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Dong Xiaojun (; born November 1962) is a Chinese diplomat. He has served as the Chinese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Jamaica, Uruguay, and Bulgaria.
See also
China–Jamaica relations
China–Uruguay relations
Bulgaria–China relations
References
External links
Living people
Ambassadors of China to Jamaica
Ambassadors of China to Uruguay
Ambassadors of China to Bulgaria
1962 births |
Torch Trinity Graduate University (TTGU) [Korean: 횃불트리니티신학대학원대학교] is an evangelical graduate school and seminary in Yangjae-dong, Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It was formerly called Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology (TTGST). The university commits itself to the cause of Christian missions, with an emphasis on training future leaders of the church from all over the world.
History
Torch Trinity Graduate University was established in 1997 through the partnership of the Korean Center for World Missions (Seoul, South Korea) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School(Deerfield, IL). Torch Trinity first opened its doors in 1998 with the purpose of educating, equipping, and sending Christian leaders and missionaries worldwide.
Originally named Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology (TTGST), the establishment of the school was pioneered by Hyung Ja Lee. She was installed as the school's chairperson in 1997 and still holds this office today. Since its establishment, Torch Trinity has had five presidents. Yoon Hee Kim (2019–present), Jung-Sook Lee (2015–2019), Sang Bok David Kim (1997-2001, 2011–2015), Kenneth M. Meyer (2001-2005), and Yong Jo Ha (2005-2011).
After the sudden passing of President Ha, the founding president, Sangbok David Kim, was reappointed as the fourth president (2011–2015). Under his leadership, the school changed its English appellation to Torch Trinity Graduate University to reflect a more accurate translation of the school's Korean name and added the Academic Building with new classrooms. Jung Sook Lee, the former vice president of Academic Development, was installed as the fifth president on September 1, 2015.
Torch Trinity is an evangelical, interdenominational institution. The Torch Trinity student body is drawn from the traditions of various Protestant denominations including Reformed/Presbyterian, Baptist, Independent Bible, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Episcopalian. Currently, there are over five hundred students enrolled at Torch Trinity from over thirty countries.[4] [5] The school offers six degree programs instructed by twenty-one full-time professors and thirteen adjuncts each with a doctoral degree from an accredited school. Students can choose to join either the English or Korean language programs.
Aims
Strategic Mission Education and Adaptive Education:
The school has adopted the "Strategic Mission and Adaptive Education" plan to meet four areas of the church today:
Mission Fields
Korean Churches
Foreign Residents in Korea
Foreign Nationals of Korean Descent
Torch Trinity scholarships are given to students who help fulfill the school's aims. One of the most sought after scholarships includes the Torch Strategic Mission Scholarship (TSMS) which includes full tuition, room and board. Here, recipients are from the Majority World and they are called to serve in their respective countries upon graduation. TSMS is an integral part of Torch Trinity's mission to train and equip Christian leaders for those regions least penetrated by the gospel.
Angel Projects:
Between semesters, members of the faculty take groups of students to visit alumni. These trips are called Angel Projects. Professors often give seminars on their specialized topics while students are able to learn first-hand how Christians propagate the gospel in a global context. Torch Trinity endeavors to stay connected to its graduates for mutual edification and to better learn how to meet the needs of Christians abroad.
Academics
Degree programs
Torch Trinity offers six degree programs: M.Div., MEd, MA (in Christian Counseling and in Christian Education), MTS, Th.M., and Ph.D. Both Korean citizens and foreign/international students can apply. Expatriates living in Korea can also apply for a degree program as part-time students (if they apply full-time, they will be categorized as internationals). Torch Trinity holds classes during the day and evening. The following degrees and tracks are taught in English:
The Master of Divinity (M.Div.) is a 3-year program that prepares graduates for pastoral, preaching, and teaching ministries either in the church or in the mission field. It offers a comprehensive study of the Bible, including the biblical languages (Hebrew and Greek), theology, church history, preaching and practical ministry, mission and evangelism, Christian education, and Christian counseling. The M.Div. is the minimum degree for ordination in most denominations and for entry into Ph.D. or Th.D. programs in theological studies.
The Master of Education (MEd) is a 2-year program for full-time students and is geared for students who wish to work in primary or secondary schools. It has two tracks: Instruction and Administration. MEd students can also earn ACSI certification.
The Master of Arts (MA) is a 2-year program designed to prepare graduates for professional ministry in either education or counseling. Both Christian Counseling and Christian Education programs fall under this degree. The MA begins with biblical and theological foundations and ends with practical/clinical training and experience. Writing a thesis is optional.
The Master of Theological Studies (MTS) is a 2-year program designed to provide a comprehensive survey of biblical studies, theology, and church history. Applied studies are available as electives. The MTS does not require biblical languages (Hebrew and Greek) or preaching. This degree does not usually qualify students for pastoral ordination.
The Master of Theology (Th.M.) is a 2-year advanced program for M.Div. graduates to develop a high degree of competency in a specific field of specialization. Concentrations are available from all departments except Counseling. The degree is often viewed as a stepping-stone for doctoral studies and is thus ideal for a more rigorous and academic study of a specific area of biblical, theological, historical, or applied studies. The ThM program requires either a thesis or two major academic papers. Doctoral programs more readily accept Th.M. over M.Div. graduates.
The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is a research terminal degree. Torch Trinity offers doctorates in four areas: Biblical Studies, Theological/Historical studies, Intercultural Studies, and Educational Studies. The Ph.D. is a 3-year doctoral program for academic research, publication, and teaching ministries. Graduates will gain competence in a highly specialized area for the purpose of advanced research and publication as well as a comprehensive knowledge of the discipline for teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Ph.D. requires a rigorous doctoral dissertation.
Accreditation
Torch Trinity is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, which is the only accrediting agency in the Republic of Korea. Internationally, the school is accredited by the Asia Theological Association (ATA), an Asian accrediting body.
Credits can be transferred in full to any school accredited by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in North America. Torch Trinity graduates have been accepted for doctoral programs in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Torch Trinity is also a member of the Korea Association of Accredited Theological Schools (KAATS). The U.S. military's G.I. Bill recognizes the school, allowing veterans to earn a graduate degree on the Korean peninsula. In addition, several members of Torch Trinity's alumni have become military chaplains.
Student awards and prizes
Among its student awards, the Torch Trinity awards a prize for Excellence in Preaching and a prize for Excellence in Writing in honor of the American theologian and author Frederick Buechner. A judging panel of faculty members and peers adjudicate the contest, and the prizes are awarded to those submissions that demonstrate excellence in these areas.
Library
The Torch Trinity Library is the academic resource center for the school and provides abundant material for students to study and browse in a quiet, comfortable environment. Torch Trinity Library is one of the best theological libraries in Korea and now endeavors to become the best theological library in Asia.
The facility houses some 60,000 books, more than half in English, over 310 domestic and international periodicals, some 5,300 dissertations and theses, over 800 micro-form resources, as well as numerous audio, video, and CD-ROM resource. The library uses the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system. The catalog is accessible through the online service at the Torch Trinity Library's website
Faculty and Instructors
Faculty members have strong ministry experiences either as ordained leaders or as laity. In terms of academics, every full-time professor and lecturer has a doctoral degree from an accredited school recognized by each school's national government (100% doctoral rate for full-time members). In addition, most have been educated in at least two countries, earning a degree from each country. The international faculty consists of native Koreans, Korean-Americans, and non-Koreans.
In addition, the school hires part-time instructors. Students can take classes from any of the thirteen adjuncts, who also have doctorates. Renowned guest professors and researchers are invited to teach modular courses at the end of each semester. Some of these visiting professors may also stay on for a semester as visiting lecturers. Seminars are held throughout the school year by various guest speakers.
The school hires part-time English instructors to assist students who struggle with the English language. These part-time English instructors are fully versed in the English language both in speaking and writing, have prior English teaching experience, and have earned, in the minimum, M.Div. degrees.
Chapel Services
Chapel is the centerpiece of worship, community, and spiritual life at Torch Trinity. Chapel services are held every Tuesday (English), Thursday (English & Korean), and Saturday (Korean). Students are required to attend two chapel services weekly, as well as participate in weekly small group meetings.
Associations and Partnerships
Memberships and partnerships with external organizations include: the Overseas Council (OC), the International Council for Evangelical and Theological Education (ICETE), the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), the Association of Evangelical Theological Schools, and Refo 500.
Location
Torch Trinity is located in Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea.
Torch Trinity is easily accessible by public transportation.
By Subway:
Take the orange line (3) or the red line (Shin Bundang) to Yangjae Station, exit at gate 9, and walk south for approximately 500 meters. At the next major intersection, turn right. Turn right at the first street and Torch Trinity is straight ahead about 200 meters.
By Bus:
Green Bus: 08, 18, 19, 20, 4417, 4421, 4422, 4423, 4432, 5411
Blue Bus: 140, 400, 470, 471
Red Bus: 1550, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, 9404, 9405, 9406, 9408, 9409, 9410, 9411, 9412, 9503, 9700
The nearest major bus stop is named Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI, 교육개발원입구)
Notes
External links
Official website
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Study in Korea
Universities and colleges in Seoul
Educational institutions established in 1998
1998 establishments in South Korea |
Pyskowice () is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.
It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship. Pyskowice is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 18,432 (2019). It borders Gliwice, one of the largest cities of the metropolitan area, in the south.
History
The name of the town comes from the Old Polish male name Pysk. The oldest known mention of Pyskowice comes from a document of Bishop of Wrocław Tomasz from 1256. It was granted town rights in 1260 by Duke Władysław Opolski. The town was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. It remained part of various Polish-ruled duchies, including Bytom, Cieszyn, Oświęcim and Opole, until 1532 when it was incorporated to the Bohemian (Czech) Crown. In 1645, along with the Duchy of Opole, it came back under Polish rule under the House of Vasa.
It was annexed by Prussia in the 18th century, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany until 1945. In 1842, the town had a population of 3,322, mostly Polish by nationality, and Catholic by confession. Despite Prussian rule, church services were still held mainly in Polish at the time, with German services held only every fourth Sunday. In the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, 73.6% of the residents voted to remain in Germany, while in the present-day district (then separate village) of Dzierżno 67.5% voted to rejoin Poland, which just regained independence following the First World War.
During the Second World War, the Germans established and operated the E578 and E749 forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the town, and the E110 and E709 subcamps in the present-day district of Dzierżno. Canadian and British prisoners of war had to work there for their German captors. The Germans also operated an additional forced labour camp for Jewish men in 1942–1944. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive, the prisoners based in Pyskowice were marched westward in the so-called Long March or Death March. Some died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. Eventually the survivors were liberated by American troops in April or May 1945. After the war, the town became again part of Poland under its restored historic name.
In 1984, town limits were expanded by including Mikuszowina as a new district.
Transport
Polish National roads 40 and 94, and the Voivodeship road 901 run through the town, and the A1 and A4 motorways run nearby, within the metropolitan area.
There is a railway station in Pyskowice.
Culture
There is a railway museum (Skansen Taboru Kolejowego) in Pyskowice.
Sports
The local football club is Czarni Pyskowice. It competes in the lower leagues.
Notable people
Abraham Lewysohn (1805–1860), rabbi
Georg Radziej (1895–1972), Wehrmacht general
Agata Buzek (born 1976), actress
C-BooL (born 1981), DJ and record producer
Rafał Szombierski (born 1982), speedway rider
Grzegorz Kasprzik (born 1983), footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Pyskowice is twinned with:
Chervonohrad, Ukraine
Flörsheim am Main, Germany
La Ricamarie, France
References
External links
Webpage of the town (Polish, English, German)
Peiskretscham Website
Jewish Community in Pyskowice on Virtual Shtetl
Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship
Gliwice County
Nazi war crimes in Poland |
Patrick Benjamin Noubissié Youmbi (born 25 June 1983) is a retired French born Cameroonian professional football player and physiotherapist.
Playing career
Noubissie has played for French sides Paris F.C., CS Brétigny sur Orge, Le Mée sur Seine S.C., CS Sedan Ardennes and US Roye Foot Picardie 80 before signing for English teams Crewe Alexandra and Swindon Town.
In August 2007, Noubissie signed a two-year contract with Hibernian. Noubissie was then immediately loaned to Livingston for three months to build up his match fitness. He returned to Easter Road in November 2007 and made a few appearances for Hibs, but he then fell out of favour after manager John Collins resigned.
Noubissie was subsequently loaned out to Dundee on 4 March 2008 as an emergency loan. At the end of the season, Noubissie was released by Hibs.
In July 2009, he trained and played in pre-season friendlies for English Conference National side Kettering Town, with the club's manager Mark Cooper aiming to agree a deal for the midfielder.
In August 2009, he joined Kettering after gaining international clearance from the Cypriot FA. and made his debut in the 1–1 draw against local rivals Oxford United After a short stint at Droylsden F.C., played for non league sides Harborough Town F.C. and Sunday football club Guru Nanak Gurdwara F.C.
Physiotherapy career
Due to a long-standing hip injury and multiple surgeries, Patrick was forced to retire from football aged 28 while playing for Kettering Town in the conference at the end of the season 2011/2012.
He trained as a physiotherapist at Coventry University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physiotherapy and Master of Science degree in Manual Therapy.
Patrick Firstly took a position as assistant First team physiotherapist at Northamptonshire County Cricket Club assisting Barry Goudriaan, the Head of Sports and Exercise Medicine.
He then moved on to join Leicester City Football Club as an Academy Physiotherapist.
On 1 September 2018, with the appointment of Dutch duo Clarence Seedorf and Patrick Kluivert respectively named Cameroon National Team Head coach and assistant coach, Patrick was appointed as Cameroon National team Physiotherapist.
Personal life
His son is a footballer too and signed in August 2023 for Manchester City F.C., after playing in the academy of his fathers club Leicester City F.C.
References
External links
Noubissie expects big things of Poppies
1983 births
Living people
People from Bois-Colombes
Ayia Napa FC players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
CS Sedan Ardennes players
Dundee F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Men's association football midfielders
French expatriate men's footballers
French men's footballers
Hibernian F.C. players
Kettering Town F.C. players
Livingston F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Premier League players
Cypriot Second Division players
Swindon Town F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent
Footballers from Hauts-de-Seine |
The Imperial Regalia, also called Imperial Insignia (in German Reichskleinodien, Reichsinsignien or Reichsschatz), are regalia of the Holy Roman Emperor. The most important parts are the Crown, the Imperial orb, the Imperial sceptre, the Holy Lance and the Imperial Sword. Today they are kept at the Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria.
The Imperial Regalia are the only completely preserved regalia from the Middle Ages.
During the late Middle Ages, the word Imperial Regalia (Reichskleinodien) had many variations in the Latin language. The regalia were named in Latin: insignia imperialia, regalia insignia, insignia imperalis capellae quae regalia dicuntur and other similar words.
Components
The regalia is composed of two different parts. The greater group are the so-called Nürnberger Kleinodien (roughly translated Nuremberg jewels), named after the town of Nuremberg, where the regalia were kept from 1424 to 1796. This part comprised the Imperial Crown, parts of the coronation vestments, the Imperial Orb, the Imperial Sceptre, the Imperial Sword, the Ceremonial Sword, the Imperial Cross, the Holy Lance, and all other reliquaries except St. Stephen's Purse.
St. Stephen's Purse, the Imperial Bible, and the so-called Sabre of Charlemagne were kept in Aachen until 1794, which gave them the name Aachener Kleinodien (Aachen jewels). It is not known how long they have been considered among the Imperial Regalia, nor how long they had been in Aachen.
History
Middle Ages
The inventory of the regalia during the late Middle Ages normally consisted only of five to six items. Goffredo da Viterbo counted following items: the Imperial Cross, the Holy Lance, the crown, the sceptre, the orb, and the sword. On other lists, however, the sword is not mentioned.
Whether the medieval chronicles really do refer to the same regalia which are kept in Vienna today depends on a variety of factors. Descriptions of the emperors only spoke of them being "clothed in imperial regalia" without exactly describing which items they were.
The crown can only be dated back to the 13th century, when it is described in a medieval poem. The poem speaks of the Waise (i.e., The Orphan) stone, which was a big and prominent jewel on the front of the crown, probably a white opal with an exceptionally brilliant red fire, since replaced by a triangular blue sapphire. The first definite pictorial image of the crown can only be found later in a mural in the Karlstein Castle close to Prague.
It is also difficult to define for how long the Imperial and Ceremonial Swords have belonged to the regalia.
Whereabouts in medieval times
Until the 15th century the Imperial Regalia had no firm depository and sometimes accompanied the ruler on his trips through the empire. Above all with conflicts around the legality of the rule it was important to own the insignia. As depositories during this time some imperial castles or seats of reliable ministerialises are known:
Limburg Abbey near Dürkheim (Palatinate) (11th century)
Harzburg (11th century)
Imperial Palace of Goslar (11th, 13th century)
Castle Hammerstein at Rhine (1125)
Trifels Castle near Annweiler (12th, 13th century, with interruptions)
Imperial chapel of Haguenau (12th, 13th century, with interruptions)
Waldburg Castle near Ravensburg (c. 1220–1240)
Krautheim Castle on the river Jagst (probably 1240–1242)
Kyburg Palace, today Canton of Zurich in Switzerland (1273–1322, with one interruption)
Castle Stein, municipality of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland (about 1280 under Rudolf of Habsburg)
Alter Hof (Old Court) in Munich (under Ludwig the Bavarian, 1324–1350)
St. Vitus Cathedral (Prague) and Karlstein Castle in Bohemia (c. 1350/52–1421)
Plintenburg and Ofen in Hungary (1421–1424)
Committal to Nuremberg
Emperor Sigismund transferred the Imperial Regalia "to everlasting preservation" to the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg with a dated document on 29 September 1423. They arrived there on 22 March the following year from Plintenburg, and were kept in the chapel of the Heilig-Geist-Spital. Once a year they were shown to believers in a so-called Heiltumsweisung (worship show), on the fourteenth day after Good Friday. For coronations they were brought to Aachen or Frankfurt Cathedral.
Ceremonial decoration
Since the Age of Enlightenment at least, the imperial regalia had no constitutive or confirming character for the imperial function any more. It served merely as an adornment for the coronation of the emperors, who all belonged to the House of Habsburg and since the mid-16th century had ceased to be crowned by the pope.
A young Johann Wolfgang Goethe on 3 April 1764, was an eyewitness in Frankfurt during the coronation of the 18-year-old Joseph, Duke of Lorraine to King in Germany. He later wrote dismissively about the event in his autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit ():
Refuge in Vienna
While French troops were advancing in 1794 in the direction of Aachen during the War of the First Coalition, the pieces located there were brought to the Capuchin's monastery in Paderborn. In July 1796, French troops crossed the Rhine and shortly thereafter reached Franconia. On 23 July the most important parts of the Imperial Regalia (crown, sceptre, orb, eight pieces of the vestments) were hastily evacuated by Nuremberg colonel Johann Georg Haller von Hallerstein from Nuremberg to Regensburg, where they arrived the next day. On 28 September the remaining parts of the jewels were also delivered to Regensburg. Since this elopement parts of the treasure are missing.
Until 1800 the Imperial Regalia remained in the Saint Emmeram's Abbey in Regensburg, from where their transfer began to Vienna on 30 June. The committal there is verified for 29 October. The pieces from Aachen were brought in 1798 to Hildesheim and didn't reach Vienna before 1801.
Nazi and post-war period
After the Anschluss of Austria to the Nazi Reich in 1938 the imperial regalia were returned on instruction by Adolf Hitler to Nuremberg, where they were exhibited in the Katharinenkirche. In the Second World War they were stored for protection from air raids in the Historischer Kunstbunker () beneath Nuremberg Castle.
In 1945 the imperial regalia were recovered by American soldiers, based on an investigation by art historian Lt. Walter Horn, who had joined the US military after becoming a naturalized citizen. In January 1946 the treasures were returned it to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in allied-occupied Austria. They have been kept permanently in Vienna since that date. The Crown and Regalia were again on display at the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Hapsburg dynasty, since 1954.
See also
Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor
Imperial Treasury, Vienna
References
Bibliography
Weltliche und Geistliche Schatzkammer. Bildführer. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 1987.
Fillitz, Hermann. Die Schatzkammer in Wien: Symbole abendländischen Kaisertums. Vienna, 1986.
Fillitz, Hermann. Die Insignien und Kleinodien des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, 1954.
Heigl, Peter. The Imperial Regalia in the Nazi Bunker/ Der Reichsschatz im Nazibunker. Nuremberg 2005.
External links
The Imperial Treasury Museum Vienna (Wiener Schatzkammer)
Medieval European metalwork objects |
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#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif
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Captain William Alan Wright (27 November 1895 – 26 April 1990) was a British World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories and later a senior member of the Indian Civil Service.
Early life and background
Wright was born in Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, the son of the Reverend Thomas Wright, who was the vicar there, and his wife Annie. He was educated at Oundle School.
World War I
Wright was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the infantry on 4 January 1915 and served in the Leicestershire Regiment, until training as a pilot and being appointed a flying officer in the Royal Flying Corps on 16 March 1917. He was posted to No. 45 Squadron RFC to fly the Sopwith 1½ Strutter two-seater, and was shot down by Max Ritter von Müller on 30 April 1917, but survived. Wright gained his first aerial victory on 9 May, sharing with another aircraft of his squadron in the destruction of an Albatros D.III fighter. On 24 May he destroyed two more D.IIIs, and sent a fourth down on flames on 28 May. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1917.
His squadron was then re-equipped with the Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter, and on 1 September 1917 Wright was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain. He gained his fifth victory, making him an 'ace', on 5 September by driving down a DFW reconnaissance aircraft. He then accounted for two more reconnaissance aircraft on 11 and 20 September. Finally, on 1 October, he shared with a crew from No. 53 Squadron RFC in the capture of an Albatros D.V.
Wright was made a Chevalier of the Ordre de la Couronne by the King of the Belgians, receiving unrestricted permission to wear the decoration by The King on 21 September 1917, and receiving similar permission to wear the Croix de guerre, also awarded by Belgium, on 11 March 1918. In the 1919 New Year Honours Wright was awarded the Air Force Cross. He was transferred to the RAF unemployed list on 27 February 1919.
List of aerial victories
Post-war career
After the war, on 5 September 1921, he entered the Indian Civil Service. In the 1945 Birthday Honours Wright, then Officiating Joint Secretary in the War Department of the Government of India, was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.
On 1 July 1945 he was granted an emergency commission in the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) with the rank of second lieutenant. He eventually relinquished his commission on 20 January 1946, and was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel.
William Alan Wright died in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
References
1895 births
1990 deaths
People from the Borough of Melton
People educated at Oundle School
Royal Flying Corps officers
British World War I flying aces
Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium)
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Military personnel from Leicestershire
Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Air Force officers |
The 2014–15 ABA season was the fourteenth season of the American Basketball Association. The season began in November 2014 and ended in March 2015. The playoffs happened in March 2015, with the finals in April 2015.
Season standings
American Basketball Association (2000–present) seasons
ABA |
Equihash is a memory-hard Proof-of-work algorithm introduced by the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. The algorithm is based on a generalization of the Birthday problem which finds colliding hash values. It has severe time-space trade-offs but concedes vulnerability to unforeseen parallel optimizations. It was designed such that parallel implementations are bottle-necked by memory bandwidth in an attempt to worsen the cost-performance trade-offs of designing custom ASIC implementations. ASIC resistance in Equihash is based on the assumption that commercially-sold hardware already has quite high memory bandwidth, so improvements made by custom hardware may not be worth the development cost.
General
Equihash was proposed by Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich as part of the University of Luxembourg research group CryptoLUX. It was introduced at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2016 in San Diego. Notable blockchain-based projects such as ZCash, BitcoinZ, Horizen, Aion, Hush, and Pirate Chain have integrated Equihash for reasons such as security, privacy, and ASIC miner resistance.
The manufacturer Bitmain has succeeded in optimizing the processing of Zcash's Equihash-200,9 with an ASIC.
Specification
Equihash has three parameters – , , and – which determine the algorithm's time and memory requirements. The time complexity is proportional to while the memory complexity is proportional to . The algorithm is often implemented with (using an alternative method of controlling the effective difficulty).
The problem in Equihash is to find distinct, -bit values to satisfy such that has leading zeros, where is a chosen hash function. In addition, there are "algorithm binding conditions" which are intended to reduce the risk of other algorithms developed to solve the underlying birthday problem being applicable. A memory-less verification requires hashes and XORs.
Memory-hardness and time-space tradeoffs
It is proposed that the puzzle in Equihash be solved by a variation of Wagner's algorithm for the generalized birthday problem. (Note that the underlying problem is not exactly the Generalized Birthday Problem as defined by Wagner, since it uses a single list rather than multiple lists.) The proposed algorithm makes iterations over a large list. For every factor of fewer entries per list, computational complexity of the algorithm scales proportional to for memory-efficient implementations. Alcock and Ren
refute Equihash’s security claims, concluding that no tradeoff-resistance bound is in fact known for Equihash.
Usage
The cryptocurrency Zcash implements Equihash with and .
The cryptocurrency BitcoinGold implements Equihash with and .
See also
Proof of stake
References
External links
Cryptocurrencies
Cryptographic algorithms |
The Sanford International is a PGA Tour Champions event in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at Minnehaha Country Club, making its debut in September 2018. The tournament is sponsored by Sanford Health.
Steve Stricker won the inaugural event.
Winners
Records
Oldest winner: , Rocco Mediate, (2019)
Youngest winner: , Steve Stricker, (2018)
Most victories: 2, Steve Stricker, (2018, 2022)
Lowest score after 36 holes: 129, K.J. Choi, (63-66), (2021)
Lowest final score: 196, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, (65-66-65, 196), (2020)
Lowest final score in relation to par: −14, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, (65-66-65, 196), (2020)
Greatest victory margin: 4 strokes, Steve Stricker, (2018)
Lowest round: 62, Darren Clarke, 2nd round, (2020); Scott Parel, 3rd round, (2020)
Lowest round in relation to par: −8, Darren Clarke, 2nd round, (2020); Scott Parel, 3rd round, (2020)
Wire-to-Wire Winners: Steve Stricker in 2018 & Miguel Ángel Jiménez in 2020
Most runner-up finishes: 2, Steve Flesch, (2020 & 2021)
References
External links
Coverage on the PGA Tour Champions official site
PGA Tour Champions events
Golf in South Dakota
Sports in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Annual sporting events in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 2018
2018 establishments in South Dakota |
Andrea Hahmann (née Lange, born 3 June 1966) is a German former middle-distance runner who represented the GDR. She finished fifth in the 1500m final at the 1987 World Championships, and sixth in the 1500m final at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Career
Born Andrea Lange in Ludwigsfelde, Germany, she finished third in the 1500 metres at the 1987 European Cup in June behind Kirsty Wade and Tatyana Samolenko. Two months later, she ran her lifetime best for the 1500m with 4:00.07 on 22 August in Potsdam, narrowly behind fellow GDR athlete Hildegard Körner who ran 4:00.06. Two weeks later, at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, she finished fifth in the final of the 1500 metres in 4:00.63. The race was won by Samolenko in 3:58.56, with Korner second in 3:58.67.
As Andrea Hahmann, she represented the German Democratic Republic at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where she reached the 1500m final. In a race won clearly by Romania's Paula Ivan, Hahmann was in strong contention for a medal. With just over 250 metres to go she moved into second place ahead of Romania's Doina Melinte, chased by the Soviet world champion Samolenko, and Britain's Chrissie Cahill. Coming into the home straight some 40m behind Ivan, Hahmann had a three-four metre advantage on the others. She was still in second place 50m from the line, before Samolenko and Cahill passed her. All three were then overtaken by the fast finishing Soviet Laimutė Baikauskaitė, who won the silver medal having been over 10m behind Hahmann with less than 100m to go. Samolenko won the bronze, Cahill was fourth, and Canada's Lynn Williams edged Hahmann in the final stride for fifth. Hahmann was sixth in 4:00.96.
In 1990, Hahmann won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, behind Elly van Hulst and Margareta Keszeg.
International competitions
Personal bests
800 m: 1:57.31 (1987)
1500 m: 4:00.07 (1987)
3000 m: 8:45.00 (1988 indoors)
References
Living people
1966 births
People from Ludwigsfelde
Athletes from Brandenburg
East German female middle-distance runners
Olympic athletes for East Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany
European Athletics Championships medalists |
Malchow () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
Geography
It is situated on the river Elde, 25,5 km west of Waren, and 35 km north of Wittstock.
History
The site of Malchow was a center for Slavic paganism during the Middle Ages. It was sacked by Saxons during the 1147 Wendish Crusade against the Polabian Slavs.
The German town of Malchow, founded on an island between the Plauer See (Lake) and Fleesensee, was first mentioned in writing in 1147 and received a town charter under Schwerin Law in 1235.
In 1298, Malchow Abbey, a Cistercian nunnery, moved to the south shore of the Malchower See, opposite the island. Over several following centuries, the town expanded to the mainland in the northwest, to which the original settlement was linked by a succession of bridges, and gradually this mainland settlement came to predominate.
A munitions factory of the Alfred Nobel Co. was established in Malchow in 1938, during the Nazi period, and during World War II hundreds of prisoners of war and also women and children were used as forced labor there. In 1943, the Ravensbrück concentration camp extended to Malchow, and during the next two years many inmates, including numerous Hungarian Jewish women, lost their lives there under appalling conditions.
After the war, Soviet Occupation authorities accused some 30 teen-aged Malchow residents of anti-Soviet activities, and 12 of these eventually lost their lives in Soviet captivity or were executed.
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, the historic town center of Malchow was extensively restored. Today the former Cistercian abbey houses the Mecklenburg Organ Museum.
Natural environment
The town is surrounded by the lakes of the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and the woods of the Müritz National Park.
Notable people
Dietrich von Müller (1891-1961), Generalleutnant of the Wehrmacht
References
External links
Cities and towns in Mecklenburg
1230s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1235 establishments in Europe
Populated places established in the 13th century
Holocaust locations in Germany |
Mark Hollis (born September 10, 1962) is an American sports administrator who served as the athletic director at Michigan State University, succeeding Ron Mason on January 1, 2008. Hollis retired on January 31, 2018.
Career
Hollis graduated from Croswell-Lexington High School in Michigan class of 1980. He earned a BA in communication from Michigan State University in 1985 and an MBA from the University of Colorado in 1992. Hollis was a basketball team manager under former head coach Jud Heathcote throughout his undergraduate education at Michigan State. Between his BA and MBA, Hollis worked for the Western Athletic Conference under Commissioner Joseph Kearney, who had previously been athletic director at Michigan State.
Hollis was named athletic director on January 1, 2008 and had been a part of the Michigan State athletic department from 1995 until his retirement on January 31, 2018 which he announced in the wake of the sexual assault investigations and conviction of Larry Nassar.
Hollis was praised for his marketing abilities, helping to stage unusual athletic contests such as the Cold War, an outdoor ice hockey match-up between rivals Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, as Basketbowl, a 2003 match-up between Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky played at Ford Field, and the 2011 Carrier Classic basketball game aboard the USS Carl Vinson, between Michigan State and North Carolina.
Hollis was responsible for hiring former Eastern Michigan University baseball head coach Jake Boss.
References
Living people
1962 births
Michigan State Spartans athletic directors
Michigan State University alumni
University of Colorado alumni |
Şule Şahbaz (born 2 October 1978) is a former Turkish weightlifter who competed in the -75 kg division.
She won a gold medal at the 2002 Weightlifting Championship, silver medals at the 1999 and 2004 European Championships and a bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships.
She was scheduled to compete in the women's 75 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Olympics and was disqualified.
See also
List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
References
1978 births
Living people
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters for Turkey
Doping cases in weightlifting
Turkish sportspeople in doping cases
Place of birth missing (living people)
Turkish female weightlifters
European champions in weightlifting
European champions for Turkey
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
20th-century Turkish sportswomen
21st-century Turkish sportswomen |
Primitive World is the debut album by indie rock band Littl'ans.
The album was recorded in July 2007 and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City.
The album was released in Japan on 2 July 2008 and in the UK on 1 December 2008.
Track listing
"Don't Call It Love"
"Is It Wrong?"
"Everytime"
"Primitive World"
"Did You Hide from Saturday Night?"
"End Dead"
"Chelsea"
"Our Way"
"While on Your Way Back to Me"
"Here Comes the Night"
Japanese bonus tracks
"Aftermath"
"Stay Alive"
"Aweful All The Day"
Littl'ans albums
2008 debut albums |
Robert Terry (born 30 April 1980) is a Welsh bodybuilder and a former professional wrestler. He is known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring names Rob Terry and The Freak.
He is also known for his work in TNA's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he is a former two-time Heavyweight Champion and a one-time Southern Tag Team and Television Champion. He has also competed for the Wrestle-1 promotion as well as WWE's developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling.
Early life
Terry was born in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. He is a former bouncer and studied sports science at Neath Port Talbot College, South Wales.
