at Goodson-Todman, Skutch also worked on the set of the game shows Beat the Clock, What's My Line?, Password, Concentration, Tattletales and Blockbusters.
Skutch left Goodson-Todman in 1983, shortly after Mark Goodson formed his own production company, Mark Goodson Productions, after the death of his partner Bill Todman.
Personal life and death
In his later years, Skutch was the author and co-author of several books published between 1990 and 2008 including I Remember Television, The Days of Live and The DuMont Television Network: What Happened? (co-written with Ted Bergmann).
Skutch died on March 16, 2010, after a several year battle with lymphoma at the age of 88. Skutch died at the home of his daughter Lindsay in the neighborhood of Silver Lake, California.
Filmography
Director
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Deorai is a village in Pindra Tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Deorai has its own gram panchayat in the same name as the village. The village is about 32 kilometers North-West of Varanasi city, 289 kilometers South-East of state capital Lucknow and 811 kilometers South-East of the national capital Delhi.
Demography
Deorai has a total population of 1,843 people amongst 296 families. Sex ratio of Deorai is 1,078 and child sex ratio is 918. Uttar Pradesh state average for both ratios is 912 and 902 respectively.
Transportation
Deorai can be accessed by road and does not have a railway station of its own. Closest railway station to this village is Khalispur railway station (9.2 kilometers North). Nearest operational airports are Varanasi airport (13.0 kilometers South) and Allahabad Airports (148 kilometers West).
See also
Notes
All demographic data is based on 2011 Census of India.
References
Villages in Varanasi district |
Zaïr Kédadouche (born 9 August 1957) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender or a midfielder. He is also a published author with his 1996 book Zair le gaulois, and is the founder of the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration museum.
From 2008 to 2014, he became a French diplomat (Consul General in Liège, then ambassador in Andorra).
Honours
Orders
Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur: 2002
References
External links
ZAIR KEDADOUCHE*, UN « BEUR-GEOIS » A L’ELYSEE
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1957 births
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Sportspeople from Tourcoing
Footballers from Nord (French department)
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
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CS Sedan Ardennes players
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Ligue 2 players
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William Hyslop Sumner (July 4, 1780 – October 24, 1861) was an American lawyer, soldier, and writer, and the son of Governor Increase Sumner. He graduated from Harvard College in 1799, and practiced law. He served as a general in the Massachusetts militia. Sumner wrote The History of East Boston and died in 1861.
Early life
William H. Sumner spent his boyhood in Roxbury, Massachusetts, living in the house on the corner of Washington and Cliff Streets bought by his father, Governor Increase Sumner prior to the American Revolutionary War. His mother was the former Elizabeth Hyslop, a daughter of his namesake, William Hyslop. His sister, Mehitable Stoddard Sumner, was the wife of Benjamin Welles (grandparents of philanthropist Benjamin Welles), and sister Eliza Sumner was the wife of James Watson Gerard (grandparents of diplomat James W. Gerard).
After primary school in Roxbury he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He later attended and graduated from Harvard College in 1799, shortly after the death of his father.
Career
After graduating from college, Sumner entered the law office of district attorney John Davis, gaining admittance to the bar in 1802. He practiced law from 1802 until 1818 when he left the field in order to concentrate on his military duties. From 1808 to 1819 Sumner served in the Massachusetts State Legislature representing the city of Boston. In 1806 and again in 1813 to 1816 he was selected as aide-de-camp to Governor Caleb Strong. He served in the same role from 1816-1818 to Governor John Brooks. In 1818, Governor Brooks appointed him adjutant general of the state along with the office of quartermaster general which he held until he resigned the office in 1834.
War of 1812
Sumner was involved in the state's defenses during the War of 1812. In September 1814 Massachusetts Governor Caleb Strong sent Sumner, then a lieutenant colonel in the state militia, to coordinate the defense of Portland in the District of Maine. His task was to maintain 1,900 militia and create a better relationship between the Massachusetts militia and the U.S. Army forces posted there. There were many problems with the early American militia:
Some of the men were deserting and had to be brought back by force and some officers were protesting against serving under regulars. The militia in Oxford county were even more troublesome...its militia showed little interest in making sacrifices for war. According to Sumner, they were "undisciplined, badly armed, miserably provided and worse commanded." ... Sumner could see no way of implementing a command agreement except by using force, which meant using militia against militia.
In 1826 he served on a board with a young Zachary Taylor to consider improvements in the militia. They recommended that "a complete system of tactics and exercise for cavalry and artillery of the militia" be created. This would organize the US militia who were so disjointed during the War of 1812. Congress however did not approve this plan.
East Boston
Through his maternal grandmother, Mehitable (née Stoddard) Hyslop, he was part of the Stoddard family, which owned Noddle's Island in Boston Harbor. Sumner's main accomplishment was the development of Noddle's Island as East Boston, an extension of the City of Boston, beginning in 1833, in partnership with Stephen White and Francis J. Oliver. The East Boston Company was created to conduct the development, and The East Boston Timber Company was created to supply wood from upstate New York to shipbuilders whom the Company hoped to attract to the shores of East Boston.
The East Boston Company, founded on March 25, 1833, laid out the first planned neighborhood in the city of Boston. Sumner served as its president and later on the executive committee of the company until he retired due to ill health in 1850 at age 70.
He spent many years writing the History of East Boston, a complete account of all of the early activities there, first published in 1858.
Personal life
Sumner was married three times. His first marriage was to Mary Ann (née DeWolf) Perry (1795–1834) in 1826. She was the widow of Lt. Raymond H. J. Perry of the United States Navy (brother of well-known Navy officers Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew Calbraith Perry, all sons of Capt. Christopher Raymond Perry) and a daughter of U.S. Senator from Rhode Island James DeWolf. When he was in Boston, Sumner resided at the family house on Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill.
After resigning his office in 1834, he bought and moved to a large estate in Jamaica Plain. In 1836, he remarried to Maria Foster (née Doane) Greenough (d. 1843), the widow of his distant cousin, David Stoddard Greenough II.
After his second wife's death in 1843, he married thirdly to Mary Dickinson Kemble (1827–1872), a niece of Margaret Kemble Gage (wife of Gen. Thomas Gage, the last colonial Governor of Massachusetts), in 1848. Four years later in 1852, they moved to a Greek Revival and Italianate mansion on Roanoke Avenue.
Four years before his death, Sumner was stricken with paralysis and was unable to speak for a time. While he retained his mental faculties to the end, he eventually succumbed to the disease and died on October 24, 1861, in Boston. He was buried at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain.
Legacy
William H. Sumner is also known for being the founder of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. In tribute to his tireless work for East Boston, the Sumner Tunnel that runs under Boston Harbor between East Boston and Downtown Boston bears his name. Sumner Hill in Jamaica Plain and Sumner Road in Cambridge are also named for him.
References
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Jamaica Plain Historical Society
William Hyslop Sumner portrait at the National Portrait Gallery
Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861 at the Yale Archives
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"To the Last Man" is the third episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 January 2008. The episode was written by returning series guest writer, Helen Raynor, directed by Andy Goddard and produced by Richard Stokes. As with all episodes of Torchwoods first two series, "To the Last Man" featured series regulars John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori and Gareth David Lloyd, with Mori's character Toshiko Sato given the main focus.
The narrative centres on the intersection of Toshiko's romance with Tommy Brockless (Anthony Lewis), a cryogenically frozen soldier from World War I, and a number of hazardous time slips from 1918. As the impending crisis becomes more severe, Toshiko must choose between the man she has fallen in love with and the world at stake. Tommy eventually elects to return to 1918, where Toshiko knows he will be executed because of his shellshock.
"To the Last Man" was filmed as part of the first production block of Torchwoods second series. Helen Raynor was inspired to write the episode to explore the issue of soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War. The episode was watched by an aggregated total of 4.97 million viewers across its first three showings. The episode received mixed reviews, with the characterisation, romance, atmosphere and anti-war sentiment proving the most popular elements. Both the storylining of the episode and the reliance on plot devices were heavily criticised.
Plot
Tommy Brockless is a young World War I soldier, shell-shocked from his experiences in the trenches. In 1918, Torchwood agents Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire take Tommy from St Teilo's Military Hospital in Cardiff to be kept in cryogenic storage. They leave instructions for future Torchwood members that Tommy will one day be key to saving the world. In the present day it is revealed that Torchwood have kept Tommy in storage for 90 years, releasing him one day a year for a medical check-up.
Whilst Tommy is under day-release, Toshiko elects to keep him company. Whilst Toshiko spends time with Tommy, Jack and Gwen discover that the abandoned Cardiff hospital is showing signs of time distortion, with elements of the 1918 hospital appearing in the present. Meanwhile, Toshiko and Tommy grow closer; after an afternoon in the pub, he kisses her romantically. Upon their return, Jack realises that the present year is when Tommy will be needed: he will have to travel back to 1918 and activate "basically a key" called a Rift Manipulator to close the connection between 1918 and the present and prevent disaster. As Tommy is due to be executed for cowardice three weeks after his return to 1918, Toshiko initially refuses to let him go back. Jack persuades her of the necessity of Tommy's return.
After spending the night together, Toshiko and Tommy return to the hospital as the disruptions intensify, accompanied by Jack. During one disruption, the three witness the 1918 Torchwood team; Jack relays instructions through Tommy for them to take the 1918 version of Tommy into their custody before the older Tommy arrives. Tommy and Toshiko share a goodbye, and Jack briefs Tommy on using the key before he steps back to 1918 during the next disruption. However, when back in the past, Tommy becomes shell-shocked, and is led back to his bed by nurses; he is unable to operate the key in his state. At Torchwood's Hub, Jack and Toshiko use the Cardiff Rift to project an image of Toshiko into Tommy's mind. Tommy senses some familiarity with Toshiko but otherwise does not recognise her. Despite this, Toshiko is able to instruct Tommy to activate the key, and the distortions at the hospital soon dissipate.
Production
Writing
Helen Raynor, the writer of the episode, expressed an interest in writing a Toshiko-centric episode at the first script meeting for the second series of Torchwood. She wanted to write a story centred on Toshiko because she "absolutely [loves] Tosh as a character" and wanted "to take her on another step". Inspiration for the story came from a short fictional document written by James Goss for the in-universe Torchwood Institute website created by BBC Online for the first series. The document detailed a man whom Torchwood would defrost "once a year, give him a day out, and then pop him back in the freezer". Series creator Russell T Davies described the episode as a "love story" but felt it inevitable that the story would end in tears. In creating the character of Tommy Brockless, Raynor felt that he was "the perfect boyfriend" for Toshiko. However, she stated that their brief relationship was not a "mature relationship" but "a pretend relationship" as Toshiko only "gets him out of the box once a year". She added that what Tosh has to learn is that Tommy can't be "treated like a toy". In regards to the conclusion of the episode, she stated that "it's a hugely painful goodbye for both of them".
Raynor was also inspired by the issue of World War I soldiers who were executed for cowardice when they were suffering from shellshock. One of the episode's working titles was "Soldier's Heart", an American Civil War term for shellshock. The final title recalls an infamous order from Field Marshal Douglas Haig on 11 April 1918, in response to the German spring offensive, which included the phrase: "Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement". This policy led shell-shocked soldiers, like the fictional Tommy, to be sent back to war after a very short recuperation period. Director Andy Goddard felt that a scene in which Tommy watches footage of the Iraq War was key to the episode; this experience tells Tommy that the human condition has not changed since 1918 and that humanity still makes the same mistakes. During the episode, Jack suggests that the British army executed "more than 300" shell-shocked soldiers for cowardice during the First World War. Executions for all offences numbered 346, of which 40 were for murder or mutiny. The remaining 306 were for desertion (266), cowardice (18), and other offences (22). While some of these can now be attributed to shell shock, most cannot, although all 306 were posthumously pardoned in 2006. Early drafts of the episode included Tommy asking for Suzie Costello, a member of the Torchwood Institute who had committed suicide in the series' 2006 premiere episode. In regards to the sensitive material in the episode, actress Naoko Mori stated that whilst reading the script she "kind of forgot it was Torchwood and [that] it was science-fiction". She found the climax of the episode "heartbreaking".
