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OSE class A-450, also known as 450άρα (450ara, "Big 450") or Καναδέζα (Kanadeza, "Canadian") is a series of diesel-electric locomotives used by TrainOSE. They were built and put into operation by OSE in 1973. Construction was made by Montreal Locomotive Works in Canada. Outwardly they look like the class A.501, with the basic difference that they are of lesser strength and have different appearance, before rebuilding, as in the elevated head-ons they housed the steam heating boiler. This allowed them to be used in passenger routes during the winter.
However, they have the same, manufacturers and power supply while being in the standard gauge. They run unilaterally, and have the ability to run coupled with another locomotive up to 2 units (Sometimes it can also be an A.501 class locomotive). In total, 20 such locomotives were received. They feature a 12-cylinder ALCO 251 engine that delivers at 1100 rpm with supercharger and combined power of . From the manufacturing factory they developed a maximum speed of 149 km / h and today they reach speeds of up to 120/150 kilometers per hour.
Route
A.451 class locomotives serve large freight trains.
History
1970-1990
With the establishment of OSE in 1971, there are deficiencies in rolling stock. The era of steam is over and the available locomotives are not enough. The trainsets of Greek State Railways A-200 A.300, A.320, A.400 and A.350 introduced from 1961 to 1967 placed on the standard line and number about 63 units, but all had little effect compared with the foreseeable needs. Vehicles are being modernized and trains are growing and weighing. On the other hand, many of the old units have been destroyed in accidents, while others have been damaged due to lack of spare parts. So the supply of newer stronger engines becomes even more imperative. For the supply of 20 new units, the American brand was again selected, this time, its Canadian branch, Montreal Locomotive Works. Although an American title, the abbreviation is pronounced in the German "Em-El-Ve" (MLW). MLW's work continued with the delivery of ALCo design products in all directions of the world. At the same time they gave Europe a large version of M-liners exports in 1974. The first 20 trucks were the MX-627, with axle arrangement Co′Co′.
Since 1973, the locomotives have been engaged in the hauling of heavy commercial and passenger trains across the normal-range network between Athens and Thessaloniki and between Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis and Thessaloniki-Larissa, where they remained until 1998. The series then replaced the work of A.321 class on the Kozani line until the diesel trainsets have taken over the traffic there. Among these are the major international routes "Hellas Express". Some of the innovations that they introduce, the power of power for the heavy lifts, the electric drive combination that allowed good acceleration for the passenger trains and the dynamic brake that first appeared on a Greek train, the ergonomic controls and the excellent suspension. However, in the early years of the 1080's, the locomotives will have problems in their reliability, mainly due to material failure in cylinder heads and superchargers. The then management will decide to reduce the power by 12% (2400 hp). In 1974, OSE ordered 10 similar MX-636 locomotives from MLW, larger in size, weight and power, 3599 horsepower. They were released in 1975 and they got the numbering A.501 to A.510.
These units will serve for several years until ADTranz locomotives will replace both the oldest units and the same in passenger trains in the overwhelming majority. Their good specifications, ideal for freight trains, will lead the company's management to decide to keep these units in service for this purpose. Following the fate of their predecessors, they settle in the Depot of Thessaloniki, where they continue to serve until today. It is worth noting that even after ADtranz arrived these locomotives were used occasionally on local trains, and many times, especially after their reconstruction, took over the traction of the 444-445 "Dostluk Ekspresi" (Thessaloniki Express) from Thessaloniki-Istanbul. Since 1980 it has remained the most reliable traction machine with the lowest degree of immobility. In March 99 the MLW is referred to as the normal force in "Hellas Express" from Thessaloniki to Edomeni.In April 1999, one MLW served each one as the well known "Thunderbirds" in Lianokladi (A- 467) and Larissa (A-470).
2000s-today
The first attempt to reconstruct the units was in 2001. The reconstruction involved the removal of the steam generator and the configuration of the head-ons in the standards of the A-500 class locomotives and some other modifications and improvements. The first 2 units being rebuilt at Piraeus are A-461 and A-468. After the return of the A-504 from the NREC facilities in Illinois, the then management of OSE decides to reconstruct them all in the style of the aforementioned locomotives. The steam engines were removed from the engines and, due to the installation of the new diesel engine surveillance software, the engine compartment was positioned 1 meter farther ahead. Modern ergonomic controls and cabin air conditioning were installed in the N / H. Today, the last 2 units are at the Piraeus Factory and are awaiting completion of the works.
Livery
The livery of the locomotives consists of a blue horizontal stripe with a yellow border that ends in an orange-red arrow, covering the largest surface of the vehicles. Before the modifications, the units were orange with white horizontal stripes that joined to the masks creating a triangle.
References
External links
http://www.railfaneurope.net/list_frameset.html
http://www.railtv.gr/mlw.html
Diesel locomotives of Greece
OSE locomotives
Co′Co′ locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Greece |
Deirdre Delaney is a camogie player and sales representative. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. One of the mainstays of the all conquering St Lachtain's teams, Deirdre has assisted the Freshford side to ten county, six Leinster and three All-Ireland club titles. Has won provincial inter-county medals in the Under-16 and Minor grades.
References
External links
Official Camogie Website
Kilkenny Camogie Website
of 2009 championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine
https://web.archive.org/web/20091228032101/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/gaa_fixtures_camogie_oduffycup.html Fixtures and results] for the 2009 O'Duffy Cup
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour
Video highlights of 2009 championship Part One and part two
Video Highlights of 2009 All Ireland Senior Final
Report of All Ireland final in Irish Times Independent and Examiner
1985 births
Living people
Kilkenny camogie players |
In computing, klibc is a minimalistic subset of the standard C library developed by H. Peter Anvin. It was developed mainly to be used during the Linux startup process, and it is part of the early user space, i.e. components used during kernel startup, but which do not run in kernel mode. These components do not have access to the standard library (usually glibc or musl) used by normal userspace programs.
The development of klibc library was part of the 2002 effort to move some Linux initialization code out of the kernel. According to its documentation, the klibc library is optimized for correctness and small size. Because of its design, klibc is also technically suitable for embedded software in general on a variety of platforms, and is used even by full-featured programs such as the MirBSD Korn Shell.
During the Linux startup process, klibc is loaded from within a temporary RAM file system, initramfs. It is incorporated by default into initial RAM file systems that are created by the mkinitramfs script in Debian and Ubuntu. Furthermore, it has a set of small Unix utilities that are useful in early user space: cpio, dash, fstype, mkdir, mknod, mount, nfsmount, run-init, etc. all using the klibc library. An alternate strategy is to include everything in one executable, like BusyBox, which determines the requested applet via arguments or hard links or symlinks.
Licensing
klibc is dual-licensed under a BSD three-clause (formerly four-clause, rectified via the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer), as well as the GPLv2 (GPLv2 only, due to Linux-kernel restrictions).
This dual license allows compatibility with both non-copyleft software, as well as GPLv3 programs via the BSD license (which otherwise would not be compatible). (However, if klibc includes any GPLv2 kernel code such as that in glibc, the entire application reverts to GPLv2.)
References
External links
Mailing list
initramfs and where user space truly begins - LWN, Jonathan Corbet, July 11, 2006.
C standard library
Free computer libraries
Free software programmed in C
Interfaces of the Linux kernel
Linux APIs
Software using the BSD license
Software using the GPL license |
Open Problems in Mathematics is a book, edited by John Forbes Nash Jr. and Michael Th. Rassias, published in 2016 by Springer (). The book consists of seventeen expository articles, written by outstanding researchers, on some of the central open problems in the field of mathematics. The book also features an Introduction on John Nash: Theorems and Ideas, by Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov. According to the editors’ Preface, each article is devoted to one open problem or a “constellation of related problems”.
Choice of problems
Nash and Rassias write in the preface of the book that the open problems presented “were chosen for a variety of reasons. Some were chosen for their undoubtable importance and applicability, others because they constitute intriguing curiosities which remain unexplained mysteries on the basis of current knowledge and techniques, and some for more emotional reasons. Additionally, the attribute of a problem having a somewhat vintage flavor was also influential” in their decision process.
Table of contents
Preface, by John F. Nash Jr. and Michael Th. Rassias
A Farewell to “A Beautiful Mind and a Beautiful Person”, by Michael Th. Rassias
Introduction, John Nash: Theorems and Ideas, by Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
P =? NP, by Scott Aaronson
From Quantum Systems to L-Functions: Pair Correlation Statistics and Beyond, by Owen Barrett, Frank W. K. Firk, Steven J. Miller, and Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh
The Generalized Fermat Equation, by Michael Bennett, Preda Mihăilescu, and Samir Siksek
The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, by John H. Coates
An Essay on the Riemann Hypothesis, by Alain Connes
Navier–Stokes Equations: A Quick Reminder and a Few Remarks, by Peter Constantin
Plateau’s Problem, by Jenny Harrison and Harrison Pugh
The Unknotting Problem, by Louis Kauffman
How Can Cooperative Game Theory Be Made More Relevant to Economics?: An Open Problem, by Eric Maskin
The Erdős–Szekeres Problem, by Walter Morris and Valeriu Soltan
Novikov’s Conjecture, by Jonathan Rosenberg
The Discrete Logarithm Problem, by René Schoof
Hadwiger’s Conjecture, by Paul Seymour
The Hadwiger–Nelson Problem, by Alexander Soifer
Erdős’s Unit Distance Problem, by Endre Szemerédi
Goldbach’s Conjectures: A Historical Perspective, by Robert Charles Vaughan
The Hodge Conjecture'', by Claire Voisin
References
2016 non-fiction books
Books about mathematics
Unsolved problems in mathematics |
Hexstatic are an English electronic music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel 5 launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the Ninja Tune multimedia collective Hex that had disbanded around the same time. They soon collaborated with Coldcut for the Natural Rhythms Trilogy, including the critically acclaimed A/V single "Timber".
Much of their music involves integrated visual experiences, and both of their main album releases have been CD and DVD combinations; the latest, Master-View, includes 3D "anaglyph" versions of some of their music videos and comes packaged with 3D glasses. Hexstatic has also been instrumental in designing VJ equipment, including the Pioneer DVJ-X1 professional DVD player. Other artists they have worked with include Kris Menace, EBN, Juice Aleem and David Byrne of Talking Heads.
History
The current Hexstatic duo of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson have been together since 1997. Before that time Stuart Hill had been producing visuals for the Big Chill Festival. and had a visuals company called SP Visuals with Pod Bluman. Brunson had been working in computer animation and producing and DJing for Skint records offshoot Undr 5's as Rareforce. Both wanted to combine their video talents with music. They gradually took over for the original Hex group which consisted of graphic design artists Robert Pepperell and Miles Visman and Coldcut members Matt Black and Jonathan More.
Hex
This first version, known simply as Hex, fused an interest in computer programming and animation with their talent for video design and knowledge of club culture to create a range of multimedia projects. In 1990, they produced music videos for artists such as The Fall and Queen Latifah as well as graphics for television stations. Also that year they created the first pop music video created entirely on home micro computers (Apple Macintosh, Amiga, etc.) for "Coldcut’s Christmas Break." In 1991, they released the video game "Top Banana" along with a 12" single mix of the game's sound track. A year later they included the game along with rave visuals, techno and ambient music all on one CD-ROM billed as a "multi dimensional future entertainment product." The group continued to put out interactive CD-ROM and CD-I titles throughout the mid nineties. During this time they also performed live visuals for clubs and chillouts. Their final contribution came in 1997, when they helped create the CD-ROM version of Coldcut's Let Us Play! album which featured tracks by its own offspring Hexstatic. Hex officially disbanded in 1999 due to internal tensions.
Natural rhythms trilogy
Prior to meeting Brunson at the Channel 5 launch party in 1997, Stuart Warren Hill had begun working on the Natural Rhythms Trilogy, a collaborative effort with Coldcut and Greenpeace. Stuart approached Greenpeace asking for use of their stock footage of wildlife and logging operations and in return Greenpeace could use the finished project in their campaigns and presentations. The first video was 1997's Frog Jam, which created a rhythmic structure out of short clips of water dripping, frog leaping and tribal drumming and chanting. This was soon followed by Natural Rhythm and Timber. Natural Rhythm featured insects, birds and other wildlife as well as a tribesman playing a flute like instrument. Each video employed increasingly more complex mixing and splicing techniques culminating with the award-winning Timber. Its tone is more plaintively political, opening with majestic images of the sunset over a forest of immensely beautiful trees then quickly shifting with a clap of thunder to a telegraph button punching out the dots and dashes of a Morse code SOS distress call. Images of powerful circular saws, chopping axes, and huge, buzzing chainsaws soon follow. The picture then distorts and images of the indigenous animals appear to the singing of a mournful native woman. The anti-deforestation message is quite clear even before the industrial machinery makes its appearance towards the end of the track. Timber won the award for Best Editing Video Musique in France in 1998 and appeared on Coldcut's 1997 release Let Us Play!.
Studio releases and advancement of the AV genre
Hexstatic released their first full-length CD in 2000. Entitled Rewind, it was packaged with a 2nd CD-ROM disc that contained videos for each of the album's 11 tracks. The music is similar to Coldcut and has an electro infused sound that reviewer Bob Bannister terms a combination of "South Bronx hip hop [and] the avant-Eurodisco sound of Kraftwerk." The album was created over a two-year period on two 100 MHz Macs that were barely switched off during the production; one 30-second siren sound at the beginning of the track "Machine Toy", took three days to render. For the video track "Deadly Media", Stuart Warren Hill recorded news broadcasts from around the world off of a satellite feed and cropped everything but the newscasters’ mouths to build a random cacophony of voices out of which the spliced-together phase "deadly media" emerges.
Solid Steel Presents Hexstatic - Listen and Learn was their next project. Released in 2003, it was a mix album produced by Robin Brunson of many of the tracks that influenced Hexstatic's own sound. It featured time stretching techniques made possible by the newest CD mixing technology.
In contradiction to many DJ purists who only use vinyl, Hexstatic (and Hex before them) have consistently demonstrated a willingness and even a passion for bleeding edge technologies. In 2004, they consulted with Pioneer on the production of the first DVD turntable with tempo control, the DJV-X1. This machine has the ability to live mix audio and video in the same way one would a simple audio disc.
For Master-View, Hexstatic continued to innovate by creating 3D anaglyph videos for six of the tracks on the DVD portion of the CD/DVD combo release. The single, "Salvador", which features footage of people dancing in the streets of Salvador, Brazil, was voted Best Music Video for 2004 at the Portobello Film Festival.
The band's involvement with current technological development has not lessened its infatuation with older technologies. As can be seen from the Speak & Spell game on the cover of Listen & Learn, the Sinclair ZX80 home computer on Rewind and the View-Master on Master-View, Hexstatic clearly have a penchant for gadgets from the 1970s and 1980s. They have stated that the vector graphics they have used in some of their videos were inspired by the arcade game Battlezone. The samples and computerized vocals of tracks such as "Telemetron" and "Bass Invader" (a play on the Space Invaders game) as well as the use of an Atari 2600 and a Casio V-L Tone on L-Virata, are also signifers of the retro tech aesthetic they cultivate.
A mix CD Pick'n'Mix: An Assortment To Suit All Tastes was released in April 2006. Sanctuary Records gave Robin Brunson access to its large back catalogue of works, resulting in an eclectic mix of hip hop, rock and reggae from artists as diverse as Grandmaster Flash, The Kinks and the Harry J Allstars.
Hexstatic also released a bootleg CD/DVD set under the alias Exactshit (an anagram of Hexstatic). Featuring samples of popular hit songs, only 200 copies were made available at the Big Chill Music Festival 2003 and from the Ninja Tune online store. It has since been more broadly distributed through online file sharing.
When Robots Go Bad was their next studio album and saw the duo pursue a more pop-electro sound that featured several vocalists including London based soul singer Sabirajade and Australian singer/rapper B+. It was released in 2007.
Hexstatic presents Videos, Remixes and Rarities, 2008, was a DVD and CD combo celebrating 10 years of the duos video and audio work. The DVD featured all of their best videos, some previously not available on DVD. The CD featured rare and unreleased tracks and remixes by Hexstatic.
Hexstatic present Trailer Trax was a solo digital release by Robin Brunson and was given away for free via Bandcamp in Dec 2010.
Holotronica is Stuart Warren-Hill's solo AV 3D project. The album was released August 2014, a visual collaboration with Tom Wall of Blinkin Lab. Stuart then needed a way to show 3D visuals to a large audience when performing his album live. After considering the Pepper's Ghost technique, he soon realised this was not a touring solution.
Stuart then invented Holo-Gauze. A patented technology for holographic effects that supports stereoscopic 3D. The only gauze that can do this it is also ultra fine and highly reflective giving good screen gain and contrast and becoming invisible to the audience when correctly setup. Holotronica is now based in Bristol and supplying Holo-Gauze, holographic solutions, bespoke 3D content and visuals all over the world and can list clients such as Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Samsung and Eric Prydz.
Live performances
Since their art crosses a lot of boundaries they have performed at art galleries and cinemas as well as festivals and smaller clubs. After viewing Timber, David Byrne asked Hexstatic to do the visuals for his performance at the 1998 Lisbon Expo. Since then they performed the first ever live AV gig at the Guggenheim in Bilbao as well as at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In September 2005, they projected video on a huge water screen over the River Thames in London as part of the Thames Festival. They also have performed at the huge Electraglide raves in Japan before 10,000 people.
They completed the world's first audio-visual album which was previewed at the onedotzero festival in London at the ICA. since then they have had a strong relationship and featured in many of the organisations events at home and abroad including Tokyo, Taipei and Stockholm.
Notably, they performed a series of unlicensed "guerrilla gigs" in the streets of London on 10 March 2006 as part of promoting their single "Distorted Minds". They loaded up their equipment in a van and performed a 30-minute set projected on the wall of a local building in each of three sites that they had previously scouted out. The crowds of a couple hundred people each were generally well behaved and the brevity of the performances meant that Hexstatic were on their way to the next location before the police arrived. They escaped with only a single parking ticket.
Awards
Best Editing Video Musique Awards, France 1998 "Timber" (with Coldcut)
Portabello Film Festival, Best Music Video 2004 "Salvador"
No.1 in Top 20 VJ vote DJ Magazine, October 2005
Focal Awards 2008 - Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement - Diesel 78: "Learn Disco Dance" -
Discography
LPs
Rewind (22 August 2000) Ntone
Solid Steel Presents Hexstatic - Listen & Learn (11 February 2003) Ninja Tune (DJ mix album)
Master-View (11 October 2004) Ninja Tune
Pick'n'Mix: An Assortment To Suit All Tastes (24 April 2006) Castle/Discotheque Sanctuary Records (DJ mix album)
When Robots Go Bad (25 June 2007) Ninja Tune
Hexstatic presents Videos, Remixes, Rarities (Dec, 2008) Ninja Tune
Hexstatic present Trailer Trax (May, 2010) Lower Level
Singles and EPs
"Timber" (January 1998) Ninja Tune (12" - 5 audio tracks) (CD-Enhanced - 7 audio tracks + 5 videos)
"Vector EP" (June 2000) Ntone (12" - 4 audio tracks)
"Ninja Tune EP" (2000) Ntone (12" - 5 audio tracks)
"Telemetron (Solid Steel Promo)" (March 2003) Ninja Tune (10" - 4 audio tracks)
"Salvador" (2004) Ninja Tune (DVD - 3 tracks) (12" - 4 audio tracks)
"Distorted Minds" (14 March 2005) Ninja Tune (CD-Enhanced - 5 audio tracks + 3 videos) (12" - 4 audio tracks)
"Red Laser Beam" (2007) Ninja Tune (CD-4 audio tracks) (12" - 4 audio tracks)
'Exactshit' bootlegs
Exactshit CD (2003) No Label (CDR - 16 audio tracks)
Exactshit DVD (2003) No Label (DVD - 10 video tracks)
Now That's What I Call Exactshit DVD 2 (2006) No Label (DVD - 16 video tracks)
References
External links
Hexstatic.tv Official Site
History of Hex
Interview with Hexstatic
English electronic music duos
Male musical duos
Musical groups from London
Trip hop groups
Ninja Tune artists
VJ (video performance artists) |
Kfar Remen () is a city in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon; located north east of Nabatieh.
History
Ottoman era
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kfar Rumana, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the Liwa Safad, with a population of 83 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers taxes on goats and bee hives, occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to a fixed sum; a total of 4,094 akçe.
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to have 180 Metuali inhabitants. The village had a mosque constructed with ancient materials.
Modern era
On 2 November 1991 units of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) toured the villages with loudspeakers ordering villagers including a Lebanese Army unit to leave immediately in the name of the Israeli Army (IDF). In the context of eight days of continuous shelling of the Nabatieh area by the SLA and IDF many of the villagers fled, only returning after American intervention.
References
Bibliography
External links
Kfar Roummane, Localiban
Populated places in Nabatieh District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon |
Alien Huang (28 November 1983 – 15 September 2020), also known as Xiao Gui (Little Ghost), was a Taiwanese singer, actor, television presenter, illustrator and fashion designer.
He was a member of Japanese TV Asahi's disbanded boy band HC3 in 2002 and Taiwanese Rock Records' disbanded boy band in 2003. He went on to release five solo albums and acted in movies and television dramas. He was known as the host of popular Taiwanese variety entertainment show 100% Entertainment, which he left in early 2016.
Huang was the founder and designer of AES (Alien Evolution Studio), a clothing brand which he established in 2008. He also published three illustration books.
Early life
Alien Huang was born in Taipei. He grew up living with his father, younger sister and paternal grandmother. Although he lived separately from his mother due to his parents' early divorce, they still maintained a close relationship. Ever since primary school, his talent in arts and crafts had been evident as his grades were always within the top three for poster-designing projects. When he was in middle school, his father intended to train him to become a professional golf player. However, due to his interest in performing, he decided to apply to HuaGang High School of Performing Arts, where he was accepted after achieving first place out of thousands of applicants. There, he met classmate Rainie Yang, and they dated for three years. Their relationship ended when Rainie made her debut in the entertainment industry and dropped out of high school. He also put his hosting talents to use by serving as the MC of all major events held at school. In his spare time, he even worked in a fast-food restaurant. He obtained a lifeguard licence at the age of 18, and a swimming coach qualification when he was 20 years of age.
Huang chose his English name "Alien" because he hoped to be an indefinable and unique character, like aliens are, full of creativity and not confined to normality. He previously also had various other English names, including "Janson" when he was in high school and "Harry" when he was in primary school.
Career
While still in high school, Alien Huang was chosen to take part in a pre-casting training course for the film Blue Gate Crossing. Although in the end he did not participate in the film, it was during this time that he was discovered by his first manager, and he officially entered the entertainment industry at the age of 18.
In 2002, he began hosting a nature-discovery show for children named Follow Me, Go!. He then joined the Japanese-Taiwanese boy band HC3. They released their debut single "We Are Friends"《我們是朋友》, but disbanded not long afterwards.
In 2003, he became part of the boy band Cosmo, but due to a problem with the contract of one of the members, Richard（綠茶）, they disbanded after releasing their debut album《關東煮》.
In 2004, he played one of the main roles in the film Holiday Dreaming《夢遊夏威夷》.
In 2005, he started hosting various entertainment shows, and in 2006 he officially became a fixed host of the show 100% Entertainment《娛樂百分百》.
In 2007, he released a duet, "The Melody of Love"《愛的主旋律》, with co-artist Genie Chuo. He also released his first book《搞什麼鬼?!》the same year.
In 2008, he starred in the drama series Mysterious Incredible Terminator《霹靂MIT》 as one of the main roles, 747黃輝宏. He also released his first single "Fooling Around"《鬼混》 along with his second book《鬼怒穿》that year.
In July 2009, he released his first mini album Disdain《不屑》 and in December of the same year he released his first full album titled Love & Hero《愛&英雄》.
In 2010, he released another single, "Heart Amulet"《御守之心》, along with his third book,《赤鬼流》.
In 2011, he took on leading roles in the drama series Love You《醉後決定愛上你》 and "Lin Bei"《珍愛林北》, as well as the Singaporean film Already Famous《一泡而紅》. In August, he released the single "Transformers Cuz of You"《金剛變形》. In December, he released his second full album Break Heart, Black Heart《黑心傷品》.
In 2012, he starred in Taiwanese film Din Tao: Leader of the Parade《陣頭》, which earned a box office of NTD 315 million, as well as the highly rated Singaporean drama series Joys of Life. He also starred as the lead role in the Taiwanese television drama Sweet Sweet Bodyguard《剩女保鏢》, which gained high local popularity. His debut Asia concert tour G·host Tour 2012 also took place towards the end of the year, starting in Taiwan on his birthday (28 November) and continuing to Hong Kong and Singapore.
In 2013, he released his third full album, Make Sense《超有感》. He also held concerts in Taipei and Shanghai in the latter part of the year. He won “Most Popular Male Artiste” at the 2013 Singapore Hit Awards, as well as “MeRadio Top Downloaded Hit Award (Male Artist), for which the winning female artist for the same award was Singapore singer songwriter Serene Koong (龚芝怡). He also won two awards at the 2014 HITO Radio Music Awards, namely "hito网路首播人气” and “hito舞台演绎”.
In 2016, as his focus in the entertainment industry shifted to musical and acting careers, Alien left 100% Entertainment, the only show he was hosting at the time.
In 2018, he returned to hosting when joined Jacky Wu as hosts of Mr. Player. In 2019, he joined Shiny Zhang as hosts for I'm the Best In Taiwanese, an educational program about teaching Taiwanese to the public. At the time of his death, the show finished airing its second season, totaling 26 episodes.
Death
At 11:27 a.m. on 16 September 2020, the police received a call from Huang's father, who reported that Huang was unresponsive. Huang was discovered lying between the bedroom and bathroom in his Beitou District apartment, with external injuries to the head. The paramedics who arrived at the scene pronounced Huang dead, with the body reported to already be at the stage of rigor mortis. The preliminary results of an autopsy suggested that Huang had cardiovascular disease. The autopsy concluded that Huang died of aortic dissection, but found no history of cardiovascular disease and no external injuries.
Personal life
At the time of his death, Huang had been dating , a member of the cheerleading team The Passion Sisters, for a year and a half. Their relationship had been rumored, but was not confirmed until Wu made an Instagram post acknowledging Huang's death.
Discography
Solo studio albums and singles
Studio albums and singles (band)
Collaborations
Soundtrack contributions
Filmography
Television series
Film
Music video appearances
Acting in music videos of songs by other artists:
Show hosting
Books
Awards
2010 Singapore Entertainment Awards（新加坡E樂大賞2010）: Most Popular Regional Newcomer（E樂人氣海外新人獎）
2010 Channel V: Top 10 Chinese Golden Melodies（第一季華語十大金曲）：《搞砸了》
2010 Hong Kong Metro Radio Mandarin Hit Music Awards（香港新城國語力頒獎禮2010）： King of New Artistes（新人王）
2010 Singapore Hit Awards（新加坡金曲獎2010）: Most Acclaimed Male Artiste（新晉男歌手人氣獎） F&N Fruit Tree Fresh Greatest Improvement Artiste（大躍進歌手獎）
2011 Malaysia MY Astro Music Awards（馬來西亞 MY Astro 至尊流行榜頒獎典禮2011）: Best New International Artist（至尊海外新人獎） Golden Melody Song（至尊金曲獎）《地球上最浪漫的一首歌》
2011 Singapore Entertainment Awards（新加坡e樂大賞2011）: Most Popular Male Singer（e樂人氣男歌手獎） Hottest Web Celeb（omy 網絡紅人獎）
2011 China Music Radio Top Chart Awards（MusicRadio中國Top排行榜頒獎禮2011）： Most Recommended Album of the Year: Love & Hero（港臺年度推薦唱片）：《愛&英雄》
2012 Singapore Entertainment Awards（新加坡e樂大賞2012）: Most Popular Taiwanese TV Actor（e樂人氣台灣電視演員獎） Most Popular Male Singer（e樂人氣男歌手獎） Most Popular Music Video（e樂人氣MV獎）：《六十億分之一》
2012 Hong Kong Metro Radio Mandarin Hit Music Awards （香港新城國語力頒獎禮2012）： Best Male Singer（國語力男歌手） Best Mandarin Song（國語力歌曲）：《澀谷》
2012 Singapore Blog Awards（新加坡部落格大獎2012）： Most Popular Overseas Celebrity Blog/Microblog（最受歡迎海外名人部落格/微博）
2013 Taiwan PixNet Entertainment Awards（台灣痞客邦娛樂丸咖獎2013）： King of Entertainment – Silver Award（男藝人 最佳國丸 – 銀獎） Best Album of the Year – Silver Award（年度專輯 強力放送丸 – 銀獎）
2013 Singapore Entertainment Awards（新加坡e樂大賞2013）: Most Popular Taiwanese TV Actor（e樂人氣台灣電視演員獎） Most Popular Cover Celebrity（e樂人氣封面人物）
2013 Singapore Hit Awards（新加坡金曲獎2013）: Most Popular Male Artiste Award（最受欢迎男歌手獎） MeRadio Top Downloaded Hit Award (Male Artiste)（MeRadio下载率最高金曲（男歌手）:《超有感》） F&N Fruit Tree Fresh Stylish Artiste Award（F&N Fruit Tree Fresh 时尚歌手奖）
References
External links
Alien Huang at chinesemov.com
1983 births
2020 deaths
Taiwanese idols
Taiwanese Mandopop singers
Taiwanese male film actors
Taiwanese male television actors
Musicians from Taipei
Male actors from Taipei
Taiwanese television presenters
21st-century Taiwanese male actors
21st-century Taiwanese male singers
Deaths from aortic dissection
Taipei City University of Science and Technology alumni |
Kristian Rønneberg (3 July 1898 – 13 October 1982) was a Norwegian politician for the Farmers' Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway during the term 1954–1957. In total he met during 6 days of parliamentary session.