Professional wrestling career
World Wrestling Entertainment (2007 - 2008)
Florida Championship Wrestling (2007–2008)
Terry signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2007 and was assigned to Florida Championship Wrestling. On 10 November, Terry, under the ring name Big Rob, debuted as Nick Nemeth's bodyguard and accompanied Nemeth to the ring for his matches. On 1 December, Big Rob made his in-ring debut as he and Nemeth defeated Robert Anthony and Bryan Kelly in a tag team match. In December 2007 and January 2008, Terry appeared at several WWE television program tapings, accompanying Nemeth to the ring for dark matches. On 12 January, Big Rob teamed with Nick Nemeth in a losing effort to Mighty Mikey and Matt O'Neal. Three days later, Rob and Nemeth lost to Mikey and O'Neal in a rematch. In August 2008, Terry was released from his WWE developmental contract. According to Chris Jericho's autobiography, he wanted Terry to be his protege when he started his heel run in 2008. However, Terry was released and the role was given to Lance Cade.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009 - 2015)
The British Invasion (2009–2010)
On the edition of 30 April 2009 of TNA Impact!, Terry made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut as a member of the newly formed stable known as The British Invasion alongside Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus. Their first act was to attack Hernandez, thus writing him out of storylines until he recovered from a legitimate injury. They claimed Hernandez' "Feast or Fired" briefcase, awarding it to Terry. This implied that Terry could demand a match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at any time within the remainder of the calendar year, but no formal announcement was made. Since then, Terry had played a minor role, usually performing run-ins on behalf of his teammates. They attacked Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), instigating a feud that led to several matches, mainly without Terry. In July, Terry, Magnus and Williams joined Eric Young, Sheik Abdul Bashir, Kiyoshi and Homicide to form World Elite. World Elite then formed an alliance with The Main Event Mafia, which led to Terry teaming with such wrestlers as Booker T and Scott Steiner. Together, they feuded with Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) and Team 3D.
Terry faced Hernandez at Hard Justice for the "Feast or Fired" briefcase, but lost in nine seconds. This initiated a story in which Terry fell out of favour with his allies. Terry would make a series of mistakes, or would fall victim to a teammate's mistake, and cost the Main Event Mafia or World Elite a match. Initially, World Elite defended their team member and broke their alliance with Main Event Mafia, which dissolved soon thereafter. But the remainder of World Elite would berate Terry for costing them further victories. Eric Young mistakenly hit Terry with a title belt on 5 November 2009 episode of TNA Impact!. One week later, Terry tried to interfere in a match but accidentally caused World Elite to lose. The members of the team were upset with him for causing the loss.
On 18 October 2009, at Bound for Glory Magnus and Williams took part in a four way Full Metal Mayhem match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship. While the British Invasion lost the IWGP titles to Team 3D, they won the TNA titles from the Main Event Mafia (represented by Scott Steiner and Booker T), when Terry interfered in the match. As a result of this match, a feud between Beer Money, Inc. and the British Invasion was re-ignited. The entire World Elite stable conspired to prevent Beer Money, Inc. from winning the titles, usually by getting themselves disqualified. Terry objected to the plot, believing that British Invasion could legitimately beat Beer Money, Inc. in a clean match. His confidence irked his teammates further.
For one episode of Impact, Mick Foley offered Kevin Nash full control. Nash subsequently booked the entire show to benefit himself and the World Elite members. Terry, Williams and Magnus faced Chris Sabin in a handicap match, but still lost very quickly, when Sabin pinned Terry. While Magnus and Williams berated Terry, Terry gestured that he was going to fight back, but he quickly dropped his resistance.
At Final Resolution Terry and the rest of World Elite, with the exception of Magnus and Williams, took part in the "Feast or Fired" match. Young claimed that their aim was to prevent Beer Money from earning another match for British Invasion's TNA World Tag Team Championship. During the match, Bashir and Nash acquired a briefcase each. Terry assumed that if World Elite claimed all four briefcases, then it would be impossible for James Storm and Robert Roode to win a title match. But when Terry grabbed a briefcase, Young, Kiyoshi and Homicide reacted as if Terry had betrayed the team. After the match, it was revealed that Terry had the briefcase containing a shot at the X Division Championship.
Global Champion and Immortal (2010–2011)
On 27 January 2010, Terry defeated Eric Young at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, to win the TNA Global Championship. Terry's win also made him the first Welshman to hold a championship in a major wrestling organisation. On the following night's edition of Impact! the British Invasion attacked Amazing Red, but as Terry went to cash in his "Feast or Fired" contract he was ordered by Magnus to hand it over to Williams, who then instead faced Red and quickly defeated him for the X Division Championship. On the edition of 18 February of Impact! Terry finally grew tired of Magnus' abuse and attacked him, thus ending his alliance with the British Invasion and turning face. On the edition of 25 February of Impact! Terry made his first Global Championship title defence, when he defeated Mr. Anderson, after interference from Kurt Angle. Since then, Terry went on to defend the Global Championship in quick squash matches against his former British Invasion team-mate Doug Williams, as well as Magnus at Destination X. The very next day on Impact!, Terry again successfully defended the championship, squashing Tomko in a mere 65 seconds. On the edition of 5 April of Impact! Terry adopted the nickname "The Freak". On the edition of 19 April of Impact! Terry joined Team Hogan and teamed with Abyss, Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe to defeat Team Flair (Sting, Desmond Wolfe, Robert Roode and James Storm) in an eight-man tag team match. During this time, Terry was being built as an unstoppable monster and was asked and agreed to take an unprotected chair shot to the head during a match with Homicide. Several wrestling news outlets reported on the incident, which caused Terry to legitimately bleed heavily from the top of his head. Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Online called it "completely disgusting and unnecessary." Later, he started a feud with newcomer Orlando Jordan. After weeks of stalking Terry, Jordan debuted his new interview segment, "The O-Zone" on the edition of 3 May of Impact!, attacking Terry during the segment and beginning a feud. On the next edition of Impact! Jordan attacked Terry with a lead pipe as Terry was preparing to defend his title against Abyss. At Sacrifice Terry defeated Jordan to retain the Global Championship. On 20 June, Terry became the longest reigning Global Champion in history, beating Booker T's reign of 143 days as champion. On 13 July at the tapings of the edition of 22 July of Impact!, Terry lost the Global Championship to A.J. Styles, ending his reign at 167 days. Terry received a rematch for the title, now renamed the TNA Television Championship, on the edition of 5 August of Impact!, but was defeated by Styles after a low blow.
On the edition of 16 December of Impact!, Terry turned heel, costing Mr. Anderson and Matt Morgan their match against Jeff Hardy and Kazarian. The following week, he was recruited by Ric Flair to serve as the bodyguard of Fortune. On 13 February 2011 at Against All Odds, Terry wrestled his first pay-per-view match in seven months when he teamed with his Immortal stablemates Gunner and Murphy and faced James Storm, Robert Roode and Scott Steiner in a losing effort. Terry then began feuding with Steiner, attacking him on the edition of 24 February of Impact! during a posedown between the two. The following week, Steiner defeated Terry in a singles match to end the feud. Two weeks later, Terry was given an opportunity to regain the vacated TNA Television Championship in an all–Immortal three-way match, which also included Murphy and Gunner, who would ultimately go on to win the title. On the edition of 21 April of Impact!, Terry and Murphy unsuccessfully challenged Beer Money, Inc. for the TNA World Tag Team Championship in a steel cage match. On the edition of 5 May of Impact!, Terry was kicked out of Immortal, despite defeating Murphy in a "Loser Leaves Immortal" match.
Teaming and feuding with Robbie E (2011–2013)
On the edition of 30 June of Impact Wrestling, Terry returned, as a face, for the first time since being exiled from Immortal to save his former British Invasion partners, Magnus and Douglas Williams, from a beatdown by Mexican America (Hernandez, Anarquia, Rosita, and Sarita). Terry made appearances beside Magnus and Williams for the next two weeks, after which his reunion with the two was abruptly forgotten. On the edition of 25 August of Impact Wrestling, Robbie E proposed Terry an alliance between two with Terry promising to think it over. At the tapings of the edition of 8 September of Impact Wrestling, Terry attacked Eric Young after his match with Robbie E, signifying a new alliance between the two and another heel turn for Terry. Terry's and Robbie's feud with Young eventually led to a tag team match on the edition of 10 November of Impact Wrestling, where Young teamed with Jersey Shore cast member Ronnie to defeat Terry and Robbie. On 16 December 2011, at AAA's Guerra de Titanes, as part of the TNA invasion storyline, Terry faced El Mesías in a match to earn a shot at the AAA World Heavyweight Championship, but was unsuccessful. In May 2012, Terry returned where he, along with Robbie E, began feuding with Devon over the TNA Television Championship, with each of them unsuccessfully him for the title in singles matches on Impact Wrestling and finally in a three-way match on 13 May at Sacrifice. The Robbies would continue their feud with Devon by attacking him during his title matches. On 10 June at Slammiversary, the Robbies were defeated by Devon and Garett Bischoff in a tag team match. While continuing to work for OVW, Terry also remained a regular on TNA's programming and on 25 October episode of Impact Wrestling, unsuccessfully challenged Samoa Joe for the TNA Television Championship. Going into 2013, tension began to be teased between the Robbies, with Terry constantly upstaging and defying Robbie E. On 28 February episode of Impact Wrestling, the alliance between the Robbies ended with Robbie E, who was pretending to reconcile with Terry, hitting him over the head with his VIP sign before being chased off by Terry. The rivalry culminated in a singles match on 10 March at Lockdown, where Terry emerged victorious. On the following episode of Impact Wrestling from Chicago, Illinois, Terry defeated Robbie E in a rematch to end the feud. On the edition of 2 May of Impact Wrestling Terry defeated Robbie E, Jesse and Joey Ryan in a 3 on 1 Handicap match. On 12 January 2013, Terry took part in Joker's Wild (which aired 3 May 2013), teaming with Matt Morgan in a first round victory over Joey Ryan and Al Snow. Later in the night during the main event $100,000-dollar battle royal, Terry entered 11 of 12 but was eliminated by Matt Morgan 8th of 11. On the edition of 13 June of Impact Wrestling, Terry competed in a four-way qualifying match for the Bound for Glory Series, against Matt Morgan, Kenny King and Magnus who ended up getting the victory.
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2012–2013)
On 6 December 2011, it was reported that Terry had been sent to TNA's new developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. On 18 January 2012, Terry made his debut in OVW as a member of the heel stable The Mascagni Family by attacking Jason Wayne during his OVW Heavyweight Championship match with Rudy Switchblade, thereby disqualifying Switchblade and letting him retain his title. After the match ended, an irate and spent Jason Wayne reentered the ring and called out Terry for interfering in his match. Terry returned to the ring and defeated Wayne in a bonus match after a quick beatdown. On 22 February, Terry and Jessie Godderz defeated Jason Wayne and Shiloh Jonze for the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. The team's reign ended on 7 April, when Godderz and Rudy Switchblade, who was also recognised as part of the champions under "The Family Rule", were defeated by Anarquia and Raul LaMotta. After supposedly defeating stablemate Mohamad Ali Vaez on 21 April in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the OVW Television Championship, and losing the title back to him four days later, Terry defeated Johnny Spade on 12 May at OVW's Saturday Night Special event to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship. Terry was stripped of the title on 27 June. On 1 December, Terry defeated Crimson to regain the OVW Heavyweight Championship. On 30 January 2013, Terry lost the title to Doug Williams. On 19 June 2013, Terry defeated Jay Bradley in a number one contenders match for the OVW Heavyweight Championship. On 6 July 2013, at the Saturday Night Special Terry was defeated by Jamin Olivencia in a match for the OVW Heavyweight Championship. Terry joined forces with Marcus Anthony winning the 2013 Nightmare Cup Tag Team Tournament and earning a shot for OVW Southern Tag Team Championships.
The Menagerie (2014–2015)
In April 2014, Terry made his return to TNA as part of Knux's new Menagerie stable, working under a mask and the ring name The Freak. On 3 July, episode of Impact Wrestling, The Menagerie (Knux and The Freak) unsuccessfully challenged The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) in a three-way tag team match for the TNA World Tag Team Championships The BroMans (Jessie Godderz and DJ Z) were also included in the match. On 1 January 2015, Terry's profile was moved to TNA Alumni section and The Freak was removed from The Menagerie profile, confirming his departure from the company.
Wrestle-1 (2013–2014)
As part of a working relationship between TNA and Wrestle-1 it was announced on 6 November 2013, that Terry would be working a tour for the Japanese promotion between 16 November and 1 December. In their debut match for the promotion, Terry and fellow TNA worker Jay Bradley defeated Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo in a tag team match. Terry remained undefeated for the entire tour, teaming with Bradley to win tag team matches against the likes of Koji Kanemoto and Seiki Yoshioka, and Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka, and finally defeating Bradley in three straight singles matches between 29 November and 1 December. Terry remained with Wrestle-1 over the new year and in January 2014, began working alongside the Wrestle-1 Seikigun against the heel stable Desperado. On 2 March, Terry took part in the big Kaisen: Outbreak event, which featured several wrestlers from TNA, teaming with Keiji Mutoh and Taiyō Kea to defeat Samoa Joe and Desperado members Masayuki Kono and René Duprée in a six-man tag team match. Post-match, Mutoh praised Terry, comparing him to a young Hulk Hogan.
Independent circuit (2014–2019)
On 9 August 2014, Terry made his debut for Britannia Wrestling Promotions defeating Babyfaced Pitbull to win the PWI:BWP World Catchweight Championship in Prestatyn, Wales, UK. He lost the title later that same day to Marc Morgan. On 12 December 2014 at Rock N Wrestle Promotion, Terry was defeated by TJ Rage in Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK.
On 5 January 2015, at an event for German Wrestling Promotions, Terry was defeated by Absolute Andy for the GWP World Championship. On 25 September 2016, Terry made his debut for Diamond Stars Wrestling in Tokyo, Japan where he and Masakatsu Funaki unsuccessfully challenged The Iron Empire (Rob Conway and Matt Riviera) for the NWA World Tag Team Championships in a two out of three falls match. On 23 February 2017, Terry and Kazushi Miyamoto defeated The Iron Empire in Tokyo to become the new NWA World Tag Team Champions. on 17 June 2017 they would lose the titles to The Heatseekers. Rob Terry left professional wrestling to pursue his career into bodybuilding. He retired from wrestling in 2019.
Other media
On 10 November 2012, Terry, along with several other TNA workers, was featured in an episode of MTV's Made.
Championships and accomplishments
Britannia Wrestling Promotions
PWI:BWP World Catchweight Championship (1 time)
Full Throttle Pro Wrestling
FTPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Deimos
Go Wrestle
GW Powerweight Championship (2 times)
National Wrestling Alliance
NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kazushi Miyamoto
Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
OVW Television Championship (1 time)
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time)1 – with Jessie Godderz and Rudy Switchblade
Nightmare Cup Tag Team Tournament (2013) – with Marcus Anthony
Eighth OVW Triple Crown Champion
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #67 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TNA Global Championship (1 time)
Feast or Fired (2009 – X Division Championship contract)2
1Terry defended the title with either Godderz or Switchblade under The Freebird Rule.
2Terry was forced to give the contract to his teammate Doug Williams.
References
External links
Wrestle-1 profile
Online World of Wrestling profile
Rob Terry on Myspace
Gerweck profile
1980 births
21st-century professional wrestlers
Living people
Sportspeople from Swansea
Welsh expatriates in the United States
Welsh male professional wrestlers
TNA Television Champions
OVW Heavyweight Champions
NWA World Tag Team Champions |
Agdistis notabilis is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It was first described in 2009 after specimens collected from near Tarrafal, northern Santiago Island, Cape Verde.
References
Agdistinae
Plume moths of Africa
Moths of Cape Verde
Fauna of Santiago, Cape Verde
Moths described in 2009 |
Giles Bates Harber (September 24, 1849 – December 29, 1925) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy and one-time Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet. He was born and died in Youngstown, Ohio. Harber, called a "Naval Hero" by The New York Times, was best known as for leading the rescue expedition for the off of Siberia and the return of the body of her captain. He was also decorated by Congress for his role in the Spanish–American War.
Biography
Born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Harber personally asked U.S. Congressman James A. Garfield for an appointment to the United States Naval Academy. He became an acting midshipman on July 22, 1865 and a passed midshipman on June 4, 1869. Though still only nineteen years old, Harber graduated ninth out of 74 in his class.
After graduation, Harber was assigned to the sailing frigate . He was commissioned as an ensign on July 12, 1870. From 1870 to 1871, Harber served aboard the screw frigate in the European Squadron. He was promoted to master in July 1871 and lieutenant in September 1874. From 1881 to 1882, Harber commanded the torpedo boat . In February 1882, he began travelling with Lt. William H. Schuetze from London to Paris to St. Petersburg and then on to Irkutsk, where he chartered a steamer in April 1882 to search for the missing crew of the USS Jeannette.
From 1889 to 1892, Harber was assigned to the U.S. Naval Academy staff. From 1892 and 1895, he commanded the U.S. coastal survey steamer Hassler in Alaskan waters. Harber was promoted to lieutenant commander in September 1896. He served as the executive officer of the battleship during the Spanish–American War. Harber was promoted to commander in September 1899. He was assigned as naval attaché in both Paris and St. Petersburg from 1900 to 1903.
Harber subsequently served with the Asiatic Squadron near China, commanding the protected cruiser from October 1903 to February 1905. He was promoted to captain in September 1904. Harber graduated from the Naval War College in 1905. He then commanded the and the Mare Island Navy Yard from 1905 to 1907.
From 1907 to 1910, Harber commanded the 3rd Squadron, Pacific Fleet. He was promoted to rear admiral in November 1908. From February to November 1910, Harber commanded the Pacific Fleet. He then became president of the Naval Examining and Retiring Boards in Washington, D.C. Harber retired from active duty on September 24, 1911, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 62.
Personal
Harber was the son of Joseph Harber and Ann Eliza (Darrow) Harber.
Harber married Jeannette Thruston Manning (February 10, 1852 – September 14, 1925) on April 25, 1889. She was the great granddaughter of Judge Buckner Thruston. The couple had no children.
After his retirement, Harber and his wife lived in Washington, D.C. After his wife's death, he moved back to Youngstown, Ohio. Harber and his wife are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
References
Further reading
External links
The Papers of Giles B. Harper on the "Jeannette" at Dartmouth College Library
1849 births
1925 deaths
People from Youngstown, Ohio
United States Naval Academy alumni
Military personnel from Ohio
United States Naval Academy faculty
United States Navy personnel of the Spanish–American War
United States naval attachés
Naval War College alumni
United States Navy admirals
Military personnel from Washington, D.C.
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery |
Hi Working Girl () is a 2003 Taiwanese romantic comedy television series directed by Huang Ke-i and Wu Ssu-ta and starring Jolin Tsai and Show Lo. The series premiered on CTV on March 19, 2003. It is based on the Japanese comic series Asakura-kun Chotto! () created by Kenichi Oishi and Yumemi Ishiduka, and it tells the story of what happened after Fu I-ling, a staff of the general affairs department of an advertising company, met Cheng Ta-lun, the chief of the department.
Plot
Fu I-ling (Jolin Tsai) is a pure and innocent girl. She firmly believes that human nature is inherently good, and she believes that there is nothing that cannot be solved in this world. With her "housewife" personality, it is perfect for her to work in the company's general affairs department. But other colleagues in the general affairs department are all weirdos, including a supervisor who likes to scold others, a money digger who loves vanity, and a senior who just wants to marry herself all day long. They all like to bully I-ling and push work to her, but I-ling never complained. She feels that she must be not smart or hard enough. She believes that work and censure are a kind of training and a necessary process in her life.
Until one day the appearance of Cheng Ta-lun (Show Lo) changed I-ling's life. Ta-lun saw I-ling's cuteness and strengths, and while he becomes the driving force for I-ling to come to work every day, he is also deeply attracted by I-ling. But the innocent I-ling never thought that she would be favored by Ta-lun, she just hopes that she would be supremely happy to watch Ta-lun silently by his side every day. Even Ta-lun summoned up the courage to show his love, but I-ling, who is a love idiot, couldn't feel it. Ta-lun could only continue to be entangled by the other two girls.
With Ta-lun's support, I-ling shows her enthusiasm as a "housewife" to the fullest. She helped bald clients find confidence, coordinated the infighting among company's executives, and accompanied the boss of a candy company on a Valentine's Day trip, helped a colleague find a ring in the elevator, signed an impossible contract, found a missing advertising star, etc. All kinds of impossible tasks are solved one by one by I-ling, and it is all up to her perseverance, stupidity, and hard work. This not only made I-ling more popular in the company and her life more fulfilling, but also made Ta-lun like her more and fell in love with her deeply.
But I-ling is not brave in the face of her love. She doesn't believe that Ta-lun will like her the ordinary girl, so she lets the opportunities pass by her side again and again, until one day she realizes that Ta-lun is about to leave her if she can't seize the opportunity, so she finally musters up the courage to say "I love Ta-lun".
Cast
Jolin Tsai as Fu I-ling
Show Lo as Cheng Ta-lun
Megan Lai as Tseng Ai-lin
Wen Wen as Hsia Wei-chi
Shan Cheng-ju as Chen Liang-kuang
Renzo Liu as Tou
Kasai Kenji as Kasai
Darryl Kuo as Wang Chih-wei
Kimi Hsia as A Mei
Fu Lei as Chariman
Chen Hsien-shih as Fist Master
I Che-li as Fu I-ling's mother
Ing Tsai-ling as Cheng Ta-lun's mother
Lin Mei-hsiu as Chen Liang-kuang's wife
Andy On as Sun Ta-chieh
Wang Jen-chien as Li Tien-chueh
Ken Chu as Ken Chu
Pink Yang as Ken Chu's girlfriend
Duncan Chow as Ken Chu's manager
Hsieh Chi-wen as Chang
Jason Lee as Che
Wallace Chung as Johnny
Hou Ya-fang as Chen Yuan-yuan
Li Chia-chen as Hotel Lady Boss
Chang Li-wei as Li Yu-chun
Yuki Hsu as Li Hsiao-in
Penny Lin as Cheng Ta-li
Lei Wei-yuan as Fu I-ling's father
Hsu Kuei-in as Fu I-li
Gigi Lin as Sun Ta-chieh's sister
Terry Lin as Chun Chieh
Eddie Hsu as A Tuo
Chang Chi-hui as Chia Chia
Chen Yen-an as Wu Ya-hui
Kuo Chang-ju as Cheng Ta-lun's grandfather
Soundtracks
Release
Beginning on March 19, 2003, the series aired one episode per week in Taiwan on CTV. Beginning on May 12, 2004, it aired one episode per week in Hong Kong on Family Entertainment Channel. Beginning on October 1, 2006, it aired three episodes per day in China on CCTV-1. In addition, the series was released in the formats of DVD and VCD in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Critical reception
Yangzhou Evening News commented: "Hi Working Girl is a typical Taiwanese humor, which seems a little nonsensical, but it makes sense when you think about it carefully. Such a television series with simple relationships between characters makes people feel very relaxed, each character has a distinctive personality and is easy to remember." Sina Entertainment commented: "Hi Working Girl not only won the audience a relaxed smile with slightly exaggerated performance and plot, but also implies a very realistic story. The reason is that it does not use the way of preaching, but shows it to the audience in such a way hidden behind the laughter." Bandao Metropolis Daily commented: "Because Jolin Tsai seldom appears in television series and movies, and she has intimate scenes with her rumored boyfriend Show Lo in the series, it still attracted a lot of attention from fans. But for Jolin Tsai, acting skills are undoubtedly her 'weak point'. Jolin Tsai, who is proficient in singing and dancing, shows her hands are tied when facing the filming camera."
References
External links
2003 Taiwanese television series debuts
2003 Taiwanese television series endings
China Television original programming
Taiwanese television dramas based on manga
Taiwanese romantic comedy television series |
Maucourt is the name or part of the name of the following communes in France:
Maucourt, Oise, in the Oise department
Maucourt, Somme, in the Somme department
Maucourt-sur-Orne, in the Meuse department |
Earth Spacedock is a fictional space station orbiting Earth in the Star Trek universe, designed originally by David Carson and Nilo Rodis of Industrial Light and Magic in the 1980s. It is large enough to contain several starships of that fictional universe, and in real life the Spacedock consisted of a series of sets, miniatures, and designs that were used for various films and television shows in the 1980s and 1990s. Written spacedock (one word), it is first seen in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and subsequently in the fourth, fifth, and sixth Star Trek movies.
The spacedock also makes appearances in The Next Generation-era trilogy of seven season shows (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) of the 1980s and 1990s. Space stations of this class in orbit around other places are shown many times in TNG, In this era before computer generated spacecraft, models were expensive so they were often re-used to increase efficiency of the budget. In 2015 a set of artwork printings and miniature model of the Spacedock design went to auction for over .
One filming model for the interior (for spacecraft shots inside the dock) was across and was built by Industrial Light and Magic special effect makers for motion pictures and TV. This was an advanced model in an era before computer generated images became common, and it had various neon lights and doors which could open for the special effects shots. The design contained miles/kilometers of fiberoptics for lighting.
Earth Spacedock has a cameo of sorts, shown being under construction in Earth orbit in the season one finale of Star Trek: Discovery, a show set a decade before the original Star Trek (1966–69) in its primary science fiction universe.
Concept and design
The design was to be done away with after Search for Spock, and ILM dismantled it after that film. When it was desired to be used again for the next movie, Star Trek IV, it had to be re-assembled. The re-use of the model from the previous movie and also the re-use of interior sets depicting the station helped economize on the budget for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which debuted in 1986. It is one of franchise's "enduring spacecraft designs".
Appearances
Appearances:
Star Trek III (1984)
Star Trek IV (1986) (In this film the whole station gets turned off by the whale probe)
Star Trek V (1989)
Star Trek VI (1991)
Four appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1993)
Star Trek: Voyager (one episode) (1995–2001)
Star Trek: Discovery (one episode) (2017–Current)
Star Trek: Picard (three episodes) (2020–2023)
In other media
Spacedock is also featured in the 21st century Star Trek computer game Star Trek: Online. A virtual memorial to the real-life actors that played the cast of the original series was placed in Earth Spacedock in that computer game by the year 2015, including for actor Leonard Nimoy. Earth Spacedock is used as a starting point for missions in Star Trek: Online, as noted by the book Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds.
In the Star Trek universe, the space docks are equipped for repairing and re-supplying, or changing personnel aboard visiting spacecraft, such as the Enterprise.
The space station was designed by Industrial Light & Magic (known for Star Wars), who employed David Carson and Nilo Rodis on the project. One feature of the Spacedock design was its interior set, which included an area with large windows, outside which the Enterprise could be seen, thus allowing the Enterprise to be seen in scale compared to people, all inside the Spacedock space station.
Spacedock has also been used as a plot device in Star Trek franchise novels, such as in The Star Trek: The Original Series: The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Tony Isabella, Bob Ingersoll in which a starship returns to spacedock for repairs.
Earth Spacedock is the starting point for Picard's Next Generation Enterprise journey in that series. In that narrative, the Enterprise-D leaves Earth Spacedock in the year 2364 to travel to the planet Deneb IV, where it will pick up crew including Commander Riker and host an inspection by McCoy from the original series, now a Federation Admiral. Enterprise-D was the third Galaxy class starship to leave Spacedock, the previous two were the Galaxy and the Yamato in 2357 and 2363 respectively. The Yamato is Enterprise-D sister ship, but is destroyed in the TNG episode "Contagion" (S2E11), which debuted in March 1989.
The space station is often noted in encyclopedias of Star Trek Universe lore, which note the station's name as Spacedock written as one word.
See also
Deep Space Nine (fictional space station) (the other major fictional space station of Star Trek and setting for the 1990s sci-fi show Deep Space Nine)
Space dock
References
Citations
External links
Designing Earth Spacedock
Memory Alpha database image showing the Federation space station Spacedock, with Enterprise on departure
Additional information
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is a Japanese former volleyball player and Olympic champion.
She was a major player to help Japanese women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in 1962-67 by winning 1962 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and 1967 FIVB Women's World Championship in row. She also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics
1944 births
Living people
Olympic volleyball players for Japan
Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Japanese women's volleyball players
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese women |
Sagartia troglodytes is a species of sea anemone in the family Sagartiidae, also known as the mud sagartia or the cave-dwelling anemone.
Description
The base is anchored in holes in the rock and is a little wider than the column. This is smooth and firm, extending to a length several times its width, and covered in sticky suckers on its upper part. The usually flat oral disc is finely patterned and surrounded by four or five rings of numerous short tentacles, the longest ones being nearest the mouth. This is raised on a slight mound at the centre of the disc. The general colour is varying sombre shade of olive green or brown with vertical striations on the column. The radial striations on the oral disc are finely patterned in grey, white and black and the tentacles are translucent and banded in white and grey. At the base of each tentacle there is a distinctive black mark shaped like a Roman capital letter "B". Pieces of gravel and fragments of shell are often stuck to the upper part of the column. In size, the column can grow to a diameter of an inch (2.5 cm) and a length of two inches (5 cm) but most specimens are much smaller than this.
Distribution and habitat
S. troglodytes is found in coastal regions of the north east Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is common round the coasts of Britain between the tide marks but is relatively little observed because it is well camouflaged and is often hidden in cracks, under overhangs, in rock pools, under seaweed, among mussels or half buried in sand and mud with just its tentacles projecting. In Morecambe Bay, England, it is found anchored to stones buried several inches beneath the surface of this expanse of mudflats, or sometimes not even attached at all but living freely. It can retract into a spherical form when disturbed and no longer be visible from the surface.
Biology
Like other sea anemones, S. troglodytes is a carnivore and feeds on small invertebrates which it traps with its tentacles and channels into its mouth. Any undigested pieces are expelled from the mouth over the period of a few hours or days.
S. troglodytes is a hermaphrodite with gonads inside the body cavity. The eggs are discharged from the mouth, being wafted out individually by cilia on the tentacles. The sperm are produced separately also emanating from the mouth when they give the appearance of a white plume being liberated into the water column. The fertilised egg develops into a planula larva which becomes part of the zooplankton and later settles and develops into a new individual. The species can also reproduce asexually by the liberation of "ciliated germs" through the walls of the lower column.
References
Sagartiidae
Cnidarians of the Atlantic Ocean
Fauna of the Mediterranean Sea
Animals described in 1847 |
The Castle of San Sebastián (Spanish: Castillo de San Sebastián) is a fortress located in Cádiz, Spain, at the end of La Caleta beach on a small island separated from the main city. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1993.
History
According to the classical tradition of the location of the fortress, there was a Temple of Kronos, a Titan of the Greek gods, the father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera.
In 1457, a chapel on the island was raised by a Venetian boat crew recovering from the plague.
In 1706, a castle was constructed, which resulted in a fortified enclosure of an irregular plane. It defended the northern flank of the city from attack. At the base of the lighthouse was a watchtower from the Muslim period.
In 1811, the Maltese navy arrived with the famous POW/rebel Junta of Buenos Aires, Juan Bautista Azopardo. He was housed in the fortress until 1815, when they suspected a leak and transferred him to the military prison in Ceuta.
In 1860, a levee was built to serve as a link between the island and the city.
The lighthouse has an iron structure designed by Rafael de la Cerda in 1908 and is the second electric-powered lighthouse in Spain. The tower rises to 41 meters above the sea.
The Castillo de San Sebastian was declared a cultural landmark in 1985.
References
Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Cádiz
Castles in Andalusia |
Walter Arthur "Hoot" Evers (February 8, 1921 – January 25, 1991) was an American baseball outfielder, scout, coach, and executive.
Evers played professional baseball from 1941 to 1942 and 1946 to 1956, including 12 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1941, 1946–1952, 1954), Boston Red Sox (1952–1954), New York Giants (1954), Baltimore Orioles (1954, 1956), and Cleveland Indians (1955–1956).
Evers missed the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons due to military service during World War II. He was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1948 and 1950. During the 1950 season, he compiled a .323 batting average with 67 extra-base hits and led the American League with 11 triples. Multiple broken bones, beanings, and other injuries slowed his production after the 1950 season.
After his playing career ended, Evers worked for the Cleveland Indians as a scout, coach, and farm system executive from 1957 to 1970. He then served as the Detroit Tigers' director of player development from 1970 to 1978.
Early years
Evers was born in 1921 in St. Louis, and grew up in nearby Collinsville, Illinois. He was such a fan of Hoot Gibson's cowboy movies as a child that his friends gave him the nickname "Hoot". He attended Collinsville Township High School where he competed in football, basketball, tennis, and track. He was a star basketball player, punted and played back for the football team, and won the Illinois interscholastic championship with a javelin throw of 179 feet, 8 inches.
He then attended the University of Illinois where he competed in basketball, track, and baseball. As a sophomore, he compiled a .353 batting average and led the Big Ten Conference in total bases, runs scored, triples, home runs, and RBIs.
In January 1941, Evers was declared academically ineligible to continue playing for Illinois' basketball team. The week after he lost his eligibility, he signed to play baseball for the Detroit Tigers.
Professional baseball
Minor leagues and military service
After signing with the Tigers in February 1941, Evers spent the most of the 1941 season playing for Winston-Salem and Beaumont in the team's minor league system. He was called up to the Tigers late in the season and made his major league debut on September 16, 1941. He returned to Beaumont in 1942, compiling a .322 batting average and 46 extra-base hits in 152 games. He also led the Texas League's outfielders with 11 double plays from the outfield.
In the fall of 1942, Evers joined the Army and was assigned to the Waco Army Air Field (WAAF) in Waco, Texas. He played baseball with the WAAF baseball team during the war.