Filming and effects
"To The Last Man" was filmed alongside "Adam" as part of Block 1 of production. It was originally intended to be the fourth episode transmitted. The scenes featuring Toshiko and Tommy on the Penarth Pier were recorded, in between heavy rainfall, on 9 May 2007 and marked the first significant location shoot for the second series. Scenes set in Toshiko's flat were also filmed this day at a house in Palace Road, Cardiff. The episode's final scene, showing Toshiko and Owen looking out over Cardiff Bay was recorded 10 May. Cardiff Royal Infirmary provided the interior locations for scenes set in the fictional St Teilo's military hospital which were filmed between 12 and 18 May. The pub where Toshiko and Tommy play pool was the Eli Jenkins on Bute Street, Cardiff. The Red Cross emblem is used throughout the episode; the closing credits include the attribution: "Thanks to the British Red Cross for permission to use the Red Cross emblem."
An important sequence within the episode was the time-shift which ends in Tommy returning to 1918. Goddard noted that the time-shift "essentially happened off-screen" and that what the audience sees is "great big wind machines and camera lights". Anthony Lewis described the wind machine used as "the biggest wind machine I've ever seen in my life". He comments that the intensity of the wind machine and the lighting enabled an "instant-made reaction" from himself and Mori. Goddard added that his first assistant director was "instrumental in gearing up all the extras into a frenzy". The episode's soundtrack included the song "One of These Mornings" by Moby, which featured the vocals of Patti LaBelle, from his 2002 album, 18. The track heard in the pub scene is "She's Got You High" from Mumm-Ra's 2007 debut album These Things Move in Threes.
Broadcast and reception
"To the Last Man" was first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 January 2008 at 9:00 pm. The episode was later repeated on the digital channel BBC Three on 30 January at 11:00 pm, with an edited pre-watershed repeat airing the next day, 31 January 2008, at 7:00 pm. Stephen James Walker, a writer who publishes on the subject of Doctor Who and its spin-offs, noted that the pre-watershed edition of "To the Last Man" had fewer cuts than any other. According to consolidated figures the episode was viewed by 3.51 million viewers on BBC Two, 0.31 million viewers for its first BBC Three repeat and 1.15 million viewers for the pre-watershed repeat, amounting to an aggregated 4.97 million viewers across its three initial showings.
Critical reception
Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy gave the episode a four star review, stating that it provided "another example of a resoundingly triumphant ending that conveys so much via [a] simple image". He praised the characterisation of Toshiko—stating that both Mori and Raynor "deserve a great deal of credit for reaching such dramatic heights"—and also the "refreshingly non-mawkish glimpse at the brutality of war and humanity". Ian Berriman of SFX was more mixed, giving the episode three stars and comparing it to a re-written version of the series one episode "Captain Jack Harkness". He felt that though the episode provided a "likeably girlish side of Torchwood’s blandest character" the characterisation did not add enough depth. Berriman acknowledged the "sweet, surprisingly subdued, almost coy" tone as an indicator of the programme's flexibility, but added that he "[prefers] the show when it’s full-blooded and outrageous." Charlie Jane Anders of io9 gave a critical review, feeling that Toshiko and Tommy had "no chemistry" and that the episode seemed to convey that "men die for women's wiles". She felt that despite the flaws of the romance plot, the episode provided some "powerful stuff" and that Tommy's plight was a strong concept if poorly resolved.
Travis Fickett of IGN gave the episode 7.9 out of ten, enjoying the time overlaps, the relationship between Toshiko and Tommy and the appearance of previous Torchwood employees. However, he felt that some of the episode's plot elements strained the "credibility of the mythology". Joan O'Connell Herdman of Slant Magazine enjoyed the characterisation and British historical perspective the episode afforded, though stated that "characters make this episode, plot devices nearly destroy it." She felt the main strength of the episode was the use of a science fiction crisis "to frame a story about love and sacrifice, the horrors of war and the burdens of command". Alan Stanley Blair of Airlock Alpha felt that the episode succeeded in the atmosphere it created, opining that "1918 is a fantastic setting for a ghost story" and that like "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and "Sleeper", the episode showed that "all the [wrinkles] from the first season have been completely ironed out".
Den of Geek's Andrew Mickel also enjoyed the episode, contrary to his expectations, having not been impressed by either Torchwoods earlier stories nor Helen Raynor's Doctor Who scripts. He appreciated that the episode centred on Toshiko, rather than Gwen whom he felt to be "a personal figure of hate", and felt that Tommy was "endearing in a burkish kind of way". Mickel felt that Raynor "pulled off the characterisation that was so sorely missing from ["Sleeper"]" whilst also treating Tommy's wartime origin with subtlety. Jason Hughes of AOL TV singled out the juxtaposition of Toshiko and Tommy's romance and the military hospital ghost hauntings for praise. He compared the episode to a "monster-of-the-week" episode of The X-Files in that it "doesn't do much to push the overall mythology of the series forward but still manages to capture what day-to-day life in Torchwood would be like".
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Mes idées politiques (My political ideas) is an anthology of articles written by the journalist and French politician Charles Maurras, director of Action Française, and was published in 1937. The book was composed during the author's detention in La Santé Prison from October 29, 1936 to July 6, 1937 for death threats against Léon Blum. The text was compiled by Pierre Chardon, pseudonym of Rachel Legras, former mistress of Maurras in the 1910s. Legras began to compile several articles of Maurras's articles in order to synthesize his thought. According to the specialist Stéphane Giocanti, it is a "true scrapbook of Maurras's political ideas".
Presentation
Although anti-doctrinaire and basing his thought on the experience of reality and "common sense", Charles Maurras consented in 1937, most of his career already behind him, to the writing of a work summarizing his various political positions. Most of the texts of My Political Ideas are taken from former publications of Charles Maurras, particularly in the journal of Action Française, corrected and ordered by their author in order to offer the reader a global and coherent vision of his thought, and this deprived of any reference to current events in order to give the original texts a more general scope. To this corpus, Charles Maurras adds an original introduction called "La politique naturelle" which constitutes, by its defense of the principle of hierarchy and "beneficial inequality", an approach to the whole of the author's work.
Pierre Chardon recounts the conception of the book in the newspaper Action française in 1938.
Preface
The preface entitled La Politique naturelle is one of the most important texts by Charles Maurras. In this text, the author develops his anthropology against the individualist principles of 1789 : “men are not born free, but entirely dependent on their family and more generally on their society ; they become more or less free thereafter, but always relying on this benevolent natural substrate, which Le Play called "the essential constitution of humanity". In Maurras, individuals are not born equal either apart from the natural gifts of reason, moral sense and the aptitude for freedom. Moreover, Maurras refutes the idea of an opposition between nature and man because society would be the nature of man. Society is supposed to be based on a natural anthropology, starting with heredity, which designates "less the transmission of genes than that of a material (house, land, business) and immaterial (language, customs, principles, values, tastes, heritage memory)". Maurras subscribes to Aristotelian-Thomist realism and thinks that politics must therefore be based on natural law.
The social question also holds a large place in this preface because it was composed at the time of the Popular Front. Maurras condemns individualistic idealisms of liberal and socialist inspiration. The class struggle is pejoratively criticized on the grounds that everyone would come out the loser. Maurras opposes class collaboration taking the form of a corporatist regime. In the first edition of the work, Maurras did not hide his admiration for Mussolini and his reforms. The three pages to the glory of fascism were removed from his Oeuvres capitales (1954) when Maurras quickly noted the abuses committed by fascism at the level of the cult of the State in his book Vergers sur la mer also published in 1937. However, Maurras did not revise the anti-Semitic passages of Mes idées politiques because his state anti-Semitism continued until the end of his life.
Plan
Part One : The Man
His vision of man is opposed as much to the optimism of the Enlightenment as to the pessimism of Hobbes, even if he readily admits that "A man is a wolf to another man".For historian Martin Motte, Charles Maurras approaches the "unsociable truth" of Kant and delivers his own version of the Hegelian dialectic of master and slave.
Part Two : Principles
Maurras appends "politics to an ontology of finitude" and conceives "the heritage of the past only under the benefit of an inventory".
Part Three : Civilization
The author delimits civilization to a strictly Greco-Latin framework and criticizes both declinism and fatalism.
Part Four : Political Science
Maurras delivers "a nuanced reflection on the relationship of politics and biology" and rejects the dogmatic application of biology to social and political relationships. However, he tolerates a "heuristic use of this science" by invoking many analogies. Using organizing empiricism, he deduces immutable political laws. Maurras borrows from Montesquieu his definition of the law as "a relation flowing from the nature of things",.
Part Five : Democracy
The author relies on the four Confederate States (Jewish, Protestant, Freemason and Moth) for his critique of democracy. He also refers to Plato's Laws and Republic when he uses ontological categories.Maurras depicts democracy "as an entropic regime, consumer of civilization and focus of barbarism" as he did earlier in Anthinea.
Part Six : Social Issues
In this part, Maurras tolerates state interventionism in the regulation of socio-economic relations but rejects the idea of a welfare state perceived as draconian. Martin Motte notes that for Maurras "social mobility has always existed in the history of France and constitutes a natural movement: it is therefore useless to make it a political priority". In parallel, Maurras criticizes bourgeois selfishness.
Part Seven : Back to Living Things
In conclusion, Maurras delivers his definition of the nation. Maurras takes care to recognize in it the spiritual prerogatives of the Catholic Church.Finally, Maurras recalls that the French nation is not a matter of race, that it is not hermetic to possible external influences, while specifying that diversity can be as much a source of wealth as of division. The Monarchy is erected as the means to preserve the cohesion of the nation.
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Links
Informations détaillées sur Worldcat
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RTelnet is a SOCKS client version of telnet in Unix-like systems. The RTelnet utility provides similar functionality of telnet to those hosts which are behind a firewall.
Normally, firewalls are designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules. Network accessibility across the firewall is reduced in order to provide adequate security to hosts within the firewall. Because of this, many services can not directly access the resources placed outside the firewall. RTelnet utility provides functionality of telnet while maintaining the security requirement of firewall and NAT. Though the utility differs very much from its counterpart in implementation, it behaves almost indistinguishably to users in terms of command interface and communication scheme. RTelnet is a "versatile" client - it can be used for both connections to inside hosts directly and to outside hosts via SOCKS proxy servers.
Protocol details
When RTelnet starts, it prints its version number and the name or IP address of its default SOCKS proxy server to stderr stream channel. It then consults the configuration file (/etc/socks.conf) to determine whether a request should be allowed or denied based on the requesting user, the destination host, and the requested service.
For allowable requests, the configuration file also dictates whether direct or proxy connection should be used to the given destination, and optionally the actual SOCKS servers to use for the proxy connection. The RTelnet utility requires the libsocket.so shared library to run.
RTelnet is a listed project on SourceForge code repository.
References
Application layer protocols
Clear text protocols
History of the Internet
Internet protocols
Internet Standards
Internet Protocol based network software
Telnet
Unix network-related software |
Wade Allen Miley (born November 13, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs.
Miley played college baseball at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Diamondbacks selected him in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut with the Diamondbacks in 2011 and was an All-Star in 2012. On May 7, 2021, he threw a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.
Early life and career
Miley was born in Hammond, Louisiana, but grew up in Loranger, a town of 6,100 residents and 1,924 households. His father, Wendell, was a mechanic for 18 wheelers. Miley attended Loranger High School and Southeastern Louisiana University, where he played college baseball for the Southeastern Louisiana Lions baseball team. In 2007, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star.
Professional career
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Miley in the first round, 43rd overall, of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft. He made his debut professionally with the Yakima Bears of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League. Miley was called up to the majors for the first time on August 15, 2011, and would finish the season with a 4–2 record in eight games (seven starts).
Miley was named the National League (NL) Rookie of the Month for April 2012, pitching 3–0 with a 1.29 earned-run average (ERA), striking out 15 in 21 innings in two starts. Miley took a no-hitter into the 6th inning against Miami. He was also named a NL All-Star in his rookie season after beginning the 2012 season with a 9–5 record with a 3.04 ERA. Later that season on October 1, 2012, Miley pitched an immaculate inning in a game facing the Colorado Rockies. Miley won 16 games for the Diamondbacks in 29 starts in 2012. He also made 3 relief appearances. He had an ERA of 3.33 in innings.
