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Sclerophrys pentoni is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae found in western and central Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, and hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
pentoni
Amphibians described in 1893
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Ulla von Brandenburg (born 1974 in Karlsruhe) is a German artist. She lives and works in Paris.
She shows her work internationally and is one of the four finalists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016.
Background
Ulla von Brandenburg was trained in Germany at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in scenography. She also studied visual arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.
Artistic approach
Ulla von Brandenburg's work is inspired by literature, theater and psychoanalysis. She is interested in the iconography of the XIX Century, in the history of technology and in the industrial revolution.
She uses a wide variety of media and techniques, including video, performance, theater, mural painting, drawing and fabric layouts. Ulla von Brandenburg declares that "I get the idea for a work at the same time as the appropriate format for that work".
If she favors black and white for her videos, it is in colour that her visual works are expressed. An architectural colour for her curtains, installations of fabrics, pictures of ribbons with shimmering fabrics or even coloured paper cut. A faded colour for her watercolors of ghostly characters.
Ulla von Brandenburg's works raise the matter of representation and it is through the style and language of theater and scenography that she builds many of her projects. The scenic elements, the curtains of the Commedia dell'arte, the costumes of Harlequin, and so on, are all references that allow her works to go from reality to fiction or illusion.
Her installations unfold like decorations that are often perceived by inverting the setting and in which one enter through curtains. The curtain is a fundamental motif in her work, which she describes as follows: "As the mirror has two sides, the one that reflects us and the one that is hidden behind, the curtain has two sides too. At the circus you can fold it up in a very small size and unfold it to bring a marquee out of it. I like to camouflage or change the space with poor or very simple means to create an elsewhere. Fabric is the ideal medium, inexpensive, easy to transport, modular. It’s a nomadic material."
The other recurring motif of her work is the forest, that can be found in her videos (such as Chorspiel) and her works in cut wallpaper. As with the curtain, this motif does not refer to a particular subject, but it refers "as much to Wagner and to Germany as to Tarkovski and to a common culture. Everywhere it corresponds to a universe, to tales, to the unconscious... ".
Her performances, in public or video, reveal the different facets of Ulla von Brandenburg's work: she writes the texts and the songs, she designs sets and costumes, chooses and directs the actors.
In February 2019, an exhibition at the Musée régional d'Art contemporain Occitanie, in Sérignan (Hérault), she presents her portraits of committed, learned and militant women.
Personal exhibitions
2005 :
Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, Germany
Der Brief, installation in public space, Berlin
I am making a crazy quilt and I want your face for the center, Pavilion Project, Montreal
Fuenf sind’s doch schon im ersten Spiel, Trottoir, Hamburg
2006 :
Cinq milliards d’années, Module 1, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland
2007 :
Karo Sieben, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Brief Oder Neuigkeiten, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
2008 :
Whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be, Dublin
Project Space PS1, New York
Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel
Passengers: 1.8: Ulla Von Brandenburg, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Ulla von Brandenburg ? Wo über dem Grün ein rotes Netz liegt, Düsseldorf
La Maison, Docking Station project Space au Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2009
Name or Number, Plateau - Frac Île-de-France, Paris
Wagon Wheel, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Chisenhale Gallery, London
2010 :
Neue Alte Welt, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Chorspiel, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris
2011 :
Das Versteck des W.L, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Vitrine de l’Antenne, Frac Île-de-France, Paris
Neue Alte Welt, The Common Guild, Glasgow
2012 :
Mirrorsong, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Le Chevalier inexistant, Rosascape, Paris
2013 :
Death of a King au Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Die Straße, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienne
Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Das Wertesck des W.L, Kunsthalle, Hamburger
Gleich, Gleich, Gleich, Kiosk, Gent, Belgium
Eigenschatten - Ombra Propria, Monitor, Rome
Following the Signs, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel
2014 :
24 Filme, kein Schnitt, MAMCO, Genève, Genève
Inside is not outside, Kunstverein Hanover
2015 :
Zuvor wie Vorher, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Baisse-toi montagne, Lève-toi vallon au Kaaitheater, Bruxelles
Gestern ist auch morgen und heute ist wie hier, Kunstverein Kassel
Kalns, grimsti ! Ieleja celies ! (Baisse-toi montagne, Lève-toi vallon), kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
Ulla von Brandenburg : Objects Without Shadow, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Sink down mountain, Rise up valley, Performa, New York
2016 :
Orange meets blue, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Varsovie, Pologne
It Has a Golden Orange Sun and an Elderly Blue Moon, Darling Foundry, Canada
Sink down mountain, Rise up valley, The Common Guild, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Manchmal Ja, manchmal Nein, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
2018 :
Ulla von Brandenburg: Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom
2020 :
Das Was Ist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Awards
Begabtenstipendium der Dietzte-Stiftung, 2003
Reisestipendium, Verein für Neue Kunst in Hamburg Stipendium Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, 2005
Juergen-Ponto-Stipendium, 2006
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, 2007
Finkenwerder Art Prize, 2013
In 2016, she is one of the four finalists nominated for Marcel Duchamp Prize
Kubus. Sparda-Kunstpreis, 2022
References
German contemporary artists
1974 births
Living people |
USAfrica Airways was a United States-based airline that operated flights between Washington Dulles International Airport (then called Dulles International Airport) and Johannesburg starting in June, 1994. Its headquarters was in Reston, Virginia, and it had an office in Washington, DC.
Flights refueled in the Cape Verde Islands. Later, once a week flights were added to Cape Town, which also refueled in the Cape Verde Islands.
The airline was the first U.S. airline flying only international routes since the U.S. airline industry was deregulated in 1978.
The airline operated flights from June 1994 to February 3, 1995.
Fleet
It leased two McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft from American Airlines, registered as N1757A and N1758B.
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United States
References
External links
Building an International Airline in The Washington Post
Information about print article in Aviation Week and Space Technology
USAFRICA AIRWAYS NAMES NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM article in JOC.com
Defunct airlines of the United States |
The 1964 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. State voters chose 26 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Illinois was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 59.47% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 40.53% of the popular vote. , this is the last election in which Adams County, DeWitt County, Effingham County, Logan County, Menard County, Morgan County, Scott County, Wabash County, and Wayne County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
This would be the last time until 1992 that Illinois would vote for a Democrat in a presidential election. McLean County would not vote Democratic again until 2008.
Primaries
Turnout
Turnout in the preference vote of the primaries was 17.77%, with a total of 917,314 votes cast.
Turnout in the general election was 84.97%, with a total of 4,702,841 votes cast. Both major parties held non-binding state-run preferential primaries on April 14.
Democratic
The 1964 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 14, 1964, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1964 presidential election.
In this election, all candidates were write-ins.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.
Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson overwhelmingly won the primary.
While he received 3.23% of the vote, Robert F. Kennedy was not an active candidate for the nomination.
Republican
The 1964 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 14, 1964, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1964 presidential election.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.
Results
Results by county
See also
United States presidential elections in Illinois
References
Illinois
1964
1964 Illinois elections |
John Frippo Brown (October 23, 1842October 21, 1919) was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was elected by the tribal council as the last principal chief of the Seminole Nation, serving 1885–1901 and 1905–1906.
Early life and education
John Brown was born into the Tiger Clan of his Seminole mother, Lucy Nancy Greybeard, on October 23, 1842, near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. He was of mixed race and was the eldest child of seven; their father was Dr. John Frippo Brown, Sr., a physician from Scotland. He had six siblings, including Alice Brown Davis, who in 1922 was appointed as the Seminoles' first woman chief. A brother was Andrew Jackson Brown, who later served the tribe as treasurer. They were raised in both their parents' cultures but lived among and identified as Seminole.
Brown served in the Confederate Army as an officer under the Seminole chief John Jumper. He represented the Seminole Nation in postwar negotiations as a Southern Treaty Commission Delegate and signed the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866.
In 1867, Brown's parents died in a cholera epidemic. His 15-year-old sister Alice moved from their home near Fort Gibson to Wewoka, Oklahoma to live with him.
Chief of the Seminole Nation
After the Seminole Nation agreed to the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866, there was a period of friction due to the U.S. government's recognition of Big John Chupco as the Chief of the Seminole. However, the majority of the tribe followed the leadership of John Jumper. The tribe soon elected its own chief and chose Jumper, who resigned soon afterward. Brown, who was a member of the Tiger Clan and Jumper's son-in-law, was next elected chief. His younger brother Andrew Jackson Brown served as treasurer.
Brown served as "governor" of the tribe from 1885 to 1901, when Hulputta Micco defeated him. Following Micco's death in 1905, Brown was re-elected and served until tribal government was abolished in 1906 in preparation for admitting the Indian and Oklahoma territories as the state of Oklahoma.
Brown negotiated the Seminole agreement with the Dawes Commission in 1897, which preceded the division of communal land into plots for separate households, as part of a plan for assimilation to majority culture. He served as a delegate to the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention in 1905, the effort by Native Americans in Indian Territory to write a constitution for an all-Indian-controlled state, to be admitted separately from the eastern section of present-day Oklahoma. They were unsuccessful in gaining US Congressional approval for such an action.
As chief of the tribe, Brown traveled to Washington, D.C., frequently to meet with national leaders. During that time he befriended U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Personal life
Brown owned a ranch southeast of Wewoka and ran the Wewoka Trading Company with his brother Andrew. Ordained as a minister, he was the pastor of the Spring Baptist Church from 1894 until his death.
He married Lizzie Jumper, whose father served as chief of the Seminole shortly after the Civil War. After her death, Brown married twice more. He had at least 12 known children.
Death
John Frippo Brown died at Sasakwa, Oklahoma on October 21, 1919.
References
1842 births
1919 deaths
Confederate States Army officers
19th-century Seminole people
20th-century Native American politicians
20th-century American politicians |
Olga Katherine Torkelsen Hurley (March 30, 1921 – February 21, 2021) served as the Secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening from 1944 until his departure from office in 1953. She was Chief Clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention from 1955 to 1956 and the secretary to the State Senate for five terms. In 1984, she was elected to seat 16-A in the Alaska house, serving until January 1987.
Early life
Hurley was born in Juneau, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, her father a fisherman and a carpenter. She attended Juneau High School where she was class salutatorian. She went on to attend Behnke-Walker Business College in Portland, Oregon. She joined the staff of Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening as a stenographer/clerk in 1940, when she was 19. She became a governor's assistant in 1941. She was married in 1944 and then became the Executive Secretary to the governor that year, serving even while she was pregnant, until Gruening's departure from his post in 1953.
Political and civic life
Hurley became the Secretary of the Territorial Senate, then the Chief Clerk to Alaska's Constitutional Convention in 1955–1956. Following statehood, she became the Secretary of the State Senate for five sessions. Hurley served as the president of the State Board of Education for seven years and was the executive director of the Alaska Women's Commission for three years. She was the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees. She was on the Statehood Transitional Staff of Governor William A. Egan in 1959–1960. Hurley won the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor nomination in 1978, the first woman ever to win a statewide election in Alaska, joining the ticket of Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Anchorage attorney Chancy Croft. In 1984, she won a Mat-Su valley House seat 16-A, chaired the State Affairs Committee and, was a member of the House Education Committee. She served on the Alaska Judicial Council. She was also elected to the Matanuska Electric Association board. She was the Chair of the Alaska Commission for Human Rights, the state Personnel Board and, for nine years, the Matanuska Telephone Association's board of directors. She lost her state house seat to Republican Curtis D. Menard in 1986. In 2006, at 85 years old, rather than allow Republican felony suspect Vic Kohring to run unopposed, she ran again for the Alaska house but lost, despite Kohring's burgeoning legal problems. She also served as the executive director of the Alaska Commission on the Status of Women and was the President of the State Board of Education for seven years. She was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.
Personal life
Hurley was married to Joe Alexander in 1944, and had two children, David and Susan. She remarried in 1960 to Jim Hurley, a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention and a member of the first state legislature. They had a daughter, Mary. They moved to Palmer in 1960, purchased the office of the Alaska Title Guaranty company, and later moved to the shore of Wasilla Lake in 1963. They divorced some time after that. She was the organist for St. David's Episcopal Church in Wasilla for decades. In 2001, she received the Dot Jones award, named for the first woman mayor of the Mat-Su Borough. In 2009, she was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Hurley died near family in a private memory care facility in Portland, Oregon where she spent the final years of her life. Hurley's passage left delegate and former Alaska state senator Vic Fischer as the sole remaining living participant in the state's Constitutional Convention.
References
External links
Katie Hurley at 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature
Katie Hurley interview 360 North – Alaska Pioneers – Katie Video
1921 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American women politicians
Alaska Territory officials
American people of Norwegian descent
Candidates in the 2006 United States elections
Democratic Party members of the Alaska House of Representatives
People from Wasilla, Alaska
Politicians from Juneau, Alaska
Women state legislators in Alaska
21st-century American women politicians |
Mount Heemskirk is a mountain in Western Tasmania, west of the West Coast Range. It has an elevation of above sea level. The closest town is Zeehan, about 14 kilometres (9 mi) away.
History
The indigenous Peerapper name for the mountain is recorded as Roeinrim or Traoota munatta.
European naming
On 24 November 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European explorer to sight and document the Heemskirk and West Coast Ranges. Tasman sailed his ships close to the coastal area which today encompasses the Southwest Conservation Area, south of Macquarie Harbour, but was unable to send a landing party ashore due to poor weather and did not make contact with any South West Tasmanian groups. In their circumnavigation of Tasmania between 1798 and 1799, George Bass and Matthew Flinders named the Heemskirk Ranges mountains Mount Heemskirk and Mount Zeehan after Tasman's ships, the warship Heemskerck (Old Dutch for "Home Church") and the fluyt Zeehaen (Old Dutch for "Sea Rooster") in honour of Tasman's voyage of exploration. Although Dutch in origin, Bass and Flinder's Anglicised naming of Mount Heemskirk and Mount Zeehan created some of the oldest British place names in Tasmania. In the 1880s, the high ground around Mount Heemskirk was allocated the term Heemskirk Range.
Mining
The mountain and its surrounding high ground was also known as the Heemskirk mining area in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s.
Tourism
After the success of mountain biking in Derby, several mountain bike trails opened on Mount Heemskirk in 2020.
Notes
References
Heemskirk
Western Tasmania |
Nûdem Durak is a Kurdish singer, folk musician and political prisoner from Northern Kurdistan imprisoned by Turkey. In 2015 she was arrested and sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for singing Kurdish political songs, regarded as evidence of "being a member of a terrorist organization".
Life
Durak began to sing about the age of 12, and bought her first guitar by selling her mother's wedding ring. She worked as a music teacher in the town of Cizre in South East Turkey at the Mem u Zin Cultural Centre. She was first arrested in 2009, and spent several months in jail waiting for trial. After that trial she was released pending trial. On 22 April 2012 she was arrested again, but in 2015 the Turkish Supreme Court approved her punishment, resulting in her re-arrest and imprisonment. Durak was sentenced to ten and a half years in jail for 'terrorist propaganda', due to the political nature of her music. Durak told Al-Jazeera before her imprisonment that “Singing in Kurdish is my heritage from my ancestors… my only crime is making art.” In July 2016, Durak's prison sentence was increased from 10.5 to 19 years, with no additional charges brought against her. She is held in Type E Closed Prison in Mardin, Turkey. She is due for release in 2034. She has complained of torture, isolation, and having her guitar broken by prison officers.
Reception
For her release several prominent artists voiced support. Peter Gabriel equated Duraks actions to the ones other musicians like him do as well. In November 2016, as part of Peter Gabriel's Voice Project, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova highlighted Nûdem Durak's situation as someone 'imprisoned for art'. In 2020, an international campaign calling for her release was started by Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Ken Loach, David Graeber, Peter Gabriel and Roger Waters, among other well known cultural figures. Roger Waters sent his autographed Martin acoustic guitar of the Us + Them Tour on a journey across Europe during which several well known artists like Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Mark Knopfler of the Dire Straits or Marianne Faithfull also signed the guitar before reaching Durak in prison Bayburt.
References
External links
Song for Nûdem Durak - campaign website
Kurdish women singers
Kurdish people
Kurdish singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Turkish prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Turkey
Kurdish-language culture
Kurdish-language singers |
Christopher John Scott (né Davis) is a British scientist and professor of space and atmospheric physics at the University of Reading. His research focuses on the boundary and links between the atmosphere and space. He is the former project scientist for the Heliospheric Imager instruments on NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
Education and research career
Scott attended Brockenhust College, before completing a BSc in Physics with Planetary & Space Physics at Aberystwyth University in 1989. He was awarded a PhD in upper atmosphere and auroral physics at the University of Southampton in 1993. After his PhD, he moved to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, initially to support the EISCAT ionospheric radar, before taking up a number of research posts, including project scientist for the Heliospheric Imagers on the twin STEREO spacecraft. At the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Scott worked closely with Richard Harrison and Mike Lockwood. In 2010, Scott moved to the University of Reading.
Research highlights
Scott's primary research focus is on the ionosphere, particularly perturbations from below by atmospheric phenomenon. Scott was the first scientist to demonstrate lightning effects on the 'sporadic E' layer; transient, localized patches of relatively high electron density in the mid-ionosphere, which significantly affect radio-wave propagation. He subsequently investigated the relation between lightning occurrence and magnetic structures in the solar wind. Scott has also used novel datasets to study how pressure waves from the lower atmosphere can lead to disturbances in the ionosphere, most notably using records of the London Blitz World War II bombing raids and ionospheric measurements from Slough.
Using the Heliospheric Imager instruments on the STEREO spacecraft, Scott made the first observations of a solar eruption tracked continuously from the Sun to the Earth.
Public outreach and citizen science
Scott is actively involved in the public communication and promotion of science. He has made numerous appearances on TV and radio, most notably the BBC’s Sky at Night, Newsnight, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, BBC2's James May's Man Lab, ITN news, and the Discovery Channel. He was science adviser for episode 1 of the BBC series ‘Seven Wonders of the Solar System’
Scott is the co-founder of the citizen science "Solar Stormwatch" project, to track solar eruptions in heliospheric imager data.
References
Living people
British space scientists
Alumni of Aberystwyth University
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Year of birth missing (living people) |
CPR3 may refer to:
Palmerston Airport (TC LID: CPR3)
CPR3, a candidate phylum of bacteria |
Parc a'r Mynydd (meaning Park and the Mountain) is an area and community electoral ward in the town of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.
The area includes Breakwater Country Park and the village of Mountain (at the foot of Holyhead Mountain).
In 2011 the ward had a total population of 1,154.
Electoral ward
Parc a'r Mynydd remains an electoral ward for Holyhead Town Council, electing two town councillors.
Until 2012 the Parc a'r Mynydd electoral ward sent a county councillor to the Isle of Anglesey County Council. Following the Isle of Anglesey electoral boundary changes Parc a'r Mynydd became part of a larger Caergybi ward, which includes three other wards of the Holyhead community.
From the 1999 elections the county ward elected Independent county councillors. Ice cream salesman John Victor "JV" Owen was county councillor from 1995 to 1999 (for the Labour Party) and 2008-2013 (as an Independent). He was also chairman of the Isle of Anglesey County Council and mayor of Holyhead.
References
Wards of Anglesey
Holyhead |
The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, and is now used by many businesses, websites and even pharmaceutical companies in partnership with the government.
Subscriptions
Rather than selling products individually, a subscription offers periodic (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, semi-annual, yearly/annual, or seasonal) use or access to a product or service, or, in the case of performance-oriented organizations such as opera companies, tickets to the entire run of some set number of (e.g., five to fifteen) scheduled performances for an entire season. Thus, a one-time sale of a product can become a recurring sale and build brand loyalty.
Industries that use this model include mail order book sales clubs and music sales clubs, private web mail providers, cable television, satellite television providers with pay television channels, providers with digital catalogs with downloadable music or eBooks, satellite radio, telephone companies, mobile network operators, internet providers, software publishers, websites (e.g., blogging websites), business solutions providers, financial services firms, health clubs, lawn mowing and snowplowing services, pharmaceuticals, renting an apartment, property taxes, as well as the traditional newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.
Renewal of a subscription may be periodic and activated automatically so that the cost of a new period is automatically paid for by a pre-authorized charge to a credit card or a checking account. A common variation of the model in online games and on websites is the freemium model, in which the first tier of content is free, but access to premium features (for example, game power-ups or article archives) is limited to paying subscribers.
Types and examples
There are different categories of subscriptions: to
A subscription for a fixed set of goods or services.
Periodicals, such as a newspaper or magazine, have several types of subscriptions:
Paid circulation
Non-paid circulation
Controlled circulation
Subscription boxes contain a variety of consumables
Community-supported agriculture
Meal delivery service
Meal kit delivery service
A subscription for unlimited use of a service or collection of services. Usage may be personal and non-transferable, for a family, or under certain circumstances, for a group utilizing a service at one time. In the publishing industry, a subscription to a bundle of several journals, at a discounted price, is known as a "big deal".
Software as a service
A pay-as-you-go subscription where a consumer subscribes to purchase a product periodically. This is also known as the convenience model because it is a convenience for the customer to not have to remember to go find their product and buy it periodically. This model has been popularized by companies like Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox, and OrderGroove. Based on their success, many other retailers have begun to offer subscription model services.
For example, a subscription to a rail pass by a company may not be individualized but might permit all employees of that firm to use the service. For goods with an unlimited supply and for many luxury services, subscriptions of this type are rare.
A subscription for basic access or minimal service plus some additional charge depending on usage. A basic telephone service pays a pre-determined fee for monthly use but may have extra charges for additional services such as long-distance calls, directory services and pay-per-call services. When the basic service is offered free of charge, this business model is often referred to as Freemium.
An online subscription for supporting content creators using crowdfunding. Fans can interact and send a tip to the content creator but also have access to exclusive paid content. Popular examples are Patreon and OnlyFans.
Publishing
In publishing, the subscription model typically involves a Paywall, Paysite or other "toll-access" system (named in opposition to open access). As revenues from digital advertising diminish, a paid subscription model is being favoured by more publishers who see it as a comparatively stable income stream.
Academic journals
In the field of academic publishing, the subscription business model means that articles of a specific journal or conference proceedings are only available to subscribers. Subscriptions are typically sold to universities and other higher education institutions and research institutes, though some academic publishers also sell individual subscriptions or access to individual articles.
In contrast with other media such as newspapers, subscription fees to academic publishers generally do not go towards supporting the creation of the content: the scientific articles are written by scientists and reviewed by other scientists as part of their work duties. The paper authors and reviewers are not paid by the publisher. In this light, the subscription model has been called undesirable by proponents of the open access movement.
Academic publications which use the subscription model are called "closed-access", by opposition to their open-access counterparts.