Detroit Tigers
The injuries mount (1946–47)
Evers returned to the Tigers in the spring of 1946. He was leading the team in spring training games with a .400 batting average but suffered a broken thumb and ankle sliding into second base at the end of March. He returned to the Tigers in May. Then, on June 3, he collided with second baseman Eddie Mayo while attempting to field a pop fly; he suffered a broken jaw, was knocked unconscious and had to be carried from the field on a stretcher. He returned three weeks later and ended up with a .266 batting average in 81 games, 75 of them as the Tigers' starting center fielder.
In 1947, Evers played his first full season in the big leagues at age 26. He appeared in 126 games, 118 as the starting center fielder, and compiled a .296 batting average and .366 on-base percentage with 39 extra-base hits and 67 RBIs. Evers was hit above his left ear by a pitch on June 29. He was again knocked unconscious, carried from the field on a stretcher, and hospitalized.
Evers was tutored in Detroit by fellow outfielder Doc Cramer. Cramer said of Evers: "Hoot, and I mean this, was the most promising-looking young ballplayer I have ever seen come to the big leagues. He had all the fundamentals — the build, a good head, speed, and an arm, with good eyes at the plate. . . . The only thing I had to teach him was how to play the hitters, and he had all that the first time around the league. Taking care of him was the softest job I ever had."
Peak seasons (1948–50)
He had a breakout season in 1948, appearing in 137 games as the Tigers' starting center fielder. He was named to the American League All-Star team, played the entire game in center field, and hit a home run off Ralph Branca in the second inning to give the American League ahead, 1–0. For the entire 1948 season, he ranked among the American League's leading hitters with a .311 batting average (eighth), 33 doubles (ninth), and 103 RBIs (ninth). He also demonstrated good range in the outfield with a 392 putouts, third most by an American League outfielder. His .969 fielding percentage ranked fifth among the league's center fielders.
Evers followed up with another strong season in 1949. He appeared in 132 games, 80 in left field and 43 in center field. He compiled a .303 batting average and .403 on-base percentage with 34 extra-base hits and 72 RBIs.
Evers' best season was 1950 when he started 138 games in left field and led the American League in triples (11) and was among the league leaders with a .551 slugging percentage (third), 34 doubles (fourth), 67 extra-base hits (sixth), .323 batting average (seventh), 109 RBIs (ninth), 259 total bases (ninth), and .408 on-base percentage (10th). Evers hit for the cycle on September 7, 1950, in a 13–13 tie against the Cleveland Indians. As of May 2014, he remains the only major league player to hit for the cycle with another triple in the same game.
Evers was also a solid fielder, leading all American League outfielders in fielding percentage (.997) in 1950 with one error in over 325 chances. With strong performances in the field and at the bat, Evers finished 11th in the 1950 American League Most Valuable Player voting.
When Evers came to the plate in Detroit, Tigers fans greeted him with "a long drawn-out 'H–o–o–o–o–t.' It rolled down out of the grandstand and floated in from the bleachers in a bewildering wail that made newcomers to the park turn to one another in amazement."
Declining production (1951–52)
In 1951, Evers split his playing time between left field (66 games) and center field (43 games). His batting average dropped nearly 100 points from .323 to .224, and his RBI production dropped from 103 to 46.
In 1952, injuries returned to trouble Evers. On April 11, he was hit by a pitch, resulting in a fracture of his right thumb. After recuperating from the thumb injury, Evers returned to the Tigers' lineup for only one game in 1952. On June 3, 1952, he was part of a blockbuster trade that sent four Tigers (Evers, George Kell, Johnny Lipon, Dizzy Trout) to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for Walt Dropo, Fred Hatfield, Don Lenhardt, Johnny Pesky, and Bill Wight.
Boston Red Sox
Evers' offensive production never reached the levels of his peak years in Detroit. With Ted Williams serving in the military, Evers became the Red Sox starting left fielder in 1952, hitting .262 with 59 RBIs. A broken finger in 1952 reportedly hampered Evers' grip, and he never regained his stroke.
In 1953, Evers appeared in 99 games for Boston, 78 in left field and 16 in center field. His batting average fell to .240, and he had only 31 RBIs.
1954–1956
Evers continued to play in the major leagues from 1954 to 1956, but never regained his prior form. He was traded or sold five times in three years.
Evers began the 1954 season with the Red Sox but appeared in only six games before being sold to the New York Giants on May 18 for an estimated $25,000. He appeared in only 11 games for the Giants as a pinch hitter, and compiled a .091 batting average with a home run as his only hit in 11 at bats.
In July 1954, the Giants sold Evers to the Detroit Tigers. He appeared in 30 games for the 1954 Tigers, 13 as a starting outfielder. His batting average was .183 with the Tigers.
In January 1955, the Tigers sold Evers to the Baltimore Orioles for a price in excess of $10,000. Evers appeared in 50 games for the 1955 Orioles, 32 in right field, 21 in left field, and five in center field. He hit .238 in 185 at bats with six home runs and 30 RBIs.
On July 14, 1955, the Orioles traded Evers to the Cleveland Indians in exchange for pitcher Bill Wight. He appeared in 39 games for the Indians in 1955, compiling a .288 batting average in 66 at bats.
In 1956, Evers appeared in only three games for the Indians. On May 13, 1956, the Indians traded him back to Orioles for outfielder Dave Pope. He appeared in 48 games, 30 as the Orioles' starting right fielder, and compiled a .241 batting average. He appeared in his last major league game on September 30, 1956.
In 12 major league seasons, Evers appeared in 1,142 games and compiled a .278 batting average with 98 home runs, 555 runs, 565 RBIs, and 1,055 hits. He compiled a .983 fielding percentage at all three outfield positions.
Later years
After his playing career ended, he worked in the Cleveland Indians' front office and later as a coach on Alvin Dark's staff.
In July 1970, he was hired by the Detroit Tigers as the director of player development. He held that position until 1978, when he became a scout for the Tigers in Houston.
Jim Leyland, who was a manager in the Tigers' farm system in the 1970s, recalled: "Hoot Evers was probably the number-one motivational guy for me. . . . If I had to look back and pick one person that really motivated me and really let me know what it's about, it would be Hoot Evers." Tommy John recalled Evers giving him advice when John joined the Indians organization. "I learned a lot from Hoot and still talk to him often," John wrote in 1991. "I'll never forget how helpful he was."
In 1991, Evers died at age 69 at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston. He had recently suffered a heart attack.
See also
List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders
List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
References
External links
Hoot Evers at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
1921 births
1991 deaths
American League All-Stars
American men's basketball players
Baltimore Orioles players
Baseball players from St. Louis
Basketball players from St. Louis
Beaumont Exporters players
Boston Red Sox players
Cleveland Indians coaches
Cleveland Indians executives
Cleveland Indians players
Cleveland Indians scouts
Detroit Tigers executives
Detroit Tigers players
Detroit Tigers scouts
Illinois Fighting Illini baseball players
Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball players
Major League Baseball center fielders
Major League Baseball farm directors
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Major League Baseball outfielders
New York Giants (NL) players
Winston-Salem Twins players |
A sealed road is a road whose surface has been permanently sealed by the use of one of several pavement treatments, often of composite construction. In some countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, this surface is generically referred to as "seal".
Surface treatments used on sealed roads include:
Asphalt concrete
Chipseal
Tarmac
Bitumen
See also
Road surface
References
Road construction
Pavements
Road infrastructure |
Actopan (from Nahuatl: Ātocpan 'thick, humid and fertile land') is a Mexican city, head of the municipality of Actopan in the state of Hidalgo. Actopan is widely known for its gastronomy, especially for ximbo and barbacoa, as well as for the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino.
The city is located north of Mexico City, from which it is 120 km away, and only 37 km from the city of Pachuca de Soto, the capital of the state of Hidalgo. It is located within the geographical region known as Mezquital Valley. According to the results of the 2020 Population and Housing Census of INEGI, the town has a population of 32,276 inhabitants, which represents 52.91% of the municipal population.
The city was a settlement of the Otomi people. In 1117 it was conquered by Chichimeca groups and became a dependency of Acolhuacan in 1120. It was conquered by the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco at the end of the 14th century. The Mexica conquest took place in 1427 during the reign of Itzcoatl. After the Conquest of Mexico, an encomienda was established in Actopan. According to the Universal Dictionary of History and Geography, the city was founded on July 16, 1546; although the date on which the anniversary of its founding is celebrated corresponds to July 8. In 1575 Actopan was elevated to the category of village.
It was elevated to Alcaldía Mayor in 1568; Actopan was the head and the towns around it were then República de Indios (Republic of Indigenous People). Later it became Subdelegation in the period of the Bourbon Reforms; and it acquired the character of City Hall and head of party, dependent on the district of Tula, on August 6, 1824. On April 26, 1847, by decree of the Congress of the State of Mexico, Actopan was elevated to the category of town.
On October 15, 1861, Actopan was declared a district of the State of Mexico. On June 7, 1862, it became part of the military canton number 3 of the Second Military District of the State of Mexico, created to confront the French intervention in Mexico. At the beginning, Actopan was temporarily the capital of the district, but it was changed to Pachuca. During the Second Mexican Empire, Actopan became part of the department of Tula. In 1869, the decree of establishment of the state of Hidalgo confirmed the character of District head of the new entity.
The Constitution of Hidalgo of 1870 recognized Actopan as the 1st district, category that would be confirmed in the 1st article of the electoral laws of 1880 and 1894. In the 3rd article of the Constitution of Hidalgo of 1 October 1920 it appears in the list as municipal seat, and in it is included as municipal seat of the municipality number 3 of Hidalgo. When commemorating the fourth centennial of the foundation of Actopan, on July 8, 1946, the XXXVIII Legislature of the Congress of the state of Hidalgo, gave it the category of city.
Toponymy
Some sources indicate that the word Actopan comes from the Otomi language, the INAFED in the Encyclopedia of the Municipalities and Delegations of Mexico in its page on Actopan, Hidalgo indicates the etymology of the word comes from Otomi; but in the page of Actopan, Veracruz it indicates that the etymology comes from Nahuatl. Enrique Rivas Paniagua, in the book Lo que el viento nos dejó: hojas del turruño hidalguense, points out that the name of no municipality in Hidalgo has roots in Otomi.
The word Actopan is of Nahuatl origin, derived from atoctli, which means 'thick, humid and/or fertile land', and pan, which means 'in' or 'on', so the translation would be as follows: "on thick, humid and fertile land". Another meaning is that it comes from ac root of the word (atl) that means water, to (' toktok) that means buriedf and pan that means locative, on, in; so its meaning would be "on buried water".
It has also been pointed out that the name of the locality could be Atocpan, which due to a certain modification of the language suffered a change in its structure; Otocpan, cited in the "Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología del Obispado de México"; and Atecpan, of Nahuatl origin and meaning "in the pond".
The name of the settlement of the Hñähñu people before the Conquest of Mexico in the Otomi language was: Ma'ñuts'i, Mañutzi, or Mañutshí. An etymological meaning given is that it comes from the possessive ma, which means 'my', un, which means 'road', and itzi, which is diminutive, so it would translate as "my little road". According to the linguists, Ethel Emilia Wallis and Yolanda Lastra, another meaning is that it comes from ñuts'i, which means to light or incense (to perfume with incense) and the possessive ma, so it would translate as "Place of lighting or incensing".
Symbols
Glyph
The glyph, (engraved or, by extension, written or painted sign) that represents the city is made up of a corn cane in corn silk and elotes on a clod drawn as a disk, sown inside with dots or coarse grains. This representation is commonly used as the city's escutcheon.
Name
The official name is Actopan, although it also receives the denomination of Ciudad del Convento or in a longer way Ciudad del Convento y la Barbacoa. This is due to the importance of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino and the typical dish of the city, the barbacoa. On November 14, 1861, being part of the state of Mexico; it was called Actopan de Hidalgo, in honor of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. At the end of the 19th century, it fell into disuse so as not to sound cacophonous with the name of the state.
Motto
After the puma sightings in 2017, in the north of the municipality, in 2019 the Actopan City Hall registered the brand "Territorio Puma" (Puma Territory), as part of the identity for districts that are habitat of this feline.
History
Pre-Hispanic period
At an unknown date, the Otomi people founded the village. Around the year 644 the Toltecs made their appearance, and this caused the town to be divided into two parts that continued to exist at the time of the Spanish conquest: Tetitlan and Actopan. By the year 1113, the Otomi people, under the command of Xide, arrived in the region. In 1117 the town was conquered by Chichimeca groups, and because of this invasion, it became dependent on Acolhuacan in 1120.
Actopan and Ixcuinquitlapilco were conquered by the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco at the end of the 14th century. The Mexica conquest took place in 1427 during the reign of Itzcoatl. Almost always mentioned together in chronicles and relations, Actopan and Ixcuinquitlapilco were Otomi communities with Chichimeca-Pame minorities. During this time Ixcuinquitlapilco was the most important town in this region.
Historian Peter Gerhar mentions that Actopan was first visited by the Spaniards before the conquest was consummated, at the end of 1519 or beginning of 1520. By 1521 the indigenous people of the area and other nearby parts, participated in the defense of the territory under the command of the tlatoani Cuauhtémoc against the Spanish conquerors. On August 13, 1521 Tenochtitlan fell to the troops of Hernán Cortés and his allies. Between 1521 and 1524, a certain political-military control was established in almost all the territories subject to the Mexica empire, including Actopan.
Viceroyalty of New Spain
The first encomenderos of Actopan were Hernando Alonso and Juan González Ponce de León. Ixcuinquitlapilco became a corregimiento in 1531, with Actopan depending on it.
Subsequently, the encomienda was assigned to Rodrigo Gómez de Ávila, who in 1538 ceded his rights to his son-in-law, Juan Martínez Guerrero. The latter was succeeded by his son, Agustín Guerrero de Luna. By 1540 the encomienda of Actopan belonged to Juan Guerrero, who had inherited the encomienda from his wife, the daughter of the conquistador Francisco Gómez.
The water supply was one of the main problems of the town, in 1546 the construction of an aqueduct began. Also in 1546 the Church of Actopan was founded; it is said that the Augustinians, upon seeing the topography of Lxcuinquitlapilco, decided to change the head of the town to Actopan. The first record of baptism in the Church of Actopan that is known is dated July 8, 1546, date that coincides with the foundation of the curate. From 1550 to 1560 the Convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino is built; and the work is attributed to Fray Andrés de Mata.
The first attempt to form a congregation of indios (native indigenous people), coinciding with the founding of the convent, was not completely successful, due to the fact that the indios abandoned the towns and returned to their old lands. In 1560, Actopan became a dependency of Pachuca, but it was separated, and became Alcaldía mayor in 1568; Actopan was the head and the towns around it were the República de Indios. The convent was the dividing line between the indigenous republics of Ixcuintlapilco and Actopan, to the southeast was Tenantitlán, a town subject to Ixcuintlapilco, and to the northwest, Actopan. The description of Fray Juan de Medina, in 1571, contained in the "Description of the Archbishopric of Mexico", mentions that in Ixcuintlapilco there were 4000 tributaries, in Tenantitlán 1300 and in Actopan 7000.
It is known that by the 1570s, the convent complex was already completed, with three main buildings: the open chapel, the church and the convent; in addition to the stables, the orchard and a water supply system of great proportions for community use. In 1575 it was granted the category of village. In 1576 the prior of the convent, Fray Melchor de Vargas, printed the first catechism in Otomi. In 1580, Actopan sent 90 indios to work in the mines of Pachuca.
Beginning in 1593, a second effort was made to form congregations of indios; In 1604, Friar Esteban García, in his "Chronicle of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of Mexico", reported that in Actopan, the lieutenants and bailiffs forced them to leave their former places, burning their houses and plots of land. In 1615 the quota of workers that Actopan sent to work in the mines of Pachuca was established, 22 indios every two weeks. Between the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, there was a demographic drop in the Indigenous population in Actopan, in 1571 there were 7500 tributaries, while by 1599 these had decreased to 2984. In 1643, there were 1092 tributaries, and in 1688, there were 1509.
After the revolt of 1677 in Ixmiquilpan, where the indios revolted not to work in the mines, a commissioner arrived in Actopan to take away crews, but the indios mutinied and resisted. In 1681 the prosecutor advised that the indios of Actopan should not be forced to work in the mines. Forced labor in the mines was reinstituted in Actopan until 1722. On January 5, 1722, a notification arrives from the mayor of Pachuca to send the workers batches to the mines. On January 7, a delegation arrived from Pachuca to insist on the sending of the batches. On January 9, 1722, the governors began to organize the batches and the indios of the jurisdiction of Actopan revolted to prevent the reinstatement of the mining distribution system. On January 11, the militia arrived from Pachuca, there were no confrontations, but groups of indios remained in the exits of the capital.
On January 16, 1722, a retinue from the viceroy arrived in the jurisdiction, in which it was ordered to proceed with the pacification, apprehension of the culprits, as well as the effective implementation of the repartimiento. On January 22, only two involved were apprehended and taken to jail. The indios of Actopan had to accept the work regime, with the exception of the town of Santiago Tlachichilco (Santiago de Anaya). In a regular way the repartimiento was carried out until the year 1724, on January 10, 1724, some indios rose up again against the repartimiento. Not many joined the rebellion and with the militia that the Mayor was able to gather, it was enough to dissuade the mutineers. On September 2, 1724, the viceroy approved the exemption of the repartimiento for all the towns in the jurisdiction of Actopan.
In the 1740s, José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez, in his book Theatro Americano, mentions that the municipality had a total of 13 subject towns and had a population of "fifty families of Spaniards and twenty of mestizos and mulattos and other people and two thousand seven hundred and fifty families of indios, all of the Otomí language, distributed in all its subject towns". It also mentions that to the east is Tetitlán, and subject to it the towns of Magdalena, San Jerónimo, Ixcuintlaplico, and San Agustín Tlaxiaca. And the partiality of Actopan to the west with its towns, which are Santiago Tlachichilco, Santa Bárbara Lagunilla, San Salvador, Santa María Amajac, San Miguel, and Yolotepec. On November 16, 1750, the Convent of Actopan became part of the Archdiocese of Mexico, and the first priest was the parish priest Juan Barrera.
On April 19, 1757, a new request was made for the distribution of workers in the Pahuca mines, at the request of Pedro Romero de Terreros. The following day, the general lieutenant mayor of Actopan, Andrés de Aguilar, received the order and notified the governors of the Actopan and Tetitilán partiality. Both governments accepted the order, but said that they could only organize crews of 60 workers from Actopan and 50 from Tetitlán. On April 27, with the escape of a squad that was on its way to Real del monte, the mutiny of the indios of the jurisdiction began. A part of the rebels, hiding in the Meje hill, tried to take the town. But the defense of the town had already been organized by the Spanish militia, with whom the rebels engaged in fierce combat. On April 30, 1757, the mutineers sent a letter to the vicar priest asking for peace.
On May 15, 1803, Alexander von Humboldt arrives in Pachuca, visits the mines in the area and on May 21 leaves for Atotonilco El Grande. On May 22 he spent the night in the town of Baños de Atotonilco near the Villa de Magdalena and the Puente de Dios. During May 23 and 24 he would travel through the Actopan Valley, and then leave on May 25 for Mexico City. During the visit, Humboldt drew and studied the Organs of Actopan, also known as Los Frailes, located 17 km southeast of Actopan in the municipality of El Arenal. Humboldt determined their height trigonometrically.
Independence and Independent Mexico
Regarding the participation of the city in the Independence of Mexico, in February 1812, the royalist, Domingo Claverino arrived to the city. Between 1824 and 1825 different deaths by measles occurred; the registry was raised by the parish priest of a neighboring town, before the death of the person in charge of the registries in Actopan.
In 1847, it received the title of town, given by the Extraordinary Legislature of the Congress of the State of Mexico. During the French Intervention in Mexico, to organize the Mexican Army, on June 7, 1862, the President of Mexico, Benito Juarez, decreed the division of the State of Mexico into three military districts, the second formed by the territories that integrate the State of Hidalgo, for which he designated Actopan as capital and named Pedro Hinojosa as commander. The lack of infrastructure to house the authorities of that locality, forced to change the headquarters to the city of Pachuca.
On October 11, 1863, General D. Tomás Mejía took over the city, defeating General Herrera y Cairo, Governor and Military Commander of the second military district. In May 1864, the authorities of Actopan and San Agustín Metzquititlán, recognized the Second Mexican Empire. After the erection of the state of Hidalgo, different towns were proposed to be the seat of the capital, among them Actopan. On January 8, 1869, the news arose that Actopan would be designated as the capital, supposing that such designation was to distance the government from the influence of the Real del Monte and Pachuca Company; however, the city was rejected for not having the necessary infrastructure.
In July 1869, Julio Chávez López, who led a revolution against the government, was defeated when he tried to take the city. He was taken to Chalco, where he was shot in the courtyard of the Escuela del Rayo y del Socialismo in September 1869. On December 2, 1871 Sotero Lozano attacked Actopan; but he retreated to return being defeated by colonels Inclán and Villagrán. On September 16, 1875, the Pachuca-Actopan telegraph line was inaugurated. During the Tuxtepec Revolution on April 24, 1876, a combat between the forces of Colonel San Martin and the Porfiristas took place; the latter were forced to retreat. On July 22, the government troops commanded by General José María Flores, forced the Tuxtepecans to leave Actopan, which they had held for several days.
Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution
In 1898 the City Hall decreed July 8 as a municipal holiday. On May 17, 1898, lightning struck the Church of Actopan, wreaking havoc on the façade and destroying an altar. In 1900, the sewage canals from the drainage of Mexico City reached the jurisdiction of Actopan.
In 1910 the Club Antirreleccionista was founded, integrated by local youths. During the Mexican Revolution on December 1, 1910, the Municipal Assembly of Actopan protested by means of a Decree, its adhesion to President Porfirio Díaz Mori and against the initiated movement. The participation of the locality is minimal during the revolutionary process.
On May 22, 1911, Vicente Azpeitia Pardiñas, supporting the Maderista revolution, took the plaza of Actopan, immediately handing it over to Captain Roberto Martínez y Martínez, who was originally from the city. On July 5, 1914, Martínez y Martínez expelled the Huertista Army from the city. On July 16, 1914, the constitutionalist general, Nicolás Flores occupied the Actopan plaza; after the evacuation of the huertista Martin Zayas. On July 23, 1914, a manifesto was written by Nicolás Flores, published in Actopan in which he explains what has been and what is the conduct of the Constitutionalist Army.
In November 1914, Higinio Olivo was defeated by the villistas in Actopan. On August 17, 1915, near the town there was a combat between Carrancistas and Villistas, the latter being defeated. On September 2, 1915, Actopan and Ixmiquilpan were in the hands of the Constitutionalist forces commanded by General Odilón Moreno. In February 1919, the city was in the hands of Villistas forces that evacuated days later. On July 2, 1922, the garrison of Actopan, commanded by Salvador Mayorga, accompanied by the Rodriguez brothers, rose up in arms.
During the Delahuertista rebellion on January 1, 1924, Nicolás Flores issues a manifesto in Actopan, in which he makes it known that he has been named governor of Hidalgo by Adolfo de la Huerta. On January 4, 1924, a combat takes place in Chicavasco between the federal forces, under the orders of Colonel Julio T. Villegas, and those of General Cavazos. On January 5, a combat takes place between the federal and rebel troops of Generals Marcial Cavazos, Nicolás Flores and Otilio Villegas, and those of Colonel Francisco López Soto.
20th century
In 1928 the Normal Regional of Actopan was established in the convent, a normal school with its annex boarding school; it remained until 1932, year in which it works with the Normal Rural de El Mexe. On June 27, 1933, the complex was managed by the Direction of Colonial Monuments of the Republic; on February 2 of the same year, it had been declared an artistic and historical monument.
On February 2, 1933, the Church and Convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino was declared a National Historic and Artistic Monument. On April 10, 1939, the first stone of the "Escuela Primaria Centro Escolar 1940" was laid, inaugurated on October 8, 1940; it is one of the oldest primary education centers in the region. In 1946 it was given the category of city. It is estimated that in the mid 1950's the small clock tower of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino was removed.
On March 12, 1951, the Actopan social sports club asked INAH for the use of the jagüey, which was abandoned; in a letter signed by the president of the club, Federico Hernández, they asked Manuel Toussaint, directly from INAH, to use it as a court, committing himself to its cleaning and care. Several conditions were set: the most important was to take care of the parapet and rebuild the damaged parts of it, as well as to recondition it. Since May 18, 1954, the conditions for sports practice have been in place.
In 1965 the July 8 Market was built. On July 27, 1966, a decree was published in which the Government of Mexico cedes to the Government of the State of Hidalgo, an annex of the property of the convent to build a sports field, and on August 17, 1966, it was published in the Official Journal of the Federation; being the denominated "Jagüey" the ceded annex. On January 27, 1987, an earthquake of 4.1 on the Richter scale was reported; with a depth of 15 km. After the 1990 census, according to statistical data, INEGI, recognizes the towns of Cañada Chica Aviación and Pozo Grande as officially conurbed to the city of Actopan.
21st century
On February 28, 2001, during a tour of Mexico, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation held a rally in the city. On July 8, 2001, the remodeling of Plaza Juárez was inaugurated, maintaining this aspect until today. Between 2005 and 2006 the Terminal de Autotransportes de Actopan was built, and in 2008 part of the Old Municipal Palace was demolished to construct a new building that would house new City Hall offices and the Plaza Constitución. Also in 2008 the Actopan Obelisk was built, located in the Reforma Park, and the Jamaiquitas Market was built.
The Actopan overpass was completed in March 2009. From May 17 to 21, 2010 there were twenty-two earthquakes in the region, with an intensity of between 3.0 and 4.0 on the Richter scale, with their epicenter at an average distance of 13 km north of the city. On June 25, 2012, a makeshift chapel in honor of Jesus Malverde caught fire and it is not known if it was an accident or a possible attack. Between 2013 and 2015 the remodeling of the July 8 Market took place. Between April 23 and 24, 2016 the north wall of what was the old municipal palace was demolished.
On December 30, 2016, close to 500 merchants held a caravan in the center of the city in protest of the increase in gasoline prices. On January 4, 2017, after different protests, both directions of the Mexico-Laredo federal highway were closed, in front of the truck station. Different stores such as Aurrerá, Comercial Mexicana and OXXO were looted; while the tianguis, which is set up on Wednesdays, did not operate completely and different stores remained closed. Of the five gas stations in the city, two were looted by different groups of people who gave away gasoline.
The September 7 earthquake in Chiapas and the September 19 earthquake in Puebla were felt in the city, and in general terms there was no serious structural damage. The earthquake of greatest intensity recorded during 2018 in Hidalgo, occurred on March 20 at 04:06 p. m. in the municipality of Actopan, with 3.9 degrees on the Richter scale. On May 30, 2018, about 15 ha, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood, were consumed by a fire.
On May 18, 2018, a construction company located in the Centro neighborhood was robbed; an operation was implemented to search for the vehicle, and a chase was initiated in El Arenal. It was at the junction of the highway with Tolcayuca and Villa de Tezontepec, where it collided with a bus; resulting in two dead and seven detainees. On September 7, 2019, a shooting occurred when elements of the Public Security of Hidalgo stopped a robbery, it happened on the highway at the height of the overpass. On March 30, 2020, two people were gunned down on Churubusco Street, on the corner of 2 de Abril, one block from the Obelisco de Actopan.
On March 19, different public spaces were closed due to the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 20, 2020, it was reported that the Wednesday tianguis, scheduled for April 22, 2020, was suspended. On April 26, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Actopan. As of April 30, access to vehicles was restricted to the center of the city and a sanitary fence was placed. The Actopan City Hall informed the temporary suspension of the Wednesday and Sunday tianguis, as of May 6; as of May 13, the Wednesday tianguis agreed to be temporarily relocated to the side of the Actopan-La Estancia highway. On May 11, 2020, the COVID-19 Actopan Immediate Response Hospital, which was built in 15 days, was inaugurated. On May 14, the first death was reported in Actopan.
On June 14, the Sunday tianguis was reinstalled, and on June 17, the Wednesday tianguis was reinstalled in the center of the city. On June 23 it was announced that the Barbacoa Fair held in the city was suspended. The patronal feast of San Nicolás de Tolentino was also cancelled, but a religious ceremony was held on September 10, with the corresponding sanitary measures, and was broadcast on social networks and on local television. On September 25, 2020, the circulation of vehicles in the downtown area of Actopan was resumed.
Faced with an increase in COVID-19 infections, as of February 1, 2021; the Actopan City Hall decided to restrict vehicle access to the city center, placed a sanitary fence, closed the Municipal Presidency, and suspended the city's tianguis. By March 2021, circulation in the city center was reopened; and by mid-July, Plaza Juarez was reopened; on March 13, 2022, Parque La Reforma was reopened.
Geography
Location
Its geographical coordinates are 20° 16' 05" north latitude and 98° 56' 39" west longitude. It is located north of Mexico City, from which it is 125 km away, and only 37 km northwest of Pachuca de Soto.
The city is bordered on the north by Cañada Chica Antigua and Dajiedhi; on the northeast by La Estancia and San Diego Canguihuindo; on the east by La Peña and La Loma; on the southeast by El Jiadi and El Arenal; on the south by Bothi Baji, El Palomo and El Huaxtho; on the southwest by El Boxtha and on the west by El Daxthá.
It is located in the geographic region of the state of Hidalgo called Mezquital Valley. The town is located in the eastern region of Mexico, in the center of the state of Hidalgo and in the center of the municipal territory of Actopan.
Relief and hydrography
The city has an average altitude of 2001 meters above sea level; with a relief mainly of plains; with a terrain slope of 0 to 3 degrees. Physiographically it is located in the province of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, within the subprovince of Plains and Sierras of Querétaro and Hidalgo. To the north and northeast of the city, a little more than 2 km from the town of La Estancia, is the northern border between the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre Oriental; therefore, there are faults in the region, causing seismic activity.
In terms of edaphology, it has a phaeozem and alluvial soil type; in terms of geology it has extrusive igneous rocks such as andesite, intermediate volcanic breccia and volcanoclastic. Regarding hydrography, the city is located in the Pánuco region, within the basin of the Moctezuma River, in the sub-basin of the Actopan River. The city is also located on the Actopan-Santiago de Anaya aquifer.
Climate
The city has a semi-dry temperate climate; the average monthly temperature ranges from 13 °C in December and January, which are the coldest months of the year, to 20 °C in May, which has the highest temperatures. The city's meteorological station has estimated that the average annual temperature is approximately 16.4 °C. In regard to rainfall, the average level observed is around 400 mm, with June and September being the months of highest rainfall and February and December the months of lowest rainfall.
Flora and fauna
Actopan is located in the Sierra Madre Oriental and southern Serranías floristic provinces within the Mesoamerican Mountain region. Most of its vegetation is made up of unarmed and thorny scrublands, grasslands, maguey, nances, opuntia stricta, mesquites, acacias, bilberry cacti, pitayas, chollas, alicoches and echinocactus. The fauna in this region includes rabbits, squirrels, opossums, scorpions, lizards, spiders, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, ants and pinacate beetles.
About 14 km from the city is the Actopan Wildlife Corridor, located in Mesa Chica and Los Ejidos El Saucillo, Las Mecas and Santa María Magdalena; with an area of 9267.38 ha. The area was declared a state wildlife corridor on June 27, 2020. On June 28, 2017, the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources of Hidalgo (Semanath) confirmed the presence of pumas in this area after residents of the region reported several attacks on livestock and sightings of the animal.
Politics
City Hall
The Actopan City Hall was established on August 6, 1824; and is formed by a Municipal President, a Síndico Procurador, eleven councillors and twenty-four Municipal Delegates. By constitutional mandate, every city council has the power to elaborate bylaws that regulate its internal functioning and community life. The City Council is in charge of the government of the municipality of Actopan, which is integrated by the city and forty other localities.
The municipality is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Santiago de Anaya and Metztitlán; to the east by the municipalities of Metztitlán, Atotonilco El Grande, Mineral del Chico and El Arenal; to the south by the municipalities of El Arenal, San Agustín Tlaxiaca and Ajacuba; to the west by the municipalities of Ajacuba, San Salvador and Santiago de Anaya.
Districts and regions
The city is the seat of the III Federal Electoral District of Hidalgo for the election of federal deputies to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico; and of the VIII Local Electoral District of Hidalgo for the election of local deputies to the Congress of Hidalgo. According to the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) the city is integrated by fourteen electoral sections, from 0034 to 0047. At the state administrative regional level, Hidalgo belongs to Macroregion V and Microregion VII, and is also the headquarters of Operational Region XI Actopan. This administrative region of Hidalgo allows bringing government programs and actions closer to the local population. On the other hand, it belongs to the I Judicial District of Hidalgo, where judicial procedures of the Judicial Power of the State of Hidalgo are settled.
Twinning
On April 23, 2022, the Actopan City Hall received members and authorities of the Actopan, Veracruz City Hall; in a meeting, both municipalities signed a twinning agreement. On May 25, 2022, the twinning was ratified with the unveiling of a plaque in a ceremony held in the esplanade of Morelos Park in Actopan, Veracruz. On July 4, 2022, the twinning was signed between the city and Águas de São Pedro, Brazil.
Demographics
Population dynamics
According to the results of the 2020 Population and Housing Census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the town has 32,276 inhabitants; the town's population represents 52.91% of the municipal population. Of the population 15 262 are men, which represents 47.29% of the population and 17 014 are women, which represents 52.71% of the population. It occupies the seventh place in the count of localities in the state of Hidalgo.