Miley lost to Bryce Harper for the National League Rookie of the Year in 2012.
On April 22, 2013, Miley hit his first career home run. Miley took a step back from his strong rookie season, managing just 10 wins despite pitching over 200 innings. In 2014, Miley would pitch to a 4.34 ERA with 183 strikeouts and a win–loss record of 8–12.
Boston Red Sox
On December 12, 2014, the Diamondbacks traded Miley to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for pitchers Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster and infielder Raymel Flores. On February 5, 2015, Miley and the Red Sox agreed on a three-year $19.25 million contract extension. On April 21, 2015, Miley won his first game with the Red Sox, throwing shutout innings versus the Tampa Bay Rays. For the season, Miley pitched to a 4.46 ERA in 32 starts, compiling an 11–11 record.
Seattle Mariners
On December 7, 2015, the Red Sox traded Miley and Jonathan Aro to the Seattle Mariners for Roenis Elías and Carson Smith. Miley struggled during his stint with Seattle, pitching to a 4.98 ERA and a 7–8 record. In his last start for the team, he pitched seven scoreless innings against the Cubs.
Baltimore Orioles
On July 31, 2016, the Mariners traded Miley to the Baltimore Orioles for Ariel Miranda. In August, he made six starts, pitching to a 7.14 ERA in 29 innings and had a 1–3 record. The Orioles went 2–4 in his starts. On September 18, Miley pitched four scoreless innings against the Tampa Bay Rays, before being pulled with a back injury. He returned his next start, taking a shutout into the 9th inning against his former team the Diamondbacks. He ended pitching 8 innings before allowing an RBI double. He struck out a career-high 11 batters in his best start in an Orioles uniform. Overall, Miley finished 2–5 in 11 starts with an ERA of 6.17 for Baltimore. The following season, Miley was tabbed as the #4 starter in the rotation. He endured his worst season of his career, setting career worsts in ERA for a full season (5.61), losses (15), home runs allowed (25) and walks (93). He also pitched in a career low innings pitched. On July 30, 2017, Miley gave up Adrián Beltré's 3,000th career hit. On November 3, 2017, the Orioles declined Miley's 2018 option.
Milwaukee Brewers
On February 14, 2018, Miley signed a minor league deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. He began the season in the Minors but was called up a couple of weeks later. He pitched in two starts before landing on the 60 day disabled list with an oblique injury. He was activated off the disabled list on July 12, going 5–2 with a 2.57 ERA in 16 starts. He also started Game 3 of the Division Series, along with Games 2, 5 and 6 of the NLCS.
In Game 5 he faced only one hitter before being replaced with a right-handed pitcher. This made Miley only the second starter in postseason history to face a single batter and the first to do so without getting the batter out. By starting Game 6 he became the first pitcher in 88 years to start back-to-back postseason games.
Houston Astros
Miley signed a one-year contract worth $4.5 million with the Houston Astros on February 1, 2019. In 2019 he was 14–6 with a 3.98 ERA in innings over 33 starts but did not make the World Series roster.
Cincinnati Reds
On December 18, 2019, Miley signed a two-year contract, with a club option, worth $15 million with the Cincinnati Reds. In a COVID-19 shortened season, Miley was 0–3 with a 5.65 ERA in over 6 games (4 starts).
On May 7, 2021, Miley threw the 17th no-hitter in Reds history, striking out eight batters while allowing only two baserunners in the 3–0 win against the Cleveland Indians. It was the fourth no-hitter of the season and the second in three days after John Means of the Baltimore Orioles threw his against the Seattle Mariners. Miley finished the 2021 season with a 12–7 record and 3.37 ERA in 28 starts.
Chicago Cubs
On November 5, 2021, the Reds placed Miley on waivers and he was claimed by the Chicago Cubs. Miley only made 8 starts for the Cubs (plus, one relief appearance) in 2022 due to injuries and had a 3.16 ERA.
Milwaukee Brewers (second stint)
On January 9, 2023, Miley signed with the Milwaukee Brewers on a 1-year $4.5 million deal. Miley made 8 starts for the Brewers before leaving a May 16 start against the St. Louis Cardinals with a lat injury. On May 19, it was announced that Miley would miss 6–8 weeks after being diagnosed with a posterior serratus strain.
Pitching style
He throws four main pitches with an occasional fifth. The main four are four-seam fastball and two-seam fastballs (ranging from ), a slider (), and a changeup to right-handed hitters (). The least commonly thrown is a curveball in the mid-upper 70s, mostly against right-handers. His favored off-speed pitch with two strikes is the slider.
Personal life
Miley has been an avid hunter since the age of three. Growing up in Louisiana, Miley was a fan of the Atlanta Braves. He currently spends his off-season on his ranch near Austin, Texas.
Miley and his wife, Katy, have one child, a son who was born in September 2016.
See also
List of Major League Baseball no-hitters
References
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1986 births
Living people
American members of the Churches of Christ
Arizona Diamondbacks players
Baltimore Orioles players
Baseball players from Louisiana
Biloxi Shuckers players
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
Everett AquaSox players
Houston Astros players
Iowa Cubs players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Milwaukee Brewers players
Mobile BayBears players
National League All-Stars
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Reno Aces players
Seattle Mariners players
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Southeastern Louisiana Lions baseball players
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Boarhunt () is a village and civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England, about north-east of Fareham. The name of the village is a corruption of burh funta, the funta, (stream) by the fort (burh).
History
The settlement is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, when there were 27 households. Hall House in Boarhunt was dismantled in 1970 and reconstructed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex in 1981.
Church
The village church is dedicated to St Nicholas; it is almost completely Saxon in its structure with its font probably dating to the same period. The building has been dated as having been constructed in 1064. Further work appears to have taken place in the 13th century. In 1577 a monument to Ralph Henslowe was added to the interior. A general restoration was carried out in 1853 at which point a bell-turret was added and the current furnishings were fitted.
References
External links
- Boarhunt Parish Council website
City of Winchester
Villages in Hampshire |
Moldenhauer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ernst Moldenhauer, German fencer
Hans Moldenhauer (1901–1929), German tennis player
Hans Moldenhauer (1906–1987), German-American collector, musician and philanthropist. Founder of the Moldenhauer Archives of the Library of Congress
Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (born 1941), German footballer
Henry R. Moldenhauer (1855-1925), American politician and businessman
Joanne Moldenhauer (1928–2016), American high school mathematics teacher
Paul Moldenhauer (1876–1947), German Finance Minister, economist and politician
Siegfried Moldenhauer (1915–1998), German military officer
German-language surnames |
Mohamed El-Din El-Guindi (1920 – 13 November 1995) was an Egyptian footballer. Born in Sudan, he competed for Egypt in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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The Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island was a hospital in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA.
History
The hospital was founded through an 1894 bequest from William F. Sayles, a businessman and philanthropist who owned mills in Saylesville, Rhode Island. Sayles' son, Frank A. Sayles, decided to build the original 30-bed hospital with the funds. Throughout the 20th century the size of the hospital expanded greatly. The hospital was a 294-bed facility serving the Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Memorial Hospital was a teaching affiliate of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Other smaller facilities are located in Quality Hill, Plainville and Central Falls. In 2013 Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island merged with the Care New England (CNE) Health System, in affiliation with: Kent County Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, and Butler Hospital.
Closure
On October 18, 2017, Care New England announced its plans to close Memorial Hospital, which had been struggling financially for the past ten years. The financial decline accelerated after mismanagement by Care New England after they acquired the hospital in 2013. This was worsened by the creation of new ambulatory CNE practices within the traditional catchment area of MHRI that funneled patients away from Memorial and to CNE's other member hospitals. This enabled CNE to create a situation in which patient volume decreased at Memorial Hospital, which in turn could be used as an excuse to further downsize. In the summer of 2016, the maternity ward was closed. The hospital's intensive care unit was closed in December 2017 and its emergency room was closed on January 1, 2018. The building was transitioned into an outpatient care center to cut costs.
In April 2018, CharterCare announced plans to purchase Memorial Hospital, but Care New England expressed doubt as to whether the hospital could be re-opened.
See also
List of hospitals in Rhode Island
References
External links
Official Website
Teaching hospitals in Rhode Island
Defunct hospitals in Rhode Island
1894 establishments in Rhode Island
Brown University
Buildings and structures in Providence, Rhode Island
Hospitals established in 1894
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The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (BSPR) was founded in 1993 and is the United Kingdom's main forum for the interchange of ideas in the philosophy of religion.
The society holds a major conference in Britain every two years, devoted to a particular area of the subject. The programme of events for the society is decided at the general meeting held at the biennial conference. The planning of the programme is in the hands of the committee.
The BSPR is also affiliated to the European Society for Philosophy of Religion which holds a biennial conference in years alternating with the BSPR's conference.
Presidents
1993–1996: Roger Trigg
Richard Swinburne
2003–2005: Peter Byrne
Basil Mitchell
John Hick
Paul Helm
Brian Leftow
2007–2009: John Cottingham
Robin Le Poidevin
2011–2013: Stephen R. L. Clark
2013–2015: Sarah Coakley
2015–2017: Mark Wynn
2017–2019: Yujin Nagasawa
2019–2023: Maria Rosa Antognazza
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is a Japanese former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Living people
Japanese female backstroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Japan
Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in swimming
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
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Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
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21st-century Japanese women |
Milorad Pejić (1960 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian poet who resides in Sweden.
Biography
After attending elementary and high school in his hometown of Tuzla, Pejić attended the University of Sarajevo, where he studied economics. Following graduation he returned to Tuzla, and in 1992, following the outbreak of the Bosnian War, he immigrated to Sweden, where he now lives.
Books
The Vase for the Lily Plant / Vaza za biljku krin (1985)
The Eyes of Keyholes / Oči ključaonica / Schlossaugen (2001) (2012) (2015)
Hyperborea (2011) (2013) (2016) (2018)
The Third Life / Treći život (2015) (2019)
True Stories / Sanna historier, poetry collection in Swedish (2019)
True Stories: selected poems (in Czeche) / Pravdivé příběhy: vybrané básně (2020)
True stories / Istinite priče (2023)
Awards
November 2012: Slovo Makovo - Mak Dizdar
References
External links
Article in Swedish about Pejić and the "Slovo Makovo - Mak Dizdar" award
Mak Dizdar Foundation article on literary prize ”Slovo Makovo - Mak Dizdar,” awarded to Pejić in November 2012
Article in Bosnian about Pejić and the "Hyperborea: Knjiga mjeseca" award
Spirit of Bosnia
Refugees and Runes of War (Bibliotekos)
Modern Poetry in Translation
Poems published on www.jergović.com
CV2 The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing
RHINO
Eckermann: Patriotizam je bolest
Eckermann: Šaraf
Bosnia and Herzegovina poets
Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
1960 births
Living people |
The International Big Rideau Lake Speed Skating Marathon is an annual speed skating competition held in Ontario, Canada. The event takes place on a 1km marked out track on the Big Rideau Lake.
Besides hosting the Official 2006 North American Marathon Skating Championship - two races of 25km and 50km, other races take place in the event; such as two shorter races of 5km and 10km, and a team relay race. Skaters in the 25 and 50K races can earn points, which will go towards the overall '2005-2006 Marathon Skating International Points Series'.
Last year, over 1,500 spectators arrived to cheer on 150 skaters from all over the globe - mainly Canada, the USA, Mexico, Australia and the Netherlands.
External links
Event Website
International speed skating competitions
Speed skating in Canada
International speed skating competitions hosted by Canada |
Peni Terepo (born 21 November 1991) is a Tonga former international rugby league footballer who played as a and for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL.
Background
Terepo was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and is of Cook Islands and Tongan descent.
Terepo played his junior football for the Mangere East Hawks before being signed by the Parramatta Eels.
Playing career
Terepo played for the Eels NYC team between 2009 and 2011. On 19 August 2011, Terepo re-signed with the Eels on a 2-year contract. At the end of 2011, Terepo won the Eels NYC Player's Player award.
