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Catherine Tait (born 1958) is a Canadian business executive who currently serves as the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She succeeded Hubert Lacroix for the position after being appointed on April 3, 2018, and beginning her mandate on July 3, 2018.
Tait is also the chair of the Global Task Force for Public Media, an initiative of the Public Media Alliance launched in September 2019.
Education
Catherine Tait holds a Bachelor of Arts in literature and philosophy from the University of Toronto, a Master of Science from Boston University, and a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in communications theory from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Career
Media and culture industry
Prior to joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Catherine Tait had worked in film and television production in Canada and the U.S. for more than three decades.
She served as a manager of Policy and Planning at Telefilm Canada in the 1980s, before going on to become Director and Cultural Attaché with the Canadian Cultural Centre in France from 1989 to 1991.
In Canada, Tait was president and COO of Salter Street Films from 1997 to 2001, producing such shows as the long-running CBC comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
In 2002, she and film producer Liz Manne co-founded New York–based Duopoly Inc., an independent film, television and digital content company. Tait served as president until 2018. She also co-founded digital content provider iThentic in 2006 and the Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite in 2010.
President and CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada
Strategic directions
Catherine Tait presented her vision for the public broadcaster in May 2019, with the unveiling of the Corporation’s new strategic plan, Your Stories, Taken to Heart. The plan covers five priorities: global reach, digital, kids content, regions and diversity.
In a speech to the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Tait described how taking Canada to the world was the “spearhead” of CBC/Radio-Canada’s strategic plan, in order to counter the competitive threat of the digital giants. Since being appointed Chair of the Global Task Force for Public Media in September 2019, Tait has signed collaboration agreements (co-development and content sharing) between CBC/Radio-Canada and other public broadcasters around the world, such as the ABC, the BBC, France Télévisions, ZDF and RTBF.
As part of the public broadcaster’s ongoing digital transformation, in September 2018, Tait announced a new streaming service, CBC Gem, at Content Canada, an industry event in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival. The service launched in December 2018. Under her leadership, two new audio apps were developed – CBC Listen and Radio-Canada OHdio – providing a one-stop destination for all the public broadcaster’s audio content (music, podcasts and radio shows). Both apps were launched in fall 2019.
At the international Kidscreen Summit in February 2019, Tait committed to expanding the public broadcaster’s kids content offering, especially on CBC Gem. During her tenure, the Corporation also launched two news services for kids 13 and under: CBC Kids News in 2018 and MAJ (Mon actualité du jour) in 2019.
At the Banff World Media Festival in June 2019, Tait announced that she would ask the production companies with whom she does business to ensure that at least one key creative position – producer, director, writer, showrunner and lead performer – is held by members of visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.
In an interview with CBC/Radio-Canada reporters in Saskatchewan, Tait said she wanted to move more production to regional centres, particularly for radio and digital. This strategic priority has resulted in CBC stepping up its pop-up bureau approach at locations such as Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan; Winkler and Morden, Manitoba; northeast Calgary; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation in Alberta. CBC has also increased production outside Toronto, with the national radio show Cost of Living and the podcast West of Centre both being produced out of Calgary. The public broadcaster’s French-language network, Radio-Canada, has added new videojournalists in Yellowknife and Iqaluit to cover the North, as well as a more mobile workforce at its Abitibi-Témiscamingue station.
Comparison of Netflix to colonialism
In 2019 Tait came under fire for likening Netflix's influence to cultural imperialism in India and parts of Africa. She said "I was thinking about the British Empire and how, if you were there and you were the viceroy of India, you would feel that you were doing only good for the people of India. Or similar, if you were in French Africa, you would think, I’m educating them, I’m bringing their resources to the world, and I’m helping them. There was a time when cultural imperialism was absolutely accepted. Fast forward to what happens after imperialism and the damage that can do to local communities. So all I would say is, let us be mindful of how it is we as Canadians respond to global companies coming into our country." TV critic John Doyle responded: "CBC Television’s weakness is its commitment to ordinary, middling-good TV, and it has become complacent about middling success. That’s CBC’s problem, one created by lack of imagination and laziness, not some imagined cultural imperialism."
References
Tait, Catherine
Tait, Catherine
Tait, Catherine
Living people
1958 births |
Pacifier (re-released as The Pacifier Album) is the fifth studio album released by New Zealand band, Shihad.
At the time of the release they were performing under the name Pacifier due to controversy surrounding the similarity of the word Shihad to jihad. The name Pacifier was derived from the single of the same name from their previous album, The General Electric.
Released in 2002, songs such as "Run" and "Bullitproof" went on to become hit singles. "Bullitproof" peaked at #27 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, and #37 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. However, it still failed to break the band into the United States. "Everything" was used in the closing credits of the 2002 film Swimfan.
The band, and lead singer Jon Toogood especially, have since expressed displeasure with the album, calling it "overproduced", and "bullshit – that would've been the wrong album to be big on." In 2023, bassist Karl Kippenberger said, "I love those songs. I love them being part of our history...It’s OK to fall in and out of love with your own stuff, you know?"
This album features Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver) and DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit and House of Pain) on the track "Coming Down".
This double Platinum selling album was produced by Josh Abraham, of Thirty Seconds to Mars/Michelle Branch/Weezer fame.
One version of this album included the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" bonus disc and yet another version contained a bonus disc featuring live acoustic tracks from the "Helen Young Sessions".
The Pacifier Album re-release
In 2023 the album was re-released on vinyl. For this edition the band name is restored to Shihad and the album is retitled The Pacifier Album.
Track listing
Bonus discs
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Helen Young Sessions
Credits
All songs by: Pacifier (except "Bullitproof" written by Pacifier and Dave Bassett)
Produced by: Josh Abraham
Recorded and Mixed by: Ryan Williams, with Andy Wallace on "Comfort Me", "Everything", "Bullitproof"
Mastered by: Tom Baker
Certifications
References
Shihad albums
2002 albums
Albums produced by Josh Abraham |
State Route 73 (abbreviated SR 73) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, a coastal route located in southern Knox County. It runs for from an intersection with SR 131 in St. George to an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Rockland.
Route description
SR 73 begins in St. George at SR 131 about north of Marshall Point. SR 73 runs roughly parallel to SR 131 on the coastline, passing through the towns of South Thomaston and Owls Head without any major junctions. SR 73 crosses into Rockland and proceeds due north into the town center, where it ends at US 1.
SR 73 is known as Seal Harbor Road in St. George, Spruce Head Road in Spruce Head, Elm Street in South Thomaston, and Weskeag Road, Ingraham Drive and South Main Street in Rockland. Knox County Regional Airport is located along SR 73 in Owls Head.
Junction list
References
External links
Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 73
073
Transportation in Knox County, Maine |
"Radio Waves" is a song recorded by American country music group Eli Young Band. It was released in June 2009 as the third single from the album Jet Black & Jealous. The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song was written by Mike Eli and Blu Sanders.
Content
"Radio Waves" is an up-tempo song in which the male narrator is reflecting on a past relationship with regret. The narrator sings the song to former lover over the radio, hoping to reconcile the relationship.
Critical reception
The song has garnered favorable critical reception. Country music website the 9513 reviewer Juli Thanki gave the song a "thumbs up". Thanki noted the band's decision to release a more up-tempo song following the slower previous two singles was a good one. Thanki also mentions the intro recalls "Til I Hear It from You" by Gin Blossoms. She does say the "song is one of the worst on the new album" but concedes "it is far from unlistenable". She goes on to say the song sounds like something Jakob Dylan would do, which "is a not a bad thing".
Chart performance
The song debuted at number 56 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on the chart dated July 25, 2009.
References
2008 songs
2009 singles
Eli Young Band songs
Show Dog-Universal Music singles
Songs about radio |
Parque del Reencuentro is a private cemetery in Uruguay.
It is located at Canelones Department, 21 km north of downtown Montevideo, on the Ruta 5, near Las Piedras.
History
The cemetery was established in 1993; it is operated by the same company as Parque del Recuerdo.
References
External links
Parque del Reencuentro
Cemeteries in Canelones Department
1993 establishments in Uruguay |
Cookies & Cream is a 2008 American independent drama film written and directed by Princeton Holt, as his first feature length narrative film.
Synopsis
A single mother accepts an adult entertainment job in order to take care of her daughter and herself. The film examines the effect her choices have on her relationships and on her.
Cast
Jace Nicole as Carmen
Ardie Fuqua as Jonathan
Naama Kates as Jodie
Brian Ackley as Dylan
Chris Riquinha as Butch
Jaylon Nicole Carey-Williams as Candace
Danny Doherty as Woodrow
Omar Hernandez as Roderick
Shannone Holt as Leslie
Derek M. McAllister as James
Kent Sutton as Mike
Production
The film was written in 6 days and shot in 24, largely because nearly half of the film had to be reshot when the original cinematographer quit the production after several disagreements with the rest of the production crew. Cinematographer duties were shared with members of the production cast and crew, which explains the fact that there is no individual cinematographer is credited. The film's lead actress Jace Nicole stated that due to her friendship with writer/director Holt, and she having worked with him on his 2006 short film Phish, she did not have to audition for her role as Carmen.
Reception
Critical response
Salt Lake City Weekly offered that the film was "more thinky than sexy", and Boise Weekly noted it as one of the many "award winning independent films" to screen at the Idaho International Film Festival.
The Independent Critic wrote that the film "is a decidedly different cinematic beast", in its dealing with how a mother maintains her work in the adult industry in order to provide for herself and her daughter. In praising the film, they wrote that the film does not portray stereotypes, and that it is "an intelligent, thoughtful, strange and wonderful film featuring a divinely nuanced and balanced performance." They made note of it not being stereotypical, and compared the film to other non-traditional films such as Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make a Porno and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. They summarized that writer/director Princeton Holt "has constructed a creative and intelligent dialogue about a world in which few of us have actual knowledge but most of us are willing to offer opinions. Flying in the face of stereotypes, Holt neither over-sympathizes nor embellishes".
The Critic's Word reviewer made note of this being the first feature film of Princeton Holt. He wrote that as a "character driven piece", the film may at first glance "look and feel like an X-rated skin flick to the viewing eye", but that initial impression is dispelled as the film quickly reveals itself to be "a touching film with a lot of depth and an incredible sense of weight within its story." But he also noted that the film was not without its problems, the first being the "film’s deluge which felt a little drowned out at times and a little like gap fillers for the most part, but nothing too harmful that would seriously hurt the film in any real way though," and the second being the film's audio dubbing which was "off" in certain parts. He also commented that while the pacing might have been too slow for some viewers, it managed to "tell a very adequate story about a young woman living life in its whole realism form." Speaking toward the writer/director, the reviewer wrote "Holt is a breath of fresh air and projects an unique and somewhat uncanny style of filmmaking that reminded me of the late 80s and early 90s of filmmaking". He also commended the cast when writing "most of the cast did an equally fair job in their performances." In summation he noted that he first viewed the film with low expectations, and was surprised that "the film came out very enjoyable and was a terrific experience."
Sonic Cinema reviewer noted the film's "first scene seems like one of those cheesy online videos you find on certain websites," and also made note of the film's poor ADR, writing there were "few times (a lot of times, in fact) when it threw me out of the movie." But he also made note that "after that introduction, this movie finds heart". He wrote that the film reminded him "a lot of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, for some obvious reasons, and others not so obvious," offering that "Holt has made an intelligent and compassionate drama" centered on the protagonist's dilemma.
Rogue Cinema also noted how the film's opening minutes created an expectation that it would be a different type of film than what it later revealed. The reviewer wrote that while it might be "a tale about the pornography industry and essentially how it reflects upon the love lives of its performers', that if viewers were expecting an adult industry film, it would leave them disappointed. He complimented the project by writing the film was "Full of fantastic performances from everyone in the cast, a magnificent musical score that creates something dynamic and dramatic from out of nowhere and a very strikingly visual film. It is a very elaborate and poignant look at love that doesn't offer a lot of answers for its questions but it does stay in your mind well after seeing it."
Release
The film premiered in several cities at regional film festivals around the world, and was picked up for distribution within a year of its festival premiere. It was released on DVD on July 20, 2010.
Festivals
2009 New Filmmakers Summer Series NYC, Anthology Film Archives, Official Selection
2009 Deep Fried Film Festival, United Kingdom, Official Selection
2009 Idaho International Film Festival, Boise, Idaho, Official Selection
2009 Birmingham Black International Film Festival, United Kingdom, Official Selection
2009 Red Wasp Film Festival, Bryan, TX, Official Selection
2009 Outhouse Film Festival, Baton Rouge, LA, Official Selection
2009 Sexy International Film Festival, New York City
2009 Favorite Film (Sonic Cinema)
2009 Favorite Performance - Jace Nicole (Sonic Cinema)
References
External links
2008 films
2008 drama films
American drama films
American independent films
Films about pornography
2008 independent films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
Accra viridis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It was first described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham in 1891. It is found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are bright bluish green, the costal and apical margins narrowly brownish ochreous with a series of about fourteen black dots and spots of different sizes from the base to the apex, some of which are margined on their lower edges with red. There are also some black spots along the apical margin. There are also about seven conspicuous vermilion-red spots or streaks. The hindwings are brown, the costal margin straw white nearly to the apex.
References
Moths described in 1891
Tortricini
Moths of Africa |
James Henry Francis (born August 4, 1968) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Baylor University and was drafted in the first round (twelfth overall) of the 1990 NFL Draft.
References
1968 births
Living people
People from La Marque, Texas
Sportspeople from Galveston County, Texas
American football linebackers
Baylor Bears football players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Washington Redskins players
Players of American football from Houston |
Thamel () is a commercial neighborhood located in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Thamel has been the centre of the tourist industry in Kathmandu for over four decades, starting from the hippie days, when many artists came to Nepal and spent weeks in Thamel. It is considered the hotspot for tourism inside the Kathmandu valley.
Thamel is known for its narrow alleys crowded with various shops and vendors. Commonly sold goods include food, fresh vegetables/fruits, pastries, trekking gear, walking gear, music, DVDs, handicrafts, souvenirs, woolen items and clothes. Travel agencies, small grocery stores, budget hotels, restaurants, pubs and clubs also line the streets. Cars, cycle rickshaws, two-wheelers and taxis ply these narrow streets alongside hundreds of pedestrians.
Many restaurants in Thamel serve traditional and continental cuisine. Thamel also acts as the pre-base camp for mountaineers. It boasts a wide range of mountaineering gear shops, foreign money exchange booths, mobile phone shops, and numerous travel agents and guest houses.
Thamel is widely regarded as the center of Kathmandu's nightlife and is also popular for its wide range of restaurants and cafés, live music and other attractions frequented by both tourists and locals.
The places near Thamel are Kwabahal, JP Road, Paknajol, Sanchaya Kosh road.
See also
Hippie trail
References
External links
Thamel Tourism Development Council
Tourism in Nepal
Neighbourhoods in Kathmandu |
Goh Swee Swee (; born 1 June 1986) is a Singaporean footballer who plays for Hougang United in the S-League.
Club career
Goh started his S-league career with Gombak United but only played 1 game for the Bulls before joining Home United in 2007. At that time, the Protectors offered him a S.League contract while he was still on a Prime League contract with Gombak. He immediately repaid the favour to the Protectors by scoring a 90th-minute winner against Liaoning Guangyuan in his debut on 16 March 2007.
However, Goh found it hard to start upfront with Home United having the likes of Peres de Oliveira, Indra Sahdan and Ludovick Takam in their ranks. As a result, he was often deployed as a rightback or right midfielder.
Goh was then transferred to the Courts Young Lions in 2008 and he played mostly as a midfielder for the Young Lions in the S.League.
Following his stint with the Young Lions, Goh had a brief spell at Balestier Khalsa in 2010 before switching over to his current club, Woodlands Wellington with fellow tiger, midfielder Han Yiguang in the 2011 pre-season. Goh is the second top scorer for Woodlands for the past 2 seasons, netting 5 goals after 31 appearances in 2011 and 4 goals in 23 appearances in 2012.
Goh achieved a personal milestone when he led Woodlands Wellington out during their match against Home United at Bishan Stadium as the team captain in the first time in his career on 5 March 2013.
Goh signed for 2016 Singapore National Football League champions Eunos Crescent for the 2017 NFL season.
Career statistics
Goh Swee Swee's Profile
All numbers encased in brackets signify substitute appearances.
International career
Goh was called up to the national team on a couple of occasions but he has yet to appear for the Lions in an international match.
References
External links
Profile of Goh Swee Swee
1986 births
Singaporean men's footballers
Living people
Singapore Premier League players
Singaporean people of Hokkien descent
Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent
Balestier Khalsa FC players
Gombak United FC players
Woodlands Wellington FC players
Lion City Sailors FC players
Young Lions FC players
Men's association football forwards |
Fernandocrambus fernandesellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Chile.
References
Crambini
Moths described in 1896
Moths of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile |
```java
package no.agens.depth.lib.tween.interpolators;
import android.animation.TimeInterpolator;
/**
* Created by danielzeller on 09.04.15.
*/
public class SineIn implements TimeInterpolator {
@Override
public float getInterpolation(float t) {
return (float) -Math.cos(t * (Math.PI/2)) + 1;
}
}
``` |
Andrew M. Blair (April 1818???) was an American lawyer, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Ozaukee County.
Biography
Andrew Blair was born in Stannard, Vermont, in April 1818. He was raised on his father's farm and attended the Newbury Seminary, then spent one year studying at the University of Vermont. He read law in the office of attorney Thomas Bartlett, in Lyndon, Vermont, and was admitted to the bar in December 1843. He practiced law in Hardwick, Vermont, for five years before deciding to move west to the new state of Wisconsin.
In June 1849, he settled at Port Washington, Wisconsin, in what would soon become Ozaukee County—at the time, this area was part of Washington County. He established a legal practice in Port Washington and quickly became involved in local affairs. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1852, running on the Democratic Party ticket. During his term, Ozaukee County was created from the towns which made up his Senate district.
In 1854, he was the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin circuit court in the 3rd circuit, but was defeated by incumbent Charles H. Larrabee.
Blair subsequently joined the new Republican Party shortly after its formation in 1854. He remained a Republican through the Civil War, supporting Lincoln and Grant, but then joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872, and subsequently rejoined the Democratic Party when the Liberal Republican Party dissolved.
During the Civil War, Blair was caught up in the Ozaukee Draft Riot. Blair was originally suggested to Governor Salomon as a good candidate for draft commissioner in Ozaukee County, but did not receive the appointment. The man who was appointed drew the wrath of the public with a selection process that seemed to excuse the wealthy. On the day of the draft, a mob descended on the draft office and destroyed the draft rolls. They then destroyed the home of the draft commissioner and the homes of several other prominent masons in the city, including Andrew Blair. Blair received $1,200 compensation from the Wisconsin Legislature in the 1863 session.
He relocated to the city of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in the Spring of 1863, and became a prominent lawyer there. He served for many years as a justice of the peace, police justice, and circuit court commissioner. He can be found as a frequent litigant before the Wisconsin Supreme Court with the legal partnerships Blair & Lord and later Blair & Coleman.
Personal life and family
Andrew M. Blair was one of eight children born to Andrew Blair and his wife Elizabeth ( Reynolds—sometimes spelled Runnels or Ronnalds). The grandfather of Andrew M. Blair was Robert Blair, a Scottish American immigrant who established a farm in Caledonia County, Vermont.
Several of Andrew M. Blair's siblings also settled in Wisconsin in the early years of the state. His older brother Robert lived for some time in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, before moving to Virginia, and his brother Alexander and sister Eliza lived the rest of their lives at La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Andrew Blair married Caroline Tuttle at Detroit, Michigan, in 1852. Caroline Tuttle was the daughter of David Tuttle of Hardwick, Vermont. There were no known children from this marriage.
Electoral history
Wisconsin circuit court (1854)
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References
People from Caledonia County, Vermont
People from Port Washington, Wisconsin
People from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Wisconsin state senators
Wisconsin Democrats
Wisconsin Liberal Republicans
Wisconsin Republicans
1818 births
Date of birth uncertain
Year of death unknown
19th-century American politicians |
The women's 3000 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships was held at the Kasarani Stadium on 19 August.
Records
Results
The final was held on 19 August at 17:40.
References
3000 metres women
Long distance running at the World Athletics U20 Championships
U20 |
Semra is a village in Gopalganj district (near Thawe) of Bihar state, India. Semra is located just West and North corner of Thawe (Famous for Durga Mandir). Semra is famous for Ramjanki temple And Kali Maa temple pashchim tola.
Villages in Gopalganj district, India |
Alberto Martinez or Martínez may refer to:
Alberto Martínez (footballer, born 1950) (1950–2009), Uruguayan football midfielder
Alberto Martínez (footballer, born 1990), Argentine football midfielder
Beto Acosta (Alberto Martín Acosta Martinez, born 1977), Uruguayan forward
Berto (footballer) (Alberto Martínez Díaz, born 1962), Spanish football midfielder
Alberto Martinez Piedra (1926–2021), professor of political economy
Alberto B. Martinez, U.S. soldier acquitted of murder in the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen |
Confirmed is the second studio album by professional basketball player Damian Lillard, under the moniker Dame D.O.L.L.A., which stands for Different on Levels the Lord Allows. The album charted on number 72 of the Top Album Charts as well as on number 18 of the indie charts.
Track listing
References
2017 albums
Hip hop albums by American artists |
```smalltalk
using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.TestModels.UpdatesModel;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.TestUtilities;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update;
using Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql.FunctionalTests.TestUtilities;
using Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql.Infrastructure;
using Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql.Tests;
using Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql.Tests.TestUtilities.Attributes;
using Xunit;
namespace Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql.FunctionalTests
{
public class UpdatesMySqlTest : UpdatesRelationalTestBase<UpdatesMySqlTest.UpdatesMySqlFixture>
{
public UpdatesMySqlTest(UpdatesMySqlFixture fixture)
: base(fixture)
{
fixture.TestSqlLoggerFactory.Clear();
}
[ConditionalFact]
public override void Identifiers_are_generated_correctly()
{
using (var context = CreateContext())
{
var entityType = context.Model.FindEntityType(typeof(
your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashorrectly));
Assert.Equal("LoginEntityTypeWithAnExtremelyLongAndOverlyConvolutedNameThatIs~", entityType.GetTableName());
Assert.Equal("PK_LoginEntityTypeWithAnExtremelyLongAndOverlyConvolutedNameTha~", entityType.GetKeys().Single().GetName());
Assert.Equal("FK_LoginEntityTypeWithAnExtremelyLongAndOverlyConvolutedNameTha~", entityType.GetForeignKeys().Single().GetConstraintName());
Assert.Equal("IX_LoginEntityTypeWithAnExtremelyLongAndOverlyConvolutedNameTha~", entityType.GetIndexes().Single().GetDatabaseName());
}
}
[SupportedServerVersionCondition(nameof(ServerVersionSupport.DefaultExpression), nameof(ServerVersionSupport.AlternativeDefaultExpression))]
[SupportedServerVersionCondition(nameof(ServerVersionSupport.Returning))]
public override void Save_with_shared_foreign_key()
{
base.Save_with_shared_foreign_key();
}
public class UpdatesMySqlFixture : UpdatesRelationalFixture
{
protected override ITestStoreFactory TestStoreFactory => MySqlTestStoreFactory.Instance;
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder, DbContext context)
{
base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder, context);
// Necessary for test `Save_with_shared_foreign_key` to run correctly.
if (AppConfig.ServerVersion.Supports.DefaultExpression ||
AppConfig.ServerVersion.Supports.AlternativeDefaultExpression)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<ProductBase>()
.Property(p => p.Id).HasDefaultValueSql("(UUID())");
}
Models.Issue1300.Setup(modelBuilder, context);
}
public static class Models
{
public static class Issue1300
{
public static void Setup(ModelBuilder modelBuilder, DbContext context)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<Flavor>(
entity =>
{
entity.HasKey(e => new {e.FlavorId, e.DiscoveryDate});
entity.Property(e => e.FlavorId)
.ValueGeneratedOnAdd();
entity.Property(e => e.DiscoveryDate)
.ValueGeneratedOnAdd();
});
}
public class Flavor
{
public int FlavorId { get; set; }
public DateTime DiscoveryDate { get; set; }
}
}
}
}
}
}
``` |
"Nothing Really Matters" is a song by American singer Madonna for her seventh studio album, Ray of Light (1998). It was written by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, and was produced by the singer with William Orbit and Marius De Vries. The song was released as the sixth and final single from the album on February 9, 1999, by Maverick Records and Warner Bros. Records. An electronic dance track on which Madonna experiments with different musical genres, "Nothing Really Matters" includes ambient music and electronic noise frequencies that were added by De Vries. Lyrically, the recording delves on the singer's first daughter Lourdes Leon, having also themes of selfishness, affection, and motherhood.
The song was critically appreciated for its lyrical content and composition, and was declared by reviewers as one of Madonna's most personal efforts; however, some critics felt it was tepid and lacklustre compared to other tracks from Ray of Light. In the United States, the song remains Madonna's lowest entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 93. Its low chart peak was due to lack of airplay and the delay in releasing it in CD single formats, to which the singer's fans protested against Warner Bros. The song became her 23rd number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart, reaching the top spot in Hungary and Spain, and entering the top ten in countries including Canada, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Scotland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
An accompanying music video was directed by Swedish director Johan Renck, and was released on February 13, 1999. Inspired by Arthur Golden's 1997 novel Memoirs of a Geisha, the video portrays Madonna as a geisha, dancing in a small room. The red kimono worn by her in the video was designed by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier. It was worn by the singer during her performance of the song at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. "Nothing Really Matters" is cited as one of Madonna's most underrated singles to date. The costume and music video has been cited by journalist and academics as one of Madonna's most iconic and best re-inventions.
Background and writing
"Nothing Really Matters" was written by Madonna and American producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard, and was produced by herself alongside British producers William Orbit and Marius De Vries. The song was inspired by Madonna's daughter Lourdes Leon, whom she gave birth to in 1996. These events inspired a period of introspection for the singer. "That was a big catalyst for me. It took me on a search for answers to questions I'd never asked myself before," she said to Q magazine in 2002. Madonna begun writing the song with Leonard during developing her album Ray of Light. However, unlike their previous work dynamics, Leonard gave little input during studio sessions and only co-wrote four songs for the album, including "Nothing Really Matters". As a result, Madonna did not want him to produce the track. Her manager Guy Oseary then telephoned Orbit, and suggested that the latter send some songs to Madonna. Orbit sent a 13-track digital audio tape (DAT) to her, which included a demo version of "Nothing Really Matters"'s music. According to Madonna, she had been a fan of Orbit's work for a long time and was pleased with the demo version, which he started to work on.
De Vries, who had worked on the demo, asked Orbit to help produce the song, and was enlisted. According to Madonna: Like an Icon writer Lucy O'Brien, De Vries and Orbit had originally composed and produced the track before Ray of Light had been conceived. During the sessions, Orbit found De Vries' contribution "off-putting", to which the latter confessed, "On all the collaborations I'd left a lot of space for him, but for this I wanted to put something on the table and say, 'This is what I think'". De Vries had added electronic noise frequencies during the first chorus of the song, stating that he had a "vision on how the song should be finished". Orbit did not like the addition since it sounded to him that the "DAT's broken". De Vries defended his contribution saying that it was supposed to be "like that [...] It's quite slow for a dance tune of that nature, not a pacey tune." Madonna had enjoyed all three of their contributions to the track, and as a result, Orbit reluctantly left it on. In J. Randy Taraborrelli's book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, the singer said that the main inspiration behind "Nothing Really Matters" and "The Power of Good-Bye" from the same album, was other people judging and dissecting her creative process. Elaborating on the statement, she added,
In 'Nothing Really Matters' and 'The Power of Good-Bye', I want people to have a visceral and emotional reaction to things, rather than to have in their mind where all my stuff comes from. With the songs, I wanted to say that it does not matter really what you think or do, just think by yourself, and not judge and dissect others. You know if I see a bug crawling across the floor and it inspired me to write the most incredible love poem, I don't want people to be thinking about their relationship, and then think of my bug crawling across the floor. It's then that the power of good-bye becomes better than the power of acceptance.
Recording and composition
"Nothing Really Matters" was recorded alongside the rest of the album at Larrabee North Studio in North Hollywood, California. Only three other people were in the studio with Madonna during the recording of the song and album: Orbit, recording engineer Pat McCarthy, and his assistant engineer, Matt Silva. The track featured no live instrumentation, and was part of a machinery issue that delayed initial recording as Orbit preferred working with sample loops and synth-based instrumentation. As a result, it took a while to finish production of the song, until the computers were repaired. The song was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Studios in New York, and included background vocals from Donna De Lory and Nikki Harris.
"Nothing Really Matters" is a mid-tempo EDM song which contains influences of techno, downtempo pop, and house music. It is set in time signature of common time, and is composed in the key of F major, with a moderate tempo of 117 beats per minute. Madonna's vocals range from the lower octave of F3 to the higher note of A4. Greg Kot from the Chicago Tribune labelled the production as a "worldly, and weary Madonna". David Browne from Entertainment Weekly noticed that the "hard-step beats and synth washes make the romantic-physical yearnings (and hooks) of 'Skin' and 'Nothing Really Matters' even tauter [...]". J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun felt the song was a "smart, groove-intensive tune". Chuck Taylor from Billboard compared the composition of "Nothing Really Matters" to the "disco-encrusted" "Vogue" (1990). However, he found that the "core" important part of the song was its "sweetly-spiritual" and "simple" lyrical content.
The song begins with a "strange, electronic, slightly broken noise" that spans between the start of the song up until 54 seconds. The ambient-influenced beginning gives the impression that "Nothing Really Matters" would be a ballad, but in the minute mark, it changes to a mid-tempo dance-pop song. The ambient music becomes restrained, although a cursory bleeping sound can be heard from the right to the left. The background has a number of faint strings in it, which signifies the depth of the stereo field. The chorus starts with a fast-pacing dance sound, over which Madonna sings, "Nothing really matters / love is all we need / everything I give you / all comes back to me." Throughout the entire song, it includes two verses, three choruses, one bridge section, and an outro. The bridge is backed by piano sounds with a descending sequence by a couple of bars. Madonna sings the same lyrics in the outro, but is slowed down and echoed longer until the music fades out.