The most extensive and representative indigenous people in the city are the Otomí people; as of 2020 there are 653 people who speak an indigenous language. Of which the majority speak the Otomí language, especially the Otomí variant of the Mezquital Valley, which is also referred to by its own speakers as hñähñú, ñänhú, ñandú, ñóhnño or ñanhmu. There are 298 people in the city who call themselves Afro-Mexicans or Afro-descendants.
The main religion is Catholic; by 2020, about 25,544 people declare themselves Catholic; the city belongs to the Archdiocese of Tulancingo and the patron saint is Nicolás de Tolentino. By 2020, about 3,426 people declare themselves Protestant or Evangelical Christians including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, La Luz del Mundo Church and Jehovah's Witnesses. About 3,188 people declared to be atheists, agnostics, or to have no religion or not to be ascribed to any religion; and only 64 declared other beliefs or different spiritual preferences.
Housing and urban planning
According to the Actopan City Hall, the neighborhoods that make up the city are: Aviación, Benito Juárez, Chapultepec, Centro Norte, Centro Sur, Deportivo Olímpico, Dos Cerritos, Efrén Rebolledo (Parque Urbano), El Cerrito, El Porvenir, Eulalio Ángeles, Fundición Alta, Fundición Baja, Guzmán Mayer, Guadalupe, Jesús Luz Meneses, La Estación, La Floresta, La Hacienda, Las Monjas, Los Frailes, Los Olivos, Niños Héroes, Nuevo Actopan, Obrera, Rojo Gómez, Tierra y Libertad, and Unidad Deportiva.
According to INEGI, Cañada Chica, Cañada Aviación, and Pozo Grande, are also part of the city, while El Porvenir and Dos Cerritos are considered separate localities; this is due to the differences in the definition between the demographic and political spheres of both entities.
According to the results presented by the General Population and Housing Census 2020, the city has a total of 10,946 homes; of which 8687 are inhabited, 1,571 are uninhabited and 688 are for temporary use; with an average of 3.71 people per home. The construction of the houses in Actopan is made of blocks, brick or prefabricated materials, their roofs are cast, there is even decoration with marble, sett and a great variety of other materials; however, in some cases their construction is based on adobe, the walls are made of brick and the roofs are made of resistant sheet metal or petatillo.
Poverty and social exclusion
In 2010, it registered a very low degree of social exclusion, in contrast to the municipality, which has a low degree. In 2010, the city registered a social backwardness index of −1.34455. In 2015 the municipality of Actopan ranked 21st out of 84 municipalities on the state scale of social backwardness. The homes with dirt floors are 255 which represents 3.50%; in terms of public services the homes without drainage are 59 which represents 0.81%; those without electricity are 53 homes (0.73%); without piped water are 152 homes (2.09%); without sanitation are 83 homes (1.14%).
Culture
Architecture
Buildings
The so-called "city center" consists of an area containing the oldest and most important buildings in the city and includes the following four plazas and parks: Plaza Juárez, which is located in front of the ex-convent; Plaza de la Constitución, in front of the Palacio Municipal; Parque Reforma, which houses the obelisk; and Parque del Salto, located in an old aqueduct pond.
The Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino is, from the architectural and pictorial point of view, one of the greatest examples of the Novo-Hispanic art of the 16th century. This convent shows a combination of architectural styles such as Plateresque, Mudejar, Gothic, Romanesque and Renaissance. It has a unique example of an open chapel 17.5 m wide and 12 m high, entirely covered with fresco murals.
The Actopan Obelisk is located in the Reforma Park; around 2008 it was built, but it was not until 2009 when it was inaugurated. It consists of an elongated quadrangular column mounted on a small base slightly with a larger dimension of the obelisk, whose sides are reduced until reaching the top, ending in the pyramidal tip called pyramidion. Its total height is 57 meters, inside there is a staircase that leads to the top and is used as a viewpoint.
The Actopan Municipal Palace is a two-story building, with a style reminiscent of neoclassical architecture; it has a soportal with horseshoe arches, with the relief of the Actopan glyph in the keystone; the pilasters with Ionic capitals continue to support a smooth entablature that leads to the second level. In the second level there is a series of square windows; with a stained glass window and balcony in the central part. The entire complex is topped by a continuous parapet and a mixtilinear pediment in the central part. This was built in 2008, when the auditorium of the Old Municipal Palace was demolished.
The Old Municipal Palace is a rectangular building of a single floor; the access is a large opening with a rebated arch, with pilasters on the sides, which support a triangular frontispiece, the pilasters in the upper section are transformed into corbels in the form of volutes. All crowned by a mixtilinear pediment with a niche. In 2008 the auditorium was demolished and in 2016 the north section; inside the patio is called Plaza de las Artes.
Monuments
There are two monuments located in Plaza Juarez, one dedicated to Miguel Hidalgo and the other to Benito Juarez. The Monument to Miguel Hidalgo is a statue of the personage on a hexagonal base, which in turn is on a cylindrical pedestal. The Monument to Benito Juarez placed in 1977, is a bust of the personage on a cylindrical pedestal. Another monument in the city is the monument to Efren Rebolledo, located next to the Efren Rebolledo Elementary School. There is also a monument to Jesús Luz Meneses, located at the intersection of María del Carmen González and Corregidora Streets, built in the 1990s in honor of the works carried out in the area.
Among the architectural remains of the city's aqueduct are the "Fuente de Mendoza" and "Fuente El Salto". The Mendoza Fountain has an elongated hexagonal floor plan, three of its sides form a curbstone. The El Salto Fountain is located on an old pond, located in the Nicolás Romero Garden; in 2014 it underwent a remodeling giving it its current appearance. On September 13, 2004, the Monument to the Niños Héroes was inaugurated; it consists of a semi-circular wall with six columns each representing the six Mexican cadets, with a commemorative plaque in the center.
On June 21, 2019, the Monument to the Teacher was inaugurated, for the design of the monument a call was issued, where the citizenship participated. This monument consists of a semicircular base, where five doric columns rise; in the center on a pedestal is the sculpture of two hands holding books, and a plaque that says "thank you". In Colonia Guzmán Mayer there is a monument to Genaro Guzmán Mayer.
Plazas and parks
The city's green areas include Plaza Juárez, Parque Reforma, Jardín Nicolás Romero, and Parque Recreativo "La Eroca"; there are also parks in the Efrén Rebolledo (Parque Urbano), Guadalupe, and Guzmán Mayer colonies, with various playgrounds for children. In Plaza Juárez and Parque Reforma there are shoe-shine stands.
The Plaza Juárez is a wooded park with a kiosk or bandstand in the center. Access to the atrium of the Convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino is through a soportal, formed by a semicircular arcade, with a barrel vault roof. The central arch that gives access to the atrium is almost twice the size of the others, and is also roofed by a barrel vault, perpendicular to the one that covers the soportal. On March 3, 2014, construction began on a subway parking garage in Plaza Juarez, which was inaugurated on August 31, 2014.
The Reforma Park is where the Actopan Obelisk is located, as well as several playgrounds and exercise equipment. The Nicolás Romero Garden, also known as "El Salto" because of the old aqueduct cistern located there; in 2014 the cistern was transformed into a fountain and the park was remodeled. The Recreational Park "La Eroca" with green areas, sports, playgrounds, barbecue grills, and a swimming pool. There is also the Plaza de la Constitución, in front of the Municipal Palace; built in 2008 when part of the Old Municipal Palace was demolished.
Painting and murals
On the outskirts of the city in the main arcade of the Actopan Aqueduct, also known as "Los Arcos", there is a set of white cave paintings. Oriented to the southeast, a human figure can be seen that measures 32 cm high and 23 cm wide. To the left side is a sun with three elongated rays, which measures 23 cm high and 22.5 cm wide; to the right a half moon of 9.5 cm long and 6.5 cm high is observed. Also a hand is appreciated that sees toward the northwest, and this almost completely erased. In direction to the northwest in the same rock is an inverted "U" that in its interior seven points are found, indicating possibly a celestial vault.
In the Convent of Actopan, the iconographic and iconological program is one of the most complex and ambitious in the state of Hidalgo. It is necessary to consider the Renaissance painting as preponderant aesthetic ideology, and the reminiscences of the mural painting of Mesoamerica, in the mixture of the decoration and the Christian subjects; characteristics of the tequitqui or Indo-Christian art. The murals and frescoes of the profundis room, the stairway cube and the open chapel stand out.
Different murals have been painted in the city, inside the Actopan Obelisk there are a series of murals, where different aspects of the culture, history and identity of Actopan can be appreciated. On May 15, 2015, at the Actopan High School, 23 murals were made in the facilities, as part of the fifth International Image Festival (FINI), and the second International Meeting of Muralists; under the theme "Social Justice", with the participation of 46 international muralists and 22 students.
In 2015 after the remodeling of the July 8 Market, two murals were made, both reflecting the customs and traditions of Actopan. In 2016 a mural was made on the stairs of the Municipal Palace of Actopan, signed by Eloy Trejo Trejo, in the "Actopan es.... Arte, cultura y tradición" mural, the Convent of Actopan and Efren Rebolledo are appreciated. On July 8, 2017, a mural was inaugurated by the Casa de la Cultura Actopan, to commemorate the 471st anniversary of the founding of the city, located in the porch of the Municipal Palace.
In November 2019, students from Escuela Superior de Actopan created a mural located in the center of María del Carmen González Street, in which the mural combines the social theme, violence against women, the LGBT community and gender equality. On September 4, 2020, the " Actopan Pueblo con sabor" mural was inaugurated in the Plaza Constitución; it shows the cultural heritage of the municipality and was created by the artists Daniel Rojo Pacheco, Juan Ugalde Olguín, Alexis Gómez, José Lionel López and Gerardo Zamora.
Museums and cultural centers
The city has a public library called: Efrén Rebolledo Municipal Public Library, which has 3,000 volumes of books, magazines, pamphlets, etc., in addition to carrying out activities during the holiday period by teaching courses to the children's community.
It has a House of Culture founded on January 24, 1991; where different courses in singing, ceramics, literature, dance, sculpture, photography, painting, theater, etc. are offered. There is also the Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto Theater with a seating capacity of 820 people.
The Museum of Religious Art was inaugurated on January 1, 2011, it is located inside the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino. It has four permanent exhibition rooms and contains Viceroyalty and 18th century art, with carved wood furniture, religious oil paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as several painted and stewed sculptures.
On December 20, 2010, the Bicentennial Museum and Cultural Center was inaugurated; its interiors are designed to offer courses in dance, sculpture, painting, music and other arts, as well as exhibitions and the sale of handicrafts. On May 24, 2021, the Actopan City Hall informed the demolition of the building due to differential settlements and structural risks. The damage to the property is estimated at twelve million pesos. The demolition has not been carried out and there are no dates for its action.
On August 30, 2011, construction began on the Los Frailes Sports Museum, also known as the "Sports Gallery"; it opened its doors to the public on January 13, 2012. The building consists of two floors: the first floor, with an area of 165 m2, houses a lobby, stairs, gallery and an exhibition pavilion; and the second floor consists of a meeting room, restrooms and terrace with a view of the Los Frailes Sports Field.
The Los Frailes Sports Museum is dedicated to different Actopan athletes such as: Velia Flores Guerrero, selected in the Paralympic Games of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, cyclists Rubén Lugo Caballero, State Sports Award 2002 and Gabriel Cuéllar Valdez, selected in the Olympic Games of Mexico 1968, and in the Pan American Games of Winnipeg 1967, and who was National Road Champion in 1966 and 1968.
Festivities
All Mexican commemorations are celebrated in the city. In the first days of March, a parade is held to commemorate the arrival of spring with preschool students. On September 13 there is a civic ceremony for the Niños Héroes, with the participation of the different educational institutions. The Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico is celebrated with the representation of the Cry of Dolores by the Mayor, sale of Mexican snacks, fireworks display and a popular dance, all this on September 15. On September 16, a commemorative parade is held by the city's elementary schools with an average attendance of 3,000 people. During the Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution on November 20, a commemorative parade is held in charge of high schools and the general public, with an attendance of approximately 3,000 people, In addition, since 2010 a Huapango contest is held in the city, which will bring together between 200 and 250 competitors from different states.
Religious and patronal feast days
Among the main religious festivals in the city are the Día de la Candelaria on February 2. A tradition in Mexico is to dress up the figures every year for each presentation that takes place, and eat tamales that day. The celebration of the Cruz de Mayo, held on May 3, this celebration dedicated to the raising of the cross is held almost everywhere in the city and at construction sites. In the "El Salto" garden, a mass is held annually on this date.
The main patronal feast is held in honor of San Nicolás de Tolentino, patron saint of the city, and takes place during the first days of September. All the events take place in the atrium of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino. Pilgrimages from different localities gather there and various religious ceremonies are held; the main day of the celebration is September 10.
Throughout the year, patronal feasts are held in honor of the saint of each of the parishes in the city's colonies. In the Los Olivos colony, in the northern part of the city, on October 28, a small fair is held in honor of St. Jude Thaddeus, with various cultural and sporting events. Also in the Guadalupe colony there is a fair in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe on December 12. In the Cañada Chica Aviación colony, a fair in honor of Teresa of Ávila is held on October 15.
In the Pozo Grande colony a fair is held in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe on December 12. Also in Pozo Grande there is a fair on June 21 where the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated, with activities such as the barril encebado, roosters, jaripeo, exhibitions, fireworks, processions through the main streets of the colony, and masses.
Easter
On Friday of Sorrows, inside the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino, an Altar of Sorrows is placed in honor of the Our Lady of Sorrows. This Mexican tradition dates back to the 17th century. In it is placed a sculpture carved in polychrome wood of the 19th century, in the highest and central part. The altar is accompanied by lighted candles or sirios that allude to the seven sorrows of the Virgin and the light of God. Frontals and mats are also made of painted sawdust, flower petals and seeds, to recreate the instruments of the Passion; likewise, fragrant herbs, such as chamomile, are placed on them. Spheres are hung and assembled using the modular origami technique, with purple and gold paper.
During Easter there is a procession and mass on Palm Sunday, in the streets of the center of the town that ends with a mass in the open chapel of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino. On Holy Thursday there is a mass and representation of the Last Supper and the washing of the feet performed by Jesus. On Good Friday a procession commemorating the Way of the Cross and the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth takes place through the streets of the city beginning and culminating in the open chapel of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino. Also in the afternoon there is a Procession of Silence in honor of the Our Lady of Solitude. This procession takes place through the main streets of downtown starting at the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino. On Holy Saturday a mass of the Easter Vigil, Sign of the Risen Christ, is held in the open chapel of the Church and ex-convent of San Nicolás de Tolentino.
Masses and processions are also held in the different churches of the city. As in the Pozo Grande colony, where since 2006 a Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is held in the main streets of the neighborhood.
Day of the Dead
Another tradition of great importance is the celebration of the Day of the Dead, in which some people place an Ofrenda in their homes, which is composed of seasonal fruit, typical foods of the region and cempasúchil flowers. They also take flowers to the cemetery on November 1 and 2. In the city during these dates a tianguis is set up dedicated to the sale of calavera de alfeñique, pan de muerto, papel picado, fruit, candles, copal and incense, among other things. Different cultural programs are also held on this date, mainly an exhibition of altars.
Among the Otomi of the Mezquital Valley, the offering is composed of an earthen floor, two lateral walls of reeds and a central one made of maguey stalks. It is customary to elaborate structures based on tables and boxes, covered with tablecloths and embroidered napkins. Once these "basamentos" are built, the offerings are placed on them. When the "basamentos" are not assembled, the families usually make "tendidos", either with petates or some other propitious element, and in them they place fruits, flowers, food, as well as candles and copal.
Christmas Holidays
During the month of December, the so-called Fiestas Decembrinas (Christmas Holidays) are held, when the city's Christmas tree is lit, which is an average of 12 meters high. This Christmas tree has been in place since 2009. During the lighting there are fireworks, music, representations of different stories about Christmas, and villancicos. On December 12, the traditional celebrations to Our Lady of Guadalupe are held with multiple pilgrimages, fireworks and masses. Las Posadas ( December 16 to 24), Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year are also celebrated.
On January 5, a toy tianguis is placed in the streets of downtown. In addition, since 2012 in the month of January there is a Cavalcade of Magi, this parade includes fireworks, floats decorated with different children's stories, the main one being the one that transports the Three Magi. Along with the Fiestas Decembrinas, the Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon takes place, a concept of Mexican culture that refers to the period from December 12 to January 6, for a total of twenty-six days of festivities.
Actopan Fair
The Actopan Fair, also called Feria de la Barbacoa, is held annually at the beginning of July. Since 1949, the official holiday is July 8, date taken as the day of the founding of the city in 1546. The fair is held at the Unidad Deportiva Municipal (Municipal Sports Unit) located in the northeastern part of the city, and some activities are held in the so-called city center; it receives approximately 130,000 to 150,000 visitors, considering all the events.
Sports activities and cultural events are held, as well as dances, charreadas and a commemorative parade; as well as plays, music bands, painting exhibitions, antique car shows, circus performances, Lucha libre; mechanical games are also installed and fireworks are burned. The food festival stands out with a great exhibition and sale of food. The barbacoa contest has been held since 1971 and the Ximbó Festival has been held since 2017.
Handicrafts and traditional costumes
In the city, embroidery is made on fabric with techniques such as cross stitch and frayed. In basketry, baskets, hats and backpacks are created using palm as raw material. Saddlery is also made, as well as ceramic and pottery works.
For the folk costume is designated the costume used in the folkloric dance: "Actopan Ciudad de Cara Bonita", with choreography and costume design by Abel Pérez Ángeles, Eleuterio Acosta Zúñiga and Teresa León Lopéz. In this dance the color white predominates, for the women the set is made of satin, the skirt with the image of the ex-convent of Actopan stands out, with a 25 cm long skirt, finished with green lace; the white blouse with the image of the glyph of Actopan. The outfit is finished with a shawl and white shoes. For men it is shirt and pants with "pepenado" embroidery (Otomí embroidery, representing the Nahui Ollin). Accompanied with a sombrero de dos pedradas and white boots.
The folk costume of the Mezquital Valley is of Otomí origin; the men used to wear blanket breeches and blanket shirt with some embroidered fabrics, palm hat and huaraches. The women's costume consists of a blanket blouse, embroidered ribbon, rebozo of ayate thread, skirt of colored or white blanket fabric, hair ribbon and glass earrings.
Gastronomy
In gastronomy, the traditional dish is barbacoa baked in a subway oven and wrapped in Maguey stalks, made with beef, lamb and goat meat. In the beginning, it was made with dogs of the xoloitzcuintle breed, as well as other animals. It was not until some time after the arrival of the Spaniards that lamb began to be used.
Also as one of its main dishes is the ximbo, also known as "chicken on a stalk"; this dish was first commercialized in the 1990s. The dish consists of rooster or hen meat wrapped with maguey stalks and baked in a subway oven; it also has nopales, pork skin, chamorro or pork ribs and even veal.
Also from the Mezquital Valley come tunas and xoconostle (sour tunas with syrup or jam) for dessert; escamoles and chinicuiles stewed with flowers of different cacti, such as maguey, aloe, mesquite, bilberry cactus, nopal; chamuis (mesquite tree beetles); xagis (tender beans with pork and pasilla chili) and mixiotes. The typical drink is pulque, as well as maguey syrup; the latter is the first thing that is extracted from the maguey; later, when fermented, it results in pulque, from which the curado beverages are derived. Other typical dishes and foods are: chalupas, pambazos, tacos, mixiotes, mole, tlacoyos, sopes, quesadillas and gorditas.
Infrastructure
Transportation
Federal Highway 85 Mexico-Laredo is the main road in the city, allowing for the distribution and exchange of goods and services. It connects to the Actopan-Tula highway, one of the most important highways in the state. In addition, the city has the Bulevar Oriente (East Boulevard), which functions as a beltway allowing a faster transfer of tourism and commerce to Mexico City or Nuevo Laredo.
The city has a bus terminal; the Terminal de Autotransportes de Actopan "Antonio Mejía Gandolffi" (TAAC). Domestic destinations include Mexico City; Monterrey, Nuevo León; Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro; Reynosa, Tamaulipas; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí; and destinations within the state of Hidalgo such as Pachuca, Ixmiquilpan, Zimapán, Tulancingo and Tula de Allende.
Media and communications
As for media, it has Internet, telephone network and mobile telephony. The television signal arrives by cable and open signals such as Televisa and TV Azteca; it also receives the signal of the state channel: Channel 3 Hidalgo.
The city has a radio signal, Radio UAEH Actopan (XHPECW-FM), being the fifth station that makes up the University System of Radio and Television of the UAEH; which began activities on February 26, 2019. There was also Radio Actopan (XHACT-FM), which operated under the command of Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo; it began operations on November 29, 2010, and ended on November 28, 2022.
The city has a Postal Administration of Correos de México, a public space connected to the México Conectado Program and a Digital Community Center. The postal code of the town is 42500, and its telephone prefix is 772.
Education
The illiterate population is 4.07%; and the population with incomplete basic education is 30.16%. For the 2018–2019 school year, kindergarten and/or nursery education has twelve schools, 24 teachers and 505 students; preschool education has twenty-three schools, 87 teachers and 1762 students; primary education has twenty-four schools, 223 teachers and 5280 students; secondary education has eleven schools (eight general, two telesecundaria and one technical), 116 teachers and 3083 students; higher secondary education has ten schools (three technological and seven general).
In higher secondary education, the Actopan High School stands out, an institution dependent on the Actopan High School belonging to the UAEH; which began activities in 2014, with a general baccalaureate modality. The Centro de Bachillerato Tecnológico Industrial y de Servicios No. 83 also stands out. "Pedro María Anaya Álvarez", an institution under the Dirección General de Educación Tecnológica Industrial (DGETI), which began operations on September 29, 1975; it has six specialties: Construction, Computer Science, Accounting, Programming, Automotive Maintenance and Computer Equipment Support and Maintenance.
In higher education, there is the Centro de Estudios Universitarios Moyocoyani, Plantel Actopan, with degrees in Pedagogy and Administrative Informatics. There is also the Actopan High School of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), with degrees in law, Psychology, Graphic Design, and Business Creation and Development. On July 17, 2000, it began operations, its facilities are located in the town of El Daxthá, on the outskirts of the city, occupying an area of 49,364.94 m2, where it houses six modules, a library, two computer areas, a language center, administrative offices, an auditorium, a machine room and a parking lot.
Healthcare
In the city, 42.06% of the population is not entitled to health services. The city has the Family Medicine Unit (UMF) No. 16 of the Mexican Social Security Institute; the Family Medicine Unit of the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers; and a clinic of the Mexican Red Cross. There are also two health centers of the Secretaría de Salud de Hidalgo, one located in the Chapultepec colony and the other in the Cañada Chica Aviación colony.
The Actopan General Hospital was inaugurated in 2000. There are seven outpatient and subspecialty areas; two emergency and gynecology areas; in toco-surgery there is an expulsion room, labor and delivery room and recovery beds; for hospitalization there are thirty census beds with central nurses, neonatology and operating room.
Public services
Public services are potable water, drainage, and electricity; the availability of these services in the municipality is partially scarce. Drinking water, drainage, and sewerage services are provided by the Comisión de Agua y Alcantarillado Sistema Actopan (CAASA). There are eight water wells to provide service to the population, with a supply of fourteen million liters per day; it is estimated that an Actopan resident uses 205 liters of water per day.
The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is in charge of electricity and public lighting. The city has a fire station, In terms of public safety, there is an agency of the Public Prosecutor's Office with ten agents. The city also has a social rehabilitation center (Cereso).
The Actopan landfill is a Type C, due to the amount of tons that enter daily around 18 to 23 tons. It is 180 meters long by 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep. It is an open-air landfill, it began operations in 2017 and by 2021 it will be at maximum capacity. It has 10 units for garbage collection, covering 14 routes in 25 colonies.
Economy
In 2015 it presented a Human Development Index of 0.776 (High). In terms of finance there are nine bank branches, among which are Banamex, BBVA Bancomer, Banco Azteca, HSBC, Bancoppel, Banco Ahorro Famsa. In industry there are small manufacturing companies such as huaraches, bricks for construction, and clothing maquiladoras.
In terms of agriculture and livestock, grazing areas and crops are located in the colonies on the outskirts of the city, such as Cañada Chica Aviación, Cañada Chica, La Estación, El Cerrito, Dos Cerritos and Pozo Grande; these are activities with little production in the city. In agriculture, small-scale production is corn and alfalfa; and in livestock, production is mainly aviculture with poultry.
The city has a slaughterhouse inaugurated in 2015, it has a surface area of 3500 m2; it has administrative areas, loading, unloading, the area of the main warehouse and the corrals, where about eighty herds and twice as many pigs can be slaughtered during eight hours.
Trade
Stores and markets
Commerce is located mainly in the city center and in the surrounding streets, especially the sale of clothing, shoes, fruits and vegetables; there are also commercial chains such as Farmacias Guadalajara, Coppel and OXXO, as well as two convenience stores, Mi Bodega Aurrerá and Mercado Soriana, formerly Bodega Comercial Mexicana. The city has two Diconsa program stores, as well as two Liconsa dairies in the colonies El Cerrito and La Floresta.
The city has two markets: the 8 de Julio Market and the Jamaiquitas Market. The main market in the city is the 8 de Julio Market, it has two levels to house commercial activity and a subway parking lot. It was built in 1965; in 2014 began the remodeling of the market, and the construction of the subway parking, on April 2, 2015, the market was reopened. The Jamaiquitas Market was built in 2008, and has about 30 stores.
Tianguis
In the city, tianguis are held on Wednesdays and Sundays. The Wednesday tianguis is one of the most important in the Mezquital Valley. It is located in the so-called center of the city occupying about 45,414 m2, distributed in about twenty-two streets. In it you can find a great variety of merchants offering seasonal fruits, vegetables, legumes, hierbas, stones, lime, kitchen utensils, canned products, seeds, beef, pork, chicken, fish, aluminum cases, clay pots, tools, sweets, clothes, food, etc.
There is no exact date when this tianguis began to be set up, although it is known that sales in the area had been taking place since 1550. Some time later the merchants settled on Efrén Rebolledo Street, since most of the vendors came from Santiago de Anaya. This same street is known for its food stalls, maguey syrup and pulque; and you can listen to mariachi, marimba, huasteco or norteño trios, this area is colloquially known as: Garibaldito.
It is estimated that around twenty-nine thousand people gather every Wednesday to buy products in this tianguis. On Sundays there is another tianguis in the downtown area, this one is smaller than the one on Wednesdays; in it you can find fruits, vegetables, clothes, food, etc. It is located mainly around the Reforma Park where the Actopan Obelisk is located.
Food Market
The Central de Abastos de Actopan has been in operation since 2005 and only operates on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is the largest point of commerce in the region, and one of the most important in the state of Hidalgo. On Saturdays it operates with a much smaller number of merchants and offers seasonal fruits, vegetables and legumes.
On Wednesday it functions as an extension of the tianguis that is placed that day in the center of the city. This day hosts approximately five thousand merchants from different municipalities of Hidalgo; in an extension of seventeen hectares.
It has areas for the sale of fodder, livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep and goats) and poultry, groceries, fruit and vegetables (wholesale and retail); as well as an area where electrical appliances, tools, toys, handicrafts, clothing, second-hand items, and others are sold. On this day there is a Gastronomic Pavilion with thirty-nine stores where you can buy typical food of the region. There is also the largest used car market in the state, as it can gather more than five hundred vehicles.
Tourism
The city offers nine four- and three-star hotels, with a total of 258 available rooms; it has sixteen restaurants, three cafeterias, two nightclubs and nine bars. The city is located within the so-called Corredor Turístico de los Balnearios, promoted by the Federal and State Secretariat of Tourism. This corridor passes through the municipalities of Actopan, Santiago de Anaya, Ixmiquilpan, Tasquillo, Tecozautla and Huichapan.
Since November 27, 2011, the city has a tourist transport with capacity for more than thirty people, in its two levels; the second level is open-top. This transportation travels through the main streets and attractions of the city, during the tour the houses where illustrious characters of Actopan lived are shown, such as María del Carmen González, doctor and altruist of the city; Efrén Rebolledo, poet and writer; and Genaro Guzmán Mayer, author of the Hymn to the State of Hidalgo. This transportation does not operate every day, occasionally it only operates on local holidays.
Sports
The most popular sport in the city is soccer, followed by football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, cycling, and athletics, among others. In terms of sports infrastructure, there is a football field in the Ozesnos Actopan, as well as a basketball court in the Aviación colony, and a lucha libre arena. There is also a bullring that is also used as a lienzo charro, located near the town of El Daxthá.
In the city there is a lienzo charro called the Centro de Convenciones or Polideportivo "Mañutzi", completely roofed and with a capacity for three thousand people, located within the Municipal Sports Complex. The "Jesús Luz Meneses" Municipal Sports Complex has a gymnasium with volleyball and basketball courts, a baseball field and a fronton court.
The Los Frailes Sports Complex, better known as "El Jagüey", is used as a soccer stadium; it is 105 m long, 57.5 m wide and 3 m deep. The "Las Canchitas" Sports Complex: also known as the "Jesús Luz Meneses" Complex, it has areas for indoor soccer, volleyball and basketball
See also
Municipalities of Hidalgo
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
Government of the State of Hidalgo. Official website.
H. City Hall of Actopan. Official website.
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Petrobium is a genus in the family Asteraceae.
The only known species is Petrobium arboreum, called Saint Helena whitewood. It is found in the tree-fern thicket at the top of the central ridge of island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. The plants are either female or hermaphrodite, i.e. the species is gynodioecious.
See also
Flora of St Helena
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Coreopsideae
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Dario Fontanarosa is the former chairman of Adelaide United FC, he is also chief executive of Bianco Building Supplies and is the son-in-law of Nick Bianco.
Biography
He earned respect amongst the Australian football (soccer) community by his handling of the post A-League 2006-07 grand final debacle.
In April, 2008, Fontanarosa revealed plans of an ambitious program to build an $475 million inner city 45,000 all-seater stadium.
Dario is highly respected by some fans who traveled to Osaka, Japan for the final of the AFC Champions League. Dario kindly help the fans with some aptly named "Dario Dollars".
Dario was replaced as Chairman by AUFC Director and Managing Director of award winning travel agency Airport Travel Centre Mel Patzwald.
He is a member of the Composition the Commission of Football Clubs.
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Zarrin Qaba (, also Romanized as Zarrīn Qabā) is a village in Abbas-e Sharqi Rural District, Tekmeh Dash District, Bostanabad County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 438, in 100 families.
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The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (released in 1920 as The Valley of Night) is a 1915 American drama silent black and white film directed by Will S. Davis. It is based on the play of the same name by Victor Mapes and Louis Forest. The film is lost.
This film, The Case of Becky (1915) and The Brand of Satan (1917) established a basic framework of representation which is still often utilized (the split personality).
Cast
Lionel Barrymore as Judge Randolph Legarde
Edna Pendleton as Amelia Garside
William H. Tooker as Inspector Barton
Roy Applegate as Big Charles
T.W.M. Draper
August Balfour
Charles E. Graham
Arthur Morrison
Ed Roseman
Thomas O'Keefe
Betty Young
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The Battle of Mortemer was a defeat for Henry I of France when he led an army against his vassal, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy in 1054. William was eventually to become known as William the Conqueror after his successful invasion and conquest of England.
Background
William the Bastard became Duke of Normandy as a boy. His reign did not start well, and he had to experience twenty years of internal strife. The chronicler William of Jumièges reported that the duke's guardian, his teacher and his steward were all killed by rebels. Members of William's extended family attempted to unseat him. In 1046 there was a rebellion led by Guy of Burgundy, William's cousin. William defeated the rebels at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes in 1047, with the support of Henry I of France.
The battle
The French king had supported William at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes, but in 1052 he decided to oppose William and led an alliance of French magnates against him. A large force under Odo, brother to the king, came from north-eastern France along with troops under Renaud, Count of Clermont, and Guy, Count of Ponthieu. This second force entered Eastern Normandy and began widespread devastation.
While Duke William faced off against the French king to the west of the Seine River, an allied force of Norman barons led by Robert, Count of Eu, Hugh of Gournay, Walter Giffard, Roger of Mortemer, and the young William de Warenne came out of their own lands to stop the incursion by Count Odo and Count Rainald.
The French force was widely scattered in its depredations of rape and pillage in the Norman lands and was an easy target for the Norman forces of Robert, Count of Eu. The fierce engagement lasted many hours, but the French left with heavy losses. Guy, Count of Ponthieu, was captured during the course of the battle, as was the father of Guibert of Nogent, while Waleran of Ponthieu, brother of Guy I, the Count of Ponthieu was killed.
All these events were viewed by the French king from his vantage point on Bassenbourg Hill just across the river. He withdrew the remainder of his forces in "dismay" and never invaded Normandy again.
After the defeats of 1052–1054 the rebellious Norman lords were exiled, the Norman lands of the Counts of Pointhieu were confiscated, and Guy, Count of Ponthieu swore homage to William after two years' imprisonment.