Effects
Vendors
Businesses benefit because they are assured a predictable and constant revenue stream from subscribed individuals for the duration of the subscriber's agreement. Not only does this greatly reduce uncertainty and the riskiness of the enterprise, but it often provides payment in advance (as with magazines, concert tickets), while allowing customers to become greatly attached to using the service and, therefore, more likely to extend by signing an agreement for the next period close to when the current agreement expires.
An integrated software solutions, for example, the subscription pricing structure is designed so that the revenue stream from the recurring subscriptions is considerably greater than the revenue from simple one-time purchases. In some subscription schemes (like magazines), it also increases sales, by not giving subscribers the option to accept or reject any specific issue. This reduces customer acquisition costs, and allows personalized marketing or database marketing. However, a requirement of the system is that the business must have in place an accurate, reliable, and timely way to manage and track subscriptions.
From a marketing-analyst perspective, it has the added benefit that the vendor knows the number of currently active members since a subscription typically involves a contractual agreement. This so-called 'contractual' setting facilitates customer relationship management to a large extent because the analyst knows who is an active customer and who recently churned.
Additional benefits include a higher average customer lifetime value (ACLV) than that of nonrecurring business models, greater customer inertia and a more committed customer base as it transitions from purchase to opt-out decisions, and more potential for upselling and cross-selling other products or services.
Some software companies such as Adobe and Autodesk have moved from a perpetual licensing model to a subscription model, known as "software as a service". This move has significant implications for sales and customer support organizations. Over time, the need to close large deals decreases resulting in lower sales costs. However, the size of the customer support organization increases so that the paying customers stay happy.
Customers
Consumers may find subscriptions convenient if they believe that they will buy a product on a regular basis and that they might save money. For repeated delivery of the product or service, the customer also saves time.
Subscriptions which exist to support clubs and organizations call their subscribers "members" and they are given access to a group with similar interests. An example might be the Computer Science Book Club.
Subscription pricing can make it easier to pay for expensive items since it can often be paid for over a period of time and thus can make the product seem more affordable. On the other hand, most newspaper and magazine-type subscriptions are paid upfront, and this might actually prevent some customers from subscribing. Fixed price may be an advantage for consumers using those services frequently. However, it could be a disadvantage to a customer who plans to use the service frequently but later does not. The commitment to paying for a package may have been more expensive than a single purchase would have been. In addition, subscription models increase the possibility of vendor lock-in, which can have fatally business-critical implications for a customer if its business depends on the availability of a software: For example, without an online connection to a licensing server to verify the licensing status every once in a while, a software under a subscription-model would typically stop functioning or fall back to the functionality of a freemium version, thereby making it impossible (to continue) to use the software in remote places or in particularly secure environments without internet access, after the vendor has stopped supporting the version or software, or even has gone out of business thereby leaving the customer without a chance to renew the subscription and access his own data or designs maintained with the software (in some businesses it is important to have full access even to old files for decades). Also, consumers may find repeated payments to be onerous.
Subscription models often require or allow the business to gather substantial amounts of information from the customer (such as magazine mailing lists) and this raises issues of privacy.
A subscription model may be beneficial for the software buyer if it forces the supplier to improve its product. Accordingly, a psychological phenomenon may occur when a customer renews a subscription, that may not occur during a one-time transaction: if the buyer is not satisfied with the service, he/she can simply leave the subscription to expire and find another seller.
This is in contrast to many one-time transactions when customers are forced to make significant commitments through high software prices. Some feel that historically, the "one-time-purchase" model does not give sellers incentive to maintain relationships with their customers (after all, why should they care once they've received their money?). Some who favor a subscription model for software do so because it may change this situation.
The subscription model should align customer and vendor toward common goals, as both stands to benefit if the customer receives value from the subscription. The customer that receives value is more likely to renew the subscription and possibly at an increased rate. The customer that does not receive value will, in theory, return to the marketplace.
Environment
Because customers may not need or want all the items received, this can lead to waste and an adverse effect on the environment, depending on the products. Greater volumes of production, greater energy and natural resource consumption, and subsequently greater disposal costs are incurred.
Subscription models might also create the opposite effect. This can be illustrated by subscribing to a service for mowing lawns. The effective use of a single mower increases when mowing for a collection of homes, instead of every family owning their own lawnmower which is not used as much as the service providing mower, the use of resources for producing lawnmowers, therefore, decreases while lawns stay cut.
See also
Payment system
Index of accounting articles
Outline of economics
List of financial accounting topics
Outline of marketing
Rent-seeking
Pay to play
References
Business models
Mass media industry
Bundled products or services
Types of subscription services
Subscription services
Revenue models |
Oopsis striatella is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1879.
References
Oopsis
Beetles described in 1879 |
Zeyxuroba (also, Xanoba, Khanoba, and Zeykhuroba) is a village in the Khachmaz Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Yalama. The postal code is AZ 2730.
References
Populated places in Khachmaz District |
This is the list of neighborhoods in Columbus, Georgia. Neighborhoods are generally considered to be housing subdivisions of a city. In some cases, other layers of intervening organization exist (for example, boroughs in New York City) that may not exist in all places.
In the city of Columbus, there exist an intermediate level of organization, called districts or zones.
List
Downtown
Avondale
Baker Village
Bibb City
City Village
Willett
East Columbus
Kingsridge
Vista Estates
Belvedere Park
Columbia Heights
Mount Pleasant
Dimon Wood
Forest Park
Crystal Valley
Englewood
Flat Rock
Sweetwater
Oakcrest
Glen Arden
Midland
Schatulga
Upatoi
Woodlawn Estates
Midtown
Averett Woods
Briarwood
Clubview Heights
Dimon Circle
Dinglewood
East Carver Heights
East Highland
East Wynnton
Garrard Woods
Hilton Heights
Lindsay Creek-Boxwood
Overlook-Wynn's Hill
Peacock Woods
Radcliff
Village of Wynnton
Weracoba - St. Elmo A/K/A Lakebottom
Wildwood Circle - Hillcrest
Woodcrest
Wynnton Grove
North Columbus A/K/A Northside
Allendale
Caroline Park
Fortson
Glenns
Green Island Hills
Highland Pines
Nankipooh
Lyn Hills
Woodbriar
South Columbus
Benning Park
Carter Acres
Oakland Park
Pine Hill
Riverland Terrace
Vista Terrance |
Death to America (; ) is an anti-American political slogan. It is widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Pakistan. It has been used in Iran since the inception of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, popularized the term. He opposed the chant for radio and television, but not for protests and other occasions.
The literal meaning of the Persian phrase "Marg bar Āmrikā" is "Death to America".
In most official Iranian translations, the phrase is translated into English as the less crude "Down with America". The chant "Death to America" has come to be employed by various anti-American groups and protesters worldwide.
Iranian officials generally explain that the slogan in its historical context has been provoked by U.S. government's hostile policies towards Iran and expresses outrage at those policies, and does not wish for literal death for American people themselves. In a speech to university students, Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, interpreted the slogan as "death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance". Following a meeting with Army and Air Force commanders, Khamenei declared that the Iranian people are not against American people, but that "Death to America" means down with American leaders, in this case Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo.
History
Following the fall of the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty in early 1979, Iranian protesters regularly shouted "Death to America" and "Death to the Shah" outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, including the day the embassy was seized on November 4, 1979, which commenced the Iran hostage crisis. Throughout the crisis, Iranians surrounding the embassy chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Carter." When Iran released the remaining 52 American hostages on January 20, 1981, they were led through a gauntlet of students forming parallel lines that shouted "Death to America" as they boarded the airplane that would fly them out of Tehran. "Death to the Soviet Union" and "Death to England" also became popular. A similar slogan "Death to Israel" () is also used, and regularly chanted in Iranian and Pakistani political rallies. It is the best-known variation.
Throughout the existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the slogan has formed a pillar of its revolutionary values. It is regularly chanted at Friday prayers and other public events, which is often accompanied by a burning of the flag of the United States. These events include the November 4 anniversary of the U.S. embassy seizure, which Iranian leaders declared in 1987 as a national holiday, called "Death to America Day." State-sponsored murals that feature the slogan "Death to America" are common in Iranian cities, particularly Tehran.
However, according to Hashemi Rafsanjani, Khomeini agreed in principle to drop the usage of the slogan in 1984. Rafsanjani's statement was rejected by his hard line opponents who said that "The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America."
According to Politico magazine, following the September 11 attacks, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, "suspended the usual 'Death to America' chants at Friday prayers" temporarily.
On March 21, 2015, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei backed and shouted the phrase 'Death to America' while addressing a public gathering in Iran, during the holiday of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In a statement published on his website on November 3, 2015, Khamenei said: "It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance."
On June 23, 2017, during Quds Day, protestors chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". On April 25, 2018, Iran announced that a "Death to America" emoji would be included in a domestically produced messaging app. On May 9, 2018, an American flag was burned in the Iranian Parliament amidst chants of 'Death to America' after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran. On November 4, 2018, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the religious group Nation of Islam, led a "Death to America" chant during a solidarity trip to Iran, ahead of sanctions expected to be imposed by the Trump administration.
Many anti-Iranian government protesters, both within Iran and abroad, used similar phrases to demonstrate against the theocratic government. Slogans such as "Death to Khamenei", "Death to the Dictator" and "Death to Islamic Republic" have been chanted in those occasions, the latest being the Mahsa Amini protests, which began in September 2022. Protesters also refused to trample over giant U.S. and Israeli flags that had been painted on the ground of the universities, which was praised by President Donald Trump in 2020.
At the funeral of Qasem Soleimani, the chant "Death to America" could be heard from many mourners across Baghdad, Islamabad, Karachi and many other cities.
Usage in the Arab world
Supporters of Hezbollah, the Shi'a Islamic militant group based in Lebanon that is closely aligned to Iran, regularly chant "Death to America" in street demonstrations. A week before the March 20, 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared, "In the past, when the Marines were in Beirut, we screamed, 'Death to America!' Today, when the region is being filled with hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, 'Death to America!' was, is and will stay our slogan."
The slogan of the Houthis, a Shi'a rebel group in Yemen also supported by Iran, is "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."
Interpretation and meaning
Mohammad Nahavandian, chief of staff for Iranian (former) President Hassan Rouhani has said that:
"Regarding the words 'Death to America', we mean American politics, not the American people", says Hussein al Hamran, head of Foreign Relations for Ansar Allah (Houthis). Ali al-Bukhayti, a former spokesperson and official media face of the Houthis, has said: "We do not really want death to anyone. The slogan is simply against the interference of those governments [i.e. US, and Israel]".
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has also dismissed the literal interpretation of the slogan, stating that the slogan is to express opposition to US intrusive policies rather than hatred against American people.
On 8 February 2019, Ali Khamenei stated "Death to America means death to Trump, Bolton and Pompeo. We criticize American politicians who are managing that country. Iranian nation are not against American people."
Travel writer Rick Steves recorded a taxi driver in Tehran exclaiming "Death to traffic!" in English, explaining that "when something frustrates us and we have no control over it, this is what we say". Steves compares the phrase to non-literal use of the word damn in American English.
See also
Great Satan
Global arrogance
Iran–United States relations
Slogans of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
American Islam (term)
Carthago delenda est
Death to Arabs
References
Anti-Americanism
Iran–United States relations
Political terminology of Iran
1978 neologisms
Ruhollah Khomeini
Political catchphrases |
Lingel A. "Sonny" Winters (June 2, 1900October 5, 1945) was an American football player. He played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a quarterback for the Columbus Tigers (1923–1924). He was selected as the third-team quarterback on the 1924 All-Pro Team.
References
1900 births
1945 deaths
People from Napoleon, Ohio
Players of American football from Ohio
American football quarterbacks
Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football players
Columbus Tigers players |
Justin Andrew Channing (born 19 November 1968) is an English former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Bristol Rovers and Leyton Orient.
Channing signed professional forms with QPR in August 1986 and made his debut in November that year against Luton Town. He played 55 league games for QPR scoring 5 goals before transferring to Bristol Rovers in 1993 for a fee of £275,000, and later spent two seasons at Leyton Orient before moving into non-league football with Slough Town.
References
External links
Living people
1968 births
Footballers from Reading, Berkshire
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
English men's footballers
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Leyton Orient F.C. players
Slough Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Premier League players |
Kan Pyaung () Village is a village in Kawa Township, Bago Region, Myanmar.
References
Populated places in Bago Region |
The 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky during the college basketball season of 2009–10. This season was the first of John Calipari's tenure as head coach; he accepted the position on March 31, 2009.
The Wildcats set several records this season. They became the first men's college basketball program to reach 2,000 wins by defeating the Drexel Dragons on December 21. Coach Calipari set a record for the most consecutive wins for a first-year Kentucky basketball coach at 19–0, surpassing Adolph Rupp's previous mark of 11–0. Kentucky also extended their existing records for most wins all-time, SEC regular-season championships, SEC tournament championships, NCAA tournament berths, and NCAA tournament wins.
The team was briefly ranked #1 in both the ESPN/Coaches poll and AP poll, and posted the best record in the NCAA (35–3) Off the court, Coach Calipari spearheaded an effort to raise money for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, yielding $1.5 million and a congratulatory call from President Barack Obama.
Departures
Class of 2009 signees
Class of 2010 signees
Roster
Depth chart
Schedule
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!colspan=12 style="background:#005DAA; color:white;"| SEC Regular Season
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!colspan=12 style="text-align: center; background:#005DAA"|SEC Tournament
|-
!colspan=12 style="text-align: center; background:#005DAA"|NCAA tournament
|-
Statistics
The team posted the following statistics:
Honors
Watch Lists
Weekly Awards
SEC Awards
Wall was named SEC Player of the Year. Cousins, Patterson, and Wall were chosen to the first-team All-SEC by coaches and the media. Cousins was the SEC Freshman of the Year, and he, Bledsoe, and Wall were All-Freshman team selections by the coaches and media. Calipari was named SEC Coach of the Year by the coaches media.
National District Awards
Wall was named District IV (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida) Player of the Year, Calipari was named District IV Coach of the Year and Patterson was named to the All-District IV team by the USBWA. Cousins and Wall were listed on the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I All‐District 21 first team, while Patterson was listed on the second team on March 12.
All-American and National Awards
Wall was a consensus first-team All-American, and Cousins was a consensus second-team All-American. The Associated Press named Cousins and Wall as first-team All-Americans. The USBWA named Wall a first-team All-American and Cousins a second-team All-American. The NABC named Wall a first-team All-American and Cousins a second-team All-American. The Sporting News named Wall a first-team All-American and Cousins a second-team All-American. John Wall became the first Kentucky player to win a National Player of the Year award as he won the Adolph Rupp Trophy. Wall also won the two Freshman of the Year awards as he was named USBWA National Freshman of the Year and Freshman of the Year by the Sporting News.
Rankings
2010 NBA draft
On April 7 five players announced their intentions to enter the 2010 NBA draft. Five players declared themselves eligible for the draft: Bledsoe, Cousins, Orton, Patterson, and Wall. Leading up to the draft Wall, Cousins, and Patterson were projected as lottery picks. Meanwhile, Bledsoe and Orton were projected as possible first round draft picks.
In the draft Wall was selected No. 1 by Washington. He was followed by Cousins, who went to the Sacramento Kings at No. 5; Patterson, who was taken by the Houston Rockets at No. 14; Bledsoe, who was chosen No. 18 by the Oklahoma City Thunder; and Orton, who was chosen No. 29 by the Orlando Magic. Wall became the first player in Kentucky history taken first in the draft. The five players taken in the first round tied the record for most players taken from one school in the first round.
NBA draft selections
References
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball seasons
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats |
```xml
import { ComponentProps } from 'react';
import EthereumApp from '@ledgerhq/hw-app-eth';
import { simpleRender, waitFor } from 'test-utils';
import SignTransaction from '@features/SendAssets/components/SignTransaction';
import { fTxConfig } from '@fixtures';
import { translateRaw } from '@translations';
import { WalletId } from '@types';
import { getHeader } from './helper';
const defaultProps: ComponentProps<typeof SignTransaction> = {
txConfig: {
...fTxConfig,
senderAccount: {
...fTxConfig.senderAccount,
address: '0x31497f490293cf5a4540b81c9f59910f62519b63',
wallet: WalletId.LEDGER_NANO_S
}
},
onComplete: jest.fn()
};
const getComponent = () => {
return simpleRender(<SignTransaction {...defaultProps} />);
};
jest.mock('@ledgerhq/hw-transport-u2f');
describe('SignTransactionWallets: Ledger', () => {
beforeEach(() => {
jest.useFakeTimers();
jest.setTimeout(60000);
});
it('Can handle Ledger signing', async () => {
const { getByText } = getComponent();
const selector = getHeader(WalletId.LEDGER_NANO_S);
expect(getByText(selector)).toBeInTheDocument();
await waitFor(
() =>
expect(defaultProps.onComplete).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashcfcd089a95ec6e7d9674604b'
),
{ timeout: 60000 }
);
});
it('shows error message', async () => {
// @ts-expect-error Not overwriting all functions
(EthereumApp as jest.MockedClass<typeof EthereumApp>).mockImplementation(() => ({
signTransaction: jest.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error('foo')),
getAddress: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ address: fTxConfig.senderAccount.address })
}));
const { getByText } = getComponent();
await waitFor(
() =>
expect(
getByText(translateRaw('SIGN_TX_HARDWARE_FAILED_1'), { exact: false })
).toBeInTheDocument(),
{ timeout: 60000 }
);
});
});
``` |
Deborah Baker Jr. (born August 1, 1982) is an American actress raised in Boston. She is known for her role as Esther on the CBS TV series The Great Indoors and for her role as Denise Miller on IFC's Stan Against Evil. She is a performer at Upright Citizens Brigade.
Baker was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Hoboken International Film Fest in 2013.
In 2019, Baker appeared in a series of RumChata liqueur commercials playing "The RumChata Fairy".
Filmography
Television
The Great Indoors as Esther (2016–17)
Stan Against Evil as Denise Miller (2016–18)
The Neighborhood as Brittany (2020–21)
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
American television actresses
American stage actresses
21st-century American women |
```yaml
auto_save: false
display_label_popup: true
store_data: true
keep_prev: false
keep_prev_scale: false
keep_prev_brightness: false
keep_prev_contrast: false
logger_level: info
flags: null
label_flags: null
labels: null
file_search: null
sort_labels: true
validate_label: null
default_shape_color: [0, 255, 0]
shape_color: auto # null, 'auto', 'manual'
shift_auto_shape_color: 0
label_colors: null
shape:
# drawing
line_color: [0, 255, 0, 128]
fill_color: [0, 0, 0, 64]
vertex_fill_color: [0, 255, 0, 255]
# selecting / hovering
select_line_color: [255, 255, 255, 255]
select_fill_color: [0, 255, 0, 64]
hvertex_fill_color: [255, 255, 255, 255]
point_size: 8
ai:
default: 'EfficientSam (accuracy)'
# main
flag_dock:
show: true
closable: true
movable: true
floatable: true
label_dock:
show: true
closable: true
movable: true
floatable: true
shape_dock:
show: true
closable: true
movable: true
floatable: true
file_dock:
show: true
closable: true
movable: true
floatable: true
# label_dialog
show_label_text_field: true
label_completion: startswith
fit_to_content:
column: true
row: false
# canvas
epsilon: 10.0
canvas:
fill_drawing: true
# None: do nothing
# close: close polygon
double_click: close
# The max number of edits we can undo
num_backups: 10
# show crosshair
crosshair:
polygon: false
rectangle: true
circle: false
line: false
point: false
linestrip: false
ai_polygon: false
ai_mask: false
shortcuts:
close: Ctrl+W
open: Ctrl+O
open_dir: Ctrl+U
quit: Ctrl+Q
save: Ctrl+S
save_as: Ctrl+Shift+S
save_to: null
delete_file: Ctrl+Delete
open_next: [D, Ctrl+Shift+D]
open_prev: [A, Ctrl+Shift+A]
zoom_in: [Ctrl++, Ctrl+=]
zoom_out: Ctrl+-
zoom_to_original: Ctrl+0
fit_window: Ctrl+F
fit_width: Ctrl+Shift+F
create_polygon: Ctrl+N
create_rectangle: Ctrl+R
create_circle: null
create_line: null
create_point: null
create_linestrip: null
edit_polygon: Ctrl+J
delete_polygon: Delete
duplicate_polygon: Ctrl+D
copy_polygon: Ctrl+C
paste_polygon: Ctrl+V
undo: Ctrl+Z
undo_last_point: Ctrl+Z
add_point_to_edge: Ctrl+Shift+P
edit_label: Ctrl+E
toggle_keep_prev_mode: Ctrl+P
remove_selected_point: [Meta+H, Backspace]
show_all_polygons: null
hide_all_polygons: null
toggle_all_polygons: T
``` |
Aishwary Marya (born 21 February 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 8 October 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 21 February 2019.
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Chhattisgarh cricketers |
Sarita Sarvate is an Indian-American journalist and writer. For nearly twenty years, she has published the “Last Word” column for India Currents, an Indian-American magazine. She has also published opinion essays for New America Media, a coalition of ethnic media around the world and its predecessor the Pacific News Service, for over a decade. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews have been syndicated in the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, Salon Magazine, Rediff News Service of India, and many other online and print media outlets. She has been a leader in the South Asian community, speaking at various events, and has been written about in a profile of exceptional women in the South Asian immigrant women. Her fiction has been published in an anthology of poetry and fiction by South Asian American writers.
Awards
In 1998, she won the award for the best commentary in ethnic media from New California Media, a coalition of ethnic digital and print media that has since expanded to become the New America Media. The following year, she won the second prize in the same category.
References
External links
saritasarvate.com
American women journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
was a Japanese painter, noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th-century Japanese painting.There were many Japanese painters who tried Western painting and Western style painting in the modern age, but Yuichi is said to be the first "Western painter" in Japan who learned full-scale oil painting techniques and was active from the late Edo period to the middle of the Meiji era.
Biography
Takahashi was born to a samurai-class household at the Edo residence of Sano Domain, a subsidiary han of Sakura Domain, where his father was a retainer of the Hotta clan. Interested in art from childhood, he apprenticed to the Kanō school, but later became fascinated with western-style art through lithographs which were being available in Japan during the Bakumatsu period. In 1862, he obtained a place in the arts department of the Bansho Shirabesho, the Tokugawa shogunate's research institute in western learning, where he studied under Kawakami Togai, and where he began experimentation with oil painting. In 1866, he went to Yokohama to study under the English artist and cartoonist Charles Wirgman, who was so impressed with his talent that he sponsored his participation in the Paris World Exhibition of 1867.
After the Meiji Restoration, despite his largely self-taught credentials, he was appointed a professor of art at the Kobubijutsu Gakkō (the Technical Fine Arts School) by the new Meiji government, and was a student and an assistant for the Italian foreign advisor Antonio Fontanesi, who had been hired by the Meiji government in the late 1870s to introduce western oil painting to Japan.