The lyrics are about the birth of Madonna's daughter Lourdes, and the realization of motherhood. In an interview with the Wesleyan University Press, the singer stated: "There's a song on the album called 'Nothing Really Matters', and it is very much inspired by my daughter. it's just realizing that at the end of the day, the most important thing is loving people and sharing love. The birth of my daughter has been a huge influence. It's different to look at life through the eyes of a child, and suddenly you have a whole new respect for life and you kind of get your innocence back. It's this realisation which I incorporated in 'Nothing Really Matters', 'Little Star' and 'Mer Girl'." Based on the lyrical content, Bryan Lark from The Michigan Daily reviewed the parent album, and concluded that as the single "Ray of Light" was about confronting the past, "Nothing Really Matters" conversely is about "moving onward."
Release
"Nothing Really Matters" was selected as the sixth and final single from Ray of Light. On February 9, 1999, Warner Bros. Records issued the song to top 40 and rhythmic contemporary radio formats in the United States. It was released in six major formats, including a 12 inch vinyl, two CD singles, one maxi CD, a cassette tape, and was made available for digital download. A promotional 7 inch vinyl was issued to several clubs in North America, and included the original album version, along with the B-side and parent album track "To Have and Not To Hold". Two 12 inch vinyl formats were released in North America; one included four vinyls that incorporate two tracks on each, while the second was re-issued with new artwork and track list placement. The maxi CD included the album version, and two remixes by the Austrian disc jockey Peter Rauhofer (under the alias Club 69). Two CD singles were issued worldwide except for North America; the first CD includes the album version, one remix by Rauhofer, and one remix by Peter Kruder & Richard Dorfmeister, whilst the second includes three remixes by Rauhofer. In Canada, the CDs were issued on May 4, 1999. A cassette tape was released in the United Kingdom; this includes the album version and one remix by Rauhofer, presented on both sides of the recording tape.
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic, Kevin C. Johnson from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chris Gernard from Metro Weekly highlighted "Nothing Really Matters" as one of Ray of Lights best tracks. Erlewine, who also wrote Madonna's biography for the website, cited the song as one of her career standouts. Chuck Taylor from Billboard labeled the song as a "gem" and commended the "irresistible hook". From the same publication, Jason Lipshutz commented, "What if the suave dance of 'Nothing Really Matters', the eye-popping 'Ray of Light' music video or the stark beauty of 'Frozen' never existed? Luckily, we never need to find out." Paul Moody from NME noted that the song "floats by almost as if it's asleep, a knowing return to the disco diva-effortlessness of 'Vogue', but with Madonna free from the narcissistic outer-shell of old, free to announce: "I've realised/No-one wins..."" Rolling Stone said, "Songs like the title track and 'Nothing Really Matters' are filled with warmth and wonder." "A bubbly, infectious piece of shufflebeat…" Stuart Maconie wrote in a Q review of Ray of Light, "but aberrant items continually swim into view, like a tumbling, atonal piano solo right out of Schoenberg." Sunday Mirror said it is the "best pop tune" from the album. Stephen Thompson from The A.V. Club was positive, stating that the "chugging" chorus and composition "should ring across dance floors for years to come[...]" Nathan Smith from the Houston Press was also positive, stating, "Few singles illustrated [Madonna's change in musical approach] better than 'Nothing Really Matters'". He concluded, "It's a great, bouncy dance track that never received the love it deserved, and its family-friendly themes are a good fit for the event."
However, Enio Chiola from PopMatters felt the song's commercial appeal and production was inferior to other album tracks, and stated that "Skin"—another song from Ray of Light—would have been a better release. Jose F. Promis from AllMusic reviewed the single and awarded it two-and-a-half stars out of five. He suggested that the original album version was somewhat "tepid", and commented, "This single is a case of where the production supersedes the song, which in and of itself is among Madonna's simplest and least interesting tunes." However, he commended the remixes, including the "Eastern Asian", "chillout" and "several club cuts". Medium's Richard LaBeau opined that it was a "perfectly fine cut from her best album, but there are several other songs on the album that are better and would have made more interesting singles". Billboards Nolan Feeney noted, "She keeps the platitudes from sounding empty by taking her younger self to task [...] Dance music is often a tool for artists and listeners to build their identities; here, Madonna uses pulsing beats to shed her skin". Ranking Madonna's singles in honor of her 60th birthday, The Guardians Jude Rogers placed "Nothing Really Matters" at number 39, calling it a "heavenly ode to motherhood".
At the 2000 ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards, "Nothing Really Matters" was nominated for the Award-Winning Dance Song award; this was Madonna's first nomination in that category, and was her second nomination at the awards since the previous year, when her song "Ray of Light" was nominated, and eventually won the Top Dance Song award. "Nothing Really Matters" eventually won the award, becoming her first win in that category; she won it again in 2002 for "Don't Tell Me".
Chart performance
In the United States, "Nothing Really Matters" debuted at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it her lowest entry on the chart. It reached a peak of number 93 the following week, and was present for two weeks overall. "Nothing Really Matters" topped the Dance Club Songs chart and stayed there for two weeks, whilst peaking at number 25 on the Pop Songs chart. Jose F. Promis from AllMusic believed the single's lack of charting success in North America was due "to the terrible timing of the single's release, which was much after radio and club airplay had peaked." Many fans in North America blamed Warner Bros. Records' marketing strategy for the song's poor charting. "Nothing Really Matters" was also the first time since 1994's Bedtime Stories that Madonna charted four singles from her album on the Hot 100. In Canada, the song reached a peak of number seven on the RPM Singles Chart.
In the United Kingdom, "Nothing Really Matters" entered the UK Singles Chart at number seven on March 13, 1999. It was later certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments of 200,000 units. According to Official Charts Company, the song has sold 128,137 copies as of August 2008. In Belgium's Flanders region, the song debuted and peaked at number 43 on March 13, 1999, while in the Wallonia region it had a similar performance, spending a sole week on the chart. In the Netherlands, the song debuted at number 73 on the Single Top 100 chart, and reached a peak of 34 on March 13, 1999. The recording peaked at number 38 in Germany, spending a total of nine weeks on the chart. In Finland, the song debuted at number six on the Finnish Singles Chart, and spent two weeks overall. In Spain, it was number one on the Spanish Singles Chart and stayed there for three consecutive weeks.
In Australia, "Nothing Really Matters" debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at its peak of number 15 on March 4, 1999. The next week, it descended to number 22, and continued down to its final appearance at number 49, being present for a total of six weeks on the chart. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number seven on the New Zealand Singles Chart on April 11, 1999. It stayed there for two weeks, until descending to number 45. It rose to number 26 on its final peaking week, and was present for a total of nine weeks on the chart.
Music video
Background and inspiration
An accompanying music video for "Nothing Really Matters" was directed by Johan Renck and filmed on January 9, 1999, at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, New York. According to a behind-the-scenes interview with Entertainment Tonight, Madonna stated that the inspiration behind the video was from the 1997 Arthur Golden novel Memoirs of a Geisha. She later stated, "The whole idea of a geisha is a straight metaphor for being an entertainer because, on one hand you're privileged to be a geisha, but on the other hand you're a prisoner [...]" Madonna choreographed her own moves in the video, since she "[did not] like how other people say how I should move, I'm my own best choreographer." In an interview with American broadcaster and journalist Larry King, Madonna commented about the geisha depiction, "[...] there was a character in the book called Hatsumomo and she's been my muse for the past six months. So I don't know." She stated that her daughter, at the time, called Madonna the novel's character, Hatsumomo, which the singer found intriguing yet bizarre.
The red kimono that Madonna wore in the music video was created by French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her main look for the video consisted of heavy eye make-up and a pale face with dark, straight hair, as well as a pair red ankle high boots to accompany the kimono. The kimono was tailored by a large red leather belt. Madonna wore the kimono again for her performance at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. The look was then re-designed by Gaultier and the Italian fashion duo Dean and Dan Caten for Madonna's 2001 Drowned World Tour. The visual for "Nothing Really Matters" premiered on MTV on February 13, 1999. The video can be found on Madonna's 1999 compilation, The Video Collection 93:99.
Synopsis and reception
The video opens with an empty room with a fish painting, and then shows Madonna holding to what looks like a baby, but is actually a big bag of water. Alternating scenes shows her in a red and black kimono dancing to the song. Then, a scene features a group of people of Asian heritage, who walk down a dark hallway. As Madonna sings the song in a black kimono, she grips onto the bag of water. When the chorus starts, it features Madonna in a red kimono continuing to dance. This scene carries on through the rest of the song. There are multiple scenes of young Swedes of Asian heritage performing butoh dance moves coached by Swedish choreographer Su-En. These scenes were shot in a decommissioned R1 Reactor below the Royal Institute of Technology in central Stockholm. The ending scene has Madonna sitting while someone is painting her back and slowly rests her body on the group. As the song fades, Madonna is in her red kimono walking and laughing towards the camera and then the screen rapidly fades to black.
The music video received favorable reviews from critics. Soman S. Chainani from The Crimson was positive in his review, stating, "The video is deliciously subversive. In a sense, Madonna consciously sheds layers of her post-modern act during the 4:25 minute video, daring us to piece together its clues." Labelling it a "surreal" video with "angular" imagery and direction, he concluded, "Random? Of course not. Realizing it's all the pieces of a puzzle, we grasp the stunning answer. Madonna is, in all truth, a modern-day geisha. She is trapped within her corridor, without the least privacy, but she is free to perform." A reviewer from HitFix commented, "[The video] is a gorgeous futuristic creation and one of Madonna's most underrated videos. Dark and hypnotic, 'Matters' features unconventional choreography that was initially off putting to many (at least for 1999), but in actuality director Johan Renck has created a visual spectacle that demands repeat viewing. It also features one of Madonna's more inspired video performances."
At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, Renck, Bjorn Benckert and Tor-Bjorn Olsson were all nominated for Best Special Effects in a Video. This was Madonna's second sub-credited nomination in that category, having been nominated, and eventually won for the same award a year prior with her single "Frozen". Madonna was also nominated three times for her single "Beautiful Stranger" that same year. However, Renck, Benckert, and Olsson lost to Sean Broughton, Stuart D. Gordon and Paul Simpson of Digital Domain with their work on "Special" by American-Scottish band Garbage; this remains Madonna's final video to be nominated in that category.
Live performances
On February 24, 1999, Madonna performed "Nothing Really Matters" as the opening number of the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. The performance was held and recorded at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The stage had two large Japanese infrastructures on either side, a black screen, and a semi-large bench on which Madonna stood. The performance opened with the lights beaming on Madonna, who wore the red Gaultier kimono, red platform boots, and black bob hairstyle. The chorus started with four back-up dancers holding plastic bag, similar to the Japanese people in the music video, and a background dancer being projected on screen. By the second chorus, Madonna's back-up vocalists started singing atop the benches wearing similar kimonos. During the song's bridge interlude, a man entered the stage and started performing with flamed rope. When Madonna won the award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the same ceremony, she came onstage with Orbit to accept the award in the red kimono.
The live performance received positive reviews from most music critics; Jason Kaufman from NY Rock commented, "Her constant nationality morphing has got to go. With her geisha-girl-gone-club-hopping outfit last night, [...] the woman proved she's a walking Epcot Center, long on fashion and short on culture. And what were those women dancing behind her in her musical number holding? The objects looked like fetuses from last week's The X-Files". Bradley Stern from Idolator hosted a poll, asking viewers what was their best Madonna Grammy performance. Alongside the 1999 Grammys, Stern listed Madonna's performances of "Music" at the 2001 ceremony, "Hung Up" at the 2006 ceremony, and "Same Love" and "Open Your Heart" at the 2014 ceremony. "Nothing Really Matters" came third in the poll with 102 votes. InStyle staff highlighted the performance as one of the best Grammy performances to date.
"Nothing Really Matters" was performed as the opening track for her 2023–24 The Celebration Tour, becoming the first time it was performed during one of her concert tours. During the performance, she wore a floor-length black kimono and a diamond radial headdress, while a large white light shines above her.
Legacy and other usage in media
"Nothing Really Matters" has been noted as one of Madonna's most underrated singles to date. Louis Virtel from NewNowNext listed the song at number 94 on their Top 100 Madonna Songs list, stating, "Copping both new-age maxims and Beatle sentiments ('Everything I give you all comes back to me'), 'Nothing Really Matters' is as queer and curious as a red patent-leather geisha costume." The Gaultier kimono has been cited by several publications as one of Madonna's most notable re-inventions and looks, including fashion magazines InStyle, Elle and Harper's Bazaar. Alongside this, the kimono has been recognized as one of the Grammy's best and worst looks.
Louis Virtel listed the music video at number 49 on his ranking of 55 Best Music Videos by Madonna. Julien Sauvalle from Out listed the video at number eight on his Top 20 Most Stylist Madonna music videos list. Idolator's Nicole Sta called the clip as one of Madonna's best music videos. Nikki Ogunnaike from Glamour magazine listed the video as one of Madonna's Top 5 Most Fashionable music videos.
The geisha look was further reproduced for Madonna's appearance on the May–June 1999 issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine. The singer took partial creative control of the issue, and requested photographer of the shoot Patrick Demarchelier to incorporate elements of the novel Memoirs of a Geisha into it, both visually and typographically. Three covers were selected for different regions around the world. In 2016, the geisha look was adapted on the Logo TV series RuPaul's Drag Race, season eight. The show's host, RuPaul, announced that contestants had to create a gown that was inspired by Madonna's iconic looks. Four drag queen contestants wore the geisha look, including one sporting a similar look from the singer's music video "Paradise (Not for Me)". A fifth contestant decided on wearing a kimono from the video of "Nothing Really Matters", but changed. This runway show was criticized by Vulture, for the lack of variety of Madonna's iconic looks outside of "Nothing Really Matters".
Masahiro Ito has cited the song's music video as one of the inspirations for his work on the video game Silent Hill 2 (2001).
Track listings and formats
U.S. 7-inch vinyl
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"To Have and Not to Hold" – 5:23
Cassette single
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
European 12-inch vinyl
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Vocal Club Mix) – 7:51
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Mix) – 8:19
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Phunk Mix) – 8:00
"Nothing Really Matters" (Talvin Singh's Vikram Remix) – 7:43
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Dub) – 5:48
"Nothing Really Matters" (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix) – 11:10
CD single part one
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
"Nothing Really Matters" (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix) – 11:10
CD single part two
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Mix) – 8:19
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Dub) – 5:48
U.S. CD Maxi Single
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Vocal Club Mix) – 7:51
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Mix) – 8:19
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Phunk Mix) – 8:00
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Speed Mix) – 10:35
"Nothing Really Matters" (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix) - 11:10
"Nothing Really Matters" (Vikram Remix) - 7:43
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Dub) - 5:48
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
Digital single (2023)
"Nothing Really Matters" (album version) – 4:27
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 3:45
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Vocal Club Mix) – 7:51
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Mix) – 8:19
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Phunk Mix) – 8:00
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Speed Mix) – 10:35
"Nothing Really Matters" (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix) - 11.10
"Nothing Really Matters" (Vikram Remix) - 7:43
"Nothing Really Matters" (Club 69 Future Dub) - 5:48
Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the Ray of Light album liner notes.
Madonna – lead vocals, songwriter, producer
Patrick Leonard – songwriter
William Orbit – producer
Marius De Vries – producer
Niki Haris – background vocals
Donna De Lory – background vocals
Steve Sidelnyk – drum programming
Mark Endert – engineer
Jon Ingoldsby – engineer
Patrick McCarthy – engineer
Dave Reitzas – engineer
Matt Silva – engineer
Ted Jensen – mastering
Kevin Reagan – art direction, design
Luis Sanchez – photography
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
See also
List of number-one singles of 1999 (Spain)
List of number-one dance singles of 1999 (U.S.)
List of UK top 10 singles in 1998
References
Bibliography
External links
1999 singles
1999 songs
Madonna songs
Maverick Records singles
Music videos directed by Johan Renck
Number-one singles in Hungary
Number-one singles in Spain
Song recordings produced by Madonna
Song recordings produced by Marius de Vries
Song recordings produced by William Orbit
Songs written by Madonna
Songs written by Patrick Leonard
Warner Records singles |
Dalaborg (Dalaborgs slottsruin) is the ruins of a castle in Mellerud Municipality in Götaland, Sweden. It is located north of the Dalbergsån outlet of Lake Vänern in the Swedish traditional province of Dalsland.
History
Dalaborg was built in 1304 by the Dukes Erik Magnusson and Valdemar Magnusson, sons of King Magnus Ladulås, on the western coast of Sweden. It was destroyed in 1434 during the Engelbrekt feud with Eric of Pomerania.
It was at Dalaborg that Queen Margareta, regent of Norway and Denmark, was recognised as regent of Sweden in 1388. The moat, ramparts, a terrace and the cellar of a blockhouse still survive. A model of Dalaborg can be seen at the Mellerud Museum in Mellerud, Sweden.
See also
List of castles in Sweden
References
Castles in Västra Götaland County
Ruined castles in Sweden |
Stanley Hall is a heritage-listed former residence at 25 Enderley Road, Clayfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first built in 1885 and redeveloped to a design by architect George Henry Male Addison. It is now part of St Rita's College. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
History
This large masonry residence was erected -86 as a single-storeyed building for successful Brisbane produce dealer John William Forth. The house was remodelled and two-storeyed additions were constructed for the subsequent owner, Western Queensland pastoralist Herbert Hunter, in 1890.
The site was part of a larger parcel of land, comprising portions 86-90, parish of Toombul, first alienated by Brisbane businessman James Sutherland in 1858. Sutherland's interest in this property was purely speculative. He later subdivided portions 86 & 87 into four allotments, but in 1879 transferred the bulk of these subdivisions (approximately 23 acres) to Queensland pastoralist and politician, William Alcock Tully. Tully also acquired the property as an investment, and in 1881 sold subdivisions 3 & 4 of portions 86 & 87, comprising over 12.5 acres, to another Queensland pastoralist, politician and businessman, Charles Lumley Hill. This property was transferred in January 1885 to John William Forth, who subsequently erected Stanley Hall on the site.
John Forth and his wife Selina had arrived in Brisbane in May 1857, when in their early twenties, and had been associated with the development of Brisbane for close to thirty years before acquiring the Albion (now Clayfield) property. Forth built up a successful wholesale and retail produce business in Brisbane, and was alderman for the East Ward in 1882 and 1883. In the early 1880s, the family - which included 10 children by August 1880 - was resident on Wickham Terrace. Stanley Hall appears to have been erected for the Forth family in 1885-86.
The Forths resided only a short time at Stanley Hall. Clara Forth, their 20-year-old daughter, died there in 1886, and shortly after the family returned from a visit to Europe toward the end of the year, John Forth was killed while helping transplant trees in a paddock near his home, on 28 December 1886.
The property had been transferred to Selina Forth in April 1886, but after John's death the family moved back to Wickham Terrace in 1887, and let Stanley Hall to Brisbane sharebroker and commission agent John Wilson. In August 1888 the property was transferred to Herbert Hunter, who at the same time borrowed £6,000 from Selina Forth.
Hunter had emigrated from Scotland to Australia in 1863, when aged 27. He tried a variety of jobs, eventually gaining employment as a clerk on William Miles' Dulacca sheep station, on the Condamine River near Roma. In 1866, Hunter married Miles' daughter, Jessie, and ran Dulacca for his father-in-law for some years. Miles transferred to Hunter the lease of Redford station in the Maranoa district in the early 1870s, and Victoria Downs in the Warrego district by the mid-1870s. Hunter had disposed of Redford by the mid-1880s, but retained the vast consolidated run of Victoria Downs. Stanley Hall was purchased in 1888 as his town house.
A successful grazier and horse racing enthusiast, Hunter appears to have acquired Stanley Hall more for its proximity to the Eagle Farm Racecourse than for the house itself, which he subsequently redeveloped into the present grand residence. In 1889, he commissioned Brisbane architect GHM Addison to remodel the existing house and design extensive additions, at a cost of £3,550. The house was virtually re-built 1889-90, and an upper storey and tower were added, permitting views of the nearby racecourse, and across the Brisbane River to Moreton Bay. A gabled timber coachhouse and stables were erected near the house, and an extensive orchard was established, occupying the block now bounded by Enderley and Alexandra Roads and Florence and Craven Streets.
Hunter eventually sold Stanley Hall in 1910 to wealthy pastoralist Edward Goddard Blume, who owned a string of stations (principally sheep) throughout Queensland and New South Wales. Like Hunter, he owned several racehorses, and won a number of Melbourne and Caulfield cups. Blume was well known in Queensland social circles, and during the visit of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) to Brisbane in July 1920, entertained the Prince at Stanley Hall.
In the early 1920s, Blume subdivided and sold off the bulk of the property, and in 1926 the house, on 4.5 acres of land, was sold to the Order of the Sisters of the Presentation in Queensland for £22,000. The Presentation Sisters operated a convent and primary school (St Rita's Convent School) on an adjacent site and converted Stanley Hill into a boarding school and secondary school for girls in September 1926. In subsequent years the school expanded, with the first new building erected in 1939. The attached, single-storeyed kitchen and service wing was demolished in 1968 to make way for a new classroom block, and the coachhouse and stables no longer survive. None of the post-1926 structures is included in the entry in the Heritage Register.
In 2009, the house was converted into an administration centre with a heritage room devoted to the history of the Sisters and the College.
Description
Stanley Hall is a substantial two-storeyed rendered masonry former residence located on the rise of Clayfield Heights. The building is located at the core of St Rita's College, overlooking a tree-lined entrance drive and front gardens to the north-east, and capturing expansive views to the north and the east.
Stanley Hall's complex form reflects its different stages of construction. The ground floor (1885–86) is oriented north-east, whilst the upper floor (1890) is orientated east west, creating another primary frontage for the building. The eastern elevation is asymmetrical and steps back to a single-storeyed bay to the south, with a two-storeyed bay at the northern end adjacent to an off-centre tower which rises to three storeys. The northern elevation is a more formal arrangement of two-storeyed bays flanking a now enclosed verandah. A ground floor timber verandah encircles the building. The corrugated iron roof comprises hipped roofs over bays projecting from central hipped roofs to the ground and first floors, and skillions to the verandahs. The tower has a crested mansard roof.
The building retains some of its rich ornamentation. The first floor bays on the northern frontage have single windows framed by pilasters, and are encircled with cornices, with a parapet with pediments above the windows. The two-storeyed parapeted bay to the eastern frontage has a (now enclosed) belvedere, with arched openings with imposts, extrados, keystones, small balustrades, and parapet with stepped cornice. The tower has rectangular windows to first floor level, surmounted by arched windows encircled in elaborately detailed Dutch gables. The Dutch gables have festooning and are interspersed with acroteria on pedestals. The tower makes a large footprint on the ground floor which frames the main entrance, and has arched openings with keystones.
The verandah which surrounds the building to north, east and partially to the west has timber boarded ceilings, fine lattice spandrels, and cast iron balustrades. It is supported on paired, chamfered posts with small curvilinear valances. On the northern frontage, substantial timber posts and bases with arched cast iron valances which are probably part of the 1885-86 building are located within the verandah.
Internally, Stanley Hall comprises grander rooms relating to the projecting bays at the ends of the building, interlinked by more modest and service rooms, accessed by central corridors on each level. The building contains finely crafted elements throughout. The centrally located main entrance has fine stained glass surrounds with a hibiscus motif. The entrance hall opens onto an impressive cedar staircase with richly turned and carved balusters and newels, and fine timber panels. The corridors to the ground floor have fluted cedar panels to dado level, and panelled cedar doors. The former dining room to the south has a fireplace with a richly carved timber mantelpiece, and fine hand-painted tiled hearth. The Drawing Room to the north has an arcade which separates a central rectangular space from peripheral pocket spaces formed by the projecting bays. The arcades have cast iron column on cedar-encased bases with floriated capitals, and extrados and keystones to the arches. The drawing room fireplace has richly carved surrounds. The "Prince of Wales" room immediately behind the Drawing Room has a marble mantelpiece, and tall timber doors opening onto the verandah. Amongst the ground floor service rooms is a former strong room which contains a substantial cast iron safe. The first floor contains bedrooms, and a former bathroom with an access hatch to the tower; these rooms command an excellent view of Eagle Farm.
Stanley Hall retains much of its earlier ironmongery, including push plates and locks which are more richly ornamented in living areas of the building and more plain in service areas.
The grounds of Stanley Hall to the north-east contain mature trees including camphor laurels, jacarandas, figs, palms, and several species of pines, which mark the boundaries, line the driveway and intersperse the grounds.
Heritage listing
Stanley Hall was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Stanley Hall survives as a substantially intact grand residence of the late 1880s and early 1890s in Brisbane. It was associated with two prominent Queensland pastoralists for over 35 years, and as their lavish town residence, well illustrates Queensland's former economic dependence on the pastoral industry.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
Stanley Hall survives as a substantially intact grand residence of the late 1880s and early 1890s in Brisbane. It was associated with two prominent Queensland pastoralists for over 35 years, and as their lavish town residence, well illustrates Queensland's former economic dependence on the pastoral industry.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Stanley Hall has a picturesque external form which reflects the stages of its construction and particular interests of its former owners, and contains some finely crafted internal elements. It is a fine example of the work of Brisbane architect GHM Addison.
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
Since 1926, the place has been associated with the work of the Catholic Church in female secondary education in Queensland.
References
Attribution
External links
Queensland Heritage Register
Heritage of Brisbane
Clayfield, Queensland
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
Houses in Brisbane
Schools in Brisbane |
WOCC (1550 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country music format. Licensed to Corydon, Indiana, United States, the station serves the Louisville, Kentucky, area. The station is currently owned by Dawn Fowler and Tim Jackson, through licensee Two Hawks Communications LLC. Its former owner was Richard Lee Brabandt.
History
The station went on the air in 1964 as call sign WPDF, and was owned by Harrison Radio, Inc. The station was assigned the call sign WJDW on September 29, 1979. WJDW obtained an FM license at 96.5 FM. On October 20, 1989, WJDW sold the FM and its FM call sign was changed to WGZB; On February 4, 1991, WJDW changed its AM call sign to the current WOCC.
Translator
In 2013, WOCC gained an FM translator on 102.7 MHz with the call sign W274AD.
References
External links
OCC
Classic country radio stations in the United States |
Springbokpan is a small suburb along National Road R503 in South Africa, settled near the border of the larger town of Bodibe, Springbokpan is settled by around 100 residents.
See also
Economy of South Africa
History of South Africa
References
Populated places in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality |
KK Best () is a defunct basketball club based in Gevgelija, North Macedonia. They played in the Macedonian First League.
History
The club was founded in 2012, the first two seasons KK Best spend in the Macedonian Second Basketball league. In the season 2014/15 the team finished second on the table with the same number of points as two other teams, but having a better scoring difference of +234 (the best in the season) they get promoted to Macedonian First League.
Current roster
External links
Basketball teams in North Macedonia
Gevgelija Municipality |
Kerry James Casey (9 November 1954 – 25 November 2015) was an Australian actor, writer, director, and performance teacher. He worked in bilingual theatre in Australia with companies using Greek, French, Vietnamese, and Italian languages and cultures in performance.
Biography
Kerry Casey was born on 9 November 1954 in Wagga Wagga. He was the third child of James Casey and Joan (nee Gaffney). He grew up primarily in country New South Wales (Wagga Wagga, Captain's Flat, Milton) before his parents moved to the Sydney suburb of Bondi in the late 1960s. He was educated at St Gregory's College, Campbelltown, Marcellin College Randwick and Vaucluse Boy's High School (where contemporaries included George Smilovici).
He undertook a Bachelor of Arts with a Diploma of Education at the University of New South Wales. It was during this time he met his future wife, Maria. He had three children by her.
Aside from teaching, he had a career as an actor and director for over thirty years.
He completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing towards the end of his life.
He died on 25 November 2015, following a long battle with cancer.
Professional background
Movie appearances
2007 Thursday's Fictions Friday
2003 George of the Jungle 2 Grouchy Gorilla
2001 Dil Chahta Hai' Clown
2001 Moulin Rouge Audience Member
1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Goldar
Theatre appearances
1981–95 Hat, Cane and Suitcase 14 years as a street and event performer –character based improvisations incorporating audience participation, original texts, mime, juggling, acrobatics, magic and rope walking.
1981 Mannequins Too Australian Nouveau Theatre
1982 The Giant, Theatre of the Deaf. The Stables. Sydney.
1982 The Cheated, The Father, directed by Kai Tai Chan; One Extra Co. TPS.
1983 Adriana le Coeurvreur, Opera Australia.
1983 Beautiful Tigers, Picasso, Tightrope Theatre Co.
1983 The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Tightrope Theatre Co. Sydney
1983 Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc, Opera Australia.
1983 La Traviata, Opera Australia.
1983 Fidelio, by Beethoven, Opera Australia.
1984 Messy Diaper Love, Broadway, New York
1985 Dodo in Love. Yank, Erskineville Hotel, Erskineville.
1985 Dimboola. Bayonet, NSW clubs tours.
1985 Alpha/Zero Unlimited. A Sydney Festival commission.
1986 Fat City Circus, Adelaide Festival Fringe, performer and co-producer.
1986 The Men Who Stole the Sky. a Sydney Festival commission
1986 Pierrot and the Detective. The Detective; Sydney Festival commission.
1986 Manichino, directed by Don Mamouney Fortune NCT and The Wharf Theatre, Sydney.
1987 Not I, by Samuel Beckett, directed by Edmund Falzon, Fortune NCT.
May 1987 The Cherry Orchard Fortune Theatre Company
July 1987 Tartuffe Fortune Theatre Company
May 1988 The Intruder Series A
September 1988 Les Enfants du Paradis Company B Belvoir
1988 A Piece of Monologue, by Samuel Beckett. Harold Park Hotel.
April 1989 Medea Freewheeels Theatre Company
November 1989 Under Threat/Black River Sydney Metropolitan Opera & The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
1989 The Remedy, Giallo, Sydney Metropolitan Opera. The Parade Theatre.
1990 Witnesses, Cicada Theatre Co
1992–1995 The Leaping Loonies. 4 years with the MO AWARD winning. Slapstick/acrobatic/improv troupe completing 2 national tours, live TV appearances and countless performances in schools, clubs, pubs, parks, stadia, theatres and country shows.