Notes
Citations
References
1050s in France
1054 in Europe
Battles involving France
Battles involving the Normans
Conflicts in 1054
William the Conqueror |
There have been several fictional people or people using false names nominated for actual Academy Awards, in several cases because the actual winners were blacklisted at the time. This list is current as of the 94th Academy Awards.
Winners
Pierre Boulle
1957 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Bridge on the River Kwai
Despite not having written the screenplay and not even speaking English, Boulle (who had written the novel on which the film was based) was credited because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. On December 11, 1984, the Board of Governors voted posthumous Oscars to the duo.
Nathan E. Douglas
1958 Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith co-wrote the screenplay, but Young was blacklisted and used a pseudonym for his screen credit. As an inside joke, director Stanley Kramer cast Young and Smith in bit parts as truck drivers and had their screen credit appear while they were on screen together. In 1993, AMPAS restored Young's credit for this work.
Ian McLellan Hunter
1953 Best Story for Roman Holiday
The name was used as a cover for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to change the records and recognize Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. However, Hunter's son, director Tim Hunter, refused to cede the award to Trumbo, so the Academy presented a second Academy Award.
Robert Rich
1956 Best Story for The Brave One
This was another cover for Trumbo. Shortly before his death, Trumbo revealed the much-suspected truth.
Nominees
Roderick Jaynes
1997 Best Film Editing for Fargo
2007 Best Film Editing for No Country for Old Men
Writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have edited several of their films under this name.
Adrien Joyce
1971 Best Writing Original Screenplay for Five Easy Pieces
Carole Eastman wrote the film under this pseudonym with director Bob Rafelson.
Donald Kaufman
2003 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation.
Donald Kaufman was nominated along with his "brother" Charlie. In fact, Donald does not exist; the screenplay was written by Charlie alone, but credited to both. Donald was the first fictitious nominee not to be a cover for a real person. (Both appear as characters in the film.)
John Mac McMurphy
2013 Best Film Editing for Dallas Buyers Club
Director Jean-Marc Vallée edited his film using this pseudonym, inspired by the name of the character played by Jack Nicholson in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
P.H. Vazak
1985 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
Due to his disapproval of the final filmed script, Robert Towne used his dog's name as a pseudonym instead.
See also
Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by directors who don't want their name attached to a film
References
Sources
Oscars site
Fictitious nominees
Academy Awards |
Vranj (; ) is a village in the municipality of Tuzi, Montenegro. It is located south of Tuzi town.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, its population was 1,012.
References
Populated places in Tuzi Municipality
Albanian communities in Montenegro |
```go
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// +build 386,freebsd
package unix
import (
"syscall"
"unsafe"
)
func Getpagesize() int { return 4096 }
func TimespecToNsec(ts Timespec) int64 { return int64(ts.Sec)*1e9 + int64(ts.Nsec) }
func NsecToTimespec(nsec int64) (ts Timespec) {
ts.Sec = int32(nsec / 1e9)
ts.Nsec = int32(nsec % 1e9)
return
}
func TimevalToNsec(tv Timeval) int64 { return int64(tv.Sec)*1e9 + int64(tv.Usec)*1e3 }
func NsecToTimeval(nsec int64) (tv Timeval) {
nsec += 999 // round up to microsecond
tv.Usec = int32(nsec % 1e9 / 1e3)
tv.Sec = int32(nsec / 1e9)
return
}
func SetKevent(k *Kevent_t, fd, mode, flags int) {
k.Ident = uint32(fd)
k.Filter = int16(mode)
k.Flags = uint16(flags)
}
func (iov *Iovec) SetLen(length int) {
iov.Len = uint32(length)
}
func (msghdr *Msghdr) SetControllen(length int) {
msghdr.Controllen = uint32(length)
}
func (cmsg *Cmsghdr) SetLen(length int) {
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}
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var writtenOut uint64 = 0
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written = int(writtenOut)
if e1 != 0 {
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}
return
}
func Syscall9(num, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8, a9 uintptr) (r1, r2 uintptr, err syscall.Errno)
``` |
Vladimir Stankin (born 2 January 1974) is a Russian race walker.
Achievements
External links
1974 births
Living people
Russian male racewalkers |
Planetary Transportation Systems (PTS), formerly known as PTScientists and Part-Time Scientists, is a Berlin-based aerospace company. They developed the robotic lunar lander "ALINA" and seek to land on the Moon with it. They became the first German team to officially enter the Google Lunar X-Prize competition on June 24, 2009, but failed to reach the finals in 2017 for lack of a launch contract. During the summer of 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy, and the ALINA project was put on hold. In July 2021, PTS was selected with ArianeGroup to build ESA's ASTRIS kick-stage.
PTScientists GmbH
PTScientists GmbH is the company representing the team competing at the Google Lunar X-Prize. The company opened offices in Berlin-Mahlsdorf in 2015. It sells payload for the Moon mission to individuals, organizations and companies. The cost for one kilogram of payload is between €700,000 and €800,000.
Furthermore, the know-how of the team is available as a consulting service. As of April 2018, the European Space Agency was studying six private companies, including PTScientists, to work on potential ISRU payload delivery to the Moon surface by 2025.
An additional source of income are merchandising products for the Moon mission. PTScientists lists several partners and sponsors in their web site.
History
The PTScientists team formed in June 2009 as "Part-Time Scientists", when ten teams had already entered Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP), which had started in 2007. Later the company PTScientists GmbH (Limited) was founded.
On August 22–23, 2009, the PTScientists presented their project at the Open Doors Day of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
On December 28, 2009, the team presented their mission at the 26th annual Chaos Communication Congress. In a two-hour presentation, the team provided a detailed overview of all parts of the project. This was the first time the European-made private lunar rover prototype had been presented to the public.
Early 2015 the team won awards in the categories Mobility and Vision, and a total of $750,000 in the Milestone Prizes of GLXP.
During the Advertising Festival in Cannes, on June 23, 2015, Audi was announced as a main sponsor and the rover developer. As a result of this cooperation, the two identical rovers were named Audi Lunar Quattro during the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Planned demo mission to the Moon
In March 2017, the group announced that they planned to perform the world's first private Moon landing with a mission they now simply call "Mission to the Moon". A landing module called Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module (ALINA) would launch in 2021 on an Ariane 64 rocket to the surface of the Moon.
The ALINA lander would deploy two lunar rovers, but none of the three spacecraft are designed to endure the long lunar night. The three spacecraft are technology demonstrators to showcase the lander's capabilities, including landing near the desired landing zone, roving, and real-time communication.
By late 2016, PTScientists had secured agreements to deliver payloads from the U.S., Canada and Sweden, but only one payload (from NASA Ames) has been disclosed.
ALINA lander
ALINA is a lunar lander with a launch mass of and a landing mass of about . Its main engines are in a cluster of eight, each generating 200 newtons. It also features eight attitude control thrusters generating 10 newtons each. ALINA is built to host three general types of payload, which are rovers, stationary and orbital (deployment of CubeSats), but for its first mission it will deploy two rovers and no satellites.
This mission aims to land away from the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus–Littrow lunar valley, to locate and film from a distance the Lunar Roving Vehicle left there by NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. PTScientists have pledged to preserve this and all other NASA and Soviet lunar landers and rovers as "world heritage" and through their support for For All Moonkind Inc.
ALQ rovers
The Audi Lunar Quattro (ALQ) rovers are being developed by German automobile manufacturer Audi. The prototype rover is called Asimov Jr. R3, while the two flight rovers are named Audi Lunar Quattro (ALQ). The rovers feature four-wheel drive tranmision where each wheel is able to pivot 360° for special maneuvers, and their solar panel is able to tilt in the direction of the Sun for best power generation.
The rovers' projected maximum speed is , and they will carry two stereo cameras to acquire 3D images, mounted to a moving head at the front of the vehicle. ALINA lander will communicate with the rovers using technology based on Infineon chips, Nokia, and Vodafone's 4G LTE. In turn, the lander will communicate with Earth Control using the European Space Operations Centre (ESTRACK) network.
Payload
In addition of hardware for a live video broadcast, the lander and rovers will carry commercial or scientific instruments for a fee. The lander, ALINA, has a capacity for including the two 30 kg rovers, and each rover has a capacity for payload.
During its first mission, the lander is envisaged to carry three customer payloads, including an experiment designed by NASA Ames, called Lunar Plant Growth Experiment (LPX). This is an experiment for investigating germination and initial plant growth when subject to the combined effects of lunar gravity and lunar surface radiation. The experiment will try to grow Arabidopsis (a flowering plant), basil, sunflowers, and turnips in a sealed "biosphere" cylinder about 10 cm in diameter with life-support systems. A miniature camera will photograph any growth. Research in such closed ecological systems inform astrobiology and the development of biological life support systems for long duration missions in space stations or space habitats for space farming.
ESA lander study
In January 2019, ESA contractor Ariane Group announced that it has received a one-year contract from ESA to study a lunar lander concept to mine lunar regolith to extract natural resources. PTScientists were awarded a subcontract and are responsible for the payload delivery portion of the study. The mission would be launched on an Ariane 64 in 2025.
References
External links
ptscientists.com official PTScientists website
mission-to-the-moon.com official website of the Mission to the Moon
Google Lunar X Prize
Proposed space probes |
Caroxylon is a genus of shrubby flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae, found in drier areas of the Old World, including southern Africa, Madagascar, northern Africa, Mediterranean islands of Europe, the Canary Islands, Socotra, Ukraine, Russia, western Asia, Central Asia, India, western and northern China, and Mongolia.
Species
Currently accepted species include:
Caroxylon abarghuense (Assadi) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon acocksii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon adiscum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon adversariifolium (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon aegaeum (Rech.f.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon aellenii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon agrigentinum (Guss.) C.Brullo, Brullo, Giusso, Guarino & Iamonico
Caroxylon albidum (Botsch.) Theodorova
Caroxylon albisepalum (Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon aphyllum (L.f.) Tzvelev
Caroxylon apiciflorum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon apterygeum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon arabicum (Botsch.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon araneosum (Botsch.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon arboreum (C.A.Sm. ex Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon armatum (C.A.Sm. ex Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon aroabicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon atratum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon barbatum (Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon caffrum (Sparrm.) Mucina
Caroxylon calluna (Drège ex C.H.Wright) Theodorova ex Mucina
Caroxylon campylopterum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon carpathum (P.H.Davis) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon cauliflorum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon ceresicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon chorassanicum (Botsch.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon columnare (Botsch.) Theodorova
Caroxylon contrariifolium (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon cryptopterum (Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon cyclophyllum (Baker) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon dealatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon decussatum (C.A.Sm. ex Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon dendroides (Pall.) Tzvelev
Caroxylon denudatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon dinteri (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon divaricatum Moq.
Caroxylon dolichostigmum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon dzhungaricum (Iljin) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon ericoides (M.Bieb.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon esterhuyseniae (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon etoshense (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon exalatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon forcipitatum (Iljin) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon gaetulum (Maire) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon garubicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon geminiflorum (Fenzl ex C.H.Wright) Mucina
Caroxylon gemmascens (Pall.) Tzvelev
Caroxylon gemmatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon gemmiferum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon gemmiparum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon genistoides (Juss. ex Poir.) Pau
Caroxylon giessii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon glabrescens (Burtt Davy) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon glabrum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon henriciae (I.Verd.) Mucina
Caroxylon hoanibicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon hottentotticum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon huabicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon humifusum (C.A.Sm. ex A.E.Brueckner) Theodorova
Caroxylon iljinii (Botsch.) Akhani
Caroxylon imbricatum (Forssk.) Moq.
Caroxylon inapertum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon incanescens (C.A.Mey.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon inerme (Forssk.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon jordanicola (Eig) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon kalaharicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon kleinfonteini (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon koichabicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon laricinum (Pall.) Tzvelev
Caroxylon littoralis (Moq.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon marginatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon melananthum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon merxmuelleri (Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon micrantherum (Botsch.) Sukhor.
Caroxylon microtrichum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon minutifolium (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon mirabile (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon namaqualandicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon namibicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon nigrescens (C.A.Sm. ex I.Verd.) Mucina
Caroxylon nitrarium (Pall.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon nodulosum Moq.
Caroxylon nollothense (Aellen) Mucina
Caroxylon okaukuejense (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon omaruruense (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon orientale (S.G.Gmel.) Tzvelev
Caroxylon parviflorum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon passerinum (Bunge) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon patentipilosum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon pearsonii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon persicum (Bunge ex Boiss.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon phillipsii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon pillansii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon procerum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon ptilopterum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon pulvinatum (Botsch.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon rabieanum (C.A.Sm. ex I.Verd.) Mucina
Caroxylon robinsonii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon roshevitzii (Iljin) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon ruschii (Aellen) Mucinav
Caroxylon schreiberae (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon scleranthum (C.A.Mey.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon scopiforme (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon seminudum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon sericatum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon seydelii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon smithii (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon spenceri (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon spinescens (Moq.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon squarrosulum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon stenopterum (Wagenitz) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon swakopmundi (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon tetragonum (Delile) Moq.
Caroxylon tetramerum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon tetrandrum (Forssk.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon tuberculatiforme (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon tuberculatum Moq.
Caroxylon turkestanicum (Litv.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon ugabicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon unjabicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon verdoorniae (Toelken) Mucina
Caroxylon vermiculatum (L.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon villosum (Schult.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon volkensii (Schweinf. & Asch.) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon warmbadicum (Botsch.) Mucina
Caroxylon yazdianum (Assadi) Akhani & Roalson
Caroxylon zeyheri Moq.
References
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae genera |
The M-26–Silver River Culvert is a highway bridge located on M-26 over the Silver River in Eagle Harbor Township, Michigan. The Keweenaw County Road Commission built the bridge in 1930; they also built the US 41–Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge and the M-26–Cedar Creek Culvert around the same time. The M-26–Silver River Culvert was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The Michigan Department of Transportation will remove the structure starting in late April 2023 and replace it with a modern concrete beam bridge in a project expected to take 10 weeks and cost $2.9 million.
See also
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Keweenaw County, Michigan
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Bridges completed in 1930
Transportation in Keweenaw County, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Keweenaw County, Michigan
Steel bridges in the United States
M-26 (Michigan highway) |
Robert S. Mendelsohn (July 13, 1926 – April 5, 1988) was an American pediatrician, anti-vaccinationist and critic of medical paternalism. He denounced unnecessary and radical surgical procedures and dangerous medications, reminding his readers of public health failures such as the 1976 swine flu outbreak and the damage caused to daughters of women who took the drug Diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy. He portrayed doctors as powerful priests of a primitive religion, with dishonesty as its central ethic. His mild manner appealed to the public, while his message infuriated his medical colleagues.
Mendelsohn wrote a syndicated newspaper column called The People's Doctor, and also produced a newsletter with the same name (the newsletter continued after his death until 1992, under the name The Doctor's People.) He published five books, including Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Mal(e) Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women, and How to Raise a Healthy Child…In Spite of Your Doctor. He appeared on over 500 television and radio talk shows.
Education and career
Mendelsohn was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1951. He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Mendelsohn had a full-time private pediatric practice from 1956 to 1967, and continued to see patients of all ages on a consultancy basis until his death in 1988.
For 12 years, Mendelsohn was an instructor at Northwestern University Medical College, and was associate professor of pediatrics and community health and preventive medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine for another 12 years.
Mendelsohn served as National Director of Project Head Start's Medical Consultation Service, a position he was later forced to resign after criticizing the “deadening atmosphere” of regular public schools. He served as Chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee of Illinois. He was president of the alternative medicine National Health Federation (NHF) between 1981 and 1982.
Views and reception
Mendelsohn said that the greatest danger to American women's health was often their own doctors, and contended that chauvinistic physicians subjected female patients to degrading, unnecessary and often dangerous medical procedures. Cancer treatments like hysterectomy and radical mastectomy, according to Mendelsohn, were among the most indiscriminately recommended surgical procedures.
In an era in which the side effects of medications and the risks of medical treatments were hardly known except to doctors, Mendelsohn insisted that patients, too, had the right to such information. In the first of his books to attract widespread publicity, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Contemporary Books 1979), he describes his efforts to make the Physician's Desk Reference, the authoritative guide to medications and medical treatments, available to the public.
In Confessions, Mendelsohn argued that the methods of modern medicine were often more dangerous than the diseases they were designed to diagnose and treat. He advised consumers to be suspicious of their doctors. “One of the unwritten rules in Modern Medicine is always to write a prescription for a new drug quickly, before all its side effects have come to the surface.” (Confessions of a Medical Heretic, p. 32)
Mendelsohn opposed vaccinations for children, claiming the shots are dangerous and worthless. He was an anti-vaccination activist, an opinion widely rejected by the medical community.
His book Confessions of a Medical Heretic was negatively reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the reviewer noted that "the technique of describing one specific situation or case history and then generalizing to all situations or all case histories is a dangerous one, and such extrapolations are carefully avoided by all responsible scientists. However, this approach of Mendelsohn's supplies the grist for his mill— and its faulty."
Quackwatch has noted that Mendelsohn "engaged in irresponsible criticism of the medical profession and science-based health care during most of his medical career."
Nutritionist Kurt Butler described Mendelsohn as a "Whiney-voiced crackpot who made himself rich and famous by leading the bash-doctors movements now in vogue. Mendelsohn, now deceased, made a career of telling Americans that their doctors are out to rob and kill them. He urged everyone to avoid doctors and go instead to chiropractors, naturopaths and health fraud store clerks for their health care."
Death
He died April 5, 1988, at his home in Evanston, Illinois.
Publications
1982, Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women,
1987, How To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company,
1991, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, (This book was first published in 1979)
1985, Dissent in Medicine…Nine Doctors Speak Out, Contemporary Books, Inc.
1988, But Doctor, About That Shot: The Risks of Immunizations and How to Avoid Them, by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., edited by Vera Chatz and published by The People's Doctor, Inc.
The People’s Doctor Newsletter - published monthly from 1980 to 1988.
References
External links
http://thepeoplesdoctor.net/ - website about Robert S. Mendelsohn
Quackwatch.org - 'A Few Notes on Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., Quackwatch (A critique of Mendelsohn)
Robert Mendelsohn – The First Anti-Vaccine Pediatrician - Vaxopedia
1926 births
1988 deaths
American pediatricians
American anti-vaccination activists
University of Chicago alumni
Writers from Chicago |
The Albanenses were a Cathar sect in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries. They were absolute dualists and their headquarters was in Desenzano. The other sects were the moderate dualist Concorezzenses and an intermediate group called Bagnolenses. According to Rainier Sacconi, writing in 1250, all the Cathar sects recognized each other in spite of their differences except the Albanenses and Concorezzenses, who condemn each other. The Albanenses were the followers of papa Niketas and the ordo of Drugunthia.
References
Bibliography
Catharism
Religion in Italy |
Proxy Networks, Inc. is a provider of Remote Desktop Software and remote collaboration software designed to help technicians, network administrators, and IT managers. The company was formed in 2006 by a venture capital-backed acquisition from Juniper Networks. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and Proxy Networks is led by chief executive officer Andy Kim.
Software Editions
As of 11/16/2022, the latest version is v10.5 Hotfix #2. The PROXY Pro remote control software series is composed of two on-premise elements while the third is hosted:
PROXY Pro P2P Edition provides remote desktop access directly from one computer to another in peer-to-peer fashion. It consists of the PROXY Pro Master (viewer) and the PROXY Pro Host (client) and the PROXY Pro Deployment Tool.
PROXY Pro RAS Edition (Remote Access Server) utilizes the same PROXY Pro Master and PROXY Pro Host components and adds the Web Console, a server-side component that allows for the access, management and remote control of Host machines from a browser. It is an on-premises remote desktop software for remote support and collaboration with configurable service management tools, screen recording, real-time reporting and historical connection reporting.
PROXY Air is a hosted remote desktop service eliminating the need for a customer to manage a server on premise.
Company history
Proxy Networks’ technology was originally developed by Funk Software, which introduced the first remote desktop support software for the Windows 3.1 platform circa 1993.
In late 2005, Funk Software was taken over by Juniper Networks.
In July 2006, with financial backing from de Anda Capital LLC (a private equity firm with investments in companies such as Asurion and ServiceSource), newly incorporated Proxy Networks Inc. acquired the remote desktop software product line from Juniper Networks for an undisclosed amount.
At this time the Proxy Networks team consisted of ten employees, and was headed by chief executive officer Andy Kim. According to Kim, at the time of the acquisition, the proprietary software (later renamed “Proxy Pro”) was already installed at hundreds of companies such as Boeing Co., Fidelity Investments and the U.S. Secret Service.
Regarding the acquisition, Juniper VP Joe Ryan commented that the remote desktop software was “not in Juniper’s area of focus,” and that Juniper would concentrate more on network security than management of computers and servers.
Product Distribution
Proxy Networks' products are sold directly to customers in North America. They are sold through third-party vendors in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Latin America.
Version history
Clients
The following companies and organizations are among those that have used PROXY Pro remote desktop software.
Boeing Co.
Fidelity Investments
U.S. Secret Service
Kisco Senior Living
U.S. Department of the Interior
Hitachi
Toyoda Gosei
Colorado Rockies
References
Remote desktop |
James Bernard may refer to:
James Bernard (composer) (1925–2001), British composer
James Bernard (elocutionist) (1874–1946), British elocutionist
James Bernard (politician) (1729–1790), Irish MP for Cork County
James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon (1850–1924), Irish representative peer and Lord Lieutenant of Cork
James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon (1785–1856) |
The 2022–23 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by interim head coach Rodney Terry and played their home games at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas as members of the Big 12 Conference. The Longhorns played at the newly-built Moody Center after playing at Frank Erwin Center for 45 years. They finished the season 23–8, 12–6 in Big 12 play to finish in second place. As the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 tournament, they defeated Oklahoma State, TCU, and top-seeded Kansas to win the tournament. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region, where they defeated Colgate, Penn State, and Xavier to reach the Elite Eight, their first appearance since 2008. There, the Longhorns finally fell to Miami (FL), bringing their season to a close with a final record of 29–9.
On December 12, 2022, head coach Chris Beard was suspended without pay after an early morning arrest for third-degree felony domestic assault on his fiancée. Associate head coach Rodney Terry began serving as acting head coach starting with the December 12th game versus Rice.
On January 5, 2023, Beard was officially terminated by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte; Terry continued as acting head coach for the remainder of the season. On March 27, 2023, Terry was named the permanent full-time head coach for the Longhorns following their impressive run to the Elite Eight in the 2023 NCAA tournament.
Previous season
Season outlook
Heading into the 2021–22 season, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the program after the hiring of former Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard. Texas came into the season ranked number 5 in both the AP Preseason Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll, further invigorating the hype. Also, there was a lot of roster turnover heading into the season with Beard landing 6 of the top 31 transfers in the transfer portal, and only 1 high school recruit in Jaylon Tyson. In Beard's inaugural season, The Longhorns finished the 2021–22 season at 21–11. During the regular season, Texas finished with a record of 21–10, 10–8 in conference play, and 11–2 in non-conference play. Furthermore, the Longhorns were 3–8 against top-25 competition. Texas went 16–3 at home, 4–7 on the road, and 1–1 at neutral sites. This was the Longhorns first 20-win season since the 2018-19 season, they went 21–16 that year. However, the season did have its ups and downs. Additionally, Jaylon Tyson and Tre Mitchell suddenly departed the team mid-season, and Texas lost their last 2 games of the regular season with an early exit in the Big 12 tournament, being eliminated in the first round by TCU 60–65.
Big 12 tournament
Texas entered the Big 12 tournament as a 4-seed. They faced off against 5-seed TCU where they were defeated 60–65, giving them a 6-seed heading into the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
NCAA tournament
Texas entered the NCAA tournament as a 6-seed, facing off against 11-seed Virginia Tech. Against Virginia Tech, Texas won 81–73. Furthermore, Texas's victory against Virginia Tech marked their first win in the NCAA tournament since 2014. In the round of 32, Texas faced off against 3-seed Purdue losing 71–81, ending their season.
Offseason
Returning players
Departures
Outgoing transfers
Coaching staff departures
Acquisitions
Incoming transfers
Recruiting classes
2022 recruiting class
2023 recruiting class
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Preseason
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Darren Drysdale (born 18 February 1971, Lincolnshire) is an English football referee who officiates in the Football League, and is a sergeant in the RAF at Waddington.
Career
He has been refereeing since 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League. He became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in 1997 progressed to Conference North referee.
He was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League in 1998.
Drysdale was an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, and became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year.
In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only 3 from the UK at the time.
He was appointed to the (Football League) National List of referees in 2004. Also in 2004, on 6 March, he was named Combined Services Sports Official of the Year, due to his work for sport within the RAF. He had been posted to the Middle East at this time, so his parents travelled to London to receive the award from the Princess Royal on his behalf.
His first Football League game was a 0–0 draw between Rushden & Diamonds and Kidderminster Harriers on 7 August 2004. His first game at Championship level was the 2–0 home win for Leicester City against Gillingham on 22 January 2005.
Drysdale attracted media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford on 2 January.
In February 2021, Drysdale was involved in an altercation with Ipswich Town midfielder Alan Judge after Judge was shown a yellow card. Drysdale was subsequently charged with improper conduct by the Football Association and removed as the referee for his next game.
References
External links
Darren Drysdale Referee Statistics at soccerbase.com
1971 births
Sportspeople from Lincolnshire
Living people
English football referees
English Football League referees |
Nowiny Sobolewskie is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Sobolew, within Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
References
Nowiny Sobolewskie |
These are the Canadian number-one country songs of 1965, per the RPM Country Tracks chart.
See also
1965 in music
References
External links
Read about RPM Magazine at the AV Trust
Search RPM charts here at Library and Archives Canada
Canada Country
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Identikit is a technology for creating facial composites. The word has become a synecdoche for facial composites and for things that lack individuality.
Identikit may also refer to:
Identikit, alternate title of the 1974 Italian drama film The Driver's Seat
"Identikit", a 2016 song by Radiohead from the album A Moon Shaped Pool |
The Fort Sumter Range Lights are range lights to guide ships through the main channel of the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The original front light was built at Fort Sumter and the original rear light was in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Both lights were lit from 1893 to 1915 to make range lights. Today the Fort Sumter Range is the main approach channel to Charleston Harbor.
Fort Sumter, which was the site of the first battle of the Civil War, is now a National Monument. St. Philip's is a National Historic Landmark that was built in 1836.
History
The front light at Fort Sumter completed in 1857. The front light was a white, fifth order Fresnel lens. The station was destroyed during the Civil War. A temporary light with a steamer lens was in place after the war ended and Fort Sumter was reoccupied by federal troops. Later the light was rebuilt. With little chance of war, this lighthouse was the major activity at Fort Sumter from 1876 to 1898.
In 1893, the front light was destroyed by a hurricane. The tower was replaced with a light green metal skeletal tower. The fog signal was a bell mechanically struck with a double blow every 15 s. After the rear light was extinguished in 1915, a radio beacon was added. The radio beacon was moved to Sullivan's Island lifesaving station in 1950. The light was deactivated in the early 1950s.
The rear range light was a white lantern in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston that was lit in 1893. The height of the lantern was . The Annual Report of the Light-House Board reported that the electric apparatus for lighting the gas burner in the locomotive headlight was repaired in 1901. This light was removed in 1915.
Today
The Fort Sumter Range is currently the main approach channel to the Charleston Harbor. Its front light is near Fort Sumter and its rear light is a lighted tower near the site of the old Fort Ripley Shoal Light.
References
Lighthouses in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina |
Robert Pennock (December 14, 1936 - April 9, 2019) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a contractor and businessman by career.
Pennock was elected at the Etobicoke North electoral district in the 1984 federal election and served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament, having defeated the incumbent Liberal Party MP, Roy MacLaren. However, Pennock was defeated by MacLaren in the 1988 election.
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2019 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
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Bielawy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Granowo, within Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
References
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The Gurdwara Sahib is a Sikh place of worship or Gurdwara in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. It was built in the late 1970s under the spiritual guidance of Sant Baba Puran Singh ji (d. 1983) and the leadership of Norang Singh (d. 1995). The Spiritual leadership of the jatha is now continued through the vision of Mohinder Singh.
The gurdwara spans an area of about 25,000 square meters and the building is four stories high. There are five main Darbar Halls and three Langar Halls. There are approximately 100 rooms, most of which are for the sangat who want to stay at the Gurdwara for the night and have facilities for sleeping and washing.
The main Darbar is used for continuous Akhand Path recital. A new Paath is started on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, unless a Samagam "community meeting" is under way.
At Samagam programs, there is Sampat Paath recitation of a shabda: each line of the gurbani is followed by a sampat. Sampath Paath usually takes eleven days of continuous reading.
See also
List of places named after Guru Nanak Dev
References
Religious buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands
Gurdwaras in England
Memorials to Guru Nanak |
is a professional Japanese baseball player.
Koike played outfield and infield for the Chunichi Dragons (2008–2011) and for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars (2012–2013). Koike announced his retirement on October 1, 2013 and his final at-bat, hit a home run.
In 2014, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars hired Koike as first team batting coach.
External links
NPB.com
1980 births
Living people
Baseball people from Yokohama
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
Yokohama BayStars players
Chunichi Dragons players
Yokohama DeNA BayStars players
Japanese baseball coaches
Nippon Professional Baseball coaches |
Siguatepeque () is a city and municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua. The city has a population of 79,520 (2023 calculation).
History
Founded by the Spanish in 1689 as a religious centre for retreats and monastic training, the population of the town grew through the intermarriage of colonists, the indigenous Lencas and the Mexican Nahuatl immigrants. The name Siguatepeque is made up of two words in Nahuatl, Cihuatl: Woman and Tepec:Mount, the mount of women. Siguatepeque is located approximately above the sea level. In 1861, the town became a municipality in its own right, and a city in 1926.
Geography
Siguatepeque, is situated 1100 metres above sea level and located in the central mountains of Honduras. It can be described as a garden town.
Economy
The rural region is primarily dedicated to farm and forest enterprises. Building on its natural attractions and beauty, the region has opened itself up to eco-tourism, with Siguatepeque functioning as a base for visitors making trips to destinations within central Honduras. The National School of Forestry Science (ESNACIFOR) provides training for students from all of Latin America.
Travel
Located almost exactly halfway between Honduras' two largest cities of San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, Siguatepeque is easy to reach—the town is two hours travel from either city. It is a stopping point for rest and refreshment for Honduran and international inter-city traffic, which has spurred a proliferation of highway restaurants and gas stations. The easiest and cheapest way to travel to and from Siguatepeque is by bus, from Tegucigalpa regional bus services serving San Pedro Sula, Santa Barbara, El Progreso, Tela, Santa Rosa de Copan, La Esperanza, La Ceiba, or any other town beyond Siguatepeque to the north. Many travellers prefer to use the direct bus services between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, served by Empresa Saenz, Empresa El Rey, and Hedman Alas bus companies. The direct bus service connecting Tegucigalpa is Empresas Unidas. For travel to La Esperanza, buses travel to the turnoff about 4 km from town centre, where other buses from there will travel onwards to the Lenca highlands.
Climate
The climate is humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa). mild. There are three seasons. During the wet and fairly cool season between May and November, enough rain falls in the area to ensure luxurious vegetation, while it escapes the excessive humidity of the far hotter and wetter lowland areas. A cooler interlude (November to February) provides seasonal contrast, with temperatures occasionally down to 8° C (40° F) as cold fronts enter from the north. This is followed by a dry season (February to May), with temperatures achieving a pleasantly warm peak of 32° C (95° F). Cool winds flow down from the local Calanterique forest and from the immense Cordillera Montecillos, a Biological Reserve on the southern edge of the valley. Even in the hot season air conditioning is unnecessary, with a fan almost always being enough. In the winter heating is rarely needed.
Amenities
The town is at the centre of a regional vegetable and fruit production area, ensuring a year-round supply of produce. The town has good shopping facilities, and the stores are filled with local and Central American products, as well as imported items.
Amenities in Siguatepeque include a large swimming pool, an acupuncture centre, a private hospital, two cinemas and numerous restaurants. The town offers several bilingual schools up to college level, as well as the new Catholic University.
Medical
The Evangelical Hospital attracts clients from throughout Honduras. Dozens of private general and specialist clinics operate here, in particular El Carmen Medical Center, Hospital Las Mercedes, as well as dental clinics. For alternative therapies, the Hospital de Acupuntura (located in Barrio Macaruya) offers acupuncture, dentistry, herbal medicines, sauna and massage.
References
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1689 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (, literally Saint-Laurent of the Maroni; ) is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is one of the three sub-prefectures of French Guiana and the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. It is the second most populous city of French Guiana, with 49,173 inhabitants at the January 2020 census.
History
Founded in 1858 by Auguste Baudin, it was formerly the arrival point for prisoners, who arrived at the Camp de la Transportation.
The town was near an Amerindian settlement called Kamalakuli named after their chief. On 15 September 1880, the town became the capital city of a special prison commune; the mayor was the Director of the Penitentiary Administration.
When Gaston Monnerville was elected Deputy in 1932, he tried to close the prison complex. On 17 June 1938, the prison was repealed, but the final closure did not come until 1946. On 9 November 1949, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni became a regular commune.
Geography
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a border town in north-west French Guiana. It is located on the Maroni River (in Dutch: Marowijne), opposite the town of Albina in Suriname which can be reached by ferry or pirogue. It does not, therefore, have an Atlantic coast; this may have motivated the choice of the town's location, as the penal authorities wanted to prevent the escape of prisoners from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni by a sea route.
