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Go-Go Boy Interrupted is an LGBT-themed comedy web series that premiered on YouTube in October 2014. Adapted from a Groundlings sketch comedy act of the same name, the series stars and was created by Jimmy Fowlie. It chronicles the adventures of Danny Carter, a 30-year-old "washed up" male go-go dancer. Fowlie commented on each of the first seven episodes via a column at HuffingtonPost.com as they were released.
Overview
In the series, Fowlie portrays Danny Carter, a 30-year-old "washed up" male go-go dancer who "must discover a way to find his 'purpose' and survive within a different lifestyle as he moves on from go-going." Based on Fowlie's experience as a go-go dancer in West Hollywood while attending the University of Southern California, the series asks the question, "What happens next after a go-go boy ages out of his profession?" Fowlie told The Huffington Post in 2014:
Fowlie first performed Go-Go Boy Interrupted in June 2014 as a live sketch comedy show at The Groundlings. According to Fowlie, the show continued with four months of sold-out shows, and he adapted it into a web series. The live version is ongoing, with periodic performances scheduled through 2015.
Cast
Jimmy Fowlie as Danny Carter (Seasons 1–2)
Drew Droege as Ann Ziety, Danny's boss at Club Pantherwarmth (Seasons 1–2)
Lynne Marie Stewart as Danny's Mom (Seasons 1–2)
Brian Jordan Alvarez as Eliot, a go-go dancer (Seasons 1–2)
Navaris Dawson as James, a go-go dancer (Seasons 1–2)
Dakota Greene as Ricky, a go-go dancer (Seasons 1–2)
Jacob Matthews as Chris, a go-go dancer (Seasons 1–2)
Scott Evans as himself (Seasons 1–2)
Dillon Field as Chad, Scott's friend (Seasons 1–2)
Mitch Silpa as Rich, Danny's one night stand (Season 1)
Tessa Goss as Andrea, a mother of two (Season 1)
Nico Santos as Nick, Danny's friend (Season 1)
Jordan Black as Cashew, a homeless man (Season 2)
Henry McMillan as Martin, Scott's friend (Season 2)
Heather Morris as Katie, a go-go dancer (Season 2)
Willam Belli as Willam, the new manager of Club Pantherwarmth (Season 2)
Nick Adams as Keith (Season 2)
Fortune Feimster as Fortune, a doorperson (Season 2)
Chris Eckert as Jonathan, Danny's brother (Season 2)
Karen Maruyama as Liz (Season 2)
Briga Heelan as Ashley, Danny's ex-girlfriend (Season 2)
Chris Riggi as Taylor (Season 2)
Katie O'Brien as Krista, Danny's sister (Season 2)
Jessica Perlman as Jazz the Makeup Girl (Season 2)
Pablo Hernandez as Pablo, a go-go dancer (Season 2)
John Suazo as Big Rod, a go-go dancer (Season 2)
Katrina Kemp as Katrina (Season 2)
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2016)
Production and broadcast
Go-Go Boy Interrupted premiered on YouTube in October 2014. Fowlie commented on each of the first seven episodes via a column at HuffingtonPost.com as they were released.
A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign ending in October 2015 was established to fund a potential second season, and 450 contributors raised $69,033 for the project. Towleroad reported in September 2015 that Droege, Stewart and Evans would return alongside new additions including Heather Morris, Briga Heelan, Chris Riggi, Willam Belli, Nick Adams, Karen Maruyama and Fortune Feimster.
Season 2 premiered on April 12, 2016, with a new episode following on each Tuesday for 14 weeks.
Reception
Daniel Reynolds of The Advocate praised Go-Go Boy Interrupted as "hilarious" and "uproarious", and Sean Mandell of Towleroad called the series "irreverent". TheGayUK called it "wonderfully hilarious" and a "delightfully entertaining slice of West Hollywood gay life."
The series won the 2017 Queerty Award for Best Web Series.
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2014 web series debuts
American comedy web series
American LGBT-related web series |
Mason Springs is an unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland, United States. Mason Springs is located at the junction of Maryland routes 224 and 225, southeast of Potomac Heights. The community had a post office from 1890 to 1924.
Araby, a house on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Mason Springs.
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Unincorporated communities in Charles County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland |
George Vance (1814 – 5 March 1839) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of George Vance senior, he was born at Paignton in 1814. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Exeter College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, making his debut against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1835. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1838, making six appearances. Playing as a wicket-keeper, he scored 78 runs in his six matches, at an average of 7.80 and a high score of 41. Behind the stumps he made two stumpings. After graduating from Oxford, Vance took holy orders in the Church of England and became the curate of Kensington in 1838. He died in March the following year, after falling from his horse at Hampstead.
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1814 births
1839 deaths
People from Paignton
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
English cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
19th-century English Anglican priests
Accidental deaths in London
Deaths by horse-riding accident in England
Cricketers from Devon |
Out of Control: Live from the O2 2009 is a live album by British pop group Girls Aloud. The CD is part of the Out Of Control Live from The O2 2009 DVD limited fan edition set, only available on Girls Aloud's official website. The CD was recorded on 24 May 2009 at The O2 Arena in London while the group was on their Out of Control Tour. The album contains all the songs from the tour, with the exception of the Megamix that ends the show.
Track listing
2009 live albums
2009 video albums
Girls Aloud albums
Live video albums |
Ptychalaea is a fossil genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Gastrocoptidae.
Taxonomy
The type species of the genus is fossil Ptychalaea flexidens (Reuss, 1861) from Miocene of Europe. In 1920 the extant snails from Japan were placed into Ptychalaea - Nesopupa dedecora Pilsbry, 1902 and its form Nesopupa tamagonari Pilsbry, Hirase, 1904. Japanese species was established under the name Ptychalaea dedecora (Pilsbry, 1902). Although in 2018 it was shown that Nesopupa dedecora and its form Nesopupa tamagonari belong to genus Vertigo (Vertiginidae) and on this basis it was erroneously concluded by J.C. Nekola with coauthors that Ptychalaea is synonym of Vertigo. Although in fact it only means that Nesopupa dedecora is not a species of Ptychalaea and there should be no consequence for taxonomic status of this genus. The type species of Ptychalaea, Ptychalaea flexidens from Miocene of Europe, is probably not related to extant Nesopupa dedecora from Japan.
Fossil species Ptychalaea mystica Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2015 from Eocene Baltic amber was also described in this genus.
References
Links
MolluscaBase - Ptychalaea
Stylommatophora
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Charlie Chan (born 2 February 1911) was a Chinese swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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1911 births
Place of birth missing
Year of death missing
Olympic swimmers for China
Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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A Requiem in Our Time, Op. 3, is a composition for brass band and percussion by Einojuhani Rautavaara, written in 1953. It won him international attention while still a student.
History
Rautavaara composed the work in 1953, after his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1948 to 1952 with Aarre Merikanto. His style during that period was neoclassical, with close ties to tradition.
The composition brought him international attention: it won him the Thor Johnson Brass Composition competition of 1954, and it prompted Jean Sibelius in 1955 to recommend him for a scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Music
Rautavaara structured the work in four movements:
Hymnus – Festivamente
Credo et dubito – Vivace – Grave
Dies Irae – Allegro
Lacrymosa – Larghetto tranquillo
Two of the four Latin titles correspond to movements of the Requiem mass, to parts of the sequence Dies irae (Day of Wrath), its verses "Dies irae" and "Lacrymosa dies illa" (Tearful will be that day). Rautavaara scored the work for 13 brass parts, timpani and percussion, and wrote the dedication "to the memory of my mother".
The first movement opens with a trombone fanfare accompanied by trumpets. The meter changes often. The second movement, Credo et dubito (Belief and doubt), begins with muted trumpet and muted horn, which play with a staccato motif of sixteenth. At times horns and low brass interrupt by playing a grave chorale. The third movement is sharply articulated. The last movement is the only slow movement with gentle music associated with Requiem (Rest). The conductor Osmo Vänskä says: "It's a piece I've conducted many times. It has this kind of drama, but it's always speaking to the audience.". A reviewer of the Australian premiere on 8 April 2011 at Sydney's Opera House noted that the work combines "conciseness and economy of utterance with an opulent and romantic sense of expression".
Recordings
A Requiem in Our Time is the title of a 2000 recording of Rautavaara's complete works for brass, performed by the Finnish Brass Symphony conducted by Hannu Lintu. A Requiem in Our Time is part of a 2003 recording of Rautavaara's works, performed by members of the Helsinki Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Jorma Panula. A reviewer noted that "virtuoso playing is required to achieve speed and pianissimo layering".
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Compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Compositions for brass band
Contemporary classical compositions
1953 compositions
Rautavaara, Einojuhani |
Akrum Wadley (born March 13, 1995) is a former American football running back. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He played college football at Iowa.
Early years
Akrum was born on March 13, 1995, in Newark, New Jersey to Sheronda Phelps and John Wadley. Akrum is one of five sons. Wadley attended Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey. He committed to the University of Iowa to play college football.
College career
Wadley played at Iowa from 2014 to 2017. In his final collegiate game, he was named the MVP of the 2017 Pinstripe Bowl after rushing for 88 yards with a touchdown. During his career, he rushed for 2,872 yards over 536 carries with 28 touchdowns. While at Iowa, Wadley was a communications major
Statistics
Professional career
Tennessee Titans
Wadley signed with the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent on May 11, 2018. He was waived on September 1, 2018.
Atlanta Legends
In 2019, he signed with the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football. He was placed on injured reserve on March 6, 2019. The league ceased operations in April 2019.
Houston Roughnecks
In October 2019, Wadley was picked by the Houston Roughnecks during the 2020 XFL Draft. He was waived on January 5, 2020.
Personal life
In a report published on June 29, 2020, Wadley made allegations against Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, and former strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle. The allegations included mistreatment and racial disparities.
References
External links
Iowa Hawkeyes bio
1995 births
Living people
Players of American football from Newark, New Jersey
American football running backs
Iowa Hawkeyes football players
Tennessee Titans players
Atlanta Legends players
Houston Roughnecks players
Weequahic High School alumni |
Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north.
Nadia district is highly influential in the cultural history of Bengal. The standard version of Bengali, developed in the 19th century, is based on the dialect spoken around Shantipur region of Nadia. Known as the "Oxford of Bengal", Nabadwip made many contributions to Indian philosophy, such as the Navya-Nyaya system of logic and is the birthplace of the Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The district is still largely agricultural.
Etymology
"Nadia" is a shortened name for a historic city in the district. Nabadwip, literally "new island", was formerly an island created by alluvial deposits of the Ganga.
Geography
Nadia district is located in southern West Bengal, in the west-central Bengal region. The district is largely alluvial plain, formed by the constant shifting of the various rivers of the Ganges Delta. To the west of the district is the Bhagirathi (or Hooghly) river, which was once the main distributary of the Ganga towards the Bay of Bengal, and is still considered to be the continuation of the Ganga for Hindus. As the main flow of the Ganga flowed east into the Padma, the Bhagirathi largely dried up. Most of the rivers now flowing through Nadia now have little water in them. Nearly all the district has been converted into farmland.
Rivers
Nadia district is home to many rivers. The Padma, now the main distributary of the Ganga, touches the district on its northeastern end.
The Jalangi, which flows from Murshidabad district, forms much of the northwestern border of the district with Murshidabad, before flowing south into Nadia district. Around Krishnanagar, it turns west and flows into the Bhagirathi near Nabadwip.
The Mathabhanga originates in the far northeast of the district and forms part of the border with Bangladesh. It then flows into Bangladesh until again forming part of the border enters the district again at Gede. At Maijdia, it splits into the Churni and Ichamati. The Churni flows southwest and merges with the Bhagirathi at Shibpur near Ranaghat. The Ichamati flows into Bangladesh near Mubarakpur and reenters India near Duttaphulia. It then flows south into North 24 Parganas district.
History
Nabadwip, an ancient town within Nadia district, is often referred to as the “Oxford of Bengal". Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Nabadwip. One of the Indian schools of logic (Tarka sastra) called Navya Nyaya system was developed in Nabadwip, which produced great logicians in the 15th century. Nabadwip was an important seat of political power and the capital of Bengal under Ballal Sen and later Lakshman Sen, kings of the Sena Empire, who ruled from 1159 to 1206. In 1202, Nabadwip was captured by Bakhtiyar Khilji. This victory paved the way for Muslim rule in Bengal. The British defeated Siraj ud-Daulah, Nawab of Bengal, at Palashi in this district. The 1859 revolt against European Indigo planters started from the village of Chaugacha in Krishnanagar, Nadia. Nadia is thought to have had trade relations with Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan.
Pre-independence Nadia had five subdivisions: Krishnagar sadar, Ranaghat, Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga. Due to some cartographic error in 1947, large part of Nadia except Nabadwip initially were included into East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) due to muslim majority district in 1941census of British India. Due to protests rectification was made and on the night of August 17, 1947, Ranaghat, Krishnanagar, Shikarpur in Karimpur and Plassey were placed in India. Since then some parts of this district have been celebrating Independence day on August 17 and August 18.
Governance
District Administration
The District of Nadia has its headquarter at Krishnanagar town. The British district of Nadia was formed in 1787. The present district of Nadia after partition was formed by Notification No.545-GA dated 23 February 1948. The District Administration is headed by the District Magistrate & District Collector, Nadia.
Administrative subdivisions
The district comprises four subdivisions: Krishnanagar Sadar, Kalyani, Ranaghat and Tehatta. Krishnanagar is the district headquarters. There are 19 police stations, 2 women's and 1 cyber crime police stations, 17 community development blocks, 11 municipalities, 187 gram panchayats (3114 sets) and 2639 villages in this district.
Other than municipality area, each subdivision contains community development blocks which in turn are divided into rural areas and census towns. In total there are 26 urban units: 9 municipalities and 15 census towns and two notified areas. Ranaghat, Aistala, Satigachha, Nasra and Cooper's Camp together forms Ranaghat urban agglomeration. Nabadwip, Char Maijdia and Char Brahmanagar forms Nabadwip UA. Chakdaha, Gopalpur and Parbbatipur forms Chakdaha UA. Krishnanagar and Badkulla together forms Krishnanagar UA. Birnagar, Phulia and Taherpur together forms Birnagar UA.
Assembly constituencies
The district is divided into 17 assembly constituencies, which are part of four Lok Sabha constituencies.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Nadia district has a population of 5,167,600, roughly equal to the US state of Colorado. This gives it a ranking of 18th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.24%. Nadia has a sex ratio of 947 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 75.58%. 27.84% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 29.93% and 2.72% of the population respectively. Bengali is the predominant language, spoken by 98.02% of the population.
Religion
As per the 2011 Census, Hinduism is the majority religion of the district, followed by 72.15% of the population. Hinduism became majority in the district after Independence, when Nadia became the destination for millions of refugees from East Pakistan, and from Bangladesh after 1971.
Over 90% of Muslims live in rural areas. Muslims are majority in Karimpur II (60.38%), Kaliganj (58.51%), Nakashipara (53.06%), and Chapra (59.72%) CD blocks. Muslims are a significant minority in Tehatta II (49.89%), Krishnanagar II (42.84%), and Nabadwip (38.20%).
Flora and fauna
In 1980, Nadia district became home to the Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanctuary, which has an area of .
Education
University
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
Kalyani University
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology
West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani
National Institute of Biomedical Genomics
College
Tehatta Government College, Tehatta
Kaliganj Government College, Debagram
Karimpur Pannadevi College, Karimpur
Srikrishna College, Bagula
Sudhiranjan Lahiri Mahavidyalaya, Majhdia
Santipur College, Santipur
Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Fulia
Industrial Training Institute, Fulia
Ranaghat College, Ranaghat
Ranaghat Government Polytechnic, Ranaghat
Nabadwip Vidyasagar College, Nabadwip
Krishnagar Government College, Krishnanagar
Krishnagar Women's College, Krishnanagar
Haringhata Mahavidyalaya, Haringhata
Dwijendralal College, Krishnanagar
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College, Betai
Chakdaha College, Chakdaha
Plassey College, Plassey
Pritilata Waddedar Mahavidyalaya, Panikhali
Bipradas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology, Krishnanagar
Asannagar Madan Mohan Tarkalankar College, Asannagar
Bethuadahari College, Bethuadahri
Chapra Bangaljhi Mahavidyalaya, Chapra
Chapra Government College, Chapra
Muragacha Government College, Muragachha
Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, Kalyani
Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani
Private College
JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani
Ideal Institute of Engineering, Kalyani
Transport
Rail
Nabadwip Dham is 65 km from Bandel, 105 km from Howrah and 112 km from Sealdah on the Bandel-Katwa-Azimganj (B.A.K Loop Line) section of Eastern Railway. It has three Railway Stations as Nabadwip Dham railway station (NDAE), Bishnupriya (VSPR) of Howrah Division and Nabadwip Ghat (NDF) of Sealdah Division.
Krishnanagar City Junction is 100 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah-Lalgola Section of Eastern Railway.
Kalinarayanpur Junction is 78 km from Sealdah on the Sealdha-Lalgola section of Eastern Railway.
Ranaghat Junction is 74 km from Sealdah on the Sealdah-Lalgola Section of Eastern Railway.
Notable people
Madanmohan Tarkalankar, Bengali Renaissance, Poet
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali Hindu mystic, saint, proponent of Bhakti yoga and Achintya Bheda Abheda philosophy
Rani Rashmoni, Zamindar and philanthropist
Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics
Sourindra Mohan Sircar, Indian botanist, plant physiologist
Jagadananda Roy, Science fiction writer
Sharat Kumar Roy, Indian American geologist, first Indian to go in an expedition to North pole
Basanta Kumar Biswas, independence revolutionary and martyr
Dwijendralal Ray, poet, playwright and lyricist
Krittibas Ojha, medieval Bengali poet
Soumitra Chatterjee, actor, dramatist
Rakhee Gulzar, actress.
Jhulan Goswami, cricketer
Ramtanu Lahiri, social reformer
Bagha Jatin, Bengali revolutionary
Shibakali Mondal, Bengali revolutionary and social activist
Anantahari Mitra, Bengali revolutionary
Haripada Chattopadhyay, freedom fighter and Member of Parliament
Bikash Roy, Indian actor and filmmaker
Subhash Mukhopadhyay, poet
Jagannath Majumdar, independence revolutionary and politician
Sudhir Chakraborty, educator
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athlete
Azizul Haque (educator), advocate, diplomat
Soma Biswas, athlete
Ujjwal Maulik, Professor and computer scientist
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, philologist, author, leader of Freedom Movement
Dr. Sudhir Chakraborty, educationist and essayist
Mohammad Mozammel Huq, poet, journalist
Gopal Bhar, courtier and jester
Jatindramohan Bagchi, poet, editor
Narayan Sanyal, writer and civil engineer
Asim Duttaroy, a Medical Scientist
Notes
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Districts of West Bengal
Minority Concentrated Districts in India |
Hamzeh Zarini (, born October 18, 1985, in Eslamshahr) is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as an outside spiker for the national team and Haraz Amol club. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Zarini two named Most Valuable Player in Asian Club Championship.
Zarini in 2005 was invited to Iran national team. He won two gold and a silver team medal at Asian Championship.
Honours
National team
Asian Championship
Gold medal (2): 2011, 2013
Silver medal (2): 2009, 2015
Asian Games
Silver medal (1): 2010
Asian Cup
Gold medal (2): 2008, 2010
West Asian Games
Silver medal (1): 2005
Asian U20 Championship
Silver medal (1): 2004
Club
Asian Championship
Gold medal (4): 2011 (Paykan), 2013 (Kalleh), 2018 (Khatam),2022 (Paykan)
Individual
MVP: 2008 AVC Cup
Best server: 2010 Asian Games
Best server: 2011 Asian Club Championship
MVP: 2011 Asian Club Championship
MVP: 2013 Asian Club Championship
Best outside spiker: 2015 Asian Volleyball Championship
MVP: 2018 Asian Club Championship
External links
FIVB biography
1985 births
Living people
Iranian men's volleyball players
Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
Asian Games medalists in volleyball
Volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games
Olympic volleyball players for Iran
Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Outside hitters
Sportspeople from Tehran province |
Daniel Silva is a Belizean politician who served as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Cooperatives from 1998 to 2003 under the Said Musa administration.
He represented the constituency of Cayo Central during his tenure as Cabinet Minister. In 2013, he announced his candidacy to run for the 2017 General Elections in Belize.
On April 27, 2014, he won the PUP standard bearer convention for the Cayo Central Division against business man Luke Espat. Daniel Silva garnered 1,426 votes, while Luke Espat obtained 487 votes.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People's United Party politicians
Government ministers of Belize
Members of the Belize House of Representatives for Cayo Central |
Andrea Romano (born December 3, 1955) is an American former casting director, voice director, and voice actress whose work includes Batman: The Animated Series, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Bonkers, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, Teen Titans, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, The Boondocks, Static Shock, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series), SpongeBob SquarePants and multiple Warner Bros. Animation/DC Comics direct-to-video films including: Wonder Woman and Green Lantern: First Flight. Her voice acting, as of 2010, consists of minor roles in television series, direct-to-video films, and video games.
Early life
She was born in 1955. Romano grew up in Long Island, New York. Her father is Italian descent and her mother is of Austrian Jewish and Swedish descent. She pursued undergraduate education at State University of New York at Fredonia, graduating in 1977, before attending Rutgers University. She dropped out before finishing. At this time, she began auditioning for plays in Manhattan. While keeping a steady job during the day, Romano would perform in plays at night, often auditioning on her lunch break.
Early career
In 1979, Romano moved to San Diego, where it was difficult for her to find theater work. After working in a couple of plays, she was offered a temporary position at Abrams-Rubaloff, a talent agency in Los Angeles. Within months, due to the temporary position lasting longer than expected, Romano was franchised as an agent.
After leaving Abrams-Rubaloff, Romano joined Special Artists, a smaller agency, and began their voice-over department. While at Special Artists, she would also direct the potential client auditions. It was during her time at Special Artists that Romano began attending some of her clients' recording sessions at Hanna–Barbera. After a short time at Special Artists, she was asked to audition at Hanna–Barbera for the position of casting director.
Hanna-Barbera
Romano joined Hanna-Barbera in 1984. While at Hanna-Barbera, a position which she served for more than five years, Romano worked on such programs as The Smurfs, The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Pound Puppies, and the 1985 revival of The Jetsons, among others. On all of which, she worked alongside director Gordon Hunt. She also worked on Jetsons: The Movie, though she had her name removed from the credits when an executive decision resulted in Janet Waldo's already-recorded work being discarded in favor of Tiffany. Near the end of recording for Jetsons: The Movie, Romano witnessed George O'Hanlon, who voiced George Jetson, die as the result of a stroke, in the recording studio. His wife was at his side.
Romano was approached by Disney, which was developing DuckTales at the time, to audition for the position of voice director of the series. Disney was auditioning five directors that would each direct one episode, after which, they would choose a director to direct the remaining episodes. One director did the first episode, then Romano directed the second episode; it was at this time that Disney chose to stop the audition process and have Romano direct the remaining episodes. Romano directed 61 episodes of DuckTales. While serving as voice director of DuckTales, for Disney, Romano remained on staff at Hanna-Barbera, as casting director until some of the Hanna-Barbera executives chose to leave and form a new company. Knowing she would not be able to direct in this new company, Romano chose to become a freelance director.
Freelance directing
1989–2000
Romano became a freelance casting and voice director in 1989. The first series she worked for, which was made for Warner Brothers, was Tiny Toon Adventures in 1990. That was followed by Batman: The Animated Series and The Plucky Duck Show in 1992; Animaniacs in 1993; Pinky and the Brain, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Freakazoid in 1995; Superman: The Animated Series and Road Rovers in 1996; The New Batman Adventures in 1997; Histeria! and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain in 1998; and Batman Beyond in 1999; all for Warner Bros. She was also a voice director briefly for Bonkers in 1994. At the same time, Romano directed the first season of the first ever all-CGI series, ReBoot, however the position was taken over by Michael Donovan for the remainder of the show.
In addition to series, Romano also voice directed many direct-to-video films, including: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, The Land Before Time II, The Land Before Time III, The Land Before Time IV, The Land Before Time V, and Wakko's Wish.
Since 2000
Since 2000, Romano has served as casting, and voice director for series, including; Justice League, Teen Titans, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Batman, SpongeBob SquarePants, Ben 10: Alien Force, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
She has also done the DC Comics direct-to-video films, including: Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: The New Frontier, Batman: Gotham Knight, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern: First Flight, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Batman: Under the Red Hood, and Batman: Year One.
Video games
On video games, Romano has stated, "On video games I only do special ones because video games tend to become recording 150 different 'oofs,' 20 different strangulation sounds... they aren't challenging to me and they are taxing on an actor's voice." Romano did her first voice direction of a video game on 1999's Descent 3. She later worked on Animaniacs Splat Ball, in 1999; Floigan Bros. and Batman: Vengeance, in 2001; Teen Titans, in 2005; Diablo III, in 2008; and Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, in 2010.
Voice acting
Romano's first credited voice role was in a 1992 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, she again voiced herself on a 1996 episode of Animaniacs. She has also voice-acted for the series Justice League and Teen Titans. In addition to these, Romano also played voice-roles for some of her direct-to-video films: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Batman: Gotham Knight, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, and Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. She also voiced the Batcomputer in the 2010 video game, Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame.
Casting process and reputation
Romano is "renowned for considering 250-300 actors for lead roles", according to UGO. She dislikes having to replace actors, which is why she values actors who are not celebrities, having commented, "Replacing a celebrity ... that's really uncomfortable." Romano has joked that fans can sometimes tell what she has been watching on television or in the films by whom she casts. She sometimes intentionally casts the same actors with whom she has worked previously, "because it was fun, it was good and I know they can do the job." Romano is known for having recording sessions with the actors recording lines in one room, rather than recording the actors' lines individually. She has been known for casting more famous names alongside veteran voice actors, most notably casting Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) as The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series (giving Hamill a new career as a voice actor), and regularly casts other famous guests on her shows, including Neil Patrick Harris, Weird Al Yankovic, William H. Macy, Paul Reubens, Shaquille O'Neal, James Hong, Dakota Fanning and Bernadette Peters on various shows, as well as Senator Patrick Leahy (a lifelong Batman fan) on Batman: The Animated Series, among other famous guests.
Her reputation includes Wired's Ken Denmead's description of Romano as an "iconic voice director". UGO refers to her as "arguably the best known casting/dialogue director on the animation scene today."