In 1879, he entered a contest sponsored by the Kotohira-gū shrine in Shikoku for ceiling panel paintings, donating all of the paintings to the shrine after the contest. The shrine still displays a collection of 27 of his paintings. Also in 1879, Takahashi was recommended by the Genrōin to become a court painter, and was commissioned to paint a portrait of the emperor.
In 1881, he received a large commission from Viscount Mishima Michitsune to paint scenes of public works projects in Yamagata prefecture.
Takahashi produced mostly portraiture and landscape paintings, but also still life works. His best-known painting is a salmon hung up to dry, which has been recognized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government as an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
He died at home in 1897.
Noted works
, 1872, Tokyo University of the Arts, National Important Cultural Property
, 1877, Tokyo University of the Arts, National Important Cultural Property
References
Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West. Columbia University Press; (1998).
Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art . Prentice Hall (2005).
Miyoshi, Masao. Postmodernism and Japan. Duke University Press (1986)
Sadao, Tsuneko. Discovering the Arts of Japan: A Historical Overview. Kodansha International (2003).
Schaarschmidt Richte. Japanese Modern Art Painting From 1910 . Edition Stemmle.
Weisenfeld, Gennifer. MAVO: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931. University of California Press (2001).
MoMAK 京都国立近代美術館
https://www.momak.go.jp/Japanese/exhibitionArchive/2012/393.html
ネット美術館「アートまとめん」
http://artmatome.com/高橋由一%E3%80%80【略歴と作品一覧】/
中右恵理子; 長峯朱里. "II 高橋由一作《鮭図》 の絵画材料および技法について". 2018.平成30年度文化財保存修復研究センター紀要,15-28
高階, 絵里加. 高橋由一<山形市街図>と江戸名所絵. 人文學報 2011, 101:19-35
隈元謙次郎(Kenjiro Kumamoto)"高橋由一の風景画(Landscape Paintings by Takahashi Yuichi)"美術研究(The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies),160:31 - 44
[1]東京藝術大学大学美術館収蔵品データベース"美人(花魁)" http://jmapps.ne.jp/geidai/det.html?data_id=4124
[2]東京藝術大学大学美術館収蔵品データベース"鮭" http://jmapps.ne.jp/geidai/det.html?data_id=4126
External links
1828 births
1894 deaths
Court painters
Japanese portrait painters
People of Meiji-period Japan
Yōga painters
19th-century Japanese painters
Painters from Tokyo
Artists from Tokyo Metropolis |
Evo (stylized as evo) is an American sporting goods and outdoor recreation retailer. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is led by founder and chief executive officer Bryce Phillips.
Company overview
Evo is an American sporting goods retailer and outdoor recreation company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Evo generates about 70% of its business from online sales.
Evo operates nine stores in the United States and Canada and seven in Japan as Rhythm Japan.
Physical locations also offer equipment retail, repair services, and rentals. The company operates hotels in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Evo offers travel packages via its evoTrip division.
History
Phillips, a former professional skier, founded Evo in 2001 as an online retailer for used ski equipment. The company opened its first brick and mortar location in Seattle in 2005.
Evo expanded its physical presence in 2014 by opening a store in Portland, Oregon, and again in 2016 when it purchased Edgeworks & Bicycle Doctor in Denver, Colorado.
In 2018, Evo continued a series of acquisitions, starting with the purchase of independent retailer Whistler Village Sports in Whistler, British Columbia, including its five stores in Whistler Village, for an undisclosed sum. In 2021, the company acquired Callaghan Country Wilderness Adventures in Whistler, and with it a backcountry lodge called the Journeyman Lodge. In 2022, Evo purchased Rhythm Japan, a Japanese sporting goods retailer based in Australia, and its seven stores. Rhythm was founded in 2005 by Australian businessmen Matthew Hampton and Mick Klima and operates locations in Niseko, Hakuba, and Furano, Japan.
As part of its expansion into hospitality, in 2022 Evo opened a location in Salt Lake City including a hotel, bouldering gym, skatepark, and additional retail space. In July 2022, the company announced plans to build a similar complex in Tahoe City, California.
Evo purchased a city block in Seattle in 2022 for $17.5 million with plans to develop it into a mixed-use space that includes office space, sports facilities, and retail stores.
Community initiatives
Evo has designed its physical locations to serve as gathering places as well as retail stores. The company's larger locations host events such as movie premieres and art galleries, include sports facilities such as skateparks and climbing gyms, and have additional retail spaces for local businesses and restaurants.
In 2021, Evo pledged to donate $10 million over the next 10 years to nonprofits that enable underrepresented communities to participate in outdoor activities.
References
Retail companies established in the 2000s
Retail companies established in the 21st century
American brands
Online retailers of the United States
Sporting goods retailers
Sporting goods retailers of the United States
Sporting goods retailers of Canada
Clothing retailers
Clothing retailers of the United States
Cycle retailers
Outdoor clothing brands |
Ichneutica atristriga is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to New Zealand and is found through out the North, South and Stewart Islands. The larval hosts likely include tussock grasses included Poa cita, P. colensoi and Festuca novae-zelandiae. Larvae have been reared on species in the genera Bromus and Festuca. The adults of this species are on the wing from November to May. I. atristriga can possibly be confused with the smaller species I. propria. However I. atristriga has thorax and forewings that have a pinkish tinge and I. propria has a dark streak on the discal part of the forewing which I. atristriga lacks. A study has indicated that the population numbers of this species have decreased.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Francis Walker in 1865 from specimens collected in Nelson and named Xylina atristriga. The male lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. In 1988 J. S. Dugdale, in his catalogue of New Zealand Lepidoptera, placed this species within the Tmetolophota genus. In 2019 Robert Hoare undertook a major review of New Zealand Noctuidae. During this review the genus Ichneutica was greatly expanded and the genus Tmetolophota was subsumed into that genus as a synonym. As a result of this review, this species is now known as Ichneutica atristriga.
Description
Hoare described the larvae of this species as follows:
Walker described the adults of this species as follows:
The adult male of this species has a wingspan of between 35 and 42 mm and the female has a wingspan of between 35 and 41 mm. I. atristriga can possibly be confused with the smaller species I. propria. However I. atristriga has thorax and forewings that have a pinkish tinge and I. propria has a dark streak on the discal part of the forewing which I. atristriga lacks.
Distribution
It is endemic to New Zealand. I. atristriga is found through out the North, South and Stewart Islands.
Behaviour
The adults of this species are on the wing from November to May.
Life history and host species
The life history of this species is in need of more detailed documentation. The larval hosts likely include tussock grasses included Poa cita, P. colensoi and Festuca novae-zelandiae. Larvae have been reared on species in the genera Bromus and Festuca.
Conservation status
This species is regarded as being one of the most numerous noctuid species. However Graham White recorded a population decrease of over 40% at two locations during the period from the early 1960s until the late 1980s.
References
Moths described in 1865
Moths of New Zealand
Hadeninae
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
Bardiya National Park is a protected area in Nepal that was established in 1988 as Royal Bardia National Park. Covering an area of it is the largest and most undisturbed national park in Nepal's Terai, adjoining the eastern bank of the Karnali River and bisected by the Babai River in the Bardiya District. Its northern limits are demarcated by the crest of the Siwalik Hills. The Nepalgunj-Surkhet highway partly forms the southern boundary, but seriously disrupts the protected area. Natural boundaries for human settlements are formed in the west by the Geruwa, a branch of the Karnali River, and in the southeast by the Babai River.
Together with the neighboring Banke National Park, the coherent protected area of represents the Tiger Conservation Unit (TCU) Bardia-Banke that extends over of alluvial grasslands and subtropical moist deciduous forests.
History
In 1815, Nepal lost this region to the East India Company through the Sugauli Treaty. For 45 years it was a part of British India and returned to Nepal in 1860 in recognition for supporting the suppression of the Indian Independence movement in 1857. Today, this annexed area is still called Naya Muluk meaning new country. An area of was set aside as the Royal Hunting Reserve in 1969 and gazetted as the Royal Karnali Wildlife Reserve in 1976. In 1982, it was proclaimed as the Royal Bardia Wildlife Reserve and extended to include the Babai River Valley in 1984. Finally in 1988, the protected area was gazetted as a national park.
The approximately 1500 people who used to live in this valley have been resettled elsewhere. Since farming has ceased in the Babai Valley, the naturally regenerated vegetation makes the area a prime habitat for wildlife.
Vegetation
About 70% of the park is covered with forest, with the balance a mixture of grassland, savannah and riverine forest.
The flora recorded in the park comprises 839 species, including 173 vascular plant species comprising 140 dicots, 26 monocots, six ferns, and one gymnosperm species.
Fauna
The wide range of vegetation types in forests and grasslands provides excellent habitat for 642 faunal species. The Karnali-Babai river system, its small tributaries, and myriad oxbow lakes are habitats for 125 recorded species of fish. A small population of gharials inhabits the rivers. Apart from the mugger crocodiles, 23 reptile and amphibian species have been recorded.
Mammals
The Bardiya National Park is home to at least 53 mammals including Indian rhinoceros, Indian elephant, Bengal tiger, barasingha, and Gangetic dolphin.
A rusty-spotted cat was sighted for the time in summer 2012.
A fishing cat was recorded in Babai River valley in winter 2017.
Tigers
In 2021, four tigers killed ten people and injured several others in Bardiya National Park; three were captured and transferred to rescue centers, two were housed at the rescue facility in Bardia National Park. They had broken canine teeth, possibly due to fighting between males. One of the tigers escaped from the cage and moved to the forest in Banke district. One was transferred to the Central Zoo in Kathmandu.
Rhinoceros
The translocation of rhinos from Chitwan to Bardia National Park commenced in 1986, with 58 individuals relocated until 2000. From 1994 to 2000, hunters were unsuccessful at poaching rhinos. In April 2000, there were 67 rhinos in the park, most of them resident in the Babai Valley. In May 2006, a reconnaissance survey was carried out in the Babai River floodplain, which revealed an alarming decline in the rhino population. Poaching was suspected to be the main cause of this decline. Subsequent surveys in 2007 and 2008 confirmed the complete disappearance of rhinos from Babai Valley. In different habitats of the Karnali floodplain, 25 rhinos were recorded based on direct observation and indirect signs of rhino dung and tracks. They were mostly congregated in the floodplain grassland, riverine forest and wetlands. In March 2008, only 22 rhinos were counted, and two of them were poached after the count. By 2015, the rhino population had risen to 29 individuals, mainly because of increased security measures.
Elephants
In 1985, two large elephant bulls were spotted for the first time in the park, and named Raja Gaj and Kanchha. They roamed the park area together and made occasional visits to the females. Raja Gaj stood tall at the shoulder and had a massive body weight. His appearance has been compared to that of a mammoth due to his high bi-domed shaped head. His forehead and domes were more prominent than in other Asian bull elephants. In 1993, five elephants were seen entering the park, and one year later another 16 individuals arrived. A population count in summer 1997 revealed 41 resident individuals. In 2002, more than 60 individuals were estimated to reside in the Karnali floodplain and the Babai Valley.
Birds
Current checklists include 407 bird species, among them the Bengal florican, white-rumped vulture, peafowl, and bar-headed geese, which are symbolic of the park. Lesser florican and sarus crane are present; grey-crowned prinia, jungle prinia, pale-footed bush warbler, aberrant bush warbler, striated grassbird, golden-headed cisticola and chestnut-capped babbler occur in the park's grasslands.
References
External links
Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal: Bardiya National Park
National parks of Nepal
Protected areas established in 1988
Grasslands of Nepal
Wetlands of Nepal
Tourism in Nepal
1988 establishments in Nepal |
Ayelet may refer to:
People
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Israeli author
Ayelet the Kosher Komic, Orthodox Jewish female stand-up comedian
Ayelet Menahemi, Israeli film director, producer, writer, editor, and actor
Ayelet Ohayon (born 1974), Israeli European champion foil fencer
Ayelet Shachar (born 1966), legal scholar
Ayelet Shaked, Israeli politician
Ayelet Waldman, Israeli-American novelist and essayist
Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
Places
Ayelet HaShahar, kibbutz in northern Israel |
Judaica Press is an Orthodox Jewish publishing house founded in New York City in 1963 by S. Goldman, and then taken over by his son Jack Goldman in response to the growing demand for books of scholarship in the English-speaking Jewish world. In addition to undertaking the now ubiquitous Judaica Press Mikraoth Gedoloth Nach (Prophets and Writings of the Tanakh-Hebrew Bible) series, Goldman immediately went about acquiring the rights to some of the major works of Jewish scholarship at the time: The Blackman Mishnayoth set, the Hirsch Humash set, and the Jastrow Dictionary of Talmudic Aramaic words.
External links
The Judaica Press Tanach with Rashi at Chabad.org
Judaica Press Company Website
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Jewish printing and publishing
Orthodox Judaism in New York City
Publishing companies established in 1963 |
All About Her may refer to:
"All About Her" a 2001 song by Cheb Khaled / Chaba Zahouania
"All About Her" a 2000 song by New Found Glory from New Found Glory
"All About Her", a 2018 song by Paul Brandt from The Journey YYC, Vol. 1
"All About Her" a 1966 song by Paul Revere & the Raiders from The Spirit of '67 |
The Cadwalader family is an American family of military and civilian leaders that were prominent from the late 18th through 19th centuries in Philadelphia and New Jersey. The progenitor of the family, John Cadwalader, was a Quaker who emigrated from Wales in part to escape religious persecution.
History
John Cadwalader (1677–1734), the patriarch of the Cadwalader family, was born in Bala, Wales before coming to the Province of Pennsylvania in British America in 1697, seeking a place to practice the Quaker religion without repression. After inheriting money from his father and uncle, he set himself up as a merchant in Philadelphia and became active in local politics, serving on the Common Council. Upon his death in 1734, he left a substantial estate to his family. John's only son, Dr. Thomas Cadwalader (1707–1779), was born in Philadelphia but returned to Europe to study medicine. He married Hannah Lambert, and together they had eight children.
Among Thomas' children were General John Cadwalader (1742–1786), a commander of Pennsylvania troops during the Revolutionary War who served under George Washington and was with him at Valley Forge, and Lambert Cadwalader (1742–1823), a merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who also fought in the War, then represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress.
In 1799, General John Cadwalader's daughter, Frances Cadwalader, married into the English aristocracy when she wed the Hon. David Erskine (who later served as British Minister to the U.S. and in 1823 succeeded as the 2nd Baron Erskine). Among their children were Thomas Americus Erskine, 3rd Baron Erskine (1802–1877), and John Cadwalader Erskine, 4th Baron Erskine (1804–1882), Edward Morris Erskine (1817–1883), and James Stuart Erskine (1821–1904), who was created Freiherr von Erskine by Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Lambert Cadwalader married Mary McCall, the daughter of Archibald and Judith (née Kemble) McCall. Their only child was Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873), who married Maria Charlotte Gouverneur (sister of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur and the niece of Elizabeth Kortright and U.S. President James Monroe).
Legacy
The Cadwalader family are considered important patrons and supporters of the early artistic and cultural development of the American colonies as well as the new republic. They commissioned works by American masters, including Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Eakins, and Susan Macdowell Eakins.
Prominent members
Thomas Cadwalader (1708–1779)
John Cadwalader (1742–1786)
Lambert Cadwalader (1742–1823)
Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873)
Samuel Ringgold (1796–1846)
Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867)
George A. McCall (1802–1868)
John Cadwalader (1805–1879)
George Cadwalader (1806–1879)
John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914)
Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1935)
Gouverneur Cadwalader (1880–1935)
Gallery
See also
Cadwalader Park
SS John Cadwalader
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Baron Erskine
References
American families of Welsh ancestry
Political families of the United States
Families from New York (state)
Families from New Jersey |
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words.
There are different ways to define the lexical similarity and the results vary accordingly. For example, Ethnologue'''s method of calculation consists in comparing a regionally standardized wordlist (comparable to the Swadesh list) and counting those forms that show similarity in both form and meaning. Using such a method, English was evaluated to have a lexical similarity of 60% with German and 27% with French.
Lexical similarity can be used to evaluate the degree of genetic relationship between two languages. Percentages higher than 85% usually indicate that the two languages being compared are likely to be related dialects.
The lexical similarity is only one indication of the mutual intelligibility of the two languages, since the latter also depends on the degree of phonetical, morphological, and syntactical similarity. The variations due to differing wordlists weigh on this. For example, lexical similarity between French and English is considerable in lexical fields relating to culture, whereas their similarity is smaller as far as basic (function) words are concerned. Unlike mutual intelligibility, lexical similarity can only be symmetrical.
Indo-European languages
The table below shows some lexical similarity values for pairs of selected Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages, as collected and published by Ethnologue.Notes:Language codes are from standard ISO 639-3.
Roberto Bolognesi and Wilbert Heeringa found the average divergence between Sardinian and Italian to be around 48.7%, ranging from a minimum dialectal degree of divergence being 46.6% to the highest one of 51.1%. That would make the various dialects of Sardinian slightly more divergent from Italian than Spanish (with an average degree of divergence from Italian being around 46.0%) is.
"-" denotes that comparison data are not available.
In the case of English-French lexical similarity, at least two other studies estimate the number of English words directly inherited from French at 28.3% and 41% respectively, with respectively 28.24% and 15% of other English words derived from Latin, putting English-French lexical similarity at around 0.56, with reciprocally lower English-German lexical similarities. Another study estimates the number of English words with an Italic origin at 51%, consistent with the two previous analyses.
See also
Lexis (linguistics)
Language family
Dialect
Linguistic distance
References
Ethnologue.com (lexical similarity values available at some of the individual language entries)
Definition of lexical similarity at Ethnologue.com
Rensch, Calvin R. 1992. "Calculating lexical similarity." In Eugene H. Casad (ed.), Windows on bilingualism '', 13-15. (Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 110). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Notes
External links
Most similar languages
A Similarity Database of Modern Lexicons: Lexical similarity of 331 languages
Language comparison |
Holly Ridge is an unincorporated community in Richland Parish, Louisiana, United States.
History
In 1908 the Chess and Wymond company purchased over 6000 acres in the area now known as Holly Ridge. They named the site after the thousands of holly trees growing along the hilltops.
References
Unincorporated communities in Richland Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana |
Sudan and South Sudan have multiple regional sign languages, which are not mutually intelligible. A survey of just three states found 150 sign languages, though this number included instances of home sign. Government figures estimate there are at least about 48,900 deaf people in Sudan. By 2009, the Sudanese National Union of the Deaf had worked out a Unified Sudanese Sign Language, but it had not yet been widely disseminated.
References
Sign language isolates
Languages of Sudan
Languages of South Sudan
Disability in Sudan
Disability in South Sudan |
Chenango Canal Prism and Lock 107 is a national historic district located at Chenango Forks in Broome County, New York, United States. The district includes four contributing structures. They are the guard lock and dam constructed between 1834 and 1836 for navigation as part of the Chenango Canal. The district also includes the canal prism and adjacent tow path at Lock 107.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic districts in Broome County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Broome County, New York |
The whitespot hawkfish (Paracirrhites hemistictus), the halfspotted hawkfish, multicolored hand-fish and ornate hawkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Taxonomy
The whitespot hawkfish was first formally described in 1874 as Cirrhites hemistictus by the German born British ichthyologist Albert Günther with the type locality given as the Society Islands. The specific name hemistictus neams "half spotted" a reference to the small dark spots on the upper body. At the same time as Günther described this species he described Cirrhites polystictus which has its whole body spotted but this is a colour form of C. hemistictus making C. polystictus a synonym of C. hemistictus.
Description
The whitespot hawkfish has a rather elongated body relative to its congeners, the standard length being 2.8 to 3.2 times the depth. It has a large mouth which extends to below the centre of the eye. The preopercle has fine serrations on its upper two fifths. The continuous dorsal fin has 10 spines and 11 soft rays, with each spine having a single cirrus on the tip and the membranes between the spines are notched. The anal fin has 3 spines and 6 soft rays. There are 14 pectoral fin rays, the lower 7 are robust and unbranched. The caudal fin is marginally rounded with sharp tips to the upper and lower lobes. This is the largest species in its genus attaining a maximum total length of , although is more typical. There are two different colour forms, a pale form which has black spots on the upper half of its body, a pinkish face and a white stripe running along its flanks and a dark form which is grey with dark brown spots over all the body. There is a white or pinkish spot, roughly equal in size to the eye, on the flank.
Distribution and habitat
The whitespot hawkfish has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution but it appears to prefer oceanic insular waters to waters close to continents or large islands. Its range extends from Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean east through the Pacific to the Kiribati Line Islands and the Pitcairn Islands, north to the Ogasawara Islands of southern Japan and south to the Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia and Fiji. This species normally occurs at depths between although it has been recorded at greater depth in areas of Micronesia, including in the Line Islands. It is found on reef fronts and outer reef slopes which are exposed to waves and tidal currents.
Biology
The whitespot hawkfish is an uncommon fish which can be found on tropical reefs at depths around . They are solitary and usually perch on coral branches, gorgonians and rocks. They feed on small fishes and crustaceans. Male maintains a harem of a few females.
Fisheries
The whitespot hawkfish is of limited importance commercially but it is fished for using hook and line.
References
External links
Fishes of Australia : Paracirrhites hemistictus
whitespot hawkfish
Taxa named by Albert Günther
whitespot hawkfish |
David Fordyce (1711, Broadford, Aberdeenshire – 1751) was a Scottish philosopher, a contributor to the Scottish Enlightenment.
Fordyce was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA, 1728). He entered the ministry and returned to Marischal as regent in 1742, teaching Moral Philosophy there until 1751, when he died by drowning at sea. His popular Elements of Moral Philosophy was first published in Robert Dodsley's Preceptor, vol. 2 (1748).
Life
He was born at Broadford, near Aberdeen, and baptised 1 April 1711, the second son of George Fordyce (1663–1733) of Broadford, provost of Aberdeen; he was brother to the physician William Fordyce, the minister James Fordyce and Alexander Fordyce, a banker. After attending Aberdeen grammar school he was entered Marischal College in 1724, where he went through a course of philosophy under Daniel Garden, and took mathematics under John Stewart. He took his M.A. degree in 1728. Being intended for the church he next studied divinity under James Chalmers (Teacher), and obtained a licence as a preacher; but he never received a call.
There followed an itinerant period, of nearly a decade. He was in Glasgow, taking part in some intellectual debates as a protégé of Thomas Blackwell, in 1735. He had preoccupations with family business, and then travelled to England, where he associated with Philip Doddridge, whose dissenting academy was then in Northampton; he served briefly as a minister in Newport Pagnell, in 1739. Via France he returned to Edinburgh as an assistant at the Tron Kirk.