The ethnic composition of the town is, as everywhere in French Guiana, diverse: Maroons are today the largest ethnic group, followed by Creoles, Amerindians, Haitians, métropolitains and Brazilians.
Maroons will mostly be found in the neighbourhoods called la Charbonnière (Djukas, Saramakas and Paramaccans), les Vampires and les Sables Blancs. Amerindians are located in a few villages on the outskirts of town: Balaté (Arawaks), Paddock, Prospérité, Terre Rouge, Espérance, Village Pierre (Kalinas).
Demographics
Historical population
Migrations
The places of birth of the 43,600 residents in the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni at the 2015 census were the following:
64.1% were born in French Guiana
5.3% in Metropolitan France
0.9% in Martinique
0.5% in Guadeloupe
0.2% in other parts of Overseas France
29.0% in foreign countries (notably Suriname, followed by Brazil and to a lesser extent Haiti); among these, 28.4% were immigrants and 0.7% were children of French citizens born abroad
These were the countries of birth of the immigrants living in the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni at the 2009 census:
born in Suriname: 7,631
born in Brazil: 3,105
born in Haiti: 1,199
born in Guyana: 327
born in other countries: 530
Environment
This river town has long been the headquarters of an important association for the protection of the environment: "Le pou d'agouti" (an environmental organisation named after an annoying local mite with an itchy bite which strives for the protection of local and regional fauna and flora.
It is also the point of departure for several ecotourism circuits, most notably journeys upriver to explore the many creeks as well as the Amazonian rainforest; tourists can spend a night in the jungle in huts or tents. Another possibility is visiting the Voltaire Falls, situated upriver.
Industrial activities, slowly increasing urban density and its accompanying shanty towns as well as poaching have damaged the surrounding area, but on 23 May 2009, a species of Caecilian theretofore unknown to man was discovered in town.
Transport
Between 1890 and 1897, a 16 kilometre Decauville railway was constructed between Saint-Laurent-du Maroni and Saint-Jean-du-Maroni. Another 22 kilometre railway was built to the sawmill at Charvein. The railways were abandoned after the penal camps closed.
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni can be accessed chiefly by road, the Route Nationale 1, from Cayenne. A new port was recently built on the Maroni, but currently lacks proper wharf infrastructure and sufficient river depth. The Saint-Maurice airfield was decommissioned in 1946, but is used for sports. The Saint-Jean road links Saint-Laurent to Saint-Jean-du-Maroni and the military base there.
In 2010, Route Nationale opened connecting Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni starting from the Plateau des Mines to Apatou. The road was opened with the Tour of Guiana. The road is scheduled to be extended to Maripasoula. Construction work on the section between Apatou and Papaïchton is planned to commence in 2021.
The town is also an important port of departure for those going inland via pirogue or to Albina in Suriname by ferry or pirogue.
The town's Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Airport is served by Air Guyane Express.
Economy
The sugarcane fields near town produce "La Belle Cabresse" rum (as well as the less well-known "La Cayennaise" and "Cœur de Chauffe") for the Saint Maurice rum company. The rum is 50 to 55% proof and of high quality.
On the road to Saint-Jean-du-Maroni (about south of St-Laurent, home of the former penal Camp de la Rélégation), one can find many small shops owned by Saramakas selling the woodwork for which they are famous - especially chairs and tables. There is also a village of Maroon artisans on the road to Javouhey.
Two military units are stationed at St-Jean's Camp Némo: the Groupement du service militaire adapté (GSMA), which is part of the Ministry of Overseas France and is in charge of professional job reinsertion in the west of French Guiana; and the Maroni detachment of the 9th Marine Infantry Regiment whose job it is to patrol the river border and the jungles of the west of the département.In 2008, the two units has merged into the Regiment of the Adapted Military Service (RSMA).
Sights
Originally built by, and for, the French department of corrections or Administration Pénitentiaire, many old official buildings in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni bear a distinctive architectural style, a unique mix of colonial style and penitentiary architecture. Bricks made from the local red clay were used by the convicts, who provided a free and never-ending workforce, to build a whole official and administrative district, starting with the main jailhouse itself, the Camp de la Transportation.
Some of the main buildings in the old administrative district, locally called Le Petit Paris for its alleged reminiscence of a 19th-century French architecture:
Le Camp de la Transportation (guided tours available, famous for Henri 'Papillon' Charrière's cell) and the adjacent Office du Tourisme;
La Résidence du Gouverneur du bagne, today's residence of the sous-préfet, and formerly the governor's residence;
Le Tribunal maritime, today's sous-préfecture;
La Mairie (city hall) and the former bank;
St. Lawrence Church;
Le Trésor public;
L'Hôtel La Tentiaire;
La caserne Joffre (the Gendarmerie HQ);
André-Bouron Hospital (It was in use until September 2018).
Most of these buildings are located on Avenue De Gaulle, Avenue Lieutenant-Colonel Tourtet and the Boulevard Mallouet. After the jailhouse was closed and the penal authority left in the early 1950s, these buildings suffered from lack of maintenance and interest, and were much damaged due to the harsh weather conditions in western French Guiana. Close to a state of total ruin, they underwent a major restoration in the early 80s, after the city council and French Minister of Culture realized that the old penitentiary and administrative district was of high cultural and historical interest. It soon became a major tourist attraction, with the Camp de la Transportation its star.
Other notable sights from the penitentiary years include Saint-Jean-du-Maroni, formerly the Camp de la Relégation and today's main military HQ for western French Guiana. There is also a small island in the middle of the Maroni River which used to house the prisoners affected with leprosy. Papillon wrote about hiding there during one of his daring escapes.
Notable sights not related to the prisons:La Charbonnière: Maroon village founded by refugees from Suriname's civil war.
There are many hotels in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, including the Auberge Bois Diable, Chez Julienne, Hôtel la Tentiaire, Le Relais des 3 Lacs and Star Hôtel.
Climate
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni features an equatorial climate that is a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) more subject to the Intertropical Convergence Zone than the trade winds and with no cyclones. The temperatures are uniform throughout the year, with the average annual low being around and the average annual high being around , although September and October, the driest two months, have a slightly higher average high at . The town receives an abundant amount of rain throughout the year, classifying it as a tropical rainforest climate as all months have at least of rain per month, unlike the south and east of French Guiana where the months of September and October are typically drier than this. On 27 September 2016, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni recorded a temperature of , which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in the French Guiana.
Notable people
Lénaïck Adam (1992), politician.
Léon Bertrand (1951), politician and mayor.
Raoul Diagne (1910–2002), footballer.
Oriane Jean-François (2001), footballer.
Florian Jozefzoon (1991), footballer.
Stéphane Martine (1978), footballer.
Raymond Tarcy (1936–2019), politician and senator.
References in popular culture
Somerset Maugham's short-story, "A Man with a Conscience" is set in St. Laurent de Maroni. As Maugham describes the town:
“St Laurent de Maroni is a pretty little place. It is neat and clean. It has an Hotel de Ville and a Palais de Justice of which many a town in France would be proud. The streets are wide, and the fine trees that border them give a grateful shade. The houses look as though they had just had a coat of paint. Many of them nestle in little gardens, and in the gardens are palm trees and flame of the forest; cannas flaunt their bright colours and crotons their variety; the bougainvilleas, purple or red, riot profusely, and the elegant hibiscus offers its gorgeous flowers with a negligence that seems almost affected. St Laurent de Maroni is the centre of the French penal settlement of Guiana, and a hundred yards from the quay at which you land is the great gateway of the prison camp. These pretty little houses in their tropical gardens are the residence of the prison officials, and if the streets are neat and clean it is because there is no lack of convicts to keep them so."
Maugham's short story "An Official Position" is also set in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. Both stories first appeared in book form in the collection The Mixture as Before (1940). In 1936 Maugham visited the place himself; his notes, including material that was used in both stories, was later published in A Writer's Notebook (1949). This is how he described the executions in his notes:
When a man is sentenced to death the sentence has to be confirmed by the minister in Paris. No execution takes place on Sunday. If two or more are to be guillotined at the same time the least guilty is executed first so that he should not suffer the added horror of seeing his mates die. The convict does not know that he will be executed till the warder comes in with the words: Have courage, etc. When there are executions the other convicts are depressed and nervous, and they go about their work sullen and silent.
When the head has fallen the executioner takes it up by the ears and shows it to the bystanders, saying: Au nom du people francais justice est faite''. At the side of the guillotine is a large wicker basket covered with some black material and into this the body is put. The knife falls with lightning speed and the blood spurts over the executioner. He is given a set of new clothes after each execution.
Villages
Balaté, an Lokono village near Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
Espérance, a Kalina village near Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
Île Portal, an island in the Maroni River
Saint-Jean-du-Maroni, a village in the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
See also
Communes of French Guiana
Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve, a wilderness area in the commune
References
External links
Official website of St-Laurent-du-Maroni.
Website with many photos of French Guiana, including the St-Laurent region.
Communes of French Guiana
Former penal colonies
French Guiana–Suriname border crossings
Subprefectures in France
Populated places established in 1858
1858 establishments in the French colonial empire
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Dora Elisabet Jung (16 October 1906 – 19 December 1980) was textile artist, craftswoman, and industrial designer from Finland. Her career lasted five decades. She designed products and works of art made out of linen which can be found in homes, churches, and public buildings. She was known for her expertise in designing woven damask fabrics with abstract motifs.
Jung graduated in school of Art and design in 1932. She founded her own weaving atelier where she worked for more than 50 years. She developed her own loom, but usually others did the weaving while Jung concentrated in design and improving the weaving technique. Jung was considered by her contemporaries as the reformer of damask and her weaving as the renaissance of the damask art. Her method of damask weaving has been called the Dora Jung technique.
1951 she was awarded a Grand Prix at the Milan Textile Triennial Exposition for her damask called Duvor (Doves). After that she got many contracts for public buildings. Architects and representatives of the Finnish Lutheran church appreciated her work for all of her career. She designed for the textile factory Tampella from 1936 to 1972. In 1957 she got the task of re-designing the damask production of Tampella. She designed several tablecloths with matching napkins and small clothes. Most of them were in white or light pastel colours, but in 1960s and 1970s even brighter colours were used.
References
Finnish designers
Textile designers
Tampella
1906 births
1980 deaths
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Beinn Fhionnlaidh is a mountain in the West Highlands of Scotland. It is situated between Glen Etive and Glen Creran, to the south of Glen Coe.
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Munros
Mountains and hills of Argyll and Bute
Marilyns of Scotland |
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman (January 21, 1929 – May 16, 2020) was an American butler who served 11 different U.S. presidents in the White House. He was one of the White House's longest serving employees.
Biography
Jerman was born in Seaboard, North Carolina, in 1929, the son of a farm worker. He dropped out of school at the age of 12 to work on a farm. In 1955, Jerman moved to Washington, D.C. and worked as a caterer before being hired as a cleaner by the White House in 1957 during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jerman was promoted to butler under John F. Kennedy; Jackie Kennedy gave Jerman two signed paintings that he hung in his home. He continued as a butler in the White House until his retirement in 1993 during the Bill Clinton administration. He returned to the White House in 2003 in the George W. Bush administration. Jerman worked as a maitre d' and elevator operator for Barack Obama before his final retirement in 2012.
To commemorate his 50-plus years of service in the White House, President Obama presented Jerman with a series of plaques depicting all 11 presidents he served. First Lady Michelle Obama included a picture of her and the president in an elevator with Jerman in her best-selling memoir, Becoming.
Jerman was married twice and had five children. His first wife, Gladys, died in 1966; Lyndon B. Johnson asked his personal physician to treat her before she died. Jerman's second wife, Helen, died in the 1990s.
Jerman died from complications of COVID-19 on May 16, 2020, at the age of 91, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia.
References
1929 births
2020 deaths
People from Seaboard, North Carolina
White House staff
American butlers
African-American people
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Have You Heard from Johannesburg is a series of seven documentary films, with a total runtime of 8.5 hours, covering the 45-year struggle of the global anti-apartheid movement against South Africa's apartheid system and its international supporters who considered them an ally in the Cold War. The combined films have an epic scope, spanning most of the globe over half a century. Beginning with the very first session of the United Nations, and ending in 1990 – when, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the best known leader of the African National Congress toured the world, a free man. Produced and directed by Connie Field, it includes other events such as the Sharpeville massacre, the Soweto uprising and the murder of Steve Biko. The title comes from the lyrics of the Gil Scott-Heron song "Johannesburg".
Synopsis
In the 1950s many black South Africans realized that the struggle against apartheid had to be built in four arenas of action: mass action, underground organization, armed struggle, and international mobilization. Have You Heard From Johannesburg takes viewers inside that last arena, the movement to mobilise worldwide citizen action to isolate the apartheid regime. Inspired by the courage and suffering of South Africa's people as they fought back against the violence and oppression of racism, foreign solidarity groups, in cooperation with exiled South Africans, took up the anti-apartheid cause. Working against heavy odds, in a climate of apathy or even support for the governments of Hendrik Verwoerd, John Vorster and P.W. Botha, campaigners challenged their governments and powerful corporations in the West to face up to the immorality of their collaboration with apartheid.
This was not just a political battle; it was economic, cultural, moral, and spiritual. The struggle came to many surprising venues: it was waged in sports arenas and cathedrals, in embassies and corporate boardrooms, at fruit stands and beaches, at rock concerts and gas stations. Thousands died, but in the end, nonviolent pressures played a major part in the collapse of apartheid and thus in the stunning victory of democracy in South Africa.
Episodes
1. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road To Resistance
The first film begins in 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That same year South Africa implemented a system of laws called apartheid to racially segregate its people in every aspect of life. The black majority in South Africa, led by the African National Congress, mounted the Defiance Campaign, attracting the attention of activists in places like England, Sweden, and the United States - and sowed the seeds of an international anti-apartheid movement. The world reacted with horror when peaceful protesters were shot in the South African township of Sharpeville and the entire African National Congress leadership was forced underground or imprisoned. At the end of Road To Resistance Nelson Mandela is jailed for life and the movement in South Africa is effectively shut down as hundreds escape into exile.
2. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Hell Of A Job
The second film begins when African National Congress Deputy President Oliver Tambo escaped from South Africa into exile and embarked on what became a 30-year journey to engage the world in the struggle to bring democracy to South Africa. With resistance inside South Africa effectively crushed by the apartheid regime, the fate of the liberation struggle was in Tambo's hands. He first found allies in the newly independent countries of Africa, and with their collective strength behind him, he approached the United Nations for support, insisting that the apartheid government could be forced to the negotiating table if the Security Council would sanction and isolate the regime. But the Western powers refused to act, forcing Tambo to search for new support. He successfully petitioned the Soviet Union for help in building a guerrilla army, a decision that landed Tambo and the African National Congress in the vice of the Cold War and haunted his global efforts for years to come.
But two individuals helped to open crucial doors in the West: Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, whose early support inspired Oliver Tambo to seek out strategic partnerships with faith leaders worldwide. At the beginning of the 1970s, Tambo and the ANC had gained financing from Sweden and support from the World Council of Churches, whose members in congregations around the world joined the fight against apartheid. With these new allies on his side, Tambo had the beginnings of a worldwide movement.
3. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation
In the third film it is youth, both inside and outside South Africa, who next joined the growing movement against apartheid. Buoyed by new support in Western countries, Oliver Tambo returned to the United Nations to try to convince the world body to sanction South Africa. His efforts gained new public support as the brutal suppression of a youth uprising in the South African township of Soweto and the controversial death of Steve Biko turned South Africa from a country into a cause, a worldwide emblem of injustice. In 1977 a significant victory was won when the United Nations issued a mandatory arms embargo: the first in history. But South Africa's strongest trading partners in the West still would not sanction it economically, and as Tambo headed to Zambia to minister to the African National Congress' growing guerrilla army, a bloodbath seemed inevitable. But even as the most powerful western governments refused to heed Tambo's calls for cultural and economic boycotts, the citizens of those western nations would help turn the tide.
4. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Fair Play
In the fourth film athletes and activists around the world, faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. International boycotts against apartheid sports teams help bring the human rights crisis in South Africa to the forefront of global attention and sever white South Africans' cultural ties to the West. Knowing that fellow blacks in South Africa were denied even the most basic human rights - let alone the right to participate in international sports competitions - African nations refused to compete with all-white South African teams, boycotted the Olympics and created a worldwide media spectacle that forced the International Olympic Committee to ban apartheid teams from future games. The Africa-led coalition led the fight to exclude South Africa from soccer, boxing, track, cycling, judo, fencing, gymnastics, volleyball and numerous other competitions, and barred South African teams from nearly all sports events by the 1970s. Only South Africa's world champion rugby team remained, and citizens in key western countries where rugby is played took to the fields to close the last door on apartheid sports. The sports campaign became the anti-apartheid movement's first victory and succeeded in culturally isolating the white minority in an arena of passionate importance.
5. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma To Soweto
The fifth film focuses on one of South Africa's most important and powerful allies, the United States. It became a key battleground in the anti-apartheid movement as African-Americans led the charge to change the government's policy toward the apartheid regime. A grassroots movement to get colleges, city councils, and states to divest their holdings in companies doing business in South Africa spread across the entire nation pressuring the U.S. Congress to finally sanction South Africa. This stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans significantly altered U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history. European sanctions followed, and with them, the political isolation of the apartheid regime.
6. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line
The six film is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regime's dependence on its financial connections to the West, citizens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors director, from student account-holders in Barclays Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refused to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns brought the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pulled out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime were numbered.
7. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free At Last
The seventh, and final, film dives into the heart of the conflict, South Africans tell the story of the most important effort in the anti-apartheid campaign of the 80's: the alliance that brought together anti-apartheid forces in South Africa as never before. A mass movement gained unprecedented momentum when three generations of resistance fighters band together as the United Democratic Front. Faced with growing international isolation, the apartheid government tried to win allies and convince the world of the merit of its piecemeal reforms even as it struggled to suppress open revolt, at times using savage secret tactics. The United Democratic Front protests climaxed in a new Defiance Campaign, and internationally, Nelson Mandela became a household name as the campaign to free him ignited a worldwide crusade. Caught between an unstoppable internal mass movement and ongoing international pressure, the apartheid regime was finally forced to the negotiating table and at last lifts the decades-long bans on the African National Congress. After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released, sparking a global celebration as he toured the world to thank all. After 30 years in exile, Oliver Tambo was finally able to return to South Africa. But the struggle had taken a heavy toll on him and he would die one year before his comrade, Nelson Mandela, is elected the first black president of a democratic South Africa.
Broadcast
The seven films were shortened to five episodes for television and shown on Independent Lens on PBS in 2012.
Reception
Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York named Have You Heard from Johannesburg? the tenth-best film of 2010, calling it a "sprawling, multifaceted portrait."
Awards
The series won a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking in 2012, for its broadcast on PBS.
DVD
The entire series was released on a seven-disc DVD set in 2011 by Clarity Films, with each film on a separate disc. Each disc contains extra material.
References
External links
2012 documentary films
2012 films
American documentary films
2010s English-language films
Documentary films about apartheid
Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru
Films directed by Connie Field
2010s American films |
Luke James L. Scott (born 1 May 1968) is a British film, commercial and television director. He was second unit director on Exodus: Gods and Kings and The Martian, both directed by his father, Sir Ridley Scott. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2016 with Morgan.
Career
In 2014, Scott worked as a second unit director on his father's biblical epic film Exodus: Gods and Kings, which starred Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton. The film was released on 12 December 2014 by 20th Century Fox, grossing $268 million with a budget of $140 million. Scott worked as second unit director again with his father on The Martian (2015).
Scott made his feature film directorial debut on the science fiction thriller Morgan. His father Ridley produced the film. Morgan starred Kate Mara, and was released by 20th Century Fox in September 2016. In February 2017, 20th Century Fox released the Alien: Covenant prologue short film entitled Last Supper directed by Scott in collaboration with the design consultant firm 3AM.
Personal life
Luke is the son of director-producer Sir Ridley Scott and Felicity Heywood, and brother of Jake Scott and half-brother of Jordan Scott, both also directors.
Filmography
As director
Second unit director
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
The Martian (2015)
Art director
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
English film directors
English television directors
Luke |
Pleasant Point may refer to:
Places
In Canada
Pleasant Point, Nova Scotia
In New Zealand
Pleasant Point, New Zealand
In the United States
Pleasant Point, Lincoln County, Kentucky
Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, at Pleasant Point, Maine
Pleasant Point (Scotland, Virginia), a historic home
See also
Point Pleasant (disambiguation) |
The chief project engineer (CPE) is a member of the design organisation of an aeronautical company, required by the European Aviation Safety Agency. The CPE is responsible, on behalf of the head of design organisation (HDO), for the technical aspects of the development of a specific aeronautical product and its sub-assemblies.
The main functions and responsibilities of the CPE are:
Preparation of system requirement specification
to assure the configuration of complex design solutions and the definition of the product architecture according to the contractual requirements
to ensure that project requirements are delivered by competent personnel
to verify the availability and suitability of technologies to assure the development of the project
to coordinate the activities of definition and configuration control ensuring that the product conforms to design requirements.
to assure the activities of project/product verification and ensure that the product conforms to the defined requirement and standards
to liaise with the flight test division in the definition of test plans
to liaise with the airworthiness department for continuous airworthiness of the product
See also
EUROCONTROL
Civil Aviation Authority
European Aviation Safety Agency
External links
EASA website
Aviation authorities
da:European Aviation Safety Agency
tr:EASA |
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.93 was an Italian dive bomber designed and produced in Italy from 1943.
Design
The SM.93 was an all-wood single-engined low-wing monoplane with retractable undercarriage. The fuselage had a monocoque structure, with a single fin and low-set tailplane. The crew of two were accommodated under a long greenhouse-style canopy, with the pilot lying in a prone position above the rear of the engine, a Daimler-Benz DB 605A liquid-cooled V12 engine, while the gunner/radio-operator sat facing rearwards on a conventional seat.
The two-spar wings were in three parts with the inner wings sharply tapered to the join, outboard of the landing gear attachments, and the outer wings moderately tapered to the rounded wingtips. The prone position for the pilot was intended to enable the pilot to resist the onset of g-induced loss of consciousness, but the position was uncomfortable for normal flight and severely limited the rearwards view of the pilot.
Development
The SM.93 made its maiden flight on 31 January 1944, and up to 29 March 1944 the SM-93 had made 16 test-flights with speeds up to achieved in a dive, demonstrating the low drag and clean aerodynamics.
Operational history
Flight testing was carried out under the aegis of the Luftwaffe and despite the good performance, the prone position was found to be unsatisfactory, being uncomfortable and restricting rearward vision. The programme was halted by the German control Commission that was running weapons production in the Repubblica Sociale Italiana - RSI after the 1943 armistice.
Specifications (SM.93)
References
"Plane Facts: Unique dive bomber". Air International, August 1982, Vol 23 No 2. p. 98. ISSN 0306-5634.
SM.093
1940s Italian attack aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1944
Prone pilot aircraft |
```smalltalk
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Xamarin.Forms.CustomAttributes;
using Xamarin.Forms.Internals;
#if UITEST
using Xamarin.Forms.Core.UITests;
using Xamarin.UITest;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Xamarin.UITest.Helpers;
#endif
namespace Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues
{
#if UITEST
[Category(UITestCategories.WebView)]
[Category(UITestCategories.UwpIgnore)]
#endif
[Preserve(AllMembers = true)]
[Issue(IssueTracker.Github, 6286, "ObjectDisposedException in Android WebView.EvaluateJavascriptAsync ", PlatformAffected.Android)]
public class Issue6286 : TestNavigationPage
{
WebView webview;
WebView webview2;
ContentPage page1;
ContentPage page2;
protected override void Init()
{
webview = new WebView { Source = "path_to_url" };
webview.Navigated += Webview_Navigated;
page1 = new ContentPage { Content = webview };
webview2 = new WebView { Source = "path_to_url" };
webview2.Navigated += Webview_Navigated;
page2 = new ContentPage { Content = webview2 };
Navigation.PushAsync(page1);
RunTest();
}
async void RunTest()
{
try
{
int count = 0;
while (count < 3)
{
await Task.Delay(2000);
count++;
webview.Source = "path_to_url";
await Navigation.PushAsync(page2);
webview2.Source = "path_to_url";
await Navigation.PopAsync();
}
page1.Content = new Label { Text = "success", AutomationId = "success" };
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
page1.Content = new Label { Text = $"{exc}", AutomationId = "failure" };
}
}
void Webview_Navigated(object sender, WebNavigatedEventArgs e)
{
webview.EvaluateJavaScriptAsync("document.write('i executed this javascript woohoo');");
webview2.EvaluateJavaScriptAsync("document.write('i executed this javascript woohoo');");
}
#if UITEST
[Test]
public void Issue6286_WebView_Test()
{
RunningApp.QueryUntilPresent(() => RunningApp.WaitForElement("success"));
}
#endif
}
}
``` |
Kissin' Cousins (stylized onscreen as KISƧIN' COUSINS) is a 1964 American musical Panavision Metrocolor comedy film directed by Gene Nelson and starring Elvis Presley. Written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Gene Nelson, the film featured Presley playing two roles: an Air Force officer, with dark hair, and his look-alike hillbilly distant cousin, with blond hair.
Plot
The U.S. Federal Government has run into a dead end trying to negotiate the lease of mountaintop land owned by Pappy Tatum, in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, for use as an ICBM missile base. U.S. Army General Alvin Donford gives Captain Robert Salbo seven days to secure the lease, or face permanent assignment to Greenland. After a quick computer search of military records, Salbo requests that U.S. Air Force pilot Second Lt. Josh Morgan, born elsewhere in the Great Smoky Mountains, be assigned as his number two. When they arrive in Tennessee with a small platoon, dark-haired Josh is surprised to meet his look-alike third cousin Jodie Tatum, a blond hillbilly.
Josh also meets his two beautiful country cousins, Azalea and Selena, who compete to win his affections. Josh eventually chooses Azalea and pairs off Selena with his friend, Master Sgt. William Bailey. Jodie, on the other hand, falls for Private Midge Riley, a beautiful but fiery soldier. There are also a group of 13 mountain maidens called the Kittyhawks who create havoc when they set their sights on the marriage-eligible soldiers.
Josh persuades Pappy Tatum to lease the mountaintop to the government for a monthly payment of $1,000 ($ today) as long as an access road is built from the far side and the military provide security to prevent government employees from accessing Tatum's side – which will prevent "revenoors" from interfering with Pappy's moonshining.
Cast
Elvis Presley as Josh Morgan / Jodie Tatum
Arthur O'Connell as Pappy Tatum
Glenda Farrell as Ma Tatum
Jack Albertson as Captain Robert Salbo
Pamela Austin as Selena Tatum
Cynthia Pepper as Midge (a WAC PFC)
Yvonne Craig as Azalea Tatum
Donald Woods as General Alvin Donford
Tommy Farrell as Master Sgt. William George Bailey
Beverly Powers as Trudy (a Kittyhawk)
Hortense Petra as Dixie (a newspaper reporter)
Robert Stone as General's Aide
Production, release and box office
While set in the Great Smoky Mountains, the film was shot in the Los Angeles area, both on set at MGM Studios and outdoors in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles; some filming took place in Big Bear Lake.
The film was produced by Sam Katzman for Four-Leaf Productions, and was distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released in the United States on March 6, 1964 and reached #11 on the Variety National Box Office Chart, earning $3 million, and finished at #26 on the year end list of the top-grossing movies of 1964. Presley's film, Viva Las Vegas, filmed during the summer of 1963 before Kissin Cousins, was released after Kissin' Cousins. Both Arthur O'Connell and Jack Albertson were cast alongside Presley, thus providing the film with 'double-barreled curmudgeons,' per Variety.
Sam Katzman produced an unsuccessful 1965 MGM Television television pilot starring Edd Byrnes for the NBC television network.
In 1988, Kissin' Cousins made its home video debut, released on VHS. When it was reissued on VHS in 1997, the song "Smokey Mountain Boy" was deleted. It was later restored to the film when it made its DVD debut in 2007.
Soundtrack
The song "Kissin' Cousins", which was performed as the movie's finale, reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Plot faux pas
The foundation for the film's plot centers around acquiring private land for government use. This is easily accomplished through the necessary justification of eminent domain with just compensation due to the private sector owner(s). But, as General Donford's initial desire—clearly expressed at the start of the film—was for the deal for the base to remain top secret, it could be somewhat plausibly surmised that usage of eminent domain might have led to wide-ranging publicity from negotiations in open court. A point that became moot after the story became front-page news shortly after PFC Riley joined the field team at Big Smoky Mountain.
Reception
Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, "With the flavor of 'Fun in Acapulco'—and that it was—fairly fresh, Elvis Presley's movie status takes a nosedive in his latest, 'Kissin' Cousins' ... Sam Katzman's production is tired, strained and familiar stuff, even with double-barreled Presley."
Variety wrote, "This new Elvis Presley concoction is a pretty dreary effort, one that certainly won't replenish the popularity of Sir Swivel. Presley needs — and merits — more substantial material than this if his career is to continue to flourish as in the past." One of the review's primary criticisms was "the business of bursting into song out of context in the middle of a scene. This used to be reasonably acceptable to audiences, but now it is beginning to evolve into an anachronism."
Margaret Harford in the Los Angeles Times called the film "a frisky mixture of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' and 'Li'l Abner.' You get your money's worth before monotony sets in as it does in nearly all the Presley pictures."
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Presley films of only two or three years back set high standards of humour, characterisation and pictorial attractiveness. With its tired hillbilly jokes, dance routines reminiscent of Li'l Abner, over-acting and straggling plot, this is a poor successor to comedies like Follow That Dream. The effort into presenting Presley in two roles in the same shot, and even fighting 'himself', seems strangely wasted, so little importance does the similarity of Josh and Jodie have in the story."
Awards and nominations
Screenwriters Gene Nelson and Gerald Drayson Adams were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award in the category of Best Written American Musical (won by Mary Poppins).
See also
List of American films of 1964
References
External links
Kissin' Cousins at Elvis Presley's Movies
Kissin' Cousins at DVDTalk
1964 films
1964 musical comedy films
1964 romantic comedy films
American musical comedy films
American romantic comedy films
Films set in Tennessee
Films shot in Big Bear Lake, California
Films shot in Los Angeles
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
1960s English-language films
American romantic musical films
Films directed by Gene Nelson
1960s American films
Films about hillbillies |
The Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules.
All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all ten games it played, by an average margin of 24.8 points. The 2017 edition of the tournament was the first one with three participating teams competing in a round-robin tournament, replacing previous format with four participating teams competing in a single-elimination tournament.
Standings
Results by country
Tournament history
2012
Semifinals
3rd place match
Finals
2013
Semifinals
3rd place match
Finals
2014
Semifinals
3rd place match
Finals
2015
Semifinals
3rd place match
Finals
2016
Belgrade Trophy was not held in 2016, due to the participation of Serbia national team at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Belgrade, one of three 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Men, which was held in Kombank Arena in July 2016.
2017
Standings
|}
Matches
2018–2021
Belgrade Trophy was not held in 2018 since there was no major FIBA-organized international tournament scheduled for that year. In 2019, no tournament was held prior to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, and in 2020, 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking another year with no major international basketball competition. In 2021, like in 2016, instead of the Belgrade Trophy, one of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments was held in Belgrade. After four consecutive years with no tournament held, and no official announcements regarding the tournament from the Basketball Federation of Serbia, the future of Belgrade Trophy remains uncertain.
See also
Acropolis Tournament
Basketball at the Summer Olympics
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIBA Asia Cup
FIBA Diamond Ball
Adecco Cup
Marchand Continental Championship Cup
Stanković Cup
William Jones Cup
Sponsors
Acıbadem Healthcare Group
References
External links
Belgrade Trophy 2014
International basketball competitions hosted by Serbia
Sport in Belgrade
Basketball competitions in Europe between national teams
Basketball in Belgrade |
```objective-c
//
//
// path_to_url
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
#ifndef SOURCE_FUZZ_COUNTER_OVERFLOW_ID_SOURCE_H_
#define SOURCE_FUZZ_COUNTER_OVERFLOW_ID_SOURCE_H_
#include "source/fuzz/overflow_id_source.h"
namespace spvtools {
namespace fuzz {
// A source of overflow ids that uses a counter to provide successive ids from
// a given starting value.
class CounterOverflowIdSource : public OverflowIdSource {
public:
// |first_available_id| is the starting value for the counter.
explicit CounterOverflowIdSource(uint32_t first_available_id);
// Always returns true.
bool HasOverflowIds() const override;
// Returns the current counter value and increments the counter.
// TODO(path_to_url We should
// account for the case where the maximum allowed id is reached.
uint32_t GetNextOverflowId() override;
const std::unordered_set<uint32_t>& GetIssuedOverflowIds() const override;
private:
uint32_t next_available_id_;
std::unordered_set<uint32_t> issued_ids_;
};
} // namespace fuzz
} // namespace spvtools
#endif // SOURCE_FUZZ_OVERFLOW_ID_SOURCE_COUNTER_H_
``` |
Karachi Time (, abbreviated as KART, LMT or Local Mean Time) was a time zone set at UTC+04:28:12 ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and observed prior until 1907 in Karachi. The local time was established by the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. From 1951 to 1971, the term Karachi Time was again used to denote UTC+05:00 for West Pakistan abbreviated as KART as opposed to Dacca Time (DACT) used in East Pakistan.