References
1898 births
1982 deaths
Deputy members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Rogaland politicians |
Litterio Paladino or Paladini (1691–1743) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active in a late-Baroque style in Rome and his native Messina, Sicily. His first name is also spelled Letterio.
He was born and had initial training in Messina. He traveled to Rome at the age of 38 years. There he was said to have worked with Sebastiano Conca, but had an attachment to the earlier masters, Carracci, Correggio, and Raphael.
His masterwork are frescoes (1736) for the church of Montevergine in Palermo. He also painted for the church of San Biagio, Santa Elena, and the Church of the Rosary (1732) in Castanea delle Furie neighborhood of Messina. There are works by him in Zaffaria, in Sampiero di Monforte, in the church of San Francesco di Paola, and of the Santissimi Rosario. He also painted some canvases for the Monastery of Santa Barbara in Messina. He was also an engraver.
He died during the plague of 1743. His nephew, Giuseppe Paladino (1721-1794) was also a painter.
References
1691 births
1743 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Baroque painters
Painters from Messina
18th-century Italian male artists |
Sunan Drajat was born in 1470 CE. He was one of the Wali Songo or "nine Saints", along with his father Sunan Ampel and his brother Sunan Bonang.
He was a descendant of Majapahit nobility in Tuban and a Chinese captain named Gan Eng Cu.
Like his brother, he composed gamelan songs as a means for spreading Islamic teachings on Java. One example was the tune Gending 'Pangkur'''.
In 1502 CE, he built the masjid in the village of Jelag in Paciran (north of Surabaya)
Notes and references
Sunyoto, Agus (2014). Atlas Wali Songo: Buku Pertama yang Mengungkap Wali Songo Sebagai Fakta Sejarah''. 6th edition. Depok: Pustaka IIMaN.
See also
Islam in Indonesia
The spread of Islam in Indonesia (1200 to 1600)
Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
List of Sufi saints
List of Sufis
Wali Sanga
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Sunni Sufis |
Out-of-band activity is activity outside a defined telecommunications frequency band, or, metaphorically, outside of any primary communication channel. Protection from falsing is among its purposes.
Examples
General usage
Out-of-band agreement, an agreement or understanding between the communicating parties that is not included in any message sent over the channel but which is relevant for the interpretation of such messages
More broadly, communication by any channel other than the primary channel can be considered "out-of-band". For example, given a website's primary communication method is the internet, out-of-band communication may be an SMS message or even beeps produced by a speaker on the server itself.
Telecommunications
Out-of-band signaling, the exchange of call control information in a separate band from the data or voice stream, or on an entirely separate, dedicated channel
Computing
Out-of-band data, in computer networking, a separate stream of data from the main data stream
Out-of-band management, in computer administration, system console access, even in the event of primary network subsystem failure
Out-of-band authentication, user authentication over a network or channel separate from the primary network or channel; used in multi-factor authentication
Out-of-band software documentation, documentation that is not provided together with the software it documents. This contrasts with Unix and Unix-like systems, for example, where software is documented through the means of on-line (meaning 'on a main computer', not 'over the internet') man pages provided as a component of the operating system. Out-of-band documentation, whether on web pages or in printed form, can suffer from a mismatch regarding the version and the exact set of features that are being documented.
See also
In-band signaling
Ident protocol
References
Out-of-band management |
Jari is a village in the Albert Ekka (Jari) CD block in the Chainpur subdivision of the Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
History
Albert Ekka, was born in village Jari. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for valour in the face of the enemy.
Geography
Location
Jari is located at
Area overview
The map alongside presents a rugged area, consisting partly of flat-topped hills called pat and partly of an undulating plateau, in the south-western portion of Chota Nagpur Plateau. Three major rivers – the Sankh, South Koel and North Karo - along with their numerous tributaries, drain the area. The hilly area has large deposits of Bauxite. 93.7% of the population lives in rural areas.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Civic administration
There is a police station at Jari.
The headquarters of Albert Ekka (Jari) CD block are located at Jari village.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Jari had a total population of 841, of which 442 (53%) were males and 399 (47%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 123. The total number of literate persons in Jari was 483 (67.27% of the population over 6 years).
(*For language details see Albert Ekka (Jari) block#Language and religion)
Education
Government High School Jari is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established at Sisikaramtoli in 1960. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class X. The school has a play ground and a library with 1,200 books.
St. Piyush Janta High School Bhikhampur is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established at Bhikhampur in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class VII to class X. The school has a playground and a library with 2,200books.
References
Villages in Gumla district |
Jaclyn Raveia Schmitt (born November 28, 1979, in Fairfax, Virginia) is a retired American soccer player who played for New York Power.
Early life and education
Raveia Schmitt was born November 28, 1979, in Fairfax, Virginia. She attended Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School. She graduated from the University of Richmond in 2000.
Soccer career
Before university
In 1997, Raveia Schmitt was "one of six Washington area girls chosen for an Olympic development soccer team scheduled to play five exhibition matches during a 12-day trip".
University
Raveia Schmitt played for the University of Richmond for four years, serving as team captain for her final two. In both 1999 and 2000, she was named the CAA Defender of the Year; in 2000, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) named her first-team All-America and the Women's Collegiate Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Professional
In 2001, Raveia Schmitt was drafted to play for the Carolina Courage in the second round of the Women's United Soccer Association's college draft, becoming the first player from the University of Richmond to be drafted to play women's soccer professionally.
The following year, Raveia Schmitt transferred to the New York Power, where she played for the following two seasons.
Honors
Raveia Schmitt was inducted into the University of Richmond Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.
References
Women's association football defenders
American women's soccer players
New York Power players
Women's United Soccer Association players
Carolina Courage players
Living people
Richmond Spiders women's soccer players
1979 births |
Roderick Charles MacDonald (November 1885 – September 18, 1978) was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Dewdney in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1941 to 1952 as a Conservative.
He was born in North Uist, the son of Malcolm MacDonald and Mary A. MacAulay, and was educated there. He came to Canada in 1907, settling in Coquitlam. In 1915, MacDonald married D. E. Wiltshire. He was a member of the Coquitlam council, also serving as reeve from 1924 to 1941 and as president of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. MacDonald served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Minister of Municipal Affairs. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1952. MacDonald died in New Westminster at the age of 92.
R. C. MacDonald Elementary School in Coquitlam was named in his honour.
References
1885 births
1978 deaths
British Columbia Conservative Party MLAs
British emigrants to Canada |
9 Story Media Group Inc. (formerly known as 9 Story Entertainment Inc.) is a Canadian media production and distribution company founded in September 2002 by Vince Commisso, Steve Jarosz, and Blake Tohana.
History
As 9 Story Entertainment
The company was founded in September 2002 as 9 Story Entertainment by Vince Commisso and Steven Jarosz. On September 21, 2006, 9 Story launched an international distribution division headed by former Universal Studios executive, Natalie Osborne, known as 9 Story Enterprises.
9 Story produced its first live-action series, Survive This, from 2008 to 2010.
On September 20, 2011, 9 Story Entertainment became the co-producer and distributor of the animated series Arthur. 9 Story would produce the series from seasons 16 to 19.
On April 8, 2013, 9 Story announced that it would acquire the children's and family distribution library of CCI Entertainment; the acquisition was completed on July 24.
As 9 Story Media Group
On October 10, 2014, 9 Story Entertainment rebranded as 9 Story Media Group, following Neil Court and Zelnick Media Capital becoming majority owners a few months prior.
On August 18, 2015, 9 Story Media Group acquired the Dublin-based animation studio Brown Bag Films.
On October 6, 2015, 9 Story announced an agreement with American toy manufacturer Mattel to relaunch/reboot Barney & Friends and Angelina Ballerina under license from HIT Entertainment for planned releases in 2017, but nothing was heard from them in terms of either production or release since then.
On May 25, 2016, 9 Story acquired the global distribution rights to Garfield and Friends.
On October 21, 2016, 9 Story's distribution arm, 9 Story Enterprises, was rebranded as 9 Story Distribution International and relocated operations from Toronto to Dublin.
On October 15, 2017, 9 Story rebranded its Toronto 2D animation studio after Brown Bag Films, with the Irish studio becoming 9 Story's production arm for both 2D and 3D animation across Dublin, Manchester, and Toronto. At the same time, Brown Bag Films became one of 9 Story's main divisions, alongside 9 Story Distribution International.
On January 12, 2018, 9 Story announced that they had acquired production company, Out of the Blue Enterprises, for an undisclosed amount and rebranded them to 9 Story USA. 9 Story would also acquire the rights to the Colorforms brand.
On May 13, 2018, 9 Story unveiled an updated logo and announced the launch of 9 Story Brands, a consumer products division.
On July 10, 2018, 9 Story acquired the children's and family distribution catalog and development slate of Breakthrough Entertainment. On February 4, 2019, 9 Story announced that they had acquired Bali-based animation studio BASE for an undisclosed amount, and rebranded it after Brown Bag Films.
On April 1, 2019, 9 Story signed a deal with Scholastic Corporation to distribute 230 half hours of programming, which would bring 9 Story's overall content library at the time to 4,000 half hours of programming. In 2022, Vince Commisso was named alongside John Galway as a winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's Board of Directors Tribute Award at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards.
Programming
3 Amigonauts (2017)
Almost Naked Animals (2011–2013)
Arthur (2012–2016) (seasons 16–19)
Best Ed (2008–2009)
Blue's Clues & You! (2019–present)
Cache Craze (2013–2014)
Camp Lakebottom (2013–2017)
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2019–2021)
Creative Galaxy (2013–2019)
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012–present)
Fugget About It (2012–2016)
Furze World Wonders (2017)
Futz! (2007–2008)
Get Rolling with Otis (2021)
Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars (2010)
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show (2022–present)
If the World Were a Village (2005)
Jacob Two-Two (2005–2006) (distributed by Nelvana) (season 5)
Karma's World (2021–present)
Let's Go Luna! (2018–2022)
The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017–2020)
Max & Ruby (2007–2013) (distributed by Nelvana) (seasons 3–5)
Nature Cat (2015–2021) (seasons 1–3)
Numb Chucks (2014–2016)
Nerds and Monsters (2014–2016)
Peep and the Big Wide World (2004–2007, 2010–2011)
Peg + Cat (2013–2018)
Pound Puppies (2010) (season 1, episodes 1–7)
Postcards from Buster (2006–2012) (seasons 2–4)
Rosie's Rules (2022–present)
Skyland (2005–2007)
The Stanley Dynamic (2015–2017)
Survive This (2009–2010)
Top Wing (2017–2020)
Wibbly Pig (2009–2010)
Wild Kratts (2011–present)
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (2019–2022)
Open Season: Call of Nature (2024-present)
References
External links
Canadian animation studios
Companies based in Toronto
Mass media companies established in 2002
Television production companies of Canada
2002 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 2002 |
The Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) is a subspecies of mountain zebra that occurs in certain mountainous regions of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
It is the smallest of all existing zebra species and also the most geographically restricted. Although once nearly driven to extinction, the population has now been increased by several conservation methods, and is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
Taxonomy
The Cape mountain zebra is one of two geographically separated subspecies of the species Equus zebra (mountain zebra), the other being Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae).
The Cape mountain zebra was once regarded as a separate species from Hartmann's mountain zebra based on taxonomic evidence, but recent genomic evidence has led to the two populations now being reclassified as subspecies of Equus zebra.
Appearance
Like all zebra species, the Cape mountain zebra has a characteristic black and white striping pattern on its pelage, unique to individuals. As with other mountain zebras, it is medium-sized, thinner with narrower hooves than the common plains zebra, and has a white belly like the Grévy's zebra.
Physical attributes
Size and weight
The Cape mountain zebra differs slightly from the Hartmann's subspecies, being stockier and having longer ears and a larger dewlap. Adults have a shoulder height of 116 to 128 cm, making them the most lightly built subspecies of zebra. There is slight sexual dimorphism with mares having a mass of around 234 kg and stallions weighing around 250–260 kg.
Stripes
Stripes of the Cape subspecies are narrower and therefore more numerous than the other two zebra species, although slightly wider than those of the Hartmann's subspecies. Stripes on the head are narrowest, followed by those on the body. Much broader, horizontal stripes are found in the hind area of Cape mountain zebra, lacking the “shadow stripes” seen in the plains zebra. Stripes on the hind legs are broader than those of the front legs, and striping continues all the way down to the hooves. However, the dark vertical stripes stop abruptly at the flanks, leaving the belly white.
Distribution and habitat
Historically, the Cape mountain zebra occurred throughout the montane regions of the Cape Province of South Africa. Today they are confined to several mountain reserves and national parks: mainly the Mountain Zebra National Park, but also the Gamka Mountain Reserve and Karoo National Park, amongst many others.
As its name implies, like all mountain zebras, the Cape mountain zebra is found on slopes and plateaus of mountainous regions, and can be found at up to 2000m above sea level in the summer, moving to lower elevations in the winter.
Ecology and Behaviour
The Cape mountain zebra (like Hartmann’s subspecies) is predominantly diurnal or crepuscular, and is most active early morning and from late afternoon to sunset. It generally drinks twice a day, and a daily dustbath is usual.
Diet
The Cape mountain zebra is a graminivore, meaning that its diet consists mainly of grasses. It is a highly selective feeder, showing a preference for greener leafy plants, particularly the South African red grass and the weeping lovegrass. In marginal habitat such as fynbos, mountain zebra have been found to also feed on young restio shoots, as well as underground bulbs. Low growing, very coarse, small stalky grasses, as well as dying leaf material are usually avoided.
It has been seen that the Cape subspecies is a climax grazer, meaning it feeds at quite a high level off the ground. This means that increasing the abundance of low level grazers such as springbok will reduce grass height to a level lower than the zebra’s biting height, which could have detrimental consequences to the population.
Social structure
The Cape mountain zebra is not territorial, and populations consist of small groups of two types: breeding groups and bachelor groups. A breeding herd consists of a mature stallion and up to five mares and their foals. Stallions that cannot obtain mares associate in less defined bachelor groups. Once established, breeding groups normally stay together for many years; one stallion in the Mountain Zebra National Park is known to have stayed with his herd for more than a decade until he was at least 17 years old.
Foals leave their herds on their own accord at around 22 months of age, and unlike the Hartmann subspecies whose mares force foals out, stallions of the Cape subspecies actually try to prevent them leaving. This behavior of foals in free-ranging populations could be a mechanism to prevent inbreeding.
If two breeding herds meet, the stallions of each herd will approach each other and perform a challenging ritual: body rubbing, touching noses and nasogenital contact. A dominance hierarchy exists but doesn’t seem to correlate with leadership, which is selected randomly. It has been observed that the social hierarchy can change due to the birth of a foal: while fertile, lower ranking mares can threaten higher ranking ones, and mares with new-born foals are highly aggressive towards other members of the herd.
Reproduction
Breeding occurs throughout the year with birth peaks in December to February (summer), and a gestation period of 1 year. A single new-born weighs 25 kg, and are weaned off after 10 months. Bachelor males reach sexual maturity at 5–6 years when they are capable of becoming herd stallions, while mares produce their first foals at 3–6 years and can remain reproductively active until around 24 years of age.
Conservation status and threats
Due to excessive and prolonged hunting and habitat destruction in South Africa, populations of Cape mountain zebra have declined greatly during the last 300 years. Although once classified as Endangered, the subspecies is currently listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List under criteria D1: its population being very small and restricted to fewer than 997 mature individuals. It is also listed on the CITES Appendix II due to being threatened with extinction and being affected by trade. The total population is currently estimated to be around 497 mature individuals, with low genetic variation indicating population fragmentation and drift. Mixing aboriginal populations is therefore used as a management strategy to try and avoid further loss of diversity.
Threats that the Cape subspecies still face are conversion of habitats to agricultural lands, competition with domestic livestock, hunting, persecution, and potential crossbreeding between the two subspecies, which would lead to further reduction of the already low genetic diversity.
Despite the increase of the Cape Mountain Zebra meta-population due to the growth of CMZ populations in state-owned protected areas, there are reasons for concern regarding the conservation status of CMZ and recommend further expansion and management of the meta-population. Many of the CMZ sub-populations are small and this renders them at risk of genetics drift, inbreeding depression, and susceptibility to disease.
Prevention of extinction
Although never locally abundant, the Cape mountain zebra historically occurred throughout the mountain ranges of the southern Cape Province of South Africa. By 1922 however, only 400 were believed to survive. In 1936, when Minister of Lands (and former Boer War general) Jan Kemp was asked to set aside a special reserve for the Cape mountain zebra, to which he gave his now infamous reply: "No! They're just a lot of donkeys in football jerseys.”
A year later, in response to the continued decline, the government established the Mountain Zebra National Park on Acacia veld near Cradock, South Africa, but its small population of Cape mountain zebra died out in 1950. That same year reintroductions from nearby remnant populations began.
Eleven animals were donated from a nearby farm in 1950, and in 1964 another small herd was added. By the late 1960s, the total Cape mountain population was only 140 but grew to 200 by 1979, with 75% of the animals residing in Mountain Zebra National Park. In 1984, the population was back to 400 individuals. Since then a few zebras have been reintroduced to the Cape Point Section of Table Mountain National Park.
References
Mammals of South Africa
Zebras |
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students." The year-long program recognizes and awards young people who have demonstrated academic and cultural achievement. Gold, silver, and bronze medals, along with cash awards, are awarded to winners in each of 29 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, performing and visual arts, and local and national entrepreneurship/ culinary competitions. Active in nearly 400 cities, ACT-SO is the largest academic promotion for black youth in America.
History
ACT-SO was founded in 1978 by author and journalist Vernon Jarrett (1918-2004). The program was intended to give recognition to young people who could demonstrate academic, scientific, and artistic achievement, allowing young people to gain recognition equal to that often achieved by entertainers and athletes. The first national ACT-SO competition was held in 1978 in Portland, Oregon.
Since its inception, almost 300,000 young people have participated in the program, and more than 700 gold medals have been awarded to youths around the United States. Over $350,000 has been granted in monetary awards, scholarships, and laptop computers.
Historical timeline
1976: Vernon Jarrett presented his concept for ACT-SO, an "Olympics of the Mind", to the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago. It was later decided that the program would better serve youth nationally rather than just in the Chicago area.
1977: Jarrett approached NAACP Executive Director Dr. Benjamin Hooks, who was responsive to the idea of ACT-SO and approached the NAACP National Board of Directors. The board adopted a resolution to accept ACT-SO as an officially sponsored NAACP youth achievement program. Local NAACP branches would be called upon to sponsor ACT-SO, conduct local competitions annually, and then take local gold medalists to an annual national ACT-SO competition.
1978: The first National ACT-SO competition was held in Portland, Oregon with seven cities participating: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
1980: Barbara Coggins, one of Vernon Jarrett's colleagues, was hired as the first National ACT-SO Director and designed a structural framework for establishing and running ACT-SO programs across the country.
1991: The NAACP Board of Directors created its own ACT-SO committee.
2004: Jarrett died of cancer at the age of 82.
Today, ACT-SO sustains approximately 200 programs nationally. Over the past 30 years, over 200,000 black high school students have participated in the program at local and national levels.
Mission
For over thirty years the mission of ACT-SO has been to prepare, recognize and reward youth of African descent who exemplify scholastic and artistic excellence.
Original goals (1977):
To encourage and recognize academic achievement of African American students.
To promote excellence and highlight academic achievement as well as support the accomplishments of these students.
To encourage communities to become involved in working as partners in the quest for scholastic achievement by serving as mentors, fundraisers, sponsors, and organizers.
According to the NAACP, the program’s goals are:
To mobilize the adult community for the promotion of classroom and after-school excellence
To recognize academic achievement among youth on par with the recognition awarded athletics
To provide and assist students with the necessary skills and tools to establish goals and acquire the confidence and training to make a successful contribution to society
Participation Eligibility
Annual academic competitions are conducted for students of African descent who are U.S. citizens enrolled in grades 9–12 and are amateurs in the competition categories. Winners of the competition at each local branch are eligible for awards at the finals during the NAACP national convention, which occurs every July. The 2015 national competition was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Competition Categories
Students can select up to 3 categories to compete in from a total of 29 offerings:
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math):
Architecture
Biology/Microbiology
Chemistry/Biochemistry
Computer Science
Earth and Space Sciences
Engineering
Mathematics
Medicine and Health
Physics
HUMANITIES:
Music Composition
Original Essay
Playwriting
Poetry (Written)
Short Story
THE PERFORMING ARTS:
Dance
Dramatics
Music Instrumental (Classical)
Music Instrumental (Contemporary)
Music Vocal (Classical)
Music Vocal (Contemporary)
Oratory
Poetry (Performance)
THE VISUAL ARTS:
Drawing
Filmmaking
Painting
Photography
Sculpture
BUSINESS:
Entrepreneurship
CULINARY:
Culinary Arts
Awards
Gold, silver, and bronze medals, along with cash awards, are awarded to winners in each of 29 categories of competition. Competition winners receive medals and prizes provided by local and regional sponsors and contributors. Local Gold Medalists advance to the National Competition and compete against more than 800-900 gold medalists representing approximately 200 NAACP Branches nationwide and have the opportunity to receive scholarships and other rewards provided by national sponsors.
Gold medalists: $2,000
Silver medalists: $1,500
Bronze medalists: $1,000
Sponsors
ACT-SO is sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. ACT-SO receives support from schools, community organizations, churches, foundations, local businesses, major corporations and individuals.
The ACT-SO program has many corporate sponsorships from major American corporations, including McDonald's, UPS, Walmart, State Farm, The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, Hyundai, and others.
Notable ACT-SO alumni
Anthony Anderson
Michael Beach
Tananarive Due
Edwina Findley-Dickerson
Nicole Heaston
Lauryn Hill
Jennifer Hudson
Mae Jemison
Alicia Keys
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Justin Simien
John Singleton
Cornelius Smith Jr.
Kanye West
Michelle Williams
Amber Stroud
References
External links
NAACP ACT-SO
New York City ACT-SO
DuPage County ACT-SO
New Jersey ACT-SO
Walt Disney World Public Affairs: 800 Students Compete in NAACP ACT-SO National Competition Hosted by Disney (2008 Awards)
ACT-SO videos on Youtube
Education awards
NAACP
Awards honoring African Americans |
Pseudopamera aurivilliana is a species of dirt-colored seed bug in the family Rhyparochromidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
References
External links
Rhyparochromidae
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Insects described in 1882
Hemiptera of North America |
Mereoni Vibose (26 April 1951 – 27 January 2018) was a Fijian female track and field athlete who competed in the discus throw and javelin throw. She won nine South Pacific Games medals from 1969 to 1991 and set the Fijian record for javelin and discus at the National Athletics Championships. Vibose was inducted into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. She represented her country internationally at the World Championships in Athletics and at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Vibose was born on 26 April 1951. She grew up in Nadroga, Fiji and was an athlete during her time at Adi Cakobau School.
In national championships, Vibose won 2 gold medals in javelin and discus each at the 1983 and 1987 National Athletics Championships in Fiji. During the championships, Vibose set the Fijian discus record in 1983 with 47.76 m and the Fijian javelin record in 1987 with 53.18 m. Alternatively, Vibose won nine South Pacific Games medals during her career. Her first South Pacific medals were a silver medal in the javelin and discus events at the 1969 South Pacific Games. Overall, Vibose won a total of nine medals at the South Pacific games.
Outside of the South Pacific, Vibose competed at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and the 1982 Commonwealth Games but did not medal. The following year, Vibose competed in the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in the javelin and discus events. After competing at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in javelin, Vibose's final IAAF event was at the 1990 Oceania Athletics Championships where she won a bronze in discus and a gold in javelin. Vibose retired the following year in 1991. After her retirement, Vibose returned to athletics to compete in the 2016 World Masters Athletics Championships. Her best performance at the World Masters was fourth place in the javelin event.
In 1998, Vibose was inducted into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame.
Vibose died on 27 January 2018 in Sigatoka, Fiji.
References
External links
1951 births
2018 deaths
Fijian female discus throwers
Fijian female javelin throwers
Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji
Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Fiji
People from Nadroga-Navosa Province |
Theodore Russell (October 15, 1948 - January 17, 2012) was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name of "Savannah Jack" in Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation in the Mid-South from 1986 to 1987. He won the UWF Television Championship.
Early life
Russell started playing football for the University of Minnesota for the Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1969 to 1970.
Pro wrestling career
Trained by Verne Gagne and Eddie Sharkey in Minnesota. He worked for the American Wrestling Association as T-Bone Brown in 1985.
In 1986 he made his debut as "Savannah Jack" in Universal Wrestling Federation working for Bill Watts. At first he was a member of Skandor Akbar's stable Devastation, Inc.. He defeated Buddy Roberts of The Fabulous Freebirds for the UWF Television Championship on November 9, 1986 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He would feud with Chris Adams, One Man Gang, Iceman Parsons and Sting. He lost the title to Eddie Gilbert on March 8, 1987. Later that year he retired from wrestling due to health problems that caught up with him in Fort Worth, Texas, where he coughed up a blood clot shortly before a match. He returned to Minnesota and was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy caused by years of steroid abuse.
Death
After many years of health problems he suffered a stroke in 2001. On January 17, 2012 Jack died from cardiomyopathy after 25 years of heart problems in his home in Minneapolis. He was 63.
Championships and accomplishments
Pro Wrestling America
PWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ed Roberts
Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts)
UWF Television Championship (1 time)
References
General
Specific
External links
Savannah Jack at Cagematch.net
Savannah Jack at OWW.com
Savannah Jack at WrestlingData.com
1948 births
2012 deaths
Sportspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Professional wrestlers from Minnesota
American male professional wrestlers
African-American male professional wrestlers
Minnesota Golden Gophers football players
Players of American football from Minnesota
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
Professional wrestlers from Minneapolis |
Home Fire or Home Fires may refer to:
Literature
Home Fire (novel), a novel by Kamila Shamsie
Home Fires (Katz book), a 1992 book by Don Katz
Home Fires (novel), a 2011 novel by Gene Wolfe
Music
Home Fire, a 1991 album by Ron Kavana
Home Fires (Dead Ringer Band album), an album by Dead Ringer Band
Television
Home Fires (British TV series), a drama series that debuted in 2015
Home Fires (Canadian TV series), a drama series that debuted in 1980
Home Fires (Upstairs, Downstairs), episode 6 of Upstairs, Downstairs series 4
See also
Keep the Home Fires Burning (disambiguation)
Structure fire, a fire in a home or other building |
Olavo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Olaf, and may refer to:
Olavo Bilac (1865–1918), Brazilian poet of the Parnassian school
Olavo Setúbal (1923–2008), Brazilian industrialist, banker and politician
Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa (1923–2010), Brazilian football (soccer) player
Olavo Yépez (1937–2021), Ecuadorian chess master
Olavo de Carvalho (1947–2022), Brazilian journalist and writer |
Elm Ridge Plantation, also known as the Hatch House and Holbrook House, is a historic forced-labor farm and plantation house in rural Hale County near Greensboro, Alabama. The one-story raised cottage-style house was built about 1836. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on November 2, 1990, and to the National Register of Historic Places on October 11, 1991, due to its architectural significance.
Its property includes five contributing buildings and one other contributing structure.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Hale County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Houses completed in 1836
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
Houses in Hale County, Alabama
Mid 19th Century Revival architecture
Plantation houses in Alabama
Plantations in Alabama |
Harding Field may refer to:
Harding oilfield, an oil field in the North Sea operated by the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, used by the US Air Force as Harding Field in World War II |
Qai Bard (, also Romanized as Qā’ī Bard and Qāybard; also known as Qāẕī Badr) is a village in Shuy Rural District, in the Central District of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 203, in 41 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Towns and villages in Baneh County
Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province |
Denning is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies about midway between the craters Levi-Civita to the south and Marconi to the north-northeast. About two crater diameters to the southeast is the huge walled plain Gagarin.
The rim of this worn crater is circular but somewhat irregular-edged. There is a low central rise at the midpoint consisting of at least two hills. Attached to the southwest outer rim is the larger satellite crater Denning R. About one crater diameter the southeast of Denning is a bright patch of high-albedo surface. This patch was most likely created by a small, relatively recent impact.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Denning.
References
Impact craters on the Moon |
Locroja District is one of ten districts of the Churcampa Province in Peru.
Geography
One of the highest peaks of the district is Hatun Q'asa at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:
Allquchayuq
Awqapa Tiyana
Ichhu Urqu
Llaqta Pata
Yana Urqu
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly Indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (85.31%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.57% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
References |
```php
<?php
namespace Laratrust\Console;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config;
class MigrationCommand extends Command
{
/**
* The console command name.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $name = 'laratrust:migration';
/**
* The console command description.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $description = 'Creates a migration following the Laratrust specifications.';
/**
* Suffix of the migration name.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $migrationSuffix = 'laratrust_setup_tables';
/**
* Execute the console command.