2013
In round 8 of the 2013 NRL season, Terepo made his NRL debut for the Parramatta Eels against the North Queensland Cowboys at in the Eels 10–14 loss at Parramatta Stadium. In round 10, against the St George Illawarra Dragons, Terepo scored his first and second try NRL career tries in the Eels 12–32 loss at WIN Stadium. On 5 July 2013, Terepo extended his contract with the Eels for a further 2 years until the end of the 2015 season. Terepo finished his debut year in the NRL with him playing in 17 matches and scoring 4 tries for the Parramatta Eels in the season. Terepo was included in the Tongan squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, playing in one match and scoring a try against Italy in the 16–0 win at The Shay.
2014
In February 2014, Terepo was selected in the Eels inaugural 2014 Auckland Nines squad. Terepo finished off the 2014 NRL season with him playing in 21 matches and scoring a try for the Eels.
2015
On 31 January and 1 February, Terepo played for the Eels in the 2015 NRL Auckland Nines. On 2 May, he represented Tonga in their 2015 Polynesian Cup test-match against Pacific rivals Samoa, playing at prop in Tonga's 16–18 loss at Cbus Super Stadium. He finished off the 2015 season having played in 13 matches for the Eels. On 17 October, he played for Tonga in their Asia-Pacific Qualifier against the Cook Islands for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, playing at prop and scoring a try in Tonga's 28–8 win at Campbelltown Stadium.
2016
In February 2016, Terepo played in the Eels' tournament winning 2016 NRL Auckland Nines campaign. On 7 May 2016, Terepo played for Tonga against Samoa in the 2016 Polynesian Cup, starting at prop in the 18–6 loss at Parramatta Stadium. Terepo finished the 2016 NRL season having played in 23 matches for the Eels. On 8 December 2016, Terepo made his professional boxing debut in the Ladbrokes Charity Fight Night where he went against David Tuliloa but lost in the second round.
2017
On 27 January 2017, Terepo was stood down from the club for a number of weeks after he pleaded guilty to careless driving and also refused to give a blood alcohol test after he crashed in Auckland. Terepo was later fined $500 and $130 in court costs as well being disqualified from driving for seven months, Terepo was almost sacked from the club for not reporting the incident but instead was fined $15,000 for the club. Terepo made his return to the Eels first grade squad in round 6 against the New Zealand Warriors, coming off the interchange bench in the 10–22 loss at Mt Smart Stadium.
2018
Terepo made 20 appearances for Parramatta in a difficult 2018 season where the club finished last on the table and claimed its 14th wooden spoon.
On 30 October 2018, Terepo signed a one-year contract extension to remain at the club until the end of the 2019 season.
2019
On 11 March, Terepo was stood down by Parramatta for allegedly abusing Air New Zealand staff in an alcohol-fuelled incident on a flight from Tonga to Auckland. Terepo was allegedly upset that he had brought his own alcohol onto the flight but was not allowed to drink it from his coffee cup.
Terepo was told by the flight manager to stop drinking his own alcohol on the plane but continued to do so. Terepo was also seen by staff acting inappropriately towards a female flight attendant. Once the flight arrived in Auckland, Terepo was escorted off the plane by police.
Parramatta released a statement saying "The club has stood Peni down immediately, including this week's Round 1 game against Penrith. The club will now work with the relevant authorities in New Zealand, the NRL Integrity Unit and the RLPA to investigate the incident thoroughly. This process will then guide our next steps. The club will make no further comment until the investigation is completed".
On 25 March, Terepo avoided having his contract terminated by Parramatta but was fined $25,000 in relation to his alcohol-fueled incident which happened earlier in the month.
Terepo made a total of 16 appearances for Parramatta in the 2019 NRL season. Terepo played for the club's feeder side the Wentworthville Magpies in their Canterbury Cup NSW grand final defeat against Newtown at Bankwest Stadium.
2020
In round 2 of the 2020 NRL season, Terepo scored his first try in six years as Parramatta defeated the Gold Coast 46–6.
Terepo played a total of six games for Parramatta in the 2020 NRL season. On 12 October, he was released by the club after not securing a new contract. He left Parramatta as one of their longest serving players in the NRL era.
References
External links
Parramatta Eels profile
Eels profile
2017 RLWC profile
1991 births
Living people
Mangere East Hawks players
New Zealand sportspeople of Cook Island descent
New Zealand sportspeople of Tongan descent
New Zealand rugby league players
Parramatta Eels players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Auckland
Rugby league props
Tonga national rugby league team players
Tongan rugby league players
Wentworthville Magpies players |
Ultimate Tag was a short-lived Australian sports entertainment obstacle course competition based on the American series of the same name which premiered on Seven on 7 March 2021. Following the premise of the original version, the format was based on the game of tag and involved contestants running through various indoor obstacle courses while professional taggers attempt to catch them. Abbey Gelmi and Matt Shirvington hosted the series, with Bill Woods as commentator.
After three episodes, the series was moved to Channel Seven’s sister channel 7flix due to unexpectedly low viewership. Seven conceded the series failed to resonate with audiences and would not be returning for a second season, and was eventually cancelled shortly afterwards.
Format
The competition took place across six Heats, three Semi-Finals and the Grand Final, with every course and run becoming more difficult and challenging. The courses included Survival Tag, Gravity Tag, Revenge Tag, The Wall, Stealth Tag, Dodge Tag, The Alley and The Vortex. The winner of the series would receive $100,000, but the prize was amazingly never won.
Production
In July 2020, it was announced that Seven Network had purchased the rights to the series and would will making their own version of the show for Australian audiences in 2021. Auditions were open between July & August 2020. The series was officially confirmed by Seven at their annual upfronts in October 2020, produced by Endemol Shine Australia and with Abbey Gelmi and Matt Shirvington announced as hosts and Bill Woods as commentator.
Taggers
List of taggers competing in the series:
Stephanie Beck as Spitfire
Tommy Browne as Titan
Bridget Burt as Bandit
Ruel DaCosta as Bulldog
Dominic Di Tommaso as Dominator
Jenna Douros as Ricochet
Greg Eckels as Eagle
Tristan Hodder as Firestarter
Ali Kadhim as Ghost
EJ Kaise as Cyclone
Michael Khedoori as The Kid
Conor Loughman as Arrow
Aleksei Mast as Hammer
Amy Morrison as Riot
Mahalia Murphy as Defender
Emma Nedov as Supernova
Brodie Pawson as Rapid
Dylan Pawson as Razor
Paul Pedersenn as Redback
Jamie Scroop as Avalanche
Katelyn Seary as Wildcat
Shaun Wood as Hollywood
Scott Evennett was set to appear under the Tagger name Striker but injured himself on the first day of filming.
DaCosta also appears on the American version under the same Tagger name of Bulldog; DaCosta was also a consultant on the show, designing and developing games, courses and obstacles for the Australian version.
Ratings
References
External links
2020s Australian game shows
Seven Network original programming
2020s Australian reality television series
2021 Australian television series debuts
2021 Australian television series endings
Obstacle racing television game shows
Australian television series based on American television series
Tag variants
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series by Fox Entertainment |
Keith Moffatt (born June 20, 1984) is an American high jumper.
He holds a personal best jump of 2.30 metres.
Career Highlights
2006 & 2009 USA Outdoor runner-up
3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors
2003 Junior Pan Am Games gold medalist
2004 NCAA DII Champion
2003 USA Outdoor Junior Champion
2002 VHSL State Record 7'3"
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
American male high jumpers |
Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
United States dance history
Prior to the 20th century, many ballroom dance and folk dances existed in America. As jazz music developed at the start of the 20th century, Black American communities in tandem developed the Charleston and eventually the Lindy Hop by the end of the 1920s. Many cities had regular local competitions such as the Savoy Ballroom which accelerated the development and popularization of the dance. The dances were introduced to wider public through movies and regular performances such as those done at the Cotton Club in New York.
An unusual (for the time) feature of the dance was the inclusion of sections where the dancers would move apart from each other and perform individual steps (known as the "breakaway"). Another unique feature that was introduced in these early days were the first airsteps, also known today as aerials. These daring maneuvers were exciting for the audiences to watch, and when combined with live performances such as those by Ella Fitzgerald, became a staple of organized Lindy Hop performances.
Other dances such as Collegiate shag and Balboa developed in the United States in the same time period but never saw the same international popularity as the Lindy Hop.
Over the next few decades, popular music changed, moving away from the big band sound of swing to styles like rhythm and blues and then rock and roll. Due to this and other factors, the Lindy Hop evolved and mutated into a number of different styles. Dance styles such as West Coast Swing and Modern Jive integrated features of ballroom dances and new music to create distinctive but similar dances.
German dance history
In 1023, the German poet Ruodlieb referred to a couple dance with a basic motif of a boy wooing a girl, and the girl rejecting his advances. Men and women dancing as couples, both holding one hand of their partner, and "embracing" each other, can be seen in illustrations from 15th-century Germany.
At the end of the 13th century and during the 14th century, nobles and wealthy patricians danced as couples in procession in a slow dignified manner in a circle, while farmers and lower classes danced in a lively fashion. The burgher middle class combined the dances with the processional as a "fore dance", and the turning as an "after dance".
The Danse de Paysans' (Peasant's Dance) by Théodore de Bry shows a couple with a man lifting his partner off the ground, pulling her towards him while holding her closely with both arms. His Danse de Seigneurs et Dames (Dance of the Lords and Ladies) features one Lord with his arms around the waist of his Lady. Syncopated rhythms gained widespread popularity for dancing in the last two centuries, although usually less complex and more regular than previous music.
An old couple dance which can be found all over Northern Europe is known as "Manchester" or "Lott is Dead". In Bavaria words to the music include "One, two, three and one is four, Dianderl lifts up her skirt And shows me her knees", and in Bavaria one verse invites the girl to leave her bedroom window open to allow a visit from her partner.
Dance partners stay together for the duration of the dance and, most often, dance independently of other couples dancing at the same time, if any.
Although this kind of dancing can be seen, for instance, in ballet, this term is usually applied to various forms of social dance, ballroom dance, folk dance, and similar forms.
Group dances
Partner dance may be a basis of a formation dance, a round dance, a square dance or a sequence dance. These are kinds of group dance where the dancers form couples and dance either the same choreographed or called routines or routines within a common choreography—routines that control both how each couple dances together and how each couple moves in accord with other couples. In square dance one will often change partners during the course of a dance, in which case one distinguishes between the "original partner" and a "situational partner".
Leader and follower
In most partner dances, one is the leader and the other is the follower. As a rule, they maintain connection with each other. In some dances the connection is loose and called dance handhold. In other dances the connection involves body contact. In the latter case the connection imposes significant restrictions on relative body positions during the dance and hence it is often called dance frame. It is also said that each partner has their own dance frame. Although the handhold connection poses almost no restriction on body positions, it is quite helpful that the partners are aware of their dance frames, since this is instrumental in leading and following.
In promenade-style partner dancing there is no leader or follower, and the couple dance side-by-side maintaining a connection with each other through a promenade handhold. The leader dances traditionally to the left of the follower.
Some peoples have folk partner dances, where partners do not have any body contact at all, but there is still a kind of "call-response" interaction.
A popular form of partner dancing is slow dance.
History of same-sex partner dancing
Generally, partner dance has taken place between a man and a woman. Before the 1950s, however, if there was not a sufficient number of partners of the opposite sex available, couples formed into pairs of the same sex.
Sometimes this is also done as part of a dance tradition. In traditional partner dances done within certain conservative cultures, such as in traditional Uyghur partner dance, dancing is often done with the same sex as a matter of respect for the conservative culture.
As learning both dance roles has become more common and social norms have changed, many events and competitions have removed restrictions.
Typically, in ballroom competitions today, same-sex partnerships are allowed up to the silver level (the third level in competition, after newcomer and bronze). However, these are comparatively rare.
It is thought that some partner dances actually developed with more relaxed gender roles. Prior to adoption by the mainstream, these dances did not actually normalize the man-lead/woman-follow paradigm.