See also
Pakistan Standard Time
Time in Pakistan
References
History of Karachi
Time zones
Time in Pakistan
1842 establishments in British India |
CFKL-TV was a television station based in Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. Formerly a private affiliate of CBC Television and Télévision de Radio-Canada, the station was acquired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973 and converted to a rebroadcaster of Montreal's CBMT.
The station was owned by the Iron Ore Company of Canada's Aviation subsidiary, and was co-owned with nearby station CJCL-TV in Labrador City.
History
CFKL aired a schedule consisting of 73 per cent English programming and 27 per cent French programming. Although privately owned, all shows aired were from CBC and Radio-Canada, with none of its shows being local.
On July 28, 1970, the licences for the two stations were renewed for only two years. The Iron Ore Company of Canada Aviation, Limited was considered ineligible to hold a broadcast television station license, as 60 per cent of the company's shares were owned by American companies. Since it was considered very unlikely another company would be willing to buy these stations, their licenses were renewed temporarily under the existing ownership.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was given approval to purchase CJCL-TV and CFKL-TV on March 30, 1973. CJCL changed its call letters to CBNLT and continued to operate as a separate station until 1991, when it became a satellite of CBNT in St. John's, while CFKL became CBSET-1, a repeater of Sept-Îles' CBSET, which, in turn, was a semi-satellite of Montreal's CBMT. As of July 31, 2012, both CBNLT and CBSET-1 have shut down due to austerity measures implemented at the CBC.
External links
FKL
FKL
FKL
1991 disestablishments in Quebec
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1991
FKL |
The is a railway line operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between Tottori, Tottori Prefecture and Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Route data
Operating Company:
West Japan Railway Company (Services and tracks)
Distance:
Tottori — Tsuyama: 70.8 km (44.0 mi)
Gauge:
Stations: 19
Double-tracking: None
Electrification: Not electrified
Railway signalling:
Special automatic occlusive (track circuit detection type)
Stations
●: Stop ▲: Some services stop ｜: Pass
Rolling stock
Local
KiHa 47
KiHa 120
KiHa 121 and KiHa 126 series
Chizu Express HOT3500
Wakasa Railway WT3000 and WT3300
Limited Express
KiHa 187 series (Super Inaba)
Chizu Express HOT7000 series (Super Hakuto)
History
The Inbi Line was built by the Japanese Government Railway, with the first section opened from Tottori to Mochigase in 1919, extended to Chizu in 1923. The Tsuyama to Mimasaka-Kamo section, opened in 1928, was extended to Mimasaka-Kawai in 1931 and the line was completed with the opening of the section to Chizu (including a 3,077 m tunnel) in 1932.
CTC signalling was commissioned between Tottori and Chizu in 1994.
See also
List of railway lines in Japan
References
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
Lines of West Japan Railway Company
Rail transport in Okayama Prefecture
Rail transport in Tottori Prefecture |
The Ocean State Rivalry is an American college basketball rivalry between the Providence Friars and Rhode Island Rams. The Ocean State Rivalry is thought to be a competitive college basketball rivalry in the New England region, though Providence has won 9 of the last 11 games. It is the biggest game of the year on the schedule for Rhode Island. It is also a crucial game for the Ocean State Cup. The name of the rivalry comes from the nickname of the State of Rhode Island which is the Ocean State.
History
The Providence Friars and the Rhode Island Rams have met 133 times since the 1933-34 college basketball season. The Ocean State Rivalry game is usually played in December, and the venue alternates between the Amica Mutual Pavilion in Downtown Providence in odd-numbered years and the Ryan Center on the campus of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston in even-numbered years. Providence leads the series 75–58.
Game results
See also
Ocean State Cup
References
Providence Friars men's basketball
Rhode Island Rams men's basketball
1920 establishments in Rhode Island
College basketball rivalries in the United States |
The Volvo 66 is an automobile that originated from the DAF 66, which was originally styled by Giovanni Michelotti. The compact car was introduced in August 1975, almost exactly a year after Volvo bought DAF, and before production of the Volvo 300 Series began.
The Volvo 66 was known for its continuously variable transmission, the Variomatic. The Volvo version of the car was slightly restyled and given larger bumpers compared with those of the original DAF model. Although this was in keeping with Volvo's emphasis on safety, it also increased its cost of production.
The Volvo 66 was available as a two-door saloon and three-door estate, whilst the two-door DAF 66 Coupé was dropped, and therefore was never sold as a Volvo.
The other major features in which the Volvo 66 differs from the DAF 66 are also mostly safety related. It has different seats featuring headrests, a safety steering wheel, steel side-impact bars in the doors, a declutching servo which enabled the driver to change gear with the choke engaged (In the older DAF models this was not possible, because the increased idle caused the centrifugal clutch to engage). The Volvo 66 also has a 'park' mode in the CVT, which locks the driveline. From 1977 the estate version featured a window wiper on the bootlid.
Number produced
Volvo produced roughly 106,000 units of both the saloon and estate 66, and no more than 14,000 were sold in the United Kingdom. The majority were sold in continental Europe rather than in Sweden, where the car was never accepted by Volvo buyers.
Engines
B110 Renault C-series OHV 1108 cc inline-four,
B130 Renault C-series OHV 1289 cc inline-four,
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```objective-c
/*
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH
* REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
* AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
* INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
* LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
* OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
* PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
/* $Id: cfg.h,v 1.7 2022/06/25 12:14:18 jsg Exp $ */
#ifndef ISCCFG_CFG_H
#define ISCCFG_CFG_H 1
/*****
***** Module Info
*****/
/*! \file isccfg/cfg.h
* \brief
* This is the new, table-driven, YACC-free configuration file parser.
*/
/***
*** Imports
***/
#include <isc/refcount.h>
#include <isc/types.h>
#include <isc/list.h>
/***
*** Types
***/
/*%
* A configuration parser.
*/
typedef struct cfg_parser cfg_parser_t;
/*%
* A configuration type definition object. There is a single
* static cfg_type_t object for each data type supported by
* the configuration parser.
*/
typedef struct cfg_type cfg_type_t;
/*%
* A configuration object. This is the basic building block of the
* configuration parse tree. It contains a value (which may be
* of one of several types) and information identifying the file
* and line number the value came from, for printing error
* messages.
*/
typedef struct cfg_obj cfg_obj_t;
/*%
* A configuration object list element.
*/
typedef struct cfg_listelt cfg_listelt_t;
/***
*** Functions
***/
isc_result_t
cfg_parser_create(isc_log_t *lctx, cfg_parser_t **ret);
/*%<
* Create a configuration file parser. Any warning and error
* messages will be logged to 'lctx'.
*
* The parser object returned can be used for a single call
* to cfg_parse_file() or cfg_parse_buffer(). It must not
* be reused for parsing multiple files or buffers.
*/
isc_result_t
cfg_parse_file(cfg_parser_t *pctx, const char *filename,
const cfg_type_t *type, cfg_obj_t **ret);
/*%<
* Read a configuration containing data of type 'type'
* and make '*ret' point to its parse tree.
*
* The configuration is read from the file 'filename'
* (isc_parse_file()) or the buffer 'buffer'
* (isc_parse_buffer()).
*
* Returns an error if the file does not parse correctly.
*
* Requires:
*\li "filename" is valid.
*\li "mem" is valid.
*\li "type" is valid.
*\li "cfg" is non-NULL and "*cfg" is NULL.
*\li "flags" be one or more of CFG_PCTX_NODEPRECATED or zero.
*
* Returns:
* \li #ISC_R_SUCCESS - success
*\li #ISC_R_NOMEMORY - no memory available
*\li #ISC_R_INVALIDFILE - file doesn't exist or is unreadable
*\li others - file contains errors
*/
void
cfg_parser_destroy(cfg_parser_t **pctxp);
/*%<
* Remove a reference to a configuration parser; destroy it if there are no
* more references.
*/
isc_result_t
cfg_map_get(const cfg_obj_t *mapobj, const char* name, const cfg_obj_t **obj);
/*%<
* Extract an element from a configuration object, which
* must be of a map type.
*
* Requires:
* \li 'mapobj' points to a valid configuration object of a map type.
* \li 'name' points to a null-terminated string.
* \li 'obj' is non-NULL and '*obj' is NULL.
*
* Returns:
* \li #ISC_R_SUCCESS - success
* \li #ISC_R_NOTFOUND - name not found in map
*/
const cfg_obj_t *
cfg_map_getname(const cfg_obj_t *mapobj);
/*%<
* Get the name of a named map object, like a server "key" clause.
*
* Requires:
* \li 'mapobj' points to a valid configuration object of a map type.
*
* Returns:
* \li A pointer to a configuration object naming the map object,
* or NULL if the map object does not have a name.
*/
const char *
cfg_obj_asstring(const cfg_obj_t *obj);
/*%<
* Returns the value of a configuration object of a string type
* as a null-terminated string.
*
* Requires:
* \li 'obj' points to a valid configuration object of a string type.
*
* Returns:
* \li A pointer to a null terminated string.
*/
#define CFG_PRINTER_XKEY 0x1 /* '?' out shared keys. */
void
cfg_obj_destroy(cfg_parser_t *pctx, cfg_obj_t **obj);
/*%<
* Delete a reference to a configuration object; destroy the object if
* there are no more references.
*
* Require:
* \li '*obj' is a valid cfg_obj_t.
* \li 'pctx' is a valid cfg_parser_t.
*/
#endif /* ISCCFG_CFG_H */
``` |
Independence High School is a public high school in Ashburn, Virginia, and is part of Loudoun County Public Schools. Opening its doors to students for the first time in 2019, Independence High School serves the communities of Ashburn and Brambleton.
Administration
Independence High School is headed by John G. Gabriel, a 2017 semi-finalist for The Washington Post Principal of the year. Gabriel was previously the principal of John Champe High School, and an assistant principal at Park View High School.
Athletics
Independence High School's mascot is a tiger and its sports teams currently play in the 5A Potomac District. Independence AD is Ryan Rogers who came from Heritage to open up the school in 2019. Independence offers competitive cheer, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, girls' volleyball, basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, soccer, softball and tennis.
External links
Independence High School website
Independence High School athletics
References
Public high schools in Virginia
Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia
Educational institutions established in 2019
2019 establishments in Virginia |
The Cray X-MP was a supercomputer designed, built and sold by Cray Research. It was announced in 1982 as the "cleaned up" successor to the 1975 Cray-1, and was the world's fastest computer from 1983 to 1985 with a quad-processor system performance of 800 MFLOPS. The principal designer was Steve Chen.
Description
The X-MP's main improvement over the Cray-1 was that it was a shared-memory parallel vector processor, the first such computer from Cray Research. It housed up to four CPUs in a mainframe that was nearly identical in outside appearance to the Cray-1.
The X-MP CPU had a faster 9.5 nanosecond clock cycle (105 MHz), compared to 12.5 ns for the Cray-1A. It was built from bipolar gate-array integrated circuits containing 16 emitter-coupled logic gates each. The CPU was very similar to the Cray-1 CPU in architecture, but had better memory bandwidth (with two read ports and one write port to the main memory instead of only one read/write port) and improved chaining support. Each CPU had a theoretical peak performance of 200 MFLOPS.
The X-MP initially supported 2 million 64-bit words (16 MB) of main memory in 16 banks, respectively. The main memory was built from 4 Kbit bipolar SRAM ICs. CMOS memory versions of the Cray-1M were renamed Cray X-MP/1s. This configuration was first used for Cray Research's UNIX port.
In 1984, improved models of the X-MP were announced, consisting of one, two, and four-processor systems with 4 and 8 million word configurations. The top-end system was the X-MP/48, which contained four CPUs with a theoretical peak system performance of over 800 MFLOPS and 8 million words of memory. The CPUs in these models introduced vector gather/scatter memory reference instructions to the product line. The amount of main memory supported was increased to a maximum of 16 million words, depending on the model. The main memory was built from bipolar or MOS SRAM ICs, depending on the model.
The system initially ran the proprietary Cray Operating System (COS) and was object-code compatible with the Cray-1. A UNIX System V derivative initially named CX-OS and finally renamed UNICOS ran through a guest operating system facility. UNICOS became the main OS from 1986 onwards. The DOE ran the Cray Time Sharing System OS instead. See the Software section for the Cray-1 for a more detailed elaboration of software (language compiler, assembler, OSes, and applications) as X-MPs and 1s were mostly compatible.
Extended Architecture series
Cray Research announced the X-MP Extended Architecture series in 1986. The EA series CPU had an 8.5 ns clock cycle (117 MHz), and was built from macrocell array and gate array ICs. The EA series extended the width of the A and B registers to 32 bits and performed 32-bit address arithmetic, increasing the amount of memory theoretically addressable to 2 billion words. The largest configuration produced was 64 million words of MOS SRAM in 64 banks. For compatibility with existing software written for the Cray-1 and older X-MP models, 24-bit addressing was also supported. Each EA series CPU's peak performance was 234 MFLOPS. For a four-processor system, the peak performance was 942 MFLOPS.
I/O subsystem
The Input/Output (I/O) subsystem could have two to four I/O processors with a total of 2 to 32 disk storage units. The DD-39 and DD-49 hard drives made by Ibis with a raw transfer rate of 13.3 MB/s each stored 1200 megabyte (blocked and formatted) with 5.9 MB/s and 9.8 MB/s transfer rates (unstriped), respectively. Optional solid-state drives were available with 256, 512 or 1024 MB capacities with transfer rates of 100 to 1,000 MB/s per channel. Up to 38 gigabytes of data storage was possible.
For magnetic tape I/O, the system could interface with IBM 3420 and 3480 tape units directly without a lot of CPU processing.
Pricing
A 1984 X-MP/48 cost about US$15 million plus the cost of disks. In 1985 Bell Labs purchased a Cray X-MP/24 for $10.5 million along with eight DD-49 1.2 GB drives for an additional $1 million. They received $1.5 million of trade-in credit for their Cray-1.
Successors
The Cray-2, a completely new design, was introduced in 1985. A very different compact four-processor design with from 64 MW (megaword) to 512 MW (512 MB to 4 GB) of main memory, it was specified to 500 MFLOPS but was slower than the X-MP on certain calculations due to its high memory latency.
The Cray Y-MP upgrade of the X-MP series was announced in 1988; it also had a new design, replacing the 16-gate ECL gate arrays with a more compact VLSI gate array with larger circuit boards. It was a major improvement of the X-MP supporting up to eight processors.
Usage
The short film The Adventures of André & Wally B., released in 1984 by The Graphics Group, a then-Lucasfilm subsidiary which would later become Pixar, used an X-MP/48 for much of its rendering. Special thanks is given to Cray Research in the short's credits for use of the machine.
The 1984 film The Last Starfighter depended heavily on high polygon count (for the time) models with complex lighting effects, the rendering of which was made possible by the use of the X-MP.
The animation for the 1986 Marvel Productions logo, which featured a CGI-animated silver colored Spider-Man, was animated using this supercomputer.
Image gallery
References
Further reading
Keith Robbins and S. Robbins (1989) Lecture Notes in Computer Science: The Cray X-MP/Model 24 Springer
External links
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Vasil Todorov Kovachev (; 1 January 1866 – 3 August 1926) was a Bulgarian zoologist and botanist.
Biography
Vasil Kovachev was born in Ruse on 1 January 1866. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. From 1885 to 1889, Kovachev studied at the Novorossiya University in Odesa, then in the Russian Empire. After graduation, he returned to Bulgaria and started working as a natural history teacher in Veliko Tarnovo. Along with teaching, he collected materials for a natural science collection. In 1891, he moved to Ruse, where he taught at the State Male High School. Kovechev continued to collect materials for a future natural history museum and conducted numerous excursions in the regions of Ruse, Shumen, Varna and Veliko Tarnovo. In 1900, he founded the Natural Research Society in Ruse as a branch of the Bulgarian Natural Research Society.
In 1912, he was invited as an inspector of natural sciences at the Ministry of Public Education. In 1914, he was appointed principal of the High School of Haskovo, and seven months later he was a teacher in Plovdiv. From October 1915 to April 1922, he taught higher pedagogical courses in Kyustendil at invitation of the Ministry of Public Education. From April 1922 to September 1923, he was a fisheries inspector at the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property. He then returned to Ruse, where he worked at a high school until September 1925.
Vasil Kovachev suffered from hereditary syphilis, which began to manifest itself after 1915. He spent his last days wandering the streets of Ruse and was eventually admitted to the Ruse State Hospital by its director, Dr. Hitrov, a student of Vasil Kovachev. He died on 3 August 1926.
He was a member of the Zoological and Botanical Society in Vienna. The botanist Prof. Josef Velenovský named a new species of plant in his honour – Cytisus kovacevii.
Research
Vasil Kovachev wrote his first scientific articles in 1889–1891, two on botany and one on zoology. In the period up to 1911, he published 7 works in the field of botany and 16 works related to zoology. They presented data on the mosses in Bulgaria and contributions to the protection of vascular plants in Ruse Province. After 1905, he stopped publishing works on botany and concentrated solely on zoology. He published numerous works on the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fish of Bulgaria.
Citations
Sources
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Bulgarian herpetologists
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Mary Clubwala Jadhav MBE (1909–1975) was an Indian philanthropist.
She founded many NGOs in Chennai and across India, and is often credited with setting up the oldest organized social-work bodies in the country. Her organization Guild of Service operates more than a dozen units related to orphanages, female literacy, the care and rehabilitation of disabled people, etc.
Early life
Mary was born in 1909 in Ootacamund in the then Madras Presidency to Rustom Patel and Allamai, member of the 300-strong Parsi community of Madras city. She was schooled in Madras and married Nogi Clubwala at the age of 18. They had a son, Khusro, in 1930. Nogi Clubwala died due to an illness in 1935. After this she devoted herself to social work. She later remarried to Major Chandrakant K Jadhav, an Indian army officer who was also working in the same areas of social work.
Activities
In 1942, with World War II raging, Clubwala founded the Indian Hospitality Committee with helpers drawn mostly from the Guild of Service. A large number of Indian troops were stationed in and around Madras and they had very few amenities. Mrs. Clubwala persuaded women from all communities and walks of life to join in the effort to organise mobile canteens, hospital visits, diversional therapy and entertainment programmes. The public donated generously to the War Fund started by the Hospitality Committee which continued its efforts after the War by helping ex-servicemen and their families rehabilitate themselves. The victorious 14th Army presented Mary a Japanese sword in appreciation of her tremendous efforts. Mrs. Clubwala was called "the Darling of the Army" by General Cariappa.
She started Madras School of Social work in 1952, the first school of social work in South India and second in India (after Tata Institute of Social Sciences- Mumbai).
She was appointed Sheriff of Madras in succession to Mr. R. E. Castell for one year in 1956.
She also honored the Duke of Edinburgh on his visit to Madras (now Chennai) in 1961.
Awards
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) (1941 New Year Honours)
Padma Shri (1955)
Padma Bhushan (1968)
Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian honor of India (1975).
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Tiraz (; tarāz/terāz) are medieval Islamic embroideries, usually in the form of armbands sewn onto robes of honour (khilat). They were bestowed upon high-ranking officials who showed loyalty to the Caliphate, and given as gifts to distinguished individuals. They were usually inscribed with the ruler's names, and were embroidered with threads of precious metal and decorated with complex patterns. Tiraz were a symbol of power; their production and export were strictly regulated, and were overseen by a government-appointed official.
They were very likely influenced by the tablion, a decorated patch added to the body of the mantle as a badge of rank or position in late Roman and Byzantine dress.
Etymology
The ultimate origin of this word is "embroidery". The word tiraz can be used to refer to the textiles themselves, but is mostly used as a term for medieval textiles with Arabic inscription, or to the band of calligraphic inscription on them, or to the factories which produced the textiles (known as the dar al-tiraz).
Tiraz is also known as taraziden in Persian.
Culture and influence
While the term tiraz is applicable to any luxury textile predating 1500 CE, it is primarily attributed to luxury textiles from the Islamic world with an Arabic inscription. Before the Umayyad caliphate, these textiles would originally bear Greek writing, but with the succession of Caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan came the implementation of Arabic script on the textiles. The earliest datable textile with a tiraz band can be traced back to the Umayyad caliphate, ascribed to the ruler Marwan I or Marwan II, though there is general consensus the tiraz was intended for the latter caliph. In some ways, the idea of tiraz developed from an inherited visual language of power of the Sasanians. Prior to their conversion to Islam, the Sasanian monarchy, encompassing present day Iraq and Iran, used a figure-based symbolic system to establish a monarch's legitimacy, marking coins, government textiles, and other items with his likeness or associated symbolism. Armbands were not the sole item that the caliphs chose to mark with their name. Garments such as turbans and sleeves, robes of honor, cushions, curtains, camel covers, and even court musician's horns would be embellished with the caliph's tiraz. Turbans, or taj, are also synonymous with the word 'crown'. Once Islam was introduced and accepted, the Muslim rulers replaced figures with their names and text that praised God. During this time, the bands of script found on mosques were also referred to as tiraz, making the term applicable across a wide range of mediums.
As the Umayyad caliphate prospered in Spain, the influence of the tiraz spread to the neighboring European countries and into their art and symbolism. The Mantel of Roger II serves as a prime example as it holds an embroidered inscription along the rim of the bottom of the regalia. The kufic script uses flowery diction, quoting tiraz tradition, and bestows blessings upon the ruler. Since Arabic was not the primary language of the Norman king, nor Sicily, and the decoration of the mantel used traditional motifs reserved for caliphs, the regalia was a clear influence of the conquered power that was the Umayyad caliphate. Despite being implemented in a European environment, the article of clothing is thought to be made by Muslim artisans in a workshop located in Palermo, Sicily. The Islamic textile aesthetic can also be traced in Giotto's piece, "Madonna and Child", as the pattern around the Madonna's head imitates kufic script and ultimately draws upon the influence of the tiraz as a symbol of power.
History of Islamic dress code
The notion of dress code in the Islamic world evolved early at the beginning of the expansion of the new empire. As the empire expanded, cultural divisions were established, each with its own dress code. The Arabs, a minority in their own empire, distinguished themselves by establishing a rule which would initiate differentiation () to maintain identity. Regulation of this kind was first ascribed to caliph Umar () in the so-called Pact of Umar, a list of rights and restrictions on protected non-Muslims () which would grant security of their persons, families, and possessions. As the vestimentary system evolved, so to the application of the rule. Requirements were also applied to the Arab military; for example, Arab warriors set up in the eastern provinces were forbidden to wear the Persian kaftan and leggings.
By the end of the Umayyad Caliphate in the mid 8th-century, dress code law had become less strict. Arabs living in remote provinces such as Khurasan had become assimilated with the local culture, including the way they dressed. The trend of moving away from the stricter vestimentary system also occurred in the high-ranking officials, even at early times. It has been recorded that Arab rulers of the Umayyad dynasty already wore Persian-style coats, with pantaloons and qalansuwa turbans. High-ranking Umayyad officials also adopted the custom of wearing luxurious garments of silk, satin, and brocade, in imitation of the Byzantine and Sasanian courts. Following the tradition of Byzantine and Persian rulers, the Umayyads also established state factories to produce the tiraz. Tiraz garments indicate to whom the wearer was loyal, by means of an inscription (e.g. the name of the ruling caliph), similar with the minting of the caliph's name on coins (sikka).
Tiraz bands were presented to loyal subjects in a formal ceremony, known as the khil'a ("robe of honor") ceremony, which can be traced as far as the time of Prophet Muhammad. High-quality gold tiraz bands, embroidered onto silk robes, were bestowed to deserving viziers and other high-ranking officials; the quality of tiraz reflected the influence (and wealth) of the recipient.
The Umayyads were later succeeded by the Abbasids in 750 CE, but the tiraz still held its previous symbolic role of power and propaganda. The tiraz had such a strong influence within the political context of the Abbasid caliphate that it was used, at times, as a means of usurpation. This could be seen with the appointment of al‐Muwaffaq, a highly influential force within the caliphate, as the viceroy of the East in 875 CE by his brother, caliph al‐Muʿtamid. The succession proved as a threat for Ahmad ibn Tulun, the Turkic governor of Egypt, as al‐Muwaffaq had extinguished his efforts to destabilize his, al‐Muwaffaq's control. In Ibn Tulun's reprisal, he ceased the mention of al‐Muwaffaq on tiraz inscriptions, which emphasized the importance of the tiraz in the political context and its influence on one's courtly status in the public's eye.
With the spread of Islam came rising caliphates, triggering a paradigm shift in the role of the tiraz. The grip of the Abbasid caliphate was weakened as they lost control over their Turkic slave armies and Egypt's Fatimids and Spain's Umayyads began to establish their rule. In Fatimid court, guilloche decorations began to be used and a new concept of juxtaposing figures with text was introduced due to Roman influence. Through their establishment, the Fatimids brought with them a new use of the tiraz: bestowing robes of honor in non-court context. As the custom of bestowing robes of honor spread, public studios (‘amma) began imitating the custom of bestowing tiraz by producing their own tiraz for public use. In Fatimid Egypt, people who could afford the ‘amma tiraz would perform their own "khil'a" ceremony on family and friends, as documented in the documents of Cairo Geniza and relics found in Cairo. These "public tiraz" were considered family treasures and passed down as heirlooms. Tiraz were also given as gifts. A sovereign in Andalusia was recorded to present a tiraz to another sovereign in North Africa.
Tiraz was also used in funerary rituals. In Fatimid Egyptian funeral tradition, a tiraz band was wrapped around the head of the deceased with their eyes covered with it. The blessings imbued into the tiraz from the earlier khil'a ceremony, as well as the fact that there was the inscription of Quranic verses, would make the tiraz especially suited for funeral ceremonies.
By the 13th century, tiraz production started to decline. With the weakening of the Islamic power, nobles began to sold their tiraz on the open market. Some tiraz served as a form of investment where they were traded and sold. Despite the decline, tiraz continued to be produced up into the 14th-century.
Design and production
There were two types of tiraz factories: the official caliphal (khassa, meaning "private" or "exclusive") and the public (‘amma, meaning "public"). There are no differences in design between the tiraz produced in the caliphal and public factories, because both were designed with the same name of the ruling caliph, and both had the same quality. The ‘amma factories produced tiraz for commercial use. The more official khassa factories were more like administrative departments, controlling and enrolling craftsmen who worked in production factories located away from the center, normally in places known for the production of a particular fabric.
Tiraz garments vary in their material and design, depending on the time of their production, where they are produced and for whom they are produced. Fabrics e.g. linen, wool, cotton or mulham (mixture of silk warp and cotton weft) were used for tiraz production. The Yemeni tiraz has the characteristic striped lozenge design of green, yellow, and brown; this is produced through resist-dyeing and ikat technique. In Egypt, tiraz were left undyed but embroidered with red or black thread. Most early tiraz was decorated with colorful motifs of medallions or animals, but with no inscription. Discovery of tiraz across the periods shows a gradual transition from Sasanian, Coptic and Byzantine style. During the Fatimid period in 11th- and 12th-century Egypt, the trend of tiraz design shows a revival of these styles.
Inscriptions were usually found in tiraz from the later periods. The inscriptions can be made of gold thread or painted. The inscriptions were written in Arabic. The Kufic script (and its variation, the floriated Kufic) were found in earlier tiraz. In later period, the naskh or thuluth script became common. The inscriptions were designed in calligraphy to form artistic rhythmic pattern. The inscription may contain the name of the ruling caliph, the date and the place of manufacture, phrases taken from the Quran or from many invocations to Allah. The khassikiya (royal bodyguard) of the Mamluk sultans of Egypt wore a highly decorative tiraz woven with gold or silver metallic thread. In Fatimid Egypt, silk tiraz woven with golden inscription were reserved for the vizier and other high-ranking officials, while general public wore linen.
See also
Pact of Umar
Chelengk
Robe of honour
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Arabic clothing
Middle Eastern clothing
Iranian clothing
Islamic male clothing
Ottoman clothing
History of Asian clothing
Turkish clothing
Islamic art
Award items
Embroidery
Orders, decorations, and medals |
Tati Quebra-Barraco, (birth name: Tatiana dos Santos Lourenço, born 1980 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian rapper, whose music consists mostly of hip hop and funk carioca genre. Tati is considered Brazil's first lady of hip hop as the first woman to break the barrier of male-only funkers. She is a popularizer of Baile funk in Brazil and, having been born in Rio de Janeiro's City of God favela, exemplifies that style of hip hop. Her stage name literally translates into "Tati Shack-Wrecker".
Lyrical style
Barraco demonstrates the prejudices surrounding Baile funk and working-class culture in Brazil in her lyrics: that many or all of the people who come rom the favelas are sexually depraved drug-dealing maniacs. Even with strong sexual meanings, her lyrics nevertheless break down stereotypes, demands equality between men and women, all the while exciting her audience.
Her style of Baile Funk, said to originate from the shantytowns (or favelas) of Brazil, is clearly reflected in her musical stylings and even her lyrics and name, which translates as "Tati shack-wrecker". Her most famous song to date is "Boladona" (2004), whose YouTube video has more than 5 million views.
Success
In the few years since she has been in the game, she has become one of the genre's top earners selling millions of CDs. Barraco has been known to epitomize the working-class, Baile-funk culture of sex-crazed, "drug-dealing maniacs" and many prominent rumors have been started about her, such as her being arrested for drug possession. Ultimately, Tati's success has not been so much about her music, but from her image on the Brazilian soap America, the related media exposure, and her brazen personality.
Soaps in Brazil can command up to 90% of the viewing public on peak nights, which is no mean feat in a country of 183 million people. The exposure to the Brazilian public that Tati has enjoyed due to her role in America is staggering.
Perhaps Tati's painfully honest lyric, which has become her famous catchphrase, "sou feia, mas tô na moda" (I'm ugly, but I'm trendy.) is all too true. This was also the title for a documentary about Brazilian night life. The movie maps the Rio de Janeiro funk scene from the point of view of women, who are responsible for creating the "funky" atmosphere for dancehall events.
Personal life
Tati Quebra Barraco was raised in the Cidade de Deus favela located in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro.
Barraco is a mother of three children and still lives in the favela.
Music career
She is best-known for the album BOLADONA. It was originally released in 2000 by Unimar Music, then reissued four years later by Link Records. Fellow rappers YURI, MC Fornalha and MC Serginho are featured.
References
External links
official website in Portuguese
1980 births
Living people
21st-century Brazilian singers
21st-century Brazilian women singers
Afro-Brazilian women singers
Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Funk carioca musicians
Brazilian women rappers
Women in Latin music
Feminist musicians |
The Intranet Design Annual is a yearly intranet design contest with 10 winners. The contest focuses on usability. The contest was created by Kara Pernice in 2001, and is organised by Nielsen Norman Group who each year publishes a report with detailed case studies on the awarded intranets.
See also
Intranet
Usability
References
Usability |
The 1884 Richmond Virginians joined the American Association during the season after the Washington Statesmen dropped out. They finished with a 12–30 record, 10th place in the American Association. This was the only season the team was in operation.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Opening Day lineup
Roster
Player stats
Batting
Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs
Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs
Pitching
Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
References
1884 Richmond Virginians team page at Baseball Reference
Richmond Virginians |
Buena Vista Township is a township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 339.
History
Buena Vista Township is named from the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican–American War.
Geography
Buena Vista Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, North Buena Vista. According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Buena Vista, Immaculate Conception and North Buena Vista.
Dead Lake, Spring Lake and Wachendorf Lake are within this township. The streams of Picayune Chute and Turkey River run through this township.
Notes
References
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
External links
US-Counties.com
City-Data.com
Townships in Clayton County, Iowa
Townships in Iowa |
Kozma Petrovich Prutkov () is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) and his cousins, the brothers Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908), (1830-1884) and (1826-1896), during the later part of the rule (1825-1855) of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.
The four distinguished satirical poets used this pseudonym as a collective pen-name to publish parody aphorisms, fables, and epigrams, as well as satiric, humorous and nonsense verses in the 1850s and 1860s, most notably in the literary magazine Sovremennik (The Contemporary).
According to the (fictional) Biographical data on Kozma Prutkov,
Prutkov, allegedly born on April 11, 1803, died on January 13, 1863. He worked for the government of the Russian Empire his entire adult life, and in 1820 entered military service as a hussar only for the uniform. He worked at the Assay Office (Пробирная Палата)
from 1823 until his death, ending up as its director.
Quotes
Some of his best-known and most-cited quotes include:
"Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the ripples they form on the surface. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement."
"If you have a fountain, shut it down. Let even a fountain have a rest."
"If you see a "buffalo" sign on an elephant's cage, do not trust your eyes."
"If ever asked: What's more useful, the sun or the moon, respond: The moon. For the sun only shines during daytime, when it's bright anyway, whereas the moon shines at night."
This aphorism is usually associated with Mullah Nasruddin.
"If you want to be happy, be so."
Frequently misattributed to Count Leo Tolstoy.
"If you want to be handsome, enroll in the Hussars."
"How pathetic is any constitution at sight of well-kept ammunition!"
"Even an oyster has enemies"
Often quoted as "Even oysters have enemies"
E.g. Barbara Heldt Monter: Kozma Prutkov - the Art of Parody. Mouton 1973, p. 58 or Jack Nicholson at the 2010 AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony for Mike Nichols (without naming the author Kozma Prutkov)
(Original Russian: И устрица имеет врагов! - No. 86 in: Плоды раздумья - Мысли и афоризмы), ru.wikisource.)