Wil Wheaton, an actor and voice actor whom Romano has worked with, has said: "I owe Andrea my whole animation career", after she cast him in The Zeta Project and Teen Titans.
Retirement and post-career plans
Late in 2016, Romano announced that she would retire at the age of 65, which she reached in December 2020, and move to Brazil with her husband, who is from that country. She told The Dot and Line that she was training another woman to succeed her as voice director for the Warner Bros. Animation stable of actors, but would not identify her successor until she considered the person ready.
Filmography
Crew work
Voice work
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
American casting directors
Women casting directors
American voice directors
American voice actresses
Jewish American actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Hanna-Barbera people
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Warner Bros. Discovery people
Warner Bros. people
Warner Bros. Animation people
State University of New York at Fredonia alumni
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An albarello (plural: albarelli) is a type of maiolica earthenware jar, originally a medicinal jar designed to hold apothecaries' ointments and dry drugs. The development of this type of pharmacy jar had its roots in the Middle East during the time of the Islamic conquests.
History
The etymology of the word is not clear. Some scholars argue that it derives from the Latin word "albaris" with the meaning of "whitish" while others criticize this interpretation because these jars were originally manufactured in wood. A piece of parchment would overlap the upper half of the jar in order to be affixed with a cord and properly seal the contents. The parchment was white, or bleached white, so that the contents of the jar could be written upon it.
Albarelli were brought to Italy by Hispano-Moresque traders, and the earliest Italian examples were produced in Florence in the 15th century. Albarelli were made in Italy from the first half of the 15th century through to the late 18th century and beyond. Based on Persian designs said to emulate bamboo (the traditional manufacturing material), the jars are usually cylindrical with a slightly concave waist. Variations in size and style can be seen from region to region, ranging from 10 cm to 40 cm in height. Such jars served both functional and decorative purposes in traditional apothecaries and pharmacies, and represented status and wealth. The jars were generally sealed with a piece of parchment or leather tied with a piece of cord.
The maiolica potters' preoccupation with ornamentation and design is nowhere more in evidence than on albarelli during the Renaissance. Common design themes include floral motifs against a white background, to more elaborate designs such as portraits of a cherub or priest, and can include a label describing the contents of the jar. Specific styles of decoration are now associated with various Italian locations, including Florence, Venice, Gerace and Palermo in Sicily.
Literature
Henry Wallis: The Albarello, London 1904
See also
Blue albarellos of the Esteve Pharmacy
Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe
References
History of ceramics
Italian pottery
Ceramic art
Pharmacy
Ceramics of medieval Europe
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Gabrielona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Phasianellidae.
Species
Species within the genus Gabrielona include:
Gabrielona hadra (Woodring, 1928)
Gabrielona nepeanensis (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1908)
Gabrielona pisinna Robertson, 1973
Gabrielona raunana Ladd, 1966
Gabrielona roni Moolenbeek & Dekker, 1993
Gabrielona sulcifera Robertson, 1973
References
Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.
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Korovinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Ilyinskoye Rural Settlement, Kharovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002.
Geography
Korovinskaya is located 22 km northeast of Kharovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sotonikha is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kharovsky District |
Jerrold Lewis Nadler (; born June 13, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician who since 2023 has served as the U.S. representative for , which includes central Manhattan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to Congress in 1992 to represent the state's , which was renumbered as the from 1993 to 2013 and as the from 2013 to 2023. Nadler chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2023. In his 17th term in Congress, Nadler is the dean of New York's U.S. House delegation. Before his election to Congress, he served eight terms as a New York State Assemblyman.
Early life, education, and early political career
Nadler was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Miriam () and Emanuel "Max" Nadler. Nadler described his father as a "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" who lost his poultry farm in New Jersey when the younger Nadler was seven. In his youth, he attended Crown Heights Yeshiva; he is the only member of Congress with a yeshiva education. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965 (where his debate team partner was the future philosopher of science Alexander Rosenberg, and Dick Morris managed his successful campaign for student government president).
Nadler received his B.A. in 1969 from Columbia University, where he became a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. After graduating from Columbia, Nadler worked as a legal assistant and clerk, first with Corporation Trust Company in 1970, then the Morris, Levin and Shein law firm in 1971. In 1972, Nadler was a legislative assistant in the New York State Assembly before becoming shift manager at the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation, a position he held until becoming a law clerk with Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley and Lee in 1976.
While attending evening courses at the Fordham University School of Law, Nadler was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1976. He completed his J.D. at Fordham in 1978.
New York State Assembly
Nadler was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 1992, sitting in the 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th and 189th New York State Legislatures.
In 1985, Nadler ran for Manhattan Borough President. He lost the Democratic primary to David Dinkins. In the general election, he ran as the New York Liberal Party nominee, and again lost to Dinkins.
In 1989, he ran for New York City Comptroller, but lost to Kings County D.A. and former U.S. representative Elizabeth Holtzman in the Democratic primary.
Nadler founded and chaired the Assembly Subcommittee on Mass Transit and Rail Freight.
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
In 1992, Democratic representative Ted Weiss was expected to run for reelection in the 8th district, which had been renumbered from the 17th after the 1990 U.S. Census. However, Weiss died a day before the primary election, and Nadler was nominated to replace Weiss. He ran in two elections on Election Day– a special election to serve the rest of Weiss's eighth term in the old 17th district, and a regular election for a full two-year term in the new 8th district. He won both handily, and has been reelected 15 times with very little opposition. In 2020, Nadler faced a primary challenge from activist Lindsey Boylan; the election was the first time in his tenure that Nadler received less than 75% of the vote. The district was renumbered the 10th district after the 2010 Census. A Republican has not represented this district or its predecessors in over a century.
From 2013 to 2023, Nadler's 10th district included Manhattan's west side from the Upper West Side down to Battery Park, including the World Trade Center; the Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and Greenwich Village; and parts of Brooklyn, such as Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge. It includes many of New York City's most popular tourist attractions, including the Statue of Liberty, New York Stock Exchange, Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park.
In 2022, Nadler defeated his longtime House colleague Carolyn Maloney in a three-way Democratic primary with 56% of the vote after he and Maloney were both drawn into the during redistricting.
Tenure
Nadler is the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure committees.
Despite earlier efforts to impeach George W. Bush and more recent requests from fellow representatives, he did not schedule hearings on impeachments for Bush or Dick Cheney, saying in 2007 that doing so would be pointless and would distract from the presidential election. In an interview in Washington Journal on July 15, 2008, Nadler reiterated the timing argument and endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, saying that electing an honest candidate would create a greater chance of prosecuting those in the Bush administration who had committed war crimes. Ten days later, after Representative Dennis Kucinich submitted articles of impeachment, the full House Judiciary Committee held hearings regarding the process covered solely by C-SPAN. A top Ronald Reagan Justice Department official, Bruce Fein, was among those testifying for impeachment.
On a similar note, referring to hypothetical impeachment proceedings against President Trump that would begin in the newly elected Democrat-controlled House, he suggested a "three-pronged test" that "would make for a legitimate impeachment proceeding". Such a test would include "the offenses in question must be so grave", and "the evidence so clear", that "even some supporters of the president concede that impeachment is necessary". If it was determined that the president committed an impeachable offense, lawmakers must consider if such an offense would "rise to the gravity where it's worth putting the country through the trauma of an impeachment proceeding," Nadler said.
On September 24, 2019, Representative Lance Gooden proposed a resolution to remove Nadler from his position as chair of the House Judiciary committee, accusing him of unlawfully beginning impeachment proceedings before the House had given the committee authorization.
Nadler served as an impeachment manager (prosecutor) during the first impeachment trial of President Trump.
For his tenure as chair of the House Judiciary Committee in the 116th Congress, Nadler earned an "A" grade from the nonpartisan Lugar Center's Congressional Oversight Hearing Index.
PolitiFact criticized Nadler for falsely claiming in the Kenosha unrest shooting that Kyle Rittenhouse had brought a gun across state lines and might thus be subject to a federal Department of Justice review, when in fact he had not.
Committee assignments
Current
Committee on the Judiciary (Ranking member)
Former
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Caucus memberships
Congressional Arts Caucus
Congressional Progressive Caucus
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Medicare for All Caucus
House Pro-Choice Caucus
Political positions
Surveillance
Nadler was unhappy with the passage of the surveillance-reform compromise bill, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, saying it "abandons the Constitution's protections and insulates lawless behavior from legal scrutiny".
Income taxes
Nadler compared Obama's acceptance of Republican demands to extend Bush-era tax cuts at the highest income levels to someone's being roughed up by the mob, asserting that the Republicans would allow the middle class tax cut only if millionaires and billionaires receive a long-term tax cut as well.
Nadler has proposed changing the income tax brackets to reflect different regions and their costs of living, which would have lowered the tax rate for New Yorkers. He has opposed tax breaks for high-income earners, saying that the country cannot afford it.
Abortion
Nadler has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Nadler sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act in 2004 and 2007. In 2009 he said he might soon reintroduce the bill.
LGBT rights
Nadler supports same-sex marriage, and anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
On September 15, 2009, Nadler and two other representatives introduced the Respect for Marriage Act, a proposed bill that would have repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and required the federal government to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages.
In 2019, Nadler supported the Equality Act, a bill that would expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Immigration
In March 2019, as the House debated President Trump's veto of a measure unwinding his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, Nadler said: "I'm convinced that the president's actions are unlawful and deeply irresponsible. A core foundation of our system of government and of democracies across the world, going back hundreds of years, is that the executive cannot unilaterally spend taxpayer money without the legislature's consent."
Iran
In 2015, Nadler voted to support an agreement to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran's compliance with the terms of the agreement which called for substantial dismantling and scaling back of their nuclear program.
Israel
Of Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017, Nadler said, "I have long recognized Jerusalem as the historic capital of Israel, and have called for the eventual relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem, the seat of the Israeli government. While President Trump's announcement earlier today rightly acknowledged the unique attachment of the Jewish people to Jerusalem, the timing and circumstances surrounding this decision are deeply worrying."
Housing
In 2020, Nadler praised a judge for a ruling that could lead to the removal of 20 or more stories in an already-constructed 52-story luxury high-rise building in the Upper West Side of New York City. The developer had received a permit to construct the building, but the judge said the permit should not have been given.
Climate change
In April 2023, Nader was one of the 95 cosponsors of H.Res.319, which calls for the creation of a Green New Deal.
Cannabis
In July 2019, Nadler introduced the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act that, among other reforms, seeks to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act. He said: "It's past time to right this wrong nationwide and work to view marijuana use as an issue of personal choice and public health, not criminal behavior." In November 2019, the bill passed the House Judiciary Committee by a 24–10 vote, marking the first time that a bill to end cannabis prohibition had ever passed a congressional committee.
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
Nadler was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.
Voting record
Nadler has had a liberal voting record in the House. He gained national prominence during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, when he described the process as a "partisan railroad job".
His Medicare proposal includes a section that provides for a consortium of organization to study Ground Zero illness.
Personal life
Nadler and Josephine Langsdorr "Joyce" Miller wed in 1976. As of 2013, they lived in Lincoln Square.
In 2002 and 2003, Nadler had laparoscopic duodenal switch surgery, helping him lose more than .
See also
List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
References
External links
Congressman Jerry Nadler official U.S. House website
Jerry Nadler for Congress
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Sabah Jeayer, (born 26 May 1970) is an Iraqi football forward who played for Iraq in the 2000 Asian Cup, Talaba SC, and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.
Sabah Jeayer was a talented forward, who is great in the air and also a goalscorer capable of rising to the big match occasion, with two goals at the 2000 Asian Cup.
He started his career with the Talaba SC youth team in 1986, before moving to Air Force club Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in 1991 and then moving back to Al-Talaba in 1993. He was given his first call-up to the national team in 1992.
In 1995, he helped Talaba to the Asian Cup Winners Cup final and scored 14 goals to help Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya win the double in 1997.
He was a member of Iraq's disastrous World Cup qualifying campaign for France'98, but stormed back after three years in exile with a magnificent double over hosts Lebanon in the Asian Cup. He was recalled by Milan Zivadinovic, who called him his secret weapon, Sabah has become one of Iraq’s star players.
The trickle of goals, he has scored during his career were always celebrated with an acrobatic somersault.
International goals
Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.
References
External links
11v11 Profile
Iraqi men's footballers
Al-Talaba SC players
Iraq men's international footballers
2000 AFC Asian Cup players
Living people
1970 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Al-Shorta SC players
Men's association football forwards |
Randabygd Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Randabygda. It is the church for the Randabygd parish which is part of the Nordfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The brown, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1916 using plans drawn up by the architect Jens Sølvberg from Bryggja. The church seats about 240 people.
History
The residents of the Randabygda area had a long journey across a large fjord to attend their parish church, Utvik Church. The local people wanted the Utvik Church moved about to the northwest of the church to the village of Tisam. This would make the church more centrally located within the parish. These demands were rejected repeatedly by the parish for a number of years. Then in 1910, approval for a cemetery in Randabygda were approved. Not long afterwards, approval for the construction of an annex chapel was finally given. The architect Jens Sølvberg was hired to design the building and Rasmus Olsen Gald was hired as the lead builder for the project. Construction of the church took place in 1915-1916. The church is a wooden long church with a church porch on the west end with a tower above it. The choir is located on the east end of the nave. There is a sacristy on the north side of the choir. The church was consecrated on 29 August 1916 by the Bishop Peter Hognestad. It originally was an annex chapel in the Utvik Church parish. In 1967, it became an annex chapel under the Hornindal Church parish. Also that year, the church had electric heating installed and part of the basement was rebuilt as bathrooms. On 1 January 1981, it was upgraded to full parish church status and it was renamed Randabygd Church.
See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin
References
Stryn
Churches in Vestland
Long churches in Norway
Wooden churches in Norway
20th-century Church of Norway church buildings
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The blue-moustached bee-eater (Merops mentalis) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae.
It is found in submontane and upland habitats in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
The blue-moustached bee-eater is a rainforest bird usually found singly. It perches on a high branch in the canopy beside tracks and clearings and swoops down on small butterflies, honeybees and other insects before returning to its original perch.
References
blue-moustached bee-eater
Birds of the Gulf of Guinea
Birds of West Africa
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The Battle of Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War, which took place on November 18, 1870, in the commune of Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais in France. This was one of a series of victories by a division of the Prussian army along the Loire under the command of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin before the Garde Mobile's forces fledgling by commander Minister Fiereck, within a week after the Imperial German Army was defeated at the Battle of Coulmiers. During the Battle of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais, the 22nd Division of the Kingdom of Prussia – noted as a brave division – was under the command of General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Wittich who captured the commune, taking in his hands hundreds of French prisoners of war. The failure at this battle forced the French forces to retreat westward.
The Battle
On November 17, 1870, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin attacked a French army led by General Kératry which was part of the French Western Army led by General Yves-Louis Fiereck at the Battle of Dreux, and captured Dreux from the opponent's hand. While the Germans took 200 French prisoners, the French were forced to retreat to Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais. After this victory, Mecklenburg pursued the enemy and on November 18, his army advanced through Châteauneuf, south of Dreux. Here, his army encountered a French army from Senonches with 8 battalions, which was marching towards Dreux. The Prussians under Mecklenburg succeeded in driving the French out of the forests and hills,<ref>Lowenbalk Hohenthal (Graf.), Vollständige Geschichte des deutschfranzösischen Krieges von 1870 und 1871''', Page 629</ref> and the French did not hold their positions. While the fighting at Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais resulted in Prussian losses of 110 men, the French army suffered 500 casualties. Among them, 300 were killed and wounded, 200 were taken prisoner. According to the document of the communist theorist Friedrich Engels on the war of 1870–1871, the French army that lost the Battle at Châteauneuf may have been part of the Army of Loire under General Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, but certainly not this army. But actually, this is a force under Fiereck. The Germans suspected that the Loire Corps was making a move from Dreux to Paris, but in fact the French legion was still operating in front of Orléans.Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Page 518 With the victory at Châteauneuf, the German forces repelled the threat posed by the French to the Siege of Paris.
After General Von Wittich's victory at Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais, the Prussian forces under him resumed their advance. On the 19th of January 1871, they advanced from Châteauneuf to Digny, capturing a number of French Garde Mobile'' soldiers. While the entire Army of the West to conduct retreating Chartres to Châteaudun, HRH Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia pulled the infantry regiments to Beaune-la-Rolande and Montargis to flank the Corps Loire of France. The military situation of the Western Army became chaotic during the retreat to Châteaudun. The division of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg united with the Prince's army, and on the 28th of November, the French general Paladines was defeated at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande.
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Mzizima (Kata ya Mzizima , in Swahili) is an administrative ward in Tanga City Council of Tanga Region in Tanzania. Mabokweni ward borders the ward on its northern side. To the east are Chumbageni and Tanga Bay. The ward of Kiomoni is to the south. The Gombero ward of Mkinga is to the west. The ward covers an area of , and has an average elevation of . The Sigi River traverses through the ward into Tanga Bay. The ward is also home to the Mzizima Hot Springs also known as Galanos Hot Springs. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 11,570.
Administration
The postal code for Mzizima Ward is 21202.
The ward is divided into the following neighborhoods (Mitaa):
Kongwa
Mafuriko
Mleni
Government
The ward, like every other ward in the country, has local government offices based on the population served.The Mzizima Ward administration building houses a court as per the Ward Tribunal Act of 1988, including other vital departments for the administration the ward. The ward has the following administration offices:
Mzizima Police Station
Mzizima Government Office (Afisa Mtendaji)
Mzizima Tribunal (Baraza La Kata) is a Department inside Ward Government Office
In the local government system of Tanzania, the ward is the smallest democratic unit. Each ward is composed of a committee of eight elected council members which include a chairperson, one salaried officer (with no voting rights), and an executive officer. One-third of seats are reserved for women councillors.
Demographics
Like much of the district, the ward is the ancestral home of the Digo people and Segeju.
Education and health
Education
The ward is home to these educational institutions:
Mleni Primary School
Rubawa Primary School
Amboni Primary School
Healthcare
The ward is home to the following health institutions:
Mafuriko Health Center
References
Wards of Tanga Region |
Kl. 10 is a song by Danish singer Medina from her third studio album For altid. It was released as the third single from the album on 31 October 2011. "Kl. 10" peaked at number one in Denmark for five consecutive weeks, becoming Medina's eighth number-one single.
Track listing
Danish digital download
"Kl. 10" – 4:04
Charts and certifications
Charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
2011 singles
2010s ballads
Synth-pop ballads
Medina (singer) songs
Number-one singles in Denmark
Songs written by Jeppe Federspiel
Songs written by Rasmus Stabell
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The 2017 Abierto Mexicano Telcel was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 24th edition of the men's tournament (17th for the women), and part of the 2017 ATP World Tour and the 2017 WTA Tour. It took place in Acapulco, Mexico between 27 February and 4 March 2017, at the Princess Mundo Imperial.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team
ATP singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of February 20, 2017.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
Novak Djokovic
Alexandr Dolgopolov
Ernesto Escobedo
Lucas Gómez
The following player received entry as a special exempt:
Donald Young
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Taylor Fritz
Stefan Kozlov
Yoshihito Nishioka
Frances Tiafoe
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Jordan Thompson
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Ivo Karlović → replaced by Dudi Sela
Alexander Zverev → replaced by Adrian Mannarino
Milos Raonic → replaced by Jordan Thompson
During the tournament
Steve Johnson
Retirements
Bernard Tomic (illness)
ATP doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of February 20, 2017.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:
Santiago González / David Marrero
Hans Hach Verdugo / César Ramírez
The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
Radu Albot / Mischa Zverev
The following pair received entry as lucky losers:
Marcelo Arévalo / Luis Patiño
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Jack Sock (right shoulder injury)
Jordan Thompson (right hand injury)
WTA singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of February 20, 2017.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
Daniela Hantuchová
Renata Zarazúa
The following player received entry using a protected ranking:
Ajla Tomljanović
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Jennifer Brady
Fiona Ferro
Jamie Loeb
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Chloé Paquet
Taylor Townsend
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Sara Errani → replaced by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Viktorija Golubic → replaced by Heather Watson
Monica Niculescu → replaced by Ajla Tomljanović
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by Kirsten Flipkens
Retirements
Julia Görges (heat illness)
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Ajla Tomljanović (right shoulder injury)
WTA doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of February 20, 2017.
Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:
Giuliana Olmos / Renata Zarazúa
Withdrawals
During the tournament
Eugenie Bouchard (abdominal strain)
Julia Görges (heat illness)
Champions
Men's singles
Sam Querrey def. Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Women's singles
Lesia Tsurenko def. Kristina Mladenovic, 6–1, 7–5
Men's doubles
Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares def. John Isner / Feliciano López, 6–3, 6–3
Women's doubles
Darija Jurak / Anastasia Rodionova def. Verónica Cepede Royg / Mariana Duque Mariño, 6–3, 6–2
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Richard "Sam" Eglington (1 April 1908 – 20 March 1979) was an English cricketer. Eglington was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Esher, Surrey, and was educated at Sherborne School.
Eglington first represented the Surrey Second XI in the 1927 Minor Counties Championship, making two appearances against the Kent Second XI and Buckinghamshire. He next appeared for the Surrey Second XI in the 1938 Minor Counties Championship, in the same season in which he made his first-class debut for Surrey against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield, in the County Championship. He made a second first-class appearance for the county in that same season against Cambridge University at The Oval. He didn't feature for Surrey in 1939, instead playing for the county's Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship, which allowed him to be selected for a combined Minor Counties cricket team, making a single first-class appearance for the team in 1939 against the touring West Indians at Lord's. In a match which was drawn, he scored 23 runs in the Minor Counties only innings, before being dismissed by Learie Constantine.
He died at Winchester, Hampshire, on 20 March 1979.
References
External links
Richard Eglington at ESPNcricinfo
Richard Eglington at CricketArchive
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Minor Counties cricketers
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Mari Simonen (born September 23, 1951) currently serves as Deputy Executive Director, External Relations, United Nations Affairs and Management of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and focuses on United Nations reforms in particular. Her appointment was approved by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in March 2006.
Simonen, of Finland, was most recently the Director of UNFPA's Technical Support Division, a post she had held since November 1999. In that capacity, she oversaw a staff of international technical experts in public health; reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; population studies; gender and human rights; and other specialized areas of work in support of population and development issues worldwide.
Prior to that position, Simonen was the Chief of the Office of the Executive Director at UNFPA, a strategic position from which she helped the Executive Director carry out her functions as the secretary-general of the historic 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.
Before joining the United Nations in 1980, Simonen worked at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a doctorate degree from that university in Education. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford University and a master's degree in sociology of education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
In November 2011, Simonen was appointed Chair of VSO, an international development charity working through volunteers in over 35 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
References
Finnish officials of the United Nations
Living people
1951 births
Stanford Graduate School of Education alumni |
```php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
namespace Doctrine\DBAL\Driver;
/** @internal */
final class FetchUtils
{
/**
* @return mixed|false
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function fetchOne(Result $result)
{
$row = $result->fetchNumeric();
if ($row === false) {
return false;
}
return $row[0];
}
/**
* @return list<list<mixed>>
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function fetchAllNumeric(Result $result): array
{
$rows = [];
while (($row = $result->fetchNumeric()) !== false) {
$rows[] = $row;
}
return $rows;
}
/**
* @return list<array<string,mixed>>
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function fetchAllAssociative(Result $result): array
{
$rows = [];
while (($row = $result->fetchAssociative()) !== false) {
$rows[] = $row;
}
return $rows;
}
/**
* @return list<mixed>
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function fetchFirstColumn(Result $result): array
{
$rows = [];
while (($row = $result->fetchOne()) !== false) {
$rows[] = $row;
}
return $rows;
}
}
``` |
Aravete is a small borough () in Järva Parish, Järva County, central Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 769.
Gallery
References
External links
Järva Parish
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia |
The 1983–84 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1983–84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Johnny Orr, who was in his 4th season. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
They finished the season 16–13, 6–8 in Big Eight play to finish in a tie for fourth place. The Cyclones lost in the first round of the Big Eight tournament against Colorado, falling 65-62. They qualified for the NIT tournament, falling in the first round to Marquette, 73-53.
Roster
Schedule and results
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References
Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball seasons
Iowa State
Iowa State Cyc
Iowa State Cyc
Iowa State |
William Wortley Baggally (1848 – 14 March 1928), most well known as W. W. Baggally, was a British psychical researcher who investigated spiritualist mediums.
Career
Baggally joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1896 in the hope of finding evidence for life after death. Baggally was an amateur conjuror and had studied the trick methods of mediums.
In 1908, the SPR appointed a committee of three to examine the medium Eusapia Palladino in Naples. The committee consisted of Baggally, Hereward Carrington and Everard Feilding. Although the investigators caught Palladino cheating during the séances, they were convinced Palladino had produced genuine paranormal phenomena such as levitations of the table, movement of the curtains, movement of objects from behind the curtain and touches from hands. In 1909, all three investigators wrote a report on the medium in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.
Baggally was favourable of Palladino having attended séances before the 1908 investigation in Naples. According to the spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr. W. W. Baggally, a member of the Council, had been investigating psychic phenomena for more than thirty-five years, and during that time—with the exception, perhaps, of a few incidents at a séance with Eusapia a few years before—had never witnessed a single genuine physical phenomenon."
Frank Podmore in his book The Newer Spiritualism (1910) wrote a comprehensive critique of their report. Podmore said that the report provided insufficient information for crucial moments and the investigators representation of the witness accounts contained contradictions and inconsistencies as to who was holding Palladino's feet and hands. Podmore found accounts among the investigators conflicted as to who they claimed to have observed the incident. Podmore wrote that the report "at almost every point leaves obvious loopholes for trickery." The psychologist C. E. M. Hansel criticized the report based on the conditions of the séances being susceptible to trickery. Hansel noted that they were performed in semi-dark conditions, held in the late night or early morning introducing the possibility of fatigue and the "investigators had a strong belief in the supernatural, hence they would be emotionally involved."
In June 1912, Baggally attended a séance with the medium Etta Wriedt and was impressed by her direct-voice mediumship. During the same year, Wriedt was exposed as a fraud by Kristian Birkeland.
After interviewing witnesses, Baggally endorsed the alleged 'haunting' phenomena that occurred at the home of Rev. Charles Lakeman Tweedale. However, Daniel Cohen noted a problem with the case, stating that Baggally "didn't see either the phantom aunt or her phantom dog. As with most investigations of hauntings, you either believe the witnesses or you don't, for there is no other evidence."