August 1996 Conversations With Charlie Citymoon & Variasians Theatre Festival
October 1996 Coriolanus Bell Shakespeare Company
1997 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare in the Botanic Gardens
1999 Toss, directed by Paul Rogers
2000 Inland, male voice, directed by Gretchen Miller
2000 A Lifetime Slapping Water Buffalo on the Arse. Lead, directed by Paul Rogers. Sidetrack Theatre. Co-producer.
January 2002 Mobile Short+Sweet
2002 King Lear Harlos Productions
2002/2004 Runners-up.; Played the armchair fanatic; directed by Debra Iris-Batten for Legs on the Wall. Sydney Opera House and National Tours.
2005: La Princesse et la Revolution, played Madame Tussaud. National Maritime Museum Theatre for Les Genies de la Mer
2005 The Ghost Gum Short+Sweet
2006: Party Political, played Kim Beazley; Newtown Theatre; Sydney
2006: Political Fiction.; lead; Old Fitzroy Theatre; Sydney.
2009: La Princesse et la Revolution, played Madame Tussaud; Melbourne tour; Theatre LOTE Fantastique
2010 An Inspector Calls
Television appearances
1985 G.P. Tom Scarhall
1986 Five Times Dizzy
1990 English at Work
1992 Police Rescue Target 1 Episode: Stakeout
1998 Water Rats Patrick McGuire Episode: Switchback
1999 Murder Call.; 'Grave Matters', Carlo Ghilberti, director Richard Sarrell, West Street Productions
2000 All Saints. Detective Layton, Amalgamated TV.
2009 Gangs of Oz Series 2. Channel 7. Directed by Katie Hides
2013 Deadly Women Series 6. Episode 12: Vengeance, Dr. Herman Tarnover
Directing
2011 Coco, Curie et Jeanne d'Arc. Theatre LOTE Fantastique.
2009 Cellodiva.
2003 La Princesse et la Revolution, for Theatre LOTE Fantastique.
2003 Bouncers. Empire Hotel, Kings X. 'an astounding night out' – Kings X Times.
2002 Le Bossu (de Notre Dame). Writer/director for Theatre LOTE. Winner of the Frater Award for Excellence in Performances for Students.
1999 Homer Rules …the Odyssey, an original, demotic adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, for Take Away Theatre and Carnivale.
1988 Silent Partners, a mime/cabaret touring nationally.
1981–95 Hat, Cane and Suitcase, street, event and outdoor performances.
1986 Pierrot and the Detective, Sydney Festival commission, 2BL's Pick for 'Best of the Festival'.
1986 The Men Who Stole the Sky. Sydney Festival commission.
1984 Alpha/Zero Unlimited. Sydney Festival commission.
Writing
2003 La Princesse et la Revolution, with Louise Hall.
2002 Le Bossu (de Notre Dame), with Louise Hall after Victor Hugo.
2002 Legs on the Wall with Deb Batten and ensemble.
1999 Homer Rules …the Odyssey, with Freida Kritas and ensemble.
1992-5 Leaping Loonies, skits and texts including the hit narrative poem, How I Joined the Loonies
1981–95 Hat, Cane and Suitcase.
1986 Manichino, with Don Mamouney and ensemble.
1986 Pierrot and the Detective.
1986 The Men Who Stole the Sky with David Horton.
1985 Alpha/Zero Unlimited with Brian Keogh and Maggie Craigie.
1982 The Giant, with Margie Brown after Oscar Wilde.
1982 The Cheated, with Louis Nowra, including the song, Her Voice is Gone.
1981 Mannequins Too, poems, scenes and texts with Jim Hughes.
Academic teaching background
2011 HSC Drama at Sydney Secondary College.
2008 Drama coordinator Fort Street High.
2008 Rehearsal classes for Sidetrack Production of Checkpoint Zero.
2008 NIDA workshops in Meyerhold Biomechanics.
2006-7 Director of Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).
2004-6 NIDA: Film and the Actor's Body. Movement for film acting and Meyerhold Biomechanics.
2004-6 Australian Institute of Music tutor in Music Theatre and Acting.
1983–2005 Ensemble Studios classes in Mime, Mask and Commedia dell'Arte.
2003-4 Centre for Cross Cultural Relations, ANU; lectures and workshops with Greg Denning in Academic Performance and Making Theatre.
2003/4 Classes at Aerialize and Legs on the Wall in Voice, Speech and Text in Physical Performance.
1998–2001 Conservatorium of Music High, created program and gave lectures and classes in The Instrumentalists Use of the Body in Making and Playing Music.
1996 Bell Shakespeare Company, classes in Mime for Steven Berkoff and company.
1995 Odyssey House, The Body, Performance and Addiction, for recovering addicts.
1990 Arundel House, RPAH, Performance Therapy.
1989 Sydney Metropolitan Opera, Commedia dell'Arte and Opera Buffa.
1987 Company B. Belvoir, rehearsal classes.
1987 Conservatorium of Music, lectures and workshops in Contemporary Performance for Composition and Music Theatre.
1986-7 Fortune National Capital Theatre, company trainer.
1984-6 The Drama Studio, classes in Mask & Commedia dell'Arte and the research project Shakespeare and the Commedia dell'Arte.
1985 Hellenic Art Theatre, Mask and Chorus for production of Lysistrata.
1983 Macquarie University, classes in Mime..
Honours and awards
2002 Frater Award Excellence in Performance for Students for Le Bossu (de Notre Dame)
1991 Mo Award Specialty Act with the Leaping Loonies plus three further nominations.
1986 Radio National's Best of the (Sydney) Festival for Pierrot and the Detective.
1986 Adelaide Festival Fringe. 4 stars for Fat City Circus.
References
External links
1954 births
2015 deaths
Australian theatre directors
People from Wagga Wagga
University of New South Wales alumni |
The 2013 Pacific Mini Games was the ninth edition of these Mini Games. They were held in Mata Utu in Wallis and Futuna from 2 to 12 September 2013. It was the first time the games had been held in Wallis and Futuna.
Participating countries and territories
There were 22 nations at the 2013 games:
* Note: The Marshall Islands team returned to compete at these Games after not participating in the 2009 Pacific Mini Games.
Sports
Eight sports were contested for these games. Number of events for each sport is in brackets.
Beach volleyball (2) ()
Rugby sevens (1) ()
Outrigger canoe (Va'a) (12) ()
Volleyball (2) ()
Weightlifting (14) ()
Venues
Stade de Mata-Utu (also named as Stade de Kafika) – opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and rugby sevens
Kolopelu Place (Futuna Island) - beach volleyball
Kafika Hall – taekwondo, volleyball, and weightlifting
Bay of Gahi (beside the village of Gahi on Wallis Island) - va'a (outrigger canoe)
Tekaviki Island (northeast from Mata-Utu on Wallis Island) – sailing
Calendar
Medal table
Key:
NOTE: This ranking does not include the six events in sailing, due to final results not present at the official website.
References
External links
2013 Pacific Mini Games description
Official Program
Pacific Games by year
Pacific Games
Pacific
Pacific
Sports competitions in Wallis and Futuna
Pacific Mini Games |
Tubulin-specific chaperone E is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TBCE gene.
Cofactor E is one of four proteins (cofactors A, D, E, and C) involved in the pathway leading to correctly folded beta-tubulin from folding intermediates. Cofactors A and D are believed to play a role in capturing and stabilizing beta-tubulin intermediates in a quasi-native confirmation. Cofactor E binds to the cofactor D/beta-tubulin complex; interaction with cofactor C then causes the release of beta-tubulin polypeptides that are committed to the native state. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene.
The TBCE gene is either deleted or mutated in Sanjad-Sakati Syndrome
References
Further reading |
The 1961 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1961 NCAA University Division football season. Eddie Anderson returned for the 12th consecutive year as head coach, his 18th year overall. The team compiled a record of 7–3.
All home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Schedule
Statistical leaders
Statistical leaders for the 1961 Crusaders included:
Rushing: Pat McCarthy, 512 yards and 8 touchdowns on 128 attempts
Passing: Pat McCarthy, 1,081 yards, 76 completions and 11 touchdowns on 165 attempts
Receiving: Al Snyder, 558 yards and 5 touchdowns on 38 receptions
Scoring: Pat McCarthy, 54 points from 8 touchdowns and 3 two-point conversions
Total offense: Pat McCarthy, 1,593 yards (1,081 passing, 512 rushing)
All-purpose yards: Al Snyder, 1,112 yards (558 receiving, 370 returning, 184 rushing)
References
Holy Cross
Holy Cross Crusaders football seasons
Holy Cross Crusaders football |
Zhang Tang (; died 116 BC) was a Chinese politician of the Western Han dynasty under Emperor Wu. He and his colleague, Gongsun Hong were Legalist bureaucrats.
Background
Zhang Tang was a native of Du, the son of a deputy in Changan's city government. His father died before Zhang Tang became a minor official, but his mother, along with a number of younger brothers, outlived him. His son Zhang Ang was governor of Hanzhong. Another son, Zhang Anshi, was noted as having received a promotion after Zhang Tang's death.
In a legend, on one occasion in his youth, a rat stole a piece of meat while Zhang Tang was minding the house. As a result, he was whipped when his father returned home. Zhang Tang later caught the rat, beat out a confession and documented its crime, then held a trial and had the rat crucified. His actions were noticed by his father, who was amazed to find that the entire process had been carried out in the manner of an experienced prison official. Henceforth, he employed Zhang Tang in writing legal documents.
Career
According to Sima Qian, after his father's death, Zhang Tang became a clerk in Chang'an and served as an aide to Ning Cheng in the office of the prefect of the capital. Later he earned a promotion to Mouling on the basis of Ning Cheng's recommendation, where he supervised the construction of Emperor Wu's mausoleum. During the early stages of his career, he had secret dealings with a number of Changan's wealthy merchants, although he discontinued such liaisons as he progressed to higher positions.
When Tian Sheng, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager, was arrested, Zhang Tang made every attempt to have him freed. Upon his release, Tian Sheng became friends with Zhang Tang and introduced him to members of the nobility. Later, his elder brother Tian Fen became chancellor and appointed Zhang Tang to be his secretary. He investigated sorcery allegations against Empress Chen, causing the downfall of both her and her faction. He gradually ascended through the ranks to palace counsellor.
Working with Zhao Yu, Zhang Tang increased the severity of the laws to prevent officials abusing their power. When dealing with those from prominent families, he had a habit of twisting the law to ensure that they were proven guilty, but often asked the Emperor for leniency in the cases of those from humble backgrounds, with the result that many in the latter category were spared. Amongst the prominent cases that he dealt with was that involving charges against the kings of Huainan, Hengshan and Jiangdu for planning rebellion. Later, Di Shan lambasted Zhang Tang to the Emperor for demonstrating false loyalty, citing his exceedingly forceful application of the law in dealing with the kings in this case as being a source of friction between the Emperor and his kin. Two men of high rank - Zhuang Zhu and Wu Bei - were also implicated in this crime, and despite the Emperor's initial objections, Zhang Tang managed to persuade him that the men ought to be executed. As a result of his successful prosecution of high officials, Zhang Tang won much merit. Ultimately, he reached the rank of imperial secretary, and at one stage, he became so influential that all matters of state were decided upon by him, with the chancellor relegated to the status of a mere figurehead.
When someone wrote to the Emperor to suggest that the Bao and Ye rivers be joined by a road to facilitate grain transport, Zhang Tang assessed the proposal, recommending that the road should be built and that the two rivers should be dredged. The Emperor adopted this and appointed Zhang Tang's son Zhang Ang to the post of governor of Hanzhong in order to supervise the work. Around 121 BC, a combination of foreign military operations and domestic disaster from flood and drought left the government treasury empty. Under the direction of the Emperor, Zhang Tang arranged for the minting of new currency and the nationalisation of the salt and iron industries, which had hitherto been in the hands of wealthy merchants. He also created a law to allow for the confiscation of the property of anyone who attempted to avoid the suan tax, with the result that he was able to destroy powerful families and landowners by a crafty application of the law. However, the populace remained discontented while government policies to alleviate their plight were being taken advantage of by unscrupulous officials for personal gain before they could take effect. Zhang Tang therefore made legal punishments harsher to prevent such corrupt behaviour. As a result of this, he became a target of blame by everyone from the highest officials down.
Zhang Tang was deceitful in nature and used his intelligence to take advantage of others, sometimes displaying outward admiration for men that he privately had little fondness for. Through his habit of paying calls on others even in the face of inclement weather, he was able to win widespread fame in spite of the severity and questionable objectivity of his legal work. After becoming a high official, Zhang Tang often looked after the interests of various relations of his old friends, treating them with great generosity. He regularly recommended to the Emperor the officials working under him, attributing the credit to one of them if the Emperor praised his handling of a case or accepting personal responsibility if the judgement was criticised and noting that he himself had foolishly rejected the advice of some subordinate who had expressed similar sentiments as the Emperor. In his dealings with the Emperor, Zhang Tang was careful to note his wishes, making use of classics such as the Book of Documents to back up decisions when the Emperor demonstrated interest in literary learning and assigning accused men to be handled by severe or lenient secretaries depending on whether he perceived the Emperor to want the men convicted or released. At the height of his career, he garnered such respect that his discourses on fiscal policy would receive the Emperor's undivided attention and on one occasion was the recipient of a personal visit by the Emperor to his sickbed.
Downfall and death
A man named Li Wen, who bore a grudge against Zhang Tang, became an assistant in the office of the imperial secretary. Making use of the documents that passed through his hands there, he took every opportunity to make public any detail that reflected poorly on Zhang Tang and moreover ensured that he was held to account for them. Lu Yeju, a favourite secretary of Zhang Tang, got someone to report to the Emperor that Li Wen was engaged in rebellious and evil affairs. Zhang Tang was put in charge of the case and sentenced Li Wen to death. Despite knowing that the charges had been trumped up by Lu Yeju, Zhang Tang nevertheless pleaded ignorance when asked by the Emperor on who he thought to be responsible for bringing forth this accusation, responding by saying that it was probably the work of some old enemy of Li Wen's.
Not long afterwards, Lu Yeju was taken ill, and Zhang Tang personally visited his bedside and massaged his legs for him. The King of Zhao had reason to hate both men, given that the charges that he had brought against central government officials had always been dismissed by Zhang Tang and as he had himself been the subject of charges drawn up by Lu Yeju. He suggested to the Emperor that the fact that an official as high-ranking as Zhang Tang had visited and even massaged his secretary's legs was a sign that the two were engaged in planning some great crime. While these charges were being investigated, Lu Yeju died, but his brother became embroiled in the scandal and was arrested. It so happened that on one occasion, Zhang Tang was interviewing another prisoner held at the same place but pretended not to recognise Lu Yeju's brother as he hoped to use underhanded means to assist him. However, the latter was oblivious to these intentions and resented being ignored, so he revealed to the throne that Zhang Tang and Lu Yeju had been responsible for the false charges against Li Wen. Jian Xuan, an enemy of Zhang Tang, was tasked with investigating these allegations.
Around the same time, Emperor Wen's mausoleum was broken into and money offerings buried there were stolen. Zhang Tang made an agreement with Qing Di, the chancellor, that they would offer a joint apology to the Emperor for the crime, but when they appeared before him, Zhang Tang pointed out that he had no reason to apologise as the inspection of funerary parks was solely within the domain of the chancellor's duties, and thus Qing Di alone offered his apologies. Zhang Tang was tasked with the investigation afterwards and made such an attempt to prove that Qing Di had intentionally neglected to report the incident that the latter felt threatened. His chief secretaries - Zhu Maichen (a former associate of the Zhuang Zhu whose execution Zhang Tang had effected), Wang Chao and Bian Tong - informed him that Zhang Tang's actions were motivated by his ambition of replacing Qing Di as chancellor. All three detested Zhang Tang, as they were all former high-ranking officials and resented having now to treat him with reverence, and so they plotted together to bring about his downfall. They arrested a number of his merchant friends, amongst whom Tian Xin admitted that he had received insider knowledge whenever Zhang Tang was about to submit a proposal to the Emperor, thereby allowing him to hoard goods and make large profits that he would then share with Zhang Tang.
When the report of Jian Xuan's investigation was submitted, the findings convinced the Emperor that he had been swindled in front of his very eyes. However, Zhang Tang denied all the claims and refused to admit any guilt when envoys were sent to present him with the charges. The Emperor subsequently dispatched Zhao Yu, who Zhang Tang treated as an elder brother, to see him. Zhao Yu berated Zhang Tang, saying that he ought to understand his own situation given that he had inflicted it upon so many others, and that the Emperor did not want to haul him off to prison but rather hoped that he would end his own life. Thus convinced, Zhang Tang penned a letter apologising for his failures and accusing the chancellor's three chief secretaries of causing his ruin, then committed suicide. After his death, it was found that his wealth amounted to no more than 500 pieces of gold, attributable to either his salary or to gifts that he had received from the Emperor.
Despite his brothers' and sons' wish for an extravagant funeral, his mother objected on the basis that his negative reputation did not warrant one, and so he was taken to the cemetery in an ox cart and buried without an outer coffin. Later, the chancellor's three secretaries were charged and executed, while Qing Di himself also committed suicide. The Emperor, feeling regret for Zhang Tang's fate, gave his son Zhang Anshi a promotion to a higher government position.
See also
Empress Chen Jiao
Liu Che
References
Year of birth unknown
116 BC deaths
Han dynasty government officials
Politicians from Xi'an
Suicides in the Han dynasty |
Anosmin-1 is a secreted, EM associated glycoprotein found in humans and other organisms responsible for normal development, which is expressed in the brain, spinal cord and kidney. Absence or damage to the protein results in Kallmann syndrome in humans, which is characterized by loss of olfactory bulbs and GnRH secretion leading to anosmia and hypothalamic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Anosmin-1 is coded by the KAL-1 gene, which is found on the X chromosome. Anosmin-1 is 100 kilodaltons and is expressed on the outside of cells. Because of this and because of its contribution to normal migration of nerve cells, a role in the extracellular matrix has been postulated.
Function
During neural crest cell development, anosmin-1 plays a role in cranial neural cell formation by spatiotemporal regulation.
Secreated anosmin-1 enhances FGF activity by promoting FGF8-FGFR1 complex formation, whereas inhibits both BMP5 and WNT3A activities.
As a results, orchestrated regulation of FGF, BMP, and WNT by anosmin-1 control EMT and MET during neural crest cell development.
In human retinal pigment epithelial cell (RPE), the expression of anosmin-1 is regulated by TGF-β which remain to be investigated.
Structure and pathology
Anosmin-1 is encoded by a gene ANOS1 (earlier called ADMLX, KAL, KAL1, KALIG1). In human it is located on the X chromosome at Xp22.3 and is affected in some male individuals with Kallmann syndrome. This gene codes for a protein of the extracellular matrix named anosmin-1, which is involved in the migration of certain nerve cell precursors (neuroendocrine GnRH cells) during embryogenesis. Deletion or mutation of this gene results in loss of the functional protein and affects the proper development of the olfactory nerves and olfactory bulbs. In addition, neural cells that produce GnRH fail to migrate to the hypothalamus.
Clinically, mutation results in the X-linked form of Kallmann syndrome. Individuals with Kallmann syndrome experience anosmia (lack of smell) and do not go through puberty (hypothalamic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism).
ANOS1 is made of 14 exons and spans 120-200 kilobases. Mutations of ANOS1 may account for 14% of the cases of familial Kallmann syndrome and 11% of male sporadic cases.
References
External links
GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Kallmann syndrome
NextBio.com
GenAtlas
Proteins |
Highway 41 is a highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 5 in Saskatoon to Highway 3/Highway 6 in Melfort. Highway 41 is about long.
Highway 41 also intersects Highway 2. Also along the route, it passes near the communities of Aberdeen and Wakaw.
Route description
Communities
The town of Aberdeen, population 550 is located about north east of Saskatoon. Aberdeen incorporated as a village in 1907. The small hamlet of Edenburg is northeast of Aberdeen. The village of Alvena has a population of about 55 residents. According to the 2006 census the One Arrow 95-1C Indian Reserve had a population of zero living on their land allotment. Wakaw is a town which began with the establishment of the Presbyterian Geneva Mission in 1903. In 1992, a memorial was erected in recognition of the Anna Turnbull Memorial Hospital and the Geneva Mission. Melfort, the City of Northern Lights is located in the Carrot River valley. The city was first named the Stoney Creek settlement which changed when the post office in the area was named. Melfort became a village in 1903, a town in 1907, and a city in 1980. The valley area with black loamy soil is prime agricultural lands. Located at Melfort is the Agriculture Melfort Research Station.
Rural municipalities
The rural municipality (RM) of Aberdeen No. 373 is outside of Corman Park 344 which circumnavigates the city of Saskatoon. The RM of Aberdeen was incorporated July 26, 1909. Since 1909 one township of the RM was annexed by the RM of Comran Park. Highway 41 and the Canadian National Railway (CNR) line both support transportation to Aberdeen. Agriculture is the main economy of the area which provides a base for Horizon Seed Processors, Louis Dreyfus High Throughput Grain Germinal and Hold On Industries. The main portion of RM Three Lakes No. 400 is south of Highway 41, The RM's name comes from Basin Lake, Lenore Lake and Middle Lake which are fully or partially within the RM area. LID #21-S-2 became Invergordon No. 430 and LID #221-R-2 is now Flett's Springs no. 430. In 1908 LID #21-S-2 paid to foremen in the area 22 cents per hour, a laborer received 20 cents per hour and a man with team received 40 cents an hour. An additional 25 cents per day were paid for use of plow when it was needed. In 1914, rates went up. A man with team received 50 cents an hour, a man or a team 25 cents an hour and 30 cents an hour for a foreman. Two slushers and scrapers could be ordered for each district, the quantity dependent upon roads and sloughs in the area. The rail survey began in 1929 and the Meskanaw bridge construction began. The Meskanaw station was opened around 1935 and passenger trains continued until 1977. Technology at this time allowed vehicles open roads through the winter months, and rails went into disuse. Flett's Springs is in a boreal transition ecoregion which has some features of aspen parkland and boreal forest vegetation. The Flett's Springs School was established as early as 1894. The community established the Local Improvement District (LID) NO. 21 and 22 in the area as the civic government. The LID changed names to Carrot River Municipality No. 429 in 1910. It wasn't until 1938 that the present land holdings and the name of RM of Flett's Spring's No. 419 was in effect. The area became a part of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) at the same time. The RM office is housed in Melfort as of 1989, with the first offices being in Pathlow.
Major Attractions
The Fish Creek Historical Site commemorates Major General Frederick Middleton's camp. The actual Battle of Fish Creek occurred southeast of this camp. The Clarkboro Ferry crosses the South Saskatchewan River near the old ferry crossing which was named Clarke's Crossing. Clarke's Crossing was used by General Middleton's troops when travelling to the Fish Creek Battle en route from North Battleford. There is a marker on the Edenburg road which pays tribute to Clarke's Crossing Ferry service. Flett Creek and Goosehunting Creek both meander through the RM of Flett's Springs. To the north of Melfort is Wapiti Regional Park at Codette Lake. The City of Melfort provides a campground at the highway junction of Highway 3, the CanAm and Highway 41. The historical Melfort power house has been renovated for the Melfort and District Museum.
Route
Inside Saskatoon's eastern city limits, Highway 5 connects with Highway 41 at the site of a small commercial area that, as of 2007, included the Sundown Drive-In, one of Canada's last operational drive-in movie theatres. At Km 2.9, Highway 41 is traveling north east and crosses Llewellin Road, exiting Saskatoon's city limits. The Agra Road intersection is at Km 4.2. Continuing north east, Highway 41 meets with Bettken Road at 9.8 km. the Intersection with Hwy 27 is at Aberdeen. Alvena can be accessed at Km 40.1. One Arrow 95-1C Indian Reserve is north of the highway at Km 61.9. Travel continues north east arriving at the Highway 22 intersection at Km 78.0. Highway 312 is just north of this intersection meeting with Highway 22. Travel west along Highway 312 will traverse the South Saskatchewan River via the a three span bridge. Travel continues on Highway 41 due east. The town of Wakaw and Wakaw Lake Regional Park are accessed via Highway 2. At Km 95.0, the Highway returns to its north east direction. The village of Reynaud is to the east of this mile point. AT Km 107.8, Highway 41 intersects with Highway 20. Yellow Creek is located at Km 117.8, travel on Highway 41 is due east at this juncture. In approximately , the highway returns to its north east direction. Meskanaw is located at Km 129.6. Travel along Highway 41 is now due east. There is a curve at Km 138.1 when Highway 41 meets with Highway 776 which continues the due east direction. Highway 41 travels in a north east direction. At Km 148.5, Highway 41 intersects with Highway 368. Highway 3 and Highway 6, the CanAm Highway are traveling south and north as a concurrency when they intersect with Highway 41 south of the city of Melfort.
As of July 2010, several kilometres of Highway 41 were included in a large annexation of land undertaken by the City of Saskatoon.
Major intersections
From west to east:
Highway 41A
Highway 41A is a spur route of Highway 41 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 41 to Highway 3 along the western edge of Melfort and serves as part a business loop through Melfort. Highway 41A is about long.
Further reading
References
External links
Saskatchewan Road Map RV Itineraries
041 |
John Michael Cornwall (born 19 August 1934 in Denver, Colorado) is an American theoretical physicist who does research on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory as well as geophysics and physics of near-space. He is known for the Pinch Technique.
Cornwall graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and from the University of Denver with a master's degree in 1959. He graduated in 1962 from the University of California, Berkeley with a doctorate under the supervision of Malvin Ruderman. Cornwall was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and from 1963 to 1965 at the Institute for Advanced Study. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) he became in 1965 an assistant professor and in 1974 a full professor.
Cornwall published with Richard E. Norton in 1973 one of the earliest papers on dynamic symmetry breaking in Yang-Mills theories. In the later part of his career he has worked on non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
He was an advisor to the Space Sciences Laboratory of the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo (1962–1993) and to the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria (2002–2015), as well as to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was a faculty member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy (1999–2005) and a member of the Defense Science Board (1992-1994). For some years he has been a member and now chairman of an advisory board at Livermore National Laboratory (1989–present), and is a long-term member of the JASON Advisory Group.
He was from 1967 to 1969 a Sloan Fellow and from 1968 to 1969 a visiting scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He was a visiting professor for the academic year 1987–1988 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1989 at Rockefeller University.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005), the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Selected publications
with Joannis Papavassiliou, Daniele Binosi: The pinch technique and applications to non-abelian gauge theories, Cambridge University Press 2011
with Richard E. Norton: On the formalism of relativistic many body theory, Annals of Physics, Vol. 91, 1975, p. 106
with Roman Jackiw, E. Tomboulis: "Effective action for composite operators", Physical Review D, vol. 10, 1974, pp. 2428-2445
with G. Tiktopoulos: On-shell asymptotics of non-abelian gauge fields, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 35, 1975, p. 338
with G. Tiktopoulos: Infrared Behavior of non-abelian gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 13, 1976, pp. 3370-3397 ; part 2, Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 15, 1977, 2397
Dynamical mass generation in continuum quantum chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 26, 1982, p. 1453
References
External links
Oral history interview transcript with John Cornwall and Malvin Ruderman in June 2004, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American physicists
Harvard University alumni
University of Denver alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of JASON (advisory group)
1934 births
Living people |
Owen Peak () is a peak standing inland from Hilton Inlet, eastern Palmer Land, on the south side of Gruening Glacier. Discovered from the air during a flight of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) (1947–48) on November 21, 1947, and named "Mount Russell Owen" after the New York Times correspondent, Russell Owen with the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. The name was later shortened and changed to its present form by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN).
Mountains of Palmer Land |
The Cebu City Chiefs are a rugby league team based in Cebu City, Philippines. They play in the Philippines National Rugby League. They were formed by Rene Payne and Clayton Watene and Captain Gavin Odell.
History
The club was founded in early 2013, and made their debut in the Zamabales Rugby League International 9s Tournament
References
Philippines National Rugby League teams
Sports in Cebu
Rugby clubs established in 2013 |
```xml
import { useField } from 'formik';
import { FeatureId } from '@/react/portainer/feature-flags/enums';
import { isBE } from '@/react/portainer/feature-flags/feature-flags.service';
import { FormControl } from '@@/form-components/FormControl';
import { SwitchField } from '@@/form-components/SwitchField';
import { Input } from '@@/form-components/Input';
import { useToggledValue } from '../useToggledValue';
export function KubeNoteMinimumCharacters() {
const [{ value }, { error }, { setValue }] = useField<number>(
'globalDeploymentOptions.minApplicationNoteLength'
);
const [isEnabled, setIsEnabled] = useToggledValue(
'globalDeploymentOptions.minApplicationNoteLength',
'globalDeploymentOptions.requireNoteOnApplications'
);
return (
<>
<div className="form-group">
<div className="col-sm-12">
<SwitchField
label="Require a note on applications"
data-cy="kube-settings-require-note-on-applications-switch"
checked={isEnabled}
name="toggle_requireNoteOnApplications"
onChange={(value) => setIsEnabled(value)}
featureId={FeatureId.K8S_REQUIRE_NOTE_ON_APPLICATIONS}
labelClass="col-sm-3 col-lg-2"
tooltip={`${
isBE ? '' : 'BE allows entry of notes in Add/Edit application. '
}Using this will enforce entry of a note in Add/Edit application (and prevent complete clearing of it in Application details).`}
/>
</div>
</div>
{isEnabled && (
<FormControl
label={
<span className="pl-4">
Minimum number of characters note must have
</span>
}
errors={error}
>
<Input
name="minNoteLength"
data-cy="min-note-length-input"
type="number"
placeholder="50"
min="1"
max="9999"
value={value}
onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.valueAsNumber)}
className="w-1/4"
/>
</FormControl>
)}
</>
);
}
``` |
Organoclay is an organically modified phyllosilicate, derived from a naturally occurring clay mineral. By exchanging the original interlayer cations for organocations (typically quaternary alkylammonium ions) an organophilic surface is generated, consisting of covalently linked organic moieties. The lamellar structure remains analogous to the parent phyllosilicate.