Double partner dancing
This kind of dance involves dancing of three persons together: usually one man with two women or one woman with two men. In social dancing, double partnering is best known during times when a significant demographic disproportion happens between the two sexes. For example, this happens during wars: in the military, there is a lack of women, while among civilians, able dancers are mostly women. For example, during the Second World War, many advanced leaders learned to dance Lindy Hop with two followers.
Since the 1980s, double partner dance is often performed in Ceroc, Hustle, Salsa and Swing dance communities, experienced leaders leading two followers.
There are a number of folk dances that feature this arrangement. Among these are the Russian Troika and the Polish Trojak folk dances, where a man dances with two or more women. A Cajun dance with the name Troika is also known.
See also
Outline of dance
List of dances
Pas de deux
References
External links
International DanceSport Federation
World Dance Council
International Professional DanceSport Council
Social dance
Romance |
MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) is a low frequency, pulse-limited radar sounder and altimeter developed by the University of Rome La Sapienza and Alenia Spazio (today Thales Alenia Space Italy). The Italian MARSIS instrument, which is operated by the European Space Agency, is operational and orbits Mars as an instrument for the ESA's Mars Express exploration mission.
The MARSIS Principal Investigator is Giovanni Picardi from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. It features ground-penetrating radar capabilities, which uses synthetic aperture technique and a secondary receiving antenna to isolate subsurface reflections. MARSIS identified buried basins on Mars. MARSIS was funded by ASI (Italy) and NASA (USA). The processor runs the real-time operating system EONIC Virtuoso.
Deployment
On May 4, 2005, Mars Express deployed the first of its two 20-metre-long radar booms for the MARSIS experiment. At first the boom didn't lock fully into place; however, exposing it to sunlight for a few minutes on May 10 fixed the glitch. The second 20 m boom was successfully deployed on June 14. Both 20 m booms were needed to create a 40 m dipole antenna for MARSIS to work; a less crucial 7-meter-long monopole antenna was deployed on June 17. The radar booms were originally scheduled to be deployed in April 2004, but this was delayed out of fear that the deployment could damage the spacecraft through a whiplash effect. Due to the delay it was decided to split the four-week commissioning phase in two parts, with two weeks running up to July 4 and another two weeks in December 2005.
The deployment of the booms was a critical and highly complex task, requiring effective inter-agency cooperation between ESA, NASA, industry partners, and public Universities.
Science
MARSIS transmits a series of modulated chirps at frequencies between 1.8 and 5.0 MHz in subsurface sounding mode, with a 1 MHz bandwidth. It also emits chirps sweeping between 0.1 and 5.4 MHz when ionosphere sounding. Depending on the mode, the pulsewidth is 30, 91 or 250 μs, and the nominal Pulse repetition frequency is 130 Hz. Transmitted power is either 1.5 or 5 W.
Nominal science observations began during July 2005.
A 2012 paper by the MARSIS team measured a difference between the dielectric constant of the northern and southern high-latitude regions. This is evidence that the material that fills the northern basin is a lower-density material, which could be interpreted as evidence of an ancient northern ocean.
Using MARSIS data, 22 Italian scientists reported in July 2018 the discovery of a subglacial lake on Mars, below the southern polar ice cap, and extending horizontally about , the first known stable body of water on Mars.
See also
LRS, Lunar radar sounder (LRS) is a orbiting low frequency radar sounder and altimeter over Earth's Moon
RIME, Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) is a orbiting low frequency radar sounder and altimeter for Jupiter's Icy moons
SHARAD, The Mars SHAllow RADar sounder (SHARAD) radar (20 MHz) on the later launched Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter complements MARSIS capabilities.
Tianwen-1, The Tianwen-1 mission plans an Orbiter Subsurface Radar (OSR) and rover based Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) for Mars
WISDOM (radar), Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observation on Mars (WISDOM) is a ground-penetrating radar on the ExoMars rover
References
External links
ESA - MARSIS Finds Buried Basins in Chryse Planitia
ESA - Buried Basins in Northern Lowlands
buried basins and ice - eSA
NASA - buried basins
Spacecraft instruments
Geophysical imaging
Mars Express
Space radars |
Shali (, also Romanized as Shālī) is a village in Poshteh-ye Zilayi Rural District, Sarfaryab District, Charam County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 4 families.
References
Populated places in Charam County |
Tornos abjectarius is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Tornos abjectarius is 6487.
Subspecies
These four subspecies belong to the species Tornos abjectarius:
Tornos abjectarius abjectarius
Tornos abjectarius calcasiata Cassino & Swett, 1923
Tornos abjectarius kimballi Rindge, 1954
Tornos abjectarius ravus Rindge, 1954
References
Further reading
Boarmiini
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1887 |
The Hit Pack is a compilation that can be seen as a continuation to the Hits compilation series; therefore, it is also called Hits 13 and The Hits Album 13 on some music streaming services, such as Spotify. It was originally issued by BMG, CBS, and WEA in December 1990 and reached number 2 on the UK Top 20 Compilations Chart. The album was released as a 21-track CD, while the cassette format contained 24 tracks.
Tracklisting
CD format
Deee-Lite - "Groove Is in the Heart (Peanut Butter Mix)"
Black Box - "Fantasy"
Snap! - "Mary Had a Little Boy"
Caron Wheeler - "Livin' in the Light"
Seal - "Crazy"
The Charlatans - "Then"
808 State - "Cubik (Original Mix)"
Aztec Camera and Mick Jones - "Good Morning Britain"
Paul Simon - "The Obvious Child (Single Mix)"
Gazza and Lindisfarne - "Fog on the Tyne"
Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood Project - "Are You Dreaming?"
Prince - "Thieves in the Temple (Album Version)"
Del Amitri - "Spit in the Rain"
The Proclaimers - "King of the Road"
Maria McKee - "Show Me Heaven"
Berlin - "Take My Breath Away"
Deacon Blue - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
Bobby Vinton - "Blue Velvet"
A-ha - "Crying in the Rain (LP Version)"
Julee Cruise - "Falling (Edit)"
New Kids on the Block - "Tonight"
LP and cassette format
Side 1
Deee-Lite - "Groove Is in the Heart (Peanut Butter Mix)"
Black Box - "Fantasy"
Snap! - "Mary Had a Little Boy"
The Chimes - "Heaven" (cassette only)
Dimples D. - "Sucker DJ's (I Will Survive)" (cassette only)
Caron Wheeler - "Livin' in the Light"
Seal - "Crazy"
The Charlatans - "Then"
808 State - "Cubik (Original Mix)"
Aztec Camera and Mick Jones - "Good Morning Britain"
The Sisters of Mercy - "More" (cassette only)
Paul Simon - "The Obvious Child (Single Mix)"
Side 2
Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood Project - "Are You Dreaming?"
Prince - "Thieves in the Temple (Album Version)"
Del Amitri - "Spit in the Rain"
The Proclaimers - "King of the Road"
Maria McKee - "Show Me Heaven"
Berlin - "Take My Breath Away"
Deacon Blue - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
Bobby Vinton - "Blue Velvet"
A-ha - "Crying in the Rain (LP Version)"
Julee Cruise - "Falling (Edit)"
New Kids on the Block - "Tonight"
Gazza and Lindisfarne - "Fog on the Tyne"
References
Collins Complete UK Hits Albums. Graham Betts. 2005.
1990 compilation albums
CBS Records compilation albums
Warner Music Group compilation albums
Hits (compilation series) albums |
Anthology was originally released as a triple-album greatest hits set by legendary Motown family unit, The Jackson 5, in 1976. It was the group's second greatest hits compilation, after Greatest Hits (1971). It was at this point that most of the Jackson brothers (with the glaring exception of Jermaine Jackson) had left the Motown label to join CBS Records. Motown president Berry Gordy once said that the Jackson 5 were "the last superstars to come off the Motown assembly line"; after the group left the label, Motown would not have another act to equal its success until Boyz II Men in the 1990s.
Later repackagings of Anthology have compiled it as a double compact disc set. The most recent re-release, issued by Motown in 2000 (the first time the release doesn't contain any hits from Michael or Jermaine), was repackaged in 2005 in North America as part of its Gold series, and in 2006 internationally as The Jackson 5 Story.
Critical reception
Reviewing Anthology in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), American music journalist Robert Christgau wrote:
Track listings
Key
(MJ) - Michael Jackson
(JJ) - Jermaine Jackson
(JaJ) - Jackie Jackson
(L) - Live version
(*) - Single version
Notes
1 - Edited down to 2:55.
Anthology 2000 version / Gold 2005 track listing
Charts
Certifications
References
1976 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Hal Davis
Motown compilation albums
The Jackson 5 compilation albums |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a series of young-adult novels by Ann Brashares.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants may also refer to:
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel), the first book in the series
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film series)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film), a 2005 film adaptation, followed by a sequel
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the 2008 sequel to the 2005 film
It can also refer to the four central characters of the Traveling Pants series: Lena Kaligaris, Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, and Carmen Lowell. |
George Hatiras is a Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award winner for Dance Recording of the Year, winning at the Juno Awards of 2002 for "Spaced Invader" and at the Juno Awards of 2006 for "Spanish Fly".
External links
References
Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year winners
Canadian dance musicians
Canadian electronic musicians
Canadian DJs
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Li Rusong (1549–1598) was a Ming dynasty general from Tieling, Liaodong. He was a Ming army commander in the first half of the Imjin War that took place in the Korean peninsula. Upon the request of the Korean King Seonjo of Joseon, the Ming Wanli Emperor sent reinforcements to support the Korean military in its war effort against the Japanese invasion masterminded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
His father, Li Chengliang, was also a Ming general, who defended Liaodong from the Jurchens. Based on historical documents, Li Rusong's 6th generation ancestor Li Ying (李英) was originally from present-day North Korea, but there are historical documents which state that the further ancestors were from central China who moved to Korea during wartime.
Li Rusong was ultimately captured and executed when the Mongols invaded Liaodong province.
Military career
Li Rusong's first rise of fame was in early 1592, when he managed to defeat a major rebellion at Ningxia. The Ming army had been unable to move the rebels holed up in the city for the first 6 months, but after Li arrived the city fell within 3 months. Li was able to divert the waters of the Yellow River directly into the city, which led to its fall. He was immediately appointed the chief general of the expedition into Korea after this; he led a force of some 36,000 into Korea in the last few days of 1592. Together with Ming administrator Song Yingchang, Li Rusong was generally successful in Korea, first retaking the city of Pyongyang in a direct assault within two weeks of setting off (on January 8 of 1593), and then took back the city of Kaesong a couple week later. As he marched south towards the Korean capital of Hanyang (漢陽) in later January, the Ming army clashed with the Japanese forces in the Battle of Byeokjegwan, which resulted in the Ming army being pushed back briefly. Within two months after this he succeeded in recapturing Hanyang. He ordered Chinese and Korean troops to refrain from killing all Japanese soldiers and grant them the right to retreat.
Sword
Li knew of the sword art jedok geom during his stay in Korea. The Koreans published the sword-style in their martial arts manuals called Muyesinbo (1759) and Muyedobotongji (1791).
Death
In April 1598, the Mongols invaded the Ming province of Liaodong from the north when Li Rusong was leading a small scouting group around its forests. Surrounded by thousands of Mongol cavalry, he could not escape, and was captured and subsequently killed. He was posthumously given the title of Zhonglie (忠烈) (Lord of Fidelity).
See also
Ming dynasty
Yi Sun-sin
Deng Zilong
Notes
Ming dynasty generals
1549 births
1598 deaths
Chinese people of Korean descent
People of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) |
Pink Music Festival 2014 was the first edition of the Pink Music Festival contest organised by Serbian broadcaster RTV Pink and featuring artists from City Records. It was held in the RTV Pink studio in Šimanovci on the outskirts of Belgrade on 28 and 29 April 2014 and broadcast live on RTV Pink. All songs were mimed, which was much-criticised by the Serbian press.