*
* @return void
*/
public function handle()
{
$this->line('');
$this->info('Laratrust Migration Creation.');
if (Config::get('laratrust.teams.enabled')) {
$this->comment('You are using the teams feature.');
}
$this->line('');
$this->comment($this->generateMigrationMessage());
$existingMigrations = $this->alreadyExistingMigrations();
$defaultAnswer = true;
if ($existingMigrations) {
$this->line('');
$this->warn($this->getExistingMigrationsWarning($existingMigrations));
$defaultAnswer = false;
}
$this->line('');
if (! $this->confirm('Proceed with the migration creation?', $defaultAnswer)) {
return;
}
$this->line('');
$this->line('Creating migration');
if ($this->createMigration()) {
$this->info('Migration created successfully.');
} else {
$this->error(
"Couldn't create migration.\n".
'Check the write permissions within the database/migrations directory.'
);
}
$this->line('');
}
/**
* Create the migration.
*
* @return bool
*/
protected function createMigration()
{
$migrationPath = $this->getMigrationPath();
$output = $this->laravel->view
->make('laratrust::migration')
->with(['laratrust' => Config::get('laratrust')])
->render();
if (! file_exists($migrationPath) && $fs = fopen($migrationPath, 'x')) {
fwrite($fs, $output);
fclose($fs);
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* Generate the message to display when running the
* console command showing what tables are going
* to be created.
*
* @return string
*/
protected function generateMigrationMessage()
{
$tables = Collection::make(Config::get('laratrust.tables'))
->reject(function ($value, $key) {
return $key == 'teams' && ! Config::get('laratrust.teams.enabled');
})
->sort();
return "A migration that creates {$tables->implode(', ')} "
.'tables will be created in database/migrations directory';
}
/**
* Build a warning regarding possible duplication
* due to already existing migrations.
*
* @param array $existingMigrations
* @return string
*/
protected function getExistingMigrationsWarning(array $existingMigrations)
{
if (count($existingMigrations) > 1) {
$base = "Laratrust migrations already exist.\nFollowing files were found: ";
} else {
$base = "Laratrust migration already exists.\nFollowing file was found: ";
}
return $base.array_reduce($existingMigrations, function ($carry, $fileName) {
return $carry."\n - ".$fileName;
});
}
/**
* Check if there is another migration
* with the same suffix.
*
* @return array
*/
protected function alreadyExistingMigrations()
{
$matchingFiles = glob($this->getMigrationPath('*'));
return array_map(function ($path) {
return basename($path);
}, $matchingFiles);
}
/**
* Get the migration path.
*
* The date parameter is optional for ability
* to provide a custom value or a wildcard.
*
* @param string|null $date
* @return string
*/
protected function getMigrationPath($date = null)
{
$date = $date ?: date('Y_m_d_His');
return database_path("migrations/{$date}_{$this->migrationSuffix}.php");
}
}
``` |
Kochlice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Miłkowice, within Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately north-east of Miłkowice, north of Legnica, and west of the regional capital Wrocław.
References
Kochlice |
Manuel Demetrio Pizarro (Córdoba, April 9, 1841 – Córdoba, October 16, 1909), also known as "the youngest of the plinio", according to Domingo Sarmiento was a lawyer, writer, journalist, teacher and Argentine politician, and member of the National Autonomist Party. He served as minister of Servando Bayo in Santa Fe, was provincial deputy, and professor of Civil Law in the Faculty of Jurisprudence, National Senator, Minister of the Nation during the period of Roca and, later, governor of Cordoba Province. It is attributed to the famous phrase pronounced as a result of the consequences that caused the Revolution of the Park in Argentina: "The revolution is defeated, but the government is dead."
External links
https://historiadelderechounl.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/manuel-d-pizarro/
https://archive.org/details/rasgosbiogrfic00unar
1841 births
1909 deaths |
United Nations Security Council resolution 2121 was adopted in 2013.
See also
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 2101 to 2200 (2013–2015)
References
External links
Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
2013 United Nations Security Council resolutions
October 2013 events |
```smalltalk
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Extensions;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using Volo.Abp.Options;
namespace Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
public static class ServiceCollectionDynamicOptionsManagerExtensions
{
public static IServiceCollection AddAbpDynamicOptions<TOptions, TManager>(this IServiceCollection services)
where TOptions : class
where TManager : AbpDynamicOptionsManager<TOptions>
{
services.Replace(ServiceDescriptor.Scoped(typeof(IOptions<TOptions>), typeof(TManager)));
services.Replace(ServiceDescriptor.Scoped(typeof(IOptionsSnapshot<TOptions>), typeof(TManager)));
return services;
}
}
``` |
Light Fingers (1961−1988) was a New Zealand bred thoroughbred racehorse who won the Melbourne Cup in 1965. In 2017 Light Fingers was inducted to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.
Background
The lightly built chestnut was by the highly successful sire of stayers, Le Filou, from Cuddlesome by Red Mars (GB) by Hyperion (GB). She was originally called Close Embrace in New Zealand, but the Australian registrar would not allow that name to be used.
Trained by Bart Cummings, Light Fingers would become the first of his 12 Melbourne Cup winners. Cummings had tried to buy the filly on a visit to New Zealand but was unsuccessful. However, he managed to lease the horse, which would carry the most significant weight to victory by a mare to that date..
Racing career
Light Fingers had her first race on Boxing Day in 1963 at the Port Adelaide Racing Club's track at Cheltenham, where she ran second over 5 furlongs. She won her next three starts, two at Adelaide, and one at Flemington, before being sent for a spell. In her three-year-old year, Light Fingers won 7 races from 12 starts. That year, she won all essential fillies' races, save the One Thousand Guineas, where Reveille beat her. The mare won her first race as a four-year-old and won the Craiglee Stakes over a mile early in the spring of 1965.
The rest of Light Fingers' lead-up to the Melbourne Cup was filled with obstacles. First, she suffered a virus, and then she injured her shoulder in a near fall in the Caulfield Stakes. The injury prevented her from running in the Caulflield Cup and raised doubts about whether she would make the start of the Melbourne Cup. Her regular rider, Roy Higgins, was unsure about whether he should keep the ride but eventually chose to stick with the mare, saying, 'my filly is so good that if she gets to the post, she might just win, and if she does it will break my heart not to be on her'. Light Fingers pulled up well after her final lead up run in the Mackinnon Stakes, and following a cortisone injection by vet Percy Sykes, started in the Melbourne Cup at odds of 15/1. Fifth into the straight, Light Fingers ranged up to stablemate Ziema at the furlong. The two horses hit the line together, with the camera giving Light Fingers the victory by half a head. Higgins, who rode Light Fingers in the majority of her big wins, was quoted as saying after her Melbourne Cup victory, that as Light Fingers and her stablemate Ziema worked together leading up to the '65 Cup, Higgins felt that when the mare ranged up alongside the big striding Ziema, he seemed to take a look at her and turn it up. Higgins went on to state. "In the last few strides, however, she seemed to sense that something extra was needed. I could feel her gathering herself ,and she fairly dived for the winning post. I only had to wave the whip at her. I did not want to hit her. She was giving all she had."
Following her Melbourne Cup win, Light Fingers ran second to stablemate Galilee, one of the great stayers of the decade, in that race the following year.
Breeding career
Light Fingers had an unremarkable breeding career. Her foals were:
Her Boy, a chestnut colt by Agricola, foaled in 1969
An unnamed bay colt by Alcimedes, foaled in 1972
Nimble Fingers, a brown filly by Alcimedes, foaled in 1973
Slick, a bay filly by Zephyr Bay, foaled in 1977
An unnamed bay filly by Decies, foaled in 1978
Nimble Touch, a chestnut colt by Smuggler, foaled in 1981
Nimble Princess, a bay filly by Princes Gate, foaled in 1984
References
1961 racehorse births
1988 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in New Zealand
Racehorses trained in Australia
Melbourne Cup winners
Thoroughbred family 20-a |
Wucheng () is a town in Lishi District, Lüliang, in western Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It is located east-southeast of downtown Lüliang as the crow flies. The Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway runs through Wucheng, but there is apparently no passenger station here; in addition, China National Highway 307 and G20 Qingdao–Yinchuan Expressway pass through the town. , it has 16 villages under its administration.
See also
List of township-level divisions of Shanxi
References
Township-level divisions of Shanxi |
Manuel Aranguiz (born October 15, 1945) is a Chilean Canadian actor and writer. He is most noted for his performance in the 1989 film The Paper Wedding (Les Noces de papier), for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries in 1990.
His other most prominent role as an actor was in the 1994 film Eclipse; however, his acting career was somewhat limited by a perception that he was too "ethnic" for the Quebec film and television industries, and he generally only had small supporting or guest roles rather than major starring performances.
Some of his poetry was set to music by the Latin jazz ensemble Intakto on their albums Intakto (2002) and Todavia (2007); Intakto won the Félix Award for World Music Album of the Year at the 25th Felix Awards in 2003, and was a Juno Award nominee for World Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2004.
Filmography
References
External links
1945 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian male actors
20th-century Chilean male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Chilean male actors
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Chilean poets
21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Chilean poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
20th-century Chilean male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Chilean male writers
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male poets
Chilean male film actors
Chilean male television actors
Chilean male poets
Chilean emigrants to Canada
Male actors from Santiago
Male actors from Montreal
Writers from Santiago
Writers from Montreal |
The 2005 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the 19th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Valletta, Malta, between 25 and 27 November 2005, and hosted by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi.
Malta is the smallest country to have hosted a CHOGM, committing the country to a major undertaking. Nonetheless, the event passed smoothly, marked by the visit of both Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, and the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.
Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group
The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) put much emphasis on the position held by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, and overcame opposition from Pakistan to declare that his holding the two positions of President and Chief of Army Staff were "incompatible with the basic principles of democracy and the spirit of the Harare Commonwealth principles" and that "until the two offices are separated, the process of democratization will not be irreversible".
Of note to commentators and the media was the non-discussion of Uganda, where opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested days before the CHOGM, and two months before the country's first multiparty elections since Yoweri Museveni took power in 1986. Uganda's capital, Kampala, had been arranged to host the 2007 CHOGM, and the Commonwealth leaders were keenly aware that to hold the CHOGM in a country that was deemed undemocratic would reflect badly on the Commonwealth Secretariat and undermine the Commonwealth's commitment to human rights and good governance.
CMAG membership rotated once again, with Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, and the United Kingdom joining it, as the Bahamas, India, Samoa, and Nigeria left.
Footnotes
External links
Commonwealth Secretariat webpage on CHOGM 2005
2005
2005 conferences
Diplomatic conferences in Malta
21st-century diplomatic conferences (Commonwealth)
2005 in international relations
Malta and the Commonwealth of Nations
21st century in Valletta
November 2005 events in Europe |
The Brood are a fictional race of insectoid, parasitic, extraterrestrial beings appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, especially Uncanny X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, they first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #155 (March 1982).
Concept and creation
According to Dave Cockrum, the Brood were originally conceived to serve as generic subordinates for the main villain of The Uncanny X-Men #155: "We had Deathbird in this particular story and Chris [Claremont] had written into the plot 'miscellaneous alien henchmen.' So I had drawn Deathbird standing in this building under construction and I just drew the most horrible looking thing I could think of next to her."
Biology
Physical characteristics
The Brood are an alien race of insectoid beings. They are a specialized race, one that has evolved to reproduce and consume any available resources. They are sadistic creatures that enjoy the suffering they intentionally cause others, especially the terror their infection causes their hosts. They have been compared to "demons".
Despite their resemblance to insects, the Brood have endoskeletons as well as exoskeletons. Also unlike insects, they have fanged jaws instead of mandibles. Their skulls are triangular and flat, with a birthmark (such as the battle axe which is most common in broodlings but are different for each Brood) between their large eyes. Their two front legs are actually long tentacles they can use to manipulate objects.
Due to their natural body armor and teeth, the Brood are very dangerous in combat. In addition, they have stingers that can deliver either paralyzing or killing poison.
Reproduction
The parasitic Brood reproduce asexually and therefore have no clear divisions of gender. They reproduce by forcibly implanting their eggs into other sentient organism. Each host can only support one egg. Upon hatching, the host dies as the Brood egg releases enzymes into the bloodstream to cause mutation. At the same time, the Broodling begins to psychically attack its host, taking control of its mind, absorbing its genetic material and incorporating all its knowledge and memories into the Brood. They appear to be capable of even infecting demons or someone who is possessed by a demon like Ghost Rider.
They use a hive mind to pass memory to their hosts, which also passes an individual's knowledge, given to a broodling, to the hive and back to the queen, meaning newborn brood know what any member of the race knows. Until the embryo gains the host's body the embryo can only gain temporary control of the host, often without the host noticing as the host is unaware when it loses control.
If the host possesses any genetic powers, the resultant Brood will inherit them. The persona of the host once the Brood is "born" appears to be extinguished, but in some cases, the host's will may be strong enough to survive and coexist with the Brood's. However it is implied that hosts with advanced healing ability are unable to turn, for example when an egg was implanted in Deadpool, instead of turning into a Brood, a small Brood burst out of Deadpool's body.
Brood also have the ability to morph into their host's original form, and a hybrid form with characteristics of both the host and the Brood body.
More recently the Brood had demonstrate the abily to use their hosts as pregnancy carriers instead of to physically transform them.
Civilization
The Brood have a civilization based on the typical communal insect societies, such as those of the bees and ants. The Empress is the absolute ruler, while the Queens lead individual Brood colonies and the "sleazoids" do all the work; despite their evil, they never rebel against their Queens, perhaps due to the latter's telepathic abilities. However, the Queens have no allegiance to each other. Some of the roles have proven to be flexible.
Empress - The Empress is the top tier of the Brood caste system and houses the entire hive mind of the species. She exercises almost total control over her progeny, including determining which Brood become Queen and which remain Warrior-Prime. There is only one Brood Empress at a time, and she is massive. She shares several physical characteristics with her offspring. She has large yellow eyes, a scaly brown hide, and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. However, she possesses several physical traits that distinguish her from all other Brood. While Warriors-Prime have forked skulls, the Brood Empress has two scarlet horns protruding from the top of her head, with an armor plate at their base. She also has eight whiskers, seemingly unique to her physiology. Jagged spikes protrude from every part of her body. In addition to being larger than her offspring, she also has a large ovipositor through which she lays eggs. Her relative size and degree of mobility are unknown. However, she possesses vast telepathic powers, through which she shares a mind-link with the entire Brood hive, although she cannot completely control the actions of her subordinates. When individual Brood rebel, she cannot telepathically force them to assimilate. In these scenarios, she has the renegade offspring destroyed with the help of her assassins/personal guard, the Firstborn. The Empress was one of the casualties of the Annihilation Wave which left the Brood's on the brink of extinction and with her death one of the survivor Brood Queens was selected to take her place among the hierarchy as a Brood Queen is seen among the Galactic Council, where she represents the entire Brood race and even goes by the name of Queen of the Brood.
Firstborn - Considered themselves as the "pure" Brood, they are the most trusted agents of the Empress, existing solely to attack and destroy. The Empress births them herself and dispatches them to quell rebellious Brood Queens and other conflicts that require only fighters. Because they are not born of hosts, they do not possess the Warrior-Prime ability to conceal their appearance by shifting into their host-forms. For this reason, they are used not to subvert and infect, but merely to destroy. The transportation they use to travel to other planets dissolves upon reaching its destination, but this poses no problem, as the Firstborn are ordered to execute themselves upon completing their missions. The Firstborn are larger than common Brood Warriors-Prime, and green instead of brown. They have six limbs: two sets of arms and one set of legs. They have a spear-tipped, prehensile tail, but unlike their Warrior-Prime sisters, they have no tentacles. They also have durable, spiked armor plating on their shoulders, fingertips, tails, elbows, forearms, knees, and, most prominently, on the crowns of their heads. They are extremely durable, disproportionately agile, and immensely strong. Unlike the Warriors-Prime, they do not have wings. However, through some other means, possibly technological, the Firstborn have the ability to teleport. Their teleportation abilities are likely restricted to relatively short distances, as the Firstborn travel over interstellar distances using other methods.
Brood Queens - The Queens fulfill the mental command of the Empress and can communicate with their spawn by telepathy, even across interstellar distances. Their heads and thoraxes are relatively the same size, and they have the same amount of limbs as their offspring, but their abdomens are much larger, presumably because they require the capacity to carry eggs. The Queen's tail functions as a venom-filled stinger, not an ovipositor. The Queens are capable of implanting eggs, which can be of the Warrior-Prime or Queen variety, into hosts for the Brood Hive. Sometimes, the Queen can also lay a King egg variety, but this is rarer. There are two type of Brood Queens, the small Dwarf Brood Queen, are Queens that due to their size and strength are raised among the bottom level of the Brood, and the slightly larger Brood Queens which are also known as the Great Mothers, Mother-Queens and Brood Imperiatrix. The Queens lead individual colonies, which usually encompass entire planets, they also control which of their offspring become Warriors-Prime, and which become new Queens. For example, the Great Mother from Sleazeworld implanted the Shi’ar warrior Fang with a Warrior-Prime embryo, but implanted the rest of the X-Men with Queen embryos, a discrepancy that suggests a certain amount of control on the Queen's end. More so when the Empress dies, both types of Queens can take the place of the Empress, but for such a feat, a ritual must be done which consist of finding the perfect mate and breed with him in order to produce the Firstborns.
Broodlings - As the bottom level of the Brood caste system, the Broodlings were nicknamed "sleazoids" by Kitty Pryde but are also known as Warriors-Prime or Drones, they are the most common of the Brood. They do all the labor and most of the fighting, and are organized into several different roles, among them Weaponeer, Clan-Master, Hunt-Master, Huntsmen, Tech Handlers, and Scholars. They resemble large insects and can vary in size. They generally retain the size of their hosts. Their hides are brown and covered in armored scales. Their bodies consist of three sections: a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The forked crowns of their heads extend backward, well over the length of the thorax. Each Brood has a unique black figure on its forehead, almost like a birthmark or a fingerprint. They have large, yellow eyes on both sides of their heads, large mouths, and one row of spiky teeth on the top and bottom of the jaw. Each Brood has six limbs; two tentacles that function as forearms and two rear sets of jointed limbs. Their tentacles are dexterous enough to fire weapons and pilot ships. The Brood Warriors-Prime also have wings and fly as a primary means of travel. Their abdomens taper into a two-pronged, functional stinger. The most common method of creating a Brood is through infection of a host, and this is how all Warriors-Prime are birthed. The Brood lays its eggs at the back of the necks of its victims since everything the eggs need to gestate, including all 31 nerve segments and access to the carotid and vertebral arteries, rests at the top of the spinal column. After a Queen implants her eggs into a host, the egg splices itself to the host's nervous system and rewrites its DNA into that of Brood. Upon the egg's hatching, the host undergoes transformation into a Brood Warrior-Prime. The Warrior-Prime retains the genetic memory of its host, enabling it to access the host's personality, access any of the abilities contained in the host's genetic code, and even revert to its host body when it needs to conceal itself. It can also use a transitional form between the Brood and the host, giving it access to the best abilities from each form.
Brood King - This unique male Brood is a rarity and even considered a mutation in the Brood society and is created when a King egg is implanted in its host. The first known Brood King was Grand Admiral Devros of the Kree who was willingly infected by the Brood. Unlike those infected with Queen's or Drone's eggs, the Brood King cannot infect others and only suffers a slight transformation (the skin becomes scaly, the eyes enlarge and the mouth becomes full of razor-sharp teeth) and maintains much of its original personality. It's assumed that like the Empress there is only one Brood King at a time; when Devros was killed by Mar-Vell, who himself had been infect by the Queen, Mar-Vell briefly proclaimed himself the new "Brood King", but the egg was destroyed before it could fully claim him. It was later implied that the King-type egg is actually a natural response of the Brood to the experiments done 8000 years ago by the Black Judges, a secret science wing of the Kree Accusers. Understanding the Brood's volatile nature, they forcibly implanted them with a patriarchal element through a genetic engineering device which, when active, can disrupt the species' matriarchy, take control of them, and use them as weapons to disrupt rival advanced civilizations. The device is an egg-shaped artifact which must always be protected by a containment shield and under no circumstances should the device be removed from it, because inside it lays the potential for whoever controls the item to become the dominant member of the species, giving them control over the legions of Brood that exist in the universe. This leads every Brood Queen to send their swarms in pursuit of it, to prevent any loss of their power in the Brood hive-mind. The device was eventually cracked open and eaten by Broo, a young mutant Brood drone that developed intelligence and independent thought. The properties of the egg were then transferred to Broo, giving him inherent authority over every Brood hive in existence, at least for the next 5 to 10 Kree cycles before the effects wear off.
Technology
The Brood, like most alien species, possess advanced technology, however due to their nature it's unknown if they developed it themselves or assimilated it for their own benefit. These include:
Interstellar warships: despite using the Acanti, the Brood also use actual ships, however with a mixture of organic and inorganic material.
Energy-based weapons
Psi-scream weapons: gun-like devices that attacks the minds of targets with subconscious fears and hatreds.
Inhibitor field: used to prevent telepaths from using their powers.
Nanotechnology
Teleportation
Fictional species biography
The Brood are the Main Universe's first natural predators, spawned on a dark galaxy prior the emergence of Galactus from his incubator. Their planet of origin is unknown, but such is their relentless evil, legend holds that the Brood originated not through natural evolution, but in otherworldly sorcery from a different universe from which they escaped, with hopes of satisfying their insatiable hunger after its collapsing. They were eventually found and captured by the Kree Empire, along with other hive species, so they could weaponize them and use them against rival empires. The Supreme Intelligence approved of the idea, stating that they could be used against the Shi'ar Empire, although, he sees that it'll take millions of years to create a large enough army to fully be unleashed as a weapon against their enemies.
In the next eight million years of experimentation the Black Judges deemed the Brood a major success and were unleashed on the Shi'ar Galaxy where the Brood found certain large space-dwelling creatures that they decided to prey to use as living starships to infest neighboring star systems and initiating an intergalactic campaign to build a fearsome empire. These space-dwelling creatures included the whale-like Acanti, and the shark-like Starsharks.
The Brood use a virus that effectively lobotomizes these creatures, the Slaver Virus as it is known is a powerful force that dismantles the cores of reasoning within the target's brain causing the sources of self-awareness and the conscious mind to simple shut down, turning the creatures into faithful zombies. Then they use bionics to control them. The Brood hollow out part of the creatures (by eating them) and use the space created to live in, like termites eating a tree. This eventually kills the living ships, requiring them to capture new ones. One of the Acanti they captured was of unusual size (its rib cage alone was the size of a mountain range.) They used it as their main base, and, when it died and crashed onto a planet, used it as their main city. The corpse was so large, it took centuries just to rot halfway. However, predators from the planet they landed on infested the area of the dead Acanti's brain, so the Brood avoided it.
Years later, Kree warrior Mar-Vell, has been ordered to make contact with the stranded Grand Admiral Devros on a planet in the Absolom Sector, a region known to be infested with Brood, Mar-Vell's team, which includes the medic Una and Colonel Yon-Rogg, was ambushed by Brood warriors after landing on the planet and taken prisoner by the Brood-infected Devros. The colony's Brood Queen impregnates each captive with Brood embryos, but Mar-Vell and Una manage to escape, destroy both leaders of the Brood colony, and ridding themselves of their infections using Una's modified omni-wave projector which had been designed to eliminate Brood embryos. After rescuing Colonel Yon-Rogg, the trio escape the planet and are rescued by the Shi'ar royal Deathbird.
Deathbird later allies with The Brood to gain their help deposing her sister Lilandra as ruler of their empire. As a reward for their help, Deathbird gives the Brood Lilandra, the X-Men, and the powerless Carol Danvers, along with Fang of the Imperial Guard, to use as hosts. The Brood infect the entire party, except for Danvers, who they perform experiments on because of her half-human/half-Kree genes. Wolverine's adamantium skeleton allowed his healing ability to purge him of the embryo, and he helps the others escape. He is unable to save Fang, who becomes a Brood warrior before they leave.
The Brood Queen orders her forces to find them, until she is contacted by the Queen embryo that is implanted in Cyclops. It explains that the X-Men are returning to Broodworld. Resigned to their dooms, the heroes help the Acanti race recover the racial Soul, a supernatural force that must be passed from one Acanti leader ("The Prophet-Singer") to the next. The Soul is located in a crystalline part of the dead Acanti Prophet-Singer's brain.
The Queen goes with her minions, and battles the X-Men, turning them into Brood warriors. The Prophet-Singer Soul is almost infected by the evil of the aliens, and Wolverine tries to mercy-kill his friends and the Queen but they are saved when Danvers, now a mighty being called Binary (due to experimentation), arrives and releases the Soul. Before it goes to its next host, the racial Soul cures the X-Men and Lilandra, and turns the Queen into a crystal statue. It also causes the Broodworld to explode, but the X-Men and their allies escape. Some of the Brood also manage to escape before the planet explodes. The new Prophet-Singer then leads the Acanti to safety in deep space. Returning to Earth with the Starjammers, the X-Men defeat and detain the Brood Queen infecting Charles Xavier in the first Earth-based confrontation with the Brood. The advanced medical facilities at the Starjammers' disposal are able to transfer the consciousness of Xavier from the Brood Queen's body to a new cloned body, enabling Xavier to walk again.
A Brood-filled starshark later crashes on Earth, leading to the infection of several nearby humans by the Brood. One of the victims is allowed to live as a human assistant, but when he leads the aliens to some mutants, the Brood infect him and the mutants as well. It is revealed that the Brood can morph into the host's form or a hybrid of the two forms. In the course of the battle, an Earth woman named Hannah Connover is infected with a queen, though this problem would not develop until later.
Another branch of the Brood manage to land on Earth and infect more mutants, along with the Louisiana Assassins Guild of which X-Man Gambit is a member. The X-Men kill most of the infected people. They and Ghost Rider manage to rescue many of the Brood's other uninfected prisoners, only to have the "Spirit of Vengeance" become infected himself. Psylocke manages to separate Ghost Rider from the Brood host before it could kill Danny Ketch, the current host of the Ghost Rider, and he and the X-Men saved New Orleans.
Hannah Connover, previously infected with a Queen, soon begins to demonstrate attributes of Brood. She uses her new-found "healing" powers to become a faith healer and cure many people with her reverend husband, but secretly her Brood nature causes her to infect many people with embryos. Across the Galaxy, on the "true" Brood Homeworld, the Brood Empress sends her "firstborn" Imperial Assassins to kill Hannah for going against the Empress' wishes. Unable to stop future waves of Assassins from coming, the X-Man, Iceman, freezes Connover, putting her in suspended animation and causing the current firstborn to kill themselves, as in their minds the mission was accomplished. Connover is assumed to still be in suspended animation with her Queen host in the custody of the X-Men.
During the Contest of Champions II, the Brood with the help of the Badoon abduct several heroes and pose as a benevolent species willing to give the heroes access to advanced technology after competing against each other in a series of contests. However, in reality, the Brood intend to use Rogue, infested with a Brood Queen, to absorb the powers of the contest winners and become unstoppable. Fortunately, Iron Man realizes that the Brood are drugging food to amplify aggression- relying on his armor's own life-support systems to prevent him succumbing to the 'infection'- and is able to uncover the plot.
Although the Queen had already absorbed the powers and skills of the various contest winners- in the form of Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Jean Grey and the Scarlet Witch-, the remaining heroes managed to defeat her. The Brood Queen was extracted from Rogue with the aid of Carol Danvers, who forced the Brood Queen to flee by threatening to kill Rogue. After confirming that Rogue was cured, the heroes returned home.
A mixed team of X-Men and Fantastic Four was formed to investigate what happened to the NASA space station Simulacra, only to discover that it had been taken over by the Brood scouting party, leading the way to Earth for the Brood armies. After battling them, they left the station leaving the infected crew members alive despite the desires of Wolverine and Emma Frost to kill them due to the interference of the Invisible Woman. Soon a Brood invasion arrived at New York City. The X-Men and Fantastic Four defended the city from the Brood despite facing overwhelming odds. Using an enhanced Cerebro, Emma Frost projected a telepathic hallucination of the Phoenix and Galactus appearing in the city, which caused the Brood to panic and recall their forces to the dozens of Acanti ships after which they fled Earth.
It was also revealed that at some point in the dawn of civilization during the year 2610 BC, a spaceship filled with Brood crash landed in Egypt, marking the end of the second great dynasty due to the massive damage they've done. They went as far as turning a Pharaoh into one of their own and it also would have been the very end of days if not for Imhotep and a group of soldiers, among them En Sabah Nur, who were able to successfully fend off the invasion. Imhotep himself killed the Queen.
The Brood return to Earth in the Ms. Marvel series and battle Carol Danvers, who as Binary played a key role in their earlier defeat. Strangely enough, none of the Brood present recognize who she is, possibly because of her inability to fully access her cosmic powers, which also changed her physical appearance. The Brood are also stalked and summarily exterminated by the alien hunter called Cru, with whom Ms. Marvel also came into violent contact.