Reception
Baggally has been highly praised by parapsychologists but has drawn criticism from skeptics for his unscientific investigation of the medium Eusapia Palladino.
According to the magician Harry Houdini, Baggally was a believer in telepathy who had endorsed the mentalists Julius and Agnes Zancig as genuine telepaths, when they were actually "clever, silent and signal codists."
Psychical researcher Eric Dingwall wrote that before attending séances with Palladino in 1908, Baggally "had studied trick methods, performed them himself" and was "almost totally sceptical as to the reality of any supernormal physical phenomena whatsoever." However, others have noted Baggally was already believer in the paranormal.
Psychologist D. H. Rawcliffe has heavily criticized the Feilding-Baggally-Carrington report on Palladino, describing it as unscientific. According to Rawcliffe the medium directed the conditions of the investigation throughout and there was faulty control of her hands and feet.
Publications
W. W. Baggally (1909). Sittings With Carancini. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 14: 193–211.
W. W. Baggally, Hereward Carrington, Everard Feilding (1909). Report on a Series of Sittings with Eusapia Palladino. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 23: 309–569.
W. W. Baggally (1912). Report on Sittings with Charles Bailey, the Australian Apport Medium. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 15: 194–208.
W. W. Baggally (1912). Dowsing Experiments with Mr. J. E. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 15: 243–249.
W. W. Baggally (1920). Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent (With a preface by Oliver Lodge). London: Methuen & Co.
W. W. Baggally (1920). The Analogy Observed Between the Form of Certain Lines on Glass Plates. In Frank A. Hotblack. "A New Activity?": A Treatise on Mrs. Dickinson's Discovery of a "New Radio-Activity". Jarrolds.
References
Further reading
Anonymous (1928). Obituary: W. W. Baggally. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 24: 276–278.
1848 births
1928 deaths
English writers on paranormal topics
British parapsychologists |
After Hours is the ninth solo studio album by Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore, released in 1992. The album features guest contributions from B.B. King and Albert Collins. It peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart, making it Moore's highest-charting album in the UK.
Track listing
All tracks written by Gary Moore, except where noted.
Personnel
Gary Moore – guitar, vocals
Will Lee, Bob Daisley, Andy Pyle, Johnny B. Gaydon – bass
Graham Walker, Anton Fig – drums
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Martin Drover – trumpet
Frank Mead, Nick Pentelow, Nick Payn – saxophone
Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson – The Memphis Horns
Carol Kenyon, Linda Taylor – vocals
Richard Morgan – oboe
B.B. King – vocals and guitar on "Since I Met You Baby"
Albert Collins – vocals and guitar on "The Blues is Alright", guitar on "Once in a Blue Mood"
Singles
"Separate Ways" (October 1992)
"Since I Met You Baby" (August 1992)
"Story of the Blues" (May 1992)
"Only Fool in Town" (USA Only)
"Cold Day in Hell" (February 1992)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Gary Moore albums
1992 albums
Charisma Records albums |
65th Brigade may refer to:
65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade (Iran)
65th Independent Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army)
65th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
65th Brigade (United Kingdom)
65th Field Artillery Brigade (United States)
65th Medical Brigade (United States)
See also
65th Brigade Engineer Battalion (United States) |
Spencer Jones (born 17 July 1997) is a Canadian rugby union player, currently playing for the New England Free Jacks in Major League Rugby (MLR) and the Canadian national team. His preferred position is centre.
He previously played for the Toronto Arrows in the MLR.
Professional career
Jones signed for Major League Rugby side Toronto Arrows for the 2021 Major League Rugby season, having previously represented the side in both 2019 and 2020. Jones made his debut for Canada in the 2023 Rugby World Cup Qualifiers.
References
External links
itsrugby.co.uk Profile
1997 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Vancouver
Canada international rugby union players
Canadian rugby union players
Rugby union centres
Rugby union fly-halves
Toronto Arrows players
New England Free Jacks players |
Fugitive is a 2019 Nigerian film. It was directed and produced by Andy Boyo. Fugitive was centered around a cop who is accused of killing an investigative journalist.
Cast
The cast of the film includes Kate Henshaw, Daniel K. Daniel, Keppy Ekpenyong, Frederick Leonard, as well as actors from Zambia and Rwanda.
Plot
The film takes place in a fictional United States of Africa, where various African nations have merged into one country. A detective is accused of killing an investigative journalist and pursued by police and a syndicate. The film also highlights the negative effects of xenophobia and explores the theme of corruption.
References
2019 films
Nigerian crime drama films |
Geography is the debut studio album by English musician Tom Misch. It was self-released on 6 April 2018 through Misch's own label Beyond the Groove.
Critical reception
Geography has received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 11 reviews.
Track listing
Notes
"Before Paris" contains a spoken word sample from a 2011 interview with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
"Isn't She Lovely" is a cover of the song of the same name by Stevie Wonder.
"Man Like You" is a cover of the song of the same name by Patrick Watson.
"Water Baby" contains a sample of "My Lady", written by Wilton Felder and performed by The Crusaders.
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Musicians
Tom Misch – vocals , guitar , instrumentation
GoldLink – vocals
De La Soul – vocals
Poppy Ajudha – vocals
Loyle Carner – vocals
Polly Misch – spoken word vocals
Abbey Smith – additional vocals
Jessica Carmody Nathan – additional vocals
Jaz Karis – additional vocals
Roy Hargrove – spoken word vocal sample
Jamie Houghton – drums
Tobie Tripp – violin
Johnny Woodham – trumpet
Reuben James – piano
Paul Castelluzzo – guitar
Rob Araujo – additional keyboard
Technical personnel
Tom Misch – production, mixing
Lexxx – mixing
Lewis Hopkin – mastering
Jarami – co-production
Carol Misch – artwork
Charts
Certifications
References
2018 debut albums
Tom Misch albums
Self-released albums |
Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov (; , Moscow – July 15, 1957, Baden, Switzerland) was a Russian student activist, a trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary deputy, an orator, and one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. He served as deputy in the (radical) Second, and conservative Third and Fourth State Duma (Russian Empire). According to Stephen F. Williams Maklakov is "an inviting lens to which to view at the last years of Tsarism".
In February 1917 Maklakov was appointed as commissar in the Provisional Committee of the State Duma. In October 1917 he was sent to Paris as ambassador, but by the time he arrived there, the Russian Provisional Government no longer existed. He subsequently went on to organize the activities of Russian émigrés.
Imperial Russia
Vasily, or Basil, was the son of Alexey Nikolaevich Maklakov (1837 – May 1895), a Moscow ophthalmology professor, the inventor of ocular tonometry, a member of the zemstvo and the Moscow City Duma. His mother came from a noble and wealthy family, spoke three foreign languages, and played the piano. She had seven children and died when he was 11 years old. Vasily had a full-time governess, and he and his siblings learned to speak French fluently. He was interested in organic chemistry and bought a Bunsen burner. He studied mathematics and physics after he left the 5th Moscow Gymnasium in 1887. He was impressed by French political life and influenced by Count Mirabeau. During a visit to the famous World's fair in Paris with his father, French students took him to election meetings and introduced him to candidates.
Back home, Maklakov published an account of the "Paris Student Association" in Russkiye Vedomosti. Like Lenin and Ayn Rand, he was influenced by the death of Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a victim of injustice. In 1890, he raised money for the poor with concerts; he was arrested for his participation in the student movement and expelled from the university "for political unreliability". He spent five days in the Butyrka prison. Then, he went back to Paris with his stepmother, the author of children books, and he met with the anarchists and geographers Léon Metchnikoff and Reclus. Back home, Vasily organized a student economic commission and held his first political speech. He met with Leo Tolstoy and began to appear in newspapers, mainly because of the Russian famine of 1891–1892. In 1894, he joined the army in Rostow as a volunteer.
After his father had a talk about his son with the Director of Police Pyotr Durnovo, the trustee P.A. Kapnist suggested for Vasily to change faculties and to study history. Maklakov was seen as "a man of outstanding intelligence". After the ban was lifted, he graduated under Paul Vinogradoff, an eminent scholar and researcher of classical antiquity at Imperial Moscow University. Maklakov was offered to stay to prepare for the professorship but this was opposed. He then decided to choose for advocacy and graduated from the law faculty. His thesis was dedicated to "The impact of dependent land ownership on civil legal capacity at the end of the Carolingian period". After the death of their father, the brothers inherited Dergaykovo-estate near New Jerusalem Monastery.
Lawyer
In 1896, he entered the bar and became a member of the Moscow Law Society. It seems that he became the assistant of the Polish lawyer Alexander Robertovich Lednicki and collaborated with Fedor Nikiforovich Plevako (1842-1909), a distinguished attorney at law and judicial speaker. Maklakov and his brother and sister Maria moved to Zubovsky Boulevard, not far from Leo Tolstoy in Khamovniki District. Together, they walked or went to the baths on which Maklakov had an interesting account. At Yasnaya Polyana, outside Moscow, they discussed the fate of the Doukhobors. At the novelist's urging, he defended a "Bespopovtsy" in the Kaluga Governorate accused of blasphemy; later he defended a "Tolstoyan", who was accused of storing prohibited works of Tolstoy; that case ended with an extremely lenient sentence. Plevako, a real state adviser, owned a Jugendstil apartment building at Novinskiy Boulevard. Maklakov, divorced, lived there too; they both were friendly with Anton Chekhov visiting Moscow in May 1903. Chekhov's intention to spend the summer at the Maklakov estate at Voskresensk did not materialise, but Maklakov signed Chekhov's will. Maklakov owned several hunting dogs and a dacha in Zvenigorod according to Chekhov.
Between 1901 and 1905, Maklakov defended several political demonstrations but also profitable commercial cases involving major Russian enterprises. He was deeply interested in the rule of law. In 1904, he was the secretary and archivist of the opposition circle Beseda. Then, he participated in the Union of Liberation, a moderate reform group of around 23 men. It saw as its task to fight the autocracy and to introduce a constitutional system in Russia. It imagined the future of Russia only in the development of the existing system, an organic evolution, not in coups. The members had a zemstvo background, representing the landowning class and intelligentsia.
The October Manifesto
During the First Russian Revolution, the Tsar asked his cousin Grand Duke Nicholas to assume the role of dictator, but the Grand Duke threatened to shoot himself if the Tsar refused to endorse Sergei Witte's memorandum. After a ten-day general strike in October, Nicholas II had no choice but to take a number of steps in the constitutional liberal direction. In the October Manifesto, Witte advocated the creation of an elected parliament, which took the form of establishing the State Duma and the multi-party system. On 20 October 1905, Witte was appointed as the first Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers (effectively Prime Minister), but the Kadets refused to join his cabinet. The Kadets doubted that Witte could deliver on the promises made by the Tsar in the October Manifesto since they knew the Tsar's staunch opposition to reform. On 9 November 1906, the cabinet issued a decree enabling Russia's 90 million peasants to start a complex process of transforming their property rights. On 24 November, by Imperial decree, provisional regulations on the censorship of magazines and newspaper was released. After an armed uprising in December 1905, the reactionary Pyotr Durnovo was appointed as Minister of Interior on 1 January 1906, a decision that was heavily criticized. The real ruler of the country was Dmitri Trepov. In the Russian Constitution of 1906, the Tsar gave up autocracy. In July, regretting his "moment of weakness", he dissolved the First Duma. The ministers remained responsible solely to Nicholas II, not to the Duma.
As deputy in the State Duma
At the end of 1905, Maklakov joined the Freemasons when the right to form unions and private meetings was established under Nicholas II of Russia and thus the limitations on Freemasonry were lifted. Maklakov played an active part in the organization of the Constitutional Democratic Party (KD or Kadets), the first open political party serving on its central committee in October 1905. He promoted a coalition cabinet unlike Stolypin, Milyukov and Dmitri Trepov. Maklakov was elected by the Muscovites in the Arbat District to the Second Duma in February 1907, but he was more a lawyer than a deputy. He attracted attention with a brilliant speech about military field courts, dealt with Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman, advocated the abolition of the death penalty and insisted on the inviolability of the individual. He was strongly opposed the signing of the Vyborg Manifesto, written by Pavel Milyukov. He tended toward conservatism, regretted the dissolution of the Union of Liberation, argued for a shift to the right and opposed alliances with revolutionaries. He hated long political meetings and did not like party discipline. He argued that as a political party the KD must prepare itself for government participation and so must be prepared to defend the rights of whatever sort of government if it wanted to be regarded as a serious political force and to concentrate on defending not only the rights of the people but also those of the state.
After the Coup of June 1907, which was considered by Maklakov as a day that would go down in infamy, Stolypin and the Tsar changed the electoral law and gave greater electoral value to the votes of landowners and owners of city properties and less value to the votes of the peasantry. In summer 1908, Maklakov travelled to Siberia because of the construction of the Amur Railway. In early 1909, he inherited Plevako's law practice. In May 1909, he delivered a lecture about the legal history of Russia in the 19th century. In 1912, the influence of the Kadets in the Duma had shrunk.
A high point of his legal career was the defence of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew wrongly accused of ritual murder of a 13-year-old Ukrainian child. Beilis was tried twice; the evidence against him was very weak. Alexander Tager wrote that "the whole country was against the process, except for the extreme right and that the ritual murder of which he was accused was a fiction of the Black Hundreds". Maklakov "hit the nail on the head," and in October 1913, Beilis was acquitted and immediately released. His acquittal was "a clear defeat for the authorities and a victory for liberal and radical public opinion" and greatly calmed public opinion, for no innocent man was convicted. The actual killers of the child were professional criminals. Maklakov had published articles claiming that the jury's verdict had saved the court's good name. Later it turned out that five of the jurors, including the foreman, had been members of the Union of the Russian People.
First World War
In 1914, Maklakov joined the All-Russian Zemstvo Union, which supported sick and wounded soldiers. Maklakov grew hostile to the government under Ivan Goremykin as the Eastern Front (World War I) went on. Russia hoped that the war would last until Christmas, but after a year, the situation had become disastrous. In the large cities, there were a shortage of food and high prices, and the Russian people blamed all on "dark forces" or spies for and collaborators with Germany. His younger brother, Nikolay Maklakov, a staunch monarchist who served as Russia's Interior Minister, was forced to resign. In September Maklakov published a sensational article, "A Tragic Situation," describing Russia as a vehicle with no brakes, driven along a narrow mountain path by a "mad chauffeur, who can't drive," an allegory with a reference to the Tsar. At the end of 1915, he actively supported the Progressive Bloc, a coalition of liberal parties that called for sweeping reforms, with the aim of inducing the Tsar to co-operate with the Fourth Duma. The most conservative of its leaders, Maklakov was anxious to preserve the party's unity, which appeared fragile in the face of his many ideological clashes with Milyukov, who was reputed for his intransigent liberal individualism. Milyukov suggested for Maklakov to join the Octobrists.
In early November 1916, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Lvov and general Mikhail Alekseyev attempted to persuade the Tsar to send away Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Rasputin's steadfast patron, to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, or to Britain. On 3 November, Maklakov held a powerful speech the government of Boris Shturmer. He was visited soon by Yusupov but refused to get involved in a conspiracy although later that month, he decided to give him legal advice. Maklakov approved the murder of Grigory Rasputin and even served as a sort of "legal adviser" to one of its perpetrators, Felix Yusupov, but he categorically refused to participate in the plot. One of the five participants in the assassination, Vladimir Purishkevich, claimed that it was Maklakov who had supplied Prince Felix Yusupov with a dumbbell or truncheon and poison to murder Grigori Rasputin. On the day of the murder (30 December 1916), Maklakov left for Moscow, but went back the next day. In 1923, Maklakov wrote that he had supplied Yusupov with harmless aspirin. Also, Lazovert stated later he had used not poison but a harmless powder. The extent of his involvement in the murder of the "mad monk" is a matter of keen debate.
On 26 February 1917, Nikolai Pokrovsky reported on his negotiations with the Bloc, led by Maklakov, at the session of the Council of Ministers in the Mariinsky Palace. The Bloc spoke for the resignation of the government by Nikolai Golitsyn. On 27 February, Vasily was appointed as one of the 24 commissars the Provisional Committee of the State Duma. On 28 February, his brother Nikolay was arrested having tried to prevent a revolution" together with Alexander Protopopov (on 8 February). After the February Revolution, Vasily Maklakov supported Lavr Kornilov against Kerensky and aspired to take the office of Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government. After the post went to Alexander Kerensky, Maklakov was put in charge of the government's "legal commission". When he was elected in the Moscow City Duma on 8 July, he lived on 32 Novinsky Boulevard. He was friendly with countess Sofia Panina the first woman in world history to hold a cabinet position. Maklakov was elected in the Constituent Assembly but in October send to Paris. Panina was arrested when she refused to transfer the funds of the Ministry of Education to the Bolsheviks. In the first political trial she was accused of embezzling 93,000 rubles from the Ministry, which she denied.
France
In October 1917, Maklakov was appointed to replace Alexander Izvolsky as Ambassador to France. When he arrived in Paris, Maklakov learned of the Bolshevik takeover (October Revolution) and he represented a no longer existent government. In December was put out of charge by Trotsky but nevertheless continued to occupy the splendid mansion of the Russian embassy for seven years. Hôtel d'Estrées served as the informal headquarters of the White émigré, the anti-Bolsheviks.
Throughout that period, French authorities considered Maklakov "an ambassador who had not yet been accredited". There was considerable ambiguity in this position. For example, he once received a letter from Premier Clemenceau addressed to "Son Excellence Monsieur Maklakoff, Ambassade de Russie", with the lightly erased letters "ur" at the end of "Ambassade". Maklakov lightly compared himself to "a magazine that one puts on a seat to show that it is occupied".
In Paris, he met with Nikolay Sokolov, who had investigated the cases of the execution of the Romanov family but held no longer legal authority. The Sokolov dossier was marked "secret" and secured inside the military procurator's archive until 1991. His sister Maria organized a gymnasium, funded by Henri Deterding. In 1920 Maklakov and Peter Struve managed to get Wrangel' regime officially recognized by France. Wrangel was extremely friendly, but not everybody was charmed by his personality. He wired Pyotr Wrangel that the French considered to encourage the Polish army to attack. Early September, Maklakov visited the Crimea to meet the leaders of the White Army at Sebastopol. It was his last visit to Russia. Maklakov recognized Wrangels qualities, who wanted to implement an agrarian reform, but three months later Wrangel's army ceased to exist. There was an official delegation of Bolsheviks in Paris, diplomatic relations between the Soviets and the United Kingdom and France were established on 2 February and 28 October 1924. Wrangel was told to abandon his (military) adventures.
For ten years, Maklakov corresponded with Vasily Shulgin, a member of the White Movement who escaped to Serbia. He assumed control of a network of offices Russes that certified marriages and births of Russian émigrés throughout France and performed other work normally undertaken by Russian consulates.
It was through Maklakov that the widow of Count Sergei Witte was able to obtain the memoirs of her late husband, which were of a destructive nature, stored in the safe of a bank in Bayonne. His secret memoirs, completed in 1912, were published in translation in 1921. The debate between Milyukov and Maklakov began in 1912 on the question of absenteeism and with Maklakov's criticism of the Constitutional Democratic Party. Maklakov supported Stolypin who had tried to form a "coalition cabinet", but Milyukov did not trust the Tsar and his Manifesto and refused to co-operate. Could the revolutions of 1917 have been prevented if the Kadets had adopted a less radical stance, particularly in 1905-1906?
The German Gestapo arrested Maklakov in April 1942, as he had not registered; he then spent 2–3 months in jail without trial. He was forced to leave Paris and moved in at the historian Baron Boris Nolde. Throughout World War II, he kept in touch with the French Resistance. In February 1945, Maklakov and several surviving members of the Provisional Government visited the Soviet embassy to express their pride and gratitude for the war effort of the Russian people. The visit was controversial among the émigré community, particularly after émigrés learned that Maklakov and others had drunk a toast "to the motherland, to the Red Army, to Stalin". In 1929 and again in 1945, he corresponded with Mark Aldanov, the literary consultant of the Chekhov Publishing House, which published mainly works by émigré authors. Some had joined the Union of Russian Patriots.
Despite encroaching deafness, Maklakov remained at the helm of the Russian Emigration Office (eventually subsumed into the structure of Charles de Gaulle's government) until his death at the age of 88. His front-rank reputation and talent for mediation allowed Maklakov (rather than better-known but controversial men like Kerensky and Milyukov) to manoeuvre between the many warring factions that made up the Russian émigré community and to represent their interests in dealing with the French government. For years, Maklakov was assisted by his sister Maria who was able to decipher his handwriting and did the typing in Rue Peguy (5th arrondissement of Paris). He died in a Swiss spa.
Legacy
In his memoirs, "From the Past", first published in 1954, Maklakov discusses the causes of events in Russia, which he witnessed and participated in, touches upon such issues that have not lost their relevance today such as the essence of democracy, the functions of a democratic state, the relationship between the state and the individual, the coordination of the interests of the majority in society and minorities. He expressed his hope for its further evolution", for "its synthesis with the rest of the world". He was not entirely satisfied with Western democracies: they could not prevent world wars, nor the emergence of totalitarian regimes, nor ensure equal rights for all.
Maklakov spent most of his career attempting to reform the (legal) system in Russia unsuccessfully. He wrote several books on the history of social thought and the Russian liberal movement. In Soviet times Maklakov (and the Kadets) were seen as "bourgeois" and "not studied".
In 1926 and with the help of Nikolai Golovin Maklakov took control of the Okhrana archives from 1883 to 1917 stored at the Paris embassy. His personal archive was transferred to Hoover Institution (Stanford University) after his death. In 1959 Georgy Adamovich published a biography on Maklakov.
Works
"Tolstoy as a public figure" (1912)
Memories. Leader of the Moscow Cadets on Russian politics. 1880-1917
"State Power and Public Life at the Decline of Old Russia," (1936)
"The First State Duma. Memories of a Contemporary," completed in 1939 and even typed, but did not go on sale.
The First State Duma: Contemporary Reminiscenses. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1964.
"The Second State Duma" (1940) or (1944, 1946)?
Court speeches, Duma speeches, and public lectures. 1904-1926 (with a foreword by M.A. Aldanov) - Paris. 1949
"Soviet Power and Emigration"
From the past. Contemporary notes. Chekhov Publishing House. New York 1954
Politician, Lawyer, Man (1959).
Sources
Dedkov, N.I. (2005) The conservative liberalism of Vasilii Maklakov.
Hamza, Gabor, Some Remarks on the Educational Background and Political Career of Alexander Fjodorovits Kerensky in (Tzarist) Russia. Polgari Szemle 11 (2015) 394–397. pp.
Hamza, Gabor, Survey on the oeuvre of Vasilij Aleksejevic Maklakov (1869-1957), the Statesman, Diplomat and Scholar of Classical Antiquity. Jogelmeleti Szemle 2016/4. http://jesz.ajk.elte.hu/2016_4.pdf
Kröner, A.W.(1998) "The Debate Between Miliukov and Maklakov on the Chances for Russian Liberalism." [s.n.].
Kröner, Anthony (2021) Vasilii Maklakov: A Russian liberal between autocracy and revolution 1869-1957
Williams, Stephen F. (2017) The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution
See also
On YouTube: Stephen F. Williams "The Reformer"
List of Russian legal historians
List of scholars in Russian law
References
1869 births
1957 deaths
Politicians from Moscow
People from Moskovsky Uyezd
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members
Members of the 2nd State Duma of the Russian Empire
Members of the 3rd State Duma of the Russian Empire
Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire
Russian Constituent Assembly members
Russian Freemasons
Lawyers from Moscow
White Russian emigrants to France |
The 2004 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by eighth-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for fourth in the Ivy League with a 3–4 record, 5–5 overall.
Schedule
References
Yale
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football |
Heather Trost (born July 18, 1982) is an American violinist and singer.
Biography
Trost was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is one of the two members of the American Balkan Folk band A Hawk and a Hacksaw, with husband Jeremy Barnes (of Neutral Milk Hotel).
Trost and Barnes also worked together in the band Beirut, having been recruited by Zach Condon to help him complete the recording of his first album Gulag Orkestar (2006).
She is a former member of the band FOMA.
Discography
Solo
Ouroboros (Cimiotti Recordings, 2015)
Agistri (2017)
Petrichor (2020)
Desert Flowers (2022)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Darkness at Noon (2005) – Violin, Vocals
The Way the Wind Blows (2006) – Viola, Violin
A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangár Ensemble (2007) – Viola, Violin, Cello
Délivrance (2009) – Viola, Violin, Accordion, Vocals
Cervantine (2011) – Viola, Violin
You Have Already Gone to the Other World (2013)
Forest Bathing (2018)
Other artists
Beirut : Gulag Orkestar (2006) – Violin
Beirut : The Flying Club Cup (2007) – Viola, Violin
Benjamin Wetherill : Laura (2008) – Violin, Viola
Josephine Foster : Bloodrushing (2012)
Thor & Friends : Thor & Friends (2016)
Thor & Friends : The Subversive Nature of Kindness (2017)
Swans : Leaving Meaning (2019)
References
1982 births
Living people
Musicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
American violinists
American women violinists
21st-century violinists
Beirut (band) members
A Hawk and a Hacksaw members |
Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī () (ca. 1100 CE) wrote a work on Stories of the Prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā)
Work
Al-Kisā'i produced a collection of Stories of the Prophets with exegetic information not found elsewhere. He elaborates on earlier exegesis with a fuller narrative and folkloric elements from non-extant oral traditions that often parallel those from Christianity. He includes two prophets, Shem and Eleazar, not named in later literature as prophets. [Noegel and Wheeler.]
References
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Iranian historians of Islam
11th-century Iranian historians |
References
Post
Post-nominal letters
P |
Mamadou Lamine Traoré (January 2, 1947 – July 21, 2007) was a Malian politician and President of the Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa (MIRIA) political party.
He was a leading figure in the struggle against President Moussa Traoré, which culminated in the latter's ouster on March 26, 1991. Mamadou Lamine Traoré then became a member of the Transitional Committee for Public Safety, which existed from 1991 to 1992. Upon the founding of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA-PASJ), Traoré became its First Vice-President at its constitutive congress, held on May 25–26, 1991. After elections, in the new government under President Alpha Oumar Konaré he became Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Security from June 9, 1992 to April 16, 1993, then Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization from the latter date until November 7, 1993.