Preparation
The contest was announced on 7 March 2014, and artists had a one-month window to submit songs before the deadline of 12pm on 6 April 2014. From the 700–800 songs submitted, the final lineup of 26 songs was chosen by a four-member selection committee comprising Željko Mitrović (director and editor-in-chief of RTV Pink), Milica Mitrović (RTV Pink programming executive), Darko Popović (RTV Pink PR manager) and Bane Stojanović (head of City Records). The list of entries was announced on 10 April, and the running order for the semi-final was drawn live on Pink TV on 12 April. Performances of the entries were filmed in the RTV Pink studio and published on YouTube on 16 April.
Format
The contest was split over 2 nights, with the semi-final being held on 28 April 2014 and the final on 29 April. The results of the semi-final were decided entirely by SMS voting, with the 10 songs that received the fewest votes being eliminated. Rather than a combined jury-televote system as in Eurovision since 2010, the final featured a separate Public Award (for the song with the most SMS votes) and Jury Award (for the song ranked highest by the jury), as well as an Artists' Award voted for by the competing singers, a Sponsors' Award chosen by the event's sponsors, and a YouTube Award for the song with the most YouTube views.
Entries
Semi-final
The semi-final was held on 28 April. Viewers could vote by SMS from the start of the show, and the 16 qualifiers to the final were decided entirely by the public vote.
Final
The final was held on 29 April in the RTV Pink studio in Šimanovci. Artists including Ceca, Dragana Mirkovic, Zeljko Joksimovic, Jelena Rozga and Aca Lukas performed in the interval.
The jury in the final comprised 10 journalists and entertainment executives:
Ivan Vuković, editor-in-chief of Skandal magazine
Tamara Drača, journalist for Star magazine
Aleksandar Jovanović, editor of Telegraf online portal
Ivona Palada Višnjić, journalist for Informer daily newspaper
Sandra Rilak, journalist for Kurir daily newspaper
Ljubica Arsenović, press, Radio S
Danijela Petrović, press, DM SAT
Srdjan Milovanović, owner of TV KCN Kopernikus
Raka Marić, entertainment executive
Bane Obradović, entertainment executive
Artists' Award voting
*After the first round of voting, there was a tie between Tropico Band, Željko Samardžic and Marina Visković, so a second round followed in which each contestant voted for one of the three.
Winners
External links
Pink Music Festival YouTube channel
2014 in music
2014 in Serbia
Rock festivals in Serbia
Music festivals in Serbia
Music festivals established in 2014
2014 music festivals
Events in Belgrade |
Vincent Enyeama (born 29 August 1982) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Despite his below-average height for a goalkeeper, he is popularly regarded as one of the greatest African goalkeepers of all time and of his era.
During his senior career, which spanned nearly 20 years, Enyeama played for Ibom Stars, Enyimba, Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Bnei Yehuda, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Lille and Maccabi Tel Aviv. He was also a member of the Nigeria national team from 2002 until October 2015, serving as its captain from 2013 until his retirement from international football in 2015. With 101 caps, he was Nigeria's most capped player until November 2021 when he was surpassed by Ahmed Musa.
Club career
Enyimba International
During his spell with Enyimba International F.C., he won the CAF Champions League twice, with one noteworthy distinction: He was always substituted before penalty shootouts. "I don't know why I was substituted before penalties, but it worked," he said in an interview in 2006. "In Israel I stopped many penalties and now everyone knows that I can handle penalties."
Bnei Yehuda
After three seasons with Enyimba International F.C. and one with Iwuanyanwu Nationale (now known as Heartland F.C.), Enyeama moved to small Israeli club Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv. In his first season, the team qualified for the final of the Israel State Cup and, having finished fourth in the Israeli Premier League, for the 2006 UEFA Cup competition as well.
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Enyeama signed for Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2007. Hapoel endured a poor season in 2007/2008, but Enyeama helped the team avoid relegation and reach the state cup final.
During the 2008–09 season, Enyeama became Hapoel's penalty kicker, won the "Player of The Year" award, and just missed out on leading Hapoel to the league title.
In the 2009–10 season, Hapoel won the league and cup double, with Enyeama featuring prominently. He scored a goal in the Cup Final, but missed a penalty in the last fixture of the year, which Hapoel eventually won by scoring in the 92nd minute, thereby capturing the league title.
On 18 August 2010, he scored his first goal of the 2010–11 season with a penalty against Red Bull Salzburg in the Champions League qualifiers.
Enyeama played well on the Champions League Group Stage, especially against Lyon and Schalke 04. Hapoel also won the Israeli cup again.
Lille
In June 2011, Enyeama moved to French side Lille for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract. He made his debut on 18 October, 2011 against Inter Milan in the 2012 UEFA Champions League group stage, where Inter managed a 1–0 victory.
In August 2012 , Enyeama agreed a one-year loan deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv and was presented to the media by Maccabi's Sports Director Jordi Cruyff on 8 August, 2012. He appeared in 27 Israeli Premier League fixtures and Maccabi went on to win the championship title.
During the 2013–14 Ligue 1 season, club manager René Girard picked Enyeama as his first-choice goalkeeper ahead of Steeve Elana, who had previously been the first-choice goalkeeper under Rudi Garcia. With the help of his two centre-backs, Marko Baša and Simon Kjær, Enyeama kept 11 consecutive clean sheets in Ligue 1 matches during the first half of the season. On 8 December 2013, Enyeama finally conceded a goal after playing 1,062 minutes of Ligue 1 football in an away match against Bordeaux, during which he was beaten by Landry N'Guémo's deflected strike in the 27th minute. He thus came within 114 minutes of equalling Gaëtan Huard's Ligue 1 goalkeeping record, set in 1993, of playing 1,176 minutes without conceding a goal.
In the 2017–18 season, Enyeama did not make a league appearance having been left out of the first team due to "a disagreement between the player and the club's management". He joined the first team's pre-season training in July 2018.
He was released by mutual consent on 31 August 2018. In January 2019 he said he was keen to play again, and in July 2019 he went on trial with French club Dijon. Despite not being offered a contract by Dijon he expressed gratitude to the club. While at the start of the 2019–20 season Enyeama stated that he hoped to find a new club and continue playing, he finally retired after the end of the campaign.
International career
After making his debut for the Nigeria national football team against Kenya in May 2002, Enyeama was selected for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as a cover for Ike Shorunmu. He made his competitive debut in that tournament, keeping a clean sheet against England in the third group match. Since the retirement of Shorunmu, he has been the first-choice goalkeeper for the national team, helping the Super Eagles to third-place finishes in the 2004, 2006, 2010 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, and captaining the team to victory of in the 2013 edition. He has also participated in the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, and the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
In the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, Enyeama stopped three kicks in the quarter-final penalty shootout against Tunisia, but could not prevent a loss to Ivory Coast in the semi-final. In the 2010 tournament, he was again Nigeria's shootout hero at the quarter-final stage, saving from Zambia's Thomas Nyrienda and scoring the winning kick himself.
Enyeama made his second FIFA World Cup appearance in the 2010 tournament in South Africa. He was named man of the match in Nigeria's first game of the tournament, a defiant display that restricted Argentina to a 1–0 win. Enyeama, who was playing his 56th international for the Super Eagles, made six fine saves against the two-time world champions, four of them from Lionel Messi. Argentine coach Diego Maradona praised him as the reason Messi was not able to score a goal. Enyeama was also awarded man of the match in the team's next fixture, a 2–1 loss to Greece, but was at fault for Vasilis Torosidis' winning goal.
At the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Enyeama deputised for regular captain Joseph Yobo, who stayed on the bench for most of the competition. On 10 February, Enyeama led Nigeria to its third continental victory, keeping a clean sheet in a 1–0 defeat of Burkina Faso in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Final. He was named to the team of the tournament as first choice goalkeeper, conceding only four goals in six matches.
In June 2014, Enyeama was named in Nigeria's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In the Super Eagles' first fixture, he kept the second FIFA World Cup clean sheet of his career as Nigeria drew 0–0 with Iran. He subsequently recorded a second consecutive shutout in the fixture against Bosnia and Herzegovina, a 1–0 win which gave Nigeria its first win at the tournament since the 1998 edition. He conceded three goals in the last match of the first round against Argentina, a game which ended in a 3–2 defeat for Nigeria, placing them second in the group and thus qualifying them for the second round for the first time in 16 years.
On 26 March 2015, Enyeama won his 100th cap for Nigeria in a 1–0 loss to Uganda. He retired from international football on 8 October 2015.
Personal life
A Christian from Ika Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Enyeama is married and a father of three. In 2004, he was involved in a car accident in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State southern Nigeria, in which two motorcycle passengers were killed. The driver of the car in which Enyeama was travelling was left in critical condition. Despite the severity of the accident, Enyeama suffered only bruises after the car somersaulted twice as it swerved to avoid the motorbike.
Honours
Enyimba
Nigerian Premier League: 2001, 2002, 2003
CAF Champions League: 2003, 2004
Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Israeli Premier League: 2009–10
Israel State Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Israeli Premier League: 2012–13
Nigeria
Africa Cup of Nations: 2013
Individual
CAF Champions League Player of the Year: 2003, 2004
Footballer of the Year in Israel: 2009
UNFP Player of the Month: October 2013, November 2013
Prix Marc-Vivien Foé: 2013–14
Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 2004, 2013
Goalkeeper of the year Nigeria Pitch Awards: 2013, 2014
King of the pitch Nigeria Pitch Awards: 2014
Goal Nigeria Player of the Year: 2014
IFFHS CAF Men's Team of the Decade 2011–2020
IFFHS 2023 March :Greatest African Goalkeeper of all Time.
See also
List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
References
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Living people
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Nold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dick Nold (born 1943), American baseball player
Wendelin Joseph Nold (1900–1981), American Roman Catholic bishop
Werner Nold (born 1933), Canadian film editor |
The 1946 Glasgow Cathcart by-election was held on 12 February 1946. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Francis Beattie. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Henderson.
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The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) is a political alliance in Liberia.
History
The alliance was formed in January 2017 to contest the 2017 general elections, bringing together the Congress for Democratic Change, National Patriotic Party and the Liberia People's Democratic Party. It nominated George Weah, leader of the Congress for Democratic Change, as its presidential candidate. Weah was elected President in the second round of voting with 61.5% of the vote, while the CDC won 21 of the 73 seats in the House of Representatives.
For the 2023 general election the coalition expanded to also include, beyond the original members, the Union of Liberian Democrats, the United People's Party, the Change Democratic Action and the Movement for Economic Empowerment.
References
2017 establishments in Liberia
Political parties established in 2017
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Hubneria estigmenensis is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.
Distribution
United States, Canada.
References
Exoristinae
Insects described in 1943
Diptera of North America |
Robert Andrew "Andy" Keith Scott, (March 16, 1955 – June 24, 2013) was a Liberal Member of Parliament representing the electoral district of Fredericton. He was a member the Cabinet of Canada, most recently serving as the eighteenth Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (2004–2006).
Early life
Scott was born in 1955 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and grew up in Barker's Point, a working-class neighbourhood. He was the only son in a family of four children. His parents both supported the Liberal Party, with his father especially an avid volunteer. The family business involved making cement blocks and fireplaces for houses. His father also volunteered for a summer camp for disabled children.
Political career
In the late 1980s he was a senior civil servant with the provincial Liberal government of Frank McKenna. He ran for in the 1993 federal election, and won convincingly, becoming the first Liberal MP elected from Fredericton in 40 years.
He was re-elected in the 1997 election and was named Solicitor General of Canada. In 1998, New Democratic Party MP Dick Proctor said he overheard Scott on an airplane talking about several sensitive national matters, including the then-ongoing Vancouver Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inquiry. Scott was alleged to have stated that several Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers (who had used pepper spray against protesters) would take the blame at the end of it all. He denied prejudging the outcome, but later resigned his post as Solicitor General.
In an incident in the fall of 2003, Scott was hospitalised after being physically assaulted by a constituent angry over his government's support for same sex marriage.
Scott returned to the Cabinet in December 2003, when he was named Minister of State for Infrastructure by Paul Martin. Following the 2004 federal election he was promoted to the position of Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
On March 5, 2007, he announced that he would not seek reelection in the 2008 federal election.
After politics
On October 22, 2008, it was announced that Andy Scott would assume a research post in social policy at the University of New Brunswick.