Separation of the layers due to ion exchange, from the initial interlayer spacing of as little as 3 Å in the case of Na+ cations to the distances in the range of 10–40 Å as well as the change of chemical character of the clay surface, allows the in-situ polymerization or mixing with certain polymers to obtain what is known as nanocomposite. When ordered aluminosilicate sheets are lying parallel to each other, separated with polymer chains of certain type, the system is classified as intercalated nanocomposite. If separation of the layers is so significant, that they are no longer lying opposite to one another, but randomly ordered, then one get the exfoliated nanocomposite.
Applications
Owing to its large surface area together with hydrophobic chains emerging from the clay surface, organoclay can be used to remove oil from water. It is also applied as a component in paint formulations or as a viscosifier for oil-based drilling fluids.
It can be used in polymer chemistry as a nucleating agent.
References
Phyllosilicates |
Unlike in the Parliament at Westminster where there is an Official Opposition to the government of the day, all parties in the Scottish Parliament that are not in government are all technically on the same footing as 'opposition parties'. With the Scottish National Party (SNP) currently in government, the Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Labour each have a Shadow Cabinet composed of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and prospective parliamentary candidates.
Shadow Cabinet ministers have a responsibility to shadow an individual government minister or a specific area of government. Other parties have frontbench teams with spokespersons covering multiple areas of government or which are composed of spokespersons from both within and outwith the Scottish Parliament.
Conservative Shadow Cabinets
Current Shadow Cabinet
Previous Shadow Cabinets
Labour Shadow Cabinets
Current Shadow Cabinet
Previous Shadow Cabinets
Scottish Greens Shadow Cabinet
Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet
See also
Leader of the Opposition (Scotland), for the informal role
Notes
References
External links
Conservative Shadow Cabinet -
Labour Shadow Cabinet - New Scottish shadow cabinet in full
Scottish Greens Spokespeople - Holyrood Candidates
Lib Dem Spokespeople - Our Team
Scottish Parliament
Politics of Scotland
Scottish shadow cabinets |
Mehdya (), also Mehdia or Mehedya, is a town in Kénitra Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco. Previously called al-Ma'mura, it was known as São João da Mamora under 16th century Portuguese occupation, or as La Mamora under 17th century Spanish occupation.
According to the 2004 census, the town has a population of 16,262. It is located on Sebou River (Oued Sebu).
History
Mehdya was previously called Al-Ma'mura ("the well-populated") or La Mamora in Europe, and was a harbour on the coast of Morocco. Per an ancient account, a colony was founded at the site in the 5th century BCE by the Carthaginians, who called it Thymiaterium.
Portuguese occupation (1515)
It was captured by the Portuguese in 1515, and renamed São João da Mamora. Altogether, the Portuguese are documented to have seized 6 Moroccan towns, and built 6 stand-alone fortresses on the Moroccan Atlantic coast, between the river Loukos in the north and the river of Sous in the south. Four of the stand-alone fortresses only had a short duration: Graciosa (1489), Forte de São João de Mamora (pt) (1515), Castelo Real of Mogador (1506–10) and Aguz (1520–25). Two of them were to become permanent urban settlements: Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué (Agadir, founded in 1505-06), and Mazagan founded in 1514-17. The Portuguese had to abandon most of their settlements between 1541 and 1550, although they were able to keep Ceuta, Tangier and Mazagan.
Pirate haven
During the first Anglo-Spanish War, pirates (including English former privateers) had sold captured prizes in Ireland and at the Barbary Coast, where governments struggled to prevent this trade. When peace came in 1604, pirates soon established a pirate haven at Mehdya, a location with the advantage of being near Spain and major trade routes. The Moroccan sultanate tolerated these pirates due to the wealth they brought to the country. However, during summers, Mehdya became less safe as the calmer waters favored the galleys used to suppress piracy; therefore, the coast of Munster was used as a complementary base for piracy.
The only port on the Moroccan coast in the hands of neither the Spanish nor the Moors, Mehdya became the main retreat of Atlantic pirates under the command of Henry Mainwaring, important not only as a place to sell their plunder, but also for ship maintenance (including careening). Around 1610, Mehdya was the site of a three-day battle between Dutch and English pirates. The Spanish blockaded Mehdya in 1611, sinking ships and blocking the harbor entrance. In the summer of 1614, the harbor housed at least 30 ships weighing at or above 100 tons, though the bar prevented the passage of ships of above ~300 tons burden.
Spanish occupation (1614–1681)
In order to secure the Spanish treasure fleet route Mehdya, known as La Mamora, was under Spanish rule between 1614 and 1681. After occupying Larache in 1610, a Spanish fleet under Admiral Luis Fajardo captured Al-Ma'mura during the reign of Mulay Zidan in August 1614, due to the period of anarchy that followed the death of Mulay al-Mansur in 1603. After negotiations with Mulay Zidan, they left a strong garrison of 1,500 men, and called the harbour San Miguel de Ultramar. The works to build the Fortress of La Mamora along with the San Felipe bastion fort started inmediately.
The warlord Sidi al-Ayachi led a counter-offensive against Spain, privateering against its shipping, and obtaining the help of the Moriscos and the English. About 1627, he managed to temporarily capture Al-Ma'mura, and add it to his Republic of Salé. La Marora was unsuccessfully sieged on other several occasions.
The Spanish retained the city for 67 years, when it was conquered by the Alaouite ruler Moulay Ismaïl. According to tradition, the Bishop of Cadiz had commissioned a statue of Jesus Christ for the church at La Mamora, which was in his diocese. When the Moroccans reoccupied the town in 1681 they took the statue and prisioners as loot, and later received a ransom from the Spanish for the return of the statue and the spaniards, which was taken to Madrid where it is nowadays venerated under the name of Cristo de Medinaceli.
Moroccan (1681-1912)
The new Sultan Mulay Ismail took the city by storm in 1681, and renamed the city al-Mahdiya. (conquest of Mehdya). During this period, the former spanish fortress of La Mamora was restored resulting in the iconic Kasbah Mahdiyya . In 1795, Mulay Slimane closed the harbour of Mehdya to avoid foreign incursions into Kenitra, and Mehdya was abandoned.
French protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956)
During the french conquest of Morocco, the French occupied Mehdya in 1911.
About 9,000 Allied troops, carried by 19 warships, were landed in Mehdya during Operation Torch in 1942.
See also
European enclaves in North Africa before 1830
References
Populated places in Kénitra Province
Municipalities of Morocco
Kingdom of the Algarve
Former Portuguese colonies
5th-century BC establishments
Populated places established in the 5th century BC
1515 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
1541 disestablishments in the Portuguese Empire
1614 establishments in the Spanish Empire
1681 disestablishments in the Spanish Empire
1681 establishments in Morocco
Pirate dens and locations |
The single-grain experiment was an experiment carried out at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from May 1907 to 1911. The experiment tested if cows could survive on a single type of grain. The experiment would lead to the development of modern nutritional science.
History
Foundations
In 1881, agricultural chemist Stephen M. Babcock returned to the United States after earning his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany to accept a position at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York where his first assignment was to determine the proper feed ratios of carbohydrate, fat, and protein from cow feces using chemical analysis. His findings determined that the feces' chemical composition was similar to that of the feed with the only major exception being the ash. These results were tested and retested, and his results were found to be similar to German studies done earlier. This led Babcock to think about what would happen if the cows were fed a single grain (barley, corn, wheat) though that test would not occur for nearly twenty-five years.
Seven years later, Babcock accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Agricultural Experiment Station (UWAES) as chair of the Agricultural Chemistry department, and immediately began petitioning Dean of Agriculture William Arnon Henry, then station director, to perform the "single-grain experiment". Henry refused.
Babcock continued pressing Henry to perform the "single-grain experiment", even approaching the UWAES animal husbandry chair J.A. Craig (he refused). When W.L. Carlyle replaced Craig in 1897, Carlyle was more receptive to Babcock's idea. Initially trying a salt experiment with eight dairy cows as a matter of taste preference while eight other cows received no salt. After one of the eight cows that did not receive salt died, Carlyle discontinued the experiment and all the remaining cows were given salt in order to restore their health.
Henry, now Dean of Agriculture in 1901, finally relented and gave Babcock permission to perform the experiment. Carlyle approved the experiment with only two cows. One cow was fed corn while the other was fed rolled oats and straw with hopes the experiment would last one year. Three months into the experiment, the oat-fed cow died, and Carlyle halted the event to save the other cow's life. The results were not published mainly because Babcock did not list how much of each grain the respective cows had consumed.
In 1906, a chemist from the University of Michigan, Edwin B. Hart (1874–1953), was hired by Babcock. Hart previously had worked at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, and had studied physiological chemistry under Albrecht Kossel in Germany. Both worked with George C. Humphrey, who replaced Carlyle as animal husbandry professor, to plan a long-term feeding plan using a chemically-balanced diet of carbohydrates, fat, and protein instead of single plant rations as done in Babcock's earlier experiments. The "single-grain experiment" was thus born in 1907.
The experiment
From May 1907 to 1911, the experiment was carried out with Hart as director, Babcock providing the ideas, and Humphrey overseeing the welfare of the cows during the experiment. Elmer McCollum, an organic chemist from Connecticut, was hired by Hart to analyze the grain rations and the cow feces. The experiment called for four groups of four heifers each during which three groups were raised and two pregnancies were carried through during the experiment. The first group ate only corn (corn stover, corn meal and gluten feed), the second group ate only nutrients from the wheat plant (wheat straw, wheat meal and wheat gluten), the third group ate only nutrients from the oat plant (oat straw and rolled oats), and the last group ate a mixture of the other three.
In 1908, it was shown that the corn-fed animals were the most healthy of the group while the wheat-fed groups were the least healthy. All four groups bred during that year with the corn-fed calves being the healthiest while the wheat and mixed-fed calves were stillborn or later died. Similar results were found in 1909. In 1910, the corn-fed cows had their diets switched to wheat and the non-corn-fed cows were fed corn. This produced unhealthy calves for the formerly corn-fed cows while the remaining cows produced healthy calves. When the 1909 formulas were reintroduced to the respective cows in 1911, the gestation results of 1909 reoccurred in 1911. These results were published in 1911. Similar results had been done in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1901, in Poland 1910, and in England in 1906 (though the English results were not published until 1912).
Legacy
"This experiment made it clear that there were marked differences in nutritive values which could not be detected by any chemical means available at the time and that the current scientific bases for formulating rations were seriously inadequate. More important, the experiment led to the conviction that simplified diets must be used for the solution of nutrition problems." The experiment would lead to the development of nutrition as a science. It would also lead to a determination that there were minerals and vitamins in food; that research would continue into the 1930s and 1940s, ending in 1948 with the discovery of Vitamin B12.
References
Carpenter, Kenneth J. (2003). "A Short History of Nutritional Science Part 2 (1885–1912)." The Journal of Nutrition 133:975-84. April. Accessed October 9, 2006.
"Nutrition." A Century of Food Science (2000). Institute of Food Technologists: Chicago, pp. 27–28.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Dairy Barn building
Petition from Madison, Wisconsin to National Park Service for University of Wisconsin–Madison Dairy Barn to be named a National Landmark, pp. 21–25.
University of Wisconsin–Madison Dairy Barn Historical: impact on the "single-grain experiment."
UW–-Madison Dairy Barn Being Considered as National Treasure
Specific
Agriculture in the United States
Biology experiments
Science and technology in the United States
University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Macerated oils are vegetable oils to which other matter, such as herbs, has been added. Commercially available macerated oils include all these, and others. Herbalists and aromatherapists use not only these pure macerated oils, but blends of these oils, as well, and may macerate virtually any known herb. Base oils commonly used for maceration include almond oil, sunflower oil, and olive oil as well as other food-grade triglyceride vegetable oils, but other oils undoubtedly are used as well.
References
Vegetable oils |
Gloeoporus orientalis is a species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae. Found in East Asia, it was described as a new species in 2018 by Paul Jung and Young Wood Lim. The type collection was made in Geojedo, Korea, where it was found growing on a fallen angiosperm trunk.
Gloeoporus orientalis has a monomitic hyphal system, and its generative hyphae have clamp connections. Its spores are sausage-shaped (allantoid), measuring 3.0–3.6 by 0.6–0.8 μm, while the basidia are club shaped and measure 11.4–12.5 by 2.5–2.8 μm. G. dichrous is similar in appearance to G. orientalis, but can the former can be distinguished by its larger pores, larger basidia, and the more cylindrical shape of its spores. G. orientalis has been found in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
References
Fungi described in 2018
Fungi of Asia
Irpicaceae |
Anniyur may refer to:
Anniyur, Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Anniyur, Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India |
Sar Chah (, also Romanized as Sar Chāh) is a village in Binalud Rural District of the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,674 in 423 households, when it was in the former Takht-e Jolgeh District. The following census in 2011 counted 1,541 people in 476 households, by which time the rural district had been transferred to the Central District. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,951 people in 596 households; it was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Nishapur County
Populated places in Nishapur County |
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs is a 2019 book by American historian Camilla Townsend. The book utilizes indigenous, as opposed to European, sources to tell the history of Aztec civilization. The book won the 2020 Cundill Prize.
Writing and composition
Townsend was inspired to write the book while working on another work about histories written in Nahuatl. In writing the book, Townsend aimed to convey that Aztec life, though changed, continued after Spanish conquest.
Reception
Critical reception
David Stuart, in a review published by the Wall Street Journal, praised the book as a "vivid account of what Aztec writers and chroniclers had to say about their own history". Stuart further praised the book as "bridging of the cultures of Aztec literary history both before and after the coming of the Spanish" rather than operating as a more straightforward history. Christopher Wooley, in a review published by the journal The Latin Americanist, praised the book as "extraordinary" and emphasized its accessibility to a broad audience.
John Elliott reviewed Fifth Sun and the book The Aztecs by Frances Berdan in The New York Review of Books. Elliott praised both writers for "style and verve" but also faulted them for not "[being] more generous in their acknowledgment of the pioneering work of predecessors like León-Portilla and Soustell".
Honors
The book won the 2020 Cundill Prize.
References
2019 non-fiction books
Oxford University Press books
History of the Aztecs |
Zeba Shehanz () is a Pakistani actress, comedian, host and voice actress known for her work on television and theater. Shehnaz rose to fame in late 1970s for her work in comedies such as Fifty Fifty (1978). For her performance in Shamim Ara's directorial Munda Bigra Jaey (1995), she won Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the recipient of President's Tamgha-e-Imtiaz as well.
Early life
Zeba was born in 1952 on 24th November in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her studies from University of Lahore. She did theater and did stages plays. She and Moin Akhter did many comedy shows together.
Career
She made her debut as a child actress on PTV in 1960s. She is best known for portraying 108 characters in Fifty Fifty along with Moin Akhter. She also appeared in dramas Baityaan, Umrao Jan Ada and Mera Yaar Miladay. She also appeared in movie Munda Bigra Jaey in 1995. She did theater for 12 years and she also voiced Parrot in 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam. For her contributions towards the television industry, she was honored by the Government of Pakistan with Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2021.
Personal life
Zeba is married and has one child. She was the aunt of Mohammed Shah Subhani who passed away in 2019.
Filmography
Television
Telefilm
Film
Awards and recognition
1995 Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actress for Munda Bigra Jaey.
Special Award for Performance in Fifty Fifty at 1st Indus Drama Awards in 2005.
Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) Award by the President of Pakistan in 2021.
References
External links
1952 births
Living people
20th-century Pakistani actresses
Pakistani television actresses
Nigar Award winners
21st-century Pakistani actresses
Pakistani film actresses
Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz |
Bogusław Tadeusz Wontor (born 29 September 1967 in Słubice) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7793 votes in 8 Zielona Góra district as a candidate from Democratic Left Alliance list.
He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005.
See also
Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007
External links
Bogusław Wontor - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
1967 births
Living people
People from Słubice
Democratic Left Alliance politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011
Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015
Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 |
```php
<?php
/*
*
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
*/
namespace Google\Service\BigQueryReservation;
class CapacityCommitment extends \Google\Model
{
/**
* @var string
*/
public $commitmentEndTime;
/**
* @var string
*/
public $commitmentStartTime;
/**
* @var string
*/
public $edition;
protected $failureStatusType = Status::class;
protected $failureStatusDataType = '';
/**
* @var bool
*/
public $isFlatRate;
/**
* @var bool
*/
public $multiRegionAuxiliary;
/**
* @var string
*/
public $name;
/**
* @var string
*/
public $plan;
/**
* @var string
*/
public $renewalPlan;
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A soft-point bullet (SP), also known as a soft-nosed bullet, is a jacketed expanding bullet with a soft metal core enclosed by a stronger metal jacket left open at the forward tip. A soft-point bullet is intended to expand upon striking flesh to cause a wound diameter greater than the bullet diameter. Jacketed soft point bullets are usually abbreviated JSP in the ammunition and reloading industry. The use of soft-point bullets in warfare is a violation of the Hague Convention of 1899, declaration IV, 3.
Evolution
Lead-alloy bullets used with gunpowder firearms were unsatisfactory at the bullet velocities available from rifles loaded with nitrocellulose propellants such as cordite. By the late 19th century, lead-alloy bullets were being enclosed within a jacket of stronger mild steel or copper alloyed with nickel or zinc to reliably impart stabilizing rotation in rifled barrels. The lead-alloy core was swaged into a cup of the stronger metal covering the front and sides of the core, but leaving some of the core exposed on the base of the bullet. The bullet jacket may be described as a metal envelope, steel envelope, or hard envelope; and the jacketed bullet may be described as metal-covered, metal-patched, or metal-cased.
But while these new types of projectile were easier to stabilize at the new high velocities, it was discovered that the new jacketed design was actually less lethal than the softer lead-alloy types that had preceded it.
The jacketed bullets were typically of smaller diameter than the previous lead-alloy type, and the stronger jacket made them less likely to be deformed on impact. Such deformation increases the effective diameter of the projectile and can also cause an erratic trajectory within the wound. Enclosing the lead or alloy within a hard jacket cuts down on these tendencies despite the greater velocities employed, and this in conjunction with the typically smaller calibre created a greater tendency for the new rifle bullets both to create a smaller wound and to pass through, rather than lodging within, the anatomy of the target whether human or animal, thus increasing the probability of wounding rather than killing. For this reason, full metal jacket rounds are considered more humane for military purposes, since it is only necessary to incapacitate enemy soldiers to neutralize them on the battlefield; conversely, they are less effective for hunting animals where killing the quarry swiftly is the objective. To produce a smokeless-propellant round that would engage in rifling efficiently but also match or exceed the lethality of the old, low-velocity ammunition it was necessary to invent the soft-point. The process was not difficult: reversing the direction of jacket placement leaves the lead-alloy core exposed at the forward tip of the projectile creating a soft-point bullet.
Expansion
Soft-point bullets expose the soft lead-alloy core on the forward part of the bullet most likely to be deformed when striking a target. The sides of the bullet remain covered by the jacket to reliably impart stabilizing rotation from rifling. Expansion of a soft-point bullet depends upon the hardness of the lead-alloy core, the strength of the surrounding metal jacket, and the energy available from the decrease in bullet velocity as the bullet encounters target resistance. A core of pure lead is softer than a core of lead alloyed with metals like antimony and tin. Some jacket alloys have greater tensile strength than others; and, for any given alloy and annealing process, a thicker jacket will be stronger than a thinner jacket. Energy available to expand the bullet is proportional to the square of the velocity at which the bullet strikes the target. If the bullet passes through the target, the energy represented by the square of the velocity of the departing bullet has no effect on the target. Soft point bullets may not expand if they strike a target at low velocity, or if the target does not slow the bullet enough to deform the exposed point or rupture the surrounding jacket.
Varmint rifle bullets with thin jackets are intended to expand rapidly and disintegrate upon encountering minimum resistance. Bullets intended for big-game hunting are designed to increase their forward diameter while remaining intact to penetrate deeply enough to damage internal organs likely to cause rapid death. Big-game bullets sometimes have a specialized jacket including a center baffle between a forward core intended to expand and another core intended to remain intact. Alternative designs include a jacket with an internally thicker belt around the central part of the bullet intended to resist expansion while the thinner forward part of the bullet jacket ruptures. Some bullets have a core formed from a soft alloy in the forward part of the bullet bonded to a harder alloy core in the rear of the bullet. Others have a jacket which is thicker near the base of the bullet and tapers to a thin fringe adjacent to the soft point.
Hollow-point bullets
Soft-point bullets are similar to jacketed hollow-point bullets, because each has a jacket open on the forward tip. The soft core is exposed forward of the jacket on soft-point bullets, while the jacket may extend forward of the core on hollow-point bullets emphasizing aerodynamic improvement rather than expansion. Bullets with a large amount of core exposed forward of the jacket might have a hollow point within that core; and some hollow-point bullets have no jackets.
Flat-point bullets
Jacketed flat point (JFP) may describe either soft-point or full metal jacket bullets with a flat, rather than a rounded front. Until recently, flat-point bullets were required in centerfire rifles with tubular magazines, such as Winchester rifles, where the rounds are stored front-to-back. Use of metal-pointed bullets in these rifles can be highly dangerous, as the point of the bullet will rest against the primer of the round in front of it and can cause a detonation under the force of recoil. Since late 2005, newer bullet designs with polymer tips offering improved ballistics have become available for safe use in tubular magazine rifles.
See also
List of firearms
List of rifle cartridges
List of handgun cartridges
References
Bullets |
"Soul on Ice" is the second single released from Ras Kass' debut album, Soul on Ice. Produced by Bird, "Soul on Ice" became Ras Kass' most successful single chartwise, gaining the most success on the Hot Rap Singles chart, where it peaked at 22. Diamond D of D.I.T.C. remixed the song.
Single track listing
"Soul on Ice Remix" (Clean)- 4:53
"Soul on Ice Remix" (Explicit)- 4:19
"Soul on Ice Remix" (Instrumental)- 4:18
"Marinatin'" (Clean)- 4:05
"Marinatin'" (Explicit)- 4:05
"Marinatin'" (Instrumental)- 4:05
Charts
References
1996 singles
Ras Kass songs
1996 songs
Priority Records singles |
The 2020–21 season was Falkirk's second season in League One following their relegation from the Championship at the end of the 2018–19 season. Falkirk also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup. On 2 October 2020, the SPFL confirmed that the Scottish Challenge Cup had been cancelled for the upcoming season.
Summary
Falkirk began their season on 6 October in the League Cup group stage with the League One season beginning on 17 October.
On 11 January 2021, all football below the Scottish Championship was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 29 January 2021, the suspension was extended until at least 14 February.
In March 2021, the Scottish Government gave permission for the league to resume. On 16 March, clubs from League 1 and 2 voted to implement for a reduced 22-game season with a league split after 18 games.
On 21 April 2021, both of Falkirk's co-managers David McCracken & Lee Miller were sacked following their defeat to Peterhead with sporting director and former manager Gary Holt being appointed in interim charge until the end of the season.
Results and fixtures
Pre Season
Scottish League One
Scottish League Cup
Group stage
Results
Knockout stage
Scottish Cup
Player statistics
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Team Statistics
League table
Division summary
Transfers
Players in
Players out
See also
List of Falkirk F.C. seasons
Notes
References
Falkirk
Falkirk F.C. seasons |
Siege of Rennes may refer to:
Siege of Rennes (1356–57), during the War of the Breton Succession
Siege of Rennes (1491), during the French–Breton War |
The 1982 Nice International Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France, and was part of the 1982 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 29 March until 4 April 1982. Second-seeded Balázs Taróczy won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Balázs Taróczy defeated Yannick Noah 6–2, 3–6, 13–11
It was Taróczy's first singles title of the year and the fifth of his career.
Doubles
Yannick Noah / Henri Leconte defeated Paul McNamee / Balázs Taróczy 5–7, 6–4, 6–3
References
External links
ITF tournament edition details
Nice International Open
1982
Nice International Open
Nice International Open
Nice International Open
20th century in Nice |
Joseph Krol (August 13, 1915 – October 26, 1993) was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played 26 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and Brooklyn Americans. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1935 to 1942, was mainly spent in the minor International American Hockey League/American Hockey League. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Awards and achievements
EAHL First All-Star Team (1936)
External links
1915 births
1993 deaths
Brooklyn Americans players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Hershey Bears players
New York Rangers players
New York Rovers players
Philadelphia Ramblers players
Ice hockey people from Winnipeg
Springfield Indians players
Winnipeg Monarchs players |
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a deemed university in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. BITS Pilani is one of the first six institutes in India to be granted Institute of Eminence status. According to 2012 data, BITS Pilani has an acceptance rate of 1.47%, making it one of the most exclusive technical universities in the world.
The institute was established in its present form in 1964. During this period, the institute's transformation from a regional engineering college to a national university was backed by G.D. Birla. The university has expanded its campuses from Pilani to Goa, Hyderabad and Dubai. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has become the first international deemed university, spearheading research in science and engineering with four established campuses and fifteen academic departments. Backed by the Aditya Birla Group, the fully residential institute is privately supported.
Admissions are solely merit-based and assessed by the entrance examinations conducted by BITS. Through its highly successful and widespread alumni network spanning globally across varied fields, BITS Pilani has made a significant impact on corporates, academia, research, entrepreneurship, arts and social activism.
History
Inception
The Birla Education Trust was founded in 1929; the intermediate college became a degree college and later offered postgraduate courses. The masters programme in electronics began in 1955.
Reacting to early criticism about the project, contemporary advisor Thomas Drew said:
BITS Pilani became a deemed university established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 by notification No. F.12-23/63.U-2 of 18 June 1964. In its formative years, the Institute tied up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA. It adopted semester system, modular structure of courses, continuous and internal evaluation, letter grading and the likes. It also created linkages with the industries which yielded structured “Practice School” as an integral component of education.
In 1964, the Birla Colleges of Humanities, Commerce, Engineering, Pharmacy and Science were merged to form the Birla Institute of Technology & Science. The board provided direction in developing a curriculum, selecting equipment, upgrading the library and recruiting (and training) an Indian faculty. To quicken the pace of reform he convinced C. R. Mitra to be the new director of the institute. Mitra advocated a "practice school" internship program as a requirement for faculty and students. The Practice School Program is still a requirement for students in BITS.
According to Robert Kargon and Stuart Leslie:
Like Berkeley, BITS Pilani has also experienced student activism. BITS Pilani had to be shut down multiple times because of student strikes during 1973, 1980, and 1985.
Multi-campus expansion
In 1999, enrollment expanded from 2,500 to 4,000 and campuses were founded in Dubai (2000) and Goa (2004). Upon invitation by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, BITS Pilani acquired of land from the Andhra Pradesh government through the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority for a new constituent campus in 2006. The land is located in Jawaharnagar, Shameerpet Mandal in the Rangareddy district. The BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus opened in 2008; the school also has a virtual university and an extension center in Bangalore. BITS School of Management (BITSoM) was established in January 2021 and offers a 2-year full time residential MBA. BITSoM has its interim campus in Hiranandani Knowledge Park, Powai, Mumbai while the 60-acre permanent campus is being set up in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. In March 2023, BITS Pilani entered into legal education with the establishment of BITS Law School (BITSLAW) in the Mumbai campus.
Chancellor and academic head
BITS Pilani has a tradition of long-serving chancellors. Its founder, G.D. Birla, was chancellor from the college's inception until his death in 1983. He was followed by his son, Krishna Kumar Birla, who was chancellor until his death in 2008. Currently, Kumar Mangalam Birla is chancellor and Shobhana Bhartia is pro-chancellor.
The first academic head of the institution was J. C. Stracliff (Principal) for a period of 3 years during 1946–1949. V. Lakshminarayan became Principal of Birla Engineering College in 1949 and Director of BITS Pilani in 1964 when it was established (serving until 1969). He was succeeded by the third and fourth academic heads (BITS Pilani Directors) C.R. Mitra (1969–1989) and S. Venkateswaran (1989–2006). L.K. Maheshwari was the fifth academic head, serving as Director as well as Vice Chancellor, the latter terminology denoting the overall head of multiple campuses (each of which now has a Director).
In April 2016, Chancellor Kumar Mangalam Birla announced that Prof. Souvik Bhattacharya of IIT Kharagpur / Jadavpur University was selected to take over as the new Vice chancellor of BITS Pilani. He took over in June 2016 to become the 6th academic head of the institute. Prof. Ranendra N. Saha became Acting Vice Chancellor since June 13, 2021 after the expiration of Prof. Bhattacharya's term, making him the seventh academic head.
Campuses
Pilani campus
Spread across 328 acres (1,330,000 m2), the main campus in Pilani is positioned 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Delhi and 220 kilometres (140 mi) north of Jaipur. The campus has of classrooms and of laboratories.
The Pilani campus has India's first technological museum, the Birla Museum. Built in 1954, it showcases technological achievements. BITS has a auditorium decorated with paintings by students from the department of art and decoration.
BITS has a Sharda Peeth dedicated to the goddess Saraswati, Sharda Peeth, built by G. D. Birla. The white marble temple is built on a -high foundation, with 70 pillars for support. It covers an area of .
Residential and dining facilities
The institute has fourteen hostels in total. Each hostel is referred as a "Bhawan", the Sanskrit word for hostel. Twelve of them – Krishna Bhawan, Vishwakarma Bhawan, Rana Pratap Bhawan, Bhagirath Bhawan, Ashok Bhawan, Gandhi Bhawan, Shankar Bhawan, Vyas Bhawan, Ram Bhawan, Malviya Bhawan, CV Raman Bhavan and Srinivasa Ramanujan Bhawan are for male students. Meera Bhawan and Budh Bhawan are for female students. The institute also has one more hostel for parents and guests The hostels are named after saints, scientists, and historical and religious figures.