Traoré left ADEMA in 1994 to form his own party, MIRIA. He was one of many opposition leaders who were arrested on August 9, 1997, in connection with the killing of a police officer at a rally on August 8; they were charged on August 14. Under the presidency of Amadou Toumani Touré, Traoré was appointed Minister of National Education in the new government named on June 14, 2002. He served in that position until his death, which followed a long illness, in July 2007.
References
Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa politicians
1947 births
2007 deaths
Government ministers of Mali
Alliance for Democracy in Mali politicians
21st-century Malian people |
A copying pencil, also an indelible pencil or chemical pencil, is a pencil whose lead contains a dye. The lead is fabricated by adding a dry water-soluble permanent dye to powdered graphite—used in standard graphite pencils—before binding the mixture with clay.
History
Copying pencils were introduced in the 1870s and were originally marketed for copying documents, especially for making permanent copies of a permanent original. This was achieved by creating a hand-written document using a copying pencil, laying a moist tissue paper over the document and pressing it down with a mechanical press. The water-soluble dye in the writing would be transferred in its mirror image to the tissue paper, which could then be read in verso by holding it up to a light source. According to paper conservator Liz Dube, "By the 1870s, letter copying books became the ubiquitous copying tool for businesses. These volumes contained hundreds of leaves of thin tissue paper, often high quality Japanese papers, bound together for the purpose of bearing copies of outgoing correspondence and other business documents."
The most commonly used dye was aniline, which produced a stain that was bright purple, mauve, or some color in between, depending upon the manufacturer. Since the aniline dye was poisonous to humans, many injuries and illness related to copying pencils were reported in the medical literature, especially in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
By the end of the 19th century, better copying methods had become available. Consequently, the copying pencil was being used as an indelible pencil, a precursor to the ball-point pen. When used dry, it left a slightly purplish gray mark on paper, not dissimilar to a lead pencil's, but which could not be erased. When used wet, its tip moistened repeatedly by water or saliva, it produced a bright purple writing. The copying pencil served as a convenient substitute for the fountain-pen: it could be carried on one's person without need for ink or fear of leaks. Furthermore, for producing copies using carbon paper, copying pencils were considered superior to both ordinary pencils (whose writing in the original could be erased) and fountain-pens (whose nibs could not always withstand the pressure needed to produce the carbon-copy).
Copying pencils saw extended use in World War I in the completion of a wide range of paperwork. However, with the advent of refined ball-point pen technology in the 1930s, their use gradually died off in much of the world. They saw longer use in some places. In countries like India and the Soviet Union, they were commonly used for writing addresses on registered mail parcels, which were required by law to be wrapped in cloth—usually plain white or unbleached calico—and secured with twine and sealing wax. For writing an address on cloth, a moistened copying pencil was preferred to a pen, whose nib could easily get caught in the weave. During their heyday, copying pencils were also associated, across the world, with the image of a railway conductor, who famously carried one tucked behind an ear.
Modern uses
In Italy and other countries, their use is still mandated by law for voting paper ballots in elections and referendums. The signs written with copying pencil cannot be tampered with, without leaving clear traces on the paper.
Health risks
Indelible pencils were the cause of significant health risks due to the presence of aniline dyes. Exposure to aniline dyes could lead to eczema, acne and carcinoma. Penetration of the dye from the pencil lead into the body commonly leads to severe and debilitating effects such as fever, anaemia, elevated white cell count, gastro-intestinal upset, kidney and liver damage, anorexia and necrosis of the tissue surrounding the wound. Such risks are not associated with ordinary graphite pencils. While these symptoms may appear after a couple of days they often develop only after weeks have passed since the injury was sustained. Surgery is required to remove the dye and the infected tissue and "the necrotizing action may be so severe and extensive amputation is necessary".
Notes
References
Pencils
Office equipment |
John "Brad" Bradbury (16 February 1953 – 28 December 2015) was an English drummer and record producer. He is best known for having been the drummer in the English ska group the Specials.
Early life and education
Bradbury was born in Coventry, where his father, Bert, was a painter and decorator for the council, and his mother, Joan, worked first for GEC (she was a shop steward) and then at Walsgrave Hospital, where she helped with care in the maternity ward. She was staunchly anti-racist and concerned with immigrants’ rights, and her views had a powerful effect on her son. He became fascinated by drumming as a child, and when he was eight his mum bought him a drum kit. According to his sister, Jill, "she then put egg boxes on the walls to stop the sound reaching the neighbours". Bradbury had three elder sisters, and it was they who took him to clubs and first introduced him to northern soul.
He attended Binley Park school in Coventry, and went on to study fine art at Hull Art College. Later he took a teaching course in Birmingham, where he taught art and English. Back in Coventry, he became part of a small group of former art students and music fans who included Jerry Dammers, with whom he shared a house. "We had friends in common, but at that time I didn’t know he could play drums," said Dammers. It was while he was working at the Virgin record store in Coventry that Brad first met Terry Hall, another music fan with similar taste. "We grew up two streets away from each other," said Hall, "but hadn’t met. He was like my older brother. He took me under his wing and looked after me."
Career
Bradbury was asked to join the Specials after their original percussionist ("a strict reggae drummer" called Silverton Hutchinson, according to bassist Horace Panter) had left. He made his first appearance with the band on their first hit single, "Gangsters", which was remarkable for having a song by a completely different band, the Selecter, on the B-side. Stranger still, the drummer playing on that Selecter track happened to be Brad.
Bradbury played a crucial role in the history of the Specials, the still massively successful multiracial band that first shook up the British music scene in the late 1970s and early '80s by mixing Jamaican ska with punk energy, a bravely political stance and good humour. They were that rarity, a thoughtful band who created great dance music, and Bradbury was central to their distinctive style. According to the band’s bass player, Horace Panter: "He called his approach ‘attack drumming’ and it became the Specials’ signature sound. He mixed the drive of northern soul with a reggae feel. And he improvised. He was different every night."
With the Specials he toured Britain, packing out dancehalls where followers showed their respect by wearing the uniform of pork pie hats and black-and-white sweaters. This was the era of the National Front, and NF supporters were eager to break up the multiracial party. Brad once explained: "They would position themselves so they could sling abuse … and objects, if they got the chance. But they usually didn’t get the chance, because we would stop mid-number, put the spotlight on the ring-leader, and the audience would take care of the rest."
Bradbury helped the Specials to become the outstanding British band of 1979, both for their recordings and live performances. Many of their best-known songs were written by Dammers, but Bradbury was involved in co-writing favourites that included "Gangsters" and "Nite Klub". The band recorded seven UK top 10 singles, including "Too Much Too Young" and "Ghost Town", but split up in 1981. Bradbury continuing to work with Dammers in the Special AKA, best known for that classic political anthem "Nelson Mandela".
For Dammers, the group’s founder and keyboard player, Bradbury was "highly intelligent, had a mischievous sense of humour which could be very funny, and he played the drums with an incredible amount of energy which was a very important part of the Specials’ sound and live shows". For the singer Terry Hall, he was simply "a great drummer".
After the Specials split, and while still involved with the Special AKA, Bradbury started his own band, JB's Allstars, influenced by northern soul. They released five singles, including "Alphabet Army" (1986), a song written by Bradbury that stressed the importance of teachers.
There followed a period of over 20 years in which it seemed that his music career had stalled. He looked after his son, Elliot, while his wife, Emily, worked in the fashion industry, and he was involved in a series of projects that included computer programming and maintenance.
The Specials reunion
Bradbury played a key role in reuniting the band (though now without Dammers).
His life changed dramatically with their triumphant comeback at the Bestival festival on the Isle of Wight in September 2008. The band proved that they could still attract large and enthusiastic crowds, even without Dammers, and set off on extensive tours across the UK, Europe, North America and the Far East. In 2011 they packed out Alexandra Palace in London, where more than 10,000 people sang along to "Ghost Town", a song that has as much relevance today as it did in the early '80s. The live album The Specials: More or Less (2012) was a well-produced reminder that the band could still do justice to their classic repertoire – and that Bradbury was still in powerful form behind the drums. "These songs have survived because they address issues that are still there," he said.
In 2014, the Specials’ four-night stint in London included three shows at the Roundhouse, and in 2015 their tours included Mexico and Chile. For 2016, they had planned a five-night run at the Troxy, London. A fitness enthusiast, Bradbury had seemed as energetic as ever, and massively excited by the prospect of the first new Specials songs since the '80s.
Death
Bradbury died aged 62 on 28 December 2015, just as the Specials were beginning to embark on a new project. He had talked enthusiastically about the new material he had been writing, and Hall says that the band had "just started recording new material, including his songs. We’d been talking about it for years."
He is survived by his wife Emily, whom he married in 1987, and only son Elliot born 1988.
Influences
Bradbury cited his main influences as Al Jackson Jr. and Sly Dunbar.
References
External links
The Specials
2 Tone website
1953 births
2015 deaths
Musicians from Coventry
The Specials members
Musicians from the West Midlands (county)
British male drummers
English drummers
English record producers
British ska musicians |
The Sioux City Masonic Temple in Sioux City, Iowa was built during 1921–1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
It is a two and a half or three story building that cost nearly $300,000 to build, not including nearly $200,000 of custom furnishings. In 2004 it was deemed significant as "an excellent, unaltered example of the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural design"; it was one of only two downtown commercial buildings in that style, which was popular during 1915 to 1940. The other is the NRHP-listed Sioux City Free Public Library, two blocks south. It was designed by Sioux City architects Beuttler and Arnold.
References
Masonic buildings completed in 1922
Buildings and structures in Sioux City, Iowa
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Masonic buildings in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Sioux City, Iowa
1922 establishments in Iowa |
Friedberg may refer to:
Places
Friedberg, Bavaria, Germany
Friedberg, Hesse, Germany
University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg
Aichach-Friedberg, Bavaria, Germany
Friedberg, Bad Saulgau, a district of Bad Saulgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Friedberg, Styria, Austria
Frymburk in Bohemia (also known as Friedberg, Bohemia)
Místek, former city, now part of Frýdek-Místek (also known as Friedberg, Moravia)
Žulová in Czech Silesia (also known as Friedberg, Czech Silesia)
Other uses
Friedberg (surname)
See also
Fried (surname)
Friedeberg (disambiguation)
Friedberger (disambiguation) |
Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, lesbianism, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".
Plot summary
Annie John, the protagonist of the book, starts out as a young girl who worships her mother. She follows her everywhere, and is shocked and hurt when she learns that she must someday live in a different house from her mother. While her mother tries to teach her to become a lady, Annie is sent to a new school where she must prove herself intellectually and make new friends. She then falls in love with a girl by the name of Gwen. She promises Gwen that she will always love her. However, Annie later finds herself admiring and adoring a girl that she called the "Red Girl". She admires this girl in all aspects of her life. To Annie this girl is the meaning of freedom because she does not have to do any daily hygienic routines like the other girls.
Annie John is then moved to a higher class because of her intelligence. For this reason, Annie is drawn away from her best friend Gwen, while alienating herself from her mother and the other adults in her life. It later becomes clear that she also suffers from some kind of mental depression, which distances her from both her family and her friends. The book ends with her physically distancing herself away from all that she knows and loves by leaving home for nursing school in England.
Publication history
The book's chapters were originally published separately in The New Yorker, before being combined and published as the novel Annie John, the stories connected by Kincaid's use of Annie John as the narrator.
Major themes, symbolism, and style
Children growing apart from their parents while becoming adolescents is the major theme in the novel. Annie and her mother share common personalities, goals and even look exactly alike, though they grow apart through the narrative. Barbara Wiedemann writes that Kincaid's fiction is not specifically aimed at a young adult audience, but the readers will benefit from insight evident in Kincaid's description of coming of age.
Annie John has been noted to contain feminist views. Asked if the relationship between Annie and Gwen was meant to suggest "lesbian tendencies," Kincaid replied: "No…I think I am always surprised that people interpret it so literally." The relationship between Gwen and Annie is really a practicing relationship. It's about how things work. It's like learning to walk. Always there is the sense that they would go on to lead heterosexual lives. Whatever happened between them, homosexuality would not be a serious thing because it is just practicing" (Vorda 94).
In the story, the theme of colonialism is conveyed. England has colonized Antigua, and has reconstructed its society. This is seen when the reader is introduced to Miss George and Miss Edward, teachers at Annie's school, who are both named after English kings. Annie in return, strongly dislikes England for imposing its culture on Antigua.
Water is consistently used throughout the novel to depict the separation between Annie John and her mother. Symbolic references to water (including the sea, rain, and other forms) illustrate Annie's development from childhood to maturity. Near the start of the novel, the reader learns that Annie has both a normal baby bottle and one shaped like a boat - and that is only the beginning of her water-connected choices in life.
Kincaid's writing form is not in the traditional paragraph form, but run-on sentences and paragraphs with little fragments. Jan Hall, a writer for Salem Press Master Plots, Fourth Edition book states in an article about Annie John that "because the novel has no years, months, or dates the story has a sense of timelessness."
Connections to other works
There are clear echoes to themes and events from Kincaid's books Lucy and My Brother. My Brother is a non-fiction story, yet Annie John has some of the same events and facts placed in her own family as if Annie was Kincaid when she was younger. In My Brother, Kincaid's father had to walk after he ate because he had a bad digestive tract and heart, their family ate fish, bread, and butter, a six-year-old died in her mother's arm going over the same bridge that her father had recently walked on after eating, and the character of Miss Charlotte dies in both books. Lucy can be cited as a continuation of Annie John being that Annie John has moved off of her Caribbean island of Antigua and is starting a new life in England, even though Lucy is in America, because hypothetically Annie John will have to learn how to adjust to England. Jan Hall writes: "the themes of Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel, are continued in Lucy (1990), a novel about a young woman’s experiences after leaving her Caribbean island."
Bibliography
Deborah E. Mistron. Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents. Greenwood Publishing Group, (1999)
References
1985 American novels
Antigua and Barbuda novels
African-American novels
Novels set in the Caribbean
Postcolonial literature
Novels by Jamaica Kincaid |
Senator Merrill may refer to:
Amanda Merrill (born 1951), New Hampshire State Senate
George F. Merrill (1847–1941), Wisconsin State Senate
Henry Merrill (1804–1874), Wisconsin State Senate
Orsamus Cook Merrill (1775–1865), Vermont State Senate |
The Canton of Les Riceys is one of the 17 cantons of the Aube department, in northern France. Since the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the communes of the canton of Les Riceys are:
Arrelles
Assenay
Avirey-Lingey
Avreuil
Bagneux-la-Fosse
Balnot-la-Grange
Balnot-sur-Laignes
Bernon
Les Bordes-Aumont
Bouilly
Bragelogne-Beauvoir
Channes
Chaource
Chaserey
Chesley
Cormost
Coussegrey
Crésantignes
Cussangy
Étourvy
Fays-la-Chapelle
Les Granges
Javernant
Jeugny
Lagesse
Laines-aux-Bois
Lantages
Lignières
Lirey
La Loge-Pomblin
Les Loges-Margueron
Longeville-sur-Mogne
Machy
Maisons-lès-Chaource
Maupas
Metz-Robert
Montceaux-lès-Vaudes
Pargues
Praslin
Prusy
Les Riceys
Roncenay
Saint-Jean-de-Bonneval
Saint-Pouange
Sommeval
Souligny
Turgy
Vallières
Vanlay
La Vendue-Mignot
Villemereuil
Villery
Villiers-le-Bois
Villiers-sous-Praslin
Villy-le-Bois
Villy-le-Maréchal
Vougrey
References
Cantons of Aube |
Michael Yani was the defending champion but decided not to participate. Alex Kuznetsov won the title defeating Bradley Klahn in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
Levene Gouldin and Thompson Tennis Challenger - Singles
2013 Singles
2013 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger |
Ohwia is a genus of plant in the Fabaceae family. Its place in taxonomy is not clear, since some botanists see it as a synonym of Desmodium. USDA GRIN has it listed as a probable synonym of Desmodium, but ILDIS LegumeWeb has it listed as its own genus.
References
Faboideae
Fabaceae genera |
Cara-Beth Burnside, nicknamed "CB" (born July 23, 1971 in Orange, California, United States), is a professional skateboarder and snowboarder and ranks amongst the top female athletes in these sports in the world. She was the first president of the Action Sports Alliance.
Skateboarding career
Burnside started skating in men's amateur skating competitions in the 1980s due to the lack of women's skate contests. During this time, Burnside started to learn to snowboard due to the lack of professional opportunities for female skaters.
As a skateboarder, Burnside has won more than 16 titles in competitions such as the X Games, All Girl Skate Jam, Vans Triple Crown, Slam City Jam and Soul Bowl, and in 2004 she was named Female Vert Skater of the Year by World Cup Skating. She has received a total of 5 Summer X Games medals for skateboarding.
In 1989, Burnside became the first woman to appear on the cover of Thrasher Magazine and in 1999, she became the first woman to have a signature skate shoe.
Burnside was named TransWorld Skateboarding's female vert skater of the year in 2004.
In 2015, Burnside was inducted in to the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.
Snowboarding career
Burnside was on the first United States Olympic snowboarding team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where she placed 4th. She has also won titles at the snowboarding Grand Prix, the X Games and the Vans Triple Crown.
She has received a total of 3 Winter X Games medals for snowboarding.
Personal life
Burnside is an advocate for opportunities in women's sports and founded the Action Sports Alliance in 2005 to create more professional opportunities for women in sports. The Action Sports Alliance also helped secure equal pay for women at the X Games.
Burnside is a vegetarian.
Filmography
She is featured in the beginning and end titles for the documentary film Not Bad for a Girl.
Video Game Appearances
Burnside is a playable character in the video games Grind Session and Tony Hawk: Ride.
References
External links
Girls Skate Network Interview
American skateboarders
American female snowboarders
American female skateboarders
Living people
X Games athletes
1971 births
Sportspeople from Orange, California
Snowboarders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarders for the United States
21st-century American women
University of California, Davis alumni |
Jarayotar may refer to:
Jarayotar, Janakpur
Jarayotar, Kosi |
James Luther Slayden (June 1, 1853 – February 24, 1924) was an American politician, cotton merchant, and rancher. He was elected from San Antonio to United States House of Representatives, serving eleven consecutive terms.
Early life and education
James Luther Slayden was born in Mayfield, Kentucky. His parents were Letitia E. (née Beadles) and Thomas A. Slayden. After his father died in 1869, he moved with his mother and siblings to New Orleans, Louisiana. There, he attended common schools and worked for two years. From 1872 and 1873, he attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. There, he was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Psi (St. Anthony Hall). He returned to New Orleans in 1873, where he worked until he moved to Texas in November 1876.
Career
Slayden moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1879 and became a rancher cotton merchant.
He became active in Democratic Party and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1892. There, he served on the Finance Committee; Insurance, Statistics and History Committee; the Judicial Districts Committee; the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee; the State Affairs Committee; and the Town and City Corporations Committee. He worked to develop trade between Texas and other areas, and the construction railroads in Texas. After serving in the state legislature from January 10, to January 8, 1893, he declined renomination and returned to ranching.
In 1896, Slayden was elected to the United States Congress representing Texas' 12th district as a Democrat. He was re-elected in 1898 and 1900, serving in total from 1897 to 1903. In 1903, he was redistricted to Texas's 14th congressional district and was elected to serve from 1903 to 1919. He served a total of eleven terms in Congress.
In Congress Slayden promoted the growth of the railroad system in Texas. He served on the Committee on Military Affairs and was key in making San Antonio a military center and in enlarging Fort Sam Houston.
After losing his bid for appointment as President Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War, Slayden declined renomination to run for Congress in 1918.
When he left Congress in 1919, Slayden kept busy with mines in Mexico, a ranch in Texas, and an orchard in Virginia.
Honors
Phi Beta Kappa Key, Washington and Lee University
Slayden, Texas in Gonzales County was named in his honor in the late 1880s.
Personal life
In 1883, he married Ellen Maury who was from Charlottesville, Virginia. They had no children. In 1889, Ellen worked for the San Antonio Express as the society editor. After Slayden's election to Congress, they moved to Washington, D.C. in 1896.
In October 1910, Slayden became one of the first trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also president of the American Peace Society. He was active in various fraternal organizations, including the Elks, the Masons, and the Odd Fellows. In addition, he was an Episcopalian.
In 1927, he died in San Antonio at the age of 70. He was buried in Mission Park Cemetery.
References
Further information
Sondra Wyatt Gray, The Political Career of James Luther Slayden, University of Texas at Austin, 1962
1853 births
1924 deaths
People from Mayfield, Kentucky
Politicians from New Orleans
Washington and Lee University alumni
St. Anthony Hall
Politicians from San Antonio
American Episcopalians
19th-century American merchants
Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas
American Freemasons
19th-century American Episcopalians
20th-century American Episcopalians |
Gabriela "Gaby" Lasky Schutz () is an Israeli politician, attorney, feminist, human rights activist, and social activist. From 2021 until 2022 she served as a member of the Knesset representing Meretz. She was a member of the Tel Aviv city council between 2013 and 2018, representing Meretz, and was the secretary general of the Israeli peace organization Peace Now. As a human rights attorney, Lasky documents and responds to cases of torture, false imprisonment, and police brutality within Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.
Biography
Lasky was born in Mexico City, Mexico to a Jewish family. In 1982 she moved to Israel at the age of 15 on her own, and went to a residential school run by the Youth Aliyah movement. Her family followed later on.
She studied at the College of Management, University of Tel Aviv, and Northwestern University. As a student, she admired Shulamit Aloni and became the first head of Meretz's student organisation.
She is a partner in the law firm she founded, "Gaby Lasky & Associates", which specializes in freedom of speech and the right to protest. She has handled many high-profile cases, including those of conscientious objectors refusing to enlist for compulsory military service, whistleblowers, and Palestinian civilians arrested by Israeli security forces, and has argued some of their cases before Israel's Supreme Court. She represented Yonatan Polk from the anti-occupation organization Anarchists Against the Wall, the Gush Shalom faction in the legal fight against the Israeli anti-BDS law, political activists from the women's organization Machsom Watch (or Checkpoint Watch, an organization monitoring Israeli checkpoints controlling movement of Palestinian civilians), human rights organization B'Tselem, Dareen Tatour - an Arab poet prosecuted by Israel and imprisoned for publishing a poem on Facebook, as well as Ahed Tamimi - a teen-aged Palestinian activist imprisoned by Israel for slapping an armed soldier who entered her yard. Lasky is legal adviser to protest and social change organizations, including the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Breaking the Silence, and was formerly the chairperson of the Human Rights Legislation Committee of the Israeli Bar Association.
Lasky is a feminist political and social activist, and a member of the Meretz political party. She served for five years as a Tel Aviv city council member and ran for the Knesset (Israel's parliament) once before, and stood for election in the April 2019 elections. She was Secretary General of Peace Now in the early 2000s. Lasky initiated the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 regarding inclusion of women in key decision-making roles as a Tel Aviv municipal law. She is chairperson of the municipal commission for the advancement of the status of women and gender equality, and is an advisor to the mayor on sustainability and urbanism.
In 2012, Lasky was awarded the Emil Greenzweig Human Rights Award by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. In the award announcement, the reason stated included: ""Lasky is a central pillar for activists in Israel and the occupied territories, who works tirelessly to protect their rights, often without any compensation... In her public activity and impressive actions, Lasky sends a clear message to Israeli society: The struggle to ensure human and civil rights in Israel, and especially to guarantee the rights of the weakest and most vulnerable among us, is still underway."
On 6 August 2019, the Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky received a Human Rights Award in the memory of the Swedish lawyer Anna Dahlbäck. Gaby Lasky described the shrinking democratic space in Israel/Palestine, and how defenders of human rights, like herself, are attacked and seen as traitors. Gaby Lasky also expressed her unwavering and staunch support for universal human rights.
Lasky is also part of Havaya, an organization dedicated to organizing Jewish marriage ceremonies outside the mandatory Orthodox framework of Israel.
Lasky is married, has two children and lives in Tel Aviv.
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South Korean girl group Dreamcatcher have released three studio albums, nine extended plays, three single albums and 17 digital singles.
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Epenwöhrden is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
History
Epenwöhrden, south of Hemmingstedt, was the venue of the Battle of Hemmingstedt. In 1500 the militia of the then Farmers' Republic of Ditmarsh, led by Wulf Isebrand, defeated an army of Hans, king of the Kalmar Union, composed of Jutes, Holsteiners, and Dutch mercenaries.
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Creyssac (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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Communes of the Dordogne department
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The 2014 North Miami mayoral special election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the mayor of North Miami, Florida. The election was officially nonpartisan. The election was held after the arrest of Mayor Lucie Tonderou earlier in 2014. Smith Joseph was elected after a runoff election between him and former mayor Kevin Burns. The first round was held on August 26, 2014.
Candidates
Smith Joseph - Owner of a medical practice (Democratic Party)
Kevin Burns - Mayor from 2005 to 2009 (Democratic Party)
Jean Rodrique Marcellus - District 3 Councilman 2009 to 2013 (Democratic Party)
Primary Election
General Election
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Nowe Kiełbonki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piecki, within Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Piecki, south of Mrągowo, and east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
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Ken Goldstein (born June 1969), also known as Kene G and Jack Dempsey, is an American musician, film and television writer, producer, director and occasional actor. He is a co-founder of Planet illogica and CEO of The Six Shooter Company and the author of the book series, The Way of the Nerd. Goldstein is an active speaker at conferences and festivals, universities and private and public institutions. He has been a featured and Keynote speaker in Brazil, Australia, France and Germany. He is also a songwriter, guitar player, performer and recording artist who often performs under the stage name Jack Dempsey. In 2014 Ken Goldstein completed his first solo album as Jack Dempsey at Capitol Records. The album was produced and engineered by Niko Bolas.
Early life and education
Goldstein grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, the town formerly called, Shermerville, Illinois, which is the setting for several of the classic films of the late director, John Hughes, who attended Northbrook's Glenbrook North High School (the setting of the town and High School in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club). Goldstein can be briefly seen in the film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles, as all of the classic Hughes' films were shot during the years he attended Glenbrook North High School and utilized students as featured extras. A chance encounter with John Hughes in 1987, during which Goldstein and Hughes performed the song, "Good Love", in front of a gymnasium filled with students, foreshadowed his employment as Hughes' personal and creative assistant during the pre-production of Home Alone 2 and throughout the production of the film.
As a teen he attended the London School of Dramatic Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago before graduating from Syracuse University in 1990.
He is the grandson of Cecilia Dubin, the Russian concert pianist.