Death
Scott died of cancer on June 24, 2013, at the age of 58, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Electoral history
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Sordid Humor was an American rock music band, formed in 1987 by the duo of Tom Barnes and Jim Gordon. The duo received help from drummers Ken Gregg, Chris Pedersen, and Toby Hawkins, and bassists Tony Fader, David Immergluck and Marty Jones.
Barnes' unique vocal style and unusual phrasing was the trademark of Sordid Humor, and he went on to lend his vocals and alt-rock guitar style to Engine 88, and a solo project called the Blimp. Sordid Humor played a textured rock with layers of guitars and vocals that, at the time, could best be classified as college rock, releasing several independent releases before breaking up in 1992.
An EP entitled Tony Don't was released on vinyl in 1989 by Oedpius Records of San Francisco, CA. It contained the tracks "Jumping Jesus", "Apollo XIII", "First Goodbye", "Indian Ocean", and "Broken Desert". The only full-length album now available, Light Music For Dying People, was released after their breakup by Capricorn Records in 1994.
Despite their limited success, Sordid Humor's music has survived in the choices of college DJs. They are notable for bringing together three musicians of Counting Crows: Adam Duritz, who sang backing vocals on "Barbarossa" and several other tracks on Light Music, David Immerglück, who played bass on several tracks of the album, and David Bryson who produced several of their tracks. Duritz would later incorporate lyrics from Sordid Humor songs "Private Archipelago", "Doris Day", and "Jumping Jesus" in Counting Crows performances, and Counting Crows would include a cover of "Jumping Jesus" on their album Underwater Sunshine.
Marty Jones also played bass on "Light Music". He is the namesake for the Counting Crows song "Mr. Jones".
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Musical groups established in 1987
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China Captain () is a 2021 Chinese superhero film released digitally on-demand in China on 18 May 2021 by Tencent Video. Directed and written by He Yizheng, the film features an ensemble cast including Zheng Xiaofu, Li Taiyan, and Du Qiao.
Plot
According to The Straits Times, the film follows a group of Chinese superheroes, including the Monkey King and Zhu Bajie from Journey to the West, Bruce Lee, Jigong, Yang Guo, Justice Bao, and others, as they "declare war on a bunch of foreign superheroes who have encroached on their turf in China."
Reception
The film was released digitally on-demand in China on 18 May 2021 by Tencent Video. Some Chinese netizens criticised the film's many overt similarities with entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while others complained of the poor direction, action sequences, and computer-generated imagery. Nonetheless, according to its official listing on Tencent Video, the film has a score of 7.7. Moreover, China Captain became the top-grossing web film on ticketing platform Maoyan Entertainment.
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Chinese superhero films
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Films set in China
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Chinese science fiction comedy films |
Syrians in Norway are citizens and residents of Norway who are of Syrian descent. Most have arrived as asylum immigrants because of the Syrian civil war.
Demographics
According to Statistics Norway, in 2017, there were a total 20,823 persons of Syrian origin living in Norway. Of those, 1,462 individuals were born in Norway to immigrant parents.
In 2019 the number have risen to 34,112.
Socioeconomics
According to Statistics Norway, as of 2012-2014, the percentage of Syria-born immigrants in Norway with a persistently low income averaged out at 52.8%. This was a higher proportion than the native population and many other immigrant groups, largely because most Syrian individuals arrived as asylum immigrants, who tend to have lower incomes. The percentage of Syria-born immigrants with a persistently low income has also steadily declined the longer that the individuals have resided in Norway, with proportions of 86.9% among 3 year Syria-born residents, 53.2% among 4-9 year residents, and 38.4% among residents of 10 years or longer. This was relative to immigrant averages of 26.3% overall, 50.3% among 3 year residents, 28.5% among 4-9 year residents, and 20.2% among residents of 10 years or more.
According to Statistics Norway, as of 2015, a total of 196 Syria citizens residing in Norway incurred sanctions. The principal breaches were traffic offences (72 individuals), followed by other offences for profit (48 individuals), public order and integrity violations (37 individuals), property theft (16 individuals), drug and alcohol offences (14 individuals), violence and maltreatment (6 individuals), other offences (2 individuals), sexual offences (1 individual), and criminal damage (0 individuals).
In 2018, Statistics Norway reported that of recently arrived migrants from Syria there was a high proportion (67%) with only basic education (Norwegian: Grunnskole).
Notable people
See also
Immigration to Norway
Islam in Norway
Syrian diaspora
References
Asian diaspora in Norway
Norwegian people of Syrian descent
Norway |
Hot Biskits was an independent comedy short film released in 1931. It was written and directed by Spencer Williams and was his first film. Glen Gano was the cinematographer. The 10-minute race film was a made by Dixie Comedies Corp. of Hollywood, California. A 16mm print of the film is preserved at the Library of Congress. The film portrays a miniature golf competition between two rivals. The film was rediscovered in the Library of Congress Archives after 80 years. The film's cast is all African-American. Williams' next film, The Blood of Jesus, was made 10 years later.
Hot Biskits was included in the crowdfunded 2015 Kino Lorber boxset Pioneers of African-American Cinema.
Cast
Thurston Briggs
Spencer Williams
See also
African American cinema
References
External links
1931 films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Spencer Williams
Race films
African-American films
1930s English-language films |
Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic science fantasy film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale, with the screenplay written by Matt Greenberg, Gregg Chabot, and Kevin Peterka. The film also features Izabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler.
The film is set in England in the year 2020, twenty years after London tunneling project workers inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth. With the fate of mankind at stake, two surviving parties, led by Quinn Abercromby (Bale) and Denton Van Zan (McConaughey), find that they must work together to hunt down and destroy the beasts in a desperate attempt to take back the world.
The film was released by Touchstone Pictures on 12 July 2002. Upon release, it received generally mixed reviews from critics and audiences and was a box office disappointment, grossing far less than expected, only $82 million on a $60 million budget.
Plot
During construction on the London Underground, workers penetrate a cave and a huge dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its fire breath. The only survivor is a boy, Quinn Abercromby, whose mother Karen, the project engineer, is crushed to death protecting him. The dragon flies out of the Underground and soon more dragons appear. Years later, the world's militaries have failed to stop the spread of the dragon population and, having grown increasingly desperate, targeted large populated areas with nuclear weapons, leaving humans nearly extinct by the year 2020. The dragons, now starving as well, are dying off and have become increasingly aggressive in search of food.
Quinn, along with his best friend Creedy, leads a community of survivors at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland where he plans to outlast dragons until they go back into hibernation; as insurance, he shares his notes and plans with Jared, a teenage orphan he rescued as a child and is mentoring to eventually take over as community leader. The community is short on supplies and in a state of unrest pending the harvest of their meager crops. A survivor named Eddie and a group of his followers steal a truck to harvest the crops for food, but they are attacked by a dragon. Quinn, Creedy, and Jared come to their rescue in old fire engines, but the dragon kills Eddie's son before escaping and burns the majority of the crops, leaving the community without food.
Shortly afterward, a group of heavily armed Americans led by Denton Van Zan arrive in an armored convoy, including a Chieftain tank and an AgustaWestland AW109 utility helicopter. Quinn is initially skeptical and suspects that they are marauders, but Van Zan convinces him to let them stay for shelter and re-arming when he reveals their main weakness: poor vision during twilight. With Quinn's help, Van Zan and his team hunt and slay the dragon who destroyed the crops.
Van Zan introduces Quinn to Alex Jensen, his team's helicopter pilot and intelligence officer, and together they brief Quinn on their mission. After killing hundreds of dragons, Alex discovered that they were all female; she postulates that they reproduce quickly because the species relies on a single male to fertilize all the eggs en masse. Having tracked the spread of the dragons, they believe that the male is located in London and that if they kill it, the dragons will no longer be able to reproduce, effectively killing the species. Quinn, suspecting that the male dragon is the same one that killed his mother, refuses to help, knowing that London is infested with dragons and that if they fail, the dragons will track them back to their shelter.
Van Zan first recruits, then "drafts" the castle's six best defenders, despite Quinn's objections and a physical altercation between the two. Van Zan, Alex, and some of the castle's men then depart for London, but true to Quinn's warnings, their caravan is attacked by the male dragon. Everyone except for Van Zan and Alex are killed. The dragon then finds the castle and attacks, killing many of the inhabitants. Quinn gets the survivors to an underground bunker, but they are trapped by rubble when the dragon returns; during its final attack, Creedy is killed.
Van Zan and Alex return and free everyone trapped in the bunker. Quinn leaves Jared in charge and decides to help Van Zan and Alex hunt down the male dragon. They fly to London in Alex's helicopter and find hundreds of female dragons, one of which is cannibalized by the much larger male out of hunger. This scatters the female dragons and leaves the male alone and undefended. Van Zan coordinates a plan: split up, bait the male into attacking, ground him with explosive crossbow bolts, and then shoot one into his mouth once he is ground level. The plan initially works, but the dragon detonates the first explosive bolt early with its fire breath and Van Zan is devoured. Quinn and Alex gather the last explosives and together, they lure the dragon to ground level, where Quinn fires an explosive down the dragon's throat, killing it.
Three months later, Quinn and Alex erect a radio tower on a hill overlooking the North Sea, having seen no dragons since the battle in London. Jared arrives and reveals they have made contact with a group of French survivors who want to speak to the group's leader. Quinn officially declares Jared the new community leader and dedicates himself to rebuilding civilization with Alex.
Cast
Production
Kevin Peterka and Gregg Chabot wrote the original screenplay in 1996, after which they sold it to Spyglass Media Group. In 2000 Matt Greenberg revised the screenplay for production.
Reign of Fire was filmed in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains, at the Glendasan Valley Lead Mines. Permission was given on the condition that the area was not damaged and the crew removed all sets once filming was complete. However, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe stopped many planned scenes from being filmed due to quarantine restrictions.
The dead dragon was designed and built by Artem, with visual effects by Secret Lab. The dragon's digital effects posed a problem for animators: "In recent years there have been several movies starring creatures with scaled surfaces. Among these are Jurassic Park, Dragonheart, and Lake Placid. The surfaces of these creatures have generally been constructed by layering painted textures atop displacement maps. This gives the model texture, but the scales stretch and shrink under the movement of the creature, giving a rubbery look that is not realistic." In order to overcome this limitation, the then-groundbreaking work done by digital effects animator Neil Eskuri on Disney's 2000 release Dinosaur was utilized as a benchmark in order to create a realistic physical simulation of the dragon. According to Carlos Gonzalez-Ochoa, the film called for " creatures with wing spans of that could undergo enormous speeds and accelerations. The artistic direction required each dragon to have wings that transition between a variety of physical behaviors and interact with the environment."
Soundtrack
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42% based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's consensus states: "Reign of Fire gains some altitude with its pyrotechnic action and a smolderingly campy Matthew McConaughey, but the feature's wings are clipped by a derivative script and visual effects that fizzle out." On Metacritic, it has score of 39 out of 100, based on 30 reviews from critics. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.
Joe Leydon of Variety said of the film, "An uncommonly exciting and satisfying post-apocalyptic popcorn flick, Director Rob Bowman deftly combines an uncommonly satisfying mix of medieval fantasy, high-tech military action and "Mad Max"-style misadventure." Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B grade, saying "the season could do with more grinning, spinning, un-self-important, happy-to-be-B throwback movies like this one." Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times noted that "the movie might have been a minor classic if it had maximized its own possibilities. But until the rush wears off, the picture is as much fun as a great run at a slot machine: even when your luck runs out, you're losing only pocket change."
Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four, describing it as "a vast enterprise marshaled in the service of such a minute idea", adding that "the movie makes no sense on its own terms, let alone ours. And it is such a grim and dreary enterprise. One prays for a flower or a ray of sunshine as those grotty warriors clamber into their cellars and over their slag heaps."
Reign of Fire was third at the US box-office receipts during its opening weekend (12 July 2002), taking in $15,632,281, behind Road to Perdition and Men in Black II.
Awards
Reign of Fire was nominated for one Saturn Award, but lost to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and two Festival de Cine de Sitges awards, winning one.
Video game
In 2002, Kuju Entertainment released the video game adaptation Reign of Fire for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube, which received mixed reviews.