In 1742 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy in Marischal College. By Dodsley he was employed to write the article Moral Philosophy for the 'Modern Preceptor, which was afterwards published separately as The Elements of Moral Philosophy, London, 1754. It reached a fourth edition in 1769, and was translated into German, Zurich, 1757. Fordyce had already attracted some notice for his anonymous Dialogues concerning Education, 2 vols. London, 1745–8.
In 1750 he made a tour through France, Italy, and other countries, and was returning home in September 1751 when he lost his life in a storm off the coast of Holland. His death was noticed by his brother James Fordyce in one of his Addresses to the Deity.
Works
(anon.), Dialogues concerning Education (1745–48)
(anon.) Elements of Moral Philosophy, 1748. Published posthumously under Fordyce's name, 1754 (French trans., 1756; German, 1757). Abridged anonymously in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1st ed., 1771.
Theodorus: A Dialogue concerning the Art of Preaching, 1752, often reprinted, along with James Fordyce's ' Sermon on the Eloquence, and an Essay on the Action of the Pulpit.'
The Temple of Virtue: A Dream, 1757, other editions in 1759 and 1775.
References
External links
David Fordyce at The Online Library of Liberty
Juan Gomez, David Fordyce’s advice to students at Early Modern Experimental Philosophy
Attribution
1711 births
1751 deaths
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Scottish philosophers
Enlightenment philosophers
People of the Scottish Enlightenment |
Epichoristodes macrosema is a species of moth belonging to the family Tortricidae and sub-family Tortricinae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Archipini
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Moths described in 1970
Taxa named by Alexey Diakonoff |
The Liberation Stars are a Sint Maarten football club based in Philipsburg who competed in the Sint Maarten League while it was still in existence. The club has been reported to have been playing in Sint Maarten's top division since 2002, although the most recent records are from 2007.
References
Football clubs in Sint Maarten |
The Scarborough gas field is a natural gas field located in the Indian Ocean north-west of Exmouth on the coast of Western Australia.
The total Contingent Resource of the Scarborough gas field is around 7.3 trillion cubic feet. In 2018 Woodside bought ExxonMobil's 50% share of the retention lease, adding to the 25% it had acquired from BHP in 2016. Woodside now owns 75% of the retention lease and are operator of the joint venture, with BHP retaining the final 25%. On 7 April 2022, the company announced that final Australian federal and state government approvals for the project had been received.
Offshore development concept
The Scarborough gas field is currently not a producing asset. Woodside is proposing to develop the Scarborough resource with 12 subsea, high-rate gas wells tied back to a semi-submersible platform moored in 900 m of water. The ~20,000 t topsides has processing facilities for gas dehydration and compression to transport the gas through a ~400 km pipeline to the Woodside operated Pluto LNG facility.
The Scarborough resource has been fully appraised and the reservoir consists of excellent quality sands which support recoverable volumes in excess of 0.5 Tcf per well. The Scarborough gas reservoir is relatively shallow at only 900 – 1,000 m below the mudline. The lean reservoir gas is classified as ‘sweet’ with no detectable H₂S and only trace levels of CO₂. However, sources other than Woodside have contradicted this finding and established that the field would result in an additional 1.6 billion tonnes of C02 emissions over its lifetime - the equivalent of 15 coal fired power plants. Other sources have suggested that no new oil or gas resources should be developed for Australia to have a chance of meeting their climate goals.
A phased development drilling program is proposed, with seven wells available at ready for start-up (RFSU). Given the shallow depth below the mudline and anticipated strong aquifer support, a combination of horizontal and high angle wells have been designed with maximum well lengths of ~2,500 m. The well and completion designs align with Woodside's extensive development experience offshore north-western Australia.
The proposed carbon steel trunkline will be ~400 km long, significantly shorter than recently constructed offshore gas pipelines in the region. Woodside's ongoing subsea development programs in the North West Shelf and Exmouth area provide contemporary analogues for cost and execution schedule estimates. The seabed transition zone from the deep water to the North West Shelf is well known to Woodside after previous successful projects in the area. In preparation for future expansion, Pluto LNG constructed a shore crossing for a second trunkline.
Onshore development concept
The onshore development concept is a brownfield expansion of the existing Woodside operated Pluto LNG facility. LNG expansion projects have traditionally provided cost competitive new LNG capacity into the market and attractive returns on investment. Extensive onshore development studies for Pluto LNG expansion were undertaken in 2010/11, including a complete front-end engineering and design phase for a second LNG train at Pluto. Previous studies combined with Woodside's 2017 market engagement on LNG expansion, means that Woodside is well placed to assess and estimate the cost of an LNG expansion train for Scarborough.
The composition of the Scarborough gas itself is well suited to the Pluto LNG plant which is designed for lean gas and nitrogen removal. Pre-investment in the Pluto LNG site for future expansion and existing environmental approvals for a second LNG train further de-risks the project.
Cost
The cost estimate of $8.5 – $9.7 billion (100% project) is a real terms 2018, Class 0, pre-concept select phase cost estimate and includes a 25% contingency. Activities prior to final investment decision are expected to cost approximately $0.5 billion (100% project). Woodside's position in Scarborough supports our strategy of unlocking shareholder value, which is contradicted by ex-CEO Peter Coleman's 2021 statement that 'the era of massive new LNG projects is over for Australia'. Alignment of Woodside's equity in both the upstream Scarborough resource and downstream Pluto LNG infrastructure provides for greater control and certainty of development. Woodside can realise the value from development of the material unallocated 7.3 Tcf (2C, 100%) Scarborough gas field through a lower-cost brownfield expansion of our high-reliability Pluto LNG facility.
The current cost estimates are subject to ongoing legal and environmental challenges, including a case before the Supreme Court of Western Australia set to be heard later in 2021. Investors have raised concerns that the proposed costs for this project are 'crazy from the perspective of Woodside shareholders' and 'financially illiterate'. Additionally, the merger and subsequent Final Investment Decision are contingent on shareholder approval votes, despite being described as 'a disastrous outcome for Woodside shareholders and climate.
References
Natural gas fields in Australia |
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package com.oracle.truffle.tools.profiler.test;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.Context;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.Engine;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.Source;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.Value;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.proxy.ProxyExecutable;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import com.oracle.truffle.api.test.GCUtils;
import com.oracle.truffle.tools.profiler.CPUSampler;
import com.oracle.truffle.tools.profiler.StackTraceEntry;
public class CPUSamplerMultiContextTest {
public static final String FIB = """
function fib(n) {
if (n < 3) {
return 1;
} else {
return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2);
}
}
function main() {
return fib;
}
""";
public static final String FIB_15_PLUS = """
function fib15plus(n, remainder) {
if (n < 15) {
return remainder(n);
} else {
return fib15plus(n - 1, remainder) + fib15plus(n - 2, remainder);
}
}
function main() {
return fib15plus;
}
""";
@Test
public void testSamplerDoesNotKeepContexts() throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try (Engine engine = Engine.newBuilder().out(out).option("cpusampler", "histogram").build()) {
List<WeakReference<Context>> contextReferences = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < 27; i++) {
try (Context context = Context.newBuilder().engine(engine).build()) {
contextReferences.add(new WeakReference<>(context));
Source src = Source.newBuilder("sl", FIB, "fib.sl").build();
Value fib = context.eval(src);
fib.execute(29);
}
}
GCUtils.assertGc("CPUSampler prevented collecting contexts", contextReferences);
}
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Sampling Histogram. Recorded (\\d+) samples");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(out.toString());
int histogramCount = 0;
while (matcher.find()) {
histogramCount++;
Assert.assertTrue("Histogram no. " + histogramCount + " didn't contain any samples.", Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(1)) > 0);
}
Assert.assertEquals(27, histogramCount);
}
static class RootCounter {
int fibCount;
int fib15plusCount;
}
@Test
public void testMultiThreadedAndMultiContextPerThread() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, IOException {
try (Engine engine = Engine.create(); ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10)) {
AtomicBoolean runFlag = new AtomicBoolean(true);
CPUSampler sampler = CPUSampler.find(engine);
int nThreads = 5;
int nSamples = 5;
Map<Thread, RootCounter> threads = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
List<Future<?>> futures = new ArrayList<>();
CountDownLatch fibLatch = new CountDownLatch(nThreads);
Source src1 = Source.newBuilder("sl", FIB_15_PLUS, "fib15plus.sl").build();
Source src2 = Source.newBuilder("sl", FIB, "fib.sl").build();
for (int i = 0; i < nThreads; i++) {
futures.add(executorService.submit(() -> {
threads.putIfAbsent(Thread.currentThread(), new RootCounter());
AtomicBoolean countedDown = new AtomicBoolean();
while (runFlag.get()) {
try (Context context1 = Context.newBuilder().engine(engine).build(); Context context2 = Context.newBuilder().engine(engine).build()) {
Value fib15plus = context1.eval(src1);
Value fib = context2.eval(src2);
ProxyExecutable proxyExecutable = (n) -> {
if (countedDown.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
fibLatch.countDown();
}
return fib.execute((Object[]) n);
};
Assert.assertEquals(514229, fib15plus.execute(29, proxyExecutable).asInt());
}
}
}));
}
fibLatch.await();
for (int i = 0; i < nSamples; i++) {
Map<Thread, List<StackTraceEntry>> sample = sampler.takeSample();
for (Map.Entry<Thread, List<StackTraceEntry>> sampleEntry : sample.entrySet()) {
RootCounter rootCounter = threads.get(sampleEntry.getKey());
for (StackTraceEntry stackTraceEntry : sampleEntry.getValue()) {
if ("fib".equals(stackTraceEntry.getRootName())) {
rootCounter.fibCount++;
}
if ("fib15plus".equals(stackTraceEntry.getRootName())) {
rootCounter.fib15plusCount++;
}
}
}
}
runFlag.set(false);
for (Future<?> future : futures) {
future.get();
}
for (Map.Entry<Thread, RootCounter> threadEntry : threads.entrySet()) {
Assert.assertTrue(nSamples + " samples should contain at least 1 occurrence of the fib root for each thread, but one thread contained only " + threadEntry.getValue().fibCount,
threadEntry.getValue().fibCount > 1);
Assert.assertTrue(nSamples + " samples should contain at least 10 occurrences of the fib15plus root, but one thread contained only " + threadEntry.getValue().fib15plusCount,
threadEntry.getValue().fib15plusCount > 10);
}
}
}
}
``` |
Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg (29 June 1508 – 9 December 1534, in Hanau) was a posthumous son of Count Reinhard IV of Hanau-Münzenberg (1473 - 1512) and his wife Countess Catherine of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (d. 1514).
Life
From 1529, he acted as co-regent for his nephew, Count Philip III, whose father had died young. He continued the construction of fortifications around Hanau, which his brother Philip II had begun. He supplemented the fortresses with a defensive ring according to the latest technical standard of the Renaissance.
Balthasar never married. Like most male members of the Hanau-Münzenberg line, he died young, in 1534, at the age of 26. He was buried in the church of St. Mary in Hanau.
One of Hanau's city gates was decorated with a bust of Balthasar, until the gate was demolished in the 18th century. The bust fell into the hands of the Historical Society of Hanau. It was destroyed when the city was bombed on 19 March 1945. Only drawings of it remain.
Ancestors
References
Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landes-Verfaßung in dem Hanauischen. Die Stellung der Herren und Grafen in Hanau-Münzenberg aufgrund der archivalischen Quellen, in the series Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, vol. 34, Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau, 1996,
Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen — kein Denkmalschutz im Hanau des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Neues Magazin für hanauische Geschichte, 2006, , p. 3–61.
Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Reinhard Suchier (ed.): Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Heydt, Hanau, 1894, p. 7–23.
Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land. Kulturgeschichte und Chronik einer fränkisch-wetterauischen Stadt und ehemaligen Grafschaft. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der älteren Zeit, 3rd extended edition, self-published, Hanau, 1919, reprinted: Peters, Hanau, 1978,
Footnotes
House of Hanau
Regents of Germany
1508 births
1534 deaths
16th-century German people |
Frank Irving Cooper (May 8, 1867 – October 23, 1933) was an American architect from Massachusetts who designed many public buildings during his career, including the Bristol County Superior Courthouse in Taunton, Massachusetts, and dozens of school buildings throughout New England. Throughout his career, Cooper established himself as an expert on improved school design and planning, serving on various committees, and authoring numerous books and papers on the subject.
Biography and career
Frank Irving Cooper was the only son of Joseph John Cooper and Mary A. Nichols, of Taunton, Massachusetts. His father was a skilled tack maker who earned the rank of Major during the Civil War.
Cooper studied architecture and engineering and began his career as a draftsman for H.H. Richardson which became Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge after Richardson's death in 1886. Among his early roles was as supervising architect for the construction of the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, and later Shadyside Presbyterian Church, in that same city. Soon after the completion of Shadyside Presbyterian, Cooper established his own firm with offices in Boston and Pittsburgh In 1890, he married Anna Wellington Sawyer of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. They had three sons and settled in Wayland, Massachusetts
Cooper later partnered with Elmer Smith Bailey, forming the firm of Cooper & Bailey, with an office at 33 Cornhill in Boston. From their Boston office, the focused their work almost entirely on the design of new schools throughout New England. Their works during this period include the 1907 Winslow School in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the 1911 Atherton Hough School in Quincy, Massachusetts.
In 1916, the firm was reorganized as Frank Irving Cooper Corporation, after Bailey had retired in 1914. After his death in 1933, Frank Irving Cooper Corporation continued designing schools under the leadership of his son Gregory.
Gallery of selected works
References
People from Taunton, Massachusetts
Architects from Pittsburgh
Architects from Boston
1867 births
1933 deaths |
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, or ASD(GSA), is a position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense that develops policy for the Secretary on countering weapons of mass destruction, nuclear forces and missile defense, cyber security and space issues. ASD(GSA) is currently tasked with three major congressionally mandated reviews: the Nuclear Posture Review, the Ballistic Missile Defense Review, and the Space Posture Review. In addition, GSA is the Defense Department's lead in developing the DoD's cybersecurity strategy, and for crafting the policy for the standup of the new Cyber Command. ASD(GSA) answers to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Although ASD(GSA) is a recently configured office, its functional responsibilities can be traced back in part to a position eliminated in early 2008, the 'Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy'
The office also directs the Defense Technology Security Administration.
History
The ASD(GSA) can trace its origins partially back to a related office, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, or ASD(ISP). This position was created in 1981, and through the end of the George H. W. Bush administration was responsible for all political-military activity involving NATO, other European countries, and the USSR, responsibilities now under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. The exact title and responsibilities of the ASD(ISP) have changed over time, but the office typically dealt with nuclear counterproliferation, arms control and space policy. For example, in March 2005, DoD Directive 5111.14 designated the ASD(ISP) as "the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)) on political/military policy and issues of DOD interest that relate to select foreign regions and nations and to the functional areas of arms control, space, technology and information security, nonproliferation and counterproliferation."
According to his NATO biography, Peter Flory, who held the position of ASD(ISP) from mid-2005 to late 2006, "served as the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on nonproliferation and counterproliferation, security cooperation with nations of Europe, Eurasia, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; oversight over the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and arms control negotiations; and policy for nuclear and advanced non-nuclear deterrent forces, space-related capabilities, and ballistic missile defenses."
Following Flory's departure, ASD(ISP) appears to have been scrapped, since no further appointees have been made to that position. In 2008, a new post, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security Affairs was created within USD(P). The Global Security Affairs office was responsible for defense-related issues concerning building the capability of partners and allies; coalition affairs; technology security policy; security cooperation; counternarcotics, counterproliferation, and countering global threats; detainee affairs; and POW/MIA issues.
Under the Obama administration, ASD for Global Security Affairs was retitled Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, or ASD(GSA). With respect to regional defense policy toward Europe and Eurasia, the ASD(ISP)'s responsibilities seem to have been absorbed by the ASD(ISA) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs, respectively. Meanwhile, the ASD(GSA) is now largely responsible for the functional elements of the ASD(ISP)'s former portfolio, including countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear & missile defense policy, and space policy, in addition to the new responsibility of cyber policy.
Defense Technology Security Administration
The Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) creates and enforces Department of Defense technology security policies related to international transfers of defense-related goods, services, and technologies. DTSA authorizes foreign access to U.S. military technology or foreign purchases of American companies. DTSA also serves as a reviewing agency for the export licensing of dual-use commodities and provides technical and policy assessments on export license applications.
the DTSA director is Beth M. McCormick.
Office Holders
See also
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
References
External links
http://www.defenselink.mil/policy/sections/policy_offices/dtsa/ |
Chi Jang Yin (; born in Guangzhou, China, 1973) is an American filmmaker, photographer, curator and educator. She is best known for her experimental films that explore displacement, alienation, the absence of representation, and narrative memory. Yin left China in the latter part of The Cultural Revolution. Her mother, an artist from an aristocratic family, first led the family to Taiwan, and then to Canada. Yin received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Yvonne Rainer and Shellie Fleming. She was the Head of Media Art at the Department of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University. Currently, Yin is an associate professor at The School of Cinematic Arts at the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media. Her research methodology focuses on intersectionality, information literacy, and how digitalization of the arts and humanities can be a form of advocacy. In 2020, she was named the 2020-2021 Presidential Faculty Fellow at DePaul University. Yin is a trained facilitator at The National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, founded by Peggy McIntosh and has received certifications in conflict resolution and negotiation from the executive education programs at the Harvard Law School and Northwestern University.
Experimental film
Chi Jang Yin's experimental films have been featured at numerous galleries, museums, and film festivals including The Los Angeles Film Festival, The Amsterdam International Documentary Festival in the Netherlands (IDFA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kassel Dokumentarfilm-und-Videofest in Germany, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrouck (Germany), The Contemporary Center of Art in Bulgaria, The Rome Independent Film Festival in Italy, The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, Poland, The Cheekwood Art Museum, The Phoenix Art Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Gene Siskel Film Center, and The Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and filmography
Another Clapping (2000) - Best of Film Festival, Thaw International Film and Digital Media Festival, Iowa City, IA. 2003, Best Documentary Short, Georgetown Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC. 2001, Finalist Award, Asian American Film and Video Showcase, Chicago, IL. 2001
Untitled Affair (2003) - Second Grand Prize Award, Athens International Film Festival, Ohio. 2003
Glass House (2005) - Best Film on Architecture, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo city, Italy. 2007
Icon (2005)
For the Unseen (2007)
Lighthouse (2009) - Distinction Prize Award and Honorable Mention, IN-OUT Festival, the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia), Poland. 2009
Dark River (2010)
Hannah and the Crystal Ball (2011)
Pretend Nothing Happened (2011)
Come Back to Me (2019)
1984–1989–2014 (2019)
I Was There, Part III (2021)
I Was There (2023)
Notable works in public collections
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (library)
Nagoya University, Film Library, Japan (library)
University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, IA (library)
University of Nevada, Reno (library)
Film Art Foundation, San Francisco
DePaul Art Museum, permanent collection, Chicago
Video Data Bank
Photography
Yin's digital photography that explored the work of German Modernist architect, Helmut Bartsch, was featured in LensCulture in 2019.
Curatorial projects
In 2002, sponsored by Chicago Filmmakers, Chi Jang Yin curated a series of ten experimental 16-millimeter films and videos in a program titled When Autobiography Is Not the First Person. In 2010, sponsored by The DePaul Art Museum, she curated a documentary film exhibition that featured Disorder by Huang Weikai.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Artists from Guangzhou
Chinese emigrants to the United States
DePaul University faculty
Educators from Guangdong
Women video artists |
Waddell is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, northwest of the city of Phoenix. Waddell is named after Donald Ware Waddell, a native of Ohio, who was a partner in the New York City investment firm of Brandon, Gordon and Waddell. It was this firm that organized the private financing for construction of the dam for the water reclamation project that creates Lake Pleasant. The intended Waddell town site was laid out by Donald W. Waddell in 1935, on property he owned on the northeast corner of Waddell Road and Cotton Lane (Section 12, T3N, R2W, G&SRB&M). Waddell moved to the area to oversee the firm's interests in the project. He served on the board of the Maricopa Water District and invested in land through his interests in the Arizona Citrus Land Company and the Waddell Ranch Company.
In 1937, the Waddell Post Office was established inside the store on the original town site. Later, the post office moved across the street and shared space with the cotton gin office. The current Waddell Post Office was built in 1992 and is located on Glendale Avenue and Cotton Lane, four miles south of the original site. The town never did develop, but remained a post office and place name for the area.
The dam on the Agua Fria River that creates Lake Pleasant (once called Frog Tanks Dam then, Pleasant Dam) was renamed for Donald W. Waddell in 1963, shortly after his death, in recognition of his contributions to the Maricopa Water District. Barry M. Goldwater spoke at the dedication ceremony.
With the expansion of the city of Surprise, use of the name Waddell to describe the location is rapidly falling into disuse. Influence of the name can still be seen in the name of Waddell Road, an arterial street running through Surprise, as well as the New Waddell Dam at Lake Pleasant. In November 2010 the White Tank Regional Library opened.
The community contains the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple. This facility was the site of a mass shooting in 1991 which left nine people dead, among them monks and temple helpers. It remains the deadliest homicide incident in Arizona history since statehood. Sixteen-year-old Alessandro Garcia and 17-year-old Jonathan Doody were charged with the crime, convicted, and sentenced. Doody was tried three times and sentenced to 281 years of prison in 2014.
See also
References
External links
Unincorporated communities in Maricopa County, Arizona
Unincorporated communities in Arizona
Populated places established in 1935
1925 establishments in Arizona |
Fantome-Stein is a webcomic by Beka Duke. It is based on the premise that Frankenstein's monster did not die but went on to become The Phantom of the Opera.
Premise and development
In Fantome-Stein, Frankenstein's monster did not die but went on to become The Phantom of the Opera. The story follows Frankenstein's monster and his struggle to find humanity and to win the affections of Christine Daae. The comic draws inspiration from Israeli and Middle-Eastern culture.
The comic was initially published on Tumblr but now has its own website. The comic was also published on Tapas, but Duke removed it from that site after Tapas changed its terms of service. The last update to the comic was in March 2023, after a three year hiatus.
Reception
Fantom-Stein was a runner up in ComicsAlliance's "Best New Webcomic of 2015". In announcing the result, ComicsAlliance writer Charlotte Finn said that the comic "is drenched in atmosphere, with thick scratchy inks, bold lettering with perfectly chosen fonts, and desaturated colors wringing the operatic melodrama for all that it's worth."
Author
Fantome-Stein is created by Beka Duke. As of 2015, Duke was attending Southern Arkansas University, studying Game and Animation Design and Communication Design. She was encouraged to create a comic book by a professor. Fantome-Stein counted towards her class credits. Duke was 23 as of January 2016, and grew up mostly in Israel.