Media career
Goldstein was a photojournalist for the New York New Times in the late 1980s, a writer for the Chicago Tribune in the early 1990s, and a television news commentator and field reporter for FOX News and NBC, including the on-air host of Too Much Information, a television news magazine for Fox News in Chicago. He also wrote, directed and produced television for A&E Network, The History Channel, BET, TF-1, BBC, PBS, Fox Broadcasting Company and NBC. Goldstein co-produced, directed and edited the several documentary specials including The Angel of Bergen-Belsen and "Copycat Crimes", which were released by A&E Network, and received an Emmy from the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his production of the children’s television program There’s No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein, in 1995.
In 2011, he became the bureau chief for Wizard Magazine'''s "Games, Girls, Gadgets and Gear" and Wizard World Comic Cons. His column, "State of the Game", appears weekly in Wizard World magazine. On April 29 he celebrated the launch of the speaking tour for his book, "The Way of the Nerd: Practical Advice for Impractical People," at the 2011 Anaheim Comic Con
The Way of the Nerd series and other books
Ken Goldstein has said that the first book in his ten part series The Way of the Nerd: Practical Advice for Impractical People has been in the works for twenty years but took only twenty hours to write. The book was completed in the Spring of 2011. An early draft of the book leaked onto the internet in July 2011 and became a popular internet download. The book, which is available in retail stores as well as on-line vendors, is also the subject of Goldstein's lecture series, The Day of the Nerd.
Goldstein is currently writing the second book in the series, The Way of the Nerd: Actually I am Going to Tell You What to do with Your Life, which is set to be released in hard back and ebook formats in October 2012.
Though all of the books in this series are based on the writings of Lao Tzu and his titular work Tao Te Ching each book incorporates a wide variety of spiritual teachings from Kabbalah, Catholicism, Judaism, Sufism and Muslim.
In July 2012 Huqua Press released The Oprah Effect which features a foreword by Ken Goldstein.
Planet illogica
Ken Goldstein co-founded Planet illogica, an agency and an online creative community for artists and art organizations. The site launched in beta July 2009 with the help of the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab. During his tenure with Planet illogica Goldstein was the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) and oversaw all marketing, promotion and branding efforts.
Examples of Planet illogica's marketing support of its artists in residence include their South by Southwest art exhibit of American contemporary artist Ron English’s Historic KISS art and other music-related prints, its online sale and promotion of custom limited edition apparel from English’s Popaganda collection, the brokering of Ron English art into the video game, inFamous on the PS3 and co-Producing Ron's 2010 retrospect, Status Factory.
Another project was Infiltrate, an art installation touring the University of Utah, George Washington University, and the University of Florida, among other campuses., that Planet illogica produced for Disney Nature and Participant Media, as an educational and promotional vehicle for the film, Oceans.
Planet illogica's roots were established in the Artists in Residence (AiR) program, also co-founded by Ken Goldstein and Tonny Sorensen, and incubated within the Von Dutch company. The inaugural AiR event was held at Von Dutch headquarters in Los Angeles, CA on September 27, 2007, and was a launch event for the mixed martial arts comic book JFH: Justice For Hire, created by the first AiR-sponsored artist, Jan Lucanus, who later became the first Planet illogica artist. "Justice-For-Hire Presents Fight Night at the Von Dutch" drew a crowd of 1,100 spectators as they were presented with martial arts demonstrations and exhibition fights from Jan and his "JFH" fight team members, including champion fighters Maximillion Chen, Ahmed Best, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Master John Machado, along with Jan's father, veteran comic book writer and Tai Chi Chuan Master Jan C. Childress. Other performances included an Oprah Winfrey-sponsored choir and acrobatics from Cirque du Soleil troop, REALIS. Celebrities in attendance included Seth Green, Lea Thompson, as well as a slew of martial arts masters from across California.
Planet illogica also developed and produced multi-media projects including movies, television shows, books and albums. Projects include organist Christoph Bull's "First & Grand", the first classical organ record ever recorded at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and Climate Refugees'' documentary film.
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ESPN SpeedWorld (formerly Auto Racing '79–'86) is a former television series broadcast on ESPN from 1979 to 2006. The program that was based primarily based around NASCAR, CART, IMSA, Formula One, NHRA, and IHRA. The theme music is based on the piano interlude from "18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)" by Cat Stevens.
History
ESPN Auto Racing (1979–1986)
When ESPN debuted in 1979, one of the first sporting events that they covered was auto racing. Initially the name of the show routinely changed to fit with the corresponding year at the time. Thus, when the program debuted, it was called Auto Racing '79, and then Auto Racing '80, Auto Racing '81 and so forth. This practice was dropped after 1986, when the name of the program was changed to SpeedWorld. The original commentators were primarily Bob Jenkins and Larry Nuber, who covered many diverse types of competition. Ultimately, by 1987, SpeedWorld'''s coverage encompassed not only Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR Winston Cup (and its feeder series such as Busch Grand National, ASA, and ARCA), and IMSA Sportscar Racing, but also racing less familiar to the average person, such as NHRA drag racing, USAC sprints and midgets, rallying, motorcycle racing, monster trucks and more. So many types of racing that were vastly different meant that specialization in broadcasting teams was necessary, so while Jenkins and Nuber continued with Winston Cup coverage, newer faces such as Paul Page and Bob Varsha began to take their places for broadcasts of other racing.
Impact of NASCAR
ESPN began showing NASCAR races in 1981 with the first event being at North Carolina Motor Speedway, which brought NASCAR to huge popularity. The last of its 265 Cup telecasts (that number includes some on ABC Sports) was the 2000 Atlanta fall race (now the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500). ESPN and ESPN2 continued to air Craftsman Truck Series races in 2001 and 2002.
=== SpeedWorld's final years ===
After losing the rights to NASCAR Winston Cup (and Busch Series) broadcasts for the 2001 season (as well as Formula One to Speedvision in , although for a while when Speedvision/Speed Channel aired Formula One, ABC were allowed to broadcast selected, mostly North American, Grands Prix), ESPN slowly began losing the remainder of their racing to other networks. For their 2002 season, CART signed a TV contract with Speed Channel and CBS, ending ESPN's partnership with CART that had begun 20 years before. NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series left ESPN, also for Speed Channel, in 2003. For 2004 the International Race of Champions likewise moved to the Speed Channel. Since ESPN's reporters were no longer allowed (by NASCAR) to report from within the racetrack for RPM 2Night segments (due to their contract with Fox and NBC/TNT), the weeknight show eventually came to an end. However, ESPN was not completely without racing, as Indy Racing League, its Indy Pro Series development championship, and the NHRA were still on ESPN's lineup.
The SpeedWorld blanket title was discontinued in 2006; the final event aired under the branding was an NHRA championship event in Pomona Raceway. Sister network ABC maintained a package of IndyCar events produced by ESPN (pay television rights are held by NBCSN). NASCAR events would return to ESPN and ABC from 2007 to 2014, holding rights to the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series; these events were instead branded as NASCAR on ESPN. After the NHRA left ESPN for Fox after the 2015 season and the IndyCar Series left after 2018, the only motorsports coverage on the ESPN networks are Formula One races on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 (which is simulcast with Comcast-owned British broadcaster Sky Sports) and, starting from 2023, the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) series, which saw the revival of the Thursday Night Thunder name.
On-air staffThis list does NOT include those who appeared on the air on ABC only, or were not a part of ESPN before 2007.Commentators
Griff Allen (NHRA)
Jack Arute (IndyCar and occasional NASCAR broadcasts)
John Bisignano (Formula One)
Mike Chamberlin (off road racing - such as MTEG)
Rick DeBruhl (IMSA, Thursday Night Thunder and occasional F1 broadcasts)
Dave Despain (NASCAR, AMA Supercross, AMA Flat Track and USAC, including Saturday Night Thunder)
Ray Dunlap (occasional NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series broadcasts in its early years, Hooters Pro Cup)
Art Eckman (AMA Supercross)
Chris Economaki (Formula One, Indianapolis 500 qualifying)
Bruce Flanders (Trans-Am)
Robbie Floyd (AMA Supercross)
Gary Gerould (CART, Dayton Indy Lights, NHRA)
Eli Gold (NASCAR as a co-commentator / analyst - primarily in 1981)
Todd Harris (Indy Racing League)
Bob Jenkins (NASCAR, select IMSA races, select ARCA races, select F1 races, CART IndyCar, and IRL)
Mike Joy (early NASCAR broadcasts, including ESPN's first live NASCAR race at Atlanta in 1981, World of Outlaws)
Mike King (IRL Indy Pro Series)
Brian Kreisky (Formula 1 - primarily in 1983)
Gary Lee (USAC - including Saturday Night Thunder, Indy Lights)
Larry Maiers (AMA Supercross)
Dave McClelland (NHRA)
Chris McClure (American Racing Series)
Larry Nuber (NASCAR, USAC, IHRA, Formula One and IndyCar)
Paul Page (CART, IRL, IMSA, and NHRA)
Dr. Jerry Punch (NASCAR)
Marty Reid (IRL, NASCAR, NHRA, off road racing (SCORE, CORR), Chili Bowl)
Mike Raymond (NASCAR in Australia in 1988 - simulcast of Seven Sport coverage)
Ken Squier (IMSA, Barber Saab Pro Series)
Jackie Stewart (Formula One)
Simon Taylor (Formula One - primarily in 1984)
Bob Varsha (Formula One, IHRA & Sports Car events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans)
John Watson (Formula One - primarily in 1997)
Expert analysts (drivers and crew chiefs)
Bill Adam (IMSA and other Sports Car races)
David Bailey (AMA Supercross)
Jon Beekhuis (CART Indy Lights, occasional CART Champ Car races)
Derek Bell (Formula One)
Robbie Buhl (Indy Pro Series)
Doc Bundy (junior formula racing series, such as Barber Saab)
Jeff Burton (International Race of Champions, or IROC)
Steve Chassey (Saturday Night Thunder)
Eddie Cheever (Formula One - primarily in 1996)
Peter Collins (occasional Formula One races, such as the 1987 Mexican Grand Prix)
Jeremy Dale (Craftsman Truck Series)
Derek Daly (Formula One and IndyCar)
Rob Dyson (occasional IMSA GTP races)
Gil de Ferran (Indy Racing League in 2004)
Ray Evernham (occasional NASCAR Cup, IROC & NASCAR Truck races - primarily on ABC broadcasts)
Chip Ganassi (1984 Mid-Ohio IndyCar 200)
Don Garlits (NHRA)
Tom Gloy (Trans-Am, Formula Atlantics)
Scott Goodyear (Indy Racing League and IROC)
Davey Hamilton (Indy Pro Series)
Bobby Hillin Jr. (occasional NASCAR Late Model races)
David Hobbs (Formula One and Sports Car racing)
Innes Ireland (occasional Formula One races, such as Monza in 1987)
Ned Jarrett (NASCAR and ARCA)
Gordon Johncock (IndyCar)
Parker Johnstone (CART FedEx Championship)
Parnelli Jones (occasional USAC races)
P. J. Jones (occasional CART FedEx Championship Series races)
Bart Kendall (Pikes Peak Hill Climb - primarily in 1995)
Tommy Kendall (occasional CART FedEx Championship Series races)
Rick Mears (1986 Bud at The Glen Winston Cup race)
Gary Nelson (NASCAR)
Benny Parsons (NASCAR, ARCA and IROC)
Phil Parsons (NASCAR)
Dan Pastorini (NHRA)
Cruz Pedregon (NHRA)
Kyle Petty (NASCAR and ARCA)
Sam Posey (IROC on both ABC and ESPN)
Jason Priestley (Indy Racing League)
Scott Pruett (occasional CART FedEx Championship Series races, Barber Saab Pro Series)
Bobby Rahal (American Racing Series)
Larry Rice (Saturday Night Thunder and other USAC related events, Indy Racing League, NASCAR Modifieds, Hooters Pro Cup)
Nigel Roebuck (Formula One)
Johnny Rutherford (IndyCar)
Elton Sawyer (early SuperTruck races)
Dorsey Schroeder (occasional Winston Cup road races, such as Watkins Glen in 1993)
Scott Sharp (IROC)
Mike Skinner (Craftsman Truck Series, 2002 Florida Dodge Dealers 250)
Tom Sneva (IRL)
K. C. Spurlock (NHRA)
Denny Stephenson (AMA Supercross)
Lyn St. James (occasional CART IndyCar World Series races, such as Cleveland in 1995)
Danny Sullivan (CART and IRL)
Ken Tyrrell (occasional Formula One races, such as Estoril in 1987)
Rusty Wallace (IRL in 2006)
Rodger Ward (IndyCar)
Bill Werner (AMA Flat Track)
Frank Williams (occasional Formula One races, such as Jerez in 1987)
Pit reporters and RPM 2Night contributors
James Allen (Formula One, CART)
Jack Arute (CART, IRL, and NASCAR)
Jon Beekhuis (CART)
Dick Berggren (NASCAR, World of Outlaws)
John Bisignano (Formula One)
Ray Dunlap (NASCAR)
Chris Economaki (NASCAR in Australia in 1988 - simulcast of Seven Sport coverage)
Steve Evans (NHRA)
Bruce Flanders (occasional USAC races)
Mike Gallaway (off road racing, such as MTEG)
Gary Gerould (CART, IRL, NHRA, select NASCAR races)
Jonathan Green (Formula One)
Todd Harris (IRL)
Eddie Irvine (Formula One, 1994 Monaco Grand Prix)
Gary Lee (CART, IMSA)
Jamie Little (IRL and NASCAR)
Larry Maiers (AMA Flat Track)
Andrew Marriott (Formula One)
Kenny Mayne (RPM 2Night)
Chris McClure (North American Super Touring)
Larry Nuber (IndyCar and NASCAR)
Benny Parsons (was an occasional pit reporter for NASCAR broadcasts before his permanent booth position)
Kyle Petty (NASCAR)
Dr. Jerry Punch (NASCAR, CART, and IRL)
Marty Reid (Formula One, CART, IHRA, IRL, NASCAR, sports cars, USAC)
Leandra Riley (NASCAR)
Ralph Sheheen (Sports car racing)
Walt Stannard (Formula One)
Lyn St. James (IndyCar)
Darrell Waltrip (IROC)
Bill Weber (NASCAR)
Vince Welch (IRL)
Matt Yocum (NASCAR in 2000)
See alsoNASCAR on ESPN''
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Riya Sen (born Riya Dev Varma; 24 January 1981) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Hindi, Bengali, English, Telugu and Tamil films.
Sen comes from a royal background; her father Bharat Dev Varma hails from the royal family of Tripura. He was the son of Ila Devi, a princess of Cooch Behar and nephew of Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur. Sen's mother Moon Moon Sen and grandmother Suchitra Sen were reputed veteran actresses. She began her acting career when she was 5 years old, playing her mother's daughter on screen for the first time. Later in 1991 she worked as a child actress in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some of her other notable films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, and Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005). She won the Star Guide Award as best actress for her performance in Noukadubi.
Sen was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of seventeen in 1998. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television advertisements, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. Sen has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease. She also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care and underprivileged children.
Acting career
Riya first appeared as a child artist in the film when she was 5 years old later in 1991 she worked as a child actress in the film Vishkanya., where she played the role of the young Pooja Bedi. At the age of 19, she did National Film Awards winning director Bharathiraja's Tamil film, Taj Mahal (2000) which was written by Mani Ratnam while music was composed by A. R. Rahman, which did not achieve commercial success. She was scheduled to make her Bollywood film debut in Love You Hamesha, opposite actor Akshaye Khanna; however, the film was stalled, and she finally made her debut in N. Chandra's Style in 2001. This low-budget comedy was the first commercial success in over a decade for the director. A launch pad for Riya, cast in the female lead along with fellow-newcomers, Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal, the film pioneered a trend of commercial success for small budget films in India. Riya and the second female lead of the film were replaced by aspirant actresses Sonali Joshi and Jaya Seal in Xcuse Me.
Her next success was Jhankaar Beats, comedy revolving around the music of legendary composer R D Burman, which saw her playing a small and glamorous role alongside Shayan Munshi, Juhi Chawla, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna and Sanjay Suri. Produced by Pritish Nandy, publishing director of The Times of India, the film was made on a budget of Rs. 25 million (US$525,000), marking the sixth in a row of small to medium budget films made by Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC). Despite being part of a wave of offbeat films that mostly failed to make an impact at the box office, it drew public attention upon its release, which led to a commercial success among a restricted audience targeted by a selective release in twenty cities. It was one of the first films made in Hinglish, a mixture of Hindi and English.
Her films Style and Jhankar Beats have done wonders commercially. Her latter films Harry Baweja's Qayamat and Subhash Ghai's Apna Sapna Money Money were also box office hits and that ran for 150 days. These films were 4 consecutive hits in a row. While many of her appearances have been item numbers and cameos, few of her leading roles have been in Low-budget films. Though she had small roles in Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (2002), Qayamat (2003) and Plan (2004), attention was drawn to her item numbers in all three, especially the one in Qayamat that featured her in a bubble-bath. Besides this, she performed another item number in James (2005) on director-producer Ram Gopal Varma's behest, who has a history of casting aspirant actress-models like Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar and Koena Mitra in similar roles. Furthermore, she took part in a dance number for Sajid Khan's Heyy Babyy (2007) that featured several mainstream Bollywood actresses.
Non-Hindi films
Riya has, in addition to Hindi films, appeared in Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and English films. Her film career began in the earnest with Tamil films such as Bharathi Raja's Taj Mahal, co-starring Manjoj Bharatiraja in the male lead, and Manoj Bhatnaghar's Good Luck, opposite Prashanth. Both of the films failed commercially, she also did a dance number for N. Maharajan's Arasatchi.
Her first English language movie was It Was Raining That Night, a remake of the Bengali film Hei Brishtir Raat, scripted by Sudeshna Roy and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. In the film, she collaborated with her mother Moon Moon Sen. Riya was slated to appear in Anjan Dutt's Bengali-English bilingual film The Bong Connection with her sister, but she was eventually dropped from the project and replaced by Peeya Rai Chaudhary. The two sisters were later cast together in director Ajai Sinha's 3 Bachelors, a Bengali film that started as The Bachelor in 2002 and was released in 2012.
Her most successful non-Hindi film has been director Santhosh Sivan's Ananthabhadram (2005). The first Malayalam venture for both Riya and Sivan, was both a critical and commercial success. It won five Kerala State Film Awards and surfaced as one of the biggest Malayalam successes that year. She played the role of Bhama in the film, a village girl who is lured by Digambaran, the evil magician portrayed by Manoj K. Jayan. In a song-and-dance sequence showing Digambaran turning Bhama into a medium for demonic rituals, the choreographer Aparna Sindoor made abundant use of Kathakali movements. The use of Kathakali has been a high point in the resurgence of the classical dance form in other major Indian films as well, including Shaji Karun's Vanaprastham (1999) and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (2005). She made her Telugu debut with Nenu Meeku Telusa?, in which she was paired opposite Manoj Manchu.
In 2012 Sen won the Star Guide Award as best actress for her performance in Noukadubi.
She was also featured in video song of Kamaal Khan album Suno To Deewana Dil in song Jaana.
Modeling career
Riya became a popular model when she appeared in numerous music videos for songs by popular singers, including Falguni Pathak's Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi (alternative title: Chudi Jo Khankayi), Asha Bhosle's Jhumka Gira Re, Jagjit Singh and Bhosle's Jab Samne Tum and Kahin Kahin Se, Lata Mangeshkar, Bhonsle and Singh's Dil Kahin Hosh Kahin, Sonu Nigam's Jeena Hai Tere Liye and Shaan's Sutta Maro. She shot for her first music video, Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi, at the age of sixteen. This led to her being identified primarily as a performer for music videos early in her career, an image she aimed to shed in 2005. Riya has appeared on several magazine covers, including Femina, Elaan, Man's World, Gladrags, Savvy and Indian versions of Elle, Maxim and Cosmopolitan, as well as on the ramp of major fashion shows like Lakmé Fashion Week (2005–07) and Wills Fashion Week (2006–2007). She participated in fashion shows along with her elder sister, Raima Sen.
Besides modelling, Riya has ventured into the advertisement world as well. A high point of her modelling career came in 2006, when she became the soft drink, Limca's brand ambassador, replacing Deepika Padukone. Her other notable assignments include Colgate, Dabur Vatika, Reliance Industries, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, and Nirma.
In 2004, she was featured partially nude in leading Indian photographer Dabboo Ratnani's annual calendar, which is a major happening in the Indian glamour industry. According to Daboo, "Her mother saw it much later, after the calendar released. She thought it was too sexy, and Riya shouldn't have done it. But the response to the photograph was superb. Riya was so thrilled that for her next ad campaign, she asked me to light her up like I did in this." A career highlight for the model, it led to a three-year contract with Ratnani to feature her on his annual calendar. She is the only female face to be featured on the calendar for five consecutive years (2003–07).
Personal life and family
Born on 24 January 1981 in Kolkata, West Bengal, Riya is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen, a former actress, and granddaughter of Suchitra Sen, a legend in Bengali cinema. Before leaving for Mumbai, she lived in Kolkata with her parents and sister Raima Sen, also an actress. Her father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was a princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi was the Maharani of Jaipur. Her paternal great-grandmother Indira was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda. Riya's maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen – a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen- was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother's maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.
Riya completed her schooling in ICSE from Loreto House in Kolkata. She went on to studying philosophy in a Bengali uccha madhyamik school Rani Birla Girls' College (a University of Calcutta affiliate). Riya had a degree from the National Institute of Fashion Technology NIFT Mumbai in fashion designing and information technology. She went to London to the Pinewood Actors Studio for acting course and simultaneously did voice and dubbing classes. She also did a couple of private acting workshops with renowned British teachers. She learnt the Queens English -British accent with renowned voice coach Barbara Berkeley. She studied in New York at the TV1 acting studio in Times Square. Riya has also done a course in Paris at the Institute Marangoni for fashion and image styling. Riya also did a course at the University of Arts in London in ‘branding' and a cooking course in Thailand at the blue elephant culinary school. Riya briefly practiced kickboxing and karate. She is passionate about painting and has been painting since she was a baby. She's a certified yoga teacher. She did her 200 hours Teacher training course in Rishikesh for hatha vinyasa, Yin yoga teacher training course in dharamsala at the Trimurti school and Aerial yoga teacher training course from Ulu yoga in Bali.
During the filming of Shaadi No. 1 in France, she was knocked unconscious after being accidentally run over by a stuntman's motorbike, but she was not seriously injured.
In August 2017, Sen married her boyfriend Shivam Tewari in a private Bengali Hindu ceremony.
Public persona
Riya's on-screen performances have established her as a bold youth icon in India. Since entering the film industry, she has gained attention for wearing a bikini in Shaadi No. 1 and sharing on-screen kisses with co-stars Ashmit Patel in Silsiilay and Sharman Joshi in Style, respectively. Such performances garnered negative attention because of the relatively conservative outlook of Indian cinema at that time and her own statements about such practices. Riya's public persona is compared to her mother Moon Moon, who was seen as a sex symbol of her time,.
Although her film career has yet to achieve large-scale success, Riya has generated considerable media attention. She was ranked ninth on Femina 50 Most Beautiful Women, published in the magazine's September 2007 issue. She was a jury member for the 2008 Final of the Mr. India contest. Riya appeared in Haath Se Haath Mila, an HIV/AIDS awareness music video. She made charity appearances at McDonald's India to raise money for paediatric eye-care during World Children's Week (14–20 November) in 2003 and also for underprivileged children during the Corona virus pandemic in 2020.
Filmography
Web series
See also
List of Indian film actresses
List of Bollywood Clans: The Sens
References
External links
Interview with Riya Sen in The Telegraph
Riya and Raima compared in The Telegraph
Riya Sen on her mother in Hindustan Times
Indian film actresses
Female models from Kolkata
1981 births
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Living people
Actresses from Kolkata
Actresses in Tamil cinema
University of Calcutta alumni
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Tripuri people
Actresses from Tripura
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Odia cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Tripuri actors |
Donald "Don" J. C. Skene (born 1936, Cardiff), is a Welsh former racing cyclist. He represented Wales at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games on several occasions, the first time in 1954 in the 10 km scratch race, the kilo and the road race (100 km); again in 1958 in the 10 km scratch race, the kilo and the sprint; and for the final time in 1962 competing once again in the 10 km scratch race, the kilo and the sprint. He was the bronze medalist in the scratch race in both 1954 and 1958. He rode many international races representing the R.A.F. and British national teams, in South Africa, Guiana in South America and on the continent.
Skene began racing at the age of 15, joining the Tigers Cycling Club, and at 16 in 1952, he opened a small bicycle shop on Rumney Hill, Newport Road, Cardiff. He ran the business for 53 years before passing on control of the business to his daughter Liane and son Jon in 2005. The shop also sponsors the Team Skene cycling team. Don has since retired and now lives in Florida, in the United States.
Palmarès
References
External links
Don Skene Cycles
1936 births
Living people
Welsh male cyclists
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
Cyclists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Cyclists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Sportspeople from Cardiff
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games |
A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1851–52) is the full, exhibited title of a painting by John Everett Millais, and was produced at the height of his Pre-Raphaelite period. It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: "When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap.—The order of the Duke of Guise." This long title is usually abbreviated to A Huguenot or A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day.
It depicts a pair of young lovers and is given a dramatic twist because the woman, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Catholicism. The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands.
Millais had initially planned simply to depict lovers in a less dire predicament, but supposedly had been persuaded by his Pre-Raphaelite colleague William Holman Hunt that the subject was too trite. After seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots of 1836 at Covent Garden, which tells the story of the massacre, Millais adapted the painting to refer to the event. In the opera, Valentine attempts unsuccessfully to get her lover Raoul to wear the armband. The choice of a pro-Protestant subject was also significant because the Pre-Raphaelites had previously been attacked for their alleged sympathies to the Oxford Movement and to Catholicism.
Millais painted the majority of the background near Ewell in Surrey in the late summer and autumn of 1851, while he and Hunt were living at Worcester Park Farm. It was from a brick wall adjoining an orchard. Some of the flowers depicted in the scene may have been chosen because of the contemporary interest in the so-called language of flowers. The blue Canterbury Bells at the left, for example, can stand for faith and constancy. Returning to London after the weather turned too cold to work out-of-doors in November, he painted in the figures: the face of the man was from that of Millais's family friend Arthur Lemprière, and the woman was posed for by Anne Ryan.