Every two hostels share a mess hall except Meera Bhawan, Srinivasa Ramanujan Bhawan and Sir C V RAMAN Bhawan which have their own mess halls. All dining areas are student-managed. Students may also eat at a "Redi" (a small canteen near every hostel), Institute Canteen (IC), the All-Night Canteen (ANC) and the Student Activity Centre (SAC) cafeteria (Talk of the town and Mr. Idli). The ANC is also student-managed. Moreover, there is a small area inside campus called "Connaught" which has many restaurants, cafes, etc. and has shops for general daily needs as well.
Vision 2020, Mission 2012
In 2010 the institute launched a renewal project, "Vision 2020, Mission 2012," to identify and implement measures establishing BITS Pilani as one of India's top three research-led universities by 2015 and among the leading 25 technical universities in Asia by 2020. As a part of this initiative, Kumar Mangalam Birla visited the Pilani campus on 13 November 2011 with pro-chancellor Shobhana Bhartia and other members of the board of governors. At this meeting, Birla announced a Rs. 600 crore fund for renovation and construction of new academic buildings and student hostels on the Pilani campus. The project was planned for completion in 2014.
Goa campus
Hyderabad campus
Dubai campus
Academics
Academic programmes (On-campus)
First degrees
BITS Pilani offers four-year integrated first-degree programs in engineering, technology and pharmacy, and integrated Master of Science programs in science and technology.
BITS Pilani is noted for its unique Dual-Degree program, wherein students are allowed to pursue two degrees, namely a Masters in Science (M.Sc.) and a Bachelors in Engineering (B.E.) simultaneously for a time duration of five-years. The dual-degree program is part of the first-degree programs and is offered to students taking the BITSAT examination.
Higher degrees
BITS Pilani offers higher-degree programs in engineering, technology, natural sciences, pharmacy and business administration.
The Master of Engineering (M.E.) programs are offered on-campus to students on the basis of GATE scores and BITS HD examination scores.
Admission
Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad campuses
Before 2005, admissions were based on the candidates' score in the 12th board examination. BITS had been moderating marks from various school boards since 1982.
Since 2005, admission to first-degree in BITS has been offered on the basis of the student's performance in the all-India entrance examination, the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT). BITSAT, for which applications are submitted in December, is conducted online in May and June in cities all over India. The exam tests the candidate's knowledge, reasoning and analytical abilities in physics, chemistry, mathematics, English and logical reasoning, and is based on higher secondary curricula in India and abroad. A 2012 news report showed that BITSAT had become more competitive than the IIT-JEE, in terms of the ratio of the number of aspirants to the number of seats available.
Admission to on-campus higher degrees such as Master's in Engineering (M.E.) is done on the basis of GATE scores and BITS HD (Higher Degree) examination scores.
For foreign students, BITS has a separate admission scheme called International Student Admissions (ISA) category. To gauge the merit of these ISA students, BITS accepts the SAT and SAT Subject Tests in chemistry, physics, and Math 2C.
Dubai campus
Admission to Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Dubai Campus is based on scores in the 12th standard qualifying exam along with BITSAT. Although the BITS Pilani-Dubai campus was established for the educational requirements of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, admission is open to students of all nationalities.
Distance learning programs [WILP]
BITS Pilani also offers online distance learning programs like Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP) in which students can get an M.Tech, Diploma, as well as Certificate programs while working in the industry.
International projects
BITS Pilani is a partner in developing the JournalServer open-access digital library, Project IPV6 and the initiative.
Rankings
Internationally, BITS Pilani was ranked 951-1000 in the QS World University Rankings for 2024 and 188 in Asia. It was ranked 801–1000 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2023, 251–300 in Asia in 2022 and 301–350 among emerging economies.
In India, BITS Pilani was ranked 25 overall in 2023 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), 20 among universities, 25 in the engineering ranking and 3 in India in the pharmacy ranking. It was ranked 7th among engineering colleges by India Today in 2020 and second among private engineering colleges by Outlook India in 2022.
The Department of Management was ranked 10 among private management schools in India by Outlook India in 2020.
Student life
Events
OASIS
Oasis is the annual cultural festival of the BITS, Pilani. It hosts a variety of events in various categories like dance, drama, literature, comedy, fashion and music.
BOSM
BOSM (BITS-Pilani Open Sports Meet) is the annual sports competition at the Pilani campus. BITS-Pilani invites colleges throughout India to participate in events including carrom board, hockey, cricket, basketball, football, volleyball, track and field, badminton, tennis, table tennis, squash and weightlifting. Since its 2010 silver jubilee (25th) anniversary, BOSM has invited a team from Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka.
APOGEE
APOGEE (A Professions Oriented Gathering over Educational Experiences) is an international annual technical festival at the Pilani campus. Since its inception in 1983, APOGEE has hosted students and researchers from across the country. The guest lecture series of the fest, Think Again Conclave has received eminent speakers in the past which include A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Richard Stallman, Jimmy Wales, Kailash Satyarthi, Walter Lewin and A. S. Kiran Kumar. Other events include the Paper Presentation Event, which is one of the oldest research paper presentation platforms in the country, and Project Presentation, which exhibits over 550 projects in various fields of science and engineering.
Spark
BITS Spark programme was launched in 2012. The programme promotes entrepreneurship courses and workshops, offers mentorship, and provides angel funds.
Notable alumni
Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder of Sandisk and CEO of Micron Technology
Preetish Nijhawan, co-founder of Akamai Technologies
Baba Kalyani, businessman and chairman of Bharat Forge
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, first free web-based email service
Nandan Reddy, co-founder of Swiggy
Abhinav Asthana, co-founder of Postman
Abhijit Kane, co-founder of Postman
Hari Menon, co-founder and CEO of BigBasket
Shubh Malhotra, co-founder of Mobile Premier League
Phanindra Sama, co-founder of RedBus
Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex
Rakesh Kapoor, former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser
Sunil Duggal, former CEO of Dabur
Kiran Deshpande, former CEO of Tech Mahindra
Goverdhan Mehta, Padma Shri Awardee, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore and ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad
S. P. Kothari, Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management
Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Autar Kaw, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
Arun K. Somani, Department Chair and Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University
Narendra Ahuja, Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) and Donald B. Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Govindan Rangarajan, mathematician, Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Prithviraj Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Anu Hasan, Tamil actress and TV show host
Kaniha, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movie actress and TV show host
See also
Conquest (Start-up Challenge)
References
External links
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Institutes of Eminence
Universities and colleges in Rajasthan
Business schools in Rajasthan
Engineering colleges in Rajasthan
Deemed universities in India
Deemed universities in Rajasthan
Education in Jhunjhunu district
1964 establishments in Rajasthan
Educational institutions established in 1964 |
Ambala Jattan (Village ID 30864) is a village in Punjab, India, located in the district Hoshiarpur, near Garhdiwala. Ambala Jattan is located 28.9 km away from the main city Hoshiarpur and 150 km from Chandigarh. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 1125 living in 246 households. Its main agriculture product is wheat growing.
References
Villages in Hoshiarpur district |
A gun serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a singular firearm.
There is no international uniformity in gun serial numbers. Besides a widespread numerical base, they may contain letters and other typographical symbols, or may consist entirely of a character string; positioning and form of such identifiers is idiosyncratic.
The legal requirement for affixing a serial number to firearms is a relatively recent requirement, and usually applies to firearms manufactured domestically or which are imported. Gun serial numbers are used in gun registration and are usually linked to an owner who is usually required to hold a firearms license. In the US, federal law requires registered gun dealers to maintain records of gun serial numbers and then to report them when they are sold but federal law also prohibits creation of a national register. Another form of serial number is microstamping, where the firing pin and breach face are engraved to create unique markings on the ejected cartridge; this is a legal requirement for handguns in the state of California. It should also be noted that microstamping technology does not exist at this time, making it impossible to use on handguns.
Firearms without a serial number are commonly called unmarked firearms. Firearms with removed serial numbers are generally illegal. There are forensic techniques for recovering serial numbers after they have been removed.
History
Most individual manufacturers habitually put serial numbers on the weapons they produce. Such numbers can be used to ascertain the name of the manufacture, place and date of manufacture. At least for some manufacturers, a serial number can unlock myriad details about the weapon. An example is the Winchester Repeating Arms Company; their records may not be complete. As they note:
There are many "legends" about why the historic serial number records for Winchester rifles and shotguns are not complete or why they are not always verifiable. A few reasons cited are:
A fire at the factory
Inadvertent destruction (during office cleaning)
Records simply lost in filing
Records misplaced between ownership transitions
Documents borrowed but not returned
There is probably some kernel of truth to all of them. But the fact remains; there is no original, single, totally accurate database of serial numbers from 1866 forward that we are aware of. But perhaps these pages can help you somewhat in your research.
Other manufacturers maintain similar databases.
In the United States, the Gun Control Act of 1968 was prompted by the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Congressional hearings followed and a ban on mail-order gun sales was discussed, but no law was passed until 1968. Precursors of the passage of the Gun Control Act were Senate Bill 1975 in 1963, "A Bill to Regulate the Interstate Shipment of Firearms," and Senate Bill 1592 in 1965, "A Bill to Amend the Federal Firearms Act of 1938." Both were introduced by Senator Thomas J. Dodd and met with fierce opposition on the floor but the bills also paved the way for the creation of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
The basic point of such legislation is that the weapon will plainly have a unique identifier. Thus, for example, an importer is expressly forbidden from recycling numbers. "Factory-produced firearms bear serial numbers." So factory producers and federally licensed gun dealers are required by U.S. law to maintain records for their inventory of serial numbers of all firearms and to report both the guns' serial numbers and the purchasers' names.
In most jurisdictions, an application for firearm registration requires a recitation of a particular weapon's serial number. Sales of firearms that are required to be reported have a similar requirement.
Homemade firearms in the United States are not legally required to have a serial number. However, they have useful value. "[A]lthough markings are not required on firearms manufactured for personal use (excluding NFA firearms) owners are recommended to conspicuously place or engrave a serial number and/ or other marks of identification to aid in investigation or recovery by State or local law enforcement officials in the event of a theft or loss of the privately owned firearm."
Methods of marking
Techniques for marking the serial number and other identifying details on the gun include:
dot matrix peening
engraving using a machine tool
laser engraving
roller marking
stamping or pressing
Dimensions and details
In the US, manufacturers and importers are required to place identifiers on firearms. The dimensions of the serial number and other identifying details were codified in 2002 in section 27, part 478.92 of the Code of Federal Regulations:
... legibly identify each firearm manufactured or imported as follows:
i. By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed) or placed on the frame or receiver thereof an individual serial number. The serial number must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or removed, and must not duplicate any serial number placed by you on any other firearm. For firearms manufactured or imported on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of the serial number must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch and in a print size no smaller than 1/16 inch; and
ii. By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed) or placed on the frame, receiver, or barrel thereof certain additional information. This information must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or removed. For firearms manufactured or imported on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of this information must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch. The additional information includes:
A. The model, if such designation has been made;
B. The caliber or gauge;
C. Your name (or recognized abbreviation) and also, when applicable, the name of the foreign manufacturer;
D. In the case of a domestically made firearm, the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the manufacturer maintain your place of business; and
E. In the case of an imported firearm, the name of the country in which it was manufactured and the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the importer maintain your place of business. For additional requirements relating to imported firearms, see Customs regulations at 19 CFR part 134.
See also
Automated firearms identification
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
Forensic firearm examination
Federal Assault Weapons Ban
Gun law in the United States
Gun politics in the United States
Microstamping
Right to keep and bear arms
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
Belanger, Rene M., Daniel S. Jones, Sylvain Lagace, Michael McLean, and Homero A. Yasquez. "Method and system for identification of firearms." U.S. Patent Application 12/056,660, filed January 29, 2009.
Hargarten, Stephen W., Trudy A. Karlson, Mallory O'Brien, Jerry Hancock, and Edward Quebbeman. "Characteristics of firearms involved in fatalities." Jama 275, no. 1 (1996): 42-45.
Leslie, Dennis. "Method and apparatus for detecting and identifying firearms." U.S. Patent Application 11/068,259, filed December 1, 2005.
Lizotte, Todd E. "Method and apparatus for reading firearm microstamping." U.S. Patent 6,833,911, issued December 21, 2004.
Maiden, Nicholas R. (2009) "Serial number restoration: Firearm." Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. (Portsmouth, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons) .
Maynard, Philip, Kyle Skinner, Matthew Bolton, and Sébastien Moret. "Potential application of liquid dye penetrants for serial number restoration on firearms." Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 51, no. 6 (2019): 674-684.
Mongan, A. L. "Visualization of a restored serial number using scanning electron microscopy (SEM)." Journal of Forensic Sciences 41, no. 6 (1996): 1074-1076.
Nichols, Ronald G. "Firearm and toolmark identification criteria: A review of the literature." Journal of Forensic Sciences 42, no. 3 (1997): 466-474.
Polk, D. E., and B. C. Giessen. "A new serial number marking system applicable to firearms identification." Journal of Forensic Sciences 20, no. 3 (1975): 501-506.
Uysal, Serdar, Mustafa Mercan, and Lokman Uzun. "Serial number restoration on polymer surfaces: A survey of recent literature." Forensic Chemistry 20 (2020): 100267.
Warrier, Varsha, and Rutwik Shedge. "Advances in firearm serial number restoration." The Official Publication of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine 42, no. 1 (2020): 75-76 Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine.
White, Ryan M., and Robert R. Keller. "Restoration of firearm serial numbers with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)." Forensic Science International 249 (2015): 266-270.
Firearm terminology
Gun politics in the United States
Unique identifiers
United States federal criminal legislation
United States federal firearms legislation |
The Agram 2000 is a Croatian submachine gun based on Beretta's model M12. ("Agram" is the old German name for Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.) The vast numbers of ex-special forces Agrams in Croatia after the Croatian War of Independence, as well as the availability of a sound suppressor, has made it a popular choice for criminals. Infamously unreliable in the war period due to its poorly constructed magazines, it would often fail to feed rounds from the magazine, decreasing its commercial demand outside of Croatia and transnational criminal organizations of the time.
The Agram 2000, like the Beretta M12, was chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. These weapons were used in the Kosovo War by both sides of the conflict, and were preferred due to its full-auto fire, provisions for silencer, flexible ammunition count and compact size. Today, the 2000 series is a rarity outside the Balkan areas, because even though it is still produced in Croatia, its production has been scaled down. Mainly produced between 1990 and 1993, only a few more examples have been produced since 1997. The reason for this is that the Agram 2000 is locally manufactured and there is no more conflict or demand for a fully automatic SMG in the region anymore, and low demand due to poor and cheap construction.
Specifications
The unique feature on this gun is the thumb-hole foregrip that ensures a firm grip and good recoil control while firing fully auto. The charging handle is on the left-hand side of the receiver, just above the magazine. The fire selector is found just above the trigger which allows for safety, single-shot, and full-auto firing modes (S/1/A). The barrel shroud is perforated for heat dispersion and sports a front iron sight post. The rear sight is a flip-up sight that can dial its zero up to . Some sources report that it has a rate of fire of 800 rounds per minute. The barrel is slightly longer and is threaded to enable the attachment of a silencer or muzzle brake. The materials used for making this weapon include stamped, sheet metal and molded plastic. The specifications for the buttstock do not exist. The Agram 2000 measures at about without the sound suppressor on.
References
Sources
Small Arms Military Factory
9mm Parabellum submachine guns
Submachine guns of Croatia |
Kieran Bennett (born 21 November 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays for the Waterford senior team.
Bennett made his championship debut for Waterford on 13 August 2017 in the 2017 All-Ireland semi-final win against Cork.
His younger brothers, Stephen and Shane Bennett also play with Waterford.
Honours
Player
Ballysaggart
Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 2013
Waterford Junior Hurling Championship (1): 2013
References
1994 births
Living people
Ballysaggart hurlers
Waterford inter-county hurlers |
The Way to the Light () is a 1923 German silent film directed by Géza von Bolváry and Kurt Rosen.
It was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Reiber.
Cast
In alphabetical order
References
External links
1923 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Géza von Bolváry
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Bavaria Film films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios |
Takhteh () is a village in Lisar Rural District, Kargan Rud District, Talesh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 113, in 30 families.
References
Populated places in Talesh County |
Sărăteni is a commune in Leova District, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Sărăteni and Victoria.
References
Communes of Leova District |
Jules Ehrat (1 February 1905 – 1997) was a Swiss chess player born in Lohn, Schaffhausen. He was the 1942 Swiss Chess Champion jointly with Martin Christoffel.
The Jules Ehrat Memorial chess tournament held in Zürich 13–22 August 1999 pitted two five-player teams against each other. The German team, led by Christopher Lutz, defeated the Swiss team, led by Viktor Korchnoi, by 26½ to 23½.
References
External links
1905 births
1997 deaths
Swiss chess players
People from Schaffhausen
Sportspeople from the canton of Schaffhausen
20th-century chess players |
Mikaela Valtersson (born 6 January 1967) is a Swedish Green Party politician. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2002 until 2011.
External links
Mikaela Valtersson at the Riksdag website
Members of the Riksdag from the Green Party
Living people
1967 births
Women members of the Riksdag
Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006
Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010
Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014
21st-century Swedish women politicians |
Damodar Shekhar was the first king of the Panchkot Raj family. Panchkot Raj family belonged to the Kudmi Mahato community.
History
The Panchkot Jagir (also known as Zamindari Raj of Panchkot or Chakla Panchkot) was founded about the year 80 AD by Damodar Sekhar. The Panchkot Raj had ruled from their capital at Garh Panchkot from 940 to 1750 AD. However, Bargi attacks laid waste to the place. Around 1750 AD, Panchakot Raj family shifted to Kashipur and have been here since then. Amongst the recent members were Raja Bahadur Jyoti Prasad Singh Deo, who ruled from 1901–1938 and was granted the title of Raja as a personal distinction in 1912. Raja Kalyani Prasad Singh Deo ruled from 1938–1945, Raja Shankari Prasad Singh Deo ruled from 1945 to 1956 and Raja Bhubaneswari Prasad Singh Deo ruled from 1956-1972.
Mythology
According to the legend, Raja Jagat Deo was the King of the kingdom of Dhar in present day Madhya Pradesh. He was going to Puri along with his wife on pilgrimage. On their way to Puri, his wife gave birth to a son at their camp in Jhalda. But, the king thought the newborn child as dead and left him there. After they left the region, the child was found by the seven local tribal chiefs and they named the child as Damodar Sekhar. Damodar Sekhar later established the Panchakot Royal dynasty in 80 A.D.
History
In Orissa many are pradhans or village headmen holding service lands a small proportion make a livelihood as landless day labourers while at the other end of the scale the few who have risen to be considerable zamindars have managed to transform themselves into Rajputs and cannot now be recognized as Kurmis Two instances of this have come to notice The Zamindar of Khelar in Nayabasan paragana of the Midnapur District is said to have been a Kurmi who attempted to reform his brethren by urging them to abandon the custom of widow marriage and to give up yoking cows to the plough His efforts however were unsuccessful and the Khelar family now call themselves Kshsatriyas,and strenuously disown all connexion with the Kurmis Another case is that of the well known house of Pachet in Estern Manbhum. The Pachet Raja claims to be a Go bansi Rajput and traces back his ancestry fifty two generations to a child discovered in the woods by the Kurmis being suckled by a cow. The Kurmis of those part says they have been there just the same number of generations. The family (The Pachat Raja) by the eighteenth century had been Hinduided and provided with a genealogy linking the first Raja with the twelfth Maharaja of Ujjain.
References
Bengali zamindars
History of Jharkhand |
Recoleta is a neighbourhood (barrio) of Asunción, Paraguay.
Neighbourhoods of Asunción |
Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj (), aka Sami Al-Haj (Khartoum, Sudan, February 15, 1969) is a Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazeera network. In 2001, while on his way to do camera work for the network in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Pakistani army and held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for over six years. After his release, al-Hajj wrote a book titled Prisoner 345. He was released without charge on May 1, 2008. He later attempted to launch legal action against George W. Bush.
Al Hajj's case was portrayed in a documentary titled Prisoner 345 by Al Jazeera producer Ahmad Ibrahim.
Background
Al Hajj was arrested in Pakistan on December 15, 2001.
He was on his way to work in Afghanistan as a cameraman for Al Jazeera and had a legitimate visa. He was held as an "enemy combatant" at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, with Guantanamo Internment Serial Number 345, and was the only journalist to be held in Guantanamo.
British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented al-Hajj, and was able to visit him in 2005. According to Stafford Smith, Al Hajj had "endured horrendous abuse - sexual abuse and religious persecution" and that he had been beaten, leaving a "huge scar" on his face. Stafford Smith also said that Al Hajj had witnessed "the Quran being flushed down the toilet by US soldiers in Afghanistan" and "expletives being written on the Muslim holy book".
On 23 November 2005, Stafford Smith said that, during (125 of 130) interviews, U.S. officials had questioned Al Hajj as to whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda.
Stafford Smith stated of his client that:
Al Jazeera responded that Al Hajj reported his passport stolen in Sudan in 1999, and that anything done with the passport after that date was likely the work of identity thieves.
During Al Hajj's time in captivity, Reporters Without Borders repeatedly expressed concern over his detention, mentioning Al Hajj in its annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index, and launched a petition for his release.
In January 2007, Al Hajj and several other inmates went on hunger strike in protest of their treatment in Guantanamo, during which Al Hajj lost over 55 pounds. In response to the hunger strike, Al Hajj and the other inmates were force-fed. Al Hajj's hunger strike lasted 438 days until he was set free on 1 May 2008.
When Alan Johnston, former Gaza Correspondent for the BBC, was abducted on 12 March 2007 in Gaza City by gunmen from the Army of Islam and held for 113 days, Sami Al Hajj made a plea to Johnston's captors to let the journalist go. Following his release, Johnston made a similar plea for the release of Al Hajj, being held by the United States Government in Guantanamo.
Interrogation
On 20 April 2007, the UK newspaper, The Guardian, started publishing excerpts from Clive Stafford Smith's book, Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons. According to Stafford Smith:
Health and hunger strike
In 1998, Al Hajj was treated for throat cancer and prescribed a course of anti-cancer drugs that he was to take every day for the rest of his life. In letters from the detention camp, he claimed that he was being denied these medications by the authorities.
The authorities were also reported to have "refused to provide him with a support for his knee as this contains metal and is classified as
a security threat."
On 7 January 2007, Al Hajj went on a hunger strike. Al Jazeera's website published his demands which included:
The right for detainees to practice their religion freely and without duress.
Applying the Geneva Convention to the treatment of Guantanamo detainees.
Releasing a number of prisoners from isolation confinement, and in particular one Shakir Amer that has been in continued isolation since September 2005.
Conducting a full and fair investigation into the deaths of three prisoners who died in June 2006.
His release or trial by a federal US court.
Zachary Katznelson, senior counsel of Reprieve, a London-based human rights group representing Al Hajj, visited the cameraman at Guantanamo Bay on February 1. U.S. military officials declined to confirm whether Al Hajj was among the 12 detainees on hunger strike at the time.
On 22 August 2007, Clive Stafford Smith told Reporters Without Borders that he had found Al Hajj's health had seriously deteriorated since his last visit.
He said that Al Hajj looked more frail, and visibly had trouble concentrating.
On 10 September 2007, Clive Stafford said that Al Hajj was focused on the worry that he would be the next captive to die and losing his ability to speak English.
On 11 September 2007, Al Jazeera reported that Al Hajj was suffering from depression and losing the will to live.
By 19 October 2007, Al Hajj had lost over 55 pounds since beginning his hunger strike in January.
Guantanamo detainee file
On 26 April 2011, a classified file from Guantanamo on Al Hajj's detention was released by WikiLeaks. The file, dated 4 April 2008, describes Al Hajj as a high risk detainee with "direct ties to Al-Qaida, al-Haramayn non-governmental organization (NGO) and Taleban leadership."
According to the file, Al Hajj "admitted shipping supplies and carrying funds to Chechnya" but had "not been forthcoming regarding his activities in support of terrorist organizations as reported by other sources." The file said that he had been "careful not to implicate himself as a member of an extremist organization, or to have had any dealings with extremists beyond performing interviews as a journalist."
Among the reasons for Al Hajj's transfer to the facility, the file listed:
Reviews by U.S. authorities
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Stafford Smith summarized the allegations from Al Hajj's Combatant Status Review Tribunal:
According to Al Jazeera, the U.S. authorities labelled Al Hajj an "enemy combatant" and announced a number of charges against him, including:
That he travelled to the middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus for clandestine purposes.
That he had an internet site that supports terrorists.
That he was involved in selling Stinger missiles to Chechen rebels.
That he was caught entering Afghanistan illegally.
That he interviewed Osama bin Laden (a charge that was later dropped).
Ahmad Ibrahim, a colleague of Al Hajj who documented his case in the documentary Prisoner 345, denied each these charges.
Subsequent Administrative Review Boards
On 23 February 2007, it was reported that Al Hajj's continued detention had been reviewed by a subsequent Administrative Review Board. Al Hajj was not one of the eighty captives who that round of Administrative Review Boards had recommended for release or transfer.
His colleagues at Al Jazeera said "his detention is American harassment of an Arabic TV network whose coverage has long angered U.S. officials." Lamis Andoni, a Middle East analyst for Al Jazeera, said in reference to the November 2001 and April 2003 bombings of Al Jazeera's offices: "When you are targeted once, it could be a mistake, but when you are bombed twice, it's something else."
The director of the Joint Intelligence Group, Paul Rester, said: "I consider the information that we obtained from him to be useful", though he declined to offer any substantiation for this claim.
During his first Administrative Review Board hearing, Al Hajj said he was going to decline to reply to the charges, on legal advice. However, Al Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said that:
Al Hajj was not a clandestine financial courier, but: "...he and his wife once carried $220,000 from Qatar to Azerbaijan for his boss at the beverage company - and ... he even declared the cash to customs."
Al Hajj did meet Mamdouh Mahmud Salim once "while working for the beverage company ... when he was sent to pick him up at the airport in Qatar in 1998. During the drive, the two discussed schools and housing."
Release negotiation and release
On 15 August 2007, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State stated of Al Hajj's case:
On the same day, Ali Sadiq, an official of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, stated:
Sami Al Hajj was released on 1 May 2008 from Guantanamo Bay and flown to Sudan. He arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on a US military plane in the early hours of Friday, May 2. Al Jazeera showed footage of him being carried into the hospital on a stretcher, looking frail but smiling and surrounded by well-wishers.
After Guantánamo Bay
Upon release, al-Hajj announced his intention to sue George W Bush and other leaders involved in his detention at Guantanamo Bay. He co-founded the Guantánamo Justice Centre as part of these efforts. In a later interview, he claimed that the organisation received no external support.
He returned to work for Al Jazeera after his release, leading a new section covering civil liberties and human rights.
Open letter to President Biden
On January 29, 2021, the New York Review of Books published an open letter from al-Hajj, and six other individuals who were formerly held in Guantanamo, to newly inaugurated President Biden, appealing to him to close the detention camp.
See also
Hunger strike
Guantanamo force feeding
References
External links
From Guantánamo to Desk at Al Jazeera, The New York Times, December 22, 2009
Amnesty International case sheet
Aljazeera Guantanamo inmate 'abused', Al Jazeera, June 22, 2005
Aljazeera interview with lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, Al Jazeera, October 26, 2005
Robert Fisk interview about Sami mp3 download
Sami al-Haj: the banned torture pictures of a journalist in Guantánamo Andy Worthington
An interview with Sami al-Haj, former Guantánamo prisoner and al-Jazeera journalist Andy Worthington
Sami al-Haj: "Torture is terrorism" Andy Worthington
1969 births
Living people
Sudanese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Sudanese journalists
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Journalists held in extrajudicial detention in the War on Terror
Al Jazeera people
People from Khartoum
American people of Sudanese descent
fr:Liste de détenus de Guantánamo#Sami al-Haj |
Unifor Local 200 is a local union of the general trade union Unifor. It represents auto industry workers in Windsor, Ontario at three Ford Motor Company of Canada engine plants and one Nemak aluminum casting plant.
History
Presidents
Roy England
Jack Taylor
Charlie McDonald
Vic White
Herb Kelly
Hank Renaud
Steve Harris
Ray Wakeman
Frank McAnally
Alex Keeney
Mike Vince ( - January 1, 2010)
Dan Cassady (January 2, 2010 - July 1 2011)
Chris Taylor (July 1, 2011 - ?)
John D'Agnolo ( ? - present)
Collective Bargaining Gains
1940s - Paid Vacation, Union Security (Rand Formula), Paid Holidays, COLA (Cost of Living Allowance), Job Postings, Grievance Procedure, Foreman Working Language, Overtime Premiums, Seniority for Vets.
1950s - AIF (Annual Improvement Factor), Pensions, Insurance Plan (Medical-Hospital-Surgical), Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB).
1960s
1970s - Optical & Dental, Health & Safety Committees, Hearing Aids, Pension - 30 and Out, Paid Personal Holidays, Paid Education Leave (PEL),
1980s - Video Display Terminal Protection, Paid Maternity Leave, Childcare, Legal Services Plan, Income Maintenance (Beyond SUB), Union Counsellors, Affirmative Action, Health & Safety Company Wide Co-ordinators, Weekend Worker, Pension Indexation (for future retirees)
1990s - Social Justice Fund, Four Day Weekends, Phased Retirement, Same Sex Benefits, Employment Equity Representatives - Women's Advocate, SPA Week, Harassment: Right to Refuse Training, Outsourcing Protection: Work Ownership, Protection from changes to Labour Laws, Union Training Funds, Pension Indexing (All Retirees), Skilled Trades Union Education Fund, Tuition Scholarship, Child Care Subsidy, Retirees Education Fund, Additional SPA Week, Environmental Representation.
21st Century - Paramedical Coverage, Indefinite Layoff Protection (Special SUB), Homemaking Service and In Home Nursing, New Investment Commitment.
Struggles
Ford Strike of 1945
Local 200 & the Community
United Way/Centraide of Windsor-Essex County
Club 200 Youth Activities
CAW Local 200 Computers for Kids
Kelly England Bursary
References
Baruth-Walsh, Mary E. and Mark Walsh. Strike 99 Days on the Line. Canada: Penumbra Press, 1995. (hardcover),
Colling, Herb. The Ford Strike in Windsor: 99 Days. Toronto: NC Press, 1995.