It later turned out that there had been escape pods from the Acanti, and the other one had the Brood Queen who had landed on Moster Island. Cru itself was back on Earth, having regenerated and was searching the Brood Queen. Ms. Marvel, seeing her as a threat, fought Cru again and in the process merged part of their minds temporarily making them unable to use their powers and therefore vulnerable to the Brood. The Brood Queen had established a nest on the island and infected the Moloids with their eggs. Ms. Marvel then discovered that the Brood Queen who ruled over the Brood of Sleazeworld had survived and now had a crystalline form. Upon arriving on the island, Operation: Lightning Storm strike team and Wonder Man battled the Brood, while Cru and Ms. Marvel having regained the ability to use their powers fought the Brood Queen. In the process Cru was killed, after which the Brood Queen was taken into space by Ms. Marvel who destroyed her with a nuclear weapon.
During the invasion of Annihilus and his Annihilation Wave, the Brood were decimated, and the species is now on the brink of extinction.
Some Brood appear in the arena of planet Saakar in the Planet Hulk storyline of The Incredible Hulk, one of them even becoming a main character. A Brood referred to as "No-Name", who becomes a genetic queen because their race is becoming rarer, becomes the lover of insect king Miek and also appears in World War Hulk. When it is discovered that Miek was the one who let the Hulk's shuttle explode, No-Name and Hulk attack Miek. Near the end of the War the "Earth Hive", the shared consciousness of every insect on Earth, use Humbug as a Trojan Horse to deal a crippling blow to No-Name, rendering her infertile and poisoning the last generation of hivelings, growing in Humbug's body. No-Name is a rarity among the Brood, as she learned to feel compassion for other living beings.
The Brood reappeared once again in the pages of Astonishing X-Men, however these Brood are revealed to be actual genetically grown hybrids created by a geneticist known only as Kaga who started growing and redesigning them with missing data about post M-Day work on Henry McCoy's research computers.
In the 2011 "Meanwhile" storyline Astonishing X-Men, S.W.O.R.D. scientists successfully find a way to remove a Brood embryo from a human host, but not before the Brood they are studying escape and attack, prompting a botched rescue mission led by Abigail Brand and another rescue mission led by the X-Men.
Given the chance to lower the Brood's numbers further, they discovered that the Annihilation event had caused the interstellar ecosystem to destabilize, since the Brood, dangerous as they are, served as natural predators for even worse species. These remaining species are now breeding out of control and present a greater threat than the Brood ever did. With no other choice, the X-Men act to prevent the Brood extinction. According to Bishop, there would be a race of benevolent Brood in the future, prompting the X-Men to willingly serve as Brood hosts, so that they could instill them with the same compassion felt by No-Name. After being connected with the hive-mind, the X-Men learned of a nearby Brood who was born with the ability to feel compassion, making him the Brood equivalent of a mutant. While such Brood are typically destroyed upon hatching by their kind, this one was permitted to live due to the Brood's dwindling numbers. After rescuing the Brood mutant and defeating the Brood in battle and allowing them to escape, the X-Men had their Brood embryos removed, to be raised aboard the Peak, with the Brood mutant acting as their mentor.
The 2012 X-Men subseries Wolverine and the X-Men featured a Broodling as a student at Wolverine's Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Nicknamed "Broo" by Oya, the Broodling was a mutant, and both intelligent and non-violent able to wear clothing and glasses (which he felt made him look less frightening). Broo expressed a desire to join the Nova Corps. In a possible future timeline seen by Deathlok, Broo was a member of the X-Men alongside Oya, Quentin Quire, and Kid Gladiator.
During the Age of Ultron storyline, it is revealed that while in a hidden S.H.I.E.L.D. substation decades in the past, the future-Wolverine released and was infected by a less menacing Brood. When he cut the embryo out of his body, the Brood Collective responded to the attack by altering the physical structure of all future Brood to the form it is now known for.
During the Infinity storyline, a Brood Queen appeared as a member of the Galactic Council where she represents the Brood race, which indicates that the Brood Empress was apparently one of the casualties of the Annihilation Wave. She later made a deal with J'son, the former Emperor of the Spartoi Empire which consisted in J'son surrendered the planet Spartax to the Brood, and in exchange, J'son would acquire one planet for every ten worlds they conquered ever since.
In Spider-Man and the X-Men, the Brood made a pact with the Symbiotes but ended up being betrayed and possessed until Spider-Man, with the help of the X-Men and S.W.O.R.D managed to defeat them.
During The Black Vortex storyline, the deal between the Brood Queen and J'son is discover as the Brood began their takeover of Spartax and use the entire planet as hosts. The plot is foiled once Kitty Pryde is cosmically powered by The Black Vortex and banishes the Brood from the planet.
Later the Galactic Council manipulated Thanos into attacking the Earth so he could make way for them to raze the planet, the Queen of the Brood was killed by Angela before she and the other leaders of the Galactic Council could begin their attack.
Dario Agger and Roxxon Energy Corporation managed to obtain some Brood. Using some parasites on some wolves, Agger and one of his scientists sent them to track down Weapon H. When Weapon H slayed them, Dario Agger had Brood Drones, Brood-infected Space Sharks, and a Brood-infected human riding an Acanti into attacking Weapon H. After the Brood Drones and Brood-Space Sharks are slain and the Acanti is knocked out, the Brood-infected human states to Weapon H that Roxxon wants to hire him. Weapon H stated that those who claim to help people will kill them anyway and has the Brood-infected human carry a message to Roxxon to leave him alone.
Later a Brood Queen came to Earth to find the perfect host so she can initiate the process to become the new Brood Empress. Her attempts at targeting astronauts were thwarted by the discovery that J. Jonah Jameson is the perfect host but Frank Castle was able to interfere.
When the New Mutants returned from a space adventure with a mysterious egg which turned out to be extremely valuable to rival alien nation-states of the Kree and the Shi'ar, as well as the Brood, as shown by the Kree and Shi'ar fighting over its location and the Brood invading Earth to get it back. The X-Men beat them back while Broo and his colleagues studied the egg and learn that it actually was the King Egg, a superweapon developed by Kree scientists thousands of years before the modern Marvel Universe on the Kree capital world of Hala, to foster the Brood race and instill a patriarchal element that, when activated, could turn the entire Brood species into a controllable army. This would allow the Kree to set the deadly predators against rival intergalactic powers and consume them.
This leads every Brood Queen to send their swarms in pursuit of it, to prevent any loss of their power in the Brood hive-mind. The Brood initially attacked Earth, but a small team of X-Men including Cyclops, Jean Grey, Havok, Vulcan and Broo was able to get the King Egg off of Earth and lead the aliens off-planet. The Brood followed after them, with the X-Men eventually ending up alongside the Starjammers and members of the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard. After crash-landing on an abandoned planet, it initially looks like the assembled heroes are going to be overwhelmed and wiped out by the sheer magnitude of Brood attacking them. As the various factions of the Brood descended upon the X-Men in a massive battle, the Brood suddenly stopped in place. But just as the Brood surround them, to everyone's surprise, the Brood halt their attack when Broo eats the King Egg. This enhances Broo's biology, increasing his pheromone output to the point where even the Brood Queens become subservient of him. For all intents and purposes, eating the egg turned Broo into the Brood King.
Some time later, the X-Men got a distress call from deep space and find that the galaxy’s Brood problem is not as solved as they’d thought! When the X-Men’s close friend Broo became the Brood King, he gained the ability to control the savage alien race he was both a part of and so different from. Now he is experiencing his own nightmare scenario, the Brood are killing his friends, and there is nothing he can do to stop it! Rogue Brood factions have begun running wild. It was soon revealed that Nightmare is the force behind the recent Brood expansion, using his abilities to usurp control of the race whenever Broo is asleep, and he's doing this specifically to take revenge on the X-Men for Jean Grey's earlier victory over him, while the new Brood Empress, unhappy with the fact Broo had control of the entire Brood, used this opportunity to break free of him. The Empress also blames the Kree for creating the King Egg that gave Broo control over her race, and has a convoluted scheme to convert superheroes into Brood in order to use them as an army against the Kree; the part-Kree Captain Marvel is particularly key to this plot. However the plan backfired when the Empress killed Binary, enraging Carol to the point she created a black hole which killed not only the Empress but her loyal Brood too.
Known Brood
The following characters are either Brood and/or were turned into Brood:
Assassin – A Brood that was spawned from an Assassin's Guild member.
Blake – A servant of Roxxon Energy Corporation who was infected by the Brood parasite in order to help apprehend Weapon H. The Brood-infected human named Blake appeared in a cage with Roxxon's Man-Thing in a Roxxon facility until they were freed by Weapon H. After it was revealed that Roxxon had opened a portal to Weirdworld, Blake and Roxxon's Man-Thing took their leave as Dr. Ella Sterling suggests he seek out Doctor Strange to remove the Brood parasite from him. When the Skrullduggers emerge from the portal and start attacking the nearby humans, Blake and Man-Thing assist Weapon H into fighting the Skrullduggers until it was discovered that the Skrullduggers are shapeshifters. Blake and Man-Thing are sent to keep more Skrullduggers from emerging from the portal. When Weapon H and Dario later check up on them, it was discovered that they had some help in defeating the Skrullduggers from Korg. While commenting that he will need to come up with a codename, his condition to helping Dario deal with the Skrullduggers is $10,000,000.00 and being restored to normal. He even asked Man-Thing if he has a human form to which he doesn't get an answer to. As Weapon H leads the mission to Weirdworld, they are attacked by a tribe of blue-skinned humanoids called the Inaku who blame them for breaking the Earth and allowing the Skrullduggers to take their queen.
Blindside – A Brood Mutant that can teleport. He was killed by Storm.
Brickbat – A Brood Mutant with super-strength. He was killed when Havok collapsed a building where a support beam impaled him.
Broo – A Brood born a mutant when held in the Pandora's Box Space Station.
Broodskrulls – A group of Brood and Skrull Hybrids.
Buchanan Mitty – Former Entymologist turned Brood.
Deadpal – A small Brood born from Deadpool's body after a failed transformation.
Devros – A former Kree turned Brood.
Dive-Bomber – A Brood Mutant that can fly with the wings on its back. He was killed by Havok.
Dzilòs – A Brood killed by Wolverine.
Empress Brood –
Fang – An Imperial Guard turned Brood.
Haeg'Rill – One of the Brood who allied with Deathbird.
Hannah Conover – A known Brood Queen who is married to William Conover.
Harry Palmer – A human paramedic-turned-Brood who is the leader of the Brood Mutants where he infected different Mutants. He was killed by Wolverine.
Josey Thomas – A human paramedic-turned-Brood who is Harry Palmer's partner in the Brood Mutants. She is later killed by the Empress Brood.
Kam'N'Ehar – One of the Brood who allied with Deathbird.
Karl Lykos Brood clone – A clone with mixture from both Sauron and Brood DNA, created by Kaga to join his army in order to annihilate the X-Men.
Khasekhemwy Khasekhemui – A Pharaoh and ruler of Egypt's Upper and Lower Kingdoms during the Second Dynasty who was infected by the Brood. He and the Brood with him were killed by a coalition that were led by Imhotep.
Krakoa Brood clone – A clone with a mixture from both Krakoa and Brood DNA, created by Kaga to join his army in order to annihilate the X-Men.
Lockup – A Brood Mutant with a paralyzing touch. He was killed when Havok collapsed a stage on him and Spitball.
Nassis – A former Shi'ar student turned Brood.
No-Name – A Brood Queen that is a member of the Warbound.
Queen of the Brood – An unnamed Brood Queen who is a member of the Galactic Council.
Skur'kll – One of the Brood who allied with Deathbird.
Spitball – Robert Delgado was a lawyer from Denver whose mutant powers allow him to spit out hot plasma balls. He was among the mutants that were turned into Brood by Harry Palmer. During the fight with the X-Men, Spitball was killed when Havok collapsed a stage on him and Lockup.
T'Crilēē – A hunt-master which contacted a Shi'ar vessel.
Temptress – A Brood Mutant with pheromones that enable her to enslave anyone to her control. While having ensnared Psylocke and Rogue under her control, Temptress was killed by Wolverine.
Tension – A Brood Mutant who can extend his arms to constrict anyone. After attacking Reverend William Conover, Tension was killed by Havok.
Tuurgid – A former Frost Giant turned Brood.
Whiphand – A Brood Mutant who can transform his arms into long bands of energy that can disrupt the neuro-functions of anyone. He was killed by Colossus who snapped his neck.
Xzax – A Brood mercenary who is a member of Dracula's New Frightful Four. He was killed when Deadpool slammed him into a moving truck.
Zen-Pram – A former Kree turned Brood.
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse timeline, without the X-Men to aid them, part of the Shi'ar Imperium was consumed by the Brood, who infected its populace with Brood implants, including the still-captive Christopher Summers. Escaping to Earth, Summers fought to control his Brood implant, but was captured by Mister Sinister. Sinister turned him over to the Dark Beast, who then proceeded to experiment on him for years. Summers eventually escaped, and began infecting other humans (Including the AoA version of Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, as well as friends of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing). Ultimately, Corsair transformed into a Brood Queen and attempted to kill Alex but was killed by his son Cyclops. The Summers brothers cremated their father and indirectly deprived Sinister of the chance to carry out further tests on Brood DNA.
Amalgam Comics
In Amalgam Comics, the Brood is combined with Brother Blood to form Brother Brood, and with the Cult of Blood to form the Cult of Brood. The Brood appear alongside Brother Brood, but are presented as supernatural rather than extraterrestrial.
Bishop's timeline
According to the time-traveling X-Man Bishop there are benign factions of Brood in the future. It is speculated that these "good" Brood are originated from Hannah Connover.
JLA/Avengers
In JLA/Avengers, the Brood have a brief cameo scene, where they are seen attacking Mongul and apparently invading Warworld as the two universes begin to come together.
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men
In WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age, alien hybrids of the Brood and Daemonites are created by Mister Sinister.
Ultimate Marvel
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, the Brood appeared as a Danger Room training exercise during the Tempest arc of Ultimate X-Men. The Brood are later revealed to be creatures native to the mindscape, where the Shadow King dwells.
X-Men: The End
In X-Men: The End, taking place in a possible future, the Brood hatch a plan with Lilandra (possessed by Cassandra Nova). Nova plans to solidify her rule over Shi'ar space by smuggling an other-dimensional pure-Brood queen from an alternate universe. This realm is one where the X-Men failed to ever fight the Brood, they are described as 'pure'. This Brood Queen is implanted in Lilandra's sister, Deathbird.
Marvel 2099
During the attack of insanity brought by Psiclone, the androgynous harlot Cash imagined the Brood between the races of extraterrestrials who swarmed the streets of Transverse City.
X-Men '92
In the comic book series of X-Men '92, which is set in the X-Men animated series' universe, a cadre of Mutant Brood called X-Brood (composed of Hardside, Fastskin, Phader, Sharpwing and Openmind) were tracked down by the Shi'ar, until they were saved by the X-Men.
Earth X
In Earth X, while telling to Isaac Christians of the Dire Wraiths exiled by the Spaceknights in Limbo, Kyle Richmond mentions the Brood, when wondering why the invasion attempts were always done by shapeshifting races as the Skrulls, the Impossible Men or the Brood.
Marvel Zombies: Resurrection
In Marvel Zombies: Resurrection, the infection that has transformed most of Earth's heroes into zombie-like beings is revealed to be the result of a Brood infesting Galactus, which allowed the Brood to achieve a new state of being and expand their resources even further.
Heroes Reborn (2021)
In the 2021 "Heroes Reborn" comic, the Brood were responsible for infecting the Imperial Guard who were allied with Hyperion.
In other media
Television
A heavily altered version of the Brood called the Colony appears in the X-Men animated series. These aliens looked more reptilian than insectoid and were equipped with metallic tentacled armors instead of having organic tentacles. In addition, instead of laying their eggs in other people, they infect other races and transform them into their own kind. In the episode "Love in Vain", they attempted to capture and infect the X-Men to expand their race, but mainly targeted Rogue so they could turn her into their next queen. However, their attempts were foiled by the Wolverine, due to his regenerative powers making him immune to the infection, and Professor X, who used his telepathy to free the Acanti, an extraterrestrial being that was forced to serve as the colony's ship. The classic Brood appears in the episode "Mojovision", as generic aliens that fight Beast and Rogue in one of Mojo's shows as well as the Japanese intro for the X-Men series. A classic Brood Queen also appears in the episode "Cold Comfort" as an illusion projected by Professor X to scare away the soldiers attacking Iceman.
The Brood is also briefly mentioned in the anime series Marvel Anime: X-Men. In the eighth episode, the X-Men battle mutant monsters and Wolverine mistakes them for being the Brood by asking "Have the Brood landed again"?
The Brood appears in the Avengers Assemble; animated series where some of them were seen watching "Mojo-Pocalypse".
A member of the Brood appears in the M.O.D.O.K. animated series after the titular character attempts to summon them, only to discover they had been slain by the Ciegrimites.
Video games
Brood appears as a card in Marvel Snap.
The title of one of the tracks in X-Men 2: Clone Wars is "The Brood Queen & Her Claws", and the Phalanx are enemies in the later levels.
A Brood Queen is a boss in the first X-Men game for the Sega Game Gear.
The Brood and the Brood Queen are enemy characters in the Super NES game X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse.
In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the Cerci are a race of insect enemies which are based on the Brood from the comics. They are referred to as such in the game's viewable concept art, and one type of Cerci is called a "Brood Queen". However, while the Brood are highly intelligent aliens, the Cerci are genetically engineered creatures with animal-like intelligence. As you fight the Cerci, some have a name with "Brood" in the title as well. The Broods plays an important antagonistic role in the PSP extra mission, such as kidnapping Lilandra Neramani and Carol Danvers, and massacring most of the mutants (particularly the Morlocks)
The Brood appear as enemies in Marvel Heroes.
In Lego Marvel Super Heroes, the Brood are mentioned on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier's intercom where it's possible that their eggs were in the tapioca pudding.
Collectibles
One of the Marvel Milestone statues features Marc Silvestri's Brood-infected Wolverine cover for Uncanny X-Men #234.
Brood Queen is one of the "build a figure" toys in the Marvel Legends series.
Broodling toys have been produced by Toy Biz (winged, for their X-Men line) and Marvel Select Toys (unwinged and based on Fang's transformation, in a two pack with a Skrull warrior).
See also
Alien
Brother Brood
Bugs
Tyranids
Zerg
References
External links
The Brood at Marvel.com
The Brood at UncannyXmen.net
Brood at Comic Vine
Brood at Comic Book DB
Marvel Comics characters who are shapeshifters
Fictional parasites and parasitoids
Hive minds in fiction
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Characters created by Dave Cockrum
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Yanbian County () is located in the northwest of Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, China and the lower reaches of the Yalong River. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Panzhihua. The name of Yanbian County is named because of its geographical location on the edge of Yanyuan County. With a total area of 3,269 square kilometers, the population in 2002 was 190,000, and the demographics were Han, Yi, Miao and other ethnic groups.
History
Climate
References
External links
Official website of Yanbian County Government
County-level divisions of Sichuan |
St. Norbert Provincial Park () is a park in the St. Norbert area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The park is in size.
Designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1976, it is considered to be a Class V protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories.
See also
List of protected areas of Manitoba
St. Norbert, Winnipeg
Fort Garry Historical Society
References
External links
Find Your Favorite Park: St. Norbert Provincial Park
Provincial parks of Manitoba
Provincial_Park
Protected areas of Manitoba |
Göksu Hasancik (born 11 February 1987, in Germany) is a German retired footballer.
Career
In 2004/05, Hasancik was offered a contract by Beşiktaş J.K., one of the most successful Turkish clubs, but rejected it due to wanting to finish school.
In 2006/07, he was offered a contract by Fenerbahçe S.K., another of the most successful Turkish clubs. However, the transfer never happened.
After failing to make an appearance with Mardinspor and Fatih Karagümrük S.K. in the Turkish second division, he signed for Slovakian side DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda.
For the 2011 season, Hasancik signed for Estonian club Tartu JK Tammeka, becoming the ethnically Turkish player to play there.
In 2011, he signed for Turan-Tovuz IK in the Azerbaijani top flight, making 1 league appearance before spending the rest of his career with Turkish lower league outfits Çankırıspor and Orduspor.
References
External links
Men's association football goalkeepers
Living people
German men's footballers
1987 births
Footballers from Munich
Orduspor footballers
German sportspeople of Turkish descent |
Ikehata is a Japanese surname that may refer to
Hiroshi Ikehata (池畑, born 1970), Japanese weightlifter
Kanae Ikehata (池端, born 1982), Japanese foil fencer
Shinnosuke Ikehata (池畑, born 1952), Japanese comedienne, singer, dancer and actor
Seiichi Ikehata (池端, 1929–2007), Japanese politician
Yōsuke Ikehata (池端, born 1979), Japanese football player
Japanese-language surnames |
```objective-c
See the file COPYING for copying permission.
*/
#ifndef XmlTok_INCLUDED
#define XmlTok_INCLUDED 1
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/* The following token may be returned by XmlContentTok */
#define XML_TOK_TRAILING_RSQB -5 /* ] or ]] at the end of the scan; might be
start of illegal ]]> sequence */
/* The following tokens may be returned by both XmlPrologTok and
XmlContentTok.
*/
#define XML_TOK_NONE -4 /* The string to be scanned is empty */
#define XML_TOK_TRAILING_CR -3 /* A CR at the end of the scan;
might be part of CRLF sequence */
#define XML_TOK_PARTIAL_CHAR -2 /* only part of a multibyte sequence */
#define XML_TOK_PARTIAL -1 /* only part of a token */
#define XML_TOK_INVALID 0
/* The following tokens are returned by XmlContentTok; some are also
returned by XmlAttributeValueTok, XmlEntityTok, XmlCdataSectionTok.
*/
#define XML_TOK_START_TAG_WITH_ATTS 1
#define XML_TOK_START_TAG_NO_ATTS 2
#define XML_TOK_EMPTY_ELEMENT_WITH_ATTS 3 /* empty element tag <e/> */
#define XML_TOK_EMPTY_ELEMENT_NO_ATTS 4
#define XML_TOK_END_TAG 5
#define XML_TOK_DATA_CHARS 6
#define XML_TOK_DATA_NEWLINE 7
#define XML_TOK_CDATA_SECT_OPEN 8
#define XML_TOK_ENTITY_REF 9
#define XML_TOK_CHAR_REF 10 /* numeric character reference */
/* The following tokens may be returned by both XmlPrologTok and
XmlContentTok.
*/
#define XML_TOK_PI 11 /* processing instruction */
#define XML_TOK_XML_DECL 12 /* XML decl or text decl */
#define XML_TOK_COMMENT 13
#define XML_TOK_BOM 14 /* Byte order mark */
/* The following tokens are returned only by XmlPrologTok */
#define XML_TOK_PROLOG_S 15
#define XML_TOK_DECL_OPEN 16 /* <!foo */
#define XML_TOK_DECL_CLOSE 17 /* > */
#define XML_TOK_NAME 18
#define XML_TOK_NMTOKEN 19
#define XML_TOK_POUND_NAME 20 /* #name */
#define XML_TOK_OR 21 /* | */
#define XML_TOK_PERCENT 22
#define XML_TOK_OPEN_PAREN 23
#define XML_TOK_CLOSE_PAREN 24
#define XML_TOK_OPEN_BRACKET 25
#define XML_TOK_CLOSE_BRACKET 26
#define XML_TOK_LITERAL 27
#define XML_TOK_PARAM_ENTITY_REF 28
#define XML_TOK_INSTANCE_START 29
/* The following occur only in element type declarations */
#define XML_TOK_NAME_QUESTION 30 /* name? */
#define XML_TOK_NAME_ASTERISK 31 /* name* */
#define XML_TOK_NAME_PLUS 32 /* name+ */
#define XML_TOK_COND_SECT_OPEN 33 /* <![ */
#define XML_TOK_COND_SECT_CLOSE 34 /* ]]> */
#define XML_TOK_CLOSE_PAREN_QUESTION 35 /* )? */
#define XML_TOK_CLOSE_PAREN_ASTERISK 36 /* )* */
#define XML_TOK_CLOSE_PAREN_PLUS 37 /* )+ */
#define XML_TOK_COMMA 38
/* The following token is returned only by XmlAttributeValueTok */
#define XML_TOK_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_S 39
/* The following token is returned only by XmlCdataSectionTok */
#define XML_TOK_CDATA_SECT_CLOSE 40
/* With namespace processing this is returned by XmlPrologTok for a
name with a colon.
*/
#define XML_TOK_PREFIXED_NAME 41
#ifdef XML_DTD
#define XML_TOK_IGNORE_SECT 42
#endif /* XML_DTD */
#ifdef XML_DTD
#define XML_N_STATES 4
#else /* not XML_DTD */
#define XML_N_STATES 3
#endif /* not XML_DTD */
#define XML_PROLOG_STATE 0
#define XML_CONTENT_STATE 1
#define XML_CDATA_SECTION_STATE 2
#ifdef XML_DTD
#define XML_IGNORE_SECTION_STATE 3
#endif /* XML_DTD */
#define XML_N_LITERAL_TYPES 2
#define XML_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LITERAL 0
#define XML_ENTITY_VALUE_LITERAL 1
/* The size of the buffer passed to XmlUtf8Encode must be at least this. */
#define XML_UTF8_ENCODE_MAX 4
/* The size of the buffer passed to XmlUtf16Encode must be at least this. */
#define XML_UTF16_ENCODE_MAX 2
typedef struct position {
/* first line and first column are 0 not 1 */
XML_Size lineNumber;
XML_Size columnNumber;
} POSITION;
typedef struct {
const char *name;
const char *valuePtr;
const char *valueEnd;
char normalized;
} ATTRIBUTE;
struct encoding;
typedef struct encoding ENCODING;
typedef int (PTRCALL *SCANNER)(const ENCODING *,
const char *,
const char *,
const char **);
struct encoding {
SCANNER scanners[XML_N_STATES];
SCANNER literalScanners[XML_N_LITERAL_TYPES];
int (PTRCALL *sameName)(const ENCODING *,
const char *,
const char *);
int (PTRCALL *nameMatchesAscii)(const ENCODING *,
const char *,
const char *,
const char *);
int (PTRFASTCALL *nameLength)(const ENCODING *, const char *);
const char *(PTRFASTCALL *skipS)(const ENCODING *, const char *);
int (PTRCALL *getAtts)(const ENCODING *enc,
const char *ptr,
int attsMax,
ATTRIBUTE *atts);
int (PTRFASTCALL *charRefNumber)(const ENCODING *enc, const char *ptr);
int (PTRCALL *predefinedEntityName)(const ENCODING *,
const char *,
const char *);
void (PTRCALL *updatePosition)(const ENCODING *,
const char *ptr,
const char *end,
POSITION *);
int (PTRCALL *isPublicId)(const ENCODING *enc,
const char *ptr,
const char *end,
const char **badPtr);
void (PTRCALL *utf8Convert)(const ENCODING *enc,
const char **fromP,
const char *fromLim,
char **toP,
const char *toLim);
void (PTRCALL *utf16Convert)(const ENCODING *enc,
const char **fromP,
const char *fromLim,
unsigned short **toP,
const unsigned short *toLim);
int minBytesPerChar;
char isUtf8;
char isUtf16;
};
/* Scan the string starting at ptr until the end of the next complete
token, but do not scan past eptr. Return an integer giving the
type of token.
Return XML_TOK_NONE when ptr == eptr; nextTokPtr will not be set.
Return XML_TOK_PARTIAL when the string does not contain a complete
token; nextTokPtr will not be set.
Return XML_TOK_INVALID when the string does not start a valid
token; nextTokPtr will be set to point to the character which made
the token invalid.
Otherwise the string starts with a valid token; nextTokPtr will be
set to point to the character following the end of that token.
Each data character counts as a single token, but adjacent data
characters may be returned together. Similarly for characters in
the prolog outside literals, comments and processing instructions.
*/
#define XmlTok(enc, state, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
(((enc)->scanners[state])(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr))
#define XmlPrologTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlTok(enc, XML_PROLOG_STATE, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#define XmlContentTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlTok(enc, XML_CONTENT_STATE, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#define XmlCdataSectionTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlTok(enc, XML_CDATA_SECTION_STATE, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#ifdef XML_DTD
#define XmlIgnoreSectionTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlTok(enc, XML_IGNORE_SECTION_STATE, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#endif /* XML_DTD */
/* This is used for performing a 2nd-level tokenization on the content
of a literal that has already been returned by XmlTok.