Cancelled sequel
In a 2002 interview, Christian Bale was asked: "Is there a sequel possibility to Reign of Fire?" to which Bale responded "Possibly. I told Scott Moutter, who plays my stepson in the movie, that he's well positioned to take the sequel from me because of the way the movie ends!". However, due to the film underperforming at the box office, no development on a sequel has been spoken of since.
Legacy
The mechanism of dragon's fire breath in this movie, inspired from biology of real-life creatures such as anti-predator adaptation of bombardier beetle and poison glands of vipers, was used in later works such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Gods of Egypt, and Game of Thrones.
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Pedals (died October 2016, New Jersey, United States) was an American black bear (Ursus americanus) that walked upright on its hind legs because of injuries on its front paws. After videos of the bear were posted on the internet, more than 300,000 people signed a petition to move the bear to a wildlife sanctuary. However, Pedals appears to have been one of hundreds of bears killed by bullets or arrows in October 2016 in New Jersey's first sanctioned bow-and-arrow hunt in four decades.
Fame
Pedals was first spotted walking upright in 2014 in Oak Ridge, New Jersey, spurring debate and discussions. Videos of Pedals' bipedal walking were posted to the internet and he was described as an "internet sensation". Officials initially warned that the videos might be a hoax.
Over 300,000 people concerned with Pedals' welfare signed a petition written by Lisa Rose Rublack to relocate the bear to the Orphaned Wildlife Center in Otisville, New York. Supporters donated $22,000 to a fund created by Sabrina Pugsley to move the bear to the sanctuary to prevent it from struggling to survive in the wild. New York officials opposed the transfer of Pedals to the sanctuary.
Pedals was being monitored by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish and Wildlife, which asked residents to report sightings by calling a hotline and announced in 2016 that the bear had not been seen since the previous Christmas.
Death
Pedals' internet fame led Angi Metler, director of the Bear Education and Resource Group, to believe he would be targeted by bear hunters. In October 2016, reports of Pedals being killed by a hunter received widespread attention. On October 17, 2016, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced they believed Pedals had been killed during the officially sanctioned hunt. The October 10–15 hunt was New Jersey's first sanctioned bow and arrow hunt since the 1960s. During the hunt, which also permitted muzzle-loading rifles, a total of 562 bears were killed.
In response to the killing, State Senator Raymond Lesniak introduced a bill dubbed "Pedals' Law" that would ban black bear hunting in New Jersey for five years.
In December 2016, a hunter filed a defamation lawsuit in Morris County Superior Court alleging he was falsely accused on social media of being Pedals' killer, suffered death threats, and had his personal information published.
See also
List of individual bears
Bear hunting
Rare 'big tusker' elephant killed by Leon Kachelhoffer
References
External links
Video of Pedals using the bear's bipedal gait.
2014 in New Jersey
2016 animal deaths
2016 controversies in the United States
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Individual bears
Individual wild animals |
Grenada–Libya relations were formal diplomatic relations between the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada and the State of Libya between 1979 and November 1983. They were resumed in 1998.
History of relations
During the United States invasion of Grenada, Libya had 3 or 4 troops present.
In 1982, at the time, Mr Bishop wrote a letter to the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, if it possible to borrowed six million US dollar as a soft loan to complete the runway at Point Salines International Airport, to which Gaddafi agreed to, (today known as, Maurice Bishop International Airport).
References
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Libya
Bilateral relations of Libya |
Douglas David Robert Cresswell (25 July 1894 – 29 November 1960) was a New Zealand writer, historian, and broadcaster.
Born in Christchurch in 1894, Cresswell was the son of Hannah (née Reese) and Walter Joseph Cresswell, a solicitor. His younger brother, Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, also known as an author in later life, was born in 1896.
Douglas Cresswell was educated at Robin Hood Bay in Port Underwood in the Marlborough Sounds, and later (1908–12) at Christ's College in Christchurch. After finishing school he travelled abroad. Cresswell later served as a lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force in France during World War I, and thus was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. After the war he farmed on the plains near Ashburton for about ten years. He married artist Frances Edith "Fanny" Buss in 1932. She was born in 1910. They had four children.
From the 1930s, Cresswell became well known for his talks on radio covering topics including pioneer settlers, farming and industry, and he wrote many books, particularly about 19th century European settlement in New Zealand.
Cresswell was the Christchurch secretary of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), formed by John A. Lee following (Lee's) expulsion from the Labour Party. At the 1943 general election, Cresswell was the DLP's candidate in the Timaru electorate, polling third behind the Labour and National candidates.
In later life he lived in Governors Bay where a road - Cresswell Avenue - is named after him. He died at Governors Bay in 1960, and Fanny died in 1986. Both Cresswells were buried at St Cuthbert's churchyard, Governors Bay.
Publications
Works by Cresswell include:
Ormond of Hawkes Bay (1947)
Early New Zealand Families (1949)
Eight Christchurch Schools, with illustrations by Fanny Buss (1948)
Tales of the Canterbury High Country (1950)
The Story of Cheviot (1951)
Canterbury Tales (1951)
Squatter and Settler in the Waipara County (1952)
Early New Zealand Families: Second Series (1956)
The Case For the South Island (1957)
References
Notes
Sources
New Zealand National Library Catalogue.
University of Canterbury – Mcmillan Brown Archives
The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television, and Sound.
Partial biographical details from 1st edition back cover of 'Early New Zealand Families'
Christ's College School List.
1894 births
1960 deaths
Writers from Christchurch
New Zealand military personnel of World War I
Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand) politicians
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1943 New Zealand general election
20th-century New Zealand historians
New Zealand broadcasters
People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch |
Madagasikara zazavavindrano is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Pachychilidae.
The species is found in Madagascar.
Per IUCN, the species has the status "critically endangered".
References
Pachychilidae |
```smalltalk
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using System;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Assert = NUnit.Framework.Legacy.ClassicAssert;
namespace Opc.Ua.PubSub.Tests.Configuration
{
[TestFixture(Description = "Tests for UaPubSubDataStore class")]
public class UaPubSubDataStoreTests
{
#region WritePublishedDataItem
[Test(Description = "Validate WritePublishedDataItem call with different values")]
public void ValidateWritePublishedDataItem(
[Values(true, (byte)1, (ushort)2, (short)3, (uint)4, (int)5, (ulong)6, (long)7,
(double)8, (float)9, "10")] object value)
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
NodeId nodeId = new NodeId("ns=1;i=1");
//Act
dataStore.WritePublishedDataItem(nodeId, Attributes.Value, new DataValue(new Variant(value)));
DataValue readDataValue = dataStore.ReadPublishedDataItem(nodeId, Attributes.Value);
//Assert
Assert.IsNotNull(readDataValue, "Returned DataValue for written nodeId and attribute is null");
Assert.AreEqual(readDataValue.Value, value, "Read after write returned different value");
}
[Test(Description = "Validate WritePublishedDataItem call with null NodeId")]
public void ValidateWritePublishedDataItemNullNodeId()
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
//Assert
Assert.Throws(typeof(ArgumentException), () => dataStore.WritePublishedDataItem(null));
}
[Test(Description = "Validate WritePublishedDataItem call with invalid Attribute")]
public void ValidateWritePublishedDataItemInvalidAttribute()
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
//Assert
Assert.Throws(typeof(ArgumentException),
() => dataStore.WritePublishedDataItem(new NodeId("ns=0;i=2253"), (uint)Attributes.AccessLevelEx + 1));
}
#endregion
#region ReadPublishedDataItem
[Test(Description = "Validate ReadPublishedDataItem call for non existing node id")]
public void ValidateReadPublishedDataItem()
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
NodeId nodeId = new NodeId("ns=1;i=1");
//Act
DataValue readDataValue = dataStore.ReadPublishedDataItem(nodeId, Attributes.Value);
//Assert
Assert.IsNull(readDataValue, "Returned DataValue for written nodeId and attribute is NOT null");
}
[Test(Description = "Validate ReadPublishedDataItem call with null NodeId")]
public void ValidateReadPublishedDataItemNullNodeId()
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
//Assert
Assert.Throws(typeof(ArgumentException), () => dataStore.ReadPublishedDataItem(null));
}
[Test(Description = "Validate ReadPublishedDataItem call with invalid Attribute")]
public void ValidateReadPublishedDataIteminvalidAttribute()
{
//Arrange
UaPubSubDataStore dataStore = new UaPubSubDataStore();
//Assert
Assert.Throws(typeof(ArgumentException),
() => dataStore.ReadPublishedDataItem(new NodeId("ns=0;i=2253"), (uint)Attributes.AccessLevelEx + 1));
}
#endregion
}
}
``` |
Phytoecia nigroapicalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1944. It is known from Iraq.
References
Phytoecia
Beetles described in 1944 |
Henry P. Jacobs (July 8, 1825 - December 14, 1899) was a janitor, preacher, founder of schools, and state legislator in Mississippi. He escaped slavery.
He was born in Alabama. He escaped slavery to Canada and then moved to Michigan before settling in Natchez, Mississippi after the American Civil War.
He founded the school that became Jackson State University. In 2010, Jackson State University president Ronald Mason Jr. proposed merging several Historically Black Colleges and Universities into specialized campuses of a newly formed university called Jacobs State University in honor of Jacobs.
He served with John R. Lynch and O. C. French in the Mississippi House of Representatives from Adams County, Mississippi.
In 2015 a mural was painted in Ypsilanti in his honor.
References
1825 births
1899 deaths
Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
19th-century American educators
African-American state legislators in Mississippi
19th-century American politicians
Founders of American schools and colleges
Politicians from Natchez, Mississippi
Fugitive American slaves that reached Canada
Jackson State University people
19th-century American slaves
19th-century African-American educators |
No Democracy is the fifteenth studio album by Japanese pop rock band Glay, released on 2 October 2019.
The album's details were announced on 17 August 2019 and it references the new Reiwa era of Japan established with the ascension of Naruhito to the Chrysanthemum Throne, replacing his father Akihito and ending the Heisei era. According to guitarist and leader Takuro, the title alludes to the fact that democracy is yet to be established around the world due to issues such as war and religious conflicts.
The album's bonus material includes live footage of their Glay Live Tour 2019 -Survival- tour which revisited their sixth album Heavy Gauge.
It reached #2 at both the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart and the Oricon weekly charts, staying on the latter for 17 weeks. In the end of the year, it reached #79 at the Billboard Japan Year End Top Albums Sales and #87 at Oricon's.
The song "Kōri no Tsubasa" was used in the Japanese dub of the 2019 film Wings Over Everest. "Hajimeri no Uta" was featured as the opening theme of the anime Ace of Diamond Act II. "Colors" became the theme song of the film adaptation of the Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light series.
Track listing
DVD and Blu-ray bonus tracks (Glay Live Tour 2019 -Survival-)
"JUST FINE"
"Young oh! oh!"
"HEAVY GAUGE"
"FATSOUNDS"
"SURVIVAL"
"ここではない、どこかへ"
"HAPPINESS"
"summer FM"
"LEVEL DEVIL"
"BE WITH YOU"
"Winter, again"
"Will Be King"
"生きがい"
"Savile Row ～サヴィル ロウ ３番地～"
"COLORS"
"はじまりのうた"
"愁いのPrisoner"
"元号"
"Missing You"
"SHUTTER SPEEDSのテーマ"
"彼女の”Modern…”"
"誘惑"
Blu-ray Disc 2 bonus tracks
"ドキュメンタリー映像"
"あなたといきてゆく" (Music Video）
"愁いのPrisoner" (Music Video)
"YOUR SONG" (Music Video)
"JUST FINE" (Music Video)
"COLORS" (Music Video)
"元号" (Music Video)
Blu-ray Disc 3 bonus tracks
"GLAY SPECIAL LIVE ROPPONGI HILLS ARENA"（全曲）
"超プレミアムライブ GLAY × ゴールデンボンバー in 超音楽祭2019"（全曲）
"GLAY DAY JAPAN PREMIER LIVE in Chitose Powered by HOTEL GLAY" (全曲)
References
External links
Album profile at Glay's official website
2019 albums
Glay albums |
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