Colling, Herb. “Ford Strike of ‘45” in Best of Times Magazine, ed., Elaine Weeks. Windsor: Walkerville Publishing Co., 2006.
External links
1941 establishments in Ontario
Economy of Windsor, Ontario
Organizations based in Windsor, Ontario
Local 0200
Trade unions in Ontario |
Brawley Union High School (BUHS) is a high school in Brawley, California.
Athletics
The wrestling program has won 18 consecutive CIF San Diego Section titles (2001–2018) and 2 Southern Section titles (1969, 1970).
The bell game, an annual football game with their rival school, Central Union High in El Centro, is a valley-wide event. Brawley leads the series 43-23.
The bell is real and came off of a boat in 1944.
Notable alumni
Mike Mohamed, Class of 2006, NFL linebacker; sixth-round pick and No. 189 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.
Sid Monge, Class of 1970, MLB Pitcher (1975-1984)
Sergio Romo, Class of 2001, MLB pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
Jake Sanchez, Mexican League Baseball pitcher
Rudy Seánez, Class of 1986, MLB pitcher (1989–2008)
References
External links
School website
BUHS on Wikimapia
California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program test results
Brawley, California
High schools in Imperial County, California
Public high schools in California |
The Manzanar Guayule Project began in April 1942, in the Manzanar internment camp. The objective of the project was to produce a domestic source of rubber after the Axis powers had gained control of areas that supplied rubber from Hevea braziliensis. The project was operated by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists and led by Robert Emerson. Japanese Americans made up the primary workforce and were responsible for the successes and achievements of the project. Several scientific articles on guayule were published as a result. The project was ended by government order towards the end of World War II along with other similar projects like the Salinas project.
Project Background
Because of the Axis powers gaining control of areas that supplied rubber from Hevea braziliensis, there was a nationwide rubber shortage and a need for more rubber from an alternative source. Guayule was seen as a potential way to eventually solve the rubber shortage of the country. In response to this crisis, the US government created the Emergency Rubber Project (ERP) which then planted seventy-five thousand acres of guayule and obtained all US assets of the Intercontinental Rubber Company. Caltech scientists had previous contracts with the Intercontinental Rubber Company but these dissolved after the creation of the ERP. This caused Caltech scientists to begin their own project independent of the ERP, Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), and the War Relocation Authority (WRA).
Caltech scientist Robert Emerson, wanted the assistance of Japanese Americans so that their talents would not go to waste in the camps and so that they could help prove their loyalty to the USA.
Japanese-American Involvement
The involvement of Japanese Americans in the Manzanar Guayule Project is one of its main reasons behind its success. While the Department of Agriculture's main operation for mass producing guayule rubber was centered in Salinas, California; a collective of Japanese American scientists, in partnership with Cal Tech professor Robert Emerson, formed a separate rsearch team at Manzanar with the intent of genetically engineering new strands of the plant to improve the yields and quantity of rubber produced with each batch. Despite little initial government support, with most government funding and support going to the project in Salinas, the Manzanar team developed a source of rubber that produced a higher yield than that of tree rubber or the rubber plants that resulted from the Salinas Project. This rubber the Manzanar team developed also had a tensile strength stronger than that of tree rubber and Salinas-developed rubber with Manzanar-developed rubber being 1,450 pounds per square inch (PSI) stronger than Salinas-developed rubber and 750 PSI stronger than tree rubber.
Japanese-American scientists who participated in the project included Shimpe "Morganlander" Nishimura, a physicist and Emerson collaborator; geneticist Masuo Kodani; and chemist Kenzie Nozaki. A number of talented nurserymen, such as Frank Kageyama (brother of Mary Kageyama Nomura , the famed "songbird of Manzanar"), helped with the everyday operations of the lab. Another friend of Robert Emerson's, Hugh Anderson, frequented the lab and provided materials for the project.
Issues & Challenges Faced
From the very beginning, the project faced many issues and challenges. The Manzanar team had very little funding and would have to make do with makeshift labs compared to the thirty-seven million dollars in funding and the professionally-made labs their counterparts in Salinas, California received from the U.S government. The team would also face water being shut off to their greenhouses in 1942 due to pressure the government received from official related to the Salinas project like Fred McCargar. McCargar persuaded government officials into believing that Japanese forces and spies were looking to get their hands on guayule seeds and that the work done in Manzanar was part of a ploy to help get Japanese Americans their land and property back despite the exclusion orders of the time.
In addition to the water being shut down, this pressure from McCargar pushed government officials to quickly stop cooperating with the Manzanar team. WRA officials would prohibit Grace Nichols' article on the Manazanar Project and strip Emerson of the permissions that allowed him to work on campgrounds due to this pressure. These issues and hurdles to the project's continued existence would spur Emerson and others to lobby several members of government in Washington D.C for greater support and funding. This lobbying worked and ensured the project's continued existence and additional manpower. This, however, did not provide them with the same level of government support and funding that the Salinas project had as members of the team still had to salvage parts from washing machines and cars to create better and stronger rubber mills.
Shutdown & Results
Despite the efforts of Emerson and others being largely successful in regaining government funding for the project, the project would be shut down and eventually fade into obscurity. A large variety of reasons are to blame for the shutting down of the Manzanar Guayule Project from big to small. By this time, several researchers had left the project, either by moving to a different camp or by having found other work or research opportunities. By 1944, the war already shifted in favor of the Allies with domestic affairs in the U.S reflecting this change. Several Western Defense Command officials at this point were advocating an end to Japanese-American exclusion from the West Coast. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would officially rescind any general exclusion orders prohibiting Japanese-Americans from the West Coast with Public Proclamation Number 21 on December 17, 1944. This would be followed by the Manzanar internment camp closing down on November 21st, 1945 with many internees leaving the camp prior to then.
After the war, the project's research team would face even more issues to any continuation of the project as pressures from rubber exporters and the shutdown of the ERP by President Harry S. Truman made any continued research into Guayule harder and harder to do. While other ERP projects such as that at Salinas, California would be shut down and have all results from it classified, the independent nature of the research team at Manzanar meant that the results from the Manazar Guayule Project could be published. Such results were published by members of the team in the Journal of Botany and the Journal of Heredity in 1944 and the journal Industrial Engineering and Chemistry later in 1947.
References
Internment camps for Japanese Americans
Japanese-American culture in California
California in World War II
Owens Valley
History of Inyo County, California
History of the Mojave Desert region
Parthenium
California Institute of Technology
Agricultural research
1942 establishments in California
Rubber industry |
Alicia Giustiniani was the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545–1553).
As dogaressa, she, as well as her predecessor Maria Pasqualigo, did what she could to support arts and crafts in Venice. One of her acts was redecorating the apartments of Doge's Palace. Giustiniani was foremost known for her work for the glass industry of Murano, which suffered from problems and discontent among the workers between 1547 and 1549. Giustiniani was the formal protector of the glass guild. She received their complaints and worked to address them. In 1550, she used her influence to reintroduce several reforms of the glass industry regulations. Among other things, she restored the permission to travel abroad to glassmakers.
References
Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges, London : T. W. Laurie, 1910
Dogaressas of Venice
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
Tranoses is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hadeninae |
Medieval castle Dobra Kuća (meaning "Good House", also ) was an important fortification of the region in the Middle Ages. It is often mentioned in Croatian medieval sources. It is situated near city of Daruvar, Croatia. Dobra Kuća, owned by various persons, was a vivid centre of then rich country. The castle was built after castle Stupčanica in the 14th century. It was first mentioned in 1335, when king Charles I of Hungary exchanged royal estate of new Litva for castle Dobra Kuća with Dobra Kuća family. While neighbouring castle Stupčanica can be seen from far well, castle Dobra Kuća is a real place of refuge; it is located on a solitary hill surrounded by mountains in every directions and cannot be seen unless you are at the bottom of it.
The market town of Dobra Kuća was mentioned in 1510s, it belonged to Bjelovar-Križevci County. The settlement and surrounding area flourished until the conquest by Ottomans. Ottoman troops captured the castle in 1542 and henceforth controlled it by a guard of thirty men. Following the retreat of Ottomans, Dobra Kuća fell into decay and disrepair.
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20090206234554/http://varak.hu/
External links
Dobra Kuća is 8 km far from Daruvar
Castles in Croatia
Medieval architecture
Daruvar
Military history of the Kingdom of Croatia
Buildings and structures in Bjelovar-Bilogora County |
Lyndsey Raye Patterson (born December 7, 1982) is an American professional soccer midfielder and forward who plays for the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.
Early life
Born and raised in Puyallup, Washington located just five miles east of Tacoma, Patterson attended Puyallup High School.
University of Tennessee
Lyndsey played for the University of Tennessee where she started 88 of 91 matches from 2001 to 2004 and was a three-time All-SEC selection. She ranked seventh all-time in scoring (64 points), eighth in goals (20), and sixth in assists (24).
Playing career
Club
Atlanta Silverbacks
Patterson helped lead the Atlanta Silverbacks to first-place finishes in 2007 and 2008.
Los Angeles Sol
In 2009, Patterson signed a developmental contract with the Los Angeles Sol for the inaugural season of the WPS. She played twelve minutes during the 2009 WPS championship game against Sky Blue FC.
Philadelphia Independence
Patterson signed with the Philadelphia Independence for the 2010 WPS season. Upon the signing, Independence General Manager Terry Foley said of Patterson, "Lyndsey is a consistent player who can be very dangerous going forward. She made an impact against Sky Blue when she entered the match in the 2009 WPS finals, and we hope that she can be a big contributor for us this coming season." She made fourteen appearances for the Independence and scored one goal.
Atlanta Beat
In 2011, Patterson was traded to the Atlanta Beat. She made seven appearances with the team before leaving mid-season to return to play with the Seattle Sounders Women.
Seattle Sounders Women
Patterson returned to the Seattle Sounders Women in 2011. She played in three games, scored one goal and provided three assists the Sounders during the 2011 season.
During the 2012 season, she made 14 appearances for a total of 877 minutes. She netted five goals and provided three assists.
Seattle Reign FC
On February 28, 2013, Patterson signed with Seattle Reign FC for the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League. Of the signing, Reign FC general manager Amy Carnell said, "Lyndsey is the type of player that you'll see on any given day cracking the ball against the wall alone at Starfire Sports Complex. It's that passion, dedication and work ethic that makes her great addition to Reign FC."
On June 19, 2013, Seattle Reign FC released Tiffany Cameron and Lyndsey Patterson shortly after signing with Megan Rapinoe, Stephanie Cox and Kennya Cordner due NWSL rules. Patterson made three appearances for the Reign.
Coaching career
Patterson was an assistant coach for her alma mater, the University of Tennessee. She is also a coach for Pacific Northwest Soccer Club in Seattle.
See also
Seattle Reign FC
References
External links
Los Angeles Sol player profile
Seattle Sounders Women player profile
Tennessee assistant coach profile
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Puyallup, Washington
American women's soccer players
Tennessee Volunteers women's soccer players
Women's Professional Soccer players
Los Angeles Sol players
Philadelphia Independence players
Seattle Sounders Women players
Atlanta Beat (WPS) players
USL W-League (1995–2015) players
OL Reign players
National Women's Soccer League players
Women's association football midfielders
Women's association football forwards
Atlanta Silverbacks Women players
Ajax America Women players
Women's Premier Soccer League players
Puyallup High School alumni |
Manulis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Bard Manulis (born 1956), American film director
Martin Manulis (1915–2007), American film producer |
String Along is an album by the Kingston Trio, released in 1960 (see 1960 in music). It was their fifth studio album in a row to reach number one on the Billboard charts and remained there for ten weeks. String Along received an RIAA gold certification in 1962, a year after Dave Guard had left the group. It was the last LP of the Trio to reach the number one spot. Two singles, "Bad Man's Blunder" b/w "The Escape of Old John Webb" and "Everglades" b/w "This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon", were released. Both were the last singles of the "Guard years" Trio to chart, "Bad Man Blunder" the last to reach the Top 40.
"The Escape of Old John Webb" is an old English folk song and was deliberately recorded in an attempt to increase the Trio's popularity in Great Britain.
"Bad Man's Blunder" (with its title shortened to "Bad Man Blunder" for single release) was issued on 45 without the final words "Bang, you're dead" included on the sub-master, a decision made by producer Voyle Gilmore.
Dave Guard played Gibson's first 12-string guitar on this album.
Reception
In his Allmusic review, critic Bruce Eder noted that the album had the most unusual sound compared to previous albums, essentially making it a "quieter album". Eder noted the album "has other highlights and oddities" and singled out Ray Charles' "Leave My Woman Alone".
Reissues
String Along was reissued in 1992 on CD by Capitol with Sold Out.
In 1997, all of the tracks from String Along were included in The Guard Years 10-CD box set issued by Bear Family Records.
String Along was reissued in 2001 by Collectors' Choice Music with Sold Out. This reissue has four bonus tracks: alternative versions of "The Tattooed Lady" and "The Hunter", and songs "Home From the Hill" and "Green Grasses", previously available on singles.
Track listing
Side one
"Bad Man's Blunder" (Lee Hays, Cisco Houston)
"The Escape of Old John Webb" (Tom Drake)
"When I Was Young" (Jane Bowers, Dave Guard)
"Leave My Woman Alone" (Ray Charles)
"This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon" (Carl Sandburg)
"Everglades" (Harlan Howard)
Side two
"Buddy Better Get on Down the Line" (Bowers, Guard)
"South Wind" (Travis Edmonson)
"Who's Gonna Hold Her Hand" (Tom Drake, Bob Shane)
"To Morrow" (Bob Gibson)
"Colorado Trail" (Lee Hays, Carl Sandburg)
"The Tattooed Lady" (Traditional, Guard, Reynolds, Shane)
Personnel
Dave Guard – vocals, banjo, guitar
Bob Shane – vocals, guitar
Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, conga, lujon
David "Buck" Wheat – bass, guitar
Chart positions
References
External links
Kingston Trio Timeline.
Sold Out/String Along liner notes.
1960 albums
The Kingston Trio albums
Albums produced by Voyle Gilmore
Capitol Records albums |
St. Mark's High School is a Roman Catholic co-education secondary school situated just outside Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland.
It first opened its doors in 1971 when 120 pupils attended.
Academics
The school provides instruction in a range of academic subjects. In 2018, 52% of its entrants achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C, including the core subjects English and Maths. Also in 2018, 60% of its entrants to the A-level exam achieved A*-C grades.
Sport
The school won the U-16 Ulster title in 2014 and the U-18 title in 2015 in Gaelic football.
References
Secondary schools in County Down
Catholic secondary schools in Northern Ireland |
Farah "Cocoa" Brown (born October 9, 1972) is an American actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for playing Jennifer in For Better Or Worse and Lytia in Single Moms Club. She has a son named Phoenix Zion who was born in 2012.
Life and career
Brown was born as Farah Brown in Newport News, Virginia. She attended and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University. She also has a Master of Science degree from The University of Phoenix in Secondary Education. Brown has performed in many different comedy stage shows including BET's ComicView and One Mic Stand and Showtime at the Apollo. She later began appearing on television, playing guest starring roles on ER and Breaking Bad.
In 2011, Brown was cast in the Oprah Winfrey Network comedy series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse playing the role of Jennifer, Tasha Smith's character best friend. The series ran for six seasons. In 2014, she played the leading role alongside Nia Long, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Zulay Henao and Amy Smart in the comedy-drama film The Single Moms Club. She received positive reviews for her performance. The following year, she appeared in an supporting role in a comedy film Ted 2.
In 2016, Brown played the role of juror Jeanette "Queen B" Harris in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story produced by Ryan Murphy. In 2018, she worked again with Ryan Murphy, playing the recurring role of Carla Price opposite Connie Britton and Mariette Hartley in the Fox drama series 9-1-1.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
American television actresses
African-American actresses
American film actresses
Actresses from Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
21st-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women |
Henry Newcome (November 1627 – 17 September 1695) was an English nonconformist preacher and activist.
Life
Henry Newcome was born at Caldecote, Huntingdonshire, the fourth son of Stephen Newcome, rector of Caldicote. He was baptised on 27 November 1627. His mother was Rose, daughter of Henry Williamson (a native of Salford and the rector of Conington, Cambridgeshire) and granddaughter of Thomas Sparke, one of the puritan divines at the Hampton Court conference in 1604. Henry was orphaned in his teens; his parents were buried in the same coffin on 4 February 1642. He was educated by his eldest brother, Robert, who succeeded their father as rector of Caldicote. In May 1644 Henry was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, but the civil war interrupted his studies, which were resumed on 10 May 1645. He graduated B.A. on 2 February 1648, and M.A. on 1 July 1651. On 24 September 1647, he became schoolmaster at Congleton, Cheshire, and soon began to preach. He was already married when, on 22 August 1648, he received presbyterian ordination at Sandbach, Cheshire. He was destined for Alvanley Chapel, in the parish of Frodsham, Cheshire; but in October 1648 he received a unanimous call to the perpetual curacy of St Luke's Church, Goostrey, Cheshire, through the interest of his wife's cousin, Henry Manwaring of Kermincham, in whose house he subsequently lived. He began his duties at Goostrey on 23 November 1648, but Manwaring's interest soon obtained for him the rectory of Gawsworth, Cheshire, to which he moved on 8 April 1650. He visited Manchester for the first time on 19 September 1651, and found some of his mother's relatives. On 25 December he subscribed the engagement of fidelity to the existing government, much against the grain, for he was always a royalist. He had already taken the Solemn League and Covenant. He was closely associated with the religious work of John Machin. In October 1653 he joined Adam Martindale in the establishment of a clerical union for Cheshire on the model of Richard Baxter's Worcestershire agreement.
On the death of Richard Hollinworth, Newcome was elected (5 December 1656) one of the preachers at the collegiate church of Manchester. After much hesitation he settled in Manchester on 23 April 1657. His ministry was exceedingly popular. He became a member of the first presbyterian classis of Lancashire, attending for the first time on 12 May 1657. He sat as delegate in the Lancashire provincial assembly in 1658 and 1659. His presbyterianism was not of a severe type; and he entered warmly into the abortive proposals for an accommodation with independents formulated at Manchester on 13 July 1659.
Newcome was deeply involved in the preparations for a royalist rising (5 August 1659) under George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer. After the rout at Nantwich (29 Aug.), Robert Lilburne put Henry Root the independent into Newcome's pulpit (25 August), and he expected to be deposed, but his ministrations were only interrupted for one Sunday. As early as 6 May 1660 he publicly prayed for the king "by periphrasis." He conducted a religious service as preliminary to the proclamation of the king at Manchesteron Saturday, 12 May. His thanksgiving sermon (24 May) produced a great impression.
It was published with the title Usurpation Defeated and David Restored.
The Restoration was fatal to his preferment. The constitution (1635) of Manchester collegiate church, which had been subverted in 1645, was restored, and three new fellows were installed (17 Sept. 1660). Great efforts were made to retain Newcome. A petition from 444 parishioners was backed by a testimonial signed among others by Sir George
Booth and Henry Bridgeman. On 21 Sept. Charles II added his name to the list from which fellows were to be chosen, but it was too late. The new fellows all had other preferments, so Newcome continued to preach as their deputy; his last sermon in the collegiate church was on 31 Aug. 1662, the Sunday after the coming
into force of the Uniformity Act. Suggestions were made that he should receive episcopal ordination privately, but this was a point on which he would not give way.
He remained in Manchester till the Five Mile Act came into force (25 March 1666), and then removed to Ellenbrook, in Worsley parish, Lancashire. At this time he travelled about a good deal, making three visits to London. In June 1670 he visited Dublin, and received a call (25 July) to succeed Edward Baynes at Wine Tavern Street
meeting house, which he declined. On 15 Oct. 1670 he returned to Manchester, preached in private houses, and was fined for so doing. He took out a licence (21 April) under the indulgence of 1672, and preached publicly, first in his own house, and then in a licensed barn (at Cold House, near Shudehill) after evening church hours. These services were interrupted in 1674 and discontinued in 1676, but he remained in Manchester, performing such private ministrations as he could. In February 1677 he was offered a chaplaincy to the widowed Countess of Donegall; he stayed five weeks at her house in London, but declined the situation. On the appearance (4 April 1687) of James's declaration for liberty of conscience, he preached publicly, first in a vacant house, then (from 12 June) in Thomas Stockton's barn, which was speedily enlarged, and opened (31 July) for worship "in the public time." He took his turn monthly at Hilton's lecture
at Bolton, Lancashire. On 7 Aug. John Chorlton was engaged as his assistant. A number of nonconformist ministers waited for James II at Rowton Heath on 27 August; Newcome as senior was expected to address the king; he put it off on Thomas Jollie, but James gave no opportunity for any address. The windows of the barn meeting-house were broken (30 November) by Sir John Bland. In April 1693 a new meeting-house was projected; Newcome was doubtful of the success of the scheme. Ground was bought on 20 June at Plungen's Meadow (now Cross Street); the building was begun on 18 July, a gallery was added as a private speculation by agreement dated 12 Feb. 1694, and the meeting-house was opened by Newcome on 24 June 1694. It was wrecked by a Jacobite mob in June 1715. It was rebuilt and enlarged, eventually becoming the Cross Street Chapel. Much of the original structure remained until it was destroyed in a World War II air raid.
By this time Newcome had abandoned his presbyterianism, and entered into a ministerial alliance on the basis of the London union of 1690, dropping the terms presbyterian and congregational. A union of this kind was projected in Lancashire in 1692. Newcome was moderator of "a general meeting of ministers of the United Bretheren" at Bolton, Lancashire, on 3 April 1693. He was appointed with Thomas Jollie on 4 Sept, 1694 "to manage the correspondence" for the county. This was his last public work; he preached
only occasionally at his new chapel, delivering his last sermon there on 13 June 1695.
He died at Manchester on 17 September 1695, and was buried three days later near the pulpit in his chapel, Chorlton preaching the funeral sermon. His inscribed tombstone is in the floor of the east aisle. His portrait, finished 15 Sept, 1658 by "Mr. Cunney," was engraved by R. White, and again by John Bull (1825); Baker has a poor woodcut from it, The original is at the Lancashire Independent College, Whalley Range, near Manchester.
Family
He married, on 6 July 1648, Elizabeth (1626–1700), daughter of Peter Manwaring (d. 24 Nov. 1654) of Smallwood, Cheshire, by whom he had five children:
Rose, born on 24 April 1649 and buried 4 May 1719, unmarried
Henry (see below)
Daniel, born on 29 Oct. 1652 and died 9 Feb. 1684; he was twice married and left children
Elizabeth, born on 11 April 1655, died unmarried
Peter (see below)
Henry Newcome (son)
Newcome's eldest son, Henry (1650–1713), was born at Gawsworth rectory on 28 May 1650. He was admitted at St.
Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 23 March 1667, became curate at Shelsley, Worcestershire,
in January 1672: rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire, 29 July 1675; and rector of Middleton,
Lancashire, towards the end of 1701. He died in June 1713. He married in April
1677, and had a son Henry and three daughters. He published single sermons, 1689-1712.
Peter Newcome
Newcome's third son, Peter (1656–1738), was born at Gawsworth rectory on 5 November 1656. He was admitted at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1673, moved to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, in April 1675, and moved the same year to Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated M.A. in June 1680. He became curate at Crookham, Hampshire, in March 1680; vicar of Aldenham,Hertfordshire, in September 1683; and vicar of Hackney, Middlesex, in September 1703. He died on 5 October 1738. He married (1681) Ann, daughter of Eustace Hook, and had twelve children, of whom six survived him. He published A Catechetical Course of Sermons in 1702, 2 vols., and single sermons (1705–37). His portrait was engraved by George Vertue.
Works
Newcome's major work is his Diary (begun 10 July 1646), of which a portion (30 Sept. 1661 – 29 Sept. 1663) was edited (1849) by Thomas Heywood for the Chetham Society. His Autobiography, an abstract of the Diary, to 3 September 1695, was edited (1852, 2 vols.) for the same society by Richard Parkinson, with a family memoir (written 1846) by Thomas Newcome. It has none of the graphic power of the contemporary Life of Adam Martindale, and is very introspective, but gives a clear picture of the writer in his much-tried sensitiveness and his unascetic puritanism. Newcome was no stranger to the shuttle-board or the billiard table; though he never drank healths he drank wine, and had a weakness for tobacco. As a contributor to the local history of his time he is in one respect more useful than Martindale; he very rarely conceals names.
In The Censures of the Church Revived, &c., 1659, the section headed A True and Perfect Narrative, &c., is by Newcome; it gives extracts from the original records of the first presbyterian classis of Lancashire, which supply a few points omitted in the existing minutes.
His Faithful Narration of the life of John Machin was finished in February 1665, and published anonymously in 1671, with prefatory epistle by Sir Charles Wolseley.
He revised the Narrative (1685) of the life of John Angier by Oliver Heywood
The Sinner's Hope, 1660.
Usurpation Defeated, 1660.
An Help to the Duty in ... Sickness, 1685.
A Plain Discourse about ... Anger, 1693.
Edmund Calamy mentions without date a sermon on The Covenant of Grace
In Slate's Select Nonconformists' Remains, 1814, are sermons by Newcome from his manuscripts.
References
(Note: references prefixed with "via DNB" are in the original DNB article and have not been independently verified.)
via DNB:Newcome's Autobiography, 1852 (Chetham Society)
via DNB:Newcome's Diary, 1849 (Chetham Society)
via DNB:Funeral Sermon by Chorlton, 1696
via DNB:Calamy's Account, 1713, pp. 391 sq.
via DNB:Calamy's Continuation, 1727, i. 556
via DNB:Robert Halley, Lancashire, 1869;
via DNB:Baker's Memorials of a Dissenting Chapel, 1884, pp. xv sq., 2 sq., 136 sq.
via DNB:Minutes of Manchester Presbyterian Classis, 1891, ii. 260 sq., iii. 350 sq. (Chetham Society)
via DNB:Nightingale's Lancashire Nonconformity, 1893, v. 81 sq.
via DNB:Addit. MS. 24485 (extracts from Jollie's church-book)
via DNB:Drysdale's History of the Presbyterians in England
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The 2021 Oregon Tech strike was a labor strike involving faculty members from the Oregon Institute of Technology. The strike was organized by the Oregon Tech - American Association of University Professors (OT-AAUP), a local union representing the faculty members that had been formed in 2018 and was recognized by the university in 2019. Following its recognition, the union and university entered into contract negotiations for the faculty members' first labor contract. However, negotiations proceeded slowly, and by early 2021, an agreement had not been reached. On March 17, both sides presented their final offers and the following month, union members voted to authorize strike action. On April 26, following a round of last-minute negotiations, the union officially commenced strike action.
At the start of the strike, faculty members began picketing outside of the university's campuses in Klamath Falls and Wilsonville. Some classes were affected by the strike, while the university brought in temporary replacement workers to cover for some of the striking workers. Negotiations began several days after the strike started, and on May 4, a tentative agreement was reached that saw the faculty members return to work, with ratification voting occurring over the next few days. The five-year contract included provisions for pay increases and codified certain provisions for work environment and workload for the faculty.
Background
The Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) is a public institute of technology with campuses in Klamath Falls and Wilsonville, Oregon. In late 2019, the university entered into negotiations with the Oregon Tech - American Association of University Professors (OT-AAUP), the local union representing faculty members at Oregon Tech, over the terms of a labor contract. The union had been formed in 2018 and was recognized by the university in 2019. However, by early 2021, after roughly 16 months of negotiating (with the last 6 months including mediation), the two sides were at an impasse, with workloads and pay being the main points of contention. On March 17, both sides presented their final offers, which was followed by a 30-day cool down period where both sides continued negotiations. Following this period, Oregon Tech was allowed to implement their offer and the union was allowed to pursue strike action. According to the university, the union was seeking a 20 percent wage increase and a 20 percent reduction in workload, which they said would amount to a $9 million increase in cost over three years. The university rejected this proposal and submitted their own, which, according to the university, would have included "proposed retroactive pay increases as well as merit-based increases". With no agreement reached, the union held a vote for strike authorization, which would allow the union to call for a strike if a settlement between the union and university was not reached. By April 2, the union stated that 96 percent of their members had voted, with 92 percent voting in favor of strike authorization. The two sides were still undergoing negotiations at the time of the vote, with their last meeting occurring a day earlier. OT-AAUP President Sean St. Clair stated that, while the union did not want to strike, they would if they felt it were necessary, while Oregon Tech President Nagi Naganathan stated, "After 16 months of negotiating, Oregon Tech is disappointed that OT-AAUP has decided to focus on using this approach instead of coming to the table with a true intent to work on an agreement and reach a resolution." Around the same time, faculty dissatisfaction with President Naganathan had reached a point where, in a vote of no confidence held by the Faculty Senate, 92 percent of the faculty voted in favor of no confidence, with the results of the vote presented to the Oregon Tech Board of Trustees. One union member, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed, stated that efforts towards unionization at the university had started in 2018 following Naganathan's arrival to Oregon Tech.
On April 8, OT-AAUP gave the university their strike notice, stating that strike action would commence "no earlier than Monday, April 26". At the time, no public university in Oregon had experienced a labor strike from its faculty. Portland State University faculty had authorized strike action in 2014, but an agreement was reached before a strike was called, while in 2006, faculty at Eastern Oregon University had come close to strike action. On April 21, Oregon Tech filed a petition with the Oregon Employment Relations Board (OERB) urging them to declare the proposed strike unlawful, and additionally, the university filed an unfair labor practice charge, arguing that the university was not bargaining in good faith. Over the weekend leading up to April 26, the university and union engaged in negotiations, but again, the two sides remained at an impasse.
Course of the strike
On the morning of April 26, the strike officially commenced, with faculty members picketing at the Klamath Falls and Wilsonville campuses. In addition, informational picketing occurred at the university's Dental Hygiene Clinic in Chemeketa Community College. Students were advised to attend class unless otherwise notified by school officials, and faculty tasks were carried out by part-time instructors and faculty members who chose not to participate in the strike. However, the union claimed that over 40 classes did not have teachers on the first day of the strike. Additionally, some students joined in picketing and protesting with the strikers. Picketing continued on a daily basis for the duration of the strike. In response to the strike, the university stated that they had made an offer with the faculty that would have seen a 13 percent wage increase over the duration of the proposed contract, which included a flat 9.5 percent increase and an additional 3.5 percent based on performance, but that this proposal had been rejected. OT-AAUP stated that the strike was open-ended and would continue until an agreement was reached with the university.