The painting was exhibited with Ophelia and his portrait of Mrs. Coventry Patmore (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1852, and helped to change attitudes towards the Pre-Raphaelites. Tom Taylor wrote an extremely positive review in Punch. It was produced as a reproductive print by the dealer D. White and engraved in mezzotint by Thomas Oldham Barlow in 1856. This became Millais's first major popular success in this medium, and the artist went on to produce a number of other paintings on similar subjects to serve a growing middle class market for engravings. These include The Order of Release, 1746 (Tate, London), The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection), and The Black Brunswicker (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). All were successfully engraved.
There are smaller watercolor versions of the picture in The Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, and a reduced oil replica in the Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection, all by Millais.
See also
List of paintings by John Everett Millais
Notes
Paintings by John Everett Millais
1852 paintings |
Pilsen is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 65. The community is named after the city Plzeň (German: Pilsen) in Czech Republic, formerly Bohemia. It is located north of Marion and west of Lincolnville at the intersection of Remington Road and 275th Street.
History
Early history
For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America. In 1762, after the French and Indian War, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
19th century
In 1802, Spain returned most of the land to France. In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre.
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1855, Marion County was established within the Kansas Territory, which included the land for modern day Pilsen.
Pilsen was founded in 1874 and named to honor the city of Plzeň of Bohemia by Bohemian immigrants. The area was settled in the 1870s and 1880s by 46 Bohemian families of Czech and German descent who purchased their land from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
In 1888, the first Catholic church was built. It was a two-story frame building; the upper floor was the church and the lower floor was the rectory. The building was converted into a convent after the second church was built.
Up until about 1902, the community was centered around a General Store that was located approximately south of the current Pilsen site.
20th century
After the General Store closed in 1902, Mr and Mrs Cerny built a new two-story store at the current Pilsen site, and continued to operate it until 1944, then later it was torn down in 1970.
The current St. John Nepomucene Catholic church as built in 1914–1915. Train carloads of brick were ordered from Kansas City then delivered to the closest station in Lincolnville. The pile of bricks in Pilsen was so large that people often joked "how many churches are you going to build?" The church cost approximately $30,000, but the cost would have been higher if it had not been for the local volunteer labor. In 1924, an eleven-room rectory was built. In the early 1940s, Emil Kapaun was pastor at the church and assisted Father Sklenar.
A post office existed in Pilsen from March 17, 1917 to March 8, 1957.
21st century
On June 3, 2001, volunteers dedicated a statue honoring Chaplain Emil Kapaun at St. John Nepomucene Church.
In 2010, the Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) was constructed near Pilsen, north to south through Marion County, with much controversy over road damage, tax exemption, and environmental concerns (if a leak ever occurs).
Geography
Pilsen is located at coordinates 38.4714024, -97.0402972 in the scenic Flint Hills and Great Plains of the state of Kansas. It is approximately north of Marion.
Demographics
For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Pilsen as a census-designated place (CDP), which includes population from the surrounding area.
Area events
Father Kapaun Day on first Sunday in June
Military Pilgrimage in November
Area attractions
St John Nepomucene Catholic Church. The highlight of the small community of Pilsen is St John Nepomucene Catholic Church. The cornerstone was laid in 1914 by Father John Sklenar, the first parish priest. The church can be seen for miles around the flat farming community of Pilsen. The church itself is 120 feet tall, topped by a silver-colored neo-Gothic dome. St John Nepomucene, for whom the church was named is the patron saint of Bohemia and Christian martyr of the 14th Century.
Marion Reservoir, approximately southwest of Pilsen.
Education
The community is served by Centre USD 397 public school district. The high school is a member of T.E.E.N., a shared video teaching network between five area high schools.
Centre School; 2374 310th St, Lost Springs, KS; between Lost Springs and Lincolnville, east of U.S. 77 highway.
Media
Print
Marion County Record, official county newspaper and city newspaper for Marion.
Hillsboro Free Press, free newspaper for greater Marion County area.
Infrastructure
Transportation
U.S. Route 77 is east, and U.S. Route 56 is south of the community.
Utilities
Internet
Satellite is provided by HughesNet, StarBand, WildBlue.
TV
Satellite is provided by DirecTV, Dish Network.
Terrestrial is provided by regional digital TV stations.
Electricity
Community and Rural areas provided by Flint Hills RECA.
Notable people
Emil Kapaun, (1916–1951), Roman Catholic priest, United States Army chaplain, candidate for sainthood and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
References
Further reading
Early Pilsen Community History; Jane C. Rupp; Marion Record; September 16, 1937.
External links
Community
Community of Pilsen, archive of former website
St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church and Emil Kapaun museum
Historical
Marion County cemetery list, archive of KsGenWeb
Marion County history bibliography, Marion County school bibliography, Kansas Historical Society
Maps
Marion County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Topo Map of Eastshore and Pilsen area, USGS
Czech-American culture in Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Marion County, Kansas
Populated places established in 1874
1874 establishments in Kansas |
The South Bendigo Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bloods, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of Bendigo, Victoria.
The club teams currently compete in the Bendigo Football Netball League.
History
South Bendigo was established in 1893 and joined the Bendigo Football League and remains the only club to have continued every season since without a period of recess.
Since South Bendigo entered the league in 1893, no club has won more premierships. They sit third on the all-time list of BFL premierships, behind Eaglehawk and Sandhurst.
Honours
Premierships & Grand Finals
Club song
VFL / AFL Players
The following footballers played with South Bendigo prior to making their VFL/AFL debut.
1910 - Joe Scaddan (Collingwood player & Subiaco coach)
1914 - Percy Daykin (Carlton)
1922 - Arthur Hando (South Melbourne player)
1941 - Jack Knight (Collingwood player & St Kilda coach)
1984 - Peter Dean (Carlton premiership player 1987 & 1995)
1993 - Leigh Colbert (Geelong and North Melbourne player)
References
External links
Official website
Sports clubs and teams established in 1893
Australian rules football clubs established in 1893
Bendigo Football League clubs
1893 establishments in Australia
Netball teams in Victoria (state) |
The offset figure-eight bend is a poor knot that has been implicated in the deaths of several rock climbers. The knot may capsize (invert) under load, as shown in the figure, and this can happen repeatedly. Each inversion reduces the lengths of the tails. Once the tails are used up completely, the knot comes undone.
More secure knots for this purpose are the Flemish bend (the "figure eight bend"), (doubled) offset overhand bend, or double fisherman's knot.
See also
List of knots
References
Knots |
Abul Hossain is a Bangladeshi Army general.
Abul Hossain may also refer to:
Abu Hussain Sarkar (1894–1969), Bengali politician
Abul Hussain (1922–2014), Bangladeshi poet
Abul Hossain (politician) (1935–2016), Bangladeshi politician and freedom fighter
Syed Abul Hossain (born 1951), Bangladeshi businessman and former minister
Sayed Abu Hossain (born 1956), Bangladeshi politician
Abul Hossain Tarun (died 1997), Bangladeshi politician
Abul Hossain (Bangladeshi politician), politician of Rajshahi district
Abul Hossain (Jamalpur politician), Bangladeshi politician
Abul Hossain Khan, Bangladeshi politician
Abul Hossain Mia, Bangladeshi politician
Mohamed Abul Hossain Abul, Bangladeshi footballer |
Gilbert Ning Ling (December 26, 1919 – November 10, 2019) was a Chinese-born American cell physiologist, biochemist and scientific investigator.
In 1944, Ling won the biology slot of the sixth Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, a nationwide competitive examination that allowed Chinese science and engineering students full scholarship to study in a United States university. In 1947 he co-developed the Gerard-Graham-Ling microelectrode, a device that allows scientists to more accurately measure the electrical potentials of living cells. In 1962 he proposed the Association induction hypothesis, which claims to be unifying, general theory of the living cell, and is an alternative and controversial hypothesis to the membrane and steady-state membrane pump theories, and three years later added the Polarized-Oriented Multilayer (PM or POM) theory of cell water.
Ling carried out scientific experiments that attempted to disprove the accepted view of the cell as a membrane containing a number of pumps such as the sodium potassium pump and the calcium pump and channels that engage in active transport.
He died in November 2019, one month short of turning 100.
Early life and education
Ling was born in December 1919, in Nanking, China. He grew up in Beijing and entered the National Central University (Nanking University) in Chungking as a student of animal husbandry. After two years, he transferred to the biology department and received a Biology B.Sc. degree, minoring in physics and chemistry in 1943.
In 1944, having done graduate work in Biochemistry at the National Southwestern Associated University (National Tsing Hua University) in Kunming, Ling won the sixth Boxer Indemnity Scholarship. In early 1946 he began his graduate study in the department of physiology at the University of Chicago under Professor Ralph W. Gerard. In 1948 he completed his Ph.D on the effects of metabolism, temperature and other factors on the membrane potential of single frog muscle fibers which was published in Dec 1949 in a series of 4 papers in the Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Volume 34, Issue 3. He spent two more years under Prof. Gerard as a Seymour Coman Postdoctoral Fellow.
Academic career
In 1944, Ling won the only Biology slot of the sixth nationwide Boxer Indemnity Fellowship, to study physiology in the United States, which he took up in January 1946.
From 1950 to 1953 Ling worked as an instructor at the medical school of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His research and experiments led him to the conclusion that the mainstream membrane pump theory of the living cell was not correct. This early embryonic version of the Association induction hypothesis was called Ling's Fixed Charge Hypothesis (LFCH).
From 1953 to 1957 he continued full-time research at the Neuropsychiatric institute at the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. Beginning as an assistant professor, he was promoted two years later to (tenured) associate professorship.
In 1957, he accepted the position of senior research scientist at the basic research department of the newly founded Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
In 1962 his first book entitled "A Physical Theory of the Living State: the Association-Induction Hypothesis." was published. At this time Ling became director of a research laboratory at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
In 1984, Ling published his second book "In Search of the Physical Basis of Life,".
In October 1988, Ling's laboratory shut down due to his inability to obtain research funds from National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies. Raymond Vahan Damadian offered to support him and two of his staff: Margaret Ochsenfeld and Dr. Zhen-dong Chen.
From 1982 to 1985 he was a co-Editor-in-chief of the Physiological Chemistry & Physics and Medical NMR journal and since 1986, has been its sole Editor-in-Chief.
In 1992 Ling published his third book, "A Revolution in the Physiology of the Living Cell."
In 2001 his fourth book "Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level" was published and has been translated to Russian and Chinese.
In 2011 his wife of 60 years, Shirley Wang Ling, died from incurable pancreatic cancer.
In 2014 at the age of 94 he published his fifth book, a reply to Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 book What is Life? called What is Life Answered.
He has published over 200 scientific papers, although much of his later work has been largely ignored by the scientific community.
Gerard-Graham-Ling microelectrode
Also known as the Ling-Gerard microelectrode and after the 1940s further developed into the glass capillary microelectrode has played a vital role in modern neurophysiology and medicine.
John Eccles applied the microelectrode to studies of activity of individual units within the spinal cord and brain and Andrew Huxley used it in muscle cells.
In 1963, Hodgkin with Huxley, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the basis of nerve "action potentials," the electrical impulses which enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Eccles, who was cited for his research on synapses.
Worldwide use of this new microelectrode spread rapidly after this and has subsequently proven to be one of the most important devices applied to the study of cellular physiology.
The microelectrode in use today is essentially the same as this, except that it usually contains a concentrated salt solution, and is commonly referred to as the glass capillary.
In 1950 Gerard was nominated for the Nobel Prize for helping to develop the microelectrode as used in electrophysiology.
Association induction hypothesis
An alternative and controversial hypothesis to the membrane and membrane pump theories, the Association Induction Hypothesis is a claim related to the properties and activities of microscopic assemblies of molecules, atoms, ions and electrons of the smallest unit of life called nano-protoplasm.
Ling wrote books describing his hypothesis in 1962 and 1984; and later self-published other books.
Polarized-oriented multilayer theory
In 1965, Ling added his Polarized-Oriented Multilayer (PM or POM) theory of cell water to the Association Induction Hypothesis. The theory argues that cell water is polarized and oriented and thus dynamically structured. Structured water is considered to be a pseudoscience.
Criticism
In 1974, Lawrence G. Palmer and Jagdish Gulati tested one aspect of Ling's theories, namely whether potassium ions within the cell are bound or free. Contrary to Ling's prediction, they found that in fact potassium ions within frog skeletal muscle cells are free.
See also
Membrane potential
Sodium-potassium pump
Cell membrane
History of cell membrane theory
References
Publications
Gilbert N. Ling. A Physical Theory of the Living State: the Association-Induction Hypothesis. Blaisdell Publishing Company, A Division of Random House, Inc., London. 1962. 682 pages. Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 62-11835
Gilbert N. Ling. In Search of the Physical Basis of Life. Plenum Press, New York and London. 1984. 791 pages.
Gilbert N. Ling. A Revolution in the Physiology of the Living Cell. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 1992. 378 pages.
Gilbert N. Ling. Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level: The Hidden History of a Fundamental. Revolution in Biology. New York: Pacific Press. 2001. 373 pages.
Gilbert N. Ling. What is Life Answered. Cushing Malloy Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2013. 120 pages.
External links
Dr. Gilbert Ling's website
1919 births
2019 deaths
Boxer Indemnity Scholarship recipients
Chinese emigrants to the United States
University of Chicago alumni
National Central University alumni
Nanjing University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
University of Chicago faculty
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Illinois faculty |
The 1992 Copa CONMEBOL was the first edition of CONMEBOL's annual club tournament. Teams that failed to qualify for the Copa Libertadores played in this tournament. Sixteen teams from the ten South American football confederations qualified for this tournament. Atlético Mineiro defeated Olimpia in the finals.
Qualified teams
Bracket
First round
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Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Finals
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External links
CONMEBOL 1992 at RSSSF
CONMEBOL 1992 at CONMEBOL Official Website
Copa CONMEBOL
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Eucalyptus phenax, commonly known as green dumosa mallee or white mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to southern Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and cup-shaped to cylindrical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus phenax is a mallee or shrub that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, creamy grey bark that is shed in ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils, usually in groups of seven or nine on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to long. Mature buds are cylindrical to oval, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between October and May and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped to cylindrical capsule long and wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus phenax was first formally described in 1996 by Ian Brooker and Andrew Slee from material collected by Dean Nicolle near Tailem Bend in 1985. The specific epithet (phenax) is an ancient Greek word meaning "imposter", referring to the fact that this species was previously known as E. anceps, now a synonym of E.rugosa.
In 2000, Dean Nicolle described two subspecies and the names have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Eucalyptus phenax subsp. compressa D. Nicolle that has longer peduncles, larger flower buds and fruit than subspecies phenax;
Eucalyptus phenax Brooker & Slee subsp. phenax.
Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt grows in mallee scrubs and is widely distributed in the southwest of Western Australia, the south-east of South Australia and the north-west of Victoria. It is most common in Western Australia where it occurs from near Bolgart through the southern wheatbelt to Esperance. Subspecies compressa is only known from the eastern side of Kangaroo Island and on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Conservation status
In Western Australia, this eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" in Western Australia by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
See also
List of Eucalyptus species
References
Eucalypts of Western Australia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Victoria (state)
phenax
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1996
Taxa named by Ian Brooker |
Hamad bin Khalid bin Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani () (1952 – 13 September 2012) was a Qatari entrepreneur and Chief of the Qatari police forces. He was a member of the House of Thani and cousin of the former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Early life and education
Hamad Al Thani was born in 1952 at the Al Rayyan Palace in Doha, Qatar. He is the eldest child of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani and Sheikha Mariam. After a coup, his uncle Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani became the 8th Emir of Qatar, and appointed his father as the minister of interior in 1972, where he remained until 1989. Through his father, Hamad Al Thani is also a great-grandson of the 3rd Emir of Qatar, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, and a first cousin of the former and 9th Emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Hamad Al Thani began his education in Qatar and later attended Sandhurst Military Academy in England.
Career
Hamad Al Thani was deputy commander of the Qatar armed forces from 1973 to 1978. In 1978 he became the chief of the Qatari police forces, where he remained until 1988.
He founded in 1973, and is owner of, the company Hamad Bin Khalid Power Cleaning (HBK Power Cleaning W.L.L). Hamad Al Thani also established construction company with his business partner named HKH General Contracting W.L.L in 1995.
HKH General Contractors is now referred to as HKH Contracting and has gone on to be a big player in the market after its management was largely controlled by Sheikh Hamad's son, Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al Thani.
Personal life
Sheikh Hamad was the eldest son of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani and was married and had four sons and six daughters. Sheikh Hamad had lung cancer and died in 2012; he was buried in the Sheikhs' graveyard opposite to his fathers palace in Al Rayyan district of Doha.
References
1952 births
2012 deaths
Hamad bin Khalid bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Robert Hutchison is the name of:
Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie (1834–1894), Scottish landowner and photographer
Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose (1873–1950), Scottish soldier, politician and peer
Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet of Thurle (1871–1960), Scottish physician and writer
Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936), Scottish landscape artist
See also
Robert Hutchinson (disambiguation)
Bobby Hutcherson (1941–2016), jazz musician |
ATV (Author Television) is the oldest Russian private TV company. It was founded in the USSR on September 15, 1988 by Anatoly Malkin and Kira Proshutinskaya. It reached its height in popularity in Russia in the 1990s.
The television company was founded on September 15, 1988 with the support of the cooperative of the architect Yuri Makarov (a story about him was previously filmed in the program "Peace and Youth", where Kira Proshutinskaya worked). The name ATV was coined by Anatoly Malkin. He deciphered the name as "alternative television", but Malkin's friend and colleague Vladimir Voroshilov suggested the "author's television" option, since in his opinion, the "alternative" decoding was inappropriate.
For the first three years, ATV produced projects within the framework of the Main Edition of Programs for Youth, from which Malkin and Proshutinskaya came out. The first program of the TV company was the "Press Club" talk show, which aired in September 1989. The first documentary film "Circle", which told the story of the Komsomol. Also in 1988-1990 ATV made stories for the program "Vzglyad".
In the period from 1990 to 1992, the first program of the Central Television (later on the 1st channel Ostankino) on Monday evenings aired the channel "Author's Television", which was a block of programs of ATV's own production. From November 1991 to 1996, the company was the founder and partner of the creative association "New Studio" of the RGTRK "Ostankino". In addition, the studio produced a weekly TV block called "New Studio Presents" for Channel One Ostankino. In September 1992, ATV became the main contractor for Channel 4 Ostankino, which was placed under the authority of New Studio. From 1994 to 1995, together with the television companies VID and REN-TV, it was a member of the Association of Independent Television Producers, which became the founder of ORT.
The television company has repeatedly tried to create its own channel in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it often took part in television competitions for frequencies. In 2000, ATV applied for broadcasting for 3 TVKs in Moscow together with VID TV company. But neither VID nor ATV passed, and the place was given to the operating company TVC. In 2004 the company, together with ZAO Stream-TV, created the Retro-TV channel, one of the owners of which it remained until 2007. In 2000, during a fire at the Ostankino TV tower, the ORT channel was broadcast on ATV.
In 2004-2005, ATV was also engaged in the release of audiobooks.
In 2007, the Quadriga Capital private equity fund bought out a controlling stake from the founders of the studio (Kira Proshutinskaya and Anatoly Malkin) for an estimated $25 million.
In 2008, ATV received a license for satellite broadcasting and together with ZAO AKADO Stolitsa, created the PRO Money TV channel.
From 2009 to 2012 on the basis of "ATV" the television production company "Proma Production", produced programs such as "What to do?", "Surname" ("Big family"), "Earlier than all", "Salt ", "Tea Party ", "Natural Science. Lectures and Experiments ", "Theatrical Fa-Sol ", "Wife", "Fa-Sol. Workshop ”, “Homework Rescue Service”. After the divorce of the founder Kira Proshutinskaya from Anatoly Malkin, the TV company was closed. ATV simultaneously with Proshutinskaya leaves a number of employees. From 2012 to 2014, the TV company's products were produced under the name MAG-TV (based on the first letters of the surname, name and patronymic of the founder of the TV company).
Since September 2016, ATV projects have been published under the copyright "IP Malkin Anatoly Grigorievich", since October 2018 "IP Lezhanskaya Kristina Yuryevna", and since September 2020 - as LLC "Novoe ATV".
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The River Clwyd (Welsh: Afon Clwyd) is a river in Wales that rises in the Clocaenog Forest () northwest of Corwen. Its total length is .
It flows due south until, at Melin-y-wig, it veers north-eastwards, tracking the A494 and passing through Derwen, Llanelidan, Pwllglas and Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd to Ruthin. Here it leaves the relatively narrow valley and enters a broad agricultural vale, the Vale of Clwyd (Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd). Just south of Denbigh, it is joined by the River Clywedog. This substantial tributary also has its source in the Clocaenog Forest but drains out to the east and north of the forest and passes through Cyffylliog, Bontuchel and Rhewl before its confluence with the main river.
Then the Clwyd meanders northwards through the fertile Clwyd valley to St Asaph. Around north of St Asaph, the river is joined by a tributary as large as the main river, the River Elwy. In normal flows at low tide, the waters of these two rivers can be seen flowing side by side down the river with little mixing.
The River Elwy has its source a long way to the west on the flanks of Moel Seisiog south-east of Llanrwst. It also has a tributary the River Aled with its source in the upland lake Llyn Aled. The Elwy flows principally eastwards to join the Clwyd passing through few villages. At the confluence of the Elwy and the Clwyd, the river becomes tidal and enters a narrow estuary with much wildlife before meeting the Irish Sea at Rhyl.
In 1277, King Edward I sited a castle next to the Clwyd at Rhuddlan. In order for his supply barges to reach the castle, he employed 968 men to work on what was called 'The Great Ditch'. He straightened the stretch of river that ran from the castle to the sea. This was an enormous feat of engineering, compared even to today's modern standards, and it is still possible to make out the original loops and turns of the Clwyd using satellite imagery.
The former county of Clwyd, consisting of the principal areas of modern-day Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, was named after the river, when it was created as a two-tier county in 1974.
The River Clwyd is known for an excellent run of sea trout (sewin), as well as Atlantic Salmon. In recent years including the recent 2017 season there have been good reported catches of wild brown trout most of which are returned unharmed on a voluntary catch and release system. Rhyl and St Asaph Angling Association controls of fishing on the River Clwyd and its tributaries the River Elwy and River Aled.
See also
Rivers of the United Kingdom
References
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The 2022–23 Columbia Lions men's basketball team represented Columbia University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lions, led by sixth-year head coach Jim Engles, played their home games at Levien Gymnasium in New York City as members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 7–22, 2–12 in Ivy League play to finish in last place. They failed to qualify for the Ivy League tournament.
Previous season
The Lions finished the 2021–22 season 4–22, 1–13 in Ivy League play to finish in last place. Since only the top four teams qualify for the Ivy League tournament, they failed to qualify.
Roster
Schedule and results
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2022–23 Columbia Lions women's basketball team
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The Mercedes-Benz M 950 is a prototype Wankel rotary engine made by Daimler-Benz. It was first described in Wolf-Dieter Bensinger's 1969 essay Der heutige Entwicklungsstand des Wankelmotors, published in January of 1970. The engine was developed by Daimler-Benz's Wankel engine department, headed by Bensinger. About 100 units were built, of which some 3- and 4-rotor units were installed in the Mercedes-Benz C 111 experimental sports car, from 1969 until 1970, as a mid-engine. Although scheduled for commercial introduction in 1970 as a 2-rotor engine, the M 950 had not reached the series production stage by 1972. Daimler-Benz then developed a successor to the M 950, the M 951, but Daimler-Benz's Wankel engine development was abandoned in 1976.
Design
The M 950 is a protoype engine family with a working chamber volume Vk of 600 cm3, designed for automobile use and had, by 1972, not reached the series-production stage. Designed as an engine family, the M 950 was meant to be easily expandable; Wolf-Dieter Bensinger briefly mentions designs with up to six rotors, and notes that a five-rotor design would have very favourable eccentric shaft bearing conditions. Eventually, the engine was made in three- and four-rotor versions. It has peripheral intake and exhaust porting, a mechanical petrol direct injection system, and single spark plugs.
The housing is made of aluminium, and has, at the combustion chamber, a Mahle-made Nikasil coating. The engine has, instead of rotors made of malleable cast iron, rotors made of forged aluminium, which reduces the rotor mass by about 50 per cent when compared with rotors made of cast iron. The rotors were designed by Daimler-Benz, and made by Mahle.
The eccentric shaft is a single piece and has no hirth joints. It is forged of heat-treated and specially induction-hardened CK 45 steel with a UTS of 800–900 MPa. In the three-rotor version, the eccentrics have a 120° spacing, and in the four-rotor version, a 90° spacing. In the four-rotor version, eccentric 1 and 2 as well as 3 and 4 are oppsed (180°), meaning that the eccentrics for rotors 2 and 3 are only 90° apart from one another, causing significant stress on the centre bearing. However, by designing the eccentric shaft with a bigger diameter, this problem was resolved.
The standard oil pump for the wet-sump pressure lubrication system needs to provide only half the volumetric flow rate of a comparable piston engine's oil pump. However, the oil cooler needs a higher cooling power than a comparable piston engine's cooler.
For rotor lubrication, the engine is fitted with a small nutating-disc oil-metering pump that provides 6−1 mm3 of oil per rotor and engine output shaft rotation. It is driven by the eccentric shaft, and has a reduction in the range of 1:45 until 1:60. The pump's main variation of volumetric flow rate is controlled by the gas pedal linkage, but the pump also allows the aforementioned range in reduction, as well as a reduction in pumping stroke to adapt to several engine conditions. It is tuned to provide an oil film on the housing with a thickness of 30 nm. Due to the engine's petrol direct injection, the oil cannot be injected through the fuel injector, because that would result in mixture formation and eventually combustion. Therefore, the oil is introduced into the throttle valve bushing near the intake port, from where it enters into the engine's chambers.
Technical specifications
Power diagram of the M 950/4
References
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Lena Lowis (born Selina Caroline Shakespear; 3 November 1845, in India – 18 November 1919, in London) was an Indian-born writer, scientific and botanical illustrator, noted for her 1878 publication Familiar Indian Flowers which was advertised in The Times (London) in April 1881 as "with 30 coloured plates, 31s. 6d."