Notes and references
Notes
References
External links
2015 webcomic debuts
American webcomics
Comics based on Frankenstein
Tapastic webcomics
Webtoons
Works based on The Phantom of the Opera |
The Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia (, ) is the national meteorological and hydrological service of Serbia.
Origin
Pre-institute weather tracking
First "meteorologists" in Serbia were the medieval church and monastery chroniclers who wrote about the weather occurrences which they observed. Scholar Ljubomir Stojanović compiled old manuscripts and arranged them in 7 volumes under the umbrella title Old Serbian records and inscriptions, which were published by the Serbian Royal Academy from 1902 to 1927 as part of its edition Collection for history, language and literature. Meteorologist and geographer Pavle Vujević used these, so as several other books, to extract all the weather data and published them in 1931 work Historical documents about the variations of the climate on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He covered the period from 1358 to 1864, when the meteorology already began the instrumental monitoring of the weather in Serbia.
Vladimir Jakšić's meteo-grid
Vladimir Jakšić, then only a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and later a professor at the Belgrade Lyceum, on his own accord set a weather station in the backyard of his house in Belgrade's neighborhood of Senjak. He began daily measurements from 1 January 1848, and continued until his death in 1899. He was observing the weather and writing down the temperature, humidity, precipitations, wind speed and atmospheric pressure and his work became the foundation of the meteorology development in Serbia. Already by 1851, Jakšić was able to write first study on the climate of Belgrade. He also left important data on the fluctuation of the water level in the Sava river.
In 1856, further weather stations were set in 20 cities across Serbia, while in 1857 that number grew to 27. The grid, still only a private, individual enterprise, was the most dense meteorological grid in Europe at the time. However, Jaksić in 1863 accepted a job at the Ministry of Finance where he founded a Department of Statistics. From that moment the number of meteorological stations began to decrease rapidly. The only weather station which survived was the first, in the Jakšić's backyard.
Old observatory
In 1879, Milan Nedeljković received a scholarship to continue his education in Paris at the Sorbonne. He studied mathematics and at the College de France extraordinary studying physics. In Paris Observatory the first School of Astronomy was formed, which Nedeljkovic successfully completed. During the study he also finished courses in meteorology, precision mechanics and seismology. After five years, he returned in 1884 in Belgrade and became a professor of astronomy and meteorology at the Great School. He launched a campaign for the establishment of observatory at Grand School, but was rejected because of the financial situation. Finally, after three years, the decree of the founding of the Observatory was signed on by the Minister of Education and Church Affaires of Kingdom of Serbia Milan Kujundžić Aberdar on the initiative of professor Nedeljković.
Nedeljković was appointed first director. On 1 July 1887 Nedeljković took over as the head of the provisory astronomical and meteorological observatory which was located in the rented house of the Gajzler family at 66 Svetozara Markovića Street. Located at the crossroads of the Vojvode Milenka and Svetozara Markovića streets in the historical neighborhood of Vračar (though today administratively in the municipality of Savski Venac), the house still stands today.
History
Foundation
Adopting the request of Nedeljković, a new Minister of Education, Vladan Đorđević passed on 27 September 1888, on the Feast of the Cross day, the Regulation on the establishment of unified network of meteorological stations in the Kingdom of Serbia. Then Observatory become Central meteorological station for data collection.
Astronomical-meteorological observatory
Observatory was operating in the Gajzler house until 1 May 1891, when it was moved into its own building. specifically constructed for that purpose at 8 Bulevar Oslobođenja. It was constructed according to the design of architect Dimitrije T. Leko and equipped with the modern small instruments for astronomical and meteorological observations. Also, then are made in funcion two small astronomical pavilion. The Observatory was a "workshop" for practical training for the students of the Grand School and People's Observatory (on an artificial hill were located Bardu field glasses) where the most frequent guests were students, citizens and prominent persons – for example, in 1910, Halley's comet was observed. Apart from its importance for astronomy and meteorology, the newly built Observatory, headed by Nedeljković, was a cradle of the seismic and geomagnetic researches in Serbia. Thanks to Nedeljković's colleague and friend Miklós Konkoly, the founder of modern Hungarian astronomy and meteorology, the observatory was equipped with a seismograph. New observatory building was located close to the previous, across the Vračar plateau. In the 1950s a park was planted around it which in 2010 was named Park Milutin Milanković.
During the withdrawal from Belgrade at the end of the World War I in 1918, the Austro-Hungarian army destroyed all the instruments in the observatory. Nedeljković managed to acquire instruments for the new observatory from the war reparations from Germany, not spending the state money. The total value of the instruments he obtained was three times higher than the entire cost of the construction of the new observatory building. Instruments arrived in 1922.
In 1924, by the ruling of the Faculty Council the Observatory was divided into two separate institutions: Astronomical Observatory and Meteorological Observatory of Belgrade University.
Development
In August 1902, the institute began a coded international exchange of weather data and started making its first weather forecasts. Since 1912, the daily Politika began publishing institute's weather reports and forecasts. The meteorology especially developed after Vujović took over the tenure of the meteorological observatory chief in the early 20th century. This was also a period when Milutin Milanković began his work on climatology.
At the invitation of the organizers, representatives of the FHMI signed on 22 September 1947 in Washington, a Convention on the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). FHMI was one of the 45 world meteorological services, which were founders of WMO. After the FHMI was abolished in April 2003, the RHSS was entrusted as its legal successor with all its responsibilities, especially the international cooperation.
References
External links
Official web-site of the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia
Governmental meteorological agencies in Europe
Research institutes in Serbia
1888 establishments in Europe |
```smalltalk
Class {
#name : 'ClyMethodsInProtocolGroupProviderTest',
#superclass : 'ClyMethodGroupProviderTest',
#category : 'Calypso-SystemQueries-Tests-Domain',
#package : 'Calypso-SystemQueries-Tests',
#tag : 'Domain'
}
{ #category : 'running' }
ClyMethodsInProtocolGroupProviderTest >> classSampleWhichHasGroup [
^ClyClass1FromP1Mock
]
{ #category : 'running' }
ClyMethodsInProtocolGroupProviderTest >> groupProviderClass [
^ClyMethodsInProtocolGroupProvider
]
{ #category : 'tests' }
ClyMethodsInProtocolGroupProviderTest >> testCreateGroupsForEveryProtocol [
| groups query |
self buildGroupsFor: ClySubclassN1OfClass1FromP1Mock.
groups := builtGroups select: [ :each | each isKindOf: ClyMethodsInProtocolGroup ].
self assertCollection: (groups collect: [ :group | group protocol ]) hasSameElements: ClySubclassN1OfClass1FromP1Mock protocolNames.
query := groups first methodQuery.
self assert: query class equals: ClyMethodsInProtocolQuery.
self assert: query scope equals: (ClyClassScope of: ClySubclassN1OfClass1FromP1Mock)
]
``` |
```c++
// 2001-11-26 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
//
// This file is part of the GNU ISO C++ Library. This library is free
// software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
// Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
// any later version.
// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// with this library; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
// Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
// USA.
// 22.2.2.1.1 num_get members
#include <locale>
#include <sstream>
#include <testsuite_hooks.h>
// XXX This test is not working for non-glibc locale models.
// { dg-do run { xfail *-*-* } }
#ifdef _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T
void test01()
{
using namespace std;
typedef istreambuf_iterator<wchar_t> iterator_type;
bool test = true;
// basic construction
locale loc_c = locale::classic();
locale loc_hk("en_HK");
locale loc_fr("fr_FR@euro");
locale loc_de("de_DE");
VERIFY( loc_c != loc_de );
VERIFY( loc_hk != loc_fr );
VERIFY( loc_hk != loc_de );
VERIFY( loc_de != loc_fr );
// cache the numpunct facets
const numpunct<wchar_t>& numpunct_c = use_facet<numpunct<wchar_t> >(loc_c);
const numpunct<wchar_t>& numpunct_de = use_facet<numpunct<wchar_t> >(loc_de);
const numpunct<wchar_t>& numpunct_hk = use_facet<numpunct<wchar_t> >(loc_hk);
// sanity check the data is correct.
const string empty;
char c;
bool b1 = true;
bool b0 = false;
long l1 = 2147483647;
long l2 = -2147483647;
long l;
unsigned long ul1 = 1294967294;
unsigned long ul2 = 0;
unsigned long ul;
double d1 = 1.02345e+308;
double d2 = 3.15e-308;
double d;
long double ld1 = 6.630025e+4;
long double ld2 = 0.0;
long double ld;
void* v;
const void* cv = &ul2;
// cache the num_get facet
wistringstream iss;
iss.imbue(loc_de);
const num_get<wchar_t>& ng = use_facet<num_get<wchar_t> >(iss.getloc());
const ios_base::iostate goodbit = ios_base::goodbit;
const ios_base::iostate eofbit = ios_base::eofbit;
ios_base::iostate err = ios_base::goodbit;
// bool, simple
iss.str(L"1");
iterator_type os_it00 = iss.rdbuf();
iterator_type os_it01 = ng.get(os_it00, 0, iss, err, b1);
VERIFY( b1 == true );
VERIFY( err & ios_base::eofbit );
iss.str(L"0");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, b0);
VERIFY( b0 == false );
VERIFY( err & eofbit );
// bool, more twisted examples
iss.imbue(loc_c);
iss.str(L"true ");
iss.clear();
iss.setf(ios_base::boolalpha);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, b0);
VERIFY( b0 == true );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
iss.str(L"false ");
iss.clear();
iss.setf(ios_base::boolalpha);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, b1);
VERIFY( b1 == false );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// long, in a locale that expects grouping
iss.imbue(loc_hk);
iss.str(L"2,147,483,647 ");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, l);
VERIFY( l == l1 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
iss.str(L"-2,147,483,647++++++");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, l);
VERIFY( l == l2 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// unsigned long, in a locale that does not group
iss.imbue(loc_c);
iss.str(L"1294967294");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( ul == ul1);
VERIFY( err == eofbit );
iss.str(L"0+++++++++++++++++++");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( ul == ul2);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// ... and one that does
iss.imbue(loc_de);
iss.str(L"1.294.967.294+++++++");
iss.clear();
iss.width(20);
iss.setf(ios_base::left, ios_base::adjustfield);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( ul == ul1 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// double
iss.imbue(loc_c);
iss.str(L"1.02345e+308++++++++");
iss.clear();
iss.width(20);
iss.setf(ios_base::left, ios_base::adjustfield);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, d);
VERIFY( d == d1 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
iss.str(L"+3.15e-308");
iss.clear();
iss.width(20);
iss.setf(ios_base::right, ios_base::adjustfield);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, d);
VERIFY( d == d2 );
VERIFY( err == eofbit );
iss.imbue(loc_de);
iss.str(L"+1,02345e+308");
iss.clear();
iss.width(20);
iss.setf(ios_base::right, ios_base::adjustfield);
iss.setf(ios_base::scientific, ios_base::floatfield);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, d);
VERIFY( d == d1 );
VERIFY( err == eofbit );
iss.str(L"3,15E-308 ");
iss.clear();
iss.width(20);
iss.precision(10);
iss.setf(ios_base::right, ios_base::adjustfield);
iss.setf(ios_base::scientific, ios_base::floatfield);
iss.setf(ios_base::uppercase);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, d);
VERIFY( d == d2 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// long double
iss.str(L"6,630025e+4");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ld);
VERIFY( ld == ld1 );
VERIFY( err == eofbit );
iss.str(L"0 ");
iss.clear();
iss.precision(0);
iss.setf(ios_base::fixed, ios_base::floatfield);
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ld);
VERIFY( ld == 0 );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
// const void
iss.str(L"0xbffff74c,");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, v);
VERIFY( &v != &cv );
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
#ifdef _GLIBCPP_USE_LONG_LONG
long long ll1 = 9223372036854775807LL;
long long ll2 = -9223372036854775807LL;
long long ll;
iss.str(L"9.223.372.036.854.775.807");
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ll);
VERIFY( ll == ll1 );
VERIFY( err == eofbit );
#endif
}
// 2002-01-10 David Seymour <seymour_dj@yahoo.com>
// libstdc++/5331
void test02()
{
using namespace std;
bool test = true;
// Check num_get works with other iterators besides streambuf
// output iterators. (As long as output_iterator requirements are met.)
typedef wstring::const_iterator iter_type;
typedef num_get<wchar_t, iter_type> num_get_type;
const ios_base::iostate goodbit = ios_base::goodbit;
const ios_base::iostate eofbit = ios_base::eofbit;
ios_base::iostate err = ios_base::goodbit;
const locale loc_c = locale::classic();
const wstring str(L"20000106 Elizabeth Durack");
const wstring str2(L"0 true 0xbffff74c Durack");
istringstream iss; // need an ios, add my num_get facet
iss.imbue(locale(loc_c, new num_get_type));
// Iterator advanced, state, output.
const num_get_type& ng = use_facet<num_get_type>(iss.getloc());
// 01 get(long)
// 02 get(long double)
// 03 get(bool)
// 04 get(void*)
// 01 get(long)
long i = 0;
err = goodbit;
iter_type end1 = ng.get(str.begin(), str.end(), iss, err, i);
wstring rem1(end1, str.end());
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( i == 20000106);
VERIFY( rem1 == L" Elizabeth Durack" );
// 02 get(long double)
long double ld = 0.0;
err = goodbit;
iter_type end2 = ng.get(str.begin(), str.end(), iss, err, ld);
wstring rem2(end2, str.end());
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ld == 20000106);
VERIFY( rem2 == L" Elizabeth Durack" );
// 03 get(bool)
// const string str2("0 true 0xbffff74c Durack");
bool b = 1;
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
iter_type end3 = ng.get(str2.begin(), str2.end(), iss, err, b);
wstring rem3(end3, str2.end());
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( b == 0 );
VERIFY( rem3 == L" true 0xbffff74c Durack" );
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
iss.setf(ios_base::boolalpha);
iter_type end4 = ng.get(++end3, str2.end(), iss, err, b);
wstring rem4(end4, str2.end());
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( b == true );
VERIFY( rem4 == L" 0xbffff74c Durack" );
// 04 get(void*)
void* v;
iss.clear();
err = goodbit;
iss.setf(ios_base::fixed, ios_base::floatfield);
iter_type end5 = ng.get(++end4, str2.end(), iss, err, v);
wstring rem5(end5, str2.end());
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( b == true );
VERIFY( rem5 == L" Durack" );
}
// libstdc++/5280
void test03()
{
#ifdef _GLIBCPP_HAVE_SETENV
// Set the global locale to non-"C".
std::locale loc_de("de_DE");
std::locale::global(loc_de);
// Set LANG environment variable to de_DE.
const char* oldLANG = getenv("LANG");
if (!setenv("LANG", "de_DE", 1))
{
test01();
test02();
setenv("LANG", oldLANG ? oldLANG : "", 1);
}
#endif
}
// Testing the correct parsing of grouped hexadecimals and octals.
void test04()
{
using namespace std;
bool test = true;
unsigned long ul;
wistringstream iss;
// A locale that expects grouping
locale loc_de("de_DE");
iss.imbue(loc_de);
const num_get<wchar_t>& ng = use_facet<num_get<wchar_t> >(iss.getloc());
const ios_base::iostate goodbit = ios_base::goodbit;
ios_base::iostate err = ios_base::goodbit;
iss.setf(ios::hex, ios::basefield);
iss.str(L"0xbf.fff.74c ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 0xbffff74c );
iss.str(L"0Xf.fff ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 0xffff );
iss.str(L"ffe ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 0xffe );
iss.setf(ios::oct, ios::basefield);
iss.str(L"07.654.321 ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 07654321 );
iss.str(L"07.777 ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 07777 );
iss.str(L"776 ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, ul);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( ul == 0776 );
}
// libstdc++/5816
void test05()
{
using namespace std;
bool test = true;
double d = 0.0;
wistringstream iss;
locale loc_de("de_DE");
iss.imbue(loc_de);
const num_get<wchar_t>& ng = use_facet<num_get<wchar_t> >(iss.getloc());
const ios_base::iostate goodbit = ios_base::goodbit;
ios_base::iostate err = ios_base::goodbit;
iss.str(L"1234,5 ");
err = goodbit;
ng.get(iss.rdbuf(), 0, iss, err, d);
VERIFY( err == goodbit );
VERIFY( d == 1234.5 );
}
// path_to_url
void test06()
{
bool test = true;
const char* tentLANG = std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "ja_JP.eucjp");
if (tentLANG != NULL)
{
std::string preLANG = tentLANG;
test01();
test02();
test04();
test05();
std::string postLANG = std::setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
VERIFY( preLANG == postLANG );
}
}
#endif
int main()
{
#ifdef _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T
test01();
test02();
test03();
test04();
test05();
test06();
#endif
return 0;
}
// Kathleen Hannah, humanitarian, woman, art-thief
``` |
Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (15 August 1720, Paris – 20 January 1800, Paris) was an 18th-century French physicist and one of the major contributors to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert for technology. The son of 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker Julien Le Roy, he had three brothers: Pierre (1717–1785), a brilliant clock-maker in his own right, Julien-David (1724–1803), a neo-classical architect and archaeologist, and Charles a physician and Encyclopédiste.
In the field of science, Jean-Baptiste Le Roy worked on a variety of topics; of particular importance were his research on electricity. Together with Patrick d'Arcy, he constructed in 1749 the first electrometer, a device for detection of electrical charges and voltages. He also experimented with lightning conductors and with the use of electricity in the treatment of diseases.
As contributor to the Encyclopédie, he wrote more than 130 articles under the author abbreviation "T", including those related to watchmaking, locksmith and mathematical instruments.
From 1772 to 1777 Le Roy was deputy director and from 1773 to 1778, director of the Académie royale des sciences. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1773.
Bibliography
Sources
Zu Le Roys Tätigkeit an der Académie des sciences: Archives de l’Académie des sciences de l’institut de France, dossier personnel de Jean-Baptiste Le Roy.
Some letters by Le Roy were published in: Leonard W. Labaree [u.a.] (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, New Haven 1959 as well as in Julian P. Boyd and Charles T. Cullen (ed.), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton 1950.
Studies
"Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste", in: Frank Arthur Kafker, The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford 1988, , (p. 219–222).
Louis S. Greenbaum: Tempest in the Academy: Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Project of a new Hôtel-Dieu’, in: Archives internationales d’histoire des sciences 24 (1974), (p. 122–140).
Other
Bailly, J.-S., "Secret Report on Mesmerism or Animal Magnetism", International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol.50, No.4, (October 2002), pp. 364–368. doi=10.1080/00207140208410110
Franklin, B., Majault, M.J., Le Roy, J.B., Sallin, C.L., Bailly, J.-S., d'Arcet, J., de Bory, G., Guillotin, J.-I. & Lavoisier, A., "Report of The Commissioners charged by the King with the Examination of Animal Magnetism", International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol.50, No.4, (October 2002), pp. 332–363. doi=10.1080/00207140208410109
See also
Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
References
External links
Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste on Encyclopedia.com
Jean-Baptiste Le Roy on Wikisource
List of contributions by Le Roy to the Encyclopédie with links to the full text on the ARTFL project.
1720 births
1800 deaths
French physicists
Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Scientists from Paris
Le Roy family |
WNEE 88.1 FM is a Christian radio station serving the Athens, Georgia area. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format and is owned by Community Public Radio, Inc.
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Aggersund is a village in northern Denmark with a population of 293 (2023). The village is a part of Vesthimmerland Municipality in the North Jutland Region.
Evidence of settlement in Aggersund dates back to the stone age, and the village contains one of the oldest viking fortresses in Denmark, Aggersborg. Much of the village's modern growth is associated with the commerce brought by the village's bridge. The Aggersund bridge () was once one of few crossings on the Limfjord. Because of the bridge's regional importance, it was a location of interest during the German occupation of Denmark and had a heavy occupying military presence during WWII.
History
There is evidence of a Stone Age settlement near Aggersund, from c. 5000 BCE. The remains of this settlement are located slightly north of the present day village, apparently because the strait of the fjord which it is located on was then significantly wider. During the Iron Age, a larger village emerged on the site. This village was torn down, likely to make room for the grounds of Aggersborg, a viking ring fortress, which was likely erected c. 980. Some archaeologist postulate that the displaced residents of this viking era village resettled in Øster Ørbæk on the southern bank on the fjord.
An 11th century estate adjoins the viking ring fortress. It was formed in 1086 as a royal estate, owned by the crown. The original buildings were destroyed by a fire in the 15th century, and were not rebuilt. The estate then briefly became known as Kongensgaard, which retained its rights over Aggersund as a fief. The estate was sold by the crown in 1579 to Vibeke Podebusk, who then constructed a new manor house on the property called Aggersborggaard. The estate's main building was constructed during the 1750s from salvaged architectural elements from several older sites. Several restorations of the property have been carried out since the 20th century. The main building itself was restored in 1936 and rebuilt in 1978.
The village was traditionally a part of Hanherred, historically referred to as Hanæhæreth. The herred was an independent fief during the later middle ages, though alternately belonged to the Syssels of Thysyssel and Vendsyssel. In the 1660s, Hanherred was divided between several counties of Denmark: Aalborg County, Aastrup County, Sejlstrup County, and Thisted County. The village of Aggersund became part of Hjørring County in 1793 and constituted the administrative parish of Aggerborg Sogn. Although the majority of the village was settled along the northern shore of the Limfjord, by this time Aggersund was divided by the fjord, and a ferry crossed from North Aggersund to South Aggersund. The southern part of the village was part of a separate administrative district within Slet Herred of Aalborg County.
Modern settlement of the area centered around the ferry port, which made the location an important commercial crossroad. In 1801 Aggerborg Sogn had a population of 373, which grew to 545 in 1859. At this point in time, the economy relied largely on farming and trade with Aalborg of grains, potatoes, and livestock. While the area had once supported a fishing industry, it was a declining profession in the region by this time and yields were only traded locally. By 1901, the sogn's population peaked at 856. While the population of the sogn began to decline in the early 20th century, Aggersund itself continued to expand. In 1955, the village had a population of 475, and had many amenities and industrial works. Approximately 36% of the population was employed in industrial work, 24% in trade and transportation, and 8% in agriculture. The population of the village has since declined. This is due, in part, to the 1970 Danish Municipal Reforms, which amalgamated and moved many administrative jobs and associated businesses to Løgstør.
During the German occupation of Denmark, the village saw a heavy military presence, because of the strategic importance of its bridge. Beginning in 1940, several buildings were occupied for military purposes, including the hotel at Brogade 17, which was used as a headquarters. Unemployed workers from larger cities were recruited to carry out military construction in the city. Households within the city were required to provide accommodation to these workers. On land, both sides of the village were surrounded by armoured trenches, including barbed wire fences, a minefield, and roadblocks. 18 bunkers were built within the city to protect the bridge itself, 7 on the southern side, and 11 in the north. The village became like a military fortress, and movement within the city was difficult for residents. At its peak, more than 600 men were stationed in Aggersund. By 1944, many of these soldiers had been sent to the Eastern front. Occupying forces left the village after the war ended in 1945. The military infrastructure of the city was rapidly abandoned. Grenades, land mines and other equipment were left where they lay. A long process to demilitarize the village then began.