*/
#define XmlLiteralTok(enc, literalType, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
(((enc)->literalScanners[literalType])(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr))
#define XmlAttributeValueTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlLiteralTok(enc, XML_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_LITERAL, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#define XmlEntityValueTok(enc, ptr, end, nextTokPtr) \
XmlLiteralTok(enc, XML_ENTITY_VALUE_LITERAL, ptr, end, nextTokPtr)
#define XmlSameName(enc, ptr1, ptr2) (((enc)->sameName)(enc, ptr1, ptr2))
#define XmlNameMatchesAscii(enc, ptr1, end1, ptr2) \
(((enc)->nameMatchesAscii)(enc, ptr1, end1, ptr2))
#define XmlNameLength(enc, ptr) \
(((enc)->nameLength)(enc, ptr))
#define XmlSkipS(enc, ptr) \
(((enc)->skipS)(enc, ptr))
#define XmlGetAttributes(enc, ptr, attsMax, atts) \
(((enc)->getAtts)(enc, ptr, attsMax, atts))
#define XmlCharRefNumber(enc, ptr) \
(((enc)->charRefNumber)(enc, ptr))
#define XmlPredefinedEntityName(enc, ptr, end) \
(((enc)->predefinedEntityName)(enc, ptr, end))
#define XmlUpdatePosition(enc, ptr, end, pos) \
(((enc)->updatePosition)(enc, ptr, end, pos))
#define XmlIsPublicId(enc, ptr, end, badPtr) \
(((enc)->isPublicId)(enc, ptr, end, badPtr))
#define XmlUtf8Convert(enc, fromP, fromLim, toP, toLim) \
(((enc)->utf8Convert)(enc, fromP, fromLim, toP, toLim))
#define XmlUtf16Convert(enc, fromP, fromLim, toP, toLim) \
(((enc)->utf16Convert)(enc, fromP, fromLim, toP, toLim))
typedef struct {
ENCODING initEnc;
const ENCODING **encPtr;
} INIT_ENCODING;
int XmlParseXmlDecl(int isGeneralTextEntity,
const ENCODING *enc,
const char *ptr,
const char *end,
const char **badPtr,
const char **versionPtr,
const char **versionEndPtr,
const char **encodingNamePtr,
const ENCODING **namedEncodingPtr,
int *standalonePtr);
int XmlInitEncoding(INIT_ENCODING *, const ENCODING **, const char *name);
const ENCODING *XmlGetUtf8InternalEncoding(void);
const ENCODING *XmlGetUtf16InternalEncoding(void);
int FASTCALL XmlUtf8Encode(int charNumber, char *buf);
int FASTCALL XmlUtf16Encode(int charNumber, unsigned short *buf);
int XmlSizeOfUnknownEncoding(void);
typedef int (XMLCALL *CONVERTER) (void *userData, const char *p);
ENCODING *
XmlInitUnknownEncoding(void *mem,
int *table,
CONVERTER convert,
void *userData);
int XmlParseXmlDeclNS(int isGeneralTextEntity,
const ENCODING *enc,
const char *ptr,
const char *end,
const char **badPtr,
const char **versionPtr,
const char **versionEndPtr,
const char **encodingNamePtr,
const ENCODING **namedEncodingPtr,
int *standalonePtr);
int XmlInitEncodingNS(INIT_ENCODING *, const ENCODING **, const char *name);
const ENCODING *XmlGetUtf8InternalEncodingNS(void);
const ENCODING *XmlGetUtf16InternalEncodingNS(void);
ENCODING *
XmlInitUnknownEncodingNS(void *mem,
int *table,
CONVERTER convert,
void *userData);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* not XmlTok_INCLUDED */
``` |
Vincent L. Leibell III (born August 6, 1946) is a former American politician from Putnam County, New York. After a long career in the New York State Legislature, Leibell ran for and was elected county executive in 2010, but resigned prior to taking office following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which led to his arrest and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.
His resignation was in connection with a Federal plea arrangement stemming from two felony convictions relating to kickbacks Leibell had received while using his position as State Senator to steer taxpayer monies towards two local non-profit agencies which he controlled. In November 2012, he was released to a halfway house after completed serving 17-months of his 21-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute in Loretto, Pennsylvania.
Early life and background
Leibell was born in New York City. His grandfather and namesake was a federal judge, Vincent L. Leibell.
Leibell worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Westchester County District Attorney's office. He was a Captain in the United States Navy and a Rear Admiral in the New York Naval Militia.
Family
He is married, with three children. He received his BA and JD from Saint John's University, as well as an MPA from New York University. Because he was convicted of two felony counts of corruption in 2010, Leibell was forced to forfeit his law license. According to the Daily News, Leibell pleaded guilty to two charges to end a Federal investigation of him.
Political career
Leibell entered politics as a Republican. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1983 to 1994, sitting in the 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th. In November 1994, he was elected to the State Senate, defeating Ex-Lieutenant Governor Alfred DelBello.
Leibell was a member of the New York State Senate from 1995 to 2010, sitting in the 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 194th, 195th, 196th, 197th and 198th New York State Legislatures. In November 2010, he was elected Putnam County Executive. Over the years, he attracted controversy for his reputation for patronage and as a political kingmaker in Putnam County - the local newspaper cited the rumor that his preferred method of handling political opposition was to "kill them in the cradle."
Although he had a twenty-eight year career in the State Legislature, Leibell was not particularly known for his legislative accomplishments and passed no significant legislation with his name attached to it, yet Leibell's largesse with so-called pork barrel spending and ability to "bring home the bacon" earned him the moniker "Uncle Vinnie".
Even after being convicted of two felonies, Leibell attracted further scandal when it was revealed he used campaign funds to spend $931 on new tires and $267 in Barnes and Nobles visits days after pleading guilty on Federal corruption charges. The government watchdog group Citizens Union called Leibell's actions part of a "legislative crime wave" in New York State, and named Leibell one of 17 legislators who lost their seat due to criminal issues from 2004 to 2010.
FBI investigation, conviction
On June 26, 2010, the Journal News reported that FBI subpoenaed records for the home that Leibell built in Patterson, New York. On December 6, 2010, Leibell pleaded guilty to felony bribery, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice charges related to $43,000 in cash kickbacks he took from 2003 to 2006. Leibell had resigned from the State Senate on December 2, 2010, just prior to being arrested, which controversially due to a loophole in the New York State pension system allows him to keep a $71,000 pension despite his conviction.
The charges stated Leibell doled out $6.5 million in taxpayer funded "member items" to nonprofit groups he controlled from 2005 to 2010, according to records maintained by the Empire Center for New York State Policy and the Albany Project. He was sentenced to twenty one months in Federal Prison, after a Federal Judge rejected a plea by Leibell's lawyer to have the former Senator sent overseas to do "nation building work" in the Middle East instead of jailtime, a suggestion which outraged the media and local residents whom Leibell had betrayed by his actions.
The Leibell property in Patterson, New York formerly belonged to the late actress Elizabeth Montgomery, who employed Leibell's law firm to attend to certain legal matters. Leibell later purchased a portion of the property after the settlement of the Montgomery estate. Through use of Leibell's Senate position, the rest of the land became Wonder Lake State Park, which, from its founding in 1998 until 2006, had no discernible public access points.
Critics called Wonder Lake a personal park for the Senator, but Lebeill tried to assert it was used by hikers, though the park was shuttered nonetheless by the State amidst the 2010 New York State budget crisis. Leibell also used $230,000 in taxpayer dollars to construct a wooden footbridge on Route 311 in Patterson which critics derided as a "bridge to nowhere." Ironically, Leibell had moved to the home from Tammany Hall Road, named after the corrupt political machine run by Boss Tweed in mid-19th century New York.
"Leibell has only himself to blame for the fact that, after 28 years in public office, this conviction will be the capstone to that career," said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for Manhattan who announced Leibell's guilty plea. Bharara explained that the FBI recorded Leibell threatening not to pay invoices sent to Leibell's 501(c)(3) nonprofit by an unnamed attorney unless the attorney paid half of the invoice amount back to Leibell in cash.
References
1946 births
Living people
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service alumni
People from Putnam County, New York
Politicians from New York City
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
American people convicted of tax crimes
Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
American politicians convicted of fraud
New York (state) politicians convicted of corruption
New York (state) politicians convicted of crimes
21st-century American politicians |
The 2017–18 United States national rugby sevens team season included both the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. The season began badly. In the first tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai, 2017 World Rugby Player of the Year Perry Baker suffered a concussion, and the United States team limped to a last place finish. The U.S. improved from that point on, reaching the semifinals of the Australia Sevens. The team then won the 2018 USA Sevens, the first time the U.S. won their home tournament, boosted in large part by Perry Baker, who led all scorers with 8 tries. Baker, along with forwards Ben Pinkelman and Danny Barrett all made the tournament Dream Team. Overall the team displayed inconsistent performances, reaching the Cup semifinals three times, but also failing to qualify for the cup quarterfinals three times. Despite the inconsistent play, the U.S. finished sixth overall.
2017–18 World Sevens Series
Player statistics
The following table shows the leading players for the U.S. after the 2017–18 Sevens Series season. Among all World Series, players, Isles ranked first in tries scored with 49, and Baker ranked fifth with 37. Ben Pinkelman ranked fourth in tackles with 124 and fourth in matches played with 58.
Source: World Rugby website.
2018 USA Sevens
The United States won the tournament by beating Argentina 28–0 in the final. This was the first time that the United States won its home tournament. USA's Perry Baker led the tournament with 8 tries and 11 breaks. Baker, Pinkelman, and Barrett were all named to the seven-man tournament Dream Team.
Substitutes: Carlin Isles, Malon Aljiboori
Unavailable due to injury: Madison Hughes, Stephen Tomasin, Maka Unufe
With the U.S. finishing out the game with a lineup that included Isles (wing), Baker (center), Williams (fly-half) and Aljiboori (forward), it is believed that this is the first time the U.S. has fielded a team where the majority of players are African-American.
2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
5th place semi-finals
5th place final
Head coach: Mike Friday
See also
2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament
References
2017–18
United States
2018 in American rugby union
2017 in American rugby union |
Talant Rysbekovich Dzhanagulov (; born 17 October 1989) is a Kyrgyzstani judoka who competed in the super heavyweight division (+100 kg). He was also the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Sports Reference – Talant Dzhanagulov
NBC Olympic Profile
Sportspeople from Bishkek
1989 births
Living people
Kyrgyzstani male judoka
Olympic judoka for Kyrgyzstan
Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
20th-century Kyrgyzstani people
21st-century Kyrgyzstani people |
Forest Buffen Harkness Brown (1873–1954) was an American botanist known for his work on pteridophytes and spermatophytes.
Life and research
Brown studied forestry, systematic botany, and ecology at the University of Michigan in 1902, receiving his master's degree in 1903. Early in his career, Brown studied plant distribution on the flood plain of the Huron River in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
He worked for the United States Forest Service before joining Ohio State University as professor of botany. Brown pursued further research on Hawaiian trees at Yale University for two years and received his Ph.D. in 1918. He married biologist Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist on August 20 of the same year, and the two of them performed two years of field work on the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bayard Dominick Expedition to the Marquesas Islands (1921–1922), along with ethnologist Edward S. Handy and archeologist Ralph Lauton. Brown and his wife also visited the Tuamotu archipelago and New Zealand where they collected 9000 dried plant and 120 wood samples. In 1920, Brown was a research fellow at Yale when he became a staff botanist for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife joined him at the Bishop Museum as a research associate in cryptogamic botany.
Organizations
Michigan Academy of Science
Collections
Ypsilanti Historical Society, YHS Letter Collection. Letters and drawings (1889–1918).
Publications
Brown, Flora of Southeastern Polynesia. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu 1931-35. (3 volumes)
Notes and references
1873 births
1954 deaths
American botanists
People from Ypsilanti, Michigan
University of Michigan alumni
Yale University alumni |
Lyuban District (; ) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus. The administrative center of the district is Lyuban.
Notable residents
Władysław Syrokomla (known in Belarus as Uladzislaǔ Syrakomla) (1823, Smolków estate – 1862), poet, writer and translator
References
External links
Districts of Minsk Region |
Listed below are the dates and results for the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification.
A total of 22 CAF teams entered the competition (two withdrew). The African Zone was allocated 1 place (out of 16) in the final tournament.
Format
There would be four rounds of play:
First Round, Second Round and Third Round: In each of these rounds, the teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the next round, until there would be 3 teams left.
Final Round: The 3 teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.
First round
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Morocco won 2–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Guinea won 5–2 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Tunisia won 3–2 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Ivory Coast won 3–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Kenya won 2–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
The aggregate score was tied 1–1, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Second Round.
Ethiopia advanced to the Second Round, via the play-off.
Zambia won 6–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Nigeria won 3–2 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Ghana won 10–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Zaire won 4–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.
Madagascar withdrew, so Mauritius advanced to the Second Round automatically.
Gabon withdrew, so Cameroon advanced to the Second Round automatically.
Second round
|}
Morocco won 3–1 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.
Ivory Coast won 3–2 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.
Kenya won 5–3 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.
Zambia won 4–2 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.
Ghana won 2–0 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.
The aggregate score was tied 1–1, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Third Round.
Zaire advanced to the Third Round.
Third round
|}
Morocco won 5–2 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.
Zambia won 4–2 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.
Zaire won 4–2 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.
Final round
Zaire qualified.
Qualified teams
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
6 goals
William Ouma
Kembo Uba Kembo
5 goals
Kwasi Owusu
Ahmed Faras
4 goals
Kakoko Etepé
Jean-Kalala N'Tumba
3 goals
Tariku Ingdawerk
Moustapha Choukri
Freddie Mwila
Moses Simwala
Brighton Sinyangwe
2 goals
Noël Kouamé
Bernard N'Guessan
Mama Ouattara
Abwcari Gariba
Osei Kofi
Ibrahim Sunday
Chérif Souleymane
Daniel Jean Robert Imbert
Yakubu Mambo
Kenneth Olayombo
Ezzedine Chakroun
Mohieddine Habita
Bernard Chanda
Godfrey Chitalu
Joseph Mapulanga
1 goal
Rabah Gamouh
Mokhtar Kalem
Paul-Gaston Ndongo
Jean-Michel M'Bono
Noël Minga
Kouman Kobinam
Laurent Pokou
Damien Kamilou
Sayed Abdelrazak
Ali Khalil
Tekeste Gebremedhin
Kassahun Teka
Seyoum Tesfaye
Akuetteh Armah
Joseph Ghartey
Clifford Odame
Joseph Sam
Maxime Camara
Smith Samuel
Petit Sory
Soriba Soumah
Daniel Anyanzwa
Peter Ouma
John Shore
Ramoseli Thietsi
Anwar Jackaria
Hassan Amcharrat
Chérif Fetoui
Maouhoub Ghazouani
Mohamed Maghfour
Sunday Oyarekhua
Louis Gomis Diop
Izzeldin Osman
Nassoro Mashoto
Abdesselam Adhouma
Mbungu Ekofa
Mavuba Mafuila
Mayanga Maku
Kamunda Tshinabu
Obby Kapita
Simon Kaushi
Burton Mugala
Boniface Simutowe
See also
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)
References
CAF
FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
Qual
Qual |
Philippe Hersent (26 July 1912 – 30 December 1982) was a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1930 to 1978.
Filmography
References
External links
1912 births
1982 deaths
French male film actors |
René Coicaud (25 August 1927 – 1 October 2000) was a French fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He competed at the 1955 Mediterranean Games where he won a gold medal in the team foil event.
References
External links
1927 births
2000 deaths
People from Libourne
French male foil fencers
Olympic fencers for France
Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Gironde
20th-century French people
Fencers at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing |
This article focuses on Japanese definitions of gender and sexuality, Japanese reactions to queer life, the clash between traditional and contemporary ideas, and the cultural restraints of being queer in Japan. The Western term “queer,” an umbrella term for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender represents a change in thought pertaining to gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan.
Japanese definitions of gender and sexuality
In Japan, gender and sexuality are conceptualized through a spectrum wherein the various social roles of the “all encompassing” group are emphasized. Under this construction, expressions of gender and sexuality are varied, as is evidenced by Japan's gender-bending communities.
The concept of transgender originates from edo period in Japan. Actresses were forbidden to perform in the kabuki theatre considering the gender inequality and social hierarchy. Male actors are playing all the characters within the play, as they will dress up like women. These actors kept their attire both inside and outside the theatre. At the time, it was generally believed that only men could truly know what a woman looked like. People who behaved like a woman would be assumed to socialise as one. The latter is a result of how Japan conceptualized gender and sexuality in terms of adopted social roles. As Japan becomes more westernized there is a growing concern for the treatment of the sexual and gender minorities.
With the introduction of Buddhism, one of the earliest forms of non-heterosexuality documented in Japan is found in young male homosexual practices during the Heian period (745 to 1185). Buddhism came to Japan from China by way of Korea during the Asuka period. Because Buddhist monks lived on steep mountains isolated within their own societies, they developed their own sexual customs. Young boys (age 11 to age 17) called “Tigo” served the monks sexually because female relationships were strictly forbidden.
In modern Japan, it is not uncommon to hear Western terms such as gay and lesbian (ゲイ gei and レズビアン rezubian). Such terms differ significantly from terms used in the past and thus show a westernizing trend. Before western contact, Japan did not have a system of identification in which one's identity was determined by one's biological sexual preference. In fact, “the tripartite taxonomy of sexual types that has resulted from the social construction [homo-, bi-, heterosexuality-], held no currency in Japan.” However, this does not indicate that sexual behaviors between individuals of the same sex were not practiced. In fact, such behavior was so common in Japan that documentation of same sex relationships dates back over a thousand years.
During the Edo period, for instance, male-female sexual relations were important to secure offspring and social status; however, male-male sexual relations, particularly amongst the Samurai, were viewed as an intricate part of male socialization. The term wakashudo or shudo, literally translated as “the way of the young men,” observing an earlier form of homosexuality that focused on the sexual relationship between a Samurai and his pupil. Such relationships established an unquestionable acceptance of same-sex practices and were not restricted to men.
Women also engaged in bisexual practices although these practices are not as well documented as those of men. During the 16th century, medieval women gained new-found security as wives within virilocal systems, in contrast to the insecurity of Heian-period wives in uxorilocal and wifevisiting arrangements where women were easily abandoned by their spouses. This change was significant because it allowed women to establish more prominent positions within the household through which they were able to exert more influence. In turn, this allowed a kind of sexual liberation for many women.
Modern Japan following post-World War II does not paint the same picture of gender fluidity. Specifically, scholars in the social sciences tend to agree that gender roles are more restrictive than ever. To name one example, sexual reassignment surgery in Japan requires the applicant to be medically diagnosed with gender identity disorder in order to be accepted by a state-sanctioned clinic. However, scholars argue that this prerequisite is meant as an intentional enforcement of binary gender roles, rather than a symbol of sexual tolerance.
Modern Japanese LGBT life
Dating back to the Edo Period (1603–1867), various literary and artistic depictions of sexual acts between men and young boys exist. Homosexuality in the western sense began during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and later in the Taishō period (1912–1925). In the Meiji period, same-sex practices were considered personal preferences. However, documentation and case studies only go back to the 1900s, leaving little room for analysts to distinguish homosexuality as an ‘obscene sexuality.’
In 1975, twelve women became the first group of women in Japan to publicly identify as lesbians, publishing one issue of a magazine called Subarashi Onna (Wonderful Women).
In the 1980s in Tokyo, a group of lesbians who spoke English began to form, and in 1985 they started having in-person gatherings called uiikuendo ("weekends") as part of the International Feminists of Japan conference.
McLelland's article states how far the society has dealing with homosexual people in Japan, as "The Social Situation Facing Gays in Japan" presents a well rounded discussion on how the society reacts to homosexual people. It discusses the social structure of Japanese society and how well it accommodates the sexual minority. For instance, the sexual minority has now become a very important part of the Human Rights policies constructed by the “Tokyo City Human Rights Policy Directive Manual released in 2000”. Gay people were originally dropped during the first draft of the policy, but after facing pressure from the public, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and queer activist groups, the council eventually pledged to safeguard the human rights of gay people.
Japanese society's view of LGBT and sexual minorities has shifted due to the rapid westernization in postwar period. Consequently, lesbian, gay, bisexual and gender variant identity and behavior have since come to be seen as aberrant or "diseased". In more recent times, however, with the influences of LGBT magazines, research, interviews, case studies, auto-biographies, journals and activism, more people have a relatively accepting and respectful attitude towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. The availability of literature, information and formal representation of queer voices has helped many young Japanese to identify themselves with sexual minority groups. More importantly, awareness has opened a mode of communication between mainstream Japanese society and LGBT people in Japan.
In the modern world, Japanese LGBT people are facing difficulties such as societal prejudice or discrimination. Often men in contemporary Japanese society express their sexual attraction for other men with a low self-esteem and a lack of self-confidence. The extensive information on queer life-styles has helped to change this and now gay people are more comfortable with their sexual orientation. In 2017, Japan became the first country in the world to elect an openly transgender man to a public office when Tomoya Hosoda was elected as a councillor for the city of Iruma.
Many LGBT people are aware of the negative perception that much of Japanese society has about LGBT lifestyles. University students who openly discuss their problems with fellow students categorize themselves as ‘straight’ to avoid uncomfortable situations when seeking employment. McLelland's article talks about how gay men in the provincial areas face oppressive and condescending remarks. While awareness amongst Japanese society has helped queer people to express their identities, societal restrictions prevent queer people from living freely and contently in regards to employment and public accommodations. Furthermore, the lack of clinical psychologists versed in understanding queer identities does not help the advancement for social acceptance.
The “western modes of promoting activism and visibility, such as LGBT organizations, film festivals and parades in Japanese society have been taken by some as evidence of a ‘global queering.’ In the realm of sexuality, globalization results in creative indigenization and cultural admixture more than it does in any unilateral imposition of western sexual identities.” Thus, “Japan is home to an alternative sexual modernity, a modernity produced by hybrid globalizing processes as much as by the continuation of identities, practices and mentalities inherited from the past.”
The clash between traditional and contemporary ideas
The all encompassing term which refers to the non-heterosexual and gender-variant practices and identities that include gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals is "kono sekai" (Japanese). The term literally translated in English means “this world,” and is used to refer to the wide variety of gender and sexual subcultures.
Homosexual practice is also found among the Samurai aristocracy in part because of the heavy influence that Buddhism had on their culture specifically during the early stages of the Edo period (1600–1868). Also during this period, “there was no necessary connection made between gender and sexual preference, because men, samurai in particular, were able to engage in both same and opposite sex affairs without being stigmatized.” Because same-sex relationships were governed by a code of ethics, “elite men were able to pursue boys and young men who had not yet undergone their coming-of-age ceremonies, as well as transgender females of all ages from the lower classes who worked as actors and prostitutes.” Although bisexuality in women was practiced, the notion of lesbianism was not documented and there is “no way of cognitively linking both male and female homosexuality.
It was not until the Meiji period (1868–1912) that “Japanese sexuality” was transformed through influence from “the West.” From a male to male perspective, before the Meiji period, the “behaviors between a man and a man dealt with the commitment to spend their lives together, not on their sexual desire.” Current queer expressions were established through postwar sex magazines, coffee shops (danshoku kisssaten), gay bars (gei ba), and various queer organizations.
Cultural restraints
The current social restraints on personal expression and employment opportunities related to being a sexual or gender minority in Japan present a modern challenge. As a represented minority in a country where mainstream conformity is promoted and preferred, the LGBT populace of Japan are ostracized and stereotyped by society; however they are commonly portrayed by media components. The media presents those attracted to the same gender as transgender or transsexual, or vice versa. However, even these representations are viewed as a performance instead of sexual expression, further illustrating the media's refusal to admit the existence of sexual and gender minorities. Mark McLelland stated that “the homosexual man who is transgender and restricts himself to the entertainment world is tolerated, even appreciated. However, the homosexual man who ‘passes’ and turns up to be your boss, your teacher, your neighbor or even your husband occasions a great deal of anxiety; he is a figure to be feared and or despised.” This way of thought represents the restraints on personal expression by dwelling on LGBT people as a group that crossdresses. However, as representations of gay sexuality are concerned, only those that are noticeable, i.e. those that crossdress, are wanted while the unnoticeable masses are shunned. These forces press for a common expression of self that likely would not exist if social systems allowed for their personal expression.
The suppressed expression of self is further expounded by the cultural practices revolving around family and marriage. The custom of living at home until marriage presents restrictions of LGBT life in Japan; the belief that one’s family will shame and disown a child who comes out as a sexual minority represses these children into living within a different frame of existence by forcing them to behave in the same manner as a heterosexual child. Along with this suppression, the lack of private space restricts the expression of feelings and self identity during times of growth, which in turn restrains attempts at finding love in the LGBT community. Along with these family issues the government’s refusal to acknowledge same-sex marriage forces gay, lesbian and bisexual people into an outcast position by society’s preference for marriage and family to which they are refused access.
Further national government influence unofficially restricts employment opportunities to those who remain in the closet. “Homosexuality works against the accepted norms of social morality and can be thought of as contributing to the breaking down of the established sexual public order of society. Consequently it should not be sanctioned in modern society.” This example of government preference on education presents one example of employment opportunities lost to the LGBT populace of Japan. Furthermore, many Japanese organizations are incorrectly informed on LGBT issues which restrain and influence performance reports and promotional possibilities. These problems place pressure on sexual minorities to accept their diminished reputations or leave a company due to unrestrained bigotry from those in the workforce.
See also
Blue boy trial
Homosexuality in Japan
LGBT culture in Japan
LGBT rights in Japan
Newhalf
Otokonoko
X-gender
References
Sexuality in Japan
LGBT in Japan |
St. Jean Vianney Catholic School is the newest Roman Catholic Elementary/Middle Parochial School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It runs from kindergarten to eighth grade and is a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge.
History
The school opened in August 1985 with a small enrollment of 90 students in grades kindergarten to four. The school building, consisting of two floors with four classrooms on each floor, was dedicated by Bishop Stanley Ott and Father Eugene Engels, the pastor at St. Jean Vianney Church at the time.
Between 1985 and 1992, the enrollment grew to approximately 300. Because of this, starting with the Class of 2000, who entered kindergarten in the 1991–1992 school year, the classes for each grade were split in two with about thirty students in each section. In addition, a second wing containing four classrooms and a larger cafeteria was constructed and opened in the 1992–1993 school year. Also during this year, a courtyard containing concrete paths, trees, and a flagpole was built between the two buildings.
In 1991, the school opened a computer lab with about thirty computers donated by Piccadilly Cafeterias. In 1995, the school's library was moved from a small classroom to a hall on the church grounds known as "Curé d'Ars Hall," which also served as the original school cafeteria until 1992. Between 1995 and 2000, the campus received four temporary buildings for use as alternate classrooms and for electives. In 1998, to accommodate for an even larger student body, the cafeteria was converted into four classrooms. Since 1998, students eat their lunch in the old church building, now known as Father Engels Hall.
Students
As of 2006, there are approximately 500 students, and since 1999, the enrollment has been around that number. Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, the school accepted several dozens of students from New Orleans, bringing its enrollment close to 600, but many returned to their schools soon after. Students are required to wear uniforms, and in addition, they have to wear dress clothing (long pants for boys and skirts for girls) on days in which the Mass is celebrated (usually Friday or Holy Days of Obligation); however, there are many opportunities in which students have free dress day. In addition, on the first Friday of each month, students can wear a Spirit Day tee-shirt.
Academics
St. Jean Vianney offers instruction in reading, mathematics, science, social studies, English, and religion to all students. Younger grades also take phonics.
In the middle school grades, there are upper and lower-level classes in various subjects, and some eighth graders can take algebra. There are seven fifty-minute periods daily to accommodate adequate teaching time to each subject, and there is a thirty-minute lunch period, as well as an afternoon recess, for the middle schoolers. The lower grades have two recesses.
Students also participate in electives, which include Spanish, computer science, art, and physical education.
Students from third grade to eighth grade are also required to read between one and three books from an approved list as part of a summer reading program. Also, students, beginning in second grade, participate in the Accelerated Reader program in which they must either read a certain number of books or earn a minimum number of points as part of a required grade in reading class. The three students in each class who earn the most points for each quarter are awarded with a certificate.
At the end of each of the four nine-week quarters, students in grades three through eight who have received all A's in their subjects, conduct, and penmanship receive recognition and awarded certificates for making Principal's List. Students in these grades who have A's and B's on their report card receive Honor Roll recognition. Students who maintain Principal's List or Honor Roll for all four quarters of the year are presented medals for their work at the final awards ceremony. Students who receive all A's in conduct are awarded. The best student in each class, also chosen by the teacher is awarded the SJV Award.
Athletics and Extracurriculars
St. Jean Vianney offers several options for athletic and extracurricular activities. In terms of athletics, boys may play football or basketball, and girls may play basketball or volleyball, or they can serve as cheerleaders. The school also has a co-ed track team, as well as a cross country team. The 2008–2009 school year was the first time the school have ever had a soccer team. It is for grades five through eighth, boys and girls. On January 20, 2016, the school opened the doors to its first gymnasium.
St. Jean Vianney also has a Junior Beta Club, in which middle school students are allowed to join via invitation. The school has a Student Council for middle schoolers. These two clubs participate in service projects around the community. In addition, there is a Math Club, which participates in several local junior high tournmanents. A Drama Club was recently started at the school, and they perform a play annually during the spring. The school also has a band and choir, and they perform at both school and sometimes Sunday masses, as well as various other school events. Students can also participate in the yearbook club, in which they assist in producing the school's yearbook.
St. Jean also hosts a Spirit Day Pep Rally several times throughout the year, as well as Field Day at the end of the school year. They traditionally hold Halloween parties for each grade. On a weekly basis, The school celebrates mass, and once a month, students whose birthdays fall during the month are recognized. Fifth and eighth graders participate in the DARE program, and all students participate in an essay, poem, and poster contest hosted by the Catholic Daughters. Middle school students in grade six participate in a Social Studies Fair, grade seven participate in science fair, and grade eight participate in Religion fair..
Awards
In addition to being recognized for Principal's List, Honor Roll, and good conduct, there are various special awards that a student can receive.