By April 28, the union was accusing the university of hiring an outside firm that was violating state law, though the university rejected that they had violated the state statute. The union stated that the firm, Focus EduVation, did not notify temporary workers that they were acting as strikebreakers. That same day, negotiations resumed between the two groups, but neither side was able to reach an agreement. On April 29, the OERB dismissed the university's petition to rule the strike as unlawful. The next day, the union and university met again for negotiations, this time with mediators present. These sessions continued over the next several days. On the morning of May 4, the strike was called off following a tentative agreement that had been reached between the two groups. Voting commenced among the union's members over the following days. The contract was officially ratified by union members on May 18.
Aftermath
According to a union representative, the agreement between the union and university included an 11.5 percent wage increase over the course of the five-year long contract, with additional opportunities for merit-based pay increases in the latter part of the contract. This included annual pay increases of between 2 and 3 percent and a retroactive 2 percent wage increase. In addition, the contract codified the union's right to bargain and included protections against excess workloads and changes to working conditions, and the university agreed to cover between 95 and 97 percent of the faculty's health care costs. The contract also stipulated that the university could not withdraw from the benefits offered by the Public Employee Benefit Board unless it did so for all union members, which would also include members of another union at the university. The contract would be retroactive from 2020 and run until June 30, 2025.
See also
COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education
Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic
References
2020s strikes in the United States
2021 in Oregon
2021 labor disputes and strikes
American Association of University Professors
April 2021 events in the United States
Education labor disputes in the United States
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education
Labor disputes in Oregon
May 2021 events in the United States
Oregon Institute of Technology
Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States |
Warwick is a rural township in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, with a population (2016) of 3,692.
Bisected by the Egremont Road that was surveyed to link London with the Lake Huron shoreline in 1832, the township began to attract settlers including those helped by charitable organizations, such as Lord Sheffield's Petworth settlers, and retired soldiers from the British Army. A village by the same name was surveyed within the township where Bear Creek crossed the Egremont.
The larger village of Watford was established to the southeast of Warwick Village when the Great Western Railway was established in the 1850s. Watford became an incorporated village in 1873 while parts of Warwick were removed for municipal purposes when the villages of Forest and Arkona were incorporated in the 1870s.
With municipal restructuring in 2001, Watford and Warwick were merged. While agriculture remains a mainstay the township's location between the cities of London and Sarnia means that increasingly residents find work in these larger centres. Starting in 2005 a group of volunteers actively worked to research and write a detailed history of the township and collect a substantial archive of historical materials. The resulting history was published as The Township of Warwick: A Story Through Time in 2008. Subsequently, an archives of the materials was established at the Lambton Room in Wyoming, Ontario.
In addition to Warwick and Watford, the township also includes the smaller communities of Birnam and Wisbeach.
Watford village
Watford was first settled in 1851 at what was known as Brown's Corners, a stagecoach stop between the village of Warwick and Brooke Township. The Great Western Railway was built in 1856 and caused the settlement to be relocated to its present location near the tracks. It was incorporated as the village of Watford in 1873. Watford was named either for the Watford in England, or by Col. Brown for his home town of Waterford, Ireland.
There was a great fire in the 1880s that destroyed much of the town during a Guy Fawkes Night celebration.
In 1972, Watford Roof Truss started manufacturing wood trusses for delivery in the Southwestern Ontario and Southern Michigan markets. Watford Roof Truss is still a major employer in the town.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Warwick had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Township council
The township's current mayor is Todd Case, and its councillors are Jerry Westgate, Wayne Morris, Joe Manning and John Couwenberg. They were elected in 2022 and their terms will end in 2026, in conjunction with province-wide municipal elections in Ontario.
See also
List of townships in Ontario
References
External links
Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario
Municipalities in Lambton County
Township municipalities in Ontario |
Arion Baroque Orchestra, founded in 1981, is a Canadian baroque orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, specializing in music of the 18th century performed on period instruments.
History
Arion Baroque Orchestra was founded in Montreal in 1981 (first under the name of Arion Ensemble). Originally, it was a quartet whose members included flautist Claire Guimond, violinist Chantal Rémillard, harpsichordist Hank Knox, and viola da gamba player Betsy MacMillan.
The ensemble's name comes from the Greek mythology: Arion is a musician from antiquity who avoided drowning by charming a dolphin with his singing. It is also the name of a cantata by André Campra that was played at the first concert of the group.
Since the mid-1990s, the original quartet has expanded with the aim of developing into a baroque orchestra, and thus began to explore the repertoire from the 2nd half of the 18th century, most notably the music of Haydn and Mozart.
Flautist Claire Guimond, was the sole artistic director of the orchestra from 1981 to 2019. During the 2019–2020 season, the artistic direction was shared with bassoonist Mathieu Lussier who will succeed her in the following 2020/2021 season.
Arion Baroque Orchestra does not have a principal conductor and prefers to collaborate with invited soloists and leaders. Some of the collaborators Arion has shared the stage with over the years are sopranos Suzie LeBlanc and Karina Gauvin, recorder player Vincent Lauzer, violinists Stefano Montanari, Enrico Onofri, and Monica Huggett, cellist Jaap ter Linden, harpsichordists Christophe Rousset, Garry Cooper, and Alexander Weimann, flautist Barthold Kuijken, and clarinettist Lorenzo Coppola.
Arion Baroque Orchestra toured Québec, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Europe.
Arion has a residency at Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where it has an annual subscription series of five programs. The orchestra also performs at other venues in Montreal, most notably through the Conseil des arts de Montréal touring program, but also at the main music festivals across Quebec and Canada such as Domaine Forget, the Montreal Bach Festival, the Ottawa Chamberfest, and the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival in New Brunswick.
Awards and distinctions
The orchestra received several awards and distinctions for its recordings and concerts: 9 Prix Opus, of the Conseil Québécois de la Musique, 2 Félix Awards, of ADISQ, 1 Juno Award of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and 1 Diapason d'Or from the French music magazine Diapason.
Discography
The discography of Arion Baroque Orchestra comprises around thirty titles on four labels: early-music.com, ATMA Classique, Analekta, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
1985 : Leclair, Hotteterre and Guillemain – Entre Paris et Versailles
1990 : Quantz, Graun, Couperin, etc. – Baroque chamber music with recorder, with Marion Verbruggen (recorder)
1991 : Telemann – Paris quartets [MVCD1040]
1993 : Telemann, Quentin et Mondonville – Conversations en musique
1994 : Clérambault, Campra and Montéclair – Four Major French Cantatas from the 17th and 18th Centuries, with Danièle Forget (soprano)
1995 : Bach – The Musical Offering
1995 : Un concert en Nouvelle-France, with Richard Duguay (tenor)
1996 : Bach – 6 Trio Sonatas, BWV 525–530
1997 : Telemann – Tafelmusik (first production)
1997 : O’Carolan's Harp, with Siobhan McDonnall (Celtic harp)
1997 : Boismortier – Les Quatre Saisons, with Isabelle Desrochers (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor) and Max van Egmond (baritone)
1998 : Leclair – Concertos, with Claire Guimond (flute) and Monica Huggett (violin and direction)
2001 : Bach – Orchestral suites, with Claire Guimond (flute), Chantal Rémillard (violin), Hank Knox and Luc Beauséjour (harpsichords), directed by Barthold Kuijken
2001 : Bach – Suites and Concertos, directed by Jaap ter Linden
2001 : Handel – Sacred Arias, with Daniel Taylor (countertenor), directed by Monica Huggett
2002 : Handel – Love Duets, with Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Daniel Taylor (countertenor) and Stephen Stubbs (lute, baroque guitar and direction)
2003 : Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti – Maria, Madre di Dio, with Agnès Mellon (soprano) and Matthew White (countertenor), directed by Monica Huggett
2005 : Faustina Bordoni – Visages d’une Prima Donna, with Kimberly Barber (mezzo-soprano), Jonathan Carle (baritone), directed by Monica Huggett
2005 : Telemann – Tutti flauti ! with Matthias Maute and Sophie Larivière (recorders), Claire Guimond and Mika Putterman (flutes), directed by Jaap ter Linden
2006 : Vivaldi – Chiaroscuro with Claire Guimond (flute) and Mathieu Lussier (bassoon)
2007 : Telemann – Les trésors cachés, directed by Jaap ter Linden
2007 : Rebel – Plaisirs champêtres, directed by Daniel Cuiller
2008 : Corrette – Symphonies des noël et Concertos comiques
2009 : Haydn, La Passione – Symphonies 41, 49 et 44, directed by Gary Cooper
2010 : CPE Bach – Symphonies and concertos, with Claire Guimond (flute) and Gary Cooper (harpsichord and direction)
2012 : Bach – St John Passion, with Les Voix Baroques, directed by Alexander Weimann
2012 : Handel, Vivaldi and Vinci – Prima Donna, with Karina Gauvin (soprano) and Alexander Weimann (direction)
2014 : Hidden Treasures of Italy – Violin Concertos by Lidarti, Razetti, Montanari, Nardini and Sirmen, with Stefano Montanari (violin and direction)
2017 : Quantz and Telemann – Rebelles Baroques, with Claire Guimond and Alexa Raine-Wright (flutes), Jean-Louis Blouin (viola) and Alexander Weimann
2017 : Bach – Magnificat, with Johanna Winkel and Johanette Zomer (sopranos), James Laing (countertenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), directed by Alexander Weimann
2018 : Vivaldi – Concertos for Recorder, with Vincent Lauzer (recorder), directed by Alexander Weimann
2020 : Telemann – Concertos and Overture, with Vincent Lauzer (recorder), Mathieu Lussier (bassoon and direction) and Alexander Weimann (direction)
Notes et references
External links
Official website of Arion Baroque Orchestra
Official website of Orchestras Canada
Baroque music groups
Early music orchestras
Canadian orchestras
Chamber music groups
Musical groups from Montreal |
Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C. (French: Édouard Sorin; February 6, 1814October 31, 1893) was a French-born priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the founder of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
Early life
Edouard Frédéric Sorin was born on February 6, 1814, at in Ahuillé, near Laval, France, to Julian Sorin de la Gaulterie and Marie Anne Louise Gresland de la Margalerie. He was the seventh of nine children, and he was born into a well-off middle-class family and grew up in a three-story manor home (the chateau de la Roche) with seven acres of land. His family was religious and had sheltered two non-juring priests during the persecutions of the French Revolution. He received an early education in the home, in the local village school, and by the local parish priest. He then enrolled in the School of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Laval, but after one year he decided to become a priest and with his family's backing enrolled at the diocesan seminary in Precigné. Here he completed his humanities course and then enrolled at the major seminary in Le Mans for theology. Among his fellow students was the future cardinals Benoît-Marie Langénieux and Guillame Meignan. Here he made the acquaintance of Basil Moreau, who was vice rector and professor of scripture. He also became interested in missionary work after listening to the pleads of Simon Bruté, bishop of Vicennes in Indiana, who had returned to France to recruit missionaries.
Completing his seminary studies, he was ordained a priest on May 27, 1838, and was assigned as parish priest in Parcé-sur-Sarthe. He remained in this position for about fourteen month, but then desired to join Basil Moreau's novel organization, the Congregation of Holy Cross (born out of the merger of Moreau's auxiliary priests and Jacques-Francois Dujarié's Brothers of Saint Joseph). With the bishop's permission, he joined the group and underwent a brief novitiate. On August 15, 1840, Sorin - together with Basil Moreau and three other priests - were the first members of the Congregation of Holy Cross to take solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Missionary to America
Simon Bruté, who Sorin has witnessed recruiting priests and missionaries for his recently established diocese in Vincennes in Indiana, died in 1839. His successor Célestin Guynemer de la Hailandière renewed the call for help, and Moreau decided to send assistance. Because of Sorin's leadership abilities, motivation, and youthful vigor, Moreau chose him to lead this missionary expedition. Missionary enterprise in foreign lands, including distant lands such as China, Japan or America, motivated French clergy and inspired numerous vocations. Sorin was accompanied by six brothers of the Congregation: Brothers Vincent (born John Pieau), Joachim (William Michael André), Lawrence (John Menage), Francis Xavier (René Patois), Anselm (Pierre Caillot), and Gratian (Urban Mosimer).
Founding of the University of Notre Dame
Journey to America and time in St Peter's
Accompanied by the six brothers, Sorin left Le Mans on August 5, 1841, and left Le Havre on board the ship Iowa. They arrived in New York City on September 13, and one of Sorin's first acts upon arrival to America was to kneel down and kiss the ground, as a sign of adoption of his new country. They spent three days in the city hosted by Samuel Byerley, a rich trader and convert to Catholicism, and met with New York's bishop John Dubois. On September 16 they went up the Hudson River by paddleboat to Albany and then reached Buffalo via the Erie Canal, with a short detour to view Niagara falls. They crossed Lake Erie on steamboat and reached Toledo, from where they went down to Maumee river to Maumee, then Napoleon, Defiance, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Terre Haute, and following the Wabash river they finally reached Vincennes on October 10.
Bishop Célestine Hailandière welcomed the congregation and first offered them property and ministry in Francesville, but Sorin declined. He accepted the bishop's second offer of establishing themselves in the parish of St. Peter in Montgomery. The mission already had a few buildings, a small wooden chapel, and a primitive school with a few pupils. The school was soon headed by Charles Rother, a German immigrant who soon desired to join the congregation and became the first to do so in the United States, with the name of Brother Joseph. Other brothers soon joined, mostly Irish and German immigrants, although many left. The start of the mission saw some hardships, particularly in adopting foreign agricultural practices and the cultivation of corn, but they adapted with help from the locals. Sorin celebrated Mass and gave spiritual assistance to around thirty-five Catholic families in the area, preaching in French and sometimes English, a language Sorin was only beginning to learn.
Soon, more problems developed in the community. Sorin and bishop Hailandière had disagreements over financial matters, since Sorin expected the bishop to provide 3,000 francs for their expenses. The bishop, who had expected them in 1839, had already employed the money elsewhere. Despite this, the bishop agreed to pay for the community, but on the condition they would report to him instead of being under the jurisdiction of Moreau, a condition which Sorin refused. This disagreement was partially diffused by Father Juliane Delaune, who was able to solicit funds and donations amounting to 15,000 francs, which he divided between Sorin and the bishop. A second and deeper misunderstanding arose when Sorin made his intentions to start a collège (a college-high school on the French model). The bishop rejected this idea, since there already was a Catholic college in Vincennes, St Gabriel's, which was staffed by the Erudists fathers. The bishop had promised them he would have no competition for funds and students. Instead, the bishop mentioned that he owned land in northern Indiana, close to South Bend, and Sorin could start his college there instead. This land had been purchased by Stephen Badin in the 1830s with the intent of building a school, but after his plans had failed he offered it to the bishop. Sorin consulted with the brothers and then accepted, departing St. Peter's with seven of the brothers on November 16.
Founding of Notre Dame
Sorin and his seven brothers (three French and four Irish) traveled 250 miles north in one of Indiana's harshest winters. They followed the Wabash River, passing by Terre Haute. They split, and Sorin with the first group arrived in South Bend on the afternoon of November 26, 1842. Here they were welcomed by Alexis Coquillard (who bishop Hailandière had put them in contact with) and then undertook the two-mile trip to visit the property before spending the night guests of Coquillard. The next day they visited the site with day-light, and took formal possession of the property. Rev. Sorin described his arrival on campus in a letter to Basil Moreau:At the time, the property only had three buildings: a log cabin built by Stephen Badin (the original burned down in 1856 but a replica was built in 1906), a small two-story clapboard building that was the home of the Potawatomi interpreter Charon, and a small shed. Of the 524 acres, only 10 were cleared and ready for cultivation, but Sorin stated that the soil was suitable for raising wheat and corn. While the land had two small lakes, the snow and marshy area might have given to Sorin the appearance of a single larger lake, hence why named the fledgling mission "Notre Dame du Lac" (Our Lady of the Lake). The most immediate concern were suitable and warm lodgings for the Sorin and the seven brothers present and for those in St. Peter's who were yet to come north. To build a second log cabin, and lacking the funds, they appealed to the people of South Bend to donate funds or their time. Thanks to the help from the locals, they were able to assemble the timber and erect the walls, and the Sorin and the brothers erected the roof when the men returned to town. The cabin was completed on March 19, 1843, in time to accommodate the additional brothers and novices who has arrived from St. Peter's the month before.
Next, Sorin dedicated himself to building a college proper, since the foundation of such within two years was the condition on which he had been given the land by bishop Hailandière. While in Vincennes, Sorin had made plans with a local architect, Mr. Marsile, to have him come to South Bend in the summer and start construction of a main building, but the architect did not show up. Hence, he and the brothers constructed Old College, a two-story brick building that served as dormitory, bakery, and classrooms. With the Old College building ready by the fall, the college officially opened to its first few students. The first residents to receive an education at Notre Dame were orphans from a home established by the Brothers of Saint Joseph to educate children beyond the ages of 12 and 13. When Marsile finally arrived in August, Sorin proceeded to erect the first Main Building (at the location of the third and present Main Building). The building, completed in 1844 and enlarged in 1853, constituted the entire college until the construction of the second and larger Main Building in 1865.
Following Moreau's example, Sorin sent out priests and brothers to found other schools and parishes throughout the United States and Canada. On January 15, 1844, the Indiana legislature officially chartered the University of Notre Dame.
From the French seminary system, Sorin was by temperament more of an administrator than an academic or intellectual. He ran Notre Dame on the model of a French boarding school, which included elementary (the "minims"), preparatory, and collegiate programs, as well as a manual training school. Over the years, he accepted the recommendations of others, including Fr. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., to strengthen Notre Dame's academic curriculum.
In 1850 Sorin asked the federal government to establish a post office at Notre Dame. His request was granted, and in 1851 First Assistant Postmaster General Fitz Henry Warren notified congressman Graham N. Fitch of the establishment of the Notre Dame post office and the appointment of Edward Sorin as its postmaster. While the income from the post office was negligible, its major advantage was to increase the visibility of Notre Dame and incentivize better roads and communications to the campus.
In 1865 he became the first American Provincial Superior of the Congregation and was succeeded as president by Patrick Dillon. As provincial superior, he was still actively involved with the running of the university and resided on campus.
Provincial Superior of the Congregation
Far from Indiana to India, the flourishing mission in Eastern Bengal, headed by the Congregation of Holy Cross, owes much of its success to Father Sorin's active co-operation and zeal. He sent its former bishop and other priests together with a band of sisters, described as a worthy group. The founding of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in the United States is regarded as one of Sorin's most important services to religion. Under his administration and care, this community grew from small to possessing flourishing establishments in a dozen states. During the American Civil War, under Sorin's forethought, this sisterhood was able to furnish nearly eighty nurses for sick and wounded soldiers on transports and in hospitals. A number of priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, among them Fr. William Corby, C.S.C., served as chaplains at the front. Sorin also established Ave Maria Press in 1865.
1879 fire of the Main Building
Sorin's strength was demonstrated on April 23, 1879, when a fire destroyed the Main Building, which housed virtually the entire university. Following the pledge made by the university's president, William Corby, C.S.C., Notre Dame reopened for the fall term. Sorin also willed Notre Dame to rebuild and continue its growth. As recounted in Notre Dame: 100 Years (1942):"The sixty-five year old man walked around the ruins, and those who followed him were confounded by his attitude. Instead of bending, he stiffened. There was on his face a look of grim determination. He signaled all of them to go into the church with him."Timothy Edward Howard provided a first-person account of what Sorin said inside Sacred Heart Church: "I was then present when Father Sorin, after looking over the destruction of his life-work, stood at the altar steps of the only building left and spoke to the community what I have always felt to be the most sublime words I ever listened to. There was absolute faith, confidence, resolution in his very look and pose. 'If it were ALL gone, I should not give up!' were his words in closing. The effect was electric. It was the crowning moment of his life. A sad company had gone into the church that day. They were all simple Christian heroes as they came out. There was never more a shadow of a doubt as to the future of Notre Dame."An alternative version of Sorin's post-fire address has increased in popularity. It argues that Our Lady (the Virgin Mary) burned down the Main Building because he built it too small, and that he would now rebuild it "bigger and better than ever". This version seems apocryphal as it was not included in any contemporaneous accounts of the event or in Sorin's own writings. Sorin believed a divine hand was involved in the fire's origins, but ascribed it directly to God, whom Sorin suspected of being angry over "infidelity" and "neglect," not the dimensions of the building.
Sorin had an ambitious goal for the new Administration Building, constructed over the summer of 1879. He wanted it to be nothing less than a "monument to Catholicism." Having stood for some 135 years, the Administration Building with its Golden Dome served as a monument. Catholicism generally and millions of working-class first- and second-generation American Catholics were inspired to see their sons (and eventually daughters) pursue higher education. It allowed them to gain entry into the mainstream of American social, economic, and political life.
Superior General
Sorin was elected superior-general of his order in 1868, and held this office for the rest of his life. During his tenure as Superior General, Fr. Sorin made around 50 voyages across the Atlantic to deal with the affairs of the Congregation in France and Rome. In order to ease the debt of the Congregation and put on more solid financial footing, he oversaw the sale of the church of Notre Dame de Sainte Croix, its boarding school, and the rest of the Congregation property in Le Mans, which until then had served as the order's headquarters. Hence the headquarters was moved to Notre Dame, Indiana. Sorin was invited to attend the Provincial Council of Cincinnati of 1882 and the Plenary Council of American Bishops at Baltimore in 1884.
Founding of St. Edward's University
Sorin also founded St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Bishop Claude Marie Dubuis of the Diocese of Galveston learned of Mrs. Mary Doyle's intention to leave her large South Austin farm to the Catholic Church. The purpose was to establish an "education institution" and he invited Father Sorin to Texas in 1872. Answering the bishop's invitation, Sorin traveled to Austin and surveyed the beauty of the surrounding hills and lakes. A year later, following Mrs. Doyle's death, he founded a Catholic school called St. Edward's Academy in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor and King. In the fledgling institution's first year, 1878, three farm boys made up the student body and met for classes in a makeshift building on the old Doyle homestead. In 1885, the academy secured its charter as a college. Sorin Hall and nearby Sorin Oak — the largest oak tree in Austin — are also named after him.
Personal life
While Sorin was attached to his French roots, he had a deep desire to be an American and his attachment to his new country manifested in several ways. Notre Dame's first end of year celebration in 1845 was opened by a reading of the Declaration of Independence. He became an American citizen in 1850, and was soon after that named to the government positions of local postmaster and superintendent of the roads. One of the earliest buildings on the Notre Dame campus, Washington Hall, was named after the first U.S. president rather than a Catholic saint. During the Civil War, he allowed several priests and eighty sisters of the community to volunteer as chaplains and nurses, despite their absence affecting the university. His thorough "Americanism" and his "American patriotism and [his] love of American institutions" were praised by John Ireland.
In recognition of his work in education, the French Government conferred upon him the insignia of Officer of Public Instruction in 1888.
Final years
A Golden Jubilee in 1888 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Sorin's priestly ordination, which had taken place in 1838. One first celebration occurred during the school year, with the student present, on the actual anniversary of the ordination. On May 26 all campus building were decorated with flags and banners. The entertainment consisted in a reception with students, faculty, and administration, followed by speeches, poems, recitals, and musical performances. After dinner, Sorin and the faculty members gathered on the Main Building porch and watched the Notre Dame Band perform in the quad and the student military units give their gun salutes. The student, faculty and alumni gifted Sorin with a barouche drawn by two black horses. The night was marked by fireworks, paper lanterns, and further celebrations. On May 27, the anniversary of the ordination, Sorin celebrated a Solemn High Mass with William Corby delivering the sermon. Afterwards, Sorin blessed the cornerstone of a new residence hall, which Sorin discovered was to be named Sorin Hall in his honor. This was followed by further celebrations, while baseball games and boat races were deferred to the next day due to rain.
While this first celebration was reserved for the campus community, second one, of a more official and public nature, was held a few month later on August 15, 1888. General invitations in newspapers across the country via the Associated Press. Thousands of people came to Notre Dame for the event, and many more sent their congratulation to Sorin by letters and telegrams. The most high-profile attendee was Cardinal James Gibbons, then the most significant prelate in the American Catholic Church. A huge crowd gathered at the train station in South Bend to witness his arrival on August 14. William Corby took Gibbons in Sorin's barouche from the station to Notre Damem, and their procession was greeted with bands of music, the toil of the bells of Notre Dame, and plenty decorations and illuminations. The local chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians acted as escort. The jubilee was also attended by other high-profile members of the church, such as two archbishops (William H. Elder of Cincinnati and John Ireland of St. Paul) and twelve bishops (Richard Gilmour of Cleveland, Joseph Dwenger of Fort Wayne, John Watterson of Columbus, Richard Phelan of Pittsburgh, James Ryan of Alton, John Janssen of Belleville, John Keane of Washington, D.C., Maurice Burke of Cheyenne, John Lancaster Spalding of Peoria, Stephen V. Ryan of Buffalo, and Henry J. Richter of Grand Rapids). The events of August 15 started with the consecration of Sacred Heart Church, led by bishop Dwenger, followed by the blessing of the large bell by bishop Burke. A High Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Gibbons, with a sermon by Archbishop Ireland and a choir from Chicago that sang Joseph Haydn's Imperial Mass. This was followed by a lavish banquet in the Main Building refectories.
Sorin's golden jubilee was the climax of a long history of expansion and success for the Congregation and the university, and for the Catholic Church in America as whole. O'Connel writes that "What had been accomplished at Notre Dame under [Sorin's] stewardship seemed to a wider public emblematic of the growth and maturing of the American Catholic Church as a whole, an there were those in high places anxious to give expression to this fact. To honor the founder of Notre Dame was in effect to proclaim the enduring and legitimate status of the Church, after much struggle, had attained within American society. In accord, therefore, with the late nineteenth century's predilection for gaudy celebrations, featuring bands and banquets, fireworks and fiery oratory, plans were formulated at the beginning of 1888 to solemnize Father Sorin's golden anniversary as a national as well as personal triumph."
Soon after the celebration of his golden jubilee, Sorin entered into a long period of mental and physical suffering. He died a peaceful and painless death of Bright's Disease at the University of Notre Dame on the eve of All Saints' Day, October 31, 1893. The funeral, which was attended by a large crowd, was celebrate on November 11 in the Church of the Sacred Heart and Archbishop William Henry Elder gave the funeral homily. He was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery, as is tradition for all members of the Congregation.
Legacy
Several memorials have been dedicated to Rev. Sorin on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. A staue of Edward F. Sorin, on the intersection of the main and south quads, is one of the main landmarks on the Notre Dame Campus. Sorin Hall was dedicated to Sorin in 1888, with Sorin himself present. Sorin Court, a street behind Main Building, and Sorin's, the restaurant inside the Morris Inn, are also named after him. Several other programs on campus, such as the Sorin Fellows and the Sorin Scholars, are named in his honor. The city of South Bend has dedicated Sorin Street and Sorin Park in his honor, and Sorin Street in Austin is also named after him. Sorinsville was an Irish immigrant neighborhood in South Bend that developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the campus of St. Edward's University, Sorin Hall and the Sorin Oak, the largest oak tree in Austin, are named after him.
Both the University of Notre Dame and St. Edward's University celebrate Founder's Day in his honor. At the Notre Dame, Founder's Day started being celebrated almost immediately in the early 1840s. By Sorin's own request, the celebrations took place on October 13, feast of his patron saint St. Edward, instead of Sorin's birthday. Students from both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's celebrated with theatrical and musical performances, fireworks, athletic events, a feast in the dining halls, and by sending cards and well wishes to Sorin. Over the years, the magnitude of the festivity waned, and by the 1960s a wreath was lay at the bottom of Sorin's statue, and in recent times it is commemorated simply with a special Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. In 2014, Notre Dame launched a year-long celebration to commemorate the Bicentennial of the birth of Sorin. The celebration was kicked-off with a Mass while the dining hall served a special French cuisine feast. During the year, the University Archives launched a major effort to digitize Sorin's papers, the Hesburgh library hosted a Sorin Exhibit in the main concourse, and several lectures about Sorin were held.
Works
Sorin, Edward (1882). The minims of Notre Dame: a serio-comic drama. Notre Dame, Ind.: .
Sorin, Edward (1883). The angel of the schools: a manual of devotion for the use of Catholic youth. New York: Sadlier. .
Sorin, Edward (1879). Bells at Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Ind.: .
Sorin, Edward (1885). Circular letters of the Very Rev. Edward Sorin, Superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross and founder of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Ind. .
Sorin, Edward (2001). Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac. James T. Connelly, John M. Toohey. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. . .
References
Bibliography
Connelly, J. T. (2020). The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross. United States: University of Notre Dame Press.
Klawitter, G. (2016). Early Men of Holy Cross: “To Sustain Each Other Until Death”. United States: iUniverse.
Lemarié, Charles (1978). Le Père Édouard Sorin: 1814-1893, fondateur de l'Université Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Indiana, États-Unis (in French). Angers (place André Leroy, 49005, cedex): Université catholique de l'Ouest. .
O'Connell, Marvin R (2001). Edward Sorin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. . .
Sorin, Edward (1992). Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac. James T. Connelly, John M. Toohey. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. . .
External links
Holy Cross Page on Rev. Sorin
Article from the LA Times
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The Nissan P35 was a planned Group C car built by Nissan Motors for competition in the World Sportscar Championship. Developed by Nissan Performance Technology Inc. (NPTI), which had formerly raced under the name Electramotive in the United States, the cars were intended to be completed by the middle of 1992, with competition starting in 1993. However economic troubles for Nissan led to the cancellation of the project soon after testing of the first cars had begun, meaning that the P35s never raced.