"One cannot hatch the same egg twice."
"Many things are incomprehensible to us, not because our concepts are weak, but because these things are not in the circle of our concepts."
References
External links
Kozma Prutkov's Fruits of Reflection (1853-1854)
Neck by Kozma Prutkov
To friends after marriage
Collective pseudonyms
Fictional Russian people
Fictional writers
Russian parodists
Russian satire
Russian male writers
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Harold Buchanan McGiverin, (August 4, 1870 – February 4, 1931) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Lieutenant Colonel William McGiverin and Emma Caroline McGiverin (Councell), he was educated in Hamilton, at Upper Canada College and at Osgoode Hall. Called to the Ontario bar in 1893, McGiverin practised law in Ottawa. He was also president of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the City of Ottawa riding in the 1908 federal election. A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1911 election and again in the 1917 election. He was re-elected in the 1921 election. From 1924 to 1925, he was a Minister without Portfolio.
In 1898, he married Alice Maude, the daughter of Charles H. Mackintosh. He is the father of Harold Mackintosh McGiverin.
McGiverin was also a leading local cricketer. A fast bowler, he represented Canada in eight matches before spending 1893 in England playing for St Neots Cricket Club as a professional. Following his retirement from playing McGiverin served as president of the Canadian Cricket Association. In 1908, he was the Canadian member on the Olympic Games Committee. McGiverin was also captain and later president of the Ottawa Rough Riders. He died in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 60.
References
Sources
Adams, P. (2010) A history of Canadian cricket, lulu.com. .
1870 births
1931 deaths
Cricketers from Ontario
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario |
David Matthews (1868 – 26 February 1960) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Parliamentary politics
Matthews was elected as a Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea East (UK Parliament constituency) at a by-election in 1919 following the death of the Liberal MP Thomas Jeremiah Williams. He stepped down from Parliament at the 1922 general election, and did not stand again.
Welsh MP
Matthews was a strong supporter of the premiership of David Lloyd George and regarded himself as something of a Welsh nationalist. In 1920 he was one of a group of Welsh MPs who called on the prime minister to create the post of Secretary of State for Wales but Lloyd George apparently urged them to fight for greater devolution instead. However, in February 1921 Matthews attempted to introduce a Bill to institute the post of Welsh Secretary but without success.
Swansea politician
At the time of his election to Parliament, Matthews was a leading member of the civic community in Swansea. He was a member of Swansea Council and was a Justice of the Peace, having twice been Chief Magistrate. He was a prominent nonconformist in the area and popular with chapel-goers. In 1924 the Freedom of Swansea was bestowed on him, by which time he was an Alderman of Swansea Council.
Business
In business, Matthews was a merchant, a director of the South Wales Fuel Company Ltd. and owner of the Park Tinplate Company Ltd.
References
External links
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Swansea constituencies
UK MPs 1918–1922
1868 births
1960 deaths |
The Tim Conway Show – the second of two television series of the name – is a 1980–1981 American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Tim Conway. It aired on CBS from March 22, 1980 to May 17, 1980, and from September 20, 1980 to March 7, 1981.
Regulars
Tim Conway
Eric Boardman (1980)
Jack Riley (1980)
Maggie Roswell
Miriam Flynn
Dick Orkin (1980-1981)
Bert Berdis (1980-1981)
Harvey Korman (1981)
The Peter Matz Orchestra
The Don Crichton Dancers
The Artie Malvin Singers
Production
Despite his success as a member of the cast of the situation comedy McHale's Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in two theatrical films spun off from the series, McHale's Navy in 1964 and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force in 1965, as well as his popularity during several years as a regular on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, Tim Conway had found no success starring in a television show of his own. His situation comedies Rango in 1967 and The Tim Conway Show in the spring of 1970, as well as a fall 1970 comedy-variety series, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, had all been cancelled after short runs. In March 1980, Conway made yet another attempt at a show of his own with a second comedy-variety series entitled – like his 1970 situation comedy – The Tim Conway Show.
The series was produced by Carol Burnetts husband, Joe Hamilton, and closely followed the format of The Carol Burnett Show — a small group of regulars performing comedy sketches, interspersed with musical numbers, and supplemented by occasional guest stars — in which Conway had thrived for several years. His Carol Burnett Show co-stars Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, and Harvey Korman all made guest appearances, and the orchestra, The Peter Matz Orchestra, was the same one that had performed on The Carol Burnett Show from 1971 to 1978. Unusually, the shows regular dance troupe, The Don Crichton Dancers (led by Crichton, the lead dancer on The Carol Burnett Show, and choreographer on its short-lived revival Carol Burnett & Company) was composed entirely of children between the ages of 8 and 13. Another portion of the show featured Tim recruiting members of the audience to join him onstage and perform sketches with him.
The Tim Conway Show premiered in a one-hour format on March 22, 1980, but ratings were disappointing (though this was increasingly true of virtually all variety shows of the era, which were falling out of fashion), and it left the air after the broadcast of May 17, 1980. Regulars Eric Boardman and Jack Riley left the show. When it returned on September 20, 1980, it had been reduced to 30 minutes in length. Ratings remained low, and in early 1981 Bert Berdis and Dick Orkin were dropped from the cast and Harvey Korman, with whom Conway had enjoyed an excellent comedic chemistry during sketches together on The Carol Burnett Show, joined the program as a co-host for the last several episodes. The series finale aired March 7, 1981, with reruns airing through the summer.
The Tim Conway Show appeared on CBS throughout its run. During its initial March–May 1980 run as a one-hour program, it aired at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday. When it returned in its new 30-minute format in September 1980, it aired at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, moving to 8:30 p.m. Saturday in November 1980, where it remained until the end of its run in March 1981. In June 1981, CBS began broadcasting reruns of 30-minute episodes at 8:30 p.m. on Monday; these continued until August 31, 1981, when the show left the air for good.
Despite its failure in the ratings, The Tim Conway Show would prove to be the longest-lived of the shows featuring Conway as their star. He would return to television in 1983 in the situation comedy Ace Crawford, Private Eye, but it was destined to last only a month.
Reruns of The Tim Conway Show, along with The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, were added to Stirr's lineup in 2021, through a licensing deal with Shout! Factory.
References
External links
CBS original programming
1980 American television series debuts
1981 American television series endings
English-language television shows
1980s American sketch comedy television series
1980s American variety television series |
Mildlife are a Melbourne based, Australian psychedelic jazz fusion group formed in 2013. The group have released two albums. Their second peaked at number 8 on the ARIA Charts in October 2020.
Discography
Albums
Live albums
Extended plays
Singles
Awards and nominations
AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (known colloquially as the AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
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ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual ceremony presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987.
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The Music Victoria Awards, are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. The commenced in 2005.
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National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) commenced in 2016 to recognise contributions to the live music industry in Australia.
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References
2016 establishments in Australia
ARIA Award winners
Australian indie rock groups
Heavenly Recordings artists
Musical groups established in 2016 |
Shane S. Lee (born July 4, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 35 and Toyota Supra/Ford Mustangs for Emerling-Gase Motorsports. He has also competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Racing Series.
Racing career
Early years
Racing at Hickory Speedway in his youth, Lee was simultaneously Most Popular Driver and Rookie of the Year in the track's Limited Late Model class in 2012. He was Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series in 2013.
ARCA Racing Series
Lee, at the beginning of the 2016 ARCA Racing Series, tested with Win-Tron Racing at Daytona International Speedway in preparation of making his first start in the Lucas Oil 200. The original schedule called for Lee to run nine races. He ran ten, winning the pole at Chicagoland Speedway but otherwise struggling to finish in the top ten early in the season. He picked up his performance later in the season, which translated to a full-time ARCA ride with Cunningham Motorsports for 2017. With a constant teammate in Dalton Sargeant, Lee led laps in four races and scored a top five in his first road course race on his way to a third-place points finish behind champion Austin Theriault and teammate Sargeant.
NASCAR
On March 23, 2016, it was announced that Lee would make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut for SS-Green Light Racing at Martinsville Speedway in April of that year. He finished seventeenth in his debut and ran another race for SS-Green Light at Gateway Motorsports Park before signing with GMS Racing to drive their No. 24 truck at Texas Motor Speedway late in the season. He finished sixteenth and on the lead lap in that race, marking his third consecutive lead-lap finish.
After focusing on the ARCA Racing Series in 2017, it was announced on January 24, 2018 that Lee would drive part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Richard Childress Racing, splitting the organization's No. 3 car with Austin and Ty Dillon, Jeb Burton, and Brendan Gaughan. Issues plagued his early runs, with a blown tire ruining a potential Top 5 in his debut at Bristol Motor Speedway and a shortage of gas hindering his effort at Talladega Superspeedway. At Pocono, Lee had a solid run finishing 12th, and then finishing 16th at Iowa. At Daytona in July, Lee had a great run. He was in the Top 10 for the majority of the race, finishing a career-best sixth-place finish. Then at the second Iowa race, he finished 13th.
In May 2019, Lee joined the newly-formed H2 Motorsports to run the remaining Xfinity schedule (with the exception of the road courses) in the No. 28 Circuit City-sponsored Toyota starting with the CircuitCity.com 250 at Iowa in June. Although he had signed a deal with H2 for the entirety of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, he was released by the team for "performance-based" reasons before the Sport Clips VFW 200 at Darlington in August.
In 2022, he returned to the Xfinity series driving for Emerling-Gase Motorsports. At Daytona, he finished 33rd. Atlanta, he finished 17th. At Martinsville, he finished 27th. He scored a 14th place finish at Talladega.
Personal life
Lee attended Gaston Community College.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Xfinity Series
Camping World Truck Series
Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points
ARCA Racing Series
References
External links
NASCAR drivers
1993 births
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Racing drivers from North Carolina
People from Newton, North Carolina
Living people
Richard Childress Racing drivers |
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a graphic novel by Sonny Liew published in 2015 by Epigram Books and 2016 by Pantheon Books. It tells the story of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a fictional cartoonist, from his early days in colonial life to the present day, while showcasing extracts of his comics depicting allegories of political situations of the time. The comic features a mixture of black and white sketches depicting Singapore's early history contrasted with color comics depicting the present, with several comics within the novel telling their own story. The book was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize following its publication in 2016. The book soon gained widespread critical acclaim internationally and was given several awards, including three Eisner Awards in 2017.
Plot summary
The novel initially starts with an introduction of the titular character Charlie Chan Hock Chye as an old man talking to an interviewer before transitioning to his childhood, where he is seen working in his family's shop in post-war Singapore. It then shows Charlie Chan's first comic "Ah Huat's Giant Robot" which features a robot that can only understand Chinese. The book then cuts between the life of Charlie and excerpts from his comics, explaining that he was educated in an English school through the generosity of one of his family's shops' customers. This pattern of cuts between comics and his life continues throughout the rest of the novel as the comic steadily changes from one about a Giant Robot to an allegory for Singapore's quest for independence from British Colonial rule, featuring animals and sci-fi epics allegorizing Singapore as a city under the rule of aliens with Lee Kuan Yew as a lawyer who speaks the language of the aliens. Charlie begins a partnership with a fellow young comic artist who eventually breaks up with him due to financial stress, after 8 years and numerous comics, including a superhero tale about a night soil man bitten by a cockroach and becoming Roachman, a parody of Spider-Man.
Nearing the end, a comic depicting the actions the Singapore government undertook to take control of the press is depicted via a comic depicting Singapore as Sinkapor Inks, a company with Lee Kuan Yew as a ruthless boss with the press as a company newsletter. Finally, a what-if section depicts Singapore if the Barisan Sosialis had won, ending in an alternate version of Singapore with a similar economic development as that of the present.
Controversy
A grant of S$8,000 was initially given for the creation of the novel by the National Arts Council, but was revoked on 29 May 2015, ahead of the 30 May official book launch at Kinokuniya Singapore Bookstore due to "sensitive content" which sparked controversy.
A spokesperson for the NAC responded in a newspaper forum that the graphic novel "potentially undermines the authority of legitimacy of the Government and its public institutions and thus breaches our funding guidelines". Epigram Books founder Edmund Wee had returned the S$6,400 and printed stickers to cover up the National Arts Council logo in the printed books.
The withdrawal of the government grant, however, created much publicity for the book and the 1,000 initial prints of the book sold out quickly upon its launch. The second print of books without the NAC logo was back in bookstores from 19 June 2015 onwards.
International release
The book was published by American publisher Pantheon Books in March 2016 and released internationally. The book had appeared on international bestseller lists compiled by Amazon.com and The New York Times. Besides winning the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016, it also won the Book of the Year accolade at the Singapore Book Awards in 2016. It was also awarded the Pingprisen for Best International Comic in 2017.
In 21 July 2017, Sonny Liew, the author of the book, won three Eisner Awards for Best Writer/Artist, Best Publication Design and Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia in the 29th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards held at the Comic-Con International, San Diego, United States. He was also nominated for three other Eisner Awards for Best Letterer, Best Colorist, and Best Graphic Album—New.
Awards
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016
New York Times bestseller
Economist Book of the Year 2016
NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016
Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016
New York Post Best Books of 2016
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
South China Morning Post Top 10 Asian books of 2016
The A.V. Club Best Comics of 2016
Comic Book Resources Top 100 Comics of 2016
Mental Floss Most Interesting Graphic Novel of 2016
2017 Pingprisen Bedste Internationale Tegneserte
2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist
2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best Publication Design
2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
References
2016 graphic novels
Singaporean fiction
Singaporean comics titles
Comics about comics
Metafictional comics
Pantheon Books graphic novels |
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro (born 1931) as "master of the contemporary short story." She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the prize.
Laureate
Alice Munro has dedicated her literary career almost exclusively to the short story genre. She grew up in a small Canadian town – Huron County, Ontario – the kind of environment that often provides the backdrops for her stories. These often accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages and the underlying themes of her work are often relationship problems and moral conflicts. The relationship between memory and reality is another recurring theme she uses to create tension. With subtle means, she is able to demonstrate the impact that seemingly trivial events can have on a person's life. Her famous short story collections include Dance of the Happy Shades (1969), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), The Progress of Love (1986), The Love of a Good Woman (1998), and Runaway (2004).
Award ceremony
Due to her health condition and old age, Alice Munro was not able to personally participate in the award ceremony in Stockholm. Mrs. Jenny Munro, her daughter, received the diploma, medal and monetary prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf on her behalf on December 10, 2013.
Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, expressed the rightfulness of bestowing Munro the Nobel prize, by saying:
References
External links
Prize announcement 2013 nobelprize.org
Award Ceremony nobelprize.org
Award ceremony speech nobelprize.org
2013
Nobel |
Kimberly A. With is an American ecologist. She is a Full Professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University.
Career
Between 1988 and 1992, With served as Associate Editor for the journal Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, published by the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. She simultaneously earned her PhD in Biology from Colorado State University.
After receiving her PhD, With sat on the Executive Committee of the Theoretical Ecology Section as a Secretary Officer for the Ecological Society of America from 1995–1997. During this time, her paper "Critical thresholds in species' responses to landscape structure" earned her the Award for Outstanding Paper published in the discipline of Landscape Ecology by the U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. She also led an investigation with fellow Bowling Green State University professor Daniel Pavuk to examine the effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity and Trophic Linkages in Experimental Fractal Landscapes.
In 2000, she left Bowling Green State University to become an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University. She also joined the Konza Prairie LTER, a program designed to address long-term research questions relevant to tallgrass prairie ecosystems, and the science of ecology in general. In 2002, With was again the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Paper, making her the only person to be awarded this distinction twice.
In 2009, With led a study which found that birds were not breeding successfully in the Flint Hills and more than 80 percent of nests were destroyed by predators. The results of her study was published in the journal Biological Conservation. She then took a sabbatical leave during the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2013, With was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Biology.
In 2016, With was the recipient of the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the U.S.-International Association for Landscape Ecology. Three years later, she received a Faculty Development Awards from Kansas State University to fund future research endeavorments. On August 29, 2019, With published "Essentials of Landscape Ecology" through the Oxford University Press.
Selected publications
Critical thresholds in species' responses to landscape structure (1995)
Landscape connectivity and population distributions in heterogeneous environments (1997)
The population biology of invasive species (2001)
The landscape ecology of invasive spread (2002)
Dispersal success in spatially structured landscapes: when do spatial pattern and dispersal behavior really matter? (2002)
Landscape connectivity: a return to the basics (2006)
Essentials of Landscape Ecology (2019)
References
External links
Website
Living people
Kansas State University faculty
Bowling Green State University faculty
Colorado State University alumni
American ecologists
Women ecologists
San Francisco State University alumni
Northern Arizona University alumni
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics |
The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 20 March at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
Results
References
External links
Official Melbourne 2006 website
Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay
Commonwealth Games
2006 in women's swimming |
ACB statistical leaders are the season by season stats leaders and all-time stats leaders of the top-tier level professional basketball league in Spain, the Liga ACB, and its predecessor, the Liga Nacional Primera División.
Liga Nacional Primera División and Liga ACB Top Scorers by season
In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws or field goals. The ACB's scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given regular season.
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation.
Liga ACB all-time games played leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 season.
A. Counting also games from the old National League, Joan Creus played 778 games.
Liga ACB all-time scoring leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 6,000 points, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through end of 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time rebounding leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 2,500 rebounds, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through the end of the 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time assists leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 1,500 assists, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through the end of the 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time steals leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 750 steals, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through the end of the 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time blocks leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 600 blocked shots, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through the end of the 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time made 3 point field goal leaders
Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, players active during the 2018–19 ACB season. In gold, players with more than 650 three-pointers, considered by the ACB as historic players.
Stats through the end of the 2018–19 season:
Liga ACB all-time free throw percentage leaders
Stats as of May 8, 2022
References
External links
Liga ACB official website
Spanish League at Eurobasket.com
Liga ACB Historical Data
Liga ACB at Linguasport.com |
Berry Spur () is a mostly ice-covered spur in Antarctica, located between McDermott Glacier and Comberiate Glacier on the west side of the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Russell D. Berry, United States Geological Survey cartographer, a member of the satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party 1983.
References
Ridges of Victoria Land
Scott Coast |
William Charles Berwick Sayers (1881–1960) was a British librarian and teacher. He was one of a "small but remarkable" group of librarians involved in public libraries in the early 20th century and was President of the Library Association in the United Kingdom in the year 1938.
Early life
Sayers was born in Mitcham, Surrey on 23 December 1881.
Career
In 1896 Sayers began as a junior assistant at the Bournemouth Public Library and in 1904 he was appointed as deputy librarian, working under principal librarian Stanley Jast, at the Public Library in Croydon which then a small country town near south London.
In 1915, he became the chief librarian of the Croydon Public Library and under his leadership he introduced a library service for children and during the 1930s he opened several branch libraries. He made every library an arts centre with a "programme of lectures, recitals and exhibitions". He also set up libraries in hospitals and schools in the country. He was successful in convincing the local council to provide a generous budget and his libraries gained an international reputation for their high standards.
After the Second World War, during which he had been badly injured while serving as a Civil Defence controller, he retired from the Croydon Public Libraries.
Legacy
Sayers contributed in several areas of librarianship: he served in the Library Assistants' Association, contributed to children's librarianship, was a respected teacher and "an outstanding authority" on library classification, and served as a long-term editor of the journal Library World.
He was also a personal friend of musician Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and after Coleridge-Taylor's untimely death in 1912, Coleridge-Taylor's widow asked Sayers to become his biographer.
Bibliography
As author
The Grammar of Classification, Croydon, Central Library, 1912.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician. His Life and Letters, Cassell & Co., 1916, 2nd ed. 1927.
A Manual of Classification for Librarians & Bibliographers, London: Grafton & Co., 1926, 2nd ed. 1944.
A Manual of Children's Libraries, Allen & Unwin, 1932.
An Introduction to Library Classification, London, Grafton & Co., 1935.
Library Local Collections, Allen & Unwin, 1938.
As editor
James Duff Brown, Manual of Library Economy, 5th ed. Revised by W. C. Berwick Sayers. London, Grafton, 1931.
Books for Youth: A Classified and Annotated Guide for Young Readers, London, Library Association, 1936.
Further reading
D.J. Foskett and B.I. Palmer, eds., The Sayers Memorial Volume, London: Library Association, 1961;
Munford, W. A., A History of The Library Association, 1877-1977, London: The Library Association, 1976;
Ranganathan, S.R., "Sayers and Donker Duyvis: Theory and Manner of Library Classification", Annals of Library Science, 8(3) September 1961, 85-99.
References
External links
Sayers, W. C. Berwick (William Charles Berwick) 1881-1960
Collection AR1011 - W.C. Berwick Sayers Collection
Painting of W. C. Berwick Sayers
British librarians
1881 births
1960 deaths |
Keskiniemi Light is a sector light tower located in the northwestern promontory of Hailuoto island in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. It was built in 1908 and is located next to the Keskiniemi beacon tower built in 1858.
Keskiniemi Light is a square steel skeletal tower with white octagonal lantern and gallery. The focal plane of the light is 8.8 metres (29 ft) and it has a range of 6.5 nautical miles. The beacon displays a white flash every 6 seconds, visible in all directions. The tower also has a radar reflector on the northwest side.
The light is one of six lights built in 1908 to guide vessels along the fairway leading to the Port of Oulu. Originally it had an oil-burning lantern, which was replaced with a gas-burning lantern manufactured by AGA in 1941. Currently the power source is solar electricity. Originally the light was a sector light, but the coloured sectors have been removed due to the changes in shipping lanes over the years.
There is an old storage shed for gas bottles next to the tower. This shed is currently unused.
Keskiniemi Light is the only surviving light of those built in 1908 for the fairway leading into Oulu harbour, and with the exception of Tauvo lighthouse it is also the only steel skeletal tower still in active service as a light along the Finnish coast of the Bothnian Bay.
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Gulf of Bothnia
Hailuoto
Lighthouses in Finland
Buildings and structures in North Ostrobothnia |
GLOBAL is a Japanese brand of kitchen knives and accessory tools owned and manufactured by the Yoshikin factory of Japan (also known as the Yoshida Metal Industry Co. Ltd). The Yoshikin Factory is owned by the Watanabe family and located in Tsubame, Japan.
History
Yoshida Metal Industry Co. Ltd. was established in 1954 as a western tableware manufacturer in Niigata prefecture, producing hollow handled table knives for Western markets. In 1960 Yoshikin introduced the Bunmei series of knives, traditional Japanese-looking knives that used a new alloy steel, able to be sharpened like carbon steel, but with a mixture of molybdenum and vanadium that made the steel more resistant to rust (now known colloquially as Japanese steel). In 1983, Yoshikin hired a Japanese industrial designer, Komin Yamada, to create a knife design that combined these two manufacturing techniques. GLOBAL began its international expansion under Yuzo Watanabe in Japan in 1985.
In 2006, the G Series knives were placed #46 on the Japanesque Modern Committee listing. In the years since GLOBAL has continued to come out with new lines of knives including the SAI line, the UKON line and most recently the GLOBAL NI line in 2015. Currently, the GLOBAL NI line is the most recent line of knives released for sale to the public.
Features
Compared to conventional European knives such as J. A. Henckels or Wüsthof, GLOBAL knives are made from a significantly harder alloy of steel and use a thinner blade. In addition, the cutting edge of the blades are ground at a more shallow 15° angle, which produces a sharper knife that also hold its edge for longer and allows for more accurate work. The one drawback of this design however is that when the blade does dull it take longer to regain that same quality of edge through sharpening. Because of this, the manufacturer recommends using whetstones and ceramic sharpening rods as opposed to the European sharpening steel.
GLOBAL knives have black dimples on the handle and on one model of their knife block. The black dimples found on the handle serve mainly an aesthetic purpose however are also intended to increase the amount of grip the user is able to get on the knife.
The company subsequently introduced specialized knife designs, including a tomato knife and a crab/lobster knife. They also make eating utensils.
GLOBAL knives are used by professional chefs including Anthony Bourdain, Ludo Lefebvre and Michel Roux Jr.
Construction
Although GLOBAL Knives appear to be one seamless piece of steel they actually consist of three different pieces that have all been carefully crafted together to give a one piece appearance. The three pieces that make up the knife are first stamped out of a sheet of CROMOVA 18 steel, the two pieces of the handle are then TIG welded together. While after attaching the two pieces of handle together leaves the center hollow, it doesn't stay that way for long, each handle is then injected with fine grain sand to add weight and balance to the knife.
References
External links
Official website in the United Kingdom
Kitchen knife brands
Japanese brands
Knife manufacturing companies |
The Gittelde–Grund railway, also known as Kleinbahn Gittelde-Grund, was a railway line connecting the mining town of Grund at the western edge of the Harz mountains with the station of Gittelde on the Herzberg–Seesen railway. It opened in 1910 and closed in 1971.
History
Grund was one of the seven major mining towns in the Harz. To provide a transport link for its ore mines, a standard-gauge tertiary railway line was built and operated by the Kleinbahn Gittelde-Grund GmbH, a company to which the state of Prussia, the Province of Hanover, the Prussian district of Zellerfeld and the municipality of Grund had contributed funds. It connected to the Herzberg–Seesen railway in Gittelde. The station there, as well as of the new line, were on the territory of the Duchy of Brunswick. The length of the line was . It had intermediate halts in Windhausen and Laubhütte, and a separate goods station in Bad Grund, west of the terminus. The main freight on the line was iron ore from Hilfe Gottes mine which was handled from facilities northwest of the passenger station. The mine entrance could be reached via a turntable.
The line was first managed by the Cassel regional administrative office of the Prussian state railways, from 1924 by the Lower Saxon State Railway Office in Hannover and from 1 October 1959 until closure by Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen (OHE).
A branch line between Gittelde and Grund was already envisaged in 1867/1868 when the Seesen-Osterode line was planned. In 1896 first surveys were made, and in 1900 an electric railway was proposed. The Kleinbahn Gittelde-Grund GmbH was formed in 1908. The maximum gradient of the new line was 1 in 30, the minimum curve radius 180&m.
Freight traffic started on 15 April 1910, passenger traffic on 1 May 1910. The latter was never very brisk, despite Grund being a health resort and having been awarded the title Bad in 1916. A reason for this was the unfavourable placement of the passenger station south of the town. Starting on 19 May 1930, the railway company operated motor buses between Bad Grund and Gittelde and even the next junction station in Seesen. While there had been five passenger trains per day and direction in the first years of the operation of the railway, this number fell to one after 1930, and on 22 May 1966 passenger traffic was taken over completely by buses. When the ore transports were taken over by lorries, the line was closed down on 30 December 1971. The railway company operated in the last years as Eisenbahn Gittelde-Bad Grund GmbH. It was dissolved on 30 September 1974.
The line was dismantled in 1972. The locomotive shed in Bad Grund remained in place until 1984 when it was dismantled by railway hobbyists, and rebuilt in Almstedt-Segeste. The roofing ceremony was held in 1987, and since 1989 it is home to the rolling stock of the museum railway Almetalbahn which uses the Bodenburg–Segeste section of the Elze–Bodenburg railway line.
The former railway route is now a bicycle path.
Rolling stock
Originally, the railway acquired an 0-6-0 saturated steam locomotive from Hanomag and a second-hand locomotive from Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, likewise a 0-6-0 saturated steam engine, as reserve. The latter was sold for scrap in 1933. A third locomotive of a similar type, built by Borsig, was bought second-hand in 1925 and sold in 1930. The remaining steam locomotive was replaced in 1955 by a brand new MaK diesel locomotive of type 400 C which after closure of the line was sold to Norddeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft Niebüll (NEG) for use on the Niebüll–Dagebüll railway. In 1994 it was transferred to the museum railway in Tønder, Denmark. The railway had initially three two-axled passenger cars, a mixed car for passengers, luggage, and mail, and three freight cars.
References
Further reading
Josef Högemann: Eisenbahnchronik Harz – Die Geschichte der Eisenbahnen im Harz, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007,
Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen. Band 11: Niedersachsen 3 - Südlich des Mittellandkanals. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009. .
External links
1944 timetable
Statistics of the line
State of the line today
Railway lines in Lower Saxony
Railway lines opened in 1910
Railway lines closed in 1971 |
Leaving Wonderland... in a Fit of Rage is the fourth and most recent studio album by the American alternative rock band Marcy Playground, released in 2009. It was begun as a John Wozniak solo album. The album's first single was "Blackbird".
A remix album, Indaba Remixes from Wonderland, followed in 2010.
Production
The album was produced by Jeff Dawson and John Wozniak; Wozniak had appreciated Dawson's production work at Mushroom Studios. Its lyrics were inspired by a difficult period in the singer's life. Leaving Wonderland... in a Fit of Rage was recorded in part with original band member Dylan Keefe. The band added drummer Shlomi Lavie after the album was completed.
Critical reception
Exclaim! called the album "a tribute to the opiate-inspired, alt-rock tradition [the band] once popularized." The Star Tribune deemed it "a slightly rootsier update of the group's quirky style." The Star-News labeled it "sonically diverse and intensely personal."
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review determined that "the music still has a dark aspect and it's still pop; it's just radio that has stopped paying attention." The Toronto Sun considered the album to be "a fairly enjoyable and varied set of mellow Beatle-pop and roots, peppered with surprisingly crunchy guitar-rockers." The Intelligencer Journal concluded that "all 12 songs on Leaving Wonderland ... are excellent, driven by Wozniak's gift for melody."
AllMusic wrote that "it deserves to be heard by a wider audience as it proves that there's more to Marcy Playground and Wozniak than one grunge-era hit."
Track listing
All songs written by John Wozniak.
Personnel
Marcy Playground (Touring members)
John Wozniak - all vocals, guitar, band, dobro
Dylan Keefe - bass
Shlomi Lavie - drums (does not play on album)
Additional personnel (in studio only)
Niko Friesen - drums, percussion
Brendan Ostrander - drums, "Devil Woman" and "Thank You"
Chris Copeland - drums, "Gin and Money"
Simon Kendall - piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
Daniel Powter - piano, "Gin and Money"
Jon Dryden - string programming, "Down the Drain"
Jeff Dawson - keys, programming, guitar, "Thank You"
Dave Pickell - piano, "Blackbird"
Marc Wild - guitar, "Blackbird"
Production
John Wozniak - production
Jeff Dawson - production, recording, mixing
Bob Ludwig - mastering
Recorded at Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, BC
Mixed at Harbourside Studios, N. Vancouver, BC
Mastered at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
References
2009 albums
Marcy Playground albums |
Vernand Morency (born February 4, 1980) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft and also played for the Green Bay Packers. Morency played college football for Oklahoma State University.
Biography
Vernand Morency grew up in Miami, Florida, where his parents, immigrants from Haiti, had him working in their family real estate business from the age of 5. This experience impacted him tremendously and helped shape a strong, disciplined work ethic which translated into successful careers in both professional baseball and football.
His love for real estate never went away and in 2006-07, Vernand was part of a syndicate group led by T Boone Pickens to develop the $250+ million Boone Pickens Stadium at his alma mater, Oklahoma State University. In 2007 and 2008, Vernand was twice competitively selected to participate in the prestigious NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Today, in addition to being an accomplished professional baseball and football player, Vernand invests, owns and manages properties across the country and is involved in several different non-profit initiatives, including work with Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and his Wisconsin Covenant initiative promising all eighth-graders affordable higher education upon academic success.
High school years
While attending Northwestern High School in Miami, Florida, Morency was a four-year letterman in baseball and a two-year letterman in football, and won All-America honors in both sports. As a senior football running back, he gained over 1,500 all-purpose yards and scored 15 touchdowns.
Professional baseball career
Morency was a 14th round pick (420th overall) of the Colorado Rockies in 1998. He spent four seasons as a center fielder in the Rockies’ minor league system before enrolling at Oklahoma State in 2002.
College football career
Morency attended Oklahoma State University and finished his career with 451 rushing attempts for 2,661 yards (5.9 yards per rush attempt avg.), 23 touchdowns, 11 receptions for 119 yards (10.8 yards per rec. avg.), and returned ten kickoffs for 224 yards (22.4 yards per kick ret. avg.). Morency's junior season in 2004 was his breakout season. In 2004, he rushed for 1,474 yards and 12 touchdowns. He also had one receiving touchdown. Morency was the recipient of the prestigious Thurman Thomas Award for being the most outstanding offensive player in the 2004 season. He decided to forgo his senior year at OSU and declared for the NFL draft on January 3, 2005.
NFL career
Houston Texans
Morency was selected in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans. He was the second-string running back behind Domanick Davis for the team in 2005, rushing 46 times for 184 yards and 2 touchdowns. He also returned 20 kicks for 437 yards and caught 10 passes for 87 yards.
Green Bay Packers
After the first week of the 2006 NFL season, Morency was traded to the Green Bay Packers for running back Samkon Gado. He spent the 2006 season as the Packers' short yardage back, playing behind Ahman Green. Morency's best game of the 2006 season came against the Arizona Cardinals, where he rushed for 101 yards. On April 4, 2008, the Packers re-signed him to a one-year, $927,000 contract. On August 30, 2008, he was released from the Packers.
Career stats
Regular season
References
1980 births
Living people
American sportspeople of Haitian descent
Miami Northwestern Senior High School alumni
American football running backs
Oklahoma State Cowboys football players
Houston Texans players
Green Bay Packers players
Players of American football from Miami |
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