Every quarter, the teacher in each class selects an outstanding student to receive the SJV Award. Students can be recognized for perfect attendance at the end of each year. The Woodman of the World Award is presented to an outstanding seventh grader, based on social studies scores in American history. The Claire Goudeau award is also given to up to four fourth-graders who are chosen by their teachers.
Eighth graders have the opportunity to receive additional awards for their effort and contribution to St. Jean Vianney. Subject and athletic awards are presented to outstanding athletes and students at an end-of-the-year breakfast. Two eighth grade students (one boy and one girl) who have participated outstandingly in sports are awarded the Danny Maranto Award. A graduation ceremony and mass is held on a Saturday morning in May to confer diplomas to all eighth graders. Also at this ceremony, the Holy Trinity Award, St. Jean Vianney's highest honor, is presented to the best "all-around" student.
Principals
Jo Ellen Ourso (1985-1990)
Lillian Harelson (1990-1995)
Mike Lucia (1995-1999)
Lorry Perry (1999-2003)
Christina Babin (2003-2005)
Wendy Gilmore Ross (2005–present)
Mission statement
The mission of St. Jean Vianney School is to enhance and develop the God-given capabilities and talents of each student according to Catholic principles and sound educational theory.
External links
Official Site
Schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Private elementary schools in Louisiana
Private middle schools in Louisiana |
Beat the House is an American reality series that aired on HGTV. It is hosted by real estate agents JoJo Jones and Christopher Kromer, and centers upon both realtors competing for the same customers. The show began airing on January 7, 2014.
Premise
The show's premise centers upon the show's two hosts, JoJo Jones and Christopher Kromer, approaching a prospective customer that is ready to purchase a house from a third real estate agent. The hosts then show the customer two additional homes, giving them the option to remain with their previous choice or to choose between the houses that the two hosts have presented.
Episodes
Reception
Bloomberg Businessweek wrote a mixed review for the show, criticizing it for being overly familiar to similarly themed real estate reality shows while stating that it does introduce some new elements in that the show "capitalizes on a specifically modern fear—the recently coined "fear of missing out".
References
External links
HGTV original programming
2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings |
Ahmadabad-e Yek (, also Romanized as Aḩmadābād-e Yek; also known as Aḩmadābād) is a village in Kavirat Rural District, Chatrud District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 5 families.
References
Populated places in Kerman County |
Zhou Jiamin (; born 9 February 1990) is a Chinese Paralympic archer.
In the 2016 Summer Paralympics, her debut games, Zhou won two gold medals.
References
Paralympic archers for China
Archers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for China
Living people
Chinese female archers
1990 births
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in archery
21st-century Chinese women |
Betta lehi is a species of gourami. It is native to Asia, where it occurs in the area southwest of Kuching in Sarawak in Malaysia, as well as the lower Kapuas River basin in West Kalimantan in Indonesia. It is typically found among vegetation in quiet streams in peat swamp forests and other acidic wetland environments. The species reaches 6.1 cm (2.4 inches) in standard length and is known to be a facultative air-breather.
References
lehi
Fish described in 2005
Fish of Malaysia |
Kolonia Starorawska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Kawęczyn, within Skierniewice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Skierniewice and east of the regional capital Łódź.
References
Kolonia Starorawska |
Joseph Karwowski was a Russia-born inventor, known for his corpse preservation invention.
Career
Born in Russia, Karwowski immigrated to the United States and was based in Herkimer, New York. He obtained US Patent Number 748,284 in 1903 for his Solid Glass "Coffin" designed to preserve dead bodies for as long as intended. According to his application for the patent, addressed to the United States Patent Office, the coffin, which is actually a transparent tank made of glass, is capable of storing either the whole corpse or just the head. He specified that the coffin would be air-tight.
Legacy
A fact concerning Karwowski's dead body-preserving invention appeared on the June 29, 2013 Ripley's Believe it or Not! comic strip by John Graziano.
References
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
20th-century American inventors
People from Herkimer, New York |
A Night at the Vanguard (also released as Man at Work) is a live album by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1959 at the Village Vanguard and originally released on the Argo label.
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars and reviewer Michael Erlewine described it as: "A solid effort top to bottom, and a recording most highly recommended, this is Burrell and his extraordinary trio very close to, if not truly in their prime, and their element".
Track listing
Personnel
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Richard Davis - bass
Roy Haynes - drums
References
Kenny Burrell live albums
1959 live albums
Argo Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Village Vanguard |
Richard Anthony Edward North (born 1948) is a British blogger and author. He has published books on defence and agriculture. He was previously the research director in the European Parliament for the now-defunct political grouping Europe of Democracies and Diversities, which included the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
North has collaborated with the late journalist Christopher Booker on climate change, public health and other issues. He co-wrote a number of books with Booker, and collaborated with Booker's journalism.
Background
North had "a brief career in the Royal Air Force" before becoming a local government officer, and then for two decades ran his own consultancy business. A 1994 contribution to the Institute of Economic Affairs's journal Economic Affairs described him as "an independent food safety adviser". "He then moved into trade politics and thence to the European Parliament as research director for the group of European Democracies and Diversities", a grouping of eurosceptic political groups which existed from 1999 to 2004, in which the UK Independence Party (UKIP) participated. At the European Parliament in Strasbourg, North shared an office with UKIP's leader Nigel Farage.
He completed a PhD on public sector food-poisoning surveillance at Leeds Metropolitan University in the 1990s.
North stood for the Referendum Party in the 1997 election, in South Derbyshire, having joined the party in 1996. In the 2004 European elections, North was UKIP's number one candidate on the party list for the Yorkshire region, until he was supplanted by Godfrey Bloom, who won a seat. North later resigned from UKIP, describing his service for the party as "optimism, descending into frustration, to disillusionment and to betrayal".
European Union
Contributions
He began collaborating with the journalist Christopher Booker in the early 1990s, co-publishing on a range of issues, including the European Union. Their works advance a popular though academically disputed historiography of the UK's membership of the European Union. Their first book, The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain (1994), focused on EU regulation in the UK, and was followed by The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must get Out of Europe (1996) and The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive? (2005). In 2004, he published a Bruges Group paper on the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system.
North's blog, eureferendum.com, reached third place on the Technorati list of most influential blogs in the UK for 2006.
In a post on his eureferendum.com blog, in May 2015, North called on supporters of the UK withdrawing from the EU to contact him with the aim of forming a volunteer unit to "monitor, add, and edit" Wikipedia content to be more favourable to their views. Furthermore, he claimed that Wikipedia's "wrong" coverage of climate change, of which North is a notable denier, proved the need for such endeavors.
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016, the EU Referendum blog has grown increasingly critical of perceived shortcomings of the UK Government in the negotiating process, including its failures to acknowledge the difficult trade-offs necessary in the negotiations and the refusal of the UK authorities to engage with Flexcit, or a path like EEA/EFTA membership, in exchange for a "No Deal" exit.
Flexcit
North is the original author and main proponent of Flexcit (standing for "Flexible Continuous Exit"), a policy suggestion involving gradual British disengagement from the European Union. It has been claimed by Andrew Orlowski of The Register that Flexcit became a point of reference for civil servants.
Flexcit argues that exit from the EU is "a process rather than an event", so advocating a phased repatriation of powers, which has been described as "Brexit lite". The document proposes that Britain should retain membership of the European Economic Area by rejoining the European Free Trade Association, often called the Norway option. Under the proposal, Britain would initially adopt the community acquis of the European Union, the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law. North argues that under this approach to EU exit there would be very little visible consequence of Britain's change in status, either for the better or the worse. Further renegotiation of trade and governance would become a longer-term option.
North was one of seventeen shortlisted entrants invited to submit a full submission to the Institute of Economic Affairs's 2013 Brexit Prize competition. Entrants were asked to imagine an "out" vote in a proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union and asked to compose a blueprint for the process of withdrawal, taking account of Britain's relationship to global governance and trade systems. His proposal reached the shortlist for the final. It became the official policy of Arron Banks' Leave.EU campaign that vied unsuccessfully for official recognition as the official Leave campaign.
Reception of the academic community
The EU politics writer and blogger J. Clive Matthews has argued that North is guilty of "pandering to his audience’s preconceptions and prejudices". A European Commission official and academic has argued that North and Booker are best seen as "latter-day pamphleteers", who "exaggerate their case", advancing an "all-embracing, Kafkaesque conspiracy, the "System", consisting of an evil partnership between Brussels and Whitehall". A review of North's co-authored book The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive? (2005), in the academic journal The Historian described his "skewed portrayal" of European integration "against the will of a bamboozled European public", as "not so much false as ludicrous", noting "the book loses whatever credibility it accrues in its better chapters by its persistently exaggerated language". Another review, in the Prague-based academic journal Perspectives, praises the book's attempted scope, but accuses the authors of straying into "populism", and "lack[ing] objectivity", noting the book "should be read as an expression of one view of European integration rather than a well balanced academic source". The reviewer concludes by noting the importance of the book's influence on popular euroscepticsm in the UK, but warns readers to look elsewhere for "an objective information source".
Princeton University's Andrew Moravcsik, whose research is cited in the book, has accused the authors of "misconstruing" his work as supporting their narrative and failing to demonstrate that there were any viable alternatives to European Union membership, with Booker and North's economics being "even dodgier than their history". He further argues that their "Eurosceptic dogma" of an "undemocratic" scheme of centralised regulation" is undermined by their own examples; that it is largely "British officials exercising their own discretion" and juggling the fate of special interest groups against the wider economy.
Responding to a question on "Flexcit" by a supporter of North during a live Q&A on Reddit, the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law at the University of Liverpool, Michael Dougan, noted that North's "academic work on EU law" was not known to him as it was not published in the mainstream international peer-reviewed journals for the field of European legal studies. Dougan suggested further that it does not meet the "internationally recognised" standards for the discipline.
Health
North and Booker wrote a special edition for Private Eye on the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, describing the subsequent merger of the Agriculture (MAFF) and Environment ministries to form the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) as the "most cynical makeover since Windscale changed its name to Sellafield".
More recently, North collaborated with Booker on Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth (2007), a study of the part played in Western society in recent decades by the "scare phenomenon".
Defence
North's 2009 sole-author book, Ministry of Defeat 2003–2009: The British in Iraq, was reviewed in the Daily Telegraph. North also blogs on defence matters and is credited by Booker with early contributions to the criticism of the Ministry of Defence's use of under-protected Land Rovers in Afghanistan. In 2003, he published a Centre for Policy Studies paper on UK defence policy.
Climate change
North has written about and commented on climate change from a sceptical position, including co-authoring (with Christopher Booker) Climategate to Cancun: The Real Global Warming Disaster Continues..., the followup to Booker's The Real Global Warming Disaster. North also collaborated with Booker in January 2010 on what Booker dubbed "Amazongate", when North showed that an IPCC claim that 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to "even a slight reduction in precipitation" was sourced to a World Wildlife Fund report. While North was correct to point out that the report was not peer-reviewed scientific literature, it later became clear that there was evidence supporting the report's claim, and The Sunday Times printed an apology and retraction for an article based on material from North.
In December 2009, Booker and North published an article in The Sunday Telegraph in which they accused Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of using his position for personal gain, with a follow-up Telegraph article in January 2010. According to George Monbiot, "The allegations ... were widely aired in the media and generally believed." On 21 August 2010, The Daily Telegraph issued an apology, and withdrew the December article from its website, having reportedly paid legal fees running into six figures. Pachauri described the original allegations as "another attempt by the climate sceptics to discredit the IPCC".
Books
(with Christopher Booker), The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain (1994)
(with Christopher Booker), The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must get Out of Europe (1996)
The death of British agriculture: the wanton destruction of a key industry, Gerald Duckworth and Company, 2001
(with Christopher Booker), The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?, Continuum Publishing, 2005 (EU Referendum Edition was published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in April 2016)
(with Christopher Booker), Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth, Continuum Publishing, 2007
Ministry of Defeat 2003–2009: The British in Iraq 2003–2009, Continuum Publishing, 2009
The Many Not the Few: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain, Continuum Publishing, 2012
References
External links
Eureferendum.com
Living people
British bloggers
Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
1948 births |
The 2009 Polska Energia Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bytom, Poland between 15 and 21 June 2009.
Singles entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of May 25, 2009.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Mateusz Kowalczyk
Michał Przysiężny
Mateusz Szmigiel
Bojan Szumański
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Vasek Pospisil
Guillaume Rufin
Artem Smirnov
Nicolás Todero
Champions
Singles
Laurent Recouderc def. Jan Hájek, 6–3, 6–4
Doubles
Pablo Santos / Gabriel Trujillo Soler def. Jan Hájek / Dušan Karol, 6–3, 7–6(3)
References
Official website
ITF search
2009 Draws
Polska Energia Open
Clay court tennis tournaments
ZRE Katowice Bytom Open
Polska Energia Open, 2009 |
The Overwatch World Cup (OWWC) is an annual international Overwatch esports tournament organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer, with the first edition taking place in 2016. The tournament ran every year until 2019; after a three-year hiatus, the OWWC will return in 2023.
The tournament format has varied in each year, with the most recent one involving a preliminary stage in which national teams competed against others in a single-elimination tournament system to claim the five qualification spots in the group stages, which also included five national teams who prequalified via ranking. Top-ranked teams from the group stage advanced to a single-elimination playoff bracket at Blizzard's BlizzCon event every November. The first three World Cups were won by South Korea, while the most recent one was won by the United States.
History
According to former lead game director Jeff Kaplan, Overwatch was not developed with any dedication towards esports. Dan Szymborski of ESPN stated that Overwatch was poised as the next big esport for having a sufficiently different look and playstyle from established esports game like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Call of Duty, enough variety in maps and characters, and strong support from Blizzard to maintain the game for a long time. Bryant Francis writing for Gamasutra noted the speed and short match times of Overwatch make the game highly favorable for viewership, further supporting the title as an esports. Overwatchs progression into esports was described by Rolling Stone as a "strategy [that] involved carefully rolling out the game in steps – first a closed beta, then open beta, then full release, then a competitive mode and finally a league."
In June 2016, the esports organizer ESL announced that they would host the first international Overwatch competition in August 2016, called Overwatch Atlantic Showdown. The competition used four open qualifiers beginning in June, followed by regional qualifiers and then a final online qualifier. Eight teams then competed for a six-figure prize in the finals to be held at Gamescom 2016 from August 20–21. Turner Broadcasting's ELeague announced the first Overwatch Open tournament, starting in July 2016, with a total prize pool of $300,000, with plans to broadcast the finals on Turner's cable channel TBS in September 2016.
In August 2016, Blizzard announced their own Overwatch international tournament, allowing users to vote for teams to represent their nation or region. Over 3 million votes to decide national teams were cast. The inaugural Overwatch World Cup was watched by 100,000 people at BlizzCon 2016. The South Korean team won the tournament, defeating the Russian team in the final round.
In March 2017, Blizzard announced Overwatch World Cup 2017. The selection of national teams for the 2017 World Cup was different from 2016 in that participating nations were required to vote for an Overwatch World Cup National Committee. The National Committees were based upon nominations chosen by Blizzard; according to Blizzard, "analysts, coaches, statisticians, and other authorities" recommended rosters for all stages of the competition. Blizzard announced the 2017 World Cup participants in April. The 2017 World Cup experienced an issue with several players on the Chinese team being denied visas to enter the United States for the final round, causing four players on the team to be replaced by substitutes.
Format
Prior tournaments
The 2016 format had four qualifying tournaments to thin the field for the final tournament, while the 2017 and 2018 formats used an average skill rating of each country's top players to determine which countries qualified for the tournament. Qualified teams were divided into round-robin style groups – 4 groups in 2016, 8 in 2017, and 4 in 2018. In every year, teams that made it past the group stages moved on a single-elimination playoff bracket.
The 2019 World Cup took place across three stages: preliminary rounds, group stages, and playoffs. A country's national ranking was determined by a point-ranking system based on final placements in the previous World Cups. Any country wishing to participate was eligible to play in the preliminary rounds, a single-elimination, seeded bracket. The top five countries based on their national ranking were not required to play in the preliminary rounds and received a bye to the group stages. The seeding was based on the national rankings, and the top five countries from the preliminary rounds advanced to the group stages. The Group Stages took place on November 1, 2019. The ten countries competing in the group stages were split evenly into two round-robin style groups. The top three countries from each group advanced to the knockout stage on November 2, with the top-ranked country from each group receiving a bye to the semifinals. The four other countries that advanced from the group stage would play in the quarterfinals. The winners of the finals would be awarded a gold medal, while the losers would be awarded silver. The two teams that lost in their respective semifinals match would play each other for the bronze medal.
Broadcasting
The World Cup was broadcast through live stream channels via the Twitch platform. Official live stream broadcast channels were provided in English, Chinese, Korean, French, Russian, German, Japanese, and Thai. Other languages were broadcast through community–run channels on the official Overwatch World Cup team page. Prior to the third edition of the event, Disney and Blizzard Entertainment announced a multiyear deal for coverage of Overwatch esports.
Results
Teams reaching the top four
Source: OWWC
Awards
An MVP award for the Final Round of the OWC had been awarded since the inaugural tournament in 2016.
See also
Development of Overwatch
Overwatch League
References
External links
Annual sporting events
November sporting events
Recurring sporting events established in 2016
Sports competitions in Anaheim, California |
```javascript
export function EmojiPicker () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "emoji_picker" */'../../emoji/emoji_picker');
}
export function Compose () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/compose" */'../../compose');
}
export function Notifications () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/notifications_v1" */'../../notifications');
}
export function Notifications_v2 () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/notifications_v2" */'../../notifications_v2');
}
export function NotificationsWrapper () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/notifications" */'../../notifications_wrapper');
}
export function HomeTimeline () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/home_timeline" */'../../home_timeline');
}
export function PublicTimeline () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/public_timeline" */'../../public_timeline');
}
export function CommunityTimeline () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/community_timeline" */'../../community_timeline');
}
export function Firehose () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/firehose" */'../../firehose');
}
export function HashtagTimeline () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/hashtag_timeline" */'../../hashtag_timeline');
}
export function DirectTimeline() {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/direct_timeline" */'../../direct_timeline');
}
export function ListTimeline () {
return import(/* webpackChunkName: "features/list_timeline" */'../../list_timeline');
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export function Lists () {
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export function EmbedModal () {
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export function CompareHistoryModal () {
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export function FilterModal () {
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export function InteractionModal () {
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``` |
The Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, also known as Many Rivers Joining-Human Beings, is a First Nations band government located in Ontario, Canada. Sagamok's culture and language is Anishinabek and is made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Pottawatomi bands. The Sagamok occupy the Sagamok reserve approximately 120 kilometres west of Sudbury, Ontario, and have a population of approximately 1650.
In the early years of Canada's development, the French relied on Sagamok's strategic location to trade with the local Anishnaabe people of that time. The French base of operations was the nearby Fort La Cloche.
See also
Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute
References
External links
First Nation Community Profile
Assessment Study of Water and Wastewater Management Systems, March 7, 2001
First Nations governments in Ontario |
The Men's 69 kilograms event at the 2018 Asian Games took place on 22 August 2018 at the Jakarta International Expo Hall A.
Schedule
All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)
Records
Results
Legend
NM — No mark
References
External links
Weightlifting at the 2018 Asian Games
Men's 69 kg |
Kenner Gutiérrez Cerdas (born 9 June 1989) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays for Liga Nacional club Xelajú.
Career
He played for Costa Rica at the 2017 Copa Centroamericana and the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was named among the standby players for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and was later called up to replace the injured Rónald Matarrita.
On July 1, 2020, after Liga Deportiva Alajuelense failed to win the league for the 13th consecutive time, it was announced that Gutiérrez would not have his contract renewed, after pressure from fans demanding the team let go of long-time players to make room for new ones.
Career statistics
International
Honours
Alajuelense
Primera División de Costa Rica: Apertura 2010, Apertura 2011, Clausura 2011, Apertura 2012
Xelajú
Liga Nacional de Guatemala: Clausura 2023
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
Costa Rican men's footballers
Costa Rica men's international footballers
2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense footballers
Liga FPD players |
```javascript
const { assert, skip, test, module: describe } = require('qunit');
const { GPU } = require('../../src');
describe('internal: precision');
(GPU.isWebGLSupported ? test : skip)('WebGL Decimal Precision', () => {
const gpu = new GPU({mode: 'webgl'});
const add = gpu.createKernel(function(a, b) {
return a + b;
}).setOutput([1]);
let addResult = add(0.1, 0.2)[0];
assert.equal(addResult.toFixed(7), (0.1 + 0.2).toFixed(7));
const reflectValue = gpu.createKernel(function(a) {
return a;
}).setOutput([1]);
//Just for sanity's sake, recurse the value to see if it spirals out of control
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
const newAddResult = reflectValue(addResult)[0];
assert.equal(newAddResult, addResult);
addResult = newAddResult;
}
gpu.destroy();
});
(GPU.isWebGL2Supported ? test : skip)('WebGL2 Decimal Precision', () => {
const gpu = new GPU({mode: 'webgl2'});
const add = gpu.createKernel(function(a, b) {
return a + b;
}).setOutput([1]);
let addResult = add(0.1, 0.2)[0];
assert.equal(addResult.toFixed(7), (0.1 + 0.2).toFixed(7));
const reflectValue = gpu.createKernel(function(a) {
return a;
}).setOutput([1]);
//Just for sanity's sake, recurse the value to see if it spirals out of control
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
const newAddResult = reflectValue(addResult)[0];
assert.equal(newAddResult, addResult);
addResult = newAddResult;
}
gpu.destroy();
});
(GPU.isHeadlessGLSupported ? test : skip)('HeadlessGL Decimal Precision', () => {
const gpu = new GPU({mode: 'headlessgl'});
const add = gpu.createKernel(function(a, b) {
return a + b;
}).setOutput([1]);
let addResult = add(0.1, 0.2)[0];
assert.equal(addResult.toFixed(7), (0.1 + 0.2).toFixed(7));
const reflectValue = gpu.createKernel(function(a) {
return a;
}).setOutput([1]);
//Just for sanity's sake, recurse the value to see if it spirals out of control
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
const newAddResult = reflectValue(addResult)[0];
assert.equal(newAddResult, addResult);
addResult = newAddResult;
}
gpu.destroy();
});
``` |
Zuyar (, also Romanized as Zūyār, Zūvār, and Zuwār; also known as Zovān) is a village in Eqbal-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 820, in 177 families.
References
Populated places in Qazvin County |
Stanton is an unincorporated community located within Readington Township in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The community dates back to the 17th century and was settled by the Dutch immigrants. It was originally called Housel's after Johannes Housel, who had a farmstead along Dreahook Road in the mid-18th century. After the death of William Housel (who started a school in the community), the last owner of the Housel farmstead, it then carried the name of Waggoner's Hill after landowner William Waggoner. The community took the descriptive name of Mount Pleasant in the early 20th century and would finally become known as Stanton to distinguish it from another Mount Pleasant. The name "Stanton" was taken from James Logan's Pennsylvania estate: Stenton, which in turn is named for the Scottish village where his father was born. Logan was a proprietor of West Jersey, a mayor of Philadelphia, and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Logan Way in Readington is named after him, as well as Logan Circle and the Logan neighborhood in Philadelphia and Logan Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. In the 1830s, a Reformed Church and a general store were built. The Stanton Reformed Church still stands today while the Stanton General Store has been converted to an Italian restaurant called the Stanton Italian Table.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Stanton include:
Emma Bell (born 1986), actress.
J. C. Furnas (1906–2001), freelance writer and social historian.
Howard Lindsey (1889–1968), theatrical producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor.
William Marchant (1923–1995), playwright and screenwriter, known for writing the play that was remade into the 1957 movie, The Desk Set.
Dorothy Stickney (1896–1998), Broadway actress.
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Stanton has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
References
Unincorporated communities in Readington Township, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey |
Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy.
Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure. The ice-pick transorbital approach, a transorbital lobotomy, involved placing an orbitoclast (an instrument resembling an ice pick) under the eyelid and against the top of the eye socket; a mallet was then used to drive the orbitoclast through the thin layer of bone and into the brain. Freeman's transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room, often by untrained psychiatrists without the use of anesthesia by using electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure and unconsciousness. In 1947, Freeman's partner Dr. James W. Watts ended their partnership because he was disgusted by Freeman's modification of the lobotomy from a surgical operation into a simple "office" procedure.
Freeman and his procedure played a major role in popularizing lobotomy; he later traveled across the United States visiting mental institutions. In 1951, one of Freeman's patients at Iowa's Cherokee Mental Health Institute died when he suddenly stopped for a photo during the procedure, and the orbitoclast accidentally penetrated too far into the patient's brain. After four decades Freeman had personally performed possibly as many as 4,000 lobotomies on patients as young as 4, despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. As many as 100 of his patients died of cerebral hemorrhage, and he was finally banned from performing surgery in 1967. Freeman's procedure eventually spread across the world.
Early years
Walter J. Freeman was born on November 14, 1895, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by his parents. Freeman's grandfather, William Williams Keen, was well known as a surgeon in the Civil War. His father was also a very successful doctor. Freeman attended Yale University beginning in 1912, and graduated in 1916. He then moved on to study neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. While attending medical school, he studied the work of William Spiller and idolized his groundbreaking work in the new field of the neurological sciences. Freeman applied for a coveted position working alongside Spiller in his home town of Philadelphia, but was rejected.
Shortly afterward, in 1924, Freeman relocated to Washington, D.C., and started practicing as the first neurologist in the city. Upon his arrival in Washington, Freeman began work directing laboratories at St. Elizabeths Hospital. Working at the hospital and witnessing the pain and distress suffered by the patients encouraged him to continue his education in the field. Freeman earned his PhD in neuropathology within the following few years and secured a position at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., as head of the neurology department.
In 1932, his mother died at the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital in Philadelphia.
Medical practice
The first systematic attempt at human psychosurgery – performed in the 1880s–1890s – is commonly attributed to the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. Burckhardt's experimental surgical forays were largely condemned at the time and in the subsequent decades psychosurgery was attempted only intermittently. On November 12, 1935, a new psychosurgery procedure was performed in Portugal under the direction of the neurologist and physician Egas Moniz. His new "leucotomy" procedure, intended to treat mental illness, took small corings of the patient's frontal lobes. Moniz became a mentor and idol for Freeman who modified the procedure and renamed it the "lobotomy". Instead of taking corings from the frontal lobes, Freeman's procedure severed the connection between the frontal lobes and the thalamus. Because Walter Freeman was a neurologist and not a neurosurgeon, he enlisted the help of neurosurgeon James Watts. One year after the first leucotomy, on September 14, 1936, Freeman directed Watts through the very first prefrontal lobotomy in the United States on housewife Alice Hood Hammatt of Topeka, Kansas. By November, only two months after performing their first lobotomy surgery, Freeman and Watts had already worked on 20 cases including several follow-up operations. By 1942, the duo had performed over 200 lobotomy procedures and had published results claiming 63% of patients had improved, 23% were reported to be unchanged and 14% were worse after surgery.
Freeman then "developed a transorbital approach" based on the work of an Italian doctor, Amarro Fiamberti, who operated on the brain through his patients' eye sockets, allowing him to access the brain without drilling through the skull. After experimenting with novel ways of performing these brain surgeries, Freeman formulated a new procedure called the transorbital lobotomy. His new procedure allowed him to perform lobotomies without the use of anesthesia, because he used electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure: "[Freeman] used a mallet to tap an orbitoclast (a slender rod shaped like an icepick) through the orbital roof. Following penetration of the orbital roof, Freeman would sweep the orbitoclast laterally to obliterate frontal lobe tissue. Additionally, he was able to perform the procedure in an office setting because he anesthetized patients with a portable electroshock machine." He performed the transorbital lobotomy surgery for the first time in Washington, D.C., on a housewife named Sallie Ellen Ionesco. In 1950, Walter Freeman's long-time partner James Watts left their practice and split from Freeman due to his opposition to the transorbital lobotomy.
Freeman traveled across the country visiting mental institutions, performing lobotomies and spreading his views and methods to institution staff. (Contrary to myth, there is no evidence that he referred to the van that he traveled in as a "lobotomobile".) Freeman's name gained popularity despite the widespread criticism of his methods following a lobotomy on President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary Kennedy, which left her with severe mental and physical disability. A memoir written by former patient Howard Dully, called My Lobotomy, documented his experiences with Freeman and his long recovery after undergoing a lobotomy surgery at 12 years of age. After four decades Freeman had personally performed possibly as many as 4,000 lobotomy surgeries in 23 states, of which 2,500 used his ice-pick procedure, despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. In February 1967, Freeman performed his final surgery on Helen Mortensen. Mortensen was a long-term patient and was receiving her third lobotomy from Freeman. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage, as did as many as 100 of his other patients, and he was finally banned from performing surgery. His patients often had to be retaught how to eat and use the bathroom. Relapses were common, some never recovered, and about 15% died from the procedure. In 1951, one patient at Iowa's Cherokee Mental Health Institute died when Freeman suddenly stopped for a photo during the procedure, and the surgical instrument accidentally penetrated too far into the patient's brain. Freeman usually wore neither gloves nor mask during these procedures. He lobotomized 19 minors, including a four-year-old child.
At 57 years old, Freeman retired from his position at George Washington University and opened up a modest practice in California.