Infrastructure
A ferry had been established at Aggersund to cross the strait since the early Middle Ages. During this era, it was a major commercial crossing of the Limfjord, along with Aalborg. The ferry route remained in place for many years, though the boats grew reportedly dilapidated. In 1891 the town of Løgstør, located near the southern bank of the strait, petitioned with the state to improve the crossing and increase the flow of business. The state agreed to provide 285,000 DKK to establish a steam ferry and the construction of ferry slips in North Aggersund, South Aggersund, and Løgstør. In the agreement, the city of Løgstør was responsible for all other expenses. The new steam powered ferry, dubbed "Aggersund" was dedicated in 1902. Although the ferry greatly improved the crossing, it ran an annual deficit. As a result, the postal service took over operation of the ferry in 1918.
Aggersund bridge
Proposals for a fixed crossing of the fjord began circulating in the 1920s. There was debate over whether to build a bridge, tunnel, dam, or pontoon bridge. In 1938, it was ultimately decided to construct a fixed bridge across the strait, connecting North Aggersund to South Aggersund. The Aggersund bridge was designed by Christian Ostenfeld and construction began in 1939. Construction of the bridge cost about 3.5 million DKK and was initially funded by Aalborg, Hjørring and Thisted Counties. The project was delayed due to shortages in steel, severe weather, and price increases.
After Operation Weserübung, construction continued during the German occupation of Denmark. The location of the bridge made it strategically important to occupying forces for the transportation of soldiers and materials. On 18 June 1942, the bridge was inaugurated. German forces constructed an armoured trench and 18 bunkers, evidently guarding the location against attacks from the north. The steam ferry was also maintained during this period, in case the bridge were to be sabotaged, or otherwise destroyed. All of the military infrastructure from WWII was decommissioned after occupation ended in 1945, and the majority was removed shortly thereafter. Only one of the 18 bunkers constructed remains in the city to this day, although it has not been maintained.
Today, the Aggersund bridge is a small bascule bridge spanning the Limfjord between Vesthimmerland and Jammerbugt in Denmark. In 1977, two free standing steel truss pylons were completed across the strait just east of the Aggersund bridge (Aggersundbroen). They constitute part of the HVDC Cross-Skagerrak line and are 70 metres tall. In 2000, the bridge's beams were strengthened, increasing the carrying capacity of the bridge.
Gallery
References
Cities and towns in the North Jutland Region
Vesthimmerland Municipality
Villages in Denmark |
Max Georg Baumann (20 November 1917, Kronach – 17 July 1999, Berlin) was a German composer.
Biography
He studied conducting, piano, and trombone Berlin Hochschule für Musik with Konrad Friedrich Noetel and Boris Blacher. He spent two years as a choir director and deputy Kapellmeister at the opera in Stralsund (1947-1949). He taught piano and music theory at the Berlin College of Music (1946-1978). In 1960 he was appointed professor. After meeting French organist Jean Guillou during this time, Baumann wrote his first compositions for organ (Invocation op. 67 no. 5, Trois pièces brèves op. 67 no. 6, Psalmi op. 67 no. 2), which Guillou premiered in a concert on January 20, 1963, at St. Matthias church in Berlin. Baumann also appeared as conductor and choirmaster and, in 1963, became interim conductor of the choir at St. Hedwig's Cathedral. His cantata Libertas cruciata was the first composition written specifically with stereo FM radio in mind.
Awards
1953: Berlin Art Prize.
1963: Prix Italia for the Dramatic Cantata Libertas cruciata - the first stereophonic work.
1977: Gold Medal "for special merits" by the district Kronach.
1977: Golden Orlando di Lasso Medal of general Cecilia Association.
1986: Commander of St Gregory with Star, appointed by Pope John Paul II.
Works
Change of Scenes, Op. 83 (1968) for flute and piano
Coming of the Lord, Op. 66 (1959), Advent cycle for Choir
Concertino for recorder, guitar, and mandolin orchestra, Op. 38 no. 2
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 36 (1953)
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani, Op. 70 (1964)
Duo op. 62 no. 1 (1958) for cello and guitar
Five Songs, Op. 9 (1947) for baritone and piano
German Vespers, Op. 64 (1960) for soprano, speaker ad lib., choir, and orchestra
Invocation, Op. 67 no. 5 (1962) for organ
Libertas cruciata. Dramatic Cantata, Op. 71 (1963), for soloists, speaker, speech choir, chorus and large orchestra
Mass: Guardian Angel, Op. 50 (1955) for SATB. Choir (organ ad lib.)
Octet for Strings, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn, Op. 72 (1964)
Orchestral Variations, Op. 29 (1951)
Pater Noster, Op. 51 (1955) for mixed choir
Pelléas and Mélisande. Ballet (after Maurice Maeterlinck), Op. 44 (1954)
Perspectives I, Op. 55 (1957) for large orchestra
Psalmi, Op. 67 no. 2 (1962) for organ
Resurrection, Op. 94 (1980) for soprano, baritone, bass, narrators, choir, and orchestra
Serenata italiana danzante for Plucked Instruments
Sonata, Op. 8 (1947) for cello and piano
Sonatina, Op. 13 (1949) for violin and piano
Sonatina, Op. 74 (1963) for organ
String Quartet no. 3, Op. 33 (1953)
Symphony no. 1, Op. 14 (1949)
Symphony no. 2, Op. 15 (1950)
Tafelmusik for Plucked Instruments
Three Duets, Op. 40 (1953) for two violins
Three Little Pieces, Op. 35 (c. 1954) for piano
Trois pièces brèves, Op. 67 no. 6 (1962) for organ
External links
Max-Baumann-Gesellschaft
References
Michael Kubik (1999). Nachruf für das BDZ-Mitglied Max Baumann. Zupfmusikmagazin 4: 154.
1917 births
1999 deaths
20th-century German composers
German male composers
20th-century German male musicians |
The Hadera bus station suicide bombing was a 1994 Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus departing from the central bus station in Hadera for Tel Aviv, Israel. As a result, five civilians were killed and 30 injured. The attack came exactly one week after another Hamas attack, the Afula Bus suicide bombing. Both attacks were motivated officially by Hamas as retribution for the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre conducted against Muslim worshippers in February by Baruch Goldstein. The attack took place on the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day.
Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash built a bomb using two kilograms of home-made acetone peroxide explosive. Twenty-one-year-old Amar Salah Diab Amarna, a native of Ya'bad in the West Bank, was selected for the mission.
On the morning of April 13, 1994, Amarna boarded the 9:30 am bus to Tel Aviv. At 9:40 am, as the bus was pulling out of the station, Amarna placed the bag containing the bomb on the floor of the bus, "where shrapnel could rip through vital arteries in the groin area," and detonated it.
As Israeli rescue workers converged on the scene of the explosion, a second pipe bomb exploded. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack.
References
Bibliography
Suicide bombings in 1994
Hamas suicide bombings
Mass murder in 1994
Terrorist incidents in Asia in 1994
Islamic terrorist incidents in 1994
1994 murders in Israel
Hadera
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre |
Catinella may refer to:
Catinella (gastropod), a genus of small air-breathing land snails in the family Succineidae
Catinella (fungus), a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes |
What Price Glory? is a 1926 American silent comedy-drama war film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film is based on the 1924 play What Price Glory by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings and was remade in 1952 as What Price Glory starring James Cagney. Malcolm Stuart Boylan, founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, was title writer on the silent Fox attraction.
Plot
Flagg and Quirt are veteran United States Marines whose rivalry dates back a number of years. Flagg is commissioned a captain, he is in command of a company on the front lines of France during World War I. Sergeant Quirt is assigned to Flagg's unit as the senior non-commissioned officer. Flagg and Quirt quickly resume their rivalry, which this time takes its form over the affections of Charmaine, the daughter of the local innkeeper. However, Charmaine's desire for a husband and the reality of war give the two men a common cause.
Cast
Edmund Lowe as 1st Sergeant Quirt
Victor McLaglen as Captain Flagg
Dolores del Río as Charmaine de la Cognac
William V. Mong as Cognac Pete
Phyllis Haver as Shanghai Mabel
Elena Jurado as Carmen, Philippine girl
Leslie Fenton as Lieutenant Moore
Barry Norton as Private 'Mother's Boy' Lewisohn
Sammy Cohen as Private Lipinsky
Ted McNamara as Private Kiper
August Tollaire as French Mayor
Mathilde Comont as Camille, fat lady
Patrick Rooney as Mulcahy (billed as Pat Rooney)
J. Carrol Naish bit part
Production
Fox acquired the film rights to the play What Price Glory? for $100,000.
The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and released as a silent film by Fox Film Corporation on November 23, 1926 in the US, and had a 116-minute running time. On January 21, 1927, a short film of singer Raquel Meller was shown before this feature at the Sam H. Harris Theater in New York City. The short film, not quite synchronized, was the first public presentation of a film in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. In January 1927, Fox re-released What Price Glory? with synchronized sound effects and music in the Movietone system.
Part of its fame revolves around the fact that the characters can be seen speaking profanities which are not reflected in the intertitles, but which can be deciphered by lipreaders. The studio was reportedly inundated by calls and letters from enraged Americans, including deaf and hearing impaired people, to whom the vivid profanity between Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg was extremely offensive.
In the 1924 Broadway play the roles of Captain Flagg and Sgt. Quirt were played by Louis Wolheim, fresh from his triumph in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and William "Stage" Boyd. Curiously Wolheim and the younger William Boyd would play characters similar to Quirt and Flagg in the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights.
Although the title is sometimes listed as having a question mark, the Movietone version has simply 'WHAT PRICE GLORY', as does at least one silent trailer as well as some of the posters.
In his autobiography, Peter Cushing claimed his wife, Violet Hélène Beck Cushing, was part of the cast prior to their marriage.
Composers Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack collaborated on the popular song "Charmaine" for the film, named after the character of Charmaine de la Cognac.
Further reading
Adaptation
McLaglen and Lowe reprised their roles from the movie in the radio program Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, broadcast on the Blue Network September 28, 1941 – January 25, 1942, and on NBC February 13, 1942 – April 3, 1942.
Sequels
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) (directed by Raoul Walsh)
Women of All Nations (1931) (directed by Raoul Walsh)
The Stolen Jools (1931) (cameo)
Hot Pepper (1933)
Lowe and McLaglen played two similar Marines in the RKO Radio Pictures film Call Out the Marines (1942).
See also
List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
What Price Glory? at silentera.com
Stills at www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
1926 films
1920s war comedy-drama films
American war comedy-drama films
American silent feature films
Fox Film films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Films directed by Raoul Walsh
Military humor in film
Films about the United States Marine Corps
Western Front (World War I) films
World War I films based on actual events
Films set in the Philippines
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
Silent war comedy-drama films
Silent American comedy-drama films |
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Feather blenny.png
| image_caption = Hypsoblennius hentz
| taxon = Hypsoblennius
| authority = T. N. Gill, 1861
| type_species = Blennius hentz| type_species_authority = Lesueur, 1825
| synonyms = * Blenniolus Jordan & Evermann, 1898
Homesthes Gilbert, 1898
Isesthes Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
}}Hypsoblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Species
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
Hypsoblennius brevipinnis (Günther, 1861) (Barnaclebill blenny)
Hypsoblennius caulopus (C. H. Gilbert, 1898) (Tidepool blenny)
Hypsoblennius digueti Chabanaud, 1943
Hypsoblennius exstochilus J. E. Böhlke, 1959 (Longhorn blenny)
Hypsoblennius gentilis (Girard, 1854) (Bay blenny)
Hypsoblennius gilberti (D. S. Jordan, 1882) (Rockpool blenny)
Hypsoblennius hentz (Lesueur, 1825) (Feather blenny)
Hypsoblennius invemar Smith-Vaniz & Acero P., 1980 (Tessellated blenny)
Hypsoblennius ionthas (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Freckled blenny)
Hypsoblennius jenkinsi (D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896) (Mussel blenny)
Hypsoblennius maculipinna (Regan, 1903)
Hypsoblennius paytensis (Steindachner, 1876)
Hypsoblennius proteus (Krejsa, 1960) (Socorro blenny)
Hypsoblennius robustus Hildebrand, 1946
Hypsoblennius sordidus (E. T. Bennett, 1828)
Hypsoblennius striatus'' (Steindachner, 1876) (Striated blenny)
References
Salarinae
Marine fish genera |
Frank Goodyear may refer to:
Frank H. Goodyear (1849–1907), American businessman.
Frank Goodyear (1936–1987), English classicist.
See also
Frank H. Goodyear (ship) |
```javascript
/**
* @license Apache-2.0
*
*
*
* 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.
*/
'use strict';
// MODULES //
var bench = require( '@stdlib/bench' );
var randu = require( '@stdlib/random/base/randu' );
var round = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/round' );
var isnan = require( '@stdlib/math/base/assert/is-nan' );
var pkg = require( './../package.json' ).name;
var Degenerate = require( './../lib' );
// MAIN //
bench( pkg+'::instantiation', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var i;
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
mu = randu() * 10.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
if ( !( dist instanceof Degenerate ) ) {
b.fail( 'should return a distribution instance' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( !( dist instanceof Degenerate ) ) {
b.fail( 'should return a distribution instance' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+'::get:mu', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
y = dist.mu;
if ( y !== mu ) {
b.fail( 'should return set value' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+'::set:mu', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
y = randu();
dist.mu = y;
if ( dist.mu !== y ) {
b.fail( 'should return set value' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':entropy', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.entropy;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':mode', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.mode;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':mean', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.mean;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':median', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.median;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':stdev', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.stdev;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':variance', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
dist.mu = randu();
y = dist.variance;
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':cdf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 6.0;
y = dist.cdf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':logcdf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 6.0;
y = dist.logcdf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':logpdf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 6.0;
y = dist.logpdf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':logpmf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 6.0;
y = dist.logpmf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':mgf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 10.0;
y = dist.mgf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':pdf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu() * 6.0;
y = dist.pdf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':pmf', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = round( randu() * 8.0 );
y = dist.pmf( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
bench( pkg+':quantile', function benchmark( b ) {
var dist;
var mu;
var x;
var y;
var i;
mu = 2.0;
dist = new Degenerate( mu );
b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
x = randu();
y = dist.quantile( x );
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnan( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
``` |
The Schempp-Hirth SHK Open Class glider was developed in Germany by Schempp-Hirth. It was based on the 1964 version of the Standard Austria, known as the SH. The Austria was originally a single-seat aerobatic glider that had been designed and built in Austria from 1959 but production was moved in 1962 to the Schempp-Hirth factory in Germany.
Development
In addition to its larger span, the SHK's V-tail surfaces were 50% larger than the Austria and there were other improvements. The tailplane was "all-moving", mass-balanced, and had aerodynamic trim tabs. An SHK flown by Rolf Kuntz finished in 3rd place in the Open Class of the 1965 World Gliding Championships at South Cerney in England. In 1967 a model with improved comfort for the pilot was introduced and a tail chute was provided. The SHK was probably the last mainly wooden Open Class glider to be developed before glass fiber aircraft became available.
Specifications (SHK)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
Gliders and Sailplanes Of The World, Michael Hardy, Ian Allan, 1982,
Schempp-Hirth Flight and Maintenance manual for SHK #49, Schempp-Hirth KG, kirchheim-Teck,
March, 1965
External links
Sailplanedirectory.com - Schempp-Hirth SHK
SHK
1960s German sailplanes
V-tail aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1965 |
```shell
How to unmodify a modified file
Finding a tag
Make your log output pretty
Remote repositories: viewing, editing and deleting
Remote repositories: fetching and pushing
``` |
```xml
import { gql } from "@apollo/client"
const addEditParamDefs = `
$beginDate: Date
$description: String
$details: JSON
$endDate: Date
$status: String
$userId: String
`
const addEditParams = `
beginDate: $beginDate
description: $description
details: $details
endDate: $endDate
status: $status
userId: $userId
`
const coversAdd = gql`
mutation CoversAdd(
${addEditParamDefs}
) {
coversAdd(
${addEditParams}
) {
_id
}
}
`
const coversEdit = gql`
mutation CoversEdit(
$id: String!
${addEditParamDefs}
) {
coversEdit(
_id: $id
${addEditParams}
) {
_id
}
}
`
const coversConfirm = gql`
mutation CoversConfirm($_id: String!) {
coversConfirm(_id: $_id) {
_id
}
}
`
const coversDelete = gql`
mutation CoversRemove($_id: String!) {
coversRemove(_id: $_id)
}
`
const mutations = { coversAdd, coversEdit, coversConfirm, coversDelete }
export default mutations
``` |
Counter-cyclical payment (CCP) — Under the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) created by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1101-1108), counter-cyclical payments are made to participating producers when the marketing year average price received by farmers for a covered commodity is less than the target price. The total payment to a producer is the payment acres (85% of base acres) times the payment rate (target price minus average market price, except not more than the difference between the target price and the sum of the national loan rate and the direct payment rate).
References
United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural subsidies |
Allium membranaceum is an uncommon species of wild onion known by the common name papery onion. It is endemic to California, where it grows in wooded areas in the southernmost Cascade Range, the northern Coast Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare County to Humboldt County. It is found on wooded slopes at elevations of 200–1400 m.
Allium membranaceum grows from an egg-shaped bulb up to 1.7 cm long which is sometimes associated with a cluster of smaller bulbs. The stem reaches a maximum height near 40 centimeters and there are two or three long, flat leaves about the same length. The inflorescence contains up to 35 flowers with white or pale pink tepals which become papery as they age. Anthers and pollen are yellow.
References
membranaceum
Flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
Cupid Angling was a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland, and was the only feature film photographed using the Douglass Natural Color process.
The film was produced by Leon F. Douglass's National Color Film Company in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California, and was made in the Douglass Natural Color process. Douglass was also a partner in the founding of the Victor Talking Machine Company.
The film stars Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, and has walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
This film is now considered a lost film.
See also
List of early color feature films
References
External links
1918 films
1910s color films
1918 lost films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
Films shot in California
Silent films in color
1918 drama films
Lost American drama films
Early color films
1910s American films |
Conrad-Robin Scheibner (born 7 May 1996) is a German sprint canoeist.
He won a medal at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and was a double World Champion at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m.
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Canoeists from Berlin
German male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Germany |
Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited. The house is an Edwardian Arts and Crafts-influenced structure situated in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, in Hertfordshire, England. It is 6 miles from Welwyn Garden City and 5 miles from Harpenden.
Built as the new rectory for the village during 1902, the house was the home of playwright George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950. It was designed by a local firm of architects, Smee, Mence & Houchin, and local materials were used in its construction. The Church of England decided that the house was too large for the size of the parish, and let it instead. Shaw and his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend relocated in 1906, and eventually bought the house and its land in 1920, paying £6,220. At the same time the garden was extended and Shaw bought land from his friend Apsley Cherry-Garrard, bringing the total to .
Shaw is known to have written many of his major works in a secluded, home-built revolving hut located at the bottom of his garden. The tiny structure of only , was built on a central steel-pole frame with a circular track so that it could be rotated on its axis to follow the arc of the Sun's light during the day. Shaw dubbed the hut "London", so that unwanted visitors could be told he was away "visiting the capital".
After Shaw's and his wife's deaths, their ashes were taken to Shaw's Corner, mixed and then scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. In 1967 the house was designated a Grade II* listed building.
Gallery
References
External links
Shaw's Corner - official site at National Trust
Collection of Shaw's Corner - the art and object collections of Shaw's Corner
Arts and Crafts architecture in England
Buildings and structures in Ayot St Lawrence
Country houses in Hertfordshire
Biographical museums in Hertfordshire
George Bernard Shaw
Grade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire
Grade II* listed houses
Historic house museums in Hertfordshire
Houses completed in 1902
Literary museums in England
National Trust properties in Hertfordshire |
New York Star may refer to:
New York Star (1800s newspaper), a New York City newspaper from about 1868 to 1891
New York Star (1948–1949), a newspaper that lasted from 1948 and 1949
a fictional newspaper in the 1946 film Night Editor
a fictional newspaper in the television show Sex and the City
See also
New York Stars (disambiguation) |
is a 1973 Japanese Anthology television series created by Tsuburaya and Fuji TV to air on the Fuji TV network on Monday Nights for 13 episodes.
Production originally started in 1969, but the series was 'shelved' before production was eventually completed at the end of 1972. It was then aired on Fuji TV in 1973.
Episode list
(1/8/1973)
(1/15/1973)
(1/22/1973)
(1/29/1973)
(2/5/1973)
(2/12/1973)
(2/19/1973)
(2/26/1973)
(3/5/1973)
(3/12/1973)
(3/19/1973)
(3/26/1973)
(4/2/1973)
DVD Releases
In 2007, Victor Entertainment released 6 Volume DVDs of the series, and in 2010, A Boxset that contains all 6 Volumes of the DVD set was released.
See also
Ultra Q
The Twilight Zone
Night Gallery
References
External links
Digital Ultra Series Link
1973 Japanese television series debuts
1973 Japanese television series endings
Tsuburaya Productions
Japanese science fiction television series
Thriller television series
Japanese horror fiction television series
Fuji TV original programming
Japanese anthology television series |
Debora Balardini is a Brazilian theater director, producer, and performer based in New York City. Balardini is the co-founder of Group .BR, New York City's only Brazilian theatre company.
Early life
Born in Curitiba, Brazil during the military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 to 1985, Balardini immigrated to New York City, United States in 1995. Since her immigration to the United States, she has primarily been based in New York City.
Balardini studied Arts and Letters with focus on Portuguese and Spanish Literature at the Federal University of Paraná, as well as Modern Dance and Classical Ballet at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC-PR) and Faculdade de Artes do Paraná in Curitiba. As a dancer and theatre actress, Balardini premiered at Teatro Guaíra in Curitiba, one of the largest concert halls in Latin America. Her experiences of censorship during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1960s–1980s would later influence her mid-career interest in artivism. She has worked in Argentina, Japan, Chile, France, and other countries during different stages of her life and career.
Career
Although born and educated in Brazil, Balardini has been based in New York City for most of her career.
Balardini is the co-founder and Executive Director of Group .BR, New York City's only Brazilian theatre company. Balardini has performed in Group .BR's original Off-off-Broadway production of Inside the Wild Heart, an immersive theatrical experience based on the life and works of acclaimed Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector. This site-specific production received 4 nominations and one award at the 2017 Brazilian International Press Awards and was reviewed in HowlRound, No Proscenium, and the American Theatre magazine podcast.