Family
Lena Lowis was the daughter of Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (1812–1861), an Indian-born British Indian Army officer, who had married Marian Sophia Thompson at Agra, India on 5 March 1844. Their children were
Richmond Shakespear b. 5 Dec 1844, d. 12 Aug 1865
Selina Caroline Shakespear b. 3 Nov 1845, d. 15 Nov 1919
Talbot Powney Shakespear b. 29 Jan 1847, d. 1896
Edith Shakespear b. 18 Mar 1849
Sophy Shakespear b. 20 Jan 1851
Annie Shakespear b. 10 Jan 1853, d. 22 Jul 1898
Emily Shakespear b. c 1856
John Shakespear b. 1 Sep 1861
Richard Shakespear d. 12 Aug 1865
Minna Shakespear
She was married to Lt.-Col. Ninian Lowis (1838–1914), son of John Lowis, on 30 July 1868 at Horsley, Gloucestershire and they had a family consisting of
Richmond Shakespear Lowis b. 25 Jul 1869
Lt.-Col. Penton Shakespear Lowis b. 17 Dec 1870, d. 10 Oct 1931
Edith Shakespear Lowis b. 1873, d. 17 Jun 1874
Ada Shakespear Lowis b. 1874
Ninian Lowis b. 23 Aug 1878
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The men's normal hill individual ski jumping competition for the 1964 Winter Olympics was held at Seefeld. It occurred on 31 January.
Results
References
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Edgar Wikner Percival (23 February 1897 – 21 January 1984) was a noted Australian aircraft designer and pilot whose aircraft were distinguished by speed and grace. Percival went on to set up the Percival Aircraft Company, a British aircraft company in his own name.
Early years
Percival was born in 1898 at Albury, New South Wales, the son of Blanche Hilda Leontina Percival, née Wikner and William Percival, a butter manufacturer. Edgar Percival's maternal great uncle was the Swedish philosopher Pontus Wikner.
As a child Percival assisted at his family's farm, on the flats of the Hawkesbury River at Richmond, New South Wales. He also became fascinated by aviation, especially after seeing an aeroplane for the first time in 1911, when a local dental surgeon and pioneer aviator, William Ewart Hart, landed on the council field in Richmond, near the Percival property. After helping to maintain Hart's aircraft, Percival received, as a reward, his first flight. By 1912, when he was 14, Percival had designed, produced and flown his own gliders.
He attended Fort Street High School, in Sydney. Percival left school at the age of 15, to become an apprentice engineer at a Sydney firm. He later enrolled at Sydney Technical College, before undertaking a short course in aeronautical engineering at Sydney University.
First World War
In December 1915, Percival volunteered for overseas service with the Australian Imperial Force, as a private with the 7th Light Horse Regiment. After being promoted to temporary sergeant, he embarked in April 1916 for Palestine.
Percival requested a transfer from the AIF to pilot training with the British Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and was accepted in November 1916. After going solo in 20 minutes in 1917, Percival was assigned to No. 60 Squadron, a scout (fighter) unit in France, commanded by the Canadian ace Billy Bishop. Percival was noted for his flying skills and after he was promoted to captain, transferred to No. 111 Squadron as one of its founding members. With 111 Sqn he saw service in the Middle East and Greece. In 1918, while serving in Egypt, Percival designed his first powered aircraft, "a special-purpose aircraft based on the Bristol F.2B, with the Rolls-Royce Eagle engine". In August 1919 he was elected as a member of the Royal Aero Club.
Inter-war period
Following the First World War, Percival returned to Australia with three surplus aircraft, two Avro 504s and a de Havilland DH.6 aircraft to do film work, stunt flying and barnstorming plus charter flights, operating his own charter company. A number of notable flights occurred: in 1921, he surveyed the Melbourne-Brisbane route in an Avro 504, in 1923, he won the Melbourne to Geelong Race.
In Australia, Percival began to take a further interest in aircraft design; he built the winning entry in the 1924 Australian Aero Club competition to design a light aircraft. In 1926, flying an aircraft that he helped design, he competed in a Federal Government challenge for both design and piloting skills, winning £940 in prize money.
Later in the same year, Percival was involved in a landmark series of proving flights that helped establish the use of carrier-borne fighters, culminating in him taking off in a Sopwith Pup from the turret of the USS Idaho battleship, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Percival returned to England in 1929 where he was appointed as an Air Ministry test pilot, specializing in amphibians, seaplanes and Schneider Trophy racers and went on to set up his own firm, the Percival Aircraft Company, to produce his aircraft designs. Edgar Percival was also very active as a pilot during the interwar period; not only did he compete with regular success, but his designs were widely used by other racing and record-setting pilots who held his products in very high regard. Noted racing pilots of the time who also flew Percival's machines included C.W.A. Scott, Jim and Amy Mollison, Charles Gardner and Giles Guthrie. Many came to Percival to have their machines specially built and modified for the task in hand – usually to extend their already long range.
Percival was a noted character on the air racing scene at the time, and was often referred to in the aeronautical press of the day as "The Hat," an epithet resulting from his omnipresent hat, which, characteristically (and resplendent in a lounge-suit), he also wore while flying. He was respected as a highly competitive and able pilot, taking great pride in being awarded the prize for "fastest time" in handicap air racing, as well as being a rather fiery, impatient and irascible businessman and employer. During this period, Edgar Percival served in the Reserve of Air Force Officers, 1929–1939 and was a founding member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.
Percival Aircraft Company
Percival's interest in aircraft technology led him to design the Saro Percival Mail Carrier (1930), one of a series of collaborative projects with Saunders Roe Ltd. Having had interests in the company which he sold in 1932, Percival began searching for an established manufacturer to produce a "light" aeroplane that he had designed which he called the "Percival Gull." Finding no company willing and able to take on production, Percival consequently started his own aircraft company as the Percival Aircraft Company. In collaboration with Lt. Cdr E.B.W. Leake (who was to become co-founder of Percival Aircraft), he arranged for the prototype Gull (registered as G-ABUR) to be produced by the Lowe-Wylde British Aircraft Company of Maidstone, Kent.
Running the business from his private address in London (20, Grosvenor Square), Percival then arranged for series production to be contracted out to George Parnall & Sons, of Yate, Gloucestershire, an arrangement that lasted two years. Percival Aircraft was officially formed in 1933. In 1934, after 24 Gulls had been produced at Parnalls, Percival set up his own factory at London Gravesend Airport, Kent.
Edgar Percival's aircraft were renowned for their graceful lines and outstanding performance. As a noted test pilot, Percival continued to fly his own creations; in 1935, he flew a Gull from England to Morocco and back to England, winning the Oswald Watt Gold Medal. He was the first pilot to fly from Britain to Africa and back in one day. He left Gravesend at 1.30am and returned to Croydon at 6.20pm. "Day trips in the future will be as commonplace as trips to Margate" he said in a broadcast at nine o'clock. Other famous aviators were associated with Percival aircraft; in 1933, Charles Kingsford Smith flew a Percival Gull Four named Miss Southern Cross from England to Australia in the record breaking time of 7 days, 4 hours and 44 minutes. The New Zealand aviator, Jean Batten, also used the Percival Gull to fly from England to Australia in October 1936. A pure racing derivative of the Gull series, the Percival Mew Gull flown by other illustrious pilots such as Alex Henshaw and Tom Campbell Black would go on to set many speed and distance records in the 1930s.
In late 1936, Percival transferred production to larger facilities at the newly built Luton Corporation Airport in Bedfordshire. A two-bay hangar was constructed to accommodate the workshops while the design offices were set up in the original Georgian farmhouse situated nearby. Production at Luton was then primarily focused on the Vega Gull. A small twin-engined machine, the Q6 was also produced in limited quantities, using a pair of de Havilland Gipsy Six Series II powerplants equipped with variable-pitch airscrews. Again, the same basic method of construction was employed and the finished result was an aesthetically pleasing and aerodynamically clean feederliner of its day that represented the final new design produced by the company prior to Edgar Percival selling his interests in the company.
In 1938 with war imminent, Percival developed a military communications and R/T operator training version of the Vega Gull known as the Proctor. This rugged three-seater was powered by a 205 hp Gipsy Queen II engine. During the Second World War, a great deal of Proctor production was sub-contracted out and the designs of other firms, including the Airspeed Oxford and de Havilland Mosquito were, in turn, produced by Percival Aircraft at Luton.
In March 1940, Percival resigned from the company, his dual roles being taken up by P.D. Acland (formerly Aviation Manager of Vickers Ltd.) who was appointed Managing Director and Arthur Bage who became the Chief Designer. During the war years, Percival served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Later years
Percival Aircraft was bought in September 1944 by Hunting & Son Ltd; Edgar Percival sold his interest in his company and moved to the United States to continue work on engine technology. From 1954, his old company began trading under the name Hunting Percival Aircraft Ltd; "Percival" was not dropped from the company name until 1957.
Percival became a naturalized US citizen in 1948.
He went to New Zealand in 1951, where he was involved with pioneering aerial application efforts.
In 1954, Percival formed a new company, Edgar Percival Aircraft Limited, at Stapleford Aerodrome, England. The company's first design, the Edgar Percival E.P.9 was a utility aircraft well suited to agricultural use. A total of 21 were constructed before Percival sold his company in 1960 to Samlesbury Engineering; the new company formed Lancashire Aircraft Company to continue aircraft construction of the E.P.9.
At the time of his death in 1984, Percival was working on aviation projects in the UK and New Zealand.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Ellison, Norman H. Percivals Aircraft (The Archive Photographs Series). Chalford, Stroud, UK: Chalford Publishing Company, 1997. .
Percival, Robert. "A Portrait of Percival." Aeroplane Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 9, September 1984.
Silvester, John. "Percival Aircraft 1933-1954 (Parts 1-4)." Aeroplane Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 1–4, January–April 1983.
Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. "Percival aircraft : Edgar Percival, the man & his legacy : from racing gulls to jet trainer", 2013, Stenlake. .
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Digswell Arts Trust was the brainchild of Henry Morris, a pioneering educationalist. Through his enthusiasm, dedication and influence he persuaded the Government and the Welwyn Garden City Development Corporation to establish a Trust for professional artists in Welwyn Garden City, England.
It was formally inaugurated by Countess Mountbatten on 29 May 1957.
Early years
Digswell House, a decayed Regency mansion with cottages and outbuildings on the edge of Welwyn Garden City, was the first home of the Trust.
The house was leased to the Trust to provide accommodation and studios for artists at a modest rent.
The first artists moved in at the end of 1957 and over the next 27 years nearly 150 were accommodated there.
Some, including Michael Andrews, Ralph Brown, John Brunsdon, James Butler, Peter Collingwood, Hans Coper, Lol Coxhill, Elizabeth Fritsch and John W Mills have become internationally famous.
Many other distinguished people including - Henry Moore, Herbert Read, and Roland Penrose, supported the Trust by becoming Trustees or in other important ways.
In the early 1980s the Trust was financially unable to continue at Digswell House which was sold for refurbishment and was divided into a number of separate apartments.
1980s to present day
Attimore Hall Barn, a restored 17th century listed building in the Panshangar area of Welwyn Garden City, had been leased in 1979 by the Trust as additional studio space. The Barn became the Trust's base from 1984 until April 2006.
English Partnerships had by then taken control of the barn planning to convert it to housing. They worked with the Trust to design a new purpose-built studio building on the site of the former forge in Digswell, on which a 25-year lease was taken in April 2006.
In 1993 the Stevenage Borough Council leased the Fairlands Valley Farmhouse to the Trust nearly doubling the available studio space. In 2012, with the support of Letchworth Heritage Foundation, the Trust opened its third studio premises in Fenners Building, Openshaw Way, Letchworth. The new building brings the number of artists supported by the Trust to 45 in 2015.
External links
Henry Morris Biography
Digswell Arts Trust Website
Attimore Hall Barn
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The Taipei Trade Office in the Federal Republic of Nigeria () represents the interests of Taiwan in Nigeria in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, functioning as a de facto embassy.
Its counterpart in Taiwan is the Nigeria Trade Office in Taiwan, R.O.C. in New Taipei.
It also has responsibility for Taiwan's interests in Cameroon, Benin, Ghana, Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Previously, Taiwan had diplomatic relations with Gambia, and there was an Embassy of the Republic of China in Banjul. However, these were broken off in 2013 by President Yahya Jammeh. Liberia similarly broke off diplomatic relations with Taipei in 2003.
It is headed by a Representative, currently Morgan Chao.
History
The Mission was established in Lagos in 1991, before relocating to Abuja in 2001, despite requests from Beijing that it be located outside the Nigerian capital.
In January 2017, the government of Nigeria requested Taiwan to relocate the office back to Lagos from Abuja. On 8 December 2017, the office began the relocation from Abuja to Lagos and on 5 January 2018, the new office in Lagos was officially opened under the name Taipei Trade Office in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Representatives
Yang Tien-hsing
Morgan Chao
Vincent W.S. Yang
Andy Yih-Ping Liu
See also
List of diplomatic missions in Nigeria
References
External links
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1991 establishments in Nigeria |
Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) are a norteño band from San Jose, California. Originally founded in the small town Rosa Morada in the municipality of Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales of 32 million albums, the band is one of the most recognized groups in the genre, due to its long history and its successes within the Mexican community in the diaspora. The band is famous for its political corridos, some of which have been censored, even in its own country. The band is the only Mexican group to win 7 Grammy awards and 12 Latin Grammys. In addition, the band has made 40 films alongside the Almada brothers (Mario and Fernando) among other well-known Mexican actors.
The band's style is based on regional music of Mexico, using mainly instruments such as the electric bass (or double bass), accordion, bass, drums, and sometimes other percussion instruments. The lyrics in their songs fluctuate between the romantic and the corrido. In recent years the band has begun to make music in a new genre called narcocorrido, in which they narrate the experience of members of drug gangs operating in Mexico. The narcocorrido song "Death Announced", for example, stands out, as it is dedicated to the legendary Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, "El Jefe de Jefes." In that song, the band tells the story of the power and influence of the now imprisoned Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Another of their famous narcocorridos, "The Queen of the South", is based on a literary novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte from which a television series was made based on the Spanish writer's work. They have become famous in Mexico and the United States, especially in California and Texas, mainly due to the large number of Mexicans living there. They also have found considerable fame in Colombia.
The band won a Grammy Award in 1988 for their album Gracias, América sin Fronteras, and twelve years later their album Herencia de Familia won the award for Best Norteño Album at the first ever Latin Grammys. A year later, in the second edition of the awards, they were nominated again for Best Norteño Album, this time for De Paisano a Paisano, and Best Regional Mexican Song for the song of the same title from that album.
History
The band was started by Rosamorada, Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico natives Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and their cousins. They began recording after moving to San Jose, California in the late 1960s, when all the members were still in their teens. They were sponsored by a local record company, Discos Fama, owned by an Englishman named Art Walker, who took them under his wing and helped them find jobs and material, as well as recording all of their early albums.
Los Tigres del norte were at first only locally popular, but took off after Jorge and Art Walker heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a song in early 1971 about a couple of drug runners, Emilio Varela and Camelia la Texana. There had been occasional ballads (corridos, in Mexican terminology) about the cross-border drug trade ever since Prohibition in the 1920s, but never a song as cinematic as this, featuring a woman smuggler who shoots the man and takes off with the money. After getting permission to record this song, Los Tigres del Norte released "Contrabando y traición" ("Contraband and Betrayal") in 1974. The song quickly hit on both sides of the border, inspired a series of movies, and kicked off one of the most remarkable careers in Spanish-language music.
In norteño form, Los Tigres del Norte have been able to portray "real life" in a manner that strikes a chord with people across the Americas. Many of their most popular songs consist of tales or corridos about life, love, and the struggle to survive in an imperfect world. They regularly touch on the subject of narcotics and illegal immigration, but they have also shared stories of love and betrayal between a man and a woman. Together, the band and its public has turned norteño music into an international genre. The band has modernized the music, infusing it with bolero, cumbia, rock rhythms, and waltzes. They also prominently incorporate a saxophone into some of their songs. As a result, it can be said that they also perform norteño-sax in addition to traditional accordion-led norteño.
On January 9, 2007, Los Tigres del Norte was honored as a BMI Icon at the 14th annual BMI Latin Awards. Los Tigres, who were saluted that evening with an all-star musical tribute, were being honored as BMI Icons for their "unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers." They joined an elite list that includes such Latin music giants as Juan Luis Guerra and Carlos Santana.
On October 16, 2009, Los Tigres del Norte held a Concert in Guadalupe, Nuevo León (outside of Monterrey) at the Annual Expo Guadalupe that lasted 12 hours, breaking their own record of 9 hours from previous year. It began on Saturday night and ended on Sunday at 9 a.m., not uncommon for Los Tigres del Norte. They are known for having encores at their concerts that can last more than an hour after the scheduled ending of the concert.
They have performed before the United States Armed Forces in Japan and South Korea.
In 2010, the band made headlines by joining in a massive international boycott of the U.S. state of Arizona, in response to the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.
On October 8, 2013, Los Tigres del Norte played at an immigration reform rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Their set list included songs that underscored the themes the rally would address including “La Puerta Negra” (1986), “De Paisano a Paisano” (2000), and “Mis Dos Patrias.” The band was introduced by then Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress Lila Downs also accompanied the group in a series of duets.
In 2014 Los Tigres del Norte released the album Realidades, which contains the song “Era Diferente” (meaning “She Was Different”) about a lesbian teenager who falls in love with her best friend; according to lead singer and songwriter Jorge Hernández, this is the first time a norteño group has ever written a gay love song.
The band had sold 32 million records as of 2007. As of 2015, they had won 7 Grammy Awards, 6 Latin Grammy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They received the Special Recognition (Spanish language) Award at the 26th annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2015, for their song "Era Diferente" ("She Was Different"). The band ranked number 15 in the list for "The 30 Most Influential Latin Artists of All Time" by Billboard magazine.
In 2018, many artists sought permission to record at Folsom Prison, more so for the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's recording there. However, Los Tigres del Norte was the only act authorized by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In fact, Los Tigres are the only band to record an album at Folsom since Johnny Cash released his 1968 opus.
All group members are naturalized American citizens.
The group's lyrics have been cited as examples of leftist sentiment in popular music.
Philanthropy
In May 2000, Los Tigres del Norte founded the Los Tigres del Norte Foundation, which is committed to fostering appreciation and preservation of Mexican and Mexican-American folklore. The Los Tigres del Norte Foundation donated $500,000 to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which was used to digitize over 32,000 Spanish-language recordings contained in the Strachwitz Frontera Collection.
Members
Jorge Hernández – director, lead vocals, accordion
Hernán Hernández – bass, vocals
Eduardo Hernández – accordion, alto saxophone, bajo sexto, vocals
Luis Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals
Óscar Lara – drummer
Former members
Raúl Hernández – bajo sexto, vocals (left the group in 1996 to become a soloist)
Lupe Olivo - saxophone, accordion (left the band in 1988 due to health problems, rejoined in 1996, and left again in 2001. He has since performed in Raúl Hernández' band)
Freddy Hernández - percussion (died from a heart attack in a hotel how room in 1993)
Select discography
Albums
1968: Juana La Traicionera/Por El Amor A Mis Hijo
1971: Cuquita (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
1972: El Cheque (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
1974: Contrabando Y Traición (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1975: La Banda Del Carro Rojo (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1976: Pueblo Querido (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1977: Vivan Los Mojados (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1978: Numero Ocho (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
1979: El Tahúr (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1980: Plaza Garibaldi (remastered by Fonovisa in 2001)
1981: ...Un Día A La Vez! (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1982: Éxitos Para Siempre... (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1983: Carrera Contra La Muerte (last album under Fama label) (rerecorded at Profono in 1984)
1983: Internacionalmente Norteños/La Tumba Del Mojado (first album under Profono label [now Fonovisa])
1984: Jaula De Oro
1985: A Ti Madrecita (reissued in 2015 with 4 new songs)
1986: El otro México (reissued in 1994)
1986: Gracias!... América... Sin Fronteras (reissued in 1989)
1988: Ídolos Del Pueblo (last album with Lupe Olivo)
1989: Corridos Prohibidos (first album with Eduardo Hernández)
1989: Triunfo Sólido – Mi Buena Suerte
1990: Para Adoloridos
1991: Incansables!
1992: Con Sentimiento Y Sabor (Tan Bonita)
1992: Una Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
1993: La Garra De...
1994: Los Dos Plebes
1995: El Ejemplo (last album with Raúl Hernández before becoming soloist)
1996: Unidos Para Siempre (first album with Luis Hernández & Guadalupe Olivo returning to the group)
1997: Jefe De Jefes
1998: Así Como Tú
1999: Herencia De Familia
2000: De Paisano A Paisano (last album with Lupe Olivo)
2001: Uniendo Fronteras
2002: La Reina Del Sur
2004: Pacto De Sangre
2005: Directo Al Corazón
2006: Historias Que Contar
2007: Detalles Y Emociones
2008: Raíces
2008: Tu Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
2009: La Granja
2010: El Rugido De Los Tigres Del Norte
2011: MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends
2014: Realidades
2015: Desde El Azteca
2016: Ataud
2019: Los Tigres del Norte At Folsom Prison
2020: Y Su Palabra Es La Ley: Homenaje a Vicente Fernández
2021: La Reunión
2022: La Reunión Deluxe
EPs
1984: Los Tigres Del Norte
Singles
Los Tigres del Norte
"Por Amor A Mis Hijos"
"De Un Rancho A Otro"
"El Cheque"
"El Ausente"
"Mi Gran Cariño"
"Sufro Porque Te Quiero"
"Polka Texas"
"Las Tres Mujeres"
"Los Sufrimientos"
"El Sordo Mudo" (side 2 track)
"La Cochicuina"
"Ya Cambiara Mi Destino"
"Las Tres Mujeres"
"Mi Caballo Ensillado"
"Morena De San Francisco"
"Hermosa Luna"
"Rio Magadalena"
"El Que Tanto Te Amo"
"Quien Te Viera"
"Adolfo Mi Compadre" (1984)
"La Puerta Negra/Poppurri Mexicano" (1986)
"Rap Norteño" (single-only release)
"Un Cuento De Navidad"
"La Mesa del Rincon/La Navidad De Los Pobres" (1995)
"Duro"
"Mujeriego" (feat. Don Francisco)
"Por Amor"
"Aguas Revueltas"
"El Enfermito"
"La Bala" (2014)
"Tu Carcel" (feat. Marco Antonio Solis)
"Ataud" (2016)
"Cuando Seas Grande" (feat. Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Trevi, and J Balvin)
"Para Sacarte De Mi Vida" (feat. Alejandro Fernandez)
Guest appearances
Hermanitas Rodarte - "Dile Pajarillo"
Hermanitas Rodarte - "Me Voy De Estas Tierras"
Lupita Alatorre - "No Es Culpa Mia"
Filmography
Through their career, Los Tigres del Norte have appeared in numerous Mexican films, many of which are based on some of their hit songs. In genre, they range from action to drama. Many of the actors in these films include Mario and Fernando Almada, Eric Del Castillo, Pedro Infante, Jr., Jorge Reynoso, Lucha Villa, Cecilia Camacho, and Bernabe Melendez "El Gatillero".
In December 2016, media reports stated that Amateur Films would be producing Jefes De Jefes, a feature-length documentary about Los Tigres del Norte's history and cultural influence; no release date was announced.
1976: La Banda Del Carro Rojo
1976: La Muerte Del Soplon
1986: La Puerta Negra
1987: La Jaula De Oro
1989: Tres Veces Mojado
1990: Ni Parientes Somos
1991: La Camioneta Gris
1992: Los Tres Gallos
1993: Amor a la medida
2008: La misma luna
2019: Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison
Awards and nominations
Grammy Awards
See also
List of best-selling Latin music artists
References
External links
(in Spanish & English)
Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte on YouTube.com
Los Tigres del Norte onFacebook.com
Los Tigres del Norte on Instagram
Interview with Acceso Total, video (in Spanish)
Fonovisa Records artists
Grammy Award winners
Latin Grammy Award winners
Musical groups established in 1968
Mexican norteño musical groups
Universal Music Latin Entertainment artists
Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
1968 establishments in California |
Mohd Khyril Muhymeen bin Zambri (born 9 May 1987) is a Malaysian footballer who plays for Harini FT in second tier Malaysia M3 League as a forward. He also played for the Malaysia national, the Malaysia U-23 and the Malaysia U-20 team.
Club career
Kedah
Born in Alor Setar, Khyril spent most of his career playing for Kedah. He scored 3 league goals in his debut season in 2005.
Negeri Sembilan
On 15 December 2014, Khyril agreed to sign a contract with Malaysia Premier League side Negeri Sembilan.
AirAsia
On 4 February 2016, Khyril signed a one-year contract with third-tier side AirAsia playing for the Malaysia FAM League.
PKNS
On 29 November 2016, Khyril signed a one-year contract with Malaysia Super League club PKNS. He made his debut for PKNS in a 1–0 defeat against Felda United on 21 January 2017. Khyril scored his first goal for the club in a 5–3 home win against Negeri Sembilan on 11 July 2018.
Selangor
In 2020 he signed for Selangor after leaving Perlis due to financial problems only after few months joining the latter. He scored only 3 goals in just 8 appearances.
PJ City
After 2 years with Selangor, he joined Petaling Jaya City as his next destination, a club which is also based in the state of Selangor.
Harini FT
Season 2023 saw him changing his professional football career path by completing his move to semi-pro club Harini FT, competing in second division Malaysia M3 League. He joined alongside few other ex Malaysia national team players.
International career
Khyril was hit by a knee injury during representing Malaysia national team in a friendly match against Kenya in September 2009 that sidelined him for seven months. This injury cost him a place in 2009 SEA Games squad. He is fully recovered by April 2010 but far from his best as he performed cautiously to avoid injury.
In November 2010, Kyhril was called up to the national team by coach K. Rajagopal for the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup. Malaysia won the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup title for the first time in their history. He ended up the 2012 campaign becoming the team top scorers with 10 league goals, his best scoring tally since 2009 season and 4 goals in Malaysia FA Cup. He alongside his club teammates Baddrol Bakhtiar and Amar Rohidan were called up by coach, K. Rajagobal for the friendlies against Arsenal on 24 July 2012 and Manchester City on 30 July 2012 on their Asia Tour 2012.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Malaysia's goal tally first.