An extensive collection of Freeman's papers were donated to The George Washington University in 1980. The collection largely deals with the work that Freeman and James W. Watts did on psychosurgery over the course of their medical careers. The collection is currently under the care of GWU's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.
Freeman was known for his eccentricities and he complemented his theatrical approach to demonstrating surgery by sporting a cane, goatee, and narrow-brimmed hat.
Death
Freeman died of complications arising from an operation for cancer on May 31, 1972.
He was survived by four children—Walter, Frank, Paul and Lorne—who became defenders of their father's legacy. Paul became a psychiatrist in San Francisco, and the eldest, Walter Jr., became a professor of neurobiology at University of California, Berkeley.
Contributions to psychiatry
Walter Freeman nominated his mentor António Egas Moniz for a Nobel Prize, and in 1949 Moniz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He pioneered and helped open up the psychiatric world to the idea of what would become psychosurgery. At the time, it was seen as a possible treatment for severe mental illness, but "within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine." He also helped to demonstrate the idea that mental events have a physiological basis. Despite his interest in the mind, Freeman was "uninterested in animal experiments or understanding what was happening in the brain". Freeman was also co-founder and president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology from 1946 to 1947 and a contributor and member of the American Psychiatric Association.
Works
Freeman, W. and Watts, J.W. Psychosurgery. Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield (Ill.) 1942, pp. 337.
References
Further reading
External links
Guide to the Walter Freeman and James Watts papers, 1918–1988, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University
The Lobotomist, authoritative biography of Freeman by Jack El-Hai
New England Journal of Medicine article
Article referencing Jack El-Hai's initial Washington Post feature on Freeman
A Brief History of Lobotomy
'My Lobotomy' documentary program from SoundPortraits.org
"Shedding Light on Shadowland"
American neurologists
1895 births
1972 deaths
Physicians from Philadelphia
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Yale University alumni
American psychiatrists
Lobotomy
Human subject research in psychiatry
20th-century American physicians |
The 104th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 4, 1927, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor Robert P. Robinson and James H. Anderson as Lieutenant Governor.
Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time.
In the 104th Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.
Leadership
Senate
William F. Allen, Sussex County, Democratic
House of Representatives
William Wintrup, New Castle County, Republican
Members
Senate
About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
House of Representatives
All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
References
Places with more information
Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161
University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965
Delaware legislative sessions
1920s in Delaware |
Philotermes pilosus is a species of rove beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Aleocharinae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Beetles described in 1857 |
Charleston is the nation's 95th largest designated market area (DMA), with 326,770 households and 0.27% of the U.S. TV population. The following stations are licensed in Charleston and have significant operations or viewers in the city:
Major network television affiliates
WCBD-TV (2, NBC, CW+): owned by Nexstar Media Group, studios in Mount Pleasant, licensed in Charleston
WGWG (4, MeTV): (owned by Howard Stirk Holdings), studios in Mount Pleasant, licensed in Charleston
WCSC-TV (5, CBS): owned by Gray Television, studios in Charleston, licensed in Charleston
WITV-TV (7, PBS): owned by South Carolina Educational Television, transmitter in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, licensed in Charleston
WHDC-LD (12, Court TV): owned by Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC, licensed in Charleston
WLCN-CD (18, CTN): owned by Christian Television Network, studios in Summerville, licensed in Charleston
WTAT-TV (24, Fox): owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, studios in North Charleston, licensed in Charleston
WAZS-LD (29, Azteca America Independent): owned by Jabar Communications, studios in North Charleston, licensed in Charleston
WCIV (36, My Network Television, ABC): owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, studios in Mount Pleasant, licensed in Charleston
Radio
FM
WSCI - South Carolina Educational TV Radio [89.3 MHz] - NPR News and Classical
WKCL - We Know Christ Lives [91.5 MHz] - Contemporary Christian
WCKN - 92.5 Kickin' Country [92.5 MHz] - Country music
WWWZ - Z93 Jamz [93.3 MHz] - Urban Contemporary
WSCC - NewsRadio94.3 [94.3 MHz] - News / Talk
W234CV - The Zone 94.7 MHz Sports
WSSX - 95SX [95.1 MHz] - Contemporary Top 40
W238CO - Latina 95.5 [95.5 MHz] - Spanish Adult Contemporary
WMXZ - Modern Hits 95.9 [95.9 MHz] - Modern Hits
WOHM - [96.3 MHz] Variety
WIWF - The Wolf [96.9 MHz] - Classic Hits
WYBB - 98 Rock [98.1 MHz] - Active Rock
W253BW - 98.5 WQSC [98.5 MHz] Classic Country
WTMZ-FM -ESPN [98.9 MHz] - Sports
W257BQ - The Box [99.3 MHz] - Urban Contemporary (Simulcast on 95.9 WMXZ HD2)
WXST - Star99.7 [99.7 MHz] - Urban Adult Contemporary
W261DG - Heaven 100.1 [100.1 MHz] - Gospel (Heaven 1390AM FM Translator)
WALC - HIS Radio [100.5 MHz] - Contemporary Christian
WAYA-FM - WAY-FM [100.9 & 101.3 MHz] - Contemporary Christian
WAVF - CHUCK FM [101.7 MHz] - Adult Hits
W254BK - The City [102.1 MHz] - Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, & 80s (Simulcast on WQNT 1450 AM)
WXLY - Y102.5 [102.5 MHz] - Adult Contemporary
WEZL - WEZL 103.5 [103.5 MHz] - Country
W280EX - La Raza 103.9 [103.9 MHz] Regional Mexican
WRFQ - Q104.5 [104.5 MHz] - Classic Rock
WCOO - 105.5 The Bridge [105.5 MHz] - Album Adult Alternative
WJNI - Gospel 106.3 [106.3 MHz] - Gospel
WMGL - 107-3 MAGIC [107.3 MHz] - Urban Adult Contemporary
AM
WLTQ - [730 kHz] - Religious
WTMZ - The Zone [910 kHz] - Sports Talk
WCDC - Moody Radio Charleston [950 kHz] - Christian radio
WAZS - La Raza 103.9 [980 kHz] - Regional Mexican
WTMA - The Lowcountry's Big Talker [1250 kHz] - News / Talk
WQSC - Classic Country 98.5 FM [1340 kHz] - Classic Country
WSPO - Heaven 1390 [1390 kHz] - Gospel (Simulcast on 95.9 HD3)
WQNT - [1450 kHz] - The City (Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, & 80s)
WZJY - Latina 95.5 [1480 kHz] - Spanish Tropical
High definition digital radio
1640 XSUR - 70s & 80s ("Surfside 1640")
Print, online media and mobile apps
Local newspapers in Charleston include The Post and Courier, the Charleston City Paper, The Charleston Chronicle, the Charleston Regional Business Journal, The Catholic Miscellany, and the Island Eye News.
A local online-only paper is TheDigitel.
A popular, local digital publication is Charleston Daily. Charleston Daily can also be found across multiple mobile apps celebrating in everything Charleston, South Carolina''.
See also
South Carolina media
List of newspapers in South Carolina
List of radio stations in South Carolina
List of television stations in South Carolina
Media of locales in South Carolina: Columbia, Greenville
References
External links
Charleston radio stations on TvRadioWorld
Local Charleston online travel gGuide
Charleston |
Bernard J. David is an entrepreneur, educator, and author.
David has founded, built and sold several businesses. They include SaveSmart, Inc. (Prio, Inc.)--sold to Infospace, Inc. and officesupplies.com—sold to Office Depot.
Sustainability
Since 2001, David has turned his attention to the area of sustainability. He has adopted the view that 'sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.'
He believes that a systems approach to sustainability is critical—one that is based on science, and harnesses market forces to drive and fuel progress to solve large scale climate issues.
To that end, he is the founder of the Global Initiative, a market-based solution to address one of the grand challenges of our planet: the impact of excessive emissions in our atmosphere and oceans. By investing in innovative approaches to capture and transform into commercial products, the initiative endeavors to create economically viable solutions that offer sustained climatological benefits.
Mr. David was also a commissioner on the Energy Transitions Commission, a diverse group of global leaders from corporate, governmental, academic and non-profit backgrounds who believe the evolution of energy systems is not a single change, but is made up of many different, but inter-connected energy transitions. The group aims to inform what it will take to create credible, accelerating transitions towards universal, clean energy systems across the world.
Using informed commerce (market-based solutions), Bernard helped to create Captura. Captura designed a solution that removes from the ocean and harnesses its ability to heal the climate—a process known as Direct Ocean Capture (DOC).
After David's life-altering heart attack, he discovered the power of plant-based foods to solve health and climate issues. He realized the need to feed 10 billion people on planet Earth by 2050 with nutritious and sustainable food, taking climate impact into account. David therefore founded and serves as chairman of the Board of The ISH Company. The ISH Company is on a mission to create innovative, sustainable, and healthy (ISH) food that transforms the way we eat.
From a science perspective, David is a member of the Director's Council of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography whose mission is to seek, teach, and communicate scientific understanding of the oceans, atmosphere, Earth, and other planets for the benefit of society and the environment. He also sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), the nation's largest research program dedicated to the development of artificial solar fuels generation science and technology.
David has served on the boards of NEON, Inc (The National Ecological Observatory Network) funded by the United States National Science Foundation and the Stroud Water Research Center.
He was a member of the advisory committee of the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program, a program designed to highlight the importance of invention to economic development, innovation and quality of life, globally.
To educate future generations, David founded erthnxt, inc., which became a part of the National Wildlife Federation. Its flagship program “Trees for Wildlife” focuses on educating youth on the merits of gaining a long-term perspective through service-based learning. The program has now been spun off into a for-profit company called Garden for Wildlife.
David is a member of the External Advisory Board of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan and was a senior fellow at The Wharton School's Initiative on Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL).
From a policy standpoint, David served as a trustee of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. He has also been an advisor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
In 2007, David gave a speech to the Pacific Pension Institute's Annual Conference entitled, “Climate Change and Its Influence on Investing: A New Perspective," which outlined investment opportunities brought on by a changing climate. Its approach has been used by David when making investments or serving on the boards of sustainable businesses. As such, David serves as a member of the board of directors of CMC Energy Services, Inc. He has also served on the boards of Solidia Technologies, Inc. and Tangent Energy Solutions. David was a venture partner and advisor to EnerTech Capital.
Educator. David has taught at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania as a lecturer in entrepreneurship to undergraduates, graduates and executives.
Author. Bernard has written eight books on various elements of entrepreneurship and allied computer technology use.
Education
David earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Science in Finance and an MBA in marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Personal life
Bernard is married to Lisa Day David, an artist. They have two grown children, Sam and Emily.
References
American businesspeople
1957 births
Living people |
WIXOSS is a Japanese multimedia franchise produced as a collaboration between Takara Tomy, J.C.Staff, and Warner Bros. Entertainment Japan. The franchise revolves around the eponymous trading card game and follows girls known as Selectors who battle against each other in order to have their wishes granted. The trading card game by Takara Tomy launched in Japan in April 2014 and will begin release in English by Tomy International in November 2021.
An anime television series by J.C.Staff, titled selector infected WIXOSS, aired in Japan between April and June 2014, with a second season, selector spread WIXOSS, airing between October and December 2014. A compilation film, titled selector destructed WIXOSS, was released on February 13, 2016. A sequel anime television series, titled Lostorage incited WIXOSS, aired from October to December 2016, with its second season, Lostorage conflated WIXOSS, airing from April to June 2018. Another anime television series, titled WIXOSS Diva(A)Live, aired from January to March 2021. Several manga spin-offs, a novelisation, and a smartphone app have also been produced.
Premise
WIXOSS is a trading card game in which players battle against each other with fighters known as , using cards to support them. Certain LRIGs are able to communicate with their owners, and the girls chosen to wield them are known as . Selectors are given the chance to have any wish granted by winning battles against other Selectors, but should they lose three times, their wish will be reversed into a curse instead.
The main selector anime series follows a girl named Ruko Kominato, who becomes a Selector after receiving an LRIG that she names Tama. As she and various other Selectors battle it out for the sake of their wish, Ruko finds herself drawn into the dark, sinister world of WIXOSS, discovering that, win or lose, there is always a price to pay.
In the Lostorage, set following the events of selector, Suzuko Homura, a girl who had just returned to her hometown, finds herself drawn into new kind of Selector battle alongside her LRIG Riru. In these battles, which now include male Selectors, players must wager coins representing their memories, and should they lose them all, they will lose all of their memories and effectively disappear.
In WIXOSS Diva(A)Live, which is set in a different universe from the previous two series, WIXOSS battles take place in a virtual world, in which players become Divas and battle in teams of three against other Divas. Hirana Asu forms the team No Limit alongside Rei Sakigake and Akino Onko and aspires to rise to the ranks of Top Diva.
Media
Anime
selector infected WIXOSS, produced by J.C.Staff, is directed by Takuya Satō and written by Mari Okada, with character designs by Kyuta Sakai and music by Maiko Iuchi of I've Sound. The first season aired on MBS between April 3 and June 19, 2014, and was simulcast by Funimation in North America and Crunchyroll in other territories outside Japan. The opening theme is "killy killy JOKER" by Kanon Wakeshima and the ending theme is by Cyua. A second season, title selector spread WIXOSS aired between in October 4 and December 20, 2014. The opening theme is "world's end, girl's rondo" by Wakeshima, whilst the ending theme is by Cyua. An animated film, selector destructed WIXOSS, was released in Japanese theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 13, 2016.
A new anime project featuring new characters, titled Lostorage incited WIXOSS, aired from October 7 to December 23, 2016, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. Katsushi Sakurabi is directing the new anime, with Michihiro Tsuchiya writing the scripts, Takamitsu Satou designing the characters, Maiko Iuchi composing the music, and J.C.Staff returning to produce the animation. The opening theme is "Lostorage" by Yuka Iguchi while the ending theme is "undeletable" by Cyua. Another season, Lostorage conflated WIXOSS aired from April 6 to June 22, 2018. The first episode was released as an original video animation bundled with the SP-32 Selector Collection trading card set on December 14, 2017. The opening theme is "Unlock" by Iguchi while the ending theme is "I" by Cyua.
A new television series was announced on March 26, 2020, which was originally set to premiere in 2020. Titled WIXOSS Diva(A)Live, it aired from January 9 to March 27, 2021. Masato Matsune is directing the new anime, with Gō Tamai writing the scripts, Ui Shigure designing the characters, Maiko Iuchi composing the music, and J.C.Staff returning to produce the animation. Crunchyroll licensed the series.
Manga
Four manga spin-off series, written by Okada, are being produced. selector infected WIXOSS -peeping analyze-, illustrated by Manatsu Suzuki, was serialized in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine between July 19, 2014, and May 19, 2015. , illustrated by Nini, began serialization in Ultra Jump from August 2014. selector infected WIXOSS -Re/Verse-, illustrated by Meki Meki, was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine between August 25, 2014 and October 24, 2015. selector stirred WIXOSS, illustrated by Monaco Sena, began publication in Hobby Japan's WIXOSS Magazine from April 25, 2015.
Trading Card Game
A card game titled "WIXOSS" by Takara Tomy has started on April 26, 2014. On July 13, 2021, Tomy International announced that an English version of the game would begin release from November 2021, beginning with the Interlude Diva set based on the WIXOSS Diva(A)Live anime series. Interlude Diva set Released November 6, 2021. Diva Debut Decks and Glowing Diva set released December 17, 2021. Changing Diva set WxDi P02 releases March 18, 2022.
Other media
A novel written by Madoka Madoka and illustrated by Meiji, titled WIXOSS: Twin Wing, was released in Japan on September 30, 2015. A smartphone game, selector battle with WIXOSS, was released in Japan for Android and iOS on March 31, 2015, and June 8, 2015, respectively. A HTML5 game, titled WIXOSS Multiverse, was launched on the G123 game platform in 2022.
Notes
References
External links
Anime official website
Lostorage incited WIXOSS anime official website
WIXOSS Diva(A)Live anime official website
Trading card game official website
How to Play Wixoss Trading Card Game in English at The Anime Blog
2014 manga
2021 anime television series debuts
Anime with original screenplays
Card games in anime and manga
Crunchyroll anime
Dark fantasy anime and manga
Fiction about body swapping
Films with screenplays by Mari Okada
Gangan Comics manga
Hobby Japan manga
J.C.Staff
Magical girl anime and manga
Mainichi Broadcasting System original programming
Psychological thriller anime and manga
Science fiction anime and manga
Seinen manga
Shueisha manga
Television shows written by Mari Okada
Tokyo MX original programming
Warner Entertainment Japan franchises
2016 films |
Audsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dylan Audsley (born 1994), American rugby union player
George Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925), Scottish architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer
Jack Audsley (1892–1942), Australian rules footballer
Mary Audsley (1919–2008), British painter and sculptor
Mick Audsley (born 1949), British film and television editor
Nicholas Audsley (born 1982), British actor
William Audsley (1833–1907), Scottish architect |
Kadia Chabar is a village in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in the Berasia tehsil.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India, Kadia Chabar has 242 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 64.3%.
References
Villages in Berasia tehsil |
Lifegate Christian School is a private Christian high school in Eugene, Oregon, United States.
The school has been accredited through the Association of Christian Schools International since 1994, and through the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools since 1996.
References
Christian schools in Oregon
High schools in Linn County, Oregon
Private middle schools in Oregon
Private elementary schools in Oregon
Private high schools in Oregon |
Sharon Kathleen Sheeley (April 4, 1940 – May 17, 2002) was an American songwriter who wrote songs for Glen Campbell, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Eddie Cochran.
Biography
Sheeley attended Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, and briefly worked as a teen model. She went to Hollywood to meet the stars and write songs. Her first song, "Poor Little Fool", was recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958, and became Nelson's first US No. 1 and the Billboard Hot 100's first No. 1. At age 18, Sheeley was the youngest woman to write an American number-one hit.
Jerry Capehart, the manager and songwriting partner of Eddie Cochran, then agreed to look after Sheeley's interests, and she and Cochran began a relationship. She wrote "Love Again" and "Cherished Memories" for Cochran and the 1959 hit "Somethin' Else" with Eddie's brother Bill Cochran. Her other songwriting credits included "Hurry Up", recorded by Ritchie Valens.
In April 1960, she traveled to United Kingdom to join Cochran and Gene Vincent, who were touring there. She and Cochran were reported as being "unofficially engaged". She recorded a song, "Homework", with producer Jack Good. On the night of April 16, 1960, Sheeley, Vincent and Cochran were traveling in a private hire taxi from a concert in Bristol to London Heathrow Airport when it slammed into a lamp post near Chippenham. All three were rushed to a hospital. Cochran, who had been thrown from the vehicle, suffered fatal brain injuries and died the next day, at the age of 21. Sheeley suffered a broken pelvis, and Vincent broke his ribs and collarbone and added further damage to his already weak leg.
Following the accident she returned to the US, where she collaborated with musician-songwriter Jackie DeShannon on a string of hits, including Brenda Lee's "Dum Dum" and "Heart in Hand", The Fleetwoods' "He's the Great Imposter" and Irma Thomas's "Breakaway". She also co-wrote songs with Chris Curtis of The Searchers, including "Night Time" recorded by Paul and Barry Ryan.
In 1961, Sheeley married Los Angeles radio personality Jimmy O'Neill. The two created the ABC TV series Shindig! (1964–1966). They divorced five years after marrying, but remained friends. After her divorce, Sheeley moved away from the music scene, apart from some public appearances at Eddie Cochran conventions in the 1990s. In August 2000, RPM Records released a collection of her songs that were recorded in the early 1960s by session musicians, including Glen Campbell, Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell, David Gates, Hal Blaine and Herb Alpert.
Death
Five days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, Sheeley died on May 17, 2002, at Sherman Oaks Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 62.
She has a cenotaph marker next to Eddie Cochran at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cypress, in Orange County, California.
Media
In 1988, Levi Strauss & Co. promoted their Levi's 501 range with a television commercial called "Eddie Cochran", directed by Syd Macartney. It told the story of how Sheeley (played by actress Sharon Devlin) attracted Cochran at a party by wearing said product. It was seemingly narrated by Sheeley and the background song, "C'mon Everybody", was released as a promotional single, followed by a compilation album of Cochran's hits.
Sheeley was depicted by Rosanna Locke in the 1987 film La Bamba.
Bibliography
References
External links
Sharon Sheeley at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
1940 births
2002 deaths
American women singer-songwriters
Singers from Los Angeles
20th-century American singer-songwriters
20th-century American women singers
Newport Harbor High School alumni
Singer-songwriters from California |
The 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur was a men's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament, and part of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 28 September and 4 October 2015. First-seeded David Ferrer won the singles title.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of 21 September 2015
Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:
Nicolás Almagro
Ivo Karlović
Ramkumar Ramanathan
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
Radek Štěpánek
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
Michał Przysiężny
Yūichi Sugita
Yasutaka Uchiyama
Mischa Zverev
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Pablo Carreño Busta → replaced by Benjamin Becker
Pablo Cuevas → replaced by Alexander Zverev
Teymuraz Gabashvili → replaced by Nikoloz Basilashvili
Richard Gasquet → replaced by Tatsuma Ito
Steve Johnson → replaced by Santiago Giraldo
Benoît Paire → replaced by Radu Albot
Fernando Verdasco → replaced by Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Retirements
Santiago Giraldo (Illness)
Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Back Injury)
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of 21 September 2015
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
James Frawley / Nick Kyrgios
Mohd Assri Merzuki / Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib
Finals
Singles
David Ferrer defeated Feliciano López, 7–5, 7–5
Doubles
Treat Huey / Henri Kontinen defeated Raven Klaasen / Rajeev Ram, 7–6(7–4), 6–2
External links
ATP tournament overview
2015 ATP World Tour
September 2015 sports events in Asia
October 2015 sports events in Asia
Open
2015 |
Bieńczyce is one of 18 districts of Kraków, located in the northern part of the city. The name Bieńczyce comes from a village of same name that is now a part of the district.
According to the Central Statistical Office data, the district's area is and 42 633 people inhabit Bieńczyce.
History
The name Bieńczyce comes from the owner of the village named Bień (Benedykt). It is mentioned for the first time in documents in 1224. The village belonged first to the Church of St Michael the Archangel and St Stanislaus Bishop, and from 1317 to the Church of St. Florian. In 1391, the first mill on Dłubnia River was built in the village. The other mill from 1449 was being powered by the existing millrace to the 21st century. In the second half of the 15th century, a manor house with a farm was built in the village (today, at Kaczeńcowa Street, a manor house and an outbuilding from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved in the neighborhood of the pond). Later, the village of Bieńczyce constituted the property of the canons of the Wawel Cathedral. After the Second Partition of Poland, the village was confiscated by the partitioning Austrian powers.
In the 19th century, the Austrians led the road, and followingly, a railway line constructed from 1899 until 1900, that ran through Bieńczyce to Kocmyrzów. The existence of the railway line is still evident to the preserved remains of tracks, the remains of two railway bridges over the Dłubnia River and its mill and the preserved building of the railway station Bieńczyce. The village belonged to the parish in Raciborowice. There was a small chapel in Bieńczyce, a branch of the parish church.
One of the recognizable inhabitants of the village was Franciszek Ptak, a rich peasant and innkeeper, politician of the Polish People's Party and member of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria, who co-financed the construction of "Falcon" Polish Gymnastic Society House and the public school in Bieńczyce in the first decade of the 20th century.
In 1949, the construction of the city of Nowa Huta began in the eastern part of the village. In 1951, the village was attached together with the new city to Kraków as one of the Nowa Huta estates. In the years 1967–1977 a modern temple of Our Lady Queen of Poland was established, called the Ark of the Lord. It was the first church built within one of the housing estates of Nowa Huta, not on its outskirts – mainly thanks to the efforts of Bishop Karol Wojtyła and residents. In the 1980s, the area around the Ark of the Lord was one of the most important places of demonstration for Nowa Huta Solidarity trade union. During one of the demonstrations, on 13 October 1982, the officer of SB Capt. Andrzej Augustyn fatally wounded a 20-year-old worker, Bogdan Włosik.
In the years 1976–1993, the Ludwig Rydygier Krakow Specialist Hospital was built in the district of Bieńczyce. The Nowa Huta Lagoon and the "Wanda" Sports Club are also located in the district.
Population
Subdivisions of Bieńczyce
Bieńczyce is divided into smaller subdivisions (osiedles). Here's a list of them.
Bieńczyce
Osiedle Albertyńskie
Osiedle Jagiellońskie
Osiedle Kalinowe
Osiedle Kazimierzowskie
Osiedle Kościuszkowskie
Osiedle Na Lotnisku
Osiedle Niepodległości
Osiedle Przy Arce
Osiedle Strusia
Osiedle Wysokie
Osiedle Złotej Jesieni
References
External links
Official website of Bieńczyce
Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej
Districts of Kraków |
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Moonwalk National High School (Filipino: Mataas na Paaralang Pambansa ng Moonwalk/Mataas na Paaralang Nasyonal ng Moonwalk) (MwNHS/MNHS) is a public high school located at St. Mary's Street cor. Daang Batang Street, San Agustin Village, Barangay Moonwalk, Parañaque, Philippines. It was built in 2005 as an annex of the Dr. Arcadio Santos National High School, with Dr. Gregorio Capiral as the first principal. In 2009, the city government decided to make it a separate school from being an annex school, and was renamed Moonwalk High School. In 2010, it attained national status, and was renamed Moonwalk National High School.
It offers public schooling for the residents of Brgy. Moonwalk as well as for those living near it. It is recognised by the Department of Education. MNHS is the second largest high school in School District II, and is the fifth largest school in the Division of Parañaque.
External links
References
Educational institutions established in 2005
High schools in Metro Manila
Schools in Parañaque
2005 establishments in the Philippines |
Just Say Goodbye may refer to:
A 1966 song by Petula Clark from My Love
A 1998 song by Ricky Van Shelton from Making Plans
A 2001 song written for the movie Turning Paige by Michael Shields
A 2016 song by Wilco on their album Schmilco |
```java
package easymvp.compiler;
/**
* @author Saeed Masoumi (saeed@6thsolution.com)
*/
public enum ViewType {
ACTIVITY,
SUPPORT_ACTIVITY,
FRAGMENT,
SUPPORT_FRAGMENT,
CUSTOM_VIEW,
CONDUCTOR_CONTROLLER
}
``` |
Piedmontese Union (Union Piemontèisa, UP) was a regionalist political party active in Piedmont.
It was founded in 1981 by Roberto Gremmo, a former member of the Italian Communist Party. The party was soon joined by Gipo Farassino, another former Communist and well-known folk-singer. In the 1985 regional election UP won 1.1% of the vote under the banner of Liga Veneta.
In the 1987 general election Gremmo formed an alliance with Umberto Bossi's Lega Lombarda, but was damaged by the split led by Farassino, Mario Borghezio and Renzo Rabellino, who formed Autonomist Piedmont (PA).
In 1989 Bossi welcomed both UP and PA into his Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord coalition for the European Parliament election. Gremmo refused to join forces again with Farassino and Borghezio, who were separatists while he was a federalist, and resigned from editor of Lombardia Autonomista, the official publication of Lega Lombarda. Subsequently, he refused to participate to the founding process of Lega Nord and UP started its decline.
In the 1990 regional election, UP won 2.3% of the vote and Gremmo was elected to the Regional Council, while PA gained 5.1% and three regional councillors. For the 1992 general election, Gremmo transformed the party into Lega Alpina Piemont (LAP), sister-party of the Lega Alpina Lumbarda: PA, now part of Lega Nord, won 16.3% in Piedmont, LAP just 2.2%. The party has since then disappeared. Among its successors one can count Lega Padana Piemont of Rabellino.
Leadership
National Secretary: Roberto Gremmo (1981–1992)
References
Sources
History of Piedmontese autonomism
Political parties in Piedmont
Political parties established in 1981
Regionalist parties in Italy |
Magnetostriction is a property of magnetic materials that causes them to change their shape or dimensions during the process of magnetization. The variation of materials' magnetization due to the applied magnetic field changes the magnetostrictive strain until reaching its saturation value, λ. The effect was first identified in 1842 by James Joule when observing a sample of iron.
Magnetostriction applies to magnetic fields, while electrostriction applies to electric fields.
Magnetostriction causes energy loss due to frictional heating in susceptible ferromagnetic cores, and is also responsible for the low-pitched humming sound that can be heard coming from transformers, where alternating currents produce a changing magnetic field.
Explanation
Internally, ferromagnetic materials have a structure that is divided into domains, each of which is a region of uniform magnetization. When a magnetic field is applied, the boundaries between the domains shift and the domains rotate; both of these effects cause a change in the material's dimensions. The reason that a change in the magnetic domains of a material results in a change in the material's dimensions is a consequence of magnetocrystalline anisotropy; it takes more energy to magnetize a crystalline material in one direction than in another. If a magnetic field is applied to the material at an angle to an easy axis of magnetization, the material will tend to rearrange its structure so that an easy axis is aligned with the field to minimize the free energy of the system. Since different crystal directions are associated with different lengths, this effect induces a strain in the material.
The reciprocal effect, the change of the magnetic susceptibility (response to an applied field) of a material when subjected to a mechanical stress, is called the Villari effect. Two other effects are related to magnetostriction: the Matteucci effect is the creation of a helical anisotropy of the susceptibility of a magnetostrictive material when subjected to a torque and the Wiedemann effect is the twisting of these materials when a helical magnetic field is applied to them.