During the development of the P35, Nissan's own motorsports division, Nismo, began work on a modified P35 design that would be adapted to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. This car, known as the NP35, would be allowed to race only once before it too was cancelled. These would be the final prototypes built by Nissan until 1997.
Development
At the end of a strong year in the 1990 World Sportscar Championship season for Nissan's R90CKs, it was decided that the company would leave the championship to instead concentrate on the R90CPs in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship (JSPC) and GTP ZX-Turbos in the IMSA GT Championship in North America. Regulation changes in the World Sportscar Championship would have required Nissan to abandon their turbocharged engines in place of newer, advanced naturally aspirated units, as well as design all new cars to handle them.
Nissan reversed their plans in 1991, partially because JSPC was beginning to allow the newer Group C cars that could outpace Nissan's older cars. Nissan turned to Nissan Performance Technology Inc. (NPTI), the company's North American motorsports arm which had run their IMSA GT Championship program. The company was tasked with developing a new car while Nissan Motorsport (Nismo) in Japan would develop an all-new engine to fit the regulations.
Designed by Yoshi Suzuka and Trevor Harris, the P35 bore little resemblance to NPTI's GTP cars given the very different regulations as well as differing airflow requirements that needed to be taken into account. The water radiator was placed in the nose with inlets for brake cooling situated there as well, the engine inlet was placed above the cockpit. The side ducts located in the horizontal face of the side pods took air to the oil coolers (and also had a unique boundary layer suction feature). A low rear wing was also used, although a dual rear wing was briefly tested. The chassis of the P35 was intended to be built from carbon fibre, yet the initial test chassis were built from a hybrid of aluminium and carbon to save time, due to NPTI's lack of experience with building carbon chassis.
For an engine, Nismo would develop an entirely new unit. Required to be 3.5 litres by Group C rules, the engine had to not only be high-revving like a Formula One engine, but also have endurance capabilities. Nismo produced an engine at 3499 cc named the VRT35, with claims of and capable of reaching nearly 12000 rpm. The VRT35 would be a V12, in comparison to Peugeot, Toyota, and Mazda's V10 units.
Following the cancellation of the P35 project in 1992, the car was briefly considered as a possible replacement for the NPT-90 in the IMSA GTP Championship, replacing the VRT35 V12 with the 3.0L turbocharged VG30 V6 that had previously been used. Wind tunnel tests were carried out on what was termed the 93GTP. However, Nissan was looking elsewhere and decided to pursue Indy Car racing. This lasted only briefly (though Indy Car concepts were beginning to be developed in the wind tunnel) and the realities of the widening recession hit home. This eventually led to the closing of NPTI in 1993.
In total, three P35 chassis were built in total for testing purposes.
NP35
While NPTI developed the P35, Nismo decided that although the car would be legal for competition in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, it was not as well suited to Japan's shorter race circuits. Nismo therefore decided that they would develop their own version of the P35 with an increased downforce setup as well as some other mechanical changes.
Nismo used molds originally used for the creation of the P35 to create their own car, known as the NP35. Due to Nismo's access to a carbon fibre facility, the chassis of the lone NP35 was constructed entirely of carbon fiber instead of the hybrid used by NPTI. The VRT35 V12 was also modified with more power because JSPC races were not as long and endurance was not as important.
Only one NP35 would be built and raced before Nissan cancelled the project.
X-250
In 1992, following the closing of NPTI as well as the cancellation of the World Sportscar Championship, All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, as well as the GTP class in the IMSA GT Championship, a group of former NPTI employees, including chief mechanic John Christie, took it upon themselves to build a new car for IMSA's WSC class of open-cockpit Le Mans prototypes. Using one of the former P35 test cars, chassis #1, the team removed the roof and added roll hoops and a new cockpit surround for driver protection. The VRT35 engines were replaced with a Ferrari 3.4-liter V8. The team renamed the car "X-250" in homage of the 250 employees laid off with NPTI's demise.
Racing history
The P35 was tested various times during 1991, with Bob Earl doing most of the driving. Tests included runs at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and on the road course at Daytona International Speedway. However the P35 never competed in any races, and one copy was moved to Japan to be stored in Nissan's Zama, Kanagawa facility.
The NP35 on the other hand would actually race, although only once. The final race of the 1992 JSPC season (and what would become the final JSPC race before the series was dissolved) was at Mine Circuit, and Nismo entered their lone NP35. Competing in their class against the Toyota TS010 and Mazda MXR-01, the NP35 would be the slowest car in qualifying, five seconds behind the pole winning Nissan R92CP. The race itself would see many mechanical problems for the car, although it would manage to finish the race. Of the finishers, it was ranked last and 25 laps behind the winning TS010. Following this race, the NP35 would not race again, moving into storage alongside the P35. Nissan occasionally brings it to exhibition events, namely its own annual Nismo Festival.
The X-250, built by John Christie and some former members of the defunct P35 program, from P35 Chassis number 1, also only ran one race, the 1997 12 Hours of Sebring powered by a Ferrari 348 engine, built by Robin Smith, a fellow countryman of Mr. Christie. There, the car suffered electronics problems after only 21 laps and was listed as the first car out of the event. The X-250 never raced competitively again but is raced in historic racing.
Chassis number 2 of the Nissan P35 is now housed in Coventry University's Motorsport Engineering Workshop. The car is used as a training vehicle for students on the university's renowned BEng Motorsports Engineering Degree.
References
External links
Japan Le Mans Challenge - Nismo Le Mans Pavilion
Supercars.net - Nissan NP35
Nissan racing cars
Group C cars |
Kirkgate is the name of:
Kirkgate, Leeds, a street in England
Kirkgate, Leith, a street in Scotland
Wakefield Kirkgate railway station, a station in England |
Steven Craig Register (born May 16, 1983) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
Career
Register earned 37 saves in the Texas League in , which was a league high. The New York Mets selected him in the Rule 5 Draft from the Rockies in December , and he was added to their 40-man roster.
He was sent back to the Rockies on March 28, 2008. On August 4, , he was called up to the MLB by the Colorado Rockies. On May 20, 2009, Register was claimed off waivers by the Philadelphia Phillies. He was called up to the majors on July 25, 2009.
On January 19, 2010, Register signed a minor league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays with an invite to 2010 Spring Training.
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Baseball players at the 2003 Pan American Games
Baseball players from Columbus, Georgia
Colorado Rockies players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Modesto Nuts players
Pan American Games medalists in baseball
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
Philadelphia Phillies players
Tri-City Dust Devils players
Tulsa Drillers players
United States national baseball team players
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games |
The Church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio is a Baroque Catholic church located on Piazza Dante, in Naples, Italy.
Construction was begun in 1627 under the patronage of Felice Pignella, and dedicated to the Holy Mary of Caravaggio, a small town in the Province of Bergamo. This attribution of Mary recalls an apparition of the Virgin in 1432. The church was first attached to the Piarists, a religious order dedicated to teaching, and later to the Barnabites. In 1873, it became property of the Prince of Naples Institute for Blind Children (). The architect who helped complete the work was Giovan Battista Nauclerio. The dome was restored in 1846 by Michele Stellati.
The main altarpiece contains a painting entitled The Birth of Mary, painted by Gaetano Gigante. The chapels to the right have paintings of St Joseph by Francesco Solimena, an anonymous Madonna della Provvidenza, and a Deposition by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. The chapels on the left have a Sant'Antonio Zaccaria, by Luigi Scorrano; the tomb of the Barnabite priest, St. Francis Xavier Bianchi, and a painting depicting the apparition of the Virgin to peasants in Caravaggio. Other works in the church were completed by Errico Giovine and Giuseppe Bonolis.
References
Bibliography
Vincenzo Regina, Le chiese di Napoli. Viaggio indimenticabile attraverso la storia artistica, architettonica, letteraria, civile e spirituale della Napoli sacra, Newton e Compton editore, Napoli 2004.
External links
Roman Catholic churches in Naples
Baroque architecture in Naples
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Barnabites |
Uzbekistan is competing at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013.
Swimming
Uzbekistani swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):
Men
Women
Synchronized swimming
Uzbekistan has qualified the following synchronized swimmers.
Water polo
Women's tournament
Team roster
Elena Dukhanova
Diana Dadabaeva
Aleksandra Sarancha
Angelina Djumalieva
Evgeniya Ivanova
Ekaterina Morozova
Natalya Plyusova
Anna Shcheglova
Ramilya Halikova
Adelina Zinurova
Guzelya Hamitova
Anna Plyusova
Natalya Shlyonskaya
Group play
Round of 16
References
External links
Barcelona 2013 Official Site
Nations at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
2013 in Uzbekistani sport
2013 |
Liski is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dołhobyczów, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately south-west of Dołhobyczów, south of Hrubieszów, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin. The village is located in the historical region of Sokal, Galicia. The Szelemej Family was autochthonous to the village for centuries, with a direct most recent dynastic lineage of Hryc, Roman, Ivan, Dmytro, Hryhory, Ihor, and Paul (Pavlush) Szelemej; who now reside in Winnipeg, Canada.
History
Over the centuries, the Pans of the selo switched over hands not infrequently. By c. 1805, the Kryzhanivskys built a distillery on the other side of the road. They first had to build a brickyard (near the stream below the current church), taking the clay for brickmaking from the Prisilka tract. This to some extent improved the financial situation of the serf peasants, only because the feculent refuse of the distillery served to fatten the cattle and pigs. In addition, Pan Kryzhanivsky gave alcohol for the work, so as to intoxicate the peasants; and suppressing any risk of rebellion. The Muscovites would routinely exchange it for sugar (the tragic story of Grandmother Mary's Tit). Behind the distillery stood the lord's cowsheds and stables.
Water was taken to the plant from the source of the pond by water birch pipes (during the cleaning of the pond in 1935 up to 30 m of such pipes were dug).
In the First World War, all of the manor houses burned down. No one rebuilt them anymore, because Mr. Kryzhanivsky gave his daughter in marriage to Potvorovsky, who lived in the village Gilche. In 1920, having become a senator, he moved to Warsaw with his family.
For the whole of Galicia, and therefore also for the peasants of the village, the year 1848 was extremely memorable with the proclamation of the abolition of serfdom. On this occasion, an iron cross was installed and 4 linden trees were planted. This cross still stands on the left side of the stairs leading to the church.
Before the demolition of the serfdom in 1846, Mr. Kryzhanivsky at the entrance to the village between the roads from Gilch and Kostyashyn built a chapel with a wooden figure of St. Florian, and before entering the village from Perevodov - an iron cross with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which in the village was called a figurine. They stand now.
At that time there was an old parish church in the village, and a cemetery around it. The parishioners were faced with the acute question of building a new church. Under the leadership of three villagers (their names were erased from the back wall of the church) the parishioners of the village were raised. Liski, Perevodiv and Kostyashyn on the construction of the parish cathedral. Its construction began in 1872 and was completed in 1875.
References
Villages in Hrubieszów County |
Café Cubano (also known as Cuban espresso, Colada, Cuban coffee, cafecito, Cuban pull, and Cuban shot) is a type of espresso that originated in Cuba. Specifically, it refers to an espresso shot which is sweetened (traditionally with natural brown sugar which has been whipped with the first and strongest drops of espresso). However, the name is sometimes used to refer to coffee based drinks that include Cuban espresso as the main ingredient, such as café con leche.
Drinking café cubano remains a prominent social and cultural activity in Cuba and in Cuban-American communities, particularly in Miami, Tampa and the Florida Keys.
Preparation
Traditional Cuban-style coffee is made using the darker roasts, typically either Italian or Spanish roasts, with the brands Café Bustelo, Café La Llave and Café Pilón being popular. It can be made using an electric espresso machine, but is commonly made with a moka pot.
A small portion of espresso from early in the brewing is added to sugar and vigorously mixed with a spoon into a creamy foam called espuma or espumita. The heat from the coffee making process will hydrolyze some of the sucrose, thereby creating a sweeter and slightly more viscous result than a normal pull or adding sugar at the table.
Serving
In addition to being served at Cuban restaurants, in areas with a high Cuban population, small cafés (or parts of larger establishments) will have small windows, or ventanitas, where Cuban coffee can be ordered. Cuban coffee is often bought with tostada (a buttered slice of Cuban bread), pastelitos, or other Cuban pastries.
Variations
Cortadito is a standard espresso shot topped off with steamed milk. The ratio can be between 50/50 and 75/25 espresso and milk. It is similar to a cortado served in other Latin countries, but pre-sweetened.
Café con leche, or "coffee with milk", is an espresso served alongside a cup of hot or steamed milk. Traditionally served separate from the coffee, the espresso is poured to the desired darkness into the cup of hot milk and then stirred. It is the traditional Cuban breakfast beverage, served with slices of buttered, toasted cuban bread.
Colada is 3–6 shots of Cuban-style espresso served in a Styrofoam cup along with small, plastic demitasses. It is a takeaway form, meant to be drunk as one shot. This is customary of workplace breaks in Cuban communities.
Popular culture
Comedian Gabriel Iglesias joked about a time when he went to a Cuban restaurant and ordered a whole bowl of Cuban coffee, ignorant of how strong the drink is.
See also
Coffee production in Cuba
Dalgona coffee
List of coffee drinks
List of hot beverages
Vietnamese iced coffee
References
External links
Cafe Cubano - Cuban Coffee Recipe
Cuban drinks
Coffee drinks |
Braemar College is an ecumenical co-curricular private school located on Mount Macedon in Woodend, Victoria, Australia. Initially the school's board consisted of representatives from the three local municipalities (Shire of Gisborne, Shire of Romsey and Shire of Newham and Woodend - now replaced by the newer Shire of Macedon Ranges) and the three local Christian denomination churches (Anglican, Catholic and Uniting). The school's motto is Unum Corpus Multi Sumus (One body, many parts).
Braemar House
The main building in the college, Braemar House, dates from the late nineteenth century and is believed to be the largest plywood structure in the Southern Hemisphere. Braemar House is a substantial two-storey timber mansion on brick and stone foundations with high pitched roofs, intricate gables and asymmetric features, which was constructed in 1889-90 to a design by Italian-born architect Louis Boldini.
The school's architectural style is classified as Victorian Period (1851–1901) Free Classical.
Braemar House was built as a guest house for affluent Melbourne residents by a consortium of Melbourne businessmen. The location of Braemar House in the Mount Macedon area which was noted for its bracing mountain air made it attractive to those who believed that city life was not conducive to good health and that regular vacations in a healthy environment would restore well being. Access to rail transport and proximity to recreational activities such as walking and climbing in picturesque locations such as nearby Hanging Rock made Woodend a suitable place for such a venture.
Braemar House operated as a guest house from about 1890 until at least 1908, and possibly until 1918 when it was reported sold and that "it is intended to convert the house into a school for young ladies".
Braemar House was listed on the Heritage Register of Victoria in 2003.
Clyde School
Clyde School was founded as a private girls' school in 1910 in St Kilda by Isabel Henderson. In 1919 it moved to Braemar House, Woodend and in 1921 it was transformed into a public school (which was exclusively a boarding school).
In 1976 Clyde School, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, and Geelong Church of England Girls' Grammar School "The Hermitage" amalgamated, and today the combined school continues as Geelong Grammar School.
Braemar College
In 1975 the present name Braemar College was adopted as a new school was started to include years 7 to 12 for both male and female students. Its original principal was Graham Farley.
Braemar College sits surrounded by the ferny undergrowth, Snow Gums, Alpine Ash and Mountain Ash bushland of the Macedon Regional Park. On 16 February 1983, the school escaped relatively unharmed as the infamous Ash Wednesday fires raged around it. The statewide Ash Wednesday Bushfires raged across Victoria - scorching 295 km² of bushland, taking 7 lives and destroying 628 buildings in the Macedon Ranges area alone. Despite the valiant efforts of local firefighters and volunteers, the school did lose its historic stables and grandstand - now the site of a gymnasium and theatre building. The fire that burnt the stables took place on 1 February 1983, a fortnight before the Ash Wednesday fires.
The college again expanded in 1995 with the construction of a primary school building along with full provisions for grade 5 and 6 students.
In 2017, work on the Braemar College Woodend Campus began. The College has timelines in place that will see the Middle School being located at the second campus for the commencement of term 2 of 2018, but because of delays, the Middle School is now been transferred to the second campus at the beginning of the 3rd term. In 2021, the third building on the Woodend campus has been completed.
Braemar College participates in many activities with other schools in the region such as cross country, athletics, swimming, chess, debating and orienteering.
References in media
Clyde School became well known for its depiction in the Joan Lindsay novel Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967). This novel was concerned with an ill-fated excursion to nearby Hanging Rock by girls from the local boarding school.
In 1975 the novel was made into a film directed by Peter Weir which became very successful both in Australia and overseas. At the time of release, the association with Clyde School was noted in the press. The film's producers chose Martindale Hall, in South Australia (with school buildings more typical of a 19th-century English public school than the former alpine chalet styled guesthouse) to stand for the story's fictional school, Appleyard College.
In 1987, the final chapter or sequel to Picnic at Hanging Rock titled The Secret of Hanging Rock, was launched at a media event at Braemar College.
In 1987, The Australian 60 Minutes program televised a debate at the school on the abortion issue featuring students and community figures on either side of the debate (including notorious anti-abortion campaigner Margaret Tighe).
References
Garden, Donald Stuart (1986). Braemar College, the first decade. Braemar College, Woodend, Victoria, 3442. .
Hitch, J. (1990). A History of Braemar House, Woodend, Victoria, 1890 - 1990. Braemar College.
McDougall & Vines (1997). Braemar House, Woodend Victoria Conservation and Management Plan.
External links
Braemar College website
Educational institutions established in 1975
Private secondary schools in Victoria (state) |
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The 1931 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1931, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Mayoralty results
Councillor results
References
Mayoral elections in Auckland
1931 elections in New Zealand
Politics of the Auckland Region
1930s in Auckland |
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) is a medical research institute located at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1979 with funds donated by the Japanese government.
History
The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research is a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana located in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It is the premiere biomedical research center in the country.
The institute was established through combined efforts by the former dean of the University of Ghana school of medicine, Prof. E. O. Easmon, and Prof. Kenji Honda of Fukushima school of medicine in Japan, and therefore the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). It was built by the government of Japan and donated to the government and people of Ghana in honour of the Japanese researcher Hideyo Noguchi, who researched Yellow fever in Ghana and died from the disease in the country in 1928. Test samples for the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana are performed and confirmed by the institute.
Training
In January 2021, the Institute undertook a five-week capacity building training in diseases for about 15 lab technicians who were from 9 countries in West Africa.
Awards and recognition
In November 2020, the institute was given a citation by the Association of Ghana Industries at the ninth edition of the Ghana Industry and Quality Awards. This was in recognition of their efforts in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.
In February 2021, the institute was given LIS, which was supported by Healthcare Federation of Ghana in partnership with Medlab Ghana Services Limited and other institutions. The LIS was said to be used by the institute's technical staff.
References
Medical research institutes in Ghana
University of Ghana
Ghana–Japan relations |
Maurice A. Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. He was chosen as Canada's "Citizen of the Year". Ruddick and six others were trapped 4000 feet underground, and were there for nine days. Ruddick cheered his comrades with his singing, and the mother of one of the miners later declared "If it wasn't for Maurice, they'd all have been dead."
The disaster attracted international media attention. The Governor of the State of Georgia, Marvin Griffin (Democrat), invited nineteen of the survivors to vacation at one of his state's luxurious resorts, Jekyll Island, usually reserved for millionaires. This was in the Deep South in the time of Jim Crow laws, i.e. strict segregation between black and white people. When he discovered that one of the miners was black, Griffin said that Ruddick would have to be segregated from the others. When the miners heard this, they were reluctant to accept the offer, but Ruddick agreed to go on the Governor's terms, knowing how much the others really wanted the vacation. Ruddick, his wife, and the four of his twelve children who accompanied him on the trip all stayed in a separate area of the island, in trailers built by Griffin especially for the occasion, and attended separate ceremonies from the white miners.
Maurice Ruddick died in 1988. He is buried in Hillside Cemetery.
His daughter, folk singer Val MacDonald, recorded a song that he composed in the mine, "The Springhill Mine Disaster Song."
He was featured in a Canadian Heritage Minute.
A musical written called "Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story" by Beau Dixon with Lyrics and Music by Rob Fortin and Susan Newman was created and played at the 1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, Ontario Canada.
See also
Black Nova Scotians
References
External links
Maurice Ruddick | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Historic Canada Heritage Minute
Recording of Mr. Ruddick speaking about the Springhill Mine Disaster
1912 births
1988 deaths
Canadian coal miners
Mining disaster survivors
People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia |
Claud Cloete (born 17 February 1970) is a South African modern pentathlete. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
References
1970 births
Living people
South African male modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes for South Africa
Modern pentathletes at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people) |
Niketa Thopia (, ; 1388 – d. 1415) was the Lord of Krujë between 1392—1394 and 1403–1415. He was a member of the Thopia family and the son of Karl Topia, the Prince of Albania (r. 1368–1388).
Life
Niketa was the son of Karl Topia. His mother is unknown. Upon Karl Topia's death (1388), Marco Barbarigo inherited Krujë through his marriage with Helena, Niketa's older sister; Niketa's older brother Gjergj succeeded as Lord of Durazzo. Niketa held a territory south of Durazzo.
After the death of Bayezid (1402), many Albanian lords recognised Venetian suzerainty, such as Niketa, Gjon Kastrioti and Koja Zaharija. The Venetians were interested in having some buffer zone between them and the advancing Ottoman army. In 1403, Niketa Thopia managed to capture the city of Krujë from his sister, Helena Thopia, thus gaining another part of the territory previously held by the Thopia family.
His daughter Mara married Balsha III in 1407 and had a daughter Jelena, named after her grandmother Jelena Lazarević. Balsha III and Niketa entered an alliance in order to drive out the Venetians. Niketa then started to be a mediator between Balsha and Venetians during the First Scutari War. At the end of 1411, Niketa Thopia suffered a heavy defeat from the forces of Teodor III Muzaka during one skirmish. He himself was held prisoner and with the intervention of the Ragusan Republic was released, but only after conceding some territories around the Shkumbin river to the Muzaka family. Upon his death in 1415, the castle of Krujë fell into Ottomans' hands.
He married the daughter of Komnen Arianiti.
See also
Notes
Sources
14th-century lords in Europe
Niketa
Year of birth unknown
1415 deaths
14th-century Albanian people
15th-century Albanian people |
Xinghuacun Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui. , it administers Xinghuacun Village and the following six residential neighborhoods:
Chikou ()
Chengxi ()
Shili ()
Kongjing ()
Changgang ()
Duwu ()
See also
List of township-level divisions of Anhui
References
Township-level divisions of Anhui
Chizhou
Subdistricts of the People's Republic of China |
The political status of the Cook Islands and Niue is formally defined as being states in free association within the Realm of New Zealand, which is made up of the Cook Islands, Niue, and New Zealand and its territories, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency. The Cook Islands and Niue have full constitutional independence from New Zealand and act as independent countries. Some countries have recognised them as sovereign entities and established diplomatic relations. However, New Zealand may carry out defence and foreign affairs on behalf of the two associated states when requested.
Sovereignty and self-government
New Zealand is officially responsible for the defence and foreign affairs of the Cook Islands and Niue. The Act of the New Zealand Parliament which established self-governance mentions a role for New Zealand, but the Constitution of the Cook Islands does not. However, these responsibilities confer New Zealand no rights of control and can only be exercised at the request of the Cook Islands and Niue. The Cook Islands and Niue have been recognised as sovereign states by some countries, and maintain diplomatic relations under their own name. The United States recognises the Cook Islands as a sovereign nation, and has signed treaties with the Cook Islands government. Moreover, the Secretary General of the United Nations has determined that the admission of the Cook Islands and Niue into the World Health Assembly means that they have been accepted as states by the international community.
Although the Cook Islands and Niue behave as sovereign states in international law, their constitutional statuses within the Realm of New Zealand (i.e., for matters of New Zealand domestic law) is different from that of a fully independent state, considering that all of Niue's and the Cook Islands' nationals are automatically New Zealand citizens, and both have New Zealand's Monarch as their own head of state. Neither the Cook Islands nor Niue has decided to join the United Nations, as New Zealand has expressed a view that such a move would lead to their loss of the right to automatic acquisition of New Zealand citizenship. However, New Zealand has never formally opposed such application, nor has it argued that either country would not be within its sovereign right to do so. Some scholars have argued that a lack of separate Cook Islands citizenship places an effective limit on the ability of the Cook Islands to act as a sovereign entity, while others have argued that the participation of the Cook Islands in international organisations (such as the Pacific Islands Forum) shows that Cook Islands sovereignty is not limited by the free association arrangement.
History
Formerly dependencies of New Zealand, the Cook Islands became a state in free association with New Zealand on 4 August 1965; Niue became a state in free association on 19 October 1974, after a constitutional referendum. In 1992, the UN recognised both states' right to establish diplomatic relations with other countries. Since then, both the Cook Islands and Niue have been allowed to attend UN-sponsored conferences open to "all States" as well as sign and ratify UN treaties open to "non-member states".
New Zealand has formally allowed the Cook Islands to independently conduct its own foreign affairs since 6 April 2001. Niue was granted this power in 2007.
The Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs records that in 1988 "New Zealand stated that its future participation in international agreements would no longer extend to" Niue and the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands and Niue were granted membership of UNESCO by 1993 and of the World Health Organization by 1994. Also by 1994, the UN Secretariat had "recognized the full treaty-making capacity ... of Niue". As of 2022, the Cook Islands, Kosovo, and Niue are the only state parties that participate in UN specialised agencies, but which are not member states of the UN nor observer states with the United Nations General Assembly. Additionally, the Republic of China on Taiwan participated in the World Health Assembly as Chinese Taipei from 2009 to 2016.
In September 2022, the United States announced its recognition of the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states during President Biden's Summit with Pacific Islands Countries (PIC) Leaders in Washington, D.C.
Positions taken by states
States with which the Cook Islands and Niue have diplomatic relations
States that recognise the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign nations
States that recognise the Cook Islands and Niue as self-governing territories
The Cook Islands and Niue as microstates
While their respective relationships with New Zealand, as well as their small size, make them rather unusual states, it has been argued that their status is far from unique. According to Zbigniew Dumienski, both the Cook Islands and Niue can be seen as microstates, which are defined as: "modern protected states, i.e. sovereign states that have been able to unilaterally depute certain attributes of sovereignty to larger powers in exchange for benign protection of their political and economic viability against their geographic or demographic constraints." Both the Cook Islands and Niue, as well as such states as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, and Vatican City, fit into this definition of microstates.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Sovereignty
Politics of the Cook Islands
Politics of Niue
Realm of New Zealand |
The Daily Times Chronicle is a family-owned five-day (Monday through Friday) daily newspaper published in Woburn, Massachusetts, with separate daily editions and associated weekly newspapers covering several towns along Massachusetts Route 128 in eastern Middlesex County.
The newspaper was formerly known as the Woburn Daily Times and Reading Chronicle. It also publishes The Stoneham Independent, Tewksbury Town Crier and Wilmington Town Crier.
Today's paper
Printed on non-holiday weekdays only, the Daily Times Chronicle looks different in each of the towns it covers, with separate editions, editors and reporters for Burlington, Reading, Winchester and Woburn.
One of the paper's quirks is that it does not publish unsigned editorials on its opinion page, and that it publishes letters to the editor on its local news pages.
Sports lead off the Daily Times Chronicle's second of two sections, which often also includes a society news page. Sports coverage, as with news coverage, is intensely local, often with no or only one regional or national story—written by the Associated Press—on the front page.
History
Woburn's Haggerty family—specifically, James D. Haggerty, Paul L. Haggerty and James D. Haggerty Jr.-- owned and served as editors and publishers of the paper since it was founded as the Woburn Daily Times in 1901 through 1980. In 1967, the Haggertys bought the Reading Chronicle, and in 1981 merged the weekly Chronicle into the Daily Times to create the current newspaper. The newspaper's main office and printing plant is located at 1 Arrow Drive in Woburn, although it retains a news bureau, the former Chronicle office, on Main Street in Reading. Since 1980 the newspaper has been owned and operated by the grandsons of James D. Haggerty including Peter Haggerty, Publisher; Richard P. Haggerty, General Manager; James D. Haggerty III, Editor; and Mark Haggerty, Business Manager.
The Daily Times was headquartered from 1921 to 1987 at 23-25 Montvale Avenue in downtown Woburn. That building was targeted by an arsonist January 19, 1985, who set 12 fires in the press room, causing $200,000 in damage.
The building was sold to Peterson School of Steam Engineering after the newspaper moved to its Arrow Drive plant.
Since 1987 the company has operated out of a building located 1 Arrow Drive in Woburn.
Sisters and competitors
In addition to the five local editions of the daily newspaper, Woburn Daily Times Inc. publishes three weekly newspapers in adjoining towns and a weekly supplement, Middlesex East, that runs in both the daily and the weeklies, as well as The Lynnfield Villager and North Reading Transcript, which are owned separately. The three weeklies owned by Woburn Daily Times Inc. are:
The Stoneham Independent, founded in 1870, published each Wednesday from an office on Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Average circulation was 4,000 in 2006.
The Tewksbury Town Crier and Wilmington Town Crier, published each Wednesday in Tewksbury and Wilmington, Massachusetts, respectively.
The Daily Times Chronicle competes with several newspapers for readers. Aside from The Boston Globe, which attracts many readers who prefer a regional view, Wakefield readers have a hometown daily, The Wakefield Daily Item; and The Sun of Lowell competes in Tewksbury. Several weekly newspapers owned by Community Newspaper Company also compete with the locally owned Daily Times company. These titles include the Burlington Union, Reading Advocate, Stoneham Sun, Wakefield Observer, Winchester Star and Woburn Advocate.
References
External links
The Stoneham Independent Website
Woburnonline -- Daily Times Chronicle Website
Newspapers published in Massachusetts
Mass media in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Woburn, Massachusetts |
Gilles Müller was the defending champion, but he did not participate in 2015.
Mirza Bašić won the title defeating Ričardas Berankis in the final, 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4).
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
External links
Main draw
Qualifying draw
2015 ATP Challenger Tour
2015 Singles |
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