Balardini has directed Group .BR's Off-off Broadway production of The Serpent by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, staged at Teatro LaTea (New York) and nominated for a 2012 Brazilian International Press Award. Balardini's performance in Infinite While It Lasts, Group .BR's first original site specific production, was based on the life and works of Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes (2013 and 2014). The Off-off Broadway play and its cast received 8 nominations to 2014 and 2015 Brazilian International Press Awards and a nomination for a 2014 New York Innovative Theatre Awards for best choreography.
Balardini is Co-Artistic Director of Nettles Artists Collective, a New York-based artist collective founded in 2005, with performing artist, Sandie Luna. With the Nettles, Balardini directed and co-produced Apple of My Eye (Menina dos Meus Olhos), the first ever professionally produced play written and performed by an artist with Down syndrome, Tathi Piancastelli, as well as a cast of 10 supporting actors. The play has been acknowledged by UNICEF for its inclusion in the arts initiative. Balardini also directed Bother Line, an Off-off Broadway one-woman show conceived and performed by Gio Mielle and produced by the Nettles, which premiered at Punto Space and at The Tank in 2018.
Additionally, Balardini is one of three co-founders of Punto Space, an event and performance venue, in Midtown, Manhattan, in 2014 and the theatre company that was opened from 2014 to 2019.
Balardini has also been influenced by Hatha Yoga philosophy and practice since becoming a Hatha RYT 2003.
Balardini's awards include the 2019 Social Impact & Arts Innovator award and 2016 Brazilian International Press Award.
See also
Clarice Lispector
Nelson Rodrigues
Vinicius de Moraes
References
External links
Grupo.BR
Punto Space
Nettles Artists
Living people
1971 births
Brazilian theatre directors
Brazilian women theatre directors
21st-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights
People from Curitiba
21st-century Brazilian women writers
Brazilian women dramatists and playwrights |
The 1211th Test Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group, stationed at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. It was inactivated on 8 June 1963.
History
The squadron conducted nuclear cloud sampling during atmospheric testing.
The idea of atomic cloud sampling developed from atmospheric testing during Operation Sandstone in the spring of 1948. During the operation, an aircraft accidentally flew through an atomic cloud. An analysis of the radiation dosages received by the crewmembers was found to be minor and led to the realization that sampling could be accomplished effectively with manned aircraft.
Analyses of samples collected from atomic clouds were considered the most accurate method of determining the efficiency and yield of a nuclear device. Air Force Special Weapons Center (AFSWC) scientists accompanied the squadron on sampling missions in order to assess effects on humans. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) recommended that the USAF establish an organization specifically for gathering cloud samples.
In 1953, HQ, USAF approved a test squadron for sampling atomic clouds; the squadron was titled the 4926th Test Squadron (Sampling) and assigned to the 4925th Test Group (Atomic). The new squadron was created within AFSWC's 4925th Test Group (Atomic), as the group, up to that time, had assisted the AEC and AFSWP in nuclear weapons effects tests and had actually developed operational techniques for airborne sampling of the effects. These included in-flight laboratories to gather airborne data on test results, piloted and drone aircraft to sample radioactive clouds, safety aircraft to measure radioactivity in areas surrounding tests, and nuclear-cloud-tracking aircraft to establish fallout patterns.
Initially using the F-84G Thunderjet, The B-57B Canberra was first used during Operation Teapot in 1955. By 1956, the B-57B was a staple of the AFSWC sampling program. In addition to the dedicated men of the 4926th TS, many aircraft and crews were pulled from operational squadrons around the Air Force to help formulate procedures to operate successfully in a nuclear environment, if necessary. Flying the B-57, the 4926th Test Squadron (Sampling) participated in many operations, the majority at the Nevada Test Site and the remainder at Eniwetok Atoll.
In April 1961, shortly after Air Research and Development Command was redesignated Air Force Systems Command, the squadron was transferred to Air Weather Service and renumbered 1211.
With the end of atmospheric nuclear testing in 1963, the squadron was discontinued. Its personnel and aircraft were reassigned to the 58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.
Lineage
Designates as the 4926th Test Squadron (Sampling) and organized on 1 April 1953
Redesignated 1211th Test Squadron (Sampling) on 16 August 1961
Discontinued on 8 June 1963
Assignments
4925th Test Group (Atomic), 1 April 1953
Attached to 4930th Test Support Group during nuclear tests in the Pacific, 1953–1961
Attached to 4935th Air Base Squadron during nuclear tests in Nevada, 1953–1961
4950th Test Group (Nuclear), 1 September 1956
4925th Test Group (Atomic), 1960
9th Weather Reconnaissance Group, 16 August 1961 – 8 June 1963
Stations
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, 1 April 1953 – 8 June 1963
Operated from: Bucholz Army Airfield, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (During nuclear tests)
Operated from: Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada (During nuclear tests)
Operations
Operation Upshot–Knothole, 1953 (Nevada)
Operation Castle, 1954 (Bikini Atoll)
Operation Teapot, 1955, (Nevada)
Operation Wigwam, 1955, (Nevada)
Operation Redwing, 1956 (Bikini, Enewetak Atolls)
Operation Plumbbob, 1957, (Nevada)
Operation Hardtack I, 1958, (Enewetak Atoll)
Operation Hardtack II, 1958, (Nevada)
Operation Dominic I and II, 1962–1963, (Pacific)
Operation Storax, 1962–1963 (Nevada)
Operation Sunbeam, 1962 (Nevada)
Aircraft
F-84G Thunderjet, 1953–1955
B-57B Canberra, 1955–1963
RB-57D Canberra, 1957–1963
References
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
Mikesh, Robert C. Martin B-57 Canberra: The Complete Record. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1995. .
Test squadrons of the United States Air Force
MAJCOM squadrons of the United States Air Force |
Jack Weldon Humphrey (12 January 1901 – 23 March 1967) was a Canadian landscape and figure painter, mainly in watercolour. Art historian J. Russell Harper called him the "most significant eastern Canadian painter of his generation".
Biography
Humphrey was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He studied at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with Philip Hale and with Charles Webster Hawthorne at the National Academy of Design (1924-1929) and the Art Students League, New York, as well as at Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art. He was a Tiffany Foundation student at Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1927. He travelled to Europe from 1929 to 1930, studying in Paris with André Lhote and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and in Munich at the Hans Hofmann school. He also travelled in Italy, Holland, Belgium, and England. He visited Vancouver in 1933 and Mexico in 1938.
Humphrey was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters (C.G.P.) in 1933, the Eastern Group (1938) which evolved into the Contemporary Arts Society, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (Director, 1944; Vice-President, 1945); and the Canadian Society of Graphic Art (Regional Representative, 1946; Eastern Vice-President, 1951; Regional Representative, 1956, 1959). In 1951, he taught at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. That year, he received a Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick. From 1952 to 1954, he painted in Paris on a Canadian Government-Royal Society Overseas Fellowship. Returning from France in 1954, he experimented with painted more abstractly in his gouache and oil landscapes, while his watercolours focused on the intimate details of nature. He received a Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship in 1960. In 1966-1967, a retrospective exhibition of his work was organized by Stuart A. Smith for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B. that toured through Canada, circulated by the National Gallery of Canada.
Humphrey's paintings of the harbour, streets and workers of Saint John in Canada established his reputation as an artist and his work extended to numerous portraits of friends and the city's children. Humphrey's approach made him a respected member of Montreal's Contemporary Arts Society and the Canadian Group of Painters.
He died of a heart attack on 23 March 1967 in hospital at Saint John, New Brunswick. He had been recovering from a recent surgery. His papers are in the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives Jack Humphrey fonds.
References
1901 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
Artists from Saint John, New Brunswick
Landscape artists
20th-century Canadian male artists |
The Ibom or Mbot Abasi Kingdom was an Ibibio nation with its seat of government in Obot Okon Ita. The Mbot Abasi kingdom was located in present day Arochukwu, Abia State in Nigeria. Around 1630, an Igbo group from Abiriba known as the Eze Agwu arrived to Ibom. This caused a long term conflict and stalemate known as the Aro-Ibibio Wars.
Origin
Before Igbo arrival in the Aro territory, a group of proto Ibibio migrated to the area and established the Ibom Kingdom. This proto Ibibio group originally came from Usak Edet (Isanguele), a segment of the Ejagham in present-day Southern Cameroon. Ibom is an old word used by the Efik / Ibibio / Annang /Eket people of Nigeria meaning the ancient universe, the cradle earth, or the cradle, original or ancient community from which others sprang forth. The word Ibom symbolizes the ancestral, the origin, the cradle, the source and the ancient community or place or area from which other communities or people sprang forth or originated. The Efik were originally from the Ibom Kingdom and might have left before or during the Aro-Ibibio Wars. Akwa Ibom State is one of the present two states created from the old Akwa Akpa kingdom, Cross River State being the sister state.
The people of the Ibom Kingdom also called themselves Mbot Abasi (the people of God). Abasi is the supreme creator god of the Efik, Ibibio, and Annang people.
Akwa
Akwa also spelled Aqua, meaning The Great One or The Essential One is believed to be the ancestor of the people of Ibibio and Efik. Kwa or Qua therefore means Essential One or Great One. It is of no coincidence that their ancient Kingdom was originally known as Akwa Akpa. The words Akwa, Aqua, Kwa, Qua are common names for places, rivers, in both Akwa Ibom State and in Cross River State.
Today, one of the towns in Arochukwu, Abia state is called Ibom. Ibom is also where the famous Ibini Ukpabi oracle is located.
References
External links
http://www.aro-okigbo.com/history_of_the_aros.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20080828190518/http://www.aronetwork.org/others/confederancy.html
http://aronewsonline.org/html/Prologue.asp
Countries in precolonial Africa
Aros
History of Nigeria
Former monarchies of Africa
17th century in Africa
Ibibio
Towns in Abia State
Former countries in Africa
Ibibio people |
Chinna Jeeyar (born 3 November 1956), more formally known as Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swami, is an Indian religious guru and yogi ascetic known for his spiritual discourses on Sri Vaishnavism. He subscribes to Thenkalai tradition of Sri Vaishnavism. He operates spiritual centers in the US. He is the designer and planner of the Statue of Equality, a statue dedicated to Ramanujacharya, in Hyderabad, India. He is also guiding Telangana State Government in the renovation of Yadadri Temple. He is one of the few Jiyars who accept non-Brahmin disciples.
Jeeyar was trained in the Vaishnava tradition. At the age of 23 he took the oath to become an ascetic. He has been visiting the United States since 1994, where he taught a large number of people. He has also visited London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Canada, where he performed Yagnas.
In December 2013, Jeeyar endorsed the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student organisation for instilling patriotism in students and encouraging them to learn about Indian culture. He claimed Indian culture would remain unchanged if students are acquainted with a comprehensive understanding of the country's history. He expressed the view that students play a critical role in a country's development. Jeeyar was invited by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to assist in organising the Godavari Maha Pushkaram (river festivals) in July 2015. He has spoken at the United Nations about Sustainable Development Goals.
Early life
Chinna Jeeyar Swami was born in Andhra Pradesh, Arthmur near Rajamundry, in a traditional vedic family. His grandfather, Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Jeeyar, also known as Pedda Jeeyar Swami, mentored him and he was educated by several scholars in Sri Vaishnava system. He mastered many Sanskrit and Tamil works, Vedas, Puranas, Ithihasas, Prabandhas etc., scriptures. After taking sannyasa when was only 23, he assumed leadership when H. H. Pedda Jeeyar Swamiji died in 1981, becoming the head of Srimad Ubhaya Vedantha Acharya Peetam, Nadigaddapalem.
Later life
Chinna Jeeyar Swami founded the Jeeyar Educational Trust (JET), with branches in places such as Hyderabad, Chennai, and the United States, to help educate students in Vedic tradition. His schools are open to everyone. In addition, he is known for his performance of Vedic rituals of peace and harmony. He speaks multiple languages and provides religious discourses in simple words. He has performed thousands of samasrayanams. His understanding of kainkarya includes modern social services such as schools for tribals and homes for the elderly, orphans, handicapped and destitute. Further, he supports rural development, science and technology schools as well as the introduction of computers for the study of Vedas.
Awards
2023 – Padma Bhushan by Government of India
References
External links
Official site
Indian Hindu monks
20th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians
Hindu revivalists
Living people
Telugu people
People from East Godavari district
People from Andhra Pradesh
1956 births
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in other fields |
Pema Dakpa is a Bhutanese politician who has been a member of the National Council of Bhutan, since May 2018. Previously, he was a member of the National Council of Bhutan from 2013 to 2018.
References
Members of the National Council (Bhutan)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The Breeders Crown Open Pace is a harness racing event for Standardbred pacers. It is one part of the Breeders Crown annual series of twelve races for both Standardbred pacers and trotters. The Open Pace for horses age four and older was first run in 1985. It is contested over a distance of one mile. Race organizers have awarded the event to various racetracks across North America. The 2017 race will be held at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana, United States.
Historical race events
In 2010, Pocono Downs became the first venue to host all 12 events on a single night.
At the Meadowlands Racetrack in 2009, Won The West set the Open Pace record time of 1:47 flat which was then, and remains so through 2016, the fastest pacing mile in the entire Breeders Crown series.
North American Locations
Track & Abbreviation -- State/Province -- times hosted
Meadowlands Racetrack (Mxx) New Jersey (13)
Woodbine Racetrack (Wdb) Ontario (4)
Mohawk Raceway (Moh) Ontario (4)
Hoosier Park (Hp) Indiana (2)
Pocono Downs (Pcd) Pennsylvania (2)
Freehold Raceway (Fhl) New Jersey (2)
The Meadows Racetrack (Mea) Pennsylvania (1)
Pompano Park (Ppk) Florida (1)
Scioto Downs (Scd) Ohio (1)
Roosevelt Raceway (Rr) New York (1)
Los Alamitos Race Course (Lrc) California (1)
Freestate Raceway (Fsr) Maryland (1)
Northfield Park (Nfl) Ohio (1)
Records
Most wins by a driver
5 – Michel Lachance (1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2000) & John Campbell (1992, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2014)
Most wins by a trainer
8 – Robert McIntosh (1991, 1992, 1993, 2014)
Stakes record
1:47 0/0 – Won The West (2009)
Winners of the Breeders Crown Open Pace
References
Recurring sporting events established in 1985
Harness racing in the United States
Harness racing in Canada
Breeders Crown
Racing series for horses
Horse races in New York (state)
Horse races in New Jersey
Horse races in Pennsylvania
Horse races in Ohio
Horse races in Florida
Horse races in California
Horse races in Maryland
Horse races in Indiana
Horse races in Ontario
1985 establishments in North America |
Robert O'Shea (born 20 July 1993) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the Cork senior team.
Born in Carrigaline, County Cork, O'Shea first played competitive hurling and Gaelic football whilst a pupil at Carrigaline Community School. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team, before later lining out with the under-21 and intermediate sides. He made his senior debut in the 2013 Waterford Crystal Cup. O'Shea was later included on Cork's championship team as a substitute.
At club level O'Shea plays with Carrigaline.
Career statistics
Club
Inter-county
Honours
Carrigaline Community School
Munster Colleges' Senior "C" Hurling Championship (1): 2011
Cork Colleges' Senior Hurling Championship (2): 2011, 2012
University College Cork
All-Ireland Freshers' Hurling Championship (1): 2013
References
1993 births
Living people
UCC hurlers
Carrigaline hurlers
Carrigdhoun hurlers
Cork inter-county hurlers |
La Parkita is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado who works in the Mini-Estrella division for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA). He is the third wrestler to compete as La Parkita and is at times denoted as "La Parkita III" or "La Parkita (AAA)". La Parkita's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. Working in the Mini division does not automatically mean that he has dwarfism as several short wrestlers work in the "Mini" division.
Professional wrestling career
The wrestler known as La Parkita in Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) reportedly made his professional wrestling debut in 1991, although it has not been revealed which ring name he worked under prior to 1997, it has not even been confirmed if he worked as a Mini-Estrella before 1997 or not. In 1997 AAA owner Antonio Peña chose him to become the third incarnation of La Parkita, with the previous La Parkita being repackaged as the new version of Octagoncito.
The third La Parkita made his first appearance at a major AAA show on March 1, 1998 when he appeared at the 1998 Rey de Reyes teaming with Mini Discovery and Octagoncito in a loss to Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Electroshock and Mini Psicosis At the 2000 Rey de Reyes La Parkita, Octagoncito and Mascarita Sagrada 2000 defeated Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Psicosis and Rocky Marvin The team of La Parkita and Octagoncito became the top tecnico (good guy) team of AAA's Mini-Estrellas division. At Triplemania IX they teamed up with Mascarita Sagrada to defeat Espectrito, Mini Abismo Negro, and Rocky Marvin. Three months later the team defeated Mini Psicosis, Mini Abismo Negro and Rocky Marvin on the undercard of Verano de Escandalo. At Triplemanía XIV La Parkita, Mascarita Sagrada, and Octagóncito defeated Jerrito Estrada, Mini Abismo Negro, and Mini Chessman when Octagóncito pinned Jerrito Estrada, Mascarita Sagrada pinned Mini Abismo Negro, and La Parkita pinned Mini Chessman at the same time.
In the summer of 2008 AAA decided to create the AAA World Mini-Estrellas Championship after the reigning Mexican National Mini-Estrellas Champion Mascarita Sagrada left AAA, taking the championship belt with him. On July 20, 2009 La Parkita was defeated by Mini Abismo Negro in the opening round of the Mini-Estrella championship tournament. On December 11, 2009 La Parkita was one of nine wrestlers who participated in a Battle Royal for the AAA World Minis title at Guerra de Titanes (2009). Parkita was the fourth man eliminated, ousted by eventual match and championship winner Mini Abismo Negro. La Parkita was not originally scheduled for the Triplemanía XVIII Mini-Estrellas match but was added to the Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the AAA Minis Championship. La Parkita did not win the match, although he was responsible for eliminating the then champion Mini Charly Manson from the match. The match was eventually won the Octagoncito.
Not to be confused with
The current La Parkita is the third wrestler to play the role for an extended period of time. Since the character wears a mask and a full body suit there is no way of confirming if other wrestlers have played the part of La Parkita from time to time. There are three distinct La Parka characters:
Alberto Jiménez – The original La Parkita. Used the character after he left AAA as well. Was killed in 2009
La Parkita II – The wrestler that took over after Alberto Jiménez, currently wrestles as the second version of Octagoncito.
La Parkita III – The current version
Mini Park – A Mini based on L.A. Park (the original La Parka)
Championships and accomplishments
Mexican independent circuit
San Juan Pantitlan Mini-Estrellas Championship (1 time)
References
External links
AAA profile
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Mexican male professional wrestlers
Mini-Estrella wrestlers
Unidentified wrestlers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Rivera may refer to:
People
Rivera (surname), people with the surname
Rivera (given name):
José Rivera Indarte (1814–1845), Argentine poet and journalist
Places
Rivera, Buenos Aires, a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Rivera, Huila, Colombia
Rivera, Switzerland
Rivera-Bironico railway station
Rivera Department, Uruguay
Rivera, capital of that department
Pico Rivera, California
See also
Ribera (disambiguation)
Riviera (disambiguation)
Riva (disambiguation) |
Alice MacLennan, (died 2015) was an Australian physician and researcher.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and undertook further training in Chicago before moving to Australia, where she established a clinic focusing on menopause. She served as Chair of the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies from 2005 to 2008, and from 2007 to 2009 was president of the Australasian Menopause Society. She also taught at the University of Adelaide as the Clinical Senior Lecturer in Gynaecology.
While studying at the University of Glasgow, Alice met and married Alastair MacLennan, who also qualified as a doctor. The MacLennans had two daughters, Suzanna (born 1974) and Lorna (born 1976), both of whom were born while the couple lived at Oxford. Lorna's birth came earlier than expected, and Alastair delivered her at home.
Awards and recognition
In the 2012 Australia Day Honours, MacLennan was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in recognition of her distinguished service to medicine, particularly in the area of women's reproductive health, and through roles with professional organisations.
Dr Alice MacLennan and her husband Alastair were jointly awarded the Australasian Menopause Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
References
2015 deaths
20th-century Australian medical doctors
21st-century Australian medical doctors
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
20th-century Australian women medical doctors
21st-century Australian women medical doctors |
Le Anne Schreiber (August 4, 1945 – May 31, 2019) was an American journalist who was an ESPN ombudsman.
Schreiber replaced George Solomon in this position, who had served for twenty-one months as ombudsman. Schreiber had a two-year contract as ombudsman and wrote at least one column a month, with her tenure coming to an end in March 2009.
Prior to her work as the ESPN ombudsman, Schreiber been employed by The New York Times, first as sports editor and then as a deputy editor for The New York Times Book Review. She also covered the 1976 Montreal Olympics and was editor-in-chief of womenSports magazine. She was also a decorated journalist, having won a National Magazine Award in 1991.
Schreiber, the author of Midstream: An Intimate Journal of Loss and Discovery, was divorced and lived in rural upstate New York. She had a master's degree from Harvard and had been a professor at University at Albany, SUNY and Columbia. Her book Light Years was a New York Times 1996 Notable Book of the Year.
Originally from Evanston, Illinois, she moved to Texas and received her bachelor's degree from Rice in 1967.
Schreiber died in Poughkeepsie, New York from lung cancer in 2019, at the age of 73.
References
1945 births
2019 deaths
American sports journalists
American women journalists
Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state)
Harvard University alumni
Rice University alumni
Stanford University alumni
The New York Times editors
Writers from Evanston, Illinois
21st-century American women |
Oneiric most commonly refers to:
Dreams, during sleep
Oneirology, the science of dreams
Oneiric may also refer to:
Oneiric (film theory), dreams as a metaphor for film—or in critiques thereof
Oneiric (album), 2006, by Boxcutter
Oneiric Diary (EP), 2020, by IZ*ONE
Oneiric Gardens, a 2014 adventure video game
Oneiric Ocelot, a 2011 Ubuntu operating system
See also
Dream (disambiguation)
Dreamy (disambiguation)
Oneirism or daydreaming
Oneiros, in Greek mythology
Oneiromancy, dream-based divination |
Ritualized aggression or ritualized fighting is when animals use a range of behaviours as posture or warning but without engaging in serious aggression or fighting, which would be expensive in terms of energy and the risk of injury. Ritualized aggression involves a graded series of behaviours or displays that include threatening gestures (such as vocalizations, spreading of wings or gill covers, lifting and presentation of claws, head bobbing, tail beating, lunging, etc.) and occasionally posturing physical actions such as inhibited (non-injurious) bites.
This behavior is explained by evolutionary game theory.
Examples
Cats
Domestic cats (Felis catus) are very territorial and defend their territories with ritualized body posturing, stalking, staring, spitting, yowling and howling.
Spider monkeys
Spider monkeys (genus Ateles) defend their territory by screams, barks, rattling or dropping branches, and urinating and defecating on intruders below.
Oscar cichlids
Oscar cichlids (Astronotus ocellatus) are able to rapidly alter their colouration, a trait which facilitates ritualised territorial and combat behaviours amongst conspecifics. Individuals of another cichlid species, the blunthead cichlid (Tropheus moorii), defend their feeding territory with a display, quivering the tail and fins to intimidate, or an attack, darting at the intruder and chasing them away. Astatotilapia burtoni cichlids have similar displays of aggressive behaviour if they are territorial, which include threat displays and chasing.
Ring-tailed lemur
Male ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands on their wrists, chests, and in the genital area. During encounters with rival males they may perform ritualized aggression by having a "stink fight". The males anoint their tails by rubbing the ends of their tails on the inside of their wrists and on their chests. They then arch their tails over their bodies and wave them at their opponent. The male toward which this is directed either responds with a display of his own, physical aggression, or flees. "Stink fights" can last from 10 minutes to one hour.
Creek chub
The creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus) engages in ritualized aggression when others of the species invade its territory. Engaging in parallel swimming, the fish widens its fins and mouth and swims at a caudal fin beat. Intimidating opponent fish throughout these rituals, the forward fish stops and directs blows to the head of the other fish to ensure territory dominance.
See also
Ritual warfare
Ritualized combat
Trading blows
Agonistic behavior and courtship
Ritualised fighting in Meat ants
References
Ethology |
Loucks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alvin Loucks (1895–1973), American football player and coach
Bunky Loucks, American politician
Ed Loucks, American football player
G. Dean Loucks (born c. 1936), American football coach
Henry Loucks, American newspaper editor and politician
Scott Loucks (born 1956), American baseball player
Steven D. Loucks (born 1961), American politician
William John Loucks (1873–1967), Canadian politician
Dennis Loucks (1955–present), President of the Sarnia-Lambton Golden K Kiwanis |
The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 2–3 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.
As the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps continued to ramp up his already astonishing resume with an unprecedented second Olympic three-peat and another title defense. Rallying from seventh at the halfway turn, he produced a remarkable swim over the rest of the field to claim his seventeenth gold and twenty-first career medal in 51.21. Trailing behind Phelps by 0.23 seconds, South Africa's Chad le Clos and Russia's Yevgeny Korotyshkin tied for the silver in a matching time of 51.44.
Leading early at the turn, Serbia's Milorad Čavić, who famously lost to Phelps in Beijing four years earlier by a fingertip, faded down the stretch to match Germany's Steffen Deibler with a fourth-place time in 51.81. Netherlands' Joeri Verlinden (51.82), U.S. swimmer Tyler McGill (51.88), and Poland's Konrad Czerniak (52.05) also vied for an Olympic medal to round out a historic finish.
Austria's Dinko Jukic (51.99), fourth-place finalist in the 200 m butterfly few days earlier; and Kenya's Jason Dunford (52.16), fifth in Beijing, missed the final roster after placing ninth and sixteenth respectively in the semifinals. Other notable swimmers featured Japan's Takeshi Matsuda, who elected not to do a swimoff with Germany's Benjamin Starke (a matching time of 52.36) on the morning prelims; his teammate Takuro Fujii (52.49) and Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini (52.68), both of whom finished sixth and eighth in Beijing; and Sweden's 2000 champion Lars Frölander, who posted a twentieth-place time of 52.47 in his sixth Olympics.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:
Results
Heats
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
References
External links
NBC Olympics Coverage
Men's 00100 metre butterfly
Men's 100 metre butterfly
Men's events at the 2012 Summer Olympics |
Clarence Edwin Ayres (May 6, 1891 – July 24, 1972) was the principal thinker in the Texas school of institutional economics during the middle of the 20th century.
Life
Ayres was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of a Baptist minister. He graduated from Brown University in 1912, and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1917. He taught at Chicago from 1917 until 1920, and then moved on to Amherst College, in Massachusetts, where he taught until 1923. Following a year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Ayres became associate editor of the New Republic, where he worked until 1927. In that year, Ayres joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he remained until his retirement in 1968. One of Ayres students during Ayres time at Amherst College was Talcott Parsons, the most famous of all American sociologists, who wrote two term-papers for Ayres's Philosophy III class. Another notable student of Ayres was C. Wright Mills.
Ayres died on July 24, 1972, in Alamogordo, New Mexico (Breit and Culbertson 1976: 3–22).
Ideas
Ayres is best known for developing an economic philosophy stemming from the works of Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey. From Veblen, he took over the notion of the struggle with the so-called capitalist society as a (Darwinist) struggle between technology and ceremonial structure. Veblen had proposed an analytical dichotomy between the "instrumental" and the "ceremonial" aspects of culture. Ayres substituted the term "institutional" for the term "ceremonial" (although he continued to use the term "ceremonial" for some purposes). From Dewey he took over the concept of "instrumentalism," and particularly adopted as his own Dewey's theory of values, which he used to attack the notion of philosophical dualism . Ayres's attack on dualism and "higher values" was the key reason why his student Talcott Parsons rejected his ideas.
Works
1917. The Nature of the Relationship between Ethics and Economics. Dissertation, University of Chicago.
1927. Science: The False Messiah. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
1929. Holier Than Thou: The Way of the Righteous. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
1929. Huxley. New York: W. W. Norton.
1938. The Problem of Economic Order. New York: Farrar and Rinehart.
1944. The Theory of Economic Progress. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1946. The Divine Right of Capital. Boston: Houghton Miffin.
1952. The Industrial Economy: Its Technological Basis and Institutional Destiny. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1961. Toward a Reasonable Society: The Values of Industrial Civilization. Austin: University of Texas Press.
1962. The Theory of Economic Progress, 2nd ed. New York: Schocken Books.
References
Breit, William, and William Patton Culbertson, Jr. (1976). Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C.E. Ayres. Austin: University of Texas Press.
External links
The New School's profile of Ayres
University of Texas memorial biography
1891 births
1972 deaths
Economists from New Mexico
Amherst College faculty
Brown University alumni
Institutional economists
Writers from Lowell, Massachusetts
University of Chicago alumni
Reed College faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Economists from Massachusetts
20th-century American economists |
Vladislav Ruslanovich Makoyev (; born 20 October 1982) is a former Russian professional football player.
Club career
He made his Russian Football National League debut for FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny on 16 April 2004 in a game against FC Dynamo Bryansk.
External links
1982 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Armavir players
FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk players
FC Druzhba Maykop players
FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players |
Sidney Fine (December 25, 1904 – May 20, 2002) was an American orchestrator and television composer.
Career
Fine started his career, as an orchestrator playing the piano in silent movie theaters.
In 1930s-1950s, Fine moved to Los Angeles, California to study with composer, Arnold Schoenberg.
Fine freelance for many Hollywood studios such as Paramount pictures, MGM, Republic Pictures and Disney.
Fine orchestrated Love Crazy, the Gallop of the Stags from Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, the songs for Blue Skies, Fun and Fancy Free and orchestrated and co-composed Lady’s theme from Lady and the Tramp and also worked on The Mickey Mouse Club television series.
In 1950s-1970s, Fine moved to New York, to arrange for a radio show. He worked on The Jack Benny Program, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and The Dinah Shore Show. In 1957, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Musical Contribution for Television.
In 1999, Fine worked on a Michael Jackson album Seeing Voices, which was a tribute to Fine's son, who died of a brain disease in 1975.
Death
Fine died in May 2002 of pneumonia at the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, at the age of 97.
References
Film Composers in America 1911 - 1970 by Clifford McCarthy
Threads of Melody: The Evolution of a Major Film Score by Ross Care
External links
1904 births
2002 deaths
American television composers
Deaths from pneumonia in California
People from Waterbury, Connecticut
University of Connecticut alumni
City College of New York alumni |
The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions.
History
The Award of Garden Merit is a mark of quality awarded, since 1922, to garden plants (including trees, vegetables and decorative plants) by the United Kingdom, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Awards are made annually after plant trials intended to judge the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. Trials may last for one or more years, depending on the type of plant being analyzed, and may be performed at Royal Horticulture Society Garden in Wisley and other gardens or after observation of plants in specialist collections. Trial reports are made available as booklets and on the website. Awards are reviewed annually in case plants have become unavailable horticulturally, or have been superseded by better cultivars.
Similar awards
The award should not be confused with the Royal Horticulture Society's Award of Merit (AM), given to plants deemed "of great merit for exhibition" i.e. for show, not garden, plants.
Since 1989, France has had similar awards called the Mérites de Courson, but these are drawn from a limited number of plants submitted by nurserymen to juries at the twice-yearly Journées des Plantes de Courson and awards are based solely on the opinions of the jury members as to the plants' likely performance in French gardens, rather than on extensive trials.
All-America Selections is an independent non-profit organization that tests new, never-before-sold varieties for the home gardener.
Plants of Merit are plants selected for their outstanding quality and dependable performance for the lower Midwest United States.
Reviews
The Award of Garden Merit was reviewed in 1992, to increase its usefulness and prestige. Field trial results gained weight in the assessments and existing AGM plants were reviewed in the light of more recent experience. The AGMs were to be reviewed at 10 year intervals from 1992, but this frequency has been increased to annually. The 2012/13 review, with advice from experts such as Royal Horticultural Society's plant committees, specialist societies, Plant Heritage National Collection holders and others, resulted in many changes. Nearly 1,900 plants lost their merit awards and more than 1,400 plants gained awards; the list included 7,073 plants after the review.
Rescission
Plants may be added to the Royal Horticultural Society "Sunset List" for rescission for several reasons, including unavailability to gardeners, better plants becoming available, affliction by pests or diseases, or insufficient uniformity.
Criteria
To qualify for an Award of Garden Merit, a plant
must be available horticulturally
must be of outstanding excellence for garden decoration or use
must be of good constitution
must not require highly specialist growing conditions or care
must not be particularly susceptible to any pest or disease
must not be subject to an unreasonable degree of reversion.
The "Award of Garden Merit" symbol represents a cup-shaped trophy with handles. It is cited together with a hardiness rating as follows:
H1 Requires a heated glasshouse
H1a Warmer than 15°C/59F: tropical plants for indoors and heated greenhouses
H1b 10°C/50F to 15°C/59F: subtropical plants for indoors and heated greenhouses
H1c 5°C/41F to 10°C/50F: warm temperate plants that can go outdoors in summer
H2 1°C/34F to 5°C/41F: plants that need a frost-free greenhouse in winter
H3 −5°C/23F to 1°C/34F: hardy outside in some regions or situations, or which - while usually grown outside in summer - need frost protection in winter (e.g. dahlias)
H4 −10°C/14F to −5°C/23F: plants hardy outside in most of the UK in an average winter
H5 −15°C/5F to −10°C/14F: plants hardy outside in most of the UK in severe winters
H6 −20°C/−4F to −15°C/5F: plants hardy outside in the UK and northern Europe
H7 Colder than −20°C/−4F: plants hardy outside in the severest European climates
See also
List of Award of Garden Merit camellias
List of Award of Garden Merit clematis
List of Award of Garden Merit dahlias
List of Award of Garden Merit dianthus
List of Award of Garden Merit flowering cherries
List of Award of Garden Merit magnolias
List of Award of Garden Merit maples
List of Award of Garden Merit narcissus
List of Award of Garden Merit rhododendrons
List of Award of Garden Merit roses
List of Award of Garden Merit sweet peas
List of Award of Garden Merit tulips
References
RHS Plant Finder 2005–2006, Dorling Kindersley (2005)
External links
The Royal Horticultural Society's website - Search facility for AGM plants
RHS AGM Plant Awards
RHS Plant Committees
Search for AGM plants The Royal Horticultural Society
Complete AGM lists
Royal Horticultural Society
Gardening in the United Kingdom
Plant awards |
Prescott Township may refer to:
Prescott Township, Adams County, Iowa
Prescott Township, Faribault County, Minnesota
Prescott Township, Renville County, North Dakota, in Renville County, North Dakota
Township name disambiguation pages |
Northsea Nights is a live album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass and double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen that was released in 1980.
Track listing
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 7:02
"'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 9:28
"How Deep is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:12
"Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 8:38
"I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) – 7:08
"Blues for the Hague" (Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen) – 6:57
Personnel
Joe Pass – guitar
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass
Chart positions
References
External links
Joe Pass Memorial Hall
Joe Pass live albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz
1979 live albums
Pablo Records live albums |
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine is a county journal published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (WANHS), based in Devizes, England. It has been published almost annually since 1854 and is distributed to the Society's members and subscribers, and exchanged with other linked societies.
From volume 65, published in 1970, WANHM was published in two parts, divided into sections on natural history and archaeology with the former printed and distributed to members earlier. For volumes 70 to 75, the WANHM was split into two titles, the The Wiltshire Natural History Magazine and The Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, and was recombined from volume 76 onwards.
Online availability
The Biodiversity Heritage Library, in partnership with the Internet Archive and the Natural History Museum Library, London, has a near-complete set of scanned volumes. , the collection goes as far as volume 106 (2013).
References
External links
WANHM on the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society website
WANHM at the Biodiversity Heritage Library – with navigable list of volumes
WANHM at the Internet Archive
WANHM at Google Books
Annual magazines published in the United Kingdom
Archaeology magazines
History magazines published in the United Kingdom
History magazines
History of Wiltshire
Magazines established in 1853
Mass media in Wiltshire |
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package com.beloo.chipslayoutmanager.sample.ui.adapter;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.TextView;
import java.util.List;
import com.beloo.chipslayoutmanager.sample.ui.OnRemoveListener;
import com.beloo.chipslayoutmanager.sample.R;
public class RecyclerViewAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerViewAdapter.ViewHolder> {
private static String TAG = RecyclerViewAdapter.class.getSimpleName();
private int viewHolderCount;
private final int ITEM_TYPE_DEFAULT = 0;
private final int ITEM_TYPE_INCREASED = 1;
private List<String> items;
private OnRemoveListener onRemoveListener;
public RecyclerViewAdapter(List<String> items, OnRemoveListener onRemoveListener) {
this.items = items;
this.onRemoveListener = onRemoveListener;
}
@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
View itemView;
switch (viewType) {
case ITEM_TYPE_INCREASED:
itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_increased, parent, false);
break;
default:
itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_simple, parent, false);
break;
}
viewHolderCount++;
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return new ViewHolder(itemView);
}
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
holder.bindItem(items.get(position));
}
@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
String item = items.get(position);
if (item.startsWith("!")) {
return ITEM_TYPE_INCREASED;
}
return ITEM_TYPE_DEFAULT;
}
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
return items.size();
}
class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
private TextView tvText;
private ImageButton ibClose;
ViewHolder(View itemView) {
super(itemView);
tvText = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.tvText);
ibClose = (ImageButton) itemView.findViewById(R.id.ibClose);
ibClose.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
int position = getAdapterPosition();
if (position != -1) {
onRemoveListener.onItemRemoved(position);
}
}
});
}
void bindItem(String text) {
tvText.setText(text);
}
}
}
``` |
Burton N. Pugach (April 20, 1927 – December 24, 2020) was a New York City-based lawyer who spent 14 years in prison for hiring men to throw lye in the face of his former girlfriend (and future wife) Linda Eleanor Riss (February 23, 1937 – January 22, 2013).
Biography
In 1959, Pugach began a courtship of Linda Riss, a 21-year-old woman from the East Bronx. Upon discovering that Pugach had a wife and daughter, Riss broke off their relationship. Pugach then threatened to kill or hurt Riss if she left him, saying "If I can't have you, no one else will have you, and when I get through with you no one else will want you." Riss reported the threat to the New York Police Department to no avail. Upon hearing of her engagement to Larry Schwartz, Pugach hired three assailants to attack Riss. The assailants threw lye in Riss's face, leaving her blind in one eye, nearly blind in the other, and permanently scarred. Pugach was convicted of the crime and spent 14 years in prison, during which time he continually wrote to Riss. He was subsequently disbarred, due to his felony conviction.
After he was released from prison in 1974, Pugach and Riss resumed their relationship and married soon thereafter. In 1976 they co-wrote a book, A Very Different Love Story. In 1997 Pugach was once again accused of threatening a woman with whom he was having an affair. Riss appeared at his trial as a character witness for him. Riss died of heart failure on January 22, 2013, at the age of 75. In 2007 Dan Klores produced a documentary film Crazy Love about Pugach and Riss. Pugach died on December 24, 2020, in Queens.
References
Bibliography
Farnsworth, Ward and Grady, Mark F. Torts: Cases & Questions. Aspen Publishers. 2004.
Stainback, Berry. A Very Different Love Story: Burt and Linda Pugach's Intimate Account of Their Triumph Over Tragedy. Morrow, 1976.
External links
Website for Crazy Love (movie)
Crazy Love IMDb
For Worse and for Better: Documenting an Obsession Article from The New York Times
The Observer Life and Style: Meet the Pugachs, Article from The Guardian
Homegrown "Crazy Love" Hits Theaters, Article from The Queens Chronicle
Live From Studio 1A: Burt and Linda's "Crazy Love", Article from Today.com
Blind to His Faults, Article from The Washington Post
Linda's Fear Story Rocks Trial, Article from the Daily News
Pugach Gets 15 Yrs. in Lye Attack on Girl, Article from the Daily News
Riss v. New York A lawsuit filed by Linda Riss against the New York City Police Department for failing to protect her
Follow-Up on the News: Love Story, Article From The New York Times
Follow-Up on the News: Love Story Part II, Article From The New York Times
Lye in Face Ends in Pair's Marriage, Article From The Lawson Constitution
Not Just Another Love Story, Article From The Michigan Daily
A Very Different Love Story Article From The New York Times
Love After the Lye, People Magazine, February 14, 1977
1927 births
2020 deaths
Brooklyn Law School alumni
Disbarred New York (state) lawyers
Lawyers from Queens, New York |
Hollie Naughton, (born October 21, 1994, in Barnsley) is a Canadian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in January 2022. In 2016, she won her first Canadian Nationals title. She competed at the 2015 Pan American Games, where she won a silver medal in the team event, and at the 2019 Pan American Games, where she won a bronze medal in the singles event.
On 3 August 2022, Naughton won silver in the women's singles at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, beaten 3-1 by England's Georgina Kennedy. In doing so, Naughton became the first Canadian women to win a medal in the sport of squash at the Commonwealth Games. Naughton also served as Canada's closing ceremony flagbearer.
References
External links
Canadian female squash players
Living people
1994 births
Squash players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Barnsley
Pan American Games medalists in squash
Squash players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Squash players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
Commonwealth Games medallists in squash
Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
English emigrants to Canada |
"Lovers on the Sun" is a song by French music producer David Guetta from his sixth studio album, Listen. It features vocals by American singer and songwriter Sam Martin. It was released as a digital download and the lead single from the album on 30 June 2014. It was produced by Guetta, Avicii, Riesterer, and Tuinfort, with additional production from Italian house production team Daddy's Groove. The track crowned the singles chart in Austria, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, and reached the top 40 in most of the countries where it charted.
Mallory Knox covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
Background
The song is inspired by Spaghetti Western film scores.
Composition
"Lovers on the Sun" is a country, folk and EDM song. Mike Einziger of the band Incubus, who also played on Avicii's "Wake Me Up", also plays guitar on this track. The song is written in the key of B minor, at a tempo of 125 beats per minute, with Martin's vocals ranging from A2 to B4. The chord progression of the chorus (Bm/D/F#m/E) bears similarity to Daft Punk's 2013 single "Get Lucky".
Music video
A lyric video was produced for the song with a Wild West theme.
An accompanying music video was released on 12 August 2014 again with a Wild West theme. It was directed by Marc Klasfeld, and stars Ray Liotta who portrays a villain and Jamie Gray Hyder, portraying a hero "the Sexy" rescuing Andrew Keegan "the Good". Idolator said the video was "refreshing" and called it "a special effects-filled extravaganza".
Critical reception
4Music celebrated the song's "double DJ power" (Guetta and Avicii, who co-wrote and co-produced the track) and suggested that it "must mean this'll be a big hit".
Track listing
Credits and personnel
David Guetta – songwriter, producer, instruments
Sam Martin – songwriter, guitar
Frédéric Riesterer – instruments, producer, songwriter
Giorgio Tuinfort – songwriter, producer, instruments, piano
Jason Evigan – songwriter, guitar
Michael Einziger – songwriter, guitar
Avicii (Tim Bergling) – songwriter, producer, instruments, piano
Daddy's Groove – additional producer, programming, mixer
Ralph Wegner – sound designer
Xavier Stephenson – recording engineer
Aaron Ahmad – recording engineer
Paul Power – orchestra recording, orchestra mixer
Franck van der Heijden – orchestra arrangement, conductor
Ben Mathot – first violin
Floortje Beljon – first violin
Ian de Jong – first violin
Inger van Vliet – first violin
Marleen Veldstra – first violin
Sara de Vries – first violin
Sofie van der Pol – first violin
Tseroeja van den Bos – first violin
Diewertje Wanders – second violin
Elise Noordhoek – second violin
Judith Eisenhardt – second violin
Judith van Driel – second violin
Maartje Korver – second violin
Marleen Wester – second violin
Annemarie Hensens – alt violin
Bram Faber – alt violin
Mark Mulder – alt violin
Yanna Pelser – alt violin
David Faber – cello
Jascha Bordon – cello
Thomas van Geelen – cello
Hinse Mutter – bass
Jesse Feves – bass
Credits adapted from CD single.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2014 singles
2014 songs
David Guetta songs
Song recordings produced by Avicii
Songs written by Avicii
Songs written by David Guetta
Songs written by Frédéric Riesterer
Songs written by Giorgio Tuinfort
Songs written by Jason Evigan
Songs written by Sam Martin (singer)
Parlophone singles
Music videos directed by Marc Klasfeld
Number-one singles in Austria
Number-one singles in Finland
Number-one singles in Germany
Number-one singles in Scotland
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Song recordings produced by David Guetta |
Ezra R. Kanoho (September 16, 1927 January 23, 2022) was an American politician who served in the Hawaii State Legislature from 1987 to 2006.
Early life and education
Kanoho was born on September 16, 1927, in Lihue, Kauai. He graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 1945, and went on to attend Kauai Community College and Honolulu Community College. After earning an associate degree, he worked for Hawaii Telephone Company. He also served in several community organizations. He had a wife and four children.
Career
Kanoho was appointed to office by John Waihee in 1987 and was re-elected in 1988. He served on several committees including the committee on water, land, use, and Hawaiian affairs, the finance committee, the judiciary committee, the consumer protection and commerce committee, and the committee for energy and environmental protection. He was also part of the Hawaiian Caucus.
Kanoho retired in 2006. He died of heart failure on January 23, 2022.
References
External links
VoteSmart
1927 births
2022 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians
People from Lihue, Hawaii |
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