The Villari reversal is the change in sign of the magnetostriction of iron from positive to negative when exposed to magnetic fields of approximately 40 kA/m.
On magnetization, a magnetic material undergoes changes in volume which are small: of the order 10−6.
Magnetostrictive hysteresis loop
Like flux density, the magnetostriction also exhibits hysteresis versus the strength of the magnetizing field. The shape of this hysteresis loop (called "dragonfly loop") can be reproduced using the Jiles-Atherton model.
Magnetostrictive materials
Magnetostrictive materials can convert magnetic energy into kinetic energy, or the reverse, and are used to build actuators and sensors. The property can be quantified by the magnetostrictive coefficient, λ, which may be positive or negative and is defined as the fractional change in length as the magnetization of the material increases from zero to the saturation value. The effect is responsible for the familiar "electric hum" () which can be heard near transformers and high power electrical devices.
Cobalt exhibits the largest room-temperature magnetostriction of a pure element at 60 microstrains. Among alloys, the highest known magnetostriction is exhibited by Terfenol-D, (Ter for terbium, Fe for iron, NOL for Naval Ordnance Laboratory, and D for dysprosium). Terfenol-D, , exhibits about 2,000 microstrains in a field of 160 kA/m (2 kOe) at room temperature and is the most commonly used engineering magnetostrictive material. Galfenol, , and Alfer, , are newer alloys that exhibit 200-400 microstrains at lower applied fields (~200 Oe) and have enhanced mechanical properties from the brittle Terfenol-D. Both of these alloys have <100> easy axes for magnetostriction and demonstrate sufficient ductility for sensor and actuator applications.
Another very common magnetostrictive composite is the amorphous alloy with its trade name Metglas 2605SC. Favourable properties of this material are its high saturation-magnetostriction constant, λ, of about 20 microstrains and more, coupled with a low magnetic-anisotropy field strength, HA, of less than 1 kA/m (to reach magnetic saturation). Metglas 2605SC also exhibits a very strong ΔE-effect with reductions in the effective Young's modulus up to about 80% in bulk. This helps build energy-efficient magnetic MEMS.
Cobalt ferrite, (CoO·Fe2O3), is also mainly used for its magnetostrictive applications like sensors and actuators, thanks to its high saturation magnetostriction (~200 parts per million). In the absence of rare-earth elements, it is a good substitute for Terfenol-D. Moreover, its magnetostrictive properties can be tuned by inducing a magnetic uniaxial anisotropy. This can be done by magnetic annealing, magnetic field assisted compaction, or reaction under uniaxial pressure. This last solution has the advantage of being ultrafast (20 min), thanks to the use of spark plasma sintering.
In early sonar transducers during World War II, nickel was used as a magnetostrictive material. To alleviate the shortage of nickel, the Japanese navy used an iron-aluminium alloy from the Alperm family.
Mechanical behaviors of magnetostrictive alloys
Effect of microstructure on elastic strain alloys
Single-crystal alloys exhibit superior microstrain, but are vulnerable to yielding due to the anisotropic mechanical properties of most metals. It has been observed that for polycrystalline alloys with a high area coverage of preferential grains for microstrain, the mechanical properties (ductility) of magnetostrictive alloys can be significantly improved. Targeted metallurgical processing steps promote abnormal grain growth of {011} grains in galfenol and alfenol thin sheets, which contain two easy axes for magnetic domain alignment during magnetostriction. This can be accomplished by adding particles such as boride species and niobium carbide () during initial chill casting of the ingot.
For a polycrystalline alloy, an established formula for the magnetostriction, λ, from known directional microstrain measurements is:
λs = 1/5(2λ100+3λ111)
During subsequent hot rolling and recrystallization steps, particle strengthening occurs in which the particles introduce a “pinning” force at grain boundaries that hinders normal (stochastic) grain growth in an annealing step assisted by a atmosphere. Thus, single-crystal-like texture (~90% {011} grain coverage) is attainable, reducing the interference with magnetic domain alignment and increasing microstrain attainable for polycrystalline alloys as measured by semiconducting strain gauges. These surface textures can be visualized using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) or related diffraction techniques.
Compressive stress to induce domain alignment
For actuator applications, maximum rotation of magnetic moments leads to the highest possible magnetostriction output. This can be achieved by processing techniques such as stress annealing and field annealing. However, mechanical pre-stresses can also be applied to thin sheets to induce alignment perpendicular to actuation as long as the stress is below the buckling limit. For example, it has been demonstrated that applied compressive pre-stress of up to ~50 MPa can result in an increase of magnetostriction by ~90%. This is hypothesized to be due to a "jump" in initial alignment of domains perpendicular to applied stress and improved final alignment parallel to applied stress.
Constitutive behavior of magnetostrictive materials
These materials generally show non-linear behavior with a change in applied magnetic field or stress. For small magnetic fields, linear piezomagnetic constitutive behavior is enough. Non-linear magnetic behavior is captured using a classical macroscopic model such as the Preisach model and Jiles-Atherton model. For capturing magneto-mechanical behavior, Armstrong proposed an "energy average" approach. More recently, Wahi et al. have proposed a computationally efficient constitutive model wherein constitutive behavior is captured using a "locally linearizing" scheme.
Applications
Electronic article surveillance – using magnetostriction to prevent shoplifting
Magnetostrictive delay lines - an earlier form of computer memory
Magnetostrictive loudspeakers and headphones
See also
Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise and vibration
Inverse magnetostrictive effect
Wiedemann effect – a torsional force caused by magnetostriction
Magnetomechanical effects for a collection of similar effects
Magnetocaloric effect
Electrostriction
Piezoelectricity
Piezomagnetism
SoundBug
FeONIC – developer of audio products using magnetostriction
Terfenol-D
Galfenol
References
External links
Magnetostriction
Invisible Speakers from Feonic that use Magnetostriction
Magnetostrictive alloy maker: REMA-CN
Magnetic ordering |
The Hanoi Cricket Club was founded in Hanoi in 1993 in light of the growing popularity of cricket among expatriates from England and other cricket playing nations. The club, which hosted a game against a combined English/Australian team in the year of its founding, is one of 40 playing in a club season from March to May, following the full Vietnamese cricket season which runs between September and December. Often played on rattan mats, with altered run ups to accommodate, an HCC player hit the club's first century in 2000.
Notes
Cricket teams in Vietnam
Sport in Hanoi
Cricket clubs established in 1993
1993 establishments in Vietnam |
The discography of South Korean singer Wheesung consists of six studio albums, six extended plays, and nine singles.
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Soundtrack appearances
Music videos
Lyrics and compositions
Korea Music Copyright Association
2001 - 2005
2006 - 2010
2011 - 2015
2016 - 2019
References
Discographies of South Korean artists
Pop music discographies
Rhythm and blues discographies |
The Battle of Gedo is a conflict of the 2009–present phase of the Somali Civil War. Centered in the region of Gedo, it pits the Somali government and its allies against the al-Qaeda-aligned militant group Al-Shabaab.
Timeline
April 27, 2011
The fighting started after Somali forces ambushed Al-Shabaab fighters in Tulo-Barwaqo, near Garbaharey. The spokesman for the Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a paramilitary claimed they killed around 20 fighters from the opposing side. On the road between Elberde and Luuq a roadside mine killed 15 people. The landmine detonated underneath a minibus, killing nine passengers immediately. Six passengers subsequently died from blood loss.
In Tulo-Barwaqo, Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a fighters clashed with Al-Shabaab militants an Ahlu Sunna spokesman, reported that Ahlu Sunna fighters captured “assault rifles, pistols, explosive devices and … two military vehicles” and had killed about twenty Al-Shabaab militants.
In Luuq, Al-Shabaab attacked Transitional Federal Government troops using hit-and-run tactics, killing four soldiers.
In Elwak, Al-Shabaab ambushed government soldiers, killing ten. One military vehicle belonging to Somali military forces was burnt, and two others were damaged by gunshots in the skirmish.
April 28, 2011
Some 36 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed after fighting with Somali army in the village of Tulo Barwaqo just outside Garbaharey town.
Al-Shabaab launched an ambush attack on Somali forces in Gedo region. Al-Shabaab are said to have ambushed government forces flanked by military vehicles at the village of Kured just outside Luuq District. At least 5 persons, all the combatants, were killed and dozens more injured during the confrontation.
27 gunmen from pro-government Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a group were killed in the skirmishes this day and 8 transitional government troops.
April 29, 2011
In Luuq, Al-Shabaab fighters ambushed Somali army forces, killing at least 10 people, mostly from the combatants, and injuring dozens more. A total of 24 Somali forces died and two military vehicles were destroyed that day.
April 30, 2011
A clash erupted in the village of Burgadud near Garbaharey when Somali forces launched premeditated attacks on Al-Shabaab fighters, at last 6 government soldiers were wounded.
Somali troops and ASWJ forces took over the cities of Tulo Barwaqo and Garbaharey when Al-Shabaab fighters reportedly abandoned the towns. At the same time Al-Shabaab claim victory in these fighting. At least 10 Al-Shabaab fighters have been killed during the confrontations and two military vehicles from Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a were reported seized.
May 1, 2011
Heavy fighting was still continuing in Gedo. In Af-barwaqo and Buurgudud villages, at least 10 persons were killed and 14 others wounded. The spokesman of Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Abdiaziz abu Mus’ab, said his fighters seized four pick-up cars from government forces including one battle wagon.
May 2, 2011
Early in the morning, Al-Shabaab forces launched an attack on Garbaharey; they tried to seize the city but failed to. At least 75 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed by Somali troops and ASWJ forces. According to the Somali government, Al-Shabaab high-level commander Fuaad Shongole was killed in these clashes. Only Baardheere and Buur Dhuubo are still in Al-Shabaab's hands.
May 3, 2011
Somali troops ambushed Al-Shabaab militias and pushed the insurgents out of a village named Meykaareeb 19 kilometers west from Garbaharey. Government troops killed 15 Al-Shabaab insurgents during these operations and seized two pick-up cars from Al-Shabaab forces. On afternoon Al-Shabaab launched an ambush attack against Somali military killing 8 ASWJ soldiers and at least 10 Al-Shabaab fighters were also killed.
In Garbaharey, three persons from one family were killed after a mortar shelling destroyed their home.
May 4, 2011
In Garbaharey, at least 70 people, mainly the combatants, were killed in heavy fighting between Al-Shabaab forces and Somali soldiers.
May 5, 2011
Sheikh Abdi-aziz Abu Mus’ab, the spokesman of Al Ahabaab, claimed that the chairman on ASWJ in Gedo, Sheikh Hassan Sheikh Ahmed (Qoryoley), died from his wounds sustained from an ambush attack in Garbaharey. Sheikh Isaq Hussein, an Ahlu Sunna officer, confirmed the death.
May 6, 2011
Nine people (six children and three adults) were killed by a landmine explosion in the Gedo region in an unspecified city.
May 7, 2011
Somali forces left the Gusar village following a problem on the payment of their salaries. Al-Shabaab forces took over the village after that.
May 10, 2011
Witnesses in Beled Haawo, Garbaharey, Ceelwaaq and Luuq saw Somali troops accompanied by ASWJ forces leaving in the early morning and heading to Al-Shabaab strongholds. Later that day Somali forces seized four villages close to Baardheere, Al-Shabaab's biggest and last stronghold in Gedo. Al-Shabaab did not put up a fight and withdrew once they saw that they were outnumbered by Somali Armed Forces.
May 13, 2011
Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a forces ambushed Al-Shabaab militias in a village near Garbaharey named Kalabeyr, Al-Shabaab fled the village after ASWJ forces killed 3 Al-Shabaab soldiers and seized some weapons from Al-Shabaab. Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a Maxamed Xuseen Al-Qaaddi told radio Shabelle that ASWJ forces are controlling Kalabeyr after Al-Shabaab lost the battle.
May 14, 2011
In the village of Banmudalo near Luuq clashed beginning between Somali interim government troops and Al-Shabaab fighters. At least two people have been killed.
May 15, 2011
Al-Shabaab forces has pounded volleys of mortars to the town of Garbaharey, No deaths or injuries were reported. Some residents started to flee from their home against of back of new more fighting could again renew from the area.
June 13, 2011
Almost 1000 Somali troops finished training in Doolow, these troops will be deployed in Gedo resuming the offensive.
October 11, 2012
Columns of armoured vehicles and military pick-up trucks carrying fresh Ethiopian troops have reportedly reached Somalia's border town of Luq located in Gedo province. Somali National Army (SNA) commanders in the area say the Ethiopian troops set up military bases on the suburbs of the town, where they are planning major offensive against the remaining towns and locations controlled by al Qaeda-linked militants of Al-Shabaab.
October 15, 2012
Al-Shabaab fighters have been reported to making their last preparation to defend Bardera district of Gedo region in southern Somalia from the allied forces led by the Somali Military.
October 29, 2012
The government has declared Luq town, Gedo region, and its environ safe and secure and urged aid agencies to open their offices in the area. Area district commissioner Abdullahi Kuredow said security in the district has been bolstered and now reliable. He said Somali forces backed by Ethiopian troops and their allied Ahlu Sunna militias are now in full control of the entire district.
November 10, 2012
At least two people have been killed in a fierce battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and Al-Shabaab militants in Gedo province, the latest in surge of attacks in the southwestern region. The violence reportedly erupted after heavily armed Al-Shabaab fighters launched a surprise assault on Somali forces at a checkpoint located on the outskirts of Garbaharey, a town largely controlled by Somali government.
Aftermath
January 2, 2013
Reports from Bardhere town of Gedo region indicate the withdrawal of Al-Shabaab leadership from the town
Local residents told Bar-kulan that the town is in a state of panic as the Al-Shabaab fighters prepare for an assault from government and allied forces. Among the fleeing leaders are foreigners, the residents told Bar-kulan. Bardhere is remaining stronghold of Al-Shabaab militants.
The town is approached by government troops and Kenya Defence Forces.
References
Conflicts in 2011
Conflicts in 2012
Battles of the Somali Civil War (2009–present)
2011 in Somalia
2012 in Somalia
Battles in 2011
Battles in 2012
Battles involving Somalia
Battles involving al-Shabaab (militant group) |
Igerna is a genus of leafhoppers.
Species
Igerna bimaculicollis (Stål, 1855)
Igerna delta Viraktamath & Gonçalves, 2013
Igerna flavocosta Viraktamath & Gonçalves, 2013
Igerna malagasica Viraktamath & Gonçalves, 2013
Igerna neosa (Webb, 1980)
References
Cicadellidae genera
Megophthalminae |
The 1887 Staten Island Cricket Club football team was an American football team that represented the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball club during the 1887 football season. In their first year as a member of the American Football Union, the Islanders compiled a 1–3 record (all in the AFU), and were outscored by their opponents by a total of 52 to 37.
Schedule
References
Staten Island Cricket Club
S.I.C.C football team
Staten Island Cricket Club football seasons |
Nectandra crassiloba is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
References
crassiloba
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Least concern plants
Least concern biota of South America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian fiction writer and the recipient of the India's highest literary Award Sahitya Akademi Award for his fourth novel Rohzin in 2018. He is also the recipient of the two State Academy Awards for his third and fourth novels respectively i.e. Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God (2011) and the Rohzin in 2017. He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German has received a LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund. He writes in Urdu and in English. His novels deal with themes of forbidden politics and love.
The largest online reading portal Rekhta has stated that Rahman Abbas is one of the most read Urdu novelists.
Penguin Random House has published Rohzin in English in May 2022. Rohzin has been longlisted for JCB Prize 2022, the richest literary prize in India.
Life and career
Abbas has master's degrees in Urdu and English literature from University of Mumbai.
Rahman Abbas is author of nine books including five novels: Nakhalistan Ki Talash (The Search of an Oasis-2004), Ek Mamnua Muhabbat Ki Kahani (A Forbidden Love Story-2009), Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi (Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God-2011), Rohzin (The Melancholy of the Soul-2016). and Zindeeq (Heretic).
Rahman's first novel is Nakhalistan Ki Talash (Search of an Oasis) published in 2004. The fundamentalists had alleged that the novel is an obscene book. He was arrested and had to spend a few days at Arthur Road Jail. However, he was subsequently acquitted by the court in 2016. In an interview, he stated about this painful experience- "After a decade, the trial ended, but for all those years, I had to go to the court and stand in front of the judge, like Josef K. in Franz Kafka's The Trial, not knowing what his crime was. Nakhlistan Ki Talash had created a storm in the conservative Urdu literary circles, and Rahman resigned from his post as lecturer in a junior college in Mumbai. The novel tells the story of a young educated Muslim man whose increasing alienation in a post-1992 Mumbai leads him to a Kashmiri militant organization. He finds his cultural identity blurred during the rise of the right-wing and hate-filled politics in India at the turn of the century. He tries to demonstrate his identity and historic self, ultimately leading to his tragic and mysterious end.
He won the state Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his third didactic novel Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi. He returned the award in 2015 when major Indian writers and artists had protested against the 'wave of intolerance in Indian society' triggered by the right-wing politics'.
Critical reputation
Pakistani author Mustansar Hussain Tarar stated that Rahman's latest novel Rohzin is a fearless creative narration. Professor Gopichand Narang, former president of Sahitya Academy, called Rohzin a turning point in the history of Urdu novels.
Awards and honours
2011 Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Akademy Award for Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi
2017 Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Akademy Award for Rohzin
2018 Main Sahitya Akademi Award for Rohzin
2022 Rohzin (English) longlisted for JCB Prize, which is the richest literary prize in India.
Works
Nakhalistan Ki Talash [The Search of an Oasis], (Novel-2004)
Ek Mamnua Muhabbat Ki Kahani, [A Forbidden Love Story], (Novel-2009)
Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi [Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God] (Novel-2011)
Rohzin [The Melancholy of the Soul], (novel-2016)
Zindeeq [Atheist or Apostate], First published by Arshia Publications, New Delhi in November 2021, Pakistani Edition was published by Aks Publications in January 2022. Zindeeq is a dystopian novel that seriously dealt with the rise of religious extremism in subcontinent India and Pakistan.
A trilogy of his early writing, entitled Teen Novels (), was published in 2013 by Arshia Publication.
References
Living people
1972 births
Urdu-language novelists
Urdu-language fiction writers
Indian male novelists
21st-century Indian novelists
University of Mumbai alumni
21st-century Indian male writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu |
Men's freestyle 86 kg competition at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, took place on 18 June at the Heydar Aliyev Arena.
Schedule
All times are Azerbaijan Summer Time (UTC+05:00)
Results
Legend
Final
Top half
Bottom half
Repechage
References
External links
Wrestling at the 2015 European Games |
Prime, Ward & King was a prominent American investment bank in the 18th and 19th Century based in New York City.
History
In 1796, Nathaniel Prime organized "Nathaniel Prime, Stock and Commission Broker" at 42 Wall Street where he bought and sold bank stocks. After opening the private bank, he allowed customers to deposit money and then loaned it out.
In 1808, Prime brought in Samuel Ward III as a partner and the firm was renamed Prime & Ward. In 1816, Joseph Sands, Prime's brother-in-law, was made a partner and the firm became Prime, Ward & Sands.
In 1823, Prime met with and, eventually, invited James Gore King became a partner upon his return from England. King, a son of U.S. Senator Rufus King, had previously been affiliated with the firm of King & Gracie, founded in 1818 in Liverpool, England by King and his brother-in-law, Archibald Gracie, Jr. (the son of Archibald Gracie). King wound up the affairs of the house in England, returned to New York and became a partner of the house of Prime, Ward, Sands, King & Company on May 1, 1824, which at the time consisted of Nathaniel Prime, Samuel Ward, Joseph Sands, James G. King and Robert Ray (Prime's son-in-law).
In 1826, after Joseph died the firm was again reorganized as Prime, Ward & King with the previous partners and including Edward Prime, Prime's son. In 1832, Prime retired and was replaced as a co-partner in the firm by his son, Edward. In 1839, Ward died and was replaced by his son Samuel Cutler Ward, who had joined the firm the previous year. In 1844, King's son Archibald Gracie King joined the firm which already included Denning Duer, the son of William Alexander Duer and the elders King's son-in-law. In 1846, King and his family left the firm and started James G. King & Son, which he operated until his death in 1853.
The firm stunned the financial world when it collapsed in September 1847, which some claim was caused by the younger Ward's "excessive speculation in commodities" and caused the bankruptcy of the Ward family.
Services
Among their biggest clients was Baring Brothers, a British merchant bank based in London that was the world's second oldest merchant bank founded in 1762 and owned by the German-originated Baring family of merchants and bankers.
In 1823, Baring bought Erie Canal bonds through the firm, causing other international investors to do the same. The success of the Canal bonds caused the firm to take the lead in financing American expansion out west.
After the financial crisis of 1836 to 1837, the Bank of England in an effort to assist New York City banks in resuming specie payment, confided a loan of almost 5 million dollars of gold to the firm which was considered a remarkable sign of confidence.
Timeline
The firm was known by various names throughout its existence, including:
Nathaniel Prime, Stock and Commission Broker (1796–1808)
Prime & Ward (1808–1816)
Prime, Ward & Sands (1817–1825)
Prime, Ward, Sands, King & Company (1825–1826)
Prime, Ward & King (1826–1846)
Prime, Ward & Company (1847)
James G. King & Son (1847–1853)
See also
Nathaniel Prime
References
Banks established in 1796
Economic history of the United States
Defunct banks of the United States |
Karine Boivin Roy is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. She represents the electoral district of Anjou–Louis-Riel as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
She previously served on Montreal City Council as representative for Louis-Riel ward in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Ensemble Montréal political party, she was first elected in the 2013 municipal election.
References
Living people
People from Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Montreal city councillors
Women MNAs in Quebec
Coalition Avenir Québec MNAs
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Women municipal councillors in Canada
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Solidago leavenworthii, or Leavenworth's goldenrod, is North American species of herbaceous perennial plants of the family Asteraceae. It is native to southeastern United States from Florida north to Georgia and the Carolinas.
Solidago leavenworthii is a perennial herb up to 210 cm (80 inches or 6 2/3 feet) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are crowded together, with as many as 80 leaves on one stem, though none gathered around the base of the stalk as in some related species. One plant can produce as many as 350 small yellow flower heads in a tall, branching array at the top of the plant.
Galls
This species is host to the following insect induced galls:
Rhopalomyia capitata Felt, 1908 (spring and summer generations)
external link to gallformers
See also
References
Plants described in 1842
Flora of the Southeastern United States
leavenworthii
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
Sailing SV Delos is a YouTube channel that chronicles the travels and adventures of video bloggers aboard the sailing vessel Delos. The boat is owned by Brian Trautman, who sails with his wife Karin Syrén and their daughter Sierra (aka Nugget). Trautman and Karin sailed Delos for many years with Trautman's brother Brady, along with an ever-changing crew, including Alex Blue. The team often invites new crew members aboard for their journeys who contribute to sailing, boat maintenance, and filming. The films include experiences and adventures, which include island exploration, hiking, underwater diving, partying, meeting local people, boat maintenance, and simple day-to-day living, boat repairs, emergency procedures in addition to their experience crossing oceans. Delos has made several ocean crossings, sometimes through heavy weather conditions such as severe lightning storms, and once tackling a 50-knot gale en route to Madagascar.
Background
Trautman grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona with a love of the outdoors, and worked as a diesel mechanic during his high school years, later earning a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. He worked at Microsoft before starting his own software company but he soon grew tired of 60-hour workweeks. What inspired him to think about crossing oceans in a boat was reading the book Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat by Stephen G. Ladd. He spent several years researching and saving money and narrowed down his list of boats to French-made Amel Super Maramu.
His first voyage began in 2009 in Seattle, Washington in the United States. He sailed to Mexico where he was joined by his brother Brady, and the two of them along with Brian's then-partner sailed for New Zealand. There he met his future wife Karin Syrén who began sailing with them. In their early days, they often had to work in local marinas to make money for boat repairs and fuel. In 2014, the crew re-thought their business model, and learned how to support their income from YouTube with crowdfunding and Patreon campaigns.
The channel
The Delos team has made more than 300 videos on its YouTube channel. The channel saw rapid growth over the years from 90,000 subscribers in December 2016 to 585,000 subscribers , and now has over 772,000 subscribers as of 2022. On Instagram, it had over 170,000 followers . It received 1.8 million views per month in December 2019. A 2019 report in Yachting World magazine suggested that the crew made $14,000 for each video from paying donors, and produced about four videos each month.
The boat
Delos is a 53-foot long Amel Super Maramu, built in La Rochelle, France purchased by Trautman in 2008. It sleeps six people comfortably. From 2008 to 2021, Trautman and crew sailed Delos more than 70,000 miles. As a former electrical engineer, Trautman used his knowledge to make various improvements to the boat installing lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with battery management system to power the electronics on the vessel, including induction cooktop. The crew has taken numerous steps to make Delos environmentally-friendly.
Philanthropy
The crew engaged in numerous philanthropic endeavors, such as contributing to restoration efforts on the island of Dominica which was ravaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. In 2019, they donated $50,000 US dollars to various charities such as the Surfrider Foundation which seeks to protect the world's oceans.
References
External links
Entertainment-related YouTube channels
English-language YouTube channels
Sailing expeditions
Sailboats |
The Black Mountains is a long mountain range in northeastern Iron County and southeastern Beaver County in southwestern Utah, United States.
The range borders the northeast portion of the Escalante Desert, and the range's southeast flank trends with the Hurricane Cliffs and Parowan Valley. In the south section, of a southwest trending ridgeline, is the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs Site. At the terminus of the ridgeline, the pass at the Summit, Utah region, there is the site of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail as it crossed into the northeast of Cedar Valley, the site of Cedar City.
Interstate 15 (I-15) traverses the southeast region of the range from Cedar City, to Greenville-Beaver.
Description
The Black Mountains have a complex shape. It has an east-west ridgeline at the north perimeter with the Beaver River in the west, and Minersville Reservoir in the center; the northeast foothills border the region of Beaver-Greenville, Utah.
The highpoint of the range, Mahogany Knoll, is in the northeast on the ridgeline, the line between Iron and Beaver Counties.
From the northeast range terminus, a ridgeline extends southwest to Cedar Valley, and borders the northwest of Parowan Valley. The valley is narrow, separated from the northeast-section of the Hurricane Cliffs, and at the southwest terminus of the valley, is the location of Summit, (at the summit region). The Old Spanish National Historic Trail followed the summit, (only between Black Mountains and Hurricane Cliffs), and crossed west across the north region of Cedar Valley, at the south terminus of the Black Mountains ridgeline, near Enoch. About northeast of Enoch, and northwest of Parowan. South of the Black Mountains is the Red Hills range, which contains the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs site.
The center-east of the range is near Chipman Peak, . The highpoint of the range is Mahogany Knoll, , at the north ridgeline, east of center.
Access
Utah State Route 21 (SR-21)borders the north of the range following the Beaver River from Minersville Reservoir; at the center-north foothills, SR-21 turns northeast towards Beaver and Greenville.
The range is dissected west of center, by the north-south Utah State Route 130 (SR-130), from Minersville at the range's northwest region, (and the northeast Escalante Desert); SR-130 goes south through Parowan Canyon, and then across an alluvial plains region of Long Hollow, between two southwest-trending ridgelines. The route meets the north of Cedar Valley, and the site of Rush Lake, a dry lake; the valley turns northwest into the Escalante Desert. The route continues to Enoch, and I-15 at Cedar City.
At the Black Mountains southeast, I-15 follows the southeast side of Parowan Valley, from Enoch, Summit, then Parowan, then north to Greenville, at the south of Beaver, Utah.
See also
List of mountain ranges of Utah
References
External links
Chipman Peak, approx. range center,(East), (topoquest) (coordinates)
Mahogany Knoll, range highpoint, mountainzone.com, (coordinates)
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Iron County, Utah
Mountain ranges of Beaver County, Utah
Mountain ranges of Utah |
Leesville High School is a school located in Leesville, Louisiana, United States. The 9-12 school is a part of the Vernon Parish School Board.
School uniforms
This means that students can wear clothing that conforms to the Vernon Parish Dress code or uniforms, if they wish.
All other campuses are uniform-optional and must follow the Vernon Parish Dress Code or wear uniforms.
Athletics
Leesville High athletics competes in the LHSAA.
Notable alumni
Hannah Aspden, paralympic athlete
Cecil Collins, Class of 1996, NFL running back
Millicent S. Ficken, Class of 1951, ornithologist
Michael Ford, Class of 2009, LSU running back
Eddie Fuller, Class of 1986, National Football League player, running back with the Buffalo Bills
Carolyn Huntoon, Class of 1958, scientist; first woman director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas' sister of Buddy Leach
Buddy Leach, Class of 1951, Louisiana politician, brother of Carolyn Huntoon
Demond Mallet, professional basketball player
Kevin Mawae, Class of 1989, NFL center and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
Jim McCrery, Class of 1967, Congressman
Kavika Pittman, Class of 1993, NFL defensive end
Keith Smith, Class of 1999, NFL cornerback
Keith Zinger, Class of 2003, NFL tight end
Notable faculty
Louisiana State Senator, Gerald Long of Natchitoches taught social studies and coached at Leesville High School in the late 1960s.
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Leesville High School
Public high schools in Louisiana
Schools in Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Educational institutions established in 1900
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