Honours
Club
Kedah
Malaysia Cup: 2007, 2008
Malaysia Super League: 2006–2007, 2007–2008
FA Cup Malaysia: 2007, 2008
Malaysia Premier League: 2005–06
International
Malaysia U-18
Lion City Cup: 2005
Malaysia
AFF Suzuki Cup: 2010
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
Malaysian men's footballers
Malaysia men's international footballers
Petaling Jaya Rangers F.C. players
Kedah Darul Aman F.C. players
Selangor F.C. II players
Negeri Sembilan FC players
Perlis F.A. players
Selangor F.C. players
Petaling Jaya City FC players
Footballers from Kedah
People from Alor Setar
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Men's association football forwards
Asian Games competitors for Malaysia |
The tawny-headed swallow (Alopochelidon fucata) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. It is monotypic within the genus Alopochelidon. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, where its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Taxonomy and etymology
This swallow was originally described as Hirundo fucata by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1822. The current genus, Alopochelidon, was created in 1903 by Robert Ridgway.
Although no subspecies of the tawny-headed swallow have been defined, it is known that, in general, the tawny-headed swallow differs slightly depending on where it occurs. A tawny-headed swallow that occurs in the southern part of its range will usually have a duskier cap, less distinct margins of the crown feathers, and will usually be slightly larger than those of northern populations. Although this is true, birds from both the northern and southern portion of its range overlap in size and characteristics. This fact means that there are most likely no subspecies. This swallow is also monotypic within its genus, Alopochelidon.
Description
This swallow is relatively small, usually measuring and weighing . It has a black bill that usually measures . It has a mostly brownish-black crown, with tawny-rufous edges. It also has a tawny-rufous coloured forehead, eyebrow, and hindcrown, which transition into its cinnamon-buff ear coverts, sides of the head, throat, and breast. It has dark brown lores and brown irides. The rest of the upperparts are gray-brown, with a paler rump. The wings and almost square tail are dark brown, and the underparts are dull white with pale gray-brown sides. The juvenile can be differentiated by the fact that its head is more buff and less rufous and its feathers are tinged buff rather than rufous.
The tawny-headed swallow makes use of a flight call described as a soft trilled treeeeb.
Distribution
This swallow is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela and vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands. The tawny-headed swallow is split up into 2 resident populations, one in southeast Venezuela, and the other in central and southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, all of Paraguay except the northwest portion of it, and northeast Argentina. It also occurs in Uruguay and part of central Argentina as a resident during the breeding season. It is not known where this population migrates, although there have been sightings of non-breeding tawny-headed swallows in eastern Colombia and southeastern Peru. This swallow can be found in open and mostly open tropical and subtropical areas, especially near small bodies of water, forest clearings near streams, and in pampas. It can also be found in wet or flooded areas of open grassland. It usually resides at altitudes up to .
Behaviour
Breeding
The nest of the tawny-headed swallow is cup-shaped and made of leaves, feathers, and straw. It usually measures in length and in width. The nest usually has a diameter of around , a depth of , and a height of . The nest is constructed by both the male and female, usually over a period of 10 or 12 days. The nest can be found in hidden holes along rivers, streams, and ditches. The holes are usually at least deep, with a compartment at the end, where the nest is placed. Further research is required to determine whether this bird digs its own burrow or whether it steals tunnels from other species. The tawny-headed swallow usually nests in pairs or loose groups.
The breeding season of the northern population is suspected to occur during May and June, although it is not particularly well-known. The southern population's breeding season occurs from September to November. Other than this information, nothing is known about when its breeding season occurs.
The tawny-headed swallow, in Argentina, at least, has a clutch of four to five white eggs. The eggs measure and weigh, on average, .
Diet
This swallow subsists on a diet of insects, primarily beetles, flies, and hymenopterans. It usually forages in pairs and small groups, although larger groups, up to 100 individuals, have been recorded when not in the breeding season. Although it is usually not seen with other swallows, it has been seen with wintering barn swallows.
References
tawny-headed swallow
Birds of Argentina
Birds of Bolivia
Birds of Brazil
Birds of the Guianas
Birds of Paraguay
Birds of Uruguay
tawny-headed swallow
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
The Pan American Gymnastics Championships were first held in 1997.
Three medals are awarded: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place.
Medalists
Medal table
References
Gymnastics at the Pan American Championships medalists |
The Gaudie is a student newspaper at the University of Aberdeen covering campus and local news. It is the oldest independent student newspaper in Scotland according to The Guardian, being in circulation since 1934. It is available free of charge across the Old Aberdeen and Foresterhill campuses. It aims to print unbiased, student-focused articles.
The Gaudie is partially funded by Aberdeen University Students' Association, and partially by its own advertising revenue. It currently consists of 24 pages split into News, Features, Science and Environment, Opine, International, Puzzles, Satire, Life and Style, Arts, and Sports.
As the transition from print to digital media has increased in recent years, The Gaudie has invested significant development in its online presence, with nearly 24,000 visitors from over 70 countries in the last year.
The Gaudie continues to release fortnightly print editions, which consist of 400 papers distributed across campus.
All UoA students are invited to submit articles for the various sections.
History
The Gaudie was first released in 1934 as a weekly student paper. It is recognised as one of the oldest student newspapers in Scotland and the United Kingdom, and in 2003 was stated as the oldest by The Guardian. It has been produced by Aberdeen students since its inception in 1934. It appeared in the press in 2003 when the then editorial team resigned in protest over attempts by Aberdeen University Students' Association to enforce content and restrict the budget and print run.
Since 2009, the paper has successfully re-established itself around the King's College Campus, and Foresterhill. The paper has a number of notable past writers and editors including Alistair Darling and David Torrance.
2003: Resignation controversy
In 2003, there was outrage over attempts by the Aberdeen University Students' Association to enforce content on the editorial team. AUSA believed that as the Students' Association paid for the paper, they were entitled to advertise the Association and its endeavours. Led by Mark Lindley-Highfield, the entire editorial team of the paper resigned. The issue was taken to Parliament by the MP for Shetland and Orkney, criticizing the Students' Association's "ill-advised move".
2019-present: Redesign and Investigative Reporting
In 2019, The Gaudie was redesigned to have a more consistent look throughout the whole paper. Once more, inspiration was taken from major British newspapers, not in the least from The Guardian.
The paper was redesigned to have similar looking mastheads for all sections, except for the Arts and Culture magazine IV, which is part of The Gaudie as a whole. Section colours, which had been previously used for all sections, were gotten rid of. The newly designed mastheads were made to mirror the window pattern of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, an important landmark of Old Aberdeen.
Recent years have featured a range of investigative reporting, including an investigation (subsequently published in The Times and The Press and Journal) which uncovered the university's collection of stolen indigenous human remains.
Other reporting has focused on the university's increased recruitment of international students, the university's response to COVID-19, and coverage of candidate misconduct in the Aberdeen University Student's Association sabbatical officer elections.
References
External links
Newspapers established in 1934
Student newspapers published in the United Kingdom
University of Aberdeen
Newspapers published in Scotland
Mass media in Aberdeen
Free newspapers
Biweekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom |
This is a list of chapters for the manga series M×0. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from May 8, 2006 and May 19, 2008. Shueisha compiled the 99 individual chapters into ten tankōbon volumes.
The manga has been published in France by Tonkam, in Italy by RW Edizioni, and in Argentina by Ivrea.
Volume list
References
Lists of manga volumes and chapters |
Gilles Paquet, (July 19, 1936 – January 18, 2019) was a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He was professor emeritus at the School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa until his death at age 82.
Early life
He was professor of economics, and dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University. From 1981 to 1988; subsequently, he was dean of the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ottawa, and in 1997, founding director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. He chaired the panel presenting the 2006 report on the National Capital Commission Mandate Review.
Paquet authored or edited over 35 books and over 350 academic papers or book chapters. His specialties were Canadian economic history, urban and regional studies, industrial organization, public management, knowledge management, and governance. Additionally, he wrote several hundred non-academic articles in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He was noted for a particular interest in "administrative pathologies and subversion."
Paquet was active as a journalist on the radio and television network of Radio-Canada from the 1970s onwards, working as an editorial writer for some 5 years in the print media in the 1990s, and as commentator on national affairs on TVOntario from 1995 to 2006. Beginning in 1994, he was editor in chief of www.optimumonline.ca, a journal of public sector management and governance with over 10,000 subscribers.
Honors
Honorary doctorates from Université Laval, Thompson Rivers University, and Queen's University.
(2006), he received the Public Service Citation 2006 from the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada
(2007), he was made an Honorary Member of the Association des économistes québécois – one of only 6 in the last thirty years.
President of the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as well as of a number of other Canadian and Quebec associations.
Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association, 1967 to 1981.
In 1982, Jacques-Rousseau medal in recognition of important contributions to research of a multidisciplinary nature,
1989 the Esdras-Minville medal for the corpus of his work in social sciences.
Member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1989,
member of the Order of Canada 1992.
External links
http://gouvernance.ca/
http://gillespaquet.com
1936 births
2019 deaths
Canadian economists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
French Quebecers
Members of the Order of Canada
People from Quebec City
Université Laval alumni |
Çavuşköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Mustafakemalpaşa, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 105 (2022).
References
Neighbourhoods in Mustafakemalpaşa District |
Marvell Scott (born February 28, 1973) is a physician and former journalist.
He is a graduate of Wheaton Central High School in Wheaton, Illinois, a graduate of the University of Delaware and a graduate of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.
Scott was recruited from high school, and played as a football running back at the University of Illinois, in the Big Ten conference. He played two seasons as a professional indoor football player in addition to playing semi-pro baseball as a pitcher. He also won a state championship in bodybuilding as a teen.
In 2002, Scott joined WABC-TV as its weekend sports reporter.
Scott is a New York state-licensed, nationally board-certified medical doctor, with an emphasis on preventive care and sports medicine. He is also a nationally-accredited exercise and performance expert who designs specialized fitness and wellness programs.
Legal controversy
In February 2010, Scott was to be arraigned on second-degree rape charges. The New York Daily News reported that the victim was a 14-year-old child runaway, coerced into prostitution by an adult male. On August 14, 2011, Scott pleaded guilty to misdemeanor injuring the welfare of a child in the case in a plea agreement in which he would get 20 days of community service and ultimately have his record cleared.
In June 2015, Scott was reported to be a victim in an extortion plot hatched by an exotic dancer he had developed a romantic relationship with after meeting her at a strip club. The dancer reportedly recorded video of Scott snorting a "white powdery substance" and, along with two friends, threatened Scott with releasing the video to the news media and the medical disciplinary board if Scott didn't pay the extortionists $100,000. The extortionists were eventually all identified and charged in the scheme.
References
External links
- football recruiting site
- Wright State Medical School Class of 2001
- NY Daily News Ex-WABC sportscaster Marvell Scott charged with raping 14-year-old
- Former TV sportscaster-turned-doctor believed to be victim of alleged Poconos' extortion case
- Three Charged in Extortion Case Against Prominent Doctor, Former Sportscaster
American television journalists
New York (state) television reporters
Television anchors from New York City
1973 births
Living people
American male journalists
Wright State University alumni
People from Wheaton, Illinois
University of Delaware alumni
Journalists from Illinois |
Ecotage! was a 1972 paperback book edited by Sam Love and David Obst and published by Pocket Books.
The book was a collection of ideas that had been solicited by the group Environmental Action over the previous year in preparation for the publication of the book, for using sabotage, attention-grabbing stunts, and other ideas to draw attention to environmental issues. "Ecotage" is a contraction of ecological (or economic) and sabotage. The cover of Ecotage! features a photograph of a hippie throwing a pie in the face of a business executive.
The book is credited as one of the early inspirations for radical environmental activism, along with similar works such as Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.
The book was inspired by the actions of an individual who operated in the Chicago, Illinois area. Calling himself "The Fox", he engaged in such activities as plugging smokestacks and entering the offices of corporate executives to dump sewage on their desks. In turn, some of the actions suggested in Ecotage! actually began to be carried out, particularly billboarding, when small groups in the early 1970s such as the one calling themselves the "Eco-Raiders" in Tucson, Arizona, began cutting down billboards.
The term ecotage may have originated with this book; the term has since passed into general use as a synonym for various direct action tactics (see also monkeywrenching).
Publication
Love, Sam and David Obst, eds. (1972), Ecotage!
References
1972 non-fiction books
1972 in the environment
Environmental non-fiction books
Books about environmentalism
Radical environmentalism |
Jaisithok is a village and municipality in Gulmi District in the Lumbini Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2938.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Gulmi District
Populated places in Gulmi District |
Gratz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alan Gratz, American author
David E. Gratz, American engineer
Dennis Gratz, Bosnian politician
Dwayne Gratz, American football player
Gusztáv Gratz, Hungarian politician
Joan C. Gratz, American artist and filmmaker
Karl Gratz, Austrian fighter pilot
Leopold Gratz, Austrian politician
Peter Aloys Gratz, German biblical scholar
Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist
See also
Graetz (disambiguation)
German-language surnames |
Lee Ho (; born 22 October 1984) is a South Korean football coach and a former player. He is an assistant manager with Seoul E-Land FC.
Career
He signed for Zenit Saint Petersburg on 30 June 2006, two days after Kim Dong-Jin, following their coach Dick Advocaat.
Al Ain FC
Prior to the January transfer window opening Al Ain were in search for an Asian foreign player to play alongside non-Asians Jorge Valdivia, Emerson and Jose Sand. Rumours began to flow that Lee was the Emirati club's main transfer target.
On 18 January, Lee was presented to the press with the number 50 and officially announced as the fourth foreign player in Al Ain's squad with a contract until the end of the season with an option to renew for another year.
Ulsan Hyundai
For the 2021, Lee Ho returned to Ulsan Hyundai as a playing coach and retired at the end of 2022 season.
Managerial career
Lee Ho joined Seoul E-Land FC as an assistant coach.
International
He played in all three of South Korea's games at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Personal life
In 2009, Lee Ho married Yang Eun-ji, who was a member of Baby Vox Re.V and is a sister of actress Yang Mi-ra. Lee Ho and Yang Eun-ji have three daughters.
Club career statistics
Last update: 26 April 2017
Honours
Ulsan Hyundai
K League 1 (1): 2005
K-League Cup (1): 2011
Korean Super Cup (1): 2006
AFC Champions League (1): 2012
A3 Champions Cup (1): 2006
Zenit Saint Petersburg
UEFA Cup (1): 2007–08
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
AFC Champions League (1): 2016
Muangthong United
Thai League Cup (1): 2017
Mekong Club Championship (1): 2017
References
External links
National Team Player Record
1984 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
South Korean men's footballers
South Korean expatriate men's footballers
South Korea men's international footballers
Gimcheon Sangmu FC players
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
UEFA Cup winning players
Seongnam FC players
Al Ain FC players
Omiya Ardija players
Ulsan Hyundai FC players
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players
K League 1 players
Russian Premier League players
J1 League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
Footballers from Seoul
South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Russia
South Korean expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Lee Ho
UAE Pro League players
Asian Games competitors for South Korea |
Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. His documentaries include Frontierland (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), about the blurred Latino experience in the United States; Ruins (about the history of Mexican archeology and the traffic in fakes), The Atomic Sublime (about Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War), The Absent Stone (with Sandra Rozental, about the monolith of Coatlinchan) and The American Egypt (about the Mexican Revolution in Yucatán). He directed the short films Magnavoz, T.S.H., and Natives (with Scott Sterling). His films were on display at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (2004, 2000, 1996, 1992), the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2011), the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2005, 1999), and the Aztlán Today exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. These films were featured at mid-career surveys at the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Cineteca Nacional (Mexico City), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), and the Churubusco Studios (Mexico City). His books include F is for Phony (with Alexandra Juhasz), a survey of faked documentaries, The Shock of Modernity, The Maya of Modernism, Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (with Luciano Piazza), The Catherwood Project, How to Read el Pato Pascual (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), L.A. Collects L.A., Lean-Drok-Atz (with Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman), and The Mexperimental Cinema (with Rita Gonzalez). Two of these publications were associated with film series: Ism Ism Ism (which showed at the Los Angeles Filmforum, the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, and the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía) and The Mexperimental Cinema (screened at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Mexico City's Centro Nacional de las Artes, and the Harvard Film Archive). He has also curated other film, photography, and fine arts exhibitions at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes), the Schindler House/MAK Center, the Guggenheim Museums (in New York and Bilbao), and the Robert Flaherty Seminar. He has lectured extensively on film and other visual arts at institutions including CalArts, Princeton University, the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, the Freie Universitat Berlin, the Museo Amparo, University College London, the Getty Museum, the Hammer Museum, Cornell University, the Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico City), the Berlin Documentary Forum, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Films
The Fragmentations Only Mean ... (2022) Co-director, camera and editor, DCP. Color. 72 minutes.
The Absent Stone (2013) Co-director, camera and editor, with Sandra Rozental. 35mm. Color. 82 minutes.
Atomic Sublime (2010) Director and editor. 16 mm on digital video. B & W and color, 72 minutes.
Two Very Short Films about Maya Revival Architecture (2009) Director, 16mm, color, 2 minutes.
Magnavoz (2006) Director, editor and camera. 16 mm B & W. 25 minutes.
T.S.H. (2004) Director, editor, camera and sound. 16 mm B & W. 6 minutes.
The American Egypt (2001) Director, editor and camera. 16 mm B & W and color. 57 minutes.
Ruins (1999) Director, editor and camera. 16mm B & W, 78 minutes.
Mexopolis (1997) Co-director and camera, with ADOBE L.A. Super-8 color film, 11 minutes.
Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995) Co-director, -editor, -camera and -sound, with Rubén Ortiz Torres. 16 mm, super-8 and high-8 video, B & W and color, 56 minute (broadcast) and 78 minute (film) versions.
Natives (1991) Co-director, -editor, -camera and -sound, with Scott Sterling. 16mm B & W, 25 minutes. Distributed by Subcine, Third World Newsreel.
How Many Stars, How Many Stripes? (1990) Co-director, -camera, -editor, and -sound, with Fernando Anguita. 16 mm, B & W, 10 minutes.
Books
The Catherwood Project (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017).
Lean-Droka-Tz (Buenos Aires: Fundación Espigas, 2013). With Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman.
The Maya of Modernism (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011). Available in Spanish as Los Mayas del modernismo (CDMX.: Siglo XXI, 2019).
The Shock of Modernity/El impacto de la modernidad (Madrid: Turner, 2007).
Editorial:
Co-editor, with Rubén Ortiz Torres, El Fin: Compendio de Lecturas (CDMX: Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, 2022).
Co-editor, with Luciano Piazza, Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Film in Latin America (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017).
Co-editor, with Rubén Ortiz Torres, L.A. Collects L.A.: Latin America in Southern California Collections (Berlin: Bom Dia, Boa Tarde, Boa Noite, 2017).
Co-editor, with Rubén Ortiz Torres, How to Read Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney (London: Black Dog, 2017).
Co-editor, with Holly Willis, More Than Meets the Eye: The Videos of Tran T. Kim-Trang (Los Angeles: Scalar, 2016). Available on-line at: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/more-than-meets-the-eye-the-videos-of-tran-t-kim-trang/index
Co-editor, with Alexandra Juhasz, F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
References
External links
Jesse Lerner in the Video Data Bank
The American Egypt - work of Jesse Lerner
Living people
American Jews
American filmmakers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Cayo César Galindo Sandoval is a Peruvian politician. He was a Congressman representing Apurímac for the period 2006–2011, and belongs to the Union for Peru party.
Biography
Cayo César Galindo Sandoval, lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with more than 24 years of professional practice in the public and private sphere. Graduated from the Doctorate in Law and Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, as well as the Master's Degree in Political Science with a mention in Public Management at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and the Master's Degree in Civil and Commercial Law at the University National Mayor of San Marcos; with a Postgraduate Degree in Development and National Defense at the Center for Higher National Studies - CAEN and in Governance and Political Management at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and The Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University (GWU).
He has held the position of: Vice Minister of Labor of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, Chief of the Cabinet of Advisors of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Chief of the Cabinet of Advisors of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion. advisor to the Presidency of the Congress of the Republic, advisor to the Senior Officials Office of the Congress of the Republic. Advisor to the Ministerial Office of the Ministry of Production, Technical Secretary (e) of the National Labor Council, president of the Special Council for the Appointment of President of Arbitration Tribunals of Public Entities and State Companies and member of the Board of Directors of FONDOEMPLEO.
Elected Judge of the Constitutional Court in 2013, through Legislative Resolution of Congress 004-2012-2013-CR.
Congressman of the Republic from 2006 to 2011; being, during the aforementioned parliamentary period, a full member of the parliamentary commissions of Constitution and Regulation, of Justice and Human Rights, of the Special Commission for Review of the Penal Code, of the Special Commission of Rationalization of National Legislation and of the Sub-Commission of Constitutional accusations, among others.
He has taught at the School of Political Sciences - Faculty of Law of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, with the chair Theory of Political Power; as well as in Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the Army Intelligence School.
References
Living people
Union for Peru politicians
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
20th-century Peruvian lawyers
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni
National University of San Marcos alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Sorribas is one of 24 parishes (administrative divisions) in Piloña, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
The population is 130 (INE 2011).
Villages and hamlets
Cua
Sorribas
Ardavin (Ardabín)
Brez
El Cotal
La Espilonga
La Ferrera
Los Riegos
El Robledal
Sabilde
Solapeña de Sorribas
References
Parishes in Piloña |
ShootMania Storm is a first-person shooter video game by Ubisoft and Ubisoft Nadeo as a spin-off title of the TrackMania series.
Just like its sister games TrackMania 2 and the yet-unreleased QuestMania, it features 3 different environments, of which two have so far been revealed; a snow-based environment called Cryo, and another called Storm. Storm was released first, with Cryo to be released later.
Nadeo have stated they intend to make ShootMania stand out from other FPS games through design features such as using a rocket launcher-style weapon as the game's primary weapon. Florent Castelnérac (the game's project leader) has stated there will be relatively few different weapons, the idea being to minimize game time spent not in gameplay.
The game still uses the map editor introduced in TrackMania. Character editing is restricted, with only a shield on the player's back customizable.
The game was set to be released on 23 January 2013, but was delayed to 10 April 2013 with an open beta started on 12 February.
Reception
ShootMania Storm received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
Further reading
External links
2013 video games
First-person shooters
Multiplayer video games
TrackMania
Ubisoft games
Video game spin-offs
Video games developed in France
Video games scored by Mick Gordon
Video games with Steam Workshop support
Video games with user-generated gameplay content
Windows games
Windows-only games |
Borras Noel Hamilton Whiteside (12 December 1903 – 13 June 1948) was a British company director and politician, who served a single term as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). He was noted for his interest in aviation, being a private pilot and frequently raising the issue of air defence in Parliament. During the Second World War he was a senior civil servant; at the end he fought again for a seat in Parliament but was unsuccessful.
Family and early life
Whiteside's father, Capt. R. Borras Whiteside RASC, died on active service in France during the First World War, when he was 11. His mother, Leonore, was a daughter of 9th Lord Belhaven and Stenton. Whiteside was sent to Wellington College, and went on to University College London. After leaving university he went into the insurance business and in 1925 was made West End Local Director of the London and Scottish Assurance Company. Whiteside also became a civilian pilot, holding an A licence.
1931 election
After spending several years public speaking in support of Conservative Party causes, Whiteside was adopted as the Conservative candidate for Leeds South, a seat held for the Labour Party by Henry Charleton who was a Whip for his party. When the general election was called in October 1931, the Conservatives hoped that Whiteside and Charleton would have a straight fight. However at the last moment Captain Frederick Boult came forward as a Liberal Party candidate, having withdrawn from fighting at Buckrose. This shift was thought to make the election more difficult for Whiteside, and Charleton was expected to win the election. However, on polling day Leeds South was part of the landslide result, with Whiteside winning a majority of 725 over Charleton and Boult coming a poor third.
Parliament
Whiteside made his maiden speech in March 1932 on the Air Estimates. He opposed a Labour suggestion that civil aviation be transferred to the League of Nations and called for lower costs for compulsory government inspection of aircraft and for local authorities to build airfields closer to centres of population.
After the Ottawa Conference concluded in 1932, Whiteside made a speech supporting its outcome and attacking the idea of a meat quota during which he described quotas as "Socialism run mad". With the rise to prominence of the British Union of Fascists and its 'Blackshirts', Whiteside urged in January 1934 that no political body be allowed to wear a uniform because doing so would be liable to lead to breaches of the peace. He also urged adoption of the 24-hour clock. Whiteside was a supporter of the International League Against the Export of Horses, and spoke at a May 1934 meeting in support of the Export of Horses Bill which made illegal the trade in live horses for meat.
Air Force
Increasingly Whiteside took up issues concerning the strength of the Royal Air Force. In 1933 he argued that it was so inadequate to Britain's defence that it was inviting attack. During the debate on the 1934 Air Estimates, Whiteside spoke of Stanley Baldwin's remark the previous year that "the bomber will always get through" and rhetorically asked what was the point of such a large expenditure on the RAF if it could not defend Britain. He implicitly disagreed with Baldwin, calling attention to the RAF's success in preventing the Gotha bombers breaking through after May 1918. In April 1934 he took up the matter with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, pressing for the RAF to be built up to parity with other countries. He also suggested that six aircraft carriers would be sufficient to protect the Royal Navy against air attack throughout the world.
1935 election
On 6 June 1935, Whiteside married Dorothy Farrington at Speldhurst in Kent. That November, a new general election required him to defend his seat against Henry Charleton, who attempted to regain it for the Labour Party. Whiteside having been an unexpected winner in what was regarded as a safe Labour seat, he was thought to be vulnerable. There was again a three-cornered contest with the third candidate coming from the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, one of only three candidates in the election. After a keen contest, Charleton regained his seat with a majority of 1,016.
Wartime
Whiteside remained involved in politics, and was a member of the Carlton Club and the United Club. He also became director of an aircraft company. During World War II, he became a civil servant, working as Assistant Divisional Food Officer for London from 1939. Two years later he was promoted to be a Principal at the Board of Trade. From 1942 he was Deputy Director of Salvage and Recovery for the Ministry of Supply. At the end of the war, Whiteside was adopted as Conservative candidate for the newly created division of Wembley South. Whiteside's campaign asked "Are you going to sack Winston Churchill? That is the issue." However the Labour candidate won the seat with a majority of 3,431.
References
External links
1903 births
1948 deaths
British businesspeople in insurance
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire
UK MPs 1931–1935 |
Mohammad Hafifi bin Mansor (born 28 October 1990) is a Malaysian professional weightlifter. He won the gold medal in the men's 69 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He also won the bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 69 kg event.
Tested positive for drugs in 2017.
Major competitions
References
External links
Mohd Hafifi Bin Mansor - Tag Archive - Sports247.My
1990 births
Living people
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Malaysia
Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Malaysia
Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Malaysia
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
21st-century Malaysian people
